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U.N. Chief Urges Restraint After Israel Bombs Iranian Targets Saturday, North Gaza's Entire Population at Risk of Dying": Israel Decimates Northern Gaza, Incl. Hospitals, DOJ Lawyers Call on Merrick Garland to Investigate Israeli Killings of U.S. Citizens, Israel Strikes Tyre, Killing at Least 7, as It Continues Its Assault on Lebanon, Microsoft Fires Employees, Harvard Suspends Professors & Students over Gaza Solidarity Protests, Trump's NYC Rally Filled with Explicitly Racist Attacks, Threats to Trump Critics, Kamala Harris Appears with Beyonce, Michelle Obama as She Rallies Voters Ahead of Nov. 5, WaPo and L.A. Times Face Backlash as Billionaire Owners Block Editorial Push to Endorse Kamala Harris, Virginia Judge Blocks GOP Voter Purge Less Than 2 Weeks Before Election, Atrocious Crimes": U.N. Warns of Mounting Bloodshed in Sudan's Gezira State, Uruguay Headed to Runoff After Center-Left Candidate Orsi Falls Short of 50% of Votes, Evo Morales Blames Bolivian President Luis Arce for Apparent Assassination Attempt, Biden Apologizes for U.S.-Run Boarding Schools That Abused and Killed Native Children

Will the BRICS economic and political alliance change the world's U.S.-centered balance of power? As the annual BRICS summit wraps up in Russia, we host a debate between American economist Richard Wolff and South African sociologist Patrick Bond over the significance of the conference. This year, the nine BRICS countries invited 13 new partner states" into their alliance, which Wolff calls historic" and a serious economic competitor to the United States and its role in the world." Bond, on the other hand, argues that BRICS should be considered a subimperial" formation, which expands and legitimates the existing world economic system rather than truly disrupting it.

In an extended interview, Palestinian poet and author Mosab Abu Toha discusses the situation in Gaza and his new book of poetry titled Forest of Noise. He fled Gaza in December after being detained by the Israeli military, but many of his extended family members were unable to escape. He reads a selection of poems from Forest of Noise, while sharing the stories of friends and family still struggling to survive in Gaza, as well as those he has lost, including the late poet Refaat Alareer. He also describes his experiences in Gaza in the first months of the war, including being displaced from his home and abducted by the Israeli military, noting that the neighborhood in Jabaliya refugee camp that his family first evacuated to last year was bombed by the Israeli military just days ago. Sometimes I want to stop writing because I'm repeating the same words, even though the situation is worse. The language is helpless," Abu Toha says. Why does the world make us feel helpless?"

Israeli soldiers have just conducted what Gaza's Civil Defense is calling a major massacre" in Jabaliya, with more than 150 people killed or injured and dozens of buildings destroyed. It is the latest atrocity amid the military's weekslong siege of northern Gaza. It's getting worse and worse," says Dr. Mohammed Salha in a call from the Jabaliya refugee camp, where he is acting director of Al-Awda Hospital.

A Major Massacre" in Jabaliya; Israeli Forces Raid Kamal Adwan Hospital in Northern Gaza, Killing Patients, Israeli Airstrike Kills 3 Journalists in Southern Lebanon, BRICS Alliance Expands to Include 13 New Members, Tropical Storm Trami Spawns Deadly Mudslides in Philippines, U.N. Report Says World Could See 3.1C Warming by 2100 Without Urgent Action on Climate, Pacific Island States Demand Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty, King Charles Offers No Apology for Slavery, Avoids Talk of Reparations at Commonwealth Summit, Protests Continue in Mozambique After Frelimo Presidential Candidate Daniel Chapo Wins Election, Dominican and Haitian New Yorkers Condemn DR's Mass Deportation of Haitians, Trump Spews Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech; Harris Joined by Obama, Celebs in Final Days of Campaign, Al Otro Lado Wins Lawsuit Against DHS for Illegal Policy of Turning Asylum Seekers Away from Border, Biden to Issue Formal Apology for Gov't-Run Native American Boarding Schools

We speak with Dr. Ahmed Ghanim, a prominent Muslim leader and former Democratic candidate for Congress, after the Kamala Harris campaign apologized for kicking him out of a Detroit election event Monday to which he was invited. Harris's staunch support for Israel as it continues its brutal war on Gaza has infuriated many Muslim and Arab voters in Michigan, and while Ghanim says it's a very important issue to him, he was not there to protest. He was also not given a reason for his removal, even after the campaign called him to apologize. Apology without accountability is not an apology," he says, adding that the incident has left him questioning whether Democrats still believe in diversity and inclusion or if Muslims and Arabs don't have room anymore in this party."

