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On today’s show: Bodies Recovered at Mass Graves in Nasser Hospital Bear Signs of Torture, Mutilation & Execution Amnesty International: Global Breakdown of International Law Amid Flagrant War Crimes in Gaza & Beyond Hundreds Arrested: Students Across U.S. Protest for Palestine as Campus Crackdown Intensifies   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 25, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel”: 100s Arrested at Jewish-Led Protest Near Schumer’s Home Naomi Klein: Jews Must Raise Their Voices for Palestine, Oppose the “False Idol of Zionism” Months Ago State Dept. Panel Exposed Israeli Units’ Rights Abuses, But U.S. Arms Keep Flowing Climate Activists Blockade Citigroup HQ in NYC to Demand Banking Giant Stop Funding Fossil Fuels Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister: Deliberate U.S. Policy of “Destroying Cuban Economy” Drives Migration   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – April 24, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at Columbia, NYU & Yale Juan González Reflects on Historic 1968 Columbia Protests & Crackdown on Gaza Solidarity Encampment Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey on UAW’s Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee & Her Fight Against Cancer   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 23, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Historic Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread Across Country “No Due Process”: Columbia Professor Mamdani Slams Arrests & Suspension of Students at Gaza Protests “Collective Punishment”: As Gaza Assault Continues, Israel Ramps Up Violence in Occupied West Bank “Enormous Expansion of the Law”: James Bamford on FISA Extension, U.S.-Israel Data Sharing   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 22, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “No Palestinian Is Safe”: Renowned Feminist Scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Arrested in Jerusalem Over 100 Arrested at Columbia After Univ. President Orders NYPD to Clear Pro-Palestine Student Protest “Fear and Terror”: Gaza Photographer Ahmed Zakot on Documenting the Carnage of Israel’s Assault U.N. Photo Collection Shows Gaza War Through the Lens of Palestinian Journalists   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 19, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Meet USC Valedictorian Asna Tabassum: School Cancels Commencement Speech by Pro-Palestinian Student The New McCarthyism: Congress Grills Columbia Univ. President Amid Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech Columbia Students Risk Arrest, Suspension to Maintain Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Campus Israel Considers Attacking Iran and Invading Rafah as Netanyahu Seeks Lifelines to Stay in Power   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 18, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: One Year into War, Sudan Wracked by World’s Largest Displacement and Hunger Crises No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel Can UAW Unionize the South? Volkswagen Tennessee Vote Could Change U.S. Labor Landscape   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 17, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian Conference “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism”: Yanis Varoufakis on New Book & Why Assange Should Be Freed Under Cover of War in Gaza, Assault on West Bank Intensifies: Palestinian Journalist Dalia Hatuqa   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 16, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s now: Is Regional War at Stake as Israel Weighs Response to Iran? Roundtable from Tehran, Tel Aviv & D.C. Trump in the Dock: First Criminal Trial of a Former U.S. President Begins Today in NYC   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 15, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Council of War”: Walden Bello on Biden’s Trilateral Summit with Philippines & Japan to Contain China “A Stalemate and Attritional Grind”: Journalist Luke Mogelson on 2 Years of Russia’s War in Ukraine Israeli Scholar Neve Gordon on Israeli Mass Surveillance in Gaza & the Use of AI to Kill Palestinians   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 12, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “We’re Responsible for This”: American Surgeons Return from Gaza, Call for End of U.S. Culpability in Genocide As Arizona Reinstates 1864 Abortion Ban, Doctors & Organizers Fight Back to Preserve Access   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 11, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Arizona Supreme Court Revives 1864 Abortion Ban Passed Before Women Could Even Vote Israel’s Ultimate Goal Is to Make Gaza Unfit for Human Habitation: Middle East Analyst Mouin Rabbani Breaking the Silence: Israeli Army Veterans Tour U.S. & Canada to Speak Out Against Occupation   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – April 10, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “A Sea of Misery”: Gaza Is Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Seen, Says NGO Head/Ex-CNN Journalist Arwa Damon “Empty Words”: Kenneth Roth on Biden’s Criticism of Israel While U.S. Keeps Weapons Flowing 30 Years Later, Rwanda Genocide Shows Consequences of U.S. Refusal to Prevent Mass Killing   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 9, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Killing People Around the Clock”: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti & Muhammad Shehada on 6 Months of War on Gaza Imprisoned Palestinian Writer Walid Daqqa Dies of Cancer After 38 Years in Israeli Jails From the Solar Eclipse to Global Heating, Dr. Peter Kalmus on the Importance of Science   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 8, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Lavender & Where’s Daddy: How Israel Used AI to Form Kill Lists & Bomb Palestinians in Their Homes “No Other Land”: Israeli Director Slams Claims of Antisemitism for Apartheid Comment at Berlinale   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 5, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Palestinian American Dr. Walks Out of Biden Meeting, Hands Him Letter from 8-Year-Old Orphan in Gaza Road to Famine: Israeli Law Prof. Neve Gordon on Israel’s History of Weaponizing Food Access in Gaza From Prison to the Presidency in 3 Weeks: In Senegal, Pan-Africanist Opposition Figures Take Office   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 4, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Haitians Resist Foreign Intervention as U.S. Pushes for Unelected “Transition Council” to Rule Island “A War Machine Out of Control”: Israel Keeps Attacking Aid Workers as Gaza Faces Famine Israel Moves to Ban Al Jazeera in Latest Attack on Journalists Who Expose Horrors of War & Occupation Ex-Israeli Negotiator Slams U.S. Arming of Israel Following Aid Convoy Attack & Iran Consulate Bombing   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 3, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Israel Kills 6 International Aid Workers & Gazan Driver in Attack on Chef Andrés’s World Central Kitchen Convoy State Dept. Whistleblower: Biden Is Skirting U.S. Law by Rushing More Bombs & Warplanes to Israel Active-Duty U.S. Airman, Inspired by Aaron Bushnell, on Hunger Strike Outside White House over Gaza Israel “Risking a Two-Front War, Maybe a Three-Front War,” After Latest Strike Against Iran in Syria   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 2, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Genocidal Machine”: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel’s Destruction of Gaza’s Hospitals “Dying Slowly While the World Is Watching”: Bethlehem Reverend on Israel’s War on Palestinian Christians Israeli Protesters Accuse Netanyahu of Delaying Hostage Deal for His Own Political Survival   The post Democracy Now 6am – April 1, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Building Bridges, Not Walls: Immigrant Communities Honor Six Workers Killed in Key Bridge Collapse Protesters Disrupt Record $25 Million Biden Fundraiser in NYC as Thousands March Against Gaza War “Like Lying in a Coffin”: UNICEF Spokesperson Warns of Devastating Toll on Gaza’s Children ESG Funds Under Attack: Why Republicans Are Targeting Socially Responsible Investing   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 29, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “The Worst of What Humanity Is Capable Of”: Pediatrician Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan on What She Saw in Gaza I Could Not Stay Silent: Annelle Sheline Resigns from State Dept. over U.S. Gaza Policy As Gaza Faces Famine, Israel Cuts Ties with UNRWA and U.S. Halts Funding for Critical Aid Agency   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 28, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Supreme Court Seems Set to Preserve Access to Mifepristone in Likely Defeat for Abortion Foes Meet Eva Burch, Arizona State Senator Fighting Abortion Bans by Sharing Her Plan to Have an Abortion Baltimore Key Bridge Collapses, Killing Six Immigrant Workers Who Had No Access to Emergency Warnings “We Don’t Need More Detention Centers, More Border Patrol”: Fernando García on SB4 & New Spending Law Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – March 27, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Assange Extradition Delayed: British MP Jeremy Corbyn on U.K. Court Seeking More Assurances from U.S. Jeremy Corbyn Applauds U.N. Ceasefire Resolution, Says World Must Prevent “Another Nakba” Ex-U.N. Official Craig Mokhiber: Israel Must Be Held Accountable for Violating Ceasefire Resolution David Cay Johnston: Donald Trump “Finally Being Held to Account” After Half-Century of Criminality   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 26, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: ISIS-K Claims Credit After 137 