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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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U.S. Scientist Invents Groundbreaking Mad Cow Disease Test But The USDA Refuses To Use It
Scientist Andrew Alpert discusses how he helped discovered how to test living cows for mad cow disease. Britain has Okd the test but not the U.S. And John Stauber, author of Mad Cow USA, outlines the latest in the mad cow scandal.
US agriculture officials so far are standing by their detection system for mad cow disease, despite complaints from consumer groups that testing is inadequate
Monday was the first regular business day since the Agriculture Department last week announced the nation’s first case of mad cow disease in a Washington state dairy cow. Dr. Kenneth Petersen of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said no additional inspections had been ordered and meat from cows that were too sick or injured to stand or walk unassisted would continue to be allowed to be sold for human consumption, provided there was no evidence of neurological problems.
However, Petersen said, “The department is looking at what additional testing we need to do.” Officials said they are considering increased testing and expansion of a ban on animal feed, officials said.
Meanwhile, a Japanese official told the Associated Press that U.S. agriculture officials in Tokyo trying to persuade the Japanese to lift that country’s ban on American beef said the United States soon would announce more stringent safety measures. The U.S. officials went to South Korea after their stop in Japan.
The diseased cow’s meat was allowed to be sold for human consumption because a USDA inspector saw only signs of a physical injury to the cow.
USDA ordered a recall of more than 10,000 pounds of meat from 20 cows slaughtered on the same day at the same Washington state company. The recalled meat was distributed to eight states and Guam, although officials said 80 percent of it went to Oregon and Washington.
USDA officials have said they ordered the recall as a precaution, insisting there was no threat to the safety of the U.S. food supply.
- Andrew Alpert, president of the biochemistry company PolyLC based in Maryland. He helped develop the first unobtrusive test for Mad Cow disease. While the test has been approved in Britain, the USDA has not validated the test.
- John Stauber, co-founder of PR Watch and co-author of the book, Mad Cow USA: Could The Nightmare Happen Here? (Common Courage Press, 1997) which reveals how mad cow disease has emerged as a result of modern, intensive farming practices. [Download book for free here]
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