Democracy NOW! DN! While Washington debates the use of military force in Syria, the United Nations has revealed the number of refugees who have fled the country’s civil war has topped two million, with another four million internally displaced. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The White House has launched what it describes as a "flood the zone" campaign to persuade Congress to authorize bombing Syria. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The Obama administration has acknowledged it had advance notice British officials were going to detain David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has revealed the National Security Agency’s massive spy practices. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! As Amazon founder Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post, we look at life inside the factories that make online companies like Amazon run. Last week, President Obama delivered a major speech on jobs at an Amazon warehouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, was sworn in on Sunday, replacing outgoing President Ahmadinejad. Rouhani called for engaging with the United States and the lifting of international sanctions. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! After being held incommunicado for nearly four weeks, ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was allowed to meet today with European Union envoy Catherine Ashton. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Prominent Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye has been released from prison after being held for three years on terrorism-related charges at the request of President Obama. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! No Headlines today. Snowden applied for temporary asylum in Russia last week after the the Obama administration revoked his passport, leaving him unable to travel to Latin America. Russian authorities have now granted Snowden provisional authorization to enter Russia. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Facing an estimated $18 billion in debt, Detroit has become the largest U.S. municipality to file for bankruptcy. It is a grim milestone in the decline of what was once the fourth largest city in the U.S. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the market creatures with no apparent instinct for survival as they walk toward the frothy market despite all the signs of a debt tsunami about to hit. Max talks to Jan Skoyles of The Real Asset Company about gold demand in China, the Shanghai Gold Exchange and smuggling Snowden in a Venezuela gold delivery. Provided to you, with permission from Russia Today, global news network.
Democracy NOW! DN! For a response to President Obama’s comments on the acquittal of George Zimmerman and racism in the United States, we’re joined by Dr. Cornel West, professor at Union Theological Seminary and author of numerous books. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The judge in the Bradley Manning case says she will decide Thursday on his lawyers’ request to dismiss seven of the charges he faces, including allegations that he aided the enemy when he provided hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative
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Democracy NOW! DN! As protests against the acquittal of George Zimmerman continue in Los Angeles, Oakland and other cities, the NAACP is calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to file civil rights charges against Zimmerman for killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The secretive right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has used its network of money and influence to help shield George Zimmerman from prosecution for the Trayvon Martin killing and was later used in the jury instructions at his trial. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Amidst new revelations of U.S. spying in Latin America and ongoing diplomatic tensions over the asylum efforts of Edward Snowden, we are joined by Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño. Speaking from
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Democracy NOW! DN! Edward Snowden explains why he exposed how the United States is spying on the world. Snowden says the biggest revelation to emerge is the National Security Agency’s collection of all communications into and out of the United States Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the NSA surveillance story has revealed the NSA has tapped into Brazil’s telecommunication network and intercepted, collected and stored the email and telephone records of millions of Brazilians for years. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! We go to Cairo to speak with Sharif Abdel Kouddous, who has just returned from what he calls the bloodbath scene of the pro-Morsi rally. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! New documents reveal the FBI has cleared its agents in every single shooting incident dating back two decades. According to the New York Times, from 1993 until today, FBI shootings were deemed justified in the fatal
shootings of 70 people and the wounding of 80 others. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Brazil is witnessing some of its largest protests in decades, after some 240,000 people protested Monday. Tens of thousands continue to take the streets. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Speaking to PBS, Emperor Obama distinguished his surveillance and reaffirmed his insistence that no phone calls or emails are being directly monitored. Greenwald calls Obama’s statements outright false for omitting the warrantless spying on phone calls between Americans and callers outside the United States. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! As the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo enters its 133rd day, a group of top U.S. doctors and public health specialists are calling on their colleagues in the military to boycott the mass force-feeding of prisoners. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! More than 800,000 people are believed to be taking part in a national strike by Turkish unions in protest of the government’s crackdown on nearly three weeks of protests. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative
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Democracy NOW! DN! The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine major Internet companies — including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook. The Guardian and The Washington Post revealed the top-secret program, codenamed PRISM, after they obtained several slides from a 41-page training presentation for senior intelligence analysts. Provided to you under Democracy NOW!
