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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 2003 Archive
Friday, November 28, 2003
- Headlines for November 28, 2003
- Activist Kathy Kelly ’Hogtied" & Abused By Army At SOA Protests
- Journalist Bill Moyers: “Our Democracy Is In Danger of Being Paralyzed”
Thursday, November 27, 2003
- Headlines for November 27, 2003
- An Hour With Vandana Shiva, Indian Scientist and Leading Critic of Corporate Globalization
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
- Headlines for November 26, 2003
- The Radical Mind of Dick Cheney: An In-Depth Look at the Vice President
- Bush Lifts Ban on Mini Nukes
- Unions Call For Timoney to Be Fired & Congressional Investigation After Bloody Miami FTAA Protests
- “There’s an Incredible Mismatch Between Military Doctrine And The Situation That Actually Exists There Right Now” – A Conversation With Two Fathers of Soldiers Deployed in Iraq
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
- Headlines for November 25, 2003
- Privatizing Medicare? A Debate on the Controversial Medicare Drug Bill
- TV Ownership Cap Raised After Congress Backs Down
- Bush Backers to Reap Energy, Medicare Bill Tax Benefits
- Will Anti Spam Bill Erode First Amendment Rights?
- Alexander Cockburn Speaks Out On Rupert Murdoch the Israel-Palestine Conflict and the Politics of Anti-Semitism
Monday, November 24, 2003
- Headlines for November 24, 2003
- DN! Producer Ana Nogueira Among 250 Arrested in Miami FTAA Protests
- 10,000 Protest in Fort Benning, Georgia Against School of Americas, What Many Critics Call the “School of Assassins”
Friday, November 21, 2003
- Headlines for November 21, 2003
- Turkey Seeks Answers After A Week Where Bombings Killed Over 50
- Mayhem in Miami: Amidst Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Democracy Now! Reports From the Streets of the FTAA Protests
- The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s
Thursday, November 20, 2003
- Headlines for November 20, 2003
- “We Don’t Want This Foolish, Ignorant, And Dangerous Man In Our Country”–George Galloway on Bush’s UK Visit
- Live in Miami: Thousands of Protesters Stage Demonstrations at FTAA Meeting
- 9/11 Commissioner & 9/11 Widow Condemn the White House For Restricting Access to Intelligence Documents
- Ashcroft Files New Terrorist-Related Charge Against Civil Rights Lawyer
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
- Headlines for November 19, 2003
- War Resistance: A Growing Number of Soldiers Speak Out Against War
- Pacifica Archive Special: We Hear the Voices of Martin Luther King Jr., Nixon, Pacifica Reporter Dale Minor, Vietnam War Resisters and More
- From the Persian Gulf to the Invasion – Poet, Activist, Essayist and Teacher June Jordan Speaks About the U.S. and Iraq in 1991
- Mass. Court Rules That Gay Couples Have the Right to Marry Under the State’s Constitution
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
- Headlines for November 18, 2003
- Report: U.S. Casualties From Iraq War Top 9,000
- London in a State of “Virtual Siege” Ahead of Bush State Visit to UK
- FTAA Protesters Say Miami Police Violating 1st Amendment Rights
Monday, November 17, 2003
- Headlines for November 17, 2003
- NYPD Attack Benefit for Anarchist Group in Brooklyn
- Free Mumia Coalition Responds to Michael Moore and His New Lawyer Discusses Recent Case Developments
- “You’ve Got to Keep a Sense of Humor in These Times”–Arab-American Comics Speak Out
Friday, November 14, 2003
- Headlines for November 14, 2003
- U.S. Launches Operation Iron Hammer; Berlusconi to Keep Italian Troops in Iraq Following Nasiriyah Bombing
- “We Need To Go City By City And Take Back The Media For The People”–Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley Speaks Out on Corporate Media
- Tell Us The Truth: Billy Bragg and Hip-Hop Artist Boots Riley On Music, War and the Media
Thursday, November 13, 2003
- Headlines for November 13, 2003
- “We Ask For Democracy And Human Rights Without Oppression And Without Killing” – Kurdish Independence Leader Mehdi Zana Joins Us in Our Studio
- Arrested Immigrant Workers File Racketeering Lawsuit Against Wal-Mart
- Ashcroft Case Against Greenpeace Threatens First Amendment Rights
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
- Headlines for November 12, 2003
- Democracy Now! Hosts a Debate on the WTO Ruling Against GW’s Steel Tariffs
- Rep. Bernie Sanders, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein and Watchdog Chuck Lewis Speaking From The National Conference on Media Reform
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
- Headlines for November 11, 2003
- Supreme Court To Hear First Case on Guantanamo Detainees
- Why is President Bush Maintaining a Ban On Seeing War’s Returning Casualties?
- “My Son Died For Oil” – In a Democracy Now! Veterans Day Special We Hear From Military Families of Soldiers in Iraq
- Another Former Intelligence Official Blows the Whistle on 9/11
Monday, November 10, 2003
- Headlines for November 10, 2003
- Iraq is Not America’s to Sell – Author and Journalist Naomi Klein on America’s Corporate Control of Iraq
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
- Ex-Guantanamo Pakistani Man Sues U.S. And Pakistan Governments
- Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate in New Hampshire on Iraq, Domestic Policy Issues and Gore’s Endorsement of Dean
Friday, November 07, 2003
- Headlines for November 07, 2003
- Canadian Man Deported by U.S. Details Torture in Syria
- “The Violations of Human Rights by the Israeli Army is Unprecedented”–Mustafa Barghouti Discusses the Occupation of Palestine
- “Bush is a Dangerous Nincompoop”–Actor/Musician Jack Black on the War on Terror, the Democrats and the Rockefeller Drug Laws
Thursday, November 06, 2003
- Headlines for November 06, 2003
- As Occupation Worsens, White House Tries to Blame CIA For Rejecting Iraqi Offer on Eve of War
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised –Why is Amnesty Not Screening a New Documentary About the Failed 2002 Coup in Venezuela?
- Censorship at CBS? – A Look at Why “The Reagans” Was Cancelled
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
- Headlines for November 05, 2003
- Live From Baghdad An Ordinary Iraqi Speaks Out: “The U.S. Has No Intention of Leaving Iraq”
- “I Find That A Travesty”–Joseph Wilson On Reports the White House May Invoke Executive Privilege In the Investigation of the Outting of His Wife As a CIA Operative
- Scientific McCarthyism: Is The Bush Administration Compiling a Hit List of AIDS Scientists?
Tuesday, November 04, 2003
- Headlines for November 04, 2003
- Radio For Peace International Under Siege in Costa Rica
- Hope Dies Last–An Hour with Legendary Broadcaster and Author Studs Terkel
Monday, November 03, 2003
- Headlines for November 03, 2003
- 16 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Missile Attack in Iraq
- Pacifica Correspondent Jerry Quickley on Iraqi Resistance and Life Under Occupation in Baghdad
- As Rumsfeld Calls For Action Against “Schools That Teach Terrorism” We Take A Look At the School of the Americas, What Many Critics Call the "School of Assassins
