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On today's show: “The Economy Is Rigged”: Robert Reich on Zohran Mamdani, The Democratic Party, Inequality, and Trump “A Clown Show”: RFK Jr. Fires CDC Panel and Stacks It with Anti-Vaxxers, Cuts Funding for International Vaccines “Buy More U.S. Weapons”: “Daddy” Trump Pushes Military-Industrial Complex on NATO Countries   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 26, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “We Fight for Working People with No Apology”: Zohran Mamdani Beats Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Primary “One Mass Casualty After Another”: U.S. Doctor in Gaza on Ongoing Israeli Massacres at Aid Sites “Imperial Decline”: NATO Nations Boost War Spending at Trump's Urging, as He Defends Iran Bombing “Inhumane”: Marine Veteran Calls for ICE to Release His Father After Video of Brutal Arrest Goes Viral   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 25, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: F-Bombs and Real Bombs: Trita Parsi on Shaky Iran Ceasefire and Trump's Anger at Netanyahu NYC Mayoral Primary Day: Zohran Mamdani on Building a Movement and Campaigning for an Affordable City How Ranked-Choice Voting Could Decide NYC's Mayoral Election: John Tarleton on Cuomo vs. Progressives “Blatantly Unconstitutional”: Representative Ro Khanna Decries U.S. Strikes on Iran Without Congressional Approval   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 24, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Report from Tehran: Iranians View U.S. Strikes on Key Nuclear Sites as “Act of War” Stop the War on Iran: 1,000+ Sign Petition Saying Iran War Deflects Attention from Gaza Genocide Ex-Israeli Peace Negotiator Slams U.S. Bombing of Iran, Says Israel Seeks Chaos in Middle East Mahmoud Khalil Is Free: Follow His Journey from ICE Jail to Newark Airport to Gates of Columbia University   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 23, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Another Iraq? Military Expert Warns U.S. Has No Real Plan If It joins Israel's War on Iran “Harming Young People”: Chase Strangio on SCOTUS Trans Heathcare Ban and End of LGBTQ Suicide Hotline Australian Writer: I Was Detained, Deported from L.A. Airport for My Reporting on Gaza Campus Protests “More Choices and More Power”: How the Ranked-Choice Ballot Is Changing NYC Elections   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 20, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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ON TODAY'S SHOW: Tehran Professor Reports from Iran State TV Building Bombed by Israel as Trump Threatens Khamenei “A Moment of Immense Danger”: U.S. Inches Toward Direct Involvement in Israel's War with Iran Mosab Abu Toha: As Attention Shifts to Iran, Israel Ramps Up Killings, Starvation & Annexation in Gaza “What Authoritarians Do”: NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Speaks Out After ICE Arrests Him in Courthouse Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – June 18, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Preemptive Strike or Act of War? Israel Attacked Iran Amid Sinking Global Support for Assault on Gaza “We Loved Her”: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison Mourns His Friend Melissa Hortman, Slams Republican Rhetoric Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister on U.S. Embargo, Trump's Deportations, Israel's War on Iran, and Gaza   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 17, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Israel and Iran at War: Trump Is “Only World Leader Who Can Stop the Cycle of Escalation” No Kings: Millions Across U.S. Protest Trump's Power Grab, Overshadowing His Military Parade “An Outstanding Leader”: Minnesota Mourns Assassinated Lawmaker Melissa Hortman, as Suspect Is Arrested   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 16, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Israel Attacks Iran, Killing Top Military Leaders, Scientists; Hits Nuke Sites in Expanding Conflict “We Are in the Midst of the Creation of a Police State”: Representative Ilhan Omar on Trump's Authoritarianism “Millions of Lives at Risk”: USAID Cuts Lead to Global Rise in Death, Hunger, Poverty, and Disease   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 13, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Ex–U.S. Diplomat Joins March to Gaza, Says Biden Official Matthew Miller Has “Blood on His Hands” Block the Bombs: Representative Delia Ramirez Pushes Bill to Halt U.S. Weapons Sales to Israel over Gaza “The Beginning of Fascism”: Representative Delia Ramirez Says Trump's Immigrant Crackdown Is Crushing Democracy The U.S. Accepts “Fruits of Migrant Labor” But Not Immigrants' Humanity: Day Laborer Organizer in L.A.   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 12, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: “No Kings”: 1,800+ Rallies Planned as Trump Threatens “Very Heavy Force” on Army Parade Protesters From Travel Ban to Troops in Streets, Advocates Blast Trump's Targeting of Immigrant Communities “They Kidnapped Us”: Deported Gaza Flotilla Activist Describes Israeli Interception in Int'l Waters Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – June 11, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Chaos & Cruelty: Trump Deploys Thousands of Soldiers to Put Down Anti-ICE Protests in Los Angeles California Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump for Deploying Troops, Warns President Is Trying to Provoke Violence Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Lawyer: Trump Administration's Trafficking Charges Must Be Viewed with “Suspicion” “A Show of Human Solidarity”: Ex–U.S. Diplomat to Join Global March to Gaza to Break Israel's Siege   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 10, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Los Angeles Under Siege: Trump Sends in National Guard as Protests Continue over Militarized ICE Raids “Absolutely Unprecedented”: Trump Deploys National Guard to Los Angeles and Hegseth Threatens to Send in Marines “Kidnapped in International Waters”: Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Aid Ship, Detains Greta Thunberg and Others   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 9, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Musk vs. Trump? Quinn Slobodian on the Risks of Billionaire Rule Trump Budget Bill Would Lead to 51,000 More Deaths Each Year, as Health Experts Urge Medicare for All “Completely Unwarranted”: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Sues Trump Officials over His Arrest at ICE Jail High Seas Update from Aid Ship Sailing to Gaza: Activists Vow to “Win Through Solidarity” Fired over Gaza? Dr. Rupa Marya Sues UCSF, Says She Was Targeted for Speaking Up for Palestine   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 6, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Trump Revives Travel Ban, Bars Citizens of 12 Nations in Move Decried as “Devastating” Mahmoud Khalil, Trapped in “Immigration Gulag” for Nearly 3 Months, Challenges Deportation Efforts As U.S. Vetoes U.N. Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Kathy Kelly and Veterans Enter 3rd Week of Hunger Strike “The Shame of Israeli Medicine”: How Israeli Doctors Turned on Palestinian Colleagues and Patients “How to Survive the Broligarchy”: Carole Cadwalladr on Tech Titans and Rising U.S. Authoritarianism   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 5, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “Death Traps”: U.S.–Israeli Aid Scheme Paused in Gaza After 100+ Palestinians Killed While Waiting for Food Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats: It's My Moral Obligation “Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy and Creating a New Colonial World   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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On today's show: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Netanyahu Wants “Permanent War” in Gaza, Not a New Ceasefire British Surgeon in Gaza Reports on Rafah Massacre as Dozens of Palestinians Killed Waiting for Aid Gaza Aid Worker: Israel's New Shadowy Humanitarian Aid Scheme Is “Tool to Increase Suffering” Harvard Commencement Speakers: Despite Crackdown, “Students Will Keep Speaking Up” for Palestine   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 2, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “Worse Than McCarthyism”: Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump's War Against Universities & Students As Courts Battle Trump on Tariffs, Will Right-Wing Supreme Court Rescue the President's Trade Agenda? Trump's Abuse of Pardons Undermines Entire Justice System: Reagan Official Bruce Fein   The post Democracy Now 6am – May 30, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Fear, Repression, and Brain Drain: U.S. Campuses Reeling as Trump Freezes, Revokes Student Visas Mosquito Protocol: Ex-Israeli Soldier on Army's Systematic Use of Palestinians as Human Shields Jeremy Scahill: Shadowy Israeli-U.S. Aid Plan Is Weapon in “Netanyahu's War of Annihilation” in Gaza   The post Democracy Now 6am – May 29, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show “I Am a Political Prisoner”: Immigrant Rights Activist Jeanette Vizguerra Speaks from ICE Jail “Corporate Criminal”: Nadia Milleron, Whose Daughter Died in 737 Crash, Slams New DOJ-Boeing Deal “Mt. Everest of Corruption”: Crypto Investors Buy Access to President; Trump Expands Bitcoin Holdings   The post Democracy Now 6am – May 28, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Israel Bombs Home of Gaza Pediatrician, Killing 9 of Her 10 Kids, in Latest Attack on Health Workers Trump vs. Academic Freedom: President Escalates Attacks on Harvard and International Students Georgia Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Pregnant, Brain-Dead Woman on Life Support “Unconscionable and Deliberate”: GOP Budget Defunds Planned Parenthood Amid Maternal Health Crisis   The post Democracy Now 6am – May 27, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “Sinners”: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots, and Vampires 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, and Pending Execution   The post Democracy Now 6am – May 26, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “Theft from On High”: Trump's Budget Bill Guts Medicaid, Medicare, and More to Pay for Tax Cuts Mahmoud Khalil: Jailed Activist Testifies Before Immigration Judge and Holds His Child for First Time “I Can't Breathe”: Five Years After George Floyd's Murder, Trump Admin Rolls Back Police Oversight “King of the North”: New Book Examines MLK's Fight Against Police Brutality and Racism Outside Dixie   The post Democracy Now 6am – May 23, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “Nothing Can Justify It”: Journalist Gideon Levy Reacts to Killing of Israeli Embassy Staffers in D.C. “The Worst It's Ever Been”: U.K. Surgeon in Gaza Warns Kids Are Bearing Brunt, as Israel Widens Assault U.K. MP Jeremy Corbyn and EU MP Lynn Boylan on Europe Pressuring Israel to Halt Atrocities in Gaza Trump Repeats “White Genocide” Falsehoods in Meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa   The post Democracy Now 6am – May 22, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “A Big, Ugly, Destructive, Deadly Bill”: Bishop William Barber Slams Bill Cutting Medicaid, Medicare “It Is Going to Kill People”: Disability Rights Activist Speaks Out on Trump's “Big, Beautiful Bill” Tax Revolt: Arjun Singh on the Roots of Trump's Push for Massive $4.5 Trillion Tax Cut for the Rich Trump's Brain Drain: Scientists Look to Move Abroad, as  DOGE Slashes Research Funding in U.S.   The post Democracy Now 6am – May 21, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “The Suffering Is Beyond Description”: Report from Gaza as U.N. Warns 14,000 Babies Could Soon Die Making Gaza Unlivable: Israel Intensifies Attacks as Netanyahu Vows to Seize All of Gaza From a Palestinian Refugee Camp to Columbia: Mohsen Mahdawi Graduates After Being Jailed by Trump   The post Democracy Now 6am – May 20, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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 TOADY'S SHOW: “A Dangerous Escalation”: India Bombs Pakistan in Intensification of “Forever War” over Kashmir “Columbia Knew”: Survivors Win Historic $750M from Univ. & Hospital in OB-GYN Sex Abuse Settlement Rodney Scott, Trump's CBP Nominee, Accused of Covering Up Death of Mexican Father in CBP Custody Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. 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.

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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 journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – April 30, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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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.

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ON TODAY'S SHOW: “America, América”: Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. 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 “Peacemakers Are Not Welcome”   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 21, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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.