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Headlines for April 13, 2017; Stephen Cohen: This is Most Dangerous Moment in U.S.-Russian Relations Since Cuban Missile Crisis; Russia Vetoes U.N. Resolution on Syria as Questions Linger over Deadly Chemical Attack; Stephen Cohen: Will Syrian State Collapse & Fall into More Chaos If Assad Is Toppled?; Calls Grow to Fire Sean Spicer After He Says Hitler Didn't Use Chemical Weapons During Holocaust

Full interview with Julian Assange on Democracy Now!, including a debate with investigative journalist Allan Nairn.

Headlines for April 12, 2017; Allan Nairn: Civilian Deaths Are Spiking in Syria & Iraq as U.S. Launches Unrestrained Bombing Raids; Trump Is Moving "Full Speed Ahead" in War in Yemen, Despite Massive Civilian Casualties; Allan Nairn: Only Mass Disruption From Below Can Stop Right-Wing Revolution & Trump's Absolute Power

Headlines for April 11, 2017; El-Sisi Widens Crackdown on Egyptian Civil Society, Journalists After Palm Sunday Church Bombings; Jeff Sessions Pushes New War on Drugs While Killing Obama-Era Police Reform Measures; Ex-Seattle Police Chief: Jeff Sessions is Apologist for Worst Type of Policing in Country; "We're Coming for You": Florida Sheriff Records Anti-Drug Message Surrounded by Masked SWAT Team; Uproar Grows After United Airlines Brutally Drags Paying Customer Off Overbooked Flight; Does Trump Stand to Profit Personally Off the Wars He's Escalating in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia?

Headlines for April 10, 2017; A New McCarthyism: Julian Assange Accuses Democrats of Blaming Russia & WikiLeaks for Clinton Loss; Exclusive: Julian Assange on WikiLeaks' Release of the Largest Leak of Secret CIA Documents; Julian Assange vs. Allan Nairn: Is Donald Trump a Unique Danger to America?

Headlines for April 07, 2017; Trump Shocks World in Direct U.S. Strike on Syrian Airbase That Could Violate International Law; Peace Advocates: If Trump Wanted to Help Syrians, He Would Lift Refugee Ban & Fund Humanitarian Aid; GOP Senators Trigger Nuclear Option to Confirm Far-Right Judge Neil Gorsuch

Headlines for April 06, 2017; This Endless Nightmare Must Stop: Syrian Author Speaks Out as Chemical Attack Death Toll Rises; Meet the Lawyer Who Is Going After Bill O'Reilly & Donald Trump for Sexual Harassment; Boycotting Bill O'Reilly: Over 50 Advertisers Pull Ads on Fox Show over Sexual Harassment Scandal; During Campaign Trump Accused China of "Raping Our Country," Today He Hosts Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago

Headlines for April 05, 2017; Syria Has Become a Circus of Death: Doctor Warns of Growing Humanitarian Crisis as War Rages On; "The Assad Regime is a Moral Disgrace": Noam Chomsky on Ongoing Syrian War; Chomsky: U.S. Is Helping Israel Annex So Much Land, Palestinians Could Have Essentially Nothing; Chomsky: Leftist Latin American Governments Have Failed to Build Sustainable Economies; Noam Chomsky on How Businesses Sought to Destroy the Democratic Movements of the 1960s; Noam Chomsky on Fascism: Could It Happen Here?

Headlines for April 04, 2017; Noam Chomsky: Trump Administration Is Aiming to Decimate All Programs to Help Working People; Chomsky: Our Privatized U.S. Healthcare Program is an "International Scandal"; Chomsky: With U.S. History of Overthrowing Govts, Outrage over Russian Hacking Claims is Laughable; Extraordinarily Dangerous: Chomsky on How Trump's Threats Toward N. Korea Could Backfire; Chomsky: It's As If Trump Administration Is Flaunting That U.S. Is Run by Goldman Sachs; When Scapegoating Immigrants No Longer Works, Would Trump Stage an Attack to Maintain Power?; Why Does U.S. Consider Iran the Greatest Threat to Peace, When Rest of World Agrees It's the U.S.?

Headlines for April 03, 2017; North Carolina Claims It Repealed HB 2, But LGBTQ Activists Say New Law May Be Just As Dangerous; Rev. Barber: New North Carolina Law Replacing HB 2 is Anti-Gay, Anti-Worker and Anti-Civil Rights; Silence is Not an Option: Rev. Barber on Dr. King's Historic "Beyond Vietnam" Speech 50 Years Later; Trump Meets Egypt's el-Sisi, Amid Wave of Repression, Jailings & Extrajudicial Killings in Egypt

Headlines for March 31, 2017; Scholar: Moscow Sees Hypocrisy in Allegations After U.S. Interfered in Russian Elections in 1990s; Rex Tillerson Fails to Acknowledge Concerns over Turkey's Slide Toward Dictatorship in Ankara Visit; Is ICE Targeting Undocumented Activists for Arrest? Organizers Speak Out After 11 Days in Jail

Full interview with Princeton’s Zia Mian about the proposed U.N. nuclear ban treaty, the U.S. boycott and the U.S. trillion-dollar plan to "modernize" its nuclear arsenal.

Headlines for March 30, 2017; Amnesty: Hundreds of Iraqi Civilians Killed in U.S. Airstrikes After Being Told Not to Flee Mosul; Yemen: Trump Expands U.S. Military Role in Saudi War as Yemenis Brace for Famine; Iona Craig on What Really Happened When U.S. Navy SEALs Stormed a Yemeni Village, Killing Dozens; U.N. Considers a Historic Ban on Nuclear Weapons, But U.S. Leads Boycott of the Talks

Full interview with The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer about her new article, "The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency: How Robert Mercer Exploited America’s Populist Insurgency."

In Vermont, two immigrant rights activists have returned home after being jailed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in what local organizers say was an act of political retaliation.