Democracy Now! Audio

Amnesty International reveals a bomb that killed 16 civilians in Yemen was made in the USA; 51 countries sign a new treaty to ban nuclear weapons; and thousands gather to celebrate the life of legendary comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory.

Hurricane Maria knocks out power and causes catastrophic flooding in Puerto Rico; Jeffrey Sachs on climate change and threat of nuclear war with North Korea; author Andrew Pitzer on her new book, "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps."

Headlines for July 07, 2017; Dystopian Nightmare: Eyewitness Decries Police Repression at G20 Summit as 100,000 Take to Streets; Srećko Horvat on "Democracy in Europe Movement" & Uniting Leftists Against Failed Policies of G20; Katrina vanden Heuvel: Now is Time for Trump & Putin to Negotiate, Not Escalate Tensions; Berta Cáceres's Daughter Speaks Out After Surviving Assassination Attempt in Honduras

Extended interview with Syrian citizen journalist Abdalaziz Alhamza, co-founder of the group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently.

In Honduras, 26-year-old Bertha Zúniga Cáceres, the daughter of the murdered Honduran indigenous and environmental leader Berta Cáceres, has survived an attempted attack by a group of unknown assailants wielding machetes. We speak with Cáceres about the attempt on her life.

As President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepare to meet in Hamburg on Friday, we speak to journalist Rami Khouri about what’s at stake in the Syrian conflict.

Headlines for July 06, 2017; Embraced by Far-Right Gov't in Poland, Trump Claims Future of Western Civilization is at Stake; Tens of Thousands Plan to Protest Trump and Globalization at G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany; Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently: Syrian Citizen Journalists Document a City Under Siege

Headlines for July 05, 2017; Will Trump Seek Talks with North Korea or Counter Missile Test with More U.S. Military Aggression?; 44 States Say No to Trump: Resistance Grows as Trump's Election Commission Seeks Private Voter Data; Ari Berman: Kris Kobach Is Helping Trump Lay Groundwork for Nationwide Voter Suppression Effort; Rami Khouri: In Rift with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE Want to Hold Back Waves of Change

"What to the Slave is 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech; Standing Rock's Fight Against Dakota Pipeline Continues While Tribe Plans for a Fossil-Free Future; Grandson of Former VP Henry A. Wallace on Standing Rock's Fossil-Free Future & American Fascism; Divest-Invest: Foundations Urged to Back Climate Solutions While Divesting from Fossil Fuels

Bernie Sanders on Resisting Trump, Why the Democratic Party is an "Absolute Failure" & More

Headlines for June 30, 2017; Disability Rights Activist Arrested for Protesting Trumpcare: We Won't Be Silent While You Kill Us; "Inaction Means Death": California Sees Groundswell of Support for Single-Payer Healthcare; Naomi Klein: The Worst Is Yet to Come with Trump, So We Must Be Ready for Shock Politics

Headlines for June 29, 2017; Historian: Republican Push to Replace Obamacare Reflects Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America; Republicans Have Trifecta Control of 25 States & Need 6 More to Call for a Constitutional Convention; Trump Picks DAPL Lobbyist to Oversee EPA Water Safety in Same Week He Rolls Back Water Safeguards

Headlines for June 28, 2017; "America is on Trial": Historian Ibram X. Kendi on the Failure to Convict Cops Who Kill Black People; Stamped from the Beginning: Ibram X. Kendi on the History of Racist Ideas in U.S.; D.C. Police Accused of Using "Rape as Punishment" Targeting Some Arrested During Trump Inauguration; Brazilian President Michel Temer Charged with Corruption, a Year After He Backed Ouster of Rousseff

Headlines for June 27, 2017; Senate GOP Healthcare Bill Estimated to Kill 28,600 More in U.S. Each Year & Drop 22M from Insurance; Supreme Court Allows Part of Trump Travel Ban to Take Effect Before Ruling on Constitutionality; In Major Church-State Decision, Supreme Court Sides with Religious Institution; Court: Bush Administration Officials Can't Be Held Liable for Post-9/11 Mass Roundup of Muslims; Dahlia Lithwick: Justice Neil Gorsuch Proving to Be "Far to the Right" of Antonin Scalia

Headlines for June 26, 2017; Indian PM Modi Was Once Banned from Entering U.S., Today He Meets Trump at White House; Arundhati Roy on the Rising Hindu Right in India, the Gujarat Massacre & Her Love of Eduardo Galeano; Jackson, Miss. Mayor-elect Chokwe Lumumba: I Plan to Build the "Most Radical City on the Planet"