Democracy Now!
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Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Democracy Now! – February 27, 2013
ACLU Blasts Supreme Court Rejection of Challenge to Warrantless Spying Without Proof of Surveillance; Obama’s Chilling Secrecy, From Denying Drone Program’s Existence to Stonewalling on Legal Memos; Selling the White House? Obama-Linked Group Promises Top Donors Access to President; Behind the Brands: On Food Justice, Oxfam Gives Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, Nestle & Pepsi Failing Grades. … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 26, 2013
Billionaires for Austerity: With Cuts Looming, Wall Street Roots of “Fix the Debt” Campaign Exposed; “Makers: Women Who Make America”: New Film Chronicles Past 50 Years of Feminist Movement; United by Loss, Israeli & Palestinian Dads Call for a Joint Non-Violent Intifada Against Occupation. HeadlinesFebruary 26, 2013 Afghans Claim 9 Disappearances at Hands of … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 22, 2013
Torture at Guantánamo: Lt. Col. Stuart Couch on His Refusal to Prosecute Abused Prisoner; “The Terror Courts”: An Inside Look at Rough Justice, Torture at Guantánamo Bay. HeadlinesFebruary 22, 2013 Report: More Than 2,100 Gun Deaths in the U.S. Since Newtown Massacre India: 16 Killed in Hyderabad Bomb Blasts Syria: More Than 80 Killed … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 21, 2013
Sharif Abdel Kouddous: 2 Years into Uprising, Bahrain Feels Like a “Nation Under Occupation”; An Interrogation Center at Yale? Proposed Pentagon Special Ops Training Facility Sparks Protests; Sequestration: What do the Automatic Spending Cuts Mean for the Poor, Unemployed and Children?; Bowman v. Monsanto: Indiana Farmer’s Supreme Court Challenge to Corporate Control of Food Supply. … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 20, 2013
Prisoner X: As Secrecy Falls, Doubts Grow on Suicide Claims for Australian Israeli Linked to Mossad; Throwaways: Recruited by Police & Thrown Into Danger, Young Informants Are Drug War’s Latest Victims. HeadlinesFebruary 20, 2013 U.N. Warns Syrian Humanitarian Crisis “Getting Worse” as Typhoid Outbreak Confirmed Palestinian Prisoners Refuse Meals in Support of Hunger Strikers … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 19, 2013
Donors Trust: Little-Known Group Helps Wealthy Backers Fund Right-Wing Agenda in Secret; The ATM for Climate Denial: Secretive Donors Trust Funds Vast Network of Global Warming Skeptics”Brave Miss World”: Raped Before Winning ’98 Title, Linor Abargil Campaigns Against Sexual Violence. HeadlinesFebruary 19, 2013 U.N.: ICC Should Launch Syria War Crimes Probe Tens of Thousands … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 15, 2013
An Intentional Fire? Police Use of Incendiary Tear Gas Criticized in Killing of Christopher Dorner; From Dorner to Waco to MOVE Bombing, A Look at Growing Militarization of Domestic Policing; NAACP: New Election Commission Needed to Address Voter Suppression, Attacks on Voting Rights. HeadlinesFebruary 15, 2013 Senate Republicans Block Hagel Nomination Bahrain to Probe … Continued