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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
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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
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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
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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.
Filed under Weekly Column
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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
Robert Fisk
A Sampling of Robert Fisk’s Reporting on Democracy Now!
Described by the New York Times as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain”, Robert Fisk has over thirty years of experience in international reporting,
Below are highlights from some of his interviews on Democracy Now!
March 05, 2007 Robert Fisk on Osama bin Laden at 50, Iraqi Death Squads and Why the Middle East is More Dangerous Now Than in Past 30 Years
December 20, 2006 I Don’t Think We Westerners Care About Muslims–Robert Fisk Delivers Keynote Address at MPAC Convention
December 20, 2006 Robert Fisk Criticizes ‘Experts’ Cited in Iraq Study Group Report
September 05, 2006 Robert Fisk on His Interview with Former Iranian President Khatami, Why The IDF Could Not Protect the People of Israel and More
August 01, 2006 Robert Fisk Reports From Lebanon On the Intensifying Israeli Attack, Qana, Tony Blair and the Possibility of a Ceasefire
July 31, 2006 Robert Fisk Reports From Lebanon on the Israeli Bombing of Qana That Killed 57, Including 37 Children
July 19, 2006 Robert Fisk in Beirut: Israeli Assault on Lebanon Inflicting "Mass Punishment on a Whole People
April 07, 2006 Robert Fisk on Iraq, Palestine and the Failure of the U.S. Corporate Media to Challenge Authority
December 14, 2005 Robert Fisk on The Murders of Gibran Tueni, Rafik Hariri and the Changing Tide in Lebanon
October 20, 2005 Robert Fisk: War is the "Total Failure of the Human Spirit
February 16, 2005 Robert Fisk on the Beirut Bombing, U.S.-Syrian Relations and the Iraqi Elections
January 03, 2005 The Mire of Death, Lies and Atrocities: Robert Fisk Looks Back at 2004
November 01, 2004 Robert Fisk: "Bin Laden’s Vote is For George Bush
October 01, 2004 Robert Fisk on the Presidential Debate, Iraq, Palestine and the International Criminal Court
August 06, 2004 As Sadr Calls Off Truce In Najaf, We Speak With Robert Fisk On How Iraq Is About to Explode
March 31, 2004 Robert Fisk: "Most Of The People Dying In Iraq Are Iraqis
October 29, 2003 This is a Resistance Movement, Whether We Like It or Not – Robert Fisk on Iraq
September 18, 2003 Robert Fisk on Wesley Clark & Iraq: What is Happening Is An Absolute Slaughter Every Night of Iraqi People
March 25, 2003 Will Iraq Become a Quagmire for the Americans? Non-Embedded Journalist Robert Fisk Reports From Baghdad
November 20, 2002 Independent Journalist Robert Fisk On the Bush Administration’s Insistence That Iraq Is Already Violating the UN Resolution
August 21, 2002 Robert Fisk On the Suicide of Gun for Hire, Abu Nidal in Baghdad and the Anarchy That Reigns in Afghanistan As Bush Pushes for a New War
May 22, 2002 Ask Who Did It, But Don’t Ask Why: A Speech By British Journalist Robert Fisk
May 21, 2002 British Journalist Robert Fisk On the Politics of Language and the Media in the Middle East
December 11, 2001 Renowned British Journalist Robert Fisk Is Beaten By a Crowd of Angry Afghans–and He Blames the West
April 13, 1999 Robert Fisk On Kosovo
