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- As Obama Considers Napolitano For Homeland Security Chief, A Look at Her Immigration Policies as Arizona Governor
- A Conversation With South African Poet and Anti-Apartheid Activist Breyten Breytenbach on His Own Imprisonment, South Africa’s “Failed Revolution,” Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama
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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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August 2006 Archive
Thursday, August 31, 2006
- Headlines for August 31, 2006
- Shocking Lancet Study: 8,000 Murders, 35,000 Rapes and Sexual Assaults in Haiti During U.S.-Backed Coup Regime After Aristide Ouster
- Eyewitnesses Account: UN Forces Open Fire on Poor Haitian Neighborhood
- Women Recount Gang Rape, Abuse at Hearing Against Haitian Death Squad Leader Emmanuel Constant
- Public Outcry Forces Ohio to Delay Destruction of Presidential Ballots
- “I Am Not Willing To Kill Or Be Killed For Something I Don’t Believe In”–AWOL Soldier Refuses to Return to Iraq
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
- Headlines for August 30, 2006
- Congressmember Murtha: “I’m Disappointed” by Hillary Clinton’s Refusal to Endorse Troop Withdrawal Plan
- Congressmember Weiner Gets It Wrong On Palestinian Group He Tried To Bar From U.S.
- Lebanon Considers Suing Israel for War Crimes
- “We Don’t Want War”–Leading Iranian Dissident and Former Political Prisoner Akbar Ganji
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
- Headlines for August 29, 2006
- Hurricane Katrina, One Year Later: Democracy Now! Looks Back to the Days After the Disaster
- Breach of Faith: Times-Picayune Editor Jed Horne on “Neoconservative” Ray Nagin and “Federal Oppression” in the South
- One Year After Katrina, New Orleans Public Housing Projects Remain Closed
- New Orleans Judge Slated to Release Prisoners Citing Breakdown in Criminal Justice System
Monday, August 28, 2006
- Headlines for August 28, 2006
- Top Hurricane Expert Says Officials Threatened His Job Over Pre-Katrina Warnings
- For Whom is New Orleans Being Rebuilt? City Demographics Radically Altered With Many Black Residents Still Unable to Return
- Common Ground Collective Continues to Bring Thousands of Volunteers From Around the World to Gulf Coast For Post-Katrina Relief Efforts
- Lebanese MP Ghassan Moukheiber on the Future of Lebanon Politics, Hezbollah and the Ongoing Israeli Occupation
Friday, August 25, 2006
- Headlines for August 25, 2006
- “I Was Made to Feel Like an Outsider in My Own Country”–Muslim-Americans Say Racial Profiling Led to Detention, Harassment at Airport
- Sudan Rejects UN Proposal for Peacekeeping Force in Darfur as Security Deteriorates
- Report: Over 200 Sudanese Women Sexually Assaulted in Darfur Camp Over 5-Week Period
- Venezuela Says China Backs UN Security Council Bid That U.S. Opposes
Thursday, August 24, 2006
- Headlines for August 24, 2006
- Memo: NY City Hall Divided Over Handling of Post-9/11 Contamination
- Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Committing War Crimes in Lebanon
- Israel’s Deputy UN Ambassador Defends Israel’s Attacks on Lebanon: “We Cannot For Sure Prove That All Of The Civilians In Southern Lebanon Were Purely Innocent”
- Was the Mexican Election Stolen? Questions Raised Over Results From Preliminary Recount
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
- Headlines for August 23, 2006
- Special Democracy Now! Report from Southern Lebanon: Ana Nogueira Investigates the Lasting Dangers of Unexploded Israeli Cluster Bombs
- Landmines and Unexploded Ordinances: Israel’s Legacy in Southern Lebanon
- 80 Military Recruiters Disciplined for Sexual Misconduct Over the Past Year
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
- Headlines for August 22, 2006
- Grieving Relatives of Qana Massacre Emerge From the Rubble to Bury Their Dead
- President Bush Admits Iraq Had No WMDs and ‘Nothing’ to Do With 9/11
- “I Fear God Much More Than I Fear Homeland Security”–Chicago Pastor on Why He is Allowing Mexican Mother to Stay in Church to Avoid Deportation
- “Humiliated and Appalled,” Virginia Student Calls for Apology From Sen. Allen for ‘Macaca’ Slur
Monday, August 21, 2006
- Headlines for August 21, 2006
- Iraqi Peace Activist Forced to Change T-Shirt Bearing Arabic Script Before Boarding Plane at JFK
- “I Was a Propaganda Intern in Iraq”–Fmr. Lincoln Group Intern Describes Paying Iraqi Press to Plant Pro-American Articles Secretly Written by U.S. Military
- DCTV’s “Baghdad ER” Documentary Wins Four Emmys
Friday, August 18, 2006
- Headlines for August 18, 2006
- “There Are No Hereditary Kings in America”–Judge Rules NSA Warrantless Spy Program Unconstitutional
- Can Journalists Be Prosecuted for Receiving Classified Information?