Al Jazeera is demanding the safety of its staff in the Gaza Strip after Israel claimed that six of the network's journalists there have ties to militant groups. Press freedom advocates say the Israeli accusation amounts to a preemptive justification for murder. Since the start of Israel's war on Gaza last October, at least 128 journalists have been killed, including many from Al Jazeera. The Committee to Protect Journalists says Israel has a history of smearing Palestinian journalists with unproven claims, including in July, when Israel killed Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and later released documents claiming to prove al-Ghoul had received a Hamas military ranking when he was just 10 years old. There is a pattern of Israel making these kinds of allegations, providing evidence that is, frankly, not credible or, in some cases, no evidence at all," says Jodie Ginsberg, CPJ's chief executive officer. As we have fewer and fewer journalists reporting ... we have less and less information coming out of Gaza. And it's absolutely essential that we have that information, that we have those images, so that the international community can understand the scale of what's happening."

The leading Israeli human rights group B'Tselem warned this week the world must stop the ethnic cleansing" of northern Gaza, where the Israeli military has imposed a brutal siege since October 5, demanding that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee south or face death. Israel is blocking almost all food, water and medicine from reaching northern Gaza while its forces carry out deadly raids and bombardment of the area, overwhelming the remaining hospitals. B'Tselem spokesperson Sarit Michaeli says it's impossible to watch events unfold and not conclude that what is going on there is the deliberate pressuring by the Israeli army of the civilian population of the area to move out of this area in order to empty it of Palestinians."

Israel is escalating its bombardment of Lebanon, leveling numerous buildings, including the offices of Lebanese news station Al Mayadeen. The Israeli military has also attacked the ancient city of Tyre, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site, and killed three Lebanese soldiers in a strike in southern Lebanon, all while continuing to defy international calls for a ceasefire. What we're seeing is a complete degeneration into a war that has no rules, that respects no international conventions. There's one side in this war that has complete impunity," says Lebanese sociologist Rima Majed in Beirut. Israel is targeting civilians in most cases. ... This is just terrorism."

Israeli Attack on Nuseirat Kills 17; Israeli Extermination Campaign in Northern Gaza Enters 20th Day, A Dangerous Escalation": Al Jazeera Blasts Israel's Accusations Against Journalists, Israel Carries Out 17 Overnight Strikes in Lebanon, Destroys Offices of Al Mayadeen News Station, Jewish Students Show Solidarity with Gaza During Sukkot Despite Crackdown from Universities, Faith Leaders Demand NYC Council Take Up Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Hundreds of Spanish Artists, Academics Call for Total Arms Embargo on Israel, Turkey Strikes Kurdistan Workers' Party in Syria, Iraq After Deadly Attack on Turkish Aerospace Co., U.N. Warns of Catastrophic Hunger in Sudan, Where Civilians Face Indiscriminate Attacks, Harris Campaign Reports Record Fundraising Haul, Outraising Trump 3 to 1 in September, Harris Calls Trump a Fascist" After John Kelly Says Trump Praised Hitler and Would Rule Like a Dictator, Justice Department Warns Elon Musk over $1 Million Payments to Registered Voters, Model Stacey Williams Says Trump Groped Her in Twisted Game" with Jeffrey Epstein, Boeing Workers Reject Tentative Union Contract, Extend Strike to Win Pension Benefits, U.S. Infant Deaths Spiked After Supreme Court Allowed States to Ban Abortion, Gustavo Gutierrez, Who Brought a Theology of Liberation" to Catholic Church, Dies at 96

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is continuing to resist calls to resign after being indicted on federal corruption charges. In recent weeks, at least seven senior city officials have resigned, leaving the city government in a state of crisis. This comes a year before New Yorkers will vote to pick the city's next mayor. Adams has vowed to run for reelection, but opponents, including fellow Democrats, are lining up to run against him. We are joined now by New York Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, who has just announced he will join the race. Mamdani is a Ugandan-born Democratic Socialist who was elected to the New York State Assembly four years ago. He is running on a platform centered on the needs of working-class New Yorkers and easing the cost-of-living crisis. He shares a number of his policy proposals and also discusses his pro-Palestine advocacy in the State Assembly, where earlier this year he introduced the Not on Our Dime Act, which would prevent New York charities from providing financial support for Israeli settlement activity.

In Puerto Rico, a new political alliance called the Alianza" will be on the ballot this November in a bid to change the U.S. territory's political status quo. The center-left Alianza, which brings together the Puerto Rican Independence Party and the Citizen's Victory Party, is the first opportunity for the people of Puerto Rico ... to push aside the corruption of the government right now and have the opportunity to build a new phase for Puerto Rico," says Ana Irma Rivera Lassen, running to represent Puerto Rico in Congress as the island's resident commissioner, which is Puerto Rico's sole member of Congress, albeit a nonvoting member. Rivera discusses being the first Black and openly LGBTQ candidate to run for that office, the Alianza's political platform, and how it is preparing for Election Day.

As human rights groups continue to call out war crimes committed by the Israeli military, we speak to the only U.S. diplomat to publicly resign from the Biden administration over its policy on Israel. We first spoke to Hala Rharrit when she resigned from the State Department in April, citing the illegal and deceptive nature of U.S. policy in the Middle East. We continue to willfully violate laws so that we surge U.S. military assistance to Israel," she says after more than a year of Israel's war on Gaza. Rharrit says she found the Biden administration unmovable in its counterproductive policy," which she believes has gravely harmed U.S. interests in the Middle East. We are going to feel the repercussions of that for years, decades, generations."

U.N. Says Israeli Assaults on Gaza Have Set Back Development by Seven Decades, Similar to an Earthquake": Lebanon Seeks $250 Million a Month for 1.3M People Displaced by Israel, Israeli Forces Shoot and Kill 11-Year-Old Palestinian Boy in Occupied West Bank, Blinken Wraps 11th Israel Visit as Hostages' Families Protest to Demand a Ceasefire, Al Jazeera Demands Medical Evacuation of Journalists Injured by Israeli Forces in Gaza, As Putin Opens BRICS Summit, U.S. Accuses North Korea of Deploying Troops to Russia, Trump's Former Chief of Staff John Kelly Says Trump Meets Definition of Fascist", Harris Campaign Ejects Muslim American Democrat from Detroit-Area Rally, Rudy Giuliani Ordered to Hand Over Apartment and Luxury Goods to Defamed Georgia Election Workers, Trial Opens of Former U.S. Marine Who Choked Jordan Neely to Death on NYC Subway, Protesters Meet Violent Crackdown as Observers Allege Fraud in Mozambique Election, Colombia's Environment Chief Demands Money for Conservation as U.N. Biodiversity Conference Opens

We continue our conversation with the acclaimed author, journalist and activist Naomi Klein, who says Vice President Kamala Harris is running an extremely high-risk, dangerous campaign" for the White House and trying to win without the base." Klein faults Harris for largely ignoring progressives she needs to turn out on November 5 as she courts Republicans, even as Donald Trump's authoritarian threats to go after the enemies within" could put many people at risk if he is reelected. She's told us we're irrelevant, and Trump is telling us that he's going to round us up," says Klein.

More than a year since Israel launched its war on Gaza in response to the October 7 attack, we speak with the award-winning author, journalist and activist Naomi Klein, who says a trauma industry" has emerged to keep Israeli society permanently in crisis in order to justify the country's expansionist wars and human rights abuses. Though the Israeli government likes to frame everything that is happening now as a response to October 7, this is a preexisting agenda," says Klein, whose latest essay for The Guardian explores how Israel has made trauma a weapon of war."

