Hip Hop Journalist Davey D on Police Surveillance of Rappers, the National...
AMY GOODMAN: With us right now to talk about these issues as well as hip-hop culture and the elections we’re joined by Davey D. He is a hip-hop journalist, DJ, community activist. He is the web master...
View ArticleThe Return of COINTELPRO: FBI Launches Nationwide Surveillance Of Activists...
JUAN GONZALEZ: We’re joined first by Sarah Bardwell, an activist and intern with the American Friends Service Committee, Denver chapter, questioned by the F.B.I. And Denver police at her home. She...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE... Jennifer Dohrn: I Was The Target Of Illegal FBI Break-Ins...
AMY GOODMAN: Well, let’s turn to that story of the break-ins that the F.B.I. authorized. On Tuesday, the family of Mark Felt publicly said they hoped history would view him as a hero for being Deep...
View ArticleSenators George McGovern and Mike Gravel Reflect on How Deep Throat Helped...
JUAN GONZALEZ: This is a pivotal scene from the movie where Deep Throat is helping Woodward understand the Watergate scandal extends all the way into the Oval Office. He also tells Woodward that...
View ArticleAn Impeachable Offense? Bush Admits Authorizing NSA to Eavesdrop on Americans...
AMY GOODMAN: The President initially refused to answer any questions about the secret program, but on Saturday he spoke openly about it and defended the practice. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: We do not...
View ArticleWill You Die With Me? My Life and the Black Panther Party
AMY GOODMAN: William Lee Brent was the oldest member to join the Black Panther Party. Flores Forbes first joined the Black Panther Party when he was 16 years old. He became the youngest member of the...
View ArticleFormer Black Panther Details Brutal Police Torture to Extract Confession in...
JUAN GONZALEZ: Nobel Peace Prize laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mairead Maguire are calling for all charges to be dropped against eight former Black Panthers arrested earlier this year for...
View ArticleDemocracy Now! Special: Martin Luther King's Life and Legacy 40 Years After...
AMY GOODMAN: Commemorations are being held across the country today to mark the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The civil rights leader and peace activist was...
View ArticleFlashback: A Look Back at the Church Committee's Investigation into CIA, FBI...
JUAN GONZALEZ: The Democratic congressional leadership is divided over how the Obama administration should address the Bush administration’s use of torture. Senator Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the...
View Article"Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the ’70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation"
President Barack Obama promised “more transparent ... more creative” government. His release of the torture memos, and the Pentagon’s expected release of more photos of detainee abuse, is a step in the...
View ArticleDemocracy Now! Broadcast Exclusive: Declassified Docs Reveal Military...
ANJALI KAMAT: We begin with a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive. Peace activists in Washington state have revealed an informant posing as an anarchist has spied on them while working under the US...
View Article"The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police...
JUAN GONZALEZ: Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. On December 4th, 1969, Chicago police raided Fred Hampton’s apartment, shot and killed him in his...
View ArticleFBI Documents on Senator Paul Wellstone Raise Questions about His Death 8...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re ending right now on an entirely different note. We’re going to Minnesota. JUAN GONZALEZ: Right. Well, Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone died eight years ago this week. He died in a...
View ArticleFBI Expands Probe into Antiwar Activists
JUAN GONZALEZ: We turn now to the latest developments in the FBI’s widening targeting of antiwar and Palestinian solidarity activists. In late September, FBI agents raided the homes of activists in...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin America, and the History of the...
We continue our conversation with world-renowned public intellectual, MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Noam Chomsky. Watch Part I of the Interview Democracy Uprising in the USA?hereusanoam NOAM...
View ArticleFormer Black Panther Leader, Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt, Wrongfully Imprisoned...
AMY GOODMAN: The former Black Panther leader Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt died Thursday at the age of 63 in a village in the East African country of Tanzania. In 1972, Pratt was wrongfully convicted of the...
View Article"Subversives": How the FBI Fought the 1960s Student Movement and Aided...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We want to continue our conversation with Seth Rosenfeld, longtime investigative reporter and author of Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power. Seth,...
View ArticleBook Reveals Extensive Effort by Reagan, FBI to Undermine California's...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We turn now to another story about secret government agents and surveillance. Today we continue the conversation we began Thursday with Seth Rosenfeld, longtime investigative reporter...
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