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01.22.2020

Democrats accuse Republicans of orchestrating a cover-up at Trump's impeachment trial; The “architect” of the CIA’s torture program testifies at Guantánamo Bay; Reporter Glenn Greenwald is charged in Brazil over an investigation of political corruption.

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01.22.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-22 Wednesday Democrats accuse Republicans of orchestrating a cover-up at Trump's impeachment trial; The “architect” of the CIA’s torture program testifies at Guantánamo Bay; Reporter Glenn Greenwald is charged in Brazil over an investigation of political corruption.
01.21.2020 "Our House Is Still on Fire": Full Speech by Greta Thunberg at World Economic Forum in Davos The 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a speech Tuesday to the world leaders and global elite gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, one year after she first condemned the forum for its inaction on climate ...
01.21.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-21 Tuesday The Senate opens the third impeachment trial of a U.S. president in history; The National Archives apologizes for doctoring a photo of the 2017 Women's March to remove criticisms of President Trump; Greta Thunberg speaks at the World Economic Forum.
01.20.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-20 Monday SPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words
01.17.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-17 Friday U.S. senators are sworn in to serve as jurors in the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history; A conversation with the daughter of Honduran indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres; The translation crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
01.16.2020 #Moms4Housing: Meet the Mother & Daughter Armed Police Just Evicted from a Vacant House in Oakland We continue our conversation with Oakland mom Misty Cross, who was evicted alongside other mothers fighting homelessness Tuesday from a vacant home they had been occupying for two months. Cross and three others were arrested by a heavily militarized police ...
01.16.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-16 Thursday The House delivers articles of impeachment to the Senate; The Poor People's Campaign calls for a presidential debate on poverty; Russia's prime minister resigns amid Putin's constitutional changes; Moms 4 Housing is evicted from a vacant Oakland house.
01.15.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-15 Wednesday In the final debate before the Iowa caucuses, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders openly spar for the first time, but both agreed on many policy issues, including the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from the Middle East.
01.14.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-14 Tuesday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepares to send impeachment articles to the Senate; A group of mothers fighting homelessness in Oakland occupy a vacant house with their children; Poet Martín Espada remembers Latino community activist Luis Garden Acosta.
01.13.2020 Women Protest Against Accused Rapists Harvey Weinstein & President Trump In New York City, at least 100 women protested against accused sexual predator Harvey Weinstein outside the Manhattan courthouse where the disgraced Hollywood mogul is standing trial for rape.
01.13.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-13 Monday Iranians protest for a third day after the military said it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner; Lawrence Wilkerson denounces war in the Middle East; Nearly 150 are arrested on Capitol Hill in a protest urging radical climate action.
01.10.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-10 Friday A new film tells the story of how data firm Cambridge Analytica attempted to use Facebook to sway elections across the world. We speak to the directors of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary "The Great Hack."
01.09.2020 "Modern-Day Slavery": China Is Forcing Muslims into Forced Labor, Prison & Indoctrination Camps We look at the systematic oppression of Muslim minorities in China, from labor programs pushing Uyghurs and Kazakhs into low-wage work in Chinese factories to the indoctrination camps where at least 1 million adults from the Uyghur community are being ...
01.09.2020 "A Translation Crisis at the Border": U.S. Immigration Courts Are Failing Mayan-Language Speakers As record numbers of migrants seek refuge and asylum in the United States, we look at a key problem preventing many of them from getting due process: inadequate translation for indigenous peoples who speak Mayan languages.
01.09.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-09 Thursday President Trump vows to impose new economic sanctions on Iran but appears to step back from the brink of war; A New York Times report details "China’s push to turn Muslim minorities into an army of workers."
01.08.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-08 Wednesday Iran strikes two bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops as "revenge" for the assassination of top general Qassem Soleimani; A 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocks Puerto Rico, plunging nearly the entire population into darkness in a mass power outage.
01.07.2020 Facebook Is a Crime Scene: "The Great Hack" Documentary Details Big Data's Threat to Democracy As new details emerge about how the shadowy data firm Cambridge Analytica worked to manipulate voters across the globe, we continue our look at the documentary, “The Great Hack.”
01.07.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-07 Tuesday New details emerge about how Cambridge Analytica manipulated voters worldwide, from the 2016 election in the U.S. to the Brexit campaign; We look at Oscar-shortlisted documentary "The Great Hack" and speak with a Cambridge Analytica whistleblower.
01.06.2020 Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Qassem Soleimani Worked with U.S. in Fight Against Taliban & ISIS Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, discusses the U.S. assassination of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, who once worked with the United States to fight the Taliban and ...
01.06.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-06 Monday The fallout continues from the U.S. assassination of Iran's top military commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad last week.
01.03.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-03 Friday Iran vows revenge after the U.S. kills Iranian commander Major General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, a major escalation of the conflict between Iran and the U.S.; In Australia, at least 18 people have died in massive wildfires.
01.02.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-02 Thursday Iran-backed militia members break into Baghdad's U.S. Embassy as thousands protest recent U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria; Thousands in Syria flee a Russia-backed government offensive in Idlib; Protests continue in India against a new citizenship law.
01.01.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-01-01 Wednesday 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote, and we begin the new decade with a New Year's Day special about one of the most influential women in U.S. politics: first lady ...
12.31.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-31 Tuesday A man accused of stabbing five Jewish worshipers at a New York Hanukkah celebration is charged with hate crimes, as a report counts more mass killings in 2019 than any year dating back to at least the 1970s; A conversation ...
