Democracy Now! 2009-11-06 Friday
Headlines for November 06, 2009; In Worst-Ever Shooting of Its Kind, 13 Dead, 30 Wounded at Ft. Hood Military Base; Suspect Had Reportedly Complained of Anti-Muslim Bias; Breaking with Former Employer, Actor and Self-Described Insurance Industry "Spokesjerk" Andy Cobb Calls for Public Healthcare ; Actor, Playwright Anna Deavere Smith Weaves Multiple Stories of Healthcare Struggles into New Solo Performance "Let Me Down Easy"
Democracy Now! 2009-11-05 Thursday
Headlines for November 05, 2009; Italian Prosecutor in Case Against CIA Operatives Hails Convictions for '03 Kidnapping of Egyptian Cleric; As Massey Energy Blasts West Virginia's Coal River Mountain, a Debate on Mountaintop Removal Mining; "GM's Money Trees": Displacement of Rural Brazilians Highlights Consequences of "Cap and Trade" System
Democracy Now! 2009-11-04 Wednesday
Headlines for November 04, 2009; Election Day 2009: GOPers Sweep Governor Races; Bloomberg Wins Tight NYC Mayoral Race; Dems Take House Seats; Maine Repeals Gay Marriage ; Low Road to High Finance: McClatchy Expose Reveals How Goldman Sachs Sold Off Billions in Mortgage Securities After Anticipating Housing Collapse; Blueberry Farming Giant Found to Use Child Labor at Michigan Fields
Democracy Now! 2009-11-03 Tuesday
Headlines for November 03, 2009; Appeals Court Rules in Maher Arar Case: Innocent Victims of Extraordinary Rendition Cannot Sue in US Courts; Israeli Activists Criticize US House for Considering Resolution Condemning Goldstone Report on Israeli War Crimes in Gaza; "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama": New Documentary on Barack Obama's Historic Presidential Run
Democracy Now! 2009-11-02 Monday
Headlines for November 02, 2009; How Wall Street and Its Backers on Capitol Hill Silenced a Critic Calling for Greater Regulation of Derivatives; Shannon Brownlee: Does the Vaccine Matter?; Exclusive: Friend of American Hikers Detained in Iran Speaks Out
Democracy Now! 2009-10-30 Friday
Headlines for October 30, 2009; Is the Recession Over? Author, Democratic Senate Hopeful Jonathan Tasini on "The Audacity of Greed: Free Markets, Corporate Thieves and the Looting of America"; Deal Reached in Honduran Coup Crisis; Zelaya Restoration Would Depend on Vote by Honduran Congress; Leading Political, Legal Blogger Glenn Greenwald on Afghanistan, State Secrets, Healthcare and the Media; Rep. Raul Grijalva, Co-Chair of Progressive Caucus, Vows to Bring "Robust" Public Option to House...
