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A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 800 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.
Democracy Now! 2010-03-16 Tuesday
Headlines for March 16, 2010; Federal Panel Finds NY Dept. of Education Discriminated Against Arabic School Principal; Dem Leadership in Final Push on Healthcare Reform, House Considers Passing Bill Without Direct Vote; Charles Bowden on ‘The War Next Door’
Democracy Now! 2010-03-15 Monday
Headlines for March 15, 2010; Noam Chomsky on Obama’s Foreign Policy, His Own History of Activism, and the Importance of Speaking Out
Democracy Now! 2010-03-12 Friday
Headlines for March 12, 2010; Study: Median Wealth for Single Black Women: $100, Single Hispanic Women: $120, Single White Women: $41,000; Part II: Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness; Judge Instructs Fed Agencies to Resume ACORN Funding
Democracy Now! 2010-03-11 Thursday
Headlines for March 11, 2010; Rep. Dennis Kucinich Takes on Democratic Leaders with Insistence on Public Option, Call for Afghan Withdrawal; Doris ‘Granny D’ Haddock (1910-2010): Remembering Legendary Campaign Finance Reform Activist; Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander on ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’
Democracy Now! 2010-03-10 Wednesday
Headlines for March 10, 2010; 7 Years After Killing, Family of Slain US Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Heads to Israel for Wrongful Death Suit Against Israeli Gov’t
Democracy Now! 2010-03-09 Tuesday
Headlines for March 09, 2010; The Real Climategate: Conservation Groups Align with World’s Worst Polluters; 105,000 Tattoos: Iraqi Artist Wafaa Bilal Turns His Own Body into a Canvas to Commemorate Dead Iraqis & Americans
Democracy Now! 2010-03-08 Monday
Headlines for March 08, 2010; International Women’s Day Marked Around the World; Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi Presses Iran on Human Rights and Warns Against International Sanctions; During Oscar Acceptance Speech, Mo’Nique Cites Hattie McDaniel, First African American Academy Award Winner; Bloody Sunday: Thousands Mark Anniversary of 1965 Selma-Montgomery March
Democracy Now! 2010-03-05 Friday
Headlines for March 05, 2010; String of Election-Related Bombings Fuels US Talk of Delayed Iraq Withdrawal; Hundreds of Thousands Take Part in National Day of Action to Defend Public Education; Leading Education Scholar Diane Ravitch: No Child Left Behind Has Left US Schools with Legacy of ‘Institutionalized Fraud’
Democracy Now! 2010-03-04 Thursday
Headlines for March 04, 2010; Thousands of Students Taking Part in National Day of Action to Defend Public Education; Boycott, Divest From, and Sanction Israel?: A Debate on BDS with Omar Barghouti and Rabbi Arthur Waskow; Privacy, Civil Liberties Groups Sound Alarm over Expanded Role for National Security Agency in Cyber Security
Democracy Now! 2010-03-03 Wednesday
Headlines for March 03, 2010; As NY Gov. Paterson Criticized for Alleged Interference on Aide’s Behalf, a Look at Domestic Violence Nationwide; Utah Abortion Bill Could Punish Women for Miscarriages, Domestic Violence ; Chilean Earthquake Toll Passes 800; Aid Yet to Reach Many Devastated Areas; From New York to Liberia, Investigative Journalist Greg Palast Tracks Vulture Funds Preying on African Debt
Democracy Now! 2010-03-02 Tuesday
Headlines for March 02, 2010; Ralph Nader on the GOP Filibuster of Unemployment Benefits Bill, the Collapse of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Proposal, and the Latest Auto Recalls ; Photographer Kike Arnal & Ralph Nader on ‘In the Shadow of Power: Poverty in Washington, DC’; In the Shadow of the Olympic Flame: A Report from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, the Poorest Neighborhood in Canada
Democracy Now! 2010-03-01 Monday
Headlines for March 01, 2010; Seismologist Roger Bilham: In Recent Earthquakes, Buildings Have Acted as Weapons of Mass Destruction’ ; Following String of Racist Incidents, UC San Diego Students Occupy Chancellor’s Office ; Gary Greenberg: ‘Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease’
Democracy Now! 2010-02-26 Friday
Headlines for February 26, 2010; Healthcare Summit Ends in Deadlock; Single-Payer Advocates Excluded ; V-Day Founder Eve Ensler on ‘I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World’; As Obama Pushes ‘Clean Coal,’ Jeff Biggers Tracks History of Destructive Mining in ‘Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland’
Democracy Now! 2010-02-25 Thursday
Headlines for February 25, 2010; Juan Gonzalez: Eva Moskowitz Has Special Access to Schools Chancellor Klein; Glenn Greenwald: Dems Hiding Behind Filibuster to Justify Political Inaction on Public Option ; FBI, US Attorney Investigating Penn. School Districts Computer Spying on Young Students; Author Shane Harris on ‘The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State’
Democracy Now! 2010-02-24 Wednesday
Headlines for February 24, 2010; In Historic Vote, Vermont Poised to Shut Down Lone Nuclear Reactor; Anti-Nuclear Activists Mobilize to Oppose Obama-Funded Construction of Georgia Nuke Plants; ‘The Media-Lobbying Complex’: Investigation Exposes Undisclosed Corporate Ties of Network Political Pundits ; Juan Gonzalez Receives 2010 Justice in Action Award
Democracy Now! 2010-02-23 Tuesday
Headlines for February 23, 2010; Phyllis Bennis on Ending the US War in Afghanistan; Congress to Investigate Safety of Natural Gas Drilling Practice Known as Hydraulic Fracturing; Robert Manning: ‘Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America’s Addiction to Credit’
Democracy Now! 2010-02-22 Monday
Headlines for February 22, 2010; Peter Hallward on ‘Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment’ ; After Decades-Long Wait, US Navy to Study Health Effects of Water Contamination at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base in North Carolina.; Malcolm X: ‘By Any Means Necessary’
Democracy Now! 2010-02-19 Friday
Headlines for February 19, 2010; Obama Holds White House Meeting with Dalai Lama Over Chinese Protest; As Dalai Lama Visits White House, an Excerpt of His 2003 Criticism of Iraq War; Israel Accused of Stealing Identities, Using Fake Passports in Killing of Hamas Commander in Dubai; Welfare Recipients Forced to Sell Food Stamps to Buy Basic Necessities
Democracy Now! 2010-02-18 Thursday
Headlines for February 18, 2010; Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz on Obama’s Stimulus Plan, Debt, Climate Change, and ‘Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy’ ; ‘A Bad Day for America’: Anti-Nuclear Activist Harvey Wasserman Criticizes Obama Plan to Fund Nuclear Reactors
Democracy Now! 2010-02-17 Wednesday
Headlines for February 17, 2010; Mothers of Jailed US Hikers Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd Urge Iran to Release Their Children; Group: NATO Forces Blocking Movement of Wounded Afghan Civilians ; George Monbiot: UK Inquiry ‘Toothless’ and ‘Feeble’ in Probing Origins of Iraq War; ‘In the Loop’: Oscar-Nominated Comedy Satirizes Lead-Up to US-UK Invasion of Iraq

