RECENT SHOWS
Thursday, October 09, 2008
- Headlines
- Greg Palast on Vote Rigging and Suppression Ahead of the 2008 Election
- Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on Voter Rights, Faulty Electronic Voting Machines, Voter Fraud and GOP Voter Challenges
- Report: Voter Purging Process Is Shrouded in Secrecy, Prone to Error and Vulnerable to Manipulation
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
- Headlines
- Faltering Economy Takes Center Stage in McCain-Obama Debate
- European, Asian Markets Plunge as Recession Fears Spread Worldwide
- McCain-Obama Debate Highlights Similar Stances on Foreign Policy
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Headlines
- Can Coal Be Clean? A Debate Between Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network and Joe Lucas of American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
- The Tyranny of Oil: Antonia Juhasz on “The World’s Most Powerful Industry—What We Must Do to Stop It”
- Is Posse Comitatus Dead? US Troops on US Streets
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Amy Goodman Launches Weekly Column
Ask your newspaper to carry it!
Amy Goodman has a new nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column which is distributed by King Features. Ask your local newspaper to carry it today! If you’d like to see the column in your paper, call, write a letter, or send an email to the Op-Ed or editorial page editor of your local paper and direct him/her to King Features for more information.
Here’s a sampling of the columns that have appeared in newspapers so far:
Amy Goodman’s Latest Column: “Open the Debates”
The reviews are in, and the latest U.S. presidential debate, the “town hall” from Nashville, Tenn., was a snore. One problem is that in a debate it is important for the debaters to actually disagree. Yet Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain substantively agree on many issues. That is one major reason that the debates should be open, and that major third-party or independent candidates should be included.
More...“Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs”
A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. “Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months,” reported Army Times staff writer Gina Cavallaro, “the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.” Disturbingly, she writes that “they may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control” as well.
More...“Troy Davis and the Supreme Decision”
Troy Anthony Davis was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday. Two hours before the state of Georgia was to execute him, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay until Monday. It had earlier agreed to hear Davis’ case on Sept. 29, but Georgia set his execution date six days before the hearing.
More...“Wall Street Socialists”
The financial crisis gripping the U.S. has the largest banks and insurance companies begging for massive government bailouts. The banking, investment, finance and insurance industries, long the foes of taxation, now need money from working-class taxpayers to stay alive. Taxpayers should be in the driver’s seat now. Instead, decisions that will cost people for decades are being made behind closed doors, by the wealthy, by the regulators and by those they have failed to regulate.
More...“The Party Police”
The Democratic and Republican national conventions have passed, but controversy surrounds how they were funded and how they were run.
More...“Why We Were Falsely Arrested”
Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets in St. Paul, Minn., this week, police are systematically targeting journalists.
More...“Poverty Is the Real Scandal”
Former Sen. John Edwards was supposed to speak in Denver at the Democratic National Convention, but he had an affair. Will the Democrats now forget about his signature issue?
More...“Cheney, Bush and Habbush”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on a book tour, where she is being hounded by activists and questioned about her pledge that “impeachment is off the table.” She responded on the TV talk show “The View,” “If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind may have provided the evidence she doesn’t want to see.
More...“Don’t Cage Dissent”
Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties to the cherished tradition of dissent. Things are not looking good.
More...“Threats, Lies and Audiotape”
With no end in sight in Afghanistan and Iraq, military recruiters must be prevented from using desperate and aggressive measures to lure our nation’s young people—the poorest and most vulnerable—into the line of fire.
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