Today’s Show

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• Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan: Jeremy Scahill Reveals Private Military Firm Operating in Pakistan Under Covert Assassination and Kidnapping Program
• As UC Berkeley Investigates Police Brutality Against Students Protesting Fee Hikes, a Report From Inside the Takeover of Wheeler Hall
• Portland’s Cannabis Cafe is the First Marijuana Coffee Shop of Its Kind in the Country
• Two Former Bagram Detainees Held Without Charge Describe Torture and Wrongful Imprisonment

RECENT SHOWS

Monday, November 23, 2009

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• By 60-39 Vote, Senate Agrees to Open Debate on Healthcare Bill
• Naomi Klein on Climate Debt: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis.

Friday, November 20, 2009

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• As UC Regents Approve Major Tuition Hike, Students, Faculty Decry Erosion of Public Education in CA and Nationwide
• On 20th Anniversary of Killings of 6 Jesuit Priests by US-Backed Salvadoran Forces, Thousands to Protest “School of the Assassins” at Ft. Benning
• Israel Under Widespread International Criticism for Settlement Expansion Plan

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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• Shunning Dissidents, Obama Leaves China Without Firm Pledges on Trade, Climate
• Iraq Vote in Limbo with Veto of Election Law
• As Wall Street Posts Record Profits and US Hunger Rate Grows, Robert Scheer Asks: “Where Is the Community Organizer We Elected?”

BLOG

• Mail Tribune of Southern Oregon news story on Amy Goodman’s stop in Ashland, OR

  The Mail Tribune newspaper of Southern Oregon published a story on Amy Goodman’s tour stop in Ashland, Oregon.

  Reporter Paris Achen wrote, "Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, told a crowd of about 300 people at Ashland’s Southern Oregon University Sunday night that print and TV media have failed to provide balanced and contextual coverage of the most critical issues facing Americans, including health care reform and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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  Next stops on the tour: Portland, Astoria, OR, Olympia, WA, Bellingham, WA, Vancouver BC, Victoria BC, Port Angeles WA, Bainbridge Island WA, Seattle, Everett, Boulder CO, Minneapolis, Wash. DC, Philadelphia, NYC See the tour site:

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• Hungering for a True Thanksgiving

  “Over 1 billion people are chronically hungry,” says the U.N., yet it would take only $44 billion per year to end hunger globally.

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• Lou Dobbs Resigns From CNN

  The controversial TV anchor has resigned from CNN amid a campaign to force him off the air due to his reporting on Latinos and immigrants. Past Democracy Now! Coverage of Lou Dobbs:

  • Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez’s 2007 interview with Lou Dobbs
  • Amy Goodman’s column ‘The Dubious Mr. Dobbs’

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• The Man Who Put the Rainbow in ‘The Wizard of Oz’

  Thanksgiving is around the corner, and families will be gathering to share a meal and, perhaps, enjoy another annual telecast of “The Wizard of Oz.” The 70-year-old film classic bears close watching this year, perhaps more than in any other, for the message woven into the lyrics, written during the Great Depression by Oscar-winning lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg.

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• The Tortured Logic Continues

  “Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year.

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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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