Democracy Now! 2015-05-07 Thursday

• Headlines for May 07, 2015
• Robert Jay Lifton on How Climate Change Joins Nuclear War in Threatening Human Survival
• Robert Jay Lifton, Author of "The Nazi Doctors": Psychologists Who Aided Torture Should Be Charged
• The Socialization of Evil: Robert Jay Lifton on the Death Penalty, the Holocaust & Armenian Genocide

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As Palestine joins the International Criminal Court, former U.N. Special Rapporteur John Dugard talks about how an apartheid case could be brought against Israel in the ICC. "I'm a South African who lived through apartheid," Dugard said. "I have no hesitation in saying that Israel's crimes are infinitely worse than those committed by the apartheid regime of South Africa."

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Democracy Now! 2015-05-06 Wednesday

• Headlines for May 06, 2015
• "Kill Anything": Israeli Soldiers Say Gaza Atrocities Came from Orders for Indiscriminate Fire
• After Palestine Overcomes U.S.-Israeli Pressure and Joins ICC, Will Gaza's Victims See Justice?
• Snowden Docs: NSA Technology Lets Gov't Generate Transcripts of Private Phone Calls
• NYC Mayor de Blasio Moves to Rein In Soaring Rents with Call for Sweeping New Tenant Protections

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"Your children are being put back in the ground before they’ve even lived yet," rapped Baltimore poet, Grim Jackson, during a rally Sunday calling for justice for Freddie Gray. Watch Gray perform several pieces, along with fellow poet and rapper, Martina Lynch.