• Democracy Now! 2025-07-04 Friday
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Democracy Now! Video
    “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech; “Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World;...
  • Democracy Now! 2025-07-03 Thursday
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Democracy Now! Video
    Headlines for July 03, 2025; EXCLUSIVE : Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian Activist Jailed by ICE for 104 Days, in First Live Interview; GOP Budget Bill Slashes Medicaid for Millions, Cuts Taxes for the Rich, Funds ICE at Historic Levels
  • Democracy Now! 2025-07-02 Wednesday
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Democracy Now! Video
    Headlines for July 02, 2025; “Not a Done Deal”: After Senate Passes “Big, Ugly Bill,” Progressives Fight to Stop It in the House; GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the...
  • Hunger strike fails to unite opposition ahead of local elections
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
    TBILISI, DFWatch–With just a few months left until Georgia’s local elections on October 4, the country’s opposition remains deeply divided. Some parties are preparing to boycott the vote, while others intend to participate, hoping...
  • Mass firings in Georgia’s foreign ministry sparks speculation of political purge
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
    TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Foreign Ministry is facing criticism following a wave of dismissals that appear to target pro-Western diplomats. Dozens of employees, many of them having decades of service, have reportedly been let go in...
  • Democracy Now! 2025-07-01 Tuesday
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Democracy Now!
    Headlines for July 01, 2025; “Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen”: U.S. Surgeon Describes Mass Starvation, Injury and Death in Gaza; “Trying to Find Food Is a Death Sentence”: Palestinian Writer Muhammad Shehada on...
  • Democracy Now! 2025-06-30 Monday
    Monday, June 30, 2025 from Democracy Now!
    Headlines for June 30, 2025; To Fund Tax Cuts for the Rich, GOP Budget Bill Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Healthcare for Millions; SCOTUS Clears Way for Trump Agenda, from Limits to Birthright Citizenship to LGBTQ Books in...
  • UN80: Beyond Disposable Staff, Distracting Reforms and Restoring UN Effectiveness
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
    GENEVA, Jun 27 (IPS) - In an era defined by the gig economy and pervasive job insecurity, advocating for permanent contracts within the United Nations might seem anachronistic, even counterintuitive. Read the full story, “UN80: Beyond...
  • Enabling Machines to Make Life and Death Decisions Is Morally Unjustifiable
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
    Jun 27 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses autonomous weapons systems and the campaign for regulation with Nicole van Rooijen, Executive Director of Stop Killer Robots, a global civil society coalition of over 270 organisations that campaigns for...
  • Fixing the House the World Built: A Realistic Plan for UN Reform
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
    NEW YORK, Jun 27 (IPS) - I’ve spent much of my life in the machinery of international development, navigating acronyms, crises, and committee rooms with stale coffee. Through it all—amid war zones, climate summits, and remote island...
  • A Crisis-Stricken UN’s Frantic Hunt for Low-Cost Locations—away from New York & Geneva
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
    UNITED NATIONS, Jun 27 (IPS) - In the US, the success of a business enterprise or the value of real estate is reflected in a repetitive and alliterative phrase: “LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION”. As the UN continues its plans for...
  • Democracy Now! 2025-06-27 Friday
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Democracy Now!
    Headlines for June 27, 2025; Open the Floodgates: SCOTUS Says South Carolina Can Defund Planned Parenthood. Will Other States Follow?; Kidnapped to Salvadoran Mega-Prison: Andry Hernández Romero’s Family on 100+ Days of Disappearance;...
  • Inside the Abortion Underground: Rebecca Grant on Why Outlawing Abortion "Does Not Make It Go Away"
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Democracy Now!
    Journalist Rebecca Grant, who writes about reproductive rights, outlines the alternative healthcare methods that many are forced to turn to in the face of dangerous and increasingly draconian abortion restrictions.
  • Sikh American Trumpet Player & Singer Sonny Singh Performs & Talks About Music and Resistance
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Democracy Now!
    The Brooklyn-based Sikh American musician Sonny Singh joins us in our Democracy Now! studio to perform and talk about his remarkable music. Singh gained fame as a member of Red Baraat and now records as solo artist.
  • What the Ceasefire Between Israel and Iran Means for Israel-Palestine Conflict
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
    UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - The Trump administration announced on June 23 that a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran had been reached following 10 days of conflict between the two nations and the United States’ bombardment of...
  • A Growing Gap between Principle and Implementation: 20 Years of Responsibility to Protect
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
    UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 2025 (IPS) - United Nations member states this week reiterated their commitment to the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity—at a time when world powers are failing to...
  • Increased Demand for Cobalt Fuels Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
    UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - The demand for cobalt and other minerals is fueling a decades-long humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In pursuit of money to support their families, Congolese laborers face...
  • Lawmakers in Maldives Pledge to Support Women Leaders
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
    MALÉ & JOHANNESBURG, Jun 26 (IPS) - A meeting of parliamentarians in Malé, the Maldives, pledged to provide an enabling environment for emerging women leaders by supporting them and promoting a political culture rooted in mutual respect,...
  • Rising Temperatures, Rising Inequalities: How a New Insurance Protects India’s Poorest Women
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
    BHUBANESWAR/AHMEDABAD, India, Jun 26 (IPS) - As Deviben Dhaundhaliya, 45, a streetside seller of artificial jewelry, waits for her husband Devabhai to arrive and help her shift their iron-frame mobile ‘shop’ to the Bhadra Fort open-air...
  • Iran— Deja Vu All Over Again
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
    ATLANTA, USA, Jun 26 (IPS) - Chest thumping “Mission Accomplished” claims by President Trump that he ordered the world’s biggest conventional bombs to be dropped on a sleeping nation of 90 million people, were premature. To top it off he...
