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Democracy Now! 2025-12-08 Monday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

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.

0:18.0

The bottom line is that there's no legal basis for attacking these boats and the people

0:24.1

on the boats.

0:25.1

If this were a war, this would be a war crime.

0:28.1

But because it's not a war, it's just murder.

0:30.6

Pressure is growing on the Trump administration to release video of a U.S.

0:34.4

air strike on September 2nd that killed two men who were left shipwrecked in the Caribbean after an earlier U.S. air strike on September 2nd that killed two men who were left shipwrecked

0:38.7

in the Caribbean after an earlier U.S. strike on their vessel killed nine people. We'll speak

0:44.7

to war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody. Then to Arizona, where ice agents fired pepper spray

0:51.2

at newly sworn in Congress member Adelita Grajava as local residents protested

0:57.3

another ice raid. I was here. This is like the restaurant I come to literally once a week

1:03.3

and was sprayed in the face by a very aggressive agent, pushed around by others. When I literally

1:10.6

was not being aggressive, I was asking

1:13.3

for clarification, which is my right as a member of Congress. Plus, we look at Attorney General

1:18.7

Pam Bondi's memo calling for law enforcement to target a wide range of what she calls extremists

1:27.2

in the United States, including those who show,

1:30.9

quote, hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality.

1:37.5

And we'll talk to former EPA official Judith Ank, author of the new book, The Problem with Plastic,

1:43.9

how we can save ourselves and our planet before it's Judith Anck, author of the new book, The Problem with Plastic,

1:48.9

How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet before it's too late.

1:51.8

Plastics are damaging our health.

1:53.9

They're showing up in every parts of our body.

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