Democracy Now! 2025-02-07 Friday
Democracy Now! Friday, February 7, 2025
Episodes
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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.
Episodes
Democracy Now! 2025-02-06 Thursday
Headlines for February 06, 2025; “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” & Trump’s Call for Ethnic Cleansing; “Educational Arson”: Trump Moves to Abolish Dept. of Education Amid Broader Attack on Public Schools
Jesse Hagopian on the "New McCarthyism": As More Educators Self-Censor, Others Vow to Teach the Truth
As Black History Month begins, longtime educator Jesse Hagopian joins us for Part Two of an interview about the Trump administration and right-wing attacks on education, and his new book, Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education.
Democracy Now! 2025-02-05 Wednesday
Headlines for February 05, 2025; Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Trump Proposes U.S. Take Over Gaza & 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...
Democracy Now! 2025-02-04 Tuesday
Headlines for February 04, 2025; “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 & 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
Democracy Now! 2025-02-03 Monday
Headlines for February 03, 2025; “Enormous Disruption”: Trump’s Tariffs on Mexico & Canada Set to Worsen Inflation; “Time for It to Die”: Trump & Musk Back Closing USAID as Freeze on Foreign Aid Threatens Millions; Is Elon Musk Staging a Coup? Unelected Billionaire Seizes Control at Treasury Dept. & Other Agencies
Democracy Now! 2025-01-31 Friday
Headlines for January 31, 2025; “Nonsensical”: As Trump Blames Crash on DEI , Aviation Expert Says It’s Understaffing, Lax Regulation; Samoa’s Health Chief Says RFK Jr. Spread Anti-Vax Misinformation Before Deadly Measles Outbreak; “The Dr. 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 Enemie...
Democracy Now! 2025-01-30 Thursday
Headlines for January 30, 2025; “He Cannot Be Trusted”: Sen. Ron Wyden Says HHS Nominee RFK Jr. Can’t Hide His Anti-Vax History; Medicaid Under Attack: Wyden on Funding Freeze Fiasco & 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...
Democracy Now! 2025-01-29 Wednesday
Headlines for January 29, 2025; “Complete Chaos”: Medicaid, Meals on Wheels & 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...
Democracy Now! 2025-01-28 Tuesday
Headlines for January 28, 2025; 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 & 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...
Democracy Now! 2025-01-27 Monday
Headlines for January 27, 2025; Egypt, Jordan Reject Trump Plan to “Clean Out” Gaza; Palestinians Return to N. Gaza in Historic Day; Pressure Grows to Free Egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah & 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:...
Democracy Now! 2025-01-24 Friday
Headlines for January 24, 2025; “Shock and Awe”: Immigration Raids Begin as Judge Halts Unconstitutional Birthright Citizenship Order; Marcus Garvey’s Pardon Is Part of Undoing “Harms of the Past,” Honoring Black History: Justin Hansford; Journalist Peter Greste, Once Jailed in Egypt, Joins Hunger Strike for Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s Freedom
Democracy Now! 2025-01-23 Thursday
Headlines for January 23, 2025; “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 Jan. 6 Pardon; Ex- FBI Agent: Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons Send Dangerous Message Encouraging More Far-Right Violence; Israel Continues Deadly Attack on Jenin; Trump Lifts Sanctions on Extremist West Bank Settlers...
Democracy Now! 2025-01-22 Wednesday
Headlines for January 22, 2025; “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 & 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 ...
Democracy Now! 2025-01-21 Tuesday
Headlines for January 21, 2025; Trump Grants Clemency to 1,500+ Jan. 6 Insurrectionists; Elon Musk Is Accused of Giving Nazi Salute; Trump Threatens Again to Retake Panama Canal While Distorting Deadly History of 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 Executiv...
Democracy Now! 2025-01-20 Monday
Headlines for January 20, 2025; 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...
