Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now!," a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on 1,100 stations in North America. She was awarded the 2008 Right Livelihood Award, dubbed the “Alternative Nobel” prize, and received the award in the Swedish Parliament in December.
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Views Thursday, February 23, 2017 The U.S. Rejected Would-Be Refugee Anne Frank—Let’s Not Make a Similar Error Now Anne Frank would be 87 years old had she not perished in Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp in Germany. What words of wisdom might she offer the Trump administration as it crafts its latest iteration of its Muslim and refugee ban? Anne Frank is known for her famous diary, written while she... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 10, 2017 Silenced Twice by the Senate, Coretta Scott King’s Words Live On Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was interrupted while reading the words of Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor this week. Warren was reading a 1986 letter King wrote in opposition to the confirmation of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, then a U.S. attorney in Alabama, to a federal district... Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 28, 2017 Standing Rock Sioux to Trump: ‘Creating a Second Flint Does Not Make America Great Again’ No longer just tweeting, President Donald J. Trump has been issuing a stream of executive orders and memoranda since his inauguration. On Tuesday, his pronouncements involved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Both projects were denied or delayed by the Obama administration, each after... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 12, 2017 30 Years Later, the Senate Should Reject Jeff Sessions Again The arc of U.S. history is on full display as the peaceful transition of power takes place from the administration of President Barack Obama to that of incoming President-elect Donald Trump. The first African-American president is about to hand the reins of power to the very man who led the racist... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 31, 2016 Donald Trump’s New Nuclear Instability President-elect Donald Trump exploded a half-century of U.S. nuclear-arms policy in a single tweet last week: “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” With that one vague message, Donald Trump,... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 23, 2016 Will Political Chaos in North Carolina Lead to a ‘Third Reconstruction’? Editor’s note: After this column was written, North Carolina lawmakers voted against repealing the transgender “bathroom bill,” which requires people to use public restrooms that match the sex on their birth certificates. North Carolina Republicans have provoked a political firestorm. First, Gov... Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 15, 2016 Hamilton Electors Have a Message for Donald Trump: ‘You’re Fired’ Donald Trump continues to shock the world as he endlessly fires off derogatory, lie-laden tweets and nominates generals and fossil-fuel zealots to his Cabinet posts. Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote has climbed to 2.8 million votes, yet Trump retains his lead in electoral votes with 306... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 09, 2016 A Victory at Standing Rock—for Now The Dakota Access pipeline has been stopped, at least for now. The Standing Rock Sioux Nation and thousands of native and non-native allies won a remarkable and unexpected victory Sunday. Word came down that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had denied a permit for the pipeline owner, Energy... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 03, 2016 How the Media Iced Out Bernie Sanders & Helped Donald Trump Win We hadn’t seen Bernie Sanders in Philadelphia since last July, when he watched his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, win the Democratic Party’s nomination. Sanders joined the “Democracy Now!” news hour this week at the historic Philadelphia Free Library for a wide-ranging discussion. “I am deeply... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 11, 2016 Resistance Movements Can Be More Powerful Than President Trump From Barack Obama, the first African-American president, the pendulum has ominously swung to the Ku Klux Klan’s choice, Donald Trump. Just elected the 45th president of the United States, Trump opened his campaign calling Mexicans “rapists,” and promised to build a wall along the border with Mexico... Read more |