We speak to the indigenous scholar and activist nick estes. Then to the acclaimed writer Arundhati Roy on the crisis in kashmir and growing authoritarianism in india and around the globe. There is no voice thats coming o out of kashmir. Thats why i said the silence is the loudest sound. Everyone, whether its the major politicians, whether its boys who throw stones on the e stree, whether it is businessmen, lawyers everyone is in jail, even now. You u know, thenen they cut t off phones. They cut off the internet. I mean, can you imagine . When has it been done before, 7 million peopople, communication lockdown . Amy all that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. I am amy goodman. In this special broadcast, we begin with the indigenous scholar r and activist nick est. He is s a coffounder of the indigenous Resistance Group the red nation and a citizen of the lower brule sioux tribe. I talked to him earlier this year about his book our h
Host of wnyc cozy the takeway. I read a lot of political commentary each week, and amy is always fair and what is more she doesnt follow the pack. She is digging deeply into polls and other election related data providing insights others dont provide. Patrick ruffini is the co founder oechelon insights. A next generation of polling and an littics terms. Patrick was a pioneer the political digital world, having gotten his start 17 years ago am recent paper for the 2019 states of change project look at hugh the Republican Party can adapt to demographic change. If you dont read his friday roundup of interesting stories called the intersection you should sign up for it. Like amy he provides unique insights on politics. I sean trend deis a lawyer by training, has an mba, finish aid masters in statistic and now all the dissertation for his phn Political Science. He likes school. Sean was a coauthor of one of the edition of the almanac of american politics, that Michael Barone introduced to t
Buildings and bus are of course the main source of iraqs oil wealth and demonstrations as you indicated have been going on there and not just port also you had thousands of demonstrators that are gathering around other Government Installations you had a group in the past few days to block the entrance the bus the provinces and also the oil refinery you had official to come out in the past few days saying that this type of activity is costing the government billions of dollars so the tension continuing to rise about that we must stress so that we have not been able to get any type of government confirmation yet with regard to these latest reports be it did in basra the violence there for the violence that you spoke about in baghdad there are these reports now in baghdad that several antigovernment protesters have 24 hours have been shot all of this happening against this backdrop where you had iraqs military spokesman saying on wednesday that Security Forces had been ordered not to use
We are getting increasingly appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president and listed the whole departments of government in elicit a move trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent as well as further Conspiracy Theory about the 2016 election that he believes would be beneficial to his Reelection Campaign now White House Correspondent kelly hellcat has more now. Well what we can expect is that for the 1st time the American Public has the opportunity to hear for itself what exactly the case is against the president what the defense is if there is any and this is something thats significant because up until now it has been politicians on capitol hill largely crafting these arguments so this is significant terms of who will be talking not only do we expect to be following very closely next friday for the testimony from the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine someone that was pushed out and who has already acc
We speak to the indigenous scholar and activist nick estes. Then to the acclaimed writer Arundhati Roy on the crisis in kashmir and growing authoritarianism in india and around the globe. There is no voice thats coming o out of kashmir. Thats why i said the silence is the loudest sound. Everyone, whether its the major politicians, whether its boys who throw stones on the e stree, whether it is businessmen, lawyers everyone is in jail, even now. You u know, thenen they cut t off phones. They cut off the internet. I mean, can you imagine . When has it been done before, 7 million peopople, communication lockdown . Amy all that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. I am amy goodman. In this special broadcast, we begin with the indigenous scholar r and activist nick est. He is s a coffounder of the indigenous Resistance Group the red nation and a citizen of the lower brule sioux tribe. I talked to him earlier this year about his book our h