Killed in Moscow Concert Attack; Russia Tries to Blame Ukraine As Israel Blocks More U.N. Aid, Gaza Is on the Brink of “Most Intense Famine” Since WW2 World Ignores Sudan Hunger Crisis; 230,000 Children and Mothers Could Die in Coming Months   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 25, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: U.S. Said It Was Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire, But Its U.N. Resolution Didn’t Say That: Phyllis Bennis “Children Are Dying”: Doctor Just Back from Gaza Describes Severe Malnutrition, Preventable Infections Six White Mississippi “Goon Squad” Cops Get Lengthy Prison Sentences for Torturing Black Men   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 22, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: British Surgeon Describes Children Suffering “Appalling Injuries” in Gaza, Demands Immediate Ceasefire “Humanitarian Violence” in Gaza: Architect Eyal Weizman on Mapping Israel’s “Genocidal Campaign”   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 21, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Senator Van Hollen: Biden Must Halt Offensive Arms to Israel If Restrictions on Gaza Aid Are Not Lifted Biden’s Sanctions Against Israeli Settlers Ignores the Israeli State’s Role in West Bank Violence: Shane Bauer   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 20, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Israel’s Ultimate Goal Is Ethnic Cleansing: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on Growing Famine, Al-Shifa Attack “Anarchy & Chaos”: U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Who Resigned Protesting U.S. Meddling & Deportations “Unseen”: New Film Profiles a Blind, Undocumented Social Work Student, Humanizing Disabled Migrants   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 19, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “A Catastrophe That Cannot Be Described”: Palestinian Poet in Rafah on Daily Hardships Amid Israel’s War Rachel Corrie: Parents & Friend Remember U.S. Activist Crushed by Israeli Bulldozer in Rafah in 2003   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 18, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Island of Access”: VP Harris Visits MN Abortion Clinic in Historic First Amid Growing Restrictions “Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism”: Palestinian Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian on Hebrew Univ. Suspension “Towers of Ivory and Steel”: Jewish Scholar Says Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 15, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Mehdi Hasan on Genocide in Gaza, the Silencing of Palestinian Voices in U.S. Media & Why He Left MSNBC Mehdi Hasan on the Risk of the Media Normalizing Trump’s Fascism & Dangers of TikTok Ban Ramesh Srinivasan: TikTok Crackdown, Fueled by Anti-China Sentiment, Misses Real Threat of Big Tech   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 14, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: What Is Israel’s Goal in Lebanon? Increasing Cross-Border Attacks Risk Expanding the Gaza War Rami Khouri: U.S. Airdrops & Floating Pier Plan Are “Not Serious Responses” to Gaza Suffering “Revolutionary Love”: Michelle Alexander on Gaza, Solidarity, MLK & What Gives Her Hope Warning to America: Hungarian Green on Authoritarianism as Trump Hosts PM Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – March 13, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Haiti Needs Peace”: PM Ariel Henry Announces He Will Resign, Transitional Council to Take Charge Aid Worker in Gaza: The Only Barrier to Delivering Supplies Is Israel. The U.S. Must Pressure Its Ally U.N. Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Urges Arms Embargo & Sanctions on Israel over War Crimes in Gaza Immigrants Held in Private Northwest Detention Center Report Death, Suicide Attempts Amid Crackdown   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 12, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Empire’s Laboratory”: How 2004 U.S.-Backed Coup Destabilized Haiti & Led to Current Crisis Guilty: U.S.-Backed Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández Convicted of Drug Trafficking “The Trauma Is Immeasurable”: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa on Israeli Violence in Gaza   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 11, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Katrina vanden Heuvel: Biden’s Domestic Agenda — Taxes, Reproductive Rights — Undermined by Foreign Policy Biden’s SOTU on Gaza: Israeli Daughter of Freed Hostage & Palestinian American Professor Respond     The post Democracy Now 6am – March 8, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Israel’s “Killing Machine”: How U.S. Military Support Is Undercutting Ceasefire Talks, Prolonging War Biden Admin Quietly Approves 100+ Arms Sales to Israel While Claiming Concern for Civilians in Gaza   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 7, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Super Tuesday: Biden, Trump Head to Rematch; Schiff Helps Garvey Place in CA; AIPAC Suffers Setback Unanimous? Supreme Court Ruling Leaving Trump on Ballot Reveals Split Among Justices What I Witnessed in Gaza Is a Holocaust: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 6, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Haiti: Ariel Henry’s U.S.