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News Friday, December 06, 2019 Edward Snowden: If I Came Back to the U.S., I Would Likely Die in Prison for Telling the Truth The Right Livelihood Awards celebrated their 40th anniversary Wednesday at the historic Cirkus Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, where more than a thousand people gathered to celebrate this year’s four laureates: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg; Chinese women’s rights lawyer Guo Jianmei,... Read more |
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News Thursday, November 28, 2019 Our History Is the Future: Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving & Indigenous Resistance Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future . He is a co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. Watch: Read more |
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News Monday, November 11, 2019 "This Is a Military Coup": Bolivian President Evo Morales Resigns After Army Calls for His Ouster Bolivia is in a state of political crisis after longtime President Evo Morales resigned Sunday following what he described as a military coup. Weeks of protests have taken place since a disputed election last month. Morales announced his resignation in a televised address Sunday, shortly after the... Read more |
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News Monday, September 30, 2019 Edward Snowden Condemns Trump’s Mistreatment of Whistleblower Who Exposed Ukraine Scandal Responding to news of a whistleblower’s complaint at the center of an impeachment inquiry filed against President Trump this week, famed whistleblower Edward Snowden speaks about his own decision to leak classified documents in 2013. The House Intelligence Committee has released the declassified... Read more |
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News Monday, May 06, 2019 Ex-Blackwater CEO Erik Prince Makes a Comeback Under Trump Selling Mercenary Armies Around the World The House Intelligence Committee has sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department for Erik Prince, founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater. House Democrats are accusing Prince of lying to Congress during his November 2017 testimony before the Committee, when he described a meeting in the... Read more |
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News Saturday, April 13, 2019 Chomsky: Arrest of Assange Is “Scandalous” and Highlights Shocking Extraterritorial Reach of US Attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are vowing to fight his possible extradition to the United States following his arrest in London, when British police forcibly removed Assange from the Ecuadorean Embassy, where he had taken asylum for almost seven years. On Thursday night, Democracy... Read more |
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News Monday, March 25, 2019 'Saddest Media Spectacle I’ve Ever Seen': Journalists Glenn Greenwald and David Cay Johnston Debate Russiagate As congressional Democrats call on the Justice Department to release the full Mueller report, Democracy Now! spoke to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who have closely followed the probes into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election: Glenn Greenwald, a founding editor of The Intercept and a... Read more |
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News Wednesday, January 30, 2019 'US Trying to Overthrow the Government of Venezuela,' Warns Veteran Journalist Allan Nairn The United States is continuing to ratchet up pressure on the Venezuelan government in an attempt to topple President Nicolás Maduro. On Tuesday, the State Department announced it is giving control of Venezuela’s U.S. bank accounts to opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who declared himself to be... Read more |
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News Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Chase Iron Eyes: Trump’s Mocking of Native Americans Gives License to Others to Denigrate My People As we continue to look at the video that has gone viral showing a group of Catholic high school students apparently mocking an indigenous tribal elder near the Lincoln Memorial, we speak to Chase Iron Eyes, an activist and lead attorney for the Lakota People’s Law Project. He is a spokesperson for... Read more |
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News Thursday, January 17, 2019 Strike! Barbara Ehrenreich Calls on TSA Workers to Walk Off Job in Protest of Government Shutdown The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is now on Day 27. As 800,000 workers continue to go without pay, federal employees around the country are rising up to demand an end to the shutdown, which has run public institutions ragged and left hundreds of thousands financially strapped. We... Read more |