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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).
Billionaires for Austerity: With Cuts Looming, Wall Street Roots of “Fix the Debt” Campaign Exposed; “Makers: Women Who Make America”: New Film Chronicles Past 50 Years of Feminist Movement; United by Loss, Israeli & Palestinian Dads Call for a Joint Non-Violent Intifada Against Occupation. HeadlinesFebruary 26, 2013 Afghans Claim 9 Disappearances at Hands of … Continued
EXCLUSIVE: Rarely Seen Film “King: A Filmed Record” Traces MLK’s Struggle from Montgomery to Memphis. February 25, 2013 U.S. Special Forces Ordered out of Afghan Province U.S. Denies Reports of Post-2014 Afghan Deployment U.S. Deploys 100 Troops in Niger to Prep Drone Base Palestinians Accuse Israel of Torture in Prisoner’s Death Israel Demands PA … Continued
Torture at Guantánamo: Lt. Col. Stuart Couch on His Refusal to Prosecute Abused Prisoner; “The Terror Courts”: An Inside Look at Rough Justice, Torture at Guantánamo Bay. HeadlinesFebruary 22, 2013 Report: More Than 2,100 Gun Deaths in the U.S. Since Newtown Massacre India: 16 Killed in Hyderabad Bomb Blasts Syria: More Than 80 Killed … Continued
Prisoner X: As Secrecy Falls, Doubts Grow on Suicide Claims for Australian Israeli Linked to Mossad; Throwaways: Recruited by Police & Thrown Into Danger, Young Informants Are Drug War’s Latest Victims. HeadlinesFebruary 20, 2013 U.N. Warns Syrian Humanitarian Crisis “Getting Worse” as Typhoid Outbreak Confirmed Palestinian Prisoners Refuse Meals in Support of Hunger Strikers … Continued
Donors Trust: Little-Known Group Helps Wealthy Backers Fund Right-Wing Agenda in Secret; The ATM for Climate Denial: Secretive Donors Trust Funds Vast Network of Global Warming Skeptics”Brave Miss World”: Raped Before Winning ’98 Title, Linor Abargil Campaigns Against Sexual Violence. HeadlinesFebruary 19, 2013 U.N.: ICC Should Launch Syria War Crimes Probe Tens of Thousands … Continued
Tens of Thousands Rally to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline & Urge Obama to Move “Forward on Climate”; “Lift Every Voice”: Potential Senate Hopeful Cory Booker Praises Harry Belafonte’s Life of Activism; “We Must Unleash Radical Thought”: Harry Belafonte’s Stirring Speech Accepting NAACP Spingarn Medal. HeadlinesFebruary 18, 2013 Tens of Thousands Rally in D.C. Against … Continued
An Intentional Fire? Police Use of Incendiary Tear Gas Criticized in Killing of Christopher Dorner; From Dorner to Waco to MOVE Bombing, A Look at Growing Militarization of Domestic Policing; NAACP: New Election Commission Needed to Address Voter Suppression, Attacks on Voting Rights. HeadlinesFebruary 15, 2013 Senate Republicans Block Hagel Nomination Bahrain to Probe … Continued
48 Arrested at Keystone Pipeline Protest as Sierra Club Lifts 120-Year Ban on Civil Disobedience; “We Need To Push Him”: Actress Daryl Hannah Arrested While Urging Obama to Reject Keystone Pipeline; “Two Years of Deaths and Detentions”: Bahraini Pro-Democracy Protesters Mark Anniversary of Uprising; One Billion Rising: Playwright Eve Ensler Organizes Global Day of Dance … Continued
Beyond Gun Control, Obama Urged to Tackle Joblessness, Incarceration and U.S. “Culture of Violence”; Obama’s SOTU Address Calls for Middle-Class Revival, But Poverty & Inequality Still Get Short Shrift; Despite Planned Troop Withdrawal, Special Ops & Private Forces Prepare to Continue Afghan War; As Obama Touts Pathway to Citizenship, Record Deportations Leave Undocumented Immigrants in … Continued
