Democracy Now! 2025-09-11 Thursday

Headlines for September 17, 2025; “Single Shots to the Head”: U.S. Veteran, Volunteer Surgeon Sees “Extermination of a People” in Gaza; “Perish or Leave”: Hundreds of Thousands Flee as Israeli Military Invades Gaza City; How Video Games, Discord & Deep Web Influenced Alleged Kirk Killer; Trump Uses “Black Criminality” Myth to Take Over Black-Led Cities: Memphis Rep. Justin J. Pearson; Robert Redford the Activist: Hollywood Icon Was Lifelong Champion of Environment & Independent Film

Headlines for September 16, 2025; ICE Kills Immigrant Father After Traffic Stop, Detains Day Laborer Who Sued Chicago Police; Block the Bombs to Israel: Rep. Delia Ramirez Denounces Genocide in Gaza; Bishop William Barber Condemns Charlie Kirk Murder and the Right’s Religious Nationalism; U.S. Acts as “Judge, Jury & Executioner” in Venezuelan Boat Strikes, Killing at Least 14

Part 2 of our conversation with professor and philosopher Judith Butler, whose name was recently shared by the University of California, Berkeley with the Trump administration in response to the administration’s sweeping crackdown on Palestinian solidarity activism.

Headlines for September 15, 2025; “Shame on Humanity”: Gaza Doctor Pleads with World to Stop Israel’s Genocide; “The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk”: Journalist Chris Hedges on the Weaponization of Kirk’s Killing; Judith Butler: Jewish Prof. Among 160 Named in UC Berkeley “Antisemitism” Files Handed to Trump Admin

Headlines for September 12, 2025; Mehdi Hasan: Trump Is Weaponizing the Murder of Charlie Kirk to Go After the Left; Mehdi Hasan on Death of Two-State Solution, Possible U.S. War with Venezuela & More; “A Historic Moment in Brazil”: Jair Bolsonaro Gets 27 Years for 2022 Coup Plot; Nepal’s “Gen Z Protests” Topple Government Amid Anger over Corruption & Inequality

Headlines for September 11, 2025; “Moment of Great Peril”: Jeff Sharlet on Killing of Charlie Kirk & Rising Political Violence in U.S.; Trump’s Personal Army? Exec. Order to Create “Quick Reaction Force” Raises Alarm; Global Sumud Flotilla Vows to Keep Sailing to Gaza; Israeli Drones Accused of Striking Two Boats

Headlines for September 10, 2025; “America Is Bankrolling This”: Jeremy Scahill on Israel’s Bombing of Hamas in Qatar; Will Egyptian Pres. Sisi Soon Free Jailed Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah?; “Here Comes the Sun”: Bill McKibben on Renewable Energy, “Sun Day” & the “Last Chance” for Climate

Headlines for September 09, 2025; Jeffrey Epstein & JPMorgan: How the Largest U.S. Bank Enabled the Sexual Predator’s Crimes; “Chipocalypse”: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Trump Invoking “Apocalypse Now” & Speaking Out on Gaza Genocide

Headlines for September 08, 2025; ICE Conducts Largest-Ever Raid at Georgia Hyundai Plant: 475 Arrested, Mostly Korean; Report from Gaza: Aid Coordinator Describes Disease, Famine as Israel Blows Up Residential Towers; Sister of U.S. Citizen Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi Demands Justice 1 Year After Israel Killed Her in West Bank; Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton Dies at 99; Explored Human Darkness, from Nazi Doctors to Hiroshima

Headlines for September 05, 2025; “How Can You Be So Ignorant?”: GOP & Dem. Senators Slam RFK Jr. for Attacks on Vaccines & Science; Deadly U.S. Strike on Venezuelan Boat Raises Fears of Wider War: Greg Grandin; Indonesia Protests: At Least 10 Killed, Thousands Arrested Amid Police Crackdown