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On today’s show: Headlines Forcible Eviction of 87-Year-Old Madrid Woman Sparks Protest Encampment over Spain’s Housing Crisis “Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed”: How U.K. Downplayed Israeli Crimes to Keep Selling Weapons “Valley of Death”: Sharon Weinberger on Big Tech, AI Warfare & the CIA’s Secret Backing of Steve Jobs   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 28, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “Stop Arming Israel”: 100+ Arrested at Jewish Voice for Peace Sit-In Outside Netanyahu U.N. Speech “Grotesque”: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Netanyahu’s U.N. Speech & Israel’s Impunity The Hague Group: South Africa Leads Coalition Against U.S./Israel’s “Unilateral Bullying” of the ICC “Crossing the Red Line”: Akbar Shahid Ahmed on Biden, His Advisers, Harris & Israel’s War in Gaza Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 25, 2026 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! – September 24, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “New Low in U.N. History”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Threat to Annihilate Iran at General Assembly Bernie Sanders: The World Is “Moving in the Wrong Direction” on War, Climate, Inequality & AI Tech Nepali Activist at U.N. Rally Calls for Climate Justice After Deadly Glacier Floods Kill Thousands “Secretary of Measlesland”: Dr. Paul Offit Slams RFK Jr.’s Handling of Deadly Measles Outbreak Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 23, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines Climate Activists Target AI Data Centers & Amazon’s Plan to Build Largest U.S. Gas Power Plant “Politics Are Desperately Important at the Moment”: Bill McKibben on Midterms, Trump & Climate Crisis Could Cuba Become a “Silent Gaza”? U.S. Fuel Blockade Aims to “Asphyxiate” Island: Top Cuban Diplomat “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World” Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 22, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s briefing: Headlines “War on the Press”: Trump Bans CNN, MS NOW & Politico from White House over Critical Coverage “Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned “America, Who Hurt You?”: Emmy-Winning Performer Sarah Jones on New NY Solo Show & Art as Resistance   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 21, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “Inequality Emergency”: Ahead of U.N. General Assembly, Oxfam Urges Action on Climate, AI & Gaza “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”: Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump “We Are the 99%”: 15 Years Later, Occupy Wall Street’s Impact Is Still Being Felt Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 18, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Fast Food Nation,” Mystery Meat & Trump’s Dismantling of U.S. Food Safety System: Eric Schlosser “Call It Evil”: Philosopher Susan Neiman on Why Moral Clarity Matters in the Trump Era   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 17, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines A Russian Oligarch Secretly Funded Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding; Democrats Demand Probe “The Elimination Project”: Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Life in West Bank: B’Tselem “Architects of Atrocities”: Amnesty Says Iran Committed Crimes Against Humanity in 2022 Crackdown Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 16, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: • Headlines • “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 15, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines Film on Gaza Genocide Win Venice Festival Prize; Israel Threatens to Revoke Citizenship of Directors “One Betrayal After Another”: 9/11 Widow Blasts U.S. Cover-Up of Saudi Role in Attacks Trove of Evidence Sheds New Light on How Saudi Intelligence Asset Helped 9/11 Hijackers Before Attack Is Yemen Heading Back to All-Out War? Saudis Launch Strikes as Houthis Take Control of Red Sea Coast Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 14, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “Horror to Last a Lifetime”: Juan González on Covering 9/11 Attacks in NYC 25 Years Ago Today Forever War: How 9/11 Unleashed U.S. Violence on Civilians Abroad & Attacks on Rights at Home   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 11, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines 25 Years Later: Afghan New Yorker Masuda Sultan Remembers 9/11 & 19 Relatives Killed in U.S. Bombing Report from Kabul: NRC Head Jan Egeland on Global Aid Cuts, Poverty & Taliban Repression of Women “Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump”: Spencer Ackerman 4.7 Million Dead, $8 Trillion: Counting the Devastating Human & Economic Costs of the Post‑9/11 Wars Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 10, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech “They Got Zero Notice”: 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois “Terrorizing Our City”: ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops “Top of the World”: Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 9, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “Toxic Nightmare”: 25 Years After 9/11, Juan González on His Predictions of Worker Illness & Death Firefighter, EMT, Stuyvesant High School Student Describe 9/11 Exposure & Long Fight for Healthcare “People I Flew with All the Time”: Flight Attendant Union Head Sara Nelson Remembers 9/11 Victims 25 Years After 9/11: Cover-Up of Air Quality Risk Proved to Be “Death Sentence” for Thousands Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 8, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Democracy Now! Marks 30 Years with Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe & More   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech “They Got Zero Notice”: 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois “Terrorizing Our City”: ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops “Top of the World”: Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 4, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon & Ms. Magazine Co-Founder, Dies at 92 “Catastrophic Failure”: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns Mail-In Voting Rules Could Derail Election “Modern-Day Poll Tax”: Dem. Texas Commissioner Slams GOP Vote to Close 92 Polling Sites AI Could Revolutionize Medicine, But Humans Must Be in Charge: Researcher Shreya Johri   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 3, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines U.S. Empire in Decline: Richard Wolff on Iran War, Rising Inequality, $40T National Debt & More “Went to Sea and Never Came Back”: Families of Fishermen Seek Answers After Deadly U.S. Boat Strikes “Stand Up for Multifaith Democracy”: U.S. Activists, Lawmakers Protest India’s RSS & Hindu Supremacy Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 2, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela’s Oil Reserves U.S. Deports Thousands to Countries They Don’t Know Under Secretive “Third Country” Deal Amid Severe Water Crisis & Drought, Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of “La Junta” Oversight Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 1, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions”: Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing The Real Reason There’s a Munitions Shortage? Too Many Wars & a Dysfunctional Pentagon: William Hartung “Left Behind and Overlooked”: Indiana Energy Company Left Majority-Black Gary Powerless for Weeks “We’re Not Going Back”: Ron Daniels on the Legacy of 1972 Gary Convention & 1963 March on Washington Jane Fonda Exclusive: Dolly Parton, a Feminist, Wrote the Anthem for Working Women with “9 to Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – August 31, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “Shut Down Dilley”: Rep. Joaquin Castro on “Abusive” ICE Family Jail, Targeting of Military Families Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is “Glaring Example of Climate Injustice” “Don’t be Squeamish About Squamous, Get a Checkup!” Amy Goodman’s Personal Health Update “Who Paid, Who Gained”: Juan González on How Chicago Funded Real Estate Instead of Social Services “The Lion King” in Quechua?: New Film “Runa Simi” Profiles Indigenous Artist Keeping Language Alive Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – August 28, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late: Amba Kak Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself” “Platform Extractivism”: Inside Venezuela’s Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – August 27, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.