Democracy Now! Audio

Headlines for January 03, 2014; Texas Student: After Reporting Rape, I Was Accused of "Public Lewdness," Sent to Disciplinary School; NAFTA at 20: Lori Wallach on U.S. Job Losses, Record Income Inequality, Mass Displacement in Mexico; Zapatista Uprising 20 Years Later: How Indigenous Mexicans Stood Up Against NAFTA "Death Sentence"

Headlines for January 02, 2014; Newly Elected Mayor Bill de Blasio: NYC Cannot Become the "Exclusive Domain of the One Percent"; Harry Belafonte Urges de Blasio to Fight Poverty, Stop-and-Frisk & "Dickensian Justice System"; Public Advocate Letitia James: Time to Tackle "Gilded Age of Inequality" in New York City; "We Will No Longer Stay Silent to This Classism": NYC Youth Poet Laureate Ramya Ramana; Exclusive: Dying Lawyer Lynne Stewart's Jubilant Return Home After Winning Compassionate Release

2013 In Review: Power, Politics and Resistance

Headlines for December 31, 2013; Crackdown on Brotherhood, Opposition Grows as Egypt Joins Ranks of Most Dangerous for Journalists; WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Calls on Computer Hackers to Unite Against NSA Surveillance; Jacob Appelbaum: Futuristic-Sounding "Radar Wave Devices" Can Help NSA Monitor Your Computer Usage; Looking Back: A Year of Struggles on Climate, Education & Marriage Equality Inspire Hope for 2014

Headlines for December 30, 2013; Orwellian or a Blunt Tool?: Conflicting Rulings on NSA Spying Set Up Likely Supreme Court Showdown; Glenn Greenwald: The NSA Can "Literally Watch Every Keystroke You Make"; Jobless Benefits Cut for 1.3 Million, Despite Highest Long-Term Unemployment Since World War II

Headlines for December 27, 2013; U.S. Rushes Weapons to Iraq Amidst Bloody Sectarian Conflict Set Off by 2003 Invasion; The Other 98% Urges Wall Street to Donate $91 Billion in Bonuses to Victims of Financial Crisis; How Can the Philippines Recover from Typhoon Haiyan While Forced to Pay Off Ex-Dictator's Old Debt?

Headlines for December 26, 2013; Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and Resistance

"Ties That Bind": Tales of Love and Gratitude from the Past Decade with StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay

Headlines for December 24, 2013; Beyond Plan Colombia: Covert CIA Program Reveals Critical U.S. Role in Killings of Rebel Leaders; Did Covert U.S. Program Targeting Rebel Leaders Help Undermine Colombia's Peace Process?; Ex-Rebel Leader Faces Ouster as Bogota Mayor After Longtime Advocacy of Reconciliation; Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor of Eponymous Assault Rifle That Shaped Modern Warfare, Dead at 94

Headlines for December 23, 2013; Time for Compassion? Aging Political Prisoners Suffer From Illness, Decades in Solitary Confinement; "If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go": Elderly Prison Population Skyrockets Despite Low Risk to Society

Headlines for December 20, 2013; Arctic 30 Members Welcome Russian Amnesty, But Refuse to Apologize for Trying to Stop Oil Drilling; Indigenous Groups Win Right to Seize Chevron's Canadian Assets over $18 Billion in Amazon Pollution; Obama Commutes 8 "Unfair" Crack Cocaine Sentences as the ACLU Calls For More Reforms to Drug Laws; Live from Prison: Jason Hernandez Thanks Obama for Commuting His Drug Sentence, Hopes "More to Come"

Headlines for December 19, 2013; Vindication for Snowden? Obama Panel Backs Major Curbs on NSA Surveillance, Phone Record Data Mining; NSA Whistleblower Kirk Wiebe Details Gov't Retaliation After Helping Expose "Gross Mismanagement"; Morsi Charged with Terrorism as Egyptian Military Widens Crackdown on Journalists, Activists

PART 2: Gabor Maté and Alan Schwarz on "The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder"

Headlines for December 18, 2013; Geneva Talks "Already Dead" as Syria Faces Unprecedented Humanitarian Crisis, Imploding Opposition; Patrick Cockburn: U.S. Turns Blind Eye as Saudis Fund Jihadists in Syrian Conflict; Debate: Is Academic Group's Boycott of Israel a Victory or Setback for Justice in Middle East?

Headlines for December 17, 2013; As Judge Rules NSA Surveillance "Almost Orwellian," Obama Prepares to Leave Spying Program Intact; The Selling of ADHD: Diagnoses, Prescriptions Soar After 20-Year Marketing Effort by Big Pharma