-Backed “Criminal Regime” Faces Gang Uprising; U.N. Set to Deploy Kenyan Police Narco-State: U.S.-Backed Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández on Trial in NY for Drug Trafficking “The Zone of Interest”: Oscar-Nominated Film Producer on the Holocaust, Gaza, and “Walls That Separate Us”   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 5, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Report from Rafah: U.S. Airdrops Food to Gaza While Arming Israel to Drop Bombs “Alexei Navalny Taught Russia’s Opposition How to Mobilize”: Historian on Putin’s “Dictatorship” “Enraging”: Meet Abbey Crain, IVF Patient in Midst of Treatment Derailed by Alabama High Court   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 4, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Just Being Racist”: Biden & Trump Push Anti-Immigrant Policies in Dueling Border Visits The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7   The post Democracy Now 6am – March 1, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Senator Jeff Merkley: U.S. “Complicit in Starvation and Humanitarian Catastrophe” in Gaza Sen. Merkley: McConnell Paralyzed the Senate & Turned Supreme Court into “Far-Right Legislature” Israel Kills 104 Palestinians Waiting for Food Aid as U.N. Expert Accuses Israel of Starving Gaza   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 29, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Uncommitted”: Over 100,000 Cast Protest Vote Against Biden’s Gaza Policy in Michigan Primary The Life & Death of Aaron Bushnell: U.S. Airman Self-Immolates Protesting U.S. Support for Israel in Gaza   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 28, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Should U.S. Send More Weapons to Ukraine? A Debate on Funding & Ways to End Two-Year-Old War Ralph Nader at 90 on the “Genocidal War” in Gaza & Why Congress Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 27, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: As 2-Month-Old Starves to Death in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha Says His Own Family Is Eating Animal Feed Gaza Ceasefire Could Save 75,000 from Death: Report from London School of Hygiene & Johns Hopkins U.S. Anti-Terrorism Laws Are “Anti-Palestinian at the Core,” with Chilling Effect on First Amendment   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 26, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Press Freedom on Trial: Julian Assange’s Lawyer on Extradition Case & Criminalizing Journalism “Governments Are Trying to Frighten Journalists”: Fmr. Guardian Head Alan Rusbridger on Assange Case Haitian Asylum Seekers Take Biden Admin to Court for Racial Discrimination, Rights Violations   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 23, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Frozen Embryos Are Children? Reproductive Care in Peril After Alabama Supreme Court Ruling Malcolm X Assassination: Former Security Guards Reveal New Details Pointing to FBI, NYPD Conspiracy   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 22, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Political Prosecution”: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Faces Final U.K. Appeal to Avoid U.S. Extradition “Moral Failure”: Democrats Rep. Khanna & Michigan State Rep. Aiyash Urge Biden to Change Gaza Policy Colonialism, Occupation & Apartheid: African Countries See “Shared Experiences” with Palestinians The post Democracy Now 6am – February 21, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Borders on Pathological”: Trump Must Pay $450 Million for Lying to Lenders in Fraud Case More Than 50 Countries Argue Before World Court Against Israeli Occupation of Palestine “What I Saw Wasn’t War — It Was Annihilation,” Says U.S. Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza Hospital   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 20, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Like Horror Movies”: Forced to Evacuate Nasser Hospital, Surgeon Describes Israeli Raid & Arrests “3 Days of Hell”: Israel Raids Nasser Hospital, Arrests Staff in Latest Assault on Gaza Medical System Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny Dies in Arctic Prison; “No Doubt” He Was Killed, Says Masha Gessen   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 19, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Uniquely American Hell”: Kansas City Shooting Highlights Missouri’s Pro-Gun Laws in “Pro-Life” State “I Died That Day in Parkland”: Shotline Uses AI-Generated Voices of Gun Victims to Call Congress Australian Parliament