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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! 2024-02-26 Monday

2024/02/26

Headlines for February 26, 2024; As 2-Month-Old Starves to Death in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha Says His Own Family Is Eating Animal Feed; Gaza Ceasefire Could Save 75,000 from Death: Report from London School of Hygiene & Johns Hopkins; U.S. Anti-Terrorism Laws Are “Anti-Palestinian at the Core,” Chill First Amendment

Democracy Now! 2024-02-23 Friday

2024/02/23

Headlines for February 23, 2024; Press Freedom on Trial: Julian Assange’s Lawyer on Extradition Case & Criminalizing Journalism; “Governments Are Trying to Frighten Journalists”: Fmr. Guardian Head Alan Rusbridger on Assange Case; Haitian Asylum Seekers Take Biden Admin to Court for Racial Discrimination, Rights Violations

Ben Crump: Houston Police Shoot Eboni Pouncy in Friend's Apartment in Case Compared to Breonna Taylor

2024/02/22

We speak with civil rights attorney Ben Crump about a Houston woman shot five times by police after they mistook her for an intruder.

Democracy Now! 2024-02-22 Thursday

2024/02/22

Headlines for February 22, 2024; Frozen Embryos Are Children? Reproductive Care in Peril After Alabama Supreme Court Ruling; Malcolm X Assassination: Former Security Guards Reveal New Details Pointing to FBI, NYPD Conspiracy

Democracy Now! 2024-02-21 Wednesday

2024/02/21

Headlines for February 21, 2024; “Political Prosecution”: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Faces Final U.K. Appeal to Avoid U.S. Extradition; “Moral Failure”: Democrats Rep. Khanna & Michigan State Rep. Aiyash Urge Biden to Change Gaza Policy; Colonialism, Occupation & Apartheid: African Countries See “Shared Experiences” with Palestinians

Nanjala Nyabola on the African Union Summit & Neocolonial Influence of U.S., Russia & China

2024/02/21

In Part 2 of our interview with Kenyan writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola, she discusses in more detail this year’s African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.

Democracy Now! 2024-02-20 Tuesday

2024/02/20

Headlines for February 20, 2024; “Borders on Pathological”: Trump Must Pay $450 Million for Lying to Lenders in Fraud Case; More Than 50 Countries Argue Before World Court Against Israeli Occupation of Palestine; “What I Saw Wasn’t War — It Was Annihilation,” Says U.S. Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza Hospital

Just Back from Gaza, American Surgeon Dr. Irfan Galaria Describes "Crisis of an Unimaginable Scale"

2024/02/20

In Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Irfan Galaria, an American doctor just back from Gaza, he describes operating on patients while bombs were dropping around the hospital and says he saw many orphaned children.

Democracy Now! 2024-02-19 Monday

2024/02/19

Headlines for February 19, 2024; “Like Horror Movies”: Forced to Evacuate Nasser Hospital, Surgeon Describes Israeli Raid & Arrests; “3 Days of Hell”: Israel Raids Nasser Hospital, Arrests Staff in Latest Assault on Gaza Medical System; Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny Dies in Arctic Prison; “No Doubt” He Was Killed, Says Masha Gessen

Democracy Now! 2024-02-16 Friday

2024/02/16

Headlines for February 16, 2024; “Uniquely American Hell”: Kansas City Shooting Highlights Missouri’s Pro-Gun Laws in “Pro-Life” State; “I Died That Day in Parkland”: Shotline Uses AI-Generated Voices of Gun Victims to Call Congress; Australian Parliament Calls for U.S. to Drop Case Against WikiLeaks’ Assange Ahead of U.K. Court Hearing; “They Were So Close”: Israel Kills Medics Trying to Save Dying 6-Year-Old Hind Rajab

Democracy Now! 2024-02-15 Thursday

2024/02/15

Headlines for February 15, 2024; Doctor Reports on Bombing of Nasser Hospital Just Before Israeli Troops Storm Complex; “I Always Imagine Myself Being Blown Up”: Journalist in Rafah on Dire Situation as Invasion Looms; Kenneth Roth: Only Joe Biden Has Power to Stop “Massive Bloodshed” of a Rafah Invasion; “Obscene”: Biden Pushes House to Approve Bill with $14B in Military Aid to Israel, Cuts UNRWA Funding

Democracy Now! 2024-02-14 Wednesday

2024/02/14

Headlines for February 14, 2024; “Dead-End Strategy”: GOP Impeaches Mayorkas as Democrats Push Hard-Line Border & Immigration Policy; “A War Against Palestinian Americans”: Jailed, Attacked, Killed in West Bank and U.S.

Read Democracy Now! Audio podcast reviews

4.7 out of 5

5106 reviews

joel.biz 2024/02/20

Decades of courageous journalism

Democrats Now is one of the most important news organizations in the world, certainly one of few in America that deliver unskewed coverage of world po...

berni2012 2024/01/30

Democracy Now Is A USA National Treasure

Thank you for your important, truthful and courageous reporting.

kelvis2000 2024/02/08

Pretty good show

I would say they are 1/2 way between corporate news and truly independent. More leaning towards independent. Sometimes really good guests.

fatyhu 2024/01/20

True journalism

I listen to democracy now almost daily. It is my major source for global news. It gives me great comfort to know that it is independent journalism and...

7437-lock 2024/01/18

The international news show

Detailed, nuanced, and with an appropriate sense of urgency. Thank you for making all this good work publicly available, without ads or paywalls

snuzor 2024/01/10

truly independent

news for the people, not watered down or filtered for the ruling class. very trustworthy!

beanFin 2024/01/02

Every day I tune in:)

Covering the whole world is tough but these folks do a pretty good job!

ElizaCost 2023/12/27

Real news

Democracy Now! is the best in the business of giving Americans legitimate, timely news, not opinions by political “commentators” but on the ground “re...

JayelleSunshine 2023/12/10

The music?

Why is there upbeat music playing in the beginning while discussing murder and death of children? Maybe change the music up depending on the intro top...

krahmk12 2023/12/19

Detailed but EXTEMELY one sided reporting

Democracy Now does detailed reporting on many issues. It always takes the side that America’s is bad and so are its allies. For example, in the Israel...

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