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Democracy Now! 2012-02-03 Friday Headlines for February 03, 2012; NYPD Muslim Spy Scandal Grows With Newly Revealed Plan to Target Shiite Mosques; Occupy the Super Bowl: Indiana's New Anti-Union Law Sparks Protest at Sport's Biggest Spectacle; ICE Enabled East Haven Police's Racial Profiling By Detaining, Deporting Targeted Immigrants Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-02-02 Thursday Headlines for February 02, 2012; "Gasland" Director Josh Fox Arrested at Congressional Hearing on Natural Gas Fracking; Obama's Support for Natural Gas Drilling "A Painful Moment" for Communities Exposed to Fracking; After Right-Wing Campaign, Leading Breast Cancer Charity Komen Drops Funding for Planned Parenthood Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-02-01 Wednesday Headlines for February 01, 2012; Romney Gains Momentum with Florida Win, But Gingrich Vows Prolonged Fight; Exploring Mitt Romney's Shifting Stances from "Moderate" Governor to GOP Front-Runner; Baltasar Garzón, Trailblazing Judge Who Pursued War Criminals, Faces Trial of His Own in Spain; Is Former Haitian Dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier Off the Hook for Human Rights Crimes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-31 Tuesday Headlines for January 31, 2012; Taxpayer-Funded Freddie Mac Caught Betting Billions Against Struggling American Homeowners; Ex-Marine Reoccupies His Own Foreclosed Home in Fight Against Freddie Mac, JPMorgan Chase; "The House I Live In": New Documentary Exposes Economic, Moral Failure of U.S. War on Drugs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-30 Monday Headlines for January 30, 2012; The Invisible War: New Film Exposes Rape, Sexual Assault Epidemic in U.S. Military; Occupy Oakland: Over 400 Arrested as Police Fire Tear Gas, Flash Grenades at Protesters; National Park Service Threatens to Evict Occupy D.C. Encampments at Two Parks Near White House; Syrian Activist Speaks from Hiding: The Bloodshed is Continuing Despite International Criticism Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Documentarians Take On Power and Corruption: An Interview with the Sundance Institute's Cara Mertes The Sundance Institute’s Cara Mertes describes how the independent film festival supports documentarians, including one who drew the ire of Dole Food Co. for showing how plantation workers in Niceragua successfully sued for its continued use of a pesticide that can cause sterility and possibly cancer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-27 Friday Headlines for January 27, 2012; Despite Salary Caps, Treasury Approved Lucrative Exec Payouts at Dozens of Bailed-Out Firms; NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly Urged to Resign After Police Conceal Role in Anti-Muslim Documentary; Gingrich's Extremist Anti-Palestinian Stance Follows Millions from Casino Magnate Sheldon Adelson ; GOPers Claim Softened Immigration Stance in Bid to Win Florida Latino Vote, But Key Issues Ignored Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-26 Thursday Headlines for January 26, 2012; Iraqis Voice Outrage as Haditha Massacre Trial Ends in No Jail Time for Accused U.S. Marines; Glock: As Giffords Exits, a Look at the Gun Used in Tucson Rampage and Other U.S. Mass Shootings Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-25 Wednesday Headlines for January 25, 2012; Fmr. Obama Adviser: Focus on U.S. Inequality in Election-Year SOTU Has Occupy Wall Street's Imprint; "He Says One Thing and Does Another": Ralph Nader Responds to Obama's State of the Union Address; Egypt: Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports from Cairo as Crowds Mark 1 Year of Revolution in Tahrir Square; "In Tahrir Square": HBO Doc on Egypt's Revolution Through Eyes of Democracy Now!'s Sharif Kouddous Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-24 Tuesday Headlines for January 24, 2012; As Romney Releases Tax Returns, Fmr Senate Investigator Says: We've Got to Start Taxing Corporations; "The Atomic States of America": Exploring a Nation's Struggle with Nuclear Power; Robert Redford on How Truth Telling, Challenging Power Fuels His Passion for Independent Film Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-23 Monday Headlines for January 23, 2012; Medical Whistleblower Dr. Steven Nissen on "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare"; Raj Patel: In Attacks on Obama, Food Stamps, Newt Gingrich is "Racially Coding Poverty"; Robert Redford Praises Rejection of Keystone Pipeline: We Can't Afford to Be at the Mercy of Big Oil Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-20 Friday Headlines for January 20, 2012; GOP Contest Rattled Before SC Primary as Perry Exits, Newt's Ex-Wife Speaks Out, Santorum Takes Iowa; Ahead of South Carolina Primary, GOP Candidates Employ Race-Baiting Tradition to Win Southern Vote ; Tariq Ali: Obama's Expansion of Af-Pak War "Has Blown Up in His Face" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-19 Thursday Headlines for January 19, 2012; SOPA: Anti-Piracy or Censorship? Wikipedia's Jimmy Sales vs. Copyright Alliance's Sandra Aistars; Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline under GOP Deadline, But Opponents Prepare for Long-Term Fight; Historic Effort to Recall Wisconsin Gov. Walker Reveals "People Power" After 1 Million Sign Petition; Recount Leaves Santorum Ahead of Romney in Iowa GOP Caucus Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-18 Wednesday Headlines for January 18, 2012; Debating Tucson School District's Book Ban After Suspension of Mexican American Studies Program; "The Operators": Michael Hastings on the Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan; Expansion of Indefinite Detention under NDAA Compounds Extradition Fears of WikiLeaks' Assange Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-17 Tuesday Headlines for January 17, 2012; Wikipedia, Reddit to Shut Down Sites Wednesday to Protest Proposed Stop Online Piracy Act; "Internet Censorship Affects Everybody": Rebecca MacKinnon on the Global Struggle for Online Freedom; Journalist Chris Hedges Sues Obama Admin over Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Approved in NDAA Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-16 Monday SPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in His Own Words Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-13 Friday Headlines for January 13, 2012; 2 Years After Devastating Earthquake, Haiti's Rebuilding Weighed Down by Legacy of Foreign Meddling; "Memory is the Active Agent of Collective Social Progress": Randall Robinson on His New Novel Makeda; On Eve of MLK Day, Michelle Alexander & Randall Robinson on the Mass Incarceration of Black America Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-12 Thursday Headlines for January 12, 2012; Ex-FCC Commissioner Michael Copps on Media Consolidation, Broadband Expansion, Threats to Journalism; A Path to War? Assassination of Iran Nuclear Scientist, New Sanctions Strain U.S.-Iran Relations Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-11 Wednesday Headlines for January 11, 2012; Romney Wins Republican New Hampshire Primary, Followed by Paul, Huntsman; Romney Cements Front-Runner Status with Unlimited Spending from Unregulated Super PACs; Rivals' Attacks on Romney's Corporate Record Display Occupy Wall Street's Wide Reach; How New Hampshire Became Last U.S. State to Recognize MLK Day Holiday Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-10 Tuesday Headlines for January 10, 2012; Guantánamo Detainees Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Prison's 10th Anniversary; Guantánamo Exclusive: Former Chief Prosecutor, Ex-Prisoner Call on Obama to Close Prison; NDAA: Obama Signs Law Restricting Transfer of Guantánamo Prisoners and Expands Indefinite Detention; Laid-Off Steelworker: Mitt Romney and Bain Capital Profited by Shutting Down Kansas Steel Plant Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-09 Monday Headlines for January 09, 2012; Drones, Asia and Cyber War: Pentagon Shifts Priorities in New Review; Budget Still Exceeds Bush Era; Death of Private Danny Chen: Military Admits Chen was Target of Race-Based Hazing on Daily Basis; As Arizona Remembers Tucson Shooting, Virginia Tech Massacre Survivor Calls for New Gun Control Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-06 Friday Headlines for January 06, 2012; Deportation of U.S. Teen to Colombia Latest Failure of Immigration System; Occupy New Hampshire Member on His Exchange with Mitt Romney over Support for Corporate Personhood; Buddy Roemer: GOP Pres. Candidate Who Backs Occupy, Campaign Finance Reform, Excluded from Debates Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-05 Thursday Headlines for January 05, 2012; Defying GOP and Eying Re-Election, Obama Makes Bold Recess Pick of Cordray for Consumer Bureau; Citizens United Backlash Grows from Cali. to NYC Urging Congress to Overturn Corporate Personhood; Occupy New Hampshire Protester Takes Romney to Task for Declaring "Corporations Are People"; As Statehouse Row Erupts over GOP Bill, Indiana Reps Debate Curbs on Right to Organize Unions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-04 Wednesday Headlines for January 04, 2012; Romney Edges Out Tea Party-Backed Santorum as Iowa Caucus Kicks Off GOP Primaries; Iowa Tea Party Chair on Bachmann, Paul, Santorum's Diverging Paths and Obama's Re-Election Challenge; Santorum's Emergence Signals Divided GOP Base While Paul Gains from Dems' Disenchantment with Obama; As States Take on Citizens United, Lawrence Lessig Offers Bold Plan to Get Money Out of Politics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-03 Tuesday Headlines for January 03, 2012; Super PACs, Occupy Iowa Protests and a Surging Rick Santorum: Iowa GOP Caucus Begins 2012 Race; "Pity the Billionaire": Thomas Frank on the "Unlikely Comeback of the Right" Ahead of Iowa Caucus Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2012-01-02 Monday Year of Global Uprisings, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street: A Special Look Back at 2011 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-30 Friday Headlines for December 30, 2011; Scott Olsen, U.S. Vet Wounded at Occupy Oakland, on Recovery, Protests, Iraq and Bradley Manning; Election Fraud Galvanizes Russian Opposition, Communist Party 20 Years After Soviet Union's Collapse Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-29 Thursday Headlines for December 29, 2011; Syrian Activist Speaks Out from Hiding as Arab League Mission Fails to Slow Deadly Crackdown; North Korea's New Leader Kim Jong-un Inherits Father's Nuclear Legacy & Country's Uncertain Future; Tucson Orders Closure of Mexican-American School Program as Ethnic Studies Faces Nationwide Threat Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-28 Wednesday Headlines for December 28, 2011; Author Russell Banks on Writing Through the Voices of Outcasts, Criminals and Revolutionaries; Alaa Abd El Fattah, Egyptian Blogger and Critic of Military Regime, Speaks Out After Months in Jail Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-27 Tuesday Headlines for December 27, 2011; U.S. Grants Entry to Yemen President "In Principle" As Arab Spring Protesters Demand Accountability, Regime Change; The War at Home: Militarized Local Police Tap Post-9/11 Grants to Stockpile Combat Gear, Use Drones; Oil Slick from Massive Spill in Nigeria Threatens Coastline, May Be Largest Spill in a Decade Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-26 Monday A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-23 Friday Headlines for December 23, 2011; U.S. Troops Charged After Fellow GI, Hazing Victim Danny Chen Found Dead in Afghanistan ; As Bradley Manning Hearing Concludes, Military Prosecutors Say WikiLeaks Disclosures Aided al-Qaeda; Newt Gingrich's Campaign Resurgence Funded by Secretive Coterie of Super PACs, Wealthy Backers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-22 Thursday Headlines for December 22, 2011; NATO Forced to Admit Air Strikes Killed Dozens of Libyan Civilians, Contradicting Initial Denials; U.S. Admits Fault in Fatal Bombing that Killed 24 Pakistani Troops; With Indefinite Detention Measure, Has Congress Also Expanded Rendition of U.S. Citizens Abroad?; Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Mounting Storm of Anti-Latino Bias, Prisoner Abuse, Sex-Crimes Negligence Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-21 Wednesday Headlines for December 21, 2011; Bradley Manning's Defense Strategy on Display as Military Prosecutors Rest Case in Pretrial Hearing; Iraq Combat Veteran Dan Choi Forcibly Ousted, Barred from Bradley Manning Hearing at Ft. Meade; In Exiting Iraq, U.S. Military Discards Trove of Found Documents on 2005 Haditha Massacre of Iraqis; With Pre-Caucus Focus on GOP Race, Occupy Movement Steps Up Activism in Iowa Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-20 Tuesday Headlines for December 20, 2011; The Death of Kim Jong-il and the Future of U.S. Relations with the Two Koreas; North Korea's Human Rights Record Assailed as Nation Prepares for Transition of Power; Police Crack Down on Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Journalists on Movement's 3-Month Mark; Crippling the Right to Organize: GOP Inaction May Leave National Labor Relations Board Inoperable Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-19 Monday Headlines for December 19, 2011; Bradley Manning Hearing: Alleged WikiLeaks Whistleblower in Military Court, 19 Months After Arrest ; Adrian Lamo, Bradley Manning Informant, Defends Role in Turning in Alleged WikiLeaks Whistleblower; Bradley Manning Faces Life Sentence, While Criminals WikiLeaks Exposed Have Suffered No Consequences - Glenn Greenwald; Obama Prepares to Authorize Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens for First Time Since McCarthy Era - Glenn Greenwald on NDAA; Egyptian Milit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-16 Friday Headlines for December 16, 2011; U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq: "In Terms of Destroying Iraq, It's 'Mission Accomplished'"; The Costs of War: Tens of Thousands Dead, Billions Spent, and a Country Torn Apart ; Iraqi Women's Activist Rebuffs U.S. Claims of a Freer Iraq: "This Is Not a Democratic Country" ; Bradley Manning: Famed Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Alleged WikiLeaks Soldier's 1st Day in Court Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-15 Thursday Headlines for December 15, 2011; As Syria Toll Tops 5,000, Activist in Hiding Urges Global Action to Stop Assad Regime Crackdown; Wave of Restrictive Voting Laws Prompts Federal Probes, Grassroots Activism Ahead of 2012 Elections; Martina Correia, 1967-2011: NAACP's Ben Jealous on the Life of Troy Davis' Sister, Public Champion; NAACP: Mumia Abu-Jamal Victory over Death Penalty Signals Turning Tide Against Capital Punishment; "Worker-Owners of America, Unite": Will Cooperative Workplaces De ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-14 Wednesday Headlines for December 14, 2011; Russia's Putin Faces Unprecedented Challenge as Tens of Thousands Protest Electoral Fraud; Corzine Grilled over MF Global Collapse After Witness Suggests Knowledge of Misused Funds; House-Senate Revise Indefinite Detention Bill in Bid to Avoid White House Veto, But Fears Remain; Tawakkul Karman, Yemeni Nobel Peace Laureate, Pays Tribute to Women Activists Worldwide Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-13 Tuesday Headlines for December 13, 2011; Ex-Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson, Former Democrat, Launches Third Party Presidential Bid Against Obama, GOP; Occupy Protesters Shut Down Major West Coast Ports, Targeting Goldman Sachs; "The Arab People Have Woken Up": Yemeni Activist Tawakkol Karman Accepts Nobel Peace Prize Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-12 Monday Headlines for December 12, 2011; Climate Activists: Durban Deal is "Very Weak" Agreement, Lacks "Ambition, Equity, Justice" ; "Don't Kill Africa": Climate Activists Occupy Durban Talks Demanding Binding Emissions Cuts; The Lost Decade: Bolivian Pablo Solón Decries Climate Deal Postponing New Emissions Cuts Until 2020; Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia Share Nobel Peace Prize with Yemeni Tawakkul Karman Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-09 Friday Headlines for December 09, 2011; U.S. Publicly Shifts Climate Stance in Face of Widespread Criticism -- Then Quietly Backtracks; "Get It Done": Urging Climate Justice, Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Mic Checks U.N. Summit; Obama Admin Denounced for "Startling Level of Obstructionism and Defeatism" on U.N. Climate Deal; Developing Countries Call for Green Climate Fund Independent of Western Control; Lauding "Collapse of Global Warming Movement," Sen. Inhofe Tells U.N. Summit "You Are Being ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-08 Thursday Headlines for December 08, 2011; Mumia Abu-Jamal Spared Death Penalty After Prosecutors Drop 30-Year Bid for Execution ; South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu Calls for Release of Mumia Abu-Jamal ; "I'm Scared for My Future": Student Disrupts Speech by U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern in Durban; Critics: Rich Polluters—Including U.S.—Should Face Sanctions for Rejecting Binding Emissions Cuts ; Entrepreneur: Capitalism Will Save World from Climate Crisis to Preserve Markets for iPads, Coke; ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-07 Wednesday Headlines for December 07, 2011; Hopes Fade for Binding Climate Deal as Durban Summit Enters Final Stages ; Canadian Activists Barred from Durban Summit for Protesting Environment Minister; Tuvalu Minister Urges World Leaders to Save Pacific Nations from Rising Seas; Least Developed Countries, Small Island States Face U.S. Resistance to Binding Climate Deal; Nobel-Winning IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri Urges Obama to "Listen to Science" on Global Warming Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-06 Tuesday Headlines for December 06, 2011; At Durban Summit, Leading African Activist Calls U.S. Emissions Stance "A Death Sentence for Africa"; Indigenous Activists from Canada Protest Tar Sands Oil at Durban Climate Change Summit; U.S. Focus on China, India Emissions Burdens World's Poor, Skirts Own Responsibility - Praful Bidwai; Labor Leaders Call for Review of Decision to Host 2012 U.N. Climate Talks in Qatar Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-05 Monday Headlines for December 05, 2011; Thousands March at U.N. Climate Summit in Durban to Demand Climate Justice ; South Africa Arrests, Deports Greenpeace Activists After Attempted High Stakes Banner Hang; Greenpeace Director Kumi Naidoo, from Anti-Apartheid Activist to Leading Voice for Climate Justice ; The Road to Durban: Tracking Global Warming's Devastating Impact Across the African Continent Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Exclusive: Cass McCombs Debuts New Song "Bradley Manning" Ahead of Accused Whistleblower's Trial More than a year and a half after his arrest, the alleged Army whistleblower Bradley Manning is due to make his first court appearance at a pre-trial hearing on December 16th. Manning faces up to life in prison for allegedly leaking thousands of diplomatic cables that were published by WikiLeaks. Manning spent the first part of his imprisonment in harsh conditions including solitary confinement, leading to allegations of cruelty and torture. Ahead of Manning’s upcoming hearing, the i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-02 Friday Headlines for December 02, 2011; Martina Correia, 1967-2011: Led Struggle to Save Brother Troy Davis' Life as She Fought for Her Own; "Hancock 38" Defendants Found Guilty for Bold Army Base Protest Against U.S. Drone Attacks Abroad; Richard Wolff: Eurozone Woes Result from Mating of Our "Dysfunctional" Political, Economic Systems Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-12-01 Thursday Headlines for December 01, 2011; Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Takes Early Lead in First Post-Mubarak Elections; Democracy Now! Correspondent Anjali Kamat on Reporting the Revolutions in Egypt and Libya Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Native Americans Mark Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving: "We are not Vanishing, We Are Not Conquered" The United American Indians of New England marked the 42nd National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Mass. on Nov. 24 as others celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday. Democracy Now! was there as Native speakers described the "suppressed" history of the holiday, the massacre of the Wampanoag and other indigenous peoples, and their continuing discrimination. They also expressed solidarity with struggles around the world, from Palestine to the Occupy Movement. [Includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-30 Wednesday Headlines for November 30, 2011; Millions of British Public Sector Workers Take to the Streets in Historic General Strike; Occupy Wall Street Camps in Los Angeles, Philadelphia Dismantled in Massive Police Raids; As Biden Visits Iraq Ahead of U.S. Withdrawal, Critics See Last Ditch-Effort to Preserve Occupation; State Dept. Veteran Peter Van Buren Defies U.S. Censors to Recount Failed Reconstruction in Iraq; Report: Obama Has Weakened More Lobbyist-Opposed Health, Public Safety Regulations ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-29 Tuesday Headlines for November 29, 2011; Battlefield America: U.S. Citizens Face Indefinite Military Detention in Defense Bill Before Senate; Egypt Holds Historic Election As Military Council Resists Calls To Transfer Power To Civilians; Pepper-Spray Creator Decries Use of Chemical Agent on Peaceful Occupy Wall Street Protesters; Occupy Student Debt: Students Urged to Refuse to Pay Off Loans As Schools Hike Tuition Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-28 Monday Headlines for November 28, 2011; NATO Kills 24 Pakistani Troops in 2-Hour Assault on Pakistani Base, Tensions Flare in Region; Glenn Greenwald: Is Obama Fulfilling the Neocon Dream of Mass Regime Change in Muslim World?; WikiLeaks, Julian Assange Win Major Australian Prize for “Outstanding Contribution to Journalism”; Wife of Bahraini Political Prisoner Condemns U.S.-Backed Regime For Killing, Torturing Protesters; As Egypt Holds Vote, Journalist Mona Eltahawy Recounts Beating, Sexual A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-25 Friday Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the Movement Against Corporate Power Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-24 Thursday "A Moment in the Sun": An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker, Author John Sayles Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Arab Spring Under the King: Bahraini Activist Ala'a Shehabi on Crackdown on Pro-Democracy Protests Clashes have erupted in Bahrain ahead of the release of a report investigating the crackdown on the pro-democracy uprising earlier this year. Watch Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat interview Bahraini activist Ala’a Shehabi, wife of a Bahraini political prisoner seized and jailed during the uprising. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-23 Wednesday Headlines for November 23, 2011; Egypt Protesters Defy Mounting Crackdown As Military Refuses to Step Down ; Sonia Jacobs and Peter Pringle on Their Journey From Death Row to the Wedding Altar Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-22 Tuesday Headlines for November 22, 2011; Egyptian Revolution Enters New Phase As Thousands Brave Violence to Protest Military Rule; America’s Not Broke: Solving the Debt Crisis By Making Nation More Equitable, Green & Secure ; Reporter Greg Palast Exposes How U.S. “Vulture” Funds Make Millions By Exploiting African Nations Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-21 Monday Headlines for November 21, 2011; Seymour Hersh: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused over Iran's Nuke Program; Tahrir Square Under Attack: 32 Egyptians Killed, 1,750 Injured in Protests Against Military Rule; UC Davis Student Describes Pepper Spray Attack on Occupy Campus Protesters Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-18 Friday Headlines for November 18, 2011; Occupy Wall Street Draws Massive Turnout in NYC and Across the Nation to Mark 2-Month Milestone; Hip-Hop Legend Russell Simmons, Member of the 1%, on Why He Supports the 99% and OWS; New York City Students Join OWS Day of Action with Union Square Rally, March; SEIU President, Union Leaders Arrested in OWS Brooklyn Bridge Protest Demanding Job Creation; NYC Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez Detained in Zuccotti Raid, Urges Mass Involvement in OWS ; Projectionis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-17 Thursday Headlines for November 17, 2011; Occupy Wall Street's National Day of Action Launches with Protest at NY Stock Exchange; Ex-New York Times Freelancer Natasha Lennard on Quitting the Corporate Media in an Occupy Era; 84-Year-Old Dorli Rainey, Pepper-Sprayed at Occupy Seattle, Denounces "Worsening" Police Crackdowns; Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-16 Wednesday Headlines for November 16, 2011; Occupy Wall Street Protesters Return to Zuccotti Park After 200 Arrested, Camping Barred; As Occupy Enters Third Month, a Look at How Protesters Are Building a Global Movement; Police Crackdowns on Occupy Protests from Oakland to New York Herald the "New Military Urbanism" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-15 Tuesday Headlines for November 15, 2011; Occupy Wall Street Evicted in Late Night Raid; Lawyers Secure Injunction to Reopen Zuccotti Park; Inside Occupy Wall Street Raid: Eyewitnesses Describe Arrests, Beatings as Police Dismantle Camp; Arundhati Roy: Occupy Wall Street is "So Important Because It is in the Heart of Empire"; Top Aide to Oakland Mayor Resigns over Occupy Raid: Mayors, Police Are Doing Wall Street's Business Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Amy Goodman Interviews Occupy Oakland Man Before Police Raid Peaceful Camp: "We are a Role Model" Watch Amy Goodman interview Ali, one of hundreds of people who peacefully participated in the Occupy Oakland encampment before it was raided early Monday morning. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-14 Monday Headlines for November 14, 2011; Syrian Human Rights Lawyer Razan Zaitouneh Speaks from Hiding, Says Over 4,000 Killed in Uprising; Arab League Suspends Syria, Concern Grows over Foreign Intervention to End Crisis; Occupy Honolulu: Hawaiian Musician Makana Performs Protest Song to World Leaders at APEC Summit; East Timor Massacre Remembered: U.S.-Armed Indonesian Troops Kill 270 Timorese 20 Years Ago; Occupy Oakland Encampment Raided for Second Time: Live Eyewitness Report Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Full Video: 39 Arrested with Occupy Cal in Forceful Crackdown on Student Protest at UC Berkeley See the full version of the video report featured on today’s Democracy Now! about the Occupy movement that drew thousands of California college students to protests at UC Berkeley, among others. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-11 Friday Headlines for November 11, 2011; Naomi Klein on Environmental Victory: Obama Delays Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Decision Until 2013; White House Could Cast Decisive Vote to Permit 20,000 Fracking Wells in Delaware River Basin; Occupy Homes: New Coalition Links Homeowners, Activists in Direct Action to Halt Foreclosures; Penn State Cover-Up of Child Rape, Coach Paterno Fired in "Greatest Fall from Grace in U.S. Sports"; Occupy Cal: 39 Arrested in Forceful Crackdown on Massive Protest at UC Berk ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-10 Thursday Headlines for November 10, 2011; Italian Financial Crisis Prompts Berlusconi's Exit, Escalates Fears of Europe's Next Massive Bailout; Latino Voters Help Dethrone Anti-Immigrant Champion in Historic Arizona State Senate Recall Election; Report: Thousands of U.S.-Born Kids Languish in Foster Care as Immigrant Parents Detained, Deported; Legendary Folk Duo Crosby & Nash on Soundtracking Movements from the 1960s to Occupy Wall Street Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-09 Wednesday Headlines for November 09, 2011; Election Day 2011: In State After State, "Remarkable Wins for Progressive Politics"; Mississippi Rejects Bill to Grant Pre-Embryonic "Personhood," Outlaw Fertility Aid, Birth Control; As Cain Denies Mounting Allegations, Supporters Malign Female Accusers, Sexual Harassment Victims; Bank Transfer Day: Kristen Christian on How She Inspired Mass Exodus from Big Banks to Credit Unions; "Corporations Are Not People": Activists Push Amendment to Revoke "Corporate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-08 Tuesday Headlines for November 08, 2011; Israel Deports Democracy Now! Correspondent Jihan Hafiz; Most Gaza Flotilla Activists Still Detained; Exclusive: 5,000 Haitian Cholera Victims Sue U.N. After Deadly Epidemic Kills 6,000, Sickens 450,000; The Koch-Cain Connection: IRS Urged to Probe Ties Between Cain Campaign and Billionaire Koch Brothers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-07 Monday Headlines for November 07, 2011; Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Flotilla; Dozens Detained Including Democracy Now! Correspondent; U.S. Drone Kills 16-Year-Old Pakistani Boy Days After He Attends Anti-Drone Organizing Meeting; Egypt's Military Widens Crackdown as Prominent Blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah Remains Imprisoned; 10,000 Surround White House to Protest Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-04 Friday Headlines for November 04, 2011; Exclusive: Video from Gaza Flotilla as Israeli Navy Prepares to Intercept Boats; Drones on Trial: 38 Protesters Face Charges for Disrupting Syracuse Base Used in Overseas Attacks; Debate on Fracking: Was Syracuse Right to Ban the Controversial Natural Gas Drilling Process? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-03 Thursday Headlines for November 03, 2011; EXCLUSIVE: Video Report from Gaza-Bound Flotilla Attempting to Break Israeli Blockade; Wall Street vs. Greece: G20 Opens as Greek PM Pushes for Referendum on Bailout and Austerity Measures; Jon Corzine's MF Global Firm Collapses in Biggest Wall Street Failure Since Lehman Brothers ; Video Report from Streets of Oakland: First General Strike in City Since 1946 Shuts Down Major Port Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Voices from the Secret International Flotilla Now Sailing to Gaza The Canadian ship "Tahrir" and the Irish ship "Saoirse" quietly left a Turkish port earlier today bound for the Gaza Strip. The mission of the "Freedom Waves to Gaza" flotilla was kept secret until they reached international waters just after 11:00 a.m. EDT . Democracy Now! first broke the news on our live broadcast this morning. Embedded on the Tahrir is Democracy Now! correspondent Jihan Hafiz. Prior to the ship setting sail, Hafiz spoke with three of the f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-02 Wednesday Headlines for November 02, 2011; Occupy Oakland Prepares for General Strike as War Veterans Organize Day of Action at Occupy Camps; WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Loses Appeal to Stop His Extradition to Sweden; Exclusive: Gaza-Bound "Freedom Waves" Flotilla Sets Sail from an Eastern Mediterranean Port Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-11-01 Tuesday Headlines for November 01, 2011; U.S. Pulls All Funding for UNESCO After Sweeping Vote to Support Palestinian Membership; As NATO Ends Libyan Bombing Campaign, Is the U.S. Seeking Greater Military Control of Africa? ; Jonathan Steele on Afghanistan: "The War is Unwinnable. It is a Stalemate. There is No Military Victory"; Move Your Money: Campaign Grows to Divest from "Too Big to Fail" Banks to Local Banks, Credit Unions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-31 Monday Headlines for October 31, 2011; "Deadly Monopolies": Medical Ethicist Harriet Washington on How Firms are Taking Over Life Itself Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-28 Friday Headlines for October 28, 2011; "Blood on the Tracks": Brian Willson's Memoir of Transformation from Vietnam Vet to Radical Pacifist Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-27 Thursday Headlines for October 27, 2011; Iraq War Vet Hospitalized with Fractured Skull After Being Shot by Police at Occupy Oakland Protest; Egyptian Youth Activists: We are Happy to See Occupy Wall Street Movement Stand Up for Justice; Drug War Profiteers: Book Exposes How Wachovia Bank Laundered Millions for Mexican Cartels Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-26 Wednesday Headlines for October 26, 2011; Police Fire Tear Gas, Flash Grenades as Protesters Try to Retake Occupy Oakland After Predawn Raid; Glenn Greenwald on Two-Tiered U.S. Justice System, Obama's Assassination Program & the Arab Spring; Glenn Greenwald on Occupy Wall Street, Banks Too Big to Jail and the Attack on WikiLeaks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-25 Tuesday Headlines for October 25, 2011; From Tahrir to Wall Street: Egyptian Revolutionary Asmaa Mahfouz Speaks at Occupy Wall Street; Dozens Arrested at Occupy Oakland as Police Raid Encampment, Tear Down Tents; Goldman Sachs v. Occupy Wall Street: A Greg Palast Investigation ; "Women, War and Peace" PBS Series Examines Role of Nobel Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee in Liberia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-24 Monday Headlines for October 24, 2011; Michael Moore & Cornel West on OWS, Iraq & the Progressive Discontent Obama Faces in '12 Vote; Occupy Louisville: Voices from Social Justice Encampment in the Hometown of Muhammad Ali; Dr. Cornel West: "We Are in a Magnificent Moment of Democratic Awakening" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-21 Friday Headlines for October 21, 2011; Gaddafi's Death Sparks Celebrations, Probe Calls, as Libyans Begin New Era Free of Regime; Exclusive: Nobel Laureate Tawakkul Karman on the Struggle for Women's Rights, Democracy in Yemen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-20 Thursday Headlines for October 20, 2011; Muammar Gaddafi Killed in Libya as Interim Government Seizes Last Regime Stronghold; Former Guantánamo Prisoner Speaks Out on Lawsuit Seeking Bush's Arrest in Canada for Torture; Harsh Immigration Laws Threaten "Humanitarian Crisis" in Alabama, Prompting Latinos to Fight Back; "Lost in Detention": As Obama Admin Deports Record 400,000, Film Explores What Immigrants Face Behind Bars Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-19 Wednesday Headlines for October 19, 2011; Former Financial Regulator William Black: Occupy Wall Street a Counter to White-Collar Fraud; Colleagues of Slain Kansas Abortion Doctor George Tiller Continue His Fight for Reproductive Rights; Amidst Soaring Poverty, New MLK Monument Should Be Seen as "Testament to [His] Unfinished Work" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-18 Tuesday Headlines for October 18, 2011; Freed U.S. Hikers Speak at Occupy Oakland, Express Support for California Prisoners on Hunger Strike; The New Libya: Exclusive Video on Challenges Facing a Nation Emerging from Gaddafi's 42-Year Rule; Noam Chomsky on Israel-Palestine Prisoner Exchange, U.S. Assassination Campaign in Yemen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-17 Monday Headlines for October 17, 2011; Global Day of Rage: Hundreds of Thousands March Against Inequity, Big Banks, as Occupy Movement Grows; Danny Glover, Cornel West Speak Out at Occupy Protests as MLK Memorial is Dedicated in D.C.; Times Square Taken Over as Occupy Wall Street Enters Second Month, Hundreds Arrested Across Country Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-14 Friday Headlines for October 14, 2011; NYC Withdraws Cleaning Evacuation Order in Face of Defiant Occupy Wall Street Protesters; Constitutional Rights Lawyer Michael Ratner: Failed Occupy Wall Street Evacuation Order is Illegal; Alleged Inhumane Conditions for Post-9/11 Suspects Sparks Global Scrutiny of U.S. Detention Policies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-13 Thursday Headlines for October 13, 2011; "News for All the People": Juan González & Joseph Torres on the Epic Story of Race & the U.S. Media Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Occupy Wall Street Protest Heads to Millionaire's Row, Home to Murdoch, Koch, and JPMorgan CEO Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters participated in a "Millionaires’ March" Tuesday that wended its way through New York City’s wealthy Upper East Side neighborhood, calling for an end to the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Part 2: John Carlos, 1968 U.S. Olympic Medalist, On the Response to His Iconic Black Power Salute In part two of our interview with 1968 Olympic medalist and international civil rights icon, John Carlos, he talks about the shocked response of the audience in the stadium when he raised his fist in the now iconic Black power salute, and much more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-12 Wednesday Headlines for October 12, 2011; U.S.-Iran Tensions Grow as Indictment Accuses Iranian Agents of Assassination Plot; John Carlos, 1968 Olympic U.S. Medalist, on the Revolutionary Sports Moment that Changed the World Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-11 Tuesday Headlines for October 11, 2011; Occupy Wall Street Organizer: Protest Expands Despite Police Effort to "Silence" Demonstrators; Hip-Hop Artist Immortal Technique: No More Free Passes for Our Government; Colombian, Korean and Panamanian Activists Condemn White House Support for New "Free Trade" Deals; Iraq Veterans at Occupy Wall Street Decry Financial Crisis Soldiers Face Returning Home; Iraqi-American Musician Stephan Said Performs at Occupy Wall Street; Indigenous Groups at Occupy Wall St ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Stéphane Hessel on Occupy Wall Street: Find the Time for Outrage When Your Values Are Not Respected As the Occupy Wall Street movement expands across the United States, drawing inspiration from the Arab Spring in Egypt and the protests in Spain, Democracy Now! speaks with former French Resistance fighter, Stéphane Hessel, whose pamphlet-length book, "Time for Outrage," helped inspire some of these uprisings. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-10 Monday Headlines for October 10, 2011; "Chaos and Bloodshed": 25 Die in Cairo as Egyptian Military Attacks Coptic Christian Protesters; Occupy Wall Street Spreads: 32 Arrested in Iowa; Right-Wing Editor Infiltrates D.C. Anti-Drone Protest; Occupy Wall Street Emerges as "First Populist Movement" on the Left Since the 1930s ; America’s Longest War: New Study Examines Demographics of U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan; Nobel Peace Winner Tawakkul Karman on Yemen and the U.S. War on Terror Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman on Human Rights Abuses Enabled by "War on Terror" Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman, one of three recipients who split the award this year, spoke in New York City at the Brecht Forum last year about state violence, targeted killings, and human rights abuses enabled by the so-called “War on Terror.” Democracy Now! was there and we bring you her address. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-07 Friday Headlines for October 07, 2011; Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Trio of Women for Championing Gender Equality, Peace-Building; Yemeni Activist Tawakkul Karman, First Female Arab Nobel Peace Laureate: A Nod for Arab Spring; Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Activist Leymah Gbowee Honored for Peace, Equality Work; Ten Years After U.S. Invasion, Afghan War Rages On With No End in Sight; Rev. Jesse Jackson Honors the Late Civil Rights Stalwarts Fred Shuttlesworth and Derrick Bell Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Naomi Klein on Occupy Wall Street & Chilé: Courage to Ask Questions We Don't Have Answers For In part two of our conversation with journalist and author Naomi Klein she discusses how her book, "The Shock Doctrine," focuses in part Chilé, where the 1973 coup led to the privatization of education, and now Chilean students are protesting in the streets. Klein talks about their demands, and dismisses the critique that the related Occupy Wall Street movement lacks its own clear set of demands. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-06 Thursday Headlines for October 06, 2011; Occupy Wall Street March Gets Massive Turnout; 28 Arrested in Police Crackdown; "We Have Come Together": Inspired By Occupy Wall Street, Unions Join Activists for Historic March; Bronx Hip-Hop Duo Rebel Diaz, Live From Occupy Wall Street March; Decrying Debt and Budget Cuts, Students Stage Walk-Out to Join Growing Occupy Wall Street Movement; "We Are the 99%": Voices From the Occupy Wall Street March; Naomi Klein: Protesters Are Seeking Change in the Streets ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-05 Wednesday Headlines for October 05, 2011; Somalia Blowback: After Deadly Mogadishu Bombing, A Look at How U.S. Fueled Militant Islamist Threat; As Unions, Students Join Occupy Wall Street, Are We Witnessing Growth of a New Movement?; Social Justice, Antiwar Protesters to Occupy D.C.’s Freedom Plaza in “October 2011” Protest Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Frances Fox Piven at Occupy Wall Street: "We Desperately Need a Popular Uprising in the US" CUNY professor Frances Fox Piven recently spoke with Democracy Now’s Mike Burke at the Occupy Wall Street protest. "I think we desperately need a popular uprising in the United States," Piven said. "I study movements. None of us know the exact formula for when those movements erupt, but it could be. And if that is true, then these people who are here are really wonderful." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-04 Tuesday Headlines for October 04, 2011; A War on Voting: Could Redistricting and Voting Law Changes Help Republicans Win in 2012?; Press Freedom Victory: Democracy Now! Reporters Win Landmark Settlement Over 2008 RNC Arrests; 7 Months After Revolution Ousted Mubarak, Egyptian Military Maintains Control, Suppressing Dissent Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! Journalists Announce Major Settlement in Federal Lawsuit Challenging Police and U.S. Secret Service Crackdown on Media at 2008 Republican National Convention Today, award-winning journalist Amy Goodman announced that a final settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit brought by Goodman and Democracy Now! producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar against the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the U.S. Secret Service, challenging the policies and conduct of law enforcement at the 2008 Republican National Convention in the Twin Cities. Goodman and her colleagues were unlawfully arrested and subject to excessive force while repor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-10-03 Monday Headlines for October 03, 2011; Settlement Reached Over Arrest of Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Producers at 2008 GOP Convention; 700 Arrested on Brooklyn Bridge as Occupy Wall Street Enters Third Week, Protests Grows Nationwide; Mourners Call For Abolishing Death Penalty at Funeral for Troy Davis in Georgia; Legendary Comedian Dick Gregory On Hunger Strike To Protest Capital Punishment, Death of Troy Davis; Martina Correia, Sister of Troy Davis, Vows to Keep Fighting Death Penalty Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-30 Friday Headlines for September 30, 2011; With Death of Anwar al-Awlaki, Has U.S. Launched New Era of Killing U.S. Citizens Without Charge?; "American Teacher": New Film Rebuts Vilification of Underpaid, Dedicated Public School Teachers; Inside Occupy Wall Street: A Tour of Activist Encampment at the Heart of Growing Protest Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cornel West on Occupy Wall Street: It's the Makings of a U.S. Autumn Responding to the Arab Spring "We’re talking about a democratic awakening," said Dr. Cornel West when he spoke with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman during a visit Tuesday night to the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-29 Thursday Headlines for September 29, 2011; Michael Moore: Man Interviewed by Democracy Now! on Troy Davis Execution Inspired My Georgia Boycott; Michael Moore: Health Insurers Use Costlier Premiums to Fund Campaigns Against Critics Like Me; Michael Moore Backs Call to Re-Open Investigation of 9/11 Attacks; Nobel Peace Prize, Right Livelihood Winner Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michael Moore: Man Interviewed by Democracy Now! Inspired My Georgia Boycott Over Troy Davis Execution Filmmaker Michael Moore describes how he was inspired to boycott Georgia by one of the people Democracy Now! interviewed at the protest outside the prison shortly after news of Troy Davis’ execution was announced. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-28 Wednesday Headlines for September 28, 2011; "Something Has Started": Michael Moore on the Occupy Wall St. Protests That Could Spark a Movement; "Here Comes Trouble": Michael Moore Tells The Formative Tales Behind His Filmmaking, Rabble-Rousing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer Raji Sourani on U.N. Statehood Bid, Peace Process, Gaza Siege As the United Nations Security Council considers the Palestinian bid for statehood, we speak with human rights lawyer, Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza and Vice President of the International Federation for Human Rights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-27 Tuesday Headlines for September 27, 2011; U.S. Continues to Back Afghan Warlord Linked to 2006 Massacre and Torture of Prisoners; Shock Doctrine at U.S. Postal Service: Is a Manufactured Crisis Behind Push Toward Privatization?; Video Report from Libya: "I Never Expected We Would Be Free" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-26 Monday Headlines for September 26, 2011; Freed U.S. Hiker Shane Bauer: Iranian Guards Cited Guantánamo, CIA Prisons to Justify Mistreatment ; Occupy Wall Street Protest Enters Second Week; 80 Arrested at Peaceful March; Martina Correia on Execution of Troy Davis: "My Brother's Fight Will Continue" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Author Ron Suskind on Obama's Evolution amidst Unprecedented Economic and International Challenges In part two of our interview with veteran journalist Ron Suskind about his explosive new book, "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President," he examines the challenges faced by President Obama and his evolution as a leader. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-23 Friday Headlines for September 23, 2011; Debate: Does U.N. Statehood Bid Advance or Undermine Palestinian Struggle?; "Confidence Men" Author Ron Suskind Responds to Obama Admin's Fiery Denials about Financial Crisis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 6-Hour Live Broadcast From Troy Davis Execution: Did Georgia Execute an Innocent Man? Troy Anthony Davis, who maintained his innocence until his last breath, was executed by the state of Georgia Wednesday night. As the world watched to see whether his final appeal for a stay of execution would be granted by the U.S. Supreme Court, Democracy Now! broadcast live for six hours from outside the prison grounds where Davis was ultimately killed by lethal injection at 11:08 p.m. EDT . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-22 Thursday Headlines for September 22, 2011; Democracy Now! Special Report from Troy Davis Execution: Did Georgia Kill an Innocent Man?; Freed in Iran: U.S. Hikers Urge Freedom for All Political Prisoners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After 2 Years Behind Bars, Jailed U.S. Hikers Freed in Iran The U.S. hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have been released in Iran after two years in prison on charges of espionage. Bauer and Fattal were granted bail earlier today and handed over to Swiss diplomats. The pair were arrested in 2009, along with Sarah Shourd, while hiking near the Iran-Iraq border. We get reaction from Esther Kaplan of the Nation Institute, a colleague of the hikers who last year published an extensive investigation reporting that they were arrested on the Iraqi side o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-21 Wednesday Headlines for September 21, 2011; Fate of Troy Anthony Davis Hangs in the Balance as Supporters Seek Last-Minute Halt to Execution ; Grandson of Murdered Detective/Father of Slain Daughter Speaks Out for Troy Davis, Against Execution ; "Troy Davis, I Have Been Where You Are": Ex-Death Rowers Fight System that Nearly Took Their Lives Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-20 Tuesday Headlines for September 20, 2011; Troy Davis Set To Be Executed on Wednesday After Georgia Pardons Board Denies Clemency; Rev. Jesse Jackson on Taxing the Rich, Occupy Wall Street Protest and Palestinian Statehood; "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Ban on Gay and Lesbians in the U.S. Military is Lifted; Court Ruling Backs Ecuadorian Effort to Hold Chevron Accountable for Amazon Pollution Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-19 Monday Headlines for September 19, 2011; "Occupy Wall Street": Thousands March in NYC Financial District, Set Up Protest Encampment; David Graeber: The Debt of the American Poor Should Be Forgiven; "They Just Started Shooting Us from Everywhere": Scores of Protesters Killed in Yemen; Noam Chomsky on the Legality of NATO’s Bombing of Libya and the Scramble for Oil; Noam Chomsky: The U.S. & Israel Strongly Oppose "Rise of Any Meaningful Democracy" in Middle East; Noam Chomsky: 2012 GOP Candidates ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-16 Friday Headlines for September 16, 2011; Obama Admin Faces Controversy over Rushed $535 Million Backing of Failed Solar Power Firm, Solyndra; Over 500,000 Sign Petition to Stop Georgia Execution of Troy Davis; Troy Davis's Sister: "The Fight for Troy Has Brought Us a Whole New Family All Over the World"; 40 Years After Attica Rebellion, New Tapes Reveal Nixon, Rockefeller Praised Deadly Crackdown Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-15 Thursday Headlines for September 15, 2011; Former Senator Bob Graham Urges Obama to Reopen Investigation into Saudi Role in 9/11 Attacks; Genocide-Linked General Otto Pérez Molina Poised to Become Guatemala's Next President; "Granito: How to Nail a Dictator": New Film Tracks Struggle for Justice After Guatemalan Genocide Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-14 Wednesday Headlines for September 14, 2011; After Gaddafi's Fall, A Revitalized Libya Tackles Militarization, Reconciliation & NATO's Presence; Mahmood Mamdani on Libya, an African Union in "Crisis" & the Outlook for South Sudan; GOP Candidate Ron Paul: "We're Under Great Threat Because We Occupy So Many Countries"; U.S. Census Reports Reveals One in Six Americans Are Poor, One in Five Children Live in Poverty Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pt. 2: Noam Chomsky on Libya, Israel & GOP Presidential Candidates' "Utterly Outlandish" Positions In our extended interview with Noam Chomsky, he discusses the case against participating in Libya’s civil war, the increasing isolation of Israel in the Middle East, and his shock at the Republican presidential candidates’ positions on issues such as climate change. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-13 Tuesday Headlines for September 13, 2011; Noam Chomsky on the 9/11 Decade and the Assassination of Osama Bin Laden: Was There an Alternative? ; Noam Chomsky on the U.S. Economic Crisis: Joblessness, Excessive Military Spending and Healthcare; Noam Chomsky: U.S. to Veto Palestinian Statehood Bid Despite "Overwhelming International Consensus" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 9/11's Footprint on America: Democracy Now on Pacifica Radio’s Memorial Broadcast 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 many Pacifica listeners, with Amy Goodman reporting ‘live’ from New York, just a few blocks away from where the planes hit the World Trade Center towers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-12 Monday Headlines for September 12, 2011; From One Ground Zero to Another: Sister of 9/11 Victim Meets Afghan Who Lost Family in U.S. Bombing; Ten Years After 9/11, Little-Known Sikh Community Still Target of Violence and Harassment; Attica Is All of Us: Cornel West on 40th Anniversary of Attica Prison Rebellion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-09 Friday Headlines for September 09, 2011; Obama Jobs Plan Bolder than Expected, But Is It Enough?; Rebuilt Ground Zero Billed as National Symbol, But Costly Construction Projects Outsourced Overseas; As Study Links 9/11 Debris to Cancer, Details Emerge on How Officials Downplayed Ground Zero Dangers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-08 Thursday Headlines for September 08, 2011; Texas Faces Massive Wildfires, Record Drought as Gov. Rick Perry Denies Existence of Global Warming; Epitaph for Another 9/11: Renown Writer Ariel Dorfman on 1973 U.S.