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Welcome to democracyow democracynow.org the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. President Trump said Monday the
9 seconds
US
ceasefire with Iran is on life support after he rejected Iran's
proposal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz calling it
stupid.20 seconds
After
reading that piece of garbage they sent us, I didn't even finish
reading it. I said I'm gonna waste my time reading it. I would say it's
one of the weakest right now. It's on life support.32 seconds
Iranian officials said they're prepared to retaliate if attacked, warning the US would be surprised by Iran's response.40 seconds
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports United Arab Emirates secretly carried out military strikes on Iran,47 seconds
including an April attack on a refinery on Leavan Island in the Persian Gulf.54 seconds
The Journal reports the Trump administration quietly welcomed the participation of the UAE and any other1 minute, 1 second
Gulf states wanting to join in the fight.1 minute, 6 seconds
The head of the Saudi Aram co- oil company warned Monday the global oil market will lose around 100 million1 minute, 13 seconds
barrels
every week if disruptions to the straight of Hormuz continue at the
current rate. Amin Nasser also warned that global supplies of gasoline
and jet1 minute, 22 seconds
fuel could reach critically low levels by summer unless Iran allows shipping lanes to reopen. Here in the United1 minute, 29 seconds
States, Missouri Republican Senator Josh Holly said Monday he's introducing legislation that would suspend federal1 minute, 37 seconds
taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel. Gas is currently taxed at 18.4 4 cents per gallon. Diesel at just over 24 cents.1 minute, 48 seconds
Holly's bill would suspend them entirely for 90 days, depriving the Treasury of billions of dollars of tax revenue. This1 minute, 57 seconds
comes after the Trump administration released a record 8.6 million barrels of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum2 minutes, 5 seconds
Reserve last week in a bid to lower US gas prices, which have soared to an average of more than $4.50 50 cents a gallon.2 minutes, 15 seconds
The Israeli military has issued a new forced evacuation orders for residents of southern Lebanese towns and villages2 minutes, 22 seconds
as
it continues daily violations of the US brokered April ceasefire. On
Monday, an Israeli air strike killed six people in a house in southern
Lebanon.2 minutes, 31 seconds
Elsewhere, Israeli forces blew up a water pumping station on the Latani River. Meanwhile, the UN says Israeli2 minutes, 39 seconds
forces are impeding peacekeepers with UNIFIL, blocking their movements with tanks and armored bulldozers. UN2 minutes, 46 seconds
spokesperson Farhan Hawk said violent incidents have surged since Friday.2 minutes, 54 seconds
During this period, peacekeepers observed more than 1,296 trajectories of projectiles attributed3 minutes
to the Israeli Defense Forces and 64 trajectories of projectiles attributed to Hezbollah.3 minutes, 7 seconds
Incidents involving the denial of freedom of movement to UNIFIL peacekeepers continue to occur daily.3 minutes, 13 seconds
In Gaza, Israeli forces have once again violated the US brokered ceasefire with deadly violence. The Palestinian Health3 minutes, 21 seconds
Ministry reports Israeli troops stationed in eastern Gaza shot and killed two civilians Monday. Elsewhere,3 minutes, 28 seconds
medics retrieved the bodies of two Palestinians from central Gaza after they were hit by shrapnel from Israeli3 minutes, 35 seconds
artillery fire. Meanwhile, a member of a Gaza bound humanitarian aid flotillaa has returned home after he was abducted3 minutes, 42 seconds
by Israeli commandos in international waters and brought to Israel for interrogation. The Brazilian activist3 minutes, 49 seconds
Thiago Avila said from Sa Paulo on Monday he and other prisoners suffered torture in Israeli custody. Aila blamed3 minutes, 57 seconds
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the abuses. Thanks.4 minutes, 3 seconds
Yes,
he committed another war crime, but what he did against us is nothing
compared to what they do to Palestinians every single day. Once again,
we always4 minutes, 10 seconds
need
to say this. It's not about us individually. It's about a people that
has been suffering eight decades of genocide and ethnic cleansing.4 minutes, 19 seconds
