#  @democracynow Democracy Now! The current focus of Democracy Now! appears to be on the ongoing crisis in Gaza, with numerous videos addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including discussions with experts and activists, and reports on the humanitarian situation on the ground. The network also continues to cover issues related to US politics, including concerns about democracy, government actions, and social justice. 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Albizu Campos spent some [--] years in prison for organizing against U.S. colonial rule. He was born in [----] seven years before the U.S. invaded the island. He would go on to become the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=khkONOYSB8Q) 2015-04-21T14:50Z 3.2M followers, 292.6K engagements "Karoline Leavitts relative threatened with deportation On Tuesday Bruna Ferreira was released from detention in Louisiana on a $1500 bond. The Trump administration has characterized her as a criminal illegal alien from Brazil a characterization Bruna refutes and has called disgusting. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2aG_0XdAy_o) 2025-12-11T02:15Z 3.2M followers, 307.6K engagements "Devastating: Trump EPA to Scrap Landmark Climate Finding in Pro-Fossil Fuel Deregulatory Push Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In a victory for the fossil fuel industry a set of Obama-era rules that required the federal government to regulate the emissions of six greenhouse gases is being reversed by the Trump administration. The changes would undo the legal basis of the fight against global warming as well as remove industrial reporting obligations and roll back emissions standards for cars and trucks. Environmental engineer Gretchen Goldman helped author those" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CVcM1pZT5bI) 2026-02-11T17:13Z 3.2M followers, 45.1K engagements ""America Amrica": Greg Grandin on Latin American History from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We spend the hour with acclaimed historian Greg Grandin discussing his new book America Amrica: A New History of the New World which spans five centuries of North and South American history since the Spanish conquest including the fight against fascism in the 1930s. He examines the U.S.-Latin American relationship under Trump with a focus on El Salvador Panama Ecuador and Cuba. Grandin also has a new piece for The Intercept that draws on the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=M6cPoNuEv0U) 2025-04-23T14:03Z 3.2M followers, 740.1K engagements "Top U.S. & World Headlines September [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YCasYAM7KHY) 2024-09-30T14:14Z 3.2M followers, 233.1K engagements "Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights His Half-Century in Prison & More Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February. Before his commutation by former President Joe Biden the 81-year-old Peltier spent nearly [--] years behind bars. Peltier has always maintained his innocence for the [----] killing of two FBI officers. He is expected to serve the remainder of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eBvNsS0CeBA) 2025-09-19T14:43Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements "Jewish Rep. Balint Walks Out of Hearing After Bondi Calls Her Antisemitic Vermont Congressmember Becca Balint asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein a demand that Bondi repeatedly ignored during the hearing" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hanbOkthkiI) 2026-02-12T19:30Z 3.2M followers, 218K engagements "Journalist Vicky Ward on New Epstein Files & Survivors' Fight for Accountability Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As the DOJ releases the largest batch of files yet on the federal investigation into Epstein we look at some of the most significant revelations with investigative journalist Vicky Ward who has spent decades reporting on the deceased sexual predator his powerful associates and the impact of his crimes. Survivors have condemned the Department of Justice for not complying with the Epstein Files Transparency Act which required all files to be released last" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nyOcYK6T8nE) 2025-12-24T15:36Z 3.2M followers, 886.2K engagements ""Love Forward Together": Faith Leaders in North Carolina Launch 50-Mile March for Social Justice Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Faith leaders in North Carolina are leading a three-day trek from Wilson to Raleigh in an event aimed at supporting "unabridged voting rights; living wages and ending poverty; welcoming immigrants" and more. Reverend Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove spoke with _Democracy Now_ from the march saying that "love is the power that can overcome fear in this moment." As North Carolina faces a President Trump-led gerrymandering effort Wilson-Hartgrove" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9SSV2xhecoE) 2026-02-13T15:58Z 3.2M followers, 14.8K engagements "Anand Giridharadas on the Elite Network Around Epstein Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt While much of the recent interest in Jeffrey Epstein has focused on the late sexual predators relationship with President Donald Trump his emails also reveal his close relationships with other powerful figures from the worlds of politics finance academia and beyond. The thousands of files released by the House Oversight Committee earlier this month include his correspondence from April [----] through January [----] after he was already a registered sex offender for abusing underage" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B7Eb0WNvORQ) 2025-11-25T16:37Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements ""Orwell: 2+2=5": Raoul Peck & Alex Gibney on New Documentary Authoritarianism Trump & More Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with the acclaimed filmmakers Raoul Peck and Alex Gibney about their latest documentary "Orwell: 2+2=5" which explores the life and career of George Orwell and why his political writing remains relevant today. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=X61vAlTJSGY) 2025-10-02T15:13Z 3.2M followers, 677.4K engagements "As Black History Month Turns [---] Trump Refuses to Apologize for Video Depicting Obamas as Apes Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt' President Donald Trump is refusing to apologize for sharing a racist video on social media that depicts former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes. The video remained available on Trump's Truth Social page for [--] hours before it was deleted around noon on Friday. It prompted rare criticism from members of his own party including South Carolina's Tim Scott the Senate's only Black Republican who called it "the most racist" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=p_5CkmCsKXw) 2026-02-09T16:06Z 3.2M followers, 45.6K engagements ""The Making of Donald Trump": David Cay Johnston on Trump's Ties to the Mob & Drug Traffickers http://democracynow.org - David Cay Johnston began covering Donald Trump in the 1980s when he was working as the Atlantic City reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Johnstons new book "The Making of Donald Trump" looks at a side of Trump seldom covered in the press: his ties to the mob drug traffickers and felons. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: http://democracynow.org" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0xc0EpF49vE) 2016-08-10T15:53Z 3.2M followers, 435.2K engagements "Meet Aliya Rahman Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with Aliya Rahman a U.S. citizen who was violently dragged from her car by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month and detained at the Whipple Federal Building which has become the epicenter of the government's immigration crackdown in the city. Rahman says she repeatedly told agents she was disabled and had a brain injury but they ignored her pleas for medical attention or other accommodation. "I was taken out of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3-9fIHuh8Bc) 2026-02-09T16:04Z 3.2M followers, 113.6K engagements "U.S. is "empire in decline": historian Historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is "an empire in decline" exhibiting the same "irrationality" as previous declining powers" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3BJtNstaWmc) 2026-01-13T22:03Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements "CBS News Under Fire for Scrapping Reporting Critical of Trump's Deportation Agenda Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Watch ProPublica documentary "Surviving CECOT": https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Lku5h9xjrqc The new head of CBS News Bari Weiss is facing accusations of censorship after she abruptly canceled a segment from Sunday's episode of "60 Minutes" just three hours before broadcast. The segment centered on the stories of Venezuelan immigrants sent to El Salvador's brutal CECOT prison by the Trump administration. "When so much of our ability to communicate out" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=A7KX-KJU0BU) 2025-12-23T15:32Z 3.2M followers, 408.8K engagements "Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Elon Musk was born in [----] in Johannesburg South Africa and raised in a wealthy family under the country's racist apartheid laws. Musk's family history reveals ties to apartheid and neo-Nazi politics. We speak with Chris McGreal reporter for The Guardian to understand how Musk's upbringing shaped his worldview as well as that of his South African-raised colleague Peter Thiel a right-wing billionaire who co-founded PayPal alongside Musk. "Musk" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ahv3IKzMdHA) 2025-03-27T14:58Z 3.2M followers, 4.8M engagements ""I Have Never Felt So Much Fear": Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley TX Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex where families describe horrific conditions inside such as being served contaminated food with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals. Lights are reportedly left on for [--] hours a day. South Texas Family Residential Center in the town of Dilley a few dozen miles from the southern border with Mexico detains an estimated 3500" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FPVFPgBfc8k) 2026-02-10T15:32Z 3.2M followers, 21.2K engagements "Cubas U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade Cuban ambassador to the United Nations Ernesto Sobern Guzmn speaks about the growing humanitarian crisis in Cuba due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GBed6632oRs) 2026-02-13T17:01Z 3.2M followers, 20.1K engagements "Permanent Record: Why NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Risked His Life to Expose Surveillance State Six years ago Edward Snowden leaked a trove of secret documents about how the United States had built a massive surveillance apparatus to spy on Americans and people across the globe. Snowden was then charged in the U.S. for violating the Espionage Act and other laws. As he attempted to flee to Latin America Snowden became stranded in Russia after the U.S. revoked his passport. He has lived in Moscow ever since. Snowden just published his memoir Permanent Record in which he writes about what" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KLroojfi298) 2019-09-26T15:19Z 3.2M followers, 417.4K engagements "Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite's Veil of Silence Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across the globe. Millions of pages remain unreleased. As many prominent U.S. figures evade accountability following mentions in the Epstein files a number of European figures have resigned for their relationships with Epstein. "The most" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=P0P8GrAlTEk) 2026-02-10T15:31Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements "Feels Like a Cover-Up: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Slams Trump Admin over Deadly ICE Crackdown Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt A federal judge in Minnesota heard arguments Monday in a lawsuit filed by city and state officials to halt Trumps deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents to Minnesota. The federal government cannot coerce us into doing it their way says Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison who is part of the group that brought the lawsuit. As the Trump administration continues to obstruct local investigations into the killings of Renee" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pc1b0OMXB24) 2026-01-27T15:30Z 3.2M followers, 793.7K engagements ""They Poisoned the World": The Corporate Cover-Up & Fightback Against PFAS "Forever Chemicals" Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In a major victory for environmental advocates chemical giant DuPont and its related companies have agreed to pay $2 billion to clean up four industrial sites in New Jersey that are contaminated with "forever chemicals" or PFAS which have been found to persist in everything from rainwater to human breast milk. It is the third such settlement New Jersey has reached in less than three years and marks a growing movement against the widespread" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RykprRwT_FU) 2025-08-08T15:06Z 3.2M followers, 355.4K engagements "Netanyahu Seeks to Kill U.S.-Iran Talks to Start Another War: Mouin Rabbani Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Donald Trump held a lengthy meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday at the White House where the two leaders discussed ongoing nuclear talks with Iran. Trump has said he wants to reach a deal with Iran about the country's nuclear program which Tehran insists is only for peaceful civilian purposes but which the U.S. and Israel claim is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. In recent weeks Trump has repeatedly threatened to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SFvBHo61Eh8) 2026-02-12T16:07Z 3.2M followers, 40.1K engagements "Top U.S. & World Headlines February [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TY8IBrSeFbo) 2026-02-09T16:02Z 3.2M followers, 339.5K engagements "The Rise of Zohran Mamdani: From [----] Hunger Strike to Mayoral Election Victory Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As Zohran Mamdani prepares to become New York's first Muslim and first South Asian mayor on January [--] we look at the historic rise of the democratic socialist who shocked the political establishment. We spend the hour hearing Mamdani in his own words and look at the grassroots coalition that helped him pull off what's been described as "one of the great political upsets in modern American history." Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_vkuScLU4AE) 2025-11-28T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 312.4K engagements "Ex-CIA Agent Whistleblower John Kiriakou Interview on Democracy Now (Clip 1) DemocracyNow.org - Former CIA agent John Kiriakou speaks out just days after he was sentenced to [--] months in prison becoming the first CIA official to face jail time for any reason relating to the U.S. torture program. Under a plea deal Kiriakou admitted to a single count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by revealing the identity of a covert officer to a freelance reporter who did not publish it. Supporters say Kiriakou is being unfairly targeted for having been the first CIA official to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gObDnmMnN3M) 2013-01-31T14:25Z 3.2M followers, 16.2K engagements ""George Bush Doesnt Care About Black People": Reflections on Kanye Wests Criticism [--] Years After Democracynow.org - On Sept. [--] [----] during a nationally televised telethon benefit for victims of Hurricane Katrina hip-hop legend Kanye West went off script to directly criticize the media and the White Houses handling of the storm. "I hate the way they portray us in the media" he said. "If you see a black family it says theyre looting. If you see a white family it says theyre searching for food." West went on to say "George Bush doesnt care about black people." Bush later wrote in his memoir" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lTuRPuhneAs) 2015-08-28T15:47Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements "FBI and local police raid pro-Palestine activists' homes in Michigan The FBI and local police in Michigan have raided the homes of Palestinian rights activists in Ann Arbor Ypsilanti and Canton. The targets of the raids participated in anti-war protests at the University of Michigan. Attorney General Dana Nessel claims they raids are part of a vandalism investigation. Police detained several people and confiscated their personal electronics. In Ypsilanti the activists say police initially refused to show a warrant. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=p4hbf4KPLpk) 2025-04-24T11:36Z 3.2M followers, 220.6K engagements "De Facto Dictatorship: Democrats Confront ICE CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administrations brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations. These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country whether its in detention whether its in the streets or even in the courts says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qHWfwGiKBIk) 2026-02-11T16:58Z 3.2M followers, 252.3K engagements ""Empire in Decline": Historian Alfred McCoy on U.S. Aggression in Venezuela Iran & Beyond Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As President Trump threatens Iran Venezuela Mexico Greenland and more renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is "an empire in decline" following a predictable pattern of militarism abroad and political instability at home as it loses power and influence on the world stage. "American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational" says McCoy. "I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline and it" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xwmGlMPsyIY) 2026-01-13T15:48Z 3.2M followers, 702.2K engagements "Juan Gonzlez on Lasting Impact of 9/11 Toxic Exposure Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The September [--] [----] attack on the World Trade Center in New York City was a major polluting event. Debris from the collapse of the buildings spread toxic substances including asbestos lead mercury and more throughout the disaster zone. As New York City leaders issue new calls for the release of files detailing the extent of this pollution we revisit the reporting of Democracy Now co-host Juan Gonzlez the author of "Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-8Mt3noyybE) 2026-02-06T15:51Z 3.2M followers, 15.4K engagements "Diana Buttu on Trump's Gaza ceasefire deal The Trump-backed Gaza ceasefire deal "is not a peace agreement" says Palestinian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu. "This is not an end to the occupation."" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-XxLr2bbo1o) 2025-10-10T16:25Z 3.2M followers, 133.6K engagements "U.S. Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker as Anti-Maduro Campaign Escalates Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt U.S. troops seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday a major escalation that the Venezuelan government called "international piracy." We speak with New York University professor Alejandro Velasco about the Trump administration's intentions in the country which has the world's largest known oil reserves. Though the Pentagon has claimed the conflict is aimed at combating narcoterrorism Velasco says the violence is actually an effort "to get rid of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-aDibm-9mAg) 2025-12-11T15:56Z 3.2M followers, 227.3K engagements ""The Dark Side": Dick Cheney's Legacy from Iraq Invasion to U.S. Torture Program Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Dick Cheney the former vice president and one of the key architects of the [----] U.S. invasion of Iraq died Monday at age [--]. Cheney served six terms in Congress as Wyoming's lone representative before serving as defense secretary under President George H.W. Bush when he oversaw the first Gulf War and the bloody U.S. invasion of Panama that deposed former U.S. ally Manuel Noriega. From [----] to [----] Cheney served as chair and CEO of the oil services" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-hdtuu2QeC8) 2025-11-04T16:02Z 3.2M followers, 70.9K engagements "What is the diversity visa program Historian explains roots of the green card lottery Historian Mae Ngai says the Diversity Visa Program which the Trump administration says it will suspend following the Brown University mass shooting was created as part of an effort to bring more white people into the country" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-mH_anQl0q0) 2025-12-19T16:54Z 3.2M followers, 79K engagements "Top U.S. & World Headlines February [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-sqAT7KYFvI) 2026-02-04T16:28Z 3.2M followers, 398.2K engagements "Trump Throws "Great Gatsby" Party at Mar-a-Lago as Food Stamps End for Millions Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Trump held a lavish Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago Friday just hours before an estimated [--] million people lost SNAP benefits across the country. Kirk Curnutt the executive director of the international F. Scott Fitzgerald Society says that while "Gatsby is famous for its lavish party scenes what people often miss is that the entire thrust of the book is to critique that conspicuous consumption and the wastage that goes on in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0zCgdAMfFvw) 2025-11-03T17:06Z 3.2M followers, 100.8K engagements "Trump Is Weaponizing the Murder of Charlie Kirk to Go After the Left: Mehdi Hasan Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Trump announced on Friday that a suspect was in custody for the killing of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Although the motive has not yet been established Trump has escalated his attacks on the political left saying "We just have to beat the hell out of them." Democracy Now speaks with Mehdi Hasan editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo who says that the right is using Kirk's killing to smear the left. "There's a real rewriting of history going" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1CMC97YyvHY) 2025-09-12T14:34Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements "Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Starting in January the Trump administration says it will garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven't been able to make their payments for at least nine months. "It's cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we're sure that we can run it in a compliant manner" says Julia Barnard higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. To student debtors facing financial" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1UWnHIb-ulo) 2025-12-30T16:16Z 3.2M followers, 146.2K engagements "Philly City Council Considers "ICE Out" Legislation as DA Krasner Decries "Wannabe Nazi" ICE Agents Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt At least [--] Philadelphia city councilmembers have backed a package of ICE Out legislation aimed at combating ICE and federal immigration enforcement operations in Philadelphia including codifying sanctuary protections and prohibiting federal immigration agents from concealing their identities or covering their faces. We heard the cries from the community calling for something to be done says Kendra Brooks a member of the Philadelphia" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1yX0pHoV3eo) 2026-02-03T16:48Z 3.2M followers, 24.4K engagements "Who is Bari Weiss the new editor-in-chief of CBS News Anti-woke" pundit Bari Weiss is taking the helm as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. The famously pro-Israel writer was named to the position by CBSs new corporate owners the multibillionaire pro-Israel and pro-Trump Ellison family. Weiss who has never before worked in television news will likely bring a right-wing bent to the networks news coverage. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=21BtY-HV8oo) 2025-10-09T00:00Z 3.2M followers, 35.6K engagements "Chomsky: Hillary Clinton Fears BDS Because It Counters Decades of US Support for Israeli Aggression http://democracynow.org - We speak with world-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky about where the Democratic presidential candidates stand on the issue of Israel and the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement or BDS. "Boycott and sanctions make perfectly good sense when these tactics are properly applied as they often are" Chomsky says. "You can understand why Hillary Clinton is frightened of them. They might undermine the policy of her husband and his predecessors and Obama as well to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2dXnOajMbBQ) 2016-05-16T15:41Z 3.2M followers, 152.2K engagements "Kushner praises Gaza's "valuable" waterfront property says Israel should push Palestinians out Trumps son-in-law and former adviser Jared Kushner has weighed in on Israels war on Gaza saying that Israel should move Palestinians out of the besieged territory which he said contains "very valuable" waterfront property. "Gazas waterfront property it could be very valuable" Kushner said during a recent event hosted by the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. "I think from Israels perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up." Democracy Now Amy Goodman" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4-KrK7NUMtw) 2024-03-20T15:48Z 3.2M followers, 146K engagements "Discrimination against Black farmers by USDA John Boyd Jr. a fourth-generation Black farmer says the $2 billion payout to farmers of color like him for discrimination in accessing government loans is a historic win. He also details his experiences with racism from USDA officials. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=45UfUqdIYak) 2024-08-06T17:30Z 3.2M followers, 110.1K engagements "Lyd: Directors of New Sci-Fi Doc on How [----] Nakba Devastated Palestinian City Support our work: https://www.democracynow.org/donatecampaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_campaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_content=description&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube A new film about the once-thriving Palestinian city of Lyd now known as the Israeli city Lod and home to Ben Gurion Airport has begun screening in the United States. The film is a science fiction documentary that depicts the Palestinian city both with and without the [----] Nakba when over [------] Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages. In Lyd" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4hpc_Lye9sY) 2024-04-29T14:42Z 3.2M followers, 67.6K engagements "Minneapolis resident describes her violent arrest by ICE in Minneapolis Aliya Rahman is a U.S. citizen who was violently arrested by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Rahman says she repeatedly told agents she was disabled but they ignored her pleas for medical attention or other accommodation" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5TCGZppHe1M) 2026-02-09T17:06Z 3.2M followers, 13.2K engagements "Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt "They didn't ask very many questions." Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas despite never signing any paperwork not having completed a background check likely failing a drug test and publicly sharing her opposition to the Trump administration and its anti-immigrant crackdown." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5kGO6F_wHlc) 2026-01-14T15:59Z 3.2M followers, 666.1K engagements "The Rape of Recy Taylor: How Rosa Parks Helped a Sharecropper Report Her Assault & Seek Justice https://democracynow.org - A new film looks at the [----] gang rape of Recy Taylor a 24-year old black mother and sharecropper. Following the rape she refused to be silenced and spoke up with help from the NAACPs chief rape investigator Rosa Parks. When Parks went to interview Taylor the local sheriff kept driving by the house and eventually burst in threatening Parks with arrest if she didnt leave town. Parks left and then launched the Alabama Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6BJgNUrS38c) 2017-12-20T16:16Z 3.2M followers, 68.2K engagements "U.S. Citizens Describe Surviving Violent Attacks by Immigration Agents Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt U.S. citizens who have had violent encounters with federal immigration agents deployed in cities across the U.S. testified before Congress on Tuesday. Amid harrowing testimony by three victims and the brothers of Renee Good congressional Democrats offered apologies and promises of accountability. Not a single Republican lawmaker showed up to the hearing. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Ue55YRr5Qw) 2026-02-05T16:20Z 3.2M followers, 76.8K engagements "Alex Pretti killing: ProPublica names federal agents who shot Minneapolis ICU nurse ProPublica has identified the two Border Patrol agents who shot Alex Pretti the Minneapolis man killed January [--] while observing immigration enforcement in the city. The outlet says the agents are Jesus Ochoa [--] and Raymundo Gutierrez 35" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6tYqjf_7gog) 2026-02-03T21:59Z 3.2M followers, 18.2K engagements "DN celebrates [--] years of independent journalism Go to democracynow.org/30 to get your tickets for our 30th anniversary event in New York on February 23rd" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6uOFTGG3BSk) 2026-02-12T00:53Z 3.2M followers, 16.4K engagements "ICE Out: Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike Against Immigration Raids Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/minnesota_strike_ice_out Tens of thousands of Minnesotans braved the bitter cold in Minneapolis on Friday to demand ICE out. The march was organized by faith and labor leaders and was accompanied by calls for an economic blackout. Seven hundred businesses reportedly closed in solidarity. Democracy Nows John Hamilton filed a report from the streets. John Reuss an English teacher said his" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7iYoH4dpfkQ) 2026-01-26T16:06Z 3.2M followers, 143.3K engagements "Palestine Action activists jailed in U.K. continue their hunger strike Alarm is growing over the treatment and deteriorating health of eight pro-Palestinian activists jailed in the United Kingdom who are on hunger strike to protest their detention" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7suTw1MB4Vk) 2025-12-29T17:44Z 3.2M followers, 33.5K engagements "The Epstein Files: Rep. Ro Khanna on What's Still Missing from DOJ Document Dump The Justice Department failed to publish thousands of documents by last Fridays congressionally imposed deadline to release all of its files related to the serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7vF2-yHJCfw) 2025-12-22T18:35Z 3.2M followers, 60.6K engagements "Elite Capture: Philosopher Olufmi O. Taiwo on How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics We speak with philosopher Olufmi O. Tw who has recently written two widely acclaimed books: "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)" and "Reconsidering Reparations" which focuses in part on the climate crisis. He says identity politics is a concept that was stripped of its radical power to build solidarity and is now weaponized to split people into ever narrower categories that hamper movements for racial and social justice. "Elite capture is what happens when" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=81cLuGAwM9Y) 2023-01-18T15:24Z 3.2M followers, 124.5K engagements "Jeremy Scahill on Gaza Ceasefire Talking to Hamas & Israel's Doctrine of Dehumanizing Palestinians Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Israel has carried out repeated attacks in Gaza and killed about [---] Palestinians over the past two weeks since the U.S.-backed ceasefire deal with Hamas came into effect. Jeremy Scahill co-founder of Drop Site News is one of the few Western journalists in regular contact with Hamas leaders. "It's utter malpractice on the part of all of these news organizations that have not regularly been interviewing the leaders the negotiators of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=84DTfG5TVzU) 2025-10-27T14:29Z 3.2M followers, 238.3K engagements "ICE vs. People of Minnesota: Community Resists Trump's Militarized Crackdown Special Report Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now producer John Hamilton reports from Minneapolis where residents say ICE agents are violently targeting legal observers and community members as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Patty O'Keefe who was arrested while monitoring ICE activity in her vehicle said agents "broke our two front windows and dragged us out" then taunted her in custody. She said one agent told her "You guys got to stop obstructing" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8g1tu-XgdhE) 2026-01-20T16:10Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements "Elon Musk Under Fire for Grok's Sexualized AI Deepfakes French prosecutors have asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning following a police raid on the offices of the social media network X in Paris" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8oG7mx1l_PU) 2026-02-06T00:01Z 3.2M followers, 17.7K engagements ""Coexistence My Ass": Israeli Comic Noam Shuster Eliassi Uses Humor to Oppose Occupation Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Coexistence My Ass is a new documentary opening Wednesday in New York highlighting Noam Shuster Eliassi an Israeli comedian and peace activist. Shuster Eliassi hopes for justice and equality for Palestinians and "to make present the elephant in the room that a lot of artists in Israel prefer to ignore." We also speak with director Amber Fares who says the film like others dealing with the topic of Palestine is struggling to find distribution in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=95lC0oEzH0g) 2025-10-29T14:23Z 3.2M followers, 192.8K engagements "Thousands Call to Arrest Netanyahu March at U.N. Against Gaza Genocide Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now was on the streets as thousands marched to the United Nations in New York City Friday while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the General Assembly. Despite the fact that Netanyahu is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes he has presided over in Gaza he was able to travel to the U.N. without incident as the United States says it does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. We spoke to protesters demanding" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9LWVIYtcjz4) 2025-09-29T14:37Z 3.2M followers, 495.7K engagements "ProPublica Identifies CBP Agents Who Fatally Shot ICU Nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt ProPublica has identified the two Border Patrol agents who shot Alex Pretti the Minneapolis man killed January [--] while observing immigration enforcement in the city. The outlet says the agents are Jesus Ochoa [--] and Raymundo Gutierrez [--]. This is in the public interest says reporter J. David McSwane. This country has a tradition and norm of being able to identify law enforcement officers both for their safety and the safety of the public." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9clKezlEAvs) 2026-02-03T16:50Z 3.2M followers, 136.2K engagements "Another World Is Possible: How Occupy Wall Street Reshaped Politics Kicked Off New Era of Protest On the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street we examine the legacy of the historic protests with three veterans of the movement: Nelini Stamp now the director of strategy and partnerships at the Working Families Party; Jillian Johnson a key organizer in Occupy Durham who now serves on the Durham City Council and is the citys mayor pro tempore; and writer and filmmaker Astra Tayor an organizer with the Debt Collective. Occupy Wall Street broke the spell protecting the economic status quo and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=A9X6HDU4NiI) 2021-09-17T14:24Z 3.2M followers, 44.2K engagements "Top U.S. & World Headlines December [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AMAMR_cuKpg) 2025-12-31T15:28Z 3.2M followers, 308K engagements "Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Directs Local Police to Investigate "Rogue Reckless" ICE Agents Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has signed an executive order directing Chicago police to investigate reports of illegal activity conducted by ICE and other federal immigration agents. The move came in the aftermath of Trumps so-called Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago late last year when masked agents flooded neighborhoods snatching residents off the streets as part of Trumps mass deportation campaign. What this executive order is doing is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ASixQkuVyes) 2026-02-03T16:47Z 3.2M followers, 101.9K engagements "Can U.S. & Iran Lower Tensions Officials Begin New Talks Amid Trump Threats of Military Strikes Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In the wake of deadly mass protests that have shaken the ruling Iranian government and with U.S. leaders publicly weighing the idea of military intervention and potential regime change in Iran American and Iranian officials are beginning renewed talks over Iran's nuclear program today. We speak to two guests reporter Nilo Tabrizy and scholar Arang Keshavarzian about the "very strange and contradictory situation" facing the country." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AhI9xJWHNT8) 2026-02-06T15:57Z 3.2M followers, 17.8K engagements "ICE agents violently arrest observers in Minneapolis Minneapolis resident Patty OKeefe who was violently arrested by ICE says one agent told her that "obstructing" ICE activity is "why that lesbian bitch is dead referring to Renee Good the mother of three killed by an ICE agent in early January" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BlSK34tSK4k) 2026-01-20T18:43Z 3.2M followers, 395.7K engagements ""Hostile Takeovers": As U.S. Claims Venezuela's Oil Trump Seeks "Vassal States" Across the World Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In the aftermath of the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores Venezuela has agreed to submit a monthly budget to the Trump administration which will release money from an account funded by oil sales. It's a deal for the interim government led by Delcy Rodriguz that historian Greg Grandin calls "governing under the blade." In a further shift away from the nation-building foreign policy of the past" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CN96t9fwN64) 2026-01-30T15:44Z 3.2M followers, 166.3K engagements "Calls For Schumer to Step Down Grow as Democrats Cave on Healthcare to Pass Funding Bill Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak to David Dayen about what could be the end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history after seven Democratic Senators and one independent struck a deal with Republicans to pass a short-term government funding bill. Why would you end this asks Dayen echoing many in the Democratic coalition who believe the deal was a poor strategic move for the anti-Trump opposition. Calls are now growing for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CUqtdN-iyhU) 2025-11-11T15:31Z 3.2M followers, 93.1K engagements ""Uniting for Peace": How U.N. Could Override U.S. Veto End Gaza Genocide Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Trump administration is facing growing criticism for suspending visas for Palestinian passport holders including for Palestinian officials set to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly this month. When the U.S. denied a visa to Yasser Arafat to address the U.N. in [----] the General Assembly was moved to Geneva the U.N. faces similar calls now. The move by the U.S. is "an indication of the unprecedented degree to which the U.S. government has handed the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CpZzkVfWRIE) 2025-09-04T15:45Z 3.2M followers, 201.5K engagements "Anti-Fascism Scholar Flees U.S. Amid Trump's "Antifa" Fearmongering Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the [----] book "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook" which explores the history and tactics of anti-fascist movements in Europe the United States and beyond. Turning Point USA the conservative campus group founded by Charlie Kirk had called for Bray's firing and branded him "Dr. Antifa." This comes" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DYlvxpMBHX0) 2025-10-15T14:13Z 3.2M followers, 326.7K engagements "WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Calls on Computer Hackers to Unite Against NSA Surveillance http://www.democracynow.org - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed a major gathering of computer experts Monday at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg Germany calling on them to join forces in resisting government intrusions on internet freedom and privacy. We play highlights from Assange's speech as well as the one given by Sarah Harrison the WikiLeaks member who accompanied Edward Snowden to Russia. We also hear from independent journalist and security expert Jacob Appelbaum who reveals a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DeYNOhtkMSE) 2013-12-31T15:18Z 3.2M followers, 23.5K engagements "Why Was Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard at FBI Election Raid in Georgia Ex-DOJ Attorney Speaks Out Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Donald Trump has called to "nationalize" voting in the United States alarming state leaders who oversee the process as well as legal experts who say his takeover demand violates the Constitution. This comes as he continues to falsely claim he won the [----] election with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard overseeing an FBI raid last week to seize ballot boxes and other voting records in Fulton County Georgia. Gabbard as" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Df_Fs0nN8Lc) 2026-02-04T16:40Z 3.2M followers, 30.2K engagements "Robert Redford the Activist: Hollywood Icon Was Lifelong Champion of Environment & Independent Film Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Robert Redford the legendary Oscar-winning director actor and activist died at the age of [--] on Tuesday. Redford was a longtime environmental activist who served for five decades as a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He was also the creator of the Sundance Film Festival which he helped grow into one of the largest independent film festivals in the world. Democracy Now interviewed Redford many times over the years" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DnURhN1OeBY) 2025-09-17T15:14Z 3.2M followers, 32.7K engagements "Judith Butler on campus antisemitism Philosopher Judith Butler is among the [---] names UC Berkeley shared with the Trump administration to comply with its investigation into alleged campus antisemitism. Butler who is Jewish says the real goal of the campaign is to silence pro-Palestine voices" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FDYOzrVQ5LA) 2025-09-15T20:56Z 3.2M followers, 93.6K engagements "Part 1: Buck v. Bell: SCOTUS Case That Led to Forced Sterilization of [-----] & Inspired the Nazis http://democracynow.org - As President Obama nominates centrist Judge Merrick Garland to replace late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court we take a look at whats been described as one of the worst Supreme Court rulings in history. In the [----] case Buck v. Bell the court upheld a statute that enabled the state of Virginia to sterilize so-called mental defectives or imbeciles. The person in question was Carrie Buck a poor young woman then confined in the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FLM8dkIsHS0) 2016-03-17T15:12Z 3.2M followers, 40.7K engagements ""He Was Executed": Minneapolis Residents Outraged Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/alex_pretti_shooting_minneapolis Protests have intensified in Minnesota after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti a 37-year-old ICU nurse who worked in the Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System on Saturday. Democracy Now's John Hamilton reports from the scene of Pretti's killing where protesters clashed with federal agents. Weve seen everything from people that are" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FQxmqNQW4O8) 2026-01-26T16:02Z 3.2M followers, 169.5K engagements "Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory Brad Lander former mayoral candidate who cross-endorsed with Zohran Mandani in the Democratic primary comments on the election results" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FUyV-a-YEW8) 2025-11-05T17:49Z 3.2M followers, 84.7K engagements "Top U.S. & World Headlines October [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G_yCtjcBquI) 2025-10-28T14:17Z 3.2M followers, 305.4K engagements "Vandana Shiva: We Must Fight Back Against the [--] Percent to Stop the Sixth Mass Extinction https://democracynow.org - New research finds at least a third of the Himalayan ice cap will melt by the end of the century due to climate change even if the worlds most ambitious environmental reforms are implemented. A report released earlier this month by the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment warns rising temperatures in the Himalayas could lead to mass population displacements as well as catastrophic food and water insecurity. The glaciers are a vital water source for the [---] million people who live in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GwxOxQ1AOEg) 2019-02-22T17:58Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements "How Fascism Works: Jason Stanley On Trump Bolsonaro and the Rise of Fascism Across the Globe https://democracynow.org - In his new book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them Yale professor Jason Stanley warns about the dangers of normalizing fascist politics writing What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been. We speak with Jason Stanley in New York. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I1udxbLV_NY) 2018-10-11T16:09Z 3.2M followers, 144.2K engagements "Hear Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur Read Her [----] Letter to Pope Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Black liberation activist Assata Shakur died on September [--] [----] at the age of [--]. She passed away in Cuba where she received political asylum in [----] after escaping the U.S. prison system and where she continued to reside for decades despite U.S. attempts to capture and extradite her. In [----] Shakur wrote an open letter to Pope John Paul II during his historic visit to Cuba after New Jersey state troopers requested the pope call for her extradition. "The" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I7JU2Gwkb3E) 2025-09-29T14:39Z 3.2M followers, 187.8K engagements ""Divorced from Reality": Economist Dean Baker Fact-Checks Trump's Primetime Speech Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Trump praised the state of the U.S. economy in a primetime address Wednesday evening even though new government statistics show the nation's unemployment rate is at a new four-year high of 4.6%. Dean Baker senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research says Trump's aides should be "wondering about the man's sanity" after Wednesday's speech. "This is utterly divorced from reality." Though Trump blames former President Biden" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ILr74z_smSk) 2025-12-18T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 306K engagements "Six White Mississippi "Goon Squad" Cops Get Lengthy Prison Sentences for Torturing Black Men Support our work: https://www.democracynow.org/donatecampaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_campaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_content=description&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube In Mississippi six former sheriff's deputies have been sentenced to between [--] and [--] years in prison for raiding a home and torturing shooting and sexually abusing two Black men Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker in January [----]. The six former deputies all of whom are white called themselves the "Goon Squad" and have been linked to at least four" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IXesJ_JLqsc) 2024-03-22T14:37Z 3.2M followers, 296.7K engagements ""Stolen from Us": Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Activists in Los Angeles are demanding justice for Keith Porter Jr. an African American 43-year-old father of two who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve. His family is demanding transparency in the investigation into his killing. "When he walked in he brought joy" says Porter's cousin Jsan Tyler. "He always had a laugh a joke a smile." Community organizers have called for the arrest of the ICE officer who" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ia_fpZA6ZU0) 2026-01-13T15:41Z 3.2M followers, 88K engagements "Jailed U.K. Palestine Action Activists Continue Hunger Strike Despite Health Risks Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt SUMMARY: Alarm is growing over the treatment and deteriorating health of eight pro-Palestinian activists jailed in the United Kingdom who are on hunger strike to protest their detention. The activists remain imprisoned as they await trial over charges linked to their work with Palestine Action which the British government has banned under its Terrorism Act over direct action protests against Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Several of the activists" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JBQCuDZDA0s) 2025-12-29T15:36Z 3.2M followers, 48.3K engagements "Remembering the My Lai Massacre: Seymour Hersh on Uncovering the Horrors of Mass Murder in Vietnam https://democracynow.org - In [----] Seymour Hersh won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on how the U.S. slaughtered more than [---] Vietnamese women children and old men in the village of My Lai on March [--] [----]. The event became known as the My Lai massacre. We speak with Seymour Hersh in New York City. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org Please" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JJKgwZIqi9M) 2018-06-20T16:17Z 3.2M followers, 83K engagements ""Catch of the Day": Latest ICE Operation in Maine Targets Somali Community Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Trump's deportation machine has touched down in Maine. As the state home to a significant share of the Somali American community faces a surge of ICE activity we're joined by Safiya Khalid the first-ever Somali American city councilmember for Lewiston Maine's second-largest city. Lewiston's "streets are completely empty" as residents of all immigration statuses fear harassment and violence from unchecked federal agents. "If a white woman was shot in the face" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JNtH_HdxVJ0) 2026-01-22T16:44Z 3.2M followers, 108.4K engagements "COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd A new podcast out today called Alphabet Boys documents how the FBI disrupted racial justice organizing after the police killing of George Floyd in [----] including paying an informant at least $20000 to infiltrate and spy on activist groups in Denver Colorado. The informant also encouraged activists to purchase guns and commit violence echoing the FBIs use of the COINTELPRO program to sabotage left-wing activist groups in the 1960s. For more were joined by three guests: journalist and creator of the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JY6dRXC6s_0) 2023-02-07T15:36Z 3.2M followers, 247.2K engagements "Israel Killed [--] Journalists in Yemen in Deadliest Attack on Press in [--] Years Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Committee to Protect Journalists says recent Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen killed [--] journalists and media support workers making it the deadliest attack on journalists anywhere in the world in [--] years and the second-deadliest attack on the press ever recorded by the organization. "These are civilians" says Niku Jafarnia Middle East and North Africa researcher for Human Rights Watch. "We have documented like many other organizations" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ja8XFdalUOA) 2025-09-25T15:22Z 3.2M followers, 27.1K engagements "Data Crunch: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt A new report titled Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals from the Center for Biological Diversity warns the booming artificial intelligence industrys high resource consumption threatens the worlds climate goals despite rosy prognoses of AIs projected benefits. Co-author Jean Su says that the increasing use of AI for military applications offsets any positives it offers for climate change" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KxEvK1xh7RM) 2025-11-19T16:57Z 3.2M followers, 18.5K engagements "Seymour Hersh on Torture at Abu Ghraib & Secret U.S. Assassination Programs https://democracynow.org - In [----] investigative reporter Sy Hersh exposed the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq that shocked the world. Shocking photos of U.S. military personnel humiliating and torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib sparked global outcry as well as national hearings investigations and finger pointing. We speak with Sy Hersh about his investigation nearly [--] years later. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly [----] TV and radio stations Monday through" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LRvLZ6y4PxM) 2018-06-20T16:13Z 3.2M followers, 34.5K engagements "Scientists remove DEI language out of research proposals Scientists are removing DEI language out of research proposals in response to the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=L_ategK6f-E) 2025-03-10T16:26Z 3.2M followers, 41.6K engagements "FBI Raids Home of Washington Post Reporter as Attacks on Press Freedom Intensify Under Trump Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The FBI raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson this week and seized her electronic devices part of a leak probe into a government contractor accused of mishandling classified government materials. Natanson has reported extensively on the Trump administration's changes to the federal bureaucracy including mass layoffs of government workers. This comes amid a broader pattern of attacks on the media including lawsuits" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MGrJ4P2ERzM) 2026-01-15T15:33Z 3.2M followers, 195.5K engagements "Sons of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Ask Obama to Exonerate Their Mother in Nuclear Spy Case http://democracynow.org - Two brothers are making a last-ditch appeal to President Obama to clear their mothers name. Michael and Robert Meeropol are calling on Obama to posthumously exonerate their mother Ethel Rosenberg. She along with their father Julius Rosenberg was charged with conspiring to share nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union and executed on June [--] [----]. At the time FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover accused the couple of committing "the crime of the century." The government alleged the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MMW5mfNRAsE) 2016-12-29T17:37Z 3.2M followers, 59.6K engagements "Seymour Hersh Details Explosive Story on Bin Laden Killing & Responds to White House Media Backlash http://democracynow.org - Four years after U.S. forces assassinated Osama bin Laden Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has published an explosive piece claiming much of what the Obama administration said about the attack was wrong. Hersh claims at the time of the U.S. raid bin Laden had been held as a prisoner by Pakistani intelligence since [----]. Top Pakistani military leaders knew about the operation and provided key assistance. Contrary to U.S. claims that it located" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=N3COsYaJ47o) 2015-05-12T14:42Z 3.2M followers, 474.8K engagements "ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Minneapolis Mother Renee Good Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with two people who responded to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good a 37-year-old mother of three by an ICE agent in Minneapolis Wednesday. Trump administration officials claim the agent acted in self-defense but local officials including Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey reject that claim. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=N5j0lkQiVEw) 2026-01-08T16:05Z 3.2M followers, 940.3K engagements "Top U.S. & World Headlines October [--] [----] #DemocracyNow Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now today: https://democracynow.org/donate FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW ONLINE: YouTube: http://youtube.com/democracynow Facebook: http://facebook.com/democracynow Twitter: https://twitter.com/democracynow Instagram: http://instagram.com/democracynow SoundCloud:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NOnRspoLPt8) 2020-10-26T13:37Z 3.2M followers, 77.5K engagements "Who is Elise Stefanik Support our work: https://democracynow.org/give Right-wing Congressmember Elise Stefanik is seeking the ouster of Harvard President Claudine Gay and MIT President Sally Kornbluth over accusations that the university leaders have allowed antisemitism to grow on campuses in recent months. University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill resigned Saturday after aggressive questioning in Congress led by Stefanik but Stefanik herself is now coming under fire for her own history of support for antisemitic conspiracy theories. MORE: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0xtP7CVSJGY" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OKVsMery9kc) 2023-12-11T18:55Z 3.2M followers, 279.5K engagements ""Slow Poison": Scholar Mahmood Mamdani on New Book About Uganda Decolonization & More Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with the acclaimed academic and writer Mahmood Mamdani who has just released a new book _Slow Poison: Idi Amin Yoweri Museveni and the Making of the Ugandan State_. Mamdani who has taught at Columbia for decades was raised in Uganda and first came to the United States in the 1960s to study. He and his family were later expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's dictatorship. The book "is about the reversal of the anti-colonial movement" in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OmhauexNEXw) 2025-12-11T16:07Z 3.2M followers, 101.8K engagements "Can U.S. Oil Companies Really Take Over Venezuela's Industry Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The share prices of U.S. oil companies surged following the Trump administration's attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president Nicols Maduro. In public statements Trump has been clear about his desire to reassert U.S. corporate control over Venezuela's nationalized oil industry. However notes financial reporter David Uberti it won't be so easy for Wall Street to make a profit. In addition to upgrading Venezuela's "decrepit" oil-producing infrastructure oil companies" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OomJufyQQMM) 2026-01-06T16:12Z 3.2M followers, 311.3K engagements ""Cold-Blooded Murder": Families of Trinidadian Men Killed in U.S. Boat Strike Sue Trump Admin Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The families of two men from Trinidad killed in an October U.S. missile strike in the Caribbean are suing the Trump administration for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing. The families of 26-year-old Chad Joseph and 41-year-old Rishi Samaroo say the two men were returning home from fishing and farming in Venezuela not smuggling drugs as the Trump administration has claimed without evidence. Four others on the same boat were also" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=P4QAFljGP7s) 2026-01-30T15:46Z 3.2M followers, 160.3K engagements "Immigrant Rights Leader in Maine Says ICE Raids Caused Panic & "Wave of Fear" Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Activists in Maine are resisting ICE immigration raids in Portland and Lewiston that the Trump administration dubbed Operation Catch of the Day. The immigrant community in Maine has grown in recent years with an influx of asylum seekers and Somali immigrants in particular. As a small state community means a lot says Mufalo Chitam executive director of the Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition adding that her organization has received thousands of phone calls" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PBoDoxU3lbM) 2026-02-03T16:49Z 3.2M followers, 30.3K engagements "Sinners: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit Delta Blues His Mississippi Roots & Vampires Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with acclaimed director Ryan Coogler about his latest film Sinners which is set to be one of the biggest box office hits of the year. Starring Michael B. Jordan the genre-bending horror film is set in the Mississippi Delta during Jim Crow and is a cinematic gumbo of various influences and themes Coogler tells Democracy Now I wanted to make a film that was kind of raging against the concept of genre and making the audience" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pjb_eH0C_vQ) 2025-04-25T14:44Z 3.2M followers, 282.9K engagements ""Leave Our City Now": Minneapolis Residents March as Part of National Strike Against ICE Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in hundreds of demonstrations across the United States this weekend as protests continue against the Trump administration's anti-immigrant crackdown. Democracy Now was in the streets of Minneapolis on Friday speaking with protesters who marched in subzero temperatures. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PkWi4N2BIGE) 2026-02-02T17:04Z 3.2M followers, 24.7K engagements "Trump's racist attack on Somali Americans Jaylani Hussein from CAIR Minnesota says Trump is attacking the Somali community because it is a trifecta of his favorite targets: Black people immigrants and Muslims" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PkiGu-CosCY) 2025-12-05T20:01Z 3.2M followers, 53.5K engagements "Major U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty expires without plans for renewal Arms control expert Dr. Ira Helfand says that if major powers continue to build up their nuclear weapons "it is not a question of if we have a nuclear war its just a question of when" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QaWxa3S7ghI) 2026-02-04T17:51Z 3.2M followers, 16.2K engagements "Elon Musk Under Fire for Epstein Links Grok's Sexualized AI Deepfakes & SpaceX-xAI Merger Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt French prosecutors have asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning following a police raid on the offices of the social media network X in Paris. The French probe comes on the heels of a U.K. investigation into Musk's AI tool Grok over its "potential to produce harmful sexualized image and video content." Last month the European Union also launched an investigation into sexual deepfakes created by Grok. "It's a part of a kind of a pushback that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=R76f7wYbz0I) 2026-02-05T16:22Z 3.2M followers, 97.8K engagements "Pope Francis decried Israeli "terrorism" in Gaza (2023) Pope Francis who died on April [--] at age [--] spent much of his final months advocating for peace in the Holy Land. In October [----] he criticized Israeli attacks against civilians in Gaza as "terrorism" including the killing of Palestinian Christians by Israeli snipers at the Holy Family Catholic Parish. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RJj2EcD3u8w) 2025-04-21T20:00Z 3.2M followers, 51.6K engagements "The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya: Al Jazeera Film on Israels Abduction Torture of Gaza Doctor Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt A powerful new documentary produced by _Fault Lines_ on Al Jazeera English tells the story of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya the Palestinian pediatrician and director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza whom Israel has detained with virtually no contact to the outside world for almost nine months. He became known to millions of people around the world for his regular video dispatches from inside the hospital describing the toll of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RVqJOzelfmg) 2025-09-18T15:27Z 3.2M followers, 50.7K engagements "ICE Conducts Largest-Ever Raid at Georgia Hyundai Plant Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We get an update on the largest-ever single-site immigration raid in U.S. history that unfolded Thursday when federal agents arrested nearly [---] workers at a Hyundai facility in Georgia. Most workers were Korean nationals who were building an electric vehicle battery plant. Hyundai is investing over $12 billion in a record-setting economic development deal with the state and the South Korean government recently agreed to invest hundreds of billions more in the U.S. in exchange" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=S1GcKHpaLB4) 2025-09-08T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 111.8K engagements "Israeli historian Ilan Papp on "the collapse of the Zionist project" Israeli historian Ilan Papp says that despite the carnage in Gaza he is hopeful that we may be seeing the "collapse of the Zionist project" due to growing international outrage at Israel. "I am really hopeful that there will be a different kind of life for both Jews and Arabs between the river and the sea." Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=S9pRxF6zMt0) 2024-05-26T14:30Z 3.2M followers, 163.6K engagements "Edward Snowden on exposing NSA surveillance: "I had produced a system that spied on everyone" In his new memoir "Permanent Record" whistleblower Edward describes what he learned from within the American intelligence apparatus that convinced him to blow the whistle on unchecked government surveillance. While working as a contractor for the CIA and NSA Snowden laid the groundwork for many of the cybersecurity protocols under which the agencies currently operate. Eventually Snowden came to believe the NSA's surveillance practices were betraying public trust in the government and violating the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SYJ5paDdbIU) 2019-09-26T23:00Z 3.2M followers, 36.4K engagements "Bill McKibben on Renewable Energy "Sun Day" & the "Last Chance" for Climate Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As the Trump administration grows increasingly hostile to renewable energy we speak with acclaimed environmentalist Bill McKibben about his new book "Here Comes the Sun" in which he lays out a hopeful vision for the future that includes avoiding climate catastrophe reshaping the economy and saving democracy. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sb2_28t0RSg) 2025-09-10T17:43Z 3.2M followers, 311.3K engagements "Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can't Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha has just been awarded the [----] Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his essays about the Palestinian experience in the face of the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on Gaza. He joins Democracy Now to discuss his work the necessity of advocating for Palestinian rights and the violence of Israeli occupation. Abu Toha who evacuated Gaza in late [----] after being arrested beaten and detained by the Israeli military now" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sx-9-hubh5w) 2025-05-06T14:30Z 3.2M followers, 56.7K engagements "Decades of Anti-Immigration Policy Created "Mass Grave" at Southern Border Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As President Trump shakes up the leadership of his immigration crackdown in Minnesota following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents we examine the expanding role of the agency in interior enforcement. Independent journalist Todd Miller says the Trump administration's immigration operations in U.S. cities are an "extension" of "policies and practices that we've been seeing in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands now for decades" characterizing" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TEA-hKkWDKM) 2026-01-28T15:54Z 3.2M followers, 137.9K engagements ""The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk": How the Right Is Weaponizing Kirk's Killing Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Journalist Chris Hedges warns that President Trump and his allies are "weaponizing" the shocking assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk to crush dissent. "We've reached a very frightening turning point" says Hedges. "We've already seen an assault on civil liberties on institutions universities the media that are tasked with maintaining an open society. That will now be accelerated." Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8HUoAn-4g) 2025-09-15T15:19Z 3.2M followers, 542.4K engagements "Citizens United at 15: Landmark Ruling Helped Elon Musk & Other Billionaires Bankroll Trump Victory Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Donald Trump's return to the White House comes almost exactly [--] years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark _Citizens United_ ruling which opened the floodgates for corporations and billionaires to pour unlimited money into elections. At Trump's inauguration on Monday the front row included several of the world's richest and most powerful men including Tesla's Elon Musk Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Amazon's Jeff Bezos" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TQXYULS_1FI) 2025-01-22T15:33Z 3.2M followers, 38.1K engagements "FBI Raid in Georgia Is Part of "Trump's Scheme to Try to Rig the Midterms": Ari Berman Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with _Mother Jones_ voting rights correspondent Ari Berman about the shocking FBI raid on an elections hub in Fulton County Georgia. Federal agents were seeking records related to the [----] presidential election which President Donald Trump continues to falsely claim he won despite his loss to Joe Biden that year. During his efforts to overturn the election results Trump pressured local officials to "find" him an additional [-----] votes." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tj9H2Cak-Nk) 2026-02-02T17:17Z 3.2M followers, 37.7K engagements "The "two truths" in Iran "As progressives in the United States or outside of Iran we should be able to hold two truths at the same time" says Middle East scholar Arang Keshavarzian. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UJWqWi9OOrE) 2026-02-07T23:00Z 3.2M followers, 12.3K engagements "How the DOJ bungled latest Epstein files release An attorney for [--] survivors of Jeffrey Epstein says the Trump administration badly bungled the most recent release of files related to the sexual predator" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VNJUC2EfohQ) 2026-02-02T20:01Z 3.2M followers, 203.5K engagements "Epstein survivors: We will compile our own list of abusers Jeffrey Epstein survivors frustrated by stonewalling from the Trump administration say they will confidentially compile their own list of individuals implicated in Epstein's crimes. "We know the names" said Lisa Phillips a former model who says she was assaulted at age 21" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=W33s4S-xg6M) 2025-09-04T16:56Z 3.2M followers, 56.1K engagements "Rep. Delia Ramirez calls on Democrats to pull DHS funding Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to their demands to rein in federal immigration agents. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WbJ0bfhi9TU) 2026-02-11T23:45Z 3.2M followers, 10.5K engagements ""Recognize Palestine": Israeli Knesset Member Ofer Cassif on Protesting Trump Netanyahu Speeches Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As President Trump addressed the Israeli Knesset on Monday he was briefly interrupted by two lawmakers who waved signs reading "Recognize Palestine." The two Knesset members Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif with the Hadash-Ta'al alliance were expelled from the chamber. "Yesterday there was a disgusting display of flattery and personality cult by two megalomaniacs who are hungry for power and blood" says Cassif. "This was a minimum protest" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wcy1C8SdRXY) 2025-10-14T15:08Z 3.2M followers, 84.9K engagements "Mayor of Dearborn Michigan: Biden is losing Arab American voters over Gaza Abdullah Hammoud is the mayor of Dearborn Michigan home to the largest Arab American community in the U.S. He explains why he refused to meet with Joe Biden's reelection campaign over the war in Gaza. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WtVWHej--m0) 2024-02-02T15:51Z 3.2M followers, 196.7K engagements "Philadelphia DA promises to hunt down ICE agents who break the law Larry Krasner the Philadelphia District Attorney has vowed to "find the identities" of ICE officers who break the law" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XGwfetioJnQ) 2026-02-03T15:51Z 3.2M followers, 33.9K engagements ""Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors": Survivor Recounts Deadly [----] London Fire That Inspired Play Support our work: https://www.democracynow.org/donatecampaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_campaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_content=description&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube The play Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors tells the story of the [----] apartment fire at Grenfell Tower in London that killed [--] people. It was the worst fire in Britain since World War II and survivors blamed the government for mismanaging the public housing block and neglecting maintenance. The play tells the story of how the residents" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XP8RUG2JinE) 2024-05-16T15:33Z 3.2M followers, [----] engagements "ICE arrests hundreds of South Korean workers at Georgia Hyundai plant The largest-ever single-site immigration raid in U.S. history unfolded Thursday when federal agents arrested nearly [---] workers at a Hyundai facility in Georgia. Most workers were Korean nationals who were building an electric vehicle battery plant. The arrested workers are now being detained at a GEO Group-run ICE jail that ICE recently found in violation of federal safety standards. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XkBpSLXM10M) 2025-09-08T16:09Z 3.2M followers, 66.9K engagements "Edward Snowden on Trump Obama & How He Ended Up in Russia to Avoid U.S. Extradition We conclude our interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden who has just published his memoir titled Permanent Record. In [----] after quitting his job at the NSA Snowden attempted to fly from Hong Kong to Latin America in order to avoid being extradited to the United States. But the U.S. revoked his passport when he stopped through Russia effectively stranding him there. Snowden has lived as an exile in Moscow ever since. He tells us his story. #DemocracyNow Democracy Now is an independent global news hour" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZE-H0yp1NCI) 2019-09-30T15:20Z 3.2M followers, 963.9K engagements ""Time to Cut Ties with Israel": U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Gaza Hospital Bombing Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Israel's war on Gaza is the deadliest conflict for journalists in recorded history. In an attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza Monday Israel killed five more journalists in addition to over a dozen others. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the hospital attack was a "tragic mishap" but just hours later Israeli forces killed a sixth journalist. "There is a pattern of targeting and killing journalists that lets us think that there is an" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aUJThcechFo) 2025-08-26T15:10Z 3.2M followers, 94K engagements "Top U.S. & World Headlines February [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aXwBZqtziek) 2026-02-10T15:30Z 3.2M followers, 215.2K engagements "Chilean Author Ariel Dorfman on Far-Right President-Elect Jos Antonio Kast's Rise to Power Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Jos Antonio Kast has won Chile's presidential election with the far-right leader getting about 58% of the vote in Sunday's runoff against Jeannette Jara a member of the Communist Party who served as labor minister under outgoing President Gabriel Boric. Kast has openly praised former U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet and is the son of a Nazi who fled Germany after World War II. Kast campaigned on fighting crime and carrying out mass" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aa0HtHEZrWA) 2025-12-17T15:35Z 3.2M followers, 50.2K engagements "Trump Expands "Authoritarian" Free Speech Crackdown Calls Negative Media "Illegal": Jameel Jaffer Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We look at how the assassination of Charlie Kirk has emerged as a tool for the Trump administration to crack down on dissent and free speech as tens of thousands gathered Sunday in Arizona for a memorial for the conservative activist including his wife Erika Kirk. While she called for forgiveness President Trump and other top speakers including Vice President JD Vance and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller reiterated calls" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aoxSnHWLm5A) 2025-09-22T14:23Z 3.2M followers, 179.1K engagements "U.S. citizens describe surviving violent attacks by immigration agents U.S. citizens who have had violent encounters with federal immigration agents testified before Congress on Tuesday. Daniel Rascon described how agents pointed rifles at him and shot at his car" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bbNFfw-XFGU) 2026-02-05T19:01Z 3.2M followers, 103.1K engagements "Top U.S. & World Headlines February [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cIy79C2-hAM) 2026-02-03T16:46Z 3.2M followers, 420.5K engagements "Arundhati Roy on New Memoir "Mother Mary Comes to Me" Gaza & Authoritarianism from India to U.S. Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In this holiday special we speak to the acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy on her new memoir "Mother Mary Comes to Me." The book focuses on her mother Mary Roy and how Arundhati was shaped by her both as a source of terror and of inspiration. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cc9Y44k9q5s) 2025-12-26T14:30Z 3.2M followers, 88.2K engagements "CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on Edward Snowden: He Will Not Get a Fair Trial http://democracynow.org - In a broadcast exclusive interview Democracy Now interviews John Kiriakou a retired CIA agent who blew the whistle on torture. In [----] Kiriakou became the first CIA official to publicly confirm and detail the Bush administration's use of waterboarding. He's just been released from prison to serve the remaining three months of his 30-month sentence under house arrest and joins us from his home in Virginia. When asked if he thinks NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden would receive a fair trial" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cj9crYf-0Tw) 2015-02-09T18:08Z 3.2M followers, 21.9K engagements "Reporter Seymour Hersh on "How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline": Exclusive TV Interview UPDATE: We have blurred some imagery about [--] seconds into the video in response to a content warning from YouTube that severely limited the reach of this interview. What you see now is an edited version. For the uncensored version of this interview that aired on our show visit democracynow.org. ==== When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=d4BuMaGlKp0) 2023-02-15T14:38Z 3.2M followers, 3.4M engagements "Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Brennan's Embrace of Torture Makes Him a "Terrible Choice" to Lead CIA To watch this entire interview with John Kiriakou on Democracy Now visit http://owl.li/hlujM. Days after he was sentenced to [--] months in prison John Kiriakou the first CIA official to be jailed for any reason relating to the torture program appears on Democracy Now to denounce President Obama's appointment of John Brennan to head the CIA. "I've known John Brennan since 1990" Kiriakou says. "I worked directly for John Brennan twice. I think that he is a terrible choice to lead the CIA. I think" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=d9BwAIUY1QI) 2013-02-01T21:33Z 3.2M followers, [----] engagements "Trump's Tariffs Struck Down: Attorney Neal Katyal & Oregon AG Dan Rayfield Respond Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt A federal appeals court struck down most of President Trump's sweeping tariffs Friday saying they have no legal basis. The decision could undo many of Trump's tariffs from "Liberation Day" in April as well as earlier tariffs against Canada Mexico and China. In its ruling the appeals court called levying tariffs "a core Congressional power" but the White House had argued the president has authority to impose tariffs without Congress based on the 1977" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dAKwWZa5Lds) 2025-09-02T14:44Z 3.2M followers, 238.9K engagements ""Making America White Again": Trump Further Restricts Immigration Ramps Up ICE Raids Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Immigrant rights advocate Murad Awawdeh joins us to discuss Donald Trump's nationwide anti-immigrant crackdown and how it's manifested in Trump's hometown of New York City where hundreds of New Yorkers recently blocked a federal immigration raid targeting street vendors from West Africa before it even started. "This has never been about vetting. This has never been about security and safety. It's about cruelty" says Awawdeh about the Trump" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dJ_UD9wzWbU) 2025-12-04T16:18Z 3.2M followers, 68.4K engagements "Right of Return: Omar Shakir & Ken Roth Debate "Blocked" Human Rights Watch Report on Palestine Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dtbZShIISs0) 2026-02-06T16:00Z 3.2M followers, 30.4K engagements "NYC Nurses' Strike Enters 10th Day; Mayor Mamdani & Sen. Sanders Join Picket Line Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The largest nurses' strike in New York City history has reached its 10th day as negotiations stall. Nearly [-----] New York City nurses are fighting for a contract that includes higher pay a staffing increase to manage patients improved benefits and workplace protections against violence. Senator Bernie Sanders and Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined the picket line at Mount Sinai West Tuesday with the New York State Nurses Association. "This is a fight for our" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eOUnx9cASyM) 2026-01-21T15:54Z 3.2M followers, 38.9K engagements "Somali Immigrants Garbage Says Trump: MN Community Responds to Racist Rant and Immigration Sweeps Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Federal authorities are carrying out intensified operations this week in Minnesota as President Donald Trump escalates his attacks on the Somali community in the state. The administration halted green card and citizenship applications from Somalis and people from [--] other countries after last week's fatal shooting near the White House. During a recent Cabinet meeting Trump went on a racist tirade against the Somali community saying "We" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fI5KDu58qWE) 2025-12-05T15:20Z 3.2M followers, 170.9K engagements "Top U.S. & World Headlines January [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fToSINpITRU) 2026-01-29T15:16Z 3.2M followers, 600.2K engagements "Yanis Varoufakis on Trumps new world order Yanis Varoufakis calls Trumps Board of Peace and the U.S.-led plan for the reoccupation of Gaza one of the most despicable developments in his lifetime and slams European leaders' ineffectual largely symbolic resistance to Trumps imperial ambitions. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gbPYAYZEx7o) 2026-01-22T20:22Z 3.2M followers, 690K engagements ""Shock and Awe": ICE Raids Begin as Judge Halts Unconstitutional Birthright Citizenship Order Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As the Trump administration launches what it touts as the largest mass deportation campaign in U.S. history we look at how immigrant communities and advocates are fighting back. The administration already faces some setbacks including in its attempt to end birthright citizenship which a federal judge halted Thursday from going into effect because it was "blatantly unconstitutional." Thursday's ruling is the first in what's expected to be a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=giV2ocStRhc) 2025-01-24T15:57Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements "The New COINTELPRO Meet the Activist the FBI Labeled a Black Identity Extremist & Jailed [--] Months https://democracynow.org - In Texas a black activist says he is the first person to be targeted and prosecuted under a secretive U.S. surveillance effort to track so-called black identity extremists. On December [--] activist Rakem Balogun awoke to armed FBI agents storming his Dallas apartment. He was then jailed for nearly six months without the possibility of bail as the FBI investigated him for domestic terrorism in part because of his Facebook posts criticizing police brutality. He was" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=h-b1aP0jIm0) 2018-05-23T15:57Z 3.2M followers, 61.2K engagements "Ex-Cuomo aide says voters must not forget sexual harassment scandal Lindsey Boylan is a former aide to Andrew Cuomo who was the first woman to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment. She now supports Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral election and says voters must not forget Cuomo's history of abuse" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hEH5csRn018) 2025-10-15T23:00Z 3.2M followers, 39.2K engagements ""I Pled Guilty to Journalism": WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Speaks Publicly After Prison Release Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke publicly today for the first time since he was released in June from a London prison. Assange addressed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in France about his 14-year legal saga after publishing evidence of U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Assange was freed after pleading guilty to a U.S. charge of obtaining and disclosing national security material. Democracy Now broadcasts" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hUKGlriwhjU) 2024-10-01T14:20Z 3.2M followers, 76.1K engagements "Declassified JFK Assassination Files Expose Covert CIA Operations from the Vatican to Latin America Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The U.S. government this week released thousands more records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in [----] long a source of fascination and intrigue. This is the final batch of JFK files after the federal government began declassifying documents in the early 1990s. While these latest files contain no major revelations about the assassination they do include many previously redacted details about the CIA global effort to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=heXCdf6fe5s) 2025-03-21T14:50Z 3.2M followers, 539.5K engagements "Israel's Killing of Yemen's Houthi PM May Expand Regional War Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Thousands of mourners attended a funeral for [--] senior Houthi figures in Yemen's capital of Sana'a on Monday after they were killed by Israel in an airstrike last week. The dead included the Houthi prime minister Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi. The Houthis have ruled the capital and much of northern Yemen for over a decade. For the last two years Houthi fighters have regularly launched missiles at Israel and attacked ships in the Red Sea in what they described as actions in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hn4pTcjufEk) 2025-09-02T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 66.7K engagements ""Let Us Out": ICE's Detention of Children Sparks Protests at TX Immigration Jail Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Liam Ramos the 5-year-old from Minnesota who was detained last week after coming home from preschool is being held in the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley Texas. Congressmembers who visited Liam report that has been depressed and hasn't been eating well. Javier Hidalgo legal director at RAICES has worked with families at the detention center for years. "We often hear about food with bugs or worms in it half-frozen food being given guards" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=huL32yJ7WOI) 2026-01-29T15:31Z 3.2M followers, 86.7K engagements "ICE Out of Minnesota: Unions & Churches Lead Economic Blackout in "Day of Truth and Freedom" Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Hundreds of businesses in Minnesota have closed for the day as part of an economic blackout to protest the surge of ICE agents into the state. Organizers of the strike include faith leaders and unions who are encouraging people to stay home from work school and shopping. Kieran Knutson president of the Communications Workers of America Local [----] says the strike comes "after weeks of living under the heavy weight of this racist campaign of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iVhmHVeJKdY) 2026-01-23T16:03Z 3.2M followers, 49.8K engagements "Despite Judge's Order ICE Deports Shackled Babson College Freshman Harasses Her Family in Texas Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Nineteen-year-old Any Lssuca Lpez Belloza was detained and deported despite a lack of removal order when attempting to head home from Babson College in Boston to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving. "This is the first arrest of its kind I've seen" says her attorney Todd C. Pomerleau who says the student has been the victim of "character assassination." After Lpez Belloza "was taken down near the border on a bus had shackles" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iYnlZA-J8Rw) 2025-12-10T15:52Z 3.2M followers, 141.4K engagements ""The Economy Is Rigged": Robert Reich on Zohran Mamdani The Democratic Party Inequality and Trump Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York Democratic primary for New York mayor the rise of Donald Trump and the role of big money in politics. "This is the one thing that I agree with Donald Trump about: The economy is rigged but it's rigged against working-class people. And I think Mamdani understood that. He understood that people have got to want a change but also they want" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iaieU9pCgog) 2025-06-26T14:53Z 3.2M followers, 1.7M engagements "Disappearing Video Legal Threats: How UnitedHealth Largest U.S. Health Insurer Silences Critics Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In a major new New York Times expos on health insurance behemoth UnitedHealth deputy investigations editor David Enrich reveals how the largest insurer in the country works to intimidate and silence critics of its often predatory and exploitative treatment of patients. While "companies do this kind of stuff all the time" Enrich says UnitedHealth's lawyers "were really going after some fairly obscure stuff and that suggested to me that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jBoRRZBd6_A) 2025-07-16T14:46Z 3.2M followers, 364.1K engagements "Free Julian Assange: Snowden Varoufakis Corbyn & Tariq Ali Speak Out Ahead of Extradition Hearing As jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces an extradition hearing Wednesday in London supporters gathered Friday for the Belmarsh Tribunal named for the Belmarsh maximum security prison where Assange is being held. The mock trial highlighted major WikiLeaks revelations of U.S. war crimes and demanded Assanges freedom. Assange faces up to [---] years in prison in the U.S. under the Espionage Act for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes. Though a British judge blocked his" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jDEG7Rd21d4) 2021-10-25T14:20Z 3.2M followers, 208.6K engagements "Arrest the War Criminal: Thousands Protest Netanyahu in NYC as He Addresses U.N. Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Thousands of protesters took to the streets of New York on Friday in solidarity with Palestinians and to denounce Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly. Crowds marched from Times Square toward the U.N. chanting slogans demanding Netanyahus arrest for war crimes and an end to U.S. support for Israels genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile inside the U.N. the Israeli leader addressed a largely empty room as" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jVY7eY12voI) 2025-09-27T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 198.9K engagements "The Belmarsh Tribunal D.C. The Case of Julian Assange On January [--] [----] Democracy Now is livestreaming the Belmarsh Tribunal from Washington D.C. The event will feature expert testimony from journalists whistleblowers lawyers publishers and parliamentarians on assaults to press freedom and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Watch here live at [--] p.m. ET on Friday January [--]. Democracy Nows Amy Goodman and Srecko Horvat the co-founder of DiEM25 will chair the tribunal which is being organized by Progressive International and the Wau Holland Foundation. 0:00 - Introductions 15:33 -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=j_QqpYATupw) 2023-01-20T22:49Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements "Special Report on Venezuela: U.S. Abducts Maduro Trump Says "We Are Going to Run" Oil-Rich Nation Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez host breaking news coverage on U.S. forces attacking Venezuela and seizing Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro. We speak to Venezuelan reporter Andrena Chvez in Caracas as well as professors Miguel Tinker Salas and Alejandro Velasco. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kaLChmzkGo0) 2026-01-03T21:10Z 3.2M followers, 729.3K engagements "Is Venezuela on its way to becoming a Trump "vassal state" In a further shift away from the nation-building foreign policy of the past several decades of U.S. power what the United States is planning for Venezuela is basically to run the country as a vassal state Greg Grandin says. This is an arrangement with transactional details that weve never seen before. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kvRO7_ui23c) 2026-01-30T18:21Z 3.2M followers, 15.7K engagements ""We Have to Move Fast": Jane Fonda Relaunches Father's Free Speech Group to Counter Trump Censorship Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Oscar-winning actress and activist Jane Fonda is relaunching her father Henry Fonda's free speech organization the Committee for the First Amendment. First established in [----] to combat the rise of McCarthyism the organization brings together members of the film and television industry to push back against and refuse government censorship. Fonda's announcement comes after the television network ABC brought back late-night host" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lR5S-ZBn8oU) 2025-10-03T14:55Z 3.2M followers, 321.5K engagements "Could Hegseth Face War Crimes Probe for Killing Survivors of U.S. Boat Strike Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now speaks with journalist Spencer Ackerman about the Trump administration's deadly ongoing attacks on alleged "drug boats" amid reports President Trump is preparing to attack Venezuela with all airspace surrounding Venezuela now closed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others are "turning the military into a criminal operation" says Ackerman. "This shows the moral degeneracy that the 'war on terror' has left as a legacy in the U.S. military."" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mNEFbuoind8) 2025-12-01T15:51Z 3.2M followers, 62.9K engagements "What Trump & Hegseth's Lecture to Generals Really Means Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt At an unprecedented gathering of hundreds of top generals and admirals from U.S. military installations around the world President Trump delivered a rambling speech Tuesday alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. They laid out their vision of a "warrior" culture in the U.S. military and claimed the United States is facing an "invasion from within." Eugene Fidell a military scholar at Yale Law School says the meeting was a means of "exacting loyalty special loyalty from the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nzlgYNKShNk) 2025-10-01T14:21Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements "Top U.S. & World Headlines February [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=o6ekvxnCBwU) 2026-02-02T15:45Z 3.2M followers, 422.8K engagements "Green Pres. & VP Candidates Jill Stein Butch Ware on Gaza & Fighting "Two Zombie Political Parties" Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now speaks with the Green Party's presidential ticket Jill Stein and her running mate Butch Ware after the Green Party suffered a setback Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined a request to put Stein on the ballot in Nevada. The Democratic Party had sued to keep Stein off the ballot for failing to submit the proper forms. In this campaign cycle Democrats have fought to keep the Green Party off the ballot while some" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=o7JXEth5cWM) 2024-09-25T14:12Z 3.2M followers, 408.7K engagements "Families of Trinidadian men killed in U.S. boat strike sue Trump admin The families of 26-year-old Chad Joseph and 41-year-old Rishi Samaroo two men from Trinidad killed by a U.S. missile strike in the Caribbean are suing the Trump administration for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oNG4GgyFX5A) 2026-02-01T01:01Z 3.2M followers, 23.3K engagements "350000 Haitians in U.S. "at Risk of Losing Everything" After Trump Revokes Legal TPS Status Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt An estimated [------] Haitian immigrants are set to lose their temporary protected status or TPS on February [--] [----] after President Trump signed an executive order to revoke their TPS shortly after coming into office. TPS holders live and work in the United States legally. During the [----] presidential election candidates Donald Trump and JD Vance spread racist invective about Haitian immigrants in Springfield Ohio. Now ICE is reportedly" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oNmqDsizJaA) 2026-01-30T15:49Z 3.2M followers, 78.6K engagements "A New Nuclear Arms Race Could "Spiral" as Last U.S.-Russia Treaty Expires: Dr. Ira Helfand Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As the last major nuclear arms treaty between the United States and Russia expires this week we speak with arms control expert Dr. Ira Helfand a steering committee member of Back from the Brink a national coalition organizing communities across the United States to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Helfand is a longtime member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons or ICAN which received the [----] Nobel Peace Prize." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=p7i-x7aZnrg) 2026-02-04T16:41Z 3.2M followers, 23K engagements "Virginia Giuffre's Memoir Details Sex Abuse by Epstein Maxwell Prince Andrew Virginia Roberts Giuffre says she was sexually abused by Prince Andrew multiple times beginning when she was [--]. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pXEL7O2x7kk) 2025-10-22T16:33Z 3.2M followers, 373.7K engagements ""Emperor" Trump's So-Called Board of Peace Erases Palestinians from Gaza Governance Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As President Donald Trump formally inaugurated his so-called Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland on Thursday his son-in-law Jared Kushner presented his vision of turning the Gaza Strip into an upscale seaside resort with gleaming skyscrapers and entirely new cities. The proposal is said to require an investment of at least $25 billion and Kushner's presentation showed a map of the besieged territory divided into different" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=prw7fhhcmDo) 2026-01-23T16:01Z 3.2M followers, 270.4K engagements "Why did the FBI raid an election office in Georgia Journalist Ari Berman says the FBI raid on election offices in Georgia is part of a "concerted effort" by the Trump administration to interfere in this year's midterms" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=q0d3p8jtZb4) 2026-02-02T17:29Z 3.2M followers, 25.8K engagements ""The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks": New Film Explores Untold Radical Life of Civil Rights Icon Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at https://democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Support independent media: https://democracynow.org/donate Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe #DemocracyNow Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qmLfUjfQb8I) 2022-10-17T13:36Z 3.2M followers, 329.6K engagements ""No Means No": AZ Secretary of State Calls for Resistance as Trump Pushes to "Nationalize" Voting Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As President Trump suggests the federal government should "nationalize" and take over the elections process from the states we speak with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. He is the former county recorder for Maricopa County Arizona and oversaw elections there in [----]. The Justice Department has sued Arizona and over [--] other states for their full voter registration lists. "No means no" Fontes says in response to the Trump" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qr1UC5vt5UA) 2026-02-04T16:39Z 3.2M followers, 74.2K engagements "Nicaragua Is in the Grips of Another Dictatorship Decades After Sandinista Revolution: Reed Brody Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Nicaragua announced last week it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council following a U.N. report that slammed the governments human rights violations and warned the country was becoming an authoritarian state. The report by a panel of independent human rights experts adds to international pressure on the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega and first lady Rosario Murillo who was recently named" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qyl_URvvv4Y) 2025-03-07T17:15Z 3.2M followers, 19.8K engagements ""This Is a Union Town": Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders Join Striking Starbucks Workers' Picket Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers on the picket line Monday to demand the coffee giant reach a fair contract with its unionized workforce after years of delay tactics. Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn Mamdani said New York is a "union town" and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January [--]. Responding to a question" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rTWxRrcJrTI) 2025-12-02T15:54Z 3.2M followers, 100.5K engagements "Seymour Hersh Recalls Reporting on My Lai Massacre in Vietnam Watch the full 35-minute interview with Seymour Hersh on Democracy Now: http://owl.li/KMJjw Fifty years after the U.S. ground invasion of Vietnam began we look back at the [----] My Lai massacre when American troops killed hundreds of civilians. Journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the massacre and cover-up winning a Pulitzer Prize for his work. But Hersh never actually went there he interviewed soldiers stateside. Forty-seven years later he recently traveled to My Lai for the first time which he documents in a new article for" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rde1ziiCI9U) 2015-03-25T17:17Z 3.2M followers, 10.6K engagements "Four Days in Occupied Western SaharaA Rare Look Inside Africa's Last Colony In this exclusive broadcast Democracy Now breaks the media blockade and goes to occupied Western Sahara in the northwest of Africa to document the decades-long Sahrawi struggle for freedom and Morocco's violent crackdown. Morocco has occupied the territory since [----] in defiance of the United Nations and the international community. Thousands have been tortured imprisoned killed and disappeared while resisting the Moroccan occupation. A 1700-mile wall divides Sahrawis who remain under occupation from those who fled" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=smg97ib_yfM) 2018-11-23T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 74.7K engagements "Press Freedom on Trial: Julian Assanges Lawyer on Extradition Case & Criminalizing Journalism Support our work: https://www.democracynow.org/donatecampaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_campaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_content=description&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube At a critical hearing this week in London lawyers for imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked the British High Court of Justice to grant him a new appeal in what is likely his last chance to avoid extradition to the United States where he faces a 175-year prison sentence for publishing classified documents that exposed U.S. war crimes" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=srYlrzpiquE) 2024-02-23T15:46Z 3.2M followers, 163K engagements ""I Will Govern as a Democratic Socialist": Watch Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders at NYC Inauguration Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Zohran Mamdani hailed "a new era" for New York on Thursday promising in his inaugural address to deliver on the ambitious agenda that electrified progressives in the city and saw him defeat the political establishment in both the Democratic primary and the general election last year. Addressing thousands of supporters who braved freezing temperatures to attend the ceremony at City Hall Mamdani vowed to "govern expansively and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=suPQpS-JY4Q) 2026-01-02T17:01Z 3.2M followers, 85.6K engagements "Why Trump wants control over the Fed: Aya Ibrahim Economic policy expert Aya Ibrahim says President Trump wants control over the Federal Reserve so he can slash interest rates and "run the economy as hot as possible" without much care for the impact on average people. Tap the link in @democracynow's bio for more of our coverage" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sulmVS00cg4) 2025-08-27T23:11Z 3.2M followers, 188.8K engagements "Colombia's U.S. Ambassador Denounces Trump's Deadly Strikes on Boats in the Caribbean Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Tensions are escalating between Colombia and the United States as President Trump conducts deadly airstrikes on supposed "drug boats" in the Caribbean. Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the U.S. of committing murder for killing a Colombian fisherman in one attack in mid-September and just recalled the country's ambassador Daniel Garca-Pea. "Even if they were in fact carrying drugs the procedure is to capture them to seize them to arrest" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=t4ortxDocnE) 2025-10-22T15:10Z 3.2M followers, 76.4K engagements "Wheres My Roy Cohn: Film Explores How Joseph McCarthys Ex-Aide Mentored Trump & Roger Stone https://democracynow.org - Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone who was arrested on Friday and Donald Trump share a unique history: Both were heavily influenced by the infamous attorney Roy Cohn who served as a chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare in the 1950s and would later become a leading mob attorney. Cohn represented Trump for years and once claimed he considered Trump to be his best friend. Cohn is the subject of a new documentary at the Sundance Film Festival" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=t9f8x999cUw) 2019-01-28T16:58Z 3.2M followers, 284.3K engagements "Palantir: Peter Thiel's Data-Mining Firm Helps DOGE Build Master Database to Surveil Immigrants Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Trump administration has tapped Palantir the notorious data-mining firm co-founded by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel to compile information on people in the United States for a "master database" creating an easy way to cross-reference sensitive data from tax records immigration records and more. Palantir also has a $30 million contract with ICE to provide almost real-time visibility into immigrants' movements as the agency" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=v5gyhQ1JLnU) 2025-06-03T14:35Z 3.2M followers, 303.9K engagements "Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces [--] Years in Prison over ICE Jail Inspection Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey is facing up to [--] years in prison stemming from an incident last May when she sought to inspect Delaney Hall a private prison run by the GEO Group under contract with ICE" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vM3d38Q0akE) 2026-01-29T19:01Z 3.2M followers, 93.4K engagements ""It's Not a Peace Plan": Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Trump Push to End War on Gaza Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Trump is calling on negotiators to "move fast" on Gaza ceasefire talks as delegations from Hamas and Israel convene in Egypt to discuss the 20-point plan announced last week by the White House. The deal calls for Hamas to release all remaining hostages and to disarm. Daniel Levy president of the U.S./Middle East Project says it is unclear whether the plan will lead to an end to genocide in Gaza yet "with all the faults in this plan" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wENOPGVfhRY) 2025-10-06T14:02Z 3.2M followers, 274.6K engagements "Trump's strike on alleged drug boat was "pure murder": Greg Grandin The Trump administration is celebrating an airstrike that killed [--] people on an alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat but historian Greg Grandin says the operation amounts to "pure premeditated murder."" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wVQgKpMJrwE) 2025-09-06T15:24Z 3.2M followers, 155.3K engagements "Cornel West: Running for President Ending Ukraine War & Taking on Corporate Duopoly of Dems & GOP Cornel West the iconic academic and social critic has declared his candidacy for president of the United States in the [----] election. He is running with the Peoples Party a progressive alternative to the two major parties that grew out of Bernie Sanderss [----] campaign. With [----] shaping up to be a rematch between neofascist Donald Trump and milquetoast neoliberal Joe Biden West says voters need a real alternative focused on tackling inequality racism war and corporate greed. Theres an" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wW2iPjaJ-Js) 2023-06-07T16:02Z 3.2M followers, 832.7K engagements ""Fire in Every Direction": Palestinian Author Tareq Baconi on Gaza Zionism & Embracing Queerness Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi joins us to discuss his new memoir Fire in Every Direction a chronicle of his political and queer coming of age growing up between Amman and Beirut as the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa. While "LGBTQ+ labels have also been used by the West as part of empire" with colonial projects seeking to portray Native populations as backward and in need of saving "there's a beautiful effort and movement" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wWjO8N82dg4) 2025-11-06T16:45Z 3.2M followers, 31K engagements "Ralph Nader on Cornel West and third-party candidates Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader calls for the Democratic Party to "stop engaging in candidate suppression" and respect third-party candidates such as Cornel West who run for public office as a constitutional right. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Support independent media: https://democracynow.org/donate Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xLdM0JjtlP4) 2023-09-28T19:00Z 3.2M followers, 40.1K engagements "Sarah Leah Whitson on Israel Gaza & Trump-MBS Meeting Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire went into effect Israel has killed more than [---] civilians including [--] children. To talk about all of this and Trump's controversial Oval Office meeting with Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman we are joined by Sarah Leah Whitson the executive director of DAWN an organization working to reform U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. She is co-author of the new book "From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine" Democracy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xVVCR3UgjFU) 2025-11-26T15:36Z 3.2M followers, 36.1K engagements "RIP Alex Pretti: Colleague Remembers Compassion Deep Empathy of ICU Nurse Killed by Feds Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/aasma_shaukat_alex_pretti Democracy Now speaks with a former colleague of Alex Pretti the 37-year-old ICU nurse shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. Dr. Aasma Shaukat who hired Pretti for a research job over a decade ago says he lived with kindness compassion and a strong sense of civic duty to help his fellow citizens. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xta9JhbASCg) 2026-01-26T16:03Z 3.2M followers, 66.6K engagements "Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Billionaire Trump associate Elon Musk's latest disinformation campaign is targeting the U.K. government which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently anti-immigrant. Musk who has already shaped the incoming Trump administration's economic policy by proposing cuts to government spending and tech-oriented privatization of services signifies a "new era" in American politics says our guest Quinn Slobodian who is chronicling right-wing" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8lL2cz5mwo) 2025-01-06T14:50Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements ""A Force of Terror": Rep. Delia Ramirez on ICE Abuses & Her Push to Impeach Kristi Noem as DHS Chief Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt lawmakers repeatedly called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign as they confronted her on Trump's immigration crackdown during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday. We speak with Congressmember Delia Ramirez who reiterated her call during the hearing for Noem to resign and announced that she would begin taking steps for her impeachment. The Department of Homeland Security is "operating as a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yTyVY0P_UYs) 2025-12-12T16:13Z 3.2M followers, 139.6K engagements "Green Party's Jill Stein challenges Democrats on policy Jill Stein criticizes Democratic efforts to keep the Green Party off the ballot in some states. "They are terrified of actually meeting us in the court of public opinion and having a real debate about the crises the American people face and the real solutions that we alone have put on the table" says Stein. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ycN-oRLmtvM) 2024-09-28T16:00Z 3.2M followers, 45.7K engagements "Who is Kash Patel Who is Kash Patel the man Donald Trump wants to name FBI director Mehdi Hasan says he is a loyalist who will help "crush Donald Trump's opponents." Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yhbG1xjYD5U) 2024-12-03T00:00Z 3.2M followers, 24.8K engagements "Trump Gold/Platinum Card: Amid Immigrant Crackdown U.S. Sells Visas for Up to $5 Million Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As the Trump administration expands its immigration crackdown nationwide President Trump is simultaneously creating new pathways for wealthy noncitizens to obtain U.S. visas. Earlier this week Trump officially launched a program allowing affluent visitors to fast-track permission to live and work in the United States. For a $1 million payment applicants can receive a so-called Trump Gold Card which promises to speed up U.S. residency" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=z0FzUHRH-Ko) 2025-12-12T16:09Z 3.2M followers, 20.9K engagements "Laid Off Steelworker: Mitt Romney Bain Capital Profited By Shutting Down Kansas Steel Plant DemocracyNow.org - As Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney comes under fire in New Hampshire for touting his business experience we look at how his private equity firm Bain Capital drove a Kansas City steel plant into bankruptcy leading to some [---] layoffs and a federal bailout. Bain still walked away with millions of dollars in profits. We speak with Reuters reporter Andy Sullivan who covered the story and with Joe Soptic a steelworker who lost his job at Kansas City's Worldwide Grinding" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=z7burDcPR1Y) 2012-01-10T16:30Z 3.2M followers, [----] engagements "Jill Stein on Trump as a "Grave Danger" & Why She was at [----] Moscow Dinner with Putin & Flynn https://democracynow.org - Former Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein assesses the Trump administrations first six months and responds to questions about an infamous photo that showed her sitting at the same table as Trumps former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a dinner in Moscow in [----]. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zLpOiPr-tUk) 2017-08-01T16:10Z 3.2M followers, 32.9K engagements Limited data mode. 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"War Against All Puerto Ricans: Inside the U.S. Crackdown on Pedro Albizu Campos & Nationalist Party http://democracynow.org - Commemorations are being held today to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Pedro Albizu Campos popularly known to many as Don Pedro the former head of the Nationalist Party and leader of the Puerto Rican independence movement. Albizu Campos spent some [--] years in prison for organizing against U.S. colonial rule. He was born in [----] seven years before the U.S. invaded the island. He would go on to become the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School."
YouTube Link 2015-04-21T14:50Z 3.2M followers, 292.6K engagements
"Karoline Leavitts relative threatened with deportation On Tuesday Bruna Ferreira was released from detention in Louisiana on a $1500 bond. The Trump administration has characterized her as a criminal illegal alien from Brazil a characterization Bruna refutes and has called disgusting. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T02:15Z 3.2M followers, 307.6K engagements
"Devastating: Trump EPA to Scrap Landmark Climate Finding in Pro-Fossil Fuel Deregulatory Push Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In a victory for the fossil fuel industry a set of Obama-era rules that required the federal government to regulate the emissions of six greenhouse gases is being reversed by the Trump administration. The changes would undo the legal basis of the fight against global warming as well as remove industrial reporting obligations and roll back emissions standards for cars and trucks. Environmental engineer Gretchen Goldman helped author those"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T17:13Z 3.2M followers, 45.1K engagements
""America Amrica": Greg Grandin on Latin American History from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We spend the hour with acclaimed historian Greg Grandin discussing his new book America Amrica: A New History of the New World which spans five centuries of North and South American history since the Spanish conquest including the fight against fascism in the 1930s. He examines the U.S.-Latin American relationship under Trump with a focus on El Salvador Panama Ecuador and Cuba. Grandin also has a new piece for The Intercept that draws on the"
YouTube Link 2025-04-23T14:03Z 3.2M followers, 740.1K engagements
"Top U.S. & World Headlines September [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2024-09-30T14:14Z 3.2M followers, 233.1K engagements
"Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights His Half-Century in Prison & More Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February. Before his commutation by former President Joe Biden the 81-year-old Peltier spent nearly [--] years behind bars. Peltier has always maintained his innocence for the [----] killing of two FBI officers. He is expected to serve the remainder of"
YouTube Link 2025-09-19T14:43Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Jewish Rep. Balint Walks Out of Hearing After Bondi Calls Her Antisemitic Vermont Congressmember Becca Balint asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein a demand that Bondi repeatedly ignored during the hearing"
YouTube Link 2026-02-12T19:30Z 3.2M followers, 218K engagements
"Journalist Vicky Ward on New Epstein Files & Survivors' Fight for Accountability Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As the DOJ releases the largest batch of files yet on the federal investigation into Epstein we look at some of the most significant revelations with investigative journalist Vicky Ward who has spent decades reporting on the deceased sexual predator his powerful associates and the impact of his crimes. Survivors have condemned the Department of Justice for not complying with the Epstein Files Transparency Act which required all files to be released last"
YouTube Link 2025-12-24T15:36Z 3.2M followers, 886.2K engagements
""Love Forward Together": Faith Leaders in North Carolina Launch 50-Mile March for Social Justice Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Faith leaders in North Carolina are leading a three-day trek from Wilson to Raleigh in an event aimed at supporting "unabridged voting rights; living wages and ending poverty; welcoming immigrants" and more. Reverend Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove spoke with Democracy Now from the march saying that "love is the power that can overcome fear in this moment." As North Carolina faces a President Trump-led gerrymandering effort Wilson-Hartgrove"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T15:58Z 3.2M followers, 14.8K engagements
"Anand Giridharadas on the Elite Network Around Epstein Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt While much of the recent interest in Jeffrey Epstein has focused on the late sexual predators relationship with President Donald Trump his emails also reveal his close relationships with other powerful figures from the worlds of politics finance academia and beyond. The thousands of files released by the House Oversight Committee earlier this month include his correspondence from April [----] through January [----] after he was already a registered sex offender for abusing underage"
YouTube Link 2025-11-25T16:37Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
""Orwell: 2+2=5": Raoul Peck & Alex Gibney on New Documentary Authoritarianism Trump & More Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with the acclaimed filmmakers Raoul Peck and Alex Gibney about their latest documentary "Orwell: 2+2=5" which explores the life and career of George Orwell and why his political writing remains relevant today. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest:"
YouTube Link 2025-10-02T15:13Z 3.2M followers, 677.4K engagements
"As Black History Month Turns [---] Trump Refuses to Apologize for Video Depicting Obamas as Apes Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt' President Donald Trump is refusing to apologize for sharing a racist video on social media that depicts former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes. The video remained available on Trump's Truth Social page for [--] hours before it was deleted around noon on Friday. It prompted rare criticism from members of his own party including South Carolina's Tim Scott the Senate's only Black Republican who called it "the most racist"
YouTube Link 2026-02-09T16:06Z 3.2M followers, 45.6K engagements
""The Making of Donald Trump": David Cay Johnston on Trump's Ties to the Mob & Drug Traffickers http://democracynow.org - David Cay Johnston began covering Donald Trump in the 1980s when he was working as the Atlantic City reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Johnstons new book "The Making of Donald Trump" looks at a side of Trump seldom covered in the press: his ties to the mob drug traffickers and felons. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: http://democracynow.org"
YouTube Link 2016-08-10T15:53Z 3.2M followers, 435.2K engagements
"Meet Aliya Rahman Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with Aliya Rahman a U.S. citizen who was violently dragged from her car by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month and detained at the Whipple Federal Building which has become the epicenter of the government's immigration crackdown in the city. Rahman says she repeatedly told agents she was disabled and had a brain injury but they ignored her pleas for medical attention or other accommodation. "I was taken out of"
YouTube Link 2026-02-09T16:04Z 3.2M followers, 113.6K engagements
"U.S. is "empire in decline": historian Historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is "an empire in decline" exhibiting the same "irrationality" as previous declining powers"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T22:03Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"CBS News Under Fire for Scrapping Reporting Critical of Trump's Deportation Agenda Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Watch ProPublica documentary "Surviving CECOT": https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Lku5h9xjrqc The new head of CBS News Bari Weiss is facing accusations of censorship after she abruptly canceled a segment from Sunday's episode of "60 Minutes" just three hours before broadcast. The segment centered on the stories of Venezuelan immigrants sent to El Salvador's brutal CECOT prison by the Trump administration. "When so much of our ability to communicate out"
YouTube Link 2025-12-23T15:32Z 3.2M followers, 408.8K engagements
"Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Elon Musk was born in [----] in Johannesburg South Africa and raised in a wealthy family under the country's racist apartheid laws. Musk's family history reveals ties to apartheid and neo-Nazi politics. We speak with Chris McGreal reporter for The Guardian to understand how Musk's upbringing shaped his worldview as well as that of his South African-raised colleague Peter Thiel a right-wing billionaire who co-founded PayPal alongside Musk. "Musk"
YouTube Link 2025-03-27T14:58Z 3.2M followers, 4.8M engagements
""I Have Never Felt So Much Fear": Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley TX Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex where families describe horrific conditions inside such as being served contaminated food with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals. Lights are reportedly left on for [--] hours a day. South Texas Family Residential Center in the town of Dilley a few dozen miles from the southern border with Mexico detains an estimated 3500"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T15:32Z 3.2M followers, 21.2K engagements
"Cubas U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade Cuban ambassador to the United Nations Ernesto Sobern Guzmn speaks about the growing humanitarian crisis in Cuba due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T17:01Z 3.2M followers, 20.1K engagements
"Permanent Record: Why NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Risked His Life to Expose Surveillance State Six years ago Edward Snowden leaked a trove of secret documents about how the United States had built a massive surveillance apparatus to spy on Americans and people across the globe. Snowden was then charged in the U.S. for violating the Espionage Act and other laws. As he attempted to flee to Latin America Snowden became stranded in Russia after the U.S. revoked his passport. He has lived in Moscow ever since. Snowden just published his memoir Permanent Record in which he writes about what"
YouTube Link 2019-09-26T15:19Z 3.2M followers, 417.4K engagements
"Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite's Veil of Silence Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across the globe. Millions of pages remain unreleased. As many prominent U.S. figures evade accountability following mentions in the Epstein files a number of European figures have resigned for their relationships with Epstein. "The most"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T15:31Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Feels Like a Cover-Up: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Slams Trump Admin over Deadly ICE Crackdown Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt A federal judge in Minnesota heard arguments Monday in a lawsuit filed by city and state officials to halt Trumps deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents to Minnesota. The federal government cannot coerce us into doing it their way says Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison who is part of the group that brought the lawsuit. As the Trump administration continues to obstruct local investigations into the killings of Renee"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T15:30Z 3.2M followers, 793.7K engagements
""They Poisoned the World": The Corporate Cover-Up & Fightback Against PFAS "Forever Chemicals" Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In a major victory for environmental advocates chemical giant DuPont and its related companies have agreed to pay $2 billion to clean up four industrial sites in New Jersey that are contaminated with "forever chemicals" or PFAS which have been found to persist in everything from rainwater to human breast milk. It is the third such settlement New Jersey has reached in less than three years and marks a growing movement against the widespread"
YouTube Link 2025-08-08T15:06Z 3.2M followers, 355.4K engagements
"Netanyahu Seeks to Kill U.S.-Iran Talks to Start Another War: Mouin Rabbani Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Donald Trump held a lengthy meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday at the White House where the two leaders discussed ongoing nuclear talks with Iran. Trump has said he wants to reach a deal with Iran about the country's nuclear program which Tehran insists is only for peaceful civilian purposes but which the U.S. and Israel claim is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. In recent weeks Trump has repeatedly threatened to"
YouTube Link 2026-02-12T16:07Z 3.2M followers, 40.1K engagements
"Top U.S. & World Headlines February [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2026-02-09T16:02Z 3.2M followers, 339.5K engagements
"The Rise of Zohran Mamdani: From [----] Hunger Strike to Mayoral Election Victory Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As Zohran Mamdani prepares to become New York's first Muslim and first South Asian mayor on January [--] we look at the historic rise of the democratic socialist who shocked the political establishment. We spend the hour hearing Mamdani in his own words and look at the grassroots coalition that helped him pull off what's been described as "one of the great political upsets in modern American history." Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that"
YouTube Link 2025-11-28T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 312.4K engagements
"Ex-CIA Agent Whistleblower John Kiriakou Interview on Democracy Now (Clip 1) DemocracyNow.org - Former CIA agent John Kiriakou speaks out just days after he was sentenced to [--] months in prison becoming the first CIA official to face jail time for any reason relating to the U.S. torture program. Under a plea deal Kiriakou admitted to a single count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by revealing the identity of a covert officer to a freelance reporter who did not publish it. Supporters say Kiriakou is being unfairly targeted for having been the first CIA official to"
YouTube Link 2013-01-31T14:25Z 3.2M followers, 16.2K engagements
""George Bush Doesnt Care About Black People": Reflections on Kanye Wests Criticism [--] Years After Democracynow.org - On Sept. [--] [----] during a nationally televised telethon benefit for victims of Hurricane Katrina hip-hop legend Kanye West went off script to directly criticize the media and the White Houses handling of the storm. "I hate the way they portray us in the media" he said. "If you see a black family it says theyre looting. If you see a white family it says theyre searching for food." West went on to say "George Bush doesnt care about black people." Bush later wrote in his memoir"
YouTube Link 2015-08-28T15:47Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"FBI and local police raid pro-Palestine activists' homes in Michigan The FBI and local police in Michigan have raided the homes of Palestinian rights activists in Ann Arbor Ypsilanti and Canton. The targets of the raids participated in anti-war protests at the University of Michigan. Attorney General Dana Nessel claims they raids are part of a vandalism investigation. Police detained several people and confiscated their personal electronics. In Ypsilanti the activists say police initially refused to show a warrant. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media"
YouTube Link 2025-04-24T11:36Z 3.2M followers, 220.6K engagements
"De Facto Dictatorship: Democrats Confront ICE CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administrations brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations. These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country whether its in detention whether its in the streets or even in the courts says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T16:58Z 3.2M followers, 252.3K engagements
""Empire in Decline": Historian Alfred McCoy on U.S. Aggression in Venezuela Iran & Beyond Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As President Trump threatens Iran Venezuela Mexico Greenland and more renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is "an empire in decline" following a predictable pattern of militarism abroad and political instability at home as it loses power and influence on the world stage. "American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational" says McCoy. "I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline and it"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T15:48Z 3.2M followers, 702.2K engagements
"Juan Gonzlez on Lasting Impact of 9/11 Toxic Exposure Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The September [--] [----] attack on the World Trade Center in New York City was a major polluting event. Debris from the collapse of the buildings spread toxic substances including asbestos lead mercury and more throughout the disaster zone. As New York City leaders issue new calls for the release of files detailing the extent of this pollution we revisit the reporting of Democracy Now co-host Juan Gonzlez the author of "Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade"
YouTube Link 2026-02-06T15:51Z 3.2M followers, 15.4K engagements
"Diana Buttu on Trump's Gaza ceasefire deal The Trump-backed Gaza ceasefire deal "is not a peace agreement" says Palestinian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu. "This is not an end to the occupation.""
YouTube Link 2025-10-10T16:25Z 3.2M followers, 133.6K engagements
"U.S. Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker as Anti-Maduro Campaign Escalates Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt U.S. troops seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday a major escalation that the Venezuelan government called "international piracy." We speak with New York University professor Alejandro Velasco about the Trump administration's intentions in the country which has the world's largest known oil reserves. Though the Pentagon has claimed the conflict is aimed at combating narcoterrorism Velasco says the violence is actually an effort "to get rid of"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T15:56Z 3.2M followers, 227.3K engagements
""The Dark Side": Dick Cheney's Legacy from Iraq Invasion to U.S. Torture Program Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Dick Cheney the former vice president and one of the key architects of the [----] U.S. invasion of Iraq died Monday at age [--]. Cheney served six terms in Congress as Wyoming's lone representative before serving as defense secretary under President George H.W. Bush when he oversaw the first Gulf War and the bloody U.S. invasion of Panama that deposed former U.S. ally Manuel Noriega. From [----] to [----] Cheney served as chair and CEO of the oil services"
YouTube Link 2025-11-04T16:02Z 3.2M followers, 70.9K engagements
"What is the diversity visa program Historian explains roots of the green card lottery Historian Mae Ngai says the Diversity Visa Program which the Trump administration says it will suspend following the Brown University mass shooting was created as part of an effort to bring more white people into the country"
YouTube Link 2025-12-19T16:54Z 3.2M followers, 79K engagements
"Top U.S. & World Headlines February [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T16:28Z 3.2M followers, 398.2K engagements
"Trump Throws "Great Gatsby" Party at Mar-a-Lago as Food Stamps End for Millions Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Trump held a lavish Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago Friday just hours before an estimated [--] million people lost SNAP benefits across the country. Kirk Curnutt the executive director of the international F. Scott Fitzgerald Society says that while "Gatsby is famous for its lavish party scenes what people often miss is that the entire thrust of the book is to critique that conspicuous consumption and the wastage that goes on in"
YouTube Link 2025-11-03T17:06Z 3.2M followers, 100.8K engagements
"Trump Is Weaponizing the Murder of Charlie Kirk to Go After the Left: Mehdi Hasan Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Trump announced on Friday that a suspect was in custody for the killing of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Although the motive has not yet been established Trump has escalated his attacks on the political left saying "We just have to beat the hell out of them." Democracy Now speaks with Mehdi Hasan editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo who says that the right is using Kirk's killing to smear the left. "There's a real rewriting of history going"
YouTube Link 2025-09-12T14:34Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Starting in January the Trump administration says it will garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven't been able to make their payments for at least nine months. "It's cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we're sure that we can run it in a compliant manner" says Julia Barnard higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. To student debtors facing financial"
YouTube Link 2025-12-30T16:16Z 3.2M followers, 146.2K engagements
"Philly City Council Considers "ICE Out" Legislation as DA Krasner Decries "Wannabe Nazi" ICE Agents Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt At least [--] Philadelphia city councilmembers have backed a package of ICE Out legislation aimed at combating ICE and federal immigration enforcement operations in Philadelphia including codifying sanctuary protections and prohibiting federal immigration agents from concealing their identities or covering their faces. We heard the cries from the community calling for something to be done says Kendra Brooks a member of the Philadelphia"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T16:48Z 3.2M followers, 24.4K engagements
"Who is Bari Weiss the new editor-in-chief of CBS News Anti-woke" pundit Bari Weiss is taking the helm as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. The famously pro-Israel writer was named to the position by CBSs new corporate owners the multibillionaire pro-Israel and pro-Trump Ellison family. Weiss who has never before worked in television news will likely bring a right-wing bent to the networks news coverage. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World"
YouTube Link 2025-10-09T00:00Z 3.2M followers, 35.6K engagements
"Chomsky: Hillary Clinton Fears BDS Because It Counters Decades of US Support for Israeli Aggression http://democracynow.org - We speak with world-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky about where the Democratic presidential candidates stand on the issue of Israel and the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement or BDS. "Boycott and sanctions make perfectly good sense when these tactics are properly applied as they often are" Chomsky says. "You can understand why Hillary Clinton is frightened of them. They might undermine the policy of her husband and his predecessors and Obama as well to"
YouTube Link 2016-05-16T15:41Z 3.2M followers, 152.2K engagements
"Kushner praises Gaza's "valuable" waterfront property says Israel should push Palestinians out Trumps son-in-law and former adviser Jared Kushner has weighed in on Israels war on Gaza saying that Israel should move Palestinians out of the besieged territory which he said contains "very valuable" waterfront property. "Gazas waterfront property it could be very valuable" Kushner said during a recent event hosted by the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. "I think from Israels perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up." Democracy Now Amy Goodman"
YouTube Link 2024-03-20T15:48Z 3.2M followers, 146K engagements
"Discrimination against Black farmers by USDA John Boyd Jr. a fourth-generation Black farmer says the $2 billion payout to farmers of color like him for discrimination in accessing government loans is a historic win. He also details his experiences with racism from USDA officials. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2024-08-06T17:30Z 3.2M followers, 110.1K engagements
"Lyd: Directors of New Sci-Fi Doc on How [----] Nakba Devastated Palestinian City Support our work: https://www.democracynow.org/donatecampaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_campaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_content=description&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube A new film about the once-thriving Palestinian city of Lyd now known as the Israeli city Lod and home to Ben Gurion Airport has begun screening in the United States. The film is a science fiction documentary that depicts the Palestinian city both with and without the [----] Nakba when over [------] Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages. In Lyd"
YouTube Link 2024-04-29T14:42Z 3.2M followers, 67.6K engagements
"Minneapolis resident describes her violent arrest by ICE in Minneapolis Aliya Rahman is a U.S. citizen who was violently arrested by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Rahman says she repeatedly told agents she was disabled but they ignored her pleas for medical attention or other accommodation"
YouTube Link 2026-02-09T17:06Z 3.2M followers, 13.2K engagements
"Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt "They didn't ask very many questions." Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas despite never signing any paperwork not having completed a background check likely failing a drug test and publicly sharing her opposition to the Trump administration and its anti-immigrant crackdown."
YouTube Link 2026-01-14T15:59Z 3.2M followers, 666.1K engagements
"The Rape of Recy Taylor: How Rosa Parks Helped a Sharecropper Report Her Assault & Seek Justice https://democracynow.org - A new film looks at the [----] gang rape of Recy Taylor a 24-year old black mother and sharecropper. Following the rape she refused to be silenced and spoke up with help from the NAACPs chief rape investigator Rosa Parks. When Parks went to interview Taylor the local sheriff kept driving by the house and eventually burst in threatening Parks with arrest if she didnt leave town. Parks left and then launched the Alabama Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor"
YouTube Link 2017-12-20T16:16Z 3.2M followers, 68.2K engagements
"U.S. Citizens Describe Surviving Violent Attacks by Immigration Agents Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt U.S. citizens who have had violent encounters with federal immigration agents deployed in cities across the U.S. testified before Congress on Tuesday. Amid harrowing testimony by three victims and the brothers of Renee Good congressional Democrats offered apologies and promises of accountability. Not a single Republican lawmaker showed up to the hearing. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through"
YouTube Link 2026-02-05T16:20Z 3.2M followers, 76.8K engagements
"Alex Pretti killing: ProPublica names federal agents who shot Minneapolis ICU nurse ProPublica has identified the two Border Patrol agents who shot Alex Pretti the Minneapolis man killed January [--] while observing immigration enforcement in the city. The outlet says the agents are Jesus Ochoa [--] and Raymundo Gutierrez 35"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T21:59Z 3.2M followers, 18.2K engagements
"DN celebrates [--] years of independent journalism Go to democracynow.org/30 to get your tickets for our 30th anniversary event in New York on February 23rd"
YouTube Link 2026-02-12T00:53Z 3.2M followers, 16.4K engagements
"ICE Out: Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike Against Immigration Raids Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/minnesota_strike_ice_out Tens of thousands of Minnesotans braved the bitter cold in Minneapolis on Friday to demand ICE out. The march was organized by faith and labor leaders and was accompanied by calls for an economic blackout. Seven hundred businesses reportedly closed in solidarity. Democracy Nows John Hamilton filed a report from the streets. John Reuss an English teacher said his"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T16:06Z 3.2M followers, 143.3K engagements
"Palestine Action activists jailed in U.K. continue their hunger strike Alarm is growing over the treatment and deteriorating health of eight pro-Palestinian activists jailed in the United Kingdom who are on hunger strike to protest their detention"
YouTube Link 2025-12-29T17:44Z 3.2M followers, 33.5K engagements
"The Epstein Files: Rep. Ro Khanna on What's Still Missing from DOJ Document Dump The Justice Department failed to publish thousands of documents by last Fridays congressionally imposed deadline to release all of its files related to the serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein"
YouTube Link 2025-12-22T18:35Z 3.2M followers, 60.6K engagements
"Elite Capture: Philosopher Olufmi O. Taiwo on How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics We speak with philosopher Olufmi O. Tw who has recently written two widely acclaimed books: "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)" and "Reconsidering Reparations" which focuses in part on the climate crisis. He says identity politics is a concept that was stripped of its radical power to build solidarity and is now weaponized to split people into ever narrower categories that hamper movements for racial and social justice. "Elite capture is what happens when"
YouTube Link 2023-01-18T15:24Z 3.2M followers, 124.5K engagements
"Jeremy Scahill on Gaza Ceasefire Talking to Hamas & Israel's Doctrine of Dehumanizing Palestinians Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Israel has carried out repeated attacks in Gaza and killed about [---] Palestinians over the past two weeks since the U.S.-backed ceasefire deal with Hamas came into effect. Jeremy Scahill co-founder of Drop Site News is one of the few Western journalists in regular contact with Hamas leaders. "It's utter malpractice on the part of all of these news organizations that have not regularly been interviewing the leaders the negotiators of"
YouTube Link 2025-10-27T14:29Z 3.2M followers, 238.3K engagements
"ICE vs. People of Minnesota: Community Resists Trump's Militarized Crackdown Special Report Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now producer John Hamilton reports from Minneapolis where residents say ICE agents are violently targeting legal observers and community members as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Patty O'Keefe who was arrested while monitoring ICE activity in her vehicle said agents "broke our two front windows and dragged us out" then taunted her in custody. She said one agent told her "You guys got to stop obstructing"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T16:10Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Elon Musk Under Fire for Grok's Sexualized AI Deepfakes French prosecutors have asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning following a police raid on the offices of the social media network X in Paris"
YouTube Link 2026-02-06T00:01Z 3.2M followers, 17.7K engagements
""Coexistence My Ass": Israeli Comic Noam Shuster Eliassi Uses Humor to Oppose Occupation Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Coexistence My Ass is a new documentary opening Wednesday in New York highlighting Noam Shuster Eliassi an Israeli comedian and peace activist. Shuster Eliassi hopes for justice and equality for Palestinians and "to make present the elephant in the room that a lot of artists in Israel prefer to ignore." We also speak with director Amber Fares who says the film like others dealing with the topic of Palestine is struggling to find distribution in"
YouTube Link 2025-10-29T14:23Z 3.2M followers, 192.8K engagements
"Thousands Call to Arrest Netanyahu March at U.N. Against Gaza Genocide Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now was on the streets as thousands marched to the United Nations in New York City Friday while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the General Assembly. Despite the fact that Netanyahu is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes he has presided over in Gaza he was able to travel to the U.N. without incident as the United States says it does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. We spoke to protesters demanding"
YouTube Link 2025-09-29T14:37Z 3.2M followers, 495.7K engagements
"ProPublica Identifies CBP Agents Who Fatally Shot ICU Nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt ProPublica has identified the two Border Patrol agents who shot Alex Pretti the Minneapolis man killed January [--] while observing immigration enforcement in the city. The outlet says the agents are Jesus Ochoa [--] and Raymundo Gutierrez [--]. This is in the public interest says reporter J. David McSwane. This country has a tradition and norm of being able to identify law enforcement officers both for their safety and the safety of the public."
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T16:50Z 3.2M followers, 136.2K engagements
"Another World Is Possible: How Occupy Wall Street Reshaped Politics Kicked Off New Era of Protest On the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street we examine the legacy of the historic protests with three veterans of the movement: Nelini Stamp now the director of strategy and partnerships at the Working Families Party; Jillian Johnson a key organizer in Occupy Durham who now serves on the Durham City Council and is the citys mayor pro tempore; and writer and filmmaker Astra Tayor an organizer with the Debt Collective. Occupy Wall Street broke the spell protecting the economic status quo and"
YouTube Link 2021-09-17T14:24Z 3.2M followers, 44.2K engagements
"Top U.S. & World Headlines December [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2025-12-31T15:28Z 3.2M followers, 308K engagements
"Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Directs Local Police to Investigate "Rogue Reckless" ICE Agents Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has signed an executive order directing Chicago police to investigate reports of illegal activity conducted by ICE and other federal immigration agents. The move came in the aftermath of Trumps so-called Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago late last year when masked agents flooded neighborhoods snatching residents off the streets as part of Trumps mass deportation campaign. What this executive order is doing is"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T16:47Z 3.2M followers, 101.9K engagements
"Can U.S. & Iran Lower Tensions Officials Begin New Talks Amid Trump Threats of Military Strikes Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In the wake of deadly mass protests that have shaken the ruling Iranian government and with U.S. leaders publicly weighing the idea of military intervention and potential regime change in Iran American and Iranian officials are beginning renewed talks over Iran's nuclear program today. We speak to two guests reporter Nilo Tabrizy and scholar Arang Keshavarzian about the "very strange and contradictory situation" facing the country."
YouTube Link 2026-02-06T15:57Z 3.2M followers, 17.8K engagements
"ICE agents violently arrest observers in Minneapolis Minneapolis resident Patty OKeefe who was violently arrested by ICE says one agent told her that "obstructing" ICE activity is "why that lesbian bitch is dead referring to Renee Good the mother of three killed by an ICE agent in early January"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T18:43Z 3.2M followers, 395.7K engagements
""Hostile Takeovers": As U.S. Claims Venezuela's Oil Trump Seeks "Vassal States" Across the World Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In the aftermath of the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores Venezuela has agreed to submit a monthly budget to the Trump administration which will release money from an account funded by oil sales. It's a deal for the interim government led by Delcy Rodriguz that historian Greg Grandin calls "governing under the blade." In a further shift away from the nation-building foreign policy of the past"
YouTube Link 2026-01-30T15:44Z 3.2M followers, 166.3K engagements
"Calls For Schumer to Step Down Grow as Democrats Cave on Healthcare to Pass Funding Bill Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak to David Dayen about what could be the end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history after seven Democratic Senators and one independent struck a deal with Republicans to pass a short-term government funding bill. Why would you end this asks Dayen echoing many in the Democratic coalition who believe the deal was a poor strategic move for the anti-Trump opposition. Calls are now growing for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer"
YouTube Link 2025-11-11T15:31Z 3.2M followers, 93.1K engagements
""Uniting for Peace": How U.N. Could Override U.S. Veto End Gaza Genocide Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Trump administration is facing growing criticism for suspending visas for Palestinian passport holders including for Palestinian officials set to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly this month. When the U.S. denied a visa to Yasser Arafat to address the U.N. in [----] the General Assembly was moved to Geneva the U.N. faces similar calls now. The move by the U.S. is "an indication of the unprecedented degree to which the U.S. government has handed the"
YouTube Link 2025-09-04T15:45Z 3.2M followers, 201.5K engagements
"Anti-Fascism Scholar Flees U.S. Amid Trump's "Antifa" Fearmongering Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the [----] book "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook" which explores the history and tactics of anti-fascist movements in Europe the United States and beyond. Turning Point USA the conservative campus group founded by Charlie Kirk had called for Bray's firing and branded him "Dr. Antifa." This comes"
YouTube Link 2025-10-15T14:13Z 3.2M followers, 326.7K engagements
"WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Calls on Computer Hackers to Unite Against NSA Surveillance http://www.democracynow.org - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed a major gathering of computer experts Monday at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg Germany calling on them to join forces in resisting government intrusions on internet freedom and privacy. We play highlights from Assange's speech as well as the one given by Sarah Harrison the WikiLeaks member who accompanied Edward Snowden to Russia. We also hear from independent journalist and security expert Jacob Appelbaum who reveals a"
YouTube Link 2013-12-31T15:18Z 3.2M followers, 23.5K engagements
"Why Was Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard at FBI Election Raid in Georgia Ex-DOJ Attorney Speaks Out Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Donald Trump has called to "nationalize" voting in the United States alarming state leaders who oversee the process as well as legal experts who say his takeover demand violates the Constitution. This comes as he continues to falsely claim he won the [----] election with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard overseeing an FBI raid last week to seize ballot boxes and other voting records in Fulton County Georgia. Gabbard as"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T16:40Z 3.2M followers, 30.2K engagements
"Robert Redford the Activist: Hollywood Icon Was Lifelong Champion of Environment & Independent Film Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Robert Redford the legendary Oscar-winning director actor and activist died at the age of [--] on Tuesday. Redford was a longtime environmental activist who served for five decades as a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He was also the creator of the Sundance Film Festival which he helped grow into one of the largest independent film festivals in the world. Democracy Now interviewed Redford many times over the years"
YouTube Link 2025-09-17T15:14Z 3.2M followers, 32.7K engagements
"Judith Butler on campus antisemitism Philosopher Judith Butler is among the [---] names UC Berkeley shared with the Trump administration to comply with its investigation into alleged campus antisemitism. Butler who is Jewish says the real goal of the campaign is to silence pro-Palestine voices"
YouTube Link 2025-09-15T20:56Z 3.2M followers, 93.6K engagements
"Part 1: Buck v. Bell: SCOTUS Case That Led to Forced Sterilization of [-----] & Inspired the Nazis http://democracynow.org - As President Obama nominates centrist Judge Merrick Garland to replace late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court we take a look at whats been described as one of the worst Supreme Court rulings in history. In the [----] case Buck v. Bell the court upheld a statute that enabled the state of Virginia to sterilize so-called mental defectives or imbeciles. The person in question was Carrie Buck a poor young woman then confined in the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics"
YouTube Link 2016-03-17T15:12Z 3.2M followers, 40.7K engagements
""He Was Executed": Minneapolis Residents Outraged Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/alex_pretti_shooting_minneapolis Protests have intensified in Minnesota after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti a 37-year-old ICU nurse who worked in the Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System on Saturday. Democracy Now's John Hamilton reports from the scene of Pretti's killing where protesters clashed with federal agents. Weve seen everything from people that are"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T16:02Z 3.2M followers, 169.5K engagements
"Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory Brad Lander former mayoral candidate who cross-endorsed with Zohran Mandani in the Democratic primary comments on the election results"
YouTube Link 2025-11-05T17:49Z 3.2M followers, 84.7K engagements
"Top U.S. & World Headlines October [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2025-10-28T14:17Z 3.2M followers, 305.4K engagements
"Vandana Shiva: We Must Fight Back Against the [--] Percent to Stop the Sixth Mass Extinction https://democracynow.org - New research finds at least a third of the Himalayan ice cap will melt by the end of the century due to climate change even if the worlds most ambitious environmental reforms are implemented. A report released earlier this month by the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment warns rising temperatures in the Himalayas could lead to mass population displacements as well as catastrophic food and water insecurity. The glaciers are a vital water source for the [---] million people who live in"
YouTube Link 2019-02-22T17:58Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"How Fascism Works: Jason Stanley On Trump Bolsonaro and the Rise of Fascism Across the Globe https://democracynow.org - In his new book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them Yale professor Jason Stanley warns about the dangers of normalizing fascist politics writing What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been. We speak with Jason Stanley in New York. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly"
YouTube Link 2018-10-11T16:09Z 3.2M followers, 144.2K engagements
"Hear Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur Read Her [----] Letter to Pope Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Black liberation activist Assata Shakur died on September [--] [----] at the age of [--]. She passed away in Cuba where she received political asylum in [----] after escaping the U.S. prison system and where she continued to reside for decades despite U.S. attempts to capture and extradite her. In [----] Shakur wrote an open letter to Pope John Paul II during his historic visit to Cuba after New Jersey state troopers requested the pope call for her extradition. "The"
YouTube Link 2025-09-29T14:39Z 3.2M followers, 187.8K engagements
""Divorced from Reality": Economist Dean Baker Fact-Checks Trump's Primetime Speech Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Trump praised the state of the U.S. economy in a primetime address Wednesday evening even though new government statistics show the nation's unemployment rate is at a new four-year high of 4.6%. Dean Baker senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research says Trump's aides should be "wondering about the man's sanity" after Wednesday's speech. "This is utterly divorced from reality." Though Trump blames former President Biden"
YouTube Link 2025-12-18T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 306K engagements
"Six White Mississippi "Goon Squad" Cops Get Lengthy Prison Sentences for Torturing Black Men Support our work: https://www.democracynow.org/donatecampaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_campaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_content=description&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube In Mississippi six former sheriff's deputies have been sentenced to between [--] and [--] years in prison for raiding a home and torturing shooting and sexually abusing two Black men Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker in January [----]. The six former deputies all of whom are white called themselves the "Goon Squad" and have been linked to at least four"
YouTube Link 2024-03-22T14:37Z 3.2M followers, 296.7K engagements
""Stolen from Us": Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Activists in Los Angeles are demanding justice for Keith Porter Jr. an African American 43-year-old father of two who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve. His family is demanding transparency in the investigation into his killing. "When he walked in he brought joy" says Porter's cousin Jsan Tyler. "He always had a laugh a joke a smile." Community organizers have called for the arrest of the ICE officer who"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T15:41Z 3.2M followers, 88K engagements
"Jailed U.K. Palestine Action Activists Continue Hunger Strike Despite Health Risks Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt SUMMARY: Alarm is growing over the treatment and deteriorating health of eight pro-Palestinian activists jailed in the United Kingdom who are on hunger strike to protest their detention. The activists remain imprisoned as they await trial over charges linked to their work with Palestine Action which the British government has banned under its Terrorism Act over direct action protests against Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Several of the activists"
YouTube Link 2025-12-29T15:36Z 3.2M followers, 48.3K engagements
"Remembering the My Lai Massacre: Seymour Hersh on Uncovering the Horrors of Mass Murder in Vietnam https://democracynow.org - In [----] Seymour Hersh won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on how the U.S. slaughtered more than [---] Vietnamese women children and old men in the village of My Lai on March [--] [----]. The event became known as the My Lai massacre. We speak with Seymour Hersh in New York City. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org Please"
YouTube Link 2018-06-20T16:17Z 3.2M followers, 83K engagements
""Catch of the Day": Latest ICE Operation in Maine Targets Somali Community Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Trump's deportation machine has touched down in Maine. As the state home to a significant share of the Somali American community faces a surge of ICE activity we're joined by Safiya Khalid the first-ever Somali American city councilmember for Lewiston Maine's second-largest city. Lewiston's "streets are completely empty" as residents of all immigration statuses fear harassment and violence from unchecked federal agents. "If a white woman was shot in the face"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T16:44Z 3.2M followers, 108.4K engagements
"COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd A new podcast out today called Alphabet Boys documents how the FBI disrupted racial justice organizing after the police killing of George Floyd in [----] including paying an informant at least $20000 to infiltrate and spy on activist groups in Denver Colorado. The informant also encouraged activists to purchase guns and commit violence echoing the FBIs use of the COINTELPRO program to sabotage left-wing activist groups in the 1960s. For more were joined by three guests: journalist and creator of the"
YouTube Link 2023-02-07T15:36Z 3.2M followers, 247.2K engagements
"Israel Killed [--] Journalists in Yemen in Deadliest Attack on Press in [--] Years Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Committee to Protect Journalists says recent Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen killed [--] journalists and media support workers making it the deadliest attack on journalists anywhere in the world in [--] years and the second-deadliest attack on the press ever recorded by the organization. "These are civilians" says Niku Jafarnia Middle East and North Africa researcher for Human Rights Watch. "We have documented like many other organizations"
YouTube Link 2025-09-25T15:22Z 3.2M followers, 27.1K engagements
"Data Crunch: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt A new report titled Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals from the Center for Biological Diversity warns the booming artificial intelligence industrys high resource consumption threatens the worlds climate goals despite rosy prognoses of AIs projected benefits. Co-author Jean Su says that the increasing use of AI for military applications offsets any positives it offers for climate change"
YouTube Link 2025-11-19T16:57Z 3.2M followers, 18.5K engagements
"Seymour Hersh on Torture at Abu Ghraib & Secret U.S. Assassination Programs https://democracynow.org - In [----] investigative reporter Sy Hersh exposed the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq that shocked the world. Shocking photos of U.S. military personnel humiliating and torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib sparked global outcry as well as national hearings investigations and finger pointing. We speak with Sy Hersh about his investigation nearly [--] years later. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly [----] TV and radio stations Monday through"
YouTube Link 2018-06-20T16:13Z 3.2M followers, 34.5K engagements
"Scientists remove DEI language out of research proposals Scientists are removing DEI language out of research proposals in response to the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2025-03-10T16:26Z 3.2M followers, 41.6K engagements
"FBI Raids Home of Washington Post Reporter as Attacks on Press Freedom Intensify Under Trump Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The FBI raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson this week and seized her electronic devices part of a leak probe into a government contractor accused of mishandling classified government materials. Natanson has reported extensively on the Trump administration's changes to the federal bureaucracy including mass layoffs of government workers. This comes amid a broader pattern of attacks on the media including lawsuits"
YouTube Link 2026-01-15T15:33Z 3.2M followers, 195.5K engagements
"Sons of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Ask Obama to Exonerate Their Mother in Nuclear Spy Case http://democracynow.org - Two brothers are making a last-ditch appeal to President Obama to clear their mothers name. Michael and Robert Meeropol are calling on Obama to posthumously exonerate their mother Ethel Rosenberg. She along with their father Julius Rosenberg was charged with conspiring to share nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union and executed on June [--] [----]. At the time FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover accused the couple of committing "the crime of the century." The government alleged the"
YouTube Link 2016-12-29T17:37Z 3.2M followers, 59.6K engagements
"Seymour Hersh Details Explosive Story on Bin Laden Killing & Responds to White House Media Backlash http://democracynow.org - Four years after U.S. forces assassinated Osama bin Laden Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has published an explosive piece claiming much of what the Obama administration said about the attack was wrong. Hersh claims at the time of the U.S. raid bin Laden had been held as a prisoner by Pakistani intelligence since [----]. Top Pakistani military leaders knew about the operation and provided key assistance. Contrary to U.S. claims that it located"
YouTube Link 2015-05-12T14:42Z 3.2M followers, 474.8K engagements
"ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Minneapolis Mother Renee Good Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with two people who responded to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good a 37-year-old mother of three by an ICE agent in Minneapolis Wednesday. Trump administration officials claim the agent acted in self-defense but local officials including Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey reject that claim. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at"
YouTube Link 2026-01-08T16:05Z 3.2M followers, 940.3K engagements
"Top U.S. & World Headlines October [--] [----] #DemocracyNow Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now today: https://democracynow.org/donate FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW ONLINE: YouTube: http://youtube.com/democracynow Facebook: http://facebook.com/democracynow Twitter: https://twitter.com/democracynow Instagram: http://instagram.com/democracynow SoundCloud:"
YouTube Link 2020-10-26T13:37Z 3.2M followers, 77.5K engagements
"Who is Elise Stefanik Support our work: https://democracynow.org/give Right-wing Congressmember Elise Stefanik is seeking the ouster of Harvard President Claudine Gay and MIT President Sally Kornbluth over accusations that the university leaders have allowed antisemitism to grow on campuses in recent months. University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill resigned Saturday after aggressive questioning in Congress led by Stefanik but Stefanik herself is now coming under fire for her own history of support for antisemitic conspiracy theories. MORE: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0xtP7CVSJGY"
YouTube Link 2023-12-11T18:55Z 3.2M followers, 279.5K engagements
""Slow Poison": Scholar Mahmood Mamdani on New Book About Uganda Decolonization & More Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with the acclaimed academic and writer Mahmood Mamdani who has just released a new book Slow Poison: Idi Amin Yoweri Museveni and the Making of the Ugandan State. Mamdani who has taught at Columbia for decades was raised in Uganda and first came to the United States in the 1960s to study. He and his family were later expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's dictatorship. The book "is about the reversal of the anti-colonial movement" in"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T16:07Z 3.2M followers, 101.8K engagements
"Can U.S. Oil Companies Really Take Over Venezuela's Industry Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The share prices of U.S. oil companies surged following the Trump administration's attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president Nicols Maduro. In public statements Trump has been clear about his desire to reassert U.S. corporate control over Venezuela's nationalized oil industry. However notes financial reporter David Uberti it won't be so easy for Wall Street to make a profit. In addition to upgrading Venezuela's "decrepit" oil-producing infrastructure oil companies"
YouTube Link 2026-01-06T16:12Z 3.2M followers, 311.3K engagements
""Cold-Blooded Murder": Families of Trinidadian Men Killed in U.S. Boat Strike Sue Trump Admin Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The families of two men from Trinidad killed in an October U.S. missile strike in the Caribbean are suing the Trump administration for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing. The families of 26-year-old Chad Joseph and 41-year-old Rishi Samaroo say the two men were returning home from fishing and farming in Venezuela not smuggling drugs as the Trump administration has claimed without evidence. Four others on the same boat were also"
YouTube Link 2026-01-30T15:46Z 3.2M followers, 160.3K engagements
"Immigrant Rights Leader in Maine Says ICE Raids Caused Panic & "Wave of Fear" Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Activists in Maine are resisting ICE immigration raids in Portland and Lewiston that the Trump administration dubbed Operation Catch of the Day. The immigrant community in Maine has grown in recent years with an influx of asylum seekers and Somali immigrants in particular. As a small state community means a lot says Mufalo Chitam executive director of the Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition adding that her organization has received thousands of phone calls"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T16:49Z 3.2M followers, 30.3K engagements
"Sinners: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit Delta Blues His Mississippi Roots & Vampires Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with acclaimed director Ryan Coogler about his latest film Sinners which is set to be one of the biggest box office hits of the year. Starring Michael B. Jordan the genre-bending horror film is set in the Mississippi Delta during Jim Crow and is a cinematic gumbo of various influences and themes Coogler tells Democracy Now I wanted to make a film that was kind of raging against the concept of genre and making the audience"
YouTube Link 2025-04-25T14:44Z 3.2M followers, 282.9K engagements
""Leave Our City Now": Minneapolis Residents March as Part of National Strike Against ICE Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in hundreds of demonstrations across the United States this weekend as protests continue against the Trump administration's anti-immigrant crackdown. Democracy Now was in the streets of Minneapolis on Friday speaking with protesters who marched in subzero temperatures. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our"
