This week on the program, we celebrate Independent Media and press freedom with Izzy Fest 2026 and the 18th annual Izzy Award named after the legendary muckraker, I.F. Stone. First up, we have documentary filmmaker Abby Martin of Empire Files who is sharing the Izzy Award this year for her documentary Earths Greatest Enemy about … Continued
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
A rarely-invoked committee colloquially known as the “God Squad” met in late March and unanimously voted to exempt oil and gas activity in the Gulf of Mexico from environmental safeguards put in place by the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The ESA is widely recognized as one of the most effective conservation laws in the United … Continued
This week’s Economic Update focuses on 3 major teachers unions struggling with LA Unified School District, the rising US electricity costs and the corrupted utility commissions that run the power utilities, as well as looking at from 1990 to 2025 there was extreme US redistribution of wealth from lower 99% to richest 1%. Interview with public … Continued
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On today’s show, updates from local organizations. I speak to Talia Nimmer, staff attorney for the Climate Law Institute with the Center for Biological Diversity will give us an update on the fight against Sable Offshore Corporation’s attempt to restart drilling off the coast of Santa Barbara, we switch gears and speak to Martin Bourque … Continued
00:08 — Behrooz Ghamari, currently Visiting Scholar at the CUNY Center for Place, Culture and Politics, just out with the book The Long War on Iran: new events, old questions
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
While Trump Thrashes About, Iran’s Leaders Can Afford to be Patient We begin with a shaky ceasefire containing an explosive hair trigger situation in the Persian Gulf as Iran’s blockade and the US blockade bump up against each other with diplomacy on hold and uncertainty over who actually speaks for Iran if and when negotiations … Continued
Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
