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Thursday, July 02, 2009

• Headlines
• “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City”
• John Pilger Calls UK National Health Service a Treasure, Blasts US Lawmakers for Being “in Bed with Powerful Interests” and Neglecting “Their Own People’s Basic Human Rights”
• Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Speaks from Israeli Jail Cell After Arrest on Boat Delivering Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
• Up in Smoke: How the Tobacco Industry Shaped the New Smoking Bill
• Zelaya Vows to Return to Honduras Despite Threats of Arrest by Coup Leaders

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

• Headlines
• “Change to Win is Dead”–Juan Gonzalez on Labor Movement Struggle
• Generals Who Led Honduras Military Coup Trained at the School of the Americas
• How Can We Have Sovereignty When We Don’t Have Electricity or Water to Bathe? Iraqi Reporter on US Troop Pullback
• Military Using “Brutal” Force Against Anti-Coup Protests in Honduras
• What’s Behind the Honduras Coup? Tracing Zelaya’s Trajectory

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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• Judge Sentences Madoff to 150 Years, But Will Regulatory System that Allowed Massive Financial Fraud Really Change?
• Michael Jackson 1958-2009: The Life and Legacy of the King of Pop

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• Coup in Honduras: See full Democracy Now! coverage

  Check out all of our coverage of the first coup d’etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century.

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• “Undo the Coup”

  The first coup d’etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century occurred last Sunday in Honduras. It was led by a graduate of the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas, a military facility that has trained some of Latin America’s worst torturers, murderers and human rights abusers.

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• “Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age”

  Tools of mass communication that were once the province of governments and corporations now fit in your pocket. As these technologies have developed, so too has the ability to monitor, filter, censor and block them.

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• EPA Declares Public Health Emergency in Libby, Montana

  The Environmental Protection Agency has declared a public health emergency in the town of Libby, Montana, where hundreds of people have died from asbestos contamination. It is the first time such a declaration has been made by the EPA. For decades, W.R. Grace and Co. mined asbestos-contaminated vermiculite in Libby.
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• “Congre$$, Heal Thyself”

  As the Obama administration pushes for a vote on health-care reform before Congress recesses in August, has health-industry money too thoroughly polluted the process for anything good to come of it?

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• “The Free Market’s Marked Men: From the Niger Delta to the Amazon”

  Ken Saro-Wiwa and Alberto Pizango never met, but they are united by a passion for the preservation of their people and their land, and by the fervor with which they were targeted by their respective governments.

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• “Dr. George Tiller Didn’t Have to Die”

  Dr. Tiller was assassinated while in church in Wichita, Kan., on Sunday, targeted for legally performing abortions. His death might have been prevented simply through enforcement of existing laws.

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• “Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil”

  Profits are higher than ever at oil companies Chevron and Shell. Yet across the globe, from the Ecuadorian jungle, to the Niger Delta in Nigeria, to the courtrooms and streets of New York and San Ramon, Calif., people are fighting back against the world’s oil giants.

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