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Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Democracy Now! Top US News & World Headlines

April 8, 2026


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If Don Jr wants to find "a bit of a mess", he needs to look at his father's America! — © Mark Alexander

Thursday, April 02, 2026

Democracy Now! "This War Is Already Lost": Spencer Ackerman & Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi on Trump's Iran Debacle

President Donald Trump gave a primetime televised address Wednesday to discuss the war on Iran, his first since the United States and Israel launched attacks on February 28. Trump gave few clues about when or how the war could end, but he boasted about killing top Iranian leaders and degrading the country’s military. He threatened to bomb Iran “back to the stone ages, where they belong.”

Despite the grandiose claims, built on “lies and delusions,” Trump “did not add anything new,” says Iranian American scholar Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, who calls Trump’s shifting justifications an admission of “defeat in the war of narratives.”

We also speak with journalist Spencer Ackerman, who says the U.S. has already lost the war. “Iran has changed the entirety of this conflict,” he says. “It has pivoted this conflict onto its own territory and its own goals, and the United States does not have a military mechanism to redress that, primarily the throttling of the Strait of Hormuz.”



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April 2, 2026


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Wednesday, April 01, 2026

Democracy Now! Will Iran Be Another Vietnam? Trump Sends Mixed Messages on Ending the War

Apr 1, 2026 | Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, says the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has transformed from a "war of choice" to a "war of necessity" as Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz sparks a worldwide oil crisis. Vaez discusses President Donald Trump's "mixed messages" about U.S. military strategy and warns that "mission creep" could set in if Trump refuses to "exit this war and accept that he hasn't been able to achieve most of his strategic objectives."


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April 1, 2026


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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

"No One Is Safe under Donald Trump": Rep. Delia Ramirez on DHS, Birthright Citizenship, Cuba & More

Mar 25, 2026 | Markwayne Mullin was sworn in Tuesday as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, replacing Kristi Noem, who was ousted earlier this month. Mullin has served as senator for Oklahoma since 2023 following a decade in the House of Representatives. He joins the Trump administration amid a partial government shutdown, with Democrats demanding reforms to immigration enforcement before fully funding DHS.

"This agency of terror needs to be dismantled," says Congressmember Delia Ramirez of Illinois. "And whether it is Mullin, whether it is Noem, whether it's Tom Homan, that agency is dangerous, and every American should say, 'Enough is enough.'"

Ramirez also comments on the birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court, the U.S. fuel blockade against Cuba and more.



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With all that faux gold, Trump’s Oval Office is now the height of naffness! Trump has turned the once dignified and elegant Oval Office into something that resembles madam’s parlour in an upscale brothel! 😊 — © Mark Alexander

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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March 17, 2026


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Report from Havana as Trump Threatens to "Take" Cuba & Pushes for Ouster of Cuban Leader

Mar 17, 2026 | 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."


Now that the Soviet Union no longer exists, were Ronald Reagan to be alive today, which country would he have to refer to as the “Evil Empire”? Presumably, the empire that causes most damage to property and infrastructure, the most deaths, and the most pain. And, of course, the empire which has the most despicable president leading it. — © Mark Alexander

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