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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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October 2008 Archive
Friday, October 31, 2008
- Headlines for October 31, 2008
- Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Michael Moore on the Election, the Bailout, Healthcare, and 10 Proposed Decrees for the New President’s First 10 Days
Thursday, October 30, 2008
- Headlines for October 30, 2008
- Arrest of Neo-Nazis in Obama Assassination Plot a Reminder of Enduring White Supremacist Culture in US
- Following Deadly US Attack on Syria, Questions of Bush Admin Motives in its Waning Months
- Can Dems Reclaim the South? Once Solidly GOP, Virginia and NC Emerging as Battleground States
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
- Headlines for October 29, 2008
- Lawsuits, Machine Malfunctions and Missing Absentee Ballots Among Voting Rights Issues Facing Jittery Election
- Jane Mayer on “The Insiders: How John McCain Came to Pick Sarah Palin”
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
- Headlines for October 28, 2008
- Republican Senator Ted Stevens Convicted on Corruption Charges
- Drilling and Killing: Landmark Trial Against Chevron Begins Over Its Role in the Niger Delta
- Van Jones on “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”
Monday, October 27, 2008
- Headlines for October 27, 2008
- Puerto Rican Labor Struggle: Teachers Vote Against Joining SEIU
- Why Don’t Barack Obama and John McCain Talk About the Working Class?
- Kambale Musavuli on the “Forgotten War” in the Congo
Friday, October 24, 2008
- Headlines for October 24, 2008
- McCain Campaign Calls Obama a “Socialist”—But Why is That a Smear?
- Following Widespread Complaints, New Lawsuit Seeks Paper Balloting in Pennsylvania
- Lawyers Planning Last-Minute Challenges as Time Running Out for Troy Anthony Davis
Thursday, October 23, 2008
- Headlines for October 23, 2008
- Leading Pollster Predicts Obama Wins with 344 Electoral Votes
- Report: McCain Suppressed Info on Fellow Vietnam POWs Left Behind
- Indigenous Colombians Begin 10,000-Strong March Against Uribe Government
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
- Headlines for October 22, 2008
- Early Voting Sees Reports of Voter Intimidation, Machine Malfunctions
- Trailing in Polls, McCain Campaign Intensifies Attacks on Obama
- Does Obama’s Record-Setting Fundraising Mark the End of Public Campaign Financing?
- Weeks After Prosecutor’s Resignation, US Drops Charges Against 5 Gitmo Prisoners—But Won’t Release Them
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
- Headlines for October 21, 2008
- Iraqis Protest Proposed Deal to Allow US Troops to Stay in Iraq Until 2011
- John Nichols on the GOP’s New McCarthyism and the 2008 Congressional Races
- Barack Obama Accepts Endorsement of Colin Powell Despite the Ex-General’s Role in Making the Case for Iraq War
Monday, October 20, 2008
- Headlines for October 20, 2008
- Ignoring Evidence, Mexican Authorities Charge Activists with 2006 Murder of Independent Journalist Brad Will
- Eugene Jarecki on “The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril”
- Grassroots Effort Helps New York Mother Avoid Foreclosure
Friday, October 17, 2008
- Headlines for October 17, 2008
- After the death of her son, an Iraq war veteran, NY Mother Faces Foreclosure
- Ex-Asst. Treasury Sec. Paul Craig Roberts on Wall St. Bailout: “Has Deregulation Sired Fascism?”
- World Food Day a Reminder of a Global Crisis Further Sidelined by Campaign Frenzy, Financial Woes
- “Smearcasting: How Islamophobes Spread Fear, Bigotry and Misinformation”
Thursday, October 16, 2008
- Headlines for October 16, 2008
- Breaking the Sound Barrier: Third-Party Candidates Ralph Nader & Cynthia McKinney Respond to Final McCain-Obama Debate
- 15 Arrested Outside Presidential Debate in Protest Led by Iraq Veterans Against the War
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
- Headlines for October 15, 2008
- McCain Campaign Accuses Community Organizing Mainstay ACORN of Fraud in Successful Mass Voter Registration Drive
- “How We Lost the War We Won: A Journey into Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan”
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
- Headlines for October 14, 2008
- James Bamford: “The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America”
Monday, October 13, 2008
- Headlines for October 13, 2008
- 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 for October 10, 2008
- 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 for October 09, 2008
- 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
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
- Headlines for October 08, 2008
- European, Asian Markets Plunge as Recession Fears Spread Worldwide
- Faltering Economy Takes Center Stage in McCain-Obama Debate
- McCain-Obama Debate Highlights Similar Stances on Foreign Policy
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Headlines for October 07, 2008
- Can Coal Be Clean? A Debate Between Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network and Joe Lucas of American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
- The Tyranny of Oil: Antonia Juhasz on “The World’s Most Powerful Industry—What We Must Do to Stop It”
- Is Posse Comitatus Dead? US Troops on US Streets
Monday, October 06, 2008
- Headlines for October 06, 2008
- Naomi Klein: Wall St. Crisis Should Be for Neoliberalism What Fall of Berlin Wall Was for Communism
Friday, October 03, 2008
- Headlines for October 03, 2008
- Amy Goodman Among 4 Recipients of 2008 Right Livelihood Award, Known as the “Alternative Nobel”
- Third Party VP Candidates Matt Gonzalez and Rosa Clemente Respond to Biden-Palin Debate
- Wary of Public Outcry, Revised $800B Wall St. Bailout Stuffed with Earmarks to Sway Election-Year Incumbents
Thursday, October 02, 2008
- Headlines for October 02, 2008
- Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz: Bail Out Wall Street Now, Change Terms Later
- No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
- “The Age of the Warrior”: Robert Fisk on the US Elections, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
- Headlines for October 01, 2008
- As Senate Prepares to Vote on Revised Wall St. Bailout, Critics See Only Slight Changes Following Widespread Public Opposition
- Justice Dept. Appoints Special Prosecutor After Report Faults Gonzales for US Attorney Firings