Democracy Now! 2009-10-29 Thursday
Headlines for October 29, 2009; Public Option Faces New Test with Pelosi House Proposal, While Uncertainty Grows over Prospects in Senate; Healthcare Roundtable: With Exclusion of Single Payer, What Opportunities Remain for Meaningful Reform?; Russian Journalist Elena Milashina Speaks Out on Alarming Rise in Murders, Threats Against Critics of Government Abuses in North Caucasus
Democracy Now! 2009-10-28 Wednesday
Headlines for October 28, 2009; Coordinated Attacks Kill 6 UN Workers as US Troops Suffer Deadliest Month of 8-Year Afghan War; "A Woman Among Warlords": Afghan Democracy Activist Malalai Joya Defies Threats to Challenge US Occupation, Local Warlords; UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings, Philip Alston: Record AfPak Drone Attacks Under Obama May Violate International Law; House Advances Measure to Create Hundreds of New Low Power FM Radio Stations
Democracy Now! 2009-10-27 Tuesday
Headlines for October 27, 2009; Will Texas Execute Another Innocent Man? The Case of Reginald Blanton; Exclusive: Parents of Soldier Who Killed Himself in Iraq Speak Out; "Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within"
Democracy Now! 2009-10-26 Monday
Headlines for October 26, 2009; 155 Killed in Double Suicide Bombing in Baghdad; Showdown in Chicago: Protesters Greet American Bankers Association Conference; 100 Days of Resistance: Al Jazeera's Avi Lewis Reports from Honduras
Democracy Now! 2009-10-23 Friday
Headlines for October 23, 2009; Amidst Uncertainty on US Role in Upcoming Climate Talks, 350.org Holds International Climate Action Day in 170 Nations; New US Strategy for Sudan Rejects Hawkish Approach ; Judge Rejects Blackwater Attempt to Dismiss Cases Filed by Iraqi Victims
Democracy Now! 2009-10-22 Thursday
Headlines for October 22, 2009; University of Alaska Scientist Rick Steiner Loses Federal Grant Funding After Criticizing Oil Industry; Toxic Waters: Regulatory Absence Allows Chemical, Coal and Farm Industries to Pollute US Water Supplies; CIA Invests in Software Firm Monitoring Blogs, Twitter
Democracy Now! 2009-10-21 Wednesday
Headlines for October 21, 2009; "Cashing in the War Dividend": As Healthcare Reform Limited by Deficit Concerns, Military Spending Continues to Grow; International Women's Media Foundation Honors Israeli Journalist Amira Hass with 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award; Jordanian Journalist Rana Husseini on "Murder in the Name of Honor: The True Story of One Woman's Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime"
Democracy Now! 2009-10-20 Tuesday
Headlines for October 20, 2009; Congress Considers Revoking Health Insurance Industry's Exemption from Antitrust Laws; In His Mother's Footsteps: California Man Jailed for Five Days After Sit-In at Blue Cross Office in Los Angeles ; The Yes Men Pull Off Prank Claiming US Chamber of Commerce Had Changed Its Stance on Climate Change; PR Executive James Hoggan on "Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming"
Democracy Now! 2009-10-19 Monday
Headlines for October 19, 2009; Six Senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commanders Killed in Suicide Bombing, Iran Blames US and Pakistan; Department of Homeland Security Expands Controversial 287(g) Program Empowering Local Police to Enforce Immigration Laws; Island Nation of Maldives Holds Cabinet Meeting Underwater to Highlight Danger of Global Warming
Democracy Now! 2009-10-16 Friday
Headlines for October 16, 2009; Amnesty International Head Irene Khan on "The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights"; Journalist Ann Louise Bardach on How Cuban Exile Luis Posada Carriles Remains a Free Man in Miami Despite His Role in Airline and Hotel Bombings ; 150 Years Ago Today: Abolitionist John Brown Raided Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Attempt to Start Slave Insurrection in South
Democracy Now! 2009-10-15 Thursday
Headlines for October 15, 2009; As Foreclosures Hit All-Time High, Wall Street on Pace to Hand Out Record $140B in Employee Bonuses; Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on Capitalism, Healthcare, Latin American "Populism" and the "Farcical" Financial Crisis
Democracy Now! 2009-10-14 Wednesday
Headlines for October 14, 2009; With Senate Finance Vote, Fate of Public Option Uncertain as Healthcare Reform Talks Move Behind Closed Doors ; "Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War": Groundbreaking Journalist Mark Danner on Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq and Torture; As US and Other Wealthy Nations Slash Aid, UN Warns of "Silent Tsunami of Hunger" in Global Food Crisis
