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Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Meet Ahed Tamimi, 17-Year-Old West Bank Activist Jailed for 8 Months for Slapping Israeli Soldier; Venezuelan Pres. Nicolás Maduro Targeted in 1st Assassination Attempt by Drone Against Head of State; “Earth Will Be Annihilated”: On 73rd Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing, a Warning Against Nuclear War.
A Slaughter in Silence: How Trump’s “America First” Policy Enabled Ethnic Cleansing in the DRC; Mexican Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, Freed from Detention, Denounces ICE “Concentration Camps”; Body of Olivia Lone Bear Found in N. Dakota as Native Women Face Crisis of Murders, Disappearances.
Climate Scientist: California Wildfires Are Faster, Stronger, Deadlier & Will Continue to Intensify; Rob Nixon: Gov’t Inaction on Climate Change Is “Slow Violence” That Hits World’s Poor the Hardest; “Losing Earth”: How Humanity Came to Understand Climate Change & Failed to Act in Time; Extreme Weather Is Exploding Around the World. Why Isn’t the Media … Continued
A Threat to Global Democracy: Siva Vaidhyanathan on How Facebook & Surveillance Capitalism Empower Authoritarianism.
“Quiet Skies”? Boston Globe Exposé Reveals TSA Is Secretly Surveilling Thousands of U.S. Travelers; Remembering Ron Dellums: The Radical Congressmember Who Fought Against War, Apartheid & Poverty; Ron Dellums (1935-2018): Organizing for Peace Forces Us to Challenge All Forms of Injustice.
Noam Chomsky: U.S. Must Improve Relations with Russia and Challenge the Expansion of NATO; Noam Chomsky: Survival of Organized Human Life is at Risk Due to Climate Change & Nuclear Weapons; Noam Chomsky Condemns Israel’s Shift to Far Right & New “Jewish Nation-State” Law; Amid Deadly Israeli Crackdown on Gaza Protests, Chomsky Says U.S. Must … Continued
“Brutal and Sadistic”: Noam Chomsky on Family Separation & the U.S. Roots of Today’s Refugee Crisis; Noam Chomsky on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Spectacular” Victory & Growing Split in Democratic Party; Noam Chomsky on Mass Media Obsession with Russia & the Stories Not Being Covered in the Trump Era; Chomsky Criticizes “Autocratic” Nicaraguan Government, Urges Ortega to … Continued
Despite Today’s Court-Ordered Deadline, More Than 900 Migrant Children Remain Separated from Parents; As Death Toll Rises in Flint, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha on Her Fight to Expose Lead Poisoning in City; Iraqi-American Pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha on the Trauma of Child Separation & the Travel Ban.
Profit Over Grizzlies: Trump Admin Tries to Gut Endangered Species Act for Oil & Mining Interests; Trump’s War on the Environment, from Attacking California Fuel Standards to Destroying Public Lands; As Heat Wave Sweeps the Globe, New Study Warns of Deadly Link Between Rising Temps and Suicide; “Why Abolish ICE Doesn’t Go Far Enough”: Oscar … Continued
Tronc Fires Half the Staff of the New York Daily News, in Latest Attack on Local Journalism; Who Is Maria Butina? The Story of Accused Russian Spy Who Infiltrated the NRA Before ’16 Election; Can Mueller Get Former Trump Associates Michael Cohen & Paul Manafort to Flip on Trump? “Bring the War Home”: The Long … Continued
