Martes 27 de Junio de 2006

LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• Corte Suprema rechaza ley de financiación de campañas de Vermont
• Mueren docenas de personas en ataques contra tres ciudades iraquíes
• Estados Unidos expulsa a 50 iraquíes de sus hogares en Ramadi
• Informe: Se triplicará el costo del equipo militar
• Encuesta: Estados Unidos dividido con respecto a fecha de retirada
• Israel se prepara para incursión en Gaza tras secuestro de soldado
• Corte Suprema dictaminará sobre demanda contra la postura de Bush con respecto al CO2
• Bush: Estados Unidos debería “ir más allá” del “debate” sobre el calentamiento global
• Universidad de Colorado despedirá al profesor Ward Churchill
• Pentágono admite nuevo espionaje de grupos estudiantiles
• Ex oficial de la CIA: El gobierno de Bush ignoró las advertencias sobre “Curveball”
• Fuerzas Armadas: Nacionalismo latinoamericano pone en peligro los suministros de petróleo
• Arrestan a 25 personas en protesta contra Guantánamo

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• Supreme Court Overturns Vermont Campaign Finance Law

  
  

  We take a look to the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Vermont’s campaign finance law. The 1997 law placed the nation’s tightest restrictions on much candidates running for state office in Vermont could spend on elections and on how much individuals could bankroll candidates. [includes rush transcript]

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• Is Bush Administration’s Bank Spy Program One Part of a Resurgent Total Information Awareness?

  
  

  The Bush administration is lashing out at media outlets for their reports on the government’s secret monitoring of international bank transactions without court-approval. We speak with Georgetown law professor Jonathan Turley about Total Information Awareness–he says the program was never really killed. [includes rush transcript]

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• Former Bush Spokesman Urges Newspapers to Run Pro-War Stories by Former Vets With GOP Ties

  
  

  The Buffalo News has revealed that a former spokesman for President Bush has been encouraging U.S. newspapers to run news stories from Iraq written by two combat veterans who are now embedded reporters in Iraq. The veterans are from a pro-war group called Vets for Freedom that has ties to the Republican Party. We speak with John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy. [includes rush transcript]

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• Lawmakers, Regulators Face Key Decisions on Future of Media Ownership, Internet, Public Access, Low Power Radio

  
  

  Lawmakers and regulators in Washington are in the midst of making a number of decisions that could affect the nation’s media ownership laws, the future of the Internet, public access television and the expansion of low power FM radio stations. We speak with Hannah Sassaman of the Prometheus Radio Project which successfully sued the FCC three years ago in an effort to block the new media ownership rule changes. [includes rush transcript]

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