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Democracy 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! 2024-03-26 Tuesday

March 26, 2024 12:00 - 59 minutes - 227 MB Video

Headlines 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 - 59 minutes - 221 MB Video

Headlines 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 - 59 minutes - 216 MB Video

Headlines 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 12:00 Video

Extended 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 - 59 minutes - 217 MB Video

Headlines 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 - 59 minutes - 215 MB Video

Headlines 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

Democracy Now! 2024-03-19 Tuesday

March 19, 2024 12:00 - 59 minutes - 225 MB Video

Headlines 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

"unseen" Director Set Hernandez on How Their New Film Amplifies Undocumented, Disabled Voices

March 19, 2024 12:00 Video

Watch 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! 2024-03-18 Monday

March 18, 2024 12:00 - 59 minutes - 224 MB Video

Headlines 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

Democracy Now! 2024-03-15 Friday

March 15, 2024 12:00 - 59 minutes - 226 MB Video

Headlines 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 - 59 minutes - 218 MB Video

Headlines 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

Democracy Now! 2024-03-13 Wednesday

March 13, 2024 12:00 - 59 minutes - 237 MB Video

Headlines 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 - 59 minutes - 223 MB Video

Headlines 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 - 59 minutes - 236 MB Video

Headlines 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

COP28: Sônia Guajajara, Brazil's First Indigenous Peoples Minister, on Climate & a Just Transition

December 18, 2023 13:00 Video

When Democracy Now! was covering the COP28 U.N. climate summit in Dubai, we spoke to Sônia Guajajara, the head of the largest Indigenous delegation in the history of the climate talks.

Democracy Now! 2023-12-18 Monday

December 18, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 225 MB Video

Headlines for December 18, 2023; ​​Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara on IDF Killing AJ Journalist, the 3 Hostages & U.S. Support for Israel; “Tragically Historic”: The Guardian’s Nina Lakhani on the Failure of Yet Another U.N. Climate Summit

Democracy Now! 2023-12-15 Friday

December 15, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 193 MB Video

Headlines for December 15, 2023; “Politics of Memory”: Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize Postponed for Comparing Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto; Israel Raids Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp; Director Speaks Out After Being Jailed & Beaten

Ahmed Tobasi of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin & Bread and Puppet's Peter Schumann on Art & Liberation

December 15, 2023 13:00 Video

We continue our conversation with Ahmed Tobasi, the artistic director at the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, and Peter Schumann, the 89-year-old co-founder of the legendary Bread and Puppet Theater based in Vermont. Tobasi was jailed this week after Israel rounded up hundreds of Palestinian men during a massive raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Two of his colleagues remain in detention.

Meet Survivors of Nuclear Testing Calling on U.N. to Secure Just Compensation & Prohibit New Weapons

December 15, 2023 13:00 Video

The second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the U.N. brought together survivors of nuclear testing, and we speak with two of them, who are also 2023 laureates of the Nuclear-Free Future Awards.

Democracy Now! 2023-12-14 Thursday

December 14, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 169 MB Video

Headlines for December 14, 2023; Israel Accused of War Crimes for “Apparently Deliberate” Killing of Reuters Journalist in Lebanon; Jeremy Scahill: Gaza “Scorched-Earth Campaign” Is a “Joint U.S.-Israeli Operation”; Palestinian Student Shot in VT & Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivor Join Haverford Sit-In for Gaza

Democracy Now! 2023-12-13 Wednesday

December 13, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 215 MB Video

Headlines for December 13, 2023; Phase Down, Not Phase Out: COP28 Deal on Fossil Fuels Disappoints Activists & Vulnerable States; Exclusive: Palestinian Diplomat Who Went Viral for U.N. Speech Says Israel & U.S. Are Isolated on Gaza; Rep. Greg Casar: Biden Must Not Cave on GOP’s Hard-Line Immigration Demands in Ukraine Funding Request

Democracy Now! 2023-12-12 Tuesday

December 12, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 221 MB Video

Headlines for December 12, 2023; Diplomacy, Not War: Daughter of Released Hostage Urges Israel to Reach Deal to Free More Captives; Climate Activists Outraged as COP28 Draft Text Drops Call for Fossil Fuel Phaseout; Texas Woman Denied Abortion for Nonviable Fetus, Flees State, “One of Thousands” in Similar Position

