Articles by Democracy NOW!
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Is WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a Hero? Glenn Greenwald Debates Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News
Democracy Now! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
WikiLeaks is coming under attack from all sides. The WikiLeaks website is struggling to stay online just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure. The U.S. State Department has blocked all its employees from accessing the site and is warning all government employees not to read the cables, even at home. “These attacks will not stop our mission, but should be setting off alarm bells about the rule of law in the United States,” said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. We host a debate between Steven Aftergood, a transparency advocate who has become a leading critic of WikiLeaks, and Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney and legal blogger for Salon.com.
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‘The US Has Gone Mad’
John le Carré - Democracy Now!,
11 Oct 2010
While John le Carré is famous for his spy novels, he wrote a widely read antiwar essay in 2003 titled “The United States of America Has Gone Mad.” He reads an excerpt. “America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.”
→ read full articleNews at 11: How Climate Change Affects You
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
16 Aug 2010
“Heat, heat, heat is the name of the game on planet Earth this year,” as the world is beset with extreme weather events that have caused the death of thousands and the displacement of millions. Wildfires in Russia have blanketed the country with smoke, exacerbating the hottest summer there in 1,000 years. Torrential rains in Asia have caused massive flooding and deadly landslides in Pakistan, Kashmir, Afghanistan and China. An ice shelf in Greenland has broken off, sending an ice island four times the size of Manhattan into the ocean. Droughts threaten Niger and the Sahel.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks’ Afghan War Diary
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW! - Truthdig,
2 Aug 2010
Homeland security agents descended on a recent hacker conference in New York where he was scheduled to speak. He had canceled. He said the Obama administration also tried to get the Australian government to arrest him. Speaking to me from London, Assange said: “We are not pacifists. We are transparency activists who understand that transparent government tends to produce just government. That is our modus operandi behind our whole organization: to get out suppressed information into the public where the press and the public and our nations’ politics can work on it to produce better outcomes.”
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Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
19 Jul 2010
July 12 marked the six-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake here in Haiti that killed as many as 300,000 people and left much of the country in ruins. Up to 1.8 million people are living in squalid tent cities, with inadequate sanitation, if any, no electricity and little security, or any respite from the intense heat and the worsening rains. Rape, hunger and despair are constant threats to the people stranded in the camps. Six months ago, the world seemed united with commitments to help Haiti recover. Now, half a year later, the rubble remains in place, and misery blankets the camps, layered with heat, drenched by rain.
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Johan Galtung on ‘The Fall of the US Empire’
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
14 Jun 2010
The amount of money the United States has spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed the $1 trillion mark last week, according to the National Priorities Project Cost of War counter. To date over $747 billion has been appropriated for the war in Iraq and $299 billion for the war in Afghanistan. The US is spending over $136 billion on the wars this year. I’m joined now by Johan Galtung, who has spent the past half century pursuing non-violent conflict resolution in international relations. He’s known as a founder of the field of peace and conflict studies.
→ read full articleFrom Japan to Guam to Hawai’i, Activists Resist Expansion of US Military Presence in the Pacific
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
In Japan, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama sparked outrage this weekend when he announced he has decided to keep an American air base on the island of Okinawa. Before last year’s historic election victory, Hatoyama had vowed to move the base off of Okinawa or even out of Japan.
→ read full article“The People of Greece Are Fighting for the Whole of Europe”
Democracy Now! - Tariq Ali and Mark Weisbrot,
17 May 2010
The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have approved a nearly $1 trillion package to stop Greece’s debt crisis from spilling beyond its borders into the rest of the eurozone. Stocks surged in Europe, Asia and the United States Monday after EU leaders agreed to a $960 billion package to contain Greece’s financial troubles. Meanwhile, the austerity measures demanded by the IMF and the European Union as a condition of their loan are continuing to exact their toll. Greece’s two main unions have continued to hold protests against the reforms. In a statement, one of the unions said, “The crisis should be paid by…all those who looted public finances.” Last week nearly 100,000 people participated in a mass demonstration and a twenty-four-hour general strike against the austerity measures.
