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Allan Nairn: Obama Administration Mulls Ending Training Ban on Atrocity-Linked Indonesian Special Forces Unit
Tune in on Friday for a special report from investigative journalist Allan Nairn on the White House’s proposal to lift a ban on U.S. training of a controversial elite Indonesian military unit known as Kopassus. The special forces unit has been linked to scores of human rights abuses in East Timor, Aceh, Papua, and Java since its formation in the 1950s. We reached Allan in Indonesia on Thursday afternoon. The entire interview can be heard online here.
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NYC’s Jihad Against Debbie Almontaser
Debbie Almontaser has won a victory in her battle against discrimination. She was the founding principal of the first Arabic-language public school in the United States, until a campaign of hate forced her out.
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Rachel Corrie’s (Posthumous) Day in Court
An unusual trial begins in Israel this week, and people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer.
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Midwestern Towns Sue Manufacturer of Atrazine Weedkiller
Sixteen Midwestern towns and cities have sued the manufacturer of a popular weedkiller over drinking water contamination. Atrazine has been banned in the European Union since 2004 but here in the United States about 80 million pounds of Atrazine is used each year. A recent study found that the weedkillers can turn male frogs into females.
See our earlier segment on Atrazine and the EPA
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Part II: Leading Education Scholar Diane Ravitch on "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez interviewed Diane Ravitch in the Democracy Now! studios last week. You can see Part One of their conversation here. After the broadcast, they continued the conversation.
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WATCH: Is the Medium the Message? Corporatization of the Media
The Huffington Post’s Kimberly Butler interviewed Amy Goodman and others in this two part online video series.
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Domestic Violence: A Pre-Existing Condition?
March is Women’s History Month, recognizing women’s central role in society. Unfortunately, violence against women is epidemic in the United States and around the world.
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Cracking Down on Fracking
Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire.
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July 2002 Archive
Wednesday, July 31, 2002
- Headlines for July 31, 2002
- A Rash of Wife Killings at Fort Bragg Military Base: Three Veterans of the War in Afghanistan and Another Soldier Kill Their Wives in 6 Weeks
- After Two Decades of Ignoring the Convention On the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Approves An International Women’s Rights Treaty
- As Bush Signs Corporate Crime Bill, He Railroads Through a Trade Bill Which Will Bring the World’s Accounting Regulations to the Standards of Enron, and Pushes for Senate to Confirm the “Enron Judge”
Tuesday, July 30, 2002
- Headlines for July 30, 2002
- A Mumia-Abu Jamal Special: Julia Wright, Daughter of Richard Wright, Leads a French Delegation in Fight for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Monday, July 29, 2002
- Headlines for July 29, 2002
- As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Prepares to Hold Hearings On Iraq This Week, Top U.S. Generals and Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Say Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Poses No Immediate
Friday, July 26, 2002
- Headlines for July 26, 2002
- House of Representatives Passes Unconstitutional So-Called “Partial Birth Abortion” Ban
- Nine Coal Miners Are Trapped in a Shaft After They Rupture a Nearby Abandoned Mine
- The Politics of Food: The Food Industry Spends $33 Billion in Advertising This Year, While Over One Quarter of U.S. Adults Are Obese
Thursday, July 25, 2002
- Headlines for July 25, 2002
- “A Struggle for Justice”: One Family’s Fight to Get Their Children Back From the Foster Care System
- Adopted By a White Family: A Conversation with Hip Hop Singer and Spoken Word Poet Michael Franti
Wednesday, July 24, 2002
- Headlines for July 24, 2002
- Congress Investigates Citigroup and Jp Morgan Chase for Role in Enron Scandal
- What Do Ariel Sharon, George Bush, Boeing, Bell Helicopter, and Mcdonald Douglas Have in Common? Stanley Cohen. He’s Suing Them All On Behalf of Palestinian Americans for Racketeering and War Crimes
- As the Bush Administration Withdraws Funds to the UN Population Fund Claiming It Funds Forced Abortion in China, a Look at Coercive Welfare Laws, Forced Sterilization and Forced Foster Care Here in th
Tuesday, July 23, 2002
- Headlines for July 23, 2002
- Israel Bombs Crowded Gaza Neighborhood, Killing Top Hamas Leader, His Wife, His Daughter, and Eight Other Children
- U.S. Oil Giant Chevrontexaco Suspends Some of Its Exports After Lightening Strikes and Women Stage An Unprecedented, Peaceful, 10-Day Occupation
- Usda Recalls 19 Million Pounds of Beef Contaminated with E Coli in the 2nd Largest Beef Recall in US History–We’ll Look at How the Meat Industry Blocked Reform
Monday, July 22, 2002
- Headlines for July 22, 2002
- As the Bush Administration Sets Aside Half of the Military’s Supply of Anthrax Vaccine for Civilian Use, a Look at the Anthrax Vaccine and Bioport, the Company That Makes It
- Peru Sues Inter-American Commission On Human Rights Over Lori Berenson Case
Friday, July 19, 2002
- Headlines for July 19, 2002
- New Report Reveals Latinos Are Incarcerated for Drug Offenses at Thirteen Times the Rate of White Youth
- 150 Nigerian Women End Their Unprecedented Peaceful Protest Against Chevron, Winning Major Concessions
- Valium, Hallucinogens, Anti-Depressants, and Chemical Cocktails: A New Report Details the Pentagon’s Plans for a Psychopharmacological Arsenal for Use in the U.S.
