Most people work to live. But here in Veracruz it seems the journalists are working to die.
Today Democracy Now! looks at the pursuit of one Indonesian man confronting his brother’s killers. In 1965, Adi Rukun’s older brother was killed by the Komando Aksi, a paramilitary organization in Aceh during the U.S.-backed Indonesian genocide. Rukun’s pursuit is the focus on Joshua Oppenheimer’s new documentary, “The Look of Silence.”
Watch our 45-minute interview with Oppenheimer at democracynow.org.
U.S. counterterrorism has led to the militarization of eastern Africa.
Migrating is a right. It is a human right. All of our countries emerged from migration.
This is the first time that the victims of a dictator in Africa have brought that dictator to justice.
Aid groups warn that Yemen is on the brink of famine as Saudi Arabia’s offensive intensifies. According to the United Nations, 80 percent of Yemenis are in need of some form of humanitarian aid, and more than one million have fled their homes, as a Saudi naval blockade has cut off food and fuel supply lines for much of the country. More than 3,000 people, including 1,500 civilians, have died in Yemen since the U.S.-backed Saudi offensive began on March 26. For an update on the latest developments, Democracy Now! interviews Farea Al-Muslimi, co-founder of the Sana‘a Center for Strategic Studies in Yemen, and Matt Aikins, a foreign correspondent who recently returned from Yemen. Tune in at democracynow.org.
Wherever there are foreign troops that are ostensibly protecting the most vulnerable civilians on Earth, the problem of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation is simply rampant.
As some of the Boston Marathon bombing survivors object to the death sentence handed down yesterday to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, meet the man who became a leading anti-death penalty advocate after losing his daughter in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Bud Welch is the founding president of Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights. Watch his interview on Democracy Now! today.
An Israeli government investigation into its military conduct during the 2014 Gaza war has concluded that its operations were “lawful" and “legitimate.” More than 2,200 Palestinians were killed in what Israel called “Operation Protective Edge,” the vast majority civilians. The report comes days before the United Nations is to release its own findings from an investigation into human rights violations during the 50-day conflict. Israel has dismissed the UN investigation as biased and has refused to cooperate with it.
Democracy Now! discusses the report with Yousef Munayyer of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, and Gideon Levy of Haaretz newspaper. Tune in at democracynow.org.
There’s no such thing as a good TPP.