9/11's Footprint on America: Democracy Now on Pacifica Radio’s Memorial...
Democracy Now! kicked off Pacifica Radio’s 9/11 anniversary special on Sunday with an hour of voices from our coverage in the past decade. The memorial broadcast began the way Sept. 11, 2001, began for...
View ArticleLiberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Activist Leymah Gbowee Honored for...
AMY GOODMAN: We turn to the other two winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Emira Woods is with us, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. Can you talk about the...
View ArticleYemeni Activist Tawakkul Karman, First Female Arab Nobel Peace Laureate: A...
AMY GOODMAN: In an interview this morning, Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman said her prize is a victory for Yemen and for all of the uprisings of the Arab Spring. Karman is a 32-year-old journalist and...
View ArticleNobel Peace Prize Awarded to Trio of Women for Championing Gender Equality,...
AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show with this morning’s announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011. THORBJOERN JAGLAND: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011...
View ArticleAmerica’s Longest War: New Study Examines Demographics of U.S. Casualties in...
AMY GOODMAN: Nearly 1,800 U.S. military members have been killed in Afghanistan since the war began 10 years ago, the longest war in U.S. history. We turn now to a new report. It’s called "American...
View Article"Women, War and Peace" PBS Series Examines Role of Nobel Prize Winner Leymah...
AMY GOODMAN: On Friday, Democracy Now! was visited by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkul Karman, who shared this year’s award with two other women: the Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who’s...
View Article"A Moment in the Sun": An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker,...
AMY GOODMAN: Today we spend the hour with the legendary independent filmmaker and author John Sayles. Over the past three decades, he’s directed 17 feature films, including The Return of the Secaucus...
View ArticleAs Biden Visits Iraq Ahead of U.S. Withdrawal, Critics See Last-Ditch Effort...
AMY GOODMAN: We move on now to Iraq, where Vice President Joe Biden arrived yesterday for an unannounced visit to mark the withdrawal of U.S. troops by the end of the year. Shi’ites supporting Iraqi...
View ArticleIn Exiting Iraq, U.S. Military Discards Trove of Found Documents on 2005...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: As the United States military leaves Iraq, the New York Times has recovered hundreds of pages of documents detailing internal interrogations of U.S. marines over the 2005 Haditha...
View ArticleNATO Forced to Admit Air Strikes Killed Dozens of Libyan Civilians,...
JUAN GONZALEZ: NATO is admitting for the first time Libyan civilians were killed and injured during its seven-month bombing campaign that led to the ouster and death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi....
View ArticleSPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in His Own Words
AMY GOODMAN: Today is a federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King. He was born January 15th, 1929. He was assassinated April 4th, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just...
View ArticleVeterans Say No to NATO
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Veterans of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are now challenging the occupation of Chicago. This week, NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is holding...
View ArticleMemorial Day: Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded, Stop the Wars
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Gen. John Allen, commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Allen said the NATO...
View Article75 Years Later, the Lessons of Guernica
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Seventy-five years ago, the Spanish town of Guernica was bombed into rubble. The brutal act propelled one of the world’s greatest artists into a three-week painting...
View ArticleIsraeli Journalist Gideon Levy on the Escalating Talk of a Military Attack on...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: A top Iranian general accused Israel Tuesday of waging "psychological war" against Iran. General Ahmad Vahidi warned that Israel is moving toward destruction of its, quote, "war...
View ArticleThe 9/11 Decade: Voices of Dissent on Democracy Now!
At the time of the September 11th attacks, Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, was one of the few media outlets reporting on the...
View ArticleThe 9/11 Decade: Timeline of Voices of Dissent on Democracy Now!
At the time of the September 11th attacks, Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, was one of the few media outlets reporting on the...
View ArticleGeorge McGovern, 1922-2012: Antiwar Candidate Who Challenged Vietnam and...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re on the road in Sacramento, California, as we continue our 100-city Silenced Majority Election 2012 tour. Today, a Democracy Now! special. We look at the life and legacy of the...
View ArticleVideo: Part 2 of Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick on The Untold History of the...
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman with Juan González, with part two of our discussion about a remarkable series that’s begun on Showtime...
View ArticleChuck Hagel Faces Tough Confirmation from Senate Hawks for Rejecting Party...
AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to look at Chuck Hagel. President Obama is expected to nominate the former Republican senator from Nebraska to become the next defense secretary. Hagel is a Vietnam veteran who...
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