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 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 |
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Views Friday, November 04, 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline CEO Kelcy Warren Should Face the Music President Barack Obama foreshadowed more complications for the Dakota Access pipeline this week, as he told an interviewer that “right now the Army Corps is examining whether there are ways to reroute this pipeline.” With hundreds arrested in recent weeks at the Standoff at Standing Rock, North... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 27, 2016 AT&T, Time Warner and the Death of Privacy It has been 140 years since Alexander Graham Bell uttered the first words through his experimental telephone, to his lab assistant: “Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you.” His invention transformed human communication, and the world. The company he started grew into a massive monopoly, AT&T... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 22, 2016 On Strip Searches and Press Freedom in North Dakota Monday was a cold, windy, autumnal day in North Dakota. We arrived outside the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan to produce a live broadcast of the “Democracy Now!” news hour. Originally, the location was dictated by the schedule imposed upon us by the local authorities; one of us (Amy) had been... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 14, 2016 Standing Rock Sioux Protectors Intensify Fight Against Dakota Pipeline Construction Hurricane Matthew has come and gone, leaving devastation in its wake. So far, at least 1,000 people are reported to have died in Haiti, and at least 39 have died throughout the southeastern United States. In North Carolina, the rivers are still rising. In this election year, given the destruction,... Read more |