Democracy Now! 2023-12-11 Monday

December 11, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 192 MB Video

Headlines for December 11, 2023; Peter Beinart & Omer Bartov on UPenn President Resignation, Gaza & the Weaponization of Antisemitism; State Dept. Whistleblower Blasts Blinken for Bypassing Congress to Send 14K Tank Munitions to Israel; U.S. Vetoes U.N. Gaza Ceasefire Again as Biden Veers Far from Global Consensus, Death Toll Tops 18,000; “Please Stop This War Against Us”: Gaza Doctor Begs for World’s Help as Hunger & Disease Spread

Democracy Now! 2023-12-08 Friday

December 08, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 200 MB Video

Headlines for December 08, 2023; “We Want Freedom”: Refaat Alareer, Gaza Scholar & Activist Killed by Israeli Strike, in His Own Words; “If I Must Die”: IDF Strike Kills Gaza Scholar Refaat Alareer; Friend Pays Tribute & Reads His Poem; COP28 Activists Say Palestine Solidarity Protests Calling for Ceasefire Face Severe Restrictions; Exclusive: Indigenous Climate Activist Jacob Johns Speaks Out After MAGA Gunman Shoots Him in New Mexico; Why Is Brazil Joining OPEC+ Oil Cartel, If Lula Is Comm...

Democracy Now! 2023-12-07 Thursday

December 07, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 224 MB Video

Headlines for December 07, 2023; “Terrorized”: Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Being Stripped, Jailed & Beaten by Israeli Forces; “Cabal of Oil Producers”: Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson Slams Corporate Capture of COP28; “Green Colonialism”: Nigerian Climate Activist Nnimmo Bassey Says Africa Is Being Sold Out at COP28

Democracy Now! 2023-12-06 Wednesday

December 06, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 226 MB Video

Headlines for December 06, 2023; “Catastrophic”: Gaza Aid Worker on “Horror” of Forced Relocations Amid Israel’s War on Southern Strip; COP28: Amy Goodman Attempts to Question UAE Oil CEO Serving as President of U.N. Climate Talks in Dubai; Big Oil’s Takeover of U.N. Climate Summit Decried by Activists Fighting for Fossil Fuel Phaseout; Carbon Colonialism: Oil-Rich UAE Buys Up Large Swaths of Africa for Carbon Credits to Keep Polluting; Why Are Russia & U.S. Promoting Nuclear Power at U.N. C...

Democracy Now! 2023-12-05 Tuesday

December 05, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 210 MB Video

Headlines for December 05, 2023; “There Simply Is No Safe Place in Gaza”: Aid Groups Demand Ceasefire as Israel Intensifies Its War; Climate Crossfire: From Gaza to Ukraine, How War & Military Spending Accelerate Climate Chaos; Planet for Sale? Record 2,500 Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Descend on COP28 U.N. Climate Summit in Dubai

Democracy Now! 2023-12-04 Monday

December 04, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 262 MB Video

Headlines for December 04, 2023; “No One Is Safe in Gaza”: Journalist Akram al-Satarri Reports from Khan Younis Amid Israeli Assault; “We Are All Palestinians”: COP28 Activists Demand Ceasefire in Gaza, Defying Protest Restrictions; COP28: Asad Rehman on Funding a “Just Transition” Off Fossil Fuels & Limits on Protest in UAE; Climate Summit Host UAE Blasted by HRW for Migrant Worker Abuse, Toxic Pollution & Mass Surveillance

Democracy Now! 2023-11-03 Friday

November 03, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 146 Bytes Video

Headlines for November 03, 2023; Another Nakba? Israeli Intel Ministry Proposes Expelling Every Palestinian in Gaza to Egypt; State Department Official Resigns, Says Israel Is Using U.S. Arms to Massacre Civilians in Gaza; Boston Interfaith Rally Urges Senators Warren & Markey to Support Gaza Ceasefire

Democracy Now! 2023-11-02 Thursday

November 02, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 244 MB Video

Headlines for November 02, 2023; “This Is Your Money”: Palestinian Father Pleads with Americans to Stop Funding Israeli Assault on Gaza; Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks Out Against Israel’s “Segregationist Apartheid Regime” After West Bank Visit

Healthcare Activist Ady Barkan Dies of ALS; Watch His 2021 Interview on Demanding Medicare for All

November 02, 2023 12:00 Video

Healthcare activist Ady Barkan has died at the age of 39 of ALS. Watch our 2021 interview with him about how he dedicated his life to the fight for single-payer healthcare.

