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On today's show: Gaza Doctor Says Israel's Deadly Attack on Nasser Hospital “Crosses All Red Lines” DNC Panel Rejects Resolution Demanding U.S. Arms Embargo on Israel First Black Fed Governor, Lisa Cook, Sues Trump over His Attempt to Fire Her Katrina Declaration: FEMA Suspends Staff Who Warn Trump Cuts Risk Another Disaster   Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – August 27, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: “Time to Cut Ties with Israel”: U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Gaza Hospital Bombing “We Must Defeat Fascism”: Chicago Alderman on Trump's Threat to Deploy Troops to City Trump Targets Bail Reform, Wants to Let Rich “Buy Their Way Out of Jail” Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.     The post Democracy Now! – August 26, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital, Kills 5 Journalists from AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters UNICEF Report from Gaza City: U.N. Declares Famine as Children Starve Abrego Garcia Detained Again, Faces Deportation to Uganda After 3 Days of Freedom Meet George Retes, Disabled Army Vet to Sue Trump Admin over Unlawful ICE Detention Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – August 25, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: “Commander-in-Cheat”: After Texas, Trump's Redistricting Push Goes National EXCLUSIVE: Fired State Dept. Official Speaks Out, Suggested Condolences for Killed Gaza Journalists Day Laborer Dies Fleeing ICE: Family Mourns, Community Demands Answers   Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 22, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: “I Just Want to Die”: Desperate Med Student in Gaza Sends Messages to Doctor Denied Entry “The West Bank Is the Prize”: Israel Approves New Settlements to “Bury” Palestinian State Smithsonian Head Lonnie Bunch in 2020 on Telling “Unvarnished” History, Meeting Trump & More Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 21, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: Occupied D.C.? Six GOP States Send National Guard to Washington as Outcry Grows over Trump Power Grab For-Profit Presidency: New Yorker Mag Reveals Trump Family's Frenzy to Cash In on the White House “Unprecedented and Not Normal”: ACLU Sues over Legal Black Hole at “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE Jail Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 20, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: Will Russia-Ukraine War End with Diplomacy or on Battlefield? John Mearsheimer vs. Denys Pilash “They Kidnapped Me”: L.A. Immigrant Rights Activist Recounts Violent Arrest by Masked Federal Agents Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 19, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: Is Peace Possible? Nation Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel on Trump Summits with Putin, Zelensky In Largest Israeli Protest to Date, 1 Million Israelis Demand Gaza Ceasefire to Free Hostages “Whitewashing of History”: Harvard Historian on Trump's Targeting of School Curricula, Smithsonian Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 18, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Tells Trump to Stay Out; Decries Authoritarianism, War on Poor People John Mearsheimer vs. Matt Duss: A Debate on Trump-Putin Summit, Ukraine, Russia & Paths to Peace Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 15, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: “The Fort Bragg Cartel”: Book Exposes U.S. Special Forces' Involvement in Drug Trafficking & Murder Colombian Sen. Cepeda on Sentencing of Far-Right Ex-Pres. Uribe, U.S. Ally, Paramilitary Accomplice Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 14, 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 Democracy Now 6am – August 13, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: Trump's Takeover: ACLU on Federalizing D.C. Police & Deploying 800 National Guard “Slide Towards Fascism”: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Racist Roots of Trump D.C. Takeover Trump's New Secret Directive OKs Military Action in Latin America Under Guise of Drug War Israel Has “Deliberate Strategy” of Killing Palestinian Journalists Like Anas al-Sharif: U.N. Expert The post Democracy Now 6am – August 12, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: “Silencing the Coverage”: Israel Assassinates 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Targeted Strike in Gaza “This Is Orchestrated Killing”: MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites, Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps “They Will Be Held Accountable”: California AG Takes Trump to Court for Deploying National Guard Community Organizer Slams “Fascist ICE Agents” After Arrest of U.S. Citizen Documenting Raids Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 11, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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ON TODAY'S SHOW: “War in Perpetuity”: M. Gessen Warns Putin Won't Make Peace with Ukraine Because It Risks His Own Survival From India to Brazil, Trump Intensifies Trade War Against BRICS Nations as New Tariffs Take Effect “Tightening the Chokehold”: Amjad Iraqi on Israel's Plans to “Empty Out” Gaza and Annex West Bank The Global Plastic Threat: Research Finds Plastics Can Lead to Disease, Disability & Premature Death Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 7, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: Trump's War on the Truth: Robert Reich on Firing of BLS Head & Push to Replace Fed Chair “Coming Up Short”: Robert Reich on His Memoir, Rising U.S. Inequality & Fighting Against Bullies 80 Years After Hiroshima & Nagasaki, U.S. Keeps Covering Up Horrors of Atomic Bombing: Greg Mitchell Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 6, 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 Democracy Now 6am – August 5, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: Prof. Rashid Khalidi Slams “Crushing Repression” at Columbia, Cancels Course over Trump Settlement “It Is Our War”: Palestinian American Scholar Rashid Khalidi