Calls for U.S. to Drop Case Against WikiLeaks’ Assange Ahead of U.K. Court Hearing “They Were So Close”: Israel Kills Medics Trying to Save Dying 6-Year-Old Hind Rajab   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 16, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Doctor Reports on Bombing of Nasser Hospital Just Before Israeli Troops Storm Complex “I Always Imagine Myself Being Blown Up”: Journalist in Rafah on Dire Situation as Invasion Looms Kenneth Roth: Only Joe Biden Has Power to Stop “Massive Bloodshed” of a Rafah Invasion “Obscene”: Biden Pushes House to Approve Bill with $14B in Military Aid to Israel, Cuts UNRWA Funding   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 15, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Dead-End Strategy”: GOP Impeaches Mayorkas as Democrats Push Hard-Line Border & Immigration Policy “A War Against Palestinian Americans”: Jailed, Attacked, Killed in West Bank and U.S. Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – February 14, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Could Indonesia Return to Military Rule? Allan Nairn on the “Massacre General” Running for President Bombs, Disease, Starvation: Canadian Doctor Describes the Desperate Situation Inside Gaza Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wins $1 Million Defamation Case Against Right-Wing Climate Deniers The Climate Election: Mark Hertsgaard on Why 2024 Must Focus More on Climate Crisis   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 13, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Our Children Deserve to Live”: Mother in Rafah Desperate to Escape as Israel Prepares Ground Invasion “Worst-Case Scenario”: Noura Erakat on Israel’s Looming Invasion of Rafah Race, Gender, Class: Bishop Barber, Economist Michael Zweig on Poor & Low-Wage Voters in 2024 Election Bishop William Barber on the “Moral Case for a Ceasefire” in Gaza   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 12, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “We Cannot Trust Biden” on Gaza: Michigan House Dem Majority Leader Meets White House Officials Liberals Feckless, Conservatives Reckless: Elie Mystal on SCOTUS Trump Ballot Ban Case “Political Crisis Will Continue”: Close Contest in Pakistan Amid Election Crackdown   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 9, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Ex-UNRWA Official: Funding Cuts Make Donor Countries Complicit in Starvation of Gaza Senegal’s “Unraveling”: President’s Delay of Election Is Latest in String of Anti-Democratic Actions “Io Capitano”: Oscar-Nominated Film Dramatizes Perilous Migrant Journey from West Africa to Europe   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 8, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Former Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Only U.S. Pressure on Israel Can End Gaza Assault, Lead to Truce Jeremy Scahill: Israel Has Waged a “Deliberate Propaganda Campaign” to Justify Brutal Gaza Assault     Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – February 7, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Dissent Grows Inside Biden Administration over Gaza Policy as Blinken Holds Talks in Middle East “Unconscionable”: American Pediatrician Who Worked in Gaza Hospital Recalls Horrors of Israel’s War   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 6, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: U.S. & Israel vs. Axis of Resistance: Biden Strikes New Targets in Middle East as Gaza War Continues “Incandescent” with Rage: Matt Duss on Voter Anger over Biden Support for Netanyahu & Gaza Assault After Losing Nearly 100 Relatives in Gaza, Palestinian American Doctor Refuses to Meet with Blinken   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 5, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Dearborn Mayor to Biden: “Lives of Palestinians Should Not Be Measured Simply in Poll Numbers” “Origin”: Ava DuVernay’s New Film Dramatizes “Caste,” from U.S. Racism to India’s Dalits to Nazi Germany   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 2, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “The Houthis Are Not Iranian Proxies”: Helen Lackner on the History & Politics of Yemen’s Ansar Allah “Climate of Fear”: Inside UAE’s Use of U.S. Mercenaries to Carry Out Assassinations in Yemen “Legacy”: Dr. Uché Blackstock on How Racism Shapes Healthcare in America   The post Democracy Now 6am – February 1, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Biden’s Middle East Policy “Leading Us into a War Whose Aims We Have Not Defined” “An Act of Assassination”: Mustafa Barghouti Slams Undercover Israeli Raid on Jenin Hospital Israeli Cabinet Members Join Settler Event of Thousands Calling for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – January 31, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Ohio Will Consider Execution by Nitrogen Gas After Alabama Used Method Witness Calls “Horrific” Sister Helen Prejean: Will Oklahoma