Today’s Show

• Headlines
• In Historic Move, Democrats Nominate Obama as Presidential Nominee
• Actor, Activist Danny Glover on Challenges for Popular Movements in an Historic Election Year
• New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Walks Out of Screening of Katrina Documentary “Trouble the Water”
• EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Chair Henry Waxman Calls for Cancellation of Blackwater’s Contract in Iraq
• Biden Accepts Democratic VP Nomination
• Ralph Nader on the Democrats’ Corporate Ties, the Silencing of Third Parties, and Why Biden is the “MasterCard Senator”
• Iraq Veterans Against the War Lead Thousands in Protest March to Democratic Convention
• Melissa Harris-Lacewell Urges Obama to Draw on Political Rhetoric of African American Women Like Hamer, Chisholm & Jordan

RECENT SHOWS

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

• Headlines
• 600 Arrested at Mississippi Factory in Largest Immigration Raid in US History
• Clinton Calls on Supporters to Unite Behind Obama
• Amy Goodman Questions Fmr. President Jimmy Carter on Being Sidelined at DNC
• In Wake of Deadly US Air Strike, Jeremy Scahill Questions Lawmakers About Obama’s Afghanistan Policy
• Labor Groups Challenge Retail Giant Wal-Mart on Pressuring Employees to Vote Against Obama
• Narrowing the Obama-Clinton Divide: A Roundtable Discussion
• “Operation First Casualty”: Outside Democratic Convention, Iraq Veterans Against the War Re-Enact Raids on Iraqi Civilians
• Rep. Dennis Kucinich: “Wake Up America!”
• Tarnished by Sex Scandal, John Edwards’ Absence Reduces Focus on Poverty at Democratic Convention
• When Off the Silver Screen, Actress Daryl Hannah Seen on Frontlines of Environmental Movements

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

• Headlines
• As Democratic Convention Kicks Off, Massive Security Presence Clamps Down on Dissent in Denver
• Denver Police Arrest 91, Fire Pepper Spray & Pepper Balls at Protesters
• Former US Senator Jean Carnahan and Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan on the 2008 Race, Their Role as Convention Delegates & Voter Registration
• Iraq Veterans Against the War Descends on Denver to Call on Democrats to Endorse True Antiwar Platform
• Jeremy Scahill Grills Democratic Lawmakers on the War, Obama’s Foreign Policy Team and the Corporate Money Behind the Big Show
• Michelle Obama Delivers Keynote Address on Opening Day of Democratic Convention

Monday, August 25, 2008

• Headlines
• Antiwar Activists Take to the Streets to “Defend Denver”
• AT&T Throws Party to Support Dems Who Voted to Grant Telecoms Immunity for Illegal Domestic Wiretapping
• A Debate on Sen. Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Record Between Steve Clemons and Stephen Zunes
• Massive Security Operation Mobilized for DNC
• Rick MacArthur: “You Can’t Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America”

BLOG

• Amy Goodman’s New Column: “Poverty Is the Real Scandal”

  Former Sen. John Edwards was supposed to speak in Denver at the Democratic National Convention, but he had an affair. Will the Democrats now forget about his signature issue?

  Filed under Weekly Column

• “Cheney, Bush and Habbush”

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on a book tour, where she is being hounded by activists and questioned about her pledge that “impeachment is off the table.” She responded on the TV talk show “The View,” “If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind may have provided the evidence she doesn’t want to see.

  Filed under Weekly Column

• “Don’t Cage Dissent”

  Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties to the cherished tradition of dissent. Things are not looking good.

  Listen to this Column

  Filed under Weekly Column

• Lawmaker Calls on Pentagon to Explain Promotion of Threat-Wielding Recruiter After Democracy Now! Broadcast

  Rep. Gene Green (D–TX) is calling on the Pentagon to explain why a military recruiter was given a promotion despite being found to have illegally threatened a teenage boy with jail time if he decided to go to college instead of joining the military. The recruiter was eventually promoted to head a different recruiting station. Green sent the letter questioning Kelt’s new job after his Wednesday appearance on Democracy Now!

  See Story

  Filed under D.N. in the News

• “Threats, Lies and Audiotape”

  With no end in sight in Afghanistan and Iraq, military recruiters must be prevented from using desperate and aggressive measures to lure our nation’s young people—the poorest and most vulnerable—into the line of fire.

  Listen to this Column

  Filed under Weekly Column

• ‘It’s a Global Election’

  Amy Goodman reports from the Baltics: “When I arrived in Estonia last week—a former Soviet republic that lies just south of Finland—everyone had an opinion on Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin.”

  Listen to this Column

  Filed under Weekly Column

• “Who’s Paying for the Conventions?”

  The nominating conventions have become elaborate, expensive marketing events, but most people don’t know the extent to which major corporations fund them, pouring tens of millions of dollars into a little-known loophole in the campaign-finance system.

  Listen to this Column

  Filed under Weekly Column

• “Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid”

  While the presidential candidates trade barbs and accuse each other of flip-flopping, they agree with President Bush on their enthusiastic support for nuclear power.

  Listen to this Column

  Filed under Weekly Column

• More Blog Posts »

Podcasting & Torrents

• DN! Audio & Video Podcasts

• Democracy Now! by BitTorrent