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811 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 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! 2022-04-19 Tuesday
April 19, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 247 MB VideoRussia launches a major new offensive in eastern Ukraine; Imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah undertakes a hunger strike to protest his detention as his family calls for his urgent release. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-18 Monday
April 18, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 253 MB VideoIsraeli forces repeatedly raid the Al-Aqsa Mosque, violently clearing worshipers during Ramadan; Republican-led states enact a wave of new abortion restrictions; The Biden administration grants temporary protected status to Cameroonians living in the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-15 Friday
April 15, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 212 MB VideoU.S. weapons makers are cashing in on the Ukraine war; Vijay Prashad on how Russia’s invasion exposes Western hypocrisy on war crimes; “Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-14 Thursday
April 14, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 227 MB VideoThe U.S. mental health crisis and its connections to the New York subway shooting; Sweden and Finland consider NATO membership; Update from Lviv on the Russian war in Ukraine after Putin declared a “dead end” to peace negotiations. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-13 Wednesday
April 13, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 246 MB VideoNew York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams on the subway shooting; How the Russian war in Ukraine is impacting inflation; Starbucks Workers United union drive spreads to 30 states. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-12 Tuesday
April 12, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 228 MB VideoRussia is set to launch a massive offensive in eastern Ukraine; Saudi investment in the Trump family and the fate of 26 Saudi men accused of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi; J. David McSwane on his new book, “Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-11 Monday
April 11, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 266 MB VideoActivists Tariq Ali and Tooba Syed respond to Imran Khan’s ousting as Pakistan’s prime minister and the election of Shahbaz Sharif; Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen will face French President Emmanuel Macron in a runoff after France’s first round of presidential elections; Founder of the La Frontera Fund on mobilizing to free and support Lizelle Herrera, jailed over a “self-induced abortion” amid Texas’s crackdowns on reproductive rights. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. S...
Democracy Now! 2022-04-08 Friday
April 08, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 219 MB VideoProf. Michele Goodwin on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic confirmation to the Supreme Court and the wave of anti-abortion laws sweeping the U.S.; Russia’s suspension from the U.N. Human Rights Council reveals double standards in the international criminal justice system; Trita Parsi on negotiations to revive the Iran nuclear deal. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-07 Thursday
April 07, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 213 MB VideoBig Oil reaps major profits as gas prices soar amid war in Ukraine; Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Hungary’s right-wing leader Viktor Orbán, just reelected to a fourth term; President Biden extends a moratorium on student loan payments, but activists continue to demand full cancellation of debts. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-06 Wednesday
April 06, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 252 MB VideoEvidence grows of Russian atrocities in Ukraine; A Taliban crackdown on girls’ education stalls talks with the U.S. about possible relief for Afghanistan’s economic crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-05 Tuesday
April 05, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 229 MB VideoPakistan faces a constitutional crisis as Prime Minister Imran Khan calls for new elections; Concerns grow about human rights abuses in El Salvador during a 30-day state of emergency over gang violence; A new report highlights how poverty and COVID-19 deaths are linked in the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-04 Monday
April 04, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 249 MB VideoWe speak with the two best friends who took on Amazon and successfully organized workers in Staten Island vote to form the retail giant’s first U.S. union; As Russian forces retreat from the areas around Kyiv, evidence emerges of summary killings of civilians, mass graves and other atrocities. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-01 Friday
April 01, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 218 MB VideoPresident Biden signs the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, culminating more than a century of efforts to make lynching a federal crime. We speak with Till’s cousin and best friend, as well as the great-granddaughter of crusading anti-lynching journalist Ida B. Wells; Journalist Chris Hedges speaks about his former RT America show, Julian Assange, Ukraine and more. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-31 Thursday
March 31, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 210 MB VideoRussia appears set to launch a major new offensive in the Donbas region of Ukraine; Funding ends for free COVID-19 tests, treatment and vaccines, putting the uninsured and communities of color at even greater risk, as the pandemic has led to a renewed push for Medicare for All. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-30 Wednesday
March 30, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 231 MB VideoIs there a peace deal in sight for Ukraine?; Guerline Jozef and Maria Hinojosa on the unequal treatment of nonwhite refugees, most recently Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border; Investigative reporter Sally Hayden on African refugees imprisoned in Libya. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
New Book Documents Role of U.N. & EU in Humanitarian Crisis for African Refugees Held in Libyan Prisons
March 30, 2022 12:00 VideoPart 2 of our interview with Sally Hayden, author of the new book, “My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route.”
Democracy Now! 2022-03-29 Tuesday
March 29, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 227 MB VideoNegotiators from Russia and Ukraine meet in Turkey for peace talks; Calls grow for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s impeachment; A new Frontline/ProPublica documentary details the “Plot to Overturn the Election.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-28 Monday
March 28, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 227 MB VideoUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is willing to discuss Russia’s demand to adopt a neutral status; A new investigation reveals European Union countries are detaining nonwhite refugees fleeing Ukraine; Pressure grows in former Caribbean British colonies to cut ties with the British monarchy amid a visit from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-25 Friday
March 25, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 247 MB VideoYanis Varoufakis on the war in Ukraine and why the West would be “playing with fire” by pursuing regime change in Russia; Foreign policy expert William Hartung on ending the war in Yemen and why hawks in Washington are pushing for even more military spending; Colombian environmentalist and vice-presidential candidate Francia Márquez says “a new form of government is possible” in the country. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/sub...
