Democracy Now! 2013-12-24 Tuesday

• Headlines for December 24, 2013
• Beyond Plan Colombia: Covert CIA Program Reveals Critical U.S. Role in Killings of Rebel Leaders
• Did Covert U.S. Program Targeting Rebel Leaders Help Undermine Colombia's Peace Process?
• Ex-Rebel Leader Faces Ouster as Bogota Mayor After Longtime Advocacy of Reconciliation
• Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor of Eponymous Assault Rifle That Shaped Modern Warfare, Dead at 94

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We continue our interview about the issues leading to a skyrocketing population of aging people behind bars, and feature comments about their conditions from political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. We also speak with Mujahid Farid, who was released from a New York state prison in 2011 after serving 33 years.

Democracy Now! 2013-12-23 Monday

• Headlines for December 23, 2013
• Time for Compassion? Aging Political Prisoners Suffer From Illness, Decades in Solitary Confinement
• "If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go": Elderly Prison Population Skyrockets Despite Low Risk to Society

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Democracy Now! 2013-12-20 Friday

• Headlines for December 20, 2013
• Arctic 30 Members Welcome Russian Amnesty, But Refuse to Apologize for Trying to Stop Oil Drilling
• Indigenous Groups Win Right to Seize Chevron's Canadian Assets over $18 Billion in Amazon Pollution
• Obama Commutes 8 "Unfair" Crack Cocaine Sentences as the ACLU Calls For More Reforms to Drug Laws
• Live from Prison: Jason Hernandez Thanks Obama for Commuting His Drug Sentence, Hopes "More to Come"

Democracy Now! 2013-12-19 Thursday

• Headlines for December 19, 2013
• Vindication for Snowden? Obama Panel Backs Major Curbs on NSA Surveillance, Phone Record Data Mining
• NSA Whistleblower Kirk Wiebe Details Gov't Retaliation After Helping Expose "Gross Mismanagement"
• Morsi Charged with Terrorism as Egyptian Military Widens Crackdown on Journalists, Activists

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