On today’s show: “Absolutely Genocidal”: Mouin Rabbani on “Gideon’s Chariots,” Israel’s Latest Escalation of War on Gaza Project Esther: New York Times Details Right-Wing Plan to “Rebrand All Critics of Israel” as Hamas Supporters On 100th Birthday of Malcolm X, Family Presses Trump to Release Government Files on Assassination The post Democracy Now 6am – May 19, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “They Want to Silence Me”: Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi on ICE Jail, Palestine, Activism, Buddhism The GOP War on Medicaid: 14 Million Could Lose Healthcare to Fund Tax Breaks for Rich Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Case That Could Also Sharply Reduce Judicial Power The post Democracy Now 6am – May 16, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Trump’s Fake Refugees”: As U.S. Welcomes White South Africans, Trump Falsely Charges “Genocide” Israel’s “Crime of Apartheid”: New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day “Surveillance Humanitarianism”: As Gaza Starves, U.S.-Israeli Plan Would Further Weaponize Food The post Democracy Now 6am – May 15, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: U.S. and Saudis Sign $142B Arms Deal, as Trump Meets with Syria’s New Leader and Drops Syrian Sanctions While Israel Wanted to Bomb Iran, Trump Pushes Talks; But in Gaza, Israel’s Mass Killings Continue Salvadoran Journalists Exposed President Bukele’s Ties to Gangs; Then They Had to Flee to Avoid Arrest The post Democracy Now 6am – May 14, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Gift or Grift? Trump Under Fire over Qatar’s Plan to Give Him $400M “Flying Palace” “Unprecedented” in U.S. History: Trump and Family Rake In Money from Gulf States, Crypto, and Real Estate “People Are Starving to Death”: Oxfam Warns Israel’s Blockade on Gaza Is Catastrophic If I Stayed, I Would’ve Died: Journalist Abubaker Abed on “Agonizing” Decision to Leave Gaza The post Democracy Now 6am – May 13, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Arrested for Visiting ICE Jail, Slams Trump Admin’s “Insane” Abuse of Power “Un-American”: Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman on DHS Threats to Arrest Her for Visiting ICE Jail in Newark Representative Rashida Tlaib on Gaza: Why Does U.S. Have Money for “War and Genocide” But Not for Healthcare? The post Democracy Now 6am – May 12, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Leo XIV: First U.S.-Born Pope Criticized Trump/Vance on Deportations, Lack of Compassion for Immigrants Priest Sexual Abuse Survivors Demand Accountability from New Pope: “Open Up Those Archives” “We Are Not Living. We Are Enduring.” Gaza Mother on Struggle for Food, Safety Under Israeli Blockade Tyre Nichols Case: Shock and Anger in Memphis as 3 Cops Acquitted on State Murder Charges The post Democracy Now 6am – May 9, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Who Killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Reporter’s Family Responds After Film Names Israeli Soldier Who Shot Her “Fascism Isn’t Coming, It’s Here”: Mehdi Hasan on Trump, Gaza, and Leaving MSNBC to Start Zeteo The post Democracy Now 6am – May 8, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “A Dangerous Escalation”: India Bombs Pakistan in Intensification of “Forever War” over Kashmir “Columbia Knew”: Survivors Win Historic $750M from University Hospital in OB-GYN Sex Abuse Settlement Rodney Scott, Trump’s CBP Nominee, Accused of Covering Up Death of Mexican Father in CBP Custody The post Democracy Now 6am – May 7, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Trump’s Newest Grift: Molly White on First Family’s Cryptocurrency Empire and Gutting of Regulations Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can’t Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving Nurse: Israel’s “Horrific Trifecta” of Starvation, Siege, and Bombings Creates Maternal Health Disaster The post Democracy Now 6am – May 6, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Chilling”: Wisconsin Governor 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” The post Democracy Now 6am – May 5, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Gaza Aid Flotilla Attacked by Drones in International Waters; Organizers Blame Israel “Losing Our Democracy”: Workers and Immigrants Lead Nationwide May Day Protests Against Trump “Palestine Is Really the Center of the World”: Angela Davis on Gaza, Black-Jewish Solidarity, and Trump Badar Khan Suri Is a Peace Scholar at Georgetown; Now He’s Being Held as a High-Risk Threat in ICE Jail The post Democracy Now 6am – May 2, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “I Am Not Afraid of You”: Mohsen Mahdawi’s Defiant Message to Trump After Release from ICE Jail in VT “They Shattered Our Dreams”: New York Father Recounts How ICE Snatched His Son and Sent Him to El Salvador Is Trump’s “Minerals Deal” a Fossil Fuel Shakedown? Antonia Juhasz on New U.S.-Ukraine Agreement Helen Lackner: Yemeni People in State of “Terror” After 1,000+ U.S. Airstrikes Kill Hundreds The post Democracy Now 6am – May 1, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
ON TODAY’S SHOW: “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 Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by...