- Justice Department Secretly Charters An Airlift to Deport 131 Pakistanis Imprisoned for Months
- As Ahmad Omar Sayeed Sheikh Appeals His Death Sentence for Murder of Wall Street Journal Reporter Daniel Pearl, a Look at Sayeed Sheik’s Links to the Pakistani Intelligence Service
Thursday, July 18, 2002
- Headlines for July 18, 2002
- Tel Aviv Suicide Attacks Kill Five, One Day After a Bus Ambush Kills Eight Settlers
- Cracking Down On Corporate Crime: Band-AIDS Vs. Radical Transformation? A Roundtable Discussion of Capitol Hill’s Corporate-Funded Proposals, and Some Radical Alternatives
- Millions of Workers in China Are Laid Off As China Moves Toward a Market Economy; Pbs Premiers a New Film On China, But the Arrest of the Film Crew Doesn’t Make the Cut
Wednesday, July 17, 2002
- Headlines for July 17, 2002
- Jury Convicts Former Police Officer Charles Schwarz of Perjury But Deadlocks On More Serious Charges
- 35 Million Bangladeshis Are Drinking Arsenic As the World Bank and the Bangladesh Government Stall a Plan for Safe Water
- Protesting the School of the Americas: A Woman Locks Herself to the Main Gate of Fort Benning After 36 Protesters Are Convicted
- Two Survivors of the Bhopal Disaster Are Hospitalized After An 18-Day Fast Protesting the Indian Government and Dow Chemicals
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
- Headlines for July 16, 2002
- Assassination Attempt On French President Jacques Chirac Reveals the Rise of the Extreme Right in France
- Mexican Farmers Protest Plans to Expropriate Their Land for a New Mexico City Airport
- The Terrorism Information and Prevention System: The Bush Administration Says It Will Recruit One in 24 U.S. Citizen Spies
- Community Radio Under Fire: A Look at Wgdr Radio in Vermont
Monday, July 15, 2002
Friday, July 12, 2002
- Headlines for July 12, 2002
- Nelson Mandela Wraps Up Final Day of the AIDS Conference in Barcelona
- Gang Member Turned Community Leader Is Granted Asylum
- Police Brutality On Videotape Across the Country: The Videographer Who Captured Footage of Police Beating An Unarmed Teenager in Inglewood Is Arrested; Police Investigate An Oklahoma City Police Beati
- Government Researchers Halt Study of Hormone Replacement Therapy, Taken By Millions of Older Women: A Roundtable Discussion
Thursday, July 11, 2002
- Headlines for July 11, 2002
- International Activists Accompany Palestinians Under Fire to Repair Water Wells in Gaza
- From Inglewood, California to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Police Brutality Caught On Videotape Leads to Police and FBI Investigations As Outrage Mounts
- As Bush Infuriates African Americans By Refusing to Talk with NAACP Leaders, We’ll Hear About Bush’s Civil Rights Record From NAACP Chairman Julian Bond
Wednesday, July 10, 2002
- Headlines for July 10, 2002
- Soa Protesters Go to Trial
- Bush’s War On Greed: Two Former Employees of Some of the Biggest Corporate Crimesters React
- Protesters Storm the Stage and Shout Down U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson’s Speech at the World AIDS Conference
Tuesday, July 09, 2002
- Headlines for July 09, 2002
- After International Activists Are Held Illegally in Inhumane Conditions for 48 Hours, the US Consulate in Israel Says It Will File a Complaint Against the Israeli Military On Their Behalf
- The Einstein Files: J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist
- The Son of James Byrd Jr., the Black Man Brutally Murdered By White Supremacists, Fights to Save His Father’s Killer From Execution
Monday, July 08, 2002
- Headlines for July 08, 2002
- AIDS Conference Opens Amid Controversy
- The Anthrax Assassin—Who Is the FBI Really Looking at?
- The Einstein Files: J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist
Friday, July 05, 2002
- Headlines for July 05, 2002
- As a Corporate Crime Wave Sweeps the Country, We Hear From Former Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader
Thursday, July 04, 2002
Wednesday, July 03, 2002
- Headlines for July 03, 2002
- As the Defense Prepares to Rest Its Case in the Re-Trial of Charles Schwarz, We Replay Excerpts of An Exclusive Interview with An Anonymous Juror in the Original Abner Louima Conspiracy Trial. The Jur
- From Ground Zero to Ground Zero: As the Pentagon Struggles to Contain Claims That a U.S. Gunship Attacked An Afghan Wedding Party, We Return to Another U.S. Attack On An Afghan Family
Tuesday, July 02, 2002
- Headlines for July 02, 2002
- A New York Judge Declares the Federal Death Penalty Unconstitutional
- The U.S. Bombs a Wedding Party in Afghanistan; Death Toll Estimates Range Between 40 and 250
Monday, July 01, 2002
- Headlines for July 01, 2002
- As Washington Steps Up Its Efforts to Force Arafat From Office, a Conversation with Palestinian National Council Member Hanan Ashrawi and Peace Activist Rami Elhanan, Whose Daughter Was Killed in a 19
- The Rnc Battles the Mccain-Feingold Campaign Finance Law, Subpoenaing Democratic-Leaning Interest Groups for Detailed Financial Records
