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- As UC Regents Approve Major Tuition Hike, Students, Faculty Decry Erosion of Public Education in CA and Nationwide
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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- Shunning Dissidents, Obama Leaves China Without Firm Pledges on Trade, Climate
- Iraq Vote in Limbo with Veto of Election Law
- As Wall Street Posts Record Profits and US Hunger Rate Grows, Robert Scheer Asks: “Where Is the Community Organizer We Elected?”
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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- EXCLUSIVE: Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Responds to Court Ruling Upholding Conviction and Ordering Her to Prison
- Amidst California Fiscal Crisis and Political Gridlock, Scholar and Activist George Lakoff Proposes Ballot Measure to End 2/3 Rule in State Legislature
- “The Card Game”–New Doc Investigates History of Credit Card Industry and Proposals for Reform
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
- Headlines
- Why Are We Destroying Public Education? University of California Students and Staff Prepare for System-Wide Strike to Protest Cuts
- Obama Nominates Pesticide Executive to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative
- Raj Patel on America’s Growing Hunger Crisis and the UN Summit to Fight Hunger in Rome
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Hungering for a True Thanksgiving
“Over 1 billion people are chronically hungry,” says the U.N., yet it would take only $44 billion per year to end hunger globally.
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Lou Dobbs Resigns From CNN
The controversial TV anchor has resigned from CNN amid a campaign to force him off the air due to his reporting on Latinos and immigrants. Past Democracy Now! Coverage of Lou Dobbs:
- Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez’s 2007 interview with Lou Dobbs
- Amy Goodman’s column ‘The Dubious Mr. Dobbs’
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The Man Who Put the Rainbow in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Thanksgiving is around the corner, and families will be gathering to share a meal and, perhaps, enjoy another annual telecast of “The Wizard of Oz.” The 70-year-old film classic bears close watching this year, perhaps more than in any other, for the message woven into the lyrics, written during the Great Depression by Oscar-winning lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg.
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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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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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April 2001 Archive
Monday, April 30, 2001
- Headlines for April 30, 2001
- Navy Resumes Bombing of Vieques
- 100,000 Protest the Arrest of Former President Joseph Estrada
- As the Media Talks About the Anarchist “Black Bloc”, Norman Solomon Talks About How the"White Block"-–the Media-–Covers Globalization
Friday, April 27, 2001
- Headlines for April 27, 2001
- Amy Goodman Questions Former Senator Bob Kerrey About War Crimes at a News Conference
- Two Very Different Lives: Former Senator Bob Kerrey Admits He Led a Navy Seal Mission Which Killed at Least a Dozen Unarmed Vietnamese in 1969, Long-Time Peace Activist Father Daniel Berrigan On War C
- Bridging the Generation Gap: Hip-Hop Artist Michael Franti and Daniel Berrigan On Art and Activism
Thursday, April 26, 2001
- Headlines for April 26, 2001
- Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey Admits He Led a 1969 Combat Mission That Killed Unarmed Vietnamese Women and Children
- The True Cost of Oil: Alaskan Gwich’in Activist Sarah James On Bp Amoco, U’Wa Traditional Leader Roberto Perez On Occidental Petroleum in Colombia, Exxonmobil Campaigner Peter Altman in Texas and Nige
Wednesday, April 25, 2001
- Headlines for April 25, 2001
- Lone Juror Causes a Hung Jury in a $10 Heroin Case, Then Bails Out the Defendant
- The CIA Provided the Information to the Peruvian Jet That Shot a Missionary Plane Out of Thesky: A Look at What the CIA Does in Peru, and the Internationalization of the U.S. Drug War
Tuesday, April 24, 2001
- Headlines for April 24, 2001
- Priests for Life: The Role of the Religious Right in the Anti-Choice Movement
- Racial Justice at Risk: Reverend James Lawson Speaks Out Against the Religious Right Andgovernment Funding of “Faith-Based” Services
Monday, April 23, 2001
- Headlines for April 23, 2001
- The Sounds of the Streets Outside the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City: From the Streetpress Conferences to Police Attacks, From the People’s Summit of the Americas to the People’s March: A Sound
Friday, April 20, 2001
- Headlines for April 20, 2001
