RECENT SHOWS
Thursday, October 09, 2008
- Headlines
- Greg Palast on Vote Rigging and Suppression Ahead of the 2008 Election
- Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on Voter Rights, Faulty Electronic Voting Machines, Voter Fraud and GOP Voter Challenges
- Report: Voter Purging Process Is Shrouded in Secrecy, Prone to Error and Vulnerable to Manipulation
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
- Headlines
- Faltering Economy Takes Center Stage in McCain-Obama Debate
- European, Asian Markets Plunge as Recession Fears Spread Worldwide
- McCain-Obama Debate Highlights Similar Stances on Foreign Policy
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Headlines
- Can Coal Be Clean? A Debate Between Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network and Joe Lucas of American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
- The Tyranny of Oil: Antonia Juhasz on “The World’s Most Powerful Industry—What We Must Do to Stop It”
- Is Posse Comitatus Dead? US Troops on US Streets
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Amy Goodman’s Latest Column: “Open the Debates”
The reviews are in, and the latest U.S. presidential debate, the “town hall” from Nashville, Tenn., was a snore. One problem is that in a debate it is important for the debaters to actually disagree. Yet Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain substantively agree on many issues. That is one major reason that the debates should be open, and that major third-party or independent candidates should be included.
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Press Coverage of the Right Livelihood Award
Amy Goodman, first journalist to win the “Alternative Nobel”
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“Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs”
A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. “Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months,” reported Army Times staff writer Gina Cavallaro, “the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.” Disturbingly, she writes that “they may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control” as well.
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Amy Goodman First Journalist to Win “Alternative Nobel”
New York City, NY – Award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely recognized as the world’s premier award for personal courage and social transformation. The annual prize, also known as the Alternative Nobel, will be awarded in the Swedish Parliament on December 8, 2008.
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“Incarceration Now!”: NPR’s On The Media Interviews Amy Goodman
Around 800 people were arrested during the four day Republican National Convention earlier this month. Dozens were reporters, and one was Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, who argues the arrests have a chilling effect on journalists.
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“Troy Davis and the Supreme Decision”
Troy Anthony Davis was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday. Two hours before the state of Georgia was to execute him, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay until Monday. It had earlier agreed to hear Davis’ case on Sept. 29, but Georgia set his execution date six days before the hearing.
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Charges Dropped Against DN! Journalists–Investigation Needed
The St. Paul City Attorney’s office announced Friday it will not prosecute Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman also issued a statement Friday that “the city will decline to prosecute misdemeanor charges for presence at an unlawful assembly for journalists arrested during the Republican National Convention.”
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Associated Press: “Reporters arrested at GOP convention: No charges”
ST. PAUL, Minn.–Charges will be dropped against journalists who were arrested during the Republican National Convention protests and cited with unlawful assembly.
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June 2005 Archive
Thursday, June 30, 2005
- Headlines for June 30, 2005
- Fmr. NY Congressmember Holtzman Calls For President Bush and His Senior Staff To Be Held Accountable for Abu Ghraib Torture
- Zimbabwe Amb. vs. Trade Union Leader on Forced Urban Removal in Harare
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
- Headlines for June 29, 2005
- Fmr. Pentagon Insider Blasts Bush’s Iraq Speech and Repeated References to 9/11
- Journalist Patrick Cockburn Calls Iraq a “Bloody Mess” One Year After Handover of “Sovereignty”
- Mother of Soldier Killed in Iraq: “The Best Way To Honor My Son’s Death Would Be To Bring The Troops Home”
- Iraqi Blogger Criticizes Western Media For Excluding Iraqi Voices
- Rahul Mahajan: “Bush Trots Out Bin Laden to Justify Anything He is Doing”
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
- Headlines for June 28, 2005
- Protecting Whistleblowers or Shielding Government Wrongdoing? Supreme Court on Journalists and Anonymous Sources
- Eminent Domain Ruling: Justices Uphold Taking Property for Private Development
- Supreme Court Rules to Hold Internet File-Sharing Companies Liable
- Supreme Court Rules Cable Companies Not Required to Share Broadband Lines
- Supreme Court Delivers Split Verdict on Ten Commandments Displays
Monday, June 27, 2005
- Headlines for June 27, 2005
- Conservative Tehran Mayor Wins Upset Victory in Iran Run-Off Presidential Election
- Italy Judge Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Agents For Illegally Kidnapping Cleric in Milan
- World Tribunal on Iraq Condemns U.S. and Britain, Recognizes Right of Iraqis to Resist Occupation
- Beyond Marriage: A Progressive Gay Rights Agenda
Friday, June 24, 2005
- Headlines for June 24, 2005
- Ex-Klansman Killen Gets Maximum 60-Yr Sentence for Manslaughter Charge in 1964 Mississippi Killings
- Pentagon Developing Massive Database on Millions of U.S. Students
- Indian Leaders Offer to Settle Largest Class Action Lawsuit Against Federal Government in U.S. History
- House Restores $100M to Public Broadcasting As CPB Taps Fmr. RNC Chair Pat Harrison For President
Thursday, June 23, 2005
- Headlines for June 23, 2005
- Diamond Giant De Beers Opens First U.S. Store Amid Protests Over Eviction of Bushmen in Botswana
- Gloria Steinem Remembers Feminist Writer and Activist Andrea Dworkin
- Milk Money: How Corporate Interests Shaped Government Health Policy for Women
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
- Headlines for June 22, 2005
- Bill Moyers: “The Radical Right Wing is Very Close to Achieving a Longtime Goal of Undermining the Independence of Public Broadcasting”
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
- Headlines for June 21, 2005
- Private Warriors: New PBS Doc Questions Role of Military Contractors in Iraq
- “I Will Go On Until I Have Even the Slightest Hope of Justice”–Rare Broadcast Interview With Pakistani Rape Survivor Mukhtar Mai
Monday, June 20, 2005
- Headlines for June 20, 2005
- Iran Presidential Race Heads to Unprecedented Runoff in Election Marred by Fraud Allegations
- Bush’s Environment Chief: From the Oil Lobby to the White House to ExxonMobil
Friday, June 17, 2005
- Headlines for June 17, 2005
- PBS TV Station President Warns CPB Funding Cuts Will Launch “Spiral of Death for Public Broadcasting”
- Downing Street and Beyond: Hearing Builds Momentum for Full Investigation
- British Father of Soldier Killed in Iraq: “My Son Died For a Lie”
- Iran Votes in Presidential Election
Thursday, June 16, 2005
- Headlines for June 16, 2005
- Crackdown on Dissent in Ethiopia
- South African Activist Dennis Brutus Calls on Barclays Bank to Pay Reparations for Apartheid Profits
- As CPB Faces Massive Funding Cuts, A Look Back at the National Media Reform Conference
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
- Headlines for June 15, 2005
- The Downing Street Memo Comes To Washington; Conyers Blasts “Deafening Sound of Silence”
- The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till: New Documentary Uncovers Evidence in 1955 Murder
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
- Headlines for June 14, 2005
- Senate Apologizes For Not Enacting Anti-Lynching Legislation, A Look at Journalist and Anti-Lynching Crusader Ida B. Wells
- Strange Fruit: Anthem of the Anti-Lynching Movement
- Mississippi Trial Begins in 1964 Civil Rights Killings
Monday, June 13, 2005
- Headlines for June 13, 2005
- Following Years of Protests, U.S. & G8 Nations Agree To Cancel Debt For 18 of the World’s Poorest Countries
- FBI Whistleblower: White Supremacists Are Major Domestic Terrorist Threat
- Iraqi Oil Workers Fight Privatization and Occupation
Friday, June 10, 2005
- Headlines for June 10, 2005
- New Bolivian President Sworn in After Weeks of Mass Rebellion
- Anti-Sweatshop Activist and Chief Nicaragua Negotiator on CAFTA Debate Central America Free Trade
Thursday, June 09, 2005
- Headlines for June 09, 2005
- Patriot Act Two Passed by Senate Intelligence Committee
- White House Environmental Chief Cooney Watered Down Climate Reports
- MOSAIC: World News From The Middle East
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
- Headlines for June 08, 2005
- Salih Booker on Africa Debt: The Poorest Regions in the World Have Subsidized the Richest
- French Journalist Describes Mistreatment by U.S. Forces During Siege of Fallujah
- French Reporter Kidnapped by Iraqi Resistance For 4 Months Says Bush Brought Al Qaeda to Iraq
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
- Headlines for June 07, 2005
- Mass Indigenous-led Rebellion Forces Bolivian President to Resign
- Supreme Court Rules Against Medical Marijuana Use
- EXCLUSIVE: Another U.S. War Resister Flees to Canada To Avoid Fighting in Iraq Via The New ‘Underground Railroad’
Monday, June 06, 2005
- Headlines for June 06, 2005
- The Smoking Bullet in the Smoking Gun: Bush Began Iraq Invasion in 2002
- After the Downing Street Memo: The Case for Impeachment Builds
- Son of Antiwar State Senator Becky Lourey Killed in Iraq
Friday, June 03, 2005
- Headlines for June 03, 2005
- Top Journalist Killed in Lebanon, Opposition Calls For President to Quit
- Indigenous Uprising: The Rebellion Grows in Bolivia
- Famed Brazilian Artist Augusto Boal on the “Theater of the Oppressed”
Thursday, June 02, 2005
- Headlines for June 02, 2005
- Senators George McGovern and Mike Gravel Reflect on How Deep Throat Helped Bring Down the Nixon Presidency by Exposing the Watergate Scandal
- EXCLUSIVE… Jennifer Dohrn: I Was The Target Of Illegal FBI Break-Ins Ordered by Mark Felt aka “Deep Throat”
- Investigative Journalist David Wise on the Significance of Watergate, Anonymous Sources and the Crackdown on Civil Liberties
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
- Headlines for June 01, 2005
- Sudan Arrests Two Officials With Doctors Without Borders Following Report of Widespread Rapes in Darfur
- CIA Secretly Restores Ties to Sudan Despite Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in Darfur
- Guantanamo Bay: A “Gulag Of Our Times” or a “Model Facility”? A Debate on the U.S. Prison & Amnesty International
