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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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May 2002 Archive
Friday, May 31, 2002
- Headlines for May 31, 2002
- An Enron-Like Scandal Threatens to Erupt at Halliburton, Where Dick Cheney Was Chief Executive
- Carrying On a Legacy of Nonviolence: As India and Pakistan Draw Closer to the Brink of War, An Interview with Arun Gandhi
- U.S. Exports Misery to Africa with Farm Bill
Thursday, May 30, 2002
- Headlines for May 30, 2002
- Street Medic Sentenced to 6 Months in Jail for Working at a Protest
- The FBI’s Missed Messages: Why the Government Didn’t Know What It Knew
- Does ‘Arab National’ Plus ‘Flight School’ Necessarily Equal ‘Threat’? As Ashcroft Slashes COINTELPRO Restrictions On Domestic Spying, a Debate On Racial Profiling, Civil Liberties and National Securit
Wednesday, May 29, 2002
- Headlines for May 29, 2002
- India and Pakistan Move Nuclear Warheads to the Border As Tensions Escalate
- Bush and Putin Hail the Signing of a Nuclear Arms Treaty, But Is the U.S. Really Liquidating the Legacy of the Cold War?
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
- Headlines for May 28, 2002
- The Politics of Culture: Professor Edward Said Talks About the U.S. Media As An Arm of the So-Called War On Terror Against the Arab
Monday, May 27, 2002
- Headlines for May 27, 2002
- Israeli Army Invades Bethlehem and Deheishe Refugee Camp Again
- “It’s Too Bad the Soil Couldn’t Cry Out From the Blood Shed Upon It”: On Memorial Day, An Extended Conversation with Peace Warrior Philip Berrigan From Inside a Federal Penitentiary
Friday, May 24, 2002
- Headlines for May 24, 2002
- Peering Into the Abyss of the Future: As Presidents Bush and Putin Sign a New Nuclear Arms Treaty Paving the Way for Star Wars, Scholar Noam Chomsky Talks About the Role of Nuclear Weapons in U.S. Glo
Thursday, May 23, 2002
Wednesday, May 22, 2002
- Headlines for May 22, 2002
- As the State Department Accuses Seven Nations of “Sponsoring Terrorism,” Scholar and Activist Noam Chomsky Talks About the Long and Bloody History of U.S.-Sponsored Terrorism
- “Ask Who Did It, But Don’t Ask Why”: A Speech By British Journalist Robert Fisk
Tuesday, May 21, 2002
- Headlines for May 21, 2002
- International Solidarity Movement Activist Adam Shapiro, On the Role Americans Can Play in Bringing U.S. Media Attention to the Palestinians
- British Journalist Robert Fisk On the Politics of Language and the Media in the Middle East
Monday, May 20, 2002
- Headlines for May 20, 2002
- East Timor Declares Independence; UN Secretary General Hands Over Power to Xanana Gusmao
- Guerrilla Leader Turned Founding President of East Timor Xanana Gusmao Delivers Inaugural Address
- Journalist Allan Nairn Confronts President Clinton Over U.S. Policy Toward East Timor; Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn Question Brigadier General Over U.S. Military Support for Indonesia
Friday, May 17, 2002
- Headlines for May 17, 2002
- Israel Deports U.S. Peace Activist Kristen Schurr As Israeli Forces Sweep Through Jenin Again
- It’s Three Days to East Timor’s Independence: We Travel Back in Time to the Historic Vote for Independence with Allan Nairn’s On the Ground Reports
- Journalists Allan Nairn and Amy Goodman Confront Bill Clinton, Richard Holbrooke, and Henry Kissinger Over U.S. Military Support to Indonesia
- A Former State Department Official in Jakarta Discusses the Bush Administration’s Attempts to Restore Military Aid to Indonesia
Thursday, May 16, 2002
- Headlines for May 16, 2002
- Looking Back at the History of East Timor and U.S. Foreign Policy: A Rebroadcast of the 1991 Radio Documentary “Massacre: The Story of East Timor.”