- Demonstrators Air Grievances; Caravan On Mohawk Land Turns Back Until “No One Is Left Behind”
- Ring of Steel Surrounds Leaders at Ftaa Summit; As Protesters Gather
- Mike Davis Speaks Out Against Ftaa
Thursday, April 19, 2001
- Headlines for April 19, 2001
- Skull and Bones: A Conversation with the First Outsider to Witness the Clandestineinitiation Ceremony of the Yale Secret Society That Produced Two Presidents Named Bush
- The Federalist Society: The Right-Wing Legal Group Boasts Some of the Highest Officials Ofthe Bush Administration
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
- Headlines for April 18, 2001
- Mississippi Votes to Keep the Confederate Symbol On Its Flag
- Some Traditional Mohawks Will Accompany Anti-Ftaa Activists to Border: Two Mohawks Debate
- Racial Justice and Environmental Activists Join Forces to Protest a Citigroup Shareholdersmeeting
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
- Headlines for April 17, 2001
- Slavery in Benin and Around the Globe
- Years Later, Will Justice Be Done? Suspect in the Birmingham Church Bombing to Be Tried
- Ftaa, From Vermont to Quebec. A Mayor Talks About How the Agreement Will Hurt Local Communities
Monday, April 16, 2001
- Headlines for April 16, 2001
- Rhoda Berenson On Her Daughter’s Trial in Peru
- The State of Satire, the Satire of the State
- Resisting Taxes
Friday, April 13, 2001
- Headlines for April 13, 2001
- Bolivian Security Forces Crack Down On Water Privatization Protest March
- Mayor of Cincinnati Declares State of Emergency and Imposes Curfew
- Alaska Oil Insiders Expose the Dangers of Arctic Drilling
Thursday, April 12, 2001
- Headlines for April 12, 2001
- Cincinnati Protests Against Police Killing of a 19- Year Old Black Man Enter Third Day
- The Los Angeles Race for Mayor: Antonio Villaraigosa May Become First Latino Mayor in 130years
- Maxxam Corp. Hits Activists with Slap Suit
- The FBI Steps Up Raids and Surveillance the Earth and Animal Liberation Fronts: A Roundtablewith the Alf Spokesperson and Environmentalists Opposed to Property Destruction
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
- Headlines for April 11, 2001
- Student Groups Oust Food Services Corporation with Links to Private Prison Industry Fromtheir Campuses
- China to Release Spy Plane Crew After Washington Says Its Sorry: The Corporate Interestsbehind the Diplomacy
- Thousands in Buenos Aires Protest Against the Free Trade Area of the Americas; Tradeministers Agree to Release Secret Negotiating Text
- The Cheating of America: How Tax Avoidance and Evasion By the Super Rich Are Costing Thecountry Billions
- Hundreds Take to the Streets in Second Day of Protest of Police Killing in Cincinnati
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
- Headlines for April 10, 2001
- Cheap Labor and Fat Campaign Contributions: Why the Bush Administration Won’t Condemn China. A Look at China As a Source of Cheap Labor for Wal-Mart, Nike, and Other US Corporations
- Danny Schechter, the News Dissector, Analyzes How the Media Corporations’ Own Interests Inchina Color Their Coverage
- Killings As Collateral Damage: What the U.S. Military and Gulf War Vet Timothy Mcveigh Havein Common
- Passover: Transforming Tradition and Celebrating the Feminist Seder
Monday, April 09, 2001
- Headlines for April 09, 2001
- U.S.-China Spy Plane Incident; Flying in the Face of Reason
- Elections in Peru, the First Round
- Arsenic: Politics Poisons the Waters
Friday, April 06, 2001
- Headlines for April 06, 2001
- Student Activists Discover a University Cop Infiltrated Their Group “Students Organizedagainst Sweatshops”
- Thousands Protest College Food Service’s Links to Private Prison Industry
- Let Them Eat Horse Meat! Europeans Are Ponying Up, Chomping at the Bit, for Equine Cuisine
Thursday, April 05, 2001
- Headlines for April 05, 2001
- From the Embattled Studios of Russia’s Ntv: Hundreds of Journalists Occupy a TV Station Toprotest a State Takeover
- Is Bush Provoking a New Cold War? Noam Chomsky On North Korea to National Missile Defense,China to Global Warming
- What Would the U.S. Do, If a Top Secret Chinese Spy Plane Landed On U.S. Soil? A Former U.S. Airforce Captain Speculates
- Global Warming’s Burning Bush: 50,000 Protest Emails Crash White House Computer Server
Wednesday, April 04, 2001
- Headlines for April 04, 2001
- Exclusive Interview with East Timorese Leader Xanana Gusmao and Kirsty Sword Gusmao
Tuesday, April 03, 2001
- Headlines for April 03, 2001
- 89 Arrested As Activists Attempt to Liberate Secret Ftaa Documents
- Hopi and Navaho Bring Demands On Coal Mining to Lehman Bros. Ny Headquarters
- Michael Lapsley On Apartheid, Genocide, and Reconciliation
Monday, April 02, 2001
- Headlines for April 02, 2001
- Milosevic Arrested As U.S. Deadline Expires: An Eyewitness Report By Jeremy Scahill
- Activists in Ottawa Demand Secret Ftaa Documents
