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Democracy Now! 2025-05-08 Thursday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for May 08, 2025; Who Killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Reporter’s Family Responds After Film Names Israeli Soldier Who Shot Her; “Fascism Isn’t Coming, It’s Here”: Mehdi Hasan on Trump, Gaza & Leaving MSNBC to Start Zeteo

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.2

I believe the big disaster which prevented the occupation from being punished.

0:24.7

And repeating these crimes is the neglect and indifference by many of the institutions,

0:29.8

especially American ones, which continue to defend the occupation.

0:33.3

As the Israeli military kills two more Palestinian journalists in Gaza, a new documentary by Zateo has uncovered critical details about Israel's killing three years ago this week of the acclaimed Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shereen Abuakla.

0:52.7

The film identifies for the first time the Israeli soldier who allegedly shot Shereen.

0:59.3

We'll speak to four guests, including Shireen's brother and niece, as well as the tale founder,

1:07.5

Medi Hassan and the filmmaker Diane Nissenbaum, a former foreign correspondent at the Wall Street Journal.

1:15.3

Then to Memphis, where juries acquitted three former Memphis police officers in the 2023 killing of Tyree Nichols,

1:22.6

a 29-year-old black father who died after the officers brutally beat him during a traffic stop, driving home from work.

1:31.3

Mr. Bean, Mr. Haley, and Mr. Smith, your peers have found you not guilty on all charges with these matters.

1:39.6

The court will enter the judgment sheets accordingly, and this will conclude your matter that's before the court.

1:46.3

All that and more coming up.

1:52.8

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

1:57.9

I'm Amy Goodman.

1:59.2

Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least

2:01.6

100 people over the past 24 hours as bombs, missiles and drones struck homes, businesses,

2:10.1

apartment buildings, tents, housing displaced Palestinians. And one of the latest attacks is

2:15.7

Israel bombed a crowded restaurant and marketplace in Gaza City,

2:19.8

killing at least 32 people and wounding 86 others.

2:23.5

Witnesses said the strike littered the ground with body parts and blood.

2:28.2

One survivor fled clutching a baby with another two terrified children in tow.

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