This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: A federal judge on Tuesday approved yet another adjustment to restructuring some of Puerto Rico’s massive debt. The proposal was presented by Puerto Rico’s U.S.-imposed financial oversight board — known as La Junta — and it reduces the biggest portion of the …
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Headlines for January 19, 2022
U.S. Gov't Launches Site to Mail Free COVID Tests, Issues N95 Masks Amid Winter Surge Sonia Sotomayor Tends to SCOTUS Business Remotely After Neil Gorsuch Refuses to Wear Mask Japan Sets New Curbs, Hong Kong Culls 2,000 Exposed Hamsters, as Asian Nations See COVID Surges WHO Warns Only 7% of African Population Fully Inoculated Amid …
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Who Is Aafia Siddiqui? Synagogue Attack Renews Focus on Pakistani Neuroscientist Imprisoned in Texas
During Saturday’s synagogue attack in Colleyville, Texas, the gunman Malik Faisal Akram repeatedly called for the release of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving an 86-year sentence in a U.S. federal prison located just miles from the synagogue. Siddiqui was convicted in 2010 on charges that she intended to kill U.S. military officers while …
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Texas Rabbi: Despite False Media Narratives, Synagogue Attack Brought Jewish & Muslim Communities Together
On Saturday, an armed British man named Malik Faisal Akram took a rabbi and three congregants hostage at a synagogue outside of Fort Worth, Texas, resulting in an 11-hour standoff that ended once the rabbi threw a chair at Akram, who was later shot dead by the police. The standoff — which left all four …
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“There Must Be a Moral Shift”: Bishop Barber Calls on Democrats to Pass Voting Rights, Protect Poor
Senate Democratic leadership insists they will debate two critical voting rights bills even though Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have publicly denounced their party’s plan to make changes to Senate filibuster rules that would give Democrats the votes needed to pass the landmark legislation. Meanwhile, thousands marched in support of the legislation and …
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Headlines for January 18, 2022
MLK's Family Leads Protests Demanding Passage of Voting Rights Legislation U.S. COVID-19 Hospitalizations Hit New Record High China Won't Sell Winter Olympics Tickets to Public After Beijing Logs First Omicron Case Novak Djokovic Deported for Violating COVID-19 Rules, Will Miss Australian Open Hostages in Texas Synagogue Escape; Police Shoot and Kill Gunman Volcano Erupts Near …
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Central Bank Guidance to UAE Financial Institutions Banking Cash-Intensive Businesses
The Central Bank of the UAE (“CBUAE”) has issued new guidance (the “Guidance”) to UAE financial institutions providing services to cash-intensive businesses. The specific characteristics of cash—anonymity, interchangeability, and transportability—make it an attractive medium for illicit actors seeking to obfuscate the proceeds of crime or the funding of terrorism. Unlike other monetary instruments, such as …
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MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Today is a federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15th, 1929. He was assassinated April 4th, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King …
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“Who We Are”: New Film Chronicles History of Racism in America Amid Growing Attack on Voting Rights
As the United States heads into the Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend, attempts by Democrats to pass major new voting rights legislation appear to have stalled. We examine the new award-winning documentary “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America,” which follows civil rights attorney Jeffery Robinson as he confronts the enduring legacy …
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Afghanistan in Freefall: Deadly U.S. Sanctions Blamed for Shocking Humanitarian Crisis
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. This week the United Nations launched a nearly $5 billion aid appeal for international donors to Afghanistan. U.N. Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said, …
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