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Democracy Now! – August 8, 2011
“Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”: Barbara Ehrenreich on the Job Crisis & Wealth Gap; The Battle for Egypt’s Media: Video Report on Press Freedom After the Revolution. Today’s Headlines 30 Elite U.S. Troops Killed After Helicopter is Shot Down in Afghanistan Standard & Poor Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating for First … Continued
Democracy Now! – August 5, 2011
Cargill Meat Recall Heightens Fears Budgets Cuts Will Weaken Oversight, Threaten Public Health; Secretive Corporate-Legislative Group ALEC Holds Annual Meeting to Rewrite State Laws; Secretive Corporate-Legislative Group ALEC Holds Annual Meeting to Rewrite State Laws; New Exposé Tracks ALEC-Private Prison Industry Effort to Replace Unionized Workers with Prison Labor; Jury Still Out on New Orleans … Continued
Democracy Now! – August 4, 2011
Women Hurt Most by Debt Deal Cuts to Medicare, Social Security, Tuition; Guatemalan Soldiers Sentenced to 6,060 Years in Prison for Role in 1982 Massacre; Video Report from Cairo: Egyptians Celebrate as Mubarak Stands Trial for Murder, Corruption; Failed Education Reform in Chile Prompts Hunger Strikes, Protests by Thousands of Students. Today’s Headlines Witnesses: … Continued
Democracy Now! – August 3, 2011
Rep. Donna Edwards on Why She Voted Against Debt Deal: “A Bad Framework for the Future”; Economist Dean Baker Predicts A “Really Bad Deal or No Deal” from Deficit “Super Committee”; Syrian Forces Attack Civilians in Hama as U.N. Security Council Wavers on Condemning Crackdown; Thousands Protest Widening Inequality in Israel, But Calls Ignore Occupation … Continued
Democracy Now! – August 2, 2011
After Months of Partisan Wrangling, Wall Street & Pentagon Emerge Victorious on Debt Deal; As Ramadan Begins, Assad Regime Intensifies Deadly Crackdown on Syrian Protesters; Syrian Activist Razan Zaitouneh: Assad Regime the Lone “Terrorist Group” Inside Syria; Ahead of Mubarak Trial, Egyptian Forces Forcibly Remove Protesters from Tahrir Square. Today’s Headlines House Backs Debt … Continued