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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. Here in New York City, Jewish students chained themselves to gates at Columbia University Wednesday in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia student protest leader now in an ICE jail in Louisiana. On March 8th, federal agents detained Khalil at his university-owned […]

The dark legacy of the U.S. government’s UNETHICAL medical and military research The U.S. has a history of secret and unethical medical and military experiments, including radiation exposure, biological warfare tests and deliberate infections, often conducted without consent. Key examples include the 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Study (withholding treatment from Black men), the 1940 malaria experiments on prisoners and the Rockefeller Institute's 1931 cancer cell injections. From 1949 to 1969, the military […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, as we turn now to look at how a family of four — a mother and three children — were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in a raid not far from the home of Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan. The raid took place last Thursday at […]

“The Message of the Sphinx”: Did a lost civilization build the Giza monuments? In "The Message of the Sphinx," Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval challenge the Sphinx’s link to Khafre, citing weak evidence and facial mismatches. Geologist Robert Schoch's analysis suggests water erosion, dating the Sphinx to around 10,500 BCE when the Sahara was wetter. The Giza monuments mirror Orion’s belt and stars, reflecting ancient Egyptian cosmology. The Sphinx’s lion form may […]

Gaza's Residents Go Hungry as U.N. Condemns "Ridiculous" Israeli Claims of Enough Food U.S. Attacks on Yemen Kill 4 as Pentagon Deploys Second Aircraft Carrier to Middle EastWhite House Won't Punish Mike Waltz over Disclosure of Yemen War PlansFederal Judge Rules Mahmoud Khalil's Immigration Case Must Continue in New JerseyUnions Rally in Defense of Immigrants Snatched by Plainclothes ICE AgentsGermany to Deport 4 Foreign Residents over Gaza Solidarity ProtestsRepublicans Win Two […]

France’s Marine Le Pen sentenced to prison and banned from office amid political firestorm French politician Marine Le Pen was sentenced to four years in prison (two suspended) and barred from public office for five years for embezzling €4 million ($4.33 million) in EU funds, dealing a major blow to her 2027 presidential ambitions. She denounced the ruling as a "political decision," accused the court of violating democracy and vowed […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Wisconsin, where liberal Judge Susan Crawford defeated the Trump-backed Brad Schimel for a seat on Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court in the most expensive judicial election in U.S. history. Many viewed the race as a referendum on Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and Trump megadonor, who’s been heading the Trump administration’s […]

Google will now develop future Android versions entirely internally, abandoning its open-source model where the public could track and contribute to changes via the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Critics argue this move stifles community feedback, hides upcoming changes and limits external scrutiny, giving Google unchecked control over Android’s evolution. Google claims the shift simplifies development by avoiding divergence between public and internal codebases, streamlining releases for partners and users. Chinese developers fear […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Princeton has become the latest university to be targeted by the Trump administration. The federal government is pausing dozens of federal grants to Princeton. The news came a day after the Trump administration threatened to cut off nearly $9 billion […]