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To this day, Russians have differing opinions on the country's last tsar, Nicholas II, who was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Some call him a model statesman and even a martyr - while others dismiss him as a faceless politician who ruined his country. He's referred to as both Nicholas the Slaughterer and the Tsar-Martyr. Provided to you, with permission from Russia Today, global news network.
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Democracy NOW! DN! Following last week’s guilty verdict in Guatemala’s historic genocide trial, reporter Allan Nairn says the United States should follow Guatemala’s lead and indict the Reagan administration officials who supported the genocide under General Efraín Ríos Montt. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The 73-year-old imprisoned grandmother is fighting stage IV cancer that has metastasized, spreading to her lymph nodes, shoulder, bones and lungs. Stewart is serving a 10-year sentence in a federal prison near Fort Worth, Texas. In 2005, she was found guilty of distributing press releases on behalf of her jailed client. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! We are joined by investigative reporter Allan Nairn, who returned to Guatemala to cover the trial after reporting on the massacres extensively in the early 1980s. Nairn says the verdict could have major implications for Washington. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Former U.S.-backed Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt has been sentenced to 80 years in prison after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. We’re joined by investigative reporter Allan Nairn, who returned to Guatemala to cover the trial after reporting on the massacres extensively in the early 1980s. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Safe Journey is a Short independent film. Kuan Yin the Goddess of Compassion can hear when people are suffering.
Democracy NOW! DN! He is charged with overseeing the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala’s Mayan region after he seized power in 1982. On Thursday, Ríos Montt testified for the first time during the trial. "I declare myself innocent," Ríos Montt said. "I never had the intention or the purpose to destroy any national ethnic group." Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Closing arguments have begun in the historic trial against U.S.-backed Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, the first head of state in the Americas to stand trial for genocide. Ríos Montt is charged with overseeing the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala’s Ixil region after he seized power in 1982. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Cleveland kidnap victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight were allegedly subjected to years of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of suspect Ariel Castro. Questions are now being raised why the police did not investigate Castro more closely earlier, especially since Castro was accused in 1993 and 2005 of attacking his ex-wife Grimilda Figueroa. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! One of Latin America’s most acclaimed writers, Eduardo Galeano, is out with the new book, "Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History." Galeano’s classic "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent," made headlines when Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez gave President Obama a copy at the Summit of the Americas in 2009. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! A joint investigation by The Washington Monthly and The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute has found over the past five years U.S. border agents have shot across the border at least 10 times, killing a total of six Mexicans on Mexican soil. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The state of Mississippi is preparing to execute an African-American prisoner tonight, despite an unusual admission from the FBI that its original analysis of the evidence contained errors. The execution is going ahead after prosecutors and state courts refused to allow new DNA testing that could prove Manning’s innocence. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
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Democracy NOW! DN! One day after the exiled former Black Panther Assata Shakur became the first woman named to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, we’re joined by another legendary African-American activist, Angela Davis, as well as Shakur’s longtime attorney, Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! The FBI has added the former Black Panther Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorists list 40 years after the killing for which she was convicted. Born Joanne Chesimard, Shakur was found guilty of shooting dead a New Jersey state trooper during a gunfight in 1973. Shakur has long proclaimed her innocence and accused federal authorities of political persecution. She escaped from prison in 1979 and received political asylum in Cuba. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Tens of thousands of immigrants took to the streets Wednesday to join in May Day marches and call on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. People held massive demonstrations from Los Angeles to Alabama, to Chicago to here in New York City. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! Today’s global May Day actions include a march of thousands of workers in Bangladesh demanding workplace safety following last week’s factory collapse that left more than 400 dead and 150 missing. The collapse is now being described as the deadliest accident in the history of the garment industry and marked Bangladesh’s third industrial accident in five months. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! Creative commons license.
Democracy NOW! DN! President Obama has vowed a renewed push to shut down the military prison at Guantánamo Bay more than four years after first pledging its closure. Speaking at a White House news conference, Obama called the indefinite imprisonment of more than 100 people unsustainable, but defended the ongoing force-feeding of those on a three-month hunger strike to win their freedom. Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
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