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SHARE        Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Trump Lashes Out at Iran, China & Venezuela in Nationalist Address to U.N. General Assembly President Trump made his third address to the United Nations General Assembly amid simmering tensions in the Middle East over recent attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, which the United States blames on Iran. Tehran denies the allegations. Trump also lashed out at China and Venezuela.

(4 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 6, 2019
An Hour with Noam Chomsky on Fascism, Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, Julian Assange & More A Democracy Now! special, an hour with Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned dissident and father of modern linguistics. In April, Noam Chomsky visited his hometown of Boston, where he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than half a century. He now teaches at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Over 700 people packed into the Old South Church to hear him speak.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 2, 2018
Noam Chomsky: Members of Migrant Caravan Are Fleeing from Misery & Horrors Created by the U.S. As President Trump escalated his attacks and threats against the Central American migrant caravans making their way to the U.S.-Mexico border, the Trump administration unveiled new sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba on Thursday. National security adviser John Bolton declared Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to be part of a "troika of tyranny" and a "triangle of terror."

(7 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Ex-Bush Official: U.S. Tortured Prisoners to Produce False Intel that Built Case for Iraq War Since the release of Senate findings earlier this month, the assumption that the CIA's torture program's sole motive was post-9/11 self-defense has gone virtually unchallenged. There has been almost no recognition that the George W. Bush administration also tortured prisoners for a very different goal: to extract information that could tie al-Qaeda to Saddam Hussein and justify the invasion of Iraq.

SHARE        Friday, September 27, 2019
"Financial Censorship Is Still Censorship": Edward Snowden Slams Justice Dept. Lawsuit Against Him As a whistleblower complaint filed against President Trump rocks Washington and threatens Trump's presidency, one of the world's most famous whistleblowers, Edward Snowden, joins us from Moscow, Russia.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 30, 2019
The President is a Domestic Enemy of the Constitution: Ellsberg Slams Trump For Pardoning War Crimes Defense Secretary Mark Esper has fired the Navy Secretary Richard Spencer. His ouster comes a week after President Trump overruled military leaders and pardoned three U.S. service members who have been accused of or convicted of war crimes.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Glenn Greenwald: Why Did ABC Ignore Roseanne Barr's Hateful Tweets Against Arabs & Palestinians? The decision to cancel Roseanne was made by Channing Dungey, the first African-American president of a major TV network. The reboot of the hit 1980s sitcom Roseanne last year drew huge audiences and praise from President Trump, who once called Roseanne Barr to congratulate her on the show's success.

SHARE        Monday, September 30, 2019
Edward Snowden: Private Contractors Play Key Role in U.S. Intelligence's "Creeping Authoritarianism" Ed Snowden has just published a memoir. It's called Permanent Record. It tells the story of what led him to risk his life to expose the U.S. government's system of mass surveillance.

SHARE        Monday, September 23, 2019
"This Is Our Time. This Is Our Future." Voices from the Historic Youth Climate Strike in NYC As many as 4 million people around the world took to the streets Friday in the largest day of action focused on the climate crisis. Students across the globe led climate strikes in hundreds of countries, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 5, 2019
Edward Snowden: If I Came Back to the U.S., I Would Likely Die in Prison for Telling the Truth Edward Snowdeb is in Moscow, where he has lived in exile since leaking a trove of secret documents revealing the U.S. government's had built an unprecedented mass surveillance system to spy on Americans and people around the world.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 6, 2017
"Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor": Trump Admin Attacks Emma Lazarus's Iconic Poem on Statue of Liberty Opposition is growing to the Trump administration's new proposal to implement radical changes to U.S. immigration law and slash the number of immigrants allowed into the United States by half. The RAISE Act would create a so-called merit-based immigration system that would favor applicants who speak English, have advanced degrees or can demonstrate job skills.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 14, 2018
"She Tortured Just for the Sake of Torture": CIA Whistleblower on Trump's New CIA Pick Gina Haspel Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou personally knew CIA director nominee Gina Haspel when he worked at the CIA. But their careers have taken very different paths over the past decade. Haspel, who was directly involved in torture at a secret CIA prison in Thailand, has been promoted to head the agency. Kiriakou, who blew the whistle on the torture program, ended up being jailed for 23 months.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 3, 2017
In Puerto Rico's Highlands, Hurricane Maria Has Exploded Fault Lines of Poverty & Austerity Six weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, millions of residents are still living without safe drinking water and electricity. Health experts say the storm's massive damage to Puerto Rico's water system is threatening to cause a public health crisis, as more and more people are exposed to contaminated water.

(12 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Glenn Greenwald: Is Facebook Operating as an Arm of the Israeli State by Removing Palestinian Posts? Facebook is being accused of censoring Palestinian activists who protest the Israeli occupation. This comes as Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked reportedly said in December that Tel Aviv had submitted 158 requests to Facebook over the previous four months asking it to remove content it deemed "incitement," and said Facebook had granted 95 percent of the requests.

SHARE        Tuesday, December 19, 2017
U.N. Special Rapporteur Says Tax Bill Will Make the U.S. "World Champion of Extreme Inequality" The United States could eliminate poverty overnight, if it wanted to. What we're seeing now is the classic -- it's a political choice. Where do you want to put your money? Into the very rich or into creating a decent society, which will actually be economically more productive than just giving the money to those who already have a lot?

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, August 29, 2019
Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Arrives in NYC to Fight "Biggest Crisis Humanity Has Ever Faced" After weeks of anticipation, the Swedish climate justice activist Greta Thunberg arrived on the shores of Lower Manhattan Wednesday afternoon after a two-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in an emissions-free yacht.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 4, 2020
The Case Against Joe Biden: Former VP's Long Career Shows a Recurring Theme of "Appeasing the Right" Following his Super Tuesday wins, we look closely at the record of former Vice President Joe Biden, from his central role in supporting the Iraq War to expanding the so-called war on drugs

SHARE        Friday, March 7, 2014
Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, United States in Regional Crisis In the old days, we used to get the stakeholders around the table. And it's got to be Putin, and it's got to be Obama, and it's got to be the head of Ukraine, past and present, and the stakeholders in the immediate vicinity. We should be able to work this kind of thing out. That seems to have been just kind of washed away from the considerations of politicians.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, November 21, 2019
Julia'n Castro: Gordon Sondland's Testimony Is "Nail in the Coffin" of Trump's Defense During Wednesday's impeachment hearing, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told lawmakers that he was ordered by Trump to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

(6 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 10, 2016
Jill Stein to Bernie Sanders: Run on the Green Party Ticket & Continue Your Political Revolution In many ways, the Democratic Party creates campaigns that fake left while it moves right and becomes more corporatist, more militarist, more imperialist. This is why we say it's hard to have a revolutionary campaign inside of a counterrevolutionary party. That's why we're here as the Green Party to build a place where a revolutionary movement can truly grow with a political voice.

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