Today’s Show

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• Appeals Court Rules in Maher Arar Case: Innocent Victims of Extraordinary Rendition Cannot Sue in US Courts
• Israeli Activists Criticize US House for Considering Resolution Condemning Goldstone Report on Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
• “By The People: The Election of Barack Obama”: New Documentary on Barack Obama’s Historic Presidential Run

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• Afghan Peace Activist Malalai Joya Speaks on "Crisis and Resistance"

  

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Monday, November 02, 2009

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• How Wall Street and Its Backers on Capitol Hill Silenced a Critic Calling for Greater Regulation of Derivatives
• Shannon Brownlee: Does the Vaccine Matter?
• Exclusive: Friend of American Hikers Detained in Iran Speaks Out

Friday, October 30, 2009

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• Is the Recession Over? Author, Democratic Senate Hopeful Jonathan Tasini on “The Audacity of Greed: Free Markets, Corporate Thieves and the Looting of America”
• Deal Reached in Honduran Coup Crisis; Zelaya Restoration Would Depend on Vote by Honduran Congress
• Leading Political, Legal Blogger Glenn Greenwald on Afghanistan, State Secrets, Healthcare and the Media
• Rep. Raul Grijalva, Co-Chair of Progressive Caucus, Vows to Bring “Robust” Public Option to House Floor

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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• Public Option Faces New Test with Pelosi House Proposal, While Uncertainty Grows over Prospects in Senate
• Healthcare Roundtable: With Exclusion of Single Payer, What Opportunities Remain for Meaningful Reform?
• Russian Journalist Elena Milashina Speaks Out on Alarming Rise in Murders, Threats Against Critics of Government Abuses in North Caucasus

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• The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent

  U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,” according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself.

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• Trick or Treat for Climate Change

  Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are stepping up the pressure by staging elaborate stunts.

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• Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country

  Lt. Dan Choi doesn’t want to lie. Choi, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate of West Point, declared last March 19 on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “I am gay.” Under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regulations, those three words are enough to get Choi kicked out of the military.

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• Watch What You Tweet

  A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home—all for using Twitter.

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• Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries

  A battle is raging over the future of books in the digital age and the role that libraries will play. One case now before a U.S. federal court may, some say, grant a practical monopoly on recorded human knowledge to global Internet search giant Google. The complex case has attracted opposition from hundreds of individuals and groups from around the planet.

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• Christian Parenti responds to Kevin Bales

  Journalist Christian Parenti responds to our interview with Kevin Bales, founder of Free The Slaves

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