Democracy Now! 2009-10-13 Tuesday
Headlines for October 13, 2009; "Love Is Worth It": Iraq War Vet Facing Discharge for Violating "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Helps Lead Massive Rally for Gay Rights ; The Fight for Equality: A Look at the State of the Gay Rights Movement; Author Barbara Ehrenreich on "Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America"
Democracy Now! 2009-10-12 Monday
Headlines for October 12, 2009; Democracy Now! Special: An Hour of Music and Conversation with Legendary Native American Singer-Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie
Democracy Now! 2009-10-09 Friday
Headlines for October 09, 2009; As US Continues Afghan, Iraq Occupations and Quashes Accountability for Gaza Assault, Critics Decry Awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to Obama; Guam Residents Organize Against US Plans for $15B Military Buildup on Pacific Island; Forcibly Exiled Nearly 40 Years Ago, Diego Garcia Natives Fight to Return to Island Home Now Used as Key US Military Outpost; Study: Foreclosure Crisis Worsened by Scarcity of Legal Assistance for Struggling Homeowners
Democracy Now! 2009-10-08 Thursday
Headlines for October 08, 2009; Palestinian President Abbas Faces Uproar for Aiding US-Israeli Derailment of UN Report on Gaza Assault; As Helen Keller Honored at US Capitol, Lifelong Radical Politics Go Ignored; ACORN Defunding Spurs Proposals to Bar Federal Money to Companies Convicted of Felonies; Sen. Bernie Sanders on ACORN, Healthcare and Afghanistan; "Sick for Profit": Robert Greenwald Documentary Exposes Salaries, Claim Denials of Healthcare Profiteers
Democracy Now! 2009-10-07 Wednesday
Headlines for October 07, 2009; As Afghan War Enters 9th Year, Rep. Barbara Lee -- Lone Lawmaker to Vote Against 2001 Authorization -- Seeks to Block New Troop Surge; Voices from Afghanistan: Afghan Women's Activist Zoya Speaks Out on Eight Years of Occupation; "Return of the Warlords": Afghan Elections Marred by Fraud, Warlord Dominance; Arrest of 61 Peace Activists Outside White House Kicks Off Week of Protest Against Afghan War
Democracy Now! 2009-10-06 Tuesday
Headlines for October 06, 2009; Twitter Crackdown: NYC Activist Arrested for Using Social Networking Site during G-20 Protest in Pittsburgh; A Hidden $34 Billion Bank Subsidy? Study Exposes How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Other Large Banks; Environmental Battle Brews in New York over Natural Gas Drilling
Democracy Now! 2009-10-05 Monday
Headlines for October 05, 2009; Fired UN Official Peter Galbraith Accuses the United Nations of Helping Cover Up Electoral Fraud Committed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai; Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Speaks from the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa
Democracy Now! 2009-10-02 Friday
Headlines for October 02, 2009; Sportswriter Dave Zirin on Obama's Olympic Error; Rethink Afghanistan: Filmmaker Robert Greenwald Launches Film Opposing Escalation of War ; Pittsburgh Police Challenged over Use of Sound Cannons During G-20 and for Wrongfully Arresting Dozens of University of Pittsburgh Students
Democracy Now! 2009-10-01 Thursday
Headlines for October 01, 2009; Supreme Court to Take Up PATRIOT Act with Review of Case on Humanitarian Assistance to Groups on Terror List; Mother Speaks Out on Insurance Giant CIGNA's Denial of Healthcare to Cancer-Stricken Twin Daughters ; South Africa's Poor Targeted by Evictions, Attacks in Advance of 2010 World Cup
Democracy Now! 2009-09-30 Wednesday
Headlines for September 30, 2009; Insurance Industry Whistleblower Wendell Potter Blasts Senate Panel Rejection of Public Insurance Option; Dr. Cornel West Releases Long-Awaited Memoir, "Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud"
Democracy Now! 2009-09-29 Tuesday
Headlines for September 29, 2009; Internal Pressure Forces Honduran Coup Regime to Reverse Civil Liberties Crackdown, But Repression Continues; Fmr. UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Warns Against "Politically Motivated Hype" on Iran Nuke Program; As Senate Panel Debates Public Option, Groups Take Direct Action to Promote Single Payer
Democracy Now! 2009-09-28 Monday
Headlines for September 28, 2009; Nearly 200 Arrested as Police Unleash Tear Gas, Sound Cannons at G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh; Author Arundhati Roy on the Human Costs of India's Economic Growth, the View of Obama from New Delhi, and Escalating US Attacks in Af-Pak