Israeli forces have killed at least 115 Palestinians and injured nearly 500 over the past two days, according to Palestinian health officials. This comes as Israel continues to carry out a brutal siege on northern Gaza, which has been described as a surrender or starve" policy of ethnic cleansing. As the military demands that tens of thousands of Palestinians leave the north, senior government ministers are pushing for new Jewish settlements in Gaza. Meanwhile, images and video have emerged from northern Gaza showing Israeli forces separating Palestinian men from their families and taking them away. Almost all aid has been cut off to the region, with hospitals under siege and barely able to function. It's a deliberate strategy of humiliating, terrorizing and punishing the civilian population," says Palestinian writer and analyst Muhammad Shehada, who is originally from Gaza and is following developments closely as chief of communications at Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

Israeli Troops Separate Men from Women and Children, March Displaced Palestinians at Gunpoint, 13 Killed, 57 Injured Near Lebanon's Largest Hospital as Israeli Bombs Rain Down on Beirut, Israeli Officials Join Settler Groups to Call for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza, Blinken Heads to Israel for 11th Visit Since Israel Launched Full-Scale Assault on Gaza, Falsely Convicted Central Park Five" Sue Trump for Defamation over Lies at Debate, Muwekma Ohlone Demand Apology After Assault and Arrests at D.C. Protest to Demand Recognition, Juror in Robert Roberson's 2003 Murder Trial Testifies to Texas Lawmakers After Execution Reprieve, Persecuted Guatemalan Journalist Jose Ruben Zamora Transferred from Prison to House Arrest, Barbara Dane, Blues Singer and Longtime Political Activist, Dies at 97

We take a look at the richest man in the world, multibillionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, and his support for Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election. During a campaign town hall in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Musk pledged to give away $1 million to random voters in battleground states every day until November 5 if they sign an online petition in support of the First and Second Amendments. We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Eric Lipton, whose new investigation at The New York Times looks at Musk's multibillion-dollar contracts with the federal government and the many regulatory investigations his businesses are currently being subject to, both of which may be at stake with the results of the upcoming election.

The Biden administration has launched a probe after highly classified U.S. intelligence documents were posted online showing that Israel is taking steps to launch a retaliatory attack against Iran. Meanwhile, a drone hit Benjamin Netanyahu's seaside home Saturday in what the Israeli prime minister has called an assassination attempt by Iran's proxy Hezbollah." As tensions between Iran and Israel heat up, we go to Tehran to speak with Hassan Ahmadian, a professor at the University of Tehran, who says Netanyahu and Israel have continually instigated violence in the region while trying to tell the world that it's Iran that is the problem."

We get an update on Israel's latest attacks on Lebanese banks, which it accused of holding money for Hezbollah, and the Israeli military's attacks on UNIFIL forces in contravention of both Lebanese sovereignty and the rules of war. There is nothing that shows they really want to impose a ceasefire," says Jamil Mouawad, a political science professor at the American University of Beirut, of Israel's flouting of international norms and the United States' complicity in its human rights violations.

Over 100 Palestinians have been killed in northern Gaza - where Israel is currently laying a major siege - by Israeli attacks since the start of the weekend. More than 350 patients are believed to be trapped inside the three remaining partially operational hospitals in northern Gaza: the Indonesian, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals. Dr. Ayaz Pathan, an emergency medicine physician who recently worked at the Indonesian and Nasser hospitals, describes the conditions he witnessed and responds to Israel's latest attack on aid workers and four water engineers who were killed. It was tragic to watch people be in pain, die in pain, die of infections which are completely preventable," says Pathan.

Israel Kills 87 Palestinians in Strike on Beit Lahia as Siege on Northern Gaza Intensifies, Farah al-Dalou Dies in Hospital Days After Her Brother Sha'ban al-Dalou Burned to Death, U.S. Envoy in Beirut as Israel Attacks Banks, More U.N. Peacekeeping Forces in Lebanon, U.S. Intel Leak Reveals Details of Israel's Planned Attack on Iran, Trump Pledges to Retaliate Against Enemies Within" If He Wins Reelection, Elon Musk Vows to Give Away $1 Million Per Day to Swing State Voters Who Sign His Petition, Prabowo Subianto, Ex-General Who Oversaw Mass Killings, Sworn In as President of Indonesia, Salvadoran Court Acquits Persecuted Water Defenders Who Helped Pass First-Ever Metal Mining Ban, Catholic Priest and Indigenous Activist Marcelo Perez Shot Dead in Mexico, Cuba Hit by Tropical Storm Oscar as Millions Face Power Blackouts, Mozambique Opposition Official and Lawyer Shot Dead Amid Rising Post-Election Tensions, Moldova Narrowly Votes to Join European Union, You Are Not Our King!": Aboriginal Australian Lawmaker Lidia Thorpe Confronts King Charles, Charges Dropped Against Deaf Black Man Who Was Brutalized by Arizona Police

