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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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- Shunning Dissidents, Obama Leaves China Without Firm Pledges on Trade, Climate
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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December 2001 Archive
Monday, December 31, 2001
- Headlines for December 31, 2001
- A Shortcut Through 2001 By Award-Winning Journalist, Peter Bochan
- The Year in Review: A Free Speech Radio News Special Report, By Geoff Brady
- The Year in Review: A Free Speech Radio News Special Report, By Geoff Brady (Cont.)
- Roundtable Discussion On the Year That Was: Robert Knight, Bernard White, Pratap Chatterjee, Kris Abrams, and Jeremy Scahill
Friday, December 28, 2001
- Headlines for December 28, 2001
- JROTC: The Military in America’s High Schools: Homeroom Or War Room? A Debate
- Michael Parenti: Globalization and Terrorism
Thursday, December 27, 2001
- Headlines for December 27, 2001
- Afghan Journey: En Route to Kandahar
- An International Delegation of 90 Peace Activists Are Assaulted By Israeli Soldiers As Theytry to Cross the Border Into Gaza
- The Arab League Faces Eviction From Its New York Headquarters
- Mother Courage: Imagining Peace, Excerpts
Wednesday, December 26, 2001
- Headlines for December 26, 2001
- Jon Alpert Speaks From Pakistan (En Route From Chaman to Quetta)
- Zia Mian Talks About the Impact of the War in Afghanistan On South Asia
- Edward Said Discusses the Cycle of Violence
- Charlotte Bunch Reports On the World Conference Against Racism in Durban South Africa Andsets the Record Straight
- An Interview with Palestinian Leader, Marwan Barghouti
Tuesday, December 25, 2001
Monday, December 24, 2001
- Headlines for December 24, 2001
- Olympic Torchbearer Runs Barefoot Through Philadelphia in Solidarity with Nike Workers In Indonesia
- The State Department Has Started a Public Service Campaign to Root Out Suspected Terrorists. Free Speech Radio News Reporter, Jeremy Scahill, Has the Story
- A Retired Telephone Worker Finds Out That Even the Local Gym Has Eyes
- As Violence Mounts in the Occupied Territories, a Delegation of Palestinian, Israeli, Andamerican Activists Organizes in Solidarity to End the Occupation
- As the Global Coffee Crisis Worsens, a Human Rights Organization Launches a Grassrootscampaign Demanding That Folgers Start Offering Fair Trade Coffee
Friday, December 21, 2001
- Headlines for December 21, 2001
- Argentina’s President and Cabinet Resign As Tens of Thousands Pour Into the Streets Toprotest a State of Siege and Government Imposed Austerity Measures Demanded By the IMF
- Civil Liberties Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Says Torture By US Law Enforcement Is “Inevitable,” and Might As Well Be Legalized. A Debate Over Legalizing Torture Warrants
- Federal Authorities Indict Tyson Foods, the Nation’s Largest Poultry Corporation, Forsmuggling Workers From Mexico to Serve As Low Paid Workers in Its Factories
- The Justice Department Announces Guidelines for the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund,and Leaves Undocumented Immigrants to the Mercy of Individual States and Private Charities
Thursday, December 20, 2001
- Headlines for December 20, 2001
- “Black Hawk Down”: As Washington Paves the Way for An Attack On Somalia, Hollywood Joinsforces with the Pentagon to Transform the 1993 Invasion From What President Clinton Called His Darkest Hour, to
- Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush Lead the Country Into the So-Called Waron Terrorism with the Rhetoric of Fundamentalism
- Women in Thailand and Uganda Discuss the Failed Policies of the IMF and the World Bank; Andhow the War Is Militarizing Economic Development
Wednesday, December 19, 2001
- Headlines for December 19, 2001
- A Federal Judge Throws Out Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Death Sentence, Ruling That the Formerjournalist and Black Panther Is Entitled to a New Sentencing Hearing After Two Decades On Death Row
- African-American Scholar, Activist and Theologian Cornel West Speaks On the Challenge Ofprogressive Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice After September 11
- A Federal Judge Throws Out Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Death Sentence, Ruling That the Formerjournalist and Black Panther Is Entitled to a New Sentencing Hearing After Two Decades On Death Row
- “The Dominion of Death”: An Israeli Mother Who Lost Her 13-Year Old Daughter in a Suicidebombing Speaks Out Against Israel
Tuesday, December 18, 2001
- Headlines for December 18, 2001
- A Coup Attempt in Haiti Leaves Seven Dead and Scores Wounded
- Another World Is Possible: Activists Create a Cultural Response to the September 11th Attacks
- African-American Scholar, Activist and Theologian Cornel West Talks About Working Formeaningful Democracy for Racial Equality, and for Gender and Sexual Liberation After September 11
Monday, December 17, 2001
- Headlines for December 17, 2001
- Arafat Appeals to Palestinians to Halt All Armed Activity in the Occupied Territories
- Justice Not Served for the Muslim Community
- The Indian Government Threatens to Take Action Against Fellow Nuclear Power Pakistan Afterlast Week’s Suicide Attack On the Indian Parliament
- Hip Hop Artist and Activist Michael Franti On the Failures of the Music Community Sinceseptember 11
- The Indian Government Threatens to Take Action Against Fellow Nuclear Power Pakistan Afterlast Week’s Suicide Attack On the Indian Parliament
- Scholar and Activist Noam Chomsky Speaks On the War Against Afghanistan and the Shape of The world Since September 11
Friday, December 14, 2001
- Headlines for December 14, 2001
- What Really Happened at the Prison Uprising Near Mazar-I-Sharif
- A Swedish Protester Who Was Shot By the Police While Protesting President Bush’s Visit Togothenberg Last Spring Is Convicted of Rioting . . . But Did Police Doctor Evidence?