Free Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip After SCOTUS Hears Case? “Monumental Decision”: Biden Pauses Approvals for New LNG Terminals in Victory for Climate Movement “We’re Dying Here”: Human Rights Watch on the Fight for Life in Louisiana’s Fossil Fuel Cancer Alley Cost of Doing Business? Amnesty Int’l Documents Health, Environmental Impact of Fossil Fuels in Texas   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 30, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Drone Strike Kills 3 U.S. Troops in Jordan; Risk Grows of Regional War over Israeli Assault on Gaza Palestinians Charge Genocide in U.S. Court; Biden, Blinken Sued for Backing Israel’s War on Gaza Chicago ER Doctor Just Back from Gaza Says Patients, Medical Staff Face Catastrophic Conditions Despite Looming Gaza Famine, U.S. Halts UNRWA Funding After Israel Claims 12 U.N. Staff Aided 10/7 Attack   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 29, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: International Court of Justice Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide in Gaza But Fails to Order Ceasefire After Palestinian-American Teenager is Shot Dead in West Bank, His Family Calls for a Transparent Investigation   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 26, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Report from Gaza: Palestinian Journalist Akram al-Satarri on “The Struggle to Survive, Stay Sane” Palestinian Economist Raja Khalidi on Israel’s “Economic Warfare” on Gaza and the West Bank Professors Slam Columbia’s Response to Chemical Skunk Attack on Students at Pro-Palestine Protest   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 25, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “MAGA vs. MAGA Polite”: Trump Beats Haley in New Hampshire, Haley Vows to Fight On “Trump Is the Nominee. Fascism Is on the Ballot.” Author Jeff Sharlet on New Hampshire & Beyond Should Trump Be Barred from the Ballot? A Debate over the Insurrection Clause Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – January 24, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: From Freezing Cold to Housing Insecurity, Migrants Face Crisis in NYC, Chicago & Beyond “Many of My Shows Have Been Canceled”: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei on Israel, Gaza & Censorship Marianne Williamson on Running for President, Challenging Biden & Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 23, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha Decries Israel’s “Inhumane” Assault as Gaza Death Toll Tops 25,000 “Israelism” on Tour: New Film Examines American Jews’ Growing Rejection of Israel’s Occupation “American Fascism”: Historian Rick Perlstein on Trump’s Grip on the GOP & Chances of a Second Jan. 6   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 22, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Uvalde Failure: DOJ Report Finds 377 Officers Waited 77 Mins as 19 Kids, 2 Teachers Killed by 1 AR-15 Texas Sen. Gutierrez Slams Gov. Abbott Immigration Crackdown After Mom & 2 Children Drown in Rio Grande Meet Tal Mitnick, 18, the First Israeli Jailed for Refusing Military Service in “Revenge War” on Gaza Horrific Traumatic Injuries of Children: British Dr. Witnesses Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Hospitals   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 19, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby Slams Indiana University for Canceling Exhibit over Her Support for Gaza Artist Emily Jacir: Rampant Censorship Is Part of the Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians Holocaust Survivor Marione Ingram Decries Climate of Censorship After Her Hamburg Talks Are Canceled   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 18, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Israel’s War on Journalists: More Reporters Killed in Gaza in 3 Months Than Any Country Over Entire Year How Israel Bombed Al Jazeera Journalists & Blocked Rescue of Cameraman Samer Abudaqa Until He Died “They Don’t Show Gaza”: Gideon Levy on How Israel’s Press Is Failing to Cover the War’s True Toll What Happened on October 7? Gideon Levy on Haaretz’s Call to Investigate Kibbutz Killings & More “The Logic of Escalation”: From Red Sea to Iran & Beyond, Will Israel’s Gaza Assault Spark Wider War?   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 17, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “The People Won”: Guatemala Inaugurates Anti-Corruption President Bernardo Arévalo Despite Sabotage 100+ Days into Israel’s War on Gaza, Doctors Demand Ceasefire to Address “Apocalyptic” Health Crisis Despite Trump’s Triumph in Iowa, Many GOP Voters Say Legal Troubles Could Make Him Unfit for Reelection   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 16, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – January 15, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “A Breach of Yemeni Sovereignty”: Biden Becomes Fourth U.S. President to Bomb Yemen “Gaslighting and Cherry-Picking”: How Israel Is Defending Itself at World Court on Charges of Genocide “They Want to Silence Us”: Knesset Member Ofer Cassif Faces Expulsion for Backing South Africa Genocide Case   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 12, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Nowhere Is Safe in Gaza”: South Africa Lays Out Genocide Case vs. Israel at World Court in The Hague Palestinian Genocide Scholar & South African Lawyer on “Extreme Urgency” of World Court Case Gaza War Fuels Climate Crisis: “Massive” Carbon Emissions from Israeli Bombing   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 11, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Why I Resigned: Meet Tariq Habash, First Biden Appointee to Quit over U.S.-Backed Israeli War on Gaza “Israel Is Starving Gaza”: Israeli Rights Group B’Tselem Says IDF Is Using Hunger as a Weapon of War   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 10, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Profit Over Safety: Boeing Supplier Ignored Safety Warnings Before Jet Door Blowout, The Lever Reports “Complete Hypocrisy”: Activist Bree Newsome Bass on Biden Fighting Racism While Funding Gaza Genocide “The Cost of Inheritance”: Meet the Descendants of Enslavers and Enslaved Fighting for Reparations   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 9, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Huge Miscalculation”: Biden’s Refusal to Push for Gaza Ceasefire Could Drag U.S. into Middle East War Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate: Israel Is Targeting Media in Gaza to Hide Its Atrocities from the World “Wake-Up Call”: Mother of Boeing Crash Victim & Boeing Whistleblower on Latest MAX Jet Disaster   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 8, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “My Heart Is Still in Gaza”: Palestinian Scientist Flees Israeli Bombs, Begs World to Stop Genocide “The IDF Should Not Exist”: Meet Meital Yaniv, Former Israeli Soldier Turned Anti-Zionist Organizer Ralph Nader on Gaza Ceasefire & Why Suppression of Palestine Advocacy Is the Real Problem on Campus   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 5, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Deadly Bombing in Iran Could Exacerbate “Shadow War” with U.S. & Israel: Historian Arash Azizi Can Russia Be Defeated? Nina Khrushcheva on Why “the West Must Face Reality in Ukraine” AMC Theater Tosses Bishop William Barber for Bringing Disability Chair to See “The Color Purple” The post Democracy Now 6am – January 4, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: From Plagiarism to Gaza: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on How a GOP Campaign Ousted Harvard’s Claudine Gay “This Is the Republican Party”: Khalil Gibran Muhammad Says Nikki Haley’s Slavery Flub Was No Accident Assassination of Hamas Official in Lebanon Raises Risk of Israel’s War on Gaza Expanding Across Region “Voluntary Migration” or Ethnic Cleansing? Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s Push to Expel Residents of Gaza The post Democracy Now 6am – January 3, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: South Africa Files Case Against Israel at International Court of Justice over “Genocidal” War on Gaza AIPAC vs. AOC & The Squad: Pro-Israel Lobby Group to Spend $100M to Target Progressive Lawmakers The post Democracy Now 6am – January 2, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Free the Truth”: The Belmarsh Tribunal on Julian Assange & Defending Press Freedom   The post Democracy Now 6am – January 1, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: U.S. Complicit in “On-Air Genocide”: Palestinian Amb. Husam Zomlot Slams 12-Week Gaza Assault “Utterly Illegal”: U.N. Special Rapporteur Slams Netanyahu’s “Voluntary Migration” Plan for Gazans Maine Joins Colorado Barring Trump from Ballot for Violating Constitution’s Insurrection Clause   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 29, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Meet Aida Touma-Sliman, Palestinian Knesset Member Suspended for Criticizing War on Gaza “Absolutely Unimaginable”: Children in Gaza Face Death and Disease, and also Amputations Without Anesthesia As Biden Pushes Trump-Like Border Policies, Blinken Meets with AMLO, Who Has Criticized U.S. Sanctions   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 28, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Axis of Resistance”: Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis Challenge U.S. & Israeli Power Amid Middle East Tension Who Funds Canary Mission? James Bamford on Group That Doxxes Students & Profs for Palestine Activism As Phone Line Breaks Up, Palestinian Journalist Akram al-Satarri Describes “Dire” Conditions in Gaza Palestine Exception: U.S. Colleges Suppress Free Speech, Academic Freedom for Students & Professors   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 27, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Christ in the Rubble”: Watch Palestinian Pastor Deliver Powerful Christmas Sermon from Bethlehem Christmas in Palestine: Bethlehem Reverend Slams West for Praising Prince of Peace & Beating Drums of War Labor Demands a Ceasefire: UAW, Electrical & Postal Workers Call for Israel’s Assault on Gaza to End   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 26, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show, we pay tribute to blacklisted lyricist Yip Harburg. Harburg wrote for both Hollywood and Broadway and, among other achievements, received an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for his lyrics to the beloved Wizard of Oz ballad, “Over the Rainbow.”   