On today’s show: “Axis of Resistance”: Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis Challenge U.S. & Israeli Power Amid Middle East Tension Who Funds Canary Mission? James Bamford on Group That Doxxes Students & Profs for Palestine Activism As Phone Line Breaks Up, Palestinian Journalist Akram al-Satarri Describes “Dire” Conditions in Gaza Palestine Exception: U.S. Colleges Suppress Free Speech, Academic Freedom for Students & Professors The post Democracy Now 6am – December 27, 2023 appeared first on ...
Dec 27, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “Christ in the Rubble”: Watch Palestinian Pastor Deliver Powerful Christmas Sermon from Bethlehem Christmas in Palestine: Bethlehem Reverend Slams West for Praising Prince of Peace & Beating Drums of War Labor Demands a Ceasefire: UAW, Electrical & Postal Workers Call for Israel’s Assault on Gaza to End The post Democracy Now 6am – December 26, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 26, 2023•32 min
On today’s show, we pay tribute to blacklisted lyricist Yip Harburg. Harburg wrote for both Hollywood and Broadway and, among other achievements, received an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for his lyrics to the beloved Wizard of Oz ballad, “Over the Rainbow.” The post Democracy Now 6am – December 25, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 25, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: Christmas Canceled in Bethlehem as Churches Mourn 20,000+ Palestinians Killed in Gaza Gazan Attorney Who Has Lost 60 Relatives in Israeli Attacks Says U.S. Is “Complicit in Genocide” Sônia Guajajara, Brazil’s First Indigenous Peoples Minister, on Climate Crisis & Protecting the Amazon The post Democracy Now 6am – December 22, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “The Hostages Weren’t Our Top Priority”: Israel’s “Bombing Frenzy” Endangered Hostages Held in Gaza “The U.S. and Israel Stand Alone”: World Demands Ceasefire as Gaza Death Toll Tops 20,000 Colorado Disqualifies Trump from Ballot, Triggering Battle over Constitution’s Insurrection Clause “Fascism Out Loud”: Trump’s Escalating Racist Rhetoric & the Far Right’s Plan for a Slow Civil War The post Democracy Now 6am – December 21, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “This Is a Colonial War”: Historian Rashid Khalidi on Israel, Gaza & the Future of Palestine Pope Condemns Israeli Killings of Palestinian Christians; Relative of 84-Year-Old Victim Mourns Her Death “Under Attack”: TX Law Targets Immigrants as Trump Cites Hitler, GOP Pushes Biden for Border Crackdown The post Democracy Now 6am – December 20, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “Beyond Our Imagination”: Journalist Describes Total Destruction, with Fellow Gazans Buried Alive Palestinian American Woman Tries to Save Family in Gaza After Her Mom Dies Awaiting Evacuation Israel’s War on Children: Fadi Abu Shammalah on Horrific Ordeal Facing Kids in Gaza, Including His Own Starvation as a Weapon of War: Human Rights Watch Denounces Israel for Denying Gaza Access to Food The post Democracy Now 6am – December 19, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara on IDF Killing AJ Journalist, the 3 Hostages & U.S. Support for Israel “Tragically Historic”: The Guardian’s Nina Lakhani on the Failure of Yet Another U.N. Climate Summit The post Democracy Now 6am – December 18, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 18, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “Politics of Memory”: Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize Postponed for Comparing Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto Israel Raids Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp; Director Speaks Out After Being Jailed & Beaten The post Democracy Now 6am – December 15, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 15, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: Israel Accused of War Crimes for “Apparently Deliberate” Killing of Reuters Journalist in Lebanon Jeremy Scahill: Gaza “Scorched-Earth Campaign” Is a “Joint U.S.-Israeli Operation” Palestinian Student Shot in VT & Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivor Join Haverford Sit-In for Gaza The post Democracy Now 6am – December 14, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 14, 2023•1 hr
On today’s Show: Phase Down, Not Phase Out: COP28 Deal on Fossil Fuels Disappoints Activists & Vulnerable States Exclusive: Palestinian Diplomat Who Went Viral for U.N. Speech Says Israel & U.S. Are Isolated on Gaza Rep. Greg Casar: Biden Must Not Cave on GOP’s Hard-Line Immigration Demands in Ukraine Funding Request The post Democracy Now 6am – December 13, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: Diplomacy, Not War: Daughter of Released Hostage Urges Israel to Reach Deal to Free More Captives Climate Activists Outraged as COP28 Draft Text Drops Call for Fossil Fuel Phaseout Texas Woman Denied Abortion for Nonviable Fetus, Flees State, “One of Thousands” in Similar Position The post Democracy Now 6am – December 12, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: Peter Beinart & Omer Bartov on UPenn President Resignation, Gaza & the Weaponization of Antisemitism State Dept. Whistleblower Blasts Blinken for Bypassing Congress to Send 14K Tank Munitions to Israel U.S. Vetoes U.N. Gaza Ceasefire Again as Biden Veers Far from Global Consensus, Death Toll Tops 18,000 “Please Stop This War Against Us”: Gaza Doctor Begs for World’s Help as Hunger & Disease Spread The post Democracy Now 6am – December 11, 2023 appeared first on KPFA....
