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• Honduras deal collapses, and Zelaya’s backers blame U.S.

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladBy Tyler BridgesMcClatchy NewspapersNov. 9, 2009CARACAS, Venezuela — A U.S.-brokered accord that was supposed to return ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to power has collapsed and his supporters pinned much of the blame Monday on the Obama administration.Honduras’ Congress has made no plans ...
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• Dennis Kucinich on Democracy Now! – House Passes Landmark Healthcare Bill

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Nov. 9, 2009House Passes Landmark Healthcare Bill with Amendment Backed by Anti-Abortion LawmakersThe bill has been described as the biggest overhaul of the country’s healthcare system since the Medicare and Medicaid Act of 1965. Among those who voted no was Ohio Democrat Dennis ...
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• Video : Malalai Joya on Democracy Now

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 439
  As stated previously , I do not necessarily agree with much of what Malalai Joya says nor do I agree with her methods, however as also stated previously , Ms. Joya is symbolic of the kind of voices that cannot be silenced if Afghanistan is to ever have a true democracy. Whether this democracy comes organically from ...
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• BBC Launches Democracy

  
  IP TV Times — Authority: 126
  We frequently criticise the BBC on this blog, but its also worth noting that they do some brilliant work. The iPlayer is, after a couple of poor iterations, an excellent service. Now the Corporation brings us all those boring politicians droning on for hours about things that affect our everyday live on Democracy ...
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• “GM’s Money Trees”: Displacement of Rural Brazilians Highlights Consequences of “Cap and Trade” System

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Nov. 5, 2009With the Copenhagen climate summit just a month away, a new investigative series looks at how rural Brazilians are being displaced so their forest can be turned into carbon offsets for some of the world’s biggest polluters, including General Motors and Chevron. With ...
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• Low Road to High Finance – Goldman Sachs Sold Off Billions

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Nov. 4, 2009Low Road to High Finance: McClatchy Expose Reveals How Goldman Sachs Sold Off Billions in Mortgage Securities After Anticipating Housing CollapseA five-month investigation by McClatchy Newspapers has revealed that Goldman Sachs made secret bets against the housing market while ...
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• WALL STREET, VIA BOUGHT-OFF CONGRESS, CENSORED EXPERT CRITIC CALLING FOR REGULATION OF TOXIC DERIVATIVES

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 129
  How Wall Street and Its Backers on Capitol Hill Silenced a Critic Calling for Greater Regulation of Derivatives From Democracy Now!: Last month, when the a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on the derivatives market, Robert Johnson was the only non-industry expert invited to ...
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• How Wall Street and Its Backers on Capitol Hill Silenced a Critic Calling for Greater Regulation of Derivatives

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Nov. 2, 2009How Wall Street and Its Backers on Capitol Hill Silenced a Critic Calling for Greater Regulation of DerivativesLast month, when the a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on the derivatives market, Robert Johnson was the only non-industry expert ...
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• Glenn Greenwald on Afghanistan, State Secrets, Healthcare and the Media

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Oct. 30, 2009Leading Political, Legal Blogger Glenn Greenwald on Afghanistan, State Secrets, Healthcare and the MediaOne of the leading political and legal bloggers in the country, Glenn Greenwald, joins us to talk about about the war in Afghanistan, the Obama administration’s use of ...
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• Honduras Power Sharing Deal Signed!

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladMoxNewsDotComOctober 30, 2009 more about “Honduras Power Sharing Deal Signed!“, posted with vodpod***Deal Reached in Honduran Coup Crisis; Zelaya Restoration Would Depend on Vote by Honduran CongressDemocracy Now!Oct. 30, 2009The Honduran coup regime and representatives of the ousted President ...
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• New, Weird, Probably Terrible "Power Sharing" Deal Reached in Honduras

  
  BoRev.Net — Authority: 513
  Discuss... (Click here if the video isnt coming up).
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• Help Bring Integrity Back to the Agricultural Industry

  
  drgina — Authority: 91
  It appears that the USDA is appointing key executives with questionable backgrounds, and an apparent bias towards Agribusiness in question the use of Genetically Modified crops and pesticides.  I am reprinting below a call for action  from Food Democracy Now!  which outlines the current concerns and offers ...
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• Healthcare Roundtable: With Exclusion of Single Payer, What Opportunities Remain for Meaningful Reform?

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Oct. 29, 2009Healthcare Roundtable: With Exclusion of Single Payer, What Opportunities Remain for Meaningful Reform?While much of the healthcare debate in Washington and the media has focused on the proposal to create a government-run insurance program, the legislation being considered ...
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• frightening figures

  
  ravings of a semi-sane madwoman — Authority: 447
  one in three women in the military is / has been assaulted "Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within" ................. AMY GOODMAN: Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within is a documentary that focuses on the cases of three female service members victimized by rape and other forms of sexual assault. One of the ...
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• A Paradise Built in Hell: Rebecca Solnit on "The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster"

  
  Ernest Hardy | Blood Beats — Authority: 112
  A Paradise Built in Hell: Rebecca Solnit on "The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster" ( Be sure to click the sentence just above to watch this interview, which is largely centered on the racialized reactions folks had to Katrina and its victims, and where that reaction fits in the historical context of ...
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• Philip Alston: Record AfPak Drone Attacks Under Obama May Violate International Law

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Oct. 28, 2009UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings, Philip Alston: Record AfPak Drone Attacks Under Obama May Violate International LawInvestigative reporter Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine revealed last week that the number of US drone strikes in Pakistan has risen ...
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• Malalai Joya: “A Woman Among Warlords”

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 134
  The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice!On October 27th a forum was held at the CUNYs Center for Place, Culture and Politics. After the forum Grit TVs Laura Flanders held a discussion with some of the women at the forum and with Malalai Joya who wrote "A Woman Among Warlords: The ...
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• Democracy Now!: 27 October 2009

  
  Second Life English Blog — Authority: 134
  Welcome to the r(e)volution - Do YOU speak SLEnglish?
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• Threat to Afghani women’s health mars any rhetoric of liberation

  
  Canada's World — Authority: 420
  October marks the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. Despite the general consensus that the U.S. and it’s allies–Canada, of course, included–are floundering in the fight against terrorism, and despite increasingly heavy troop casualties and deaths–save the tens of thousands Afghani ...
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• Showdown in Chicago: Protesters Greet American Bankers Association Conference

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Oct. 26, 2009Showdown in Chicago: Protesters Greet American Bankers Association ConferenceWhen the American Bankers Association scheduled their annual meeting in Chicago for this week, they probably weren’t expecting the reception they’ve received. Instead of a quiet convention in a ...
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