Democracy Now! 2022-03-24 Thursday
March 24, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 224 MB VideoNATO announces it will send even more troops to Eastern Europe as the Ukraine war enters its second month; Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson endures hours of Republican attacks on her third day of Senate confirmation hearings; Republicans push anti-abortion measures in states across the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-23 Wednesday
March 23, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 229 MB VideoRepublican senators attack Ketanji Brown Jackson’s work as a public defender representing Guantánamo Bay detainees and her record as a judge; Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko on Putin’s endgame in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
We Need a Peace Settlement: Ukrainian Scholar Volodymyr Ishchenko on Russia's Invasion
March 23, 2022 12:00 VideoAs President Biden heads to Europe for talks with NATO allies, G7 leaders and European Union leaders, we continue with Volodymyr Ishchenko, a Ukrainian sociologist and research associate at the Institute for East European Studies at the Free University of Berlin.
Democracy Now! 2022-03-22 Tuesday
March 22, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 229 MB VideoHistoric Senate confirmation hearings begin for Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s historic Supreme Court nominee; The humanitarian crisis in besieged Mariupol; Ukrainian pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko on ending the war. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-21 Monday
March 21, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 273 MB VideoChina’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and what it could mean for U.S.-Chinese relations; Biden condemns the Russian invasion of a sovereign, independent Ukraine, but refuses to recognize Western Sahara; Exclusive interview with Sahrawi human rights defender Sultana Khaya, under de facto house arrest since November 2020. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-18 Friday
March 18, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 243 MB VideoHow Russia’s war in Ukraine could lead to a “meltdown of the global food system”; As more than half Afghanistan’s population experiences acute hunger, award-winning journalist Matthieu Aikins asks: Who does the West consider worthy of saving? Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-17 Thursday
March 17, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 250 MB VideoPresident Biden pledges an additional $800 million in military aid for Ukraine; Syrian journalist and activist Waad Al-Kateab on the parallels between Russia’s actions in Ukraine and Syria; Arms expert Stephen Goose on the use of cluster bombs by Russia and the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-16 Wednesday
March 16, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 228 MB VideoUkrainian reporter Nataliya Gumenyuk describes visiting several strategic cities where civilians have united against Russia as troops lay siege; As U.S. and U.K. leaders discuss oil output with Saudi Arabia, they continue to back the Saudi-led war and blockade in Yemen that has resulted in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis; Why a group of foreign policy experts oppose a no-fly zone enforced by the U.S. in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily D...
Democracy Now! 2022-03-15 Tuesday
March 15, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 249 MB VideoUpdate from Kyiv, Ukraine; The New Yorker’s Joshua Yaffa on how Vladimir Putin miscalculated his invasion; Saudi Arabia carries out its largest mass execution in decades. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Mass Execution in Saudi Arabia as MBS Faces Khashoggi Murder Lawsuit & U.S. Keeps Backing War on Yemen
March 15, 2022 12:00 VideoWe look at the civil lawsuit against Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and the world’s worst humanitarian crisis that is unfolding in Yemen, seven years into the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war and blockade.
Democracy Now! 2022-03-14 Monday
March 14, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 227 MB VideoWe discuss the life of U.S. journalist and filmmaker Brent Renaud, the first foreign journalist known to have been killed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion; An activist from the Belarusian human rights group Viasna responds to the crackdown on antiwar protests in Belarus, where Putin has stationed thousands of Russian troops. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-11 Friday
March 11, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 217 MB VideoUkrainian climate activist Svitlana Romanko on how fossil fuels power Russian aggression; A resident of Mykolaiv describes life under siege; Andrew Bacevich on Russia’s invasion, NATO expansion and how the U.S. war in Iraq laid the groundwork for the Ukraine crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-10 Thursday
March 10, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 225 MB VideoAn update on the war in Ukraine from a reporter on the ground, and from refugee advocates helping more than 2 million people flee the fighting; Russian activist Arshak Makichyan on why he is risking arrest to speak out against the invasion. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-09 Wednesday
March 09, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 214 MB VideoSoaring fuel prices across the world embolden the case for a faster transition to renewable energy; Tariq Ali on Ukraine, Russia, NATO and more; Anti-LGBTQ measures target youth in states such as Florida, Texas and Idaho. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
“They Need the Oil”: Venezuelan Pres. Maduro & U.S. Officials Meet After Biden Bans Imports from Russia
March 09, 2022 13:00 VideoIn Part 2 of our interview with Tariq Ali, we discuss the developments with Venezuela, the conflict in Ukraine, and the response from China.