Thiago Avila's mother died in Brazil while he was in Israeli custody. After headlines, we'll speak with Seph Abu4 minutes, 28 seconds
Keshek. He was abducted from the global Simood Flotilla by Israeli forces. He'll speak to us now after being held for 104 minutes, 36 seconds
days by Israel. He'll speak to us from Turkey. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces fatally shot a4 minutes, 44 seconds
30-year-old Palestinian man Monday as they raided the Kalangia refugee camp north of Jerusalem. He was shot in the4 minutes, 51 seconds
head,
later pronounced dead after Israeli forces barred ambulance crews from
reaching his body. The killing came as Israeli forces stormed a
vocational5 minutes
school opposite the camp and fired a barrage of tear gas, stun grenades, and live ammunition.5 minutes, 8 seconds
separately. A Palestinian family in a village near Janine says Israeli settlers forced them to exume their5 minutes, 15 seconds
80year-old relative and reberry his body in a different grave. 80-year-old5 minutes, 22 seconds
Hussein Assasa died of natural causes last Friday. His son says he coordinated a burial with Israel's military. Yet5 minutes, 29 seconds
settlers threatened to bulldoze his grave site unless he agreed to move the body, claiming the cemetery was part of5 minutes, 37 seconds
an Israeli settlement. Such settlements are illegal under international law.5 minutes, 44 seconds
The European Union has agreed to impose sanction on Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank after Hungary's new5 minutes, 52 seconds
government lifted its longstanding veto of the measures. The move comes shortly after Peter Majar was sworn in as6 minutes, 1 second
Hungary's new prime minister, ending 16 years of Victor Orban's authoritarian rule. Victor Orban was a close ally of6 minutes, 10 seconds
the United States's President Trump. 10 Hamas leaders were also sanctioned. The6 minutes, 17 seconds
EU and the United Kingdom also announced separate sanctions targeting Russian officials and institutions accused of6 minutes, 25 seconds
systematically deporting and indoctrinating Ukrainian children during the war. The sanctions cover Russian6 minutes, 32 seconds
individuals responsible for forcibly transferring children from occupied Ukrainian territories. Here in New York,6 minutes, 42 seconds
protests erupted Monday outside a real estate expo that advertises properties for sale in the occupied Palestinian6 minutes, 49 seconds
territories. The Intercept reports at least one table at the so-called great Israeli real estate event," unquote,6 minutes, 58 seconds
advertised land sales in Kafar, Eldad, Carne, Shamron, and other Israeli settlements considered illegal under7 minutes, 5 seconds
international law. This is Shra Jooshi of the Palestinian Solidarity Group Pala.7 minutes, 13 seconds
In
the buildings near us, there are selling Palestinian land illegally in
an event that is in direct violation of New York housing law, New York
real estate law and international law. This is7 minutes, 22 seconds
Palestinian
land that is being sold right here in our neighborhoods. The properties
that are being advertised in this land sale event exist in the occupied
West Bank. That is direct7 minutes, 29 seconds
violation
of the fourth Geneva Convention, which is in violation of international
law. and we're here to say that we have a stake in this as community
members and that New Yorkers will be out here and we will not be
silenced.7 minutes, 39 seconds
The
US Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for Alabama to eliminate one of
its two majority black congressional districts ahead of November's
midterm7 minutes, 48 seconds
elections. The move could hand Republicans an additional House seat.7 minutes, 53 seconds
Alabama is one of several Republican-led states rushing to redraw maps and disenfranchise black voters after the8 minutes, 2 seconds
Supreme Court gutted a key Voting Rights Act provision last month. Meanwhile, Virginia Democrats on Monday asked the8 minutes, 10 seconds
US Supreme Court to restore a voter approved congressional map struck down by Virginia's High Court last week. The8 minutes, 18 seconds
new Virginia districts could help Democrats secure up to four seats in the House.8 minutes, 24 seconds
President Trump set to arrive in China to meet with Chinese President Xiinping this week for his first visit to China8 minutes, 32 seconds
since 2017. President Trump will be accompanied by corporate executives including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Elon8 minutes, 40 seconds
