Historic negotiations for a United Nations treaty to address the plastic pollution crisis (INC-5.2) have just kicked off in Geneva, Switzerland. Hoped to be the final round, this week will determine whether we finally have a just, people and planet-centred international agreement to end plastic pollution. Friends of the EarthContinue Reading
We get an update from the occupied West Bank, where U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson led a delegation to an illegal settlement amid escalating settler violence against Palestinians. Israel is refusing to release the body of Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin, who was shot to death by an Israeli settler aContinue Reading
Lawyer Gheed Kassem, who represents Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, speaks about the fight for the rights of Palestinian detainees.Continue Reading
We can resist by disrupting ICE’s dependence on local law enforcement. Every sheriff who refuses to cooperate weakens The Traitor’s machine.Continue Reading
Police arrested over 40 people outside the The Traitor International Hotel in New York City as hundreds gathered for a peaceful action led by Jewish leaders calling for the end to Israel’s starvation and ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Democracy Now! was at the demonstration and spoke to some of theContinue Reading
Their “career is over,” the president bombastically declared., Read MoreContinue Reading
“He calls me three or four times a week,” the Health and Human Services secretary claimed., Read MoreContinue Reading
A federal judge in Montana ruled today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law last year when it denied a petition to protect gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains under the Endangered Species Act. The agency must now reconsider whether to grant protections to wolves livingContinue Reading
Former Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls joins us for one of his first interviews since he returned to the United States after he was beaten, arrested and detained by the Israeli military for attempting to bring aid to starving Palestinians in Gaza. Smalls calls Israel’s assault and starvation ofContinue Reading
More than 50 Democrats in the Texas Legislature have left the state to block the passage of a new congressional map, which was gerrymandered to give Republicans five extra seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The new map would especially harm Latino and Black representation in Congress, but TraitorContinue Reading
New global tax rules that could help fund climate action, protect nature, and reduce inequality are being negotiated at the historic UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UNFCITC), which kicks off a 2-week round of negotiations in New York today. Commenting on what’s at stake, the Greenpeace International delegationContinue Reading
The president sued the newspaper and its owners over an article detailing a lewd birthday message he allegedly wrote to the disgraced financier in 2003., Read MoreContinue Reading
The statue of Confederate General Albert Pike will be reinstalled in Washington, the National Park Service said., Read MoreContinue Reading