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Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian Conference
Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian Conference As Germany intensifies its crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices, we speak with Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis, one of the planned speakers at a conference in Berlin last weekend that was forcibly shut down by police. The Palestine Congress was scheduled […]
How Wealth Inequality Fuels the Climate Emergency: George Monbiot & Scientist Kevin Anderson on COP26
How Wealth Inequality Fuels the Climate Emergency: George Monbiot & Scientist Kevin Anderson on COP26 The United States and China made a surprise announcement on Wednesday at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow on a joint pledge to reduce methane emissions and slow deforestation. The United States is the largest historical emitter of carbon emissions, […]
The End of Oil is Near, or Maybe Not
The End of Oil is Near, or Maybe Not The cover of the September/October 2020 issue of Sierra magazine states “The End of Oil is Near”. The corresponding story “The End of Oil?” was paralleled with a recent segment on Democracy Now. I think that is wishful thinking. To the extent that oil demand goes down […]
Chomsky: Arrest of Assange Is “Scandalous” and Highlights Shocking Extraterritorial Reach of U.S.
Chomsky: Arrest of Assange Is “Scandalous” and Highlights Shocking Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Noam Chomskyworld-renowned political dissident, linguist and author. He is a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught for more than 50 years. Attorneys for WikiLeaks […]
John Bolton Openly Admits He Wants Maduro Out, American Oil Companies In
John Bolton Openly Admits He Wants Maduro Out, American Oil Companies In Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro might be forgiven for thinking there’s a foreign-backed conspiracy against him in repeatedly accusing the US of engineering a “coup” and waging “economic war” against his regime, especially given that US advisers are now quite openly admitting this is precisely […]
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp In Canada, armed forces raided native Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia Monday, with at least 14 arrests being reported. Land defenders faced off with Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the police breached two checkpoints set up to keep pipeline workers out […]
Climate Scientist: World’s Richest Must Radically Change Lifestyles to Prevent Global Catastrophe
Climate Scientist: World’s Richest Must Radically Change Lifestyles to Prevent Global Catastrophe Watch Full Show LINKS Kevin Anderson on Twitter Greta Thunberg on Twitter The 24th United Nations climate summit comes amid growing warnings about the catastrophic danger climate change poses to the world. In October, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that […]
Greenwald vs. Cirincione: Should Trump Have Canceled Summit After U.S. Indictment of Russian Agents?
Greenwald vs. Cirincione: Should Trump Have Canceled Summit After U.S. Indictment of Russian Agents? This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, as we continue our debate between Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, […]
A Retrospective Look At The Work WikiLeaks Made Possible As Assange Remains Silenced
A Retrospective Look At The Work WikiLeaks Made Possible As Assange Remains Silenced An argument is only as good as the evidence it cites. For this reason, WikiLeaks embodies one the most significant information armories in existence. John Pilger spoke to this importance when he compared WikiLeaks with a mainstream press that he called nothing more […]
Noam Chomsky Calls Obsession With Russia Conspiracy Theories ‘A Joke’
Noam Chomsky Calls Obsession With Russia Conspiracy Theories ‘A Joke’ During a recent interview with Democracy Now, Noam Chomsky demonstrated what everyone with a clear head and capacity for critical thought should already know. Just because you have a strong dislike for Donald Trump, doesn’t mean you latch on like a lunatic to every nonsensical […]
The Shadow Government’s Destruction Of Democracy
The Shadow Government’s Destruction Of Democracy The ‘Deep State’ has one simple rule – “do it my way… or else!” Source: Ben Garrison And on the heels of Dennis Kucinich’s warnings, The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald, who opposes Trump for a variety of reasons, warns that siding with the evidently powerful Deep State in the hopes of undermining […]
VIDEO: German Lawmaker on Why Wars Led by the U.S. Are at the Root of the Refugee Crisis
VIDEO: German Lawmaker on Why Wars Led by the U.S. Are at the Root of the Refugee Crisis Annette Groth, a member of the German Parliament, recently returned from a trip to Hungary, where she saw thousands of migrants stranded at the Budapest train station. “What is the root for this massive migration?” Groth asks. […]
Julian Assange on the TPP – “Deal Isn’t About Trade, It’s About Corporate Control”
Julian Assange on the TPP – “Deal Isn’t About Trade, It’s About Corporate Control” It’s mostly not about trade. Only 5 of the 29 chapters are about traditional trade. – Julian Assange in a recent interview with Democracy Now I’ve focused a little bit more of my attention on the Trans-Pacific Partnership lately, as the Obama […]
We Are Seneca Lake: Josh Fox & Fracking Opponents Fight Natural Gas Storage Site in Upstate NY
We Are Seneca Lake: Josh Fox & Fracking Opponents Fight Natural Gas Storage Site in Upstate NY On Wednesday, Josh Fox, director of “Gasland,” the documentary which exposed the harms of the fracking industry, was arrested along with 20 other people after forming a human barricade at a natural gas storage facility in upstate New […]
