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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
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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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February 2002 Archive
Thursday, February 28, 2002
- Headlines for February 28, 2002
- Israeli Knesset Member Azmi Bishara On Trial for “Supporting a Terrorist Organization”
- The Voices of Pacifica: An Audio Tour Through 50 Years of Pacifica History—and the History of the World
- As the Bush Administration Pledges to Spend Millions of Dollars to Keep Tabs On Foreign Visitors, We’ll Hear a History of “Intelligence” and Security Culture From the Co-Author of the COINTELPRO Pa
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
- Headlines for February 27, 2002
- Should the Government Play Matchmaker? A Day After Bush Announced a New Marriage Promotionplan for Low-Income Parents, We Have Debate On Marriage, Poverty, and Welfare “Reform”
- A Muslim Religious Leader Has Been Held in Solitary Confinement for More Than Two Months: The Crackdown On Civil Liberties Continues As More Than a Thousand Arab and South-Asian Nationals Aredetained
- Illegal Detentions, Security Culture, and the New Wave of Repression Against Themuslim-American and Activist Communities
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
Monday, February 25, 2002
- Headlines for February 25, 2002
- Colombian Black Hawks Hit FARC Rebel Zone
- Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth About Bush, Oil and Washington’s Secret Negotiations with Thetaliban
- CIA-Backed Rebel Jonas Savimbi Killed in Angola
Friday, February 22, 2002
- Headlines for February 22, 2002
- Journalist Daniel Pearl Is Confirmed Dead in Karachi, As the Pentagon Launches a Worldwidepropaganda Campaign Overseas
- “Where Are We Heading: Terrorism, Global Security, and the Peace Movement”: During a Time Ofseemingly Endless War, We’ll Hear From Radical Historian Howard Zinn
Thursday, February 21, 2002
- Headlines for February 21, 2002
- An African American History Month Special: A Look at “The Wind Done Gone,” a Parody of “Gone With the Wind” Told From a Slave’s Perspective
- An African American History Month Special: W.E.B. Dubois: Scholarship and Propaganda, Themakings of a Race Man
- On the Anniversary of Malcolm X’s Assassination, We Hear Some of the Last Words of the Greatleader
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
- Headlines for February 20, 2002
- Bearing Witness: A Survivor of Yesterday’s Attack On a House in Gaza
- As Reports Emerge of a String of Mistakes Across Southern Afghanistan in U.S. Raids, and the War Continues at Home, We’ll Return to the Critical Voice of Activist and Scholar Cornel West
- One Month After Bush Accuses North Korea of Being Part of An “Axis of Evil,” Protests Erupt in South Korea Over His Visit
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
- Headlines for February 19, 2002
- As U.S. Forces Open a New Phase in the War in Afghanistan with Two Bombing Raids, We’ll Hear from Activist, Theologian and Scholar Cornel West about Working for Equality and Liberation After September
- As “Black Hawk Down” Director Ridley Scott Is Nominated for An Oscar, An Actor in the Filmspeaks Out Against Its Pro-War Message
Monday, February 18, 2002
- Headlines for February 18, 2002
- “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy”: A Look at Enron, Argentina, and George Bush’s Theft Of The 2000 Presidential Elections with Investigative Journalist Greg Palast
- A President’s Day Special: On the Day the Nation Honors All Its Presidents, Democracy Now! Asks, Who Really Won the 2000 Election?
Friday, February 15, 2002
- Headlines for February 15, 2002
- As the Country Gathers Around TV Sets to Watch the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, Protesters Gather Outside Utah Olympic Park in Protest
- Mega-Events and the Myth of Progress: While the Olympics Have Always Been a Platform for The Powers That Be — First Nation States, Now Corporations — They Have Also Been a Platform for Pro
- Democracy Now! Visits Olympics Past: During the 1968 Olympic Games, Among the Most Controversial Games Ever Held, Two Medallists Gave the Black Power Salute
Thursday, February 14, 2002
- Headlines for February 14, 2002
- Olympics Protest
- Bitter Chocolate
- A Democracy Now! Exclusive Interview with Noam Chomsky in Istanbul, Turkey, Where Chomsky and His Turkish Publisher Stood Accused of Crimes Against the State
- Freedom of Thought Campaign in Turkey Defends Chomsky and Turkish Publisher
Wednesday, February 13, 2002
- Headlines for February 13, 2002
- As the Bush Administration Urged the US to Be On the “Highest Alert” After An F.B.I. Warningof An Imminent Attack, Federal Agents Raid Medical Marijuana Providers Across California
- Tulia, Texas: Scenes From a Drug War
- From San Francisco to Tulia: Federal Drug Stings
Tuesday, February 12, 2002
- Headlines for February 12, 2002
- To Serve Or Not to Serve: As More Israeli Reserve Officers Refuse to Serve in the Occupiedterritories, a Counter-Movement Blooms
- Milosevic Goes to the Hague
- As the Pentagon Fights a Public Relations Battle Against the “Gray Areas” of the So-Called"War On Terrorism," We’ll Hear From Professor Noam Chomsky
Monday, February 11, 2002
- Headlines for February 11, 2002
- As Death-Row Prisoner, Thomas Miller-El, Faces Execution Next Week, a Short Documentary Makes a Strong Case for a New Trial
- Stories From “The Back of the World,” a Film About Prisoners On Texas’s Death Row, Childrenwho Chop Rocks in Peru to Feed Their Families, a Kurdish Prisoner of Conscience Languishing in Aturkish Priso
Friday, February 08, 2002
- Headlines for February 08, 2002
- Creating Community in Violent Times: An Interview with Author Luis Rodriguez
- Reporters On the Front Lines: As Wall Street Journal Correspondent Daniel Pearlremains Missing in Pakistan, Journalist Robert Fisk Makes a Plea to Osama Bin Laden to Release Hisfriend
- A Plundered Network: The Pacifica Foundation Releases the Results of An Independent Audit
Thursday, February 07, 2002
- Headlines for February 07, 2002
- Crashing the Stock Market Democracy Now! Style: Through the Police Barricades, the Metaldetectors and the Security Checks to the Gala Soiree of the World Economic Forum in the New York Stock Exchange
- Indonesian Labor Activist Rejects the Reebok Human Rights Award
- Redefining Globalization to Mean Global Justice for the Environment and the World
Wednesday, February 06, 2002
- Headlines for February 06, 2002
- “America’s Most Popular Populist,” Jim Hightower, Raises Hell About Bush, Enron and Corporate Power
- Designer Babies, Genetic Discrimination, and the Patenting of Human Life: The Perils Amidstthe Promise of the Biotech Revolution
Tuesday, February 05, 2002
- Headlines for February 05, 2002
- Top Enron Executives Charge That Enron Corporation’s Collapse Was the Result of a “A Systemic and Pervasive Attempt” to Inflate Profits and Hide Losses
- Outraged Argentineans Take to the Streets and Occupy Banks . . . and An Independent Mediacenter Blossoms
- World Social Forum in Brazil Concludes: Noam Chomsky, a Dalit Activist, and a Youth Organizer Speak
Monday, February 04, 2002
- Headlines for February 04, 2002
- Is Another World Possible? Power and Protest As the World Economic Forum Comes to New York
- Have Forum Leaders Learned to Listen to Their Critics, Or Have They Just Learned to Deflectcriticism?
- After Thousands Hit the Streets of Midtown Manhattan to Protest Against the World Economicforum, Activists Talk About Direct Action Strategies
- Thousands of Activists Converge at the World Social Forum to Weave a New Vision of Reality
Saturday, February 02, 2002
- Headlines for February 02, 2002
- Is Another World Possible? Power and Protest From the Streets of New York to Porto Alegre, Brazil
Friday, February 01, 2002
- Headlines for February 01, 2002
- The First World Economic Forum Protestors Are Arrested
- The World Economic Forum From the Inside Out: As Participants Party, Protestors Prepare. We’ll Have a Debate. Anti-Capitalist Organizer Jaggi Singh, Human Rights Activist and Wef Honoree(!) Van Jones,
