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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. Later in the broadcast, we’ll go to Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of The Nation magazine, about the historic prisoner swap. But first, fallout is continuing from Republican […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: So, you mentioned pro-Palestinian protests. Kamala Harris is expected to announce her choice for running mate any day now, by Tuesday, it’s said. Potential candidates include Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is […]

We speak with The Nation‘s Katrina vanden Heuvel about the prisoner swap between Russia, the United States and several other countries on Thursday that saw the release of 24 people, with 16 prisoners in Russia traded for eight Russian nationals held in the U.S., Germany and elsewhere. It was the biggest exchange of prisoners between […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appeared before the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago on Wednesday for a sit-down interview with a […]

We look at a new Washington Post investigation titled “Money War” that traces the effects of U.S. sanctions under the last four presidents: Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. According to the report, the U.S government has instituted, in some form or another, sanctions against a third of all other countries around the world, despite no […]

French vandals sabotage telecommunications networks after left-wing arsonists disable train networks The French government has announced that several telecommunications networks were hit in acts of vandalism on Monday, July 29, with fiber lines being removed along with landline and mobile phone infrastructure. The incident comes as Paris and nearby locales host events for the […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Fears of a broader regional war in the Middle East are growing after Hamas’s top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Tehran, where he was visiting for the inauguration of Iran’s new president. Iran and Hamas both accused Israel […]

We speak with legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw about the historic presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, who is facing a slew of racist and misogynist attacks from Donald Trump and others as she runs to be the first woman and the first woman of color to occupy the White House. Crenshaw, who coined the […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Andy Kroll, before you go, I wanted to pivot to ask you about Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance. CNN has revealed new details about Vance’s long history of disparaging people who don’t have children. In addition to his comment […]

Protests erupted on Monday in Venezuela after sitting President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner of Sunday’s presidential election despite the opposition’s accusations of election fraud. Maduro has countered by accusing the opposition of attempting to stage a fascist coup. We go to Caracas for an update from Venezuelanalysis reporter Andreína Chávez, who says the […]