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Democracy Now! 2023-03-24 Friday

• Headlines for March 24, 2023
• "France Is Furious": Anger Grows at Macron for Raising Retirement Age as Millions Strike & Protest
• Rep. Ro Khanna on Regulating Banks, TikTok, China, Ukraine & His Vote on the "Horrors of Socialism"
• The Candidate and the Spy: James Bamford on Israel's Secret Collusion with Trump to Win 2016 Race
• Cop City: Judge Denies Bond to People Rounded Up in Mass Arrest for Opposing Police Training Facility

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In Part 2 of our interview with award-winning Iraqi journalist and author Ghaith Abdul-Ahad about the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and what followed, he discusses in detail how the 2003 U.S.-led invasion led to a brutal civil war and the rise of ISIS. He also discusses traveling to Syria and the rise of sectarianism, which he examines in his new book, “A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War.”

Democracy Now! Thursday, March 23, 2023

Democracy Now! 2023-03-22 Wednesday

• Headlines for March 22, 2023
• Andrew Bacevich on China's Rise as Global Superpower & Decline of U.S. Empire After Iraq Invasion
• The U.S. Owes Iraq "Just Compensation": Muslim Peacemaker Sami Rasouli on 2003 Invasion & Aftermath

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-21 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 21, 2023
• "Stop Dirty Banks": Bill McKibben & Ben Jealous on Ending Big Bank Funding for Fossil Fuel Expansion
• U.N. Warns "Climate Time Bomb Is Ticking" as Cyclone Freddy Death Toll Tops 560 in Malawi & Mozambique
• Remembering Mozambican Rapper Azagaia: Police Crack Down on Protests After Death of Cultural Icon
• War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for U.S. Invasion of Iraq

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-17 Friday

• Headlines for March 17, 2023
• Never Again: Human Rights Groups & Japanese Americans Warn Biden Against Jailing Migrant Families
• Julian Assange's Father & Brother Speak Out on His Jailing, Press Freedom & New Documentary "Ithaka"
• Blood and Treasure: Documenting the Costs of Iraq War from Civilian Casualties to Trillions Spent

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In an extended interview we speak with Neta Crawford, Co-Director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University about her book, The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions.

Democracy Now! 2023-03-16 Thursday

• Headlines for March 16, 2023
• Blinken Visits Niger, Home to U.S. Drone Base, as Biden Moves to Counter China & Russia in Africa
• Will Peace Hold in Tigray? Blinken Visits Ethiopia Four Months After Truce Reached to End War
• Death, Destruction & Resilience: Nadje Al-Ali on the 20th Anniversary of U.S. Invasion of Iraq

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-14 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 14, 2023
• How Silicon Valley Bank & Signature Bank Lobbied to Weaken Regulations That Could Have Prevented Collapse
• Autopsy Suggests "Cop City" Protester Sitting Cross-Legged, Hands Up, When Shot 14 Times by Police

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-13 Monday

• Headlines for March 13, 2023
• China's Middle East Deal: Iran & Saudi Arabia Reestablish Relations as U.S. Watches from Sidelines
• Climate & Indigenous Activists Decry Reports Biden Will Approve Willow Oil Drilling Project in Arctic
• East Palestine Toxic Train Crash Shows Plastics Industry Toll on Planet. Will U.S. Ban Vinyl Chloride?

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-10 Friday

• Headlines for March 10, 2023
• Historian Alfred McCoy: As Tensions Rise over Taiwan, U.S. & China "Edging Ever Closer" to War
• Rep. Barbara Lee on Cutting the Military Budget, Abortion Rights & Why She's Running for Senate
• "Barbaric Restrictions": 5 Women Sue Texas After Being Denied Abortions Despite Deadly Health Risks

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-09 Thursday

• Headlines for March 09, 2023
• "Corrupt": DOJ Report Slams Louisville Police for Abuse, Discrimination After Breonna Taylor Killing
• "Plantation Politics": How White Mississippi Lawmakers Want to Seize Power in Majority-Black Jackson
• Opposition Grows to Atlanta "Cop City" as More Forest Defenders Charged with Domestic Terrorism

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-08 Wednesday

• Headlines for March 08, 2023
• International Women's Day: Roots in Radical History, Labor & Reproductive Rights
• "Stand Up for Afghan Women": U.N. Calls Afghanistan World's Most Repressive Country for Women, Girls
• "Women, Life, Freedom": Iranian Women Continue Protests Amid Crackdown & Poisonings at Girls' Schools
• "Torture": El Salvador's Abortion Ban Condemned, Highlights Horrors Facing U.S. After Roe Overturned

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-07 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 07, 2023
• Economist Joseph Stiglitz on How War, COVID & Climate Crisis Cause Economic Crises Around the World
• "Pure, Unadulterated Fascism": Mehdi Hasan on Trump, Fox News, Jan. 6, GOP & 20th Anniversary of the Iraq War

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-06 Monday

• Headlines for March 06, 2023
• "Hopeful": Historic U.N. High Seas Treaty Will Protect 30% of World's Oceans from Biodiversity Loss
• "Eradicating Transness": ACLU's Chase Strangio on GOP's Assault on LGBTQ Rights at CPAC & Nationwide
• "They All Knew": Media Matters Files FEC Complaint That Fox News Broke Election Laws, Lied for Trump

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-03 Friday

• Headlines for March 03, 2023
• Meet the Bronx Activists Who Won a Historic Settlement for NYPD's Violent Attack at 2020 BLM Protest
• Opposition Disputes Nigeria's Election Results After Ruling Party's Bola Tinubu Declares Victory
• Meet Thelma Cabrera, the Indigenous Leader Barred from Running in Guatemala's Presidential Election

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-02 Thursday

• Headlines for March 02, 2023
• "Unwinnable War"? Calls Grow for Negotiated End to Ukraine War
• Surviving a Pogrom: Palestinian in Huwara Decries Israeli Settler Attack as "Ethnic Cleansing"

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Democracy Now! Wednesday, March 1, 2023