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Headlines for February 23, 2023; “A War of Imperial Aggression”: How Russia’s Invasion One Year Ago Changed Ukraine & the World; Scholar Ho-fung Hung on China-Russia Relations & Whether Beijing Could Mediate Ukraine Peace Deal; Kenyan Writer: History Explains Why Much of Africa Chooses Neutrality Over West’s Support of Ukraine

Headlines for February 22, 2023; As Putin Suspends New START Treaty, Is There Still Hope for Nuclear Disarmament?; Will Trump & Allies Finally Face Jail for Election Lies? Georgia Grand Jury Recommends Indictments; Lawsuit Shows Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham Among Fox News Hosts Who Knew Election Claims Were Baseless; Who Killed Malcolm X? Family to File $100M Suit v. FBI, CIA, NYPD & Others to Find the Truth; Guilty: Mexico’s Ex-Top Cop García Luna Convicted in U.S. Drug Trafficking Case

Headlines for February 21, 2023; Chicago Mayoral Race: Policing, Housing, Education Are Key Issues for 9 Dem. Candidates on Feb. 28; Police Murders of Fred Hampton to Laquan McDonald: Chicago Police Council Elections Are a First; Angela Davis on Assassination & Legacy of Malcolm X, Her Exclusion from AP Black Studies and More

Headlines for February 20, 2023; Biden in Ukraine on War Anniversary: Matt Duss, Medea Benjamin Debate U.S. Involvement, Hopes for Peace; VP Harris Says Russia Is Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity in Ukraine, But U.S. Limits Power of International Law; “Log Off”: 1 in 3 U.S. Girls Weighs Suicide. Will Congress Restrict Big Tech?

Headlines for February 17, 2023; Corporate Greed and Deregulation Fuel Threat of More Bomb Trains as East Palestine Demands Answers; Silencing Critics of Israel: Biden Pulls Nomination of Human Rights Lawyer for Decrying Apartheid; Brazilian Amazon Leader Urges Lula to Prosecute Bolsonaro for Genocide Against Indigenous Yamomami

Headlines for February 16, 2023; Syria Faces “Nightmare Situation” as Aid Stalls Amid Sanctions and Earthquake Death Toll Keeps Rising; “A Human-Made Disaster”: Kurdish MP in Southern Turkey Slams Government as Death Toll Hits 42,000; Rising U.S. Interest Rates Push Countries in Global South Toward Economic Collapse; Bomb Train: Norfolk Southern Refuses to Attend First Public Meeting on Toxic Train Derailment in Ohio

We are joined for an extended interview by Malaysian economist, professor Jomo Kwame Sundaram of the Khazanah Research Institute in Kuala Lumpur to discuss the power of institutions like the World Bank and their connection to the climate emergency and the global debt crisis.

Headlines for February 15, 2023; Reporter Seymour Hersh on “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline”: Exclusive TV Interview; Guns Leading Killer of Kids: With MSU Massacre, U.S. Averages More Than One Mass Shooting a Day

Headlines for February 14, 2023; War with China Is Not Inevitable: Jake Werner on How to Defuse Tensions Between Washington & Beijing; The U.S. Has 750 Overseas Military Bases, and Continues to Build More to Encircle China; “Bomb Train” in Ohio Sickens Residents After Railroad Cutbacks, Corporate Greed Led to Toxic Disaster

Headlines for February 13, 2023; “Crisis on Top of a Crisis”: Syrians Displaced by War Now Dealing with Earthquake Devastation; U.N. Rapporteur: Lift Sanctions on Syria to Help People Rebuild After War & Devastating Earthquakes; 25 Years of V-Day: Ending Gender Violence, Fighting Tentacles of Patriarchy & New “Reckoning” Memoir

Headlines for February 10, 2023; Ralph Nader on Saving Social Security, Fighting Corporate Crime, Worker Deaths & Launching Newspaper; “The Great Escape”: Saket Soni on Forced Immigrant Labor Used to Clean Up Climate Disasters in U.S.

Headlines for February 09, 2023; Syrian Doctor Warns War-Torn NW Syria Faces Humanitarian Catastrophe as Earthquakes Kill 19,000+; “Continuous Insanity”: Syrian Dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh on 12 Years of War & Earthquake Relief; Banned by Putin: Editor at Russian Outlet Meduza on Censorship, Eroding Freedoms & Ending Ukraine War

Headlines for February 08, 2023; Biden Condemns Police Murder of Tyre Nichols as Congressional Push for Police Reform Remains Stalled; Matt Duss on Biden’s State of the Union & the Risks of an Anti-China Consensus in Washington; Rep. Delia Ramirez to Biden: Further Militarizing the Border Is Not the Answer to Immigration; Have Movements Pushed Biden to the Left? Rep. Delia Ramirez & Economist Dean Baker Respond to SOTU

Headlines for February 07, 2023; Over 5,000 Dead in Turkey and Syria as Earthquakes Devastate Region Filled with Refugees Fleeing War; COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd

Broadcasting from COP27, we look at how “loss and damage” financing is now a key split at COP27; How military spending exacerbates the climate crisis; African climate activists mobilize against construction of EACOP, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe