RECENT SHOWS
Friday, October 03, 2008
- Headlines
- Amy Goodman Among 4 Recipients of 2008 Right Livelihood Award, Known as the “Alternative Nobel”
- Third Party VP Candidates Matt Gonzalez and Rosa Clemente Respond to Biden-Palin Debate
- Wary of Public Outcry, Revised $800B Wall St. Bailout Stuffed with Earmarks to Sway Election-Year Incumbents
Thursday, October 02, 2008
- Headlines
- Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz: Bail Out Wall Street Now, Change Terms Later
- No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
- “The Age of the Warrior”: Robert Fisk on the US Elections, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
BLOG
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Press Coverage of the Right Livelihood Award
Amy Goodman, first journalist to win the “Alternative Nobel”
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Amy Goodman’s Latest Column: “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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Current (Public TV/Radio Newspaper) reports on the arrests of Democracy Now! producers at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul
Videos of the Sept. 1 arrests of Democracy Now! producers in St. Paul, Minn., spread chilling evidence that police were making no distinction between the protestors outside the Republican National Convention and working journalists covering their activities.
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Podcasting & Torrents
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Headlines
- Released Documents Shed Light on Roberts Conservative Views
- White House: Senators Won’t Have Access to Roberts’ Tax Return
- UK Police Arrest Four In Birmingham
- Many British Muslims Considering Leaving UK
- Iraqis Prepare to Make Islam Main Source of Iraqi Law
- National Guard Company Face Abuse & Extortion Allegations
- More Headlines…
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Latin America's "Bin Laden" Denied Bail, Judge Cites Posada's Terror Record
Leading anti-Castro terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is denied bail in his Texas immigration trial. We speak with a U.S. immigration lawyer who has been retained by the Venezuelan government to represent it in the case as it continues to demand his extradition as well as the Chair of the National Lawyers Guild’s Cuba Subcommittee. [includes rush transcript]
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Rove's Backers Use "CounterSpy Defense" in CIA Leak Case
We speak with veteran investigative journalist Robert Parry, who writes that Karl Rove’s defenders are rebutting accusations about the White House aide’s leaking of a CIA officer’s identity by using an argument that parallels a rationale cited by leftists who defended CounterSpy after a CIA officer exposed by the magazine in 1975 was gunned down in Greece. [includes rush transcript]
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FLASHBACK: Renegade CIA Officer Phillip Agee Calls Outing of Valerie Plame "Dirty Politics"
Whoever in the White House exposed Valerie Plame could be charged under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. We rebroadcast an interview with former CIA officer Phillip Agee, for whom, many believe, the Act was written. [includes rush transcript]
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Wife of Guatemalan Rebel Killed by CIA Asset Says CIA Operatives Engaged in Criminal Acts Should be Exposed
Is it ever justified to blow a CIA operative’s cover? We speak with human rights attorney Jennifer Harbury–her husband was a Mayan leader who was killed by a CIA asset in Guatemala. [includes rush transcript]
