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| Sotomayor: My 'Wise Latina' Comments Not So Different from Samuel Alito | |
| more at cspan.org July 15, 2009 | |
| Date: 2009-07-15 12:02:54 - Added by: KMC | |
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| DN! Israel to Test Missiles in US Waters | |
| Israel to Test Missiles in US Waters The Pentagon has announced it will hold a missile test with the Israeli military in US waters later this week. The Pentagons Missile Defense Agency says Israel will test its Arrow system on a US missile range in the Pacific Ocean. The test will be at least Israels third in US waters. | |
| Date: 2009-07-15 12:02:14 - Added by: KMC | |
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| World: Combating I.E.D.'s in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com/Video | |
| For the first time since the conflict began in 2001, I.E.D.'s have become the leading killer of coalition troops in Afghanistan. As a result, there are now more than 15 special counter-I.E.D. teams. Related article: http://bit.ly/11zZHa | |
| Date: 2009-07-15 11:59:07 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Clinton Lobbyist Hired to Defend Honduran Coup Regime | |
| US Lobbyists with Clinton Ties Hired to Defend Honduran Coup Regime Supporters of the coup in Honduras have begun hiring advisers and lobbyists with close ties to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an attempt to strengthen support in Washington for the coup. A Honduran business group has hired lobbyist Lanny Davis, who served as White House counsel for President Bill Clinton. The coup government has also hired Bennet Ratcliff, a public relations specialist with ties to former President Bill Clinton. | |
| Date: 2009-07-15 11:54:56 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Sotomayor's Record Belies GOP Charges of Biased Judicial Practice | |
| Review of Sotomayor's Record Belies GOP Charges of Biased Judicial Practice An exhaustive review of all 1,994 constitutional cases decided by the Second Circuit during the decade of Judge Sotomayors service found that Sotomayor is solidly in the mainstream of her colleagues. The Brennan Center for Justice report found Sotomayor voted with the majority of the court in 98.2 percent of constitutional cases. We speak with the reports author, attorney Monica Youn, and Democracy Now!s Juan Gonzalez, whos in DC covering the hearings. | |
| Date: 2009-07-15 11:54:27 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Up in Smoke: How the Tobacco Industry Shaped the New Smoking Bill | |
| Up in Smoke: How the Tobacco Industry Shaped the New Smoking Bill President Obama signed into law a bill last week that gives the US government broad regulatory power over cigarettes and other tobacco products. Obama said the law would curb the ability of tobacco companies to market their products to children. But several public health professionals have come out strongly against the new legislation. They argue that it was largely shaped by Philip Morris, now called Altria Group, the largest cigarette company in the country. We speak with Dr. Joel Nitzkin, chair of the Tobacco Control Task Force of the American Association of Public Health Physicians. | |
| Date: 2009-07-14 09:49:30 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 764 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 3.5 | |
| Noam Chomsky: Crisis and Hope- Theirs and Ours- 1/6 | |
| Noam Chomsky on Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours Noam Chomsky, the MIT professor, author and dissident intellectual, just turned eighty years old this past December. He has written over 100 books, but despite being called the most important intellectual alive by the New York Times, he is rarely heard in the corporate media. We spend the hour with Noam Chomsky. He spoke recently here in New York at an event sponsored by the Brecht Forum. More than 2,000 people packed into Riverside Church in Harlem to hear his address, titled Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours. In his talk, Chomsky discussed the global economic crisis, the environment, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, resistance to American empire and much more. [includes rush transcript] | |
| Date: 2009-07-14 09:48:35 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Inside Story - Extended operation in Afghanistan ? | |
| Ahead of the Afghan presidential elections next month, US Marines and British troops launch major new offensives against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. Inside Story asks: Is this the start of an extended operation in Afghanistan? | |
| Date: 2009-07-14 09:45:02 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Borneo's burning rainforests - 14 Jul 09 | |
| The rainforests of Borneo are some of the most important and complex natural eco-systems on Earth. But despite campaigns for conservation and promises to preserve the forests, they are disappearing at an alarming rate In the first of a three part series, Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley reports from Sarawak, Malaysia, on the politics of deforestation. | |
| Date: 2009-07-14 09:43:05 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Naomi Wolf: Obama can lock any US citizen up without trial | |
| Barack Obamas indefinite detention claim, coupled with the enemy combatant right he inherited, enables him to lock up any US citizen forever without a trial, author and political consultant Naomi Wolf told RT. | |
| Date: 2009-07-14 09:41:52 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 760 - Votes: 6 - Rating: 5 | |