Interview | Immigration Biden Urged to Stop Deportations to Haiti Following President’s Assassination The interim prime minister of Haiti has declared a state of siege and imposed martial law following the assassination. By Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh , DemocracyNow! July 8, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Politics & Elections Haitian President Assassinated, Plunging Country Into New Political Crisis Jovenel Moïse was accused of orchestrating a coup to stay in power beyond February 7, when his term officially ended. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! July 7, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Environment & Health Exxon Lobbyists Tricked Into Naming Senators They Use to Block Climate Action Greenpeace UK released a video of lobbyists discussing Exxon’s efforts to fight climate initiatives in Washington. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! July 6, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Racial Justice Grace Lee and James Boggs Showed How We Can Unite Our Struggles for Justice There is much we can learn from Lee and Boggs’s 40-year partnership as an interracial couple in movement activism. By Scott Kurashige , Truthout July 6, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Racial Justice The Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Carries a Racist History A new book details how the Second Amendment was written to empower local militia groups to put down slave revolts. By Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh , DemocracyNow! July 5, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Environment & Health Lethal Force Against Pipeline Protests? Documents Reveal South Dakota’s Plans. Members of the South Dakota National Guard are being deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border on a GOP megadonor's dime. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! July 2, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing “Abolition Amendment” Could End Loophole That Allows Forced Labor in Prisons The legislation would address the 13th Amendment's clause allowing involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! July 1, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Maya Schenwar Says Defunding the Police Might Have Saved Her Sister’s Life Schenwar says her sister’s death came after a long cycle of criminalization, making her chances of recovery much harder. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! June 30, 2021 Truthout
Interview | War & Peace Biden’s Latest Middle East Airstrikes Give “More Fuel” to Conflict With Iran The airstrikes come as the Biden administration holds indirect talks with Iran about reviving the Iranian nuclear deal. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! June 29, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Culture & Media Key Witness in US Case Against Julian Assange Admits to Lying to Get Immunity “The factual basis for this case has completely fallen apart,” says human rights attorney Jennifer Robinson. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! June 28, 2021 Truthout