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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
- Headlines
- 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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April 2004 Archive
Friday, April 30, 2004
- Headlines for April 30, 2004
- Globalizing Democracy: Manifesto for a New World Order
- Abu Ghraib: New Warden, Same Prison
- GOP Allied Media Group Orders Affiliates To Preempt “Nightline” Show Honoring Slain U.S. Troops
- 60 Years is Enough: Thousands Protest the IMF and World Bank
Thursday, April 29, 2004
- Headlines for April 29, 2004
- Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk
- Brahimi’s Iraq Caretaker Gov’t Plan Opposed by Governing Council and Top Pentagon Officials
- Whistleblowers From Vietnam to 9/11: A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg and Sibel Edmonds
- Bush’s Scope of Power At Stake in Supreme Court Enemy Combatants Cases
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
- Headlines for April 28, 2004
- Dems Ignore Negroponte’s Death Squad Past, Look to Confirm Iraq Appointment
- “This Is The Massacre, The Holocaust That We Are Seeing In Fallujah”–U.S. Bombards Iraqi Town
- Damascus Gunbattle Kills Four After Bombing In Diplomatic Quarter
- Cheney Secrecy Case: Is the Supreme Court Allowing the US to Turn Into an Elected Dictatorship?
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
- Headlines for April 27, 2004
- The Battle for Fallujah Intesifies; U.S. Poised to Attack Najaf
- Congress Probes INC’s Lobbying Efforts
- Poll: U.S. Public Uninformed of Iraq Issues
- Death Squad Ambassador: Senate Hearings Begin on Negroponte Iraq Appointment
- Killer Coke: Activist Disrupts Coca Cola Shareholders Meeting
- Colombia and the United States: War, Terrorism, and Destabilization
- NBC Recognizes 107th Birthday of Amy Goodman’s Grandmother Sonia Bock
Monday, April 26, 2004
- Headlines for April 26, 2004
- March For Women’s Lives: Up to a Million Descend on DC in One of the Largest Protests in U.S. History
- Howard Dean on Women’s Rights, Elections, Iraq and Israel’s Assassination Policy
Friday, April 23, 2004
- Headlines for April 23, 2004
- Return of the Dead: Photos of Soldiers’ Coffins Revive Controversy
- With the June 30 Handover Approaching, Neocons Try To Sabotage UN Role in Iraq
- Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Pressed to Improve Depleted Uranium Testing
- The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communications Politics in the 21st Century
Thursday, April 22, 2004
- Headlines for April 22, 2004
- Saudi Woman Running for Office in U.S. On the Riyadh Bombing & the House of Saud
- The Other War: A Look At the Role of Women in Post-9/11 Afghanistan
- Voters in Inglewood, CA Reject Wal-Mart Superstore
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
- Headlines for April 21, 2004
- “You Cannot Break the Human Spirit”: Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu Released After 18 Years
- Major Bomb Attacks Across Iraq; Leaked CPA Memo Warns of Civil War
- Supreme Court Grills Gov’t Over Guantanamo Bay Detentions
- Sen. Kennedy Blasts Wolfowitz For Giving “Disingenuous” Testimony on Iraq
- B-Boy in Baghdad: KPFK Producer Jerry Quickley On Alternative Media Coverage in Iraq
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
- Headlines for April 20, 2004
- Did Bush Cut Secret Oil Deal With Saudis Ahead of 2004 Election?