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Democracy NOW! DN! A leaked court order has revealed the Obama administration is conducting a massive domestic surveillance program by collecting telephone records of millions of Verizon customers. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Describing the United States as an "advanced Third World country," longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader calls for a new mass movement to challenge the power corporations have in Washington. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The military "Kangaroo Trial" of Army whistleblower Bradley Manning at Fort Meade, Maryland, began Monday with the defense and prosecution presenting starkly contrasting accounts.Manning’s defense lawyer, David Coombs, said Manning wanted to reveal the human costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Fulfilling the Right to Food in the United States," the International Human Rights Clinic at New York University’s School of Law reports that of these 50 million people going hungry, nearly 17 million are children. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! In their new book, "The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills," economist David Stuckler and physician Sanjay Basu examine the health impacts of austerity across the globe. The authors estimate there have been more than 10,000 additional suicides and up to a million extra cases of depression across Europe and the United States since governments started introducing austerity programs. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Dozens have been killed and more than 200 wounded in a devastating tornado in Oklahoma. The storm tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, leveling two elementary schools, a hospital and scores of homes destroyed. Rescue crews continue to dig through the rubble in a bid to find survivors. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! After months of protest, teachers, students and parents in Seattle, Washington, have won their campaign to reject standardized tests in reading and math. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Hundreds of farm workers and their supporters are in New York City ahead of Wendy’s shareholder meeting to demand improved working conditions for those who pick its tomatoes. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, joins us to discuss the growing scandal over the Justice Department’s seizure of telephone records from Associated Press editors and reporters. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, has been forced to resign days after the IRS apologized to tea party and other right-wing groups for putting extra scrutiny on their bids to become tax-exempt organizations. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Dr. Paul Farmer, an infectious diseases expert and a medical anthropologist, is known worldwide for helping to bring quality healthcare to some of the most impoverished areas of the globe. Farmer joins us, to discuss why he thinks a community-based health approach can help fix the U.S. healthcare system, how Rwanda’s model has drastically improved the lives of its citizens. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Closing arguments have begun in the historic trial against U.S.-backed Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, the first head of state in the Americas to stand trial for genocide. Ríos Montt is charged with overseeing the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala’s Ixil region after he seized power in 1982. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Cleveland kidnap victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight were allegedly subjected to years of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of suspect Ariel Castro. Questions are now being raised why the police did not investigate Castro more closely earlier, especially since Castro was accused in 1993 and 2005 of attacking his ex-wife Grimilda Figueroa. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! A shocking new report by the Pentagon has found that 70 sexual assaults may be taking place within the U.S. military every day. The report estimates there were 26,000 sex crimes committed in 2012, a jump of 37 percent since 2010. Most of the incidents were never reported. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! A joint investigation by The Washington Monthly and The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute has found over the past five years U.S. border agents have shot across the border at least 10 times, killing a total of six Mexicans on Mexican soil. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Global Headlines with Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Nermeen Sharikh and Aaron Mate. Please support viewer funded independent media. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Michael Pollan, one of the country’s leading writers and thinkers on food and food policy. Pollan has written several best-selling books about food, including "The Omnivore’s Dilemma," and "In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto." In his latest book, "Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation," Pollan argues that taking back control of cooking may be the single most important step anyone can take to help make our food system healthier and more sustainable. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Today’s global May Day actions include a march of thousands of workers in Bangladesh demanding workplace safety following last week’s factory collapse that left more than 400 dead and 150 missing. The collapse is now being described as the deadliest accident in the history of the garment industry and marked Bangladesh’s third industrial accident in five months. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! President Obama has vowed a renewed push to shut down the military prison at Guantánamo Bay more than four years after first pledging its closure. Speaking at a White House news conference, Obama called the indefinite imprisonment of more than 100 people unsustainable, but defended the ongoing
force-feeding of those on a three-month hunger strike to win their freedom. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Yemeni activist and journalist Farea al-Muslimi delivered a moving plea before a Senate hearing this week for an end to U.S. drone strikes inside his country. Speaking at the first-ever public congressional hearing on Obama’s secret drone and targeted killing program, al-Muslimi offered a rare
first-hand account of the suffering that drone warfare wreaks on people’s lives. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The death toll in Bangladesh has topped 200 after an eight-story garment factory building collapsed with thousands of workers inside. More than 1,000 people were injured, and an unknown number of workers are still trapped in the wreckage. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Activist Tim DeChristopher joins us for his first interview since being released from federal custody after serving 21 months in detention. DeChristopher was convicted of interfering with a 2008 public auction when he disrupted the Bush administration’s last-minute move to sell off oil and gas
exploitation rights in Utah. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Father Michael Lapsley is a former South African anti-apartheid activist who has turned his personal tragedy into a clarion call for peace and forgiveness. In 1990, three months after the release of Nelson Mandela, the ruling De Klerk Government sent Father Lapsley a parcel containing two religious magazines. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! In 1982, investigative journalist Allan Nairn interviewed a Guatemalan general named “Tito” on camera during the height of the indigenous massacres. It turns out the man was actually Otto Pérez Molina, the current Guatemalan president. We air the original interview footage and speak to Nairn about the U.S. role backing the Guatemalan dictatorship. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! In the wake of the deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant, reporter Mike Elk of In These Times magazine joins us to discuss the plant’s safety record and the troubling regulatory environment for workplaces in Texas and nationwide. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Venezuelan President-elect Nicolas Maduro has accused the United States and opposition of planning a coup against him after seven government supporters were killed and 60 people were injured in clashes after the election. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.