Today’s Show
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- 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
RECENT SHOWS
Monday, October 06, 2008
- Headlines
- Naomi Klein: Wall St. Crisis Should Be for Neoliberalism What Fall of Berlin Wall Was for Communism
Friday, October 03, 2008
- Headlines
- 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
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Press Coverage of the Right Livelihood Award
Amy Goodman, first journalist to win the “Alternative Nobel”
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Amy Goodman’s Latest Column: “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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Current (Public TV/Radio Newspaper) reports on the arrests of Democracy Now! producers at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul
Videos of the Sept. 1 arrests of Democracy Now! producers in St. Paul, Minn., spread chilling evidence that police were making no distinction between the protestors outside the Republican National Convention and working journalists covering their activities.
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Monday, June 2, 2008
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Headlines
- Iraqis Protest Looming Pact with US
- US Tenders New Iraq Contracts
- Australia Begins Withdrawing Troops from Iraq
- Clinton Wins Puerto Rico Primary
- DNC Rules on Seating Florida, Michigan Delegates
- Montana, South Dakota to Host Final Primaries
- Obama Breaks Ties with Chicago Church
- Israel Starts New Settlement Construction in Occupied Territories
- US State Dept. Reverses Denial of Fulbright Grants to Palestinian Students
- Activists, Farmers Hold Parallel Food Summit in Rome
- Group: US Holding Foreign Prisoners on Naval Vessels
- Gitmo Judge Removed from Khadr Trial
- Crimical Charges in Immigration Cases at Record High
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Blackwater: From the Nisour Square Massacre to the Future of the Mercenary Industry
The private military firm Blackwater has gone from being a relatively unknown contractor working in Iraq to a household name and the subject of multiple investigations, lawsuits and congressional inquiries. In the meantime, the company continues to reap millions of dollars in profits and was recently awarded a new contract from the State Department. Last year, Democracy Now! correspondent and Nation Fellow, Jeremy Scahill, published his book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. The book quickly landed on the New York Times bestseller list and helped frame the debate that was to come. With the book’s paperback release in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, Jeremy Scahill joins us for the hour. [includes rush transcript]
