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Bullet-ridden back door of Zelaya home. Honduran military kidnapped him at gunpoint, 6/28/09, pointed out to Amy Goodman by Pres. Zelaya’s daughter, Pichu.  After kidnapping him, the military flew Zelaya to a U.S. military base in Costa Rica.

Noam Chomsky on how the U.S. economy really works (Democracy Now!, 3.15.10)

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY) and Fred Dalton Thompson. Separated at birth?

So we think that you can fight pollution and poverty at the same time. We think that we can actually power our way through this recession by putting people to work, but we’re going to have to start building things here and re-powering, retrofitting, retooling America, and that that’s the way forward both for the economy, for the earth and for everyday people.

- former Obama green energy czar Van Jones (who was just run out of Dodge City by Fox News thug Glenn Beck)

The whole purpose of living in a free society is to actually exercise freedoms when they’re difficult to exercise, not when they’re easy…if you know the truth and you don’t speak it, you compromise yourself so much more than anything that might be kept from you if you speak out in a time of crisis…what defines a person, is what they’re willing to do and what they’re willing to risk to speak the truth.

Tim Robbins on Democracy Now! 8.27.09

In my view, at this point, if we’re going to spend this much federal money, we need to bail out a structural shift that jacks up opportunity. I think we need national healthcare. I think we need massively subsidized education. I think we need to move the public toward an understanding that we can’t afford every single person to have private wealth, so we need public goods—public transportation, national healthcare and national education—so that we can become a little more of the meritocracy we claim to be, and we can give people a chance, and we don’t begin to nurture a genetic underclass and two national economies slumbering under one uneasily pledged-to flag.

- Economist Max Fraad Wolff on the U.S. economy (Democracy Now! 8.25.09)

Howard Zinn on the death of Robert McNamara on Democracy Now!

Today’s Democracy Now! with Noam Chomsky

Today in History - June 18, 1989

Journalist I.F. Stone dies

(Democracy Now! devoted a whole hour to his life today. Watch it above.)

Democracy Now reports on the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square Uprising

Naomi Klein on today’s Democracy Now.

Tuesday’s Democracy Now!. The best news show coming out of the USA.