Notable guests, interviews, and on-air debates
* Tariq Ali and Christopher Hitchens — took opposing sides in two debates over the Iraq War, in December 4, 2003[1] and October 12, 2004.[2]
* Jean-Bertrand Aristide - Interviewed on March 16, 2004, The recently ousted Haitian President accused the United States of kidnapping him and overthrowing the government of Haiti.[3]
* Lori Berenson — Interviewed in 1999 in Peru by Amy Goodman; political activist arrested in 1995 on suspicion of collaborating with the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, a Peruvian leftist guerrilla organization. It was the first time a journalist was able to interview Berenson inside the prison where she was incarcerated.[4]
* Jimmy Carter — Interviewed by Amy Goodman on 10 September 2007; former US President: author of Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.[5]
* Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela — Interviewed by Amy Goodman in September 2005.[6]
* Noam Chomsky — A regularly interviewed guest; MIT linguistics professor, political analyst, and author.[7]
* Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States — Interviewed by Amy Goodman on November 7, 2000.[6] The White House press office had lined up a series of short, routine, election-day interviews with local news outlets. But in this interview, which extended to nearly 30 minutes, Clinton was confronted with a series of pointed questions that compelled him to defend his record on a wide array of issues, with Clinton at one point complaining that Goodman had been "hostile and combative."[7][8]
* Alan Dershowitz and Norman G. Finkelstein — Finkelstein is a frequent guest. This was a much publicised debate about whether the Dershowitz book, The Case for Israel was plagiarised and inaccurate. Dershowitz has written that he agreed to appear on the show after being told he would debate Noam Chomsky, not Finkelstein.[8]
* Michael Eric Dyson — Regular guest; Georgetown professor, writer & radio host.
* Robert Fisk — Frequent guest; prominent and controversial British journalist who currently serves as a Middle East correspondent for The Independent.
* Danny Glover — Regular guest; American actor, film director, and political activist.
* Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve — Interviewed by Amy Goodman and Naomi Klein, journalist and author of The Shock Doctrine, September 24, 2007.[9] In a follow-up interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists Donald Barlett and James Steele, based on their October 2007 article in Vanity Fair[10], call Greenspan "flat wrong" regarding claims by Greenspan in that interview denying Federal Reserve responsibility in the transfer of billions of dollars from the Federal Reserve to Iraq, $9 billion of which the reporters claim has yet to be accounted.[11]
* Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential candidate — Interviewed by Goodman and Gonzalez on November 9th, 2007.[9]
* Evo Morales - Interviewed on September 22nd, 2006; the president of Bolivia talked about his recent speech at the United Nations in New York where he held up a coca leaf and argued for international drug law reform as well as talked about the nationalization of Bolivia's energy reserves among other topics.[10]
* Bill Moyers — Interviewed by Amy Goodman; former host of the PBS show NOW with Bill Moyers and currently the host of the PBS show Bill Moyers' Journal.[11]
* Yoko Ono — Musician, peace activist and widow of John Lennon. Interviewed by Amy Goodman on October 16, 2007.[12]
* Greg Palast — Frequent guest; US-born writer and investigative journalist for the BBC and The Observer.
* Scott Ritter — Interviewed by Amy Goodman; former UN weapons inspector who disputed the Bush administration's claims about weapons programs in Iraq.[13]
* Arundhati Roy — Recurring guest; Indian writer, anti-war activist, and leading figure in the alter-globalization movement
* Edward Said — was a regular guest; Columbia University professor, literary critic and Palestinian activist and intellectual.
* Howard Zinn — Interviewed by Amy Goodman; historian and activist; author of several books, including A People's History of the United States.[14]