YouTube Link 2026-02-02T17:04Z 3.2M followers, 24.7K engagements
"Trump's racist attack on Somali Americans Jaylani Hussein from CAIR Minnesota says Trump is attacking the Somali community because it is a trifecta of his favorite targets: Black people immigrants and Muslims"
YouTube Link 2025-12-05T20:01Z 3.2M followers, 53.5K engagements
"Major U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty expires without plans for renewal Arms control expert Dr. Ira Helfand says that if major powers continue to build up their nuclear weapons "it is not a question of if we have a nuclear war its just a question of when"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T17:51Z 3.2M followers, 16.2K engagements
"Elon Musk Under Fire for Epstein Links Grok's Sexualized AI Deepfakes & SpaceX-xAI Merger Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt French prosecutors have asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning following a police raid on the offices of the social media network X in Paris. The French probe comes on the heels of a U.K. investigation into Musk's AI tool Grok over its "potential to produce harmful sexualized image and video content." Last month the European Union also launched an investigation into sexual deepfakes created by Grok. "It's a part of a kind of a pushback that"
YouTube Link 2026-02-05T16:22Z 3.2M followers, 97.8K engagements
"Pope Francis decried Israeli "terrorism" in Gaza (2023) Pope Francis who died on April [--] at age [--] spent much of his final months advocating for peace in the Holy Land. In October [----] he criticized Israeli attacks against civilians in Gaza as "terrorism" including the killing of Palestinian Christians by Israeli snipers at the Holy Family Catholic Parish. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2025-04-21T20:00Z 3.2M followers, 51.6K engagements
"The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya: Al Jazeera Film on Israels Abduction Torture of Gaza Doctor Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt A powerful new documentary produced by Fault Lines on Al Jazeera English tells the story of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya the Palestinian pediatrician and director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza whom Israel has detained with virtually no contact to the outside world for almost nine months. He became known to millions of people around the world for his regular video dispatches from inside the hospital describing the toll of"
YouTube Link 2025-09-18T15:27Z 3.2M followers, 50.7K engagements
"ICE Conducts Largest-Ever Raid at Georgia Hyundai Plant Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We get an update on the largest-ever single-site immigration raid in U.S. history that unfolded Thursday when federal agents arrested nearly [---] workers at a Hyundai facility in Georgia. Most workers were Korean nationals who were building an electric vehicle battery plant. Hyundai is investing over $12 billion in a record-setting economic development deal with the state and the South Korean government recently agreed to invest hundreds of billions more in the U.S. in exchange"
YouTube Link 2025-09-08T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 111.8K engagements
"Israeli historian Ilan Papp on "the collapse of the Zionist project" Israeli historian Ilan Papp says that despite the carnage in Gaza he is hopeful that we may be seeing the "collapse of the Zionist project" due to growing international outrage at Israel. "I am really hopeful that there will be a different kind of life for both Jews and Arabs between the river and the sea." Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2024-05-26T14:30Z 3.2M followers, 163.6K engagements
"Edward Snowden on exposing NSA surveillance: "I had produced a system that spied on everyone" In his new memoir "Permanent Record" whistleblower Edward describes what he learned from within the American intelligence apparatus that convinced him to blow the whistle on unchecked government surveillance. While working as a contractor for the CIA and NSA Snowden laid the groundwork for many of the cybersecurity protocols under which the agencies currently operate. Eventually Snowden came to believe the NSA's surveillance practices were betraying public trust in the government and violating the"
YouTube Link 2019-09-26T23:00Z 3.2M followers, 36.4K engagements
"Bill McKibben on Renewable Energy "Sun Day" & the "Last Chance" for Climate Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As the Trump administration grows increasingly hostile to renewable energy we speak with acclaimed environmentalist Bill McKibben about his new book "Here Comes the Sun" in which he lays out a hopeful vision for the future that includes avoiding climate catastrophe reshaping the economy and saving democracy. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at"
YouTube Link 2025-09-10T17:43Z 3.2M followers, 311.3K engagements
"Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can't Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha has just been awarded the [----] Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his essays about the Palestinian experience in the face of the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on Gaza. He joins Democracy Now to discuss his work the necessity of advocating for Palestinian rights and the violence of Israeli occupation. Abu Toha who evacuated Gaza in late [----] after being arrested beaten and detained by the Israeli military now"
YouTube Link 2025-05-06T14:30Z 3.2M followers, 56.7K engagements
"Decades of Anti-Immigration Policy Created "Mass Grave" at Southern Border Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As President Trump shakes up the leadership of his immigration crackdown in Minnesota following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents we examine the expanding role of the agency in interior enforcement. Independent journalist Todd Miller says the Trump administration's immigration operations in U.S. cities are an "extension" of "policies and practices that we've been seeing in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands now for decades" characterizing"
YouTube Link 2026-01-28T15:54Z 3.2M followers, 137.9K engagements
""The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk": How the Right Is Weaponizing Kirk's Killing Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Journalist Chris Hedges warns that President Trump and his allies are "weaponizing" the shocking assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk to crush dissent. "We've reached a very frightening turning point" says Hedges. "We've already seen an assault on civil liberties on institutions universities the media that are tasked with maintaining an open society. That will now be accelerated." Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on"
YouTube Link 2025-09-15T15:19Z 3.2M followers, 542.4K engagements
"Citizens United at 15: Landmark Ruling Helped Elon Musk & Other Billionaires Bankroll Trump Victory Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Donald Trump's return to the White House comes almost exactly [--] years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark Citizens United ruling which opened the floodgates for corporations and billionaires to pour unlimited money into elections. At Trump's inauguration on Monday the front row included several of the world's richest and most powerful men including Tesla's Elon Musk Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Amazon's Jeff Bezos"
YouTube Link 2025-01-22T15:33Z 3.2M followers, 38.1K engagements
"FBI Raid in Georgia Is Part of "Trump's Scheme to Try to Rig the Midterms": Ari Berman Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with Mother Jones voting rights correspondent Ari Berman about the shocking FBI raid on an elections hub in Fulton County Georgia. Federal agents were seeking records related to the [----] presidential election which President Donald Trump continues to falsely claim he won despite his loss to Joe Biden that year. During his efforts to overturn the election results Trump pressured local officials to "find" him an additional [-----] votes."
YouTube Link 2026-02-02T17:17Z 3.2M followers, 37.7K engagements
"The "two truths" in Iran "As progressives in the United States or outside of Iran we should be able to hold two truths at the same time" says Middle East scholar Arang Keshavarzian. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2026-02-07T23:00Z 3.2M followers, 12.3K engagements
"How the DOJ bungled latest Epstein files release An attorney for [--] survivors of Jeffrey Epstein says the Trump administration badly bungled the most recent release of files related to the sexual predator"
YouTube Link 2026-02-02T20:01Z 3.2M followers, 203.5K engagements
"Epstein survivors: We will compile our own list of abusers Jeffrey Epstein survivors frustrated by stonewalling from the Trump administration say they will confidentially compile their own list of individuals implicated in Epstein's crimes. "We know the names" said Lisa Phillips a former model who says she was assaulted at age 21"
YouTube Link 2025-09-04T16:56Z 3.2M followers, 56.1K engagements
"Rep. Delia Ramirez calls on Democrats to pull DHS funding Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to their demands to rein in federal immigration agents. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T23:45Z 3.2M followers, 10.5K engagements
""Recognize Palestine": Israeli Knesset Member Ofer Cassif on Protesting Trump Netanyahu Speeches Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As President Trump addressed the Israeli Knesset on Monday he was briefly interrupted by two lawmakers who waved signs reading "Recognize Palestine." The two Knesset members Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif with the Hadash-Ta'al alliance were expelled from the chamber. "Yesterday there was a disgusting display of flattery and personality cult by two megalomaniacs who are hungry for power and blood" says Cassif. "This was a minimum protest"
YouTube Link 2025-10-14T15:08Z 3.2M followers, 84.9K engagements
"Mayor of Dearborn Michigan: Biden is losing Arab American voters over Gaza Abdullah Hammoud is the mayor of Dearborn Michigan home to the largest Arab American community in the U.S. He explains why he refused to meet with Joe Biden's reelection campaign over the war in Gaza. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2024-02-02T15:51Z 3.2M followers, 196.7K engagements
"Philadelphia DA promises to hunt down ICE agents who break the law Larry Krasner the Philadelphia District Attorney has vowed to "find the identities" of ICE officers who break the law"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T15:51Z 3.2M followers, 33.9K engagements
""Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors": Survivor Recounts Deadly [----] London Fire That Inspired Play Support our work: https://www.democracynow.org/donatecampaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_campaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_content=description&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube The play Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors tells the story of the [----] apartment fire at Grenfell Tower in London that killed [--] people. It was the worst fire in Britain since World War II and survivors blamed the government for mismanaging the public housing block and neglecting maintenance. The play tells the story of how the residents"
YouTube Link 2024-05-16T15:33Z 3.2M followers, [----] engagements
"ICE arrests hundreds of South Korean workers at Georgia Hyundai plant The largest-ever single-site immigration raid in U.S. history unfolded Thursday when federal agents arrested nearly [---] workers at a Hyundai facility in Georgia. Most workers were Korean nationals who were building an electric vehicle battery plant. The arrested workers are now being detained at a GEO Group-run ICE jail that ICE recently found in violation of federal safety standards. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics"
YouTube Link 2025-09-08T16:09Z 3.2M followers, 66.9K engagements
"Edward Snowden on Trump Obama & How He Ended Up in Russia to Avoid U.S. Extradition We conclude our interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden who has just published his memoir titled Permanent Record. In [----] after quitting his job at the NSA Snowden attempted to fly from Hong Kong to Latin America in order to avoid being extradited to the United States. But the U.S. revoked his passport when he stopped through Russia effectively stranding him there. Snowden has lived as an exile in Moscow ever since. He tells us his story. #DemocracyNow Democracy Now is an independent global news hour"
YouTube Link 2019-09-30T15:20Z 3.2M followers, 963.9K engagements
""Time to Cut Ties with Israel": U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Gaza Hospital Bombing Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Israel's war on Gaza is the deadliest conflict for journalists in recorded history. In an attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza Monday Israel killed five more journalists in addition to over a dozen others. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the hospital attack was a "tragic mishap" but just hours later Israeli forces killed a sixth journalist. "There is a pattern of targeting and killing journalists that lets us think that there is an"
YouTube Link 2025-08-26T15:10Z 3.2M followers, 94K engagements
"Top U.S. & World Headlines February [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T15:30Z 3.2M followers, 215.2K engagements
"Chilean Author Ariel Dorfman on Far-Right President-Elect Jos Antonio Kast's Rise to Power Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Jos Antonio Kast has won Chile's presidential election with the far-right leader getting about 58% of the vote in Sunday's runoff against Jeannette Jara a member of the Communist Party who served as labor minister under outgoing President Gabriel Boric. Kast has openly praised former U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet and is the son of a Nazi who fled Germany after World War II. Kast campaigned on fighting crime and carrying out mass"
YouTube Link 2025-12-17T15:35Z 3.2M followers, 50.2K engagements
"Trump Expands "Authoritarian" Free Speech Crackdown Calls Negative Media "Illegal": Jameel Jaffer Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We look at how the assassination of Charlie Kirk has emerged as a tool for the Trump administration to crack down on dissent and free speech as tens of thousands gathered Sunday in Arizona for a memorial for the conservative activist including his wife Erika Kirk. While she called for forgiveness President Trump and other top speakers including Vice President JD Vance and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller reiterated calls"
YouTube Link 2025-09-22T14:23Z 3.2M followers, 179.1K engagements
"U.S. citizens describe surviving violent attacks by immigration agents U.S. citizens who have had violent encounters with federal immigration agents testified before Congress on Tuesday. Daniel Rascon described how agents pointed rifles at him and shot at his car"
YouTube Link 2026-02-05T19:01Z 3.2M followers, 103.1K engagements
"Top U.S. & World Headlines February [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T16:46Z 3.2M followers, 420.5K engagements
"Arundhati Roy on New Memoir "Mother Mary Comes to Me" Gaza & Authoritarianism from India to U.S. Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In this holiday special we speak to the acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy on her new memoir "Mother Mary Comes to Me." The book focuses on her mother Mary Roy and how Arundhati was shaped by her both as a source of terror and of inspiration. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET."
YouTube Link 2025-12-26T14:30Z 3.2M followers, 88.2K engagements
"CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on Edward Snowden: He Will Not Get a Fair Trial http://democracynow.org - In a broadcast exclusive interview Democracy Now interviews John Kiriakou a retired CIA agent who blew the whistle on torture. In [----] Kiriakou became the first CIA official to publicly confirm and detail the Bush administration's use of waterboarding. He's just been released from prison to serve the remaining three months of his 30-month sentence under house arrest and joins us from his home in Virginia. When asked if he thinks NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden would receive a fair trial"
YouTube Link 2015-02-09T18:08Z 3.2M followers, 21.9K engagements
"Reporter Seymour Hersh on "How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline": Exclusive TV Interview UPDATE: We have blurred some imagery about [--] seconds into the video in response to a content warning from YouTube that severely limited the reach of this interview. What you see now is an edited version. For the uncensored version of this interview that aired on our show visit democracynow.org. ==== When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new"
YouTube Link 2023-02-15T14:38Z 3.2M followers, 3.4M engagements
"Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Brennan's Embrace of Torture Makes Him a "Terrible Choice" to Lead CIA To watch this entire interview with John Kiriakou on Democracy Now visit http://owl.li/hlujM. Days after he was sentenced to [--] months in prison John Kiriakou the first CIA official to be jailed for any reason relating to the torture program appears on Democracy Now to denounce President Obama's appointment of John Brennan to head the CIA. "I've known John Brennan since 1990" Kiriakou says. "I worked directly for John Brennan twice. I think that he is a terrible choice to lead the CIA. I think"
YouTube Link 2013-02-01T21:33Z 3.2M followers, [----] engagements
"Trump's Tariffs Struck Down: Attorney Neal Katyal & Oregon AG Dan Rayfield Respond Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt A federal appeals court struck down most of President Trump's sweeping tariffs Friday saying they have no legal basis. The decision could undo many of Trump's tariffs from "Liberation Day" in April as well as earlier tariffs against Canada Mexico and China. In its ruling the appeals court called levying tariffs "a core Congressional power" but the White House had argued the president has authority to impose tariffs without Congress based on the 1977"
YouTube Link 2025-09-02T14:44Z 3.2M followers, 238.9K engagements
""Making America White Again": Trump Further Restricts Immigration Ramps Up ICE Raids Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Immigrant rights advocate Murad Awawdeh joins us to discuss Donald Trump's nationwide anti-immigrant crackdown and how it's manifested in Trump's hometown of New York City where hundreds of New Yorkers recently blocked a federal immigration raid targeting street vendors from West Africa before it even started. "This has never been about vetting. This has never been about security and safety. It's about cruelty" says Awawdeh about the Trump"
YouTube Link 2025-12-04T16:18Z 3.2M followers, 68.4K engagements
"Right of Return: Omar Shakir & Ken Roth Debate "Blocked" Human Rights Watch Report on Palestine Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News"
YouTube Link 2026-02-06T16:00Z 3.2M followers, 30.4K engagements
"NYC Nurses' Strike Enters 10th Day; Mayor Mamdani & Sen. Sanders Join Picket Line Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The largest nurses' strike in New York City history has reached its 10th day as negotiations stall. Nearly [-----] New York City nurses are fighting for a contract that includes higher pay a staffing increase to manage patients improved benefits and workplace protections against violence. Senator Bernie Sanders and Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined the picket line at Mount Sinai West Tuesday with the New York State Nurses Association. "This is a fight for our"
YouTube Link 2026-01-21T15:54Z 3.2M followers, 38.9K engagements
"Somali Immigrants Garbage Says Trump: MN Community Responds to Racist Rant and Immigration Sweeps Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Federal authorities are carrying out intensified operations this week in Minnesota as President Donald Trump escalates his attacks on the Somali community in the state. The administration halted green card and citizenship applications from Somalis and people from [--] other countries after last week's fatal shooting near the White House. During a recent Cabinet meeting Trump went on a racist tirade against the Somali community saying "We"
YouTube Link 2025-12-05T15:20Z 3.2M followers, 170.9K engagements
"Top U.S. & World Headlines January [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T15:16Z 3.2M followers, 600.2K engagements
"Yanis Varoufakis on Trumps new world order Yanis Varoufakis calls Trumps Board of Peace and the U.S.-led plan for the reoccupation of Gaza one of the most despicable developments in his lifetime and slams European leaders' ineffectual largely symbolic resistance to Trumps imperial ambitions. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T20:22Z 3.2M followers, 690K engagements
""Shock and Awe": ICE Raids Begin as Judge Halts Unconstitutional Birthright Citizenship Order Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As the Trump administration launches what it touts as the largest mass deportation campaign in U.S. history we look at how immigrant communities and advocates are fighting back. The administration already faces some setbacks including in its attempt to end birthright citizenship which a federal judge halted Thursday from going into effect because it was "blatantly unconstitutional." Thursday's ruling is the first in what's expected to be a"
YouTube Link 2025-01-24T15:57Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements
"The New COINTELPRO Meet the Activist the FBI Labeled a Black Identity Extremist & Jailed [--] Months https://democracynow.org - In Texas a black activist says he is the first person to be targeted and prosecuted under a secretive U.S. surveillance effort to track so-called black identity extremists. On December [--] activist Rakem Balogun awoke to armed FBI agents storming his Dallas apartment. He was then jailed for nearly six months without the possibility of bail as the FBI investigated him for domestic terrorism in part because of his Facebook posts criticizing police brutality. He was"
YouTube Link 2018-05-23T15:57Z 3.2M followers, 61.2K engagements
"Ex-Cuomo aide says voters must not forget sexual harassment scandal Lindsey Boylan is a former aide to Andrew Cuomo who was the first woman to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment. She now supports Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral election and says voters must not forget Cuomo's history of abuse"
YouTube Link 2025-10-15T23:00Z 3.2M followers, 39.2K engagements
""I Pled Guilty to Journalism": WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Speaks Publicly After Prison Release Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke publicly today for the first time since he was released in June from a London prison. Assange addressed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in France about his 14-year legal saga after publishing evidence of U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Assange was freed after pleading guilty to a U.S. charge of obtaining and disclosing national security material. Democracy Now broadcasts"
YouTube Link 2024-10-01T14:20Z 3.2M followers, 76.1K engagements
"Declassified JFK Assassination Files Expose Covert CIA Operations from the Vatican to Latin America Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The U.S. government this week released thousands more records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in [----] long a source of fascination and intrigue. This is the final batch of JFK files after the federal government began declassifying documents in the early 1990s. While these latest files contain no major revelations about the assassination they do include many previously redacted details about the CIA global effort to"
YouTube Link 2025-03-21T14:50Z 3.2M followers, 539.5K engagements
"Israel's Killing of Yemen's Houthi PM May Expand Regional War Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Thousands of mourners attended a funeral for [--] senior Houthi figures in Yemen's capital of Sana'a on Monday after they were killed by Israel in an airstrike last week. The dead included the Houthi prime minister Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi. The Houthis have ruled the capital and much of northern Yemen for over a decade. For the last two years Houthi fighters have regularly launched missiles at Israel and attacked ships in the Red Sea in what they described as actions in"
YouTube Link 2025-09-02T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 66.7K engagements
""Let Us Out": ICE's Detention of Children Sparks Protests at TX Immigration Jail Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Liam Ramos the 5-year-old from Minnesota who was detained last week after coming home from preschool is being held in the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley Texas. Congressmembers who visited Liam report that has been depressed and hasn't been eating well. Javier Hidalgo legal director at RAICES has worked with families at the detention center for years. "We often hear about food with bugs or worms in it half-frozen food being given guards"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T15:31Z 3.2M followers, 86.7K engagements
"ICE Out of Minnesota: Unions & Churches Lead Economic Blackout in "Day of Truth and Freedom" Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Hundreds of businesses in Minnesota have closed for the day as part of an economic blackout to protest the surge of ICE agents into the state. Organizers of the strike include faith leaders and unions who are encouraging people to stay home from work school and shopping. Kieran Knutson president of the Communications Workers of America Local [----] says the strike comes "after weeks of living under the heavy weight of this racist campaign of"
YouTube Link 2026-01-23T16:03Z 3.2M followers, 49.8K engagements
"Despite Judge's Order ICE Deports Shackled Babson College Freshman Harasses Her Family in Texas Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Nineteen-year-old Any Lssuca Lpez Belloza was detained and deported despite a lack of removal order when attempting to head home from Babson College in Boston to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving. "This is the first arrest of its kind I've seen" says her attorney Todd C. Pomerleau who says the student has been the victim of "character assassination." After Lpez Belloza "was taken down near the border on a bus had shackles"
YouTube Link 2025-12-10T15:52Z 3.2M followers, 141.4K engagements
""The Economy Is Rigged": Robert Reich on Zohran Mamdani The Democratic Party Inequality and Trump Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York Democratic primary for New York mayor the rise of Donald Trump and the role of big money in politics. "This is the one thing that I agree with Donald Trump about: The economy is rigged but it's rigged against working-class people. And I think Mamdani understood that. He understood that people have got to want a change but also they want"
YouTube Link 2025-06-26T14:53Z 3.2M followers, 1.7M engagements
"Disappearing Video Legal Threats: How UnitedHealth Largest U.S. Health Insurer Silences Critics Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In a major new New York Times expos on health insurance behemoth UnitedHealth deputy investigations editor David Enrich reveals how the largest insurer in the country works to intimidate and silence critics of its often predatory and exploitative treatment of patients. While "companies do this kind of stuff all the time" Enrich says UnitedHealth's lawyers "were really going after some fairly obscure stuff and that suggested to me that"
YouTube Link 2025-07-16T14:46Z 3.2M followers, 364.1K engagements
"Free Julian Assange: Snowden Varoufakis Corbyn & Tariq Ali Speak Out Ahead of Extradition Hearing As jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces an extradition hearing Wednesday in London supporters gathered Friday for the Belmarsh Tribunal named for the Belmarsh maximum security prison where Assange is being held. The mock trial highlighted major WikiLeaks revelations of U.S. war crimes and demanded Assanges freedom. Assange faces up to [---] years in prison in the U.S. under the Espionage Act for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes. Though a British judge blocked his"
YouTube Link 2021-10-25T14:20Z 3.2M followers, 208.6K engagements
"Arrest the War Criminal: Thousands Protest Netanyahu in NYC as He Addresses U.N. Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Thousands of protesters took to the streets of New York on Friday in solidarity with Palestinians and to denounce Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly. Crowds marched from Times Square toward the U.N. chanting slogans demanding Netanyahus arrest for war crimes and an end to U.S. support for Israels genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile inside the U.N. the Israeli leader addressed a largely empty room as"
YouTube Link 2025-09-27T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 198.9K engagements
"The Belmarsh Tribunal D.C. The Case of Julian Assange On January [--] [----] Democracy Now is livestreaming the Belmarsh Tribunal from Washington D.C. The event will feature expert testimony from journalists whistleblowers lawyers publishers and parliamentarians on assaults to press freedom and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Watch here live at [--] p.m. ET on Friday January [--]. Democracy Nows Amy Goodman and Srecko Horvat the co-founder of DiEM25 will chair the tribunal which is being organized by Progressive International and the Wau Holland Foundation. 0:00 - Introductions 15:33 -"
YouTube Link 2023-01-20T22:49Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Special Report on Venezuela: U.S. Abducts Maduro Trump Says "We Are Going to Run" Oil-Rich Nation Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez host breaking news coverage on U.S. forces attacking Venezuela and seizing Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro. We speak to Venezuelan reporter Andrena Chvez in Caracas as well as professors Miguel Tinker Salas and Alejandro Velasco. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays"
YouTube Link 2026-01-03T21:10Z 3.2M followers, 729.3K engagements
"Is Venezuela on its way to becoming a Trump "vassal state" In a further shift away from the nation-building foreign policy of the past several decades of U.S. power what the United States is planning for Venezuela is basically to run the country as a vassal state Greg Grandin says. This is an arrangement with transactional details that weve never seen before. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2026-01-30T18:21Z 3.2M followers, 15.7K engagements
""We Have to Move Fast": Jane Fonda Relaunches Father's Free Speech Group to Counter Trump Censorship Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Oscar-winning actress and activist Jane Fonda is relaunching her father Henry Fonda's free speech organization the Committee for the First Amendment. First established in [----] to combat the rise of McCarthyism the organization brings together members of the film and television industry to push back against and refuse government censorship. Fonda's announcement comes after the television network ABC brought back late-night host"
YouTube Link 2025-10-03T14:55Z 3.2M followers, 321.5K engagements
"Could Hegseth Face War Crimes Probe for Killing Survivors of U.S. Boat Strike Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now speaks with journalist Spencer Ackerman about the Trump administration's deadly ongoing attacks on alleged "drug boats" amid reports President Trump is preparing to attack Venezuela with all airspace surrounding Venezuela now closed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others are "turning the military into a criminal operation" says Ackerman. "This shows the moral degeneracy that the 'war on terror' has left as a legacy in the U.S. military.""