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Review: Finkelstein’s transformation to victim hero in “American Radical”
Max Blumenthal, The Electronic Intifada, 15 March 2010

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With unfettered access to Norman Finkelstein during the most dramatic stage of his career, American Radical: the trials of Norman Finkelstein directors David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier provide a compelling look at one of the most roundly vilified academics in recent American history. Max Blumenthal reviews the new documentary for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]

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Boycott or censorship?
Sami Hermez, The Electronic Intifada, 15 March 2010

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Critics of the movement for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel — including Israeli concert producer Shuki Weiss — have claimed that calling on artists to cancel performances in Israel is a form of censorship. Is the cultural boycott a form of censorship or McCarthyism? Sami Hermez comments for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]

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PA’s betrayal of human rights defenders the unkindest cut
Nadia Hijab, The Electronic Intifada, 14 March 2010

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They hail from opposite parts of the globe, but they have much in common: Jewish; experts on and passionate defenders of international law; and pummeling bags for Israel and the Palestinian Authority. And the future of the law of war lies at the heart of the campaigns against them. Nadia Hijab comments how the undermining of Richard Goldstone and Richard Falk. [MORE]

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Harvard students condemn center’s defense of fellow’s racist statements
Abdelnasser A. Rashid, Johnny F. Bowman, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, The Electronic Intifada, 12 March 2010

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We students at Harvard University are disturbed by the racist and inhumane comments of Martin Kramer, Visiting Scholar at the National Security Studies Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. We have become even more alarmed that rather than taking a dissociating or even strictly neutral stance against such extremist and hateful statements, the Weatherhead Center issued a defensive response. [MORE]

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Interview: Education and resistance at the Ann Arbor Palestine film fest
Jimmy Johnson, The Electronic Intifada, 12 March 2010

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The second annual Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival opened on Wednesday, 10 March with the feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh. Such festivals are a growing phenomenon with new ones popping up throughout the United States. The Electronic Intifada contributor Jimmy Johnson spoke with festival organizers Hena Ashraf, Ryah Aqel, Lauren Thams and Pomegranates and Myrhh director Najwa Najjar. [MORE]

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Flouting its own laws, EU accommodates “Made in Israel”
David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 12 March 2010

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In 2008 Britain expressed concern about how goods originating from Israeli settlements in the West Bank may be benefiting illegally from European Union trade preferences that theoretically only apply to businesses within Israel’s internationally-recognized borders. However, EU officials have not only failed to defend international law, they have accommodated Israel’s abuse of it. David Cronin analyzes for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]

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Sending a laptop to Gaza
Ahmed Moor, Live from Palestine, 12 March 2010

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I sat outdoors at a cafe on the Mediterranean Sea in al-Arish, a dusty seaside town in Egypt’s northern Sinai. I drank a tea and smoked a water pipe; it gave me something to do while I waited for Ismail — that’s not his real name — an Egyptian Bedouin tunnel smuggler who was going to deliver a package for me into Gaza. Ahmed Moor writes from al-Arish. [MORE]

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Second annual Ann Arbor Palestine film fest opens with “Pomegranates and Myrrh”
Announcement, Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival, 11 March 2010

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The second annual Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival opened on 10 March 2010 at the Michigan Theater with hundreds of attendees for Najwa Najjar’s Pomegranates and Myrrh. The film festival showcases films about Palestine and by Palestinian directors. Educating through the screen arts, the film festival amplifies the voice of the Palestinian people as a nation and diaspora by bringing films to the fore that would not otherwise be seen. [MORE]

// PLO paper reveals leadership bereft of strategy, legitimacy
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 11 March 2010

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As US-brokered “indirect” peace talks are set to resume, a paper authored by PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erekat reveals a Palestinian leadership ready to re-enter negotiations with Israel having already conceded fundamental Palestinian rights and demands. EI’s Ali Abunimah analyzes a document he says provides insight into the thought processes of a leadership bereft of strategy and legitimacy. [MORE]

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