Democracy Now! Audio

Headlines for July 18, 2016; Three Police Officers Shot Dead in Baton Rouge Two Weeks After Officers Killed Alton Sterling; Cornel West: Justice and Accountability are Necessary to End Tension over Killings by Police; Cornel West: Why I Endorse Green Party's Jill Stein Over "Neoliberal Disaster" Hillary Clinton; Many Who Opposed Coup in Turkey Came Out in Support of Democratic Process, not the President; "My Heart Aches": Sen. Nina Turner, from Family of Police Officers, Responds to Baton Rouge Attack; Kurdish Activist: Erdogan Should Be Pushed Out, But by the People, Not the Military; Medea Benjamin: Why Is Government Downplaying Saudi-9/11 Docs After Keeping Them Secret for Years?; Meet the RNC Activists Questioned by Authorities Ahead of This Week's Convention; Dozens of Companies Withdraw Funding from RNC as Trump Headed to Nomination

Headlines for July 15, 2016; As Bastille Day Attack in France Kills 84, Is the War on Terror a "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy"?; Puerto Rico's Payday Loans: The Shocking Story Behind Wall Street's Role in Debt Crisis; Exclusive: Meet Yale Dishwasher Corey Menafee, Who Smashed Racist Stained-Glass Window; Craig Steven Wilder on How Georgetown & U.S. Catholic Church Expanded Thanks to Slave Holdings

Democracy Now! expands to a daily two-hour broadcast during the 2016 Republican and Democratic National Conventions.

Headlines for July 14, 2016; Ex-Seattle Police Chief Condemns Systemic Police Racism Dating Back to Slave Patrols; Black Ohio Cop to Prejudiced White Officers: Take the Uniform Off and Put on KKK Hoodie; Ex-Seattle Police Chief Defends Citizens Filming Cops: It's 100% Lawful for an American to Do It; Black Father in Letter to His Son: "I Thought of You When I Saw the Son of Alton Sterling Weeping"; Eddie Glaude & Son: Leave Ballots Blank, Because Voting for the Status Quo Threatens Our Lives

Headlines for July 13, 2016; Meet Abdullah Muflahi: He Filmed Alton Sterling Shooting & Was Then Detained by Baton Rouge Police; Police Arrest, Detain Air Force Vet for 26 Hours After He Posted Alton Sterling Shooting Video; Two Years After Eric Garner's Death, Ramsey Orta, Who Filmed Police, Is Only One Heading to Jail

Headlines for July 12, 2016; As Sanders Endorses Clinton, How Far Left Has He Pushed the Democratic Party Platform?; Filmmaker Josh Fox: Sanders Pushed Party Platform to Left, But We Failed on TPP, Medicare, Gaza; "Divergent" Star Shailene Woodley on Bernie Sanders, DNC Caravan & Speaking Out in Hollywood; Historian: "You Can't Disconnect History of the 2nd Amendment from the History of White Supremacy"

Headlines for July 11, 2016; As Protests Sweep Country, New Video Shows Off-Duty NY Cop Fatally Shooting Black Man Delrawn Small; Death, Abuse and Sexual Assault: The Horrific and Unregulated Private Prison Van Transport Business; Rep. Keith Ellison: Arrest the Officer Who Killed Philando Castile, He Has to Be Held Accountable

Headlines for July 08, 2016; Dallas: Five Police Officers Shot Dead; Obama Condemns "Vicious, Calculated and Despicable Attack"; Marc Lamont Hill: Dallas Shootings Can't Deter Us from Continuing Movement Against State Violence; Baton Rouge NAACP President Demands Arrest of Police Officers Who Killed Alton Sterling; "They are Here to Kill Us Because We are Black": Girlfriend of Philando Castile on Police Shootings; Voices from the Streets: Thousands March in NYC Against Police Violence, 40 Arrested

Headlines for July 07, 2016; "You Shot Four Bullets into Him, Sir": Girlfriend Live-Streams Philando Castile's Death by Police; Alton Sterling, Father of Five, Murdered by Police Two Months After "Blue Lives Matter" Bill Signed; Murderers with Badges, Licensed to Kill: Nation Reels from Alton Sterling's Death at Hands of Police; Marc Lamont Hill & Mychal Denzel Smith: We Must End State Violence Against Black Bodies

Headlines for July 06, 2016; Iraqi Exile: U.K. Iraq Inquiry Confirms the War Was Based on a Lie; Tariq Ali on Chilcot Iraq Report: Tony Blair is a War Criminal for Pushing Us into Illegal War; Tariq Ramadan: Iraq War Waged for U.S. Economic Interests Has Destabilized All of Middle East; Tariq Ramadan on Medina Bombings: Saudi Regime is Not a Victim But Perpetrator of Regional Violence; U.S. Policies Have Not Changed: Banned Under Bush, Tariq Ramadan Speaks Out Against Obama & Clinton; After Siege of Dhaka Restaurant Kills 20, Bangladesh Confronts Threat to Secular Traditions

Headlines for July 05, 2016; Trump's "Greatest Mentor" was Red-Baiting Aide to Joseph McCarthy and Attorney for NYC Mob Families; How Donald Trump Threatened an Investigative Reporter, Attempting to Bribe Him with a Free Apartment; Wayne Barrett on Donald Trump's Broken Promises, Tax Returns & Potential VP Pick Chris Christie; As Workers at Trump's Taj Mahal Casino Go on Strike, a Look at Trump's Long History of Labor Abuse; Trump's Unofficial Biographer Wayne Barrett: "The Way He Has Treated His Wives is Just Deplorable"; "A Shocking Threat to the World": Biographer Wayne Barrett on Donald Trump

"What to the Slave is 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass' Historic Speech; Spoken Word Legend Saul Williams on Poetry, Art & Resistance; Jesse Williams' Powerful BET Awards Speech: "We're Done Watching Whiteness Use and Abuse Us"

Headlines for April 08, 2014; All the Presidents' Bankers: Nomi Prins on the Secret History of Washington-Wall Street Collusion; "We Can't Just Give a Blank Check": Lawmakers Call for Ending Secrecy of U.S. Intel's Black Budget; "Science Does Not Exist on Capitol Hill": Rep. Peter Welch on House GOP's Climate Change Denial; Can Any Court Hold U.S. Accountable for Killing Americans Overseas with Drone Strikes?

Headlines for April 07, 2014; Sy Hersh Reveals Potential Turkish Role in Syria Chemical Strike That Almost Sparked U.S. Bombing; 20 Years Later, Rwanda Commemorates Genocide the World Ignored; Refusing to Call It Genocide: Documents Show Clinton Administration Ignored Mass Killings in Rwanda

Headlines for April 04, 2014; "The War Comes Home": Deadly Fort Hood Shooting Raises Questions About Treatment of Returning Vets; Drugging America's Veterans: Painkiller Abuse Spreads as VA Becomes Vets' "Drug Dealer of Choice"; Is USAID the New CIA? Agency Secretly Built Cuban Twitter Program to Fuel Anti-Castro Protests