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820 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 5.1K ratingsDemocracy Now! is an independent daily TV & radio news program, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. We provide daily global news headlines, in-depth interviews and investigative reports without any advertisements or government funding. Our programming shines a spotlight on corporate and government abuses of power and lifts up the stories of ordinary people working to make change in extraordinary times. Democracy Now! is live weekdays at 8am ET and available 24/7 through our website and podcasts.
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Democracy Now! 2024-04-24 Wednesday
April 24, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 24, 2024; “Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel”: 100s Arrested at Jewish-Led Protest Near Schumer’s Home; Naomi Klein: Jews Must Raise Their Voices for Palestine, Oppose the “False Idol of Zionism”; Months Ago State Dept. Panel Exposed Israeli Units’ Rights Abuses, But U.S. Arms Keep Flowing; Climate Activists Blockade Citigroup HQ in NYC to Demand Banking Giant Stop Funding Fossil Fuels; Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister: Deliberate U.S. Policy of “Destroying Cuban Ec...
How Workers Win: Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey on Her Life & Strategies to Beat the Power Structure
April 23, 2024 12:00Watch Part 2 of our interview with labor organizer and scholar Jane McAlevey.
Part 2: James Bamford on FISA & How U.S. Intel and Palantir Feed Israel's Killing Machine in Gaza
April 23, 2024 12:00Watch Part 2 of our interview with investigative journalist James Bamford.
Democracy Now! 2024-04-23 Tuesday
April 23, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 23, 2024; Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at Columbia, NYU & Yale; Juan González Reflects on Historic 1968 Columbia Protests & Crackdown on Gaza Solidarity Encampment; Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey on UAW’s Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee & Her Fight Against Cancer
Democracy Now! 2024-04-22 Monday
April 22, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 22, 2024; Historic Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread Across Country; “No Due Process”: Columbia Prof. Mamdani Slams Arrests & Suspension of Students at Gaza Protests; “Collective Punishment”: As Gaza Assault Continues, Israel Ramps Up Violence in Occupied West Bank; “Enormous Expansion of the Law”: James Bamford on FISA Extension, U.S.-Israel Data Sharing
Democracy Now! 2024-04-19 Friday
April 19, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 19, 2024; “No Palestinian Is Safe”: Renowned Feminist Scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Arrested in Jerusalem; Over 100 Arrested at Columbia After Univ. President Orders NYPD to Clear Pro-Palestine Student Protest; “Fear and Terror”: Gaza Photographer Ahmed Zakot on Documenting the Carnage of Israel’s Assault; U.N. Photo Collection Shows Gaza War Through the Lens of Palestinian Journalists
Democracy Now! 2024-04-18 Thursday
April 18, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 18, 2024; Meet USC Valedictorian Asna Tabassum: School Cancels Commencement Speech by Pro-Palestinian Student; The New McCarthyism: Congress Grills Columbia Univ. President Amid Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech; Columbia Students Risk Arrest, Suspension to Maintain Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Campus; Israel Considers Attacking Iran and Invading Rafah as Netanyahu Seeks Lifelines to Stay in Power
Democracy Now! 2024-04-17 Wednesday
April 17, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 17, 2024; One Year into War, Sudan Wracked by World’s Largest Displacement and Hunger Crises; No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel; Can UAW Unionize the South? Volkswagen Tennessee Vote Could Change U.S. Labor Landscape
Democracy Now! 2024-04-16 Tuesday
April 16, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 16, 2024; Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian Conference; “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism”: Yanis Varoufakis on New Book & Why Assange Should Be Freed; Under Cover of War in Gaza, Assault on West Bank Intensifies: Palestinian Journalist Dalia Hatuqa; “I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza
Democracy Now! 2024-04-15 Monday
April 15, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 15, 2024; Is Regional War at Stake as Israel Weighs Response to Iran? Roundtable from Tehran, Tel Aviv & D.C.; Trump in the Dock: First Criminal Trial of a Former U.S. President Begins Today in NYC
Democracy Now! 2024-04-12 Friday
April 12, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 12, 2024; “Council of War”: Walden Bello on Biden’s Trilateral Summit with Philippines & Japan to Contain China; “A Stalemate and Attritional Grind”: Journalist Luke Mogelson on 2 Years of Russia’s War in Ukraine; Israeli Scholar Neve Gordon on Israeli Mass Surveillance in Gaza & the Use of AI to Kill Palestinians
Democracy Now! 2024-04-11 Thursday
April 11, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 11, 2024; “We’re Responsible for This”: American Surgeons Return from Gaza, Call for End of U.S. Culpability in Genocide; As Arizona Reinstates 1864 Abortion Ban, Doctors & Organizers Fight Back to Preserve Access
Democracy Now! 2024-04-10 Wednesday
April 10, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 10, 2024; Arizona Supreme Court Revives 1864 Abortion Ban Passed Before Women Could Even Vote; Israel’s Ultimate Goal Is to Make Gaza Unfit for Human Habitation: Middle East Analyst Mouin Rabbani; Breaking the Silence: Israeli Army Veterans Tour U.S. & Canada to Speak Out Against Occupation
Breaking the Silence: Former Israeli Soldiers Nadav Weiman and Tal Sagi Condemn Israeli Occupation
April 10, 2024 12:00Part 2 of our discussion with Nadav Weiman and Tal Sagi from Breaking the Silence, an anti-occupation group of Israeli army veterans.
Democracy Now! 2024-04-09 Tuesday
April 09, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 09, 2024; “A Sea of Misery”: Gaza Is Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Seen, Says NGO Head/Ex-CNN Journalist Arwa Damon; “Empty Words”: Kenneth Roth on Biden’s Criticism of Israel While U.S. Keeps Weapons Flowing; 30 Years Later, Rwanda Genocide Shows Consequences of U.S. Refusal to Prevent Mass Killing
Democracy Now! 2024-04-08 Monday
April 08, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 08, 2024; “Killing People Around the Clock”: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti & Muhammad Shehada on 6 Months of War on Gaza; Imprisoned Palestinian Writer Walid Daqqa Dies of Cancer After 38 Years in Israeli Jails; From the Solar Eclipse to Global Heating, Dr. Peter Kalmus on the Importance of Science
Democracy Now! 2024-04-05 Friday
April 05, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 05, 2024; Lavender & Where’s Daddy: How Israel Used AI to Form Kill Lists & Bomb Palestinians in Their Homes; “No Other Land”: Israeli Director Slams Claims of Antisemitism for Apartheid Comment at Berlinale
Democracy Now! 2024-04-04 Thursday
April 04, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 04, 2024; Palestinian American Dr. Walks Out of Biden Meeting, Hands Him Letter from 8-Year-Old Orphan in Gaza; Road to Famine: Israeli Law Prof. Neve Gordon on Israel’s History of Weaponizing Food Access in Gaza; From Prison to the Presidency in 3 Weeks: In Senegal, Pan-Africanist Opposition Figures Take Office
Democracy Now! 2024-04-03 Wednesday
April 03, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 03, 2024; Haitians Resist Foreign Intervention as U.S. Pushes for Unelected “Transition Council” to Rule Island; “A War Machine Out of Control”: Israel Keeps Attacking Aid Workers as Gaza Faces Famine; Israel Moves to Ban Al Jazeera in Latest Attack on Journalists Who Expose Horrors of War & Occupation; Ex-Israeli Negotiator Slams U.S. Arming of Israel Following Aid Convoy Attack & Iran Consulate Bombing
