Democracy Now! 2014-04-17 Thursday

• Headlines for April 17, 2014
• "We Are Not Beginning a New Cold War, We are Well into It": Stephen Cohen on Russia-Ukraine Crisis
• Fixing the Electoral College: New York Joins Pact to Elect President by Popular Vote
• Former Drone Operators Reveal Air Force Plays Key Role in Secret CIA Assassination Campaign

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Democracy Now! 2014-04-16 Wednesday

• Headlines for April 16, 2014
• Was Kansas Shooting Avoidable? White Supremacist was Ex-Informant with Criminal Past & Hateful Views
• New York Drops Police Unit that Spied on Muslims, But Will it End Broader Profiling & Surveillance?
• Killing Nature's Defenders: Study Finds Global Surge in Murders of Environmental Activists

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Democracy Now! 2014-04-15 Tuesday

• Headlines for April 15, 2014
• Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap from Wall Street to Main Street
• War Tax Resisters Mark April 15 with Call to Stop Military Spending

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Democracy Now! 2014-04-14 Monday

• Headlines for April 14, 2014
• "This Award is for Snowden": Greenwald, Poitras Accept Polk Honor for Exposing NSA Surveillance
• "We Won't Succumb to Threats": Journalists Return to U.S. for First Time Since Revealing NSA Spying
• Polk Winner on Afghanistan: Slain Journalists, Ghost Polls & Unresolved U.S. Ties to Deaths, Torture

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Journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill hold a press conference in New York after winning a Polk Award for their reporting on Edward Snowden and the NSA. Greenwald and Poitras arrived in New York earlier today. It is their first time in the United States since breaking the Snowden story.

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Ten months ago, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. They soon began exposing a trove of secrets about the NSA and the national surveillance state. They didn't enter the United States again—until today.

Democracy Now! 2014-04-11 Friday

• Headlines for April 11, 2014
• Momentum on Fossil Fuel Divestment Grows as Harvard Professors, Desmond Tutu Call for Action
• "Years of Living Dangerously": James Cameron, Matt Damon, Harrison Ford in TV Climate Change Series
• "Imagine Living in a Socialist USA": New Book Envisions Greater Democracy, World Without Capitalism

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