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Democracy Now! 2022-01-25 Tuesday

• Headlines for January 25, 2022
• U.S. Puts 8,500 Troops on High Alert as Tension Rises Between NATO & Russia over Ukraine
• Nuclear Disarmament Urged by Catholic Archbishop in New Mexico, Birthplace of Nuclear Weapons
• Thich Nhat Hanh After 9/11: Ignorance, Discrimination, Fear & Violence Are Real Enemies of Humanity

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Democracy Now! 2022-01-24 Monday

• Headlines for January 24, 2022
• Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh, Hailed by MLK as "Apostle of Peace & Nonviolence," Dies at 95
• "The Whole Country Is Covered with Ash": Tongan Journalist Describes Devastation from Volcano
• "The Janes": Meet the Women Who Formed a Collective to Provide Safe Abortions Before Roe v. Wade
• Julian Assange Wins Right to Appeal Extradition; Stella Moris Blasts "Politically Motivated Prosecution"

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Democracy Now! 2022-01-21 Friday

• Headlines for January 21, 2022
• "Davos Man": How Billionaires Devour the World & Fuel Global Inequality, Prolonging the Pandemic
• Afghanistan Faces "Tsunami of Hunger" as U.S. Sanctions Crash Country's Economy
• ACLU Lawyer: Biden Is "Hiding Behind CDC" to Keep Pushing Trump-Era Anti-Immigrant Title 42 Policy

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Democracy Now! 2022-01-20 Thursday

• Headlines for January 20, 2022
• As U.S.-Russia Tensions Escalate over Ukraine, U.S. May Stumble into War, Warns Katrina vanden Heuvel
• Setback for Democracy: Manchin & Sinema Join Senate Republicans to Block Voting Rights Legislation
• Ralph Nader: Biden's First Year Proves He Is Still a "Corporate Socialist" Beholden to Big Business

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Democracy Now! 2022-01-19 Wednesday

• Headlines for January 19, 2022
• Judge Approves Puerto Rico Debt Restructuring, But Unelected "Junta" Could Remain for Years Longer
• Scholars Angela Davis, Gina Dent & Beth Richie on Why the World Needs "Abolition. Feminism. Now."
• Angela Davis on Reissue of Her 1974 Autobiography, Her Editor Toni Morrison, Internationalism & More

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Democracy Now! Tuesday, January 18, 2022

A Martin Luther King Day special featuring excerpts of two historic MLK speeches: "Beyond Vietnam" and "I've Been to the Mountaintop."

Democracy Now! 2022-01-14 Friday

• Headlines for January 14, 2022
• Afghanistan in Freefall: Deadly U.S. Sanctions Blamed for Shocking Humanitarian Crisis
• "Who We Are": New Film Chronicles History of Racism in America Amid Growing Attack on Voting Rights

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Democracy Now! 2022-01-13 Thursday

• Headlines for January 13, 2022
• "The Coming Coup": Ari Berman on Republican Efforts to Steal Future Elections
• Confessions of a "Human Guinea Pig": Professor Quits Vaccine Trial over Moderna's Corporate Greed
• John Nichols on How "Coronavirus Criminals & Pandemic Profiteers" Hurt World's Response to COVID-19

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Democracy Now! Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Democracy Now! 2022-01-11 Tuesday

• Headlines for January 11, 2022
• Guantánamo Turns 20: Ex-Prisoner Moazzam Begg Calls on Biden to Close Site & End Legacy of Torture
• Meet the Muslim Army Chaplain Who Condemned Torture of Guantánamo Prisoners & Then Was Jailed Himself
• Guantánamo 2.0: Former Prisoner Mansoor Adayfi Says Injustice Continues Even After Release

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Democracy Now! 2022-01-10 Monday

• Headlines for January 10, 2022
• Putin Unlikely to Invade Ukraine Despite Overheated U.S. Rhetoric, Says Khrushchev's Great-Granddaughter
• Nina Khrushcheva: Putin Could Be Kingmaker in Kazakhstan Power Struggle as Russia Helps Quell Protests
• As Djokovic Leaves Australian Detention Hotel, Refugees Held There Urge World Not to Forget Them
• Breaking Point: Ed Yong Says Omicron Is Straining Hospitals & Schools Amid Vaccine Mandate Pushback

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President Biden marks the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection with a speech denouncing the violence at the U.S. Capitol; An ER doctor from the frontlines of the record number of COVID-19 cases exacerbated by the Omicron variant; Protests in Sudan against the military coup result in at least three dead as troops fire tear gas into the crowd of protesters. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Democracy Now! 2022-01-06 Thursday

• Headlines for January 06, 2022
• Elie Mystal: AG Garland Must Be More Aggressive, Hold Trump & Allies Accountable for Insurrection
• "White Rage" Author Carol Anderson: GOP Attack on "Election Fraud" Really an Attack on Black Voters
• "Why Was the Federal Gov't So Unprepared?" Newsweek Reporter William Arkin on Jan. 6
• Reform the Insurrection Act: Former Pentagon Adviser Says Trump Almost Used It to Subvert Election

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Democracy Now! Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Democracy Now! 2022-01-04 Tuesday

• Headlines for January 04, 2022
• "Essential But Excluded": Pandemic Aid Left Out Undocumented Immigrants & Their U.S. Citizen Kids
• "There's No Social Distancing": Immigrants Held in ICE Jails at Risk Amid New Omicron Surge
• France and U.K. Sued for Manslaughter After 27 Migrants Seeking Help Drowned in English Channel

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Democracy Now! 2022-01-03 Monday

• Headlines for January 03, 2022
• "A Vaccine for the World": U.S. Scientists Develop Low-Cost Shot to Inoculate Global South
• Meet the Scientist Who Built a Cheap Rapid Test in March 2020. The FDA Never Approved It
• Climate Change-Fueled Blaze Destroys 1,000 Homes in Colorado in Rare Winter Wildfire

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We celebrate Democracy Now!'s 25th anniversary by airing highlights from our coverage over the years, from Haiti to Gaza, Standing Rock, the U.S.-Mexico border and more.

An hour with Noam Chomsky on the pandemic, the climate emergency, Julian Assange, Biden's foreign policy and more.

Democracy Now! 2021-12-29 Wednesday

• Headlines for December 29, 2021
• Poet Martín Espada on "Floaters," the Dehumanization of Refugees, Puerto Rico & His Father
• Arundhati Roy on the Media, Vaccine Inequity, Authoritarianism in India & Challenging U.S. Wars

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