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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).
“I Have No Regret to Anybody in the Military. This Is Clearly a Failure of Our Government”–Iraq War Vet Dan Choi Discharged Under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”; Environmental Activist Jerry Cope on “The Crime of the Century: What BP and US Government Don’t Want You to Know”; Antonia Juhasz: BP’s “Missing Oil” Washes Up in … Continued
Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan War: “The President Lacks the Guts to Get Out”; “12th and Delaware” Offers Unique Inside Look at Struggle Between Abortion Clinic and Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Care Center. Today’s Headlines * Massive Flooding Kills Over 1,200 in Pakistan * Mullen: US Military Has Plans to Attack Iran If Needed * Report: July … Continued
On Eve of Major Protests, Federal Judge Blocks Key Provisions of Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law; Patrick Cockburn on Missing Billions in Iraq and Soaring Cancer & Infant Mortality Rates in Fallujah; In Historic Vote, UN Declares Access to Water a Fundamental Right. Today’s Headlines * Federal Judge Blocks Part of Arizona Immigration Law * US … Continued
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange: “Transparent Government Tends to Produce Just Government”We spend the hour with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, talking about the biggest leak in US history: the release of more than 91,000 classified military records on the war in Afghanistan.
Jesse Jackson Calls Shirley Sherrod a “True Freedom Fighter” Who Fought Back Against “Attempted Character Assassination”; Nevada Leads Nation in Unemployment, Foreclosures, Bankruptcies; Reid Leads in Nevada Senate Race After Series of Controversial Statements by GOP Challenger Sharron Angle; “Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable”–Majora Carter on the … Continued
