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🗓️ 8 December 2025
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Headlines for December 08, 2025; “Murder on the High Seas”: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Trump’s Boat Strikes; “I Was Pepper-Sprayed”: Rep. Adelita Grijalva on ICE Raid, Epstein Files, Rising Health Costs & More; “Domestic Terrorism”: Leaked DOJ Memo Targets “Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity”; “The Problem with Plastic”: Former EPA Official on How to Save the Planet Before It’s Too Late
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | The bottom line is that there's no legal basis for attacking these boats and the people on |
| 0:23.4 | the boats. |
| 0:24.4 | If this were a war, this would be a war crime. |
| 0:27.3 | But because it's not a war, it's just murder. |
| 0:30.0 | Pressure is growing on the Trump administration to release video of a U.S. air strike |
| 0:34.1 | on September 2nd that killed two men who were left shipwrecked in the Caribbean after |
| 0:39.4 | an earlier U.S. strike on their vessel killed nine people. |
| 0:43.3 | We'll speak to war crimes prosecutor Reid Brody. |
| 0:46.4 | Then to Arizona, where ice agents fired pepper spray at newly sworn in Congress member Adelita |
| 0:53.5 | Grajava as local residents protested another ice raid. |
| 0:58.5 | I was here. This is like the restaurant I come to literally once a week and was sprayed in the |
| 1:04.5 | face by a very aggressive agent, pushed around by others. When I literally was not being aggressive, I was asking for clarification, which is my right |
| 1:14.3 | as a member of Congress. |
| 1:15.6 | Plus, we look at Attorney General Pam Bondi's memo calling for law enforcement to target a wide range |
| 1:24.2 | of what she calls extremists in the United States, including those who show, quote, |
| 1:30.2 | hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality. And we'll talk to former |
| 1:37.9 | EPA official Judith Anck, author of the new book, The Problem with Plastic, how We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet before it's too late. |
| 1:49.0 | Plastics are damaging our health. They're showing up in every parts of our body. |
| 1:53.0 | They're making climate change worse. |
| 1:55.0 | And they're a major problem where they're produced in environmental justice communities. |
| 1:59.0 | All that and more. |
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