4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Headlines for July 21, 2025; “Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Aid Access as Weapon in Israel’s War on Gaza, Researchers Find; “Like a Video Game”: How Israel Deploys Grenade-Firing Drones in Gaza to Kill, Threaten and Displace; Former EPA Official on Trump Gutting Science Research Office: “People Are Not Going to Be Protected”; “I Do Solemnly Swear”: Audio Series Highlights Federal Workers’ Voices on Trump’s Unraveling of Gov’t
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.0 | They go out just trying to stave off their hunger and they go out just trying to stave off their hunger and they is democracy now. |
| 0:26.2 | They go out just trying to stave off their hunger and their hunger of their children, |
| 0:28.5 | but they come back wrapped in shrouds. |
| 0:32.7 | We ask God Almighty, and we appeal to the international community that these death traps be shut down and that humanitarian corridors be opened, out of mercy for our children, |
| 0:40.3 | our women, and our elderly. |
| 0:42.3 | In one of the deadliest days yet for Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza, 79 people massacred |
| 0:49.3 | by Israeli forces yesterday. Why is the search for humanitarian aid in Gaza become so deadly? |
| 0:57.1 | We'll look at a new report from forensic architecture about the controversial humanitarian |
| 1:02.3 | aid system and starvation in Gaza. Nineteen Palestinians died of starvation Sunday. |
| 1:11.6 | We are dying of hunger. |
| 1:14.5 | We cannot find food or drink, not even water. |
| 1:17.6 | We drink from the sea, and we can't find any food at all. |
| 1:21.9 | Then a 972 ex-pese, Israeli soldiers say dropping grenades from drones in Gaza is, quote, like a video game, |
| 1:32.1 | and that the goal is for Palestinians to learn through blood. Then fire, laid off, or rift, |
| 1:40.0 | that's reduction in force. Federal workers speak out. Every day at my office is like an eight-hour funeral. |
| 1:50.0 | I really think that people are going to die. |
| 1:54.0 | If hurricane tracking isn't being done, you're setting this nation up for just disaster, really. Doge is meeting with our information technology team to share data across government agencies |
| 2:07.6 | that has not been done before, and that is really terrifying. |
| 2:11.6 | A new audio series called I Do Solemely Swear, we'll speak with the journalists behind the project as the Trump |
| 2:19.7 | administration shudders the research arm of the EPA. We'll speak with one of its former top |
| 2:27.3 | administrators. All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Democracy Now!, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Democracy Now! and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.