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- In Worst-Ever Shooting of Its Kind, 13 Dead, 30 Wounded at Ft. Hood Military Base; Suspect Had Reportedly Complained of Anti-Muslim Bias
- Breaking with Former Employer, Actor and Self-Described Insurance Industry “Spokesjerk” Andy Cobb Calls for Public Healthcare
- Actor, Playwright Anna Deavere Smith Weaves Multiple Stories of Healthcare Struggles into New Solo Performance “Let Me Down Easy”
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
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- “GM’s Money Trees”: Displacement of Rural Brazilians Highlights Consequences of “Cap and Trade” System
- Italian Prosecutor in Case Against CIA Operatives Hails Convictions for ’03 Kidnapping of Egyptian Cleric
- As Massey Energy Blasts West Virginia’s Coal River Mountain, a Debate on Mountaintop Removal Mining
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
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- Election Day 2009: GOPers Sweep Governor Races; Bloomberg Wins Tight NYC Mayoral Race; Dems Take House Seats; Maine Repeals Gay Marriage
- Low Road to High Finance: McClatchy Expose Reveals How Goldman Sachs Sold Off Billions in Mortgage Securities After Anticipating Housing Collapse
- Blueberry Farming Giant Found to Use Child Labor at Michigan Fields
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
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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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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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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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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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Podcasting & Torrents
2007 in Review
December 31, 2007: 2007 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance Pt. 1
Part one of our special look back at 2007, including Saddam Hussein’s execution, the U.S. bombing of Somalia, the Appeal for Redress, Scooter Libby’s convicton, the firing of Don Imus, the Virginia Tech massacre, the rise of Blackwater, the death of Molly Ivins and Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Moore and “Sicko”, Greg Palast and Rep. Conyers on vulture funds, the Hamas-Fatah split in the Palestinian territories, the U.S. Social Forum and more.
Featuring the Voices of:
Joseph Wilson, Alan Johnston, Robert Bailey, Caseptla Bailey, Marcus Jones, Helen Thomas, President Bush, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Ward Churchill, Sen. Barack Obama, Marjorie Cohn, Nydesha Foster, Angela Hegarty, Amira Baraka, Nir Rosen, Camilo Mejia, Grace Paley, Alberto Gonzales, Sen. Larry Craig, Norman Finkelstein, President Jimmy Carter, Sen. Robert Byrd, Gen. David Petraeus, Rev. Al Sharpton, Alan Greenspan, Naomi Klein, Mark Canning, Rep, Danny Davis, Erik Prince, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Jeremy Scahill, Katie Redford, Yoko Ono, Bill McKibben, Maher Arar, John Tanner, Jonathan Paul, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Michael Mukasey, Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz, Mark Klein, Evo Morales, Asma Jahangir, Wayne Barrett, John Edwards, Noam Chomsky. Desmond Tutu, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Nelson Mandela, Lou Dobbs, Mohamed ElBaradei, Michael Ratner, Mark Benjamin, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rajendra Pachauri, Al Gore, Jon Corzine, Benazir Bhutto, and more. [includes rush transcript] read more…
January 01, 2008: 2007 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance Pt. 2
Part two of our special look back at 2007, including the Jena Six, the Petraeus report, the trial of Jose Padilla, Alberto Gonzales’s resignation, Alan Greenspan v. Naomi Klein, Michael Mukasey on waterboarding, Blackwater’s Massacre in Baghdad, Jimmy Carter on apartheid in the Palestinian territories, Al Gore and IPCC win the Nobel Peace Prize, the pro-democracy uprising in Burma, the firing of Norman Finkelstein and Ward Churchill, New Jersey abolishes the death penalty, the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and more.
Featuring the Voices of:
Nancy Pelosi, Cindy Sheehan President Bush, Sgt. Ronn Cantu, Leslie Cagan, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Zanku Armenian, Molly Ivins, Sami Al-Arian, Laila Al-Arian, Greg Palast, Rep. John Conyers, Salim Lone, Patrick Fitzgerald, Murray Waas
Dennis Kucinich, Jeremy Scahill, Don Imus, Rev. Al Sharpton, Bill McKibben, Louise Melling, Alberto Gonzales, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Seymour Hersh, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Ernesto Arce, Paul Rusesabegina, Don Cheadle, Sen. Daniel Akaka, General John Batiste, Majid and 9 yr old son Kevan, Ricardo Alarcon, Tony Blair, Joan Baez, Tariq Ali, Studs Terkel, Ted Shaw, Mona El-Farra, Rocky Anderson, Michael Moore, Ali Abinumah, Vanessa Redgrave, Dennis Brutus, and more. [includes rush transcript] read more…
