Secretive Corporate-Legislative Group ALEC Holds Annual Meeting to Rewrite...
AMY GOODMAN: Hundreds of state legislators from all 50 states have gathered in New Orleans, Louisiana, for the 38th annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, also known as ALEC. The...
View ArticleAs Obama, Romney Hold First Debate, Behind the Secret GOP-Dem Effort to Shut...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting in Denver, Colorado. We’re on the road here, just miles from the University of Denver, the site of tonight’s presidential debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama....
View ArticleExpand the Debate: This Is What Democracy Sounds Like
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan DENVER — A few miles south of the campus arena in the Mile High City where Barack Obama and Mitt Romney met in their first debate, Democracy Now! news hour broke the...
View ArticleWATCH: Translating Words: Democracy Now!'s Nermeen Shaikh at TEDxDanubia 2013
Watch the recent talk given by Democracy Now! producer and weekly co-host Nermeen Shaikh at TEDxDanubia 2013, titled, Translating Words. Nermeen was previously managing editor at the Asia Society. She...
View ArticleRIP Bob Edgar, Longtime Common Cause President and Former Congressman
Bob Edgar passed away suddenly this morning at his home in Northern Virginia at the age of 69, according to Common Cause, the democracy watchdog group for which Edgar served as president and CEO. "Bob...
View ArticleDennis Kucinich on the Iraq Crisis & What the U.S. Can Learn from Sweden's...
AMY GOODMAN: And we end today’s show with a very familiar voice in U.S. politics, here at the University of Uppsala in Visby, Sweden. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and...
View ArticleWhat Do 800-Year-Old Magna Carta & Black Lives Matter Have in Common? A...
AMY GOODMAN: We end today’s show in England, where celebrations are underway marking the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, or Great Charter, considered by many to be the foundation of parliamentary...
View ArticleAmid State & Fed. Cover-Up, the Story of How Researchers & Residents Exposed...
AMY GOODMAN: Let’s go to Marc—let’s go to Professor Marc Edwards— CURT GUYETTE: Yes. AMY GOODMAN: —since he is here and can— CURT GUYETTE: Yes. AMY GOODMAN: Talk about what you discovered for yourself,...
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