On today’s show: Conservatives Win German Election, But Far-Right “Nazi-Curious” AfD Places Second in Historic Rise Mariam Barghouti: Israel Sends Tanks into West Bank Amid “De Facto Annexation” of Palestinian Lands The Injustice of Justice: Keith LaMar Speaks from Ohio Death Row as Movement Grows to Save His Life The post Democracy Now 6am – February 24, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Will Universities Surrender or Resist?” Scholar Slams Trump’s Threat to Defund Universities over DEI “Erasing History,” from the U.S. to Germany: “Wars Are Won by Teachers,” Says Yale Professor Jason Stanley “Gum Up the Works”: David Sirota’s Advice to Democrats on Reversing Trump’s Power Grab The post Democracy Now 6am – February 21, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Grand Theft Government”: Federal Workers Send SOS over Musk-Led Mass Firings, Service Cuts “Crack-Up Capitalism”: Historian Quinn Slobodian on Trump, Musk, and the Movement to “Shatter” the State The post Democracy Now 6am – February 20, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “I Am Finally Free!”: Indigenous Leader Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years Imprisoned Family Torn Apart as Mother & 2 Children Deported After Arizona Traffic Stop, 2 Other Kids Left Behind GOP Pushes Drastic Cuts to Medicaid & Food Aid While Proposing Tax Cuts for Rich To Fight the Trump/Musk Purge, Federal Workers Hold Nationwide Day of Action to “Save Our Services” The post Democracy Now 6am – February 19, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “A Victory for Putin”? Jeffrey Sachs and Matt Duss Debate U.S.–Russia Talks to End Ukraine War Palestinian Director Basel Adra: As “No Other Land” Gets Oscar Nod, Israel Ramps Up West Bank Attacks The post Democracy Now 6am – February 18, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Trump vs. Public Health: Funding Cuts Gut CDC’s Disease Detectors, Medical Research, and More Patients “Abandoned”: Trump Order to Halt Global Medical Trials “Profoundly Unethical,” Says Dr. Faden Rebels Take 2nd Major City in Eastern DRC, Amid Fight to Control Congo’s Vast Mineral Wealth Congo, Jazz, and the CIA: Oscar-Nominated “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” Revisits Lumumba Assassination The post Democracy Now 6am – February 17, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “You Don’t Have to Comply”: U.S. Attorney, 5 DOJ Lawyers Quit, Refusing to Drop Case Against NYC Mayor “Frenzy of Warmongering”: Critics of Munich Security Summit Warn of Musk, Rising Fascism in Europe Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Owned by Match Group, Track Reports of Rape; Why Don’t They Warn Users? The post Democracy Now 6am – February 14, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: War in Ukraine: As Trump and Putin Agree to Begin Peace Talks, Will Kyiv Get a Seat at the Table? NYT’s Eric Lipton on How Musk Empire Benefits as He Slashes Federal Government; Trump Cryptocurrency Schemes “The World After Gaza”: Author Pankaj Mishra on Gaza and the Return of 19th-Century “Rapacious Imperialism” The post Democracy Now 6am – February 13, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Elon Musk Will Personally Profit from Dismantling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Ex-CFPB Official “Are We Sleepwalking into Autocracy?” Trump Embraces Authoritarian Playbook of Hungary’s Orbán Tariq Ali on Trump’s Embrace of Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Global Rise of the Far Right Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – February 12, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “This Is Not a Moment to Settle”: Media Outlets Cave to Trump’s Threats, as FCC Launches New Probes Juan González: Immigrant Rights Groups Are Playing Key Role in Confronting Trump’s Neofascist Coup Center for Constitutional Rights Challenges Trump Migrant Flights to Guantánamo, ICC Sanctions, and More Palestinian Writer Mohammed El-Kurd on “Perfect Victims,” and Trump and Israel’s Criminalization of Thought The post Democracy Now 6am – February 11, 2025 appeared first on KPFA....
On today’s show: Constitutional Crisis: Who Is Musk’s ”DOGE Army,” Gutting Government Agencies as Courts Question Legality? In Bid to Help White Landowners, Trump Cuts Off Aid to South Africa, Putting Millions of Lives at Risk “The PayPal Mafia”: Meet the South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel Mustafa Barghouti on Trump, Ethnic Cleansing, and Israel “Moving the War” from Gaza to the West Bank The post Democracy Now 6am – February 10, 2025 appeared first on KPFA....