- Bush Appoints Negroponte Iraq Ambassador
- No Child Left Unrecruited: Army Recruiters Target High Schools
- Coalition Crumbling: Spain Pulls Out of Iraq
Monday, April 19, 2004
- Headlines for April 19, 2004
- World Community, Except for the US, Condemns Israel’s Assassination of Top Hamas Leader
- Hip Hop Journalist Davey D on Police Surveillance of Rappers, the National Hip Hop Convention and the 2004 Election
- “Reflections on Return”: Injured Soldiers Speak About Coming Home From Iraq
Friday, April 16, 2004
- Headlines for April 16, 2004
- Exclusive: Mumia Abu Jamal Speaks to Democracy Now! From Death Row
- “Factory of Misery and Child Abuse”: Van Jones on Child Prisons in California
- Environmnetal Racism & Dirty Skies
- Former Hostages Held in Iraq Speak About Their Captors & the U.S. Occupation
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
- Headlines for April 14, 2004
- Bush Vows to Stay in Iraq But Offers No Strategy To Improve Situation
- Bush Questioned About 9/11, Testifying With Cheney
- Former FBI Director Blasts Ashcroft For Ignoring Terrorist Threat Warnings
- Ashcroft Says Patriot Act, Immigrant Detentions Strengthened War on Terror
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
- Headlines for April 13, 2004
- Fallujah Refugees Describe Horrors of U.S. Siege
- “Fear is Transmuting Into Anger”–Rahul Mahajan Reports on Resistance in Iraq
- EXCLUSIVE: Farouk Abdel-Muhti Set Free After Two Years in Prison
Monday, April 12, 2004
- Headlines for April 12, 2004
- Massacre in Fallujah: Over 600 Dead, 1,000 Injured, 60,000 Refugees
- Mass Antiwar Protests in Japan, Fate of Iraq Hostages Remains Unclear
- Hundreds of Corpses Fill Haiti Morgues
- Palestinian Activist Ordered Released After Two Years in Prison Without Charge
Friday, April 09, 2004
- Headlines for April 09, 2004
- Rice Defends Bush, Says White House Couldn’t Have Done More to Avoid 9/11
- Two Ex-CIA Analysts Blast Bush Administration on 9/11
- Two FBI Whistleblowers Accuse Bureau of Ignoring Warnings Before 9/11
- 9/11 Widow Blames White House for Mishandling 9/11 Threat and Hampering Investigation
Thursday, April 08, 2004
- Headlines for April 08, 2004
- As Rice Testifies, Death Toll Rises In Iraq
- Veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas On Bush and the State of the Media
- Iraqis in Sadr City “Confused and Terrified”
- “The American Military Crackdown Will Likely Only Increase Violence”–Resistance Erupts Across Iraq
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
- Headlines for April 07, 2004
- Battles Rage Across Iraq As U.S. Comes Face To Face With a Unified Armed Resistance
- The Roots of Resistance: Why The U.S. Faces a Joint Shia, Sunni Uprising in Iraq
- The Other War: Pentagon’s Own Report On Afghanistan Invasion Blasts U.S. War Strategy
- Witnesses: U.S. Special Forces Trained and Armed Haitian Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries in D.R.
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
- Headlines for April 06, 2004
- Iraq Intifada: U.S. Faces New Resistance Front As Shiites Join Armed Uprising
- Worse Than Watergate: Former Nixon Counsel John Dean Says Bush Should Be Impeached
- Sen. Ted Kennedy: Iraq Has Become ‘’George Bush’s Vietnam"
Monday, April 05, 2004
- Headlines for April 05, 2004
- Broadcast Exclusive: U.S. Soldiers Contaminated With Depleted Uranium Speak Out
Friday, April 02, 2004
- Headlines for April 02, 2004
- Ex-Bush National Security Council Member: How Bush Bungled The War on Terror
- Quagmire in Iraq: U.S. Casualties Up To 11,700
Thursday, April 01, 2004
- Headlines for April 01, 2004
- Hotbed of Resistance: An Iraqi Discusses Fallujah Violence
- Three Mile Island: 25th Anniversary of The Worst Nuclear Accident in U.S. History
- Rwanda Ten Years Ago: How the World Stood Back and Watched a Genocide
- Exposed: Washington Ignored U.S. Intel Warning of Genocide in Rwanda
- Blackwater USA: Building the “Largest Private Army in the World”
