Stories by Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is the host of the nationally syndicated radio news program, Democracy Now!
The Democratic Party leadership is stabbing its base in the back with secret "free trade" deals made behind closed doors with the White House.
Posted on May 23, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Studs Terkel, the great journalist, raconteur and listener, turns 95 this week.
Posted on May 16, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
The work of journalist Anthony Mitchell, who was just killed in Kenya, revealed the need for our exchange with Africa to involve more than oil, guns and secret prisons.
Posted on May 9, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
An interview with two journalists who give accounts of police beatings and rubber-bullet barrages in Tuesday's immigration protests in Los Angeles.
Posted on May 4, 2007, Source: Democracy Now!
Following the mass slaughter on the Virginia Tech campus, the U.S. government quietly released a convicted terrorist and mass murderer.
Posted on Apr 25, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
The Supreme Court's decision to uphold a ban on late abortions without an exception for the health of the mother sends a signal that, in many respects, the court thinks legislators, not doctors, are the ones best positioned to make health decisions.
Posted on Apr 19, 2007, Source: Democracy Now!
What is patriotism, and what is not? Howard Zinn asked recently. Fighting to stop the war in Iraq, fighting to stop gun violence at home: that is true patriotism.
Posted on Apr 18, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
An interview with two of America's leading dissidents on how the highest act of patriotism would be opposing the war in Iraq and calling for a withdrawal of our troops.
Posted on Apr 18, 2007, Source: Democracy Now!
Our airwaves, the single most important method by which Americans get information about choosing the future president, are being held hostage by corporate broadcasters.
Posted on Apr 11, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
If you are upset that Congress won't defund the war in Iraq, there's something you can do: Take the IRS up on its offer for a war tax refund.
Posted on Apr 5, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
David Hicks pleaded guilty Monday to providing material support for terrorism. His trial gives us another opportunity to demand the closure of Guantanamo.
Posted on Mar 28, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Want to help finance terrorism? Buy a Chiquita banana.
Posted on Mar 21, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
As the U.S. enters its fifth year in Iraq, an increasingly powerful voice comes from soldiers and their families, who are turning grief into anti-war action.
Posted on Mar 14, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
In this interview, the author of a devastating biography of Donald Rumsfeld covers how the former defense secretary was loathed by the first Bush president and how Rummy layed the groundwork for torture in Gitmo and Iraq.
Posted on Mar 12, 2007, Source: Democracy Now!
Harry Belafonte, the first African-American to win an Emmy, is a living library of the civil-rights movement and liberation struggles worldwide. He enters his ninth decade as fearless as ever.
Posted on Mar 7, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Private prisons make money from locking up immigrant families -- including young children -- indefinitely.
Posted on Feb 28, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Clinton invites voters to turn elsewhere for an anti-war presidential candidate, and they will oblige.
Posted on Feb 21, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Imprisoned reporter Josh Wolf and his attorney explain why his jailing for refusal to release video footage is an attack on journalism itself.
Posted on Feb 16, 2007, Source: Democracy Now!
Jailed journalist Josh Wolf has remained in prison so long because he lacks the backing of a large media organization that could agitate to protect his rights -- so Congress should step in.
Posted on Feb 14, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Molly has died, but the fight goes on.
Posted on Feb 7, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
The military court stifled Watada's challenge to the war's legality, but his stand reveals the path those in power should follow.
Posted on Jan 31, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
It is up to the new Democratic majority to investigate the use of torture and demand prosecution for those who engaged in it.
Posted on Jan 25, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
A scandalous new report shows how widespread and pernicious fake news has become.
Posted on Apr 8, 2006, Source: Democracy Now!
News: Thousands of high school students walked out of their schools this week to protest the anti-immigrant House bill.
Posted on Mar 29, 2006, Source: Democracy Now!
In her first broadcast interview, a VA nurse explains how she was investigated for 'sedition' after writing a letter that was critical of the Bush Administration.
Posted on Mar 4, 2006, Source: Democracy Now!
On Nov.2, 20 college students in Virginia staged a walkout on the World Can't Wait day of action. The school administration shut down the protest and threatened to expel them.
Posted on Dec 2, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
The closed session invoked by Harry Reid yesterday was much more than a partisan tactic. It is the first step in telling the public what really happened to lead us into war.
Posted on Nov 3, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
Col. Janis Karpinski, the highest-ranking officer demoted in connection with the torture scandal, speaks out about what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Posted on Oct 26, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
Col. Janis Karpinski, the highest-ranking officer demoted in connection with the torture scandal, speaks out about what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Posted on Oct 26, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
Thousands of prisoners were abandoned for days when Katrina hit New Orleans; more than 500 are still missing.
Posted on Sep 28, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
In his first interview in the United States, the Venezuelan president talks about President Bush, Pat Robertson and giving cheap oil to America's poor.
Posted on Sep 22, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
A tour of the streets of New Orleans reveals a body that has lain unclaimed for two weeks while every agency denies responsibility for removing it.
Posted on Sep 12, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
A reporter describes the squalor, desperation and fear he witnessed while on location at New Orleans' Superdome on Thursday.
Posted on Sep 3, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
A volunteer in the wake of the hurricane reports an increasingly desperate situation as patients and staff at a New Orleans hospital run out of food and water.
Posted on Sep 2, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
After 36 years, the Irish Republican Army lays down its weapons. Now what?
Posted on Aug 1, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
After four of the nation's biggest labor unions announced their plans to boycott the AFL-CIO convention in Chicago this week, the future of organized labor hangs in the balance.
Posted on Jul 25, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement has sparked a battle that could last for months. In a roundtable discussion, progressive and conservative lobbying groups discuss the scary road ahead.
Posted on Jul 6, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
Iraqi blogger Faiza Jarrar says her country's fate is in the hands of an American government that knows nothing about what Iraq and its people are about.
Posted on Jul 1, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
Thursday on Capitol Hill, John Conyers will host an urgent and long-awaited public hearing about the implications of the Downing Street Memo.
Posted on Jun 15, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
Amnesty's chief goes head-to-head with a White House lawyer about Guantanamo, war crimes, and the word 'gulag.'
Posted on Jun 3, 2005, Source: Democracy Now!
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