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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! Thursday, February 20, 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

• 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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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.

Democracy Now! Monday, February 17, 2025

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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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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.

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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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.

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.

Democracy Now! Tuesday, February 11, 2025

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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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As Black History Month begins, longtime educator Jesse Hagopian joins us for Part Two of an interview about the Trump administration and right-wing attacks on education, and his new book, Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education. He lays out how “truth crime laws” that criminalize honest education have prompted two out of three teachers to self-censor discussions of race, gender and sexuality. “This is the new McCarthyism,” says Hagopian. “Teachers are scared to teach the truth.” He also describes a “great rebellion” of educators, parents and students who are practicing “fugitive pedagogy” in defiance of “outrageous laws trying to ban the truth.” Hagopian is a longtime educator and high school teacher in Seattle who is on the leadership team of the Zinn Education Project, which draws on historian Howard Zinn’s influential book, A People’s History of the United States. He also serves on the national steering committee of Black Lives Matter at School. His recent article for The Nation is headlined “The Far Right’s Plan to Force Teachers to Lie About Race.”

Democracy Now! Thursday, February 6, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-02-05 Wednesday

• Headlines for February 05, 2025
• Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Trump Proposes U.S. Take Over Gaza & Forcibly Remove All Palestinians
• "Catastrophic": Trans Youth Lose Access to Care as Hospitals Capitulate to Trump Attacks
• "I Will Go to Jail to Defend Your Care": New York Doctor Vows to Keep Helping Trans Youth Patients
• I Was Fired by Donald Trump: Top Lawyer at EEOC Speaks Out on "Anti-DEI" Purge, Gutting of Agencies

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-04 Tuesday

• Headlines for February 04, 2025
• "Troubling": Panama Agrees to Anti-Migrant Collaboration After Trump Threatens to Retake Canal
• Trump-Bukele Alliance Grows as El Salvador Offers to Imprison U.S. Citizens & Deported Migrants
• Trump's Mass Detention Plan for Guantánamo Harkens Back to '90s Detention of Haitian Asylum Seekers
• "Fascism Is at the Door": Trump Threatens to Deport Pro-Palestinian International Student Protesters

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-03 Monday

• Headlines for February 03, 2025
• "Enormous Destruction": Trump's Tariffs on Mexico, Canada & China Set to Worsen Inflation
• "Time for It to Die": Trump & Musk Back Closing USAID as Freeze on Foreign Aid Threatens Millions
• Is Elon Musk Staging a Coup? Unelected Billionaire Seizes Control at Treasury Dept. & Other Agencies

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