Democracy Now! April 23, 2012

April 23, 2012 from Democracy Now! via Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND

Two years since the worst offshore oil spill in US history, Democracy Now! looks at its impact on the Gulf of Mexico's residents and wildlife, even as no BP officials have faced criminal prosecution for the disaster. And in part two of a national broadcast exclusive on growing domestic surveillance in the United States of dissident journalists, activists, and whisteblower, former NSA officer William Binney describes how the FBI raided his home and held him at gunpoint. Plus today's headlines, and more.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In Te... Explore this topic

Oil spill

An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term is usually applied to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters, but spills ... Explore this topic

BP plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fifth-largest company in the world measured by 2012 revenues and is one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". It is vertically integrated a... Explore this topic

Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is a United States daily progressive, nonprofit, independently syndicated program of news, analysis, and opinion, aired by more than 1000 radio, television, satellite and cable TV networks in North America. The award-winning one hour War and Peace Report is host... Explore this topic

National Security Agency

The National Security Agency is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S. government communications and informa... Explore this topic

Surveillance state

The surveillance state is a government's surveillance of large numbers of citizens and visitors. Such widespread surveillance is most usually justified as being necessary to prevent crime or terrorism. The growth of state surveillance has led to concerns about the erosion of p... Explore this topic

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