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Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
Michael Hastings Dies at 33; Fearless Journalist Challenged Power & Exposed Myths of Afghan War; Defiant Turkish Demonstrators “Finding New Ways to Protest” in Face of Relentless State Crackdown; Mass Protests Sweep Brazil in Uproar over Public Services Cuts & High Costs of World Cup, Olympics; Sister Helen Prejean & Bill Pelke on Freeing the … Continued
A Medical Ethics-free Zone? Guantánamo Doctors Urged to Stop Force-Feeding Hunger-Striking Prisoners; Glenn Greenwald: As Obama Makes “False” Surveillance Claims, Snowden Risks Life to Spark NSA Debate. HeadlinesJune 18, 2013 Edward Snowden: NSA Leaks Motivated by “Litany of Lies” from U.S. Officials Obama Claims Domestic Spy Programs are “Transparent” China Demands Explanation for U.S. … Continued
Iran Elects Moderate President Hassan Rouhani — Will U.S. Respond by Easing Crippling Sanctions? As World Awaits U.S. Reaction to NSA Leaks, Movement Emerges to Support Edward Snowden in Hong Kong; Long Before Helping Expose NSA Spying, Journalist Laura Poitras Faced Harassment from U.S. Agents; Turkish Unions Hold National Strike as Protesters Face Worst Crackdown … Continued
Patrick Cockburn on U.S. Plans to Arm Syrian Rebels: Where is the Skepticism About Chemical Weapons? James Bamford on NSA Secrets, Keith Alexander’s Influence & Massive Growth of Surveillance, Cyberwar; Breast Cancer Patients Declare Victory as Supreme Court Bars Patenting of Human Genes. HeadlinesJune 14, 2013 FBI Director: NSA Leaks Caused “Significant Harm” Report: … Continued
Juan Gonzalez: Failures in NYC’s New Billion-Dollar 911 System Could Be Costing Lives; Chris Pyle, Whistleblower on Domestic Spying in 70s, Says Be Wary of Attacks on NSA’s Critics; A Mexican Migrant’s Death Portends Dangers of Harsh “Border Security” in Senate Immigration Bill; As Judge Weighs Legality of NYPD’s Stop and Frisk, Justice Dept. Calls … Continued
More Intrusive Than Eavesdropping? NSA Collection of Metadata Hands Gov’t Sweeping Personal Info; Is Edward Snowden a Hero? A Debate With Journalist Chris Hedges & Law Scholar Geoffrey Stone; Medgar Evers’ Murder, 50 Years Later: Widow Myrlie Evers-Williams Remembers “A Man for All Time.” HeadlinesJune 12, 2013 Admin Probes NSA Leaks as Surveillance Challenges … Continued
Digital Blackwater: How the NSA Gives Private Contractors Control of the Surveillance State; Striking Workers, Bangladeshi Activist Challenge Walmart on Labor Conditions at Stores & Factories. HeadlinesJune 11, 2013 U.S. Prepares to Charge Edward Snowden for NSA Leak Supporters Rally for Edward Snowden in NYC; 43,000 Sign Petition for Pardon Appeals Court Dismisses Domestic … Continued
“You’re Being Watched”: Edward Snowden Emerges as Source Behind Explosive Revelations of NSA Spying; Glenn Greenwald on How NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Helped Expose a “Massive Surveillance Apparatus”; “On a Slippery Slope to a Totalitarian State”: NSA Whistleblower Rejects Gov’t Defense of Spying. HeadlinesJune 10, 2013 NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Says He Acted to … Continued
“A Massive Surveillance State”: Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails; EXCLUSIVE Nasser al-Awlaki to Obama: Why Did You Kill My U.S.-Born Son, Grandson in Drone Strikes? Inside the U.S. Dirty War in Yemen with Jeremy Scahill, Nasser al-Awlaki, Sheikh Fareed. HeadlinesJune 7, 2013 NSA Taps Into Google, Facebook, Apple Servers Austria … Continued
NSA Whistleblowers: “All U.S. Citizens” Targeted By Surveillance Program, Not Just Verizon Customers; Obama-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Expands Corporate Lawsuits Against Nations for Lost Profits; Civil Rights Veteran Chokwe Lumumba Elected Mayor of Jackson, Miss., Once a Center of Racial Abuses. HeadlinesJune 6, 2013 Verizon Handing over Millions of Phone Records in Broadest Gov’t Surveillance … Continued
