The health care legislative process and its frenetic endgame prompted the president to postpone a trip to the country where his mother raised him for several years of his childhood: Indonesia. While …
In Indonesia, investigative journalist Allan Nairn is facing possible arrest for exposing that US-backed Indonesian armed forces assassinated a series of civilian activists last year. Since Allan …
In a Democracy Now! exclusive, investigative journalist and activist Allan Nairn reveals US-backed Indonesian armed forces carried out a series of assassinations of civilian activists in late …
Tune in on Friday for a special report from investigative journalist Allan Nairn on the White House's proposal to lift a ban on U.S. training of a controversial elite Indonesian military unit known as …
In an extended interview, award-winning journalist and activist Allan Nairn looks back over the Obama administration's foreign policy and national security decisions over the last twelve months. "I …
In Sweden, former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Wednesday for a long career of peace mediation work. In his acceptance speech, Ahtisaari urged the US to focus on …
Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari has won the Nobel Peace Prize for a long career of peace mediation work. The announcement was made earlier today.
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A federal judge has ruled that a suit alleging human rights violations against Exxon committed in Aceh can be heard in a US court. Eleven villagers from Aceh say Exxon should be held liable for …
Today, a Democracy Now! special: an in-depth look at Suharto's brutal thirty-year reign and the role of the United States in shoring him up. Suharto rose to power in 1965, killing up to a …
Former Indonesian dictator General Suharto has died at the age of eighty-six. He ruled the country from 1966 to 1998 and oversaw the murder of over one million people in a series of political purges …