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813 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 10 hours 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! 2024-02-20 Tuesday
February 20, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 20, 2024; “Borders on Pathological”: Trump Must Pay $450 Million for Lying to Lenders in Fraud Case; More Than 50 Countries Argue Before World Court Against Israeli Occupation of Palestine; “What I Saw Wasn’t War — It Was Annihilation,” Says U.S. Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza Hospital
Just Back from Gaza, American Surgeon Dr. Irfan Galaria Describes "Crisis of an Unimaginable Scale"
February 20, 2024 13:00In Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Irfan Galaria, an American doctor just back from Gaza, he describes operating on patients while bombs were dropping around the hospital and says he saw many orphaned children.
Democracy Now! 2024-02-19 Monday
February 19, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 19, 2024; “Like Horror Movies”: Forced to Evacuate Nasser Hospital, Surgeon Describes Israeli Raid & Arrests; “3 Days of Hell”: Israel Raids Nasser Hospital, Arrests Staff in Latest Assault on Gaza Medical System; Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny Dies in Arctic Prison; “No Doubt” He Was Killed, Says Masha Gessen
Democracy Now! 2024-02-16 Friday
February 16, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 16, 2024; “Uniquely American Hell”: Kansas City Shooting Highlights Missouri’s Pro-Gun Laws in “Pro-Life” State; “I Died That Day in Parkland”: Shotline Uses AI-Generated Voices of Gun Victims to Call Congress; Australian Parliament Calls for U.S. to Drop Case Against WikiLeaks’ Assange Ahead of U.K. Court Hearing; “They Were So Close”: Israel Kills Medics Trying to Save Dying 6-Year-Old Hind Rajab
Democracy Now! 2024-02-15 Thursday
February 15, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 15, 2024; Doctor Reports on Bombing of Nasser Hospital Just Before Israeli Troops Storm Complex; “I Always Imagine Myself Being Blown Up”: Journalist in Rafah on Dire Situation as Invasion Looms; Kenneth Roth: Only Joe Biden Has Power to Stop “Massive Bloodshed” of a Rafah Invasion; “Obscene”: Biden Pushes House to Approve Bill with $14B in Military Aid to Israel, Cuts UNRWA Funding
Democracy Now! 2024-02-14 Wednesday
February 14, 2024 13:00 - 27.2 MBHeadlines for February 14, 2024; “Dead-End Strategy”: GOP Impeaches Mayorkas as Democrats Push Hard-Line Border & Immigration Policy; “A War Against Palestinian Americans”: Jailed, Attacked, Killed in West Bank and U.S.
Democracy Now! 2024-02-13 Tuesday
February 13, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 13, 2024; Could Indonesia Return to Military Rule? Allan Nairn on the “Massacre General” Running for President; Bombs, Disease, Starvation: Canadian Doctor Describes the Desperate Situation Inside Gaza; Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wins $1 Million Defamation Case Against Right-Wing Climate Deniers; The Climate Election: Mark Hertsgaard on Why 2024 Must Focus More on Climate Crisis
Democracy Now! 2024-02-12 Monday
February 12, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 12, 2024; “Our Children Deserve to Live”: Mother in Rafah Desperate to Escape as Israel Prepares Ground Invasion; “Worst-Case Scenario”: Noura Erakat on Israel’s Looming Invasion of Rafah; Race, Gender, Class: Bishop Barber, Economist Michael Zweig on Poor & Low-Wage Voters in 2024 Election; Bishop William Barber on the “Moral Case for a Ceasefire” in Gaza
Democracy Now! 2024-02-09 Friday
February 09, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 09, 2024; “We Cannot Trust Biden” on Gaza: Michigan House Dem Majority Leader Meets White House Officials; Liberals Feckless, Conservatives Reckless: Elie Mystal on SCOTUS Trump Ballot Ban Case; “Political Crisis Will Continue”: Close Contest in Pakistan Amid Election Crackdown
Democracy Now! 2024-02-08 Thursday
February 08, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 08, 2024; Ex-UNRWA Official: Funding Cuts Make Donor Countries Complicit in Starvation of Gaza; Senegal’s “Unraveling”: President’s Delay of Election Is Latest in String of Anti-Democratic Actions; “Io Capitano”: Oscar-Nominated Film Dramatizes Perilous Migrant Journey from West Africa to Europe
Democracy Now! 2024-02-07 Wednesday
February 07, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 07, 2024; Former Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Only U.S. Pressure on Israel Can End Gaza Assault, Lead to Truce; Jeremy Scahill: Israel Has Waged a “Deliberate Propaganda Campaign” to Justify Brutal Gaza Assault
Democracy Now! 2024-02-06 Tuesday
February 06, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 06, 2024; Dissent Grows Inside Biden Administration over Gaza Policy as Blinken Holds Talks in Middle East; “Unconscionable”: American Pediatrician Who Worked in Gaza Hospital Recalls Horrors of Israel’s War
Democracy Now! 2024-02-05 Monday
February 05, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 05, 2024; U.S. & Israel vs. Axis of Resistance: Biden Strikes New Targets in Middle East as Gaza War Continues; “Incandescent” with Rage: Matt Duss on Voter Anger over Biden Support for Netanyahu & Gaza Assault; After Losing Nearly 100 Relatives in Gaza, Palestinian American Doctor Refuses to Meet with Blinken; Israel’s Use of Starvation as a Weapon of War Brings Gaza to the Brink of Famine
Democracy Now! 2024-02-02 Friday
February 02, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 02, 2024; Dearborn Mayor to Biden: “Lives of Palestinians Should Not Be Measured Simply in Poll Numbers”; “Origin”: Ava DuVernay’s New Film Dramatizes “Caste,” from U.S. Racism to India’s Dalits to Nazi Germany
Dr. Uché Blackstock on "Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine"
February 01, 2024 13:00Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Uché Blackstock about her new book, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine.
Democracy Now! 2024-02-01 Thursday
February 01, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for February 01, 2024; “The Houthis Are Not Iranian Proxies”: Helen Lackner on the History & Politics of Yemen’s Ansar Allah; “Climate of Fear”: Inside UAE’s Use of U.S. Mercenaries to Carry Out Assassinations in Yemen; “Legacy”: Dr. Uché Blackstock on How Racism Shapes Healthcare in America
Democracy Now! 2024-01-31 Wednesday
January 31, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 31, 2024; Biden’s Middle East Policy “Leading Us into a War Whose Aims We Have Not Defined”; “An Act of Assassination”: Mustafa Barghouti Slams Undercover Israeli Raid on Jenin Hospital; Israeli Cabinet Members Join Settler Event of Thousands Calling for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
Democracy Now! 2024-01-30 Tuesday
January 30, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 30, 2024; Ohio Will Consider Execution by Nitrogen Gas After Alabama Used Method Witness Calls “Horrific”; Sister Helen Prejean: Will Oklahoma Free Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip After SCOTUS Hears Case?; “Monumental Decision”: Biden Pauses Approvals for New LNG Terminals in Victory for Climate Movement; “We’re Dying Here”: Human Rights Watch on the Fight for Life in Louisiana’s Fossil Fuel Cancer Alley; Cost of Doing Business? Amnesty Int’l Documents Health, Enviro...
Doctor Just Back from Gaza: Cutting UNRWA Funds Is "Unconscionable" as Hospitals Barely Functional
January 29, 2024 13:00Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Thaer Ahmad, an emergency room physician who spent three weeks volunteering at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
Democracy Now! 2024-01-29 Monday
January 29, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 29, 2024; Drone Strike Kills 3 U.S. Troops in Jordan; Risk Grows of Regional War over Israeli Assault on Gaza; Palestinians Charge Genocide in U.S. Court; Biden, Blinken Sued for Backing Israel’s War on Gaza; Chicago ER Doctor Just Back from Gaza Says Patients, Medical Staff Face Catastrophic Conditions; Despite Looming Gaza Famine, U.S. Halts UNRWA Funding After Israel Claims 12 U.N. Staff Aided 10/7 Attack
Democracy Now! 2024-01-26 Friday
January 26, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 26, 2024; International Court of Justice Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide in Gaza But Fails to Order Ceasefire
Mahmood Mamdani on South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel & Reemergence of Non-Aligned Movement
January 25, 2024 13:00Extended discussion with Mahmood Mamdani, professor of government at Columbia University who specializes in the study of colonialism. He’s the author of numerous books, including, most recently, Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities. He was previously a professor and director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Democracy Now! 2024-01-25 Thursday
January 25, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 25, 2024; Report from Gaza: Palestinian Journalist Akram al-Satarri on “The Struggle to Survive, Stay Sane”; Palestinian Economist Raja Khalidi on Israel’s “Economic Warfare” on Gaza and the West Bank; Professors Slam Columbia’s Response to Chemical Skunk Attack on Students at Pro-Palestine Protest
Democracy Now! 2024-01-24 Wednesday
January 24, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 24, 2024; ”MAGA vs. MAGA Polite”: Trump Beats Haley in New Hampshire, Haley Vows to Fight On; “Trump Is the Nominee. Fascism Is on the Ballot.” Author Jeff Sharlet on New Hampshire & Beyond; Should Trump Be Barred from the Ballot? A Debate over the Insurrection Clause
Democracy Now! 2024-01-23 Tuesday
January 23, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 23, 2024; From Freezing Cold to Housing Insecurity, Migrants Face Crisis in NYC, Chicago & Beyond; “Many of My Shows Have Been Canceled”: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei on Israel, Gaza & Censorship; Marianne Williamson on Running for President, Challenging Biden & Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire
Democracy Now! 2024-01-22 Monday
January 22, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 22, 2024; Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha Decries Israel’s “Inhumane” Assault as Gaza Death Toll Tops 25,000; “Israelism” on Tour: New Film Examines American Jews’ Growing Rejection of Israel’s Occupation; “American Fascism”: Historian Rick Perlstein on Trump’s Grip on the GOP & Chances of a Second Jan. 6
Democracy Now! 2024-01-19 Friday
January 19, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 19, 2024; Uvalde Failure: DOJ Report Finds 377 Officers Waited 77 Mins as 19 Kids, 2 Teachers Killed by 1 AR-15; Texas Sen. Gutierrez Slams Gov. Abbott Immigration Crackdown After Mom & 2 Children Drown in Rio Grande; Meet Tal Mitnick, 18, the First Israeli Jailed for Refusing Military Service in “Revenge War” on Gaza; Horrific Traumatic Injuries of Children: British Dr. Witnesses Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Hospitals
Democracy Now! 2024-01-18 Thursday
January 18, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 18, 2024; Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby Slams Indiana University for Canceling Exhibit over Her Support for Gaza; Artist Emily Jacir: Rampant Censorship Is Part of the Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians; Holocaust Survivor Marione Ingram Decries Climate of Censorship After Her Hamburg Talks Are Canceled
Democracy Now! 2024-01-17 Wednesday
January 17, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 17, 2024; Israel’s War on Journalists: More Reporters Killed in Gaza in 3 Months Than Any Country Over Entire Year; How Israel Bombed Al Jazeera Journalists & Blocked Rescue of Cameraman Samer Abudaqa Until He Died; “They Don’t Show Gaza”: Gideon Levy on How Israel’s Press Is Failing to Cover the War’s True Toll; What Happened on October 7? Gideon Levy on Haaretz’s Call to Investigate Kibbutz Killings & More; “The Logic of Escalation”: From Red Sea to Iran & Beyond, Wil...
Democracy Now! 2024-01-16 Tuesday
January 16, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 16, 2024; “The People Won”: Guatemala Inaugurates Anti-Corruption President Bernardo Arévalo Despite Sabotage; 100+ Days into Israel’s War on Gaza, Doctors Demand Ceasefire to Address “Apocalyptic” Health Crisis; Despite Trump’s Triumph in Iowa, Many GOP Voters Say Legal Troubles Could Make Him Unfit for Reelection
Democracy Now! 2024-01-15 Monday
January 15, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteMLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words
Democracy Now! 2024-01-12 Friday
January 12, 2024 13:00 - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 12, 2024; “A Breach of Yemeni Sovereignty”: Biden Becomes Fourth U.S. President to Bomb Yemen; “Gaslighting and Cherry-Picking”: How Israel Is Defending Itself at World Court on Charges of Genocide; “They Want to Silence Us”: Knesset Member Ofer Cassif Faces Expulsion for Backing South Africa Genocide Case
Democracy Now! 2024-01-11 Thursday
January 11, 2024 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 11, 2024; “Nowhere Is Safe in Gaza”: South Africa Lays Out Genocide Case vs. Israel at World Court in The Hague; Palestinian Genocide Scholar & South African Lawyer on “Extreme Urgency” of World Court Case; Gaza War Fuels Climate Crisis: “Massive” Carbon Emissions from Israeli Bombing
Democracy Now! 2024-01-10 Wednesday
January 10, 2024 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHeadlines for January 10, 2024; Why I Resigned: Meet Tariq Habash, First Biden Appointee to Quit over U.S.-Backed Israeli War on Gaza; “Israel Is Starving Gaza”: Israeli Rights Group B’Tselem Says IDF Is Using Hunger as a Weapon of War
Democracy Now! 2022-08-26 Friday
August 26, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteSix months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war is at a bloody stalemate; Marking one year since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan; The assault on reproductive rights continues as more states enact bans on abortion and punishment for doctors who perform them. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-25 Thursday
August 25, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePresident Biden approves limited student loan forgiveness; Oklahoma’s governor orders the execution of James Coddington despite a recommendation of clemency from the state parole board; How a secretive billionaire made the largest known political donation to a right-wing group. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-24 Wednesday
August 24, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe remember the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn on what would have been his 100th birthday. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-23 Tuesday
August 23, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAuthorities charge the former Mexican attorney general over the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in 2014; Tariq Ali of the New Left Review responds to terror charges brought against Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and unprecedented flooding in the country; New York holds primaries in newly drawn congressional districts. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-22 Monday
August 22, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA landmark ruling orders Walmart, CVS and Walgreens to pay $650 million in damages for their role in the opioid crisis; Florida arrests 20 people — mostly formerly incarcerated — for alleged voter fraud ahead of Tuesday’s primary election; a federal judge halts Florida’s Stop WOKE Act; Alphabet workers demand Google protect the privacy of people seeking abortions. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-19 Friday
August 19, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteKenya faces a political crisis amid a contested presidential election; We speak with two of the seven Palestinian civil society groups raided Thursday by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank; A coalition of immigrant rights groups is suing data broker LexisNexis for selling personal data to U.S. immigration authorities. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-18 Thursday
August 18, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe spend the hour focusing on Brazil, where former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva kicked off his campaign this week challenging Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, with reporter Michael Fox, host of the “Brazil on Fire” podcast; Indigenous lawyer Eliésio Marubo, who led the search in the Amazon for murdered British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous researcher Bruno Pereira; and the director and activists featured in the new documentary, “The Territory.” Get Demo...
Democracy Now! 2022-08-17 Wednesday
August 17, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs 95% of Afghans lack enough to eat, the U.S. refuses to release $7 billion of frozen Afghan assets; Medea Benjamin on Cuba’s need for humanitarian aid after a massive fire, and the draconian sentencing of Saudi activist Salma al-Shehab; climate measures in the Inflation Reduction Act; The Nation’s John Nichols on Trump’s Republican foe Liz Cheney losing her primary race. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-16 Tuesday
August 16, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAlex Vitale on the reasons to defund the FBI that have nothing to do with Trump; U.S. lawyers and journalists sue the CIA for spying on their London visits to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy; Calls grow for the compassionate release of 72-year-old political prisoner and Black liberation activist Mutulu Shakur, who is close to death. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-15 Monday
August 15, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA search warrant reveals the FBI is investigating President Donald Trump for potential violation of the Espionage Act and other laws; Afghan journalist Zahra Nader on the first anniversary of the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan; We feature a rare speech by renowned Indian British novelist Salman Rushdie, who survived an assassination attempt Friday. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-12 Friday
August 12, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteMatthieu Aikins writes about “The Taliban’s Dangerous Collision Course With the West” for The New York Times; An imprisoned Saudi man was tortured and jailed for running a satirical Twitter account; Longtime Filipino activist Walden Bello gives an interview after being jailed for “cyber libel.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Indigenous Lawyer: Independently Investigate Dom Phillips & Bruno Pereira Murder in Brazil's Amazon
August 12, 2022 12:00We speak with Indigenous lawyer Eliésio Marubo in Brasília about calls to independently investigate the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira.
Democracy Now! 2022-08-11 Thursday
August 11, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTrita Parsi on efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal; Hundreds of migrants arrive by bus in New York, sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott with no warning as mutual aid and legal services scramble to respond; Activists call on President Biden to address soaring rent inflation; Los Angeles faces protests over expanding its ban on encampments of unhoused people. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-10 Wednesday
August 10, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePolice arrest a suspect in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico; The founder of the African People’s Socialist Party, a racial justice group, says the FBI is targeting the group for its political work; Immigrant justice activists cheer the end of the “Remain in Mexico” policy. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-09 Tuesday
August 09, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteFBI agents raid former President Trump’s home in Florida seeking documents; A look at Democrats’ sweeping climate, healthcare and tax bill; Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is ordered by a court to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of a child killed at Sandy Hook. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-08 Monday
August 08, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteDozens of Palestinians are killed in Gaza after days of fighting between Israel and the militant group Islamic Jihad; Highlights from the historic inauguration of Colombia’s new leftist president and vice president; Princeton professor and expert on Hungary, Kim Lane Scheppele, on CPAC and U.S. conservatives’ embrace of right-wing authoritarianism. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe