RECENT SHOWS
Thursday, July 02, 2009
- Headlines
- “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City”
- John Pilger Calls UK National Health Service a Treasure, Blasts US Lawmakers for Being “in Bed with Powerful Interests” and Neglecting “Their Own People’s Basic Human Rights”
- Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Speaks from Israeli Jail Cell After Arrest on Boat Delivering Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
- Up in Smoke: How the Tobacco Industry Shaped the New Smoking Bill
- Zelaya Vows to Return to Honduras Despite Threats of Arrest by Coup Leaders
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
- Headlines
- “Change to Win is Dead”–Juan Gonzalez on Labor Movement Struggle
- Generals Who Led Honduras Military Coup Trained at the School of the Americas
- How Can We Have Sovereignty When We Don’t Have Electricity or Water to Bathe? Iraqi Reporter on US Troop Pullback
- Military Using “Brutal” Force Against Anti-Coup Protests in Honduras
- What’s Behind the Honduras Coup? Tracing Zelaya’s Trajectory
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
BLOG
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Coup in Honduras: See full Democracy Now! coverage
Check out all of our coverage of the first coup d’etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century.
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“Undo the Coup”
The first coup d’etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century occurred last Sunday in Honduras. It was led by a graduate of the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas, a military facility that has trained some of Latin America’s worst torturers, murderers and human rights abusers.
Filed under Weekly Column
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“Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age”
Tools of mass communication that were once the province of governments and corporations now fit in your pocket. As these technologies have developed, so too has the ability to monitor, filter, censor and block them.
Filed under Weekly Column
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EPA Declares Public Health Emergency in Libby, Montana
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.
See extended Democracy Now! coverageFiled under DN Archives
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“Congre$$, Heal Thyself”
As the Obama administration pushes for a vote on health-care reform before Congress recesses in August, has health-industry money too thoroughly polluted the process for anything good to come of it?
Filed under Weekly Column
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“The Free Market’s Marked Men: From the Niger Delta to the Amazon”
Ken Saro-Wiwa and Alberto Pizango never met, but they are united by a passion for the preservation of their people and their land, and by the fervor with which they were targeted by their respective governments.
Filed under Weekly Column
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“Dr. George Tiller Didn’t Have to Die”
Dr. Tiller was assassinated while in church in Wichita, Kan., on Sunday, targeted for legally performing abortions. His death might have been prevented simply through enforcement of existing laws.
Filed under Weekly Column
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“Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil”
Profits are higher than ever at oil companies Chevron and Shell. Yet across the globe, from the Ecuadorian jungle, to the Niger Delta in Nigeria, to the courtrooms and streets of New York and San Ramon, Calif., people are fighting back against the world’s oil giants.
Filed under Weekly Column
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Podcasting & Torrents
Robert Fisk
A Sampling of Robert Fisk’s Reporting on Democracy Now!
Described by the New York Times as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain”, Robert Fisk has over thirty years of experience in international reporting,
Below are highlights from some of his interviews on Democracy Now!
March 05, 2007 Robert Fisk on Osama bin Laden at 50, Iraqi Death Squads and Why the Middle East is More Dangerous Now Than in Past 30 Years
December 20, 2006 I Don’t Think We Westerners Care About Muslims–Robert Fisk Delivers Keynote Address at MPAC Convention
December 20, 2006 Robert Fisk Criticizes ‘Experts’ Cited in Iraq Study Group Report
September 05, 2006 Robert Fisk on His Interview with Former Iranian President Khatami, Why The IDF Could Not Protect the People of Israel and More
August 01, 2006 Robert Fisk Reports From Lebanon On the Intensifying Israeli Attack, Qana, Tony Blair and the Possibility of a Ceasefire
July 31, 2006 Robert Fisk Reports From Lebanon on the Israeli Bombing of Qana That Killed 57, Including 37 Children
July 19, 2006 Robert Fisk in Beirut: Israeli Assault on Lebanon Inflicting "Mass Punishment on a Whole People
April 07, 2006 Robert Fisk on Iraq, Palestine and the Failure of the U.S. Corporate Media to Challenge Authority
December 14, 2005 Robert Fisk on The Murders of Gibran Tueni, Rafik Hariri and the Changing Tide in Lebanon
October 20, 2005 Robert Fisk: War is the "Total Failure of the Human Spirit
February 16, 2005 Robert Fisk on the Beirut Bombing, U.S.-Syrian Relations and the Iraqi Elections
January 03, 2005 The Mire of Death, Lies and Atrocities: Robert Fisk Looks Back at 2004
November 01, 2004 Robert Fisk: "Bin Laden’s Vote is For George Bush
October 01, 2004 Robert Fisk on the Presidential Debate, Iraq, Palestine and the International Criminal Court
August 06, 2004 As Sadr Calls Off Truce In Najaf, We Speak With Robert Fisk On How Iraq Is About to Explode
March 31, 2004 Robert Fisk: "Most Of The People Dying In Iraq Are Iraqis
October 29, 2003 This is a Resistance Movement, Whether We Like It or Not – Robert Fisk on Iraq
September 18, 2003 Robert Fisk on Wesley Clark & Iraq: What is Happening Is An Absolute Slaughter Every Night of Iraqi People
March 25, 2003 Will Iraq Become a Quagmire for the Americans? Non-Embedded Journalist Robert Fisk Reports From Baghdad
November 20, 2002 Independent Journalist Robert Fisk On the Bush Administration’s Insistence That Iraq Is Already Violating the UN Resolution
August 21, 2002 Robert Fisk On the Suicide of Gun for Hire, Abu Nidal in Baghdad and the Anarchy That Reigns in Afghanistan As Bush Pushes for a New War
May 22, 2002 Ask Who Did It, But Don’t Ask Why: A Speech By British Journalist Robert Fisk
May 21, 2002 British Journalist Robert Fisk On the Politics of Language and the Media in the Middle East
December 11, 2001 Renowned British Journalist Robert Fisk Is Beaten By a Crowd of Angry Afghans–and He Blames the West
April 13, 1999 Robert Fisk On Kosovo
