Democracy Now! 2026-02-20 Friday
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for February 20, 2026; Carole Cadwalladr on Epstein Fallout: As U.K. Arrests Ex-Prince, Where Is the Accountability in U.S.?; Jeremy Scahill: Despite Ongoing Talks, Trump Admin Is “Obsessed” with Destroying Iran; “Colonial Apartheid Regime”: Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Plans for Gaza; Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian Columbia Student Targeted by Trump, Hails Court Ruling Blocking Deportation
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:19.0 | So now we may have to take it a step further or we may not. |
| 0:21.6 | Maybe we're going to make a deal with you're going to be finding out over the next probably |
| 0:26.1 | 10 days. |
| 0:27.1 | The U.S. is engaged in a massive military buildup around Iran as President Trump continues |
| 0:34.1 | to threaten to launch new attacks. |
| 0:36.9 | We'll speak with Jeremy Scahill of DropSight News. |
| 0:40.8 | His latest piece, this is not a dress rehearsal. |
| 0:45.6 | Plus, we look at the growing fallout from the Epstein files |
| 0:48.9 | following the arrest of King Charles Brother, |
| 0:52.4 | the former Prince Andrew. |
| 0:55.0 | I think we're very hopeful that the Dom, this is the start of the domino effect. |
| 0:58.0 | This is where the House of Cards starts falling. |
| 1:01.0 | And you know, kudos to the UK for taking the first step, |
| 1:04.0 | for saying, you know what, we are going to arrest somebody who is held |
| 1:08.0 | to one of the highest esteems out there, somebody who was a former prince. |
| 1:12.6 | That's the brother of the late Virginia Joufrey, who accused the prince of sexual assault. |
| 1:19.5 | We'll go to London and speak to Carol Cadwalader. |
| 1:23.7 | And then a judge has blocked the deportation of Mossossein Madawi, the Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University, targeted by the Trump administration, for his activism around Gaza and Palestinian human rights. |
| 1:40.1 | He'll join us in studio. |
| 1:41.8 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:47.0 | Thank you. He'll join us in studio. All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. |
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