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 25, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Christmas Canceled in Bethlehem as Churches Mourn 20,000+ Palestinians Killed in Gaza Gazan Attorney Who Has Lost 60 Relatives in Israeli Attacks Says U.S. Is “Complicit in Genocide” Sônia Guajajara, Brazil’s First Indigenous Peoples Minister, on Climate Crisis & Protecting the Amazon   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 22, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “The Hostages Weren’t Our Top Priority”: Israel’s “Bombing Frenzy” Endangered Hostages Held in Gaza “The U.S. and Israel Stand Alone”: World Demands Ceasefire as Gaza Death Toll Tops 20,000 Colorado Disqualifies Trump from Ballot, Triggering Battle over Constitution’s Insurrection Clause “Fascism Out Loud”: Trump’s Escalating Racist Rhetoric & the Far Right’s Plan for a Slow Civil War   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 21, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “This Is a Colonial War”: Historian Rashid Khalidi on Israel, Gaza & the Future of Palestine Pope Condemns Israeli Killings of Palestinian Christians; Relative of 84-Year-Old Victim Mourns Her Death “Under Attack”: TX Law Targets Immigrants as Trump Cites Hitler, GOP Pushes Biden for Border Crackdown   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 20, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Beyond Our Imagination”: Journalist Describes Total Destruction, with Fellow Gazans Buried Alive Palestinian American Woman Tries to Save Family in Gaza After Her Mom Dies Awaiting Evacuation ​​Israel’s War on Children: Fadi Abu Shammalah on Horrific Ordeal Facing Kids in Gaza, Including His Own Starvation as a Weapon of War: Human Rights Watch Denounces Israel for Denying Gaza Access to Food The post Democracy Now 6am – December 19, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: ​​Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara on IDF Killing AJ Journalist, the 3 Hostages & U.S. Support for Israel “Tragically Historic”: The Guardian’s Nina Lakhani on the Failure of Yet Another U.N. Climate Summit   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 18, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Politics of Memory”: Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize Postponed for Comparing Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto Israel Raids Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp; Director Speaks Out After Being Jailed & Beaten   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 15, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Israel Accused of War Crimes for “Apparently Deliberate” Killing of Reuters Journalist in Lebanon Jeremy Scahill: Gaza “Scorched-Earth Campaign” Is a “Joint U.S.-Israeli Operation” Palestinian Student Shot in VT & Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivor Join Haverford Sit-In for Gaza   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 14, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s Show: Phase Down, Not Phase Out: COP28 Deal on Fossil Fuels Disappoints Activists & Vulnerable States Exclusive: Palestinian Diplomat Who Went Viral for U.N. Speech Says Israel & U.S. Are Isolated on Gaza Rep. Greg Casar: Biden Must Not Cave on GOP’s Hard-Line Immigration Demands in Ukraine Funding Request The post Democracy Now 6am – December 13, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Diplomacy, Not War: Daughter of Released Hostage Urges Israel to Reach Deal to Free More Captives Climate Activists Outraged as COP28 Draft Text Drops Call for Fossil Fuel Phaseout Texas Woman Denied Abortion for Nonviable Fetus, Flees State, “One of Thousands” in Similar Position   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 12, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Peter Beinart & Omer Bartov on UPenn President Resignation, Gaza & the Weaponization of Antisemitism State Dept. Whistleblower Blasts Blinken for Bypassing Congress to Send 14K Tank Munitions to Israel U.S. Vetoes U.N. Gaza Ceasefire Again as Biden Veers Far from Global Consensus, Death Toll Tops 18,000 “Please Stop This War Against Us”: Gaza Doctor Begs for World’s Help as Hunger & Disease Spread   The post Democracy Now 6am – December 11, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.