Thanks to a super-duper NSA search engine, nearly two dozen other government agencies can search through 850 billion secret records of your phone calls, emails and Internet chats.
The Intercept made this graphic to help you get your mind around that number. To learn more, watch the Democracy Now! interview with reporter Ryan Gallagher.
A recent report found fast-food CEOs make 1,200 times as much as money as the average fast-food worker, a disparity that maximizes short-term profit while harming worker security and the overall economy.
As fast-food workers around the world join a one-day strike today, Democracy Now! speaks to Terrance Wise, who after working at Burger King for nine years, says he cannot make ends meet off of his salary. We also speak with Catherine Ruetschlin, a policy analyst at Demos.
How are U.S. tax payers being hit twice by the fast-food industry? This is a must see interview.
Fast-food workers are walking off the job in about 100 cities today in what organizers call their largest action to date. Today’s strikes and protests continue a campaign that began last year to call for a living wage of $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation. Early this morning, Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman headed to Times Square in New York City where a group of McDonald’s workers were joined by a crowd of hundreds of supporters to kick off their strike.
A new report details how corporations are increasingly spying on nonprofit groups they regard as potential threats. The corporate watchdog organization Essential Information found a diverse groups of nonprofits have been targeted with espionage, including environmental, antiwar, public interest, consumer safety, pesticide reform, gun control, social justice, animal rights and arms control groups. The corporations carrying out the spying include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Wal-Mart, Monsanto, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Chevron, Burger King, McDonald’s, Shell, BP, and others. Democracy Now! interviews Gary Ruskin, author of the report, “Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations.”