YouTube Link 2025-12-01T15:51Z 3.2M followers, 62.9K engagements
"What Trump & Hegseth's Lecture to Generals Really Means Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt At an unprecedented gathering of hundreds of top generals and admirals from U.S. military installations around the world President Trump delivered a rambling speech Tuesday alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. They laid out their vision of a "warrior" culture in the U.S. military and claimed the United States is facing an "invasion from within." Eugene Fidell a military scholar at Yale Law School says the meeting was a means of "exacting loyalty special loyalty from the"
YouTube Link 2025-10-01T14:21Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements
"Top U.S. & World Headlines February [--] [----] Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2026-02-02T15:45Z 3.2M followers, 422.8K engagements
"Green Pres. & VP Candidates Jill Stein Butch Ware on Gaza & Fighting "Two Zombie Political Parties" Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now speaks with the Green Party's presidential ticket Jill Stein and her running mate Butch Ware after the Green Party suffered a setback Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined a request to put Stein on the ballot in Nevada. The Democratic Party had sued to keep Stein off the ballot for failing to submit the proper forms. In this campaign cycle Democrats have fought to keep the Green Party off the ballot while some"
YouTube Link 2024-09-25T14:12Z 3.2M followers, 408.7K engagements
"Families of Trinidadian men killed in U.S. boat strike sue Trump admin The families of 26-year-old Chad Joseph and 41-year-old Rishi Samaroo two men from Trinidad killed by a U.S. missile strike in the Caribbean are suing the Trump administration for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2026-02-01T01:01Z 3.2M followers, 23.3K engagements
"350000 Haitians in U.S. "at Risk of Losing Everything" After Trump Revokes Legal TPS Status Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt An estimated [------] Haitian immigrants are set to lose their temporary protected status or TPS on February [--] [----] after President Trump signed an executive order to revoke their TPS shortly after coming into office. TPS holders live and work in the United States legally. During the [----] presidential election candidates Donald Trump and JD Vance spread racist invective about Haitian immigrants in Springfield Ohio. Now ICE is reportedly"
YouTube Link 2026-01-30T15:49Z 3.2M followers, 78.6K engagements
"A New Nuclear Arms Race Could "Spiral" as Last U.S.-Russia Treaty Expires: Dr. Ira Helfand Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As the last major nuclear arms treaty between the United States and Russia expires this week we speak with arms control expert Dr. Ira Helfand a steering committee member of Back from the Brink a national coalition organizing communities across the United States to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Helfand is a longtime member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons or ICAN which received the [----] Nobel Peace Prize."
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T16:41Z 3.2M followers, 23K engagements
"Virginia Giuffre's Memoir Details Sex Abuse by Epstein Maxwell Prince Andrew Virginia Roberts Giuffre says she was sexually abused by Prince Andrew multiple times beginning when she was [--]. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2025-10-22T16:33Z 3.2M followers, 373.7K engagements
""Emperor" Trump's So-Called Board of Peace Erases Palestinians from Gaza Governance Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As President Donald Trump formally inaugurated his so-called Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland on Thursday his son-in-law Jared Kushner presented his vision of turning the Gaza Strip into an upscale seaside resort with gleaming skyscrapers and entirely new cities. The proposal is said to require an investment of at least $25 billion and Kushner's presentation showed a map of the besieged territory divided into different"
YouTube Link 2026-01-23T16:01Z 3.2M followers, 270.4K engagements
"Why did the FBI raid an election office in Georgia Journalist Ari Berman says the FBI raid on election offices in Georgia is part of a "concerted effort" by the Trump administration to interfere in this year's midterms"
YouTube Link 2026-02-02T17:29Z 3.2M followers, 25.8K engagements
""The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks": New Film Explores Untold Radical Life of Civil Rights Icon Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at https://democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Support independent media: https://democracynow.org/donate Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe #DemocracyNow Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow"
YouTube Link 2022-10-17T13:36Z 3.2M followers, 329.6K engagements
""No Means No": AZ Secretary of State Calls for Resistance as Trump Pushes to "Nationalize" Voting Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As President Trump suggests the federal government should "nationalize" and take over the elections process from the states we speak with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. He is the former county recorder for Maricopa County Arizona and oversaw elections there in [----]. The Justice Department has sued Arizona and over [--] other states for their full voter registration lists. "No means no" Fontes says in response to the Trump"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T16:39Z 3.2M followers, 74.2K engagements
"Nicaragua Is in the Grips of Another Dictatorship Decades After Sandinista Revolution: Reed Brody Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Nicaragua announced last week it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council following a U.N. report that slammed the governments human rights violations and warned the country was becoming an authoritarian state. The report by a panel of independent human rights experts adds to international pressure on the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega and first lady Rosario Murillo who was recently named"
YouTube Link 2025-03-07T17:15Z 3.2M followers, 19.8K engagements
""This Is a Union Town": Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders Join Striking Starbucks Workers' Picket Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers on the picket line Monday to demand the coffee giant reach a fair contract with its unionized workforce after years of delay tactics. Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn Mamdani said New York is a "union town" and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January [--]. Responding to a question"
YouTube Link 2025-12-02T15:54Z 3.2M followers, 100.5K engagements
"Seymour Hersh Recalls Reporting on My Lai Massacre in Vietnam Watch the full 35-minute interview with Seymour Hersh on Democracy Now: http://owl.li/KMJjw Fifty years after the U.S. ground invasion of Vietnam began we look back at the [----] My Lai massacre when American troops killed hundreds of civilians. Journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the massacre and cover-up winning a Pulitzer Prize for his work. But Hersh never actually went there he interviewed soldiers stateside. Forty-seven years later he recently traveled to My Lai for the first time which he documents in a new article for"
YouTube Link 2015-03-25T17:17Z 3.2M followers, 10.6K engagements
"Four Days in Occupied Western SaharaA Rare Look Inside Africa's Last Colony In this exclusive broadcast Democracy Now breaks the media blockade and goes to occupied Western Sahara in the northwest of Africa to document the decades-long Sahrawi struggle for freedom and Morocco's violent crackdown. Morocco has occupied the territory since [----] in defiance of the United Nations and the international community. Thousands have been tortured imprisoned killed and disappeared while resisting the Moroccan occupation. A 1700-mile wall divides Sahrawis who remain under occupation from those who fled"
YouTube Link 2018-11-23T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 74.7K engagements
"Press Freedom on Trial: Julian Assanges Lawyer on Extradition Case & Criminalizing Journalism Support our work: https://www.democracynow.org/donatecampaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_campaign=sm-desc-yt&utm_content=description&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube At a critical hearing this week in London lawyers for imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked the British High Court of Justice to grant him a new appeal in what is likely his last chance to avoid extradition to the United States where he faces a 175-year prison sentence for publishing classified documents that exposed U.S. war crimes"
YouTube Link 2024-02-23T15:46Z 3.2M followers, 163K engagements
""I Will Govern as a Democratic Socialist": Watch Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders at NYC Inauguration Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Zohran Mamdani hailed "a new era" for New York on Thursday promising in his inaugural address to deliver on the ambitious agenda that electrified progressives in the city and saw him defeat the political establishment in both the Democratic primary and the general election last year. Addressing thousands of supporters who braved freezing temperatures to attend the ceremony at City Hall Mamdani vowed to "govern expansively and"
YouTube Link 2026-01-02T17:01Z 3.2M followers, 85.6K engagements
"Why Trump wants control over the Fed: Aya Ibrahim Economic policy expert Aya Ibrahim says President Trump wants control over the Federal Reserve so he can slash interest rates and "run the economy as hot as possible" without much care for the impact on average people. Tap the link in @democracynow's bio for more of our coverage"
YouTube Link 2025-08-27T23:11Z 3.2M followers, 188.8K engagements
"Colombia's U.S. Ambassador Denounces Trump's Deadly Strikes on Boats in the Caribbean Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Tensions are escalating between Colombia and the United States as President Trump conducts deadly airstrikes on supposed "drug boats" in the Caribbean. Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the U.S. of committing murder for killing a Colombian fisherman in one attack in mid-September and just recalled the country's ambassador Daniel Garca-Pea. "Even if they were in fact carrying drugs the procedure is to capture them to seize them to arrest"
YouTube Link 2025-10-22T15:10Z 3.2M followers, 76.4K engagements
"Wheres My Roy Cohn: Film Explores How Joseph McCarthys Ex-Aide Mentored Trump & Roger Stone https://democracynow.org - Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone who was arrested on Friday and Donald Trump share a unique history: Both were heavily influenced by the infamous attorney Roy Cohn who served as a chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare in the 1950s and would later become a leading mob attorney. Cohn represented Trump for years and once claimed he considered Trump to be his best friend. Cohn is the subject of a new documentary at the Sundance Film Festival"
YouTube Link 2019-01-28T16:58Z 3.2M followers, 284.3K engagements
"Palantir: Peter Thiel's Data-Mining Firm Helps DOGE Build Master Database to Surveil Immigrants Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Trump administration has tapped Palantir the notorious data-mining firm co-founded by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel to compile information on people in the United States for a "master database" creating an easy way to cross-reference sensitive data from tax records immigration records and more. Palantir also has a $30 million contract with ICE to provide almost real-time visibility into immigrants' movements as the agency"
YouTube Link 2025-06-03T14:35Z 3.2M followers, 303.9K engagements
"Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces [--] Years in Prison over ICE Jail Inspection Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey is facing up to [--] years in prison stemming from an incident last May when she sought to inspect Delaney Hall a private prison run by the GEO Group under contract with ICE"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T19:01Z 3.2M followers, 93.4K engagements
""It's Not a Peace Plan": Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Trump Push to End War on Gaza Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt President Trump is calling on negotiators to "move fast" on Gaza ceasefire talks as delegations from Hamas and Israel convene in Egypt to discuss the 20-point plan announced last week by the White House. The deal calls for Hamas to release all remaining hostages and to disarm. Daniel Levy president of the U.S./Middle East Project says it is unclear whether the plan will lead to an end to genocide in Gaza yet "with all the faults in this plan"
YouTube Link 2025-10-06T14:02Z 3.2M followers, 274.6K engagements
"Trump's strike on alleged drug boat was "pure murder": Greg Grandin The Trump administration is celebrating an airstrike that killed [--] people on an alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat but historian Greg Grandin says the operation amounts to "pure premeditated murder.""
YouTube Link 2025-09-06T15:24Z 3.2M followers, 155.3K engagements
"Cornel West: Running for President Ending Ukraine War & Taking on Corporate Duopoly of Dems & GOP Cornel West the iconic academic and social critic has declared his candidacy for president of the United States in the [----] election. He is running with the Peoples Party a progressive alternative to the two major parties that grew out of Bernie Sanderss [----] campaign. With [----] shaping up to be a rematch between neofascist Donald Trump and milquetoast neoliberal Joe Biden West says voters need a real alternative focused on tackling inequality racism war and corporate greed. Theres an"
YouTube Link 2023-06-07T16:02Z 3.2M followers, 832.7K engagements
""Fire in Every Direction": Palestinian Author Tareq Baconi on Gaza Zionism & Embracing Queerness Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi joins us to discuss his new memoir Fire in Every Direction a chronicle of his political and queer coming of age growing up between Amman and Beirut as the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa. While "LGBTQ+ labels have also been used by the West as part of empire" with colonial projects seeking to portray Native populations as backward and in need of saving "there's a beautiful effort and movement"
YouTube Link 2025-11-06T16:45Z 3.2M followers, 31K engagements
"Ralph Nader on Cornel West and third-party candidates Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader calls for the Democratic Party to "stop engaging in candidate suppression" and respect third-party candidates such as Cornel West who run for public office as a constitutional right. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Support independent media: https://democracynow.org/donate Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe"
YouTube Link 2023-09-28T19:00Z 3.2M followers, 40.1K engagements
"Sarah Leah Whitson on Israel Gaza & Trump-MBS Meeting Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire went into effect Israel has killed more than [---] civilians including [--] children. To talk about all of this and Trump's controversial Oval Office meeting with Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman we are joined by Sarah Leah Whitson the executive director of DAWN an organization working to reform U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. She is co-author of the new book "From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine" Democracy"
YouTube Link 2025-11-26T15:36Z 3.2M followers, 36.1K engagements
"RIP Alex Pretti: Colleague Remembers Compassion Deep Empathy of ICU Nurse Killed by Feds Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/aasma_shaukat_alex_pretti Democracy Now speaks with a former colleague of Alex Pretti the 37-year-old ICU nurse shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. Dr. Aasma Shaukat who hired Pretti for a research job over a decade ago says he lived with kindness compassion and a strong sense of civic duty to help his fellow citizens. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T16:03Z 3.2M followers, 66.6K engagements
"Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Billionaire Trump associate Elon Musk's latest disinformation campaign is targeting the U.K. government which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently anti-immigrant. Musk who has already shaped the incoming Trump administration's economic policy by proposing cuts to government spending and tech-oriented privatization of services signifies a "new era" in American politics says our guest Quinn Slobodian who is chronicling right-wing"
YouTube Link 2025-01-06T14:50Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements
""A Force of Terror": Rep. Delia Ramirez on ICE Abuses & Her Push to Impeach Kristi Noem as DHS Chief Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt lawmakers repeatedly called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign as they confronted her on Trump's immigration crackdown during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday. We speak with Congressmember Delia Ramirez who reiterated her call during the hearing for Noem to resign and announced that she would begin taking steps for her impeachment. The Department of Homeland Security is "operating as a"
YouTube Link 2025-12-12T16:13Z 3.2M followers, 139.6K engagements
"Green Party's Jill Stein challenges Democrats on policy Jill Stein criticizes Democratic efforts to keep the Green Party off the ballot in some states. "They are terrified of actually meeting us in the court of public opinion and having a real debate about the crises the American people face and the real solutions that we alone have put on the table" says Stein. Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2024-09-28T16:00Z 3.2M followers, 45.7K engagements
"Who is Kash Patel Who is Kash Patel the man Donald Trump wants to name FBI director Mehdi Hasan says he is a loyalist who will help "crush Donald Trump's opponents." Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News Democracy Now Amy Goodman News Politics democracynow Independent Media Breaking News World News"
YouTube Link 2024-12-03T00:00Z 3.2M followers, 24.8K engagements
"Trump Gold/Platinum Card: Amid Immigrant Crackdown U.S. Sells Visas for Up to $5 Million Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As the Trump administration expands its immigration crackdown nationwide President Trump is simultaneously creating new pathways for wealthy noncitizens to obtain U.S. visas. Earlier this week Trump officially launched a program allowing affluent visitors to fast-track permission to live and work in the United States. For a $1 million payment applicants can receive a so-called Trump Gold Card which promises to speed up U.S. residency"
YouTube Link 2025-12-12T16:09Z 3.2M followers, 20.9K engagements
"Laid Off Steelworker: Mitt Romney Bain Capital Profited By Shutting Down Kansas Steel Plant DemocracyNow.org - As Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney comes under fire in New Hampshire for touting his business experience we look at how his private equity firm Bain Capital drove a Kansas City steel plant into bankruptcy leading to some [---] layoffs and a federal bailout. Bain still walked away with millions of dollars in profits. We speak with Reuters reporter Andy Sullivan who covered the story and with Joe Soptic a steelworker who lost his job at Kansas City's Worldwide Grinding"
YouTube Link 2012-01-10T16:30Z 3.2M followers, [----] engagements
"Jill Stein on Trump as a "Grave Danger" & Why She was at [----] Moscow Dinner with Putin & Flynn https://democracynow.org - Former Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein assesses the Trump administrations first six months and responds to questions about an infamous photo that showed her sitting at the same table as Trumps former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a dinner in Moscow in [----]. Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly [----] TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream"
YouTube Link 2017-08-01T16:10Z 3.2M followers, 32.9K engagements
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