African Union Commission Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the first woman to lead the organization, spoke at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela. She is a former anti-apartheid activist who served as South Africa’s
Minister of Health from 1994 to 1999, under President Mandela. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The New York Times reports that the federal government’s terrorist watch list, officially called the "Terrorist Screening Database," has grown to at least 700,000 people, and those on the list are often subjected to extra scrutiny, prohibited from flying, and interrogated while attempting to cross borders.
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Democracy NOW! DN! For more than a decade, Reverend Billy, along with his Church of Stop Shopping, has preached fiery sermons against recreational consumerism — and more recently, against climate disaster. You can often find
them greeting the crush of shoppers at Macy’s in New York City on Black Friday. Provided to you under Democracy
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Democracy NOW! DN! Global Headlines with Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Nermeen Sharikh and Aaron Mate. An independent non-profit viewer funded global news media, recognized and broadcast world wide. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Iran and six world powers have clinched a deal to temporarily limit and roll back the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for the easing of international sanctions. The United States and Iran described the agreement as a first step toward a comprehensive deal. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
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Democracy NOW! DN! Somali youth climate activist Marian Osman addressed the main plenary at the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. "There’s a Somali proverb that goes: 'A mere finger can't obscure the sun." Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Negotiations at the U.N. climate summit in Warsaw, Poland, have entered their final scheduled day, but deep divisions remain between rich and poor nations. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
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Democracy NOW! DN! “We’re not abandoning the U.N., we’re just abandoning this COP, because it’s just gotten so bad,” says Anjali Appadurai, a youth climate activist working with the environmental groups who backed a walkout
of the talks today at the U.N. climate summit in Warsaw, Poland. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative
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Democracy NOW! DN! A pair of climate scientists are calling for what some may view as a shocking solution to the global warming crisis: a rethinking of the economic order in industrialized nations. Provided to you under
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Democracy NOW! DN! As we began our show, hundreds of environmental activists walked out of the U.N. climate change summit in Warsaw, Poland, today over the absence of a binding agreement on curbing global warming. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
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Democracy NOW! DN! Aid workers in the Philippines continue to dig mass graves amidst the search for possible survivors after Typhoon Haiyan, the executive director of the Philippines Climate Change Commission, Mary Ann
Lucille Sering, gave a moving address today. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! As delegates to the U.N. climate summit debate over how to meet a pledge to provide $100 billion a year in climate aid by 2020, critics note industrialized countries spend more than five times as much money on subsidizing the fossil fuel industry. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! A group of 133 developing nations have walked out of a key part of the climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. The United States, Australia, Canada and other industrialized countries are pushing for the
issue, known as loss and damage, to be put off until after the 2015 climate talks in Paris. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
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Democracy NOW! DN! Newly leaked documents have revealed how U.S. negotiators at the U.N. climate summit in Warsaw are opposing efforts to help developing countries adapt to climate change. According to an internal U.S.
briefing memo seen by Democracy Now!, the U.S. delegation is worried the talks in Warsaw will "focus increasingly on blame and liability" and that poor nations will be "seeking redress for climate damages from sea level rise, droughts, powerful storms and other adverse impacts." We speak with Nitin Sethi, a journalist with
The Hindu newspaper who first reported on the leaked document. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The outcome of our work is not about what our political masters want. It is about what is demanded of us by seven billion people. I appeal to all: Please, no more delays, no more excuses. Please, let Doha be remembered as the place where we found the political will to turn things around, and let 2012 be
remembered as the year the world found the courage to do so, to find the courage to take responsibility for the future we want. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Ten days after Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, the United Nations says some four million people have been displaced, up from 900,000 last week. The toll of the dead or missing stands at around 5,000. The massive typhoon has cast a dark cloud over the U.N. climate summit in Poland, with Filipinos and other climate change activists from around the world demanding concrete action on global warming. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Organizers of the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, are facing criticism for accepting corporate sponsorships from major car manufacturers, oil companies, steel manufacturers and coal firms. Meanwhile, the Polish Ministry of Economy has teamed up with the World Coal Association to put on a parallel "International Coal and Climate Summit," also in Warsaw. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! This month marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. It is a topic our guest Thom Hartmann wrote about the 2009 book, "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination," co-authored with Lamar Waldron. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! On the opening day of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Poland, the chief climate negotiator from the Philippines gave an emotional appeal to the world to address the climate crisis following Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The campaign against Initiative 522 drew millions of dollars from major corporations and out-of-state organizations who spent more than $22 million to defeat it, including Monsanto, which donated more than $5 million, and DuPont, which gave almost $4 million. Pepsi, Coca-Cola and Nestle dedicated more than $1.5 million each. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! A video just posted online by Rolling Stone shows a hogtied prisoner being
whipped by Afghan security forces, as what appears to be two unidentified American military
officers look on. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The New York City Police Department’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” program was a major issue for voters going to the polls in the city’s mayoral election. Adhyl Polanco became critical of the NYPD’s “stop-and-frisk” policy when his superiors told officers to meet a quota of stops, or face punishment. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Director, producer and screenwriter Oliver Stone discusses his next project, a biographical film of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. starring Jamie Foxx. Stone is writing the film with the cooperation of the King estate. "He was our Ghandi," Stone says. "He spoke out not only for civil rights, but when he crossed over, against militarism, greed, and the Vietnam War." Stone has made nearly two dozen films, winning three Academy Awards. Most recently, Stone has co-written the 10-part Showtime series "Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States." Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! As Edward Snowden seeks clemency from the United States, the New York Times has revealed new details about how the National Security Agency is spying on targets ranging from the United Nations to foreign governments to global text messages. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! A sweeping set of changes to the New York City Police Department’s
controversial "stop-and-frisk" program has been put on hold. In August, U.S. District Judge
Shira Scheindlin found the program unconstitutional, saying police had relied on a "policy of indirect racial profiling" that led officers to routinely stop "blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white." Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons
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Democracy NOW! DN! A new book 10 years in the making examines how many major U.S. universities — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Rutgers, Williams and the University of North Carolina, among others — are drenched in the sweat, and sometimes the blood, of Africans brought to the United States as slaves. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! A legal battle is being waged in Texas over the controversial new anti-choice law that inspired a people’s filibuster over the summer. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has asked a federal appeals court judge to immediately reinstate a key part of the new law a day after it was ruled unconstitutional by a lower court judge. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The spat over U.S. spying on Germany grew over the weekend following reports the National Security Agency has monitored the phone calls of Chancellor Angela Merkel since as early as 2002, before she even came to office. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! As new revelations of National Security Agency spying stoke the ire of Germany, France and Spain, thousands of people marched in Washington, D.C., on Saturday in a rally against government surveillance. Organizers say the protest was the largest to date against NSA monitoring since Edward Snowden’s disclosures became public in June. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
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Democracy NOW! DN! As the problem-plagued roll-out of President Obama’s signature healthcare policy undergoes congressional scrutiny for the first time, we speak with Clay Johnson, a former Obama campaign innovation expert who founded Blue State Digital, the company that built Obama’s 2008 website. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! We look at how the United States uses drones in war, and their impact,
through the eyes of one of the first U.S. drone operators to speak out. Former U.S. Air Force
pilot Brandon Bryant served as a sensor operator for the Predator program from 2007 to 2011,
manning the camera on the unmanned aerial vehicles that carried out attacks overseas. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
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Democracy NOW! DN! Youth Services International has expanded its contracts to operate juvenile
prisons in several states. More than 40,000 boys and girls in 16 states have gone through these
facilities in the past two decades. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons
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Democracy NOW! DN! Amnesty International reviewed 45 drone strikes that have occurred in North Waziristan in Pakistan since January 2012. It found at least 19 civilians were killed in just two of those strikes. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Ein kleiner Ort kämpft gegen einen Weltkonzern -- so beginnt mein Film „Gefährliche Gier". Und
tatsächlich: Hier kämpft David gegen Goliath. David, das sind die Bürger des 2000-Seelen-Ortes
Lünne im südlichen Niedersachsen, eigentlich ein unternehmerfreundlicher, konservativer
Landstrich.
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Democracy NOW! DN! The White House has announced it will suspend some of its $1.5 billion in
annual military aid to Egypt until the country ushers in a democratic government. Hundreds of
Morsi supporters have been killed by state forces since his ouster in July. Provided to you
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Democracy NOW! DN! Levison now says that since first going public, he has been summoned before a grand jury, fined $10,000 for handing over encryption keys on paper instead of digitally, and threatened with arrest for speaking out. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! While the New York website has taken down the notice, widespread website
problems have been reported across the nation since the state and federal marketplaces launched last Tuesday. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Asia for secret talks on a sweeping
new trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Critics refer to it as NAFTA on steroids. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The partial shutdown of the federal government has entered its third day.
More than 800,000 federal workers are furloughed, and numerous governmental programs have been forced to stop running. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! As Obama talks about "bombing" Syria we look at massacre's brought about by the United States. Either directly or indirectly the U.S. is responsible for the bloodiest and deadlist massacres in known history. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The Wall Street Journal recently revealed new details about how Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud — Saudi’s former ambassador to the United States — is leading the effort to prop up the Syrian rebels. Intelligence agents from Saudi Arabia, the United States and others. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! As debate continues in Washington and worldwide over what action to take in Syria, we’re joined by two Syrian opposition activists with different takes on whether Congress should authorize military strikes. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.