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Amy Goodman’s New Column, “Tutu, Obama and the Middle East”
As President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You may not have heard much lately about the disaster in the Gaza Strip. That silence is intentional: The Israeli government has barred international journalists from entering the occupied territory.
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“A View From the South”
Evo Morales knows about “change you can believe in.” He also knows what happens when a powerful elite is forced to make changes it doesn’t want.
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“President Obama Can Redeem the White House”
Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves.
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Amy Goodman on CNN Newsroom, November 10, 2008
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Anjali Kamat’s New Column: “Change We Can Believe In?”
Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat writes, “To all those for whom America has represented generations of racial injustice, the election of America’s first Black president marks the beginning of a new era…But unless the inspired millions who brought him to power continue to believe their demands matter and insist on holding him accountable each step of the way, it will be Obama’s corporate and hawkish friends who determine the domestic and foreign policies of the coming administration and our collective future.”
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“Organizer in Chief”
You could almost hear the world’s collective sigh of relief. This year’s U.S. presidential election was a global event in every sense. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, represents to so many a living bridge—between continents and cultures.
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Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago. Over the years Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!In 2005, Studs Terkel appeared on Democracy Now! shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. He told Amy Goodman, “My curiosity is what saw me through. What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, that’s my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And it’s curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.”
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“Election Protection”
Election Day approaches, and with it a test of our election system’s integrity. Who will be allowed to vote; who will be barred? Who will get paper ballots; who will use electronic voting machines? Will polls be open long enough to accommodate what is expected to be a historic turnout?
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2007 in Review
December 31, 2007: 2007 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance Pt. 1
Part one of our special look back at 2007, including Saddam Hussein’s execution, the U.S. bombing of Somalia, the Appeal for Redress, Scooter Libby’s convicton, the firing of Don Imus, the Virginia Tech massacre, the rise of Blackwater, the death of Molly Ivins and Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Moore and “Sicko”, Greg Palast and Rep. Conyers on vulture funds, the Hamas-Fatah split in the Palestinian territories, the U.S. Social Forum and more.
Featuring the Voices of:
Joseph Wilson, Alan Johnston, Robert Bailey, Caseptla Bailey, Marcus Jones, Helen Thomas, President Bush, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Ward Churchill, Sen. Barack Obama, Marjorie Cohn, Nydesha Foster, Angela Hegarty, Amira Baraka, Nir Rosen, Camilo Mejia, Grace Paley, Alberto Gonzales, Sen. Larry Craig, Norman Finkelstein, President Jimmy Carter, Sen. Robert Byrd, Gen. David Petraeus, Rev. Al Sharpton, Alan Greenspan, Naomi Klein, Mark Canning, Rep, Danny Davis, Erik Prince, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Jeremy Scahill, Katie Redford, Yoko Ono, Bill McKibben, Maher Arar, John Tanner, Jonathan Paul, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Michael Mukasey, Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz, Mark Klein, Evo Morales, Asma Jahangir, Wayne Barrett, John Edwards, Noam Chomsky. Desmond Tutu, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Nelson Mandela, Lou Dobbs, Mohamed ElBaradei, Michael Ratner, Mark Benjamin, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rajendra Pachauri, Al Gore, Jon Corzine, Benazir Bhutto, and more. [includes rush transcript] read more…
January 01, 2008: 2007 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance Pt. 2
Part two of our special look back at 2007, including the Jena Six, the Petraeus report, the trial of Jose Padilla, Alberto Gonzales’s resignation, Alan Greenspan v. Naomi Klein, Michael Mukasey on waterboarding, Blackwater’s Massacre in Baghdad, Jimmy Carter on apartheid in the Palestinian territories, Al Gore and IPCC win the Nobel Peace Prize, the pro-democracy uprising in Burma, the firing of Norman Finkelstein and Ward Churchill, New Jersey abolishes the death penalty, the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and more.
Featuring the Voices of:
Nancy Pelosi, Cindy Sheehan President Bush, Sgt. Ronn Cantu, Leslie Cagan, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Zanku Armenian, Molly Ivins, Sami Al-Arian, Laila Al-Arian, Greg Palast, Rep. John Conyers, Salim Lone, Patrick Fitzgerald, Murray Waas
Dennis Kucinich, Jeremy Scahill, Don Imus, Rev. Al Sharpton, Bill McKibben, Louise Melling, Alberto Gonzales, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Seymour Hersh, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Ernesto Arce, Paul Rusesabegina, Don Cheadle, Sen. Daniel Akaka, General John Batiste, Majid and 9 yr old son Kevan, Ricardo Alarcon, Tony Blair, Joan Baez, Tariq Ali, Studs Terkel, Ted Shaw, Mona El-Farra, Rocky Anderson, Michael Moore, Ali Abinumah, Vanessa Redgrave, Dennis Brutus, and more. [includes rush transcript] read more…