- “More Propaganda Than Plot”–Former British Ambassador on Alleged UK Terror Plot
- Arrest Warrants Issued for Over 50 Grassroots Leaders in Oaxaca, Mexico
Thursday, August 17, 2006
- Headlines for August 17, 2006
- AIDS Brain Drain: Countries Hit Hardest by AIDS Lacking Millions of Medical Workers
- African-American Groups Call on Black America to Renew Efforts to Fight AIDS and Homophobia
- AIDS Prevention: Bush Admin Abstinence Policy Criticized at Int’l AIDS Conference
- South African AIDS Activist: “Total Failure of Gvt to Lead Coordinated Response to What Has Presented Itself as a Catastrophe for the New Democracy”
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
- Headlines for August 16, 2006
- Lebanon Ceasefire Holds As Negotiations Continue
- Fox News Producer Resigns Over Middle East Coverage
- Victoria Gray Adams 1926-2006: Civil Rights Pioneer, Founder of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Dies at 79
- Fearing Prosecution, Bush Admin Tries to Change War Crimes Act
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
- Headlines for August 15, 2006
- EXCLUSIVE: Haitian Political Prisoner So Anne Released After Over 2 Years in Haitian Jail
- Christians United for Israel: New Christian Zionism Lobby Hopes to Rival AIPAC
- Fmr. White House Counsel John Dean on Conservatives Without Conscience
Monday, August 14, 2006
- Headlines for August 14, 2006
- Seymour Hersh: U.S. Helped Plan Israeli Attack, Cheney “Convinced” Assault on Lebanon Could Serve as Prelude to Preemptive Attack on Iran
- No Shelters, Sirens for Israel’s Arab Citizens
Friday, August 11, 2006
- Headlines for August 11, 2006
- Britain Names Suspects in Alleged Airline Bomb Plot; British Muslims Skeptical, Fear Backlash
- Broadcast Exclusive…AWOL Army Sgt. On the Run for a Year Speaks Out for the First Time
Thursday, August 10, 2006
- Headlines for August 10, 2006
- Report Rules FBI Justified in Fatal Shooting of Puerto Rican Independence Leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios
- Did BP Purposefully Allow its Alaska Pipeline to Corrode in Order to Shut it Down and Boost Oil Prices?
- Lebanon Facing its Worst Environmental Disaster Ever: Oil Spill From Israeli Strike Still Untreated After One Month
- Israeli Ambassador Grilled on Targeting of Civilians, Use of Cluster Bombs and Other War Crimes in Lebanon
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
- Headlines for August 09, 2006
- Ralph Nader on Lamont’s Antiwar Win in Connecticut Primary and Lieberman’s Vow to Run as an Independent
- Time Warner’s NY1 Bars New York Senate Candidate From TV Debate
- Fmr. Israeli Air Force Captain Reports Israeli Pilots Deliberately Missing Targets Over Concerns of Civilian Casualties
- Nagasaki Marks 61st Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombing
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
- Headlines for August 08, 2006
- It’s Primary Day: Anti-Iraq War Candidate Ned Lamont Takes on Sen. Joe Lieberman in Nation’s Most-Watched Primary
- Former President of Morgan Stanley Int’l: “It’s Now Considered the American War Against the Arabs…It Will Take Us Decades to Recover from What We’ve Done”
Monday, August 07, 2006
- Headlines for August 07, 2006
- As Hezbollah Rocket Attacks Kill 15 in Northern Israel, An Israeli Red Cross Official Describes Haifa Under Siege
- Death Toll in Lebanon Reaches 1000; Humanitarian Crisis Mounts As 1/4th of Lebanese Residents Are Displaced
- “The War The World Ignores”: A Look at War-Devastated Congo & The Country’s First Multi-Party Elections in 45 Years
- Protesters Target Bechtel for War-Profiteering In Iraq & Its Ties to Nuclear Industry
Friday, August 04, 2006
- Headlines for August 04, 2006
- Hundreds of Thousands Rally in Iraq Against the War in Lebanon: Middle East Analyst Juan Cole on War in the Middle East–from Baghdad to Beirut
- Newsday Middle East Bureau Chief Mohamad Bazzi on Reporting the War in Lebanon
- “The Republicans Are Trying to Take Over The Democratic Primary”: Congressmember Cynthia McKinney on The Political Fight of Her Life
Thursday, August 03, 2006
- Headlines for August 03, 2006
- Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes For Indiscriminately Targeting Lebanese Civilians
- Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land: Documentary Examines US Media Coverage of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
- Is America Watching a Different War? American, Lebanese and Israeli Panel on How the US Media is Covering the Invasion of Lebanon
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
- Headlines for August 02, 2006
- Fidel Castro Temporarily Cedes Power While Undergoing Surgery
- Exclusive From Havana: Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon Says Castro is “Very Alive and Very Alert”; Condemns US Plans for Post-Castro Cuba and Bush’s Meeting With Exiles Advocating Cu
- Cuban 5 Remain Imprisoned Despite Orders For Their Release
- Israel Launches Massive Ground Invasion of Lebanon
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
- Headlines for August 01, 2006
- Robert Fisk Reports From Lebanon On the Intensifying Israeli Attack, Qana, Tony Blair and the Possibility of a Ceasefire
- Survivors of 1996 Qana Massacre Sue Israel Military Chief For War Crimes
- Pt. 2: Enemy Combatant: Moazzam Begg on His Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar
