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Democracy Now!

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A daily hard-hitting coverage of war and peace, government policies, and struggles for justice.

Credits:
Hosts: Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez Producers: Mike Burke, John Hamilton, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Franklin Lopez, Aaron Mate, Elizabeth Press, Yoruba Richen,

Latest Shows:

In Rare Joint Interview, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn on Iraq, Vietnam, Activism and History; (2007-04-16)

PBS Criticized for Excluding Latino, Native Voices from WWII Documentary; Step It Up: Thousands Gather this Weekend for Largest Ever-Rally Against Global Warming; Who Killed the Electric Car? New Documentary Looks at the Mysterious Disappearance of the EV-1; (2007-04-13)

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84; Red Cross Warns "Disastrous," "Immense" Iraqi Humanitarian Crisis "Ever-Worsening"; War and Taxes: With 40% of IRS Revenue Going to Military, Resisters Prepare to Withhold Taxes to Protest War; Is Princeton Professor and Retired Marine on Government No-Fly List for Criticizing the White House?; (2007-04-12)

"Mr. Imus Has Stolen a Moment of Pure Grace From Us" - Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Condemn Don Imus's Remarks; Five Years Later, Venezuelan Ambassador Reflects on US-Backed Coup, and Discusses Venezuela's Oil Plans, Posada Carriles, and Chavez's Controversial Decree Powers; Egyptian Feminist, Playwright and Activist Nawal El Saadawi Defies Threats to Speak Out for Women's Rights, Democracy in Egypt; (2007-04-11)

Two Explosive Books Tell the Inside Story of the Forged Iraq-Niger Docs That Helped Build the Case for War; (2007-04-10)

"You Cannot Allow the Airwaves to Become the Toilet of Racist Language in America" - Sharpton Calls for Imus to Be Fired; Blue Grit: Laura Flanders on How "True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians"; Sports Columnist Dave Zirin on Muhammad Ali's Career and His Groundbreaking Political Involvement; (2007-04-09)

Former Wal-Mart Worker Blows Whistle on Company Surveillance Operation, Spying of Critics; Watching the Watchdogs: Wal-Mart Critic Monitored by Retail Giant; Is Sickness a Crime? Arizona Man With TB Locked Up Indefinitely in Solitary Confinement; (2007-04-06)

Secret FBI Unit Detained War Protesters In 2002; 'Outsourced Guantanamo' - FBI & CIA Interrogating Detainees in Secret Ethiopian Jails, U.S. Citizen Among Those Held; War Photographer Chris Hondros Witnesses U.S. Shooting of Iraqi Parents in Car With Six Children; (2007-04-05)

Subprime Lending Crisis: Millions of Families Face Losing Their Homes to Foreclosure; In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Burst; Imprisoned Journalist Josh Wolf Released After Record 225 Days in Jail; Beyond Vietnam: 40th Anniversary of King's Landmark Antiwar Speech; (2007-04-04)

Supreme Court Rules EPA Can Regulate Greenhouse Gases Linked to Global Warming in Defeat For Bush Administration; Report: Global "Climate Divide" Growing Between Rich and Poor Countries; 400 Die in Mogadishu's Worst Fighting in 15 years; (2007-04-03)

"As An Embedded First-Hand Witness in Iraq...I Want to Share Stories the American Public is Not Aware of and the Mainstream Media is Not Telling" - Iraqi-American Sami Rasouli; "The Worse Things Get in Iraq, the More Privatized This War Becomes, The More Profitable This War Becomes" - Naomi Klein on the Privatization of the State; (2007-04-02)

Understanding How Good People Turn Evil: Renowned Psychologist Philip Zimbardo On his Landmark Stanford Prison Experiment, Abu Ghraib and More; (2007-03-30)

Larry Kramer on the 20th Anniversary of ACT UP, the Government's Failure to Prevent the AIDS Crisis and the State of Gay Activism Today; (2007-03-29)

"This Isn't American Idol, We're Choosing the President of the United States" - Kucinich on Corporate Media Campaign Coverage; Andre Schiffrin on 50 Years in Publishing World, From Corporate Consolidation to Founding Independent Non-Profit; (2007-03-28)

David Hicks Becomes First Guantanamo Prisoner to Plead Guilty; Iran Continues to Hold 15 Captured British Sailors; Report: U.S. Sponsoring Kurdish Guerrilla Attacks Inside Iran; Over 240 Arrested Since "Occupation Project" Launched to Call on Congress to End War Funding; (2007-03-27)

Report: NYPD Conducted Extensive National, International Spy Campaign on Protesters Before GOP Convention; NYPD Debates Civil Liberties Attorney Over Police Spying of Protesters; (2007-03-26)

"The Surge of Baghdad Should Become the Surge on Washington" - Fmr. UN Iraq Mission Chief Hans Von Sponeck; Chiquita Admits to Paying Colombian Paramilitary Group on U.S. Terror List; Why the Cincinnati Enquirer Was Forced to Apologize for 1998 Expose of Chiquita's Latin America Dealings; (2007-03-23)

Funding War? A Democratic Debate Between Rep Lynn Woolsey and Robert Borosage; 9-Year-Old Canadian Citizen and Iranian Parents Arrive in Toronto After Six Weeks in Texas Immigration Jail; Remembering Puerto Rico's Ponce Massacre; (2007-03-22)

Capitol Hill Showdown Looms Over U.S. Attorney Scandal as Bush Refuses to Let Officials Testify Under Oath; "The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" - Doc Traces Path to Torture of Prisoners at Infamous Iraqi Prison; Part II - Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army; (2007-03-21)

Three Officers Charged in Sean Bell Killing Plead Not Guilty, Family Calls For Justice; Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army; (2007-03-20)

Grand Jury Indicts Three NYPD Officers in Sean Bell Shooting, Two Face Manslaughter Charges; Mass Protests Mark Fourth Anniversary of Iraq War; Israeli Author, Peace Activist Tanya Reinhart Dies at 63; (2007-03-19)

Mother of Ailing Iraq War Vet Confronts Rep Obey Over U.S. Troop Withdrawal; Veteran Dies After VA Refuses Treatment For Days; As Health Deteriorates, Jailed Palestinian Professor Sami Al-Arian Enters 54th Day of Hunger Strike to Protest Indefinite Imprisonment; (2007-03-16)

Close to Slavery: Report Finds Labor Abuses Under Guestworker Programs; Indian Guestworker Slits Wrists After Being Fired for Complaining About Squalid Work Conditions; 9-Year-Old Canadian Citizen and Iranian Parents Imprisoned in Texas Immigration Jail To Be Allowed Back Into Canada; (2007-03-15)

Alberto Gonzales Refuses to Resign Over Political Purging of U.S. Attorneys; It Can Happen Here: Journalist Joe Conason on "Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush"; Italian Journalist Giuliana Sgrena on Washington's Refusal to Take Responsibility for Fatal Shooting of Intel Agent Nicola Calipari in Iraq; (2007-03-14)

Harvest of Shame: Report Accuses Child Labor Abuses in Guatemala; The Endless War Memorial: Father of Slain Soldier Joins Times Square Protest to Read Names of Iraq War Dead; Cornel West on "What It Means to Be a Leftist in the 21st Century"; (2007-03-13)

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