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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 – 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.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – July 30, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – July 10, 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 9, 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 8, 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 7, 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 4, 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 3, 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 2, 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 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.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – June 19, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – June 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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.