On today’s show: “Taking Our Power Back”: Immigrants and Workers Plan for May Day Protests, as Trump Marks 100 Days “The Hollow Half”: Palestinian American Sarah Aziza on Gaza, Generational Trauma, Anorexia, and Exile The post Democracy Now 6am – April 29, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: 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 The post Democracy Now 6am – April 28, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Sinners”: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots, and Vampires “Musk Is Scamming the City of Memphis”: Meet Two Brothers Fighting Colossus, Musk’s xAI Data Center The post Democracy Now 6am – April 25, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Ultimate Grifter”: Bob Kuttner on How Trump Could Drop His Tariffs and 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 and for Embracing the Global South Trump’s War on Children: DOGE Guts Head Start, Child Abuse Programs, Healthcare, and More The post Democracy Now 6am – April 24, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “America, América”: Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis The post Democracy Now 6am – April 23, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Remembering Pope Francis on Earth Day: How He Linked Capitalism, Climate, and Catholicism “The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline”: Update on Abduction and Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk Vijay Prashad: Historic 1955 Anti-Colonial Bandung Conference Inspired New Era in Global South The post Democracy Now 6am – April 22, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Senator Van Hollen on Meeting Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador and Escalating Constitutional Crisis Pope Dies at 88: Pax Christi’s Marie Dennis on How He Championed the Marginalized and 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, and Care for Refugees Israeli American Columbia Student: Mohsen Mahdawi Arrest Sends Message “Peacemaker...
On today’s show: “Absolute Nonsense”: As Measles Cases Soar and 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 The post Democracy Now 6am – April 18, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: 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 and Western Complicity The post Democracy Now 6am – April 17, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Mohsen Mahdawi’s Abduction “Should Terrify” Us, Says VT Rep. Balint, Whose Grandfather Was Killed in Holocaust Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: Breaking Up Meta’s Monopoly Would Improve Service, Safety “Unquestionably Unconstitutional”: Harvard Law Prof Slams Cuts as School Rejects Trump Demands Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – April 16, 2025 appeared first on ...
On today’s show: Liberation Seder: Hundreds of Jewish Protesters Demand Release of Foreign Students Abducted by ICE Trump Weighs Expelling U.S. Citizens, as Salvadoran President Says He Won’t Return Wrongfully Removed Man Cover-Up in Ecuador? Disputed Presidential Election Rocked by New Allegation from 2023 Assassination “The Dark Money Game”: Director Alex Gibney on How Citizens United Ushered in “Legalized Corruption” The post Democracy Now 6am – April 15, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Mahmoud Khalil’s Lawyer: Trump Admin Is Delaying in Federal Court While Racing to Deport Activist Maria Hinojosa: El Salvador’s “Dictator” Key to Disappearing Migrants Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia “I’m Not Really Free”: Pulitzer Winners “Suave” and Maria Hinojosa Examine Life After Prison in Season 2 The post Democracy Now 6am – April 14, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Supreme Court Orders U.S. to “Facilitate” Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador Michigan Lawyer Detained at Detroit Airport, Phone Seized; He Represents Pro-Palestine Protester Microsoft Worker Fired for Israel Protest: “Cloud and AI Are the Bombs and Bullets of the 21st Century” “The Teacher”: Director Farah Nabulsi and Actor Saleh Bakri on New Film Based in Occupied West Bank The post Democracy Now 6am – April 11, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: From “Liberation Day” to Chaos: Trump Pauses Most Tariffs While Escalating Trade War with China Trump Threatens Joint U.S.–Israeli Attack on Iran If Talks on Iran’s Nuclear Program Fail Columbia Professor Marianne Hirsch: Mahmoud Khalil Arrest Reminds Me of Growing Up Under Authoritarianism The post Democracy Now 6am – April 10, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: A War on the First Amendment: David Cole on Trump Targeting Students, Law Firms, Schools & Journalists Elon Musk Stands to Get Even Richer as Trump Backs $1 Trillion Budget for Pentagon Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – April 9, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “What About the Capitalists?”: Autoworkers in U.S. and Mexico Call for Solidarity, Not Divisive Tariffs “Detained Without Evidence”: Maryland Father Remains in El Salvador Prison After SCOTUS Ruling “Black Americans Are Not Surprised”: Christina Greer on Trump’s Attacks on Students, DEI, and History The post Democracy Now 6am – April 8, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
