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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! 2025-02-13 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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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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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.

Democracy Now! 2025-02-11 Tuesday

• Headlines for February 11, 2025
• "This Is Not a Moment to Settle": Media Outlets Cave to Trump's Threats as FCC Launches New Probes
• Juan González: Immigrant Rights Groups Are Playing Key Role in Confronting Trump's Neofascist Coup
• Center for Constitutional Rights Challenges Trump Migrant Flights to Guantánamo, ICC Sanctions & More
• Palestinian Writer Mohammed El-Kurd on "Perfect Victims," Trump & Israel's Criminalization of Thought

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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! 2025-02-10 Monday

• Headlines for February 10, 2025
• Constitutional Crisis: Who Is Musk's "DOGE Army," Gutting Gov't Agencies as Courts Question Legality?
• In Bid to Help White Landowners, Trump Cuts Off Aid to South Africa, Putting Millions of Lives at Risk
• "The PayPal Mafia": Meet the South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel
• Mustafa Barghouti on Trump, Ethnic Cleansing & Israel "Moving the War" from Gaza to the West Bank

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-10 Monday

• Headlines for February 10, 2025
• Constitutional Crisis: Who Is Musk's "DOGE Army," Gutting Gov't Agencies as Courts Question Legality?
• In Bid to Help White Landowners, Trump Cuts Off Aid to South Africa, Putting Millions of Lives at Risk
• "The PayPal Mafia": Meet the South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel
• Mustafa Barghouti on Trump, Ethnic Cleansing & Israel "Moving the War" from Gaza to the West Bank

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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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