“They Need the Oil”: Venezuelan Pres. Maduro & US Officials Meet After Biden Bans Imports from Russia
March 09, 2022 13:00 VideoIn Part 2 of our interview with Tariq Ali, we discuss the developments with Venezuela, the conflict in Ukraine, and the response from China.
"They Need the Oil": Venezuelan Pres. Maduro & U.S. Officials Meet After Biden Bans Imports from Russia
March 09, 2022 13:00 VideoIn Part 2 of our interview with Tariq Ali, we discuss the developments with Venezuela, the conflict in Ukraine, and the response from China.
Chase Strangio: Anti-Trans Measures in Republican-Led States Will Have "Catastrophic" Consequences
March 09, 2022 13:00 VideoIn Part 2 of our interview, ACLU attorney Chase Strangio describes in detail the state-level attacks on trans youth, and the intensifying international push to eradicate trans lives.
Democracy Now! 2022-03-08 Tuesday
March 08, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 220 MB VideoOn International Women’s Day, we look at how women, transgender people and other vulnerable groups are impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine; Russia’s crackdown on civil society intensifies; Congressmember Ilhan Omar on Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, protecting refugees, U.S. strikes in Somalia and more. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-07 Monday
March 07, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 236 MB VideoAn update from Kyiv as the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its 12th day; Anatol Lieven on what a possible peace deal could look like; Historian Ilya Budraitskis on the resistance inside Russia. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-04 Friday
March 04, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 207 MB VideoAs Russian forces shelled the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, we host a roundtable with nuclear specialists from Ukraine, Russia and Greenpeace on the threat of nuclear catastrophe; Antiwar protesters face a crackdown in Russia; Ukrainian American journalist Lev Golinkin on the rise of the far right in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-03 Thursday
March 03, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 203 MB VideoWe go to Kyiv to speak with former Ukrainian trade minister Tymofiy Mylovanov and Kyiv-based human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk on the Ukraine crisis; Bernie Sanders’s foreign policy adviser Matt Duss on Biden’s response to Ukraine; Russia’s latest threats raise fears of a nuclear war. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-02 Wednesday
March 02, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 204 MB VideoAn update from Kyiv on the Russian invasion with the Ukraine director for Nonviolence International; A Nigerian student who fled Ukraine describes the racism he and other Africans experienced; Jacobin’s Branko Marcetic and Focus on the Global South’s Walden Bello on Biden’s State of the Union and what’s at stake in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-01 Tuesday
March 01, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 230 MB VideoAs Russia steps up its attack on Ukrainian cities, we go to Kyiv to speak with a Ukrainian pacifist, and we discuss the latest developments and the role of NATO with journalist Andrew Cockburn and historian Timothy Snyder. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-28 Monday
February 28, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 221 MB VideoA Ukrainian human rights activist describes the scene in Kyiv; Anatol Lieven on the risk of a nuclear confrontation and how the Ukraine crisis could be resolved; President Biden names federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court; The latest U.N. climate report finds the crisis is already outpacing the world’s ability to adapt. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-25 Friday
February 25, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 218 MB VideoUkrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk speaks from Kyiv as Russian forces advance on the city; Ukrainian peace activist Nina Potarska describes fleeing Ukraine; Katrina vanden Heuvel on hopes for a diplomatic resolution; Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear on the potential for nuclear catastrophe as Russian forces have overtaken Chernobyl and military action comes dangerously close to Ukraine’s many active nuclear power plants. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for ...
Democracy Now! 2022-02-24 Thursday
February 24, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 239 MB VideoRussian forces attack Ukraine. We speak with international affairs expert Anatol Lieven about the conflict; Norwegian Refugee Council head Jan Egeland addresses the humanitarian situation on the ground; Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis discusses what the Russian invasion means for Europe. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-23 Wednesday
February 23, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 240 MB VideoAnti-nuclear weapons activist Dr. Ira Helfand on Ukraine and the threat of a nuclear war; Ahmaud Arbery’s killers are convicted of federal hate crimes, the first such conviction in Georgia’s history; Pressure grows on the Biden administration to fulfill a campaign promise to cancel student debt. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-22 Tuesday
February 22, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 205 MB VideoRussian President Vladimir Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine’s two breakaway regions after recognizing them as independent states, increasing the risk of all-out war; Remembering the life and legacy of public health icon Dr. Paul Farmer, who co-founded Partners In Health and has died unexpectedly at age 62. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-21 Monday
February 21, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 214 MB VideoAttorney Benjamin Crump on the sentencing of ex-cop Kim Potter, who fatally shot Daunte Wright after mistaking her gun for a Taser; The family of civil rights leader Malcolm X demands a federal investigation to find his killers; And updates on the crisis at Russia’s border with Ukraine with The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-18 Friday
February 18, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 223 MB VideoRussian journalist Nadezhda Azhgikhina on avoiding war in Ukraine; Legendary documentarian Stanley Nelson on threats against historically Black colleges and universities, his Oscar-nominated documentary “Attica” and more. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe