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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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Alfred Zappala, Peace Activist Who Lost Son in Iraq, Dies at 68
The peace activist Alfred Zappala has died at the age of sixty-eight after a battle with lung cancer. Zappala became a vocal critic of the war in Iraq in 2004 after his son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, was killed in Baghdad. [includes rush transcript]
Alfred and Celeste Zappala, appearing on Democracy Now!, May 13, 2004.
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AMY GOODMAN: Before the break, we turn to some sad news from Philadelphia. The peace activist Alfred Zappala has died at the age of sixty-eight after a battle with lung cancer.
Al Zappala became a vocal critic of the war in Iraq in 2004 after his son, Sergeant Sherwood Baker, was killed in Baghdad. Baker was the first member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard to die in combat since 1945. In May 2004, Alfred Zappala and his ex-wife Celeste Zappala appeared on Democracy Now!
ALFRED ZAPPALA: My son was betrayed by the Bush administration. This whole—you know, people make analogies between Vietnam and Iraq, and I think the big difference is that it took years to find out the lies in Vietnam, and we have discovered these lies in less than a year.
CELESTE ZAPPALA: And knew it going in. And knew it going in.
ALFRED ZAPPALA: And, you know, we’re into this war for no reason at all. I mean, well, we’re in it for reasons that Bush wants us in for, but not for—not what he told the American people. Not about weapons of mass destruction, not about any of that stuff.
CELESTE ZAPPALA: Not al-Qaeda ties.
ALFRED ZAPPALA: Right. So, you know, it was a senseless death, just like all those other boys.
CELESTE ZAPPALA: And girls.
ALFRED ZAPPALA: And—yes. And the 10,000-plus Iraqi citizens that have been killed in Iraq. I mean, it’s just going on and on.
CELESTE ZAPPALA: I feel like we’ve opened the gates of Hell, and we don’t know how to close them, and we don’t know why we’ve done it now.
AMY GOODMAN: Celeste Zappala and Al Zappala, they were in our studio in 2004. Al died yesterday morning at the age of sixty-eight. He was a member of Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families Speak Out and Veterans for Peace. He campaigned against the war for the last four years, almost nonstop.
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