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April 2011 Archive
Friday, April 29, 2011
- Headlines for April 29, 2011
- Johann Hari: Frenzy around Britain’s Royal Wedding "Should Embarrass Us All"
- May Day Rallies Celebrate Unity; Labor Unions and Immigrants Plan to March Side by Side
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama’s Comments on Bradley Manning Mark "Amazing Amount of Improper Influence" in WikiLeaks Case
Thursday, April 28, 2011
- Headlines for April 28, 2011
- 5 Years After U.S.-Backed Clashes, Palestinian Factions Fatah, Hamas Reach Unity Deal
- DOJ Drops Probe of Whistleblower Who Exposed Bush-Era Domestic Spying, Thomas Tamm: "The Bottom Line Is I Don’t Think I Ever Broke the Law"
- Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern: Petraeus Will Expand Pro-War Agenda as New CIA Director
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
- Headlines for April 27, 2011
- Court Rules Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Death Sentence is Unconstitutional, Grants New Sentencing Hearing
- Inside War-Torn Libya: As NATO Intensifies Air Strikes, Rebels Struggle to Break Gaddafi’s Control of Libya
- Arab Spring: A Discussion on Libya, Egypt and the Mideast with Palestinian Writer Rula Jebreal, Author of “Miral" & Journalist Issandr El Amrani
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
- Headlines for April 26, 2011
- Chernobyl Catastrophe: 25th Anniversary of World’s Worst Nuclear Accident
- Locked-Out Uranium Processing Workers Protest Honeywell’s Use of Scab Workers at Uranium Enrichment Plant in Illinois
- Guardian Newspaper Editor Defends Publishing WikiLeaks’ Secret Guantánamo Files
- Daniel Ellsberg: Bradley Manning Charges Should Be Dismissed After Obama Declares Accused Army Whistleblower "Broke the Law"
Monday, April 25, 2011
- Headlines for April 25, 2011
- Syrian Crackdown Intensifies: Over 150 Killed Since Friday as Assad Regime Attempts to Crush Protest Movement
- First Tunisia, Then Egypt, Now Yemen? Yemeni President Saleh Agrees to Resign Within 30 Days; Protests Continue
- WikiLeaks Documents Reveal U.S. Knowingly Imprisoned 150 Innocent Men at Guantánamo
Friday, April 22, 2011
- Headlines for April 22, 2011
- Earth Day Special: Vandana Shiva and Maude Barlow on the Rights of Mother Earth
- "Hold Both Parties to High Standards": Van Jones, Obama’s Ex-Green Jobs Czar
- "Now Is Our Time to Take a Stand": Tim DeChristopher’s Message to Youth Climate Activists at Power Shift 2011
- Bill McKibben of 350.org Calls House Vote on Global Warming "One of the Most Embarrassing Votes Congress Has Ever Taken"
Thursday, April 21, 2011
- Headlines for April 21, 2011
- Oscar-Nominated Director Tim Hetherington and Pulitzer Finalist Photojournalist Chris Hondros Killed on Front Lines of Libyan Conflict
- Thought Control: Right-Wing Koch Brothers Caught Telling Thousands of Employees How to Vote
- "Dr. Death" Agrees to Stop Evaluating Mentally Disabled Texas Death Row Prisoners
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
- Headlines for April 20, 2011
- "A Sea in Flames": Ecologist Carl Safina on First Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Blowout
- Voices from the Gulf: "One Year Later, We’re in the Same Situation as Last Year"
- Deepwater Drilling Resumes Despite Unclear Impact of BP Spill: "It is All about Hiding the Oil, Not Cleaning It Up"
- Death Toll from BP Spill Still Rising as Residents Die from Spill-Related Illnesses
- Father of Deepwater Horizon Victim: The Blowout Was “Inevitable” Due to BP’s Lack of Safety Precautions
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
- Headlines for April 19, 2011
- Syria Lifts Emergency Law as Protesters Come Under Fire in Syrian City of Homs
- Former Libyan Diplomat on His Defection and Call for Intensification of NATO Operations
- Phyllis Bennis: U.K. Sends Troops into Libya as International Coalition Expands Mission to Include Regime Change
- As Radiation Continues to Leak from Japan Nuke Plant, Owners of Vermont Yankee Plant Sue to Stay Open
Monday, April 18, 2011
- Headlines for April 18, 2011
- On 8th Day of Hunger Strike, Bahraini Activist Zainab Alkhawaja Urges U.S. to Press for Family’s Release
- "5 Million Barrels of Oil Does Not Disappear": Author, Activist Antonia Juhasz on the BP Spill, One Year Later
- Georgia Set to Enact First Arizona Copycat Anti-Immigrant Bill
Friday, April 15, 2011
- Headlines for April 15, 2011
- Offshore Banking and Tax Havens Have Become Heart of Global Economy
- As Congress Slashes EPA, Climate Funding, Author Mark Hertsgaard on "Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth"
