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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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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Headlines
- Senate Postpones Vote on Domestic Spying Bill
- 300 Turkish Troops Enter Northern Iraq
- U.S. Military Sharing Intelligence on Iraq With Turkey
- Ron Paul Raises Record $6 Million in a Single Day
- Huckabee Equates Environmentalism With Pornography
- New Jersey Abolishes the Death Penalty
- International Donors Pledge $7.4 Billion to the Palestinians
- Israeli Air Strikes Kill 12 in Gaza
- Fidel Castro Suggests He Might Retire
- New York Couple Convicted of Enslaving Immigrants
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BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE: Yemeni Man Imprisoned at CIA "Black Sites" Tells His Story of Kidnapping and Torture
Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah, a victim of the CIA rendition program—kidnapped, held in secret jails, and tortured—speaks out in his first broadcast interview. In the fall of 2003, Bashmilah was detained in Jordan and turned over to the CIA. He was eventually flown to a secret prison he later found out was in Kabul, Afghanistan. In CIA custody, Mohamed says he was held in a freezing-cold cell, interrogated, shackled, force-fed and subjected to sleep deprivation and loud music for days. He attempted suicide at least three times. He talks about his interrogators and the American psychiatrists or psychologists who also played a role. Bashmilah has brought a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan, a Boeing subsidiary, accused of abetting his kidnapping. In an in-depth and detailed interview from his home in Yemen, Bashmilah tell us his harrowing story. [includes rush transcript]
