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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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November 2002 Archive
Friday, November 29, 2002
Thursday, November 28, 2002
- Headlines for November 28, 2002
- Howard Zinn On the History of the US Government and CIA ‘Changing Regimes’ Around the World
- President Bush Appoints Henry Kissinger to Head ‘Independent’ Commission to Investigate 9-11: Kissinger Was Involved in the Bombing of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos (Deaths: More Than 2 Million); the Ove
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
- Headlines for November 27, 2002
- “Miss World 2002 Will Be the Most Lavish and Spectacular Production That We’ve Ever Undertaken”: Now There Are 220 People Dead, 1000 Injured, and 8000 Homeless From the Miss World Riots in Nigeria
- As UN Weapons Inspections Begin, a Former Iraqi Nuclear Scientist Says Iraq’s Nation’s Atomic Program No Longer Exists: Imad Khadduri Also Explains How the Eisenhower Administration Helped Start Iraq’
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
- Headlines for November 26, 2002
- President Bush Signs Homeland Security Bill ­ Is It “Homeland Security,” Or a Treasure Trove of Corporate Favors?
- Union Leaders Say Labor Will Be the “First Victim” of the Homeland Security Bill
- Ins Authorities Arrest, Imprison, and Nearly Deport a Pakistani Immigrant Married to a U.S. Citizen: He Was On the Tarmac When a Federal Judge Called the Ins and Ordered Him Off the Plane
Monday, November 25, 2002
- Headlines for November 25, 2002
- Israel Admits An Israeli Soldier Shot and Killed a UN Official in the Jenin Refugee Camp: From the Hospital in Jenin We Are Joined By An Irish Peace Activist Who Was Also Shot in the Leg
- On the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, We Speak with Four Women Working for Women’s Human Rights Around the World: A Palestinian Israeli Professor, a Somalian Hum
Friday, November 22, 2002
- Headlines for November 22, 2002
- U.S. Is Monitoring Thousands of Iraqis, Iraqi-Americans and ‘Iraq Sympathizers’
- Pakistanis From Across the U.S. Sent Back to Pakistan in Mass Deportation: Immigrant Rights Activists Debate the Ins
- Deportation of Seattle-Area Somalis Halted Because There Is No Functioning Government in Somalia: Part 2 of the Debate with the Ins
- Imprisoned Palestinian Activist Calls in From a New Jersey Detention Center and Debates An Ins Spokesman
Thursday, November 21, 2002
- Headlines for November 21, 2002
- Students Protest War and New School President Bob Kerrey
- Homeland Security Act Includes Union-Busting, New Snooping and Surveillance Powers: An Overview of the Largest Reorganization of Government in 50 Years
- The Pentagon’s “Total Information Awareness”: Pentagon Unveils Plans to Create the World’s Largest Surveillance Database to Track Your Phone Calls, Purchases, Internet Usage, Reading Material, Banking
- Reagan’s Former National Security Advisor and Iran-Contra Criminal John Poindexter Oversees Pentagon’s Massive Surveillance Project
- Project Lookout: After Sept. 11, Over 1,000 People Were Placed On An FBI Watch List. But the List Has Been Out of Date for Over a Year and the Government No Longer Knows Who Has the Old Lists Which We
- New “No-Fly Blacklist” Targets Activists
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
- Headlines for November 20, 2002
- Independent Journalist Robert Fisk On the Bush Administration’s Insistence That Iraq Is Already Violating the UN Resolution
Tuesday, November 19, 2002
- Headlines for November 19, 2002
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Singer Joan Baez in a Special On Civil Disobedience: Baez Recalls When King Visited Her in Prison, and We Play a Rare Recording of King’s Remarks to Supporters Outside t
- “But If Not”: Dr. Martin Luther King Gives a Sermon On Civil Disobedience in a Rare Recording
Monday, November 18, 2002
- Headlines for November 18, 2002
- Ten Thousand Protest the U.S. Army School of the Americas: We’ll Hear From Decorated Vietnam Veteran and Protest Leader Father Roy Bourgois, As Well As Fort Benning’s Commanding General John Lemoyne,
Friday, November 15, 2002
- Headlines for November 15, 2002
- President of the Cuban National Assembly Ricardo Alarcon Talks About Terror, Trade, and Tyranny . . . of the U.S. Government; and Civil Rights Attorney Leonard Weinglass On the Case of the Cuban 5
Thursday, November 14, 2002
- Headlines for November 14, 2002
- Saddam Hussein Approves the Return of UN Weapons Inspectors: An Interview with Democracy Now! Correspondent Jeremy Scahill in Baghdad and An Iraqi Man Whose House Was Searched By UN Inspectors in 1997
- “Spider’s Web”: The Secret History of How the United States Illegally Armed Saddam Hussein; a Conversation with the Journalist Who Broke the Iraqgate Scandal That Involved President George Bush, James
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
- Headlines for November 13, 2002
- No Child Unrecruited: Should the Military Be Given Contact Information for Every High School Student? A Round-Table Discussion On President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act
- Hey Kids! Let’s Play War!: U.S. Military Recruiters Target Children with a New Video Game Called “America’s Army”
- CIA On Campus: The Intelligence Community Reemerges After 9/11 As a Force in Academia. Democracy Now! Hosts a Debate Between Two Professors, a CIA Consultant & a Vocal CIA Critic
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
- Headlines for November 12, 2002
- Iraqi Parliament Votes No On UN Weapons Inspectors Resolution: We Go to Baghdad for a Live Report From Democracy Now! Correspondent Jeremy Scahill
- Leading Colombian Trade Unionist Goes Into Hiding After Receiving Threats On His Life
Monday, November 11, 2002
- Headlines for November 11, 2002
- For Veteran’s Day, We Go Back to Vietnam to Remember My Lai, One of the Darkest Events in US Army History: A Discussion with Vietnam Veteran Mike Boehm About the Massacre and the Documentary the So
- What Do the Washington-Area Sniper, the University Ofarizona Killer and Timothy Mcveigh Have in Common? They Were All Gulf War Vets. We Talk with Gulf Warveteran Charles Sheehan-Miles, Author of the A
- Domestic Violence Advocates Criticize New Militarystudy Examining Why Four Fort Bragg Soldiers Killedtheir Wives: Army Blames Murders On Stress and Stigmaof Psychological Counseling
Friday, November 08, 2002
- Headlines for November 08, 2002
- UN Prepares to Ok Iraq Weapons Inspections: A Conversation with Dennis Halliday, Ex-Director of UN Humanitarian Program for Iraq
- Iraq Journal: Democracy Now’s Jeremy Scahill Talks with Iraq’s Most Famous Artist, Mohammed Ghani, in Baghdad
- Voices From An Indonesian Prison: A Democracy Now! Exclusive!: We Hear From Joy Lee Sadler, a US Citizen and Lesley Mcculloch, a Scottish Professor Who Have Been Imprisoned in Aceh, Indonesia Since Se
Thursday, November 07, 2002
- Headlines for November 07, 2002
- Iraq Journal: As the United Nations Security Council Prepares to Ok the New U.S.-Drafted Iraq Resolution, Citizens in Basra Prepare for the Worst
- A Democracy Now! Exclusive Interview with a Pakistani Human Rights Attorney Minutes Before He Is Deported On Election Day; Organizers Estimate Between 3-4 People Are Deported Every Day From New York C
- Canada Warns Its Citizens About Traveling in the United States: Advisory Comes After U.S. Officials Secretly Detain a Canadian Citizen and Deports Him to Syria, Where He Hasn’t Lived in 14 Years
- Runners Carry a Torch From Mexico City to New York: Activists Honor the Many Undocumented Workers Who Have Died in the US and Draw Attention to the Rights of Immigrants
Wednesday, November 06, 2002
- Headlines for November 06, 2002
- Republicans Regain the Senate and Increase House Majority, with Only One-Third of Registered Voters Turning Out; in Florida a Bush Wins Again Amid Complaints From African Americans of Voting Problems
- Bi-Lingual Education Lost in Massachusetts But Won in Colorado; Oregon Rejects Universal Health Care and Genetically Modified Foods Measures
- Green Party Candidates Win Over 30 Races On Election Day: Across 40 States, Over 450 Candidates Run Green. In California, Peter Miguel Camejo Earns 5 Percent of Vote and 340,000 Votes in Gubernatorial
Tuesday, November 05, 2002
- Headlines for November 05, 2002
- Who Gets to Vote? A Roundtable Discussion On Election Day: Two Years After the Stolen Election, the Voter Rolls in Florida Are Still Illegally Purged; a Discussion with BBC Journalist Greg Palast, Mia
Monday, November 04, 2002
- Headlines for November 04, 2002
- Iraq Journal: In An Interview with Democracy Now, a Senior Iraqi Diplomat Predicts France and Russia Will Veto Washington’s Iraq Resolution
- Former 2000 Green Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader Debates Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mi): On the Eve of the Mid-Term Elections a Discussion On Whether There Is a Difference Between the
- Dnc Chairman Terry Mcauliffe: Democracy Now! Confronts the Democratic Party’s Head Fundraiser On the Party’s Efforts to Thwart the New Soft Money Ban and How He Personally Made $18 Million in Possible
Friday, November 01, 2002
- Headlines for November 01, 2002
- “We Don’t Want to Be a North American Colony”: Thousands Rally in Quito, Ecuador to Protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas
- Water and War: Bolivian Activist Oscar Olivera On the Struggle Against Bechtel and the Privatization of Cochabamba’s Water in 2000
- The Mother of the Alleged 20th Hijacker Talks: Two Months Before Zacarias Moussaoui Goes On Trial Evidence Emerges That Indicates the U.S. May Have the Wrong Man