-Backed Coup in Chile; A Fateful Day: 9/11 Also Marks Important Anniversaries in India, Guatemala, Haiti and Attica, NY Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Book Excerpt / MP3: "Blowback" - A Look Back at the 9/11 Attacks As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, read a chapter of Amy and David Goodman’s book, "Exception to the Rulers," on 9/11, the families of the 9/11 victims who called for peace, the other September 11ths and more. The chapter is titled "Blowback." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-07 Wednesday Headlines for September 07, 2011; Libyan Rebels Try to Stabilize Tripoli as Weapons from Gaddafi Compounds Go Missing ; Discovered Files Show U.S., Britain Had Extensive Ties with Gaddafi Regime on Rendition, Torture; Smog v. Jobs: Is Obama Admin Endangering U.S. Environment, Public Health with Retreat on Smog Standards? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-06 Tuesday Headlines for September 06, 2011; Video of U.N. Peacekeepers' Sexual Assault of Haitian Prompts Calls to Focus on Post-Quake Rebuilding; "Fear, Inc." Exposes the So-Called Experts and Donors Behind Islamophobia in the United States; Saint of 9/11: Remembering NY Fire Chaplain Mychal Judge, Gay Catholic Priest Killed at WTC Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-05 Monday Democracy Now! Monday, September 5, 2011 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-02 Friday Headlines for September 02, 2011; U.S. Wasting Billions While Tripling No-Bid Contracts After Decade of War in Iraq, Afghanistan; As Turkey Freezes Israel Ties, Critics Decry "Whitewashed" U.N. Report on Gaza Flotilla, Blockade; In Wake of Irene, Rural New Yorkers Turn to Community-Run "Watershed Post" Website as Prime News Hub Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Army Widow Calls for Recognition of Husband's Service After He Commits Suicide Ahead of Redeployment We continue our interview with Ashley Joppa-Hagemann, the widow of a U.S. Army Ranger who confronted former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about her husband’s suicide ahead of his eighth deployment overseas. She calls for a military memorial, and notes she has not received a condolence letter from President Obama. We also speak with Jorge Gonzalez, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, about the campaign to end the redeployment of all traumatized troops from Iraq and Afghanist ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-09-01 Thursday Headlines for September 01, 2011; Amnesty International Decries Assad Regime's "Brutal" Crackdown on Syrian Protesters; As Economy Lags, New Study Reveals 25 Top Firms Pay More to CEOs than in Taxes; Alleging Captive Labor, Foreign Students Walk Out of Work-Study Program at Hershey Plant Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-31 Wednesday Headlines for August 31, 2011; ATF Whistleblower: U.S. Gun Sting "Fast & Furious" Has Left Trail of "Crime Scenes and Dead Bodies"; As Grim Details Emerge, Guatemalan Victims Seek Justice for U.S. Medical Experiments in 1940s Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-30 Tuesday Headlines for August 30, 2011; Vermont Radio Station Provides Crucial Details for Flooded Residents amidst Historic Devastation; Ex-Bush Official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: "I am Willing to Testify" If Dick Cheney is Put on Trial; Army Ranger Widow Confronts Rumsfeld over His Lies that Convinced Her Husband to Join the Military Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-29 Monday Headlines for August 29, 2011; "We Are Still Under Siege": Vermont Gov. Shumlin on Catastrophic Flooding & Climate Change; Bill McKibben: Will Hurricane Irene Be a Wake-Up Call about Climate Change? ; Shored Up: Debate over Development on Barrier Islands Intensifies After Hurricane; NYC Criticized for Failing to Evacuate Prisoners at Rikers Island Ahead of Hurricane; Global Warming & War: New Study Finds Link Between Climate Change and Conflict Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-26 Friday Headlines for August 26, 2011; MLK National Monument Inspires Calls to Continue Civil Rights Leader’s Work to End Poverty and War; “Poverty Is the Problem”: Efforts to Cut Education Funding, Expand Standardized Testing Assailed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-25 Thursday Headlines for August 25, 2011; With CIA Help, New York Police Secretly Monitored Mosques, Muslim Communities Post-9/11; "Terrorists for the FBI:" How the FBI Uses Informants to Surveil and Entrap Americans Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-24 Wednesday Headlines for August 24, 2011; The One Billion Dollar Question: Who Are the Libyan Rebels? ; The 9/11 TV News Archive: 3,000 Hours of Video News Coverage of 2001 Attacks Posted Online; Pioneering Internet Archivists Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger on Preservation in the Digital Age Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-23 Tuesday Headlines for August 23, 2011; As Fighting Continues in Tripoli, A Look at Role of the U.S., NATO and Oil Firms in Libya Uprising; Over 160 Arrested in Ongoing Civil Disobedience Against Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline; Covering Up Wall Street Crimes: Matt Taibbi Exposes How SEC Shredded Thousands of Investigations Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-22 Monday Headlines for August 22, 2011; Report from Libya: Gaddafi Regime on Brink of Collapse as Rebels Storm Tripoli; "Libya Has Reignited the Flame of Liberty in the Arab World": Juan Cole, Khaled Mattawa on Uprising; West Memphis Three Freed from Jail 18 Years After Being Convicted amid "Wave of Satanic Hysteria" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-19 Friday Headlines for August 19, 2011; Violence Spikes in Iraq as U.S. Considers Ways to Extend Occupation Past December Deadline; A Debate: Should the U.S. Approve TransCanada’s Massive Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline?; The Verizon Labor Battle: As Strike Continues, Customers Report Delays and Disruptions to Service Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-18 Thursday Headlines for August 18, 2011; Juan Gonzalez: Verizon Workers' Strike "Most Important Labor Battle Going on Today"; Undocumented Student Fanny Martinez Arrested Protesting Controversial Secure Communities Program; Should U.S. End Secure Communities? Sheriff Adrian Garcia Debates Immigrant Advocate Chris Newman; As Biden Visits China, Author David Wise on "Tiger Trap: America’s Secret Spy War with China" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-17 Wednesday Headlines for August 17, 2011; Human Rights Watch: Abuses by All Sides Fueling Crisis in Somalia; Rick Perry Stirs Ire for Fed Threat, "Economic Miracle" Claim & Calling Entitlements "Ponzi Scheme"; Ex-Evangelical Denounces Michele Bachmann & Calls Christian Reconstructionist Politics "Anti-American" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-16 Tuesday Headlines for August 16, 2011; Bay Area Rapid Transit Accused of Censorship for Blocking Wireless Services to Foil Protests; Disguised Member of Hacktivist Group "Anonymous" Defends Retaliatory Action Against BART; Hacktivism's Global Reach, From Targeting Scientology to Backing WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-16 Tuesday Headlines for August 16, 2011; Bay Area Rapid Transit Accused of Censorship for Blocking Wireless Services to Foil Protests; Disguised Member of Hacktivist Group "Anonymous" Defends Retaliatory Action Against BART; Hacktivism's Global Reach, From Targeting Scientology to Backing WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-15 Monday Headlines for August 15, 2011; Bachmann's Iowa Straw Poll Win Signals Early Tea Party Role in Shaping GOP Primary; Syria Attacks Protesters with Tanks, Naval Bombardment: "The Regime Has Made War Against the People"; Investigation Finds U.S. Drones Strike Pakistan Every Four Days, Killing 775 Civilians Since 2004 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-12 Friday Headlines for August 12, 2011; AIDS-Afflicted U.S. Citizen Urges Obama Admin to Reverse Deportation of Australian Husband; Bipartisan "Super Committee" Turns to Cutting Deficit with "Extraordinary" Powers; As Texas Gov. Rick Perry Enters GOP Race, New Exposé Reveals His Close Ties to Radical Evangelicals Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-11 Thursday Headlines for August 11, 2011; U.S. Navy Vet Sues Donald Rumsfeld for Torture in Iraq, Court Allows Case to Move Forward; Verizon Workers Strike over "Full-Scale Attack" on Wages, Benefits at Telecom Giant; Haiti: WikiLeaks Cables Expose How U.S. Blocked Aristide's Return After 2004 Coup Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-10 Wednesday Headlines for August 10, 2011; Over 1,000 Arrested in U.K. as Anger over Inequality, Racism Boils Over into "Insurrection"; Anti-Union Law Fuels Massive Voter Turnout for Historic Wisconsin Recall; WI Recall Marks Labor Win; Election Money Raises Question of U.S. as "Democracy or Dollar-ocracy?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-09 Tuesday Headlines for August 09, 2011; Atomic Cover-Up: The Hidden Story Behind the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; "A Declaration of War on the Poor": Cornel West and Tavis Smiley on the Debt Ceiling Agreement; Cornel West & Tavis Smiley on Obama: "Many of Us Are Exploring Other Possibilities in Coming Election” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-08 Monday Headlines for August 08, 2011; "Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”: Barbara Ehrenreich on the Job Crisis & Wealth Gap; The Battle for Egypt's Media: Video Report on Press Freedom After the Revolution Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-05 Friday Headlines for August 05, 2011; Cargill Meat Recall Heightens Fears Budgets Cuts Will Weaken Oversight, Threaten Public Health; Secretive Corporate-Legislative Group ALEC Holds Annual Meeting to Rewrite State Laws; New Exposé Tracks ALEC-Private Prison Industry Effort to Replace Unionized Workers with Prison Labor; Jury Still Out on New Orleans Police Accused of Shooting Unarmed Katrina Survivors on Danziger Bridge Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-04 Thursday Headlines for August 04, 2011; Women Hurt Most by Debt Deal Cuts to Medicare, Social Security, Tuition; Guatemalan Soldiers Sentenced to 6,060 Years in Prison for Role in 1982 Massacre; Video Report from Cairo: Egyptians Celebrate as Mubarak Stands Trial for Murder, Corruption; Failed Education Reform in Chile Prompts Hunger Strikes, Protests by Thousands of Students Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-03 Wednesday Headlines for August 03, 2011; Rep. Donna Edwards on Why She Voted Against Debt Deal: “A Bad Framework for the Future”; Economist Dean Baker Predicts A "Really Bad Deal or No Deal" from Deficit "Super Committee"; Syrian Forces Attack Civilians in Hama as U.N. Security Council Wavers on Condemning Crackdown; Thousands Protest Widening Inequality in Israel, But Calls Ignore Occupation and Palestinian Rights; Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Opening of Mubarak Trial is "Defining Moment in Egypt’s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-02 Tuesday Headlines for August 02, 2011; After Months of Partisan Wrangling, Wall Street & Pentagon Emerge Victorious on Debt Deal; As Ramadan Begins, Assad Regime Intensifies Deadly Crackdown on Syrian Protesters; Syrian Activist Razan Zaitouneh: Assad Regime the Lone "Terrorist Group" Inside Syria ; Ahead of Mubarak Trial, Egyptian Forces Forcibly Remove Protesters from Tahrir Square Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Billy Bragg on Death of Fellow British Singer-Songwriter, Amy Winehouse: "Maybe We Were All Complicit" While on tour in the United States, legendary British rocker and activist, Billy Bragg, joined Democracy Now! for an extended interview. One of the many topics he discussed was the tragic death of the British singer-songwriter, Amy Winehouse. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-08-01 Monday Headlines for August 01, 2011; Billy Bragg: Legendary British Rocker on Norway Attacks, Activism & His Latest, “Never Buy The Sun” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-29 Friday Headlines for July 29, 2011; Norway's Johan Galtung, Peace & Conflict Pioneer, on How to Stop Extremism that Fueled Shooting ; Rep. Luis Gutierrez Arrested Outside White House Protesting Record Deportations Under Obama's Watch; Protesters Face Trial on One-Year Anniversary of Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law, SB 1070 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-28 Thursday Headlines for July 28, 2011; Wealth Gap Between Minorities and White Americans Doubles After Housing Crisis, Recession; Richard Wolff: Debt Showdown is "Political Theater" Burdening Society's Most Vulnerable Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-27 Wednesday Headlines for July 27, 2011; Norwegian Shooting Suspect's Views Echo Xenophobia of Right-Wing Extremists in U.S., Europe; Before Death, Acclaimed "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Author Stieg Larsson Lamented Right-Wing Extremism; Dave Zirin on NFL Players' "Remarkable" Labor Victory and How the Bank Bailout Slam-Dunked the NBA Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-26 Tuesday Headlines for July 26, 2011; Eyewitness to Norwegian Massacre: Survivor Recalls Attack at Island Youth Camp; Norway Attacks Reveal Growing Violent, Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Europe; Glenn Greenwald: Norway Attacks Expose U.S. Media's Double Standard on "Terrorism"; EXCLUSIVE: Fired Army Whistleblower Receives $970K for Exposing Halliburton No-Bid Contract in Iraq Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-25 Monday Headlines for July 25, 2011; Hundreds of Same-Sex Couples Marry in New York, from Niagara Falls to Manhattan; Pioneering Comedian Roseanne Barr on Her Life on Screen as a “Working-Class Domestic Goddess” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New York Set to Close School for Troubled Teens After Simple Clerical Error in Budget Request As Congress considers spending cuts to reduce the deficit, critics warn that reduced education, healthcare and other social services will disproportionally impact low-income communities of color. This is the case in New York City, where a high school that provides drug treatment to former gang members is being closed as part of an effort to trim the state budget. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-22 Friday Headlines for July 22, 2011; NLRB Orders New Election After Ruling SEIU, Kaiser Colluded to Influence Union Vote; Horn of Africa Famine: Millions at Risk in "Deadly Cocktail" of War, Climate Change, Neoliberalism; Pushing Crisis: GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling in Order to Impose Radical Pro-Rich Agenda; Rejecting Lucrative Offer, Cenk Uygur Leaves MSNBC After Being Told to "Act Like an Insider" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The British Watergate: A Backgrounder on the Murdoch Hacking Scandal The London-based journalist Richard Gizbert, host of the Al Jazeera program "The Listening Post," chronicles how the Murdoch phone hacking scandal has shaken the British government, media system and public. A must-watch interview on how the scandal has unfolded and what it means for people in the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-21 Thursday Headlines for July 21, 2011; British PM Cameron Refuses to Apologize for Murdoch Scandal, But Acknowledges BSkyB Takeover Talks; Murdoch Empire "Pummeled" by Phone-Hacking Scandal Exposed by Guardian Journalist Nick Davies; After Thwarting Flotilla, Israeli Navy Seizes Lone Gaza-Bound Ship that Eluded Greek Authorities; Israel Draws International Criticism for Sweeping Anti-Boycott Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIDEO: Rebekah Brooks Testimony Raises More Questions About Responsibility for Phone Hacking Scandal Former News International executive Rebekah Brooks testified before the British Parliament July 19 as the phone hacking scandal engulfing the Murdoch media empire continues to grow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-20 Wednesday Headlines for July 20, 2011; British PM David Cameron, Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch Face Parliament on Phone-Hacking Scandal ; Murdoch's Denials Are Tough to Believe, Former Wall Street Journal Reporter Sarah Ellison Says; Pakistani Journalist Shehrbano Taseer on Murder of Her Father, Salmaan Taseer, & Confronting Militancy in Pakistan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIDEO: Rupert Murdoch hit with paper plate covered with shaving cream during parliamentary hearing Prior to pieing, assailant tweets, “It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat.” Unharmed, the Murdochs continued hearing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-19 Tuesday Headlines for July 19, 2011; Whistleblower in Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal Found Dead; Weakening of Media Consolidation Rules Helped Murdoch Build U.S. Media Empire; NYC Schools Approve $2.7 Million Deal with Murdoch-Linked Firm to Track Student Performance; Ralph Nader: Obama is a "Political Coward" for Not Picking Elizabeth Warren to Head Consumer Bureau; Ralph Nader's Solution to Debt Crisis: End Corporate Welfare and Corporate Tax Loopholes; Muslim Victim of Post-9/11 Hate Crime Calls ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-18 Monday Headlines for July 18, 2011; A British Spring? Phone-Hacking Scandal Threatens Murdoch Media Empire and British Government; As Nelson Mandela Turns 93, a Discussion with Anti-Apartheid Freedom Fighter Ronnie Kasrils Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-15 Friday Headlines for July 15, 2011; U.S. Debt Default Looms as Talks Stall on Deficit Reduction: “We Are Playing with Fire”; ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition; Protests Grow in Solidarity with California Prisoners as Hunger Strikes Enter Third Week Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-14 Thursday Headlines for July 14, 2011; Dr. Paul Farmer on Haiti After the Earthquake: “How Can We Do a Better Job of Cleaning Up This Mess?”; Dr. Paul Farmer on How U.S.-Backed Destabilization Undermines Haitian Democracy — and Public Health; Dr. Paul Farmer on Bill Clinton's Apology for Devastating Haitian Rice Farming: "A Great Relief"; Dr. Paul Farmer Responds to New Exposé Finding Clinton Foundation Provided Shoddy, Toxic Shelters Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-13 Wednesday Headlines for July 13, 2011; Jeremy Scahill Reveals CIA Facility, Prison in Somalia as U.S. Expands Covert Ops in Stricken Nation; Famine in Somalia, Horn of Africa Described as "Worst Humanitarian Disaster in the World"; Red Cross Provided with Location of Secret Somali Prison Used by CIA; "The Murdoch Empire Could Be Undone": British Phone-Hacking Scandal May Prompt U.S. Criminal Probe; Egyptian Protests Grow amidst Widespread Frustration over Revolution's Progress Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Malcolmology": The Late Dr. Manning Marable's Last Video Recordings on Malcolm X In the last months of his life Dr. Manning Marable recorded a series of videos to accompany his book "Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention." Marable died on April 1, 2011, just days before the book’s publication. His family has shared with Democracy Now! the last two installments of the six-part "Malcolmology" video project, a collaboration between Truth2power Films and Marable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Malcomology": The Late Dr. Manning Marable's Last Video Recordings on Malcolm X In the last months of his life Dr. Manning Marable recorded a series of videos to accompany his book "Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention." Marable died on April 1, 2011, just days before the book’s publication. His family has shared with Democracy Now! the last two installments of the six-part "Malcomology" video project, a collaboration between Truth2power Films and Marable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-12 Tuesday Headlines for July 12, 2011; Debt Lock: Will Obama Make Cuts to Social Security and Medicare?; A Debate on Human Rights Watch's Call for Bush Administration Officials to be Tried for Torture; Clinton Foundation Accused of Sending Haiti Shoddy Trailers Found Toxic After Katrina Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-11 Monday Headlines for July 11, 2011; Exclusive: David House on Bradley Manning, Secret WikiLeaks Grand Jury, and U.S. Surveillance Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-08 Friday Headlines for July 08, 2011; Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch Shuts Down Flagship U.K. Newspaper Amidst Scandal Over Illegal Surveillance ; Victory for Media Diversity: Court Strikes Down FCC’s Attempt to Relax Media Ownership Rules; Egyptians Fill Tahrir Square For Largest Protest Since Fall of President Mubarak ; As Debt Talks Threaten Medicare, Social Security, Study Finds U.S. Spending $4 Trillion on War Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-08 Friday Headlines for July 08, 2011; Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch Shuts Down Flagship U.K. Newspaper Amidst Scandal Over Illegal Surveillance ; Victory for Media Diversity: Court Strikes Down FCC’s Attempt to Relax Media Ownership Rules; Egyptians Fill Tahrir Square For Largest Protest Since Fall of President Mubarak ; As Debt Talks Threaten Medicare, Social Security, Study Finds U.S. Spending $4 Trillion on War Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Malcolmology": Episode Six of the Late Dr. Manning Marable's Last Video Recordings on Malcolm X Watch the sixth installment of the "Malcolmology" video project, a unique collaboration between truth2power films and the late Dr. Manning Marable, author of the new Malcolm X biography, "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Malcolmology": Episode Six of the Late Dr. Manning Marable's Last Video Recordings on Malcolm X Watch the sixth installment of the "Malcolmology" video project, a unique collaboration between truth2power films and the late Dr. Manning Marable, author of the new Malcolm X biography, "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-07 Thursday Headlines for July 07, 2011; Obama Reverses Policy Denying Condolence Letters to Families of U.S. Soldiers Who Commit Suicide; As Exxon Crude Oil Spills Into Yellowstone River, Obama Mulls New Pipeline From Canada to Texas; Mexican Denied Consular Rights Faces Texas Execution Tonight Despite White House Opposition Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-06 Wednesday Headlines for July 06, 2011; Audacity of Hope: Inside Report Aboard U.S. Ship's Dramatic Challenge to Greek Ban on Gaza Flotilla; A New McCarthyist Hysteria: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Responds to Espionage, Terrorism Allegations ; WikiLeaks Readies Suit Against Credit Card Companies Over "Economic Blockade"; WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on Role of U.S. Cables in Helping Stir Arab Spring Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Montana Farmer Says Exxon Refuses to Admit Extent of Damage from Oil Spill Into Yellowstone River Family farmer, Alexis Bonogofsky, didn’t get a phone call from Exxon Mobil when its pipeline ruptured Friday night beneath the Yellowstone River, leaking as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the water and onto neighboring land of property owners such as herself. Instead, she discovered "globs of oil" Saturday morning while checking on the flooded pastureland where she grazes her goats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Montana Farmer Says Exxon Refuses to Admit Extent of Damage from Oil Spill Into Yellowstone River Family farmer, Alexis Bonogofsky, didn’t get a phone call from ExxonMobil Pipeline Company when its pipeline ruptured Friday night beneath the Yellowstone River, leaking as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the water and onto neighboring land of property owners such as herself. Instead, she discovered "globs of oil" Saturday morning while checking on the flooded pastureland where she grazes her goats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-05 Tuesday Headlines for July 05, 2011; Exclusive: Julian Assange of WikiLeaks & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek in Conversation with Amy Goodman Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-05 Tuesday Headlines for July 05, 2011; Exclusive: Julian Assange of WikiLeaks & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek In Conversation With Amy Goodman Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-04 Monday Democracy Now! Monday, July 4, 2011 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-07-01 Friday Headlines for July 01, 2011; U.S. Ship in Freedom Flotilla Attempts to Leave Greece For Gaza, Despite Threats and Risk of Sabotage; Israeli Official Condemns Gaza Flotilla, Refuses to Deny Israeli Role in Sabotage of Boats; Ali Abunimah Responds To Israeli Claims That Gaza Flotilla Is A “Provocation”; Hundreds of Thousands of Greek and British Workers Stage Strikes As Governments Push Austerity Cuts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nuclear Hubris: Christian Parenti On What Japan's Nuclear Disaster Means for the U.S. Energy Industry In part two of our conversation with journalist Christian Parenti he discusses what the meltdown of three nuclear reactors in Japan means for the expansion of nuclear power in the United States, and how the focus on atomic power diverts funds from the transition to clean technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-30 Thursday Headlines for June 30, 2011; Exclusive Tour of Gaza-Bound U.S. Ship, Audacity of Hope; Saboteurs Damage Other Ships in Flotilla; Debunking the Israeli-US Effort to Thwart Gaza Freedom Flotilla: “We Are Committed to Non-Violence” ; Live Update From Jewish Holocaust Survivor on U.S. Ship in Gaza Flotilla; Climate Chaos: Christian Parenti's New Book Exposes How Global Warming Could Lead to Global Warfare Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From the Vault: Democracy Now! Interview With the Late British Peace Activist Brian Haw (1949-2011) The British peace activist Brian Haw has died at the age of 62. For the past decade Haw lived and slept outside the Houses of Parliament in London to protest against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Democracy Now! spoke with Brian Haw in March 2006, in Parliament Square. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Drones, Aid and CIA Contractor Raymond Davis: Ali Dayan Hasan on Pakistani Attitudes Toward the U.S. In part two of our interview with Human Rights Watch Asia senior researcher, Ali Dayan Hasan, he describes the work Asia Times reporter Syed Saleem Shahzad was doing when he was kidnapped, murdered and tortured in May, allegedly by state security forces. He also discusses the impact of drones, U.S. aid, and the case of CIA contractor Raymond Davis on Pakistani attitudes toward the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-29 Wednesday Headlines for June 29, 2011; Inside Greece’s General Strike: Video Report From Athens As Thousands Protest Sweeping Austerity Cuts ; Greek Parliament Approves $40B Bailout; Some Economists Predict Vote Will Worsen the Recession; Fierce Street Battles In Egypt As Families Demand Justice for Loved Ones Killed During the Uprising; Inquiry Into the Murder of Journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad May Implicate Pakistan Intelligence Agency Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-28 Tuesday Headlines for June 28, 2011; "A Perfect Product of the Religious Right": Deconstructing Michele Bachmann's GOP Presidential Bid; As Obama Quietly Pushes for a Nuclear Weapons Renaissance, Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Nuclear Lab; It Takes People on the Outside: Prestigious Author Alice Walker to Confront Israeli Naval Blockade of Gaza on U.S. Aid Ship Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-27 Monday Headlines for June 27, 2011; NY Passes Historic Marriage Equality Bill; Is It a Sign the GOP Aims to Leverage Gay Support in 2012?; Obama Admin Warns of “Fines and Incarceration” if U.S. Citizens Set Sail with Gaza Aid Flotilla; “We Are Eager to Get to Gaza”: Democracy Now! Exclusive Report from Greece on U.S. Gaza Aid Flotilla Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Welcome to Bloombergville: New York Activists Fight Budget Cuts By Camping in Front of City Hall In New York City, activists are camping out near City Hall to protest budget cuts and layoffs. They’ve dubbed the encampment "Bloombergville." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-24 Friday Headlines for June 24, 2011; New Exposé Reveals Nuclear Regulatory Commission Colluded with Industry to Weaken Safety Standards; Haiti: Leaked Cables Expose U.S. Suppression of Min. Wage, Election Doubts and Elite's Private Army; Leaked WikiLeaks Cable: 2005 Democracy Now! Report on Haiti Killings Irked U.S. Embassy; Feeding Resistance: Food Not Bombs Members Arrested in Orlando for Serving Meals Without a Permit Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-23 Thursday Headlines for June 23, 2011; As Prosecutors Unseal Indictments in CityTime Scandal, Will Bloomberg Officials Be Next?; Obama Plan for Afghan War Withdrawal Will Leave Troop Size at Pre-Surge Levels; Citing Domestic Economic Crisis, U.S. Mayors Back Resolution to Redirect War Funds Home; Michigan Residents File Lawsuit Challenging Emergency Law Installing Unelected City Managers; Amidst Poverty and Human Rights Abuses, Equatorial Guinea Builds Lavish City to Host African Union Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-22 Wednesday Headlines for June 22, 2011; Former CIA Agent Glenn Carle Reveals Bush Admin Effort to Smear War Critic Juan Cole ; Obama's Afghan War Military Drawdown to Leave U.S. Occupation at Pre-Surge Levels; Obama Faces Bipartisan Opposition for Refusal to Seek Authorization for Libya War; Obama Limits Criticism of Ongoing Arab Spring Violent Crackdowns in Syria, Bahrain ; Former CIA Agent Glenn Carle Draws Agency Censorship with Chronicle of "War on Terror" Interrogation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-21 Tuesday Headlines for June 21, 2011; 1.5 Million Female Wal-Mart Employees Lose Historic Sex Discrimination Case Before Supreme Court; “If a Tree Falls”: New Documentary on Daniel McGowan, Earth Liberation Front and Green Scare Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-20 Monday Headlines for June 20, 2011; Glenn Greenwald: Could Obama Be Impeached for Waging War in Libya Without Approval of Congress?; Glenn Greenwald: Supporters of Bradley Manning Risk Jail for Refusing to Testify in WikiLeaks Probe; Glenn Greenwald: Why Was Rep. Weiner Forced to Resign While Bush and Cheney Walk Free? ; New York State Moves Toward Legalizing Same-Sex Marriages; The Audacity of Hope: U.S. Peace Activists to Sail to Gaza in Humanitarian Flotilla; Harvard, Vanderbilt, Spelman Expos ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-17 Friday Headlines for June 17, 2011; “A Moment in the Sun”: An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker, Author John Sayles Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-16 Thursday Headlines for June 16, 2011; Political Crisis in Greece Amidst Revolt Against Massive Budget Cuts and Tax Hikes; Is U.S. Attack on Libya Legal? Rep. Dennis Kucinich Debates Former Reagan Attorney Robert Turner ; Aiming to Preserve Autocratic Mideast Rule, Saudi Arabia Helps Crush Uprisings in Bahrain, Yemen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-15 Wednesday Headlines for June 15, 2011; In Nod to Latino Voters, Obama Makes Historic Visit to Puerto Rico Ahead of 2012 Elections; New Report: U.S. Encouraged Gun Sales to Drug Cartels, 70% of Seized Mexico Guns Are from U.S. ; Mexican Peace Caravan Arrives in U.S. to Call for End to Deadly Drug War Policy; CIA Building Secret Mideast Base to Launch Drone Attacks in Yemen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-14 Tuesday Headlines for June 14, 2011; First Major Republican Presidential Debate Focuses on Obama, Jobs, Healthcare, Afghan War and Tea Party ; FBI to Expand Domestic Surveillance Powers as Details Emerge of Its Spy Campaign Targeting Activists; Formaldehyde Added to “Known Carcinogens” List Despite Lobbying by Koch Brothers, Chemical Industry Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Don't Believe the Hype About U.S. Debt": Sally Kohn Says Increasing the Debt Is a Good Idea On August 2, the U.S. government is expected to reach its $14.3 trillion borrowing limit. Democrats want to curb the federal deficit by pushing for new taxes and eliminating many tax loopholes, while Republicans have called for steep spending reductions but no new taxes. For more, Democracy Now! spoke with Sally Kohn, author of a recent USA Today op-ed titled "Don’t Believe the Hype About U.S. Debt." [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-13 Monday Headlines for June 13, 2011; Syrian Troops Pursue “Scorched Earth” Policy; Videos Document Children Tortured to Death; Maher Arar: My Rendition & Torture in Syrian Prison Highlights U.S. Reliance on Syria as an Ally; Former Miss USA, Ralph Nader, Privacy Advocates Fight Full Body Airport Scanners and Invasive Pat-Downs; Ralph Nader: Koch Brothers Led Fight to Defend Formaldehyde Despite Carcinogenic Evidence Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-10 Friday Headlines for June 10, 2011; Japan Admits 3 Nuclear Meltdowns, More Radiation Leaked into Sea; U.S. Nuclear Waste Poses Deadly Risks; Dale Maharidge's Chronicles of Widely Ignored U.S. Working Poor Inspire Music of Bruce Springsteen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | AIDS Activists Rally at U.N.: "We Are Asking World Leaders to Live Up to Their Promise" The 2011 U.N. High-Level meeting on AIDS kicked off on Wednesday, June 8, in New York, with more than 30 world leaders attending to discuss the progress and future of the global AIDS response. Outside, hundreds of AIDS activists rallied to call on the world leaders to fulfill their commitment from the 2006 meeting: providing universal access to treatment for the 15 million AIDS patients in critical need. Democracy Now! was there. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Annie Jacobsen, Author of "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base" (Part 2) We continue our interview with Annie Jacobsen, author of the new book, "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base." Jacobsen describes the disk-shaped A-12 Oxcart spy plane developed at the Nevada military base, her interview with the plane’s pilot, and discusses how the CIA handled reports of UFO sightings. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-09 Thursday Headlines for June 09, 2011; Obama Hides Meeting with Top Bahraini Leader -- And Mutes Criticism of Ongoing Crackdown ; Critics Dub Planned Puerto Rico Pipeline the "Death Route" for Alleged Threat to Environment, Public Health; Annie Jacobsen on New Book, "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-08 Wednesday Headlines for June 08, 2011; Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: "Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-07 Tuesday Headlines for June 07, 2011; Trapped in Gaza: Rafah Crossing Closed to Palestinians Soon After Egyptian Pledge to Reopen It; “There is a Women's Spring Beginning”: Playwright Eve Ensler and Congolese Activist Christine Schuler Deschryver on Gender Violence in Congo; Eve Ensler Responds to Sexual Assault Charges Filed Against Former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Two Reporters Taken Into Police Custody At Protest Against Gov. Walker's Union-Busting Bill Democracy Now! speaks with a credentialed journalist who was taken into custody today as she reported on thousands of Wisconsin workers marching in Madison, the latest protest in the "gentle uprising" against Gov. Walker’s union-busting bill that has been underway since February. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dr. Gabor Maté: More Compassion, Less Violence Needed in Addressing Drug Addiction In part two of our interview about a new report declaring the so-called "war on drugs" a failure, Dr. Gabor Maté notes that "where violent suppression of drug activity increases, so does killings and violence related to drug use." [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-06 Monday Headlines for June 06, 2011; Yemenis Celebrate as President Saleh Flees to Saudi Arabia, Transfers Power to Vice President; Former Black Panther Leader, Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt, Wrongfully Imprisoned for 27 Years, Dies in Tanzania; Dr. Gabor Maté: Obama Admin Should Heed Global Panel's Call to End "Failed" U.S.-Led Drug War Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-03 Friday Headlines for June 03, 2011; Seymour Hersh: Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear Threat, U.S. Could Be Headed for Iraq Redux ; Seymour Hersh on the Arab Spring, "Disaster" U.S. Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Looming Crisis in Iraq; WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Secret History" of U.S. Bullying in Haiti at Oil Companies' Behest Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-02 Thursday Headlines for June 02, 2011; Clashes Spread Across Yemen, Raising Fears of Civil War; “A Country of Dark Corners”: Freed Journalist Dorothy Parvaz on Her Syrian Detention and the Assad Regime Crackdown; “Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Egyptians Fill Tahrir Square For a 'Second Day of Rage': "We Have Demands That Haven't Been Met Yet" Last Friday, more than three months after former Egyptian president Hosni Mobarak was ousted from power, tens of thousands of protesters poured into downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square for what they called a "second day of rage." Democracy Now! correspondents Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar filed this report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-06-01 Wednesday Headlines for June 01, 2011; Out of Exile: Part II of Exclusive Report on Ousted Honduran President Zelaya’s Return 2 Years After U.S.-Backed Coup; Xiomara Castro, Wife of Manuel Zelaya, on Returning to Honduras and Her Rumored Bid for the Honduran Presidency; Former Honduran Minister: U.S. Undoubtedly Played Central Role in Zelaya Coup; Zelaya's Return: Neither Reconciliation nor Democracy in Honduras Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Furkan Had a Huge Heart": Ahmet Dogan On His Son, Killed One Year Ago in Gaza Flotilla Raid On the first anniversary of Israel’s deadly attack on the Gaza-bound aid ship, the Mavi Marmara, we feature an interview with the father of Turkish-American, Furkan Dogan, the youngest of nine activists killed in the raid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-31 Tuesday Headlines for May 31, 2011; Out of Exile: Exclusive Report on Ousted Honduran President Zelaya's Return Home 23 Months After U.S.-Backed Coup; Zelaya’s Son Héctor: The Honduran Resistance Helped Pave the Way for Our Return; Zelaya’s Daughter Pichu Recalls the Honduran Military’s Brutal Kidnapping of Her Father in 2009; Exclusive Interview with Manuel Zelaya on the U.S. Role in Honduran Coup, WikiLeaks and Why He Was Ousted Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | AUDIO: "A Return to Democracy in Honduras?" Amy Goodman Reports on Zelaya's Return to Honduras Amy Goodman files her first audio report from Nicaragua on ousted president Manuel Zelaya of Honduras historic return home. She filed this report from the airport in Managua and interviews Father Roy Bourgeois of SOA Watch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-30 Monday Democracy Now! Monday, May 30, 2011 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-27 Friday Headlines for May 27, 2011; The Battle for Wisconsin: Court Strikes Down Gov. Scott Walker’s Anti-Union Bill; Eli Pariser on "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You”; Sandra Steingraber on the Health Crisis Surrounding Natural Gas Extraction Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-26 Thursday Headlines for May 26, 2011; Vermont Poised to Become 1st State to Enact Single-Payer Healthcare; Bill McKibben: From Storms to Droughts, Devastating Extreme Weather Linked to Human-Caused Climate Change; "Toma la Plaza": Frustration with Unemployment, Budget Cuts Fuels Grassroots Protests in Spain Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-25 Wednesday Headlines for May 25, 2011; Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress Dashes Palestinian Hopes of a Just Mideast Peace Agreement; “Netanyahu is the Main Obstacle to Peace”: CodePink Activist Disrupts Israeli PM Speech to Congress; Obama to Make First Presidential Visit to Puerto Rico Since 1961; “Harvest of Empire”: New Book Exposes Latino History in America as Obama Campaigns for Latino Vote Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Fight over Coal Mining is a “Fight About Democracy”: New Documentary with Robert Kennedy, Jr. Chronicles Campaign to Halt Mountaintop Removal Watch our full interview with environmental activist Robert Kennedy, Jr., and filmmaker Bill Haney about the new documentary, The Last Mountain , which premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival. The film chronicles the fight against coal mining across Appalachia and Massey Energy’s devastating practice of mountaintop removal to extract layers of coal. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-24 Tuesday Headlines for May 24, 2011; The Legendary Bob Dylan Turns 70: Democracy Now! Airs Rare Interviews and Songs from Pacifica Radio Archives Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-23 Monday Headlines for May 23, 2011; Massey Energy Guilty: West Virginia Probe Finds Coal Giant Systemically Failed to Comply with Law; The Fight over Coal Mining is a “Fight About Democracy”: New Documentary with Robert Kennedy, Jr. Chronicles Campaign to Halt Mountaintop Removal Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-20 Friday Headlines for May 20, 2011; Did Obama's Mideast Speech Signal U.S. Shift on Israel-Palestine? Democracy Now! Roundtable ; U.N. Gaza Inquiry Panelist Desmond Travers Challenges Goldstone's Recantation of Key Finding; In Historic Visit, Queen Elizabeth II Regrets Britain's "Sad and Regrettable" Legacy in Ireland Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-19 Thursday Headlines for May 19, 2011; "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention": Manning Marable's Exhaustive Biography of the Civil Rights Leader ; Manning Marable’s Controversial New Biography Refuels Debate on Life and Legacy of Malcolm X Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-18 Wednesday Headlines for May 18, 2011; Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater Founder Erik Prince’s Private Army of “Christian Crusaders” in the UAE; Inside Obama’s "Orwellian World" Where Whistleblowing Has Become Espionage: The Case of Thomas Drake; Will the Justice Department Prosecute Bank of America, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo for Mortgage Fraud? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Electronic Brownshirts": Pt. 2 of Judy Ancel on the Right-Wing Attack on Labor Professors We continue our conversation with University of Missouri professor and labor activist Judy Ancel about the growing right-wing attacks on public education and the atmosphere of fear they produce. "The attack on labor education is an attack on academic freedom," says Ancel. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-17 Tuesday Headlines for May 17, 2011; Israeli Troops Shoot U.S. Student in Head with High-Velocity Tear Gas Canister ; A New Nonviolent Resistance Movement Grows as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day with Protests at Syria, Lebanon and Gaza Borders; "Violent Crackdown" on Pro-Palestinian Protesters in Cairo Leaves Over 350 Injured; Opposition to Military Trials of Civilians in Egypt Gains Momentum; "Getting Wise to Breitbart's Lies": Missouri Professors Survive Right-Wing Smear Campaign by Andrew Breitbart Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-16 Monday Headlines for May 16, 2011; “Sing Your Song”: Harry Belafonte on Art & Politics, Civil Rights & His Critique of President Obama Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pt. 2 of Interview with Steve Earle: "Democracy is Something that is Contagious" Singer-songwriter, actor and author Steve Earle joins us for an extended interview on the popular uprisings in the Middle East, the connection he sees between his antiwar and anti-death penalty activism, and to perform a ballad he wrote from the perspective of the captured American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh, who is now serving a 20-year prison sentence. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-13 Friday Headlines for May 13, 2011; "Friday of Decisiveness in Yemen”: Tens of Thousands Protest as President Saleh Defiantly Rejects Demands to Resign; Al Jazeera Journalist Dorothy Parvaz Remains Missing After Being Detained in Syria, Then Deported to Iran; “Making Art in America is a Political Statement in Itself”: Grammy Award-winning Singer Steve Earle on Music, Writing and Acting Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Opposition to Military Trials of Civilians in Egypt Gains Momentum People gathered at the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate in downtown Cairo this week to speak out against the military court system, which has been used to convict and jail more than 5,000 civilians since late January. Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous sent this video report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-12 Thursday Headlines for May 12, 2011; Rep. Luis Gutierrez: Obama Has Discretionary Authority to Advance DREAM Act, Humane Immigration Reform; “They Are Violating All the Rules”: Rep. Luis Gutierrez Calls for Public Hearings, Impact Studies into Massive Gas Pipeline for Puerto Rico; Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón on Holding Torturers Accountable, Why He Opposes the Killing of Osama bin Laden, and His Threatened Ouster from the Bench Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-11 Wednesday Headlines for May 11, 2011; Obama Calls for Immigration Reform amidst Record Levels of Deportations; "A War on Civilians": Mexico’s Drug War Draws Protests as Grueling Death Toll Grows; "Every 30 Minutes": Crushed by Debt and Neoliberal Reforms, Indian Farmers Commit Suicide at Staggering Rate; Noam Chomsky: "The U.S. and Its Allies Will Do Anything to Prevent Democracy in the Arab World" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pt. 2 of Interview with Adam Hochschild on Voices of Dissent amidst the Din of War Historian and author Adam Hochschild talks to Democracy Now! about his latest book, To End All Wars , and the comparison between pacifist struggles in World War I-era Britain to the U.S. during Vietnam and Afghanistan and Iraq today. We also discuss Hochschild’s earlier book, King Leopold’s Ghost , about the horrific colonial exploitation of present-day DRC by Belgium’s King Leopold and the U.S.-backed ouster and subsequent assassination of the Congo’s first ele ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-10 Tuesday Headlines for May 10, 2011; BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE: Playwright Tony Kushner Speaks Out on CUNY Controversy, Academic Freedom and Israel ; Historian Adam Hochschild: Lessons for the Antiwar Movement from the Pacifists of World War I Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-09 Monday Headlines for May 09, 2011; U.S. Assassination Campaign Continues as CIA Drone Targets U.S.-Born Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen; Syria Crackdown: Syrian Dissident Haitham al-Maleh Speaks from Hiding as Al Jazeera Journalist Dorothy Parvez Remains Locked Up; Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports from Cairo on Rising Sectarian Tension in Egypt After Deadly Attack on Coptic Christian Church Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-06 Friday Headlines for May 06, 2011; Native American Activist Winona LaDuke on Use of "Geronimo" as Code for Osama bin Laden: "The Continuation of the Wars Against Indigenous People"; Native American Activist, Author Winona LaDuke on "The Militarization of Indian Country" and Obama Admin's "Lip Service" to Indigenous Rights; Oil Wealth, U.S. Backing Enables Saudi Arabia to Crush Dissent in Bahrain and at Home; Tech Giants Sony, Apple, Google Face Outrage over Privacy Breaches in Devices Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-05 Thursday Headlines for May 05, 2011; Pakistani Military Faces Scrutiny as Unfolding Evidence Suggests Direct Role in Harboring bin Laden; Physicians Urge Obama Admin to Pressure Mideast Ally Bahrain to End Repression of Doctors, Patients; Suffering from PTSD, Freed U.S. Hiker Sarah Shourd Won't Return to Iran Next Week for Espionage Trial Alongside Jailed Fiancé, Friend Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-04 Wednesday Headlines for May 04, 2011; Former Military Interrogator Matthew Alexander: Despite GOP Claims, "Immoral" Torture "Slowed Down" Effort to Find Osama bin Laden; 50th Anniversary of the First Freedom Ride: New Documentary Recounts Historic 1961 Effort to Challenge Segregated Bus System in the Deep South Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-03 Tuesday Headlines for May 03, 2011; 10 Years Too Long: Rep. Barbara Lee Renews Calls for End to Afghan War After Killing of Osama bin Laden; The Right and Left Claim Success in Canada: The Conservatives Win Majority in Canadian Election as Left-Leaning NDP Makes Historic Gains ; “A Violation of Norms”: U.S. & Allies Kill Gaddafi’s Son and Three Grandchildren in Bombing of Compound in Tripoli Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-05-02 Monday Headlines for May 02, 2011; Jeremy Scahill on Killing of Bin Laden: Obama Has “Doubled Down on Bush Administration Policy of Targeted Assassination” ; Talat Hamdani, Mother of 9/11 Victim: I Hope Death of Bin Laden Moves Country Toward Peace, Away from Revenge and Killing; Did Pakistani Gov’t Know Where Osama bin Laden Was Hiding?; "One Killer Killing Another": Journalist and Activist Allan Nairn on Obama’s Targeted Killing of Bin Laden; Military Intelligence Analyst Joshua Foust: D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-29 Friday Headlines for April 29, 2011; Johann Hari: Frenzy around Britain's Royal Wedding "Should Embarrass Us All"; May Day Rallies Celebrate Unity; Labor Unions and Immigrants Plan to March Side by Side; Glenn Greenwald: Obama’s Comments on Bradley Manning Mark "Amazing Amount of Improper Influence" in WikiLeaks Case Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-28 Thursday Headlines for April 28, 2011; 5 Years After U.S.-Backed Clashes, Palestinian Factions Fatah, Hamas Reach Unity Deal; DOJ Drops Probe of Whistleblower Who Exposed Bush-Era Domestic Spying, Thomas Tamm: "The Bottom Line Is I Don’t Think I Ever Broke the Law"; Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern: Petraeus Will Expand Pro-War Agenda as New CIA Director Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Journalists Rula Jebreal and Issandr El Amrani on Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Hamas and Palestinian Authority Democracy Now! hosts a conversation between Palestinian author Rula Jebreal and Egyptian journalist Issandr El Amrani about the continued uprisings in the Middle East and Arab attitudes toward the U.S. Jebreal talks about growing up in Haifa and her autobiographical novel Miral , and El Amrani discusses the effects of the "Arab Spring" on Israel. [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-27 Wednesday Headlines for April 27, 2011; Court Rules Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Death Sentence is Unconstitutional, Grants New Sentencing Hearing; Inside War-Torn Libya: As NATO Intensifies Air Strikes, Rebels Struggle to Break Gaddafi's Control of Libya; Arab Spring: A Discussion on Libya, Egypt and the Mideast with Palestinian Writer Rula Jebreal, Author of “Miral" & Journalist Issandr El Amrani Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-26 Tuesday Headlines for April 26, 2011; Chernobyl Catastrophe: 25th Anniversary of World’s Worst Nuclear Accident; Locked-Out Uranium Processing Workers Protest Honeywell’s Use of Scab Workers at Uranium Enrichment Plant in Illinois ; Guardian Newspaper Editor Defends Publishing WikiLeaks’ Secret Guantánamo Files ; Daniel Ellsberg: Bradley Manning Charges Should Be Dismissed After Obama Declares Accused Army Whistleblower "Broke the Law" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-25 Monday Headlines for April 25, 2011; Syrian Crackdown Intensifies: Over 150 Killed Since Friday as Assad Regime Attempts to Crush Protest Movement; First Tunisia, Then Egypt, Now Yemen? Yemeni President Saleh Agrees to Resign Within 30 Days; Protests Continue; WikiLeaks Documents Reveal U.S. Knowingly Imprisoned 150 Innocent Men at Guantánamo Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-22 Friday Headlines for April 22, 2011; Earth Day Special: Vandana Shiva and Maude Barlow on the Rights of Mother Earth; "Hold Both Parties to High Standards": Van Jones, Obama’s Ex-Green Jobs Czar ; "Now Is Our Time To Take a Stand": Tim DeChristopher’s Message to Youth Climate Activists at Power Shift 2011; Bill McKibben of 350.org Calls House Vote On Global Warming "One Of The Most Embarrassing Votes Congress Has Ever Taken" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-21 Thursday Headlines for April 21, 2011; Oscar-Nominated Director Tim Hetherington and Pulitzer Finalist Photojournalist Chris Hondros Killed on Front Lines of Libyan Conflict; Thought Control: Right-Wing Koch Brothers Caught Telling Thousands of Employees How To Vote; "Dr. Death" Agrees to Stop Evaluating Mentally Disabled Texas Death Row Prisoners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-20 Wednesday Headlines for April 20, 2011; "A Sea in Flames": Ecologist Carl Safina on First Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Blowout; Voices from the Gulf: "One Year Later, We're in the Same Situation as Last Year"; Deepwater Drilling Resumes Despite Unclear Impact of BP Spill: "It is All about Hiding the Oil, Not Cleaning It Up"; Death Toll from BP Spill Still Rising as Residents Die from Spill-Related Illnesses; Father of Deepwater Horizon Victim: The Blowout Was “Inevitable” Due to BP’ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-19 Tuesday Headlines for April 19, 2011; Syria Lifts Emergency Law as Protesters Come Under Fire in Syrian City of Homs; Former Libyan Diplomat on His Defection and Call for Intensification of NATO Operations; Phyllis Bennis: U.K. Sends Troops into Libya as International Coalition Expands Mission to Include Regime Change; As Radiation Continues to Leak from Japan Nuke Plant, Owners of Vermont Yankee Plant Sue to Stay Open Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Environmental Activists Occupy Interior Dept. at End of PowerShift Conference 2:15pm EDT Tim DeChristopher, activist and founder of the environmental group Peaceful Uprising, called Democracy Now! with an update from the U.S. Department of Interior, where 300-400 people are outside protesting and another 50 people are inside and refusing to leave. The march comes at the end of the four-day PowerShift conference in D.C., where 10,000 activists gathered to demand a clean energy future, targeting the Dept. of the Interior for green-lighting mountaintop "coal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-18 Monday Headlines for April 18, 2011; On 8th Day of Hunger Strike, Bahraini Activist Zainab Alkhawaja Urges U.S. to Press for Family's Release; "5 Million Barrels of Oil Does Not Disappear": Author, Activist Antonia Juhasz on the BP Spill, One Year Later; Georgia Set to Enact First Arizona Copycat Anti-Immigrant Bill Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-15 Friday Headlines for April 15, 2011; Offshore Banking and Tax Havens Have Become Heart of Global Economy; As Congress Slashes EPA, Climate Funding, Author Mark Hertsgaard on "Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth"; "A Beautiful Soul, a Big Heart": Italian Peace Activist Vittorio Arrigoni Slain by Militant Captors in Gaza Strip Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-14 Thursday Headlines for April 14, 2011; While Obama Touts Compromise with GOP, Progressive Lawmakers Unveil "People's Budget" ; Roundtable: Assessing Obama's Budget Plan & State of U.S. Economy with Author Thomas Frank, Rev. Jim Wallis, and Activist/Philosopher Grace Lee Boggs ; Grace Lee Boggs on Detroit and "The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century"; It's a Hoax: GE Does Not Plan to Return $3.2 Billion Tax Refund to U.S. Treasury Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-13 Wednesday Headlines for April 13, 2011; Expert: Despite Japanese Gov't Claims of Decreasing Radiation, Fukushima a "Ticking Time Bomb"; Dr. Michio Kaku on "Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100"; D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray Arrested Protesting Dem-GOP Budget Deal ; Journalists, Activists Targeted as Honduran Repression Grows Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-12 Tuesday Headlines for April 12, 2011; Nuclear Catastrophe in Japan “Not Equal to Chernobyl, But Way Worse”; Human Rights Concerns Continue After Capture of Ivory Coast Strongman Laurent Gbagbo; "I Am Willing to Give My Life": Bahraini Human Rights Activists Risk Lives to Protest U.S./Saudi-Backed Repression; The Army vs. the People?: A Democracy Now! Special Report from Egypt Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-11 Monday Headlines for April 11, 2011; "Don't Punish the Poor" Economist Jeffrey Sachs Slams Obama-GOP Budget Deal; As Violent Crackdown Intensifies in Syria, Freed Egyptian-American Engineer Mohamed Radwan Recounts Ordeal in Syrian Jail; U.S. Backs Down and Grants Visa to Omar Barghouti, Palestinian Advocate of Israel Boycott ; CIA-Trained Cuban Airline Bomber Set Free After Acquittal by Texas Jury Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-08 Friday Headlines for April 08, 2011; At National Conference for Media Reform, a Roundtable on Journalism, Broadband and Broadcast Amidst Cutbacks and Consolidation; The Fall of Glenn Beck: Did the Controversial Fox Host Become an Economic Liability?; Government Shutdown Looms Even as "Government's Got Plenty of Money to Keep Going" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-07 Thursday Headlines for April 07, 2011; Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Assault on Social Spending, Pro-Rich Tax Cuts Turning U.S. into Nation "Of the 1 Percent, by the 1 Percent, for the 1 Percent"; Leading Health Advocates Decry GOP Plan to Privatize Medicare, Gut Medicaid; Juan Gonzalez Wins Prestigious Polk Award for Exposing "Biggest Scandal of Entire Bloomberg Era"; Former Angola Prisoner Wilbert Rideau Receives George Polk Journalism Award for Exposing Sexual Violence Behind Bars Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-06 Wednesday Headlines for April 06, 2011; Freed from Captivity in Libya, Anthony Shadid of the New York Times Recounts Ordeal under Gaddafi's Forces ; Intervention Could Make Things Worse: New York Times' Anthony Shadid on Rebellions in Libya and the Middle East; New York Court to Hear Case Against Psychologist Accused of Torture in Guantánamo Interrogations Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-05 Tuesday Headlines for April 05, 2011; Japan Releases Radioactive Water Several Million Times the Legal Limit into Ocean; U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Says It Will Continue to Push for New Nuclear Power Plants Despite Growing Global Nuclear Concern; States Use “Astonishing Lack of Care and Deliberation” to Choose New Lethal Injection Drugs for Death Row Executions; Leading Palestinian Peace Activist & Theater Director, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Killed in Jenin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-04 Monday Headlines for April 04, 2011; African American Historian Manning Marable Dies Days Before Publication of His Biography of Malcolm X; “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention”: Manning Marable’s New Biography Investigates Conflicted Reality of the Civil Rights Leader ; Judge Goldstone Retracts Part of His Report on Israeli Assault on Gaza, Leaves Rest Intact Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-04-01 Friday Headlines for April 01, 2011; Rep. Kucinich: Lack of Congressional Approval Could Make Obama's Libya Attack "Impeachable Offense"; Democrats Vow to Seek Public Referendum as Ohio Enacts Anti-Union Bill; Ivory Coast Crisis Intensifies as Anti-Gbagbo Forces Surround Presidential Palace; Shunning Grassroots that Propelled '08 Election, Obama Turns to Corporate Insider, Anti-Public Option Campaign Manager Jim Messina Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-31 Thursday Headlines for March 31, 2011; Jeremy Scahill and Ex-DIA Analyst Joshua Foust on "The Dangerous U.S. Game in Yemen" & CIA Ops in Libya ; Libya's Eman al-Obeidi Remains Missing Since Risking Life to Tell Story of Rape by Gaddafi's Forces ; Supreme Court Weighs Massive Lawsuit Accusing Retail Giant Wal-Mart for Sexual Discrimination Against Female Workers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-30 Wednesday Headlines for March 30, 2011; “Prescription for Survival”: A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott; Haitians Deported from the U.S. Held in “Absolutely Horrific” Conditions; Haitians Face Imminent Eviction from Displaced Persons Camps; Sharif Abdel Kouddous Transitions from Democracy Now! Senior Producer to Middle East Correspondent Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-29 Tuesday Headlines for March 29, 2011; "We Have Intervened to Stop a Massacre”: Obama Defends the U.S.-Led Military Action in Libya; A Debate on U.S. Military Intervention in Libya: Juan Cole v. Vijay Prashad; Syria Detains Egyptian American Accused of Spying, Refuses to Release Details of Charges Against Mohamed Radwan; "Shocked and Appalled": Sister of Death Row Prisoner Troy Davis Responds to Supreme Court Ruling Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-28 Monday Headlines for March 28, 2011; Obama Administration Relents and Grants Visa to Leading Afghan Antiwar Campaigner Malalai Joya for U.S. Trip; "Stop These Massacres": Ex-Afghan Parliamentarian Malayia Joya Calls for End to U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan; “This is Economic Treason”: 500,000 March in London Protesting Public Spending Cuts and Corporate Tax Dodgers; Will Syria Lift Decades-Old Emergency Law? Street Protests & Deadly Crackdown Force Assad Regime to Consider Political Changes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-25 Friday Headlines for March 25, 2011; 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire ; Labor Rights Legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Garment Unions Marched Out of this Fire and Produced the New Unionism; 100 Years After Triangle Fire, Tragedy in Bangladesh and Anti-Union Bill in Wisconsin Highlight Workers' Enduring Struggles Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-24 Thursday Headlines for March 24, 2011; Thousands Protest in Syria After Gov't Forces Kill Scores of Demonstrators ; Radioactivity in Food, Water Sparks Fears of Widespread Contamination in Japan; As Obama Completes First Latin America Tour, Anniversary of Slain Salvadoran Archbishop Romero Evokes Legacy of U.S.-Backed Crimes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-23 Wednesday Headlines for March 23, 2011; Debating Intervention: Is U.S.-Led Military Action the Best Solution to Libya Crisis?; Fate of Libyan American Student and Rebel Fighter Muhannad Bensadik Unknown After Shooting in Libya Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-22 Tuesday Headlines for March 22, 2011; Jeremy Scahill: As Mass Uprising Threatens the Saleh Regime, A Look at the Covert U.S. War in Yemen; “The No-Fly Zone Has Always Been a Recipe for Disaster”: Jeremy Scahill Says Libyan Strategy Has No Endgame; Long Night’s Journey into Day: Democracy Now!’s Exclusive Interview of Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide; Former First Lady, Mildred Aristide, on Her Historic Return to Haiti: “Aristide Is Ever Present In The Haitian Psyche and His ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-21 Monday Headlines for March 21, 2011; Libyan Citizen Journalist Mohammed Nabbous Killed by Gunfire While Reporting on the Battle for Benghazi; No-fly Zone Enacted as U.S. and Allied Forces Launch Air Strikes on Libya Amid Growing Concerns for Civilian Safety; Former President Aristide On His Party’s Exclusion from Haiti’s Election: “Exclusion is the Problem, Inclusion is the Solution”; Democracy Now! Exclusive Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide: If Haiti’s Military is Restored, “We A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-18 Friday Headlines for March 18, 2011; "Underestimating the Seriousness of the Problem": Experts Urge Japan to Raise Nuclear Alert and Evacuate Wider Area ; "Why are We Playing Russian Roulette with the American People?": Longtime Nuclear Critic Ralph Nader Advocates Phasing Out Nuclear Power Industry ; Gaddafi Declares Ceasefire After U.N. Security Council Backs No-Fly Zone in Libya; Defying U.S., Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Returns Home ; EXCLUSIVE: Aboard Jean-Bertrand Aristid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-17 Thursday Headlines for March 17, 2011; “Serious Danger of a Full Core Meltdown”: Update on Japan’s Nuclear Catastrophe; Report from Sendai: Fears of Radioactivity Are Hampering Relief Efforts ; Hiroshima Organizes Scientific Teams and Medical Treatment Centers to Receive Victims of Radiation Poisoning; Prominent Japanese Environmentalist Keibo Oiwa Urges Global Movement to End Nuclear Power and Confront the “Crazy System Based on Greed, Anger and Ignorance”; 7 Years After Ouster in U.S.-Ba ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-16 Wednesday Headlines for March 16, 2011; Amy Goodman Reports from South Africa on Aristide’s Planned Return Trip to Haiti After Seven Years in Exile; “No Happy Ending”: Nuclear Experts Say Japan’s Disaster is Intensifying; South Africans Question the Push To “Go Down the Nuclear Road” to Meet Rising Energy Demand Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-15 Tuesday Headlines for March 15, 2011; “This Could Become Chernobyl on Steroids”: Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen on Japan’s Growing Nuclear Crisis; Vermont Gov. Fights to Close Vermont Yankee, One of 23 U.S. Nuclear Power Facilities Nearly Identical to Failed Japanese Plant; "Get the Children Away from the Reactors": Japan Urged to Expand Evacuation Area Around Nuclear Plants as Leaking Radiation Spreads; “Bahrain is No Longer An Independent Country, It Is Occupied by Saudi Forces”: Acti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-14 Monday Headlines for March 14, 2011; Japan Facing Biggest Catastrophe Since Dawn of Nuclear Age; Worker Uprising: Up to 185,000 Protest In Madison As Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Signs Union-Busting Bill Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-11 Friday Headlines for March 11, 2011; Japan Struck by One of Biggest Earthquakes in Recorded History, Tsunamis Threaten Pacific Basin; Walkouts, Bank Boycotts and Recalls: Wisconsin Protests Intensify As Union-Busting Legislation Pushed Through State Assembly; Mother of 9/11 Victim Condemns King Hearing on Muslim "Radicalization" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-10 Thursday Headlines for March 10, 2011; Outrage in Wisconsin: Thousands Flood Capitol After GOP Strips Public Workers of Bargaining Rights in Surprise Senate Vote; "This is a Class War": Michael Moore Calls for Renewed Pro-Democracy Movement as Anti-Union Bills Approved in Wisconsin and Michigan; "We Have Reached a Turning Point”: Journalist Frank Emspak Says Protests Will Grow in Response to WI Anti-Union Bill; As Calls Grow for No Fly-Zone in Libya, Questions over Legality and Past Precedents Giv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-09 Wednesday Headlines for March 09, 2011; Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills and Shock Doctrine American-Style: "This is a Frontal Assault on Democracy, It's a Kind of a Corporate Coup D'Etat"; Naomi Klein: Tim DeChristopher Guilty Verdict Exposes "Double Standard" of How "Oil and Gas Companies Privatize Profits...Externalize the Cost"; “My Fear is that Climate Change is the Biggest Crisis of All”: Naomi Klein Warns Global Warming Could Be Exploited by Capitalism and Militarism Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-08 Tuesday Headlines for March 08, 2011; “Women’s Rights are Workers’ Rights:” Kavita Ramdas on History of International Women’s Day and Challenges Women Face 100 Years Later; Novelist Ahdaf Soueif on Egypt’s Revolution: “People Were Rediscovering Themselves” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-07 Monday Headlines for March 07, 2011; Hopes of Peaceful Revolution in Libya End as Opposition Prepares for Long Battle Against Gaddafi Forces; Thousands of Migrant Workers Stranded at Libyan Borders and Ports as Violent Clashes Spread: Video Report by Anjali Kamat in Benghazi; As Public Broadcasting and Community Media Face Potentially Massive Cuts At Home, Hillary Clinton Calls For Increased Funding For U.S. Propaganda Overseas; Michael Moore Joins Wisconsin Labor Protests: “America Is Not Broke ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-04 Friday Headlines for March 04, 2011; Environmentalist Tim DeChristopher Found Guilty of Sabotaging Oil and Gas Auction; Faces up to 10 Years in Jail; Leaked EPA Documents Expose Decades-Old Effort to Hide Dangers of Natural Gas Extraction; Natural Gas Industry Attacks Oscar-Nominated Film “Gasland” For Chronicling Devastating Impact of Hydraulic Fracking; Michael Hastings: Army Deploys Psychological Operations on U.S. Senators in Afghanistan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-03 Thursday Headlines for March 03, 2011; As Gaddafi Forces Launch New Attacks, Reports on the Ground from a Divided Libya; "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions; NATO Gunships Kill 9 Afghan Children; 3rd Reported Attack on Afghan Civilians in 2 Weeks; Bradley Manning Hit with New Charges in WikiLeaks Case, Including "Aiding the Enemy" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-02 Wednesday Headlines for March 02, 2011; Prof. Horace Campbell: Peace & Justice Movement Should Oppose U.S.-Led Intervention in Libya; U.N.: More than 140,000 Have Fled Libyan Clashes; U.S. Silent on Deadly Iraqi Gov't Crackdown on Protests; 300 Arrested in Sweeps Targeting Dissidents; Labor Protests Spread: Thousands Rally Against Anti-Union Bill in Ohio; As Demonstrators Remain Locked Out, Wisconsin Gov. Walker Unveils Budget to Slash Education, Gov't Aid ; Indiana Dems Vow to Remain in Illinois to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-03-01 Tuesday Headlines for March 01, 2011; Terror in Tripoli: Libyan American Describes Country in State of Fear, But Hopeful of Gaddafi’s Ouster ; Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa on Egypt’s Revolution, His Potential Presidential Candidacy and Middle East Uprisings; Labor Organizers Consider General Strike in Wisconsin as Gov. Scott Walker Refuses to Negotiate over Anti-Union Bill Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-28 Monday Headlines for February 28, 2011; Voices from the 100,000-Strong Protest for Workers' Rights in Wisconsin; Defying Gov. Walker, Wisconsin Protesters Refuse to Leave Capitol Building; Libyans in "Liberated" Eastern Cities Balance Self-Government With Supporting Tripoli Resistance: Anjali Kamat Reports; Libyans Organize Citizen Councils to Run Cities Liberated from Pro-Gaddafi Loyalists; As Death Toll Grows, 100,000 Flee Libyan Violence Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-25 Friday Headlines for February 25, 2011; Thousands Feared Dead in Gaddafi’s Crackdown on Libyan Uprising; Protesters Expect 100,000 in Madison as Assembly OKs Anti-Union Bill; Despite Exemption From Anti-Union Bill, Wisconsin Firefighters Stand with Public Sector Workers; "Until We Throw This Bill Out, We Can't Come Back:" Wisconsin State Senator Chris Larson Remains in Illinois; Policing & Protesting: Wisconsin Officers Patrol Capitol, But Join in Demonstrations; "Gov. Walker Needs to Get Over H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa on Egypt's Revolution, His Potential Presidential Candidacy and Popular Uprisings Across the Middle East Secretary General Amr Moussa is widely expected to run for president of Egypt in the country’s elections scheduled to be held in six months. In a diplomatic career that has spanned more than half a century, Moussa is currently one of Egypt’s best-known politicians. From 1991 to 2001, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt for the Mubarak government. Moussa has announced he will be stepping down from his post as Secretary General of the Arab League. Democracy Now! sen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-24 Thursday Headlines for February 24, 2011; Juan Gonzalez Wins 2010 George Polk Award for Exposing $80M CityTime Scandal; Glenn Greenwald on the Assange Extradition Ruling, the Jailing of Bradley Manning, and the Campaign to Target WikiLeaks Supporters; Obama Withdraws Support for Anti-LGBT Defense of Marriage Act; "Everywhere There is Graffiti Saying, 'Welcome to the New Free Libya'": Democracy Now! Correspondent Anjali Kamat Reports; Billionaire Right-Wing Koch Brothers Fund Wisconsin Governor Campa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-23 Wednesday Headlines for February 23, 2011; “We’re Witnessing the Violent Lashings of a Dying Beast”: Libyan Novelist Hisham Matar on Gaddafi’s Brutal Crackdown in Libya; "People Have Finally Found Their Voice”: Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Egypt After Mubarak; Arrest of CIA Agent Sheds Light on American Covert War in Pakistan, Straining U.S.-Pakistani Relations Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-22 Tuesday Headlines for February 22, 2011; “Gaddafi Cares More for Himself and His Power than He Cares for Anybody in Libya”: Libyan American Activist Abdulla Darrat on Bloody Crackdown on Protesters; Rev. Jesse Jackson Marches in Madison as Thousands Defend Public Employees and Unions; “Today is a Serious Showdown”: Thousands Occupy Wisconsin Capitol Building Ahead of Anti-Union Vote; Labor Protests to Defend Collective Bargaining Rights Spread to Ohio; Matt Taibbi: "Why Isn't Wall Street in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-21 Monday Headlines for February 21, 2011; "Iran, the Green Revolution and the USA": Hamid Dabashi On the Future of the Iranian Pro-Democracy Movement; Massacre in Libya: Witnesses Say Protesters Have Taken Control of Benghazi Despite Gov't Violence ; “Libya is Forever Changed by These Events”: Libyan Poet and Scholar Khaled Mattawa on the Pro-Democracy Movement Amid Government Violence; “We Have a Fire in the House of Labor. We Are Here to Put it Out”: Wisconsin Firefighters and Police Offic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-18 Friday Headlines for February 18, 2011; Uprising in Wisconsin: Tens of Thousands Protest Anti-Union Bill, as Wisconsin Lawmakers Leave State to Stall Vote ; "A Celebration, Not a Protest": Massive Crowd Packs Cairo’s Tahrir Square to Mark One Week Since Mubarak’s Ouster ; "It’s Time to Push the Borders of Freedom": Egyptian Students Defiantly Publish Newspaper Without Government Permission; Egyptian Uprising Fueled by Striking Workers Across Nation ; Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Beaten, Arre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-17 Thursday Headlines for February 17, 2011; Defiant Student Protesters Force Withdrawal of Puerto Rican Police from Restive Campus; “People Are Bleeding in the Streets:” Bahrain Police Wage Brutal Overnight Attack on Hundreds of Pro-Democracy Protesters; “The Genie Is Out of the Bottle”: Assessing a Changing Arab World with Noam Chomsky and Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara; “Democracy Uprising” in the U.S.A.?: Noam Chomsky on Wisconsin’s Resistance to Assault on Public Sector, the Obama-San ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-16 Wednesday Headlines for February 16, 2011; "A War on Women": DN! Exclusive with Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards on GOP Bills Targeting Abortion and Reproductive Health Services ; As Mideast "Rolling Revolution" Grows, U.S. Denounces Iranian Crackdown — But Stays Silent on Key Ally Bahrain ; "The Regime is Running Scared:" Algerian Forces Crack Down on Pro-Democracy Protests ; Defying Government Repression, Yemeni Protests Continue for 6th Day Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-15 Tuesday Headlines for February 15, 2011; Obama’s $3.7 Trillion Budget Calls for Military Spending Increases and Deep Cuts to Social Service Programs; Wisconsin Governor Launches Attack on Public Sector Employees and Unions; Threatens to Deploy National Guard to Quell Labor Protests; Ecuadorian Court Orders Chevron to Pay $17 Billion for Oil Pollution in Amazon; DN! EXCLUSIVE: Authorities Search and Copy U.S. Journalist’s Notes, Computer and Cameras After Returning from Haiti Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-14 Monday Headlines for February 14, 2011; “This is a Dream Come True”: Egyptians Celebrate in Cairo After Mubarak Resigns; After the Revolution: Mubarak is Gone After 30 Years in Power, But Questions Remain as to How Transition Will Proceed; “There is a Pre-History to this Revolt”: As Egypt’s Military Bans Labor Strikes, Mona El-Ghobashy Examines How Egyptian Labor and Social Movements Laid the Foundation for Revolution; Yemeni Forces Use Tasers, Batons, Knives and Rifles to Quash Anti-Gov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Egyptian Revolution: A Democracy Now! Special on Mubarak's Resignation As news of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation breaks, Democracy Now! broadcasts live reaction from Tahrir Square and beyond with Senior Producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Correspondent Anjali Kamat. "People are holding their hands up in victory," reports Kouddous. "This will be a day that no one will ever forget." We are also joined on the phone from Cairo by Egyptian activists Mona El Seif and Salma al-Tarzi, blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah, feminist Nawal El Saadawi, acclaim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-11 Friday Headlines for February 11, 2011; Exclusive Video: Protesters in Tahrir Square Voice Outrage After Mubarak Defiantly Refuses to Step Down; Will the Egyptian Military Stage a Coup to Oust Mubarak?; Live from Cairo: Democracy Now!'s Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Anjali Kamat on Egypt’s “Farewell Friday” ; Post-Mubarak: What Will Egypt Look Like the Day After the Regime Ends? ; Prominent Egyptian Blogger Released from Secret Military Detention; A Day of Rage: Millions Fill Streets of Cairo, A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | AUDIO: Thousands March from Tahrir Square to Protest at the Egyptian State TV Building, Democracy Now!'s Anjali Kamat Reports Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat reports about 5,000 people filled with "a mixture of rage and sadness" marched from Tahrir Square to the Egyptian state television building after Pres. Hosni Mubarak’s address. "The state television building is emblematic of the power of the state against the people and the way it’s been using this power to paint the people in Tahrir in a negative light," says Kamat. Earlier in the day about 50 state television emp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | AUDIO: "Until Mubarak Leaves They Are Determined to Stay Here" Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports from Tahrir Square Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down tonight, despite early reports that he would announce his resignation. Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports from Tahrir Square. "The demand that Mubarak step down is the glue," he says. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | REPORT FROM TAHRIR: Sharif Abdel Kouddous, "Everyone Is Eagerly Awaiting and Anticipating Mubarak to Leave. They Think Tonight Might be the Night." Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous is in Tahrir Square amid thousands of people expecting an address from President Hosni Mubarak in less than half an hour, at 9:00 p.m. local time. Renée Feltz and Amy Goodman reached him on his cell phone for an update. "If he steps down, there will be absolute jubilation here in the crowd," he says. "It will be one of the greatest moments in the country’s history." [includes rush transcript] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | AUDIO: Nawal El Saadawi Before Mubarak's Speech "We Will Bring Him Back To Be on Trial" Renowned feminist and human rights activist Nawal El Saadawi was a political prisoner and exiled from Egypt for years. Now she has returned to Cairo and is participating in the protests in Tahrir Square. Amy Goodman reached El Saadawi on the telephone hours before Mubarak’s second address to the people of Egypt since protests began. 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Bush Cancels Europe Trip as Human Rights Lawyers Threaten Legal Action over Torture; Human Rights Attorney Bill Quigley on the U.S. Deportation Death Sentence and the Undermining of Meaningful Elections in Haiti Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-09 Wednesday Headlines for February 09, 2011; After Record-Level Turnout in Tahrir, Egyptian Protests Spread to Parliament, Cabinet Buildings; Labor Unions Launch Strikes Nationwide; “We Are Writing History by Our Blood”: Egyptian Physician on Why Protests Won’t End Until Mubarak Resigns; Human Rights Watch: 300 Deaths, Massive Detentions and Abuse under Mubarak Regime Crackdown; “People Are Taking Care of Each Other”: Democracy Now!’s Anjali Kamat Camps with Protesters Overnight in Tahrir S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-08 Tuesday Headlines for February 08, 2011; “People Are Determined to Stay Until Mubarak Leaves”: Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports in Cairo on Day 15 of the Egyptian Pro-Democracy Protests ; Asmaa Mahfouz & the YouTube Video that Helped Spark the Egyptian Uprising; “The Heroes are the Ones in the Street”: Google Exec and Facebook Activist Wael Ghonim on His Release After 12 Days in Egyptian Jail; Shooting the Messenger: Egyptian Journalist Shot Dead by Sniper While Covering Ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-07 Monday Headlines for February 07, 2011; Protests Demanding Mubarak's Resignation Grow Stronger, Despite Some Government Concessions; "The Empire's Bagman:" Obama Egypt Envoy Frank Wisner Says Mubarak Should Stay ; Media Crackdown: Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports from Tahrir Square on the Systematic Targeting of Journalists in Egypt Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-05 Saturday Uprising in Egypt: A Two-Hour Special on the Revolt Against the U.S.-Backed Mubarak Regime Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-04 Friday Headlines for February 04, 2011; Day of Departure: Massive Demonstrations Across Egypt Aim to Oust Mubarak. Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports Live from Cairo; Eliminate the Witnesses: Committee to Protect Journalists Criticizes Mubarak’s Policy of Attacking and Silencing Journalists in Egypt; Video Report on the Battle for Tahrir: An Inside Look at How Pro-Democracy Activists Reclaimed Tahrir Square After Attacks by Mubarak Forces Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-03 Thursday Headlines for February 03, 2011; Eyewitnesses to a Massacre: Reports from Inside Tahrir Square as Pro-Mubarak Forces Open Fire on Protesters; A Battle for Democracy: Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports on How Anti-Government Protesters Are Resisting the Mubarak’s Regime Crackdown; California Professor Beaten by Pro-Mubarak Forces Minutes After Interview on Democracy Now! ; Journalists and Human Rights Activists Arrested and Beaten in Cairo Crackdown; Robert Fisk: Obama Administration Has Been G ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Noam Chomsky (Part 2): “This Is The Most Remarkable Regional Uprising That I Can Remember” In recent weeks, popular uprisings in the Arab world have led to the ouster of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the imminent end of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, a new Jordanian government, and a pledge by Yemen’s longtime dictator to leave office at the end of his term. We spoke to MIT Professor Noam Chomsky on Wednesday’s live program about the situation in Egypt, and then continued the interview for another 50 minutes after the show to further discuss wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-02 Wednesday Headlines for February 02, 2011; Bloodshed in Egypt: Mubarak Supporters Riding on Horses and Camels Violently Attack Protesters in Tahrir Square, Over 100 Injured; Voices of the Egyptian Revolution: Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Speaks with Demonstrators in Tahrir Square at "March of Millions"; As Mubarak Pledges To Finish Term, Egyptian Protesters Stay in Streets Demanding Immediate End to Regime: Democracy Now! Reports Live from Cairo; Noam Chomsky: “This is the Most Remarkab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-02-01 Tuesday Headlines for February 01, 2011; Millions Against Mubarak: Democracy Now!'s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports Live from Tahrir Amid Massive Protest; "Mubarak is Our Berlin Wall": Egyptian Columnist Mona Eltahawy on How the Youth Drove the Uprising in Cairo and Implications for Democracy in the Region; Media Blackout in Egypt and the U.S.: Al Jazeera Forced Off the Air by Mubarak, Telecommunications Companies Block Its Expansion in the United States; Digital Darkness: U.S., U.K. Companies Help E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-31 Monday Headlines for January 31, 2011; Democracy Now!'s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Live from Egypt: The Rebellion Grows Stronger; Repression and Poverty Underpin the Uprising in Egypt; Made in the U.S.A.: Tear Gas, Tanks, Helicopters, Rifles and Fighter Planes in Egypt Funded and Built Largely by U.S. Defense Department and American Corporations ; Leading Egyptian Feminist, Nawal El Saadawi: "Women and Girls are Beside Boys in the Streets" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Audio Report From Cairo: Egyptian Protesters Renew Call For Mubarak to Resign Ahmad Shokr, an editor at the Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, files a report from Cairo on Saturday morning, day five of the largest anti-government protests in Egypt in decades. Download MP3 of report RUSH TRANSCRIPT AHMAD SHOKR : After a day of unprecedented mass rallies that brought hundreds of thousands to the streets across Egypt the protestors on Saturday morning are renewing their calls for President Hosni Mubarak to step down. The government imposed a curf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-28 Friday Headlines for January 28, 2011; Uprising in Egypt: "This is the Biggest Political Challenge the Regime Has Yet to See from the Streets"; Juan Cole: "Egypt is a Praetorian Regime"; Global Call to Release Imprisoned Indian Human Rights Activist Dr. Binayak Sen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-27 Thursday Democracy Now! Thursday, January 27, 2011 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-26 Wednesday Democracy Now! Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-25 Tuesday Headlines for January 25, 2011; Do You Know the Full Story Behind the Infamous McDonald's Coffee Case and How Corporations Used it to Promote Tort Reform?; "Hot Coffee" Film Explores How Corporations Are Spending Millions and Spinning the Story to Alter Our Nation's Civil Justice System; "Hot Coffee" Documents Chamber of Commerce Campaign to Unseat Judges Opposed to "Tort Reform"; "Hot Coffee" Exposes How Hard Caps on Malpractice Awards Shift Burden to Taxpayers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-24 Monday Headlines for January 24, 2011; Rashid Khalidi: Leaked "Palestine Papers" Underscore Weakness of Palestinian Authority, Rejectionism of Israel and U.S.; "The Black Power Mixtape" - Danny Glover Discusses New Doc Featuring Rare Archival Footage of Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton, Stokely Carmichael Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-21 Friday Headlines for January 21, 2011; Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin Moves to Create Single-Payer Healthcare System; On Anniversary of Citizens United Ruling, Common Cause Calls on Justice Dept. to Investigate Scalia and Thomas over Conflicts of Interest; Patrice Lumumba: 50 Years Later, Remembering the U.S.-Backed Assassination of Congo's First Democratically Elected Leader Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-20 Thursday Headlines for January 20, 2011; China, Human Rights and the Role of Washington: A Debate; Has Obama Assumed the Position of Salesman-in-Chief to China?; Fifty Years After Eisenhower's Farewell Address, A Look at "Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-19 Wednesday Headlines for January 19, 2011; Did Baby Doc Duvalier Return to Haiti to Pressure Préval in the Election? ; Gaza Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish Two Years After Israeli Attack that Killed 3 Daughters & Niece: "As Long as I am Breathing, They are with Me. I Will Never Forget" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-18 Tuesday Headlines for January 18, 2011; Tunisian Opposition Activist: "Is Democracy Possible in the Arab World? Tunisians from All Around Tunisia are Saying 'Yes'"; Egypt-Based Political Analyst: "The First Lesson from Tunisia is that Revolution is Possible"; Juan Cole: Tunisia Uprising "Spearheaded by Labor Movements, by Internet Activists, by Rural Workers; It's a Populist Revolution"; Anthony Shadid in Beirut: Tunisia Has "Electrified People Across the Arab World" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-17 Monday Democracy Now! Monday, January 17, 2011 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-14 Friday Headlines for January 14, 2011; Tucson Shooting Survivor: "It Looks Like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the Rest Got Their First Target"; Why is Glenn Beck Obsessively Targeting Frances Fox Piven?; Daniel Hernandez, Intern Who Helped Save Giffords: Political Discourse Has Become "Completely Destructive" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-13 Thursday Headlines for January 13, 2011; Obama Calls for "Civil and Honest Public Discourse" at Tucson Shooting Memorial; Tavis Smiley on Obama's Arizona Memorial Speech, Martin Luther King and Hate in America; Icelandic Parliamentarian Calls U.S. Subpoena of Her Twitter Account over WikiLeaks Involvement "Disturbing" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-12 Wednesday Headlines for January 12, 2011; Tè Tremblé: Remembering the Earthquake in Haiti; Wesleyan Professor Alex Dupuy: Haiti Transformed into the "Republic of the NGOs"; Haitian Activist Patrick Elie: "Haiti is Controlled by Foreign Governments and Foreign Interests"; Haitian Writer Jean Saint-Vil: One Year After Earthquake, Haitian Population Treated as a Threat, Not an Asset; Novelist Edwidge Danticat: "Haitians Are Very Resilient, But It Doesn't Mean They Can Suffer More Than Other People" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-11 Tuesday Headlines for January 11, 2011; Former Classmate of Jared Loughner: "He Was Definitely Off...He Didn't Have the Same Stability Apparent in Most People"; Jared Loughner, Mental Illness and How Budget Cuts Have Slashed Behavioral Health Services in Arizona; In Wake of Giffords Shooting, Will the Arizona Legislature Continue to Relax Gun Control Laws?; Dr. Richard Carmona: Nonpartisan Solutions Needed in Wake of Tucson Tragedy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-10 Monday Headlines for January 10, 2011; "Politics in Arizona Have Become Fueled by Hate...Driven by Anger": Rep. Raúl Grijalva on Shooting of Giffords; Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik: "People Who Are Mentally Unstable Are Susceptible to the Rhetoric Going on in this Country"; Jeff Biggers: Arizona Facing "Lethal Combination" of "Hate-Filled Speech" and "Dangerous and Easy Access to Weapons"; Chip Berlet on "The Becking of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-07 Friday Headlines for January 07, 2011; From Wall Street to the White House: Obama Taps JPMorgan Exec William Daley for Chief of Staff; Legendary Muckraking Reporter Wayne Barrett Laid Off from Village Voice; As Activists Plan Protest for 9th Anniv. of Guantánamo, Former Gitmo Commander Subpoenaed in Spain over Prisoner Torture Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-06 Thursday Headlines for January 06, 2011; Crackdown on Organized Labor: States Call for Wage & Benefits Cuts, Urge Laws to Curb Union Influence; Phil Ochs: The Life and Legacy of a Legendary American Folk Singer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-05 Wednesday Headlines for January 05, 2011; Return of the "Death Panel" Myth is a "Travesty," Says Dr. Atul Gawande; Dr. Atul Gawande: Solitary Confinement is Torture Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-04 Tuesday Headlines for January 04, 2011; Eyewitnesses Describe Death of Palestinian Woman in Israeli Tear Gas Attack; Ivory Coast Showdown: A Discussion on the Political Crisis in West Africa; Sudan Referendum: "A Real Turning Point for the People of Africa," Says Horace Campbell Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2011-01-03 Monday Headlines for January 03, 2011; Incoming GOP House Chairs Plan to Investigate Climate Scientists, Probe Muslim "Radicalization," Repeal Healthcare Reform; Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff: From Imprisoned Guerrilla Fighter to "The Most Powerful Woman in the World" ; Navy Investigating Lewd, Homophobic Videos by Commander of Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-30 Thursday Headlines for December 30, 2010; "Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours:" The Explosion that Killed 11 Workers and Led to the Worst Oil Spill in U.S. History; Son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: "My Parents Were Executed Under the Unconstitutional Espionage Act -- Here's Why We Must Fight to Protect Julian Assange" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-31 Friday Democracy Now! Friday, December 31, 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-29 Wednesday Headlines for December 29, 2010; Allan Nairn: As U.S. Loses Its Global Economic Edge, Its "One Clear Comparative Advantage is in Killing, and It's Using It" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-28 Tuesday Headlines for December 28, 2010; From Snowstorms to Heat Waves, How Global Warming Causes Extreme Weather and Climate Instability; Indian Human Rights Activist Dr. Binayak Sen Sentenced to Life in Prison in Widely Criticized Ruling Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-27 Monday Headlines for December 27, 2010; The Show Must Go On: As Monster Snowstorm Blankets East Coast, Democracy Now! Crew Shares Tales of "Thundersnow"; As Thousands Flee Ivory Coast, Former Clinton Adviser Lanny Davis is Paid Lobbyist for President Who Refuses to Cede Power; From the Pentagon to the Private Sector: Boston Globe Analysis Finds Large Numbers of Retiring Generals Entering Defense Industry Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-24 Friday Democracy Now! Friday, December 24, 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-23 Thursday Headlines for December 23, 2010; Juan Gonzalez: NYC CityTime Fraud Scheme "Biggest Scandal of Entire Bloomberg Era"; As Senate Passes 9/11 Health Bill, Juan Gonzalez Notes Relative Absence of Key Figures Like Bush and Giuliani; WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Sought to Retaliate Against Europe over Monsanto GM Crops; FBI Expands Probe into Antiwar Activists ; After GOP Blocks DREAM Act, Where is Immigration Activism Headed? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-22 Wednesday Headlines for December 22, 2010; Census: As Red States Grow, So Do Hispanic Populations Within; "I've Been to 44 Funerals in the Last 4 1/2 Years" - 9/11 First Responder John Feal Calls on Senate to Pass Zadroga Bill; "Barbour is an Unreconstructed Southerner": Prof. John Dittmer on Mississippi Governor's Praise of White Citizens’ Councils Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-21 Tuesday Headlines for December 21, 2010; Obama Flip-Flop: FCC Vote Could End Net Neutrality; Local Community Radio Act Passes in Congress; As Dems Work to Ratify New START Treaty, Jonathan Schell Says U.S.-Russia "Nuclear Standoff" Defies "Rational Explanation"; Part II...Feminists Debate Sexual Allegations against Julian Assange Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-20 Monday Headlines for December 20, 2010; In Historic Move, Senate Votes to Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; Chris Hedges: Obama is a "Poster Child for the Death of the Liberal Class"; Naomi Wolf vs. Jaclyn Friedman: Feminists Debate the Sexual Allegations Against Julian Assange Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-17 Friday Headlines for December 17, 2010; WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Vows to Resume Whistleblowing After Release from London Jail ; WikiLeaks Cables: Pfizer Targeted Nigerian Attorney General to Undermine Suit over Fatal Drug Tests ; Deadly Medicine: FDA Fails to Regulate Rapidly Growing Industry of Overseas Drug Testing; Study: Pharmaceutical Drug Companies Top Military Industry in Defrauding U.S. Gov't Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-16 Thursday Headlines for December 16, 2010; New York City Consultants Charged in $80M Waste, Fraud Scheme; As WikiLeaks' Assange Freed on Bail, Alleged Military Leaker Bradley Manning Imprisoned under Inhumane Conditions; Fmr. Guyanese Politician Convicted of Terror Plot in Latest Case of Alleged Gov't Entrapment; Reps. Rush Holt and Raúl Grijalva on House Democratic Opposition to Obama's Tax Deal with GOP Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-15 Wednesday Headlines for December 15, 2010; Attorney: Swedish Case is a "Holding Charge" to Get Julian Assange Extradited to U.S.; John Pilger: Global Support for WikiLeaks is "Rebellion" Against U.S. Militarism, Secrecy; Richard Holbrooke Dies at 69: Remembering Veteran Diplomat's Overlooked Record in East Timor, Iraq and the Balkans Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-14 Tuesday Headlines for December 14, 2010; Judge with GOP Ties Strikes Down Key Healthcare Provision on Insurance Mandates; "The Worse Off You Are, Your Taxes Increase": Journalist David Cay Johnston Slams Obama-GOP Tax Deal; Prisoner Advocate Elaine Brown on Georgia Prison Strike: “Repression Breeds Resistance” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-13 Monday Headlines for December 13, 2010; Bernie Sanders Denounces Obama-GOP Tax Cut in 8.5-Hour Senate Speech, Says U.S. Becoming "Banana Republic"; Climate Deal Reached in Cancún: Will the Agreement Help Save the Planet? ; Groups Protest U.N. Climate Summit for Shutting Out Civil Society; Life or Death: Small Island Nation of Tuvalu Pleads for Climate Resolution ; Young Environmentalists Challenge U.N. Climate Delegates: "Stop Talking. Start Planting" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-10 Friday Headlines for December 10, 2010; Nobel Awarded to Jailed Chinese Human Rights Activist Liu Xiaobo; China Faces International Criticism at Nobel Ceremony in Oslo and Climate Talks in Cancún; Bolivian President Evo Morales at Cancún Climate Summit: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Diplomacy of Empire"; Guardian Reporter John Vidal: With Climate Talks on Verge of Collapse "You Could Argue that America Has Done Very Well Out of This"; Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: Julian Assange is Not a Te ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-09 Thursday Headlines for December 09, 2010; Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa on WikiLeaks, the September Coup, U.S. Denial of Climate Funding, and Controversial Forest Scheme REDD ; Is REDD the New Green? Indigenous Groups Resist Carbon Market-Based Forestry Scheme to Offset Emissions; After Touting Sustainability, Walmart Chair Rob Walton Refuses to Answer on Company's Record in Local Communities; Prominent Indigenous Environmental Leader Tom Goldtooth Blocked from U.N. Climate Talks; Offsetting Emi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-08 Wednesday Headlines for December 08, 2010; Attorney: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Endangered by Bail Denial in London; Still No Charges Filed in Sweden; Youth Activists Protest Exclusion from U.N. Climate Summit in Cancún; Thousands March in Cancún at La Via Campesina's "Global Day of Action for Climate Justice" ; "Countries Least Responsible for Climate Change are the Ones Most Threatened by It": Island States Urge Binding Emissions Cuts at U.N. Climate Summit Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-07 Tuesday Headlines for December 07, 2010; Glenn Greenwald on the Arrest of Julian Assange and the U.S. "War on WikiLeaks"; Democracy Now! Questions Chief E.U. Climate Negotiator about WikiLeaks Cables; U.S. Climate Envoy Refuses to Answer Democracy Now!'s Questions on WikiLeaks Cables' Account of Summit Manipulation; Guardian Environment Editor John Vidal on WikiLeaks Cables and U.S. Manipulation of Climate Talks; Bill McKibben: Climate Talks So Weakened by U.S., Major Polluters that Walkout Could B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-06 Monday Headlines for December 06, 2010; Climate Talks in Jeopardy as Industrialized Nations Threaten Kyoto Protocol; Pressing the Silence: At the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the Media Center is Oddly Quiet; Small Farmers Gather for Alternative Global Forum on Climate Change and Social Justice; Pablo Solón Responds to Secret U.S. Manipulation of Climate Talks Revealed in WikiLeaks Cable; Fmr. Irish President Mary Robinson Calls for Global Climate Justice Fund Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-03 Friday Headlines for December 03, 2010; Is WikiLeaks' Julian Assange a Hero? Glenn Greenwald Debates Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News; Abandoning "Net Neutrality," FCC Chair Backs Two-Tiered Internet Fees ; Greenpeace Sues Chemical Companies for Corporate Espionage Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-02 Thursday Headlines for December 02, 2010; Attorney Confirms WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange in Britain, Responds to U.S. Attacks; Jeremy Scahill: WikiLeaks Cables Confirm Secret U.S. War Ops in Pakistan; U.N. Special Rapporteur Juan Méndez: Instead of Focusing on Assange, U.S. Should Address WikiLeaks' Disclosures of Torture; Professor, Author Jacob Hacker on "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-12-01 Wednesday Headlines for December 01, 2010; WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Tried to Thwart Spanish Probes of Gitmo Torture and CIA Rendition; Leaked Cables Reveal U.S. Pressured Spain to Drop Case of Cameraman Killed in 2003 Attack on Journalists in Baghdad; As GOP Appears to Win Extension of Bush-Era Tax Cuts for Wealthy, Rev. Jesse Jackson Calls for "War on Poverty" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Noam Chomsky on the Economy, US Midterm Elections, Climate Change, Haiti, and More Noam Chomsky is a Professor Emeritus at MIT, where he taught for over half a century. He is author of dozens of books. His most recent is "Hopes and Prospects." Watch Part I of this conversation TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN: Noam, you were continuing your perscription- your advice that you would give to President Obama today. NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, the economy is a disaster. There is 10% official unemployment, probably twice that much actual unemplyment. Many people unem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Noam Chomsky on the Economy, US Midterm Elections, Climate Change, Haiti, and More Noam Chomsky is a Professor Emeritus at MIT, where he taught for over half a century. He is author of dozens of books. His most recent is "Hopes and Prospects." Watch Part I of this conversation TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN: Noam, you were continuing your prescription- your advice that you would give to President Obama today. NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, the economy is a disaster. There is 10% official unemployment, probably twice that much actual unemployment. Many people unemp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-30 Tuesday Headlines for November 30, 2010; "We Have Not Seen Anything Yet": Guardian Editor Says Most Startling WikiLeaks Cables Still To Be Released; Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-29 Monday Headlines for November 29, 2010; U.S. Facing Global Diplomatic Crisis Following Massive WikiLeaks Release of Secret Diplomatic Cables Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-26 Friday Democracy Now! Friday, November 26, 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-24 Wednesday Headlines for November 24, 2010; Tim Shorrock: Direct Talks With North Korea Are the Only Answer to End Korean War; StoryCorps Declares Friday a National Day of Listening; Dr. Gabor Maté on ADHD, Bullying and the Destruction of American Childhood Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-25 Thursday Democracy Now! Thursday, November 25, 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-23 Tuesday Headlines for November 23, 2010; The Fear of Sicko: CIGNA Whistleblower Wendell Potter Apologizes to Michael Moore for PR Smear Campaign; Moore Says Industry Was Afraid Film Would Cause A 'Tipping Point' for Healthcare Reform; Joe Nocera on "All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-22 Monday Headlines for November 22, 2010; Video Report From Afghanistan: How the U.S. Counter-insurgency Campaign Is Failing; Anthony DePalma on "City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance and 9/11"; Chalmers Johnson, 1931-2010, on the Last Days of the American Republic Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-19 Friday Headlines for November 19, 2010; National Outcry Over TSA Body Scanners and Invasive Pat-Downs; Cornel West on Charles Rangel, Bush & Kanye West and Why Obama Admin "Seems to Have Very Little Concern for Poor People"; Economist Ha-Joon Chang on Currency Wars, the G20, and Why "There’s No Such Thing As a Free Market" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-18 Thursday Headlines for November 18, 2010; Haitians Barricading Streets with Coffins as Protests against U.N. Continue over Cholera Outbreak; As New York Debates Secure Communities Program, Study Challenges Controversial Policy to Deport Immigrant Prisoners; Student, Prisoner Advocate Tam Phan Faces Deportation Order to Vietnam; Punk Rock Legend Patti Smith Wins National Book Award for Memoir _Just Kids_ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-17 Wednesday Headlines for November 17, 2010; Jury Appears Deadlocked in Landmark Civilian Trial of Gitmo Prisoner ; 45 Years Later, Former Alabama State Trooper Pleads Guilty to Killing Black Civil Rights Worker Jimmie Lee Jackson; Rep. John Lewis on Congress After GOP Victory, Closing Gitmo, Afghan War and Ethics Conviction of Charles Rangel; "Push Michael Moore Off a Cliff": Health Insurance Whistleblower Wendell Potter Details How the Industry Attacked Michael Moore’s Film _Sicko_ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Push Michael Moore Off a Cliff:" Health Insurance Whistleblower Wendell Potter Details How the Industry Attacked Michael Moore’s Film _Sicko_ When Academy Award-winning film director Michael Moore announced he would be making a documentary about the American healthcare system in 2004, it put the health insurance industry on high alert. One person who immediately went on the offensive was Wendell Potter, who at the time was the chief spokesperson for insurance giant CIGNA. Last year, Potter became the industry’s most prominent whistleblower. We speak with him about his role in attacking Michael Moore, his film Sicko , and the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-16 Tuesday Headlines for November 16, 2010; In First Interview Since Critical Injury at West Bank Protest, U.S. Peace Activist Tristan Anderson Urges Iran to Free Jailed Hikers; Wendell Potter on "Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-15 Monday Headlines for November 15, 2010; Burmese Pro-Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Freed After 15 of Past 21 Years in Detention; Moroccan Forces Raid Protest Camp in Western Sahara, Thousands Demonstrate in Madrid Against Crackdown; Author and Activist Derrick Jensen: "The Dominant Culture is Killing the Planet...It's Very Important for Us to Start to Build a Culture of Resistance" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-12 Friday Headlines for November 12, 2010; East Timorese Journalist Marks 19th Anniversary of Santa Cruz Massacre; A Look at Argentina's Economic Rebellion and the Social Movements that Led It; "Nieto Recuperado" - Born to Parents Disappeared by Argentina's Dictatorship, Kidnapped and Raised by a Military Family, a "Recovered Grandchild" Finds His Way Home; Argentine Torture Survivor Patricia Isasa Tells of Her Struggle to Bring Her Torturers to Justice Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-11 Thursday Headlines for November 11, 2010; Obama Deficit Commission Criticized for Proposals to Slash Social Security, Medicare; Over 50,000 Students Protest in London over Planned Cuts to Education Funding; Bloomberg Taps Wealthy Media Exec to Replace Joel Klein as NYC School Chief; Haiti Cholera Outbreak Reaches Port-au-Prince, Congress Continues to Block Release of Aid Funds; Haitian American Novelist on "The Immigrant Artist at Work" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-10 Wednesday Headlines for November 10, 2010; Nir Rosen on "Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World"; "Wartorn 1861-2010" New Doc Chronicles Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from Civil War to Iraq & Afghanistan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-09 Tuesday Headlines for November 09, 2010; EXCLUSIVE: As Obama Arrives in Jakarta, Secret Docs Show U.S.-backed Indonesian Special Forces Unit Targets Papuan Churches, Civilians; Widow of Murdered Indonesian Human Rights Activist Munir Calls on Indonesia to Hold His Govt. Killers Responsible Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-08 Monday Headlines for November 08, 2010; Big Business & Arms Deals, Not Poverty, Top Obama's Agenda in India; Hundreds of Survivors of Bhopal Disaster Protest Obama India Visit; The Case of David Headley: Pakistani American DEA Informant at Center of 2008 Mumbai Attacks; Acclaimed Indian Author Arundhati Roy on Obama's Wars, Poverty and India's Maoist Rebels Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-05 Friday Headlines for November 05, 2010; New $600B Fed Stimulus Fuels Fears of US Currency War; Justice for Sale? Right-Wing Groups Fund Successful Campaign to Oust Iowa Judges Who Legalized Same-Sex Marriage ; Rep. Alan Grayson: "Bipartisanship Has Become Code Word for Appeasement"; Justice Dept. Renews Enforcement of Subpoenas for Antiwar Activists Targeted in FBI Raids Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-04 Thursday Headlines for November 04, 2010; Big Gains in State Races Position Republicans to Alter Political Landscape in Upcoming Redistricting; As Right-Leaning "Blue Dogs" Lose Seats, Democrats' Progressive Caucus Increases Plurality in Next Congress; After Midterm Gains, How Will GOP Run the House?; "Children of the Exodus:" Surge of Deportations Endangers Migrant Youth Abandoned in Mexico Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-03 Wednesday Headlines for November 03, 2010; GOP Win Back House, Dems Keep Senate in 2010 Midterm Elections; EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Michael Moore on Midterm Elections, the Tea Party, and the Future of the Democratic Party; Election Roundtable: Breaking Down the Results with Laura Flanders of GritTV, The Nation's Richard Kim & John Nichols, and Journalist David Goodman Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-02 Tuesday Headlines for November 02, 2010; How Safe Is Your Ballot? Tracking Voter Suppression, Intimidation on Election Day; Ralph Nader: Dems Face Losses to "Most Craven Republican Party in History"; After Thwarted Bomb Plot, US Military Operations in Yemen Could Intensify Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-11-01 Monday Headlines for November 01, 2010; Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Lead Massive Rally to "Restore Sanity and/or Fear" in DC; Rep. Keith Ellison on Tea Party Anti-Muslim Bigotry, US-backed Assassinations in Yemen, and the Firing of Juan Williams; Legalizing Pot, Tax Reform, Healthcare and Climate Change Ballot Initiatives to be Decided on Tuesday; Brazil Elects Dilma Rousseff, First Female President Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-29 Friday Headlines for October 29, 2010; Killing Reconciliation: Military Raids, Backing of Corrupt Government Undermining Stated US Goals in Afghanistan; From Murder to Congress? Unrepentant Tea Party-Backed GOP Candidate Ilario Pantano Killed 2 Unarmed Iraqis; Puerto Rico Marks 60th Anniversary of Jayuya Uprising; FBI Documents on Senator Paul Wellstone Raise Questions about His Death 8 Years Ago Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-28 Thursday Headlines for October 28, 2010; At $4 Billion, Midterm Elections Poised to Become Most Expensive Non-Presidential Vote in US History; "Free Speech for People" Coalition Calls for Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United Decision Allowing Unlimited Corporate Spending on Elections; The Right to Food: Corporate, Foreign Gov't Land Grab Causing Hunger in Poor Countries Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-27 Wednesday Headlines for October 27, 2010; Pollster Nate Silver and Author Ari Berman on "Third Straight Anti-Incumbent Election"; Acclaimed Indian Author Arundhati Roy Faces Arrest for Questioning India's Claim on Kashmir; Convicted Student Adnan Mirza Maintains Innocence in Latest Case of Alleged FBI Entrapment Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-26 Tuesday Headlines for October 26, 2010; WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on Iraq War Logs, "Tabloid Journalism" and Why WikiLeaks Is "Under Siege"; Partners in Health Physician on Haiti: "Cholera Will Not Go Away Until Underlying Situations that Make People Vulnerable Change"; Part II: WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on Iraq War Logs, "Tabloid Journalism" and Why WikiLeaks is "Under Siege" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-25 Monday Headlines for October 25, 2010; WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs Expose US-Backed Iraqi Torture, 15,000 More Civilian Deaths, and Contractors Run Amok Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-22 Friday Headlines for October 22, 2010; EXCLUSIVE: WikiLeaks Prepares Largest Intel Leak in US History with Release of 400,000 Iraq War Docs; Juan Gonzalez: Controversial Evaluations System Will Unfairly Target New York Teachers; With New Limits, US Military Reinstates "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; Does Opposing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Bolster US Militarism? A Debate with Lt. Dan Choi and Queer Activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore; "Lawless Courts": Lack of Accountability Allows Immigration Judges to Vi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-21 Thursday Headlines for October 21, 2010; 6 Months Since BP Oil Spill, Writer and Environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams Asks "Where Is Our Outrage?"; Anti-Gay Fervor in Uganda Tied to Right-Wing US Evangelicals; Chicago Parents Occupy Elementary School Building to Prevent Demolition Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-20 Wednesday Headlines for October 20, 2010; Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz: Foreclosure Moratorium, Government Stimulus Needed to Revive US Economy ; NAACP Report Ties Tea Party to Militia and Racist Groups Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-19 Tuesday Headlines for October 19, 2010; Angela Davis on the Prison Abolishment Movement, Frederick Douglass, the 40th Anniversary of Her Arrest and President Obama's First Two Years Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-18 Monday Headlines for October 18, 2010; War's Hidden Death Toll: After Service, Veteran Deaths & Suicides Surge ; Big Oil Goes to College: BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell Fund & Influence Research at Major Universities; Slavoj Zizek: Far Right and Anti-Immigrant Politicians on the Rise in Europe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-15 Friday Headlines for October 15, 2010; Hermann Scheer (1944-2010): German Lawmaker, Leading Advocate for Solar Energy and "Hero for the Green Century" in One of His Final Interviews Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-14 Thursday Headlines for October 14, 2010; Republican Ex-CEOs Challenge Veteran Dems in California's Heated Gubernatorial, Senate Races; Green Party Candidate Excluded from California Governor's Debate; Backing Prop 19, California NAACP Calls Marijuana Legalization a Civil Rights Issue; Environmental Groups Confront Oil Industry-Backed Attempt to Repeal California's Landmark Emissions Law in Prop 23; Ananya Roy on California's Education Battle and "Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Devel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-13 Wednesday Headlines for October 13, 2010; While Celebrating Halt to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Gay Rights Movement Confronts Teen Suicides, Homophobic Electioneering and Violent Attacks ; A Tale of 2 Gitmo Opinions: Ruling Altered to Hide Evidence of Dead, Tortured Witnesses; Nueva York: Museum Exhibit Documents Latino Role in Shaping New York City over Three Centuries Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-12 Tuesday Headlines for October 12, 2010; As Fraud Scandal Grows, White House Opposes National Moratorium on Foreclosures; Why Are Bailed-Out Banks Breaking into Struggling Borrowers' Homes?; "Progressive Hunter": Gunman Cites Listening to Glenn Beck and Others as Inspiration for Armed Plot Against ACLU & Tides Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-11 Monday Headlines for October 11, 2010; Exclusive: British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, "Our Kind of Traitor" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-08 Friday Headlines for October 08, 2010; Jailed Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo Awarded Nobel Peace Prize; Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on the Foreclosure Crisis and Her State's Lawsuit Against Ally Financial ; As White House Reverses Rejection of Solar Panels, 350.org to Hold 10.10.10 Day of Action on Global Warming; Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu Retires from Public Life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-07 Thursday Headlines for October 07, 2010; Campaign Cash: The Independent Fundraising Gold Rush Since Citizens United Ruling; "Operation Recovery": On 9th Anniversary of Afghan War, Veteran-Led Campaign Seeks to End Deployment of Traumatized Soldiers; Iraq War Veteran Who Rescued Wounded Children in 2007 Apache Attack Describes Emotional Toll of Witnessing Infamous Killings; "American Hypocrite": _The Nation_ Exposes Lou Dobbs's Reliance on Undocumented Labor Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-06 Wednesday Headlines for October 06, 2010; Entrapment or Foiling Terror? FBI's Reliance on Paid Informants Raises Questions about Validity of Terrorism Cases Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-05 Tuesday Headlines for October 05, 2010; Exposed: US Doctors Secretly Infected Hundreds of Guatemalans with Syphilis in the 1940s; The Dark History of Medical Experimentation from the Nazis to Tuskegee to Puerto Rico Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-04 Monday Headlines for October 04, 2010; Picking Lula's Replacement: Brazil's Presidential Race Heads to Runoff; Harry Belafonte: Iraq & Afghanistan Wars Are "Immoral, Unconscionable and Unwinnable"; Voices from the "One Nation Working Together" Rally for Jobs and Justice; News Dissector Danny Schechter: Saturday's "One Nation" March on Washington Was "More Movie than Movement" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-10-01 Friday Headlines for October 01, 2010; Ecuador Declares State of Emergency as President Correa Escapes Attack from Rogue Armed Forces; Lenders Forced to Suspend Thousands of Foreclosures after Admitting to Faulty Review Process; "Waiting for Superman": Critics Say Much-Hyped Education Documentary Unfairly Targets Teachers Unions and Promotes Charter Schools Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-30 Thursday Headlines for September 30, 2010; Ann Jones on "War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women and the Unseen Consequences of Conflict"; Henry Red Cloud of Oglala Lakota Tribe on Native American Anti-Nuclear Activism, Uranium Mining, and the Recession's Toll on Reservations; Year of the Conservative Woman? As Republicans Tout Field of Women Candidates, a Debate with Betsy Reed of The Nation and Former GOP Candidate Princella Smith Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-29 Wednesday Headlines for September 29, 2010; 1st US Soldier of Alleged "Kill Team" Targeting Afghan Civilians Faces Military Tribunal for War Crimes; Mudslide Buries Scores of Homes in Indigenous Mexican Town, But Massive Toll Said to Be Averted; "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration": Isabel Wilkerson Tracks Exodus of Blacks from US South Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-28 Tuesday Headlines for September 28, 2010; Freed American Hiker Sarah Shourd Reflects on 14 Months in Iranian Prison and Calls on Iran to Release Her Two Friends; Appalachia Rising: 100 Arrested at White House Calling for End to Mountaintop Coal Removal; As Settlement Construction Begins Again in the West Bank, Israel Blocks Jewish Activists on Aid Boat Headed to Gaza Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-27 Monday Headlines for September 27, 2010; FBI Raids Homes of Antiwar and Pro-Palestinian Activists in Chicago and Minneapolis; Ingrid Betancourt: "Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-24 Friday Headlines for September 24, 2010; Obama UN Speech on Mideast Talks "Filled with Empty Words" - Palestinian Attorney Diana Buttu; Paul Mason on _Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global_; Fatima Bhutto on the Floods in Pakistan, the Government Response and Her Memoir, _Songs of Blood and Sword_ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-23 Thursday Headlines for September 23, 2010; "Explain to Us What You Want from Us" - Juárez Newspaper Publishes Editorial Addressing Cartels After Another Reporter Gunned Down; Former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda on the Drug War, Legalization, Immigration and Free Trade Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-22 Wednesday Headlines for September 22, 2010; "A Departure to Be Welcomed": Robert Scheer on Resignation of White House Economic Adviser and Deregulation Proponent Lawrence Summers; Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef: US Is Becoming an "Underdeveloping Nation"; As Competing Films Offer Differing Views on Faulkner Killing, Mumia Supporters Claim New Evidence Undermines Key Witness Testimony Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-21 Tuesday Headlines for September 21, 2010; Holbrooke Says World Cannot Foot Entire Bill for Pakistan Flood Recovery as US Spends Billions on Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan & Pakistan; Tariq Ali on "The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad"; Tony Benn on Tony Blair: "He Will Have to Live 'Til the Day He Dies with the Knowledge that He Is Guilty of a War Crime"; Glenn Greenwald on Iran, Tea Party Candidates, Jon Stewart and Obama's Assassination Policy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-20 Monday Headlines for September 20, 2010; Legendary British Author John le Carré on Why He Won't Be Reading Tony Blair's Iraq War-Defending Memoir; John le Carré: "The United States of America Has Gone Mad"; Iraqi Refugee Describes Torture, Imprisonment of Husband Who Returned to Iraq to Free Jailed Son ; "New Order, Same Abuses": Amnesty Condemns Iraq for Holding 30,000 Prisoners Without Trial; British Jamaican Rastafarian Writer, Dub Poet Benjamin Zephaniah on Poetry, Politics and Revolution Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-17 Friday Headlines for September 17, 2010; Percy Schmeiser vs Monsanto: The Story of a Canadian Farmer's Fight to Defend the Rights of Farmers and the Future of Seeds; Solar Power in Bangladesh Used to Empower People in Poor, Rural Areas; Large Anti-Government Protests in Thailand Scheduled on Fourth Anniversary of Coup Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-16 Thursday Headlines for September 16, 2010; _The Nation_: Docs Reveals Blackwater-Linked Companies Provided Intel & Security to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Chevron; Right Livelihood Laureates from Croatia, Thailand and Burundi Discuss Their Battles for Social Justice; Johan Galtung on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mideast Peace Talks and Why Obama is Losing His Base Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-15 Wednesday Headlines for September 15, 2010; Final Primaries Held Before November Midterms, Tea Party Gains Ground in GOP; Right Livelihood Award Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Gathering of Laureates in Bonn; Another 9/11 Anniversary: September 11, 1973, When US-Backed Pinochet Forces Took Power in Chile; From "Little Tibet" to Kenya, Right Livelihood Laureates Fight for Peace and Social Justice; France Comes Under Mounting Pressure over Mass Deportation of Roma Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-14 Tuesday Headlines for September 14, 2010; As Regulators Weigh Drilling in Marcellus Shale, EPA Opens Public Hearings on Health and Environmental Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing; Street Sweeper Social Club: "Revolutionary Party Music" from Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Boots Riley of the Coup ; In Monumental Union Vote, California Healthcare Workers to Choose Between SEIU and Breakaway NUHW Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-13 Monday Headlines for September 13, 2010; Tariq Ramadan Debates Moustafa Bayoumi on Proposed Islamic Center Near Ground Zero; Activists Go on Trial in Nevada for Protesting Obama Admin Drone Program; "This Is the Worst Catastrophe to Hit Any State Since Biblical Times" - Just Back from Pakistan, Feryal Ali Gauhar Describes the Suffering from the Flood; While Gingrich Says Obama Acts "Kenyan, Anti-Colonial," What Does a Real Kenyan Anti-Colonialist Think? A Conversation with Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-10 Friday Headlines for September 10, 2010; Why is Oil Giant BP Helping Develop California Schools Environmental Curriculum?; Arianna Huffington on _Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning The Middle Class And Betraying the American Dream_; In Landmark Ruling, Judge Rules 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Policy is Unconstitutional; Pakistan Flood Victims Tell of Suffering, Unfolding Disaster in Southern Sindh Province Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-09 Thursday Headlines for September 09, 2010; Obama Fights to End Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, GOP Pushes Back; Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Boeing in CIA "Torture Flight" Program; Concerns Raised over Use of Computer RFID Chips to Track Preschool Children; No Charges Brought Against Philadelphia School that Monitored Students by Remotely Activating Webcams; Unity College Students & Bill McKibben Launch Road Trip to Reinstall Jimmy Carter Solar Panel Back on White House Roof Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-08 Wednesday Headlines for September 08, 2010; Raj Patel: Mozambique's Food Riots Are the True Face of Global Warming; Jailed for Facebook Friending: Animal Rights Activist Rod Coronado Ordered Back to Prison After Accepting Friend Request from Fellow Activist; Gainesville Muslim Community Organizes Vigils, Teach-Ins to Counter Planned Koran Burning Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-07 Tuesday Headlines for September 07, 2010; Facing Poor Unemployment, Foreclosure & Bankruptcy Rates, Obama Campaigns on Economy in Lead-Up to Nov. Midterms; Robert Scheer on _The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street_; Elizabeth Warren Says Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, That She Might Head, Is Obama's "Strongest Financial Reform" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-03 Friday Headlines for September 03, 2010; Another Oil and Gas Rig Explosion in Gulf of Mexico Renews Calls for Offshore Drilling Ban; Educators Push Back Against Obama's "Business Model" for School Reforms; Study: CEOs Who Fired Most Workers Earned Highest Pay; Flood Refugees in Karachi Relief Camp Complain of Government Corruption and Inefficiency Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-06 Monday Democracy Now! Monday, September 6, 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-02 Thursday Headlines for September 02, 2010; As Pakistan Floods Continue Moving South, Calls for Debt Cancellation Grow; After Years of Organizing, Domestic Workers Win Bill of Rights Law in New York; Appeals Court Ruling Allows Government to Use GPS to Track People's Moves; Alexander Zaitchik on "Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-09-01 Wednesday Headlines for September 01, 2010; "Iraq Is a Shattered Country" - Nir Rosen on Obama Declaring an End to US Combat Mission in Iraq; Withdrawal or Enduring Presence? US Military Continues to Invest Hundreds of Millions in Iraq Bases; Invisible War: How Thirteen Years of US-Imposed Economic Sanctions Devastated Iraq Before the 2003 Invasion; "Security for Everyone, Not Just Settlers and Occupiers" - Ali Abunimah on Opening of US-Brokered Mideast Peace Talks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-31 Tuesday Headlines for August 31, 2010; Draft UN Report Accuses Rwandan Troops of Committing Genocide in the Congo; Slain Latino Journalist Rubén Salazar, Killed 40 Years Ago in Police Attack, Remembered as Champion of Chicano Rights Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-30 Monday Headlines for August 30, 2010; "The Big Uneasy" - In New Doc, Harry Shearer Makes the Case that Katrina Was an Unnatural Disaster; Remembering Hurricane Katrina: Voices from the Storm; Community & Resistance After Katrina: Jordan Flaherty and Tracie Washington on the Fight to Save New Orleans; Displaced New Orleans Poet Sunni Patterson: I Will Be a "Cultural Ambassador to Bring a Light to Every Injustice" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-27 Friday Headlines for August 27, 2010; EXCLUSIVE...Zeitoun: How a Hero in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina Was Arrested, Labeled a Terrorist and Imprisoned Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-26 Thursday Headlines for August 26, 2010; Colleague of NYC Taxi Driver Stabbed in Anti-Muslim Attack Describes What Happened; Swimming Upstream: Eve Ensler Marks Fifth Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with Performances of New Play; Eve Ensler Reads "Congo Cancer: My Cancer Is Arbitrary. Congo's Atrocities Are Very Deliberate"; UN Slow to Respond to Gang Rape of Almost 200 Women in the Congo Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-25 Wednesday Headlines for August 25, 2010; Judge Rejects Death Row Prisoner Troy Davis's Innocence Claim; As Five States Hold Primaries, A Look at the Role of Money in Politics; _The New Yorker:_ Billionaire Brothers Charles & David Koch Have Quietly Given More Than $100 Million to Right-Wing Causes; Shirley Sherrod, Ousted from Agriculture Department, Rejects Offer to Return Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-24 Tuesday Headlines for August 24, 2010; Largest Egg Recall in US History Brings Renewed Attention to Dangers of Industrial Farming; David Kirby on "The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms on Humans and the Environment"; Report: Global Food Security and Sovereignty Threatened by Corporate and Government "Land Grabs" in Poor Countries; Judge Blocks Federal Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-23 Monday Headlines for August 23, 2010; Exclusive: US Journalist Deported from Turkey After Reporting on Plight of Kurds; Scientist Accuses Obama Administration and BP of Underestimating Amount of Oil Left in Gulf of Mexico; Fishing Industry in Gulf Still Worried About Levels of Toxins in the Water and the Impact on Marine Life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-20 Friday Headlines for August 20, 2010; Obama Admin Claims End to Combat Operations in Iraq, But Iraqis See Same War Under a Different Name; Iraq War Vet Camilo Mejía: US Withdrawal Plan Marks "Privatization of Military Occupation"; Debate: Is DREAM Act a Solution for Millions of Undocumented Youth or a Funnel for Military Recruitment? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-19 Thursday Headlines for August 19, 2010; US Activist Lori Berenson and Baby Son Returned to Peruvian Prison Just 3 Months After Release on Parole; With 28,000 Killed Since 2006, Movement for Drug Legalization in Mexico Takes Hold; Obama Signs $600M Bill to Increase Militarization of US-Mexico Border ; Filipina American Torture, Abduction Survivor Melissa Roxas: Graphic Torture Video a Rare Glimpse into Widespread Abuses in the Philippines Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-18 Wednesday Headlines for August 18, 2010; As GOP and Some Top Dems Unite in Opposing NY Islamic Community Center, a Roundtable Discussion with Mother of 9/11 Victim, Rabbi, Muslim Lawmaker and Islamic Scholar Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-17 Tuesday Headlines for August 17, 2010; UN Humanitarian Chief John Holmes: The Magnitude of the Pakistan Floods Is Unprecedented; Thousands of Haitians Face Risk of Forcible Evictions from Temporary Camps ; France Urged to Pay $40 Billion to Haiti in Reparations for "Independence Debt" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-16 Monday Headlines for August 16, 2010; Journalist Exposes How Private Investigation Firm Hired by Chevron Tried to Recruit Her as a Spy to Undermine $27B Suit in Ecuadorian Amazon; Filmmakers, Activists Try to Save Dolphins from Slaughter in Oscar-Winning Doc _The Cove_ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-13 Friday Headlines for August 13, 2010; After Over Four Decades, Justice Still Eludes Family of 3 Civil Rights Workers Slain in Mississippi Burning Killings Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-12 Thursday Headlines for August 12, 2010; As Gibbs Attacks Progressive Critics, ACLU Says Obama White House Enshrining Bush-Era Policies; "I Fear for My Country": Muslim Leader Daisy Khan on Opposition to Ground Zero Mosque and Others Nationwide; "Gaming the System": Study Details How Big Banks Are Avoiding Lending Obligations Under Community Reinvestment Act Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Tour Across the Country with the Florida Modern Day Slavery Museum The Modern Day Slavery Museum explores the history and evolution of modern day forced labor in the agriculture industry and the long legacy of slavery in the food that we eat. The Museum is the latest campaign by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Housed in a box truck, the museum is on a sixty-stop tour across the country. Democracy Now! caught up with the tour in front of Judson Memorial Church in New York City and was given a tour by Julia Perkins, who has been organizing with the C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-11 Wednesday Headlines for August 11, 2010; Gagged for 6 Years, Nick Merrill Speaks Out on Landmark Court Struggle Against FBI's National Security Letters; David Sirota: Democratic Party Establishment Helps Defeat Progressive Challenger in Colorado Primary; Legendary Activist Dolores Huerta Celebrates 80th Birthday with Call for "Weaving Movements Together" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-10 Tuesday Headlines for August 10, 2010; Meterologist: Record Heat Wave in Russia Could Kill Tens of Thousands; Bolivian UN Ambassador: Despite Extreme Weather, US and Other Developed Countries Failing to Make Serious Pledges to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions ; Latin American Historian Greg Grandin on Colombia After Álvaro Uribe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-09 Monday Headlines for August 09, 2010; Fatima Bhutto: Pakistan's Devastating Floods Are President Zardari's Katrina; Rwanda Holds Presidential Election Amid Crackdown on Opposition Candidates; Nagasaki 65 Years Later: A Look Back at the Censored Dispatches of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist George Weller; Historian Tony Judt, 62, Dies After Battle with Lou Gehrig's Disease Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-06 Friday Headlines for August 06, 2010; Verizon & Google Enter Reported Deal for Tiered Internet Use, Is Net Neutrality in Jeopardy?; With Military Suicides on the Rise, Parents of Two Soldiers Who Took Their Own Lives Say Obama's Words Ring Hollow; US Attending Hiroshima Memorial "Enormously Important," Says Robert Jay Lifton Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-05 Thursday Headlines for August 05, 2010; Federal Judge Strikes Down California Same-Sex Marriage Ban in Major Victory for Gay Rights Advocates; EXCLUSIVE...Emily Henochowicz Speaks Out: Art Student Who Lost Her Eye After Being Shot by Israeli Tear Gas Canister in West Bank Protest Discusses Her Life, Her Art, and Why She Plans to Return Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-04 Wednesday Headlines for August 04, 2010; "I Have No Regret to Anybody in the Military. This Is Clearly a Failure of Our Government" - Iraq War Vet Dan Choi Discharged Under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; Environmental Activist Jerry Cope on "The Crime of the Century: What BP and US Government Don't Want You to Know"; Antonia Juhasz: BP's "Missing Oil" Washes up in St. Mary's Parish, LA Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-03 Tuesday Headlines for August 03, 2010; End of Iraq Combat Operations or Beginning of Downsized, Rebranded Occupation Relying Heavily on Private Military Contractors?; Julian Assange Responds to Increasing US Government Attacks on WikiLeaks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-08-02 Monday Headlines for August 02, 2010; Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan War: "The President Lacks the Guts to Get Out"; "12th and Delaware" Offers Unique Inside Look at Struggle Between Abortion Clinic and Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Care Center Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-30 Friday Headlines for July 30, 2010; Obama Defends Sweeping Education Reforms in Face of Criticism from Minority and Teachers' Groups; Dozens of Immigrant Rights Activists Arrested in Arizona; Dave Zirin on "Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love"; Google Teams Up with CIA to Fund "Recorded Future" Startup Monitoring Websites, Blogs & Twitter Accounts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-29 Thursday Headlines for July 29, 2010; On Eve of Major Protests, Federal Judge Blocks Key Provisions of Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law; Patrick Cockburn on Missing Billions in Iraq and Soaring Cancer & Infant Mortality Rates in Fallujah; In Historic Vote, UN Declares Access to Water a Fundamental Right Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-28 Wednesday Headlines for July 28, 2010; WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange: "Transparent Government Tends to Produce Just Government" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-27 Tuesday Headlines for July 27, 2010; WikiLeaks Founder Says "Evidence of War Crimes" in Afghan War Logs, White House Downplays Leak, Claiming "No Broad New Revelations"; _Guardian_ Editor on Coverage of Afghan War Logs: European Audience "Troubled More...By The Toll This War is Taking on Innocent People"; "WikiLeaks is Not One Person...We Are All the Threat" - Hacker Magazine Editor Says WikiLeaks is Bigger Than Julian Assange Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-26 Monday Headlines for July 26, 2010; The New Pentagon Papers: WikiLeaks Releases 90,000+ Secret Military Documents Painting Devastating Picture of Afghanistan War Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-23 Friday Headlines for July 23, 2010; As Senate Dems Give Up on Climate Bill, What Does the Future Hold for US Energy Policy?; Three of Every Four Oil & Gas Lobbyists Worked for Federal Government; Manchin Appointing Fmr. Aide to Replace Byrd "Kabuki Theater Politics" to "Make Sure Coal's Will Be Done in the Senate"; Using Social Media to Build Community...and Resistance; "Reclaiming the Democratic Majority" - Progressive Activists Organize to Change Democrats in Congress Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-22 Thursday Headlines for July 22, 2010; Jesse Jackson Calls Shirley Sherrod a "True Freedom Fighter" Who Fought Back Against "Attempted Character Assassination"; Nevada Leads Nation in Unemployment, Foreclosures, Bankruptcies; Reid Leads in Nevada Senate Race After Series of Controversial Statements by GOP Challenger Sharron Angle; "Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable" - Majora Carter on the Struggle for Environmental Justice Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-21 Wednesday Headlines for July 21, 2010; Lead in Lipstick? Coal Tar in Shampoo? As New Bill Calls for Stricter Rules on Beauty Products, a Debate Between Campaign for Safe Cosmetics Founder and Cosmetics Industry Spokesperson; Skin Deep: Online Cosmetics Safety Database Rates 62,000+ Beauty Products; Actress and Cancer Survivor Fran Drescher Speaks Out in Support of New Bill Seeking Stricter Cosmetics Rules; Killings in Kashmir by Indian Forces Spark Protests Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-20 Tuesday Headlines for July 20, 2010; US & G8 Funding Cuts for AIDS "Will Be Counted in Human Lives" - Stephen Lewis Blasts Obama, Rich Nations over AIDS Policy; EPA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Covering Up Effects of Dispersant in BP Oil Spill Cleanup; Gulf Coast Residents Outraged that Money Earned on Cleanup Might Be Subtracted from $20 Billion Claim Fund; Prosecutors Charge White Man for Racially Motivated Shooting in Post-Katrina New Orleans Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-19 Monday Headlines for July 19, 2010; "Top Secret America" _Washington Post_ Investigation Reveals Massive, Unmanageable, Outsourced US Intelligence System; Tim Shorrock Asks Why It Took the _Washington Post_ So Long to Investigate the US Intelligence System; Social Security Under Attack: Cuts Proposed, Higher Retirement Age Suggested Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-16 Friday Headlines for July 16, 2010; Goldman Sachs Settles Civil Fraud Case for $550M -- Less Than It Reportedly Expected, and With No Admission of Criminal Wrongdoing; The Food Bubble: How Wall Street Starved Millions and Got Away With It; Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Resentenced to 10-Year Term -- Nearly Five Times Her Original Sentence Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-15 Thursday Headlines for July 15, 2010; "They Have Terrorized Our Community": Anti-Immigrant List Targets Latinos in Utah; "Tea Party in Sonora": Ken Silverstein of Harper's Says Arizona is Laboratory for Radical GOP Policies; Study: Global Warming to Bring Increased Heat Waves to U.S.; Himalayan Glaciers Melting Faster Than Anywhere Else in World; Impact Could Devastate Over 1 Billion People Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-14 Wednesday Headlines for July 14, 2010; In the Shadow of Ruins: Haitians Decry Conditions in Massive Tent City Across from Destroyed National Palace; Land Ownership at the Crux of Haiti's Stalled Reconstruction; Rape in the Camps: Lacking Security, Women Organize to Protect Themselves; "When Everybody Comes and Has a Solution For Haiti It Only Creates a Problem" - Sister Mary Finnick on Recovery Efforts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-13 Tuesday Headlines for July 13, 2010; Sean Penn on Haiti Six Months After the Earthquake, Recovery Efforts and Why He Decided to Manage a Tent Camp of 55,000 Displaced Haitians Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-12 Monday Headlines for July 12, 2010; Democracy Now! in Port-Au-Prince: Patrick Elie on Haiti Six Months After the Earthquake; Beverly Bell: There is No Plan For Permanently Housing the 1.9 Million Haitians Who Lost Their Homes in the Quake; Displaced Haitians: "We Can't Continue In This Situation Anymore" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-09 Friday Headlines for July 09, 2010; Report: 27,000 Abandoned Wells Pose Threat to Gulf Coast; ProPublica: BP Texas Refinery Had Huge Toxic Release Just Before Gulf Blowout; Photographer Harassed by BP Security, Detained by Police While on Assignment at BP Texas Refinery; Outrage in Oakland: Transit Officer Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter - Not Murder - in Killing of Unarmed Oscar Grant; Gary Rivlin on "Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-08 Thursday Headlines for July 08, 2010; Juan Gonzalez Remembers Puerto Rican Analyst Juan Manuel García Passalacqua; Military Psychologists Face Complaints With Licensing Boards Over Roles at Guantanamo; Gwynne Dyer on "Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats"; A Debate on Geoengineering: Vandana Shiva vs. Gwynne Dyer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-07 Wednesday Headlines for July 07, 2010; After U.S. Praise for Netanyahu's "Restraint", Israeli Journalist Amira Hass Asks Obama to Imagine Life as Palestinian Under Occupation; BP Oil Spill Cleanup Workers Getting Sick, Exxon Valdez Survivor Warns of Long Term Health Effects; Media Clampdown in the Gulf Coast: Government and BP Place More Restrictions on Journalists Covering the Oil Spill; As Dalai Lama Marks 75th Birthday, A Look at His Views on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Tibet Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-06 Tuesday Headlines for July 06, 2010; Scientist Working With Government Says BP Restricting Access to Study Gushing Oil Well; Environmentalist Facing 3-Year Prison Sentence For Unfurling Banners in Senate Office Building; Plaintiff in ACLU Suit Challenging Government No-Fly List Describes Struggle, First Against Deportation, Then To Be Allowed to Board a Plane; "Promised Land" - New Doc Follows Struggles Over Land in South Africa; Puerto Rican Attorney, Historian & Analyst Juan Manuel García-Passal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-05 Monday Democracy Now! Monday, July 5, 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-02 Friday Headlines for July 02, 2010; Despite House Passage, Feingold Maintains Opposition to Financial Reform Bill as "Too Weak" in Face of Wall St. Recklessness; Canadian Civil Liberties Group Mulls Lawsuit as Details of Mass Arrests, Unprecedented Powers at G2O Come to Light; Leading Canadian Peace Activist Targeted by Home Break-In in Lead-Up to G20; Maude Barlow: "The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History"; In First Address on Immigration, Obama Urges Middle Ground Betwe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-07-01 Thursday Headlines for July 01, 2010; Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone on the Story that Brought Down Gen. McChrystal and Exposed Widening Disputes Behind the U.S. Debacle in Afghanistan; Rep. John Conyers and Out of Afghanistan Caucus Oppose Obama Admin's $33B Escalation of Afghan War; Fmr. Marine, State Dept. Official Matthew Hoh is First U.S. Official to Resign Over Afghan War Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-30 Wednesday Headlines for June 30, 2010; At Confirmation Hearings, Kagan Faces Questioning on Political Leanings, Gun Ownership, Military Recruiting, and Abortion; Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree on "The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America"; From Ku Klux Klan Member to Iraq War Opponent and Obama Supporter, Late Sen. Robert Byrd Remembered for "Principle and Honor" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-29 Tuesday Headlines for June 29, 2010; Jury Convicts Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge of Lying About Torture; John Pilger: There Is a War on Journalism; As Congo Marks 50th Anniversary of Independence, Human Rights Abuses Rise in Congo and Neighboring Rwanda Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-28 Monday Headlines for June 28, 2010; Toronto Police Arrest Over 600 in Crackdown Outside G20 Summit; Naomi Klein: The Real Crime Scene Was Inside the G20 Summit; Journalist Describes Being Beaten, Arrested by Canadian Police While Covering G20 Protest; One Year After Coup, Honduras Repression Continues Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-25 Friday Headlines for June 25, 2010; Fortress Toronto: Massive Security Clampdown for G8/G20 Meetings Most Expensive in Canadian History; CODEPINK Activist Detained for Over 48 Hours at Canadian Border After Being Denied Entry to Canada; Indigenous Activists Protest G8/G20 Meetings in Toronto; Indigenous Leader Art Manuel: "Indigenous People Are the First Ones Impacted" by Western-Driven Resource Extraction; Indigenous Groups Lead Struggle Against Canada's Tar Sands; Canadian Activist Stefan Christ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-24 Thursday Headlines for June 24, 2010; 3 US Soldiers Speak Out on McChrystal's Firing, Petraeus as Replacement, and the Unending War in Afghanistan; Detroit Urban Agriculture Movement Looks to Reclaim Motor City; Detroit Summer: The Youth Program that Inspired Many Activists to Make Detroit a Movement City; Detroit Hip-Hop Artist and Activist Invincible: Another Detroit Is Happening Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-23 Wednesday Headlines for June 23, 2010; Obama Considers Firing Gen. Stanley McChrystal over Public Criticism of Administration's Handling of Afghan War Effort; Over 10,000 March in Detroit to Open US Social Forum; 47 Years Ago in Detroit: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivers First "I Have a Dream" Speech; Adrienne Maree Brown on the US Social Forum, Detroit and Octavia Butler; Disability Justice Activists Look at "Ways to Maintain Ablism" and Counter "How Our Bodies Experience Trauma in the Medical-I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-22 Tuesday Headlines for June 22, 2010; "The Answers Are Coming from the Bottom": Legendary Detroit Activist Grace Lee Boggs on the US Social Forum and her 95th Birthday; Newly Elected UAW President Bob King on Reversing the Erosion of Workers' Rights, Benefits and the Role of Social and Environmental Justice in Union Organizing; Longtime Organizer and Former Automaker Richard Feldman on the Rise and Fall of the Auto Industry in Detroit Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-21 Monday Headlines for June 21, 2010; Academy-Award Winning Filmmaker Oliver Stone Tackles Latin America's Political Upheaval in "South of the Border", US Financial Crisis in Sequel to Iconic "Wall Street" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-18 Friday Headlines for June 18, 2010; Grilled by Lawmakers, BP CEO Tony Hayward Denies BP Recklessness Led to Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster; Fmr. Labor Secretary Robert Reich: US Should Put BP Under Temporary Receivership During Gulf Coast Recovery; Tom Engelhardt on "The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's"; Following Community Protests, Bank of America Backs Down from Foreclosing on Disabled Bronx Homeowner Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-17 Thursday Headlines for June 17, 2010; With Rumored Manhunt for Wikileaks Founder and Arrest of Alleged Leaker of Video Showing Iraq Killings, Obama Admin Escalates Crackdown on Whistleblowers of Classified Information ; Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater Owner Erik Prince's Rumored Move to UAE and Obama Admin's Expansion of Special Forces Operations Abroad Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-16 Wednesday Headlines for June 16, 2010; Obama Cites BP "Recklessness," Vows Gulf Coast Compensation, and Calls for Green Energy Future -- But Won't Halt Offshore Drilling; Roundtable: NOLA Environmental Attorney Monique Harden, Sierra Club Exec Director Michael Brune and Leading Scientist Amory Lovins on the BP Oil Spill and the Way to a Green Energy Future; Britain Acknowledges "Bloody Sunday" Killings Were Unjustified and Apologizes to Victims' Families Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-15 Tuesday Headlines for June 15, 2010; Supreme Court: Torture and Rendition Victim Maher Arar Cannot Sue in US Courts ; "I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire": Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-14 Monday Headlines for June 14, 2010; At Least 117 People Killed in Kyrgyzstan; An Estimated 80,000 Uzbeks Have Fled ; Stephen Kinzer on the History of BP/British Petroleum and Its Role in the 1953 Iran Coup; Stephen Kinzer: "Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-11 Friday Headlines for June 11, 2010; Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson on the Inside Story of How Obama Let the World's Most Dangerous Oil Company Get Away with Murder ; Mine Workers Union and Families Sue to Open Federal Probe into Deadly Massey Coal Mine Explosion; "Upside Down World Cup": Raj Patel on How South Africa Has Cracked Down on the Poor and the Shack Dwellers' Movement Ahead of the World Cup Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-10 Thursday Headlines for June 10, 2010; Mexican Teenager Shot Dead on Mexican Soil by US Border Agent; EXCLUSIVE: New Video Smuggled Out from Mavi Marmara of Israel's Deadly Assault on Gaza Aid Flotilla ; Peace Activist Kathy Kelly on the Secret US War in Pakistan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-09 Wednesday Headlines for June 09, 2010; Scientist: BP Well Could Be Leaking 100,000 Barrels of Oil a Day ; Years of Internal BP Probes Warned that Neglect Could Lead to Accidents; Palestinian Member of Israeli Knesset Receives Death Threats After Surviving Israeli Raid on Gaza Aid Flotilla; Framing the Narrative: Israeli Commandos Seize Videotape and Equipment from Journalists After Deadly Raid Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-08 Tuesday Headlines for June 08, 2010; Veteran White House Reporter Helen Thomas Retires After Israel Remarks; Experiments in Torture: Medical Group Accuses CIA of Carrying Out Illegal Human Experimentation; Pentagon Bars Four Reporters from Guantánamo; Antiwar Democrat Marcy Winograd Challenges Rep. Jane Harman in California Primary Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-07 Monday Headlines for June 07, 2010; Israel Rejects Call for International Probe into Attack on Gaza Flotilla; BP Oil Spill Threatens Future of Indigenous Communities in Louisiana; Johan Galtung on "The Fall of the US Empire" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-04 Friday Headlines for June 04, 2010; As Obama Refuses to Condemn Flotilla Assault, Survivors Recount Shootings, Beatings Aboard Mavi Marmara; 43 Years After Surviving Israeli Attack on USS Liberty, US Veteran Joe Meadors Seized by Israeli Forces on Gaza Aid Flotilla; Nearly 5 Years After Katrina, African American Fishing Community in Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish Faces New Struggle in Oil Spill Devastation and BP Obstruction; Family Members Fear for Life of Jailed US Attorney Peter Erlinder in Rwa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-03 Thursday Headlines for June 03, 2010; Flotilla Passengers Huwaida Arraf of Free Gaza Movement and Retired Army Col. Ann Wright Respond to Israeli Claims on Deadly Assault; U.S. Student Loses Eye After Israel Fires on West Bank Protest; Actor Q'orianka Kilcher Arrested at White House Protest in Support of Peruvian Indigenous Rights Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Democracy Now! 2010-06-02 Wednesday Headlines for June 02, 2010; On Front Lines of BP Oil Spill: Democracy Now! Travels Across Coastal Louisiana; As Global Outrage Mounts, Israel Deputy