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We pay tribute to the late historian, writer and activist Howard Zinn, who died suddenly on Wednesday of a heart attack at the age of eighty-seven. Howard Zinn’s classic work A People’s History of the United States changed the way we look at history in America. It has sold over a million copies and was recently made into a television special called The People Speak. We remember Howard Zinn in his own words, and we speak with those who knew him best: Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein and Anthony Arnove. [includes rush transcript]

President Obama delivered his first State of the Union address Wednesday night. A full two-thirds of the President’s seventy-minute address was devoted to the economy, the central theme of which was job creation. We get response from MIT professor Noam Chomsky and journalist and author Naomi Klein. [includes rush transcript]

• Obama Stresses Job Recovery in State of Union Address
• Zelaya Leaves Honduras as New President Takes Office
• Report: US Military Spending in Haiti More Than Triples Assistance to Haitian Gov't
• Haiti Postpones Parliamentary Vote, Suspends Orphan Flights
• Survivor Found Beneath Rubble After 15 Days
• Report: Pentagon Sending More Special Ops to Yemen
• Aid Groups: Militarization of Aid Endangering Afghan Civilians
• Geithner Faces Congressional Outrage for AIG Bailout
• Dems Seek to Undo Supreme Court Ruling on Corporate Electioneering

As a Supreme Court ruling opens the floodgates for corporations to affect elections, we take a look at corporate money and politics with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney. His new documentary, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, focuses on the rise and fall of disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. We also speak with David Sickey, a member of the Tribal Council of the Coushatta Tribe, and Tom Rodgers, a lobbyist and member of the Blackfeet tribe who was a key whistleblower in the Abramoff case. Outside of the film, this is Rodgers’ first national broadcast interview. [includes rush transcript]

In Honduras, ousted president Manuel Zelaya is due to leave the country today after President-elect Porfirio Lobo is sworn into office. Zelaya has taken refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa since returning to Honduras in September. On Tuesday, the Honduran Supreme Court dismissed all charges against six military commanders involved in the June 28th coup that removed Zelaya from office. We go inside the Brazilian embassy to speak with Democracy Now!’s Andrés Conteris. [includes rush transcript]

• Zelaya to Leave Honduras as Coup Leaders Cleared
• Tear Gas Fired at Haitians Seeking Food Aid
• Earthquake Survivor Rescued After 2 Weeks Beneath Rubble
• Report: US Planning, Arming Yemen Military Operations
• Obama Continues Bush-Era Assassination Policy
• Incumbent Said to Win Sri Lankan Election
• World Social Forum Convenes in Brazil
• Ex-Adviser: UK Ignored Warnings of Iraq War Illegality
• Obama to Deliver SOTU as Healthcare Bill Delayed
• 1 in 5 US Households Went Hungry in 2009
• 13 Peace Activists Arrested at White House Protest
• Activist Behind ACORN Controversy Arrested for Wiretapping Office of Dem. Senator

In a national broadcast exclusive, we speak with prominent Haitian community activist, Jean Montrevil. He’s just been released from jail after being held for three weeks by immigration authorities. His scheduled deportation was indefinitely put off after the earthquake in Haiti. We also speak with the Rev. Doctor Donna Schaper, as well as attorney Ira Kurzban. [includes rush transcript]

Filmmaker Michael Moore joins us for a wide-ranging interview about Haiti, the Supreme Court decision on corporate campaign financing, President Obama’s first year in office, the Democrats, and much more. “The Democrats] don’t have the guts. They don’t have the courage of their own convictions. They’re disgusting. I’m embarrassed,” Moore says. “I want really nothing to do with them. And if they don’t find their spine, well, they’re in for a huge surprise in November.” [includes rush transcript]

• UN: 2 Million Haitians Need Immediate Food Aid
• Canada Hosts Meeting to Discuss Rebuilding Haiti
• Obama to Call for Freeze on Non-Defense Spending
• Democrats Consider Bills to Limit Foreign Corporate Campaign Donations
• White House Debate Legality of Assassinating US Citizen in Yemen
• Bombings in Iraq Kill 60
• “Chemical Ali” Executed In Iraq
• Greek Farmers Stage Protests
• Israeli Cabinet Minister: Goldstone Report on Gaza Is Anti-Semitic
• Halliburton Asks Supreme Court to Block Rape Trial
• Rallies Held in Albany over Natural Gas Drilling

Democracy Now! broadcasts from Park City, Utah, home of the Sundance Film Festival, the nation’s largest festival for independent cinema. Today, we spend the hour with Robert Redford. He’s well known as an actor, but part and parcel of who he is is an activist. He took his success and leveraged it to promote his real passions: environmental justice, Native American rights and independent filmmaking. Since 1980, through the Sundance Film Festival and the Sundance Institute, Robert Redford has helped independent voices develop their craft—in film, theater and music—and reach new audiences. Redford joins us for a wide-ranging interview about these many roles in his life, on and off screen. [includes rush transcript]

• 150,000 Bodies Buried in Haiti; Death Toll Could Top 300,000
• Oxfam Calls for International Community to Cancel Haiti's $890 Million Debt
• Hope for Haiti Telethon Raises $57 Million
• Obama Assails Supreme Court Campaign Finance Ruling
• Emails Show Fed Tried to Keep Details of AIG Bailout Secret
• Obama to Reach Out to Middle Class Families in State of the Union
• Wal-Mart Lays Off 11,000 Workers
• Number of Children in Poverty in US Increases by 2.5 Million Since 2000
• US to Appeal Blackwater Ruling
• DynCorp Scrutinized over Iraq Police Contract
• Report: Aung San Suu Kyi May Be Released in Nov.
• Japanese Voters Back Anti-US Base Mayoral Candidate
• Evo Morales Sworn In for Second Term
• Netanyahu: Israel Will Retain Parts of West Bank Forever
• West Virginia Mine Tree-Sit Enters Fifth Day
• 450,000 Gallons of Oil Spill in Texas Waterway
• Haitian Activist Jean Montrevil Released from ICE Detention

We take a journey to the epicenter of the earthquake in Haiti. We go from Port-au-Prince, through Carrefour and Gressier to Leogane. Earthquake survivors talk about the lack of any outside help as they continue to dig out their dead from the rubble and bury them in mass graves.

We take a journey to the epicenter of the earthquake in Haiti. We go from Port-au-Prince, through Carrefour and Gressier to Léogâne. Earthquake survivors talk about the lack of any outside help as they continue to dig out their dead from the rubble and bury them in mass graves. [includes rush transcript]

As thousands of well-equipped US soldiers pour into Haiti, there is an increasing concern about the militarization of the country, supporting the soldiers and not the people. Or, as one doctor put it, “people need gauze, not guns.” We take a look at aid distribution in Haiti and the effect on Haitians fighting to survive in the aftermath of the earthquake. [includes rush transcript]

As thousands of well-equipped U.S. soldiers pour into Haiti, there is an increasing concern about the militarization of the country, supporting the soldiers and not the people. Or, as one doctor put it, ‘people need gauze, not guns.’ We take a look at aid distribution in Haiti and the effect on Haitians fighting to survive in the aftermath of the earthquake.

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court rules corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money to elect and defeat candidates. One lawmaker describes it as the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case justifying slavery. We speak with constitutional law professor, Jamin Raskin.

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court rules corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money to elect and defeat candidates. One lawmaker describes it as the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case justifying slavery. We speak with constitutional law professor, Jamin Raskin. [includes rush transcript]

• Haiti to Relocate 400,000 from Port-au-Prince
• Supreme Court: No Limit on Corporate Spending on Elections
• Obama Proposes Limits on Bank Size, Trades
• Afghans Protest Deadly NATO Raid
• Gates Confirms Blackwater, DynCorp in Pakistan
• 50 Gitmo Prisoners to Remain Behind Bars Without Trial
• 42 Arrested on Eve of Gitmo Closure Deadline
• NASA: Previous Decade Was Warmest on Record
• Bipartisan Senate Bill Seeks to Block EPA from Regulating Gases
• Tree-Sitting Activists Shut Down West Virginia Coal Mine
• Edwards Admits to Fathering Child in Extramarital Affair
• Air America to Cease Operations, File for Bankruptcy

• Haiti to Relocate 400,000 from Port-au-Prince
• Supreme Court: No Limit on Corporate Spending on Elections
• Obama Proposes Limits on Bank Size, Trades
• Afghans Protest Deadly NATO Raid
• Gates Confirms Blackwater, DynCorp in Pakistan
• 50 Gitmo Prisoners to Remain Behind Bars Without Trial
• 42 Arrested on Eve of Gitmo Closure Deadline
• NASA: Previous Decade Was Warmest on Record
• Bipartisan Senate Bill Seeks to Block EPA from Regulating Gases
• Tree-Sitting Activists Shut Down West Virginia Coal Mine
• Edwards Admits to Fathering Child in Extramarital Affair
• Air America to Cease Operations, File for Bankruptcy

“We’ve got to return to people-centered politics, where people control the process, not corporations,” says John Bonifaz about how the Democratic Party’s close ties to the health insurance industry and Wall Street hurt them in the Massachusetts Senate race. “When you have money-drenched interests controlling the politics in Washington, you lose people at the grassroots level, you lose people on Main Street.” [includes rush transcript]