Tributes have poured in from across the globe for 19-year-old Sha'ban al-Dalou, a software engineering student who burned to death after Israel bombed Gaza's Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir al-Balah on Monday. Photographs and footage of his final moments shocked millions around the world as Sha'ban laid in a hospital bed with an IV attached to his arm as the flames engulfed him. His mother and youngest brother have also reportedly succumbed to their burns, and his two sisters are on the verge of dying from their injuries. Another family is going to be wiped off the civil record," says Abubaker Abed, a 21-year-old journalist reporting live from outside the Al-Aqsa Hospital who interviewed al-Dalou's family and friends. Abed once dreamed of becoming a football commentator and is struggling to find food and supplies while Israel enacts a near-complete siege on Gaza. We are young men that have nothing to do with this war. ... But we are very daily being subjected to sheer violence and brutality," says Abed. I could be the next Sha'ban. Anyone could be the next Sha'ban, because Israel is allowed to do anything."

Israel announced Thursday it had killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza, releasing a video allegedly showing Sinwar's final moments before his death after Israeli forces in Rafah attacked the building he was in. After the announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared this is not the end of the war in Gaza." In Tel Aviv, Israeli families called for Netanyahu to refocus efforts on negotiating a deal to free the hostages. They are torn because they are clever enough to understand that the killing of Sinwar does not mean the release of their loved ones," says Gideon Levy, award-winning Israeli journalist and author, who says Netanyahu will continue to act through sheer force as he sets his sights on Iran with the full support of the United States.

Hamas has confirmed Israel killed the organization's leader, Yahya Sinwar, marking what could be a turning point in its yearlong war. Sinwar was apparently not killed as part of a targeted strike, but in the course of Israel's indiscriminate assault on the Gaza Strip. It's not a war that's happening against Hamas ... This is an Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people," says Palestinian analyst Tareq Baconi, author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance. The removal of someone like Yahya Sinwar will not stop the Netanyahu government from carrying out its genocide in the Gaza Strip."

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We look at Israel's threats to launch retaliatory strikes against Iran as fears grow of a broader regional war. We speak to analyst Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about the Biden administration sending U.S. troops and the top-of-the-line THAAD missile defense system to Israel. There are no direct and clear U.S. interests at stake here," says Parsi. Every time Israel escalates the war, Biden rushes in to protect Israel from the consequences of its own escalation," incentivizing Israel's escalation of tensions in the region and risking drawing the U.S. into war with Iran, he adds.

Aid groups warn Israel is wiping northern Gaza off the map, and the Biden administration is threatening to cut military assistance to Israel - but not for at least 30 days. This comes as the U.S. has continued to arm Israel despite findings by its own experts at USAID and the State Department that Israel has routinely impeded delivery of food and medicine to Gaza. We speak with Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned last October over the push to increase arms sales to Israel. He and Tariq Habash, who resigned in protest from the Education Department, have launched a lobbying organization and a political action committee called A New Policy to push for a new approach on Israel/Palestine amid what Paul calls a deep-rooted and very entrenched" pro-Israel consensus in U.S. politics.

We get an update on Israel's war on Lebanon from journalist Rania Abouzeid in Beirut. We are seeing a definite escalation that started a month ago and doesn't show any sign of letting up," she observes, describing unrestrained attacks by Israel throughout the country, on all sectors of society, as Israel carries out its Dahiya doctrine" in an attempt to foment division among the Lebanese population. This is the Gaza playbook. ... The sentiment here is that this is now a war on Lebanon," Abouzeid says.