- From Guerrilla Leader to Founding President of a New Nation: An Interview with East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao
Wednesday, May 15, 2002
- Headlines for May 15, 2002
- A BBC Investigation Reveals That the Head of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Warned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of Last Month’s Attempted Coup Several Days in Advance
- Stupid White Men: Author Michael Moore Takes On Bush, the So-Called War On Terror, and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
- Headlines for May 14, 2002
- East Timor’s Foreign Minister Discusses Indonesian and International Responsibility for Crimes Against Humanity in East Timor
- East Timorese Activist Returned Home After Nearly Decade in Exile Discusses Independence and the Challenges Facing a Free East Timor
- East Timorese University Students Talk About Their Hopes for East Timor’s Future
Monday, May 13, 2002
- Headlines for May 13, 2002
- Democracy Now! Travels to East Timor: A Look at the Island Nation’s Long Journey From Invasion, to Annihilation, to Independence
- In Australia, Democracy Now! Talks to the Mother of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jose Ramos Horta, and Visits the Offices of the Sydney Morning Herald, Where They Have Uncovered Top Secret Document
- Democracy Now! Talks to Timorese Traveling Home to Independence
- The Politics of Oil in East Timor: An Interview with Long-Time East Timorese Activist Robert Wesley Smith
Friday, May 10, 2002
- Headlines for May 10, 2002
- Bringing War Criminals to Justice
- As Demonstrations Continue to Rack Venezuela, Venezuelan Government Officials Speak Out About the Failed Ouster of President Hugo Chavez
Thursday, May 09, 2002
- Headlines for May 09, 2002
- As Israeli Troops Mass On the Gaza Strip Border, a Deal Is Struck to Free Palestinians Trapped Inside the Church of the Nativity, But the Buses to Escort Them Out Drive Away Empty: A Report From the O
- Historical Memory Project: Documenting the Extinction and Genocide of the Indigenous Population of Latin America
- As the House of Representatives Votes to Turn Yucca Mountain Into a Nuclear Waste Storage Site, a Look at the History, Science, and Politics Behind the Vote
Wednesday, May 08, 2002
- Headlines for May 08, 2002
- “No U.S. Guns to Israel”: California Activists Take Over the Oakland Federal Building to Demand a Free Palestine
- The California Supreme Court Rules Nike Can Be Sued for Lying About Its Labor Practices, But the Aclu Sides with Nike: A Debate
- On the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws, a Look at Criminal Justice From New York to Tulia to Tallulah
Tuesday, May 07, 2002
- Headlines for May 07, 2002
- The Bush Administration “Unsigns” the Treaty Forming the International Criminal Court, the World’s First Permanent War Crimes Tribunal
- “Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy”: As Internal Memos Reveal That Enron Drove Up Power Prices in California , We Ll Talk to Author Richard Grossman
Monday, May 06, 2002
- Headlines for May 06, 2002
- Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Pro-Democracy Leader, Aung Sung Suu Kyi, Is Released From 19 Months of House Arrest
- The Siege of the Church of the Nativity: Is It Near An End?
- War On the Environment: The Pentagon Is Trying to Circumvent All the Major Environmental Laws
- Rebel Without a Pause: Comedian-Activist, Reno, Recounts Her Days After the September 11th Attacks, Part 2
Friday, May 03, 2002
- Headlines for May 03, 2002
- International Activists Join Palestinians Trapped Inside the Besieged Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
- “We Have No Orders to Save You”: State Participation and Complicity in the Communal Violence in Gujarat
- Rebel Without a Pause: Comedian Reno Recounts Her Days After the September 11th Attacks
Thursday, May 02, 2002
- Headlines for May 02, 2002
- Attorney General John Ashcroft Indicts the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for the Killing of Three Americans–Relatives Say He’s Using the Murders to Drum Up Support for Increased U.S. Milita
- Washington Changes Its Story About Its Role in the Coup in Venezuela: The London Guardian Says the U.S. Navy Was Involved
- Congress Stalls the Bankruptcy Bill Over An Amendment That Would Prevent Anti-Abortion Protesters From Escaping Their Debt
- The Tenth Anniversary of the Rodney King Uprising in Los Angeles: A Roundtable Discussion
Wednesday, May 01, 2002
- Headlines for May 01, 2002
- Today Is May Day: Across the World, Workers and Activists Hit the Streets for International Worker’s Day
- Anti-Apartheid Activist Father Michael Lapsley Discusses Apartheid, Occupation, and Reconciliation
- “Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water:” Part Two of An Interview with Anti Corporate Globalization Activist Maude Barlow
