Democracy Now! Audio

Headlines for July 28, 2023; As the U.N. Warns “The Era of Global Boiling Has Arrived,” Biden Resists Declaring a Climate Emergency; Texas Rep. Greg Casar on Why He Undertook “Thirst Strike” to Demand Heat Protections for Workers; Emmett Till’s Cousin, Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., Welcomes New National Monument for Lynched Teenager

Headlines for July 27, 2023; Judge Puts Hunter Biden Plea Deal on Hold as Republicans Ramp Up Attacks on President & Son; Brutal Ohio Police Dog Attack on Black Truck Driver Highlights Pattern, Echoes Violence of Slavery; Racism Unleashed: Attack Dogs Maul, Bite & Terrorize Prisoners Across United States

Headlines for July 26, 2023; Activists Demand U.S. End Korean War After 70 Years as Biden Admin Ramps Up “Nuclear Blackmail”; New Witness to Malcolm X Assassination Says He Heard Police Ask If Killer Was “With Us”; Ben Crump: Florida’s New Curriculum, Claiming “Benefits” of Slavery, Will Cause “Psychological Trauma”

Headlines for July 25, 2023; Haggai Matar & Gideon Levy: Israel’s Fight over Judicial Changes Ignores Occupation & Apartheid; 19 GOP Attorneys General Seek Private Medical Records of Patients Who Obtain Out-of-State Abortions; 100 Years of Statelessness: Kurdish Activist Walks 300 Miles from D.C. to U.N. to Demand Kurdish Rights

Headlines for July 24, 2023; DOJ Threatens to Sue Texas Gov. Abbott for Installing Barrels Wrapped in Razor Wire in Rio Grande; The Intercept Reveals Border Patrol Is Caging Migrants Outdoors in Deadly Arizona Heat; “Chaos & Violence”: NYC to Pay $13M to Those Attacked by Police in 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests; Is Hollywood Still Afraid of the Truth About the Atomic Bomb?: Greg Mitchell on “Oppenheimer”

Part 2 of our interview with longtime journalist Greg Mitchell, who has written extensively about the new Hollywood film Oppenheimer, as well as U.S. nuclear weapons policy. He was editor of Nuclear Times magazine from 1982 to 1986. His books include The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood — and America — Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Hiroshima in America and Atomic Cover-up.

Headlines for July 21, 2023; “Immensely Invisible”: Immigrant Women in ICE Jails Face Sexual Abuse Despite Reforms, Report Reveals; “The Wind Knows My Name”: Novelist Isabel Allende on Child Separation from the Nazis to U.S. Border

Headlines for July 20, 2023; “While We Watched”: New Film Spotlights Journalist Ravish Kumar’s Fight for Truth in Modi’s India; Meet the Wisconsin Teacher Fired for Protesting Ban on Miley Cyrus & Dolly Parton Song “Rainbowland”

Headlines for July 19, 2023; William Arkin: CIA Is Playing “Outsize Role” in Ukraine Despite Biden Pledge Not to Send U.S. Forces; The Whitewashing of Neo-Nazis: Lev Golinkin & Ben Makuch on How Far Right Is Exploiting Ukraine War

Headlines for July 18, 2023; Palestinian Attorney Noura Erakat: The U.S. Is Normalizing Apartheid by Hosting Israel’s President; Israeli Forces Blindfold & Handcuff Palestinian Reporter Who Filmed Settler Attack in Masafer Yatta; Historian John Womack: Unions Need to Exploit “Choke Points” in Economy to Grow Working-Class Power

Headlines for July 17, 2023; “The Heat Will Kill You First”: Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell on Life and Death on a Scorched Planet; Top U.N. Human Rights Official & Fmr. Swedish FM on Palestine, Sudan & U.S. Cluster Bombs to Ukraine

Headlines for June 21, 2023; NY Dems Pass Medical Debt Relief as Progressives Push to Expand Healthcare to Undocumented Residents; Minnesota Miracle: Democrats Use Supermajority to Pass Abortion, Voting, Labor, Tenant Reforms & More; DOJ Report Exposes Minneapolis Police Civil Rights Violations Amid Call for Community Role in Reforms; Hunter Biden: President’s Son Takes Plea Deal on Tax & Gun Charges, But Legal Trouble May Not Be Over

Headlines for June 20, 2023; RIP Daniel Ellsberg: “Most Dangerous Man in America” on Leaking Pentagon Papers, Exposing Gov’t Lies; Months Before Death, Daniel Ellsberg Warned Crisis over Ukraine & Taiwan Could Lead to Nuclear War; “The Doomsday Machine”: Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner; Daniel Ellsberg’s Dying Wish: Free Julian Assange, Encourage Whistleblowers & Reveal the Truth

Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America; “Sing Your Song”: Remembering Harry Belafonte, Who Used His Stardom to Help MLK & Civil Rights Movement; “Get Down to Business”: Harry Belafonte in 2016 on Trump, Socialism & Fighting for Justice

Headlines for June 16, 2023; Big Win for Tribal Sovereignty: Indian Child Welfare Act Upheld by Supreme Court in Surprise Ruling; Sen. Chris Van Hollen: State Dept. Must Release Report on Shireen Abu Akleh Death, Hold Killers Accountable; Was Mika Westwolf Killed by White Nationalist? Indigenous Woman’s Parents & Community Demand Justice; “Unacceptable”: Olympic Track Star Tori Bowie’s Death Highlights Black Maternal Health Crisis