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Report from Beirut: Growing internal division in Lebanon under Israel’s assault
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- Report from Beirut: Growing internal division in Lebanon under Israel’s assault
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- 1:35
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- 7 months ago
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- From Beirut, Kareem Chehayeb reports on the tense atmosphere in Lebanon as the population attempts to survive Israel’s brutal assault and division grows around the role of Hezbollah’s military resistance.
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- What is the SAVE Act and why is Trump pushing for it?
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- 1:25
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- 7 months ago
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- The U.S. Senate is preparing to vote on a Trump-backed voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act. Millions of citizens who lack easy access to its required forms of documentation are now at risk of disenfranchisement.
The groups most at risk of disenfranchisement include older voters who never received birth certificates and trans people who have changed their names or gender markers on government documents.
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- Disenfranchise Tens of Millions? Trump's SAVE Act Targets Women, Poor, Rural & Trans Voters
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- 8:01
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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Experts are calling it "the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress." As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Trump-backed voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, millions of citizens who lack easy access to its required forms of documentation are now at risk of disenfranchisement. "Republicans are singularly focused on making it harder to vote and pursuing this MAGA fever dream," explains Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. "It is the overarching goal of the Republican Party now to make it harder to vote."
The groups most at risk of disenfranchisement include people who have changed their names after marriage, older voters who never received birth certificates, rural voters who could find it increasingly difficult to register to vote and trans people who have changed their names or gender markers on government documents. The GOP and MAGA moveme...
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- Report from Beirut: 1,000+ Dead, 1M+ Displaced, Many Fear Long-Term Occupation of Southern Lebanon
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- 15:06
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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As Israel continues to pummel Lebanon in its resumed war against the country and the Hezbollah paramilitary, we get an update from Associated Press reporter Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut. "If you compare this particular war to the last one, less than two years ago, what happened in the past three weeks is what happened in the past seven or eight months," says Chehayeb, who describes masses of displaced people and fears of an imminent ground invasion. "There is a humanitarian crisis unfolding in the country, and it doesn't appear that these strikes will stop anytime soon."
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- Labor Icon Dolores Huerta, 95, Reveals She, Too, Was Raped by Cesar Chavez; Speaks to Maria Hinojosa
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- 20:11
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- 7 months ago
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A major New York Times investigation details the late co-founder of the United Farm Workers Cesar Chavez's sexual abuse of women and girls. The revelations about Chavez's history of grooming and abuse have sent shockwaves through the labor movement and California, where officials are already moving to cancel or rename public celebrations planned in his honor. Chavez is also accused of sexually assaulting fellow labor rights icon and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, now 95. Huerta says the assaults led to the births of two of her children. She concealed the pregnancies and had kept the children's paternity secret until now.
Huerta spoke for the first time at length about her new public disclosures in an exclusive interview with Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss how Huerta is "not only coming to terms with her own assaults, [but also] coming to terms with...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 20, 2026
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- 11:21
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- 7 months ago
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- Rep. Ro Khanna on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is “a total betrayal of [Trump’s] promise that he was going to focus on American needs,” says Congressmember Ro Khanna.
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- Iran's long-term war strategy
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Iran is prepared for a much longer war than the U.S. and Israel anticipated, says Iranian American professor of international affairs Vali Nasr.
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- From Epic Fury to Epstein Fury: Rep. Ro Khanna on the Betrayals of the Trump Administration
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- 6:10
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- 7 months ago
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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee walked out of a closed-door briefing on the Epstein files with Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche, less than an hour after it began Wednesday, after Bondi repeatedly declined to say whether she would comply with a subpoena requiring her to appear for a sworn deposition on April 14. Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna, who attended the briefing, said Bondi will have to answer "why there are still 3 million documents being hidden" and "why there was a cover-up of those files that implicated Donald Trump." Khanna also comments on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, noting that Trump's military actions are "a total betrayal of his promise that he was going to focus on American needs."
