Has been abducted. Will the Yemeni Government be overthrown in a coup . We will speak to journalists iona craig and Jeremy Scahill. Then to guatemala. In a major victory for human righ activists, a former Guatemalan Police chief has been found guilty for ordering the Spanish Embassy to be set on fire in 1980. 37 peasant activists and student organizers died in the fire. We will speak to Nobel Peace Prizewinner Rigoberta Menchu. Her father died in the massacre. We have been denied the truth for 35 years and today, the responsibility for mr. Garcia is clear and also that of all of the people that remained in the hearing, many of whom have already died, but also responsibility of the state. I think this is what makes us the most happy and due process makes us happy, too, because we have the patience to reach this moment and we are really excited. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Islamic state militants ha
Has been abducted. Will the Yemeni Government be overthrown in a coup . We will speak to journalists iona craig and Jeremy Scahill. Then to guatemala. In a major victory for human righ activists, a former Guatemalan Police chief has been found guilty for ordering the Spanish Embassy to be set on fire in 1980. 37 peasant activists and student organizers died in the fire. We will speak to Nobel Peace Prizewinner Rigoberta Menchu. Her father died in the massacre. We have been denied the truth for 35 years and today, the responsibility for mr. Garcia is clear and also that of all of the people that remained in the hearing, many of whom have already died, but also responsibility of the state. I think this is what makes us the most happy and due process makes us happy, too, because we have the patience to reach this moment and we are really excited. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Islamic state militants ha
Peninsula. A coup attempt while king of dollar of saudi arabia dies at the age of 90. He will get the latest. Then to ferguson as the Justice Department is reportedly set to clear officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. And a major decision, the Supreme Court sides with whistleblowers in the case of a federal air marshal who exposed a plan to cut back on security on international flights. And we will hear why jill journalist Barrett Brown has been sentenced to five years in prison related to the hacking of the private Intelligence Firm stratfor im a witch exposed how the firm spied on activists on behalf of corporations. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Yemen is facing political collapse following the mass resignations of president Abdu Rabbu Mansour hadi, his Prime Minister and entire cabinet. Thursdays exodus came just hours after shia Houthi Rebels stormed the president ial compo
It means i can look at the news from the inside out, chop it up, find out what are the sources, what are the biases of the different sources, what can you expect from a given news outlet as opposed to another one, what is theirs spend . News doesnt make any context if you dont have background to make meaning out of fax. Amy well speak with two of Danny Schechters longtime friends and colleagues, South African filmmaker anant singh and globalvision cofounder rory oconnor who worked with danny on the groundbreaking television series, south africa now that aired on 150 stations in the late 1980s and early 1990s at the height of the antiapartheid struggle. We will play exit from the newly digitized archives. Covering south africa, abc news blasts Nelson Mandela. We will dissect the report. While things like the new constitution and the right to vote or bottle concerns, they sometimes seem secondary to more urgent needs. Not even the men such high as perhaps an realistic hopes were pinned o
We are on our feet. That nobody, no force in the world, can hurt coulter. Culture in tunisia continues. We are proud of this movement. We have extracted good from evil. Amy a week after gunmen killed 23 people at the bardo museum in tunis, thousands of activists gather in the city for the World Social Forum. We will speak to the pioneering african economist samir amin director of the Third World Forum in dakar. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A saudiled Bombing Campaign targeting shiite Houthi Rebels has entered its second day in yemen. While the u. S. Is targeting shia rebels, police 39 siblings have been reportedly killed. Amnesty International Said six were children under 10. President hadi has left his residence for saudi arabia. Or after the headlines. Iraqi Officials Say nine of their forces have been killed by accident in an airstrike as part of the u. S. Backed effort to retake the city of tik