Democracy Now!

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Sponsored byFord Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Pacifica Foundation

A highly popular "alternative" media, which while carrying some progressive news, nevertheless avoids certain subjects, and has nothing much to say about deep politics.

Censorship

It is revealing that DN had nothing to say about 9-11 in 2014, and (as of August 2015) had not reported on the topic since September 2013. It also chooses to air Noam Chomsky's views on the matter, in spite of his claiming not to know much about it.

 

A Quote by Democracy Now!

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Iran“Two years after Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized Iran’s oil industry that had been controlled by the company now known as British Petroleum a coup happened in Iran. “If nationalisation in Iran of oil was successful, this would set a terrible example to other countries where U.S. oil interests were present,” explains Ervand Abrahamian, Iranian historian and author of Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’Etat and The Coup: 1953, The CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations. While the CIA has historically taken credit for Mosaddegh’s overthrow, “the British have not admitted their leading role,” notes Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani, whose documentary film Coup 53 uncovers the influence of MI6 agents who sought to preserve their imperial-era access to Iranian oil and pulled in the Americans by promising a “slice.” Seventy years later, says Amirani, “We are still living with the ripples of this disastrous event”2023

 

Employee on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Jeremy ScahillSenior producer and correspondent19932003Dates approximate. Contributor also after 2003.

 

Known member

1 of the 3 of the members already have pages here:

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Amy GoodmanPresenter of Democracy Now!

 

Sponsors

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Ford FoundationIn addition to its own billionaire agenda, also known to have been $$$ middleman for covert CIA funding.
Open Society FoundationsA NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered.
Pacifica FoundationA progressive media foundation, generally anti-war, but also close to official narratives.

 

Related Document

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File:What Happened to Pacifica.pdfarticle16 December 2019Helen BuyniskiThe story of Pacifica Radio is a cyclical saga of factional warfare, class and racial struggle, and the power of the self- preservation instinct.
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