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- The End of the Petrodollar? How Iran War Is Reshaping the Global Economy: Author Laleh Khalili
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- 16:48
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- 7 months ago
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Professor of Gulf studies Laleh Khalili lays out the global economic implications of the effective closing of one of the world's "major choke points for oil," the Strait of Hormuz. "It doesn't benefit the average U.S. citizen … at the gas stations, but it does benefit the oil companies," says Khalili. "The higher the price of oil goes up, the relatively cheaper it becomes to actually have sustainable alternatives. Of course, that means that it benefits China … since China is way ahead of the rest of the world in producing these technologies."
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- "Iran Is Playing the Long Game": What to Expect from Protracted War in Middle East
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- 20:34
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- 7 months ago
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In a major escalation in the war in the Middle East, Israel has bombed Iran's South Pars gas field, the largest known natural gas reserve in the world, leading Iran to attack energy sites across the Gulf. Iranian American professor of international affairs Vali Nasr says that Iran is prepared for a much longer war than the U.S. and Israel anticipated. "The longer this war goes on, the more Iran is building leverage, and the more the strategic calculations of Israel and the United States appear to be falling short," he says. Iran "thinks the longer that the war goes on, the less Israel and the United States will be able to defend against Iranian missiles, because they're going to run out of interceptors."
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 19, 2026
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- 11:26
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- 7 months ago
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- Democracy Now! turns 30 – watch our special event
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- 0:29
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- 7 months ago
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- 📢 Join Amy Goodman and the entire Democracy Now! family for a special live streaming event at the historic Riverside Church to celebrate 30 years of independent journalism.
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- Trump bullies media over Iran coverage
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The Trump administration is escalating threats against news outlets.
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- Joe Kent resigns over Iran
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Joe Kent, who served as a top national security official, resigned from the Trump administration in response to what he said was Israel’s influence on U.S. foreign policy.
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- How the Pentagon is using AI in Iran
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- 0:51
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Craig Jones, an expert on modern warfare, says the Pentagon is using AI technology in Iran to speed up the "kill chain," the process of identifying, approving and striking targets.
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- “Warmongers Come for the Media”: Trump Threatens Media with “Treason” Charges over Iran War Coverage
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- 7:07
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- 7 months ago
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The Trump administration is escalating threats against news organizations, with President Trump suggesting outlets should face “treason” charges for disseminating false information. Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has also threatened to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over their coverage of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. This all comes as allies of President Trump consolidate their control over several major media outlets. Paramount Skydance, led by Trump ally David Ellison, is poised to acquire Warner Bros., which includes CNN.
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- Trump’s Counterterrorism Chief Resigns over Iran War, Criticizes “Pressure from Israel”
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- 10:36
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- 7 months ago
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A top national security official resigned from the Trump administration Tuesday in response to the war on Iran. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Joe Kent, who served as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, wrote in his resignation letter.
We speak with Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned in 2023 to protest the Biden administration’s Gaza policy. He says Kent is at least the 16th U.S. official in the last few years to resign over policy related to Israel, spanning both the Biden and Trump administrations.
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- Speeding Up the “Kill Chain”: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI
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- 23:07
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- 7 months ago
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As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran continues, we look at how the Pentagon is using artificial intelligence in its operations. The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.
Craig Jones, an expert on modern warfare, says AI technology is helping militaries speed up the “kill chain,” the process of identifying, approving and striking targets. “You’re reducing a massive human workload of tens of thousands of hours into seconds and minutes. You’re reducing workflows, and you’re automating human-made targeting decisions in ways which open up all kinds of problematic legal, ethical and political questions,” says Jones.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 18, 2026
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- 14:53
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- 7 months ago
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- Israel bombs, flattens building in central Beirut
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- 0:39
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Israel launched airstrikes on central Beirut on Wednesday, demolishing a residential high-rise building. The Israeli military claimed it was used by Hezbollah.
