A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 700 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.
Today’s Show
- Headlines
- Promising “Change” in Washington, McCain Accepts GOP Nomination
- Maverick? Author Paul Waldman on “Free Ride: John McCain and the Media”
- Convention Cash: Journalist Peter Stone on the RNC’s Sponsors
- Crashing the Party: Suites, Corporate-Sponsored Events Gather the Money Behind the Conventions
- McCain: “We Have to Catch Up to History”
- Abramoff Sentenced to Four Years in Jail for Corruption and Tax Offenses
- Nearly 400 Arrested on Last Day of RNC, Including Over a Dozen Media Workers
- Ramsey County Sheriff Admits Local Police Used Paid Infiltrators and Spied on Activists Including RNC Welcoming Committee
- “We Are Not Terrorists”: Activists with the RNC Welcoming Committee Speak Out Against Police Crackdown & Terrorism Charges
- Iraqi American Sami Rasouli Says McCain Should Have Invited an Iraqi to Talk at RNC About the Effect of the Surge
RECENT SHOWS
Thursday, September 04, 2008
- Headlines
- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Accepts GOP Nomination
- Amy Goodman Questions Ramsey County Prosecutors on Jailing, Charges of Journalists
- Eight Members of RNC Activist Group Lodged with Terrorism Charges
- Hundreds of Jailed Protesters Held for 2+ Days Following Mass RNC Arrests
- I-Witness Video Collective Forced Out of Living Space After Second Raid by St. Paul Police in Five Days
- Libertarian Presidential Candidate and Ex-Republican Rep. Bob Barr on Impeachment, Opening Up the Debates, and Why He Left the GOP
- Voices of the Delegates: Jeremy Scahill Goes Inside the RNC
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
- Headlines
- 8 Years After Accepting Dems’ VP Bid on Gore Ticket, Lieberman Attacks Former Party at GOP Convention
- Amy Goodman Grills St. Paul Police Chief About Her Arrest and Two Democracy Now! Producers
- Bush: “Angry Left” Will “Never Break” John McCain
- Fmr. UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter on the RNC, Joe Biden and the Possibility of an Attack on Iran
- Freed from Jail, Fmr. Alabama Governor Don Siegelman Accuses Karl Rove of Orchestrating Political Witch Hunt
- Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign Takes Cause to Streets Outside RNC
- Sami Al-Arian Released After 5.5 Years in Prison
- Thousands Gather in Minneapolis for Ron Paul Counter-Convention
- Thousands Join Poor People’s March Outside RNC
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
- Headlines
- Amy Goodman & Two Democracy Now! Producers Arrested at RNC Protest
- As RNC Opens, Iraq Veterans Against the War March in St. Paul
- As the RNC Opens in St. Paul, Twin Cities Police Arrest Nearly 300; Journalists Targeted
- A Debate: Iraq Veterans Against the War vs. Vets for Freedom
- Hurricane Gustav Slams Louisiana: A Report from Jordan Flaherty in New Orleans
- Report: Secretive Right-Wing Group Vetted McCain’s VP Candidate Sarah Palin
- Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) Condemns Police Intimidation of Journalists
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Call to Action on Behalf of DN! Journalists Facing Charges for Reporting on the Republican National Convention
Today it is critical that you make your voice heard in the Ramsey County Attorney and St. Paul City Attorney offices. Demand that they drop all pending and current charges against journalists arrested while reporting on protests outside the Republican National Conventions.
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Amy Goodman’s New Column: “Why We Were Falsely Arrested”
Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets in St. Paul, Minn., this week, police are systematically targeting journalists.
Filed under Weekly Column
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Media Coverage on the Arrest of Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers
Links to video and articles about the arrest of Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar.
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Update: Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar Released After Illegal Arrest at RNC
Goodman Charged with Obstruction; Felony Riot Charges Pending Against Kouddous and Salazar
ST. PAUL--Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar have all been released from police custody in St. Paul following their illegal arrest by Minneapolis Police on Monday afternoon.
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Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her.
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“Poverty Is the Real Scandal”
Former Sen. John Edwards was supposed to speak in Denver at the Democratic National Convention, but he had an affair. Will the Democrats now forget about his signature issue?
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“Cheney, Bush and Habbush”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on a book tour, where she is being hounded by activists and questioned about her pledge that “impeachment is off the table.” She responded on the TV talk show “The View,” “If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind may have provided the evidence she doesn’t want to see.
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“Don’t Cage Dissent”
Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties to the cherished tradition of dissent. Things are not looking good.
