Democracy Now! Audio: Episodes
Headlines for May 15, 2013; Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom; Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Hails Genocide Conviction of Ex-Guatemalan Dictator Ríos Montt; Allan Nairn: After Ríos Montt Verdict, Time for U.S. to Account for Its Role in Guatemalan ...
Headlines for May 14, 2013; Jailed Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Seeks Compassionate Release over Worsening Cancer; Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Decries Government's "Big Brother" Seizure of AP Phone Records; Dr. Paul Farmer on Rwanda's Health Leap, Haiti's Struggles & How Communities Can ...
Headlines for May 13, 2013; Ríos Montt Guilty of Genocide: Are Guatemalan President Pérez Molina, U.S. Officials Next?; Climate Tipping Point? Concentration of Carbon Dioxide Tops 400 ppm for First Time in Human History
Headlines for May 10, 2013; Despite Evidence of Massacres, Former Guatemalan Dictator Proclaims Innocence at Genocide Trial; With Father and Sister Imprisoned, Exiled Bahraini Activist Maryam Alkhawaja Condemns Ongoing Abuses; Are the FBI and IRS Secretly Reading Your Email Without a Warrant?
Headlines for May 09, 2013; Did Police Negligence & Suspect Ariel Castro's Unpunished Domestic Abuse Prolong Victims' Captivity?; Behind the Cleveland Kidnappings, A Culture of "Toxic Masculinity" & Gender-Based Violence; Chicago Workers Open New Cooperatively Owned Factory Five Years After Republic ...
Over 50 students, faculty and staff at The Cooper Union in New York have begun a sit-in inside the office of the school’s president, Jamshed Bharucha. The school recently announced an end to its longstanding tradition of free tuition for all undergraduates. [includes rush transcript]
Part two of our conversation with the celebrated Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, author of the new book, "Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History."
Headlines for May 08, 2013; Pentagon Study Finds 26,000 Military Sexual Assaults Last Year, Over 70 Sex Crimes Per Day; Eduardo Galeano, Chronicler of Latin America's "Open Veins," on His New Book "Children of the Days"
Headlines for May 07, 2013; Robert Fisk on Syria's Civil War, Chemical Weapons "Theater" & Obama's Backing of Israeli Strikes; Mississippi to Execute Willie Manning Tonight After Rejecting DNA Tests & FBI's Admission of Error; "Over the Line": U.S. Agents Shooting Dead Innocent Mexicans Across the Border ...
Headlines for May 06, 2013; Michael Pollan on How Reclaiming Cooking Can Save Our Food System, Make Us Healthy & Grow Democracy
Headlines for May 03, 2013; Assata Shakur in Her Own Words: Rare Recording of Activist Named to FBI Most Wanted Terrorists List; Angela Davis and Assata Shakur's Lawyer Denounce FBI's Adding of Exiled Activist to Terrorists List; As Migrant Toll Mounts, Mexicans Urge Obama to Put Human Rights at Center ...
Headlines for May 02, 2013; As U.S. Moves to Arm Syrian Rebels, Questions Raised About Reports of Chemical Weapons Attack; Punishing Vieques: Puerto Rico Struggles With Contamination 10 Years After Activists Expel U.S. Navy; Rep. José Serrano: Critical Latino Vote Has Changed the Equation in Washington's ...
Headlines for May 01, 2013; Obama Vows to Seek Guantánamo Closure, But Immediate Action Could Prevent Hunger Strikers' Deaths; As Bangladesh Toll Hits 400, Calls Grow to Grant Workers the Same Protections as Labels They Make; Tennis Star Martina Navratilova, Among First "Out" Pro Athletes, Congratulates ...
Headlines for April 30, 2013; Isabel Allende on "Maya's Notebook," Drug Addiction, 1973 Chilean Coup & Death of Poet Pablo Neruda; Kimberly Rivera, Pregnant Mom of 4, Sentenced to Military Prison for Refusing to Serve in Iraq
Headlines for April 29, 2013; A Desperate Situation at Guantánamo: Over 130 Prisoners on Hunger Strike, Dozens Being Force-Fed; Forgotten Women of the War on Terror: Author Victoria Brittain on the Wives and Families Left Behind; Country Musician Willie Nelson Turns 80: "One Person Carrying a Message ...
Headlines for April 23, 2013; Jeremy Scahill: The Secret Story Behind Obama's Assassination of Two Americans in Yemen
Headlines for April 22, 2013; Glenn Greenwald on Boston Marathon Arrest: Will We Deny Constitutional Rights in the Name of Fear?; Apartheid Regime Bomb Victim Father Michael Lapsley on Using Forgiveness to Heal From Tragedy; Earth Day Exclusive: Tim DeChristopher Speaks Out After 21 Months in Prison ...
Headlines for April 19, 2013; Genocide Trial of Former Dictator Ríos Montt Suspended After Intervention by Guatemalan President; Exclusive: Allan Nairn Exposes Role of U.S. and New Guatemalan President in Indigenous Massacres
A new film directed by Robert Greenwald looks at four whistleblowers who had their lives practically destroyed after they went to the press with evidence of government wrongdoing. They are Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm. [includes rush transcript]
Headlines for April 18, 2013; "Devastation Beyond Description": Dozens Feared Dead in Texas Fertilizer Plant Blast, 100+ Wounded; No OSHA Inspections at Texas Plant in 5 Years: Are We Doing Enough to Protect Workplace Safety?; A Rush to Misjudgment: CNN Faulted for Racially Charged, Erroneous Reports ...