9781931859998 (alk. paper)

193185999X (alk. paper)

