Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast)

Democracy Now! (6 am) – April 22, 2005


Report: ExxonMobil Spends Millions Funding Global Warming Skeptics

A new investigation by Mother Jones magazine has revealed that ExxonMobil has spent at least $8 million dollars funding a network of groups to challenge the existence of global warming. We speak with the author of the report, a member of one the organizations that receives money from Exxon and a journalist covering environmental and climate change issues.


The Armenian Genocide: 90 Years Later Turkey Continues to Deny the Extermination of a People

This week marks the 90th anniversary of the Armenian genocide when more than a million Armenians were exterminated by the Young Turk government through direct killing, starvation, torture, and forced death marches. Another million fled into permanent exile. Almost a century later, Turkey continues to deny the genocide. We speak with Colgate University professor Peter Balakian, author of "The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response" and Zanku Armenian of the Armenian National Committee of America.

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