Arrests mark last anti-war march of convention

Percussion grenades, tear gas and nearly 400 arrests marked the final anti-war march during the Republican National Convention. More than 800 arrests were reported during a week of sometimes peaceful, sometimes violent dissent.

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I think that the New York Times got it exactly wrong this morning in declaring that "the enduring legacy of Air America's failure is that political media from either side of the aisle is more successful when run as a business instead of a crusade."   That very attitude i …

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Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter joins us to discuss what he calls "politically motivated hype" over Iran's nuclear program. The Obama administration has warned of sanctions unless Iran allows inspections of a newly disclosed nuclear site.

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Beginning with the 1989 classic Roger & Me, the Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore says his films "come back to a central core concern: the economic system we have is unfair, unjust and undemocratic." With his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore tackles the fi …

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Last Friday, I debated lawyer-turned-lobbyist Lanny Davis, now working for the business backers of the recent Honduran coup, on Democracy Now! It actually wasn't much of a debate — in the way that word means an exchange of ideas — as Davis was fast out of the box, preemptiv …

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Noam Chomsky, the MIT professor, author and dissident intellectual, just turned eighty years old this past December.

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This is beginning to look like a replay of the failed 1993 health-care reform efforts led by then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Part II of our conversation with MIT professor and author Noam Chomsky on the global economic crisis, healthcare, the media, US foreign policy, the expanding wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, resistance to American empire, and more.

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So why isn't it happening? It's not happening because the legislation, single-payer legislation, would put the health insurance industry out of business.

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Amer Shurrab is a Palestinian from Khan Younes and a recent graduate of Vermont's Middlebury College. On Friday, his father and two brothers were fleeing their village when their vehicle came under Israeli fire.

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With the economy the number one issue on the campaign trail, major party candidates John McCain and Barack Obama discuss their tax plans, jobs and the financial bailout on the stump.

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The Democracy Now! host says that all charges against her and her producers have been dropped, but "it has a chilling effect on our ability to report."

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Frank Schaeffer, a life-long Republican and from a renowned evangelical family, comes out against John McCain (whom he supported in 2000) and the hatred his campaign is generating.

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Why are there active duty soldiers stationed on U.S. streets?

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Headlines for Thursday, October 2, 2008

Senate OKs $700B Wall St. Bailout

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Amy Goodman First Journalist to Win "Alternative Nobel"

New York City, NY – Award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely recognized as the world's premier award for personal courage and social transformation.

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The St. Paul City Attorney's office announced Friday it will not prosecute Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. St.

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Our conduits of information have been hijacked; a man, acting like a dictator, is in the White House; the town criers of democracy are getting arrested, and Americans' heads are so full of infotainment, Prozac and Zoloft that getting off the couch seems like a real inconvenience.

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Law enforcement agencies in St Paul seemed especially intent on singling out independent journalists and activists covering the Republican convention for the Internet and other alternative forms of media.

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A coordinated effort by local and Federal law enforcement agencies to quash political protest against the Bush Administration at the Republican National Convention has only highlighted the Bush Administration's disdain for and attack on Constitutional and civil rights.

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Nearly 250 people were being arraigned today on charges of damaging property and conspiracy to riot outside the Republican National Convention -- including 130 facing felony counts -- as the main anarchist group blamed for smashing windows, blocking traffic, and harassing delegat …

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Outstanding US journalist and anti-racist humanitarian, "Democracy Now" host Amy Goodman was arrested Monday during the demonstration outside the Republican National Convention. She was freed Monday night.

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On June 18th, 1983, Mona Mahmudnizhad, and nine other girls and women were hanged in a prison in the town of Shiraz, Iran. Ms. Mahmudnizhad was either 16 or 17 years old, according to various media reports.

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All three were violently manhandled by law enforcement officers. Abdel Kouddous was slammed against a wall and the ground, leaving his arms scraped and bloodied. He sustained other injuries to his chest and back.

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Amy Goodman of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota, while trying to free two of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, who were unlawfully detained. Also arrested was Associated Press photographer, Matt Rourke.

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