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- Report from Havana as Trump Threatens to “Take” Cuba & Pushes for Ouster of Cuban Leader
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Cuban journalist Daniel Montero describes what it’s like to live under a nationwide blackout, U.S. sanctions, an oil embargo and Trump’s threats to “take” his country.
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- Prairieland Trial: Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges as DOJ Targets "Antifa Cell"
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- 8:28
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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A jury in Texas has convicted eight people in the first federal anti-terror case since the Trump administration declared "antifa" a terror group. Nine defendants alleged to be members of an "antifa terror cell" stood trial on federal and state charges including rioting, using explosives and attempted murder. The charges stemmed from their attendance at an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland ICE jail on July 4, during which fireworks were set off and a police officer was shot and wounded. Eight protesters now face at least 15 years in jail. Their legal teams plan to appeal. "The antifa of it all, from my perspective, was purely political," says one of the defendants' attorneys, Xavier de Janon, who joins Democracy Now! to break down the case.
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- Report from Havana as Trump Threatens to "Take" Cuba & Pushes for Ouster of Cuban Leader
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- 14:14
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- 7 months ago
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Cuba's electrical grid has collapsed. The island-wide blackout comes amid a harsh U.S. oil blockade and recent comments from President Donald Trump that he wants to "take" Cuba. No oil shipments have reached the country, located just south of Florida, in three months, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by decades of severe U.S. sanctions. "Sanctions are literally killing people right now," says Cuban journalist Daniel Montero, speaking from Havana. "We understand what this oil embargo means, and [what] sanctions have always meant. This is regime change through starvation." Historian Sara Kozameh, who recently returned from Cuba, adds, "Cubans have fought for sovereignty many, many times. And they're not going to just sort of lie there while this is happening."
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- Ground Invasion of Iran Could Be "Suicide Mission" for U.S.: Ex-Army Intelligence Analyst
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- 14:51
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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We get an analysis of the Trump administration's Iran war strategy from former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Harrison Mann. "From day two of this war, the Trump administration has not known what to do and how to get out of this," says Mann, who resigned from the U.S. Army's Defense Intelligence Agency in 2024 over the Biden administration's policy in Gaza. As Trump is rumored to be eyeing the oil export hub of Kharg Island for seizure, Mann gives his assessment of a potential ground invasion of Iran. "Any attempt to seize this island would be close to a suicide mission," he says. While U.S. leaders struggle to respond to Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on military bases in U.S.-allied Gulf states, Mann notes that "the people who drove [Trump] into this war pretty much expected this. I don't think this is a surprise to Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio or Benjamin Netanyahu — who is very much g...
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- Israel Says It Assassinated Iran's Security Chief, Ali Larijani, Known for Negotiating with the West
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- 7:27
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- 7 months ago
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How long will the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran last? Regime change in Iran will not be as "easy and quick" as U.S. warmongers may have initially believed, says Iranian American political analyst Trita Parsi. Israel claims that it has successfully assassinated Iran's powerful security chief Ali Larijani, who Parsi says could have played a role in future ceasefire negotiations. "The Israelis have fought so hard to get the United States to go into a full-scale war with Iran for more than 20 years," says Parsi. "It is in their interest to prolong this war as long as they can, and kill off any potential off-ramps that Trump may be looking for."
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 17, 2026
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- 11:18
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Many Iranians Fear a Prolonged War — and What Comes After
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- "The expectation that people come out of this war and organize the political movement to start even think about doing anything that will lead to a meaningful change in the political status quo — it's a fantasy right now," says Iranian American novelist Amir Ahmadi Arian.
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- “Mr Nobody Against Putin” Wins Oscar; Meet the Russian Teacher in Film Who Confronts Propaganda
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Mr Nobody Against Putin won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature on Sunday. Democracy Now! recently spoke with co-director David Borenstein and the subject of the film, the Russian teacher Pavel “Pasha” Talankin, who personally documented Russia’s use of wartime propaganda.
