Democracy Now! (6 am) – January 17, 2005
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
Supreme Court Overturns Federal Sentencing Guidelines Leaked GOP Memo: Privatizing Social Security Would Be "One of the Most Significant Conservative Governing Achievements Ever" With Tsunami Death Toll in Indonesia Possibly Rising Over 200,000, Military Crackdown In Aceh Continues
The Debt Threat: How Debt is Destroying the Developing World George Monbiot: "Climate Change Is a Far Greater Threat To Human Well-Being Than Terrorism" Whistleblower Charges Justice Dept. with Misconduct in Chertoff’s Prosecution of John Walker Lindh
Homeland Security Chief Nominee Chertoff Oversaw Detention of Hundreds of Arabs and Muslims After 9/11 Bush Appoints Arch-Conservative Claude Allen As Chief Domestic Policy Adviser Unprecedented Security Preparations For Bush Inauguration James Forman 1928-2005: Civil Rights Pioneer Dies At 76
CBS News Fires Four Over Bush National Guard Story FAIR on Bush Admin Funding of Armstrong Williams: "The Government Is Running a Domestic Propaganda Operation Secretly Targeting The American People" CNN Fires Crossfire, Tucker Carlson Moves to MSNBC Four Remaining British Guantanamo Detainees To Be Freed
Palestinian Elections "Taking Place Under Continued Heel of Israel’s Military Tyranny" Historic Sudan Peace Accord Marred by Ongoing Violence in Darfur Is the U.S. Organizing Salvador-Style Death Squads in Iraq? Indonesia Flies al Qaeda-Linked Groups into Aceh
Gonzales Grilled on Role in Torture at Confirmation Hearing History in the Making: Dems Force Debate on Ohio Voting Irregularities
Retired US General on Alberto Gonzales: "He Has Endangered Our Soldiers" Tsunami Warning Systems: Why Didn’t Scientists Notify the Press About the Impending Disaster? Shakeup: Doctors Without Borders Tells Tsunami Donors to Give to Other International Relief Efforts
ExxonMobil, Aceh and the Tsunami Acehnese Refugees Speak Out Congressmember Eleanor Holmes Norton on the Life of Shirley Chisolm Tom Delay, Ethics and the New Congress
Nearly 100,000 Dead in Aceh From Tsunami, as Activists Blast Indonesian Military for Holding Up Critical Aid The Mire of Death, Lies and Atrocities: Robert Fisk Looks Back at 2004