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- Rep. Dennis Kucinich v. Glenn Greenwald on the Supreme Court’s Landmark Campaign Finance Ruling on Corporate Money
- Rep. John Murtha, Iraq War Critic, Dies at 77
- David Price: “The CIA Is Welcoming Itself Back onto American University Campuses”
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Monday, February 08, 2010
Friday, February 05, 2010
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- Pro-Choice Advocates Criticize CBS for Accepting Anti-Abortion Super Bowl Ad
- Dave Zirin on Super Bowl Fever in New Orleans and the Militarization of Sport’s Biggest Spectacle
- How to Get Our Democracy Back: Lawrence Lessig Says “If We Want to Change, We Have to Change Congress”
- Yemeni Journalist Nasser Arrabyee: US Involvement Undermines Sound Response to Yemen-Based Militants
Thursday, February 04, 2010
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Catch Amy Goodman with Naomi Klein and Raj Patel on C-SPAN’s Book TV this Sunday and Monday
Tune in to C-SPAN’s Book TV on Sunday, February 7th at 3pm ET and Monday, February 8th at 5am ET for a discussion on the economy, the earthquake in Haiti, and other topics.
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Democracy Now! Makes Lily Tomlin’s Short List
Lily Tomlin gave Democracy Now! a shout out in Time Magazine’s “Short List of Things To Do.”
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Oscar Nominees Include Docs on China Earthquake, Burma and Pentagon Papers
Nominations have been announced for the 82nd annual Academy Awards. In the documentary category, three films featured on Democracy Now! in the past year received nods:
* The Most Dangerous Man in America
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Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian
Howard Zinn, legendary historian, author and activist, died last week at the age of 87. His most famous book is “A People’s History of the United States.”
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Let the Haitians In
The devastating toll of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti continues to mount. Most efforts to rescue people from the rubble have ended. More than 150,000 people have been buried, some in makeshift graves near the ruins of the homes where they died, but many in unmarked, mass graves at Titanyen, the site of massacres during previous dictatorships and coups.
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Amy Goodman on Riz Khan: “The Role of Media in the USA”
Has the mainstream media in the US replaced serious coverage with “junk news” and tabloidism? Especially in foreign affairs, are Americans less informed than ever? Who is shaping their perceptions of the rest of the world? And who is policing US foreign policy?
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Tè Tremblé—The Haitian Earth Trembled
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Tè tremblé is Haitian Creole for “earthquake.” Its literal translation: “The earth trembled.” After the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, the stench of death is everywhere.
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Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! Reporting From Haiti
Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Elizabeth Press from Democracy Now are in Haiti reporting on the devastating earthquake. Tune in Tuesday for a report from Amy. For the latest updates visit the Democracy Now! Twitter page and Sharif’s Twitter page.
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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.
