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Headlines for April 06, 2026; Israeli Peace Activist: Gaza, Iran & Lebanon Are All Part of “One Forever War” That Must End; “He Is Increasingly Desperate”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Expletive-Laced Threats Against Iran; Israel’s War on Lebanon Is a Consequence of “No Accountability” for Gaza: Human Rights Watch

Part 2 of our conversation with Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia, who was freed on March 16 after spending more than a year in an ICE jail in Texas. She was arrested in 2025 as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to target student activists and others who advocated for Palestinian rights.

Headlines for April 03, 2026; Pam Bondi Fired as AG Despite Never Saying No to Trump: Law Prof. David Cole; David Cole: U.S. War on Iran Is “Blatantly Illegal” Under U.S. & Int’l Law; Arizona Sec. of State: Trump Is “Trying to Pick His Own Voters” by Restricting Mail-in Ballots; Meet Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Protester Freed After a Year in ”ICE Dungeon”

Headlines for April 02, 2026; “This War Is Already Lost”: Spencer Ackerman & Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi on Trump’s Iran Debacle; “Born in the U.S.A.”: Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban; Israel’s Death-by-Hanging Law Marks Further “Dehumanization of Palestinians”: B’Tselem

Headlines for April 01, 2026; Another Vietnam? Trump Sends Mixed Messages on Iran, from Ending War to Sending in Ground Troops; War’s Environmental Fallout: U.N. Expert Decries Targeting of Oil Sites & Desalination Plants; “Two Versions of Christianity”: Pope Leo Calls for Peace as U.S. Uses Religion to Justify Iran War; Immigrant Workers in Colorado Lead “Historic Strike” at JBS, Largest U.S. Meat Processor

Headlines for March 31, 2026; “Deeply Illegal, Unconstitutional”: Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban Reaches Supreme Court; U.S. Pressure on Cuba Continues Despite Arrival of Russian Oil Tanker; The AI War on Iran: Project Maven, a Secretive Palantir-Run System, Helps Pentagon Pick Bomb Targets

“These are all war crimes — and this is an American president threatening war crimes over and over publicly.”

Headlines for March 30, 2026; No Kings: Rep. Omar, Sen. Sanders, Bruce Springsteen, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez at Massive St. Paul Rally; “People Are Rising Up”: Voices of No Kings Protests from NYC to Denver; NYC Palestine Activist Nerdeen Kiswani Speaks Out After Being Target of Assassination Plot; Report from Beirut: “Hearts Are Very, Very Heavy” After Israeli Strikes Target Journalists, Medics; “The Institutions Have Not Collapsed”: Prof. Ali Kadivar on Iran’s Resilience to U.S.-Israeli War

Headlines for March 27, 2026; “No Kings”: March 28 Rallies Could Be Biggest Day of Protest in U.S. History; “Quagmire”: Jeremy Scahill on Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Market Manipulation & More; Meta & Google Found Liable in Landmark Cases for Knowingly Causing Harm to Young People; Hurray for the Riff Raff Performs “Pa’lante” at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary

Headlines for March 26, 2026; Crude Capitalism: Trump’s War on Iran Disrupts Global Systems, from Agriculture to Oil to Shipping; Meet Ryan Schwank, ICE Whistleblower Who Exposed Agency’s Unconstitutional Practices; “Torture & Genocide”: U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Denounces Israeli Abuse of Palestinians; Michael Stipe & Aaron Dessner Perform “No Time for Love Like Now” at Democracy Now! Celebration

Headlines for March 25, 2026; New DHS Head Markwayne Mullin Is “Trump Loyalist, Anti-immigrant, Incompetent”: Rep. Delia Ramirez; Pentagon Whistleblower Criticizes “Bloodthirst” of Iran War, Says Hegseth Is Enabling War Crimes; Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings “Peaceable Kingdom” at DN!’s 30th Anniversary Event; “People Have the Power”: Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe at Democracy Now! Celebration

Headlines for March 24, 2026; “Israel First”: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy Says Netanyahu Led Trump into Illegal Iran War; “Under the Rubble”: Pulitzer Prize Winner Reads Poem About Gaza at Democracy Now!'s 30th Anniversary; Bruce Springsteen Performs “Streets of Minneapolis” at Democracy Now!'s 30th Anniversary; As Trump Deploys ICE Agents to Airports, TSA Agents Continue to Go Without Pay: AFGE Union Steward