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Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
French Secret Service Agent Who Led Fatal 1985 Bombing of Greenpeace Ship Breaks His Silence; As Candidates Tied to Guatemalan Army & Oligarch Vie for Power, What’s Next for Popular Uprising? Allan Nairn: Donald Trump Meets, Praises Indonesian Leaders Despite Ties to Mass Killings; New Report Rejects Mexican Government’s Story About the Disappearance of 43 … Continued
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
A Watershed Moment for Guatemala: Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Celebrates Jailing of Ex-President; Allan Nairn: U.S. Backers of Guatemalan Death Squads Should Be Jailed Alongside Ex-President; Chicago Hunger Strikers Enter Day 19 Challenging Rahm Emanuel’s Push to Privatize Public Schools.
Guatemalan President Resigns in “Huge Victory” for Popular Uprising; “Did God Tell You to Treat Us Like This?”: Protests Grow over Clerk’s Denial of Same-Sex Marriages; As Syrian Colonel Faces Charges in Maher Arar Torture Case, Will U.S. Ever Apologize?
After Mass Hunger Strikes & Lawsuits, Prisoners Force California to Scale Back Solitary Confinement; Is Guatemala’s President Going to Jail? Legislature Strips Perez Molina of Immunity After Protests; With a Record Backing Coups, Secret War & Genocide, Is Kissinger an Elder Statesman or War Criminal?
The Next Not-So-Cold War: As Climate Change Heats Arctic, Nations Scramble for Control and Resources; Despite Global Ban, Saudi-Led Forces Kill Dozens in Yemen Using U.S.-Made Cluster Bombs; “Mr. Smith Goes to Prison”: After Year in Jail, Former State Senator Condemns Mass Incarceration.
Preserving Borders vs. Preserving People: Death Toll Rises as Refugees Head to Europe Seeking Safety; “Our Climate, Our Future”: As Obama Visits Arctic, Alaskans Urge Him to Reverse Shell Oil Deal; As Al Jazeera Journalists Are Jailed for 3 Years in Egypt, Will U.S. Stop “Cozying Up” to Regime?
An Unequal Recovery in New Orleans: Racial Disparities Grow in City 10 Years After Katrina; Shock Doctrine: A Look at the Mass Privatization of NOLA Schools in Storm’s Wake & Its Effects Today; New Orleans Actor & Activist Wendell Pierce on the “Greatest Crime” in Wake of Hurricane Katrina; “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black … Continued
Guatemala President Faces Arrest as Business Interests and U.S. Scramble to Contain Uprising; Remembering Hurricane Katrina 10 Years Later: Voices from the Storm; New Orleans After Katrina: Inequality Soars as Poor Continue to Be Left Behind in City’s “Recovery”; If You are Poor, It’s Like the Hurricane Just Happened: Malik Rahim on Katrina 10 Years … Continued
Two Separate Americas: David Simon’s New Mini-Series Looks at “Hypersegregation” in Public Housing; David Simon on Katrina Anniversary: New Orleans “May Be the Greatest Gift We Have to Offer”; The Drug War Has to End: David Simon on “The Wire” & Over-Policing of the Poor.