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “We Want Freedom”: Refaat Alareer, Gaza Scholar & Activist Killed by Israeli Strike, in His Own Words “If I Must Die”: IDF Strike Kills Gaza Scholar Refaat Alareer; Friend Pays Tribute & Reads His Poem COP28 Activists Say Palestine Solidarity Protests Calling for Ceasefire Face Severe Restrictions Exclusive: Indigenous Climate Activist Jacob Johns Speaks Out After MAGA Gunman Shoots Him in New Mexico Why Is Brazil Joining OPEC+ Oil Cartel, If Lula Is Committed to Phasing...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “Terrorized”: Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Being Stripped, Jailed & Beaten by Israeli Forces “Cabal of Oil Producers”: Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson Slams Corporate Capture of COP28 “Green Colonialism”: Nigerian Climate Activist Nnimmo Bassey Says Africa Is Being Sold Out at COP28 The post Democracy Now 6am – December 7, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 07, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “Catastrophic”: Gaza Aid Worker on “Horror” of Forced Relocations Amid Israel’s War on Southern Strip COP28: Amy Goodman Attempts to Question UAE Oil CEO Serving as President of U.N. Climate Talks in Dubai Big Oil’s Takeover of U.N. Climate Summit Decried by Activists Fighting for Fossil Fuel Phaseout Carbon Colonialism: Oil-Rich UAE Buys Up Large Swaths of Africa for Carbon Credits to Keep Polluting Why Are Russia & U.S. Promoting Nuclear Power at U.N. Climate Talks? Russia...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “There Simply Is No Safe Place in Gaza”: Aid Groups Demand Ceasefire as Israel Intensifies Its War Climate Crossfire: From Gaza to Ukraine, How War & Military Spending Accelerate Climate Chaos Planet for Sale? Record 2,500 Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Descend on COP28 U.N. Climate Summit in Dubai The post Democracy Now 6am – December 5, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “We Are All Palestinians”: COP28 Activists Demand Ceasefire in Gaza, Defying Protest Restrictions “No One Is Safe in Gaza”: Journalist Akram al-Satarri Reports from Khan Younis Amid Israeli Assault COP28: Asad Rehman on Funding a “Just Transition” Off Fossil Fuels & Limits on Protest in UAE Climate Summit Host UAE Blasted by HRW for Migrant Worker Abuse, Toxic Pollution & Mass Surveillance The post Democracy Now 6am – December 4, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “Mass Assassination Factory”: Israel Using AI to Generate Targets in Gaza, Increasing Civilian Toll Resumed Bombing of Gaza Will Be Crushing to Palestinian Students Shot in Vermont, Says Victim’s Mother The Case Against Henry Kissinger: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Kissinger’s Legacy of “Slaughter” The post Democracy Now 6am – December 1, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “Horror Show”: Doctors Without Borders Demands Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, Medical Aid for Wounded “This Is Genocide”: Attorney Raji Sourani on Israeli War Crimes & Fleeing Gaza After Home Was Bombed Historian Greg Grandin: Glowing Obituaries for Henry Kissinger Reveal “Moral Bankruptcy” of U.S. Elites The post Democracy Now 6am – November 30, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: UAE Oil CEO Sultan Al Jaber Uses His Role as U.N. Climate Summit President to Push Fossil Fuel Deals Mass Killings in Darfur Revealed as Fighting Between Sudanese Military Factions Escalates Remembering Rosalynn Carter, Former First Lady & Pioneering Advocate for Mental Health Journalism The post Democracy Now 6am – November 29, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “Atmosphere of Hate”: AFSC Leader & Palestinian Vermonter on Shooting of 3 College Students Jeremy Scahill: Israel’s “Lethal Lie” About Al-Shifa Hospital as Hamas Base Was Co-Signed by Biden Remembering Pablo Yoruba Guzmán, Young Lords Co-Founder, Afro-Latino Leader, Legendary NYC Journalist The post Democracy Now 6am – November 28, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 28, 2023•6 min
