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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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Headlines
- Senate to Vote on $838B Stimulus
- Report: $9.7 Trillion Government Tab in Financial Crisis
- New Bailout Measures Include Public-Private Financing for Toxic Assets
- Obama Responds to Leahy Proposal on Probing Bush Admin Crimes
- Obama Ducks Question on Israeli Nukes
- Dismissing Torture Case, Obama Continues Bush Assertion of “State Secrets”
- 4 US Troops Killed in Iraq
- Poll: Afghan Opposition to US Grows
- Israel Holds National Elections
- Egyptian-German Activist Disappears Following Arrest
- California Ordered to Reduce Prison Overcrowding
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Ahead of Senate Vote, Obama Warns of "Catastrophe" Without Economic Stimulus
As the Senate prepares to vote on the $800 billion stimulus and recovery package, President Obama urged Congress to pass the bill Monday, first at a town hall meeting in Elkhart, Indiana and later at the first news conference of his presidency. He warned that not acting immediately to rescue the economy could lead to a "catastrophe" and emphasized that only the government could bail out the economy at this moment. [includes rush transcript]
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Economist James Galbraith: Bailed-Out Banks Should Be Declared Insolvent
With estimates of the cost of addressing the financial crisis exceeding $9.7 trillion, we speak with economist and University of Texas professor James Galbraith, author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. Galbraith says rather than pouring billions into propping up troubled giant banks, the government should declare them insolvent. [includes rush transcript]
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Former UN Human Rights Investigator Cherif Bassiouni: Despite Obama Claims, No Military Solution for Afghanistan
At his first news conference, President Obama emphasized the importance of removing "safe havens" for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and said he had no timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. We speak to Cherif Bassiouni, a former UN human rights investigator in Afghanistan. He was fired in 2005 after releasing a report criticizing the US for committing human rights abuses in Afghanistan. [includes rush transcript]