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- Protesters Reportedly Attack Communist Party Office in Cuba as Energy Crisis Deepens
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- 0:42
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Protesters reportedly torched a local Communist Party office in the city of Morón, Cuba as people express a growing frustration over food shortages and massive blackouts across the island.
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- "Mr. Nobody Against Putin" Wins Oscar; Meet the Russian Teacher Who Confronts State Propaganda
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- 16:28
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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"Mr Nobody Against Putin" won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature on Sunday. Democracy Now! recently spoke with co-director David Borenstein and the subject of the film, the Russian teacher Pavel "Pasha" Talankin, who personally documented Russia's use of wartime propaganda. "I need for as many people as possible to see what is happening inside of Russian schools," says Talankin. "Putin is forcing propaganda into their schools, and [the children are] absorbing all of this."
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- Report from Jerusalem: As Israel Keeps Bombing Iran, Palestinians Face Growing Violence in West Bank
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- 5:57
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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Democracy Now! speaks with Iranian Israeli political activist Orly Noy about Israeli attacks on Iran and on Palestinians in the West Bank.
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- "A Sense of Despair": Many Iranians Fear a Prolonged War — and What Comes After
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- 16:46
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- 7 months ago
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As the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran extends into a third week, President Trump is demanding other countries send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, which has been largely shut, as oil prices keep rising. This comes as the U.S. and Israel continue to launch major strikes on Iran, while Iran has retaliated by repeatedly striking Israel and U.S. allies in the Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 16, 2026
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- 14:12
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Jeffrey Sachs says U.S.-Israeli war on Iran could spark world war
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Economist Jeffrey Sachs says the U.S.-Israeli war launched against Iran lacks "any logic" and could "lead to world war."
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- Does anyone in Israel oppose this latest war?
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Jewish Israelis overwhelmingly support the war against Iran. Journalist Gideon Levy says few inside the country question the necessity of this latest conflict, with much of the Israeli press serving as "an agency of the government."
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- Mass displacement in Lebanon as Israel intensifies attacks
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The vast majority of southern Lebanon is now under displacement orders by the Israeli military. That is approximately 15% of the country, says reporter Lylla Younes from Beirut.
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- Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S.-Israeli "War of Choice," Assault on U.N. Charter Could Lead to WWIII
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- 16:13
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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The global economy has been rocked by the war in the Middle East, with Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatening energy flows and sending the price of oil soaring to its highest level in years. The United Nations Security Council responded to the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli war by passing a resolution this week condemning Iran — specifically for its attacks on U.S. allies in the region — while ignoring the role of the Trump administration and the Netanyahu government in instigating the bloodshed. Economist Jeffrey Sachs joins _Democracy Now!_ to discuss the fallout of the "war of choice" and why it also constitutes an assault on the United Nations.
"This is so out of control, without any logic, any rationality, not any humane, moral, legal justification whatsoever," says Sachs. "It will lead to world war the way we're going, because we have two malignant narcissists, Netanyahu and Trump, th...
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- Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Will Not Stop Wars & Occupation Until U.S. Pulls Support
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- 16:01
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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Inside Israel, "there is no room for any question marks or doubts about this war," says journalist Gideon Levy, a columnist for Haaretz and a member of the newspaper's editorial board. He says war fever has taken over the country, with polls showing 93% support for the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, Lebanon and beyond — at least among the Jewish public. "Israel is doing as much as it can," he says. "As long as the American support is so massive, so blind and so automatic, this will go on."
Levy also criticizes Israel's military censorship system that strictly limits publishing information about war damage and other material deemed to be counter to national security. He says much of it is driven by self-censorship by a press that sees itself as "an agency of the government and of the military establishment, and this is very worrying."
