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Thursday, July 02, 2009
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- “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City”
- John Pilger Calls UK National Health Service a Treasure, Blasts US Lawmakers for Being “in Bed with Powerful Interests” and Neglecting “Their Own People’s Basic Human Rights”
- Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Speaks from Israeli Jail Cell After Arrest on Boat Delivering Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
- Up in Smoke: How the Tobacco Industry Shaped the New Smoking Bill
- Zelaya Vows to Return to Honduras Despite Threats of Arrest by Coup Leaders
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
- Headlines
- “Change to Win is Dead”–Juan Gonzalez on Labor Movement Struggle
- Generals Who Led Honduras Military Coup Trained at the School of the Americas
- How Can We Have Sovereignty When We Don’t Have Electricity or Water to Bathe? Iraqi Reporter on US Troop Pullback
- Military Using “Brutal” Force Against Anti-Coup Protests in Honduras
- What’s Behind the Honduras Coup? Tracing Zelaya’s Trajectory
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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Coup in Honduras: See full Democracy Now! coverage
Check out all of our coverage of the first coup d’etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century.
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“Undo the Coup”
The first coup d’etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century occurred last Sunday in Honduras. It was led by a graduate of the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas, a military facility that has trained some of Latin America’s worst torturers, murderers and human rights abusers.
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“Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age”
Tools of mass communication that were once the province of governments and corporations now fit in your pocket. As these technologies have developed, so too has the ability to monitor, filter, censor and block them.
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EPA Declares Public Health Emergency in Libby, Montana
The Environmental Protection Agency has declared a public health emergency in the town of Libby, Montana, where hundreds of people have died from asbestos contamination. It is the first time such a declaration has been made by the EPA. For decades, W.R. Grace and Co. mined asbestos-contaminated vermiculite in Libby.
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“Congre$$, Heal Thyself”
As the Obama administration pushes for a vote on health-care reform before Congress recesses in August, has health-industry money too thoroughly polluted the process for anything good to come of it?
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“The Free Market’s Marked Men: From the Niger Delta to the Amazon”
Ken Saro-Wiwa and Alberto Pizango never met, but they are united by a passion for the preservation of their people and their land, and by the fervor with which they were targeted by their respective governments.
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“Dr. George Tiller Didn’t Have to Die”
Dr. Tiller was assassinated while in church in Wichita, Kan., on Sunday, targeted for legally performing abortions. His death might have been prevented simply through enforcement of existing laws.
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“Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil”
Profits are higher than ever at oil companies Chevron and Shell. Yet across the globe, from the Ecuadorian jungle, to the Niger Delta in Nigeria, to the courtrooms and streets of New York and San Ramon, Calif., people are fighting back against the world’s oil giants.
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Podcasting & Torrents
Bishop Gerardi
It has been over a month since Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera was brutally murdered in his garage. The killer reportedly struck the bishop in the head with a cement block. Just a few days after the murder, the Guatemalan government announced it had arrested a “common criminal” named Carlos Enrique Vielman. But many believe a cover-up is underway. The Archdiocesan Human Rights Office, which is a co-complaintant in the Gerardi case, has announced there is no evidence that Vielman is in fact the killer and they stated he should be released immediately. Moreover, there are many who wanted to see Bishop Gerardi dead.
Two days before he was murdered, the bishop held a press conference to announce the conclusions of the Project for the Recovery of Historical Memory (REMHI). The report called "Guatemala: Never Again, was coordinated by Bishop Gerardi and it gathered the testimony of thousands of victims of the terror that has marked the past 3 decades in Guatemala. The report implicated the Guatemalan army and right-wing paramilitary groups in more than 80 percent of the human rights abuses over the past 36 years.
A few weeks ago, a death squad-–the Jaguar Avenger-–took responsibility for the murder of Bishop Gerardi. This group first appeared in the 1980s when it threatened to murder then Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega if he visited Guatemala. Bishop Gerardi’s report said that the Jaguar Avenger was made up of members of the elite Presidential Guard and was responsible for repeated human rights violations and murders.
This along with the assassination of the Indigenous mayor of Santa Cruz del Quiche, Luis Yat Zapeta earlier this month, prompted the Families of the Disappeared in Guatemala to state that these are clear indications that the “clandestine bodies of repression continue intact …” The group also stated that it believes “there are elements of the security forces that are responsible.”
Guest:
- Paul Jeffrey, is a U.S. journalist based in Central America since 1984. He knew Bishop Gerardi personally and interviewed him several times. He has written a series of articles on the Bishop’s murder published in the National Catholic Reporter. He joins us now by telephone from his home in Honduras.
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