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Harvest of Empire, Part 2
On part two of the ‘Harvest of Empire’ series, Democracy Now!u2019s Juan Gonzalez traces the history of Nicaraguan and Salvadoran migration to the United States.
Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act, Sparking Fears of Rollback for Minorities Long After Jim Crow
In a major blow for voting rights, the U.S. Supreme Court has invalidated an integral part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, the crowning achievement of the 1960s …
What Do Guns Have to Do With Immigration? For Gun Owners of America, Everything
Gun Owners of America (GOA) has been described as ‘eight lanes to the right’ of the National Rifle Association (NRA).
On the News With Thom Hartmann: FBI Admits to Using Surveillance Drones on US Soil, and More
The FBI has just admitted to using surveillance drones to spy on Americans on US soil.
As World Awaits US Reaction to NSA Leaks, Movement Emerges to Support Edward Snowden in Hong Kong
As Edward Snowden is believed to remain in Hong Kong while facing an ongoing U.S. investigation, hundreds of protesters there braved heavy rain Saturday in a show of support.
NSA Collection of Metadata Hands Government Sweeping Personal Info
As the American Civil Liberties Union sues the Obama administration over its secret NSA phone spying program, we look at how the government could use phone records to determine …
Medgar Evers’ Murder, 50 Years Later: Widow Myrlie Evers-Williams Remembers “A Man for All Time”
Fifty years after his death, Amy Goodman sits down with the wife of civil rights activist Medgar Evans to talk about his legacy.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: “I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things”
Guardian's Glenn Greenwald talks to Edward Snowden, the source behind the NSA files about his motives for the biggest intelligence leak in a generation
Former CIA Analyst: Snowden Did The Right Thing
Ray McGovern: NSA whistleblower Snowden courageous defender of liberty.
“On a Slippery Slope to a Totalitarian State”: NSA Whistleblower Rejects Government Defense of Spying
Democracy Now! speaks with William Binney, a former top official at the National Security Agency, and Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who has broken the NSA spying stories.