Today's Headlines
- Bush Signs Wall St. Bailout After House Passage
- Kucinich: Bailout “Largest Single Act of Class Warfare” in US History
- Ex-Goldman Sachs Exec to Steer Bailout
- Bailout Spending to Begin in November
- Countrywide Reaches $8.7B Mortgage Settlement
- US Loses 159,000 Jobs in September
- McCain Campaign Touts Obama Ties to ‘60s Activist
- Dems See Gains as Voter Registration Deadline Arrives
- 11 Iraqis Die in US Raid
- State Dept. Outsources Investigations of Contractor Crimes
- UK Commander: NATO Can’t Defeat Taliban
- 24 Killed in US Strike in Pakistan
- Palestinian Olive Harvest Begins Amidst Settler Harassment
- Half-Million Gallons of Spilled Crude Oil Among Ike’s Environmental Damage
- Catonsville 9 Member John Hogan Dies at 73
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Press Coverage of the Right Livelihood Award
Amy Goodman, first journalist to win the “Alternative Nobel”
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Amy Goodman’s Latest Column: “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.
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Amy Goodman First Journalist to Win “Alternative Nobel”
New York City, NY – Award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely recognized as the world’s premier award for personal courage and social transformation. The annual prize, also known as the Alternative Nobel, will be awarded in the Swedish Parliament on December 8, 2008.
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“Incarceration Now!”: NPR’s On The Media Interviews Amy Goodman
Around 800 people were arrested during the four day Republican National Convention earlier this month. Dozens were reporters, and one was Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, who argues the arrests have a chilling effect on journalists.
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“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.
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Charges Dropped Against DN! Journalists–Investigation Needed
The St. Paul City Attorney’s office announced Friday it will not prosecute Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman also issued a statement Friday that “the city will decline to prosecute misdemeanor charges for presence at an unlawful assembly for journalists arrested during the Republican National Convention.”
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Associated Press: “Reporters arrested at GOP convention: No charges”
ST. PAUL, Minn.–Charges will be dropped against journalists who were arrested during the Republican National Convention protests and cited with unlawful assembly.
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Current (Public TV/Radio Newspaper) reports on the arrests of Democracy Now! producers at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul
Videos of the Sept. 1 arrests of Democracy Now! producers in St. Paul, Minn., spread chilling evidence that police were making no distinction between the protestors outside the Republican National Convention and working journalists covering their activities.
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Monday, October 6, 2008
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Naomi Klein: Wall St. Crisis Should Be for Neoliberalism What Fall of Berlin Wall Was for Communism
As the world reels from the financial crisis on Wall Street and the taxpayer-funded $700 billion bailout, we spend the hour with Naomi Klein on the economy, politics and “disaster capitalism.” The Shock Doctrine author recently spoke at the University of Chicago to oppose the creation of an economic research center named after the University’s most famous economist, Milton Friedman. Klein says Friedman’s economic philosophy championed the kind of deregulation that led to the current crisis. [includes rush transcript]
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Wary of Public Outcry, Revised $800B Wall St. Bailout Stuffed with Earmarks to Sway Election-Year Incumbents
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Friday, October 03, 2008
- Headlines for October 03, 2008
- Amy Goodman Among 4 Recipients of 2008 Right Livelihood Award, Known as the “Alternative Nobel”
- Third Party VP Candidates Matt Gonzalez and Rosa Clemente Respond to Biden-Palin Debate
- Wary of Public Outcry, Revised $800B Wall St. Bailout Stuffed with Earmarks to Sway Election-Year Incumbents
Thursday, October 02, 2008
- Headlines for October 02, 2008
- Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz: Bail Out Wall Street Now, Change Terms Later
- No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
- “The Age of the Warrior”: Robert Fisk on the US Elections, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
- Headlines for October 01, 2008
- As Senate Prepares to Vote on Revised Wall St. Bailout, Critics See Only Slight Changes Following Widespread Public Opposition
- Justice Dept. Appoints Special Prosecutor After Report Faults Gonzales for US Attorney Firings
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