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Democracy Now! 2026-04-07 Tuesday

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Democracy Now!

Daily News, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for April 07, 2026; Report from Tehran: “Hormuz Is Not a Tool to End the War But How Iran Wins the Aftermath”; Juan González: “Latinx Freedom” Conference Will Be Landmark Gathering in NYC April 9-10; “A Moral Obscenity”: White House Demands $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget, Largest Increase Since WWII

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.5

Eight o'clock, Eastern time, and after that, they're going to have no bridges, they're going

0:24.9

to have no power plants, burning, exploding, and never to be used again.

0:30.1

I mean, complete demolition by 12 o'clock, and it'll happen over a period of four hours

0:35.7

if we wanted to.

0:37.4

President Trump's threatening to unleash the U.S. military on critical issues. and it'll happen over a period of four hours if we wanted to.

0:43.4

President Trump's threatening to unleash the U.S. military on critical Iranian civilian infrastructure if negotiators don't make a deal by his deadline.

0:49.3

Israel's warned people in Iran to stay away from trains and railway lines.

0:56.7

Trump's refused to say if schools or hospitals would be off limits. We'll go to the Iranian capital of Tehran and to Shanghai to speak

1:03.8

with co-authors of Hormuz is not a tool to end the war but how Iran wins the aftermath.

1:09.9

Then a one and a half trillion dollar U.S. military budget?

1:15.6

We'll look at where the money will be going and where it won't.

1:19.9

It's not possible for us to take care of daycare.

1:23.5

Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things, They can do it on a state basis.

1:28.7

You can't do it on a federal.

1:30.3

We have to take care of one thing, military protection.

1:33.3

We have to guard the country.

1:35.3

We'll speak with public citizens Rob Weissman about his article, Trump's budget proposal

1:41.3

is a moral obscenity and former State Department official Josh Paul.

1:46.5

But before them, Juan Gonzalez on a historic gathering this week at the City University

1:52.0

of New York Graduate Center, Latinx freedom, power and protest in the 1960s.

1:58.4

All that and more are coming up.

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