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Democracy Now! – February 27, 2013

ACLU Blasts Supreme Court Rejection of Challenge to Warrantless Spying Without Proof of Surveillance; Obama’s Chilling Secrecy, From Denying Drone Program’s Existence to Stonewalling on Legal Memos; Selling the White House? Obama-Linked Group Promises Top Donors Access to President; Behind the Brands: On Food Justice, Oxfam Gives Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, Nestle & Pepsi Failing Grades. … Continued


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Democracy Now! – February 26, 2013

Billionaires for Austerity: With Cuts Looming, Wall Street Roots of “Fix the Debt” Campaign Exposed; “Makers: Women Who Make America”: New Film Chronicles Past 50 Years of Feminist Movement; United by Loss, Israeli & Palestinian Dads Call for a Joint Non-Violent Intifada Against Occupation. HeadlinesFebruary 26, 2013     Afghans Claim 9 Disappearances at Hands of … Continued


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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