, who was shot to death, and assata shakur. she was imprisoned over the incident but later escaped to cuba, where she has political asylum. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by democracy now! co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey. hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: a warning to our audience, we begin today's show with a story that contains graphic footage. israeli forces in the occupied west bank have shot and killed shireen abu akleh, a veteran palestinian-american journalist working for al jazeera, as she covered an israeli army raid on the jenin refugee camp early this morning. this according to the palestinian health ministry and al jazeera. video released by al jazeera shows the moments after abu akleh was shot in the face by . amy: a spokesperson said she was likely killed by palestinian snipers, though he offered no evi

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tupac shakur optimistic about the world more pessimistic? pessimistic. two boys to men are going to pessimistic. richie gets the regime. so india. >> optimistic. >> my heart will go on. my heart will go on. does anyone know the band garbage? one of garbage is big singles, i'm only happy when it rains. >> i only know that they did this some for one of pierced bras news last bondqáastic. i i got i got i got some really like the more i thought about it the more fun it became like marilyn manson customers creed kind of like christian rock band sort of like creed is like rei are you? you know obviously something with families. so like the point is not that there's one or the other it's just that like i feel like there was a lot of disaffection and a lot of like hopeful optimism, so i came up with another is one of the other, it's just like i feel like there was a lot of disaffection and a lot of, like, hopeful optimism. so i came up with another couple of examples of this. just of, like, that got to be about the future. so i don't know if you're a big action

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optimistic tupac shakur optimistic about the world or pessimistic pessimistic boys to men optimistic or pessimism rage against the machine celine dion ultimate my heart will go on my heart will go on does anyone know the band garbage? guard one of garbage's big singles. i'm only happy when it rains very happy to run i only know that they did the bond the song for one of pierce brosnan's last bond movies. which one did they do? what is it? the world is not enough the world is not enough optimistic or pessimistic. having any other context i mean they pessimistic but as an very optimistic. i i got i got i got some really like the more i thought about it the more fun it became like marilyn manson customers creed kind of like christian rock band sort of like creed is like rei are you? you know obviously something with families. so like the point is not that there's one or the other it's just that like i feel like there was a lot of disaffection and a lot of like hopeful optimism, so i came up with another another couple of examples of this just of like dichotomies about the future. so, i