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820 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days 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! 2022-01-26 Wednesday
January 26, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe founding head of Africa CDC on how the world must prepare for the next variant; The forgotten U.S. corporate coup plot of 1934 and how it relates to the deadly January 6 insurrection; Juan González on “Takeover,” the Oscar-shortlisted documentary about when the Young Lords took over a New York City hospital. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-25 Tuesday
January 25, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe U.S. and other Western countries funnel arms into Ukraine as the risk of war increases; Antiwar activists call for the elimination of U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles; Remembering peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Father John Dear on Desmond Tutu & Thich Nhat Hanh: Two Peacemakers Who Changed the World
January 25, 2022 13:00Father John Dear, longtime peace activist and former director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, remembers the lives and impact of his close friends Thich Nhat Hanh and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Democracy Now! 2022-01-24 Monday
January 24, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAn update on relief efforts from Tonga as aid begins to arrive for the island nation after a devastating volcanic eruption; on the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a new documentary tells how the Jane Collective was an underground network that connected women with abortion providers before the Supreme Court legalized the procedure; WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest:...
Democracy Now! 2022-01-21 Friday
January 21, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHow billionaires reshaped the world to their benefit; U.S. sanctions on Afghanistan contribute to a humanitarian catastrophe; The Biden administration continues to uphold Title 42 and other Trump-era immigration rules. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-20 Thursday
January 20, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTensions grow over Ukraine as Biden warns Putin to stay out of the country; Katrina vanden Heuvel and Ralph Nader assess the first year of the Biden administration. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-19 Wednesday
January 19, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA federal judge moves to restructure some $33 billion of Puerto Rico's massive debt; Anti-carceral feminist scholars Angela Davis, Beth Richie and Gina Dent discuss their new book, out this week, titled "Abolition. Feminism. Now."; Angela Davis discusses the new edition of her autobiography. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-18 Tuesday
January 18, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteRev. William Barber on mobilizing to pass voting rights legislation; A Texas rabbi responds to a British man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue; Who is Aafia Siddiqui? Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-17 Monday
January 17, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA Martin Luther King Day special featuring excerpts of two historic MLK speeches: "Beyond Vietnam" and "I've Been to the Mountaintop."
Democracy Now! 2022-01-14 Friday
January 14, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAdvocates are calling for more aid to address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where conditions in hospitals are deteriorating; The documentary "Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America" follows former ACLU deputy legal director Jeffery Robinson as he confronts the enduring legacy of anti-Blackness in the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-13 Thursday
January 13, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteCritics warn the 2022 midterms will bring a wave of Republican victories due to voter suppression and election tampering; A self-described "human guinea pig" who volunteered for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine trials drops out to protest the company's corporate greed; In a new book, The Nation's John Nichols takes aim at the corporations and political figures who put profits over people during the coronavirus pandemic. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest...
Democracy Now! 2022-01-12 Wednesday
January 12, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePresident Biden backs filibuster reform to pass new voting rights legislation; Tenants and activists say a deadly fire in the Bronx that killed 17 shows how city agencies fail to ensure safe affordable housing; New Jersey residents call on the governor to back his environmental justice vows and shut down plans for a new gas-fired power plant in Newark that would worsen air pollution and the climate crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democr...
Democracy Now! 2022-01-11 Tuesday
January 11, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteOn the 20th anniversary of the first prisoner's arrival at Guantánamo Bay, we spend the hour with former detainees at the military prison, Moazzam Begg and Mansoor Adayfi, and Guantánamo's former Muslim chaplain, Captain James Yee, who was jailed after being falsely accused of espionage. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-10 Monday
January 10, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAn update on U.S.-Russian meetings in Geneva over escalating tensions in eastern Europe; Unvaccinated tennis star Novak Djokovic is exempted from Australian immigration restrictions as his case intensifies international scrutiny over the country’s inhumane treatment of refugees; A look at the Omicron variant's impact on the healthcare system across the U.S. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-07 Friday
January 07, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePresident Biden marks the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection with a speech denouncing the violence at the U.S. Capitol; An ER doctor from the frontlines of the record number of COVID-19 cases exacerbated by the Omicron variant; Protests in Sudan against the military coup result in at least three dead as troops fire tear gas into the crowd of protesters. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-06 Thursday
January 06, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteOn the first anniversary of the deadly January 6 insurrection, when a largely white mob of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol, we spend the hour looking at the events of that day, what inspired the violence, and how false claims about voter fraud continue to fuel Republican efforts to restrict voting access — especially for Black voters. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-05 Wednesday
January 05, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteMany who participated in the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol were part of far-right extremist and white supremacist groups. On the first anniversary of the deadly attack, we look at the threat they pose today, with an investigation by Frontline into the "American Insurrection"; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Bunch on why the attempted coup to overturn the election failed. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subsc...
Democracy Now! 2022-01-04 Tuesday
January 04, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA child tax credit program that sent monthly payments to parents is discontinued as many immigrant families continue to receive no assistance at all; An update on COVID-19 infections in private immigration jails under the Biden administration; A French humanitarian organization files a manslaughter lawsuit against British and French officials over the drowning deaths of 27 refugees in the English Channel. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democra...
Democracy Now! 2022-01-03 Monday
January 03, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA patent-free, low-cost vaccine that could reach billions; The U.S. faces a shortage of rapid tests in part due to poor FDA standards; A climate-fueled wildfire devastates suburbs in Colorado. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-31 Friday
December 31, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe celebrate Democracy Now!'s 25th anniversary by airing highlights from our coverage over the years, from Haiti to Gaza, Standing Rock, the U.S.-Mexico border and more.
Democracy Now! 2021-12-30 Thursday
December 30, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAn hour with Noam Chomsky on the pandemic, the climate emergency, Julian Assange, Biden's foreign policy and more.
Democracy Now! 2021-12-29 Wednesday
December 29, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAcclaimed Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy; National Book Award-winning poet Martín Espada. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-28 Tuesday
December 28, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteRenowned activist and professor Angela Davis on abolition, the power of movements, Palestine, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the pandemic and imagining new worlds; Mumia Abu-Jamal remembers the late South African anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu; Legendary author and singer Patti Smith receives a key to New York City. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-27 Monday
December 27, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteRemembering South African leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu as a valiant critic of war and apartheid. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-24 Friday
December 24, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteNSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hedges discuss mass surveillance, government secrecy, internet freedom and U.S. attempts to extradite and prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Democracy Now! 2021-12-23 Thursday
December 23, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteOxfam leads a shareholder complaint against Moderna for its lack of transparency in a dispute over vaccine patent rights; How the Koch network funneled dark money into right-wing resistance against public health measures during the pandemic; Victory for Kellogg's workers who have ended their strike after receiving a new contract with improved wages and benefits; The Pentagon announces new rules to slow the spread of white supremacist extremism in the military. Get Democracy Now! delivered ri...
Democracy Now! 2021-12-22 Wednesday
December 22, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteReporter Azmat Khan on her groundbreaking investigation of U.S. airstrike casualties; President Biden announces new measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus amid a new surge; Haitian asylum seekers sue the U.S. government over discriminatory treatment. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-21 Tuesday
December 21, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteJailed Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah is sentenced to an additional five years behind bars; Chile elects leftist Gabriel Boric as president; How the U.S. Navy contaminated the water supply for tens of thousands in Hawaii. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-20 Monday
December 20, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe latest on the Omicron variant of the coronavirus; Congressmember Jamaal Bowman on Joe Manchin and the apparent death of the Build Back Better package; Immigrant rights activist Jean Montrevil gets three years' reprieve from deportation as he fights for permanent status. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-17 Friday
December 17, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAttorney Benjamin Crump on three cases of police brutality around the country, including Derek Chauvin's guilty plea to willfully depriving George Floyd of his civil rights; The legacy of feminist writer and critic bell hooks; Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock implores conservative members of his party to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-16 Thursday
December 16, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteJournalist Steve Coll on the U.S. diplomatic failure in Afghanistan that led to the Taliban takeover; More than half the population in Afghanistan faces food insecurity; As the Omicron variant spreads, vaccine experts say over 100 companies in Africa, Asia and Latin America have the potential to produce mRNA vaccines to ensure equitable access. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-15 Wednesday
December 15, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe House of Representatives finds Trump's former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about the deadly January 6 insurrection; Diplomatic talks continue, but hopes are fading for a restart of the Iran nuclear deal; Chile's presidential runoff election pits a leftist former student leader against a far-right defender of the Pinochet regime. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-14 Tuesday
December 14, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHow a secretive Customs and Border Protection unit tracked journalists and other civilians; A barista at the first unionized U.S. Starbucks talks about the historic labor win; 1,400 unionized Kellogg's workers remain on strike; Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein on the wave of strikes and other union organizing underway across the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-13 Monday
December 13, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteClimate scientist Michael Mann on the deadly tornadoes that ripped through midwestern and southern states; Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate's new book "A Bigger Picture" and her fight to bring more African voices into the discourse on climate change. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-10 Friday
December 10, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may soon face espionage charges in the United States after a U.K. court rules he can be extradited, reversing an earlier decision; Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov accept their joint Nobel Peace Prize for safeguarding freedom of expression; Filmmaker Alex Gibney on Guantánamo detainee Abu Zubaydah, "The Forever Prisoner." Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
"The Forever Prisoner": Alex Gibney on How Patient Zero of CIA's Torture Program Still Held at Gitmo
December 10, 2021 13:00In an extended interview, filmmaker Alex Gibney discusses his new film, “The Forever Prisoner,” which tells the story of Guantánamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah.
"The Forever Prisoner": Alex Gibney on How Patient Zero of CIA’s Torture Program Still Held at Gitmo
December 10, 2021 13:00In an extended interview, filmmaker Alex Gibney discusses his new film, “The Forever Prisoner,” which tells the story of Guantánamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah.
Democracy Now! 2021-12-09 Thursday
December 09, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe House approves a massive military spending bill; As calls grow for Biden to extend the moratorium on student debt, we speak with the Debt Collective's Astra Taylor about her new animated film, "Your Debt Is Someone Else's Asset"; The Outlaw Ocean Project's Ian Urbina on "The Invisible Wall: Inside the Secretive Libyan Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe." Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-08 Wednesday
December 08, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs the U.S. threatens new sanctions against Russia if it invades Ukraine, we look at the virtual summit between Biden and Putin and why Russia fears NATO's expansion in eastern Europe; the largest strike in the U.S. is underway at Columbia University, and student workers have called on unions to help them shut down the school today. We speak with a striking student worker and a professor who supports them; Animal rights activist Wayne Hsiung responds to his conviction on felony charges for r...
Democracy Now! 2021-12-07 Tuesday
December 07, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePfizer and Moderna shareholders rake in huge profits as the Omicron variant threatens to prolong the pandemic as the U.S. stalls on its promises to implement a $2.5 billion plan to thwart similar variants; The Biden administration resumes Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy, putting asylum seekers in grave danger; The first supervised drug injection sites in the United States open in New York. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/sub...
Democracy Now! 2021-12-06 Monday
December 06, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteGun control advocates on the deadly high school shooting in Oxford, Michigan; The Pentagon reopens an investigation of a U.S. airstrike that killed dozens of civilians in Syria as concern also mounts about U.S. strikes in Yemen and Afghanistan; Human Rights Watch denounces U.S. rejection of a United Nations ban on killer robots. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-03 Friday
December 03, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteReporter Amy Littlefield on the fight to save abortion rights in the United States; Haitian asylum seekers in an ICE jail in New Mexico describe abuse and neglect while waiting for their cases to be heard; A new documentary, "The Facility," goes inside a notorious ICE jail in Georgia to chronicle life and revolt. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-02 Thursday
December 02, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe Supreme Court considers a Mississippi abortion ban that could overturn Roe v. Wade; Journalist Rokhaya Diallo on French far-right presidential candidate Éric Zemmour and the induction of legendary entertainer and Black activist Josephine Baker into the Pantheon. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-12-01 Wednesday
December 01, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAmazon is found to have violated U.S. labor laws in its aggressive anti-union campaign against warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama; Dame Sandra Mason is sworn in as the first president of Barbados, further restoring autonomy to the small Caribbean nation after a long brutal legacy of British colonial rule and chattel slavery; December 1 marks World AIDS Day, and this year recorded deaths of complications from COVID-19 have surpassed those of HIV/AIDS in the United States. Get Democracy No...
Democracy Now! 2021-11-30 Tuesday
November 30, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHonduras is poised to get its first woman president, Xiomara Castro, a leftist candidate who could end the regime of conservative National Party ushered in by the U.S.-backed coup; Tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalate as talks between NATO foreign secretaries begin; Wet'suwet'en land defenders continue their fight against the Coastal GasLink pipeline despite a violent crackdown by militiarzied federal Canadian police. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the...
Democracy Now! 2021-11-29 Monday
November 29, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs the new Omicron coronavirus variant is identified by scientists in South Africa, health leaders say now is the time to finally address vaccine inequity; Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza on the "guilty" verdict for Ahmaud Arbery’s killers; Calls grow to drop the charges against Chrystul Kizer, a Black teenager who faces murder charges in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after she killed her alleged sex trafficker, a white man with a history of sexually abusing underage Black girls. She says it...
Democracy Now! 2021-11-26 Friday
November 26, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBMansoor Adayfi, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was held at the military prison for 14 years without charge, describes his ordeal in the new book "Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo."
Democracy Now! 2021-11-25 Thursday
November 25, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWe celebrate Democracy Now!'s 25th anniversary by airing highlights from our coverage over the years, from Haiti to Gaza, Standing Rock, the U.S.-Mexico border and more.
Democracy Now! 2021-11-24 Wednesday
November 24, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWhite supremacist behind the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally are ordered to pay over $26 million in damages for their role in organizing the event; A survivor speaks out after a rapist receives only probation for sexually assaulting four teenagers; Jeremy Scahill on the bipartisan foreign policy consensus that promotes war and militarism and Biden’s ongoing persecution of military whistleblowers. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.o...
Democracy Now! 2021-11-23 Tuesday
November 23, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePulitzer Prize-winning writer Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her new anthology and children's book published as an extension of The 1619 Project that examines the legacy of slavery in the United States, how states have banned the project and the teaching of critical race theory, and her response to the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse and the trail of the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery; Noam Chomsky on U.S. foreign policy under Biden. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for t...