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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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May 2003 Archive
Friday, May 30, 2003
- Headlines for May 30, 2003
- Exclusive: Democracy Now! Broadcasts a Recording of a Police Sergeant Interrogating a Man Moments After Police Shoot him 5 Times, Paralyzing and Blinding Him.
- Sweet Honey in the Rock: Part II with the Legendary Civil Rights Singers
- Former Presidential Candidate Ron Daniels, on How the Fight for Civil Rights Continues Today
- President Bush Signs Tax Law that Excludes Some of the Country’s Poorest Families from Receiving Child Tax Credit
Thursday, May 29, 2003
- Headlines for May 29, 2003
- “No More Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway”–Despite a National Call for a Delay, the FCC is Poised to Vote on Media Consolidation Rules on June 2nd
- Legendary Civil Rights Singers, Sweet Honey in the Rock: Part I of a Democracy Now! Special
- Diverse Organizations from Around the Country Testify Against Media Consolidation
- Washington’s “War on Terror” has Made the World a More Dangerous Place
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
- Headlines for May 28, 2003
- Howard Zinn and Arundhati Roy: A Conversation Between Two Leading Social Critics
- Supreme Court Refuses to Hear an Appeal on the Hundreds of Secret Deportation Hearings for Immigrants Detained After September 11th
- Arcata City Council Criminalizes Compliance with USA Patriot Act
- Government Investigates Allegations of Abuse in Two Immigration Facilities
- “Having invaded Iraq, Bush and his Hawks are Now Getting Ready to go for Regime Change in Tehran”
- Financial Times: The Bush Administration Planned to Invade Iraq as Early as December
- You Back the Attack, We’ll Bomb Who We Want!–A Collection of Remixed War Posters
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
- Headlines for May 27, 2003
- As Outrage Mounts in New York Over the Police Killing of Another African Immigrant, Democracy Now! Interviews Kadiatou Diallo, Mother of Amadou Diallo.
- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Calls Israeli Presence in Palestine “Occupation,” Stunning Lawmakers; Now, the Foreign Ministry is Weighing Lifting a Ban on the Word
- Corporate Profiteering: From Congo to Iraq
Monday, May 26, 2003
- Headlines for May 26, 2003
- “Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death,” Part 2: Award-Winning Director/Producer Jamie Doran Alleges a Media Cover-Up of US Complicity in the Massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban Prisoners
- Democracy Now! Exclusive: Four Peace Activists Throw Their Blood on the Deck of the USS Philippine Sea, the First U.S. Warship to Attack Afghanistan After September 11th
- Three Dominican Nuns Await Sentencing for Damaging Nuclear Site in Colorado
- Five Members of the Pacifist Catholic Worker Movement Face 10 Years in Prison for Peace Protests at Shannon Airport in Ireland
- Remembering Peace Veteran Phil Berrigan (1923-2002)
Friday, May 23, 2003
- Headlines for May 23, 2003
- “Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death” Broadcast for the First Time Ever in the US: Eyewitnesses Testify that US Troops Were Complicit in the Massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban Prisoners During the Afgha
- U.N. Security Council Lifts a Decade of Devastating Sanctions Responsible for the Deaths of up to One Million Iraqi Children
- Was the Invasion of Iraq the Deadliest U.S. Military Campaign for Civilians Since Vietnam?
- U.S. Threatens to Withhold AIDS Drugs from African Countries That Bar Genetically Engineered Foods
- Children’s Programming is at Risk from a Concentration of Ownership in the Media
Thursday, May 22, 2003
- Headlines for May 22, 2003
- Telecommunications Industry Has Lavished FCC Commissioners with Millions of Dollars in Travel Gifts
- FCC Commissioner Michael Copps Speaks at the Final Public Hearing Before FCC Overhauls Decades-Old Rules Governing Media Consolidation
- The Peaceful Mbuti People Call on the UN to Prosecute Government and Rebel Fighters as Civil War Rages in the Congo
- As the White House Moves to Develop a New Generation of Nuclear Weapons, Dr. Helen Caldicott Speaks on Nuclear Proliferation and the Invasion of Iraq
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
- Headlines for May 21, 2003
- New York Times Reporter, Chris Hedges was Booed off the Stage and had his Microphone Cut Twice as he Delivered a Graduation Speech on War and Empire at Rockford College in Illinois.
