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On Monday, officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) were forced to close four train stations during the evening rush hour…
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. Perhaps most well known as the main host of Democracy Now! since 1996.
She is the author of six books, including The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope, and Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America.
President Barack Obama touted his debt ceiling deal Tuesday, saying, “We can’t balance the budget on the backs of the very people…
JUAN GONZALEZ: Israel has passed a new law outlawing citizens and organizations from advocating for boycotts against any Israeli person or entity. The law…
Thousands of inmates in at least 13 prisons across California’s troubled prison system have been on hunger strike for almost two weeks.…
Civil liberties advocates are raising alarm over news the FBI is giving agents more leeway to conduct domestic surveillance. According to the…
JUAN GONZALEZ: This week, The Nation magazine published the first in a series of reports on more than [1,900] U.S. diplomatic cables…
Vermont is a land of proud firsts. This small New England state was the first to join the 13 Colonies. Its constitution…
JUAN GONZALEZ: We're joined now by the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, perhaps one of the world's most famous judges. Citing the doctrine…
AMY GOODMAN: We turn to the issue of farmer suicides in India, where a quarter of a million farmers have committed suicide…
AMY GOODMAN: It was 50 years ago, May 4th, 1961, when mixed groups of black and white students took two public buses…