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Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Patrick Cockburn on U.S. Plans to Arm Syrian Rebels: Where is the Skepticism About Chemical Weapons? James Bamford on NSA Secrets, Keith Alexander’s Influence & Massive Growth of Surveillance, Cyberwar; Breast Cancer Patients Declare Victory as Supreme Court Bars Patenting of Human Genes. HeadlinesJune 14, 2013 FBI Director: NSA Leaks Caused “Significant Harm” Report: … Continued
Juan Gonzalez: Failures in NYC’s New Billion-Dollar 911 System Could Be Costing Lives; Chris Pyle, Whistleblower on Domestic Spying in 70s, Says Be Wary of Attacks on NSA’s Critics; A Mexican Migrant’s Death Portends Dangers of Harsh “Border Security” in Senate Immigration Bill; As Judge Weighs Legality of NYPD’s Stop and Frisk, Justice Dept. Calls … Continued
More Intrusive Than Eavesdropping? NSA Collection of Metadata Hands Gov’t Sweeping Personal Info; Is Edward Snowden a Hero? A Debate With Journalist Chris Hedges & Law Scholar Geoffrey Stone; Medgar Evers’ Murder, 50 Years Later: Widow Myrlie Evers-Williams Remembers “A Man for All Time.” HeadlinesJune 12, 2013 Admin Probes NSA Leaks as Surveillance Challenges … Continued
Digital Blackwater: How the NSA Gives Private Contractors Control of the Surveillance State; Striking Workers, Bangladeshi Activist Challenge Walmart on Labor Conditions at Stores & Factories. HeadlinesJune 11, 2013 U.S. Prepares to Charge Edward Snowden for NSA Leak Supporters Rally for Edward Snowden in NYC; 43,000 Sign Petition for Pardon Appeals Court Dismisses Domestic … Continued
“You’re Being Watched”: Edward Snowden Emerges as Source Behind Explosive Revelations of NSA Spying; Glenn Greenwald on How NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Helped Expose a “Massive Surveillance Apparatus”; “On a Slippery Slope to a Totalitarian State”: NSA Whistleblower Rejects Gov’t Defense of Spying. HeadlinesJune 10, 2013 NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Says He Acted to … Continued
“A Massive Surveillance State”: Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails; EXCLUSIVE Nasser al-Awlaki to Obama: Why Did You Kill My U.S.-Born Son, Grandson in Drone Strikes? Inside the U.S. Dirty War in Yemen with Jeremy Scahill, Nasser al-Awlaki, Sheikh Fareed. HeadlinesJune 7, 2013 NSA Taps Into Google, Facebook, Apple Servers Austria … Continued
NSA Whistleblowers: “All U.S. Citizens” Targeted By Surveillance Program, Not Just Verizon Customers; Obama-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Expands Corporate Lawsuits Against Nations for Lost Profits; Civil Rights Veteran Chokwe Lumumba Elected Mayor of Jackson, Miss., Once a Center of Racial Abuses. HeadlinesJune 6, 2013 Verizon Handing over Millions of Phone Records in Broadest Gov’t Surveillance … Continued
As U.S. Deploys Patriot Missiles and F-16s to Jordan, Could Syrian Conflict Engulf the Middle East? Debate: Supreme Court OKs Unfettered DNA Collection — An Invasion of Privacy or a Blow to Crime? Jim Crow After Roe? How States Are Regulating Abortion Out of Existence & Widening Health Inequality HeadlinesJune 5, 2013 Turkey Protests … Continued
A Turkish Spring? Over 1,000 Injured as Anti-Government Protests Spread Outside of Istanbul; Bradley Manning Trial: After 3 Years, Army Whistleblower Begins Court Martial Shrouded in Secrecy. HeadlinesJune 3, 2013 Protests at Ft. Meade Ahead of Bradley Manning Trial Guantánamo Prisoners Pen Open Letter to Military Doctors 13 Killed in Oklahoma Tornado Fires Erupt … Continued
