Stories by Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is the host of the nationally syndicated radio news program, Democracy Now!
Activists are creating alternatives to mainstream media and holding corporate media giants accountable. The corporations are pushing back.
Posted on Jun 12, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
Will Republicans disappointed by the dirty tactics of their party go for Obama in November?
Posted on Jun 5, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
Throughout his life Phillips kept the rich history of labor struggles alive.
Posted on May 29, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
A conversation about privatized war with John Cusack, producer of the new film,
War, Inc., and
Blackwater author Jeremy Scahill.
Posted on May 24, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
From nuclear proliferation to the use of cluster bombs -- coverage of the campaign should focus more on the arms race, less on the horse race.
Posted on May 22, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
An interview with author Silja Talvi about her AlterNet investigative report on Gus Puryear, a Bush court nominee with a villainous past.
Posted on May 22, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
A military whistle-blower has come forward with information that contradicts the government's official story about the deaths of two journalists.
Posted on May 15, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
The Bush administration has engaged in assault, intimidation, and imprisonment to limit the ability of journalists to do their jobs.
Posted on May 8, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
Unlike Clinton or Obama, Dr. Rocky White, an Evangelical from a conservative background, is promoting a single-payer health care system.
Posted on May 6, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
If our government and large food and energy interests don't change direction, the food riots in distant lands will soon be coming to their doors.
Posted on May 1, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
It's time for the candidates to stop dancing around real health-care reform and get behind a single-payer system.
Posted on Apr 24, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
Food riots are breaking out across the planet. We must re-examine corporate control of the food supply.
Posted on Apr 19, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
More than 40 percent of every income tax dollar in 2007 went toward military spending.
Posted on Apr 15, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
A private security firm infiltrated environmental groups, collected their phone records and confidential internal documents.
Posted on Apr 15, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
Why is the American Psychological Association still allowing its members to participate in torture?
Posted on Apr 10, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
40 years ago Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pointed to the link between war abroad and poverty at home. Sadly, his observation is just as true today.
Posted on Apr 3, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
Tens of thousands of veterans suffer from severe mental and physical injuries. A new documentary tells one soldier's story.
Posted on Mar 27, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
An AP journalist who helped lead an frightening investigative report considers the dangers posed to the country's drinking water.
Posted on Mar 25, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
Famed NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen tells the depressing story of government censorship of years of impeccable research.
Posted on Mar 24, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
Last weekend veterans gave eyewitness testimony about the horrors of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Let's honor them by listening.
Posted on Mar 20, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
Before his administration was derailed by scandal, Eliot Spitzer promoted reproductive rights legislation that inspired a grass-roots movement.
Posted on Mar 13, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
Consumers are getting duped by the food industry, paying the price with their health.
Posted on Mar 8, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
Vermonters air their frustration with the U.S. quagmire in Iraq.
Posted on Mar 6, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
An interview with international water guru Maude Barlow and clips from the new documentary
Flow: For Love of Water.
Posted on Mar 2, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
Even after an Oscar win, Alex Gibney's controversial documentary about U.S. torture policy is having trouble getting distribution.
Posted on Feb 28, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
At a time when the Bush Administration holds "enemy combatants" without charge, we have a lot to learn from history.
Posted on Feb 21, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
A 9/11 commission chief answers to allegations that he let Karl Rove influence the probe investigating the Sept. 11 attacks.
Posted on Feb 11, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
Restoring the right to vote for felons is essential to our democracy and could dramatically change election results.
Posted on Feb 7, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
As the race narrows, it is a key moment to reflect on what we stand for as a country.
Posted on Jan 31, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
Political connections are worth their weight in gold for America's wealthy.
Posted on Jan 21, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
How MSNBC tried to keep Kucinich out of the Las Vegas debate, and how he fought back.
Posted on Jan 17, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
National security expert: This is the "most egregious case of sensationalist journalism" in the service of Pentagon and Bush administration.
Posted on Jan 14, 2008, Source: Democracy Now!
Television broadcasters are holding the electoral process hostage through their control of the public airwaves.
Posted on Jan 10, 2008, Source: King Features Syndicate
A recent vote by Federal Communications Commission would have made George Orwell proud.
Posted on Dec 26, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
One victim shares his experience with the CIA's torture tactics.
Posted on Dec 19, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Congress is about to dump billions on an industry that has been unprofitable for 50 years.
Posted on Dec 18, 2007, Source: Democracy Now!
The world's leading scientists are predicting climate change to cause water wars and mass migrations from rural to urban areas.
Posted on Dec 12, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Environmentalist Ted Glick is now on the 99th day of a fast to protest the failure of Congress to address climate change.
Posted on Dec 11, 2007, Source: Democracy Now!
The CNN personality, who continues to beat the drum against undocumented immigrants, claims to be a journalist. If he really is one, he should respect facts and correct errors.
Posted on Dec 5, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Who is speaking for the Democrats these days? A retired General accused of authorizing torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of prisoners in Iraq.
Posted on Nov 28, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
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