12.30.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-30 Monday After President Trump tweeted about Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore's appearance on Democracy Now! last week, we air Part 2 of our interview, in which Moore shares his predictions for the 2020 presidential election and beyond.
12.27.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-27 Friday The film "Bedlam" looks at how the criminal justice system is often the first point of entry into mental health treatment for many people living with schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder and other conditions.
12.26.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-26 Thursday We spend the hour with Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore on the 2020 election, impeachment and healthcare. Last week, Moore witnessed the historic vote to impeach the president from the front row of the House gallery.
12.25.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-25 Wednesday In special broadcast, we spend the hour remembering Toni Morrison, one of the nation’s most influential writers, who died in August at the age of 88 from complications of pneumonia.
12.24.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-24 Tuesday Academy Award-winning actress and activist Jane Fonda was arrested for a fifth time at the Fire Drill Fridays protests she started in Washington; In a new book, Pat Mitchell shares her life story and path to becoming the first woman ...
12.23.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-23 Monday Renowned oncologist Dr. Azra Raza argues in her new book "The First Cell" that early detection and prevention are the best ways to fight cancer.
12.20.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-20 Friday Following the final Democratic presidential debate of the year, held in Los Angeles Thursday night, we host a roundtable discussion on what the seven candidates were and were not asked.
12.19.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-19 Thursday President Donald Trump has been impeached by the House of Representatives in a historic vote; The Justice Department's inspector general says the FBI used false information to get approval to wiretap a Trump campaign adviser in the Mueller investigation.
12.18.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-18 Wednesday Thousands protest to call for Trump's impeachment ahead of a historic House vote charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress; People celebrate measures in New York and New Jersey allowing undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses.
12.17.2019 Extended: Democratic Candidates Focus on Public Education at Forum with Civil Rights & Labor Groups Seven candidates appeared Saturday at the historic Democratic Presidential Forum on Public Education in Pittsburgh, an event organized by public education organizations, unions, civil rights organizations and community groups. We play highlights from the forum and get response from Keron ...
12.17.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-17 Tuesday Protests erupt across India against a new anti-Muslim law; Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi defends the Burmese military against allegations of genocide of Rohingya Muslims; We host a panel on Democratic candidates' public education platforms.
12.16.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-16 Monday The COP25 U.N. climate summit ends without major new targets or plans to reduce emissions; We speak with Ralph Nader about the impeachment case against Trump and the latest on Boeing's faulty 737 MAX jets.
12.13.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-13 Friday In the U.K., Conservatives win a landslide victory in national elections; The U.N. climate summit in Madrid ends without significant new commitments from rich countries; A new report finds global heating is already displacing tens of millions of people.
12.12.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-12 Thursday Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addresses world leaders at the U.N. climate summit, where hundreds of demonstrating activists were forced out of the halls by police Wednesday; The low-lying Marshall Islands are ground zero of the climate crisis.
12.11.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-11 Wednesday 2020 candidate Mike Bloomberg refuses to take questions at the U.N. climate summit, while staged actions continue to protest climate inaction; Climate-fueled wildfires rage across Australia; The House introduces articles of impeachment against Trump.
12.10.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-10 Tuesday Rich countries like the U.S. are stalling COP25 climate talks; The Washington Post's exposé on the war in Afghanistan; Voices of indigenous organizers outside COP25; Indigenous resistance in Canada and the U.S.; Eriel Deranger on Teck's tar sands mine.
12.10.2019 Eriel Deranger on the Negative Impact of Resource Extraction on Indigenous Communities in Canada Indigenous leaders in Madrid, Spain, are demanding action on the climate crisis, an end to resource extraction destroying their territories, and justice for missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.
12.09.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-09 Monday Outside COP25, hundreds of thousands of people march through Madrid to demand climate justice; Police shut down an activist-led "toxic tour" of Spain's dirtiest companies; Oil giants are found liable for the climate crisis in the Philippines.
12.06.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-06 Friday In Madrid, organizers of the alternative climate summit shine a light on issues ignored at COP25; Two young organizers of Fridays for Future, from Uganda and Chile, talk about their work; A look at corporate influence at the U.N. climate ...
12.05.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-05 Thursday We speak with Edward Snowden about unlawful U.S. mass surveillance; Sahrawi activist Aminatou Haidar speaks about resisting the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara for more than three decades; A look at Sweden's social welfare system.
12.04.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-04 Wednesday The Right Livelihood Awards celebrate their 40th anniversary; Indigenous Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa has dedicated his life to protecting the Amazon; A U.N. report says 7 million children worldwide are deprived of their liberty.
12.03.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-03 Tuesday We broadcast live from Stockholm, Sweden, where Greta Thunberg will be honored with the Right Livelihood Award this week; Today is International Day of Persons With Disabilities; Violence against Indigenous forest protectors is mounting in the Amazon.
12.02.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-12-02 Monday Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi tenders his resignation after security forces killed at least 44 people taking part in anti-government protests; Historian Tariq Ali gives his analysis of the U.K. election.
11.29.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-11-29 Friday An hour with David Byrne, the celebrated musician, artist, writer, cycling enthusiast, filmmaker and now Broadway star. He has a new hit Broadway show called "American Utopia."
11.28.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-11-28 Thursday Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about Thanksgiving and his book “Our History Is the Future." Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy discusses the crisis in Kashmir and rising authoritarianism in India.
11.27.2019 Democracy Now! 2019-11-27 Wednesday This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests, one of the largest anti-globalization mobilizations ever; The protests also gave birth to a global citizen journalist movement.

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