- Terrorism, Security and Protest According to Anti-Globalization Guru Naomi Klein
- After the Bush Administration Tells the Networks Not to Air Unedited Videotapes of Osama Bin Laden, the Administration Releases a New Tape, Translated By the Pentagon
- War On Terrorism for Whom? The US Sentences Cuban Spies to Life in Prison. They Say Theywere Trying to Prevent Terrorist Attacks On Fidel Castro
- President Bush Abandons One of the Most Important Arms-Control Agreements of the Last Threedecades, Pulling Out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia
Thursday, December 13, 2001
- Headlines for December 13, 2001
- Community Radio Advocates Regain Control of Pacifica Network, As a Legally Binding Agreementis Reached to Transfer Board Majority Control
- As the World Pays New Attention to Women in Afghanistan, Muslim Women Debate Feminism Andfundamentalism
- The CIA and U.S. and British Special Forces Move Into Kandahar As in-Fighting Betweenanti-Taliban Forces Continues
- U.N. Accuses U.S. Ally Pakistan of Forcing Refugees Back to Afghanistan, in Violation Of International Law
- Community Radio Advocates Regain Control of Pacifica Network, As a Legally Binding Agreementis Reached to Transfer Board Majority Control
- As Two Leaders of the Jewish Defense League Are Arrested for Plotting to Bomb a Los Angelesmosque and An Arsonist Hits the Arab American Action Network, a Debate On Media Coverage of the Middle East
Wednesday, December 12, 2001
- Headlines for December 12, 2001
- Supreme Court Will Decide Whether U.S. Officials Can Be Sued for Lying to Jennifer Harburyabout What Happened to Her Husband, Who Was Captured, Tortured, and Executed By Guatemalan Officialson the Pay
- Handgun Sales Are Up and “United We Stand Pistols” Have Hit the Market: The Gun Lobby Playsto Fear, Prejudices and Patriotism
- After Years of Denial, the Pentagon Admits That Service in the Gulf War Is Linked to Lougehrig’s Disease
- Bush Administration and Corporate America Push for Massive Tax Rebate in the Name of Fighting Terrorism
- African American Studies Professor and Globalization Theorist Manning Marable Discussesglobalization, Race and War
- Stars and Stripes, But No Speech: Flag-Making Factory Fires Garment Worker for Speakingagainst the War
Tuesday, December 11, 2001
- Headlines for December 11, 2001
- Renowned British Journalist Robert Fisk Is Severely Beaten By Angry Afghans, Narrowly Escapes–and He Blames the West
- “We Are the War Criminals Now” ­ Interview with Robert Fisk, Part II
- “When I Saw the Dead and Dying Afghani Children On TV, I Felt a Newly Recovered Sense Of National Security. God Bless America” ­ High School Suspends a 15-Year-Old Student for Anti-War T-Shirt
- The Fight Against the War at Home and Abroad: Hampshire College Passes a Resolutioncondemning the So-Called “War On Terrorism”
- Renowned British Journalist Robert Fisk Is Beaten By a Crowd of Angry Afghans–and He Blames the West
- As Alternative Media Outlets Become Increasingly Rare, the Feminist Majority Foundation Buysms. Magazine: A Roundtable On Women, War, Independent Media and Protest
Monday, December 10, 2001
- Headlines for December 10, 2001
- Payback Time? U.S. Kills Over 3,700 Afghan Civilians in Bombing, Surpassing the Current estimates of Civilians Killed in the World Trade Center ­ a Democracy Now! in Exile Exclusive
- A Rally for Mumia-Abu Jamal in Philadelphia Is Attacked; Seven People Are Arrested Andcharged with Felony Assault and Felony Riot; Three Demonstrators Are Hospitalized
- As Pentagon Denies Civilian Casualties and Mainstream U.S. Media Continues Its Blackout, Anew Hampshire Professor Releases Independent Figures in a Democracy Now! in Exile Exclusive: The U.S.Has Kille
- Actor Activist Danny Glover Speaks Out On Independent Media and Transafrica
- A Rally for Mumia-Abu Jamal in Philadelphia Is Attacked; Seven People Are Arrested Andcharged with Felony Assault and Riot; Three Demonstrators Are Hospitalized
