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Monday, October 13, 2008
- Headlines
- Max Blumenthal on Sarah Palin’s Radical Right-Wing Pals and Her Ties to the Pro-Secessionist Alaskan Independence Party
- Former McCain Supporter Accuses the Senator of “Deliberately Feeding the Most Unhinged Elements of Our Society the Red Meat of Hate”
- Robert Parry: Why Are McCain Backers So Angry?
Friday, October 10, 2008
- Headlines
- As Stocks Plummet Across the Globe, Bush to Host Emergency Finance Meeting at White House
- US Lifts Ban on Nuclear Trade with India
- APA Approves Measure Banning Psychologists from Interrogations
- “Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery”
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
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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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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Headlines
- Climate Talks in Doubt Over U.S. Stance on Emission Cuts
- Bush Issues 2nd Veto of Child Health Insurance Expansion
- Gitmo Chief Judge Criticized Military Tribunals
- Palestinians Protest Raids, Settlement Expansion as Talks Begin
- Docs: Israel Demanded 80% of Settlements in 2000-01 Peace Talks
- Poll: 67% of Pakistanis Want Musharraf to Resign
- Kucinich Barred from Democratic Debate in Iowa
- California Town Votes Out Pro-Blackwater Board Members
- Army Suicides in 2007 Reach All-Time High
- Auditors: White House Forced EPA to Weaken Toxic Oversight
- Gay Historian Allan Berube Dies at 61
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Chicago Deal to Pay $20 Million in Police Torture Case Hits Roadblock
The City of Chicago’s landmark decision to pay nearly $20 million dollars to four former death row prisoners tortured by Chicago police has hit a roadblock. The four men—all African American—sued former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and more than twenty officers who worked with him, alleging that they were coerced into falsely confessing to murder in the 1980s. We speak with John Conroy, the investigative reporter who brought the story to the fore eighteen years ago. He was recently laid off from the Chicago Reader. [includes rush transcript]
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US Intelligence Tapping Phones of Indonesian Civilians
Investigative journalist Allan Nairn reveals that U.S. intelligence officers in Jakarta are secretly tapping the cell phones and reading the SMS text messages of Indonesian civilians. Some of the Americans involved in the spy operation work out of the Jakarta headquarters of Detachment 88, a US-trained and–funded paramilitary unit which is part of Kopassus, the Indonesian army’s special forces famed for abduction, torture and assassination. The news comes as Congress weighs whether to send more military aid to Indonesia. [includes rush transcript]
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Anthropologists Up in Arms Over Pentagon's "Human Terrain System" to Recruit Graduate Students to Serve in Iraq, Afghanistan
A new $40 million Pentagon program called the Human Terrain System has begun enlisting recruits with graduate degrees in anthropology to serve in the military. The move has anthropologists up in arms. They point to the ethical implications of renewing a program like CORDS during the Vietnam War, that assassinated over 26,000 suspected Viet Cong. We speak with David Price, a founding member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists. [includes rush transcript]
