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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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- 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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August 2002 Archive
Friday, August 30, 2002
- Headlines for August 30, 2002
- Britain Will Pay $7 Million to the Masai People of Northern Kenya: Unexploded Bombs Left By British Army Left 500 Injured Or Dead
- ‘How 90 Peruvians Became the Latest Jewish Settlers’: Part Two of the Debate
- “More Forest, Less Bush”: Two Thousand People Protest in Oregon Against President Bush’s New Logging Rules
Thursday, August 29, 2002
- Headlines for August 29, 2002
- Global Warming Victims Sue US Banks for Illegally Funding Fossil Fuel Projects
- The Tiny Pacific Island State of Tuvalu Plans to Sue U.S. Government
- ‘How 90 Peruvians Became the Latest Jewish Settlers’
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
- Headlines for August 28, 2002
- 24-Year-Old Toronto Patterson Is Set to Die Today at the Hands of the State of Texas for a Crime He Is Accused of Committing When He Was 17: We’ll Hear His Story, in His Own Words
- Young People Talk About the Juvenile Death Penalty; New Report Finds More African-American Men Are in Prison Than in College
- You Thought Precrime Was Just An Orwellian Hollywood Fantasy? Police in Delaware Are Building a Database of Potential Criminals
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
- Headlines for August 27, 2002
- U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark Visits the Iraqi Hospital Where Casualties From a Recent U.S. Bombing Raid Were Taken, and Debates the Pentagon
- Over 100 Immigrant Airport Workers Are Detained in Government Raids in Southern California
Monday, August 26, 2002
- Headlines for August 26, 2002
- African-Americans Protest Against Police Shootings in Minneapolis
- World Summit On Sustainable Development Opens in South Africa, and Police Attack Protesters
- Thousands of Farm Workers March On California Capitol
- Attorney General John Ashcroft Appeals a Ruling By the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
- Rape Survivors and the Wrongly Convicted Prepare to Protest the Lapd’s Destruction of Biological Evidence in Over a Thousand Rape Cases: We’ll Talk with a Woman Who Mistakenly Identified Her Rapist an
Friday, August 23, 2002
- Headlines for August 23, 2002
- “Heartfelt Advice, Hefty Fees”: Actress Lauren Bacall and Others Promote Drugs On National Television, But Don’t Reveal They’re On the Payroll of Drug Companies
- Jeb Bush’s New Child Welfare Head?: Spanking That Causes Welts Is Ok; Women Should Think of Work Outside the Home As Bondage
- “We Don’t Seem to Learn and We Don’t Remember Our Own History”: On the 75th Anniversary of the Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, a Conversation with Howard Fast
Thursday, August 22, 2002
- Headlines for August 22, 2002
- Saudis Pull Some $200 Billion Out of the U.S., Family Members of 9-11 Victims Are Suing Saudi Nationals, and Saudi Nationals Are Suing the U.S. Government: A Look at the Increasingly Hostile U.S.-Saud
- Imaginary Homicide? A Poor, Black, Retarded Man Is in An Alabama Prison for Killing a Newborn, But the Newborn May Never Have Existed
- New Documents Show Argentine Military Believed U.S. Gave Go-Ahead for Dirty War
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
- Headlines for August 21, 2002
- Robert Fisk On the “Suicide” of ‘Gun for Hire’ Abu Nidal in Baghdad, and the Anarchy That Reigns in Afghanistan As Bush Pushes for a New War
- Progressive Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney Loses Controversial Primary; Roundtable Discussion Includes Alabama Congressmember Earl Hilliard, Similarly Targeted and Defeated
Tuesday, August 20, 2002
- Headlines for August 20, 2002
- U.S. Health Department Launches a Witchhunt Against AIDS Activist Groups
- FBI Is Sued for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Shielding “The Animal” and Framing An Innocent Man: The FBI’s Secret Partnership with the Mob
- Thousands Rally in D.C. For Reparations
Monday, August 19, 2002
- Headlines for August 19, 2002
- Washington’s Covert Support for Saddam
- Justice Groups Organize ‘Alternative Vigils’ for September 11th Anniversary
- Mass Graves in Afghanistan: Physicians for Human Rights Demands U.S. Government Investigate Some One Thousand Taliban Fighters Allegedly Massacred and Buried By the U.S.-Backed Northern Alliance
Friday, August 16, 2002
- Headlines for August 16, 2002
- Floods, Landslides, Heat-Waves and Toxic Clouds: Plagues From God Or God-Awful Corporations?
