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Democracy Now! 2026-03-18 Wednesday

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Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for March 18, 2026; Speeding Up the “Kill Chain”: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI; Trump’s Counterterrorism Chief Resigns over Iran War, Criticizes “Pressure from Israel”; “Warmongers Come for the Media”: Trump Threatens Media with “Treason” Charges over Iran War Coverage

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.0

Our war fighters are leveraging a variety of advanced AI tools.

0:23.0

These systems help us sift through vast amounts of data in seconds so our leaders can cut

0:28.0

through the noise and make smarter decisions faster than the enemy can react.

0:32.5

As the U.S. and Israeli war in Iran enters its 19th day. We look at how the U.S. is using artificial

0:39.8

intelligence to identify and prioritize targets using a system created by Palantir. This

0:47.2

possibly includes the strike on the Iranian girl school that killed over 170, mostly girls. It comes amidst a legal battle between the

0:58.7

Pentagon and the AI firm Anthropic, which opposes its models being used for mass surveillance

1:06.1

of Americans and fully autonomous weapons. We'll get the latest. Then the highest Trump administration official yet,

1:14.6

the director of the National Counterterrorism Center,

1:17.6

has resigned over the war in Iran,

1:20.6

magnifying a rift within the MAGA movement over the war.

1:24.6

Plus, we look at the Trump administration's escalating attacks on the media.

1:30.1

President Trump says some news outlets should be charged with treason.

1:35.3

Treason is punishable by death.

1:38.5

FCC chair Brendan Carr is threatening to revoke the licenses of broadcasters and

1:43.1

Defense Secretary Pete Higgs sets pushing for Trump allies to take over more of the media. TAR is threatening to revoke the licenses of broadcasters and defense secretary Pete

1:44.2

Higgs sets pushing for Trump allies to take over more of the media.

1:49.7

CNN doesn't think we thought of that.

1:52.9

It's a fundamentally unsurious report.

1:56.3

The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.

2:03.1

All that and more coming up.

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