Stories by Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is the host of the nationally syndicated radio news program, Democracy Now!
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
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
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
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
Food riots are breaking out across the planet. We must re-examine corporate control of the food supply.
Posted on Apr 19, 2008
More than 40 percent of every income tax dollar in 2007 went toward military spending.
Posted on Apr 15, 2008
A private security firm infiltrated environmental groups, collected their phone records and confidential internal documents.
Posted on Apr 15, 2008
Why is the American Psychological Association still allowing its members to participate in torture?
Posted on Apr 10, 2008
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
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
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
Famed NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen tells the depressing story of government censorship of years of impeccable research.
Posted on Mar 24, 2008
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
Before his administration was derailed by scandal, Eliot Spitzer promoted reproductive rights legislation that inspired a grass-roots movement.
Posted on Mar 13, 2008
Consumers are getting duped by the food industry, paying the price with their health.
Posted on Mar 8, 2008
Vermonters air their frustration with the U.S. quagmire in Iraq.
Posted on Mar 6, 2008
An interview with international water guru Maude Barlow and clips from the new documentary
Flow: For Love of Water.
Posted on Mar 2, 2008
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
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
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
Restoring the right to vote for felons is essential to our democracy and could dramatically change election results.
Posted on Feb 7, 2008
As the race narrows, it is a key moment to reflect on what we stand for as a country.
Posted on Jan 31, 2008
Political connections are worth their weight in gold for America's wealthy.
Posted on Jan 21, 2008
How MSNBC tried to keep Kucinich out of the Las Vegas debate, and how he fought back.
Posted on Jan 17, 2008
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
Television broadcasters are holding the electoral process hostage through their control of the public airwaves.
Posted on Jan 10, 2008
A recent vote by Federal Communications Commission would have made George Orwell proud.
Posted on Dec 26, 2007
One victim shares his experience with the CIA's torture tactics.
Posted on Dec 19, 2007
Congress is about to dump billions on an industry that has been unprofitable for 50 years.
Posted on Dec 18, 2007
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
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
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
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
Ricardo Sanchez was the Iraq commander during the Abu Ghraib atrocities, and last week he gave the Dems' weekly radio address. Amy Goodman revisits how the torture policy began.
Posted on Nov 27, 2007
As the holiday shopping frenzy begins, one documentary explores the problems of mass consumerism and the exploited foreign labor it depends on.
Posted on Nov 21, 2007
Craig Unger shares the untold story of how a band of true believers seized the executive branch, started the Iraq war, and still imperils America’s future.
Posted on Nov 21, 2007
At 95 years old, Stud Terkel has been blacklisted, wiretapped and censored, but he hasn't lost his fighting spirit.
Posted on Nov 14, 2007
If a U.S. citizen, soldier or official were waterboarded somewhere overseas, would Americans hesitate for a moment to call it torture?
Posted on Nov 7, 2007
Congress will vote today on climate change legislation: Will it be a boon for the environment or big business?
Posted on Nov 1, 2007
Amy Goodman talks about carrying on with Bell's palsy -- and the other public figures who've kept working during the illness, too.
Posted on Oct 31, 2007
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