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Thursday, November 05, 2009
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- As Massey Energy Blasts West Virginia’s Coal River Mountain, a Debate on Mountaintop Removal Mining
- “GM’s Money Trees”: Displacement of Rural Brazilians Highlights Consequences of “Cap and Trade” System
- Italian Prosecutor in Case Against CIA Operatives Hails Convictions for ’03 Kidnapping of Egyptian Cleric
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
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- Blueberry Farming Giant Found to Use Child Labor at Michigan Fields
- Election Day 2009: GOPers Sweep Governor Races; Bloomberg Wins Tight NYC Mayoral Race; Dems Take House Seats; Maine Repeals Gay Marriage
- Low Road to High Finance: McClatchy Expose Reveals How Goldman Sachs Sold Off Billions in Mortgage Securities After Anticipating Housing Collapse
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
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- Appeals Court Rules in Maher Arar Case: Innocent Victims of Extraordinary Rendition Cannot Sue in US Courts
- “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama”: New Documentary on Barack Obama’s Historic Presidential Run
- Israeli Activists Criticize US House for Considering Resolution Condemning Goldstone Report on Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
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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.
Filed under Weekly Column
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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.
Filed under Weekly Column
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Watch What You Tweet
A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home—all for using Twitter.
Filed under Weekly Column
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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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Podcasting & Torrents
Thursday, March 20, 2003
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U.S. Begins Invasion of Iraq in An Attempt to Assassinate Iraqi President Saddam Hussein: We Go Live to Baghdad with Kathy Kelly and Hear President Bush, Hussein
At around 9:30 Eastern Standard Time last night, the U.S. military began an unprovoked attack on Iraq.
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Hundreds of Thousands Take to the Streets to Protest War Starting Just Hours After the War Starts: We Go Sydney, London and Washington
More than 500 communities throughout the US are organizing protests for today. Activists are calling for nationwide walkouts, strikes and protests.
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Talk-Back to War: Listeners Tell US What They're Doing in This Time of War
We turn now to you, the listeners. This is what some of you had to say about what you’re doing in this time of war.
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June Jordan, An Anti-War Voice of the Past From the Pacifica Archives
On this first day of war we go back to the Pacifica Archives to hear June Jordan, poet, activist, essayist, teacher. June Jordan is the most published African-American writer in history. She burst onto the literary and political scene in the late 1960s, on the wings of the civil rights and anti-war movements. Poetry for her was a political act, and she used it to shine a fierce light on racism, sexism, homophobia, apartheid, poverty, and US foreign policy. Author Toni Morrison once summed up her career as: “Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.”
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Iraqi People Speak Out Against the U.S. Invasion
Sometime after 9:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, the U.S. military began an unprovoked attack on Iraq.
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Booker Prize-Winning Author Arundhati Roy Slams U.S. Invasion As Protests Intensify and U.N. Security Council Members Voice Their Opposition
Around the world, international leaders are condemning the U.S. war. Top officials from France, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Greece, Malyasia, Indonesia and New Zealand are among the countries opposing the attack.
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Burning the "Bridge to Baghdad": As War Begins, the Media Censors the Voices of Ordinary Iraqi People
The corporate media networks have “embedded” hundreds of journalists with the US military. But they have not one with an Iraqi family.
