Democracy Now! 2026-04-16 Thursday
4/16/202659 min
Democracy Now! 2026-04-16 Thursday
Headlines for April 16, 2026Hormuz Crisis "Only Going to Get More Horrific Before It Gets Any Better": Prof. Laleh Khalili"Depths of Hell": Sudan Enters Fourth Year of Devastating Civil War Amid Growing Energy Crisis"Into the Wood Chipper": Whistleblower's Inside Story of DOGE Shredding USAID, 14 Million May Die
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First 90 secondsNermeen Shaikh· Host0:01
[upbeat music] From New York and Los Angeles, this is Democracy Now!
Speaker 10:18
I think it's close to over, yeah. I, I mean, I view it as very close to over. You know what? If I pulled up stakes right now, it would take them twenty years to rebuild that country, and we're not finished.
Nermeen Shaikh· Host0:31
As President Trump claims once again that the war on Iran is almost over, we'll look at the US blockade of Iranian ports and Iran's threats to retaliate by disrupting shipping in the Red Sea and the Sea of Oman. We'll get the latest. Then, to Sudan.
Speaker 20:47
Three years since the war in Sudan began. It is a tragic milestone in the conflict that has shattered the country of immense promise and created the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
Nermeen Shaikh· Host0:59
And finally, into the wood chipper, a whistleblower's account of how the Trump administration shredded USAID. We'll speak to a former USAID official about the inside story of what happened when Elon Musk and DOGE dismantled the agency. All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Nermeen Shaikh. The Senate has rejected a resolution seeking