This week has seen the largest number of posts on the page since this site was started a little over 2 years ago. You can get to the page before this and thers by clicking “Older entries” at the bottom of this page and the pages that you then come to. There all manner [...]
Israel Deports Democracy Now! Correspondent Jihan Hafiz; Most Gaza Flotilla Activists Still Detained The Israeli government continues to detain a number of passengers seized in international waters Friday while trying to challenge the Israeli naval “Freedom Waves” flotilla. Some 20 activists are believed to remain in custody after refusing to sign statements asserting they had [...]
“News for All the People”: Juan González & Joseph Torres on the Epic Story of Race & the U.S. Media After seven years of research, the groundbreaking new book, “News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media,” examines how the media has played a pivotal role in perpetuating racist [...]
AMY GOODMAN: A final settlement has been reached in our federal lawsuit challenging the police crackdown on journalists at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul. Democracy Now! producers, Nicole Salazar, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and I filed the suit last year against the Minneapolis and St. Paul Police Departments, the Ramsey County Sheriff and Secret Service [...]
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to look at the devastating financial reality now facing many Americans. A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals the number of people living in poverty last year surged to 46.2 million. That’s one in six Americans, the highest number since the Bureau began tracking such data more than 50 [...]
JUAN GONZALEZ: Inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, a rolling rebellion continues to unfold across North [Africa] and the Middle East, often amid violent repression by state security forces. During an overnight raid in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, heavily armed riot police surrounded thousands of demonstrators who were sleeping in the central square [...]
Inside Greece’s General Strike: Video Report From Athens As Thousands Protest Sweeping Austerity Cuts As our broadcast went to air, lawmakers in Greece were voting on — and later approved — a new round of sweeping austerity measures amidst a general strike that’s brought tens of thousands into the streets. Riot police have fired volleys [...]
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. AMY GOODMAN: [...]