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With just 19 days until the presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are ramping up efforts to appeal to a major voting bloc in battleground states: Latinx voters. This comes as both major candidates are boasting hard-line immigration policies that impose harsh conditions on those entering the United States. It will not be a solution for Vice President Harris to mimic Donald Trump's policies on immigration. In fact, she has to contrast," says Marisa Franco, director and co-founder of Mijente, who says Latinx voters are not moving to the right. What Latinos are doing is declaring their political independence from partisan politics. ... Latinos are looking to see who is going to deliver."

Less than three weeks from the election, Kamala Harris is campaigning in Michigan. Will she lose votes over the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza and expanding war on Lebanon? Meanwhile, Republican candidate Donald Trump has opened a new campaign office in the swing state. It feels like Vice President Harris is not doing what it takes to be both humane and compassionate and sensitive to the political realities in Michigan that are necessary to engage with in order to beat Donald Trump," says Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of the uncommitted" movement to change U.S. policy toward Israel and Gaza. What are we even talking about as Democrats if we speak so much to the value of human life, of the dignity of workers, when our party's official policy is to send more and more weapons to a fascist government that is on a killing spree?"

As the official death toll in Gaza passes more than 42,400, the true number may be impossible to know until Israel's war is over. But medical workers who witnessed the carnage in Gaza's hospitals are speaking out. We speak with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa about his op-ed in The New York Times that features harrowing stories from dozens of healthcare workers and CT scans of children shot in the head or the left side of the chest. The Times called the corresponding images of the patients too graphic to publish. I personally wish that Americans could see more of what it looks like when a child is shot in the head, when a child is flayed open by bombs," says Sidhwa. I think it would make us think a little bit more about what we do in the world." We also speak with Palestinian nurse Rajaa Musleh, who worked at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. I will never forget the dogs were eating the dead body inside Shifa Hospital at the front of the emergency department. This will be stuck on my mind for my whole life," says Musleh. My message for the whole world: We are human beings. We are not numbers. We have the right to receive healthcare inside Gaza."

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The new documentary film Union, premiering this week, follows Amazon workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island as they formed the first-ever U.S. Amazon union in 2022. Co-directed by Stephen Maing and Brett Story, the film follows the invisible working class" as they face an uphill battle against the notoriously anti-labor corporation, says Maing, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss the film. We also speak with Amazon Labor Union-IBT Local 1's president, Connor Spence, who shares his experience organizing the most surveilled workforce anywhere" and explains what's next as the union moves to organize Amazon on a national scale with the Teamsters.

There is nothing antisemitic about fighting for people's right to live," says Jewish Voice for Peace organizer Elena Stein, who on Monday joined hundreds of protesters arrested to block entrances to the New York Stock Exchange. We discuss the historic mass protest, which called for an Israeli arms embargo and an end to war profiteering by companies like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. We are filled with horror beyond words and are attempting to embody just an ounce of that refusal," Stein says of the moral urgency of protesting Israel's actions in the Middle East, which she describes as a war of extermination ... done with U.S. cover." She says JVP chose the stock exchange in order to draw attention to the role of U.S. financial and corporate interests in arming the Israeli military.

The Biden administration is sending an advanced anti-missile defense system and 100 U.S. troops to Israel in advance of expected retaliatory strikes against Iran. This marks the first significant deployment of American troops to Israel since the beginning of its assault on Gaza, though the U.S. has spent an estimated tens of billions of dollars on the Israeli military and related operations. The irony here is the Iranian missile attack is only going to happen if we help Israel strike Iran first," says Win Without War's Harrison Mann. With the deployment of troops to Israeli military installations, says Mann, Israel now has its own sort of American human shields" and a new mechanism to drag America into a war with Hezbollah and Iran." Mann, who is Jewish, is a former U.S. Army major who resigned from his position at the Defense Intelligence Agency in protest of U.S. support for Israel's war in Gaza, a decision he says was inspired by student antiwar protests on U.S. campuses.

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Israel is facing international condemnation after repeatedly attacking U.N. peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon. At least five members of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, have been injured in recent days. The U.N. also accused Israel of forcibly entering and destroying part of a UNIFIL base near the Israeli border after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called to remove the peacekeeping forces from the region. The message of Israel is we don't care about anything except Israel, and we will destroy the whole region if we need to," says Rami Khouri, a Palestinian American journalist and senior public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut. This comes as the U.S. sends troops to Israel in anticipation of a conflict with Iran. This is a terrible trajectory, and people will fight back against it."

