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Coming Up: Thomas Frank on “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule”
Thomas Frank, author of the new book, “The Wrecking Crew,” will join us in our firehouse studio to discuss corruption in Washington, the Abramoff scandal and how conservatives have ‘dismantled government.’
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Coming Up: Dave Zirin on the Beijing Olympic Games
As the 2008 Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing, sportswriter Dave Zirin will join us to talk about athletes speaking out in China, the U.S. companies sponsoring the Games and much more.
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Amy Goodman’s New Column: “Threats, Lies and Audiotape”
With no end in sight in Afghanistan and Iraq, military recruiters must be prevented from using desperate and aggressive measures to lure our nation’s young people—the poorest and most vulnerable—into the line of fire.
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‘It’s a Global Election’
Amy Goodman reports from the Baltics: “When I arrived in Estonia last week—a former Soviet republic that lies just south of Finland—everyone had an opinion on Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin.”
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“Who’s Paying for the Conventions?”
The nominating conventions have become elaborate, expensive marketing events, but most people don’t know the extent to which major corporations fund them, pouring tens of millions of dollars into a little-known loophole in the campaign-finance system.
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“Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid”
While the presidential candidates trade barbs and accuse each other of flip-flopping, they agree with President Bush on their enthusiastic support for nuclear power.
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“Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime”
It is fantastic to see Ingrid Betancourt free, but the celebration of her release should not be confused with celebration of the Colombian government.
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Democracy Now!–live from Aspen, CO
Democracy Now! and Free Speech TV team up with Aspen Public Access Channel, Grassroots TV, for historic national broadcast.
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Ken Saro Wiwa and Nigeria
Today marks the second anniversary of the execution of West African author and activist Ken Saro Wiwa. He led a campaign against the ecological devastation that petroleum giant Shell was causing in his homeland—the oil-rich region of Nigeria called Ogoniland. The protests targeted the company’s abusive practices and even caused a partial shutdown of some of its facilities. But the Nigerian military regime, led by General Soni Abacha, launched a wave of fierce repression against the Ogoni, which led to the hanging of Ken Saro Wiwa and eight other men on November 10, 1995, in the yard of Port Harcourt prison.
Tape:
- Interview with Ken Saro Wiwa, the acclaimed author and Ogoni activist.
Guests:
- Dr. Owens Wiwa, an official of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, known as MOSOP, and the brother of Ken Saro Wiwa.
- Goodluck Diigbo, a former confidante of Ken Saro Wiwa and a youth organizer for MOSOP.
- * (not his real name), a Nigerian activist arrested and tortured by the military regime of General Soni Abacha.
Related links:
- 9/17/97 Democracy Now!–“Nigeria Advocacy Day”
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