Musk of Tesla. Forbes reports the five billionaires in President Trump's entourage have a combined net worth of $870 billion.8 minutes, 53 seconds
The
summit is expected to focus on trade tariffs, the USIsraeli war in
Iran, artificial intelligence, and US arm sales to Taiwan.9 minutes, 3 seconds
Senate
Democrats have condemned a Republican plan to spend a billion dollars
in taxpayer funds on Trump's ballroom in the East Wing of the White9 minutes, 12 seconds
House. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer accused Republicans of quote asking working families to pay the price9 minutes, 20 seconds
while Trump pockets the perks. At a time when Americans are struggling to put9 minutes, 27 seconds
food on the table, Republicans say, "Let him eat cake and demand American taxpayers build Trump a palace while9 minutes, 35 seconds
they're at it." This comes as soil excavated from the White House as part of the ballroom9 minutes, 43 seconds
project and dumped at nearby East PTOAC Park has tested positive for lead, chromium, and other toxic metals.9 minutes, 52 seconds
According to National Park Service data reported by the New York Times and a lawsuit filed by the Cultural10 minutes
Landscape Foundation seeks to halt Trump's makeover of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, whose repairs have10 minutes, 8 seconds
ballooned from a promised $1.8 million to $13.1 million after the Interior10 minutes, 15 seconds
Department added $6.2 million to a no bid contract last week. Meanwhile, in10 minutes, 22 seconds
Miami, Florida, a 15 foot gold leaf bronze statue of President Trump, dubbed10 minutes, 30 seconds
Don Colossus, was installed at Trump's Dural Miami Golf Course, commissioned by10 minutes, 37 seconds
a cryptocurrency group and dedicated by Trump ally, Pastor Mark Burns. On social10 minutes, 44 seconds
media, Pastor Burns wrote, quote, "Let me say this plainly. This is not a golden calf."10 minutes, 54 seconds
Hades prime minister said Monday, "Haiti is too unstable to hold presidential elections as scheduled in August, which11 minutes, 1 second
would be Haiti's first election in nearly a decade. Haiti has had no nationally elected officials since11 minutes, 7 seconds
January 2023 and its parliament has been inactive since 2019. More than 1.411 minutes, 16 seconds
million people have been displaced by gang violence while key roads linking the capital porta to the provinces11 minutes, 23 seconds
remain unsafe or blocked. Doctors without borders has suspended hospital operations due to gunfire safety11 minutes, 32 seconds
concerns.
And in the Philippines, a senator who once presided over former
President Rodrigo Duterte's violent drug war fled federal agents Monday
as they11 minutes, 40 seconds
attempted
to serve him an international arrest warrant outside the Philippine
Senate. Surveillance cameras caught the dramatic scene as 64year-old
Senator11 minutes, 49 seconds
Ronald Delosa dashed upstairs and raced along hallways before arriving at the Senate Chamber where the officers have11 minutes, 57 seconds
no
power to arrest him. He slept at the Senate office overnight and has
since refused to leave, vowing to fight extradition to the Hague to face
charges at the International Criminal Court.12 minutes, 8 seconds
Delar Roa served as police chief under Duterte between 2016 and 2018 when thousands of alleged drug dealers were12 minutes, 17 seconds
shot and killed. A spokesperson for the ICC laid out the charges against him Monday.12 minutes, 24 seconds
The judges assessed the material submitted by the prosecution and found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr.12 minutes, 30 seconds
Dar Roza is allegedly criminally responsible as an indirect co-perpetrator for the crime against12 minutes, 38 seconds
humanity
of murder. Meanwhile, the Philippine House of Representatives voted
Monday to impeach Vice President Sarah Duterte over bribery and12 minutes, 48 seconds
corruption
charges. She's the daughter of the ex-president Rodrigo Duterte, who's
jailed at the Hague, awaiting trial at the ICC for alleged crimes12 minutes, 55 seconds
against humanity. It's the second time Sarah Duterte has been impeached, but she appears unlikely to be removed from13 minutes, 2 seconds
office after her allies on Monday took control of the Senate. And those are some of the headlines. This is Democracy13 minutes, 10 seconds
Now, democracynow.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. Thanks for watching Democracy13 minutes, 17 seconds
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