Miércoles 28 de Marzo de 2007

LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• Senado aprueba enmienda para retirada no vinculante de Irak
• Policía chiíta mata a 45 personas en venganza por atentado con coches bomba
• General retirado: Fuerzas Armadas estadounidenses en “peligro estratégico”
• Senate Narrowly Votes to Keep Amendment Calling for Iraq Withdrawal
• 45 Dead in Iraq After Off-Duty Shiite Police Rampage
• Pentagon Assessment: U.S. Military in "Strategic Peril"
• Federal Judge Dismisses Rumsfeld Torture Lawsuit
• Britain Unveils Evidence of Iran’s Capture of Sailors in Iraqi Waters
• Protester Interrupts British Service Marking 200th Anniv. of Slavery Abolition
• 200 to 500 Killed in Fighting in DRC
• Sewage Reservoir Bursts in Gaza Strip
• Egyptian Opposition Rejects Mubarak Constitutional Referendum
• FBI Director Mueller Acknowledges Errors in Use of National Security Letters
• Terrorist Watch List Used to Deny Business to Innocent People
• Tony Snow’s Colon Cancer Returns and Spreads to Liver
• New Fine in Death of Florida Teen at Juvenile Boot Camp
• Vermont Peace Activists Arrested in Sit-in at Offices of Sen. Sanders
• Alberto Gonzales Ducks Questions About Firing of U.S. Attorneys

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• "This Isn’t American Idol, We’re Choosing the President of the United States"–Kucinich on Corporate Media Campaign Coverage

  
  

  Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was one of eight congressmembers to vote against the House war-spending bill last week that set a timetable for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. We go to Capitol Hill to speak with Kucinich about the bill, why he thinks impeachment "should be on the table," the corporate media’s coverage of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and more. [includes rush transcript]

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• André Schiffrin on 50 Years in Publishing World, from Corporate Consolidation to Founding Independent Nonprofit

  
  

  André Schiffrin has been a leading figure in the book publishing world for nearly 50 years. As head of Pantheon Books, André Schiffrin edited titles by Jean-Paul Sartre, Studs Terkel, Art Spiegelman, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. In 1990, he resigned and set up the nonprofit publishing house, The New Press. Schiffrin has also written several of his own books, including his new memoir, "A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York." [includes rush transcript]

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