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879 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 6 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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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...
Democracy Now! 2022-01-04 Tuesday
January 04, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 192 MB VideoA 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 - 205 MB VideoA 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 - 231 MB VideoWe 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 - 187 MB VideoAn 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 - 216 MB VideoAcclaimed 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 - 229 MB VideoRenowned 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 - 191 MB VideoRemembering 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 - 158 MB VideoNSA 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 - 207 MB VideoOxfam 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 - 184 MB VideoReporter 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 - 248 MB VideoJailed 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 - 200 MB VideoThe 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 - 180 MB VideoAttorney 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 - 181 MB VideoJournalist 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 - 202 MB VideoThe 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 - 197 MB VideoHow 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 - 209 MB VideoClimate 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 - 211 MB VideoWikiLeaks 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 13:00 VideoIn 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 13:00 VideoIn 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 - 179 MB VideoThe 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 - 215 MB VideoAs 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 - 180 MB VideoPfizer 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 - 190 MB VideoGun 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 - 185 MB VideoReporter 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 - 189 MB VideoThe 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 - 204 MB VideoAmazon 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 - 221 MB VideoHonduras 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 - 221 MB VideoAs 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 - 155 MB VideoMansoor 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 - 200 MB VideoWe 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 - 230 MB VideoWhite 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 - 196 MB VideoPulitzer 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...
Democracy Now! 2021-11-22 Monday
November 22, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 257 MB VideoJacob Blake’s family members respond to the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse; Jacob Blake Sr. on the Missouri police officer charged with involuntary manslaughter of Cameron Lamb; The attorney for the family of Anthony Huber, one of Kyle Rittenhouse’s two victims, discusses the legal case, and says Huber’s parents consider him a “hero.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-11-19 Friday
November 19, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 218 MB VideoAs a New York judge exonerates two men convicted of assassinating Malcolm X, we speak with independent researcher Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, whose work played a key role in spurring the new investigation; Land defenders protect Wet’suwet’en territory from Canadian police raids and oil pipeline construction; Katie Worth, author of the new book "Miseducation: How Climate Change is Taught in America"; Angela Davis on the war against critical race theory. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your i...
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Democracy Now! 2021-11-18 Thursday
November 18, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 216 MB VideoThe U.S. House censures Republican Rep. Paul Gosar; Closing arguments begin in the trial of white supremacists who organized the deadly 2017 "United the Right" rally; David Wengrow on his new best-selling book, "The Dawn of Everything," co-authored with the late David Graeber. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-11-17 Wednesday
November 17, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 242 MB VideoActivists risk arrest outside the White House to demand Congress pass key voting rights legislation; Extreme gerrymandering in Republican-led states could swing control of Congress back to the GOP; Jennifer Gosar on her "sociopath" brother, Congressmember Paul Gosar of Arizona who faces censure in the House today; Why was Occupied Western Sahara silenced at the U.N. climate summit? Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-11-16 Tuesday
November 16, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 219 MB VideoAfghanistan is rapidly deteriorating into the world's worst humanitarian crisis; U.S. President Biden meets with China’s President Xi Jinping in a virtual summit to discuss the climate, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other sources of tension between the two countries. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-11-15 Monday
November 15, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 252 MB VideoClimate activists respond to the international agreement struck at COP26; We look back on the Indigenous-led protests at the climate summit urging protection for the Amazon rainforest; Reverend William Barber on the Ahmaud Arbery case and more. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-11-12 Friday
November 12, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 257 MB VideoHeadlines for November 12, 2021; Climate Crisis = Health Emergency: Air Pollution, Pandemics & Displacement Make the World Sick; Walkout: Outraged by New COP26 Pact, Civil Society Holds People's Plenary & Leaves Climate Summit; East Timor Massacre Remembered: U.S.-Armed Indonesian Troops Killed 270 Timorese 30 Years Ago Today
Democracy Now! 2021-11-11 Thursday
November 11, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 237 MB VideoJournalist Elie Mystal and antiracist activist Bree Newsome Bass on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial; The latest updates from the COP26 U.N. climate summit. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-11-10 Wednesday
November 10, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 210 MB VideoNigerian environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey on the disappointing agreement being drafted at the U.N. climate summit; Activists on how wealthy nations spend more on militarizing their borders than combating climate change; Postcolonial scholar and writer Amitav Ghosh on how combating fossil fuels threatens Western dominance. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-11-09 Tuesday
November 09, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 244 MB VideoHow the U.S. military is fueling the climate crisis; Julian Assange's partner Stella Moris on WikiLeaks exposés of corporate and state meddling in climate crisis resolutions. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-11-08 Monday
November 08, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 261 MB VideoThe latest updates from Friday and Saturday's protests outside COP26, the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland; A report from Global Witness finds hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists allowed to attend COP26. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-11-05 Friday
November 05, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutes - 237 MB VideoCivil rights attorney Ben Crump on the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Wisconsin and the three men being tried in Georgia for killing Ahmaud Arbery; Youth activists take to the streets of Glasgow, outside the COP26 U.N. climate summit, to demand world leaders do more to avert a climate catastrophe. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-11-04 Thursday
November 04, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutes - 242 MB VideoThe former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, on how rising seas threaten low-lying islands; A lawyer who helped write the 2015 Paris Agreement says the world is running out of time; Leaders pledge more funds to help small countries adapt to the climate crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-11-03 Wednesday
November 03, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutes - 243 MB VideoThe Nation's John Nichols on elections in Virginia and elsewhere; Updates from the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland; Puerto Ricans continue to suffer regular power outages, four years after Hurricane Maria devastated the island's power grid; Youth climate activists plan a march and rally in Glasgow to demand more action from global leaders. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2021-11-02 Tuesday
November 02, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutes - 225 MB VideoLatest updates from COP26, including 350.org's Bill McKibben, Indigenous environmental campaigner Tom Goldtooth and Samoan climate justice activist Brianna Fruean; The Supreme Court hears arguments against the near-total ban on abortions in Texas. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe