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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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Friday, July 30, 2004
Headlines
- Kerry Accepts Democratic Nomination
- Hundreds Protest DNC; Police Arrest 5
- 9/11 Victims’ Families Begin Boston-NYC Peace March
- Pakistan Announces Top Al Qaeda Suspect Arrested
- Census Bureau Gave Homeland Security Data On Arab Americans
- Military To Investigate Soldier in Fahrenheit 9/11
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Kerry Accepts Nomination: Vows to Increase Military By 40,000 & Double No. of Special Forces
Like the speech of his running mate John Edwards the night before, Kerry’s speech could hardly be characterized as antiwar. Rather Kerry criticized President Bush for how he has chosen to go to war. The tone for Kerry’s speech was set when he took to the stage, held his hand up and saluted the crowd and said "I"m John Kerry and I"m reporting for duty." [includes rush transcript]
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Flashback: A Rare Broadcast of John Kerry's 1971 Speech Against the Vietnam War Before the Senate
Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the young Vietnam veteran says: “Someone has to die so that President Nixon won’t be, and these are his words, "the first President to lose a war… how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” [includes rush transcript]
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A July Surprise? Pakistan Announces Arrest of Top Al Qaeda Figure Hours Before Kerry Speech
The timing of the disclosure rekindles controversy surrounding an earlier report by the New Republic that the White House was pressuring Pakistan to produce a “high value target” in July during the Democratic convention. We talk to New Republic editor John Judis. [includes rush transcript]
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Hundreds Protest DNC in Boston; Two-Faced Effigy of Bush & Kerry Burned
On the last day of the Democratic convention Thursday, several hundred protesters wound through downtown Boston and stopped at the iron gates guarding the DNC. They refused to go to the police-sanctioned protest pen which is enclosed in barbed wire fencing. [includes rush transcript]
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DNC Delegate Arrested After Being Refused Entry To Fleet Center
A look at how one delegate went to the Fleet Center to attend the last night of the convention and ended up in jail after being denied entry. [includes rush transcript]
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Democracy Now! Confronts Madeline Albright on the Iraq Sanctions: Was It Worth The Price?
In May of 1996, 60 Minutes aired an interview with Madeline Albright, who at the time was Clinton"s UN Ambassador. Correspondent Leslie Stahl said to Albright, “We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And—and you know, is the price worth it?” Democracy Now bumped into Albright yesterday and asked for her response. [includes rush transcript]
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Democratic National Convention Chair Bill Richardson Questioned on the Party's Pro-War Stance
Amy Goodman tracks down the governor of New Mexico to question him on the Iraq invasion. [includes rush transcript]
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Kweisi Mfume on President Bush's Refusal to Address the NAACP
President Bush recently became the first president since Herbert Hoover to not address the NAACP during his first term in office. We asked the NAACP’s president for a response. [includes rush transcript]