On today’s show: Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal Highlights Plight of Palestinian Prisoners, Many of Them Children “There Is an Alternative”: Meet the Israeli & Palestinian “Combatants for Peace” Urging Nonviolence The post Democracy Now 6am – November 27, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “The Mandates of Conscience”: Michelle Alexander on Israel, Gaza, MLK & Speaking Out in a Time of War Ta-Nehisi Coates and Rashid Khalidi on Israeli Occupation, Apartheid & the 100-Year War on Palestine The post Democracy Now 6am – November 24, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 24, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: Israel & Hamas Agree to 4-Day Truce & Hostage Release as Netanyahu Threatens War on Gaza Will Go On Meet the Israeli History Teacher Arrested & Jailed for Facebook Posts Opposing Killing of Palestinians Gaza in Ruins: Satellite Imagery Researchers Say Israel has Destroyed or Damaged 56,000 Buildings The post Democracy Now 6am – November 22, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: A Grim Milestone: Journalist Death Toll Tops 53 as Israel Kills More Reporters in Gaza and Lebanon Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha Freed After Being Abducted in Gaza & Beaten by Israeli Forces in Jail Becca Balint, First Jewish Congressmember to Back Ceasefire, Expresses Support for Rashida Tlaib Argentina’s Trump? Far-Right Javier Milei Wins Presidency with Echoes of Past Dictatorship The post Democracy Now 6am – November 21, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza Tops 13,000 as Israel Repeatedly Strikes U.N. Schools Housing Refugees Israel’s Raid on Al-Shifa Questioned as IDF Fails to Present Hard Evidence Linking Hamas to Hospital Palestinian Activist Remembers Vivian Silver, Israeli Canadian Peace Activist Killed in Hamas Attack The post Democracy Now 6am – November 20, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: Capitol Police Violently Break Up Jewish-Organized DNC Protest Calling for Gaza Ceasefire Sharif Abdel Kouddous on the Targeting of Journalists & Israel’s “Colonial Fantasy” to Depopulate Gaza Cop City Protest Tear-Gassed as Activists Face “Unprecedented” RICO & Domestic Terrorism Charges The post Democracy Now 6am – November 17, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 17, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: “Failure to Prevent Genocide”: Biden Sued as U.S. Provides Arms & Support for Israel’s Gaza Assault Israel Has Enjoyed Decades of Legal Impunity. Could the War on Gaza Finally Change That? Niece of Israeli PM Netanyahu Backs Ceasefire in Gaza, Says Military Solutions Will Not Bring Peace The post Democracy Now 6am – November 16, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr
On today’s show: Worse Than Hell: Dr. Mads Gilbert Decries Israeli Military Raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza Peter Beinart: Israel Will Only Be Secure & Safe If Palestinians Are Given Freedom Rabbis for Ceasefire: Jewish Leaders Organize to Halt Israel’s Bombardment of Gaza March for Israel Speaker Pastor Hagee Once Said God “Sent Hitler to Help Jews Reach the Promised Land” The post Democracy Now 6am – November 15, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr
