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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
- Headlines
- 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
- Headlines
- 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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August 2001 Archive
Friday, August 31, 2001
- Headlines for August 31, 2001
- Milosevic appeal
- West Bank
- World Conference Against Racism
- Kofi Annan’s address
- The South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU)
Friday, August 31, 2001
- Headlines for August 31, 2001
- Busting the Embargo: The Growing Bridge Between Hip-Hop in Cuba and the U.S.
Thursday, August 30, 2001
- Headlines for August 30, 2001
- Trial of Slobodon Milosevic Resumes at the Hague
- Two Years After Vote For Independence, The People of East Timor Hold First Elections To Choose A Constitutional Assembly
Thursday, August 30, 2001
Wednesday, August 29, 2001
- Headlines for August 29, 2001
- U.S. & Britain have called on Israel to withdraw its troops from the Arab town of Bechala
- Lawyers for Abu Mumia Jamal allege original Judge made racist comment at trial
- Running across the United States for Abu Mumia Jamal
Wednesday, August 29, 2001
- Headlines for August 29, 2001
- Snitch Culture, How Citizensare Turned Into the Eyes and Ears of the State
Tuesday, August 28, 2001
- Headlines for August 28, 2001
- Brazilian Photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado and Uruguayan Writer Eduardo Galeano On Theintersection of Art and Politics
Tuesday, August 28, 2001
- Headlines for August 28, 2001
- Citizens of Salem, MA Join with Greenpeace to Protest Proposed Expansion of Pacific Gas and Electric Plant
- Afro-Columbian Community Resists Displacement by Mining Giant Intercorp
- Part II of Conversation with John Alpert, Founder of Downtown Community Television (DCTV)
Monday, August 27, 2001
- Headlines for August 27, 2001
- Vietnam veteran released after serving almost 18 years on death row
- Hunger Strikers protesting Iraq sanctions at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations
- Founder of Downtown Community Television
Monday, August 27, 2001
- Headlines for August 27, 2001
- Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship: A One Hour Documentary
Friday, August 24, 2001
- Headlines for August 24, 2001
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (US PTO) gives the Texas based company RiceTec patents on basmati rice
- 100,000 anti-globalization protestors to jam the nation’s capitol
- 450,000 Brazilian Federal employees on strike
- Book author jailed for refusing to hand over her research on Angleton murder case
Thursday, August 23, 2001
- Headlines for August 23, 2001
- Republican Senator Jesse Helms announces retirement
- UN Conference Against Racism, Durban, South Africa
- U.S. Role in Rwanda Genocide Exposed by new documents
- Discussion with Samantha Power, Salih Booker
Wednesday, August 22, 2001
- Headlines for August 22, 2001
- NYC hears legislation to create buffer zones around reproductive health clinics
- Democratic Senators to block Bush’s nominee for Chief Enforcement Officer of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Tuesday, August 21, 2001
- Headlines for August 21, 2001
- 13th Amendment Blocks Patents on Stem Cell and Cloning Technologies
- Biotech Companies Continue to Push for Legislation Encouraging Genetically Modified Foods
Monday, August 20, 2001
Friday, August 17, 2001
- Headlines for August 17, 2001
- Teach-in On the 25th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War: Noam Chomsky
- Teach-in On Vietnam War: Vietnam Veteran and Vietnamese Ambassador to the United Nations
Friday, August 17, 2001
- Headlines for August 17, 2001
- Mumia Abu Jamal to remain in prison during his hearing
- Mumia Abu Jamal: A Case for Resonable Doubt
- Al Sharpton released from prison.
