Democracy Now! Audio
Summary: A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 1,000 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the United States.
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Headlines for June 15, 2023; Sudan’s Healthcare on Brink Amid Fighting & Targeted Attacks on Medical Workers, Hospitals Worldwide; “The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China”: Gilbert Achcar on Ukraine War & More; “A Carbon Bomb”: Kumi Naidoo on Fight to Stop Construction of EACOP, Proposed Pipeline in East Africa
Syrian director Waad Al-Kateab talks about her new documentary, We Dare to Dream. The film follows young refugee athletes from Iran, Syria, South Sudan and Cameroon who competed together on the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Headlines for June 14, 2023; “Unique & Shocking”: Donald Trump Arrested on 37 Counts for Mishandling Classified Documents; The Espionage Act: Could Trump Indictment Lead to Changes to 1917 Law Used to Jail Whistleblowers?; “Money Has Won”: Saudi Rights Activist Says PGA-LIV Golf Merger Gives MBS More Power & Influence
Headlines for June 13, 2023; Trump Indictment: Scholar of Fascism Says GOP Has Become an “Autocratic Party” Led by a “Cult Leader”; “Peace for All Time”: JFK’s Historic 1963 Call for Peace Helped Lead to Nuke Treaty with Moscow; “Doing Journalism Is a Crime”: Guatemalan Publisher José Rubén Zamora Faces 40 Years Behind Bars
Headlines for June 12, 2023; Take a Leak? 37-Count Indictment Details Trump’s Hiding of Documents, from Resort Bathroom to Ballroom; “Every Body”: New Film Shines Spotlight on Intersex Community’s Fight for Recognition, Bodily Autonomy
Headlines for June 09, 2023; Indicted Again: Donald Trump Faces Federal Espionage & Conspiracy Charges in Classified Docs Probe; Supreme Surprise: Court Upholds Voting Rights Act, Strikes Down Alabama’s Racially Gerrymandered Maps; DOJ vs. African People’s Socialist Party: Omali Yeshitela Blasts Charges of Being Russian Agent
We look at artificial intelligence with two guests who have written extensively about the topic. Award-winning journalist Anjan Sundaram hosted the television miniseries Coded World for Channel NewsAsia, Singapore’s national broadcaster, on how artificial intelligence is changing humans. David Wallace-Wells is a New York Times opinion writer who wrote a piece headlined “A.I. Is Being Built by People Who Think It Might Destroy Us.”
In Part 2 of our interview with Anjan Sundaram, award-winning journalist and author, we discuss in detail his new piece in Foreign Policy, “Why the World’s Deadliest Wars Go Unreported.”
Headlines for June 08, 2023; “Airpocalypse”: David Wallace-Wells on Red Skies, Raging Wildfires & Pollution Link to Climate Crisis; “World’s Deadliest Wars Go Unreported”: Journalist Anjan Sundaram
Headlines for June 07, 2023; A National State of Emergency: Human Rights Campaign Sounds the Alarm over Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in U.S.; Cornel West on Running for President, Ending Ukraine War & Taking on “Corporate Duopoly” of Dems & GOP
Headlines for June 06, 2023; Cop City: Atlanta City Council OKs $67M for Facility Despite Mass Protests & Armed Raid on Bail Fund; “Enough Is Enough”: Australian PM Throws Support Behind Movement to Free Julian Assange; Catastrophic Flooding Feared as Critical Ukrainian Dam Is Destroyed; Zaporizhzhia Nuke Plant at Risk
Headlines for June 05, 2023; David Sirota: Working Class Will Be “Deeply Harmed” by Biden’s “Big Win” on Debt Ceiling; David Sirota: Florida Lawmakers Help Ron DeSantis Shovel More Cash to Wall Street; Ed Bisch Fights to Hold Sacklers Accountable for Opioid Epidemic 22 Years After Son Died of Overdose
Headlines for June 02, 2023; Rep. Ro Khanna: Avoiding Default Was Necessary, But Debt Deal Was Passed at Expense of “Most Vulnerable”; Rep. Ro Khanna Says Sen. Dianne Feinstein Should “Step Down with Dignity”; Armed Police Raid on Bail Fund for Cop City Opponents Is Attack on “Infrastructure of the Movement”; A Sweetheart Deal for the Sacklers: Billionaires Get Immunity from Civil Lawsuits over Opioid Crisis
Headlines for June 01, 2023; Artificial Intelligence “Godfathers” Call for Regulation as Rights Groups Warn AI Encodes Oppression; “Turning His Back on Student Debtors”: Biden’s Debt Deal Ends Freeze on Loan Payments for Millions
Headlines for February 24, 2023; Bomb Train: Calls Grow for New Laws on Rail Safety After Toxic Disaster in East Palestine, Ohio; Outrage Soars in Occupied West Bank After Israel Kills 11, Injures 500 Palestinians in Nablus Raid