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What was your favorite Democracy Now! interview this year? We’re looking back at our 20 most popular segments of 2014. Check out these interviews, which rank from #11 to #20 in our list. Stay tuned as we continue our countdown through December 31st.
#11 Glenn Greenwald: Why Did NBC Pull Key Reporter After He Witnessed Israeli Killing of Gaza Kids? (Watch)
#12 Venezuelan Protests: Another Attempt by US-Backed Right-Wing Groups to Oust Elected Government (Watch)
#13 Are Any Plastics Safe? Industry Tries to Hide Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Bottles, Containers (Watch)
#14 Bank Whistleblower and Matt Taibbi on How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck Economy, Avoid Prosecution (Watch)
#15 Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Orwellian War in Iraq: We Created the Very Threat We Claim to be Fighting (Watch)
#16 Koch Brothers Exposed: The Chilling New Documentary Republicans Don’t Want You to See (Watch)
#17 Prof. Ilan Pappé: #Israel Has Chosen to be a “Racist Apartheid State” with U.S. Support (Watch)
#18 Exclusive: DN! Goes Inside Assange’s Embassy Refuge to Talk WikiLeaks, Snowden and Winning Freedom (Watch)
#19 Snowden Docs Expose How the NSA “Infects” Millions of Computers, Impersonates Facebook Server (Watch)
#20 Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap from Wall Street to Main Street (Watch)
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U.S. policy has been its own worst enemy, in one sense: We’ve created the very threats we claim to be fighting.
Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept and author of “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield,“ explains in a Democracy Now! interview.
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The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. We see the Syrian government is quite happy to see strikes coming down on ISIS, particularly Nusra, as well. The U.S. government has made it very clear that they don’t consider the Assad government to be a legitimate partner in their alliance.
Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch was interview on Democracy Now! from Lebanon regarding the aftermath of U.S. airstrikes on the town of Idlib. The attack is under investigation for a violation of war laws for the killing of civilians. Watch the full interview here.
Meet the two climate activists who used a small lobster boat to block a ship delivering 40,000 tons of coal to the Brayton Point power plant in Massachusetts, a 51-year-old facility that is one of the region’s largest contributors to greenhouse gases.
The activists, Ken Ward and Jay O’Hara, were surprised to learn that a day before their trial was to set begin, the local prosecutor, Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter, dropped the criminal charges and reduced three other charges to civil offenses — calling climate change one of the gravest crises our planet has ever faced.
Democracy Now! talks all three of them in an exclusive interview. Click here to watch.
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