Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is a daily progressive, nonprofit, independently syndicated news hour that airs on more than 1,250 radio, television, satellite and cable TV networks around the globe. The award-winning one-hour news program is hosted by investigative journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The program is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, and foundations, and does not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting, or government funding.

Background

Democracy Now! was founded on February 19, 1996 at WBAI-FM in New York City by progressive journalists Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Larry Bensky, Salim Muwakkil, and Julie Drizin. It originally aired on five Pacifica Radio stations. Goodman is the program's principal host, with Juan Gonzalez as frequent co-host.Jeremy Scahill, an investigative reporter for The Nation, has been a frequent contributor since 1997. The program's first ten to fifteen minutes, called the "War and Peace Report", are translated daily into Spanish. The Democracy Now! website is also available in Spanish. The program focuses on issues considered underreported or ignored by mainstream news coverage. Democracy Now! began broadcasting on television every weekday shortly after September 11, 2001, and is the only public media in the U.S. that airs simultaneously on satellite and cable television, radio, and the internet.

Julian Assange

Julian Paul Assange (born 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, an organisation which he founded in 2006. Subject to extradition to Sweden for legal proceedings, he was granted political asylum by Ecuador in August 2012. He has remained in Ecuador's London embassy and, as of February 2016, he is unable to leave without expectation of arrest.

In February 2016 a UN panel issued a non-binding legal opinion that Assange had been subject to arbitrary detention and should be allowed to walk free and be given compensation. The findings were rejected by UK and Swedish prosecutors, as well as UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Philip Hammond.

Early life

Assange was born in the north Queensland city of Townsville, to Christine Ann Hawkins (b. 1951), a visual artist, and John Shipton, an anti-war activist and builder. The couple had separated before Assange was born.

When he was a year old, his mother married Richard Brett Assange, an actor, with whom she ran a small theatre company. They divorced around 1979, and Christine Assange then became involved with Leif Meynell, also known as Leif Hamilton, a member of the Australian New Age group The Family, with whom she had a son before the couple broke up in 1982. Assange had a nomadic childhood, and had lived in over thirty different Australian towns by the time he reached his mid-teens, when he settled with his mother and half-brother in Melbourne, Victoria.

Jill Stein

Jill Ellen Stein (born May 14, 1950) is an American physician who was the nominee of the Green Party for President of the United States in the 2012 election. Stein was a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010.

In 2012, Stein received 456,169 votes for 0.36% in the election, making her the most successful female presidential candidate in U.S. history.

Stein is a resident of Lexington, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Harvard College (1973) and Harvard Medical School (1979).

In February 2015, Stein announced the formation of an exploratory committee to seek the Green Party's presidential nomination in the 2016 U.S. election. On June 22, 2015, during an appearance on Democracy Now!, Stein formally announced she would seek the Green Party's 2016 presidential nomination.

Early life and education

Jill Stein was born in Chicago and raised in Highland Park, Illinois. She is Jewish, and her family attended Chicago's North Shore Congregation Israel, a Reform synagogue.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A giddy if exhausted Hillary Clinton embarked on a post-convention Rust Belt bus tour just hours after becoming the first female presidential nominee of a major political party ... ....

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Stephen Hawking has penned a thoughtful appeal for post-Brexit Britain to reconsider the role that wealth plays in society, warning that isolationism and envy could even lead to the end of the human species, Mashable reports. In a Guardian essay, the world-renowned physicist made the case for a more comprehensive and generous definition of wealth "to include knowledge, natural resources and human capacity." ... ....

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LOCKHART, Texas (AP) — Federal officials say a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught on fire and crashed in Central Texas, and it is unclear whether there are injuries or deaths. Lynn Lunsford with the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the accident happened about 8.40 a.m. Saturday near Lockhart, Texas, when the hot air balloon crashed into a pasture ... Lockhart is about 30 miles south of Austin ... ....

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Air France strike grounds 20 pct of flights

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Air France Saturday cancelled around 20 percent of its flights on the fourth day of a strike by flight attendants during the peak summer travel season, the airline said ... ....

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A Belgian police officer and a soldier guard a court building where Salah Abdeslam, the top suspect in last year's deadly Paris attacks, was expected to appear before a judge in Brussels, Belgium, Thursday, March 24, 2016.

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#ZakirSuesArnab: How Twitter reacted to Zakir Naik’s Rs 500 crore defamation suit against Arnab Goswami

Edit Indian Express 30 Jul 2016

Zakir Naik (left) and Arnab Goswami Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik Friday slapped a Rs 500 crore defamation suit against Times Nows editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami for alle ... ....