- "Rupert Murdoch’s Digital Death Star”
- Is the Jayson Blair Affair the Low Point in New York Times’ 150-Year History?
- Cuba: The Next Regime Change? Florida Governor Jeb Bush Denies Allegations That He is Urging His Brother to Invade Cuba
- St. Louis Police Stage a ‘Pre-emptive Strike’ and Arrest 27 Activists Prior to Demonstration
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
- Headlines for May 20, 2003
- Will Changes in the Nation’s Media Ownership Rules Mark “the Beginning of the End of Our Democracy”?
- In an Exclusive U.S. Interview, Democracy Now! Talks with the Widow of the Al Jazeera Journalist Who Died When U.S. Forces Shelled His Office in Baghdad
- U.S. Bombing of Basra Kills One Iraqi Boy and Wounds His Brother. Their Mother, Umm Haider, Speaks About Her Family?s Plight.
- Who, What, When, Where, How? Did the U.S. Media Follow the Basic Rules of Journalism, or did they “Follow the Flag”?
- “This is not American Troops Going After Saddam’s Folks. This is Violence in the Streets and it’s Out of Control.”
Monday, May 19, 2003
- Headlines for May 19, 2003
- Indonesian Military Launches a Massive Attack on Separatist Movement in Aceh
- The U.S.A. Faces Wave of Media Mergers and Unprecedented Consolidation if FCC Relaxes Media Ownership Rules
- Dissident FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein Speaks Out Against Media Ownership Deregulation
- Harlem Woman Dies After Botched Police Drug Raid
- “The Ballot or the Bullet. It’s Liberty or Death. It’s Freedom for Everybody or Freedom for Nobody”: Malcolm X Would Have Been 78 Years Old Today.
Friday, May 16, 2003
- Headlines for May 16, 2003
- Radiation is 1,000 Times the Normal Levels Where US Troops Used Depleted Uranium Shells in Baghdad
- Michael Franti: On Government Surveillance and the Role of Artists in a Time of War
- Chinese-American Journalist, Author, Activist, Feminist, Lesbian Helen Zia Speaks on the Politics of Identity and the Nature of Evil in the Post-911 U.S.A.
- A House Committee Unanimously Approves a Modified Bush “Bioshield”: is it to Protect the American People, or the Pharmaceutical Industry?
- Right-Wing Media Strives to Have Danny Glover Dropped as MCI Spokesperson
Thursday, May 15, 2003
- Headlines for May 15, 2003
- Arundhati Roy: “Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy, Buy One Get One Free”
- Vinnell Corporation: The Link Between Oil Fields, Saudi Troops, “No Jews” Clauses, Coup Attempts in Grenada, and Monday’s Car Bombings in Saudi Arabia
- One Third of the Texas State Legislature Flees the State and Takes Refuge in a Holiday Inn in Oklahoma
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
- Headlines for May 14, 2003
- As Washington & Seoul prepare for talks on North Korea, Noam Chomsky discusses U.S.-Korean relations
- UN Security Council to Discuss US Proposal that Would Lift the Sanctions on Iraq and Give US Forces Full Control of Iraq’s Oil
- Apartheid Victims in South Africa Are Still Suffering
- Operation Strangelove: “Stop Cowboy Diplomacy!”
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
- Headlines for May 13, 2003
- Gore Vidal on the “United States of Amnesia,” 9/11, the 2000 Election and the War in Iraq
- Britain’s Longest Serving MP Tam Dalyell Criticized for Calling Bush Administration a “Cabal”
- U.S. Sends Chief Weapons Search Team Home From Iraq Empty-handed
- The Philippines: The Next Front in the War on Terror?
Monday, May 12, 2003
- Headlines for May 12, 2003
- Arundhati Roy on Empire, the Corporate Media, Indian Politics, Her Childhood and War
- Israel Raids ISM Headquarters & Bars Peace Activists from Gaza
- The Right Reverend Paul Moore, 1919-2003
- Bombing in Philippines Kills 10 in the Town of Koronadal on the Island of Mindanao
Friday, May 09, 2003
- Headlines for May 09, 2003
- Protests Mark 30th Anniversary of New York’s Rockefeller Drug Laws
- The Unborn Victims of Violence Act: Is it to Protect Mothers or Undermine Roe v. Wade?
- Children Read Mother’s Day Cards to Incarcerated Mothers
- Mother’s Day as a Day of Activism, Resistance and Women’s Solidarity
- Cop Takes Midnight Photos of Pacifist Teacher’s Classroom
- Bush May Invoke Executive Privilege to Keep 9/11 Docs Away From Congressional Investigators
- Wounded Knee II, 30 Years Later
Thursday, May 08, 2003
- Headlines for May 08, 2003
- Looks Like News, Sounds Like News–But Paid for By Drug Companies
- Global AIDS, TB and Malaria Fund Facing Massive Shortfall in Funding: The US Has Given $200 Million Out of a Requested $3.5 Billion Per Year
- Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz Secretly Create New Pentagon-Based Intelligence Unit
- Harsh New York Rockefeller Drug Laws Turn 30: Hip Hop Pioneer Russell Simmons & Anthony Papa Who Served 12 Years for a First-Time Offense Call for Repeal of the Laws
- A Look at How a Single Officer in Tulia Texas Arrested 46 People On False, Trumped-Up Drug Charges: Falsely Convicted Suspects Join us in the Studio
Wednesday, May 07, 2003
- Headlines for May 07, 2003
- "At Least When Saddam Was Here There May Not Have Been Freedom But There Was Security: Democracy Now! Producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports From The Streets of Baghdad
- As President Bush Names a New Ruler of Iraq, Humanitarian Groups Say the U.S. Is More Concerned with Building An Administration Than with the Health and Well-Being of the People
- Iraqi Civilians Sue General Tommy Franks for War Crimes
- Survivors of the Worst Industrial Accident in World History to Confront Dow Chemical at Shareholder’s Meeting: Over 20,000 People Were Killed in Bhopal, India
- U.S. Is Buying Data On Foreign Citizens–and ChoicePoint Is Selling It
- Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Criticizes President Bush’s Proposed $550 Billion Tax Cut
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
- Headlines for May 06, 2003
- “It’s Clear That Islam Is On the Way to Disappearing”: The Words of Israeli Tourism Minister Benny Elon, Who Is Set to Lobby Christian Fundamentalists Close to President Bush Against the Middle East P
- U.S. Hires Christian Fundamentalists to Produce News for Iraqis
- United for Peace & Justice Organizer Leslie Cagan Speaks On the State of the Anti-War Movement After the Invasion of Iraq
- Anti-Apartheid Leader Walter Sisulu Dies at the Age of 90
- “The Bookie of Virtue”: Moral Crusader and Former Drug Czar Bill Bennett Made Millions Lecturing People On Morality-and Blew $8 Million On High Stakes Gambling
- Inside the Secret Hearings of Joseph Mccarthy: Newly Released Documents Shed Light On the Questioning of Aaron Copland, Langston Hughes and Others
Monday, May 05, 2003
- Headlines for May 05, 2003
- Israeli Troops Shoot Dead Another Journalist in the Occupied Territories, According to Witnesses: James Miller Was An Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker
- 33 Years Ago Yesterday, US National Guardsmen Fired Into a Crowd of People at Kent State University Who Were Protesting the Vietnam War, Killing Four
- Patriot Raid: Citing Homeland Security & Patriot Act, Ins Raids NYC Restaurant, Questions Staff at Gunpoint and Detains Patrons
- Operation Homeland Resistance: As Immigration Detainees Complain About Mistreatment in Jail, a Coalition of Activists Plan New Campaign to Oppose the War at Home
- As the US Considers Normalizing Relations with the Indonesia Army, We Talk with Lesley Mcculloch, a Scottish Academic Who Was Recently Released From An Aceh Jail
Friday, May 02, 2003
- Headlines for May 02, 2003
- GW’s Checkered Military Past
- “The Iron Triangle: The Secret History of the Carlyle Group”
- The Secrets of September 11, What Is the White House Hiding? a Conversation with Newsweek Investigative Reporter Michael Isikoff
- Did Donald Rumsfeld Aid North Korea’s Nuclear Program?: A New Report Reveals Rumsfeld Was On Board of Zurich Firm Abb Which Sold North Korea Two Nuclear Reactors
- Occidental Petroleum Sued for Role in Civilian Massacre in Colombia
- Celebrations Continue in Vieques Following the Departure of the U.S. Military
Thursday, May 01, 2003
- Headlines for May 01, 2003
- U.S.-Backed Middle East Peace Plan Released: A Debate Between Electronic Intifada and AIPAC
