Four journalists who revealed the National Security Agency’s vast web of spying have been awarded the 2013 George Polk Awards in Journalism. Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Ewen MacAskill of The Guardian and Barton Gellman of the Washington Post were among the winners announced on Sunday.
Read MoreAs the country marks Presidents’ Day, we turn to an aspect of U.S. history that is often missed: the complicity of American presidents with slavery. “More than one-in-four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery. These presidents bought, sold and bred enslaved people for profit.
Read MoreThe North Korean cargo ship “Chong Chon Gang”, released after paying a fine of $693,333 to the Panama Canal Authority, sailed today at 13:30 GMT from Colon City, in the Panamanian Caribbean, bound for Cuba.
Read MoreThe Palestinian leadership retreated is rejection to recognize Israeli as a Jewish state, meanwhile the Israeli army boarded the Gaza Strip this week killing a Palestinian civilian. These stories and more, coming up.
Read MoreSnowden’s leaks to The Guardian and other media outlets have generated a series of exposés on NSA surveillance activities — from its collection of American’s phone records, text messages and email, to its monitoring of the internal communications of individual heads of state.
Read MoreAmid the controversy over the More Doctors program, Brazilian Foreign Minister Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, travels to Cuba after a visit to Jamaica that began on Thursday, reported EFE.
Read MoreInvestigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald join us for their first interview upon launching The Intercept, their new digital magazine published by First Look Media, the newly formed media venture started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Greenwald is the journalist who first broke the story about Edward Snowden’s disclosures on the National Security Agency.
Read MoreThe Chong Chon Gang, a North Korean freighter that attempted to transport hidden Cuban weapons in a shipment of sugar, has been given the OK to leave Panama after being detained for seven months.
Read MoreUN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon visited the Havana based Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) on Tuesday morning. He thanked Cuba for what he called “a great contribution to be in the main line of health in the world, and be at the forefront of South-South cooperation.”
Read MoreThe legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94. For nearly seven decades, Seeger was a musical and political icon who helped create the modern American folk music movement. We air highlights of two appearances by Seeger on Democracy Now!, including one of his last television interviews recorded just four months ago.
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