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Thursday, July 17, 2008
- Headlines
- Bailout for Mortgage Giants, IndyMac Bank Collapse, Dollar Hits New Low, Inflation at 26-Year High, Dow Falls Below 11K…A Look at the Financial Crisis
- Nelson Mandela Turns 90
- Spike Lee to Film Tony Award-Winning Musical “Passing Strange” as Show Comes to a Close on Broadway
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
- Headlines
- Amory Lovins: Expanding Nuclear Power Makes Climate Change Worse
- Fmr. Chief Guantanamo Prosecutor Says Military Commissions “Not Justice”
- Singer-Songwriter Simone White Performing Live On Democracy Now!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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Amy Goodman’s New Column: “Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid”
While the presidential candidates trade barbs and accuse each other of flip-flopping, they agree with President Bush on their enthusiastic support for nuclear power.
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“Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime”
It is fantastic to see Ingrid Betancourt free, but the celebration of her release should not be confused with celebration of the Colombian government.
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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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“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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Thursday, December 27, 2007
Headlines
- Ex-Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto Assassinated
- U.S. Special Forces to Expand Presence in Pakistan
- Bush Signs Spending Bill Including $70B For Iraq War
- Turkey Praises U.S. For Proving Intel on Northern Iraq
- UNICEF: 25,000 Iraqi Children Displaced Each Month
- Senate Democrats Block Recess Appointment of Author of Torture Memo
- Housing Prices Plummet By Over Six Percent
- Investment Banks Dole Out Record $30 Billion in Bonuses
- Teenager Dies After Cigna Refused To Pay For Transplant
- Deans of Journalism Schools Warn Against Media Consolidation
- More Headlines…
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto Assassinated
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated just two months after returning to Pakistan from exile. She died after an apparent suicide attack in the city of Rawalpindi. Bhutto had just addressed an election rally when gunfire and an explosion occurred. We go to Pakistan and simulcast part of the breaking news coverage on Dawn News and speak with Sadaf Aziz, professor of law and policy at Lahore University of Management Sciences, and Zia Mian, a physicist with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. [includes rush transcript]
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Greg Palast Reports on the Battle Between Indigenous Ecuadorians and the U.S. Oil Giant Chevron
Investigative Journalist Greg Palast files this report from the rainforests of Ecuador, where an indigenous tribe is suing Chevron for $12 billion for contaminating the Amazon. We also play part of Palast’s interview with Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa. [includes rush transcript]