Democracy Now! 2023-11-01 Wednesday

November 01, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 245 MB Video

Headlines for November 01, 2023; “Horrific”: Resident of Jabaliya Refugee Camp Speaks Out After Israeli Airstrikes Kill Over 50; “Text-Book Case of Genocide”: Top U.N. Official Craig Mokhiber Resigns, Denounces Israeli Assault on Gaza

Democracy Now! 2023-10-31 Tuesday

October 31, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 251 MB Video

Headlines for October 31, 2023; Gaza Doctor Says Hospitals Have to Choose Who Lives and Who Dies Amid Worsening Humanitarian Crisis; Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé on Gaza War, Hostages & the Context Behind Current Violence; How They Did It: Labor Journalist Jane Slaughter on UAW’s “Life-Changing” Deal with Big 3 Automakers

Democracy Now! 2023-10-30 Monday

October 30, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 282 MB Video

Headlines for October 30, 2023; “Not in Our Name”: 400 Arrested at Jewish-Led Sit-in at NYC’s Grand Central Demanding Gaza Ceasefire; Rep. Delia Ramirez Backs Gaza Ceasefire Resolution in Congress: We Need Diplomacy, Not More Bombings; Middle East Expert Lara Friedman: If Netanyahu Cared About Hostages, Why Did He Launch Ground Invasion?; “This Has to Stop”: Doctors Denounce Israel’s Targeting of Gaza Hospitals

"You Need to Choose": Dr. Mads Gilbert on Medical Solidarity with Gaza as Israel Targets Hospitals

October 30, 2023 12:00 Video

Watch Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician who helped provide emergency trauma care in Gaza for over four decades and is now trying to enter the besieged territory from Egypt.

Democracy Now! 2023-10-27 Friday

October 27, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 261 MB Video

Headlines for October 27, 2023; “Gaza Is Being Strangled”: UNRWA Calls for Immediate Ceasefire as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens; Gaza Poet Who Inspired Nonviolent Protests Is Injured in Israeli Airstrike; 5 Relatives Killed; “The Day After Tomorrow”: Israeli Hostage Negotiator on Freeing Captives & Building Lasting Peace; The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: Censorship, Harassment Intensifies on Campus Amid Gaza War

Democracy Now! 2023-10-26 Thursday

October 26, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 238 MB Video

Headlines for October 26, 2023; “No Safe Place in Gaza”: Al Jazeera Reporter on Israeli Strike That Killed Gaza Bureau Chief’s Family; Palestinian Diplomat Hanan Ashrawi: The U.S. Is Israel’s “Partner in Crime” in Deadly Assault on Gaza; Palestinian Lives Matter Too: Jewish Scholar Judith Butler Condemns Israel’s “Genocide” in Gaza

Democracy Now! 2023-10-25 Wednesday

October 25, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 237 MB Video

Headlines for October 25, 2023; Amnesty International Finds “Damning Evidence of War Crimes” by Israel in Gaza; Death Toll Tops 6,500; “A Man of Two Faces”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on New Memoir, U.S. Imperialism, Vietnam & More; “We Need a Ceasefire”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on Gaza & Israel’s Dehumanization of Palestinians; Juan González: U.S. “Economic Warfare” Targeting Venezuela, Cuba & Nicaragua Fuels Migrant Crisis

Democracy Now! 2023-10-24 Tuesday

October 24, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 260 MB Video

Headlines for October 24, 2023; Palestinian American Journalist Rami Khouri on Israel’s Gaza Bombardment & Risk of a Regional War; Freed Hamas Hostage Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, Says She Was “Treated Well” After Enduring “Hell”; Is Israel’s Endgame to Clear Out Gaza? Egypt Says No to Palestinian Refugees, Fearing New Nakba

Democracy Now! 2023-10-23 Monday

October 23, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 266 MB Video

Headlines for October 23, 2023; “Nowhere in Gaza Is Safe”: Palestinian Death Toll Tops 5,000 as Israel Rejects Calls for Ceasefire; Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer Raji Sourani Describes Surviving Israel Bombing His Home in Gaza; Not in My Brother’s Name: Sibling of Peace Activist Killed by Hamas Demands Israel Stop Bombing Gaza

