Today’s Show
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- As UC Regents Approve Major Tuition Hike, Students, Faculty Decry Erosion of Public Education in CA and Nationwide
- On 20th Anniversary of Killings of 6 Jesuit Priests by US-Backed Salvadoran Forces, Thousands to Protest “School of the Assassins” at Ft. Benning
- Israel Under Widespread International Criticism for Settlement Expansion Plan
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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
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- 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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Friday, November 30, 2001
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The UN Says It Will Continue Economic Sanctions and the Bush Administration Warns Iraq Thatit Faces Attack Unless It Readmits UN Weapons Inspectors. A Talk with Former UN Weapons Inspectorscott Ritter
The UN Security Council met last night to agree on a revised plan for sanctions against Iraq, amid controversy overU.S. threats to attack Iraq as part of the so-called war on terrorism.
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The Sharon Files: Palestinians Sue Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for Genocide As Newdocuments Provide "Watertight Evidence" That Israel Directed Militias to Kill Hundreds of Refugees Inlebanon
A Belgian legal panel on Wednesday postponed hearings in a case charging Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon withgenocide.
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As UN Led Talks On Afghanistan's Future Government Continue in Bonn, Germany, a Somaliwoman's Activist Describes How Women Helped to Reconstruct Her Country
UN led talks on Afghanistan’s future government continue in Bonn, Germany today, as representatives of the country’sethnic groups and military factions try to cobble together a transitional government. Afghan Women are demanding arole in these talks as well, hoping to end 20 years of systematic exploitation and their near total exclusion fromAfghan political life.
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UN Talks On Afghanistan's Future Government Continue in Bonn, Germany
The collapsed state of Afghanistan appeared a step closer to getting a caretaker government yesterday, with the two main political factions attending UN-guided peace talks in Bonn saying they were close to an agreement on how to share power—for a few months at least.
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Media in Wartime: Military Tribunals and Torture
As law enforcement rounds up non-citizens, holds them in secrecy and moves toward implementing the secretive,expedient military tribunals, the US has begun to debate another method of pressing suspected terrorists: torture.
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An Antiabortion Fugitive On the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List Says He Is Responsible Forhundreds of Anthrax Threats Sent to Abortion Clinics Last Month
Anti-abortion fugitive Clayton Waagner, one of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted people, is taking credit for a rash of fakeanthrax letters sent to family-planning clinics in October. The FBI seems willing to at least consider his claim.Yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that Waagner had been named by the bureau as a top suspect in theanthrax hoax. The FBI said that Waagner, a self-described “anti-abortion warrior”, is “extremely dangerous, he hassurvival skills and may be heavily armed”-not unlike the description of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. Waagnerwas added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list ten days after the attacks of September 11th.
