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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 02/10/2026

Reporter Steven Hale witnessed Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee. He describes to us what he saw.

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/09/2026

See Amy Goodman in Berlin on Oct. 1 at a special screening of "Steal This Story, Please!" Details: www.democracynow.org/events/2026/10…

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/09/2026

Human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck represents the family of Patrice Lumumba, the first Congolese prime minister, who was assassinated in a U.S.- and Belgian-backed coup. “The liberal order was also the history of disorder in many parts of the world,” says Kaleck.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/09/2026

“I was born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, and then I had to flee the country at the age of 18 to Lebanon. And then I had also to leave Lebanon to come here to this country,” says Mahmoud Khalil in a conversation about his new memoir, “No Land to Stand On.”

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 29/09/2026

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 29/09/2026

Danish Afghan filmmaker and journalist Nagieb Khaja joins us in Copenhagen to discuss his reporting on the U.S. military, the Taliban and U.S.-backed Afghan police forces during the war in Afghanistan.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 29/09/2026

Marwan Barghouti "has been established in our minds, in our collective memory, as the father of the Palestinian nation, as our own Nelson Mandela," says Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026

A secret CIA contract with Steve Jobs in the late 1980s may have saved his career and laid the foundation for Apple's success in subsequent decades, according to journalist Sharon Weinberger. She confirmed the long-rumored relationship for her new book "Valley of Death."

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026

The new film "Britain's Gaza Secrets Exposed" documents how the U.K. government downplayed evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza. "It's quite extraordinary, the level of duplicity that was going on, in order for us to keep selling Israel arms," says executive producer @bendepear.bsky.social.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026

"What we have is a lot of furious people." The eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal in Madrid, after an investment fund bought her apartment building and more than tripled her rent, has become a symbol of Spain's rising cost of living.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/09/2026

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2026

“We understandably focus on the person of Netanyahu, but this goes so much deeper,” says former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy, responding to Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the U.N. on Thursday.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2026

“The policies that we've seen entrenched and frankly worsened and become more dangerous and deadly under Donald Trump were really established by Biden's team,” says @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social, author of "Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza.”

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2026

At the U.N. this week, Trump repeated his attacks on the International Criminal Court and urged other nations to pull out of the ICC. This is “an absolute low point, but [it] opens a clear opportunity for all of the other countries in the world to rise up,” says Varsha Gandikota of The Hague Group.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026

Ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations, hundreds of demonstrators led by Jewish Voice for Peace staged a sit-in protest in New York City on Thursday, stopping traffic for over an hour just three blocks away from the U.N.’s headquarters. Over 100 protesters were arrested.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026

See Amy Goodman at an upcoming screening of "Steal This Story, Please!" in London, U.K. More details: www.democracynow.org/events

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/09/2026

"You're just seeing a politicization of the science." Vaccine expert @pauloffit.bsky.social says the measles outbreak — with four deaths reported in Pennsylvania over the last month — is a grim sign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s impact as health secretary.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/09/2026

President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday and threatened to "annihilate the Islamic Republic." Analyst Trita Parsi says that while Trump may think such language projects strength, the Iranians interpret it as "a sign of his desperation" to end the war he started.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/09/2026

Jason Eaton has been convicted of attempted second-degree murder in the November 2023 shootings of three 20-year-old students in Burlington, Vermont. Hisham Awartani was paralyzed from the chest down, while his two friends Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid were wounded.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/09/2026

“The genocide that's being committed against the people of Palestine … the numbers are appalling,” says Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío. “That's why we try ourselves not to make comparison, but the approach in the case of Cuba, in different dimensions, is similar.”