- An Indonesian Court Acquits 6 Military and Police Officers From the Carnage During the 1999 Independence Vote in East Timor: A First-Hand Account From a Young Timorese Human Rights Lawyer
Thursday, August 15, 2002
- Headlines for August 15, 2002
- Selective Memri? A Debate On the Secretive Media Institute Run By Israel’s Former Counter-Terrorism Advisor That Is Disseminating Articles About Arabs to the Western Media
- Supporters of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Evict White Farmers Who Own Over Half the Fertile Land in the Drought-Stricken Country: A Debate Between Two Zimbabwean Members of Parliament
- Millions for Reparations–in the United States
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
- Headlines for August 14, 2002
- Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth
- Israel’s First Lady of Human Rights: A Conversation with Shulamit Aloni, Former Knesset Member Who Headed the Meretz Party
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
- Headlines for August 13, 2002
- Israel Approves Forced Expulsions of Families of ‘Suspected Terrorists’
- Jordan Shuts Down Al Jazeera
Monday, August 12, 2002
- Headlines for August 12, 2002
- Congressmember Cynthia Mckinney Under Fire: A Discussion with Georgia’s First African-American Congresswoman
- Colombia’s Newly Inaugurated President Declares a “State of Internal Commotion” Authorizing the Government to Take Special Measures and Boost Defense Spending
- The Three-Day Grounding of Air Traffic After September 11th Shows That High Altitude Jet Plane Contrails Can Affect Temperatures On Earth
- Democracy Now! Bids Farewell to Democracy Now! Producer Miranda Kennedy: As the Anniversary of September 11th Approaches, a Conversation with Miranda Kennedy About the Last Year of Democracy Now!
Friday, August 09, 2002
- Headlines for August 09, 2002
- Activists Disrupt Dick Cheney’s Speech On Corporate Responsibility
- As Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill Ends His Latin America Tour, the International Monetary Fund Announces It Will Lend Debt-Laden Brazil Another $30 Billion, More Than the IMF Has Ever Provided Any Ot
- When Public Media Becomes State Media: President Bush Bypasses the Vacationing Senate and Nominates Republican Fundraiser Cheryl Halpern to the Board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- British Mp Meets with Saddam Hussein As Iraqi Opposition Groups Meet with State Department
- The US State Department Urges a US Court to Dismiss a Human Rights Lawsuit Against Exxon Mobil
Thursday, August 08, 2002
- Headlines for August 08, 2002
- A Conservative Christian Group Sues the University of North Carolina for Assigning a Book On Islam
- Mass Exodus of Fire Department Supervisors: Will This Finally Make Room for Women and People of Color?
Wednesday, August 07, 2002
- Headlines for August 07, 2002
- Israeli Police Attack a Demonstration Outside Occupied Nablus and Arrest Over a Dozen Palestinians and International Activists
- US Postal Workers Say No to Operation Tips
- The “Hollywood Hacking Bill”: A Proposal in Congress Gives Corporations the Right to Hack Into Personal Computer Networks to Protect Copyrighted Material
- Satellite Images Reveal U.S. Military Base in Qatar
- Briefing Depicted Saudis As Enemies
Tuesday, August 06, 2002
- Headlines for August 06, 2002
- “Hague Invasion Act”: Bush Signs a New Law Designed to Intimidate Countries That Ratify the Treaty for the International Criminal Court
- The Expansion of FBI Powers During the So Called War On Terror: A Look at the Case of Leonard Peltier
Monday, August 05, 2002
- Headlines for August 05, 2002
- The Saddam in Rumsfeld’s Closet-What Was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s Doing in Iraq in 1983?
- “Collateral Voices: A Report From the Frontlines of Iraq”
Friday, August 02, 2002
- Headlines for August 02, 2002
- 100 Israeli Tanks Invade Nablus After Bombing Kills Seven, Troops Kill Four Palestinians; UN Releases Report On Israel’s Attack On Jenin Refugee Camp
- Bush Admits Tax Havens Are a Problem: Meanwhile, Documents Show That Harken Energy Established a Tax Haven in the Cayman Islands While Bush Was On the Board
- A History of U.S. Intervention in the Philippines: As Colin Powell Arrives in the Philippines, Filipino President Gloria Arroyo Calls for An Investigation of a U.S. Soldier Accused of Shooting a Suspe
Thursday, August 01, 2002
- Headlines for August 01, 2002
- Hundreds of Workers March On Washington, Charging Bush with Exclusionary Relief Policies After 9/11
- The Barons of Bankruptcy: Survivors Who Laughed All the Way to the Bank
- Where Do Enron Execs Spend Their Millions? A Look at One of the Most Controversial Land Tracts in the Nation–An Enron Exec Bought It, Mexican-Americans Say It’s Their Birthright
- Secret Detentions and Deportations: This Time It’s the Haitian Population-–Dozens of Haitians Who Survived a Harrowing Sailboat Journey From Haiti Are Summarily Deported