On today’s show: Holding Musk Accountable: Representative Ro Khanna on Stopping DOGE’s “Unconstitutional” Power Grab “Authoritarian Rampage”: Trump/Musk Sued to Block DOGE Access to Confidential Info of Millions Trump Guts EPA’s Environmental Justice Office, Putting Poorest Communities of Color at More Risk The post Democracy Now 6am – February 7, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Trump Does Not See Palestinians as Human Beings”: Plan for U.S. to “Take Over” Gaza Faces Outcry Peter Beinart on “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza” and Trump’s Call for Ethnic Cleansing “Educational Arson”: Trump Moves to Abolish Department of Education Amid Broader Attack on Public Schools The post Democracy Now 6am – February 6, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Trump Proposes U.S. Take Over Gaza and Forcibly Remove All Palestinians “Catastrophic”: Trans Youth Lose Access to Care as Hospitals Capitulate to Trump Attacks “I Will Go to Jail to Defend Your Care”: New York Doctor Vows to Keep Helping Trans Youth Patients I Was Fired by Donald Trump: Top Lawyer at EEOC Speaks Out on “Anti-DEI” Purge, Gutting of Agencies The post Democracy Now 6am – February 5, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Troubling”: Panama Agrees to Anti-Migrant Collaboration After Trump Threatens to Retake Canal Trump-Bukele Alliance Grows, as El Salvador Offers to Imprison U.S. Citizens and Deported Migrants Trump’s Mass Detention Plan for Guantánamo Harkens Back to U.S. Detention of Haitian Asylum Seekers “Fascism Is at the Door”: Trump Threatens to Deport Pro-Palestinian International Student Protesters The post Democracy Now 6am – February 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Enormous Destruction”: Trump’s Tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China Set to Worsen Inflation “Time for It to Die”: Trump and Musk Back Closing USAID, as Freeze on Foreign Aid Threatens Millions Is Elon Musk Staging a Coup? Unelected Billionaire Seizes Control at Treasury Department and Other Agencies The post Democracy Now 6am – February 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Nonsensical”: As Trump Blames Crash on DEI, Aviation Expert Says It’s Understaffing and Lax Regulation Samoa’s Health Chief Says RFK Jr. Spread Anti-Vax Misinformation Before Deadly Measles Outbreak “The Doctor Who Fooled the World”: Author Slams RFK’s Embrace of Disgraced Anti-Vaxxer Andrew Wakefield “Extraordinarily Dangerous”: Chip Gibbons Warns Kash Patel Would Turn FBI’s Powers on Trump’s Enemies Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s Pick for National Intel Director, Refuses to Call Edwa...
On today’s show: “He Cannot Be Trusted”: Senator Ron Wyden Says Health & Human Services Nominee RFK Jr. Can’t Hide His Anti-Vax History Medicaid Under Attack: Wyden on Funding Freeze Fiasco and Project 2025’s Russ Vought, Trump’s OMB Pick Deadly D.C. Plane Crash Comes Months After Congress Ignored Warning About Traffic at Reagan Airport Netanyahu to Meet Trump in D.C., as Israel Escalates War on West Bank Amid Gaza Ceasefire The post Democracy Now 6am – January 30, 2025 appeared first on KPF...
On today’s show: “Complete Chaos”: Medicaid, Meals on Wheels, and More on Chopping Block, as Trump Freezes Trillions WATCH: Caroline Kennedy Slams Cousin RFK Jr. as “Dangerous” and a “Predator” in Video to Senate Sheinbaum vs. Trump: How Mexico’s Popular First Woman President Is Navigating Hostile U.S. Policy DeepSeek vs. Silicon Valley: In Shock to Big Tech, Chinese Startup Overtakes U.S. AI The post Democracy Now 6am – January 29, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: As ICE Conducts Made-for-TV Raids, Cities from Chicago to Newark Resist Trump’s Immigration Crackdown “War of Plunder”: How Rwanda Has Fueled War in DRC, as Western Countries Look Away Gold, Guns, and Genocide: How the UAE Profits from RSF War Crimes in Sudan Genocide Denial in Holocaust Studies: Scholar Raz Segal on Gaza, 80 Years After Auschwitz Liberation The post Democracy Now 6am – January 28, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Egypt, Jordan Reject Trump Plan to “Clean Out” Gaza; Palestinians Return to North Gaza in Historic Day Pressure Grows to Free Egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah and Stop Harassment of Hossam Bahgat “Anxiety and Fear”: Immigrants Under Attack as Trump Militarizes Border, Ramps Up Deportation Flights Trump Halts Refugee Admissions, Stranding Thousands Approved to Enter U.S., Fleeing War, Persecution Christian Nationalist at the Pentagon: Pete Hegseth’s Calvinist Sect Embraces Co...