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/09/2026

“Amazon is able to make these ridiculous claims that they are 100% renewable, and in the same breath, create massive data centers,” says Kavita Sthanumurthy, a former software engineer at Amazon and a member of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/09/2026

Over the weekend, journalists with CNN, MS NOW and Politico reported their press badges were confiscated when they attempted to enter White House grounds. The outlets have announced they will file a First Amendment lawsuit against the Trump administration in response.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/09/2026

We speak to Tutu Alicante, a human rights lawyer from Equatorial Guinea, about so-called "third-country deportations" of immigrants from the United States to authoritarian countries, where they have been subject to serious violations of their rights.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/09/2026

Playwright Sarah Jones discusses her latest solo performance, "America, Who Hurt You?" It's being presented by the National Black Theatre and the Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, New York.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20/09/2026

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 19/09/2026

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/09/2026

Fifteen years after Occupy Wall Street, organizer Yotam Marom says its deepest impact was how it "changed the public's common sense about class and class struggle and inequality in this country." Marom's new book is "For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness."

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/09/2026

Ahead of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly, @oxfaminternational.bsky.social's executive director urges world leaders to take "decisive action" on multiple crises. "The world is torn apart by the inequality emergency, the climate crisis [and] the wars all around."

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 17/09/2026

Philosopher and author Susan Neiman says Stephen Miller’s comment that we live in a world “that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power” echoes two sources — Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt and Athenian perpetrators of genocide.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 17/09/2026

President Trump last month authorized the duty-free importation of 660 million pounds of cheap beef trimmings that will get mixed in with other cuts to make ground beef. “This meat is some of the meat most likely to be contaminated,” says Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/09/2026

“The military commissions in Guantanamo have been a unique disaster that you can trace back to the whole effort to try to impose military justice — tough justice — led by Vice President Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in the aftermath of 911,” says national security reporter at ProPublica Tim Golden.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/09/2026

Saudi “agents were directly involved with providing the support network that was needed here in the United States for Al Qaeda to carry out the treacherous attacks,” says National Chair of 9/11 Families, Terry Strada, whose husband was killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/09/2026

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/09/2026

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11/09/2026

"The bar for proving proving yourself innocent was so much higher than the bar for intelligence used to lethally target and kill someone."

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11/09/2026

"The institutions and the authorities that were put in place after 9/11 now being repurposed by the Trump administration."

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10/09/2026

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would "issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000" but failed to explain how. www.democracynow.org/2026/9/10/head…

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10/09/2026

Five years after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, activist Masuda Sultan says it's important "not to repeat the 1990s of turning our backs" on the population under Taliban rule. "We need to engage with the Afghan people, support Afghan women and support civil society."

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 09/09/2026

The newspaper Haaretz recently published excerpts of a forthcoming book detailing its reporting that UAE president Mohamed bin Zayed warned Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the October 7 attack that Hamas was planning a major operation, and that the Israeli leader failed to inform his security chiefs.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 09/09/2026

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, “across the country, but particularly in New York, New Jersey, we saw these massive roundups of mostly Muslim men or people that were perceived to be Muslim,” says Fahd Ahmed of Desis Rising Up and Moving. “There was at least 1,200 men that were picked up.”

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 09/09/2026

“There were so many responses to 9/11. One was obviously fear and grief and shock, but another was rage,” says journalist Rozina Ali. “And so much of that rage was towards Muslims and those who looked like Muslims around the country.”

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 07/09/2026

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/09/2026

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/09/2026

Tyson Foods shuttered one of its facilities in Illinois earlier this summer, laying off more than 2,500 employees in the process. "They got zero notice," says writer and labor organizer Caitlyn Clark, who explains how consolidation in the meat industry contributes to labor abuses and higher prices.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/09/2026

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration violated the constitutional rights of international students in seeking to deport them for their pro-Palestinian activism and criticism of Israel. The lawsuit was filed by the Stanford Daily, the student newspaper at Stanford University.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/09/2026

The first brain surgery using live artificial intelligence assistance was performed successfully last week in London. “It's a really big milestone,” says researcher Shreya Johri, who studies the benefits of using AI in medicine.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/09/2026

“We should not be punishing communities of color by cutting away voting locations that are familiar and common to them,” says Roderick Miles, a Democratic commissioner for Tarrant County, TX, where Republicans have voted to slash the number of polling sites by nearly one-third ahead of the midterms.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/09/2026

Pioneering feminist icon Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92. According to her Instagram page, she "passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her." She was a tireless advocate for the social, economic and political advancement of women.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 02/09/2026

What is Hindutva, and why is it so dangerous?

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