Today’s Show

• Headlines
• 14 Killed in Sudanese Government Bombing of Darfur Village
• Free from Nigerian Military Custody, “Sweet Crude” Director Sandy Cioffi on Oil Politics in the Niger Delta
• Author, Blogger Arianna Huffington on How John McCain Has Changed Since Telling Her He Didn’t Vote for Bush in 2000

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Thursday, May 08, 2008

• Headlines
• 200 Arrested in Massive Show of Civil Disobedience Over Police Acquittals in Killing of Sean Bell
• As Aid Delivery Arrives in Cyclone-Ravaged Burma, Fears Death Toll Could Top 100,000
• “Economic Hit Man” John Perkins Recounts US Efforts to Block Nationalization of Panama Canal
• Former Senator George McGovern Switches Support from Clinton to Obama
• “Torture Team”: British Attorney Philippe Sands on the White House Role in Sanctioning Torture

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

• Headlines
• Broadcasting Legend Bill Moyers on the 2008 Elections, the Rev. Wright Controversy, the Media, Vietnam and More
• Clinton Vows to Stay in the Race as North Carolina, Indiana Primaries Extend Obama’s Lead

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

• Headlines
• “Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism”
• Democracy Now! Bids Farewell to Denis Moynihan, DN!’s Longtime Outreach Director, Now CEO of Free Speech TV
• Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
• Report from Burmese-Thai Border on the Devastating Cyclone that Has Killed Over 15,000 People in Burma

BLOG

• Amy Goodman’s New Column: “The U.S. War on Journalists”

  Sami al-Haj is a free man today, after having been imprisoned by the U.S. military for more than six years. His crime: journalism. Targeting journalists, the Bush administration has engaged in direct assault, intimidation, imprisonment and information blackouts to limit the ability of journalists to do their jobs. The principal target these past seven years has been Al-Jazeera, the Arabic television network based in Doha, Qatar.

  Filed under Weekly Column

• Democracy Now! Honored At Webby Awards

  Democracy Now! has been selected as an Official Honoree at the 12th Annual Webby Awards in three categories: News, Political and Podcast.

  Filed under D.N. in the News

• “Ticker Tape Ain’t Spaghetti”

  Food riots are erupting around the world. Behind the hunger, behind the riots, are so-called free-trade agreements, and the brutal emergency-loan agreements imposed on poor countries by financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund.

  Filed under Weekly Column

• Amy Goodman on The Tavis Smiley Show on PBS

  Amy Goodman appeared on The Tavis Smiley Show Thursday on PBS discussing her new book. Watch excerpts of the interview.

  Filed under D.N. in the News

• “The Single-Payer Solution”

  As the media coverage of the Democratic presidential race continues to focus on lapel pins and pastors, America is ailing.

  Filed under Weekly Column

• “The Orangeburg Massacre”

  Sen. Barack Obama is clearly a bad bowler. But it was not too long ago that African-Americans were not allowed in some bowling alleys. In Orangeburg, S.C., three young African-American men were killed for protesting against that town’s segregated bowling alley.

  Filed under Weekly Column

• “A Torture Debate Among Healers”

  The American Psychological Association is in the midst of its own heated presidential campaign. The central issue is whether APA members should be banned from participating in “harsh interrogations.”

  Filed under Weekly Column

• “Where Do We Go From Here?”

  It has been 40 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., while standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel. King was there to support striking sanitation workers, African-American men who endured horrible working conditions for poverty wages. While King’s staff was opposed to him going, as they were scrambling to organize King’s new initiative, the Poor People’s Campaign, King himself knew that the sanitation workers were at the front lines of fighting poverty.

  Filed under Weekly Column

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