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January 2007 Archive
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
- Headlines for January 31, 2007
- Government Scientists Accuse Bush Administration of Interfering, Misleading on Climate Change
- Blood of the Earth: Dilip Hiro on the Battle for the World’s Vanishing Oil Resources
- As Police Arrest Public Housing Activists in New Orleans, Federal Officials Try to Silence Leading Attorney for Low-Income Residents
- Revealed: FBI Internet Surveillance More Extensive Than Previously Known
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
- Headlines for January 30, 2007
- Two Charges Dropped Against War Resister Lt. Watada; Army Says Journalists Won’t Be Forced to Testify at Court-Martial
- Barry Lando on “The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush”
- The Cold War’s Deadly Legacy: How the U.S.’s Atom for Peace Program Helped Spread Nuke Technology to Iran and Beyond
- LA Times Baghdad Bureau Chief Borzou Daragahi: The Intensity of the Bloodbath Is Increasing
Monday, January 29, 2007
- Headlines for January 29, 2007
- Rep. Maxine Waters, Rep. John Conyers, Rep. Lynn Woolsey, Navy Seaman Jonathan Hutto, Bob Watada & Others Call for End to Iraq War at Anti-War Rally in Washington
- “Silence Is No Longer An Option”: Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins Speak Out
Friday, January 26, 2007
- Headlines for January 26, 2007
- Our Mercenaries in Iraq: Blackwater Inc and Bush’s Undeclared Surge
- Pentagon Unveils Heat-Inducing Ray-Gun: Non-Lethal Crowd Control or Dangerous Weapon?
- Murder Charges Against Former Black Panthers Based on Confessions Extracted by Torture
Thursday, January 25, 2007
- Headlines for January 25, 2007
- EXCLUSIVE… 911 Calls in North Dakota Town Reveal Dangers of Media Consolidation
- Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
- Headlines for January 24, 2007
- In 4th State of the Union Since Invasion of Iraq, President Bush Urges Congress to Back Escalating War
- The Occupation: Veteran Correspondent Patrick Cockburn Reports from Iraq
- Rep. Maxine Waters Calls on Congressional Colleagues to Join Massive Anti-War Rally
- The View from Nairobi: Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai Reacts to State of the Union from the World Social Forum in Kenya
- Bush’s New Energy Proposals: A Break from the Past or More of the Same?
- Critics: New Bush Proposals Shift More Health Care Costs onto Working Americans
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
- Headlines for January 23, 2007
- Lt. Ehren Watada Faces Court Martial for Refusing to Serve in Iraq
- Peace Activist Bert Sacks Challenges U.S. Fine For Bringing Humanitarian Aid to Iraq in 1997
- Legal Scholars: Congress Has Constitutional Power to Limit Scope of Iraq War & Block Escalation
- Over 50,000 March in Istanbul in Funeral Procession for Slain Turkish-Armenian Editor Hrant Dink
Monday, January 22, 2007
- Headlines for January 22, 2007
- Sen. Bernie Sanders: If You Are Concerned About Health Care, Iraq, the Economy, Global Warming You Must Be Concerned About Corporate Control of the Media
- Veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas on the Escalation of the Iraq War, Jimmy Carter’s New Book & the Failings of the Washington Press Corps
Friday, January 19, 2007
- Headlines for January 19, 2007
- “We Knew Damn Well He’d Be Tortured”—Sen. Patrick Leahy Questions Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Extraordinary Rendition Victim Maher Arar
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
- Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs
Thursday, January 18, 2007
- Headlines for January 18, 2007
- Entry Denied: Palestinian-Americans Among Thousands Blocked by Israel from Occupied Territories
- New Resolutions Lay Ground for Iraq War Showdown on Capitol Hill
- High-Flying Profiling: Portuguese-born US Citizen Wins First Legal Victory in Racial Profiling Case since 9/11
- Bush Admin Backs Down on Illegal Wiretapping
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
- Headlines for January 17, 2007
- Wrongly Accused Ex-Gitmo Chaplain and Spy Target James Yee Speaks out on Newly Revealed Pentagon Surveillance
- As CIA Leak Trial Begins, Inside the Case Against Ex-Cheney Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby
- Top Pentagon Official Calls for Boycott of Law Firms Representing Guantanamo Prisoners
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
- Headlines for January 16, 2007
- Bill Moyers: “Big Media is Ravenous. It Never Gets Enough. Always Wants More. And it Will Stop at Nothing to Get It. These Conglomerates are an Empire, and they are Imperial.”