We speak with the reporter who revealed the Israeli plan to displace or kill the entire Palestinian population of north Gaza. Israeli Major General Giora Eiland has proposed ordering everyone in northern Gaza to evacuate within one week, after which Israel will conduct a total siege on the area and deem anyone who remains an eligible target for military attack. Are we talking about Israel committing an extermination of hundreds of tens of thousands of people if they will choose to stay?" asks Meron Rapoport, editor and writer at Local Call and columnist at +972 Magazine, who says many areas in Gaza have already been ordered to evacuate and are not receiving new aid deliveries. We have the sense here that this plan is being actually implemented without being officially adopted."

We get another update on Israel's brutal siege and bombing in the north of the Gaza Strip, where hospitals are desperate for supplies. Every day is a breaking point. Every day is a desperate rush for food, water, fuel and medicine and shelter," says Dr. Samer Attar, who has volunteered four times as a surgeon in north Gaza, most recently in June. It never ends. Every day you wake up to more and more of it. That's just what makes it so horrifying."

We speak with Dr. Mohammed Salha, the acting director of Al-Awda Hospital at the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, as Israel continues to escalate attacks against northern Gaza and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering implementing a surrender or starve" policy there. Palestinians in north Gaza report Israeli forces are conducting a strict and deadly siege while bombing more tent encampments, hospitals and schools this weekend. They are putting the people and the hospitals under siege," says Salha, who notes Israel has ordered the hospital to evacuate. We will not leave our patients behind us. We have to save them. We have to provide them the healthcare that they need."

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We speak with the director of The Apprentice, the movie Trump doesn't want you to see," which opens today in theaters despite legal threats from the former president. The film looks at how Trump was mentored by Roy Cohn, former chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. He went on to represent Trump as he built his New York real estate empire, and was the person who sort of built Trump, as a person, as a brand, as an identity," says Abbasi.

A Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, has won the Nobel Peace Prize as fears grow of a new nuclear arms race. The head of the group has compared Gaza today to Japan 80 years ago when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We feature a Democracy Now! interview with Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and an anti-nuclear activist, and get response from Joseph Gerson, president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, a U.S. nuclear disarmament activist who has spent decades working closely with the group.

As the Israeli military continues its assaults on Gaza and Lebanon, which have included the targeting of hospitals and ambulances and the killing of medical personnel, among other violations of international law, we speak to a doctor currently volunteering in Beirut. Dr. Bing Li is an emergency medicine physician and U.S. Army veteran who also volunteered at Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza earlier this year. Li recounts her experiences in Gaza, where it feels like death is everywhere," and warns that Israel's latest forced evacuation, of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, is essentially a death sentence" for patients, including children in the hospital's intensive care unit. Now in Lebanon, Li describes how providers are scrambling to increase healthcare capacity in anticipation of additional attacks.

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We look at the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in southwest Florida, which runs a radio station called Radio Conciencia that helped immigrant farmworkers prepare for Hurricane Milton and other storms. Established in 2003, the community radio station broadcasts in Spanish, Creole and other languages to share crucial information during natural disasters. This is always scary for us whenever a hurricane hits in our area," says organizer Gerardo Reyes Chavez. Living conditions especially are horrible in most agricultural communities."

As many as 28,000 people incarcerated in central and southern Florida jails and prisons were in mandatory evacuation zones for Hurricane Milton, but many officials reportedly refused to evacuate them. Some who were moved to more secure facilities ahead of the storm report having been left in lockdown with no power, updates or access to prison staff. The fact that they are unable to evacuate people in mandatory evacuation zones goes to show the complete lack of prioritization of the lives of incarcerated people during hurricanes. And I think we can all agree, if we are prioritizing the safety of our communities, those communities must include the incarcerated people inside," says Jordan Martinez, an organizer with the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons and the group's Hurricane and Disaster Response Team. They helped organize pressure campaigns for officials to evacuate incarcerated people during this storm as they have for many others.