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The Ithaca Voice
April 25, 2018
Previous winners of the Izzy Award are Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill, Robert Scheer, City Limits, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Center for Media and Democracy/“ALEC Exposed,” Mother Jones, John Carlos Frey, Nick Turse, Naomi Klein, David Sirota, Jamie Kalven, Brandon Smith, InsideÃâà...
Truth-Out
April 25, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: So that's Manuel Duran reporting on Facebook Live. About 15 minutes later, as he and other journalists covered demonstrators crossing a street bound together in chains, police stepped in to arrest an activist. Several officers then turned to Duran himself and ordered him to get out of theÃâà...
Truth-Out
April 25, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: For more, we go to Washington, D.C., where we're joined by Peter Kornbluh, who directs the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive at George Washington University. He has a new cover story for Politico on reporter Lisa Howard's extensive back-channel diplomacyÃâà...
Madison.com
April 22, 2018
Siwatu-Salama Ra is no stranger to standing her ground. It was because she did, though, that the 26-year-old pregnant mother may have to give birth while imprisoned. Siwatu is an environmental and racial justice activist. She was unjustly prosecuted and jailed, and, now in the third trimester of a high-riskÃâà...
Democracy Now!
April 17, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, with Part 2 of our discussion about the police officers who responded to a 911 call on April 5th in Brooklyn and shot dead an unarmed, mentally troubled African-American man on a street cornerÃâà...
Democracy Now!
April 17, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: “Aleppo” by Sinne Eeg, here on Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, as we get the latest on what happened this weekend with the U.S., French, British bombing of Syria. In his tweet on Saturday morning, President Donald Trump wrote,Ãâà...
Madison.com
April 13, 2018
The for-profit social media giant Facebook harvests vast amounts of data from each of its 2 billion users across the globe. This data trove gives Facebook unparalleled commercial power and, as is becoming increasingly clear, the ability to influence significant events, including national elections.
Democracy Now!
April 13, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I'm Amy Goodman, as we end today's show looking at a new project called the Eviction Lab, that looked at more than 80 million eviction records going back to 2000 and revealed, in 2016 alone, there were nearly four evictions filed every minute—more than 6,300Ãâà...
Democracy Now!
April 12, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh, as we continue with our guest, from Paul Ryan to what's happening around the country in the conservative movement and those that are challenging it. Nermeen?
Democracy Now!
April 11, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced off with senators Tuesday in a marathon 5-hour hearing on the privacy scandals plaguing the social network. Zuckerberg was called to answer questions about how the voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of more thanÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
April 7, 2018
If you drive the southern route between Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, your halfway point will be Memphis, Tennessee. The route forms an arc, a shape on the minds of many on this 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Paraphrasing theÃâà...
Madison.com
April 6, 2018
If you drive the southern route between Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, your halfway point will be Memphis, Tennessee. The route forms an arc, a shape on the minds of many on this 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Paraphrasing theÃâà...
Madison.com
March 30, 2018
Almost one year has passed since Chelsea Manning was released from the U.S Army prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Manning, the most famous Army whistleblower, served seven years of a 35-year sentence for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified records about the American wars in Iraq andÃâà...
Democracy Now!
March 28, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: A new battle is brewing over the 2020 U.S. census. At least 12 states are moving to sue the Trump administration over plans to add one question: “Are you a U.S. citizen?” Voting rights activists fear the question on the upcoming census will deter immigrants from participating in the census,Ãâà...
Democracy Now!
March 20, 2018
Amy Goodman will appear in a documentary this Saturday night on NBC titled “Hope & Fury: MLK, The Movement and The Media.” The film will air on NBC on Saturday, March 24, at 8 p.m. ET and on MSNBC Sunday, March 25, at 9 p.m. ET. Watch the trailer:Ãâà...
Democracy Now!
March 17, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: Today, we begin a special series looking back at 1968, a pivotal year in modern American history. It was a year that saw the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, historic student strikes from Columbia to San Francisco State, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia,Ãâà...
Madison.com
March 17, 2018
This March 21, 2017, photo provided by the CIA, shows CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel. Haspel, who joined the CIA in 1985, has been chief of station at CIA outposts abroad. President Donald Trump tweeted March 13, 2018, that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be the new secretary ofÃâà...
Democracy Now!
March 16, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: While the Parkland shooting has dominated national headlines for a month, far less coverage was paid to the death of Courtlin. We go now to Birmingham, where we're joined by Courtlin's aunt, Shenise Abercrombie. Shenise, welcome to Democracy Now! Tell us what happened to yourÃâà...