On today’s show: “Shock and Awe”: Immigration Raids Begin as Judge Halts Unconstitutional Birthright Citizenship Order Justin Hansford: Marcus Garvey’s Pardon Is Part of Undoing “Harms of the Past,” Honoring Black History Journalist Peter Greste, Once Jailed in Egypt, Joins Hunger Strike for Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s Freedom The post Democracy Now 6am – January 24, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Attack on Science”: Trump’s Exit from WHO Could Make Next Pandemic More Likely, More Deadly “A Terrifying Moment”: Son Who Tipped Off FBI Fears for His Life After His Father Receives January 6 Pardon Ex-FBI Agent: Trump’s January 6 Pardons Send Dangerous Message Encouraging More Far-Right Violence Israel Continues Deadly Attack on Jenin; Trump Lifts Sanctions on Extremist West Bank Settlers The post Democracy Now 6am – January 23, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Have Mercy”: Watch Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s Sermon Challenging Trump at Inaugural Service “Profoundly Dangerous”: Public Citizen Sues Trump over Legality of Elon Musk-Led DOGE Citizens United at 15: Landmark Ruling Helped Elon Musk and Other Billionaires Bankroll Trump Victory Tech’s Rightward Drift: Researcher Becca Lewis on How Trump Captured Silicon Valley Immigrant Activist Ravi Ragbir Speaks After Biden’s Last-Minute Pardon Saved Him from Deportation The post Democracy...
On today’s show: Trump Grants Clemency to 1,500+ January 6 Insurrectionists; Elon Musk Is Accused of Giving Nazi Salute Trump Threatens Again to Retake Panama Canal, While Distorting the Deadly History of the Waterway “A Massive Abuse of Emergency Power”: Legality of Trump’s Move to Deploy Troops to Border Is Questioned “People Are Afraid”: Immigrant Communities Brace for Raids and Mass Deportation Under Trump Chase Strangio: Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Orders Threaten LGBTQ+ People, While Clai...
On today’s show: Gaza Ceasefire: Palestinian Lawyer Says Women, Children Released by Israel Faced Torture, Starvation Bad Deal Better Than No Deal: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Fears Netanyahu Could Resume Attacks People’s March: Thousands Rally Against Trump in Washington Ahead of Second Inauguration “Infinite Hope”: Angela Davis Speaks at 2025 Peace Ball Ahead of Trump Inauguration “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”: In His Final Speech, MLK Spoke of Reaching “Promised Land” of Equality The post Democrac...
On today’s show: Gideon Levy and Mouin Rabbani on Ceasefire: “Netanyahu Will Do Everything Possible” to Kill It Later Breaking All Records, Trump’s Inauguration Set to Bring in $250M from Billionaires and Corporations Will Biden Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency? Indigenous Leaders Plead, “Don’t Let Him Die in Prison” The post Democracy Now 6am – January 17, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Report from Gaza: Ceasefire Announcement Raises Hopes, But Israel Kills 81 in New Attacks Daniel Levy, Muhammad Shehada, Jeremy Scahill: Ceasefire Deal, Trump’s Role, and Palestine’s Future Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General Pick, Has History of Corporate Lobbying and Election Denial The post Democracy Now 6am – January 16, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the confirmation of Pamela Bondi as US Attorney General – January 15, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena, and Octavia Butler’s Warning “Tinderbox”: How Fossil Fuel Companies and Electric Utilities Intensified L.A. Wildfires, Climate Chaos “Journalism Is Not a Crime”: Gaza Reporter Slams International Press as Journalist Death Toll Rises “Seeking Justice”: How the Hind Rajab Foundation Pursues Israeli Soldiers for War Crimes The post Democracy Now 6am – January 13, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
