The “Cruise Missile Left” Now Cheerleading NATO’s Next Wars

Since 2011, certain influential members of the anti-war left have never strayed far from the official NATO line on countries such as Libya, Syria, and Russia.

Danny Haiphong
作者 Danny Haiphong
Media War Propganda

The US-led alliance of imperial nations has waged war on Syria for eight years with the hopes of overthrowing the independent Arab nationalist state led by President Bashar Al-Assad. Syria was believed to be another domino destined to fall in imperialism’s great power game to contain any international threat to its rule. Former NATO general Wesley

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Democracy Now’s “Alt Media” Platform for Humanitarian Imperialism in Syria

The “war and peace report,” as progressive as it may often sound, has long ceased to be a purely listener-supported project, and this lack of economic independence has spilled into its politics.

Elliott Gabriel
作者 Elliott Gabriel
Aditya Ganapathiraju

NEW YORK CITY -- The dust had barely settled after last weekend’s U.S.-led bombing of Syria before a split in the political class developed. While some Beltway figures, media personalities and former officials hailed the bombings, others decried the “limited” nature of the airstrikes. At the grassroots level, a somewhat different debate gripped the

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Arrest Warrant Issued For Journalist Amy Goodman After Covering Dakota Access Pipeline Protests

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman documented security personal using dogs and pepper spray on protesters — and now is being charged for it.

Laurel Raymond at ThinkProgress
作者 Laurel Raymond at ThinkProgress

On September 3rd, Journalist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! filmed security guards attacking Native American protesters with dogs and pepper spray. The footage was widely covered, garnering significant negative press for the Dakota Access Pipeline company. Now, an arrest warrant has been issued for Goodman, charging her with criminal trespassing, a

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Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Protesters With Dogs And Mace

Democracy Now! provides video and photos of a private security team pushing dogs to bite Native American protesters

Nadia Prupis
作者 Nadia Prupis
Security guards confront Indigneous protesters with dogs and pepper spray. (Screenshot/Democracy Now!)

The ongoing Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protests were hit with violence on Saturday, as private security forces reportedly hired by the pipeline builders descended on the Native American activists with pepper spray and dogs that bit and threatened the protesters. Democracy Now!, which was on the ground at the time, posted several photographs

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