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KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jan 20 (IPS) - The last few weeks of 2024 were a disappointment for those who strongly believed that planet Earth is in need of bold actions. First, there were the frustration stemming from what could be defined at...Monday, January 20, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
PEMBA, Tanzania, Jan 20 (IPS) - As the cool morning breeze sweeps across the Indian Ocean beach in Tanzania’s Pemba archipelago, Salma Mahmoud Ali begins her day. With her brightly coloured Kikoi cinched tightly around her waist and a...Monday, January 20, 2025 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for January 20, 2025; Gaza Ceasefire: Palestinian Lawyer Says Women, Children Released by Israel Faced Torture, Starvation; Bad Deal Better Than No Deal: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Fears Netanyahu Could Resume Attacks;...Friday, January 17, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 (IPS) - The year 2024 has been one of the most devastating for journalists covering conflicts worldwide-- with 361 behind bars, the second highest since the global record of 370 imprisoned back in 2023. Read the...Friday, January 17, 2025 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for January 17, 2025; Gideon Levy & Mouin Rabbani on Ceasefire: “Netanyahu Will Do Everything Possible” to Kill It Later; Breaking All Records, Trump’s Inauguration Set to Bring in $250M from Billionaires...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan 16 (IPS) - In anticipation of Donald Trump’s inauguration his gold-studded Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, is at the heart of political power games, where influential businessmen like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 16 (IPS) - A ceasefire agreement between the states of Israel and Palestine was reached on 15 January, 2025 , effectively putting an end to hostilities in the Gaza Strip. This comes after nearly 15 months of conflict,...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
MOSCOW, Jan 16 (IPS) - With heightening geopolitical interest in building a new Global South architecture, Ghana's administration is considering joining the 'partner states category' of BRICS+, an association of five major emerging...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 16 (IPS) - As the United Nations plans to commemorate its 80th anniversary later this year, it is “reflecting on the steps taken to advance implementation of the Secretary-General’s Strategic Action Plan for...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for January 16, 2025; Report from Gaza: Ceasefire Announcement Raises Hopes, But Israel Kills 81 in New Attacks; Daniel Levy, Muhammad Shehada, Jeremy Scahill on Ceasefire Deal, Trump’s Role & Palestine’s...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
PORTLAND, USA, Jan 15 (IPS) - Despite the denials by the Israeli government and some of its supporters, Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza is evident. Read the full story, “Israel’s Genocide in Gaza”, on globalissues.org →Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for January 15, 2025; Democrats Grill Pete Hegseth on Rape Allegation, Drunkenness and Women in Combat; Meet the Military Vets Arrested for Disrupting Pete Hegseth’s Senate Confirmation Hearing; Queer and HIV+ in Gaza: A...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
Jan 14 (IPS) - A regime built on terror, ruled by fear and sustained by foreign proxy forces crumbled in less than a fortnight. In the end, the foundations of the House of Assad (1970–2024) rested on the shifting sands of time. In the...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 14 (IPS) - 2024 was a transitional period in Haiti’s history, marked by rampant political instability, brutal gang violence, and widespread civilian displacement. Since the eruption of hostilities in March 2024, the...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for January 14, 2025; White Nationalism, Sexual Assault & Corruption: Trump “Loyalist” Pete Hegseth Faces Senate Confirmation; “The Party of War”: Matt Duss on Biden, Gaza & How Democrats Lost...Monday, January 13, 2025 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for January 13, 2025; Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena & Octavia Butler’s Warning; “Tinderbox”: How Fossil Fuel Companies & Electric Utilities Intensified L.A....Monday, January 13, 2025 from Democracy Now!
Belgian Lebanese activist Dyab Abou Jahjah, the founder of the Hind Rajab Foundation, discusses how the organization seeks to hold Israeli soldiers accountable for war crimes committed in Gaza. Named after a 6-year-old girl who was...Friday, January 10, 2025 from Democracy Now! Video
Headlines for January 10, 2025; Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus Fled L.A. Fearing Wildfires. His Old Neighborhood Is Now a Hellscape; “Sabotaged by His Own Democratic Party”: Ralph Nader on Jimmy Carter’s Legacy; Camp...Thursday, January 9, 2025 from Democracy Now! Video
Headlines for January 09, 2025; Zuckerberg Goes “Full MAGA ” as Meta Ends Fact-Checking in U.S. & Paves Way for More Hate Speech; L.A. Fires Should Be a Climate Wake-Up Call: 5 Dead, 130K+ Evacuated in Uncontained...Wednesday, January 8, 2025 from Democracy Now! Video
Headlines for January 08, 2025; “Outrageous”: Rep. Jim McGovern Slams Trump’s Rhetoric on Taking Panama, Greenland & Canada; Will Biden Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg Posthumously? Declassified Docs Show FBI Knew She Was...Tuesday, January 7, 2025 from Democracy Now! Video
Headlines for January 07, 2025; The Militia and the Mole: Reporter Josh Kaplan on How a Freelance Vigilante Infiltrated U.S. Militias; “Requiem for a Refugee Camp”: Mosab Abu Toha on Destruction of Jabaliya, Abduction of...Monday, July 29, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
The three lawsuits filed in the Constitutional Court of Georgia on the Law on “Transparency of Foreign Influence” will be combined into one proceeding, CCG Chairman Merab Turava said to the journalist on Monday, adding...Thursday, April 25, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
Tbilisi, DFWatch-Over a hundred non-governmental and media organizations declare their open disobedience to the foreign influence draft law initiated by the Georgian authorities and suspend all cooperation with the government...Wednesday, April 3, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
Georgian government, after a one-year forced pause and in the face of criticism both inside and outside the country, re-initiated the bill on “Agents of Foreign Influence”. The new initiative, titled as the draft law on...Friday, March 15, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–A woman from Moscow Oblast, who caused great anger among Vladimir Putin supporters by kicking out a Russian soldier fighting against Ukraine from her coffee shop, has moved to Tbilisi with only ‘two bags’, leaving...Friday, March 1, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Dream is in the process of preparing a legislative initiative to “protect society from pseudo-liberal ideology” and its inevitable harmful consequences.” The country may face such a...Tuesday, February 20, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–The court of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” has sentenced a Georgian fighter Mamuka Gatserelia to life imprisonment for killing three Russian infantrymen, the General Prosecutor’s Office of...Wednesday, February 14, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested his country might exchange American journalist Evan Gershkovich for a Russian assassin jailed in Germany. Speaking to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a...Monday, January 29, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–After Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili returned to public politics in late December, everyone in Georgia expected major upheavals in the government, although only a small number of commentators predicted...Tuesday, January 23, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–More than 700 people were detained on charges of crossing the de facto border between Abkhazia and Georgia in 2023, states security service of the breakaway Abkhazia. Most of them were punished administratively, and...Monday, January 22, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–Dutch low-cost airline, Transavia, is starting to operate in the Georgian market. Tickets can currently be purchased on the company’s website for flights from late April. During the summer navigation season of...Wednesday, December 18, 2019 from openDemocracy -
The IMF is backing a tax reform bill in Ecuador that will enable capital flight and further austerity.Wednesday, December 18, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Policies in practice are rarely the same as they are on paper. The IOM would do well to remember that.Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Why are Syrian documentaries detached from the Syrian audience?Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Seven years ago, Georgian Dream swept to power on the promise of ending systemic police violence. They have failed.Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
The goal set by the national government is that by 2023 the use of mercury in Colombia will be completely stopped. The protective action initiated by indigenous communities could be a useful tool to follow this up. EspañolTuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration is embarking on a project of cultural and historical revision.Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
AIDAN, Betsy DeVos’ proposed chatbot, signals that the Department of Education remains open for business.Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business. Charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were all my business.”Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Labour Party’s abject failure to address anti-Semitism has garnered headlines, but hatred of Muslims is even more rampant in Britain—and the prime minister and his party have contributed to making it socially acceptable.Monday, December 16, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Emel Mathlouthi’s new album is the soundtrack of the apocalypse.Tuesday, May 31, 2016 from BBC Democracy Live - Home
Latest live coverage of the UK's parliaments and assembliesFriday, May 27, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
Extended interview with Setsuko Thurlow, who survived the Hiroshima atomic bombing, about the bombing of 1945 and her push to eliminate nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, Thurlow was at school in Hiroshima when the U.S. dropped the...Friday, May 27, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
Holocaust survivor and peace activist Hedy Epstein has died at the age of 91. Epstein was born in Germany and left in 1939 on a Kindertransport to England. Her parents died in Auschwitz. She later returned to Germany to work as a...Thursday, May 26, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Thursday, Jan. 28, was a cold morning in Durham, North Carolina. Wildin David Guillen Acosta went outside to head to school, but never made it. He was thrown to the ground and arrested by agents from...Wednesday, May 25, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
Amy Goodman appears on the PBS show MetroFocus and breaks down all that is wrong with the media’s coverage of Election 2016. Watch the Full InterviewTuesday, May 24, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
NPR's Scott Simon asks Amy Goodman about Bernie Sanders' chances of getting the delegates he needs to claim the Democratic nomination. Download MP3 || Read the transcriptThursday, May 19, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “Welcome to Fort McMurray. We have the energy,” reads the signs as one enters this northern deep-woods outpost at the center of the Alberta tar sands petroleum-extraction zone. The forests surrounding...Monday, May 16, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
In Part 2 of our wide-ranging conversation with the world-renowned dissident Noam Chomsky, we talk about the conflict in Syria, the rise of ISIS , Saudi Arabia, the political crisis in Brazil, the passing of the pioneering lawyer Michael...Saturday, May 14, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
On Saturday, Amy Goodman appeared on CSPAN's Washington Journal to discuss progressive media on CSPAN's Washington Journal, and take calls from viewers. Watch below, or click here.