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🗓️ 3 April 2025
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Headlines for April 03, 2025; “American Empire Is in Decline”: Economist Richard Wolff on Trump’s Trade War & Tariffs; Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil; ICE Detains Mother & Her Three Children in Farm Raid Near NY Home of Border Czar Tom Homan
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0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
0:18.6 | April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day |
0:26.6 | America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again. |
0:34.7 | Global stock markets are tumbling after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs |
0:40.2 | in about 185 countries and what the European Union is described as a major blow to the world |
0:47.5 | economy. We'll speak with economist Richard Wolfe. Then to the campus of Columbia, where Jewish students chain themselves to |
0:56.8 | university gates in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia student protest leader now detained |
1:03.9 | in an ice jail in Louisiana. And I'm changed this gate today as a Jewish student and friend of Mahmoud Khalil's demanding answers on how his name got to DHS and which trustees specifically handed over that information. |
1:19.7 | We believe that there is a high chance that our new president, Claire Shipman, handed over that information. |
1:24.5 | And we as Jewish students demand transparency in that process. |
1:28.4 | And then to upstate New York, where a mother and three children were detained when immigration |
1:34.9 | and customs enforcement agents raided a farm not far from the home of Trump's border czar, |
1:42.5 | Tom Holman. All that and more coming up. |
1:50.2 | Welcome to DemocracyNow. DemocracyNow.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
1:56.7 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to seize large sections of the Gaza |
2:02.7 | strip to create a new so-called security corridor that would cut off Rafah from the neighboring |
2:09.1 | southern city of Han Yunus. Israel already controls some 17 percent of Gaza's territory, |
2:15.1 | according to an Israeli human rights group. |
2:24.0 | Israel's re-invasion of Gaza came amidst a wave of deadly missile and artillery attacks that killed at least 56 people since dawn. |
2:27.3 | Among the dead are 19 Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike on a United Nations clinic |
2:33.3 | in Jabalya being used as a bomb shelter. |
2:36.6 | Victims included children and at least one infant. |
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