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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).
Today we look back at 2012. In the most expensive election in U.S. history, President Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney, forcing the Republicans to reconsider their policies, among others, around women and immigrants. While the major party presidential candidates did not take on climate change in any of their debates, it was a year of … Continued
Dennis Kucinich on the “Fiscal Cliff”: Why Are We Sacrificing American Jobs for Corporate Profits?; Outgoing Rep. Dennis Kucinich: With 2 Parties Failing U.S., It’s on Us to Build a “Culture of Peace”; The Wilmington 10: North Carolina Urged to Pardon Civil Rights Activists Falsely Jailed 40 Years Ago. HeadlinesDecember 28, 2012 Obama, Congressional … Continued
NY Daily News Honors Juan González for 25 Years as “Beacon to Whistleblowers and Wronged People”; The FBI vs. Occupy: Secret Docs Reveal “Counterterrorism” Monitoring of OWS from Its Earliest Days; The Other Bradley Manning: Jeremy Hammond Faces Life Term For WikiLeaks and Hacked Stratfor Emails; Tea Party Turmoil: FreedomWorks’ Dick Armey Takes $8 Million … Continued
“Blood on Your Hands”: CODEPINK Interrupts NRA’s Wayne LaPierre as He Calls for Guns in U.S. Schools; As U.S. Faces Gun Epidemic Post-Newtown, Obama Urged to Break With NRA & Back Global U.N. Arms Treaty; Idle No More: Indigenous-Led Protests Sweep Canada for Native Sovereignty and Environmental Justice. HeadlinesDecember 26, 2012 Christmas Visitors Flock … Continued
Dr. Gabor Maté on the Stress-Disease Connection, Addiction and the Destruction of American Childhood.
Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win, and Now Protect, Voting Rights in U.S.
New Report Sheds Light on Bin Laden Murder, As Pakistan Faces Fallout from U.S.-Led Vaccination Plot; As the ANC Votes to Support BDS, A New Film Compares Life in Palestine to Apartheid South Africa; “End of the World”: Apocalypse or Shopocalypse? Reverend Billy on Consumerism and Climate Change. HeadlinesDecember 21, 2012 Victims of Sandy … Continued
Domestic Abuse Survivor Goldie Taylor on Giving Up Her Gun & the Unseen Plague of National Violence; Louisiana TV Station Fires Black Meteorologist for Responding to Viewer’s Barb About Her Hair; The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Bribe Its Way Through Expansion in Mexico. HeadlinesDecember 20, 2012 6 Massacre Victims Laid to … Continued
“We Have to Do Something”: Rep. Carolyn McCarthy on the Growing Push for Gun Control After Newtown; Rep. Raúl Grijalva Rejects Obama “Fiscal Cliff” Plan to Cut More from Social Security than Military; Michael Moore’s Poetic Plea to Obama: “Dear Mr. President, Please Let Leonard Peltier Come Home”; Exclusive: Leonard Peltier Speaks Out From Prison … Continued
As Newtown’s First Victims Are Buried, Washington Shows Signs of Life in Taking on Gun Lobby; New Town to Newtown: How ’96 Massacre Spurred Gun Laws in Australia — and No Mass Shootings Since; “Americans Kill People”: Michael Moore on Newtown, Mass Shootings, and the U.S. Culture of Violence; As NRA Hides From Public After … Continued