City should have strong democracy

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 30 Jul 2016

The current at-large structure of Columbus City Council is weak, a diluted democracy that breeds disenfranchisement and benefits the haves over the have-nots ... Local democracy should ......

Judiciary should stay within its limits: Dhankar

Edit The Times of India 30 Jul 2016

Jammu, Jul 30 () BJP national convenor (Law and Legal Affairs) Jagdeep Dhankar today said the judiciary should stay within its "limits" as defined by the Constitution and "judicial activism" was not good for a "healthy democracy" ... "The current government tries to ensure that all the institutions of democracy flourish ... It is neither good for the judiciary nor for democracy," he said....

POINT OF VIEW In wake of failed coup, farewell to a secular republic

Edit Palm Beach Post 30 Jul 2016

Nonetheless, resistance to the coup, mostly from supporters of the AKP, should not be equated with the victory of pro-democracy forces against anti-democratic groups who tried to violently change the government ... Turkey, a country at best a semi-democracy, was nonetheless staunchly secular up until the rise of the AKP to power in the early 2000s....

Zambia's sole female presidential contender

Edit Topix 30 Jul 2016

In 2001, then Zambia's governing Movement for Multi-party Democracy suffered a setback when senior members bolted to create the Forum for Democracy and Development . The group was vehemently opposing President Frederick Chiluba's bid for a third term in office, which move hit a brick wall ... ....

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Erdogan slams West for failure to show solidarity

Edit The Japan News 30 Jul 2016

ReutersANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) — President Tayyip Erdogan condemned Western countries on Friday for failing to show solidarity with Turkey over the recent failed coup, saying those who worried over the fate of coup supporters instead of Turkish democracy could not be friends of Ankara....

Hong Kong Bars Pro-independence Politician From Upcoming Poll

Edit Voa News 30 Jul 2016

Andy Chan, the founder of the Hong Kong National Party, was one of at least 13 pro-democracy candidates who refused to sign a new required pledge stating that Hong Kong is an inalienable part of China ... to have a candidate disqualified for political reasons, and called on other parties that support democracy to boycott the election....

Letter to the Editor - ‘No one has a monopoly on democracy’

Edit Nation 30 Jul 2016

They never did and now believe that we are a soft target ... This only goes to show that LDS is a façade which preaches about democracy when it suits them but their true intention is based on principles of dictatorship and they see the SPM as a threat, otherwise they would not spend so much time and effort ... No one has a monopoly on democracy!....

“Countries not concerned about our nation’s right to life are not our friend” (Presidency of the Republic of Turkey)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jul 2016

Countries and leaders that are not as concerned about Turkey's democracy and our nation's right to life as they are about the coup plotters' future are not our friend ... 'And now their calculations have been negated ... Now this virus is being eradicated ... Countries and leaders that are not as concerned about Turkey's democracy and our nation's right to life as they are about the coup plotters' future are not our friend....

Turkish opposition warns of impact of purges

Edit The Irish Times 30 Jul 2016

On Friday, Erdogan condemned Western countries for failing to show solidarity with Turkey over the recent failed coup, saying those who worried over the fate of coup supporters instead of Turkish democracy could not be friends of Ankara ... “Any country and any leader who does not worry about the life of Turkish people and our democracy as much as they worry about the fate of coupists are not our friends.”....

Are We Witnessing the Death of Representative Democracy?

Edit Alternet 30 Jul 2016

The history of democracy has been largely a history of the empowerment of the working class, but now we live in a world where much of that working class lives in another country, working in sweatshop conditions for minimal wages, with no voice whatsoever in our electoral process—or, often, their own....

Cong has "divorced" ideology: Shah

Edit The Times of India 30 Jul 2016

After the death of socialist stalwart Ram Manohar Lohia, his movement withered away ... In the end, all ideological affiliates of the socialist bloc slowly turned into casteist parties ... The multi-party democracy that India adopted has political parties and their ideologies and programmes at its centre and not personalities, which are important in the presidential form of democracy but not the one practised in India, he said ... KR SK ... RELATED....

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--> Sat, 30 Jul 2016-11.15pm , New Delhi , PTI. According to BJP President, politics of ideology was the only alternative to the politics of caste, self-interest and family ...   ... The multi-party democracy that India adopted has political parties and their ideologies and programmes at its centre and not personalities, which are important in the presidential form of democracy but not the one practised in India, he said ... ....

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