Democracy Now! 2025-05-08 Thursday
Democracy Now! Thursday, May 8, 2025
May 08, 2025•59 min
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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! 2025-05-07 Wednesday
Headlines for May 07, 2025; “A Dangerous Escalation”: India Bombs Pakistan in Intensification of “Forever War” over Kashmir; “Columbia Knew”: Survivors Win Historic $750M from Univ. & Hospital in OB- GYN Sex Abuse Settlement; Rodney Scott, Trump’s CBP Nominee, Accused of Covering Up Death of Mexican Father in CBP Custody
May 07, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-06 Tuesday
Headlines for May 06, 2025; Trump’s Newest Grift: Molly White on First Family’s Cryptocurrency Empire & Gutting of Regulations; Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can’t Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving; Israel’s “Horrific Trifecta” of Starvation, Siege & Bombings Creates Maternal Health Disaster: Nurse
May 06, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-05 Monday
Headlines for May 05, 2025; “Chilling”: Wisconsin Gov. Evers Pushes Back After Trump’s Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Him; “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right “Don’t Believe in the Future”
May 05, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-02 Friday
Headlines for May 02, 2025; Gaza Aid Flotilla Attacked by Drones in International Waters; Organizers Blame Israel; “Losing Our Democracy”: Workers & Immigrants Lead Nationwide May Day Protests Against Trump; “Palestine Is Really the Center of the World”: Angela Davis on Gaza, Black-Jewish Solidarity & Trump; Badar Khan Suri Is a Peace Scholar at Georgetown. Now He’s Being Held as a High-Risk Threat in ICE Jail
May 02, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-01 Thursday
Headlines for May 01, 2025; “I Am Not Afraid of You”: Mohsen Mahdawi’s Defiant Message to Trump After Release from ICE Jail in VT; “They Shattered Our Dreams”: NY Father Recounts How ICE Snatched His Son & Sent Him to El Salvador; Is Trump’s “Minerals Deal” a Fossil Fuel Shakedown? Antonia Juhasz on New U.S.-Ukraine Agreement; Yemeni People in State of “Terror” After 1,000+ U.S. Airstrikes Kill Hundreds: Helen Lackner...
May 01, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-30 Wednesday
Headlines for April 30, 2025; “Trump Is Trying to Break Us”: Trump Threats to Annex Canada Help Liberal Party Win Critical Election; DOGE Is Going Global: Elon Musk Is Inspiring Right-Wing Efforts Abroad to Gut Government Programs; Viet Thanh Nguyen on 50 Years After Vietnam War, Trump’s “Ugly American” Politics, El Salvador & More; “To Save and to Destroy”: Viet Thanh Nguyen on New Book Exploring Otherness, Refugees, Gaza & More...
Apr 30, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-29 Tuesday
Headlines for April 29, 2025; “Taking Our Power Back”: Immigrants & Workers Plan for May Day Protests as Trump Marks 100 Days; “The Hollow Half”: Palestinian American Sarah Aziza on Gaza, Generational Trauma, Anorexia & Exile
Apr 29, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-28 Monday
Headlines for April 28, 2025; Three U.S. Citizen Children, Including 4-Year-Old Battling 4th Stage Cancer, Deported to Honduras; “Abuse of Power”: Trump Admin’s “Bizarre” Arrest of Milwaukee Judge Shocks Legal Community; Former Social Security Chief Martin O’Malley Warns of “Collapse of the Entire System” Under Trump
Apr 28, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-25 Friday
Headlines for April 25, 2025; “Sinners”: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots & Vampires; “Musk Is Scamming the City of Memphis”: Meet Two Brothers Fighting Colossus, Musk’s xAI Data Center
Apr 25, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-24 Thursday
Headlines for April 24, 2025; “Ultimate Grifter”: Bob Kuttner on How Trump Could Drop His Tariffs & Take Credit for Saving Economy; As Trump Attacks CBS , Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press; Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Remembers Pope Francis for Progressive Views & Embracing the Global South; Trump’s War on Children: DOGE Guts Head Start, Child Abuse Programs, Healthcare & More...
Apr 24, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-23 Wednesday
Headlines for April 23, 2025; “America, América”: Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis
Apr 23, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-22 Tuesday
Headlines for April 22, 2025; Remembering Pope Francis on Earth Day: How He Linked Capitalism, Climate & Catholicism; “The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline”: Update on Abduction & Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk; Vijay Prashad: Historic 1955 Anti-Colonial Bandung Conference Inspired New Era in Global South
Apr 22, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-21 Monday
Headlines for April 21, 2025; Sen. Van Hollen on Meeting Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador & Escalating Constitutional Crisis; Pope Dies at 88: Pax Christi’s Marie Dennis on How He Championed the Marginalized, Changed the Church; “Heart of Compassion” for Palestine: Pope Francis Called for Gaza Ceasefire Until His Final Days; Pope Francis’s Book Editor Robert Ellsberg on the Pontiff’s Life, Legacy & Care for Refugees; Mohsen Mahdawi Arrest Sends Message &#...
Apr 21, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-18 Friday
Headlines for April 18, 2025; “Absolute Nonsense”: As Measles Cases Soar & Kids Die, Expert Slams RFK Jr. on Vaccine-Autism Link; Cannes Selects Film on Gaza Photographer Fatma Hassona; A Day Later, She’s Killed in Israeli Strike
Apr 18, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-17 Thursday
Headlines for April 17, 2025; Constitutional Crisis: As Trump Ignores Judges’ Orders, Will the Courts Capitulate?; “Need the World to Pay Attention”: Sudan Faces World’s Worst Displacement Crisis After 2 Years of War; Trump Eyes Congo’s “Incredible Mineral Riches” as Armed Conflict Devastates Region; “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”: Omar El Akkad on Gaza & Western Complicity
Apr 17, 2025•59 min
Author Omar El Akkad on the West’s Moral Failure in Gaza and the Power of Resistance
In Part 2 of our interview with Omar El Akkad, he discusses the roots of his new book about the war on Gaza, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, and how he draws hope from people engaged in “active resistance.”
Apr 17, 2025
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