Democracy Now! 2023-02-03 Friday

February 03, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 242 MB Video

Headlines for February 03, 2023; Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Khalil Gibran Muhammad & E. Patrick Johnson on the Fight over Black History; “We Want to Be Treated Like Human Beings”: Evicted Asylum Seeker in NYC Requests Housing, Job Permits

"We Want a Better Future": Meet an Asylum Seeker Evicted from NYC Hotel, Demanding Humane Treatment

February 03, 2023 13:00 Video

This week, New York City police evicted an encampment of asylum seekers outside the Watson Hotel who were protesting plans to house them in a remote, crowded and cold facility. Watch our full interview with a Venezuelan asylum seeker named Ruben, who was evicted from the hotel.

Democracy Now! 2023-02-02 Thursday

February 02, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 237 MB Video

Headlines for February 02, 2023; “No More”: At Tyre Nichols Funeral, VP Harris, Rev. Sharpton Join Family, Demand Police Accountability; Atlanta’s “Cop City” Moves Ahead After Police Kill 1 Protester & Charge 19 with Domestic Terrorism; “All That Breathes”: Oscar-Nominated Doc About Brothers Saving Birds Amid Delhi’s Ecological Collapse

Democracy Now! 2023-02-01 Wednesday

February 01, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 262 MB Video

Headlines for February 01, 2023; Howard Prof. Justin Hansford & Abolitionist Andrea Ritchie on Tyre Nichols & Calls for No More Police; Standoff at NYC Hotel: Asylum Seekers Protest Relocation & Demand Their Right to Shelter in City

Democracy Now! 2023-01-31 Tuesday

January 31, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 236 MB Video

Headlines for January 31, 2023; Asylum Seekers Refuse to Leave Manhattan Hotel, Citing Inhumane Conditions at Brooklyn Shelter; “Elite” Police Units Face More Scrutiny as Memphis SCORPION Unit Disbanded over Tyre Nichols Death; Rikers Jail Whistleblower Decries Collapse of LGBTQ+ Unit Meant to Protect Trans Detainees; Marxist Economist Richard Wolff on How the Debt Ceiling Benefits the Rich & Powerful

Democracy Now! 2023-01-30 Monday

January 30, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 257 MB Video

Headlines for January 30, 2023; “An Intolerable Situation”: Rashid Khalidi & Orly Noy on Israeli Colonialism & Escalating Violence; Tyre Nichols: Video of Fatal Police Beating in Memphis Spurs New Demands for Police Accountability; “Every Community Has a Tyre Nichols”: New Jersey Activists Demand Justice for Carl Dorsey

Democracy Now! 2023-01-27 Friday

January 27, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 214 MB Video

Headlines for January 27, 2023; Memphis BLM Activist: Tyre Nichols’ Killing Is Part of Police Brutality Crisis Facing Black Residents; Tyre Nichols’ Parents Remember Son as “Beautiful Soul” & Describe Video of Beating by Memphis Police

Democracy Now! 2023-01-26 Thursday

January 26, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 229 MB Video

Headlines for January 26, 2023; “20 Days in Mariupol”: Meet the Ukrainian Filmmaker Who Risked His Life Documenting Russian Siege; Biden Proposes Renters Bill of Rights as Landlords Make Record Profits; Housing Advocates Want More

Democracy Now! 2023-01-25 Wednesday

January 25, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 207 MB Video

Headlines for January 25, 2023; As Germany & U.S. Agree on Tanks for Ukraine, German MP Accuses U.S. of Pushing Berlin into Proxy War; Doomsday Clock Moves Closer to Midnight: Peace Activist Frida Berrigan Demands Nuclear Disarmament; “Lacks Educational Value”? Critics Slam Florida’s Rejection of AP African American Studies Course

Democracy Now! 2023-01-24 Tuesday

January 24, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 217 MB Video

Headlines for January 24, 2023; As Asian Americans Reel After Mass Shootings in California, Will Congress Take Any Action on Guns?; Jeremy Scahill: Biden & Trump Scandals Point to Deeper Problems with Overclassification of Gov’t Docs