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Democracy Now! 2026-04-20 Monday

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Democracy Now!

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for April 20, 2026; “Gulf of Trust” Between Iran & U.S. as End of Ceasefire Nears, Peace Talks Uncertain; Who Is Breaking International Law in the Strait of Hormuz? It’s Not Iran, Says Scholar; Shepard Fairey on Art, Activism & Resisting Fascism: “It Can Happen Here, and It Is”; Forest Firings: Trump Admin Aims to “Break the Forest Service,” Nearly 200 Million Acres at Stake

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0:00.0

From San Francisco, this is Democracy Now.

0:19.0

Motor vessel tovostko. Motovessel toska. Motor vessel Tosco.

0:21.6

Motovessel Toska.

0:22.6

Vacate your engineer.

0:24.6

Vacate your engineer.

0:25.6

We're prepared to subject you to the same line fire.

0:28.6

The U.S. anything. I'm not going to be ready.

0:46.8

The U.S. military has attacked and seized an Iranian flag cargo ship as hopes dimmed for a new round of peace talks.

0:48.5

On Sunday, President Trump issued a new warning, saying, if Iran does not sign this deal, the whole country is getting blown up.

0:58.8

We'll get the latest and look at what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz.

1:02.2

On Friday, Iran announced it will reopen the strait, but then reverse course after the U.S. refused to lift its embargo.

1:11.4

We'll speak to two Iranian-American professors.

1:15.4

Then to the acclaimed artist and activist Shepard Ferry, we met up with him at his Los Angeles gallery.

1:22.5

I think art can help turn things around by taking something that's, you know, feeling more in the ether

1:27.6

and crystallizing it in a way that's, you know, very direct, clear, and resonates with

1:35.9

someone's emotion.

1:36.9

Plus, we look at the Trump administration's plans to restructure the U.S. Forest Service, which many fear will dismantle the 120-year-old

1:48.6

agency. What will be the impact on the nearly 200 million acres of natural forests and grasslands?

1:57.6

All that and more coming out.

2:12.1

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman in San Francisco.

2:19.2

Iran's once again shut down the strait of Hormuz. Just one day after reopening the vital shipping lane, it comes as the U.S. Navy intercepted and seized an Iranian flag cargo ship Sunday in the

2:24.9

Sea of Oman. Iran said the seizure violated the ceasefire reached earlier this month. Despite the

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