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Amy Goodman’s New Column, “Tutu, Obama and the Middle East”
As President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You may not have heard much lately about the disaster in the Gaza Strip. That silence is intentional: The Israeli government has barred international journalists from entering the occupied territory.
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“A View From the South”
Evo Morales knows about “change you can believe in.” He also knows what happens when a powerful elite is forced to make changes it doesn’t want.
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“President Obama Can Redeem the White House”
Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves.
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Amy Goodman on CNN Newsroom, November 10, 2008
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Anjali Kamat’s New Column: “Change We Can Believe In?”
Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat writes, “To all those for whom America has represented generations of racial injustice, the election of America’s first Black president marks the beginning of a new era…But unless the inspired millions who brought him to power continue to believe their demands matter and insist on holding him accountable each step of the way, it will be Obama’s corporate and hawkish friends who determine the domestic and foreign policies of the coming administration and our collective future.”
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“Organizer in Chief”
You could almost hear the world’s collective sigh of relief. This year’s U.S. presidential election was a global event in every sense. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, represents to so many a living bridge—between continents and cultures.
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Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago. Over the years Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!In 2005, Studs Terkel appeared on Democracy Now! shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. He told Amy Goodman, “My curiosity is what saw me through. What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, that’s my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And it’s curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.”
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“Election Protection”
Election Day approaches, and with it a test of our election system’s integrity. Who will be allowed to vote; who will be barred? Who will get paper ballots; who will use electronic voting machines? Will polls be open long enough to accommodate what is expected to be a historic turnout?
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Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Headlines
- White House Rejects Independent Council in Wilson Affair
- Bush Allies Start Biz To “Take Advantage” of Iraq Reconstruction
- Census: 44 Million Without Health Insurance in U.S.
- UN Staff Leaving Iraq Following Bombings
- Israeli Army Destroys Home of Dead Palestinian Bomber’s Family
- Israeli Panel Likens Refusniks To Mutineers
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White House Rejects Demands by Congress Members for an Independent Probe of White House Leak That Blew CIA Operative's Cover
The CIA operative’s identity was first revealed by senior administration officials in July a week after her husband former ambassador to Iraq, Joseph Wilson, publicly challenged President Bush’s claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger. When asked directly, White House press secretary said for the first time Bush’s chief advisor Karl Rove “wasn’t involved. The president knows he wasn’t involved.”
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Foreign Students Need Not Apply: A Look At the New Target of U.S. Govt's Hunt For "Potential Terrorists"
A new monitoring system that took full effect Aug. 1st is generating fears that foreign students coming under increasing government scrutiny may choose to study in other countries. We host a debate between a New York University Dean and a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security. [Includes transcript]
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Military Families And Soldiers Speak Out Against War
A week after the White House’s announcement that thousands more National Guard and Reserve troops might have to be called up if allies don’t agree to send troops to Iraq, we hear a speech by Nancy Lessin, founder of Military Families Speak Out and from Abdul Henderson, a soldier who recently returned from military duty in Iraq. [Includes transcript]