Democracy Now! 2025-01-17 Friday
Headlines for January 17, 2025; Gideon Levy & 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 & Corporations; Will Biden Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency? Indigenous Leaders Plead, “Don’t Let Him Die in Prison”
Democracy Now! 2025-01-16 Thursday
Headlines for January 16, 2025; Report from Gaza: Ceasefire Announcement Raises Hopes, But Israel Kills 81 in New Attacks; Daniel Levy, Muhammad Shehada, Jeremy Scahill on Ceasefire Deal, Trump’s Role & Palestine’s Future; Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General Pick, Has History of Corporate Lobbying and Election Denial
Democracy Now! 2025-01-15 Wednesday
Headlines for January 15, 2025; Democrats Grill Pete Hegseth on Rape Allegation, Drunkenness and Women in Combat; Meet the Military Vets Arrested for Disrupting Pete Hegseth’s Senate Confirmation Hearing; Queer and HIV+ in Gaza: A Young Man’s “Race Against Time” as Israel Blocks Medication
Democracy Now! 2025-01-14 Tuesday
Headlines for January 14, 2025; White Nationalism, Sexual Assault & Corruption: Trump “Loyalist” Pete Hegseth Faces Senate Confirmation; “The Party of War”: Matt Duss on Biden, Gaza & How Democrats Lost Foreign Policy Argument to Trump; “Unbelievable Bravery”: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Abducted from Gaza Hospital; Advocates Call for Release; Prison Labor in the Spotlight as Incarcerated California Firefighters Risk Lives for $5-10/Day
Democracy Now! 2025-01-13 Monday
Headlines for January 13, 2025; Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena & Octavia Butler’s Warning; “Tinderbox”: How Fossil Fuel Companies & 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
"Seeking Justice": How the Hind Rajab Foundation Pursues Israeli Soldiers for War Crimes (Extended Interview)
Belgian Lebanese activist Dyab Abou Jahjah, the founder of the Hind Rajab Foundation, discusses how the organization seeks to hold Israeli soldiers accountable for war crimes committed in Gaza. Named after a 6-year-old girl who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza almost a year ago, the Hind Rajab Foundation uses evidence gathered from soldiers’ own social media to build cases against them. The group recently filed a complaint against a soldier in Brazil, leading a local judge to issue an arrest...
Democracy Now! 2025-01-10 Friday
Headlines for January 10, 2025; Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus Fled L.A. Fearing Wildfires. His Old Neighborhood Is Now a Hellscape; “Sabotaged by His Own Democratic Party”: Ralph Nader on Jimmy Carter’s Legacy; Camp David’s Failures: Why Jimmy Carter’s Opposition to Israeli Apartheid Wasn’t Enough to Secure Peace; Jimmy Carter Championed Human Rights But Also Funded & Armed Indonesia’s Genocide in East Timor; Biden Urged to Pardon Immigrant Rights L...
Democracy Now! 2025-01-09 Thursday
Headlines for January 09, 2025; Zuckerberg Goes “Full MAGA ” as Meta Ends Fact-Checking in U.S. & Paves Way for More Hate Speech; L.A. Fires Should Be a Climate Wake-Up Call: 5 Dead, 130K+ Evacuated in Uncontained “Apocalypse”
Democracy Now! 2025-01-08 Wednesday
Headlines for January 08, 2025; “Outrageous”: Rep. Jim McGovern Slams Trump’s Rhetoric on Taking Panama, Greenland & Canada; Will Biden Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg Posthumously? Declassified Docs Show FBI Knew She Was Innocent; Will Biden Pardon Steven Donziger, Who Faced Retaliation for Suing Chevron over Oil Spill in Amazon?; With Trudeau Out & Conservatives Set to Win, Canada Needs a Real Resistance to Trump: Avi Lewis; 11 Men Freed After 20+ Years of “Extreme De...
Democracy Now! 2025-01-07 Tuesday
Headlines for January 07, 2025; The Militia and the Mole: Reporter Josh Kaplan on How a Freelance Vigilante Infiltrated U.S. Militias; “Requiem for a Refugee Camp”: Mosab Abu Toha on Destruction of Jabaliya, Abduction of Doctors & More; Jimmy Carter’s “Decency & Humanity” Came with Deadly U.S. Policies in Latin America: Greg Grandin
Democracy Now! 2025-01-06 Monday
Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk’s Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics
Democracy Now! 2025-01-03 Friday
Headlines for January 03, 2025; New Year’s Attacks by Green Beret & Army Veteran: Does U.S. Militarism Abroad Fuel Violence at Home?; “From Ground Zero”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Features Stories from Palestinian Filmmakers in Gaza; U.S./Israeli Yemen Strikes Won’t End Houthi Resistance. Ending Gaza Genocide Will: Shireen Al-Adeimi
Democracy Now! 2025-01-02 Thursday
Headlines for January 02, 2025; “Exhausted”: Palestinian Journalist Shrouq Aila on Life & Death in Gaza, “Duty” to Report on Genocide; “Dead Calm”: BBC Film on Greek Coast Guard Abandoning Asylum Seekers at Sea Amid European Crackdown
Democracy Now! 2025-01-01 Wednesday
A Spy in Your Pocket? Ronan Farrow Exposes Secrets of High-Tech Spyware in New Film “Surveilled”; “Surveilled”: Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone; Trump Escalates War on Press & Some Outlets Are “Capitulating Preemptively” to Pressure