Democracy Now! 2024-12-26 Thursday
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🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for December 26, 2024; Meet State Dept. Official Michael Casey, Who Resigned over Gaza After U.S. Ignored Israeli Abuses; Back in Syria After Exile, BBC Reporter Lina Sinjab on “Joy” & Calls for Prosecution, Reconciliation; 3,100+ Indigenous Students Died at U.S. “Boarding Schools”: WaPo Native American Journalist Dana Hedgpeth
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| 0:27.0 | So the reason I resigned is I was really just tired of writing about the violence and what was going on in Gaza and just having nobody take any action on. |
| 0:36.5 | I completely disregarding what I was saying. |
| 0:38.3 | Our policies there are immoral, illegal, and just in total contradiction of U.S. interests, |
| 0:42.9 | and I couldn't be a part of that anymore. |
| 0:44.7 | In one of his first TV interviews, we'll speak with career U.S. diplomat Michael Casey. |
| 0:51.5 | He resigned in July from the State Department over U.S. policy in Gaza, but just |
| 0:57.5 | recently went public with his reason. Then to Damascus for an update from Syrian journalist and |
| 1:04.7 | BBC Middle East correspondent Lena Sinja. She's returned to Syria after she was forced to flee due to threats from the |
| 1:14.1 | Assad regime. And a damning new investigation by the Washington Post finds more than 3,100 |
| 1:21.5 | indigenous students died at boarding schools in the U.S. between 1828 and 1970, three times the number of deaths reported |
| 1:31.2 | earlier this year by the first ever Native American cabinet member, Interior Secretary Deb Holland. |
| 1:38.6 | Tens of thousands of indigenous children as young as four years old were taken from their families and communities |
| 1:45.9 | and forced into boarding schools run by the U.S. government and religious institutions. |
| 1:52.7 | These federal Indian boarding schools have impacted every indigenous person I know. |
| 1:59.0 | We'll speak with the Washington Post Native American journalist Dana Hedgepeth, who led the investigation. |
| 2:07.0 | All that and more coming up. |
| 2:13.1 | Welcome to DemocracyNow. |
| 2:15.5 | DemocracyNow.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:20.0 | Palestinian health officials say Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed 38 people and injured 137 others in the past 24 hours. |
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