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Democracy Now! 2025-06-17 Tuesday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for June 17, 2025; Preemptive Strike or Act of War? Israel Attacked Iran Amid Sinking Global Support for Assault on Gaza; “We Loved Her”: MN AG Keith Ellison Mourns His Friend Melissa Hortman, Slams Republican Rhetoric; Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister on U.S. Embargo, Trump’s Deportations, Israel’s War on Iran & Gaza

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.0

Oh, Louie, this is the Dios. Democracy Now.

0:34.0

Explosions rocked the live broadcast of Iranian State TV yesterday after Israel bomb station headquarters.

0:40.5

Meanwhile, President Trump has left the G7 summit early and returned to Washington telling Iranians, everyone should leave Tehran. Then to Minnesota, where the alleged assassin

0:47.4

of former State House Speaker has been arraigned on federal and state charges, we'll speak with

0:54.0

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

0:57.0

She was a powerful political leader and a good person

1:01.0

because she understood some basic things about life in our society.

1:07.0

She understood that everyone is entitled to due process.

1:13.0

She understood that kids learn better on a full stomach, so she fought for universal school meals.

1:20.6

Then we speak to Cuba's deputy foreign minister.

1:25.1

He just addressed the UN General Assembly yesterday. We'll talk to him

1:30.7

about the U.S. travel ban, reported U.S. plans to send more immigrants to Guantanamo and the U.S.

1:39.5

embargo. The time allotted is not enough to describe the magnitude and scope of the United States economic war against Cuba.

1:49.5

It is not enough to explain the way it hinders our economic policies, the efforts it demands from our authorities,

1:55.5

to guarantee the country's vitality under such aggressive pressure.

1:59.6

All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now,

2:09.5

Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. Israel bombed the headquarters

2:15.0

of Iranian State Television Monday in the latest escalation of Israel's war on Iran.

2:20.9

Israel also assassinated another top Iranian official, Iran's new wartime chief of staff,

2:27.3

Ali Shadmani.

2:29.0

The bombing of Iranian state TV occurred during a live broadcast that was cut short as the studio began

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