  • Democracy Now! 2025-06-26 Thursday
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Democracy Now!
    Headlines for June 26, 2025; “The Economy Is Rigged”: Robert Reich on Zohran Mamdani, The Democratic Party, Inequality, and Trump; “A Clown Show”: RFK Jr. Fires CDC Panel & Stacks It with Anti-Vaxxers, Cuts...
  • Democracy Now! 2025-06-25 Wednesday
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Democracy Now!
    Headlines for June 25, 2025; “We Fight for Working People with No Apology”: Zohran Mamdani Beats Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Primary; “One Mass Casualty After Another”: U.S. Doctor in Gaza on Ongoing Israeli Massacres at...
  • Democracy Now! 2025-06-24 Tuesday
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Democracy Now! Video
    Headlines for June 24, 2025; F-Bombs and Real Bombs: Trita Parsi on Shaky Iran Ceasefire & Trump’s Anger at Netanyahu; NYC Mayoral Primary Day: Zohran Mamdani on Building a Movement & Campaigning for an Affordable City; How...
  • Democracy Now! 2025-06-23 Monday
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Democracy Now! Video
    Headlines for June 23, 2025; Report from Tehran: Iranians View U.S. Strikes on Key Nuclear Sites as “Act of War”; Stop the War on Iran: 1,000+ Sign Petition Saying Iran War Deflects Attention from Gaza Genocide; Ex-Israeli...
  • EU considers suspending visa-free entry for Georgians
    Sunday, June 22, 2025 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
    TBILISI, DFWatch–When foreign ministers from EU member countries meet in Luxembourg on Monday, three of the topics on their agenda are about Georgia: the rise in anti-EU disinformation, possible sanctions over alleged human rights...
  • Special Report: Mahmoud Khalil Reunites with Family After Release from ICE Jail
    Saturday, June 21, 2025 from Democracy Now!
    Columbia University graduate, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his wife and met his newborn son after being released from over 100 days in ICE detention. After flying from Louisiana to New Jersey, Khalil told reporters,...
  • Georgia’s ruling party says opposition participation ‘irrelevant’ ahead of local elections
    Saturday, June 21, 2025 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
    TBILISI, DFWatch–As Georgia prepares to hold local elections in October, the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party says it expects a decisive win regardless of whether the opposition parties participate or not. “For the...
  • Parliament commission to investigative UNM crimes seeks extension ahead of damning report
    Thursday, June 19, 2025 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
    TBILISI, DFWatch–A temporary investigative commission in Georgia’s parliament is seeking to extend its mandate by one month, in order to complete a report expected to paint a detrimental picture of the former government’s...
  • After the Argentina debacle, the IMF endorses weakening capital controls in Ecuador
    Wednesday, December 18, 2019 from openDemocracy -
    The IMF is backing a tax reform bill in Ecuador that will enable capital flight and further austerity.
  • Do not dismiss the voices of returned migrants: a response to the IOM
    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.
  • Traditions of absence and ambiguity: the Syrian documentary and its public
    Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
    Why are Syrian documentaries detached from the Syrian audience?
  • Georgian Dream's "seven bloody years"
    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.
  • Controlling the mercury that is killing the Colombian Amazon
    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. Español
  • Bolsonaro’s Revisionist History of Brazil
    Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration is embarking on a project of cultural and historical revision.
  • Betsy DeVos’ vision for an indebted future? An AI student loan chatbot
    Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
    AIDAN, Betsy DeVos’ proposed chatbot, signals that the Department of Education remains open for business.
  • What does ‘A Christmas Carol’ tell us about the meaning of charity?
    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.”
  • Islamophobia is Boris Johnson’s problem now
    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.
  • Everywhere we looked was burning: an interview with Emel Mathlouthi
    Monday, December 16, 2019 from openDemocracy -
    Emel Mathlouthi’s new album is the soundtrack of the apocalypse.
  • Latest live coverage: bbc.co.uk/parliaments
    Tuesday, May 31, 2016 from BBC Democracy Live - Home
    Latest live coverage of the UK's parliaments and assemblies
  • "I Want the World to Wake Up": Hiroshima Survivor Criticizes Obama for Pushing New Nuclear Weapons
    Friday, 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...
  • Peace Activist and Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein Dies at 91
    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...
  • Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Takes High-School Detention to a New Level
    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...
  • WATCH: Amy Goodman on MetroFocus (PBS)
    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 Interview
  • LISTEN: Amy Goodman on NPR's Weekend Edition
    Tuesday, 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 transcript
  • Breaking Free: A Rising Tide of Climate Resistance
    Thursday, 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...
  • Chomsky: Today's GOP is a Candidate for Most Dangerous Organization in Human History—Part 2
    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...
  • WATCH: Amy Goodman on CSPAN's Washington Journal
    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.
  • Part 2: Alabama Prison Strike Organizer Joins with Pastor to Achieve Criminal Justice Reform
    Friday, May 13, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
    We continue our interview with an Alabama prisoner about the end of a 10-day strike to protest severe overcrowding, poor living conditions and the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which bans slavery and servitude "except as a...
  • Obama Should Heed Hiroshima’s Survivors
    Thursday, May 12, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
    By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The White House announced this week that President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic-bomb attack. He will be the first sitting president to go there, and only the...
  • Economic Reality Checks
    Sunday, August 2, 2015 from Democracy At Work » Radio
    Updates on Boeing and economic blackmail, socialism returns, Chrysler fine is bogus, airline fees ploy, auto union vs wage tiers. We respond to questions on stale debate at Medicare 50th anniversary and on getting financing for worker...
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