Amy from new york, this is democracy now the biggest threat to the security of the United States is donald trump. The greatest threat we face is the fact we are at a greater risk of nuclear war. Our existential threat is Climate Change. Climate change. Climate change. And Climate Change. Amy in the first president ial debate of the 2020 election, 10 Democratic Candidates sparred over issues from immigration to health care to gun reform and the war in afghanistan. Another 10 Democratic Candidates will debate tonight post up the debates are being held in miami, less than an hour away from homes that florida, where more than 2000 unaccompanied migrant minors are incarcerated in a forprofit Detention Center run by caliburn. President trumps former chief of staff general john kelly sits on the board. We will air highlights from the debate and host a roundtable discussion. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. 10
Remembered. Amy defying threats from President Trump to cut off Financial Aid, countries at the 128 u. N. General Assembly Vote in favor of a resolution condemning the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital. Well get response from rashid khalidi, author of brokers of deceit how the u. S. Has undermined peace in the middle east. Then, not guilty. That was the verdict for all six defendants in the first j20 journalistcluding alexei wood, who live streamed street detentions, including his own arrest. I am clearly being arrested. I am currently being arrested. Order follow any lawful you give me. Amy and a broadcast exclusive, we will speak with alexei wood, the end of an a photojournalist, and look at how 188 people still face trials over the next year. Then catalonia votes for independence. I want to bradley the people of catalonia because they have sent news to the world. Ladies and settlement, the catalan republic has defeated the monarchy of article 155. Amy all that
Recognize jerusalem as israels capital. Well get response from rashid khalidi, author of brokers of deceit how the u. S. Has undermined peace in the middle east. Then, not guilty. That was the verdict for all six defendants in the first j20 journalistcluding alexei wood, who live streamed street detentions, including his own arrest. I am clearly being arrested. I am currently being arrested. Order follow any lawful you give me. Amy and a broadcast exclusive, we will speak with alexei wood, the end of an a photojournalist, and look at how 188 people still face trials over the next year. Then catalonia votes for independence. I want to bradley the people of catalonia because they have sent news to the world. Ladies and settlement, the catalan republic has defeated the monarchy of article 155. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At the United Nations, over 120 countries defied President Trump thursday by
Earthquake. We will speak to a reporter at the times of london who exposed the scandal plus the head of the coalition against trafficking in women and the haitian writer Edwidge Danticat in miami. Then we look at the role of army junior reserve officer Training Corps program after nikolas cruz, a former jrotc cadet, carried out one of the Deadliest School shootings in u. S. History. Cruz was on the schools jrotc team when it received a 10,000 grant from the nra. All of that a more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Syrian Government is continuing its deadly barrage of airstrikes and artillery fire against the rebelheld enclave of eastern ghouta, outside the capital damascus, with aid workers reporting at least 2 people have beenilled over the last 48 hours. Many of the victims are women and children. On tuesday, the Charity Unicef released a nearly blank statement on the killings, writing no words will do justice to t
It through the impeachment. Amy today we spend the hour looking at the growing political crisis in brazil and air an exclusive extended broadcast interview with ousted brazilian president dilma roussef. She was impeached last year in what many described as a legislative coup. This comes as brazil is engulfed in a major Corruption Scandal. Rousseff is a former political prisoner who took part in the underground resistance to the u. S. Backed brazilian dictatorship in the 1960s. She was jailed where she was repeatedly tortured. When a was a prisoner in Rio De Janeiro, they would throw water at you and it would also connect wires to your toes. They would alslso place on your headad these electric cables. Is worst thing in torture electrical shock. Amy we will first speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is based in brazil, about how the countrys major Corruption Scandal has only widened. At its center are many of the rightwing politicians who orchestrated rousse