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Democracy Now! 2025-08-26 Tuesday

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Democracy Now!

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for August 26, 2025; “Time to Cut Ties with Israel”: U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Gaza Hospital Bombing; “We Must Defeat Fascism”: Chicago Alderman on Trump’s Threat to Deploy Troops to City; Trump Targets Bail Reform, Wants to Let Rich “Buy Their Way Out of Jail”

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.0

When and where is it going to end?

0:20.0

Are we going to let the Israel defense forces continue the repeated killing of journalists?

0:27.8

There is international law.

0:31.4

Human rights and press freedom groups are denouncing Israel's attack on Nasir Hospital in

0:36.2

Gaza that killed at least 21 people, including

0:39.8

five journalists.

0:41.6

We'll speak to a doctor at Nassar Hospital, as well as Francesca Abenazi, U.N. Special Rapporteur

0:48.3

on the occupied Palestinian territory.

0:51.3

She's calling on the international community to break the siege on Gaza and impose an arms embargo

0:57.2

and sanctions on Israel.

0:59.1

Then to Chicago, as local and state officials

1:02.3

push back against President Trump's threat

1:04.8

to send in the National Guard.

1:08.1

Mr. President, do not come to Chicago.

1:14.2

You are neither wanted here nor needed here.

1:20.8

We'll also look at Trump's new executive orders, aiming to end so-called cashless bail.

1:26.2

Two years ago, Illinois became the first state to eliminate the cash bail system.

1:27.5

All that and more coming up.

1:39.4

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. In Gaza, three more Palestinians have starved to death over the past 24 hours, bringing the total

1:46.0

number of starvation deaths from Israel's siege to 303, including 117 children.

1:53.8

Since Monday, Israeli forces have killed at least 75 Palestinians, including 17 people seeking

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