on U.S. Complicity in Gaza Genocide Torture at CECOT: Venezuelan Men Freed from Salvadoran Mega-Prison Describe Brutal Beatings, Humiliation Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: EPA Seeks to Revoke “Endangerment Finding” to Further Gut Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emission “Hard to Breathe”: Mother-and-Daughter Activists from Cancer Alley Call for Fossil Fuel Divestment “Plan to Rig the 2026 Midterms”: Ari Berman on Trump's Push to Redraw Texas Congressional Map   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 1, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: UNRWA Rep Slams “Disaster” of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Says Aid Must Flow Without Restrictions NY Doctor Just Back from Gaza: Starvation Is Widespread & Undeniable, Despite Israeli PM Claims As Canada, U.K. & France Move to Recognize Palestine, Two-State Solution Remains Taboo Inside Israel “Total, Random Chaos” of Trump Tariffs Are Not Rebalancing U.S. Trade: Lori Wallach, Rethink Trade Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – July 31, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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On Today's Show: “Designed as Death Traps”: Fmr. Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes “Deliberate, Systematic Starvation”: Aid Leader Demands End to Israel's War & Siege on Gaza “Our Genocide”: Israeli Human Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Destroying Palestinian Society in Gaza     Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – July 29, 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 Democracy Now 6am – July 28, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: Ben Crump on Breonna Taylor, William McNeil, Saniyah Cheatham & Demand to Release Malcolm X Files “Why Is the World Letting It Happen?”: U.K. Surgeon, Back from Gaza, on Starving Children Freedom Flotilla Sails to Gaza to Break Israel's “Engineered Famine”: Activist Huwaida Arraf Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Gaza Siege, American Killed by Israeli Settlers & Epstein's Financial Network Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – July 25, 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 Democracy Now 6am – July 24, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: Palestinian American Student & Dad: 200 Relatives Killed in Gaza; VCU Withholds Diploma for Protest Israel Waging “Fastest Starvation Campaign” in Modern History in Gaza: U.N. Special Rapporteur on Food “Big Fat Bribe”: Stephen Colbert's Show Canceled After He Slams Trump & Paramount/Skydance Merger Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – July 23, 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 Democracy Now 6am – July 22, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: “Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Aid Access as Weapon in Israel's War on Gaza, Researchers Find “Like a Video Game”: How Israel Deploys Grenade-Firing Drones in Gaza to Kill, Threaten and Displace Former EPA Official on Trump Gutting Science Research Office: “People Are Not Going to Be Protected” “I Do Solemnly Swear”: Audio Series Highlights Federal Workers' Voices on Trump's Unraveling of Gov't Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.   The post Democracy Now 6am – July 21, 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 Democracy Now 6am – July 18, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: “I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It”: Prof. Omer Bartov on the Growing Consensus on Gaza Writer Adam Shatz on How Oct. 7 & Israel's Brutality in Gaza Reshaped the World   Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.     The post Democracy Now 6am – July 17, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: Disappearing Video, Legal Threats: How UnitedHealth, Largest U.S. Health Insurer, Silences Critics New Release of Bob Dylan's “Hard Rain” as Nobel Winners Warn of Nuclear Risk on Trinity Test 80th Anniversary “Farmworkers' Voices Are Not Being Heard”: UFW President Teresa Romero on ICE Raids & Workers' Lives Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – July 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 Democracy Now 6am – July 15, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On Today's Show: “War on Children”: Doctor in Gaza on Massacres, Starvation and Israel's Plan for Concentration Camps Netanyahu Had Ceasefire Deal in April 2024 But Kept Gaza War Going to Stay in Power: NY Times ICE Rounds Up 300 California Farmworkers, One Dies: Eyewitness and Oxnard Mayor Respond Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – July 14, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Ex-NOAA Official on TX Flood: Trump Breaking “Disaster Response Chain” as Climate Crisis Escalates Judge Blocks Trump Birthright Citizenship Order; DOJ Caught Lying About Men Sent to El Salvador U.N. Human Rights Chief Slams Trump's Anti-Immigrant Policies, “Militarized Response” to Protests   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – July 11, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – July 1, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: To Fund Tax Cuts for the Rich, GOP Budget Bill Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Healthcare for Millions SCOTUS Clears Way for Trump Agenda, from Limits to Birthright Citizenship to LGBTQ Books in Schools Freedom for Western Sahara: Sahrawis Demand End of Moroccan Occupation at U.N. Human Rights Council   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 30, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Open the Floodgates: SCOTUS Says South Carolina Can Defund Planned Parenthood. Will Other States Follow? Kidnapped to Salvadoran Mega-Prison: Andry Hernández Romero's Family on 100+ Days of Disappearance Representative Pramila Jayapal: Trump Is Attacking “Every Part of the Legal Immigration System” Bill Moyers Dies at 91: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public Broadcasting   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 27, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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.