AlterNet
March 16, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: While the Parkland shooting has dominated national headlines for a month, far less coverage was paid to the death of Courtlin. We go now to Birmingham, where we're joined by Courtlin's aunt, Shenise Abercrombie. Shenise, welcome to Democracy Now! Tell us what happened to yourÃâà...
Democracy Now!
March 15, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: That was Jose Rodriguez from 2014 on CBS. I wanted to get Jeremy Scahill to respond, co-founder of The Intercept, host of the weekly podcast Intercepted, author of the books Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army and Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,Ãâà...
Democracy Now!
March 9, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: The White House says President Trump has accepted an invitation to meet directly with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un. This is South Korea's National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong speaking to reporters Thursday night, in the dark, outside the White House, near the portico, afterÃâà...
Madison.com
March 9, 2018
Wyoming County's Mullens Elementary school teachers Kara Brown, from right, Katherine Dudley and Nina Tunstalle, along with Lois Casto of Central Elementary school in St. Albans, react to news that West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and Senate Republicans have reached a tentative deal to end a strike byÃâà...
Madison.com
March 2, 2018
Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now!," a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 1,400 stations, including WORT here. She is the co-author, with Denis Moynihan and David Goodman, of the newly published New York Times best-seller "Democracy Now!: 20 Years Covering theÃâà...
Democracy Now!
February 28, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. As Black History Month wraps up, we turn now to a film that is making history as we speak. That's right, we spend the rest of the hour looking at the record-breaking blockbuster film Black Panther.
Madison.com
February 23, 2018
Nikolas Cruz knew how to handle a gun, thanks to the National Rifle Association and the U.S. Army. The accused perpetrator of the Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gunned down 17 people in three minutes, all with a semi-automatic AR-15.
The Spokesman-Review
February 23, 2018
Nikolas Cruz knew how to handle a gun, thanks to the National Rifle Association and the U.S. Army. The accused perpetrator of the Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gunned down 17 people in three minutes, all with a semi-automatic AR-15.
Democracy Now!
February 21, 2018
AMY GOODMAN: So, you have Nikolas Cruz, the confessed gunman. He's part of the ROTC program, supported by the NRA, at this school, even as the school has these complaints of harassment and abuse, and ultimately expel him. Can you—he's wearing a JROTC T-shirt when he opens fire on hisÃâà...
Madison.com
February 16, 2018
On Monday, President Donald Trump released his proposed budget for 2019. On the heels of his only legislative accomplishment to date, the massive tax cut that favors the wealthiest individuals and corporations, Trump's budget would slash or completely eliminate core anti-poverty programs that form theÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
February 16, 2018
On Monday, President Donald Trump released his proposed budget for 2019. On the heels of his only legislative accomplishment to date, the massive tax cut that favors the wealthiest individuals and corporations, Trump's budget would slash or completely eliminate core anti-poverty programs that form theÃâà...
Democracy Now!
February 15, 2018
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan. On Monday, President Donald Trump released his proposed budget for 2019. On the heels of his only legislative accomplishment to date, the massive tax cut that favors the wealthiest individuals and corporations, Trump's budget would slash or completely eliminateÃâà...
Aspen Daily News
January 12, 2018
Amy Goodman, host of the syndicated show, “Democracy Now!” will speak tonight at The Temporary in the Willits Town Center to support the community outreach and fundraising efforts of Carbondale-based community radio station KDNK. Goodman, speaking by phone from her home in New York City,Ãâà...
Democracy Now!
December 31, 1999
The Syrian opposition blamed the Assad government for carrying out the attacks, but Syria denied having any role. The chemical attack came one day after Syrian forces launched an air raid and ground assault on Douma. AMY GOODMAN: While international officials are still investigating what happened,Ãâà...
Democracy Now!
December 31, 1999
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I'm Amy Goodman. From Afghanistan to Philippines to Spain, women across the globe are taking to the streets today to mark International Women's Day. Protests are also taking part across the United States We're joined now by Tithi Bhattacharya, an associateÃâà...
Democracy Now!
December 31, 1999
AMY GOODMAN: We continue our coverage of International Women's Day, turning now to the world-renowned playwright, activist Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues. Twenty years ago, in 1998, she launched V-Day, an international movement to stop violence against women and girls.
Democracy Now!
December 31, 1999
AMY GOODMAN: So, Teresa Danks, you're in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There has been a lot of organizing that's been going on in Oklahoma right now. Your state has the lowest-paid teachers in the country. You made headlines when you started panhandling on the side of the road to raise money for schools.
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