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EXCLUSIVE: TWO JOURNALISTS RECOUNT THEIR EXPERIENCES REPORTING FROM GAZA
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
12 Apr 2010
We speak with two journalists who have covered Gaza extensively about the dangers and difficulties of reporting from the Occupied Territories: Mohammed Omer, an award-winning Palestinian journalist who was interrogated and beaten by armed Israeli security guards on his way back home to Gaza after receiving the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London in July of 2008…
→ read full article“WE MADE A DEVIL’S BARGAIN”: FMR. PRESIDENT CLINTON APOLOGIZES FOR TRADE POLICIES THAT DESTROYED HAITIAN RICE FARMING
Democracy Now! – Pressenza International,
5 Apr 2010
President Bill Clinton, now the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, publicly apologized last month for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported, subsidized US rice during his time in office. The policy wiped out Haitian rice farming and seriously damaged Haiti’s ability to be self-sufficient. Journalist Kim Ives of Haiti Liberté questioned Clinton about his […]
→ read full articleHOW WESTERN DOMINATION HAS UNDERMINED HAITI’S ABILITY TO RECOVER FROM NATURAL DEVASTATION
Amy Goodman - Democracy NOW!,
21 Jan 2010
An interview with journalist Kim Ives about Washington’s domination of Haiti.AMY GOODMAN: I’m standing here near the airport in Port-au-Prince. I can’t exactly say my feet are firmly planted on the ground, because this morning, just about 6:00, here in Port-au-Prince, we were in our room and just getting ready to leave for this broadcast, […]
→ read full articleCOMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE EARTHQUAKE AND OF HAITI (DATING BACK TO 1996)
Democracy NOW!,
17 Jan 2010
Sunday Jan 17 2010 – Special Update: Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! Arrive in Haiti.Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Elizabeth Press from Democracy NOW! have just arrived in Port-Au-Prince to report on the relief effort in Haiti. CLICK TO VIEW complete coverage and background information.
→ read full articleHOLDING CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE FOR APARTHEID CRIMES
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!,
14 Jan 2010
A landmark class action case is under way in a New York federal court, with victims of apartheid in South Africa suing corporations that they say helped the pre-1994 regime. Among the multinational corporations are IBM, Fujitsu, Ford, GM and banking giants UBS and Barclays. The lawsuit accuses the corporations of "knowing participation in and/or […]
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NAOMI KLEIN ON DISASTER CAPITALISM IN HAITI
Amy Goodman & Naomi Klein – Democracy NOW!,
14 Jan 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010Journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke in New York last night and addressed the crisis in Haiti: “We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy—which is part natural, part unnatural—must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest […]
→ read full articleTHE POETIC JUSTICE OF DENNIS BRUTUS
Amy Goodman – Democracy Now!,
30 Dec 2009
Dennis Brutus broke rocks next to Nelson Mandela when they were imprisoned together on notorious Robben Island. His crime, like Mandela’s, was fighting the injustice of racism, challenging South Africa’s apartheid regime. Brutus’ weapons were his words: soaring, searing, poetic. He was banned, he was censored, he was shot. But this poet’s commitment and activism, […]
→ read full articleCLIMATE DISCORD: FROM HOPENHAGEN TO NOPENHAGEN
Amy Goodman – Democracy Now!,
23 Dec 2009
Barack Obama said, minutes before racing out of the U.N. climate summit, “We will not be legally bound by anything that took place here today.” These were among his remarks made to his own small White House press corps, excluding the 3,500 credentialed journalists covering the talks. It was late on Dec. 18, the last […]
→ read full articleCOPENHAGEN CLIMATE SUMMIT: THE EMPIRE’S NEW CLOTHES
Amy Goodman - Democracy Now!,
19 Dec 2009
Denmark is the home of renowned children’s author Hans Christian Andersen. Copenhagen is dotted with historical spots where Andersen lived and wrote. “The Little Mermaid” was one of his most famous tales, published in 1837, along with “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” As the United Nations’ climate summit, called “COP 15,” enters its final week, with […]
→ read full articleTAKE ME TO YOUR CLIMATE LEADER
Amy Goodman - Democracy Now!,
11 Dec 2009
COPENHAGEN—"Politicians talk, leaders act" read the sign outside the Bella Center in Copenhagen on the opening day of the United Nations climate summit. Inside the convention center, the official delegations from 192 countries, hundreds of NGOs (nongovernmental organizations)—an estimated 15,000 people in all—are engaging in two weeks of meetings aiming for a global agreement to […]
→ read full articleNOBEL PEACE LAUREATE MAIREAD MAGUIRE [MEMBER OF TRANSCEND] AND CYNTHIA MCKINNEY SPEAK FROM AN ISRAELI JAIL CELL
Free Gaza Team and Democracy Now!,
3 Jul 2009
Transcript and Audio "This is Cynthia McKinney and I am calling from an Israeli prison." Mairead Maguire: “Yes. We have just been locked into our cells now for a couple of hours. We are currently going through their process. We are being charged with entering illegally into Israeli—near Israeli shores. We are going, it looks like, […]
→ read full article“DON’T BUY ANY FOOD YOU’VE EVER SEEN ADVERTISED”
Democracy Now! Amy Goodman, interviewing Michael Pollan,
15 May 2009
"The real food is not being advertised. And that’s really all you need to know." Amy Goodman: Energy, healthcare, agriculture, climate change, global outbreaks like swine flu—what do all these topics have in common? Food. That’s right, none of these issues can really be tackled without addressing some of the fundamental problems of the food […]
→ read full article“THE AGE OF THE WARRIOR”
Democracy Now!,
6 Oct 2008
Robert Fisk on the U.S. Elections, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine As the US-led wars in the Middle East shows no sign of abating we turn now to a man who has chronicled eleven major wars in this part of the world. GO TO ORIGINAL
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