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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
- Headlines
- Forty Years After Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, US Tops World in Nuke Arsenal
- Acclaimed Actor and Playwright Anna Deavere Smith on Art in a Time of War
- Obama Pledges to Expand Bush Program to Funnel Federal Money to Religious Groups
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
- Headlines
- Pakistan Military Offensive in Khyber Region Enters Fourth Day
- Oil and Gas Drilling on Public Lands Reaches New High
- Dozens of Minutemen Confront Day-Laborers Gathered For Work in Aurora, CO
- Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba on Negotiating with FARC, Her Criticism of Uribe and Why She Was Detained at JFK
Monday, June 30, 2008
- Headlines
- Hersh: Congress Agreed to Bush Request to Fund Major Escalation in Secret Operations Against Iran
- Affirmative Action on Ballot in Three States: A Debate
- Police, Firefighters, Utility Workers Among Hundreds Trained as “Terrorism Liaison Officers”
- ACLU Sues Denver for Security Equipment Details Ahead of DNC
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Democracy Now!–live from Aspen, CO
Democracy Now! and Free Speech TV team up with Aspen Public Access Channel, Grassroots TV, for historic national broadcast.
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Amy Goodman’s New Column: “It’s Not the Man, It’s the Movement”
I was on a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado this week when Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter asked me, “Is Obama a sellout?” The question isn’t whether he is a sellout or not—it’s about what demands are made by grass-roots social movements of those who would represent them. The question is, who are these candidates responding to, answering to?
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“Funny Man in an Unfunny World”
The world lost one of its great comedians this week with the death at age 71 of George Carlin. Carlin had a career as a stand-up comic that spanned a half-century, in which he continually broke new ground, targeting those in power with his wit and genius.
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“Weather Reports Are Missing the Story”
While the TV meteorologists document “extreme weather” with their increasingly sophisticated toolbox, from Doppler radar to 3-D animated maps, the two words rarely uttered are its cause: global warming.
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Amy Goodman on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews
Amy Goodman on MSNBC’s Hardball, discussing the women’s vote in the 2008 election.
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“This Way to Better Media”
“This way to better media,” read the floor sign directing people through a skyway to the Minneapolis Convention Center. Thousands of people gathered there for the fourth National Conference for Media Reform, hosted by freepress.net. They came from all walks of life and all ages to address a central crisis in our society: our broken media system. I was one of the invited speakers.
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“Obama Strikes a Chord With a Disaffected Republican”
David Iglesias is an evangelical, Hispanic Republican—yes, that one, the former U.S. attorney for New Mexico—and he has positive things to say about Barack Obama.
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“Utah Phillips Has Left the Stage”
“Utah” Phillips died this week at the age of 73. He was a musician, labor organizer, peace activist and co-founder of his local homeless shelter. He also was an archivist, a historian and a traveler, playing guitar and singing almost forgotten songs of the dispossessed and the downtrodden, and keeping alive the memory of labor heroes like Emma Goldman, Joe Hill and the Industrial Workers of the World, “the Wobblies,” in a society that too soon forgets.
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Headlines
- Justice Dept & CIA To Probe Destruction of Torture Tapes
- Report: Pelosi Did Not Object to Waterboarding in 2002
- Al Gore & IPCC Receive Nobel Peace Prize
- U.S. Opposes Cuts To Emissions At Bali Talks
- Huckabee Called For AIDS Patients to Be Quarantined in 1992
- Oprah Winfrey Begins Campaigning For Sen. Obama
- U.S. Defends Israel’s Right to Nuclear Weapons
- Chicago to Pay $20 Million in Police Torture Case
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"Bush Offers an Umbrella When We Need a Tent" - Jesse Jackson Says President's Plan to Prevent Foreclosures Doesn't Go Far Enough
President Bush announced a plan last week to freeze interest rates for some homeowners facing foreclosure. But critics say the plan’s strict guidelines will leave out the most vulnerable. We speak with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who is helping to organize a march on Wall Street today dubbed “Save Our Homes—Fight Home Foreclosures, Defend Our Economic Rights.” [includes rush transcript]
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What is Blackwater's Role in the 2008 Presidential Race?
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney cited Cofer Black, the former head of Counterterrorism at the CIA, as his advisor on issues involving prisoner interrogation during a recent presidential debate. Black is now the vice chairman on private military firm, Blackwater. We speak with Jeremy Scahill, author of “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army,” about Romney and Black, as well as State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard and his brother’s ties to the company. [includes rush transcript]
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Did CIA Destroy Tapes Showing Waterboarding and Involvement of Psychologists in Torture?
The Justice Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have launched a joint probe into the CIA’s destruction of at least two videotapes documenting prisoner interrogations at a secret CIA prison. One of the tapes may have shown CIA agents waterboarding the al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah. [includes rush transcript]