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- Report from Beirut: Israel Expands Bombing Campaign & Mass Displacement in Lebanon
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- 9:03
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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We speak with journalist Lylla Younes in Lebanon, where she says Israel's "massacres are multiplying" amid the broader U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Israeli strikes have killed nearly 700 people in Lebanon over the past two weeks, while attacks have expanded to include areas of central Beirut, which Israel claims are aimed at the powerful Hezbollah militia. This comes as Israel has vowed to expand its incursion into southern Lebanon.
"The vast majority of southern Lebanon is now under displacement orders," says Younes. "That is approximately 15% of the country."
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 13, 2026
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- 13:30
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- 7 months ago
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- Agnès Callamard on Iran War, Global Fight for Gender Justice & Killing of Yanar Mohammed
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- 23:10
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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We recently sat down with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International and a former United Nations special rapporteur, while she was in New York City to mark International Women's Day and attend the U.N.'s annual conference on women's rights. Callamard responded to the assassination of Iraqi feminist Yanar Mohammed, U.S. sanctions against U.N. special rapporteur Francesca Albanese and the rise of Christian nationalism under the Trump administration.
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- Iranian American Scholar Narges Bajoghli on the History of U.S.-Iran Relations
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- 16:27
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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"This is all being read inside of Iran as a war on the Iranian people." As oil prices threaten to spike to $200 a barrel amid Iran's pressure campaign against the U.S. and its allies, professor Narges Bajoghli returns to _Democracy Now!_ with an update on the war on Iran and its place in the modern history of U.S.-Iran relations. Bajoghli explains how the combination of harsh sanctions and an insidious propaganda campaign has created a deep political divide within Iran and its diaspora, as Iranians are stuck between theocratic governance and the prospective return of the U.S.-backed monarchy.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 12, 2026
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- 15:07
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- “Killers of Roe”: Amy Littlefield Investigates the “Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights” in U.S.
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Democracy Now! speaks with reproductive rights journalist Amy Littlefield about the case of Becky Bell, who died from a back-alley abortion in 1988.
Littlefield's new book "Killers of Roe" chronicles the death of abortion rights in the United States.
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- Ex-Marine, Senate Candidate Speaks Out After Arrest, Arm Broken During Iran War Protest in Senate
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- A Marine Corps veteran suffered a broken arm last week after he disrupted a Senate hearing to voice his opposition to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
Democracy Now! speaks with the veteran, Brian McGinnis, who is also a Green Party candidate for Senate in North Carolina.
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- War Crimes Experts Quietly Leave Trump Admin
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- 0:42
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Akbar Shahid Ahmed, senior diplomatic correspondent for HuffPost, has revealed that “a lot of the experts on international law, the laws of war, international humanitarian law have quietly been leaving the Trump administration.”
- Title
- "Killers of Roe": Amy Littlefield Investigates the "Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" in U.S.
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- 16:12
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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"Killers of Roe" is a new book by the reproductive rights journalist Amy Littlefield on what she describes as the death of abortion rights in the United States. The book is framed as a murder mystery, examining a "twisted alliance of believers and opportunists" in the years and decades before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. "It started out as a murder mystery because it was a way to entice myself to tell a really difficult story about women dying preventable deaths as a result of anti-abortion policy," says Littlefield.
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- Ex-Marine, Senate Candidate Speaks Out After Arrest, Arm Broken During Iran War Protest in Senate
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- 8:34
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt
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- "No Stupid Rules of Engagement": Ahead of Iran War, DoD Halted Efforts to Limit Civilian Deaths
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- 15:26
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- 7 months ago
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Iranian authorities say the U.S. and Israel killed more than 1,300 civilians, striking over 10,000 civilian sites during the first 12 days of the war. This comes as Israel escalates attacks on Lebanon, killing at least 570 since the war began and displacing nearly 800,000 people. As President Trump dodges questions on how long the war will continue, reporting by Akbar Shahid Ahmed, senior diplomatic correspondent for HuffPost, has revealed that "a lot of the experts on international law, the laws of war, international humanitarian law have quietly been leaving the Trump administration."
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