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Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
“It’s Hard to Believe, But Syria’s War Is Getting Worse”: World Powers Clash as Civilian Deaths Soar; As Deadly Flu Sweeps Country, Koch-Backed Group Fights Paid Sick Leave Policies Nationwide.
Ravi Ragbir: Immigrant Leaders Are Surveilled & Targeted for Speaking Out About Trump’s Deportations; Judges Across U.S. Are Halting Trump’s Mass Deportations & Ruling Immigrants Have Due Process Rights; Remembering the Extraordinary Life of Pakistani Human Rights Lawyer & Activist Asma Jahangir.
Breaking: Ravi Ragbir Wins Stay of Deportation After Filing Free Speech Suit Over Being Targeted for Activism; Olympics Begin with Unified Korean Team Marching Together as Trump Continues to Threaten N. Korea; Scores of Democratic Lawmakers Join GOP to Back Budget Bill with No Protection for DREAMers; Lawrence Wilkerson: I Helped Sell the False Choice … Continued
Directorate S: Steve Coll on the CIA & America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan & Pakistan; Black Lives Matter Activist Muhiyidin d’Baha, Who Grabbed Confederate Flag, Shot Dead in New Orleans.
NYC Taxi Driver Kills Himself at City Hall after Condemning Uber & Politicians for Financial Ruin; “They were Both Cops & Robbers”: Baltimore Police Scandal Exposes Theft, Cover-Ups & Drug Peddling; Bresha Meadows, Teenage Girl Who Killed Her Abusive Father, Finally Freed After 10 Months in Jail; NAACP vs. Trump: Racial Discrimination Suit Filed to … Continued
When Deportation is a Death Sentence: The Fatal Consequences of U.S. Immigration Policy; When U.S. Needs MLK’s Voice More Than Ever, Automaker Dodge Waters Down His Message to Peddle Trucks; A More Beautiful & Terrible History: The Whitewashing & Distortion of Rosa Parks and MLK’s Legacies.
Head of Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Group: Trump’s Nuclear Policy “Puts Us on Path Toward Nuclear War”; As Paul Ryan Touts a Secretary’s $1.50 Weekly Pay Hike, Koch Bros. Reap $1.4B from GOP Tax Plan; 17 Arrested Outside Super Bowl, Capping NFL Season of Racial Justice Protests On and Off Field.
“Mr. Boston”: Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press; “They Repress Us Because We’re Poor”: Immigrant Rights Activist Speaks from Sanctuary in Colorado.
Marcy Wheeler on Showdown over Nunes Memo, Mueller Probe & Reauthorization of Mass Surveillance; 16 Years of War: Trump Joins Obama & Bush in Using SOTU to Hail “Progress” in Afghan War; Johann Hari on How the “Junk Values” of Neoliberalism Drive Depression and Anxiety in the U.S.
Made in the USA: The Real History of the MS-13 Gang Trump Talked About in State of the Union; We Are Not Going to Be Intimidated: Undocumented Activist Attends SOTU Despite Threat of Arrest; Ilhan Omar, First Somali-American State Lawmaker: Trump’s SOTU was “Disgusting” & “Fascist”; In Warmongering First State of the Union, Trump Doubles … Continued
