Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Democracy Now! audio podcast cover artwork. Democracy Now!, also called Democracy Now!The War and Peace Report, Democracy Now Independent Global News, or Democracy News, was founded on February 19, 1996, at WBAI in New York City by journalists Amy Goodman, Juan González, Larry Bensky, Salim Muwakkil, and Julie Drizin.
Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) [2] is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author.Her investigative journalism career includes coverage of the East Timor independence movement, Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara, and Chevron Corporation's role in Nigeria.
He frequently co-hosts the radio and television program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. Early life [ edit ] González was born on October 15, 1947, in Ponce, Puerto Rico [1] to Juan González, who was a veteran of the Puerto Rican 65th Infantry during World War II , and Florinda Rivera de González.
Pacifica was founded in 1946 by pacifists E. John Lewis and Lewis Hill.During World War II, both of them had filed for conscientious objector status. [7] After the war, Lewis, Hill and a small group of former conscientious objectors created the Pacifica Foundation in the town of Pacifica, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Peter Andreas Thiel (/ t iː l /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [1] [2] [3] A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5]
The largest shareholder of Walmart is the Walton family, who owns more than half of all Walmart shares. The second largest shareholder in Walmart is the Vanguard Group, who holds around 5% of ...
Charles Derber is an American academic, author and left-wing political activist. He is Professor of Sociology at Boston College.His work focuses on capitalism, globalization, corporate power, democracy, populism, neo-fascism, American militarism, the climate crisis, cultural individualism, and the new peace and global justice movements.