- "A Beautiful Soul, a Big Heart": Italian Peace Activist Vittorio Arrigoni Slain by Militant Captors in Gaza Strip
Thursday, April 14, 2011
- Headlines for April 14, 2011
- While Obama Touts Compromise with GOP, Progressive Lawmakers Unveil "People’s Budget"
- Roundtable: Assessing Obama’s Budget Plan & State of U.S. Economy with Author Thomas Frank, Rev. Jim Wallis, and Activist/Philosopher Grace Lee Boggs
- Grace Lee Boggs on Detroit and "The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century"
- It’s a Hoax: GE Does Not Plan to Return $3.2 Billion Tax Refund to U.S. Treasury
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
- Headlines for April 13, 2011
- Expert: Despite Japanese Gov’t Claims of Decreasing Radiation, Fukushima a "Ticking Time Bomb"
- Dr. Michio Kaku on "Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100"
- D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray Arrested Protesting Dem-GOP Budget Deal
- Journalists, Activists Targeted as Honduran Repression Grows
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
- Headlines for April 12, 2011
- Nuclear Catastrophe in Japan “Not Equal to Chernobyl, But Way Worse”
- Human Rights Concerns Continue After Capture of Ivory Coast Strongman Laurent Gbagbo
- "I Am Willing to Give My Life": Bahraini Human Rights Activists Risk Lives to Protest U.S./Saudi-Backed Repression
- The Army vs. the People?: A Democracy Now! Special Report from Egypt
Monday, April 11, 2011
- Headlines for April 11, 2011
- "Don’t Punish the Poor" Economist Jeffrey Sachs Slams Obama-GOP Budget Deal
- As Violent Crackdown Intensifies in Syria, Freed Egyptian-American Engineer Mohamed Radwan Recounts Ordeal in Syrian Jail
- U.S. Backs Down and Grants Visa to Omar Barghouti, Palestinian Advocate of Israel Boycott
- Alleged Cuban Airline Bomber Free After Acquittal on Immigration Charges
Friday, April 08, 2011
- Headlines for April 08, 2011
- At National Conference for Media Reform, a Roundtable on Journalism, Broadband and Broadcast Amidst Cutbacks and Consolidation
- The Fall of Glenn Beck: Did the Controversial Fox Host Become an Economic Liability?
- Government Shutdown Looms Even as "Government’s Got Plenty of Money to Keep Going"
Thursday, April 07, 2011
- Headlines for April 07, 2011
- Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Assault on Social Spending, Pro-Rich Tax Cuts Turning U.S. into Nation "Of the 1 Percent, by the 1 Percent, for the 1 Percent"
- Leading Health Advocates Decry GOP Plan to Privatize Medicare, Gut Medicaid
- Juan Gonzalez Wins Prestigious Polk Award for Exposing "Biggest Scandal of Entire Bloomberg Era"
- Former Angola Prisoner Wilbert Rideau Receives George Polk Journalism Award for Exposing Sexual Violence Behind Bars
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
- Headlines for April 06, 2011
- Freed from Captivity in Libya, Anthony Shadid of the New York Times Recounts Ordeal under Gaddafi’s Forces
- Intervention Could Make Things Worse: New York Times’ Anthony Shadid on Rebellions in Libya and the Middle East
- New York Court to Hear Case Against Psychologist Accused of Torture in Guantánamo Interrogations
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
- Headlines for April 05, 2011
- Japan Releases Radioactive Water Several Million Times the Legal Limit into Ocean
- U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Says It Will Continue to Push for New Nuclear Power Plants Despite Growing Global Nuclear Concern
- States Use “Astonishing Lack of Care and Deliberation” to Choose New Lethal Injection Drugs for Death Row Executions
- Leading Palestinian Peace Activist & Theater Director, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Killed in Jenin
Monday, April 04, 2011
- Headlines for April 04, 2011
- African American Historian Manning Marable Dies Days Before Publication of His Biography of Malcolm X
- “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention”: Manning Marable’s New Biography Investigates Conflicted Reality of the Civil Rights Leader
- Judge Goldstone Retracts Part of His Report on Israeli Assault on Gaza, Leaves Rest Intact
Friday, April 01, 2011
- Headlines for April 01, 2011
- Rep. Kucinich: Lack of Congressional Approval Could Make Obama’s Libya Attack "Impeachable Offense"
- Democrats Vow to Seek Public Referendum as Ohio Enacts Anti-Union Bill
- Ivory Coast Crisis Intensifies as Anti-Gbagbo Forces Surround Presidential Palace
- Shunning Grassroots that Propelled ’08 Election, Obama Turns to Corporate Insider, Anti-Public Option Campaign Manager Jim Messina
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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]
