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As hunger grows across the globe during the pandemic, the United Nations faces intense criticism for giving corporations an outsized role at the Food Systems Summit; We look at AUKUS, the new military partnership between the United States, Australia and Britain to counter China. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The Cuban government denounces the U.S. for intensifying its economic blockade while the island nation is facing a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths; How a drug-trafficking mayor in Honduras fueled the U.S. migration crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Writer Anand Gopal on "the other Afghan women" and how decades of war devastated rural communities in Afghanistan; Public health experts denounce the Biden administration's plans for booster shots as much of the world still lacks access to COVID-19 vaccines; Protests grow in El Salvador as President Nayib Bukele consolidates power. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

California voters vote no in the Republican-led recall election targeting Governor Gavin Newsom; A U.S. drone strike in Kabul that the Pentagon claimed took out an ISIS-K militant appears to have only killed civilians; Counting the undocumented immigrants who died on 9/11; Apple releases an emergency software update to fix a flaw exploited by NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

In Part 2 of our interview with Ronald Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, he describes how they discovered a massive security flaw that was being exploited by the Israeli-based NSO Group to infect Apple iPhones and other devices with its Pegasus spyware.

How Islamophobia has driven foreign policy and impacted the United States over the last 20 years; Canadian authorities arrest nearly 1,000 people at Fairy Creek in British Columbia, where activists have sustained a months-long blockade to stop old-growth logging. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We spend the hour marking the 50th anniversary of the 1971 Attica prison rebellion, the deadliest prison uprising in the history of the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Congressmember Barbara Lee discusses her lonely vote against war in 2001; We revisit a conversation in 2002, when a New Yorker who lost her brother in the World Trade Center attacks and an Afghan American woman who lost 19 family members in the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan met on Democracy Now! and shared their grief. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We speak with the filmmakers behind the new Netflix docuseries "Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror"; Historian Samuel Moyn on how efforts to make war more "humane" have fueled U.S. military interventions abroad. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The Taliban takes a major step in reestablishing their Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as protests grow across the country; We speak with Sharon Lavigne, winner of the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize, an environmental activist who is documenting the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana's St. James Parish; Unemployment benefits for millions of U.S. workers expire on Labor Day. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We spend the hour looking at a new documentary, "9/11's Unsettled Dust," ahead of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and the impact of the toxic, cancer-causing smoke that hung over ground zero in Manhattan. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Afghan reporter Bilal Sarwary describes fleeing Kabul as the Taliban took control of the country; National Security reporter Spencer Ackerman on Afghanistan and how the war on terror emboldened right-wing extremists in the U.S.

The city of New Orleans remains without power in the sweltering heat after Hurricane Ida; We speak with journalist Eyal Press about his new book, "Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America," and to two workers he profiles. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The Supreme Court allows a new Texas anti-abortion law to stand; Three police officers and two paramedics are criminally charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain; Women may not be able to hold senior positions in the Taliban government in Afghanistan; We speak with Rafia Zakaria about her new book, "Against White Feminism," and look at how U.S. officials used the plight of Afghan women to justify the 2001 invasion and subsequent occupation. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The last U.S. troops leave Afghanistan, ending America's longest war after 20 years; Gulf Coast communities begin rebuilding after Hurricane Ida, one of the strongest storms ever to hit the U.S. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe