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December 2010 Archive
Friday, December 31, 2010
- Headlines for December 31, 2010
- Julian Assange on WikiLeaks, War and Resisting Government Crackdown
- Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: Julian Assange is Not a Terrorist
Thursday, December 30, 2010
- Headlines for December 30, 2010
- "Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours:" The Explosion that Killed 11 Workers and Led to the Worst Oil Spill in U.S. History
- Son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: "My Parents Were Executed Under the Unconstitutional Espionage Act — Here’s Why We Must Fight to Protect Julian Assange"
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
- Headlines for December 29, 2010
- Allan Nairn: As U.S. Loses Its Global Economic Edge, Its "One Clear Comparative Advantage is in Killing, and It’s Using It"
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
- Headlines for December 28, 2010
- From Snowstorms to Heat Waves, How Global Warming Causes Extreme Weather and Climate Instability
- Indian Human Rights Activist Dr. Binayak Sen Sentenced to Life in Prison in Widely Criticized Ruling
Monday, December 27, 2010
- Headlines for December 27, 2010
- The Show Must Go On: As Monster Snowstorm Blankets East Coast, Democracy Now! Crew Shares Tales of "Thundersnow"
- As Thousands Flee Ivory Coast, Former Clinton Adviser Lanny Davis is Paid Lobbyist for President Who Refuses to Cede Power
- From the Pentagon to the Private Sector: Boston Globe Analysis Finds Large Numbers of Retiring Generals Entering Defense Industry
Friday, December 24, 2010
- Headlines for December 24, 2010
- Dr. Gabor Maté on the Stress-Disease Connection, Addiction, Attention Deficit Disorder and the Destruction of American Childhood
Thursday, December 23, 2010
- Headlines for December 23, 2010
- Juan Gonzalez: NYC CityTime Fraud Scheme "Biggest Scandal of Entire Bloomberg Era"
- As Senate Passes 9/11 Health Bill, Juan Gonzalez Notes Relative Absence of Key Figures Like Bush and Giuliani
- WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Sought to Retaliate Against Europe over Monsanto GM Crops
- FBI Expands Probe into Antiwar Activists
- After GOP Blocks DREAM Act, Where is Immigration Activism Headed?
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
- Headlines for December 22, 2010
- Census: As Red States Grow, So Do Hispanic Populations Within
- "I’ve Been to 44 Funerals in the Last 4 1/2 Years"–9/11 First Responder John Feal Calls on Senate to Pass Zadroga Bill
- "Barbour is an Unreconstructed Southerner": Prof. John Dittmer on Mississippi Governor’s Praise of White Citizens’ Councils
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
- Headlines for December 21, 2010
- Obama Flip-Flop: FCC Vote Could End Net Neutrality
- Local Community Radio Act Passes in Congress
- As Dems Work to Ratify New START Treaty, Jonathan Schell Says U.S.-Russia "Nuclear Standoff" Defies "Rational Explanation"
- Part II...Feminists Debate Sexual Allegations against Julian Assange
Monday, December 20, 2010
- Headlines for December 20, 2010
- In Historic Move, Senate Votes to Repeal "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell"
- Chris Hedges: Obama is a "Poster Child for the Death of the Liberal Class"
- Naomi Wolf vs. Jaclyn Friedman: Feminists Debate the Sexual Allegations Against Julian Assange
Friday, December 17, 2010
- Headlines for December 17, 2010
- WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Vows to Resume Whistleblowing After Release from London Jail
- WikiLeaks Cables: Pfizer Targeted Nigerian Attorney General to Undermine Suit over Fatal Drug Tests
- Deadly Medicine: FDA Fails to Regulate Rapidly Growing Industry of Overseas Drug Testing
- Study: Pharmaceutical Drug Companies Top Military Industry in Defrauding U.S. Gov’t
Thursday, December 16, 2010
- Headlines for December 16, 2010
- New York City Consultants Charged in $80M Waste, Fraud Scheme
- As WikiLeaks’ Assange Freed on Bail, Alleged Military Leaker Bradley Manning Imprisoned under Inhumane Conditions
- Fmr. Guyanese Politician Convicted of Terror Plot in Latest Case of Alleged Gov’t Entrapment
- Reps. Rush Holt and Raúl Grijalva on House Democratic Opposition to Obama’s Tax Deal with GOP
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
- Headlines for December 15, 2010
- Attorney: Swedish Case is a "Holding Charge" to Get Julian Assange Extradited to U.S.
- John Pilger: Global Support for WikiLeaks is "Rebellion" Against U.S. Militarism, Secrecy
- Richard Holbrooke Dies at 69: Remembering Veteran Diplomat’s Overlooked Record in East Timor, Iraq and the Balkans
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
- Headlines for December 14, 2010
- Judge with GOP Ties Strikes Down Key Healthcare Provision on Insurance Mandates
- "The Worse Off You Are, Your Taxes Increase": Journalist David Cay Johnston Slams Obama-GOP Tax Deal
- Prisoner Advocate Elaine Brown on Georgia Prison Strike: “Repression Breeds Resistance”
Monday, December 13, 2010
- Headlines for December 13, 2010
- Bernie Sanders Denounces Obama-GOP Tax Cut in 8.5-Hour Senate Speech, Says U.S. Becoming "Banana Republic"
- Climate Deal Reached in Cancún: Will the Agreement Help Save the Planet?
- Groups Protest U.N. Climate Summit for Shutting Out Civil Society
- Life or Death: Small Island Nation of Tuvalu Pleads for Climate Resolution
- Young Environmentalists Challenge U.N. Climate Delegates: "Stop Talking. Start Planting"
Friday, December 10, 2010
- Headlines for December 10, 2010
- Nobel Awarded to Jailed Chinese Human Rights Activist Liu Xiaobo
- China Faces International Criticism at Nobel Ceremony in Oslo and Climate Talks in Cancún
- Bolivian President Evo Morales at Cancún Climate Summit: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Diplomacy of Empire"
- Guardian Reporter John Vidal: With Climate Talks on Verge of Collapse "You Could Argue that America Has Done Very Well Out of This"
- Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: Julian Assange is Not a Terrorist
Thursday, December 09, 2010
- Headlines for December 09, 2010
- Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa on WikiLeaks, the September Coup, U.S. Denial of Climate Funding, and Controversial Forest Scheme REDD
- Is REDD the New Green? Indigenous Groups Resist Carbon Market-Based Forestry Scheme to Offset Emissions
- After Touting Sustainability, Walmart Chair Rob Walton Refuses to Answer on Company’s Record in Local Communities
- Prominent Indigenous Environmental Leader Tom Goldtooth Blocked from U.N. Climate Talks
- Offsetting Emissions or Pollution Profiteering? Debating the Surge of Cap-and-Trade Carbon Market
- Commodifying Wildlife? World Bank Launches Market Scheme for Endangered Species
- Greenpeace: Climate Justice Movement Must Intensify Efforts Ahead of 2011 Climate Talks in South Africa
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
- Headlines for December 08, 2010
- Attorney: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Endangered by Bail Denial in London; Still No Charges Filed in Sweden
- Youth Activists Protest Exclusion from U.N. Climate Summit in Cancún
- Thousands March in Cancún at La Via Campesina’s "Global Day of Action for Climate Justice"
- "Countries Least Responsible for Climate Change are the Ones Most Threatened by It": Island States Urge Binding Emissions Cuts at U.N. Climate Summit
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
- Headlines for December 07, 2010
- Glenn Greenwald on the Arrest of Julian Assange and the U.S. "War on WikiLeaks"
- Democracy Now! Questions Chief E.U. Climate Negotiator about WikiLeaks Cables
- U.S. Climate Envoy Refuses to Answer Democracy Now!'s Questions on WikiLeaks Cables' Account of Summit Manipulation
- Guardian Environment Editor John Vidal on WikiLeaks Cables and U.S. Manipulation of Climate Talks
- Bill McKibben: Climate Talks So Weakened by U.S., Major Polluters that Walkout Could Be Good News for Planet
- Nigerian Environmental Activist Nnimmo Bassey Wins Right Livelihood Award
Monday, December 06, 2010
- Headlines for December 06, 2010
- Climate Talks in Jeopardy as Industrialized Nations Threaten Kyoto Protocol
- Pressing the Silence: At the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the Media Center is Oddly Quiet
- Small Farmers Gather for Alternative Global Forum on Climate Change and Social Justice
- Pablo Solón Responds to Secret U.S. Manipulation of Climate Talks Revealed in WikiLeaks Cable
- Fmr. Irish President Mary Robinson Calls for Global Climate Justice Fund
Friday, December 03, 2010
- Headlines for December 03, 2010
- Is WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a Hero? Glenn Greenwald Debates Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News
- Abandoning "Net Neutrality," FCC Chair Backs Two-Tiered Internet Fees
- Greenpeace Sues Chemical Companies for Corporate Espionage
Thursday, December 02, 2010
- Headlines for December 02, 2010
- Attorney Confirms WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange in Britain, Responds to U.S. Attacks
- Jeremy Scahill: WikiLeaks Cables Confirm Secret U.S. War Ops in Pakistan
- U.N. Special Rapporteur Juan Méndez: Instead of Focusing on Assange, U.S. Should Address WikiLeaks’ Disclosures of Torture
- Professor, Author Jacob Hacker on "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class"
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
- Headlines for December 01, 2010
- WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Tried to Thwart Spanish Probes of Gitmo Torture and CIA Rendition
- Leaked Cables Reveal U.S. Pressured Spain to Drop Case of Cameraman Killed in 2003 Attack on Journalists in Baghdad
- As GOP Appears to Win Extension of Bush-Era Tax Cuts for Wealthy, Rev. Jesse Jackson Calls for "War on Poverty"
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Columns
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
Web Exclusives
In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. [includes rush transcript]
Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]
