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 Democracy Now! Audio Democracy Now! 2025-10-30 Thursday
 Oct 30, 2025 
 Nancy Chen, an Economics professor and co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab, discusses the recent U.S.-China trade negotiations, emphasizing their significance in reducing geopolitical tensions. Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director at Yale, provides harrowing insights into the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, backed by satellite evidence of atrocities. Cuban journalist Liz Oliva Fernandez shares how Cuba's robust civil defense system led to zero hurricane deaths, while highlighting the devastating impact of the U.S. embargo on recovery efforts. 
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Push For Verifiable Global Disarmament
- Dr. Ira Helfand urged negotiating verifiable disarmament with all eight nuclear-armed states and joining the treaty banning nuclear weapons.
- He recommended shifting policy away from deterrence toward complete elimination of arsenals.
Al-Fashir: Systematic Atrocities Reported
- Mathilde Vu described Al-Fashir as a site of mass, targeted atrocities including killings, rape, detention, and looting.
- She reported survivors arriving with missing family members and children separated from parents.
Warnings Ignored Before Al-Fashir Massacre
- Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab documented imagery suggesting mass killings in Al-Fashir and warned governments months earlier.
- Nathaniel Raymond said U.S. intelligence knew the UAE was arming RSF, implicating a U.S. partner.
