The Environmental Protection Agency has declared a public health emergency in the town of Libby, Montana, where hundreds of people have died from asbestos contamination. It is the first time such a declaration has been made by the EPA. For decades, W.R. Grace and Co. mined asbestos-contaminated vermiculite in Libby.
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June 19, 2009  |  Filed under DN Archives

The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago. Over the years Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!

In 2005, Studs Terkel appeared on Democracy Now! shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. He told Amy Goodman, “My curiosity is what saw me through. What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, that’s my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And it’s curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.”

October 31, 2008  |  Filed under DN Archives

The National Book Critics Circle Awards have just been announced and two past DN! guests were among the winners: Edwidge Danticat (“Brother I’m Dying”) and Harriet Washington (“Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present")

March 07, 2008  |  Filed under DN Archives

Watch/Listen to Democracy Now!’s Interviews With Alex Gibney, director of the Oscar-winning documentary “Taxi to the Dark Side.” [2/1/08 || 2/12/08 ]

February 25, 2008  |  Filed under DN Archives

Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon on the Release of Ex-CIA Operative Posada Carriles, the Cuban 5, Guantanamo and the Health of Fidel Castro

‘The Man of Two Havanas’: Max Lesnik on His Transition From Cuban Revolutionary to Exile to Target of Terrorist Attacks by Anti-Castro Cuban Militants in Miami

Fidel Up Close: Filmmaker Jon Alpert on His Many Encounters With Castro Over the Past 30 Years

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February 19, 2008  |  Filed under DN Archives

Check out our award-winning coverage of Indonesia’s brutal invasion and occupation of East Timor

January 28, 2008  |  Filed under DN Archives

Tariq Ali on Pakistan in Turmoil after Benazir Bhutto’s Assassination

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto Assassinated

Deception: How the United States Secretly Helped Pakistan Build Its Nuclear Arsenal

Crackdown On the Press: General Musharraf Shuts Down Two of Pakistan’s Biggest Private Television News Channels

Under House Arrest, Pakistani Human Rights Leader Asma Jahangir Speaks Out on Musharraf’s Crackdown

Thousands Arrested in Pakistan Defying Musharraf’s Crackdown

Pakistan’s Musharraf Gets U.S. Backing for Crackdown Just Days Before Court Decision on Case Challenging His Rule

December 27, 2007  |  Filed under DN Archives

Is the CIA covering up the role of psychologists in torture at secret CIA prisons? Two individuals involved in the interrogation of Al Qaida operative Abu Zubaydah have been identified by name – both are psychologists.

December 10, 2007  |  Filed under DN Archives

On Capitol Hill, Republican Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi has announced he will step down next month. In 2002 Democracy Now! examined Lott’s history of support for racist and neo-Confederate causes and his public praise for the 1948 pro-segregation presidential campaign of Senator Strom Thurmond.

November 27, 2007  |  Filed under DN Archives

DePaul University has denied tenure to Norman Finkelstein despite strong support from students and colleagues. Democracy Now! has been closely following his fight for tenure. More

June 14, 2007  |  Filed under DN Archives