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Amy Goodman’s New Column, “Tutu, Obama and the Middle East”
As President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You may not have heard much lately about the disaster in the Gaza Strip. That silence is intentional: The Israeli government has barred international journalists from entering the occupied territory.
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“A View From the South”
Evo Morales knows about “change you can believe in.” He also knows what happens when a powerful elite is forced to make changes it doesn’t want.
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“President Obama Can Redeem the White House”
Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves.
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Amy Goodman on CNN Newsroom, November 10, 2008
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Anjali Kamat’s New Column: “Change We Can Believe In?”
Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat writes, “To all those for whom America has represented generations of racial injustice, the election of America’s first Black president marks the beginning of a new era…But unless the inspired millions who brought him to power continue to believe their demands matter and insist on holding him accountable each step of the way, it will be Obama’s corporate and hawkish friends who determine the domestic and foreign policies of the coming administration and our collective future.”
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“Organizer in Chief”
You could almost hear the world’s collective sigh of relief. This year’s U.S. presidential election was a global event in every sense. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, represents to so many a living bridge—between continents and cultures.
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Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago. Over the years Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!In 2005, Studs Terkel appeared on Democracy Now! shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. He told Amy Goodman, “My curiosity is what saw me through. What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, that’s my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And it’s curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.”
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“Election Protection”
Election Day approaches, and with it a test of our election system’s integrity. Who will be allowed to vote; who will be barred? Who will get paper ballots; who will use electronic voting machines? Will polls be open long enough to accommodate what is expected to be a historic turnout?
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Iraqi News Reports British and American Aircraft Bomb Soccer Field–Killing 23 People–Asu.N. Debates New Sanctions Proposal: A Conversation with the Former Head of the U.N. Oil for Foodprogram in I
Last week, Iraqi news reported that 23 people were killed and 11 wounded when British and American aircraft bombed asoccer field near the northern city of Mosul. US and British officials denied that the raid took place. US andBritish planes patrolling a no-fly zone they unilaterally established in Northern and Southern Iraq at the end of theGulf War have killed more than 300 people and injured more than 1,000
Meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council has been discussing the revision of the U.S.-led sanctions against Iraq, morethan ten years after the end of the Gulf War. International support for the sanctions has crumbled in the last yearin part because of widespread revulsion at the impact of sanctions, which according to the U.N. have killed more thana million civilians.
Countries such as Russia and France want the sanctions to end for less lofty reasons–to resume trading with Iraq inthe lucrative oil sector, and numerous nations have resumed commercial air service to Baghdad.
U.S. officials have dubbed their proposal “smart sanctions,” arguing that the new plan would reduce civiliansuffering in Iraq and increase government revenue while preventing Iraq from importing weapons.
The program would remove bans on most civilian exports to Iraq, while tightening controls over arms exports andattempting to prevent the smuggling of oil outside of U.N. control. Money from oil sales would continue to bedeposited in a U.N. supervised escrow account until Iraq allowed arms inspectors to return to the country. Iraq hasrejected the proposal and called for an end to economic sanctions.
Critics charge that the “smart sanctions” proposal gives the false impression that sanctions are being eased whiledoing little to help Iraq rebuild its devastated infrastructure or help the civilian population. They argue thatonly an end to economic sanctions and massive foreign assistance will reverse the devastating impact of the mostcomprehensive economic embargo in history.
Guests:
- Denis Halliday, former head of the United Nations Oil for Food Program in Iraq, recently returned from a10 day trip to the Middle East, where he met with Kurdish Leaders and Iraqi officials.
- Kathy Kelly, Voices in the Wilderness, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize the last two years for her workto end the sanctions against the people of Iraq.
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