Thursday, August 16, 2001
- Headlines for August 16, 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, August 15, 2001
Tuesday, August 14, 2001
- Headlines for August 14, 2001
- Fearing Mass Protests, World Bank and IMF Shorten Upcoming Meetings
- UN Questions US Compliance with Convention on Racial Discrimination
Tuesday, August 14, 2001
- Headlines for August 14, 2001
- Gimme Some Truth: The FBI Files of John Lennon
- Gimme Some Truth Part 2
- Gimme Some Truth Part 3
Monday, August 13, 2001
- Headlines for August 13, 2001
- Islamic Jihad Claims Responsibility for Another Suicide Bombing, This Time in Haifa As Theisraeli Government Seizes Orient House, the Headquarters of the Palestinian Authority and a Symbol Ofinternati
- The Secret Behind the Sanctions: How the US Intentionally Destroyed Iraq’s Water Supply
- In the Aftermath of Bush’s Decision to Severely Restrict Stem Cell Research, a Look at Howlittle Federal Funding Means Little Federal Regulation
Friday, August 10, 2001
- Headlines for August 10, 2001
- Two Activists Beaten By Police in Genoa, Italy Return to the U.S.; Los Angeles Sheriffstrained Italian Police Before the G8 Summit
- Many Still in Prison in Genoa, Including Susanna Thomas, a Quaker Pacifist and Honorsstudent; She Faces 15 Years in Jail
- M1 of the Radical Hip Hop Duo Dead Prez Talks About Black Music and Politics
Thursday, August 09, 2001
- Headlines for August 09, 2001
- A Survivor of the Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Speaks of Her Experiences 56 Years Ago Today
- The Story of Minik, the Inuit Boy Taken From His Home and Put On Display in the Museum Ofnatural History
- Federal Judges in San Francisco Resist Attempts to Surveil Them and Their Co-Workers; Bigbrother’s Corporate Cousin: Christian Parenti On the Politics and History of Everyday Surveillance
Wednesday, August 08, 2001
- Headlines for August 08, 2001
- From the Top of the World: The Inuit People Who Were Forcibly Removed to Make Room for Theu.S. Thule Air Base in Northern Greenland Demand Their Land Back and Oppose Bush’s Plans to Turn Itinto a Star
- An Inuit Leader Speaks for the First Time Ever On American Radio, About His Removal From Hisnative Lands By the US Military and About the Risks His People Face From Bush’s Star Wars Plans
- The Story of Minik, the Inuit Boy Taken From His Home and Put On Display in New York’s Museum of Natural History
Tuesday, August 07, 2001
- Headlines for August 07, 2001
- Pennsylvania Bureau of Charitable Organizations Orders Mumia Abu-Jamal Support Group to Cease Fund Raising
- This Just in From the BBC: Journalists May Not Call Israeli Killings of Top Palestinian Activists Assassination; a Conversation with Robert Fisk in Jerusalem, and Professor Noam Chomsky Onthe Language
- Thousands Once Again Rally for Ralph Nader in Oregon; Chicago Is Coming Up This Weekend.What’s Going On? He Calls It Democracy Rising: A Conversation with Ralph Nader and Winona Laduke
- Protests, Fasts Mark Eleventh Anniversary of US/UN Sanctions On Iraq
Monday, August 06, 2001
- Headlines for August 06, 2001
- M.I.T. Physicist Says the Pentagon Is Trying to Silence Him and Intimidate M.I.T., for Hiswork That Is Critical of National Missile Defense
- 56 Years Ago Today, US Drops Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima: A Conversation with a Survivor
- Nuclear Age Ushered in By U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima Poisons Native Americans: A Conversationwith a Woman Whose Mother Died of Cancer After Working in the Uranium Mines of New Mexico, and a Newreport B
Friday, August 03, 2001
- Headlines for August 03, 2001
- As Israel Insists It Will Continue Assassinating Palestinians, a Conversation with Edward Said
- Celebrated African-American Author Wilbert Rideau Re-Indicted On Murder Charges
- As Navy Pounds Vieques with Largest Bombing Operation in Years, Jackie Jackson, Dennisrivera and Robert Kennedy, Jr. Speak Out After Serving Jail Time for Their Protests
Thursday, August 02, 2001
- Headlines for August 02, 2001
- Big Business, Organized Labor and House Republicans Join Forces to Reject Higher Fuelefficiency Standards for Suv’s, Permit Oil Exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Andprovide Billions
- Suv’s, Global Warming, and the Bush Energy Plan: A Debate
- Environmental Writer Bill Mckibbon On Writing, Objectivity, and Suv’s
Wednesday, August 01, 2001
- Headlines for August 01, 2001
- Breaking the Sound Barrier: Part Three of Democracy Now!’s Exclusive Interview with Jailed Activist Lori Berenson, From Her Prison Cell in Lima, Peru
- White House Threatens to Boycott the U.N. World Conference Against Racism If Reparations Andzionism Aren’t Struck From the Agenda
