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🗓️ 23 July 2025
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Headlines for July 23, 2025; Palestinian American Student & Dad: 200 Relatives Killed in Gaza; VCU Withholds Diploma for Protest; Israel Waging “Fastest Starvation Campaign” in Modern History in Gaza: U.N. Special Rapporteur on Food; “Big Fat Bribe”: Stephen Colbert’s Show Canceled After He Slams Trump & Paramount/Skydance Merger
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.3 | We need look no further than the horror show in Gaza, with a level of death and destruction |
| 0:23.9 | without parallel in recent times. |
| 0:27.2 | Malnourishment is soaring, starvation is knocking on every door. |
| 0:32.7 | Starvation is knocking on every door in Gaza. |
| 0:38.3 | Those are the words of the UN Secretary General. |
| 0:41.3 | As many tons of life-saving food, water, medical supplies sit untouched in warehouses near Gaza, but denied entry by Israel, |
| 0:52.3 | we'll speak with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fokre. |
| 0:58.6 | And as the situation in Gaza continues to grow more desperate, we'll be joined by a Palestinian-American student at Virginia Commonwealth University. |
| 1:09.1 | The school is withholding her diploma because of her student activism. |
| 1:15.8 | BCU wants me to choose silence over justice and comfort over courage and a diploma over my people. |
| 1:21.1 | I have lost over 200 family members in this ongoing genocide just in the last year and a half. |
| 1:25.9 | We'll speak to the student, Serene Hadad, and her father, Dr. Tarak Hadad. |
| 1:32.3 | Last year, he refused to meet with Secretary of State Blinken over the U.S. support |
| 1:39.3 | for Israel's assault on Gaza. |
| 1:41.3 | Then we look at the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's late-night show on Paramount |
| 1:47.5 | CBS. The longtime comedian and Trump critic was canceled just days after he criticized Paramount |
| 1:55.3 | settlement of a lawsuit with President Trump. Unlike the payoffs from ABC and Twitter, |
| 2:02.6 | Paramount settlement did not include an apology. |
| 2:05.6 | Instead, that's good. |
| 2:06.6 | Instead, the corporation released a statement where they said, |
| 2:09.6 | you may take our money, but you will never take our dignity. |
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