Tag: democracy
Hugo Chávez Opened Space for Left Leaders and Moderate Reformers in Latin America
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To watch this entire interview on Democracy Now! visit Democracy Now!'s Juan González and scholar Greg Grandin discuss how Venezuelan P...
The “Citizens United” for Voting Rights? Civil Rights Era Victory Threatened by Supreme Court Review
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Watch the entire interview with The Nation's Ari Berman on Democracy Now! at The U.S. Supreme Court is considering overturning the 1965 ...
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, March 1
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This is a summary of news headlines from the United States and around the world as reported by Democracy Now! on Friday, March 1, 2013. Visit
Salt Sugar Fat: NY Times Reporter Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food
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- Food companies have known for decades that salt, sugar and fat are not good for us in the quantities Americans consume them. Bu...
Pandora’s Lunchbox: Pulling Back the Curtain On How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal
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- We look deep inside the $1-trillion-a-year "processed food industrial complex" at how decades of food science have resulted in ...
Melanie Warner: Where Do Vitamins Added To Processed Foods Come From? The Answer May Surprise You
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Watch the entire interview with Melanie Warner on Democracy Now! at We ask longtime food journalist Melanie Warner, author of the new b...
New Funding Group Calls for 100 More WikiLeaks to Offset Unprecedented Gov’t Secrecy
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- WikiLeaks is set to receive major new financial support this week from a new group that funds independent journalism organizati...
Occupy wall street vs occupy chucke- Live
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Occupy wall street vs Occupy chucke -live at chucke cheeses. Chucke is interviewed about his feelings towwards an occupy chucke movement. Note: No disrespect intended towwards the ows movement.
Whistleblowers Warned at Bradley Manning Hearing: You Give Classified Docs to Media, We’ll Get You
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Watch the entire interview with Glenn Greenwald on Democracy Now! at bit.ly Last week during US Army Private Bradley Manning's pre-trial hearing the judge in the case, Denise Lind, asked an interesting question of p...
Bradley Manning Update – Democracy Now
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For the first time, 25-year-old US Army Private Bradley Manning has admitted to being the source behind the largest leak of state secrets in US history. More than a thousand days after he was arrested, Manning testi...
‘Revolution to weaken US grip on Bahrain’
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An analyst says the revolution in Bahrain, over people's fight for democracy and human rights, will free the country from the US's grasp. In the background to this, Bahrainis have staged anti-regime demonstrations i...
WikiLeaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning Says He Wanted to Show the Public the “True Costs of War”
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- For the first time, 25-year-old US Army Private Bradley Manning has admitted to being the source behind the largest leak of state secrets in US history. More than a thousand days after he was arrested, Manning te...
Russell Simmons On Gun Control: ‘I Don’t Think They’re Making Enough Progress’
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - Russell Simmons gets on his soapbox after attending a private party at Little Door in Los Angeles, CA. On the current political climate in the US, Simmons comments: "Gun control! I don't...
Obama takes “real” questions when press is absent
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On Monday, President Barack Obama ended a speech to a group of members of the National Governors Association at the White House by saying, "What I want to do is clear out the press so we can take some questions." Ma...
Syria conflict- Minneg Village, Izaz District, Northern Syria, Aleppo
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After the outbreak of the revolution in Syria, the inhabitants of Minneg abandoned the village as it became targeted by the regime's forces at Minneg Military Airport. The village was targeted when dissidents of the...
The Nuclear Industry Is DEAD Despite Any “Nuclear Candy”
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Listening Post – Spies, secrets and Israeli media
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This week we focus on Israel and the story about one prisoner that revealed multiple layers of censorship. Prisoner X was a suspected Mossad operative-turned-double agent who, in 2010, reportedly committed suicide i...
Occupy the Education Department?
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Some high school students in the US feel that the Scholastic Achievement Test, or SATs are unfair and refuse to take them. Teachers at Garfield high school are now saying they won't administer the latest standardize...