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Turkey: 128 Killed in Bombing at Pro-Peace Rally in AnkaraIran: WashPo Reporter Jason Rezaian Convicted in Espionage TrialPentagon to Pay Victims of U.S. Airstrike on Afghanistan HospitalReport: Taliban’s Reach in […]

Today’s release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the […]

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet, a coalition of four distinct civil society groups that came together in 2013 and ultimately brokered a deal that kept Tunisia o […]

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a significant decision rejecting an absurd copyright claim in yoga poses. The decision is pretty entertaining, but its implications are important […]

Comparing the Public Encryption Policies from 21 of the Biggest Tech Companies
There’s a major battle brewing over encryption right now.
Law enforcement agencies are trying to demand “backdoors” to our sensi […]

We speak with Juan Felipe Herrera, who has begun his term as the 21st poet laureate of the United States. A son of Mexican migrant farmworkers, Herrera is the first Latino poet laureate of the United States. […]

When disaster strikes, who profits? That’s the question asked by journalist Antony Loewenstein in his new book, “Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe.” Traveling across the globe, Loewe […]

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a coalition of civil society organizations known as the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet. The move comes nearly five years after a Tunisian street vendor set h […]

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Tunisian Civil Society OrganizationsMcCarthy Withdraws from House Speaker Race; Congress in DisarrayU.S. General Pushes to Keep U.S. Troops in AfghanistanDoctors Without Borders: 24 […]

Obama’s position on encryption is now public, as reported by the Washington Post. According to Ellen Nakashima and Andrea Peterson of the Post, Obama “will not —for now—call for legislation requiring compani […]

Trade negotiators announced their agreement over the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Monday, and yet the exact terms of the deal remain as secret as ever. For more than five years, we have been […]

A Justice Department prosecutor said Thursday that ordering the immediate end of bulk surveillance of millions of Americans’ phone records would be as hasty as suddenly letting criminals out of prison.
“Public saf […]

Californians can rest assured that law enforcement can’t poke around in their digital records without first obtaining a warrant. Today, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed S.B. 178, the California Electronic C […]

A JURY HAS FOUND DUPONT liable for negligence in the case of Carla Bartlett, taking less than a day to award $1.6 million to the Ohio woman who developed kidney cancer after drinking water contaminated with a […]

Over the last two years, Patti Smith has twice been invited to sing at the Vatican. We air part of her performance of “People Have the Power” and talk to her about why she cheered when the new pope took the name […]

Legendary musician Patti Smith performs her song “My Blakean Year” in the Democracy Now! studio and talks about the influence of poet William Blake (1757–1827). We also air a recording of Smith singing a version o […]

Beside being known for her music and writing, Patti Smith has been a longtime activist, performing regularly at antiwar rallies and political benefits. She has also written songs about former Guantánamo prisoner […]

In a Democracy Now! special, the legendary poet, singer, activist Patti Smith joins us for the hour. Her new memoir “M Train” has just been published. In 2010, her best-selling memoir, “Just Kids,” won a National […]

Obama Apologizes to Doctors Without Borders for Deadly Hospital StrikeRussia Fires Missiles in Syria as U.S. Rejects Cooperation on ISILYemen: U.S.-Backed, Saudi-Led Airstrike Kills 23 at Wedding PartyCoast Guard […]

Representatives Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Steve Russell, R-Okla., have asked the Obama administration to remove sensitive security clearance information from Office of Personnel Management computers and put it […]