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Democracy Now! | Exclusive: Inside Embassy Refuge, Julian Assange on WikiLeaks, Snowden & His New Bid for Freedom, July 7, 2014

Source: <a href="http://democracynow.org/" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a>, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/" target="_blank">wikileaks.org</a><br /><br />  <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="309" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/QQ9TvOSM-vQ" width="550"></iframe><br /><br />In a Democracy Now! exclusive, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange joins us from Ecuador's embassy in London. It is the first time a U.S. news program has gone inside Assange's place of refuge, where he has entered his third year in political asylum while he faces investigations in both Sweden and the United States.<br /><br />In the United States, a secret grand jury is investigating WikiLeaks for its role in publishing a trove of leaked documents about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as classified State Department cables. In Sweden, Assange is wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual misconduct though no charges have been filed. Late last week, there was the first break in the latter case in two years, when a Swedish court announced it would hold a hearing on July 16 about a request by his lawyers for prosecutors to hand over new evidence and withdraw the arrest warrant. In the first of a two-part interview, Assange discusses his new legal bid in Sweden, the ongoing grand jury probe in the United States, and WikiLeaks' efforts to assist National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Democracy Now! | Exclusive: Inside Embassy Refuge, Julian Assange on WikiLeaks, Snowden & His New Bid for Freedom, July 7, 2014

Source: democracynow.org , wikileaks.org In a Democracy Now! exclusive, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange joins us from Ecuador's embas...

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Fukushima Fallout: Sick U.S. Sailors Sue TEPCO After Exposure to Radiation 30x Above Normal, March 19, 2014

Source: <a href="http://democracynow.org/" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a><br /><br />  <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="309" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLBY3rXeVPzfqrxdqR7KrmP88mGxZgheYc" width="550"></iframe><br /><br />Three years after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, scores of U.S. sailors and Marines are suing the plant's operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, for allegedly misleading the Navy about the level of radioactive contamination.<br /><br />Many of the service members who provided humanitarian relief during the disaster have experienced devastating health ailments since returning from Japan, ranging from leukemia to blindness to infertility to birth defects.<br /><br />We are joined by three guests: Lieutenant Steve Simmons, a U.S. Navy sailor who served on board the USS Ronald Reagan joined in the class-action lawsuit against TEPCO after suffering health problems; Charles Bonner, an attorney for the sailors; and Kyle Cleveland, sociology professor and associate director of the Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies at Temple University's Japan campus in Tokyo. Cleveland recently published transcripts of the Navy's phone conversations about Fukushima that took place at the time of the disaster, which suggest commanders were also aware of the risk faced by sailors on the USS Ronald Reagan. -democracnow.org

Fukushima Fallout: Sick U.S. Sailors Sue TEPCO After Exposure to Radiation 30x Above Normal, March 19, 2014

Source: democracynow.org Three years after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, scores of U.S. sailors and Marines ar...

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"Dirty Wars" Filmmaker Jeremy Scahill on the "Drone President" & Obama's Whitewashing of NSA Spying, January 29, 2014

Source: <a href="http://democracynow.org/" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a><br /><br />  <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="309" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tdni0R644t8" width="550"></iframe><br /><br />In his State of the Union address, President Obama called on the United States to "move off a permanent war footing," citing his recent limits on the use of drones, his withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and his effort to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay.   Obama also vowed to reform National Security Agency surveillance programs to ensure that "the privacy of ordinary people is not being violated."<br /><br />Jeremy Scahill, whose Oscar-nominated film "Dirty Wars" tackles the U.S. drone war and targeted killings abroad, says Obama has been a "drone president" whose operations have killed large numbers of civilians. On NSA reform, Scahill says "the parameters of the debate in Washington are: should we figure out a way to streamline this and sell it to the American people, or should we do more surveillance?" -democracynow.org