Amy Goodman, along with co-host Juan González and Pacifica Radio, launched Democracy Now! on WBAI 30 years ago as the only daily election show in public broadcasting. It grew from nine community radio stations to television, as well, the week of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. There’s a new documentary about Amy and Democracy Now! called Steal This Story, Please! We speak with the film’s Oscar-nominated directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin. Their previous films include Citizen Koch and Trouble the Water. The film’s executive producers include Jane Fonda, Rosario Dawson and Tom Morello. The documentary has won over a dozen audience favorite and jury prizes at major film festivals around the country and will be screened in theaters […]

The United States and Iran have announced a two-week ceasefire, brokered by Pakistan, under which Iran has agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Israel is also part of the agreement, but it has said it will continue its attacks and occupation inside Lebanon. The deal was reached less than two hours before President Trump’s 8 p.m. ET deadline Tuesday for Iran to reopen the strait under threat of destroying every power plant and major bridge in Iran. Although both parties have “strong incentives” to maintain a ceasefire, the deal is “extremely precarious,” says Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, professor of international relations of the Middle East at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. “We’re already seeing it being […]

U.S. and Iran Agree to Two-Week Ceasefire; Iran Warns Its “Hands Remain on the Trigger”, Israel Says U.S.-Iran Two-Week Ceasefire Doesn’t Apply to Lebanon, Iran Continues to Launch Retaliatory Strikes Throughout the Region, Oil Prices Plunge After Announcement of U.S.-Iran Ceasefire, American Freelance Journalist Shelly Kittleson Released by Iran-Backed Iraqi Militia, U.S. Soldier’s Wife Released After Being Arrested by ICE Agents on Military Base, Trump Administration Still Seeks to Deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Liberia, DHS Threatens to Withdraw CBP Officers from Airports in So-Called Sanctuary Cities, U.N. Warns U.S. Waste Exports Are Fueling “Toxic Crisis” in Mexico, Vice President Vance Campaigns for Hungary’s […]

The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year, the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II. The United States already has the world’s largest military budget at roughly $1 trillion, more than the combined budgets of the next nine highest-spending countries. The Trump administration’s budget request includes funding for F-35 stealth fighter jets, new warships and President Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense shield, among other priorities. “All it means is buying more weapons for more,” says Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen. “It’s beyond the wildest dreams of the military-industrial complex.” […]

Democracy Now! co-host Juan González discusses the Latinx Freedom Movement Conference, taking place this week at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. The conference will be a landmark gathering of 1960s movement veterans, scholars, cultural leaders and more. González, who co-founded the Young Lords, a revolutionary group that fought for Puerto Rican rights in the 1960s and ’70s, says the CUNY conference will kick off a series of events in cities across the United States, presenting “sort of an alternative view of the 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence” that aims to “bring to a new generation this story of how the Latinx freedom movement developed.”