Democracy Now! 2025-03-12 Wednesday
Democracy Now! Wednesday, March 12, 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! 2025-03-11 Tuesday
Headlines for March 11, 2025; “This Is All Retaliatory”: Judge Blocks Mahmoud Khalil’s Deportation as Trump Vows More Arrests; Noura Erakat: Trump’s Abuses & Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest Are Products of U.S. Imperialism Coming Home; “A Devastating Tragedy”: 1,000+ People Killed in Syria Amid Reports of Massacres Against Alawites
Democracy Now! 2025-03-10 Monday
Headlines for March 10, 2025; Stand Up for Science: Nationwide Protests Oppose Trump Cuts to Research from Cancer to Climate Change; Mahmoud Khalil: ICE Detains Green Card Holder over Columbia University Gaza Activism
Democracy Now! 2025-03-07 Friday
Headlines for March 07, 2025; “Impeachment Is a Remedy for a Runaway President”: Rep. Al Green on Why He Disrupted Trump’s Address; Bishop William Barber: GOP Tax Cuts “Mathematically Impossible” Without Gutting Medicaid and More; Nicaragua Is in the Grips of Another Dictatorship, Decades After Sandinista Revolution: Reed Brody
Democracy Now! 2025-03-06 Thursday
Headlines for March 06, 2025; “Lift the Freeze”: HIV / AIDS Advocates Win Supreme Court Victory in Fight over Trump Foreign Aid Cuts; Leaked USAID Memos Warn 100,000s Will Die from Cuts to Polio, TB, Malaria, Ebola, AIDS Programs; U.S. Humanitarianism Often Reproduces Inequality, But Killing USAID Is Wrong Answer: Kathryn Mathers
Democracy Now! 2025-03-05 Wednesday
Headlines for March 05, 2025; “A Declaration of War Against the American People”: Ralph Nader on Trump’s Address to Congress; Fact-Check: Juan González on Trump’s “Outrageous” Lies About Panama Canal; “Deporting Immigrants Like Me Won’t Make Eggs Cheaper or Your Family Safer”: Erika Andiola on Trump; “Betrayal”: Canadian Researcher Responds to Trump’s Tariffs & Trade War Amid Fears of Recession; “War on Trans Peopl...
Democracy Now! 2025-03-04 Tuesday
Headlines for March 04, 2025; Greenpeace on Trial: $300M Lawsuit over Standing Rock Protests Could Shutter Group & Chill Free Speech; Winona LaDuke: DAPL Pipeline Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Aims to Silence Indigenous Protests, Too; “Sugarcane”: Oscar-Nominated Film Explores “Colonial Silence” Around Indian Residential Schools; Remembering Aaron Bushnell: How He Inspired People in the Military to Question U.S. Empire
Pankaj Mishra on "The World After Gaza" & the "Reactionary International" from Trump to Modi
Extended conversation with the award-winning Indian writer Pankaj Mishra, author of the new book, The World After Gaza: A History.
Democracy Now! 2025-03-03 Monday
Headlines for March 03, 2025; “Stop the Ethnic Cleansing”: Watch Oscar Speech of Palestinian & Israeli Directors of “No Other Land”; “You’re Gambling with WWIII ”: Watch Trump & Vance Clash with Zelensky at White House; U.S.-Europe Rift Widens as Russia Welcomes Trump’s Shifting Ukraine Stance Following Zelensky Clash; Ken Roth on Israel’s “Starvation Strategy” in Gaza & “Righting Wrongs” of Abusive Governm...
Democracy Now! 2025-02-28 Friday
Headlines for February 28, 2025; Might Makes Right: Matt Duss on Trump’s Foreign Policy Doctrine, from Ukraine to Gaza; Dr. Khaled Alser Speaks from Gaza on Surviving 7 Months in Israeli Prisons After Raid on His Hospital; “Detained, Tortured & Starved”: Report Details Abuse of Gaza Doctors & Staff in Israeli Detention; Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump
Extended Interview: Mark Graham on Internet Archive's Work Preserving the Web as Gov't Sites Go Dark
Extended interview with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. He is also part of the End of Term Archive for federal websites.
Democracy Now! 2025-02-27 Thursday
Headlines for February 27, 2025; Child Dies from Measles in Texas as Disease “Comes Roaring Back” Amid Anti-Vaccine Disinformation; Report from a Devastated Lebanon: Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Nasrallah’s Funeral & Fragile Ceasefire; The Billionaires’ Government: Branko Marcetic on Trump’s “Complete Betrayal” of His Base
Democracy Now! 2025-02-26 Wednesday
Headlines for February 26, 2025; Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk’s “Chaotic Blitz” at DOGE , Living in a Tech Dystopia, Luigi Mangione & More; Sister Helen Prejean Demands End to Death Penalty as Supreme Court Tosses Glossip Murder Conviction; Advocates: NY Prison Guard Strike Is Part of History of Repression & Violence Against Prison Activism
Democracy Now! 2025-02-25 Tuesday
Headlines for February 25, 2025; As Musk Slashes Federal Gov’t & Fires Thousands, Workers, Trump Appointees, Judges & Media Push Back; “No Public Oversight”: Private Company Running Guantánamo Immigrant Jail Accused of Rights Abuses; Biden, Blinken & Austin Accused of Complicity in Israeli War Crimes in Gaza; ICC Urged to Investigate
Democracy Now! 2025-02-24 Monday
Headlines for February 24, 2025; Conservatives Win German Election, But Far-Right “Nazi-Curious” AfD Places Second in Historic Rise; Israel Sends Tanks into West Bank Amid “De Facto Annexation” of Palestinian Lands: Mariam Barghouti; The Injustice of Justice: Keith LaMar Speaks from Ohio Death Row as Movement Grows to Save His Life
"I'm Innocent": Keith LaMar Speaks Live from Death Row About His Case, Conditions & Pending Execution
Watch Part 2 of our extended interview with Ohio death row inmate Keith LaMar, live from the Ohio State Penitentiary, after the release of The Injustice of Justice.
Democracy Now! 2025-02-21 Friday
Headlines for February 21, 2025; “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 Prof. Jason Stanley; “Gum Up the Works”: David Sirota’s Advice to Democrats on Reversing Trump’s Power Grab
Democracy Now! 2025-02-20 Thursday
Headlines for February 20, 2025; “Grand Theft Government”: Federal Workers Send SOS over Musk-Led Mass Firings, Service Cuts; “Crack-Up Capitalism”: Historian Quinn Slobodian on Trump, Musk & the Movement to “Shatter” the State; “Congolese Are Paying the Price” for Western Demand for Minerals & Support for Rwanda’s Paul Kagame
Democracy Now! 2025-02-19 Wednesday
Headlines for February 19, 2025; “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”
Democracy Now! 2025-02-18 Tuesday
Headlines for February 18, 2025; “A Victory for Putin”? Jeffrey Sachs & 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
Democracy Now! 2025-02-17 Monday
Headlines for February 17, 2025; Trump vs. Public Health: Funding Cuts Gut CDC’s Disease Detectors, Medical Research & 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 & the CIA : Oscar-Nominated “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” Revisits Lumumba Assassination...
Congo, Jazz & the CIA: Oscar-Nominated “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” Revisits Lumumba Assassination (Full Interview)
Watch our full, in-depth interview with Belgian director Johan Grimonprez about his Oscar-nominated documentary, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.
Democracy Now! 2025-02-14 Friday
Headlines for February 14, 2025; “You Don’t Have to Comply”: U.S. Attorney, 5 DOJ Lawyers Quit, Refuse 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?