Democracy Now! 2015-02-12 Thursday

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• Endless War? Obama Sends Congress Expansive Anti-ISIS Measure 6 Months After Bombing Began

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• Brian Williams Suspended for False Iraq Tale, But Media's Real Scandal is the War Lies Spun Daily

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• Was Jeffrey Sterling Trial a Gov't Effort to Divide Investigative Journalists & Whistleblowers?

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• #MuslimLivesMatter: Loved Ones Honor NC Shooting Victims & Reject Police Dismissal of a Hate Crime

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Democracy Now! 2015-02-11 Wednesday

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• As Study Finds 4,000 Lynchings in Jim Crow South, Will U.S. Address Legacy of Racial Terrorism?

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• Exchanging Vows, Alabama Same-Sex Couples Make History in a State Where Discrimination Runs Deep

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• After Months of Protest, NYPD Officer Charged for Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Black Man Akai Gurley

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• U.S. Hostage Kayla Mueller Remembered for Humanitarian Work from Syria to Occupied Territories

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Billed as "the most trusted name in fake news," Jon Stewart is stepping down as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. He has hosted the program since 1999. Watch his 2008 interview on Democracy Now! when Amy Goodman spoke to him at the Minneapolis airport ahead of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. We also featured Stewart in 2010 when he and Stephen Colbert, then-host of The Colbert Report, led the massive rally to "Restore Sanity and/or Fear."

Democracy Now! 2015-02-10 Tuesday

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• Playing with Fire? A Debate on U.S. Arming Ukraine & NATO Expansion to Russia's Border

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• What Was Netanyahu Thinking? Criticism Swirls over Pre-Election Speech to U.S. Congress on Iran

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• Ferguson Residents Challenge \"Modern Debtors' Prison Scheme\" Targeting Blacks with Fines, Arrests

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Democracy Now! 2015-02-09 Monday

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• Exclusive: Freed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Says \"I Would Do It All Again\" to Expose Torture

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The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has honored Amy Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Lifetime Achievement Award. The nominating committee stated: "As a journalist and independent media advocate, Amy Goodman exemplifies the ethos of I.F. Stone. By insulating herself against commercial pressures, she has fought vigilantly for a free press and has ensured that her reporting would always be done in service of speaking truth to power."

Watch Part 2 of our conversation with British journalist Johann Hari about the century-old failed drug war and how much of what we know about addiction is wrong. Over the past four years, Hari has traveled to the United States, Mexico, Canada, Uruguay and Portugal to research his new book, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War of Drugs.

Click here to watch Part 1 of the interview.

Democracy Now! 2015-02-06 Friday

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• Juan González: Overhaul of NYC's 911 System Woefully Mismanaged & Nearly $1 Billion Over Budget

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• FCC's Net Neutrality Shift a Victory for Open Internet & Grassroots Activism Against Cable Giants

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• Exclusive: Deported Palestinian Scholar Sami Al-Arian on His Chilling Post-9/11 Prosecution

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