- National Youth & Student Peace Coalition Kicks Off
Friday, December 07, 2001
- Headlines for December 07, 2001
- News Vs. Propaganda, the Gatekeeper’s Dilemma
- CNN, Al-Jazeera Debate the Bin Laden Tapes; Arabic Newspaper Editor Asks the U.N. Why It Refused to Take Taliban Prisoners—Hundreds Were Massacred
- Democracy Now! in Exile Asks CNN and the New York Times Why They Don’t Cover the Anti-War Movement
- Ashcroft Hearings
- Muslim Feminists Have Been Denouncing Islamic Fundamentalism for Years, But the World Pays Them No Heed
- Privatizing Disaster: New York City Has Begun Secret Negotiations to Hand the Project Over to One of the World’s Largest, Most Infamous, and Politically Connected Construction Companies: Bechtel Corpo
Thursday, December 06, 2001
- Headlines for December 06, 2001
- The FBI Catches Fugitive and Self-Described “Anti-Abortion Warrior” Clayton Waagner After Heclaims Responsibility for Hundreds of Anthrax Threats Mailed to Women’s Health Facility
- Afghan Women’s Summit for Democracy, Brussels
- New Jersey Judge and School Board Jail Over 130 Teachers for Striking
- Dozens of Palestinian Riot Police Armed with Batons and Shields Fired Tear Gas at Thousandsof People Protesting the House Arrest of Hamas Leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin; Police Kill at Least Onepalestinia
- CIA Officers Sue Agency for “Abuse of Power,” Alleging a Cover-Up in the 1999 Accidentalbombing of China’s Embassy in Belgrade
- The Bush Administration Is Out of Step with As Much As 79 Percent of the American Public. The Majority of Americans Support Mandatory Inspections of Possible Bioweapons Facilities
- Candle Light March to End Child Labor and Sweatshop Abuses
Wednesday, December 05, 2001
- Headlines for December 05, 2001
- Two U.S. Troops Are Killed and 20 Injured Today in Kandahar As a U.S. B-52 Strikes Too Close, As Thousands of Afghans Flee Their Homes to Avoid U.S. Airstrikes On Villages That Have Killed hundreds
- As Another Palestinian Suicide Bomber Kills Himself, Switzerland Opens An Internationalconference to See If Israel Is Violating the Geneva Conventions On Warfare By Occupying Palestine
- Rival Afghan Parties Establish An Interim Power-Sharing Agreement in Afghanistan, Naming Two women to Government Positions, But Women Activists Want More
- Labor Activist Kim Moody Talks About Labor and War
- A Republican Congressional Aide Identifies Chart Listing 57 of the Most Onerous Andtop-Secret Rules the Business Community Wants to Target
Tuesday, December 04, 2001
- Headlines for December 04, 2001
- Afghan Women Meet in Brussels to Organize for the Future While Military Factions Divide The Spoils of War in Bonn
- Phase Two? Bush Administration Orders Preparation of Military Strikes in Somalia and Iraq,and Dispatches Agents to at Least Seven Different Countries; a Discussion of US Oil Interests Insomalia
- U.S. Seizures of Somali Businesses in U.S. and Abroad Threatens to Devastate One of World’spoorest Countries
- Israel Launches Air Raids On Palestinian Cities; Hits Close to Arafat
- Noam Chomsky Talks About India, Pakistan and the Widening of the So-Called War On Terrorismafter a Month Long Trip to South Asia
- Insuring Terrorism and Nuclear Risks After September 11th: Is It An Industry Bailout?
Monday, December 03, 2001
- Headlines for December 03, 2001
- COINTELPRO Returns? The Bush Administration Asks Congress to Expand the FBI’s Surveillancepowers, Loosening Restrictions Put in Place After the FBI Targeted the Black Panther Party, Theamerican Indian
- Peace March Arrives in New York, Activists Leave for Iraq Amid Threats of U.S. Attacks
- As Congress Offers Billions in Corporate Welfare, As Laura Bush Condemns the Treatment Ofafghan Women, and As Mayor Rudolph Guiliani Lures Tourists to New York By Casting It As a City Ofcompassionate
- Feminist Theologian Dr. Riffat Hassan On Women and Islam, As Afghan Women Struggle to Gain A seat in the Reconstructed Government of Afghanistan