Monday, January 15, 2007
- Headlines for January 15, 2007
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on April 3, 1968: “Let Us Develop a Kind of Dangerous Unselfishness”
- Former Sanitation Worker and Community Organizers Recall the 1968 “I Am A Man” Sanitation Worker Strike & King’s Last Hours in Memphis
- Rev. Jesse Jackson on Witnessing the Assassination of Dr. King
- Retired Memphis Policeman: No Black Officers Assigned to Martin Luther King on Day of Assassination
- National Civil Rights Museum: The Motel Where Dr. King was Shot Today a Museum that Preserves his Legacy
Friday, January 12, 2007
- Headlines for January 12, 2007
- Mike McConnell, Booz Allen and the Privatization of Intelligence
- As Thousands Gather in Memphis for National Media Reform Conference, A Look at the State of the U.S. Media
- Young People of Color Take on Clear Channel Dominance in Bay Area
Thursday, January 11, 2007
- Headlines for January 11, 2007
- Bush Escalates Iraq War with 20,000 More Troops; Threatens Iran, Syria with Military Action
- EXCLUSIVE…“I’m Scared Out of My Mind”–Live From Iraq, Active Duty Army Sgt. Speaks Out Against War Escalation
- As Bush Commits More Troops to Iraq, UFPJ Calls For March on Washington to End War
- Iraqi-American in Najaf: More U.S. Troops Will Result in More Resistance
- Torture, Suicide and Imprisonment: A Look Back at Five Years of Guantanamo
- Former Guantanamo Prisoner, Brother of Current Prisoner in Cuba to Call for Closure of Prison Camp
- “A Deep Sense of Depression and Hopelessness”–Guantanamo Attorney on State of Imprisoned Clients
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
- Headlines for January 10, 2007
- Police Entrapment in Terror Case? NYC Subway Bomb Plotter Says He Was Set Up By Paid NYPD Informant
- Should State-Run Media Be Broadcast in the United States? A Debate on Radio and TV Marti Airing in South Florida
- Bush Admin Shuts Door to Iraqis as Iraq’s Refugee Crisis Gets Worse
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
- Headlines for January 09, 2007
- Study: Dems ‘100 Hours’ Agenda Does Little to Address Economic Divide Between Whites and People of Color
- U.S. Launches Targeted Assassination Air Strikes in Somalia, Many Reported Killed
- Report: Gates Foundation Causing Harm With the Same Money It Uses To Do Good
Monday, January 08, 2007
- Headlines for January 08, 2007
- Global Warming Heat Wave? January Temps Hit Record Highs Across Northeast
- Norman Finkelstein vs. Gil Troy On Jimmy Carter’s Controversial Book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”
Friday, January 05, 2007
- Headlines for January 05, 2007
- With New Congressional Majority, Should Democrats Focus on Domestic Agenda as Bush Escalates Iraq War?
- FBI Documents Reveal Nixon, Reagan Intimidated Rehnquist Witnesses, and Detail the Late Chief Justice’s Addiction to Painkillers
- Zapatistas, Internationals Gather for Meeting of the Zapatista Villages with the Peoples of the World
Thursday, January 04, 2007
- Headlines for January 04, 2007
- With Control of Congress, Incoming Democrats Set to Elect Nancy Pelosi as 1st Female House Speaker
- Despite Greater Prominence on Congressional Committees, African American Lawmakers Pressured to Curb Initiatives
- Haitian Folk-Singing Legend and ex-Political Prisoner So An Auguste on her Arrest by US Marines and the US Role in Haiti’s Ongoing Turmoil
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
- Headlines for January 03, 2007
- Exclusive – Democracy Now! Airs Rare Interview With Saddam Hussein Shortly After First Gulf War
- As Rudy Giuliani’s Secret Presidential Campaign Plan is Revealed, A Look At His Run for the White House & the Untold Story of Giuliani and 9/11
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
- Headlines for January 02, 2007
- The Hanging of Saddam Hussein: A Roundtable Discussion on International Law, the U.S. Role, the Kurdish Response and the Media’s Glossing Over of U.S. Ties to Saddam
- U.S. Army Subpoenas Independent Journalist to Testify in Court-Martial of War Resister First Lt. Ehren Watada
Monday, January 01, 2007
- Headlines for January 01, 2007
- From Bolivia to Baghdad: Noam Chomsky on Creating Another World in a Time of War, Empire and Devastation
