Democracy Now! Audio

Pt. 2 of Yves Smith on $13B JPMorgan Settlement: Deal Fails to Ease Pain of Foreclosed Homeowners

Headlines for October 28, 2013; "Stop Watching Us": As Diplomatic Fallout Grows, Thousands Protest NSA Surveillance in D.C.; Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Spying on Allies Shows "Institutional Obsession" with Surveillance; Glenn Greenwald: Media Venture Will Empower Adversarial Journalism to Hold the Powerful Accountable; While Defenders Cry Foul, JPMorgan Chase's $13 Billion Banking Settlement a "Screaming Bargain"

Headlines for October 25, 2013; As U.S. Faces New Scrutiny on Drones, U.N. Report Finds Hundreds of Civilian Deaths in Pakistan; U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Calls for Release of Info on Bush-Era Kidnappings, Torture; A Drone Warrior's Torment: Ex-Air Force Pilot Brandon Bryant on His Trauma from Remote Killing; Diagnosing the Online Health Exchange Debacle: "Proprietary" Software Needs a Dose of Open Source

Headlines for October 24, 2013; Exclusive: René González, Lone Cuban 5 Member Freed from U.S. Prison, Speaks Out from Havana; Ex-Cuban Foreign Minister on Threats by Militant Exiles & Why Obama Should "Free the 5"

Headlines for October 23, 2013; "How Do You Justify Killing a Grandmother?" Amnesty Says U.S. Drone Strikes May Be War Crimes; "Prisoners of Profit": Despite Widespread Abuse, Private Juvenile Jail Firm Expands Empire; "Cash for Kids": Firms Behind Juvenile Prison Bribes Reach $2.5 Million Settlement in Civil Suit

Headlines for October 22, 2013; Deadly 911 Calls: NYPD Kills African Immigrant Student Inside Home After Mother Calls for Ambulance; Deadly 911 Calls Pt. 2: Police Kill Bipolar Puerto Rican Artist After Concerned Wife Calls for Help; Memphis Model: Police Pioneer Use of Crisis Intervention Teams to Deal with Mentally Sick

Headlines for October 21, 2013; "Still Dreaming": Immigrant Rights Champion Rep. Luis Gutiérrez on Life of Activism & Politics

Headlines for October 18, 2013; Vast Corruption in Information Technology Contracts in Spotlight as CityTime Trial Begins in NYC; U.S. Weapons and Arms Parts Continued to Flow to Egypt After June Coup & Deadly Crackdown; Journalists Find 12-Year-Old Girls Making Old Navy Jeans for Gap in Bangladeshi Factory; The Military-Industrial Pundits: Conflicts of Interest Exposed for TV Guests Who Urged Syrian War; Super-Sizing Welfare Costs: Low Wages at McDonald's, Burger King Cost Taxpayers Billions

Headlines for October 17, 2013; Rep. John Conyers Pushes for a "Full Employment" Bill as Congress Votes to End Shutdown; FBI Urged to Reopen Probe into 1985 Assassination of Arab-American Leader Alex Odeh in California; Arab-American Attorney Abdeen Jabara: I Was Spied on by the National Security Agency 40 Years Ago

Headlines for October 16, 2013; "Totally Self-Inflicted Damage": U.S. on Verge of Default as Pain from 16-Day Shutdown Spreads; U.S. Eases Rules on Exporting Military Technology to Secure Role as World's Leading Arms Dealer

Headlines for October 15, 2013; Another U.S. Whistleblower Behind Bars? Investor Jailed After Exposing Corrupt Azerbaijani Oil Deal

Headlines for October 14, 2013; Edward Snowden Speaks Out Against NSA "Dragnet Mass Surveillance"; "Edward Snowden is a Patriot": Ex-NSA CIA, FBI and Justice Whistleblowers Meet Leaker in Moscow

Headlines for October 11, 2013; Chemical Weapons Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize as U.S. Opposes Calls for WMD-Free Middle East; Worse Than Nixon? Committee to Protect Journalists Warns About Obama Crackdown on Press Freedom; "500 People Will Control American Democracy" If Supreme Court Overturns Campaign Finance Law

Headlines for October 10, 2013; 3 Months After Morsi Coup & Hundreds of Deaths, U.S. Scales Back Military Aid to Egypt; Report Finds Police Worldwide Criminalize Dissent, Assert New Powers in Crackdown on Protests; "Edward Snowden Has Done This Country a Service": ACLU Praises Leaker for Kick-Starting NSA Debate; Rep. Raúl Grijalva on Gov't Shutdown & Why the Impasse Won't Slow the Fight for Immigration Reform

Headlines for October 09, 2013; Taking on Capitalism, U.S. Torture & Dictatorships, Costa-Gavras on Decades of Political Filmmaking