Democracy Now – October 19, 2015
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Drone War Exposed: Jeremy Scahill on U.S. Kill Program’s Secrets & the Whistleblower Who Leaked Them
Drone War Exposed: Jeremy Scahill on U.S. Kill Program’s Secrets & the Whistleblower Who Leaked Them; “The Drone Papers” Reveals How Faulty Intel & Secret “Kill Chain” Mark Suspects, Civilians for Death; The Longest U.S. War, Prolonged: After Vowing Afghan Pullout, Obama Extends Occupation Indefinitely.
A New Snowden? Whistleblower Leaks Trove of Documents on Drones & Obama’s Assassination Program; Breaking Silence, Wife of Jailed CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling Seeks Presidential Pardon; Norman Solomon: Clinton’s Debate Comments on Snowden “Give Hypocrisy a Bad Name”; Is This the Third Intifada? Violent Unrest Grows as Palestinians Seek End to Military Occupationl; Gideon Levy: … Continued
Hillary Clinton & Bernie Sanders Take Center Stage at First Democratic Debate of 2016 Race; O’Malley’s Baltimore Policing Record Criticized as Candidates Address Whether #BlackLivesMatter; Hillary Clinton & Martin O’Malley Spar over Immigration Reform; Has Bernie Sanders Been Tough Enough on Guns? Hillary Clinton Says No; Sanders Calls Iraq Worst Foreign Policy Blunder in U.S. … Continued
An Undemocratic Party? Ahead of First Debate, Criticism Grows over DNC’s Move to Control Process; Outsourcing a Refugee Crisis: U.S. Paid Mexico Millions to Target Central Americans Fleeing Violence; The Rise of America’s Secret Government: The Deadly Legacy of Ex-CIA Director Allen Dulles.
Nobel Peace Prize to Tunisian Civil Society Groups for Democratization Efforts After Arab Spring; Making Money from Misery? Disaster Capitalism from the Migrant Crisis to Afghanistan and Haiti; First Latino US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera on Migrant Farmworkers, the Border and Ayotzinapa.
Legendary Patti Smith on Her New Memoir “M Train” & National Book Award Winner “Just Kids”; Patti Smith on Closing Guantanamo, Remembering Rachel Corrie and Feeling Frustrated with Obama; Patti Smith on 19th Century Poet William Blake and on Creating Political Art “Unapologetically”; “People Have the Power”: Patti Smith on Pope Francis and Her Performances … Continued
Father of Journalist Shot Dead On-Air in Virginia Speaks Out to End U.S. Gun Violence Epidemic; “Einstein’s Definition of Insanity”: Father of Slain Reporter on GOP Candidates’ Gun Control Remarks; Does Free Speech Have a Palestine Exception? Dismissed Professor Steven Salaita Speaks Out.
Breast Cancer Patient Arrested for Protesting TPP: “This is Price Gouging at the Cost of Lives”; NAFTA on Steroids: Consumer Groups Slam the TPP as 12 Nations Agree to Trade Accord; Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): “We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World.”
War Crime in Afghanistan?: Outrage After U.S. Airstrike on Hospital Kills 22 Patients & Staff; Mission Accomplished Redux: 1 Year After “End” to War in Afghanistan, Aid Workers Reveal Real Story; Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis: Climate Change Could Be Catalyst to Build a Fairer Economic System; Naomi Klein on The Leap Manifesto & What … Continued