Democracy Now! 2024-04-02 Tuesday
April 02, 2024 12:00 - 27 MBHeadlines for April 02, 2024; Israel Kills 6 Int’l Aid Workers & Gazan Driver in Attack on Chef Andrés’s World Central Kitchen Convoy; State Dept. Whistleblower: Biden Is Skirting U.S. Law by Rushing More Bombs & Warplanes to Israel; Active-Duty U.S. Airman, Inspired by Aaron Bushnell, on Hunger Strike Outside White House over Gaza; Israel “Risking a Two-Front War, Maybe a Three-Front War,” After Latest Strike Against Iran in Syria
Democracy Now! 2024-04-01 Monday
April 01, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for April 01, 2024; “Genocidal Machine”: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel’s Destruction of Gaza’s Hospitals; “Dying Slowly While the World Is Watching”: Bethlehem Reverend on Israel’s War on Palestinian Christians; Israeli Protesters Accuse Netanyahu of Delaying Hostage Deal for His Own Political Survival
Democracy Now! 2024-03-29 Friday
March 29, 2024 12:00 - 27 MBHeadlines for March 29, 2024; Building Bridges, Not Walls: Immigrant Communities Honor Six Workers Killed in Key Bridge Collapse; Protesters Disrupt Record $25 Million Biden Fundraiser in NYC as Thousands March Against Gaza War; “Like Lying in a Coffin”: UNICEF Spokesperson Warns of Devastating Toll on Gaza’s Children; ESG Funds Under Attack: Why Republicans Are Targeting Socially Responsible Investing
Democracy Now! 2024-03-28 Thursday
March 28, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 28, 2024; “The Worst of What Humanity Is Capable Of”: Pediatrician Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan on What She Saw in Gaza; I Could Not Stay Silent: Annelle Sheline Resigns from State Dept. over U.S. Gaza Policy; As Gaza Faces Famine, Israel Cuts Ties with UNRWA and U.S. Halts Funding for Critical Aid Agency
Democracy Now! 2024-03-27 Wednesday
March 27, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 27, 2024; Supreme Court Seems Set to Preserve Access to Mifepristone in Likely Defeat for Abortion Foes; Meet Eva Burch, Arizona State Senator Fighting Abortion Bans by Sharing Her Plan to Have an Abortion; Baltimore Key Bridge Collapses, Killing Six Immigrant Workers Who Had No Access to Emergency Warnings; “We Don’t Need More Detention Centers, More Border Patrol”: Fernando García on SB4 & New Spending Law
Democracy Now! 2024-03-26 Tuesday
March 26, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 26, 2024; Assange Extradition Delayed: British MP Jeremy Corbyn on U.K. Court Seeking More Assurances from U.S.; Jeremy Corbyn Applauds U.N. Ceasefire Resolution, Says World Must Prevent “Another Nakba”; Ex-U.N. Official Craig Mokhiber: Israel Must Be Held Accountable for Violating Ceasefire Resolution; David Cay Johnston: Donald Trump “Finally Being Held to Account” After Half-Century of Criminality
Democracy Now! 2024-03-25 Monday
March 25, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 25, 2024; ISIS-K Claims Credit After 137 Killed in Moscow Concert Attack; Russia Tries to Blame Ukraine; As Israel Blocks More U.N. Aid, Gaza Is on the Brink of “Most Intense Famine” Since WW2; World Ignores Sudan Hunger Crisis; 230,000 Children and Mothers Could Die in Coming Months
Democracy Now! 2024-03-22 Friday
March 22, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 22, 2024; U.S. Said It Was Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire, But Its U.N. Resolution Didn’t Say That: Phyllis Bennis; “Children Are Dying”: Doctor Just Back from Gaza Describes Severe Malnutrition, Preventable Infections; Six White Mississippi “Goon Squad” Cops Get Lengthy Prison Sentences for Torturing Black Men
Israel's Architecture of Occupation: Eyal Weizman on Gaza & Targeting of Jewish Pro-Palestinian Voices
March 22, 2024 12:00Extended conversation with Eyal Weizman, a British Israeli architect born in Haifa who founded Forensic Architecture. He’s the author of several books, including Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation.
Democracy Now! 2024-03-21 Thursday
March 21, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 21, 2024; British Surgeon Describes Children Suffering “Appalling Injuries” in Gaza, Demands Immediate Ceasefire; “Humanitarian Violence” in Gaza: Architect Eyal Weizman on Mapping Israel’s “Genocidal Campaign”
Democracy Now! 2024-03-20 Wednesday
March 20, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 20, 2024; Sen. Van Hollen: Biden Must Halt Offensive Arms to Israel If Restrictions on Gaza Aid Are Not Lifted; Biden’s Sanctions Against Israeli Settlers Ignores State’s Role in West Bank Violence: Shane Bauer
"unseen" Director Set Hernandez on How Their New Film Amplifies Undocumented, Disabled Voices
March 19, 2024 12:00Watch Part 2 of our interview with Set Hernandez, director of the new documentary unseen, which follows Pedro, who is blind and undocumented, as he works toward a degree in social work.
Democracy Now! 2024-03-19 Tuesday
March 19, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 19, 2024; Israel’s Ultimate Goal Is Ethnic Cleansing: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on Growing Famine, Al-Shifa Attack; “Anarchy & Chaos”: U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Who Resigned Protesting U.S. Meddling & Deportations; “Unseen”: New Film Profiles a Blind, Undocumented Social Work Student, Humanizing Disabled Migrants
Democracy Now! 2024-03-18 Monday
March 18, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 18, 2024; “A Catastrophe That Cannot Be Described”: Palestinian Poet in Rafah on Daily Hardships Amid Israel’s War; Rachel Corrie: Parents & Friend Remember U.S. Activist Crushed by Israeli Bulldozer in Rafah in 2003
Maya Wind: Destruction of Gaza's Universities Part of Broader Israeli Project to Destroy Palestinian Liberation
March 15, 2024 12:00Israeli scholar Maya Wind joins us for Part 2 of her interview about her new book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom.
Democracy Now! 2024-03-15 Friday
March 15, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 15, 2024; “Island of Access”: VP Harris Visits MN Abortion Clinic in Historic First Amid Growing Restrictions; “Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism”: Palestinian Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian on Hebrew Univ. Suspension; “Towers of Ivory and Steel”: Jewish Scholar Says Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
Democracy Now! 2024-03-14 Thursday
March 14, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 14, 2024; Mehdi Hasan on Genocide in Gaza, the Silencing of Palestinian Voices in U.S. Media & Why He Left MSNBC; Mehdi Hasan on the Risk of the Media Normalizing Trump’s Fascism & Dangers of TikTok Ban; Ramesh Srinivasan: TikTok Crackdown, Fueled by Anti-China Sentiment, Misses Real Threat of Big Tech
Banjo Maestro Rhiannon Giddens Has Broken Many Musical Barriers. Now She Is Working with Beyoncé.
March 14, 2024 12:00It’s been a busy period for the pioneering musical artist Rhiannon Giddens. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her opera Omar, about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar in Africa who was sold into slavery in the 1800s. She released a remarkable musical video for her song “Another Wasted Life” featuring 22 people who were wrongly incarcerated. And now her banjo playing can be heard on “Texas Hold ’Em,” the new hit single by Beyoncé, who recently became the first Black woman to top _Billboard_’s Hot Coun...
Democracy Now! 2024-03-13 Wednesday
March 13, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 13, 2024; What Is Israel’s Goal in Lebanon? Increasing Cross-Border Attacks Risk Expanding the Gaza War; Rami Khouri: U.S. Airdrops & Floating Pier Plan Are “Not Serious Responses” to Gaza Suffering; “Revolutionary Love”: Michelle Alexander on Gaza, Solidarity, MLK & What Gives Her Hope; Warning to America: Hungarian Green on Authoritarianism as Trump Hosts PM Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago
Democracy Now! 2024-03-12 Tuesday
March 12, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 12, 2024; “Haiti Needs Peace”: PM Ariel Henry Announces He Will Resign, Transitional Council to Take Charge; Aid Worker in Gaza: The Only Barrier to Delivering Supplies Is Israel. The U.S. Must Pressure Its Ally; U.N. Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Urges Arms Embargo & Sanctions on Israel over War Crimes in Gaza; Immigrants Held in Private Northwest Detention Center Report Death, Suicide Attempts Amid Crackdown
Democracy Now! 2024-03-11 Monday
March 11, 2024 12:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 11, 2024; “Empire’s Laboratory”: How 2004 U.S.-Backed Coup Destabilized Haiti & Led to Current Crisis; Guilty: U.S.-Backed Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández Convicted of Drug Trafficking; “The Trauma Is Immeasurable”: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa on Israeli Violence in Gaza
Democracy Now! 2024-03-08 Friday
March 08, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 08, 2024; Katrina vanden Heuvel: Biden’s Domestic Agenda — Taxes, Reproductive Rights — Undermined by Foreign Policy; Biden’s SOTU on Gaza: Israeli Daughter of Freed Hostage & Palestinian American Professor Respond
Democracy Now! 2024-03-07 Thursday
March 07, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 07, 2024; Israel’s “Killing Machine”: How U.S. Military Support Is Undercutting Ceasefire Talks, Prolonging War; Biden Admin Quietly Approves 100+ Arms Sales to Israel While Claiming Concern for Civilians in Gaza; New Pakistan Gov’t Marks Return of “Bourgeois Old Guard” as Jailed Imran Khan Looms Large
Back from Gaza, Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa Says "Language Is Inadequate" to Describe Horror
March 06, 2024 13:00Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa joins us for Part 2 of her interview from Cairo after two weeks in Gaza.
Democracy Now! 2024-03-06 Wednesday
March 06, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 06, 2024; Super Tuesday: Biden, Trump Head to Rematch; Schiff Helps Garvey Place in CA; AIPAC Suffers Setback; Unanimous? Supreme Court Ruling Leaving Trump on Ballot Reveals Split Among Justices; What I Witnessed in Gaza Is a Holocaust: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa
Democracy Now! 2024-03-05 Tuesday
March 05, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 05, 2024; Haiti: Ariel Henry’s U.S.-Backed “Criminal Regime” Faces Gang Uprising; U.N. Set to Deploy Kenyan Police; Narco-State: U.S.-Backed Fmr. Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández on Trial in NY for Drug Trafficking; “The Zone of Interest”: Oscar-Nominated Film Producer on the Holocaust, Gaza & “Walls That Separate Us”
Democracy Now! 2024-03-04 Monday
March 04, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 04, 2024; Report from Rafah: U.S. Airdrops Food to Gaza While Arming Israel to Drop Bombs; “Alexei Navalny Taught Russia’s Opposition How to Mobilize”: Historian on Putin’s “Dictatorship”; “Enraging”: Meet Abbey Crain, IVF Patient in Midst of Treatment Derailed by Alabama High Court
Alabama IVF Patient's Warning to Others Outside the State: "You Are Not Safe"
March 04, 2024 13:00Watch Part 2 of our interview with Alabama-based writer and artist Abbey Crain, who had been receiving in vitro fertilization treatments for about two years when the state Supreme Court issued its controversial ruling that frozen embryos are “children,” opening both patients and medical providers to new legal risks.
Democracy Now! 2024-03-01 Friday
March 01, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for March 01, 2024; “Just Being Racist”: Biden & Trump Push Anti-Immigrant Policies in Dueling Border Visits; The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7
Democracy Now! 2024-02-29 Thursday
February 29, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 29, 2024; Senator Jeff Merkley: U.S. “Complicit in Starvation and Humanitarian Catastrophe” in Gaza; Sen. Merkley: McConnell Paralyzed the Senate & Turned Supreme Court into “Far-Right Legislature”; Israel Kills 104 Palestinians Waiting for Food Aid as U.N. Expert Accuses Israel of Starving Gaza
Democracy Now! 2024-02-28 Wednesday
February 28, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 28, 2024; “Uncommitted”: Over 100,000 Cast Protest Vote Against Biden’s Gaza Policy in Michigan Primary; The Life & Death of Aaron Bushnell: U.S. Airman Self-Immolates Protesting U.S. Support for Israel in Gaza