Democracy Now! (Current Affairs)

Headlines for May 22, 2012; Should NATO Exist? Phyllis Bennis vs. Ex-CIAer Stan Sloan on Alliance's Purpose, Afghan War's Future; Attorney: "NATO 3" Activists Detained on Terror Charges in Chicago Are Victims of Police Entrapment; Sea Shepherd Founder Paul Watson Fights Extradition to Costa Rica for 2002 Shark Defense

Headlines for May 18, 2012; Occupy G8: Peoples' Summit Confronts World Leaders at Camp David, Urging Action on Poverty, Hunger; "I Know He Was Scared": Trayvon Martin's Girlfriend Recounts Phone Call Right Before Fatal Shooting; Ben Jealous: "Heartbreaking" Trayvon Tapes Capture Experience of Millions Racially Profiled in U.S. ; "The Worst Racial Profiling Program in the Country": NAACP President on NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Program ; All-White Jury Acquits Houston Ex-Police Officer in Videotaped...

In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. [includes rush transcript]

Headlines for May 15, 2012; Crony Capitalism: After Lobbying Against New Financial Regulations, JPMorgan Loses $2B in Risky Bet ; Ex-Financial Regulator William Black: Austerity is Sinking Economies from Europe to U.S. ; As Obama OKs Weapons to Bahrain, Neurosurgeon Tortured by Regime Faces Trial for Treating Protesters; "Magic Soap" Maker David Bronner on Labeling Genetically Modified Food, Fair Trade, the War on Hemp

Headlines for May 11, 2012; The U.S. v. Joe Arpaio: Justice Department Sues Arizona Sheriff for Racial Profiling of Latinos ; UN Probe: U.S. Should Return Stolen Sacred Land, Including Mt. Rushmore, to Native Americans ; Sexual Violence and Natural Resource Pillaging Top Hardships Facing Alaskan Natives; Stop the Drug War: Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia Condemns U.S. Role in Widening Drug Violence

Headlines for May 09, 2012; North Carolina Voters Approve Constitutional Amendment Banning Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions; From Coal to Foreclosures, Bank of America Faces Protest at Shareholders' Meeting in Charlotte; Wisconsin Democrats Select Recall Challenger to Take On Gov. Scott Walker's "Ideological Civil War"

Headlines for May 08, 2012; Former Labor Sec. Robert Reich on Clinton's Errors of Crippling Welfare to Repealing Glass-Steagall; "We Need to Make a Ruckus": Robert Reich Hails Occupy for Exposing Concentration of Wealth and Power; Justice Cheated: Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth on Failures of Guantnamo Military Tribunals

Headlines for May 04, 2012; As Grand Jury Clears White Plains Police in Kenneth Chamberlain's Death, New Tape Shows Fatal Raid; Kenneth Chamberlain's Family Seeks Lawsuit, Federal Probe as Grand Jury Rejects Charging Officers; "They Can't Just Kill Us": Kenneth Chamberlain's Neighbors Speak Out as Police Avoid Charges; "Private Empire": Author Steve Coll on the State-Like Powers, Influence of Oil Giant ExxonMobil

At the May Day rally in New York Citys Union Square, Amy Goodman bumped into the Tax Dodgers a baseball team on which all of the players share the same number: 1 percent. [includes rush transcript]

In part two of our interview with social theorist David Harvey, he notes the urban center of Occupy Wall Street has been key to its success. He also discusses Karl Marx, the lack of evidence that austerity stimulates economic growth, and how many of the social benefits that exist today were brought about through class struggle.

Headlines for April 30, 2012; Jailed Bahraini Activists Get Appeal, But U.S.-Backed Regime's Abuses Continue Unabated; "Booker's Place": Documentary Tells Story of Black Mississippi Waiter Who Lost Life by Speaking Out; Ahead of May Day, David Harvey Details Urban Uprisings from Occupy Wall Street to the Paris Commune

Headlines for April 26, 2012; CISPA Critics Warn Cybersecurity Bill Will Increase Domestic Surveillance and Violate Privacy Rights; Targeted Hacker Jacob Appelbaum on CISPA, Surveillance and the "Militarization of Cyberspace"; Obama Admin Challenges Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law While Overseeing Unprecedented Mass Deportations

Headlines for April 24, 2012; Death on the Border: Shocking Video Shows Mexican Immigrant Beaten and Tased by Border Patrol Agents; "War is the Enemy of the Poor": Cornel West and Tavis Smiley on Poverty, MLK, Election 2012

Headlines for April 20, 2012; Exclusive: National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance; Detained in the U.S.: Filmmaker Laura Poitras Held, Questioned Some 40 Times at U.S. Airports; "We Don't Live in a Free Country": Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov't Surveillance; Whistleblower: The NSA is Lying - U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails

Headlines for April 19, 2012; Photos of Soldiers Posing with Afghan Corpses the Latest Outrage of U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan; Back from Syria, Journalist Anand Gopal Warns Protesters "Face Slaughter" by Assad Regime; Tavis Smiley & Cornel West on "The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto"