Democracy Now! 2025-02-21 Friday

Headlines for February 21, 2025
"Will Universities Surrender or Resist?" Scholar Slams Trump's Threat to Defund Universities over DEI
"Erasing History" from the U.S. to Germany: "Wars Are Won by Teachers," Says Yale Prof. Jason Stanley
"Gum Up the Works": David Sirota's Advice to Democrats on Reversing Trump's Power Grab

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-20 Thursday Feb 20, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-02-20 Thursday

Headlines for February 20, 2025
"Grand Theft Government": Federal Workers Send SOS over Musk-Led Mass Firings, Service Cuts
"Crack-Up Capitalism": Historian Quinn Slobodian on Trump, Musk & the Movement to "Shatter" the State
"Congolese Are Paying the Price" for Western Demand for Minerals & Support for Rwanda's Paul Kagame

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-19 Wednesday Feb 19, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-02-19 Wednesday

Headlines for February 19, 2025
"I Am Finally Free!": Indigenous Leader Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years Imprisoned
Family Torn Apart as Mother & 2 Children Deported After Arizona Traffic Stop, 2 Other Kids Left Behind
GOP Pushes Drastic Cuts to Medicaid & Food Aid While Proposing Tax Cuts for Rich
To Fight the Trump/Musk Purge, Federal Workers Hold Nationwide Day of Action to "Save Our Services"

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-18 Tuesday Feb 18, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-02-18 Tuesday

Headlines for February 18, 2025
"A Victory for Putin"? Jeffrey Sachs & Matt Duss Debate U.S.-Russia Talks to End Ukraine War
Palestinian Director Basel Adra: As "No Other Land" Gets Oscar Nod, Israel Ramps Up West Bank Attacks

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-17 Monday Feb 17, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-02-17 Monday

Headlines for February 17, 2025
Trump vs. Public Health: Funding Cuts Gut CDC's Disease Detectors, Medical Research & More
Patients "Abandoned": Trump Order to Halt Global Medical Trials "Profoundly Unethical," Says Dr. Faden
Rebels Take 2nd Major City in Eastern DRC Amid Fight to Control Congo's Vast Mineral Wealth
Congo, Jazz & the CIA: Oscar-Nominated "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" Revisits Lumumba Assassination

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-14 Friday Feb 14, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-02-14 Friday

Headlines for February 14, 2025
"You Don't Have to Comply": U.S. Attorney, 5 DOJ Lawyers Quit, Refuse to Drop Case Against NYC Mayor
"Frenzy of Warmongering": Critics of Munich Security Summit Warn of Musk, Rising Fascism in Europe
Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Owned by Match Group, Track Reports of Rape. Why Don't They Warn Users?

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-13 Thursday Feb 13, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-02-13 Thursday

Headlines for February 13, 2025
War in Ukraine: As Trump & Putin Agree to Begin Peace Talks, Will Kyiv Get a Seat at the Table?
NYT's Eric Lipton on How Musk Empire Benefits as He Slashes Fed. Gov't; Trump Cryptocurrency Schemes
"The World After Gaza": Author Pankaj Mishra on Gaza & the Return of 19th-C. "Rapacious Imperialism"

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-12 Wednesday Feb 12, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-02-12 Wednesday

Headlines for February 12, 2025
Elon Musk Will Personally Profit from Dismantling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Ex-CFPB Official
"Are We Sleepwalking into Autocracy?" Trump Embraces Authoritarian Playbook of Hungary's Orbán
Tariq Ali on Trump's Embrace of Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Global Rise of the Far Right

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-11 Tuesday Feb 11, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-02-11 Tuesday

Headlines for February 11, 2025
"This Is Not a Moment to Settle": Media Outlets Cave to Trump's Threats as FCC Launches New Probes
Juan González: Immigrant Rights Groups Are Playing Key Role in Confronting Trump's Neofascist Coup
Center for Constitutional Rights Challenges Trump Migrant Flights to Guantánamo, ICC Sanctions & More
Palestinian Writer Mohammed El-Kurd on "Perfect Victims," Trump & Israel's Criminalization of Thought

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-10 Monday Feb 10, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-02-10 Monday

Headlines for February 10, 2025
Constitutional Crisis: Who Is Musk's "DOGE Army," Gutting Gov't Agencies as Courts Question Legality?
In Bid to Help White Landowners, Trump Cuts Off Aid to South Africa, Putting Millions of Lives at Risk
"The PayPal Mafia": Meet the South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel
Mustafa Barghouti on Trump, Ethnic Cleansing & Israel "Moving the War" from Gaza to the West Bank

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-07 Friday Feb 07, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-02-07 Friday

Headlines for February 07, 2025
Holding Musk Accountable: Rep. Ro Khanna on Stopping DOGE's "Unconstitutional" Power Grab
"Authoritarian Rampage": Trump/Musk Sued to Block DOGE Access to Confidential Info of Millions
Trump Guts EPA's Environmental Justice Office, Putting Poorest Communities of Color at More Risk

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Congo, Jazz & the CIA: Oscar-Nominated “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” Revisits Lumumba Assassination (Full Interview) Feb 17, 2025

Watch our full, in-depth interview with Belgian director Johan Grimonprez about his Oscar-nominated documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, featuring clips from the film, which recounts the events leading up to Black American jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach’s 1961 protest at the United Nations of the CIA-backed killing of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.

In-Depth Interview with Tariq Ali on His New Book, "You Can't Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024" Feb 13, 2025

We speak at length with Tariq Ali, Pakistani British historian, activist, filmmaker. He is an editor of the New Left Review and the author of over 50 books, including his latest, You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980–2024.

Mohammed El-Kurd on the Dehumanization of Palestinians, the Legacy of Refaat Alareer & More Feb 11, 2025

In Part 2 of our interview with the acclaimed Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd, he talks in depth about stories from his new book, Perfect Victims, including about the beloved poet, academic and activist Refaat Alareer, who has finally been laid to rest, more than one year after he was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza along with his sister, brother and four nephews. His family recovered their remains after a neighbor buried them in a yard at the site of the Israeli attack. Alareer was buried in a cemetery in Gaza City’s Shuja’iyya neighborhood, where Alareer was born.

Elon Musk Was Raised Under Racist Apartheid Laws in South Africa. What Does He Believe Now? Feb 11, 2025

Watch Part 2 of our interview with reporter Chris McGreal, who was Johannesburg correspondent for The Guardian during the last years of apartheid through 2002. His new pieces for The Guardian are headlined “What does Elon Musk believe?” and “How the roots of the 'PayPal mafia' extend to apartheid South Africa.” Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, and McGreal discusses Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, who immigrated to South Africa in 1950 when apartheid became “in many ways reminiscent of the Nazi Nuremberg laws against Jews in the 1930s. They have very similar echoes in stripping Black people of the right to work in certain places, their movements, controlling them, confining them to areas.” McGreal also responds to a new report from Semafor that the South African government is examining how Musk’s companies can invest in the country without complying with the nation’s Black empowerment rules.