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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.

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 KPFA.

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.

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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.

On today's show: “Point-Blank”: Israeli Soldiers Execute 15 Gaza Medics and Rescue Workers, Bury them in Unmarked Mass Grave “Hands Off!”: 1M+ Protest Trump's DOGE Cuts, Attacks on Education, Immigration, War on Gaza, and More “Terrifying”: Poorest Countries and Global Working Class Face Worst Impacts of Trump's Tariffs   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 7, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Reproductive Rights Crackdown: Planned Parenthood CEO on Supreme Court Case, Title X, and More “An Attack on Labor”: Washington Farmworker Organizer “Lelo” Detained in Trump Immigration Crackdown “Can't Look Away”: New Documentary Examines How Social Media Addiction Can Harm — Even Kill — Kids   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “American Empire Is in Decline”: Economist Richard Wolff on Trump's Trade War and Tariffs Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil ICE Detains Mother and Her Three Children in Farm Raid Near New York State Home of Border Czar Tom Homan   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Elon Musk Fails in Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel A “Coup” at Columbia? Former Law Prof. Katherine Franke on School's Capitulation to Trump Trump Sends Hundreds of Immigrants to Brutal Salvadoran Prison as Mass Deportations Expand Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – April 2, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Workers vs. Musk: Federal Unions Resist Attacks on Bargaining Rights and Cuts to Essential Services A Blueprint for Resisting Trump Education Cuts? Chicago Teachers Reach “Powerful” Tentative Contract “The Darkest Hour of Need”: Burmese Junta Continues Bombing in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake “We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is”: Dr. Joanne Liu on NYU Canceling Her Talk   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 1, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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On today's show: Hip-Hop Star Macklemore on New Film “The Encampments” and Why He Speaks Out Against Israel's War on Gaza “The Encampments”: New Film on Mahmoud Khalil and Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 28, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Fired Kennedy Center VP Marc Bamuthi Joseph Speaks Out After Trump Guts Social Impact Team “Kidnapped”: 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk Can Elon Musk Buy Wisconsin? Ari Berman on Billionaire-Funded Attempt to Flip State Supreme Court Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid and Neo-Nazi Movements   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 27, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Hands Off Social Security: Drastic DOGE-Backed Changes Put Benefits for Millions at Risk 10 Years of War on Yemen: Leaked War Plan Chats Overshadow U.S. Deadly History Targeting Yemen 1,400+ Arrested in Turkey as Erdoğan Jails Istanbul Mayor and Intensifies Authoritarian Crackdown   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 26, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Oscar-Winning Palestinian Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal Brutally Beaten in Mob Attack by Israeli Settlers Remembering Hossam Shabat: Gaza Journalist Killed by Israel Was Placed on “Hit List” Before His Death “Much Worse Than Ever Before”: Abubaker Abed Reports from Gaza as Israel Weighs Broader Invasion   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 25, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Pro-Palestinian Cornell Student Momodou Taal Ordered to Surrender to ICE, Faces Possible Deportation Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C. Law Professor Katherine Franke Accuses Columbia of Empowering Trump by Agreeing to $400M “Ransom Note”   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 24, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Trump vs. Public Schools: Executive Order Aims to Dismantle Department of Education Mahmoud Khalil Update: From ICE Jail, Khalil Warns of Trump's War on Dissent and Targeting Palestinians “Catch and Revoke”: AI-Driven State Department Program Targets Pro-Palestinian Students and Visa Holders Declassified JFK Assassination Files Expose Covert CIA Operations from the Vatican to Latin America     The post Democracy Now 6am – March 21, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests “Murder the Truth”: David Enrich on Right-Wing Campaign to Silence Journalists and Protect the Powerful Disappeared: U.S. Sends Venezuelan LGBTQ Asylum Seeker to El Salvador's Version of Guantánamo   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 20, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Israeli Strikes Kill 174+ Children in Gaza as Netanyahu Breaks Ceasefire to Save Political Career “We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship”: Elie Mystal on Trump's Lawlessness, Attacks on the Judiciary ICE Agents Detain Immigrant Leader Jeanette Vizguerra, Who Once Sought Sanctuary in Denver Church Sabotaging Social Security: Trump & Musk Move Ahead with Plan to Cut Agency Staff & Critical Services Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – March 19, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “Another Round of Senseless Mass Killing”: Report from Gaza Hospital as Israeli Strikes Kill 400+ “Endless Trauma”: Israeli Strikes Shatter Gaza Ceasefire, as Blockade Starves Palestinian Population U.S. Kills Dozens in Yemen Strikes, as Houthis Pledge to Disrupt Shipping in Solidarity with Gaza On Kennedy Center Stage, Folk Musicians Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman Protest Trump's Takeover   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 18, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Representative Jamie Raskin: Trump's Attacks on Critics and Press Are Part of the “Authoritarian Playbook” Trump Invokes Wartime Alien Enemies Act, Then Ignores Judicial Order to Turn Around Deportation Flights Should Schumer Step Down? Calls Grow for New Dem Leadership After He Voted for Trump Spending Bill   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 17, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “Never Again for Anyone”: 100 Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower Protesting Mahmoud Khalil Arrest “Imperialism and Totalitarianism Go Hand in Hand”: M. Gessen on Trump's Policies at Home and Abroad If Successful, I Would Call It a Coup: A Retired Judge's Warning About Elon Musk's Abuse of Power   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 14, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: As U.N. Accuses Israel of Genocidal Acts, Doctors in Gaza Denounce Israeli Blockade on Aid, Food, and Fuel Mahmoud Khalil's Lawyers Press for Release of Columbia University Activist Jailed in Free Speech Case Ex-Education Department Official: Trump Is Dismantling Agency as He Weaponizes It Against Gaza Protesters Tesla Takedown: Protests Grow Across the U.S., as Trump and Musk Brand Activists as Terrorists   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 13, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Trump's Trade War: Why Lack of Universal Healthcare Makes U.S. Less Competitive “Impeach Trump Again”: John Bonifaz on Fighting Trump's Lawlessness, Corruption, and Attacks on Judges “Monumental Step”: Ex-Philippines President Duterte Arrested, Sent to Hague for Crimes Against Humanity   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 12, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “This Is All Retaliatory”: Judge Blocks Mahmoud Khalil's Deportation as Trump Vows More Arrests Noura Erakat: Trump's Abuses and 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   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 11, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: 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   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 10, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “Impeachment Is a Remedy for a Runaway President”: Representative Al Green on Why He Disrupted Trump's Address Bishop William Barber: GOP Tax Cuts “Mathematically Impossible” Without Gutting Medicaid and More Reed Brody: Nicaragua Is in the Grips of Another Dictatorship, Decades After Sandinista Revolution   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 7, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “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   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 6, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.