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Democracy Now! – February 22, 2013
Torture at Guantánamo: Lt. Col. Stuart Couch on His Refusal to Prosecute Abused Prisoner; “The Terror Courts”: An Inside Look at Rough Justice, Torture at Guantánamo Bay. HeadlinesFebruary 22, 2013 Report: More Than 2,100 Gun Deaths in the U.S. Since Newtown Massacre India: 16 Killed in Hyderabad Bomb Blasts Syria: More Than 80 Killed … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 21, 2013
Sharif Abdel Kouddous: 2 Years into Uprising, Bahrain Feels Like a “Nation Under Occupation”; An Interrogation Center at Yale? Proposed Pentagon Special Ops Training Facility Sparks Protests; Sequestration: What do the Automatic Spending Cuts Mean for the Poor, Unemployed and Children?; Bowman v. Monsanto: Indiana Farmer’s Supreme Court Challenge to Corporate Control of Food Supply. … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 20, 2013
Prisoner X: As Secrecy Falls, Doubts Grow on Suicide Claims for Australian Israeli Linked to Mossad; Throwaways: Recruited by Police & Thrown Into Danger, Young Informants Are Drug War’s Latest Victims. HeadlinesFebruary 20, 2013 U.N. Warns Syrian Humanitarian Crisis “Getting Worse” as Typhoid Outbreak Confirmed Palestinian Prisoners Refuse Meals in Support of Hunger Strikers … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 19, 2013
Donors Trust: Little-Known Group Helps Wealthy Backers Fund Right-Wing Agenda in Secret; The ATM for Climate Denial: Secretive Donors Trust Funds Vast Network of Global Warming Skeptics”Brave Miss World”: Raped Before Winning ’98 Title, Linor Abargil Campaigns Against Sexual Violence. HeadlinesFebruary 19, 2013 U.N.: ICC Should Launch Syria War Crimes Probe Tens of Thousands … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 15, 2013
An Intentional Fire? Police Use of Incendiary Tear Gas Criticized in Killing of Christopher Dorner; From Dorner to Waco to MOVE Bombing, A Look at Growing Militarization of Domestic Policing; NAACP: New Election Commission Needed to Address Voter Suppression, Attacks on Voting Rights. HeadlinesFebruary 15, 2013 Senate Republicans Block Hagel Nomination Bahrain to Probe … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 14, 2013
48 Arrested at Keystone Pipeline Protest as Sierra Club Lifts 120-Year Ban on Civil Disobedience; “We Need To Push Him”: Actress Daryl Hannah Arrested While Urging Obama to Reject Keystone Pipeline; “Two Years of Deaths and Detentions”: Bahraini Pro-Democracy Protesters Mark Anniversary of Uprising; One Billion Rising: Playwright Eve Ensler Organizes Global Day of Dance … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 13, 2013
Beyond Gun Control, Obama Urged to Tackle Joblessness, Incarceration and U.S. “Culture of Violence”; Obama’s SOTU Address Calls for Middle-Class Revival, But Poverty & Inequality Still Get Short Shrift; Despite Planned Troop Withdrawal, Special Ops & Private Forces Prepare to Continue Afghan War; As Obama Touts Pathway to Citizenship, Record Deportations Leave Undocumented Immigrants in … Continued
Democracy Now! – February 12, 2013
North Korea Nuclear Test Sends Message to Washington One Week After U.S.-South Korean War Games; After Pope Benedict, Progressive Catholics and Priest Victims Call for a More Inclusive Papacy; Remembering the Overlooked Life Eslanda Robeson, Wife of Civil Rights Legend Paul Robeson. HeadlinesFebruary 12, 2013 U.N. Security Council to Meet on North Korean Nuke … Continued