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878 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 7 hours 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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“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
Democracy Now! 2022-02-17 Thursday
February 17, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 184 MB VideoLongtime U.S. diplomat Jack Matlock, one of the last ambassadors to the Soviet Union, on the current standoff over Ukraine; The Atlantic’s Ed Yong on how millions of immunocompromised people are navigating the pandemic; A new Amnesty report uncovers more atrocities committed in Ethiopia’s ongoing civil war. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-16 Wednesday
February 16, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 216 MB VideoAuthorities in Honduras arrest former President Juan Orlando Hernández as he faces extradition to the U.S. on drug trafficking charges; Four years after the Parkland shooting, survivors and their loved ones demand the Biden administration take more action on gun control; We speak with a Ukrainian pacifist in Kyiv. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-15 Tuesday
February 15, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 200 MB VideoCodePink’s Medea Benjamin on possibly deescalating Ukraine crisis; An Afghan American activist and a 9/11 victim family member condemn Joe Biden’s executive order to seize $7 billion in frozen Afghan assets; Texans face severe new voting restrictions in the first U.S. primary of the 2022 election cycle. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-14 Monday
February 14, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 221 MB VideoWe speak with three of the leading feminist activists in 70 countries celebrating “V-Day,” an initiative to end violence against women; The Intercept reports on climate risks faced by incarcerated people, including wildfires, floods and extreme heat. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-11 Friday
February 11, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 179 MB VideoSpotify is under pressure over Joe Rogan’s history of hateful comments and misinformation; The documentary “American Reckoning” reexamines the unsolved murder of civil rights organizer Wharlest Jackson Sr. in Natchez, Mississippi. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-10 Thursday
February 10, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 189 MB VideoA CNN investigation casts doubt on U.S. claims about an ISIS bombing in Kabul in August 2021; Congressmember Ro Khanna discusses his new book “Dignity in the Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us” and more. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-09 Wednesday
February 09, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 185 MB VideoDebating sanctions on Russia; David Sirota, co-writer of the Netflix film “Don’t Look Up”; A major labor win for workers at General Motors’ largest plant in Mexico. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-08 Tuesday
February 08, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 236 MB VideoThe African Union condemns a wave of military coups across the continent; Minneapolis protests continue over Amir Locke’s fatal shooting by police during a no-knock raid; Oakland teachers are on hunger strike to oppose school closures that could displace hundreds of Black and Brown students. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-07 Monday
February 07, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 218 MB VideoMasha Gessen and Anatol Lieven on Ukraine; The “political disaster” of the Beijing Winter Olympics; Former NFL player Donté Stallworth on racism in the league. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-04 Friday
February 04, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 225 MB VideoCongressmember Jamie Raskin, head of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack; “Love & the Constitution” follows Rep. Raskin during the Trump years; Chicago activists call for federal civil rights charges against Jason Van Dyke after the ex-police officer convicted of fatally shooting Laquan McDonald was released early from prison. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-03 Thursday
February 03, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 228 MB VideoAmnesty International accuses Israel of apartheid against Palestinians; President Biden orders an additional 3,000 troops to Eastern Europe; Eastern Ukraine faces a potential humanitarian catastrophe. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-02 Wednesday
February 02, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 214 MB VideoWe speak with two authors targeted as part of a new wave of book bans sweeping the United States: George M. Johnson, author of “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” and Art Spiegelman, whose graphic novel “Maus” won a Pulitzer Prize. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-02-01 Tuesday
February 01, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 233 MB VideoAs the U.S. and NATO allies send arms to Ukraine and Russia amasses troops, can a war in Europe be averted? We speak with peace activists and scholars about the deepening crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-31 Monday
January 31, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 223 MB VideoNative American activist and political prisoner Leonard Peltier tests positive for COVID-19; Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors discusses her new book and how activists can fight for abolition. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-28 Friday
January 28, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 220 MB VideoThe Committee to Protect Journalists denounces recent killings in Mexico; Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd on evictions in Sheikh Jarrah; The documentary “Downfall” examines the deadly failures of Boeing’s 737 MAX jets. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-27 Thursday
January 27, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 215 MB VideoLiberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announces his retirement; Cuba circumvents U.S. embargoes to release its own coronavirus vaccines; The Federal Reserve combats concerns over inflation by announcing it will increase interest rates by March. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-01-26 Wednesday
January 26, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 204 MB VideoThe 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 - 224 MB VideoThe 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 13:00 VideoFather 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 - 229 MB VideoAn 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 - 228 MB VideoHow 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 - 203 MB VideoTensions 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 - 230 MB VideoA 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 - 228 MB VideoRev. 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 - 217 MB VideoA 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 - 206 MB VideoAdvocates 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 - 212 MB VideoCritics 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 - 226 MB VideoPresident 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 - 217 MB VideoOn 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 - 234 MB VideoAn 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 - 224 MB VideoPresident 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 - 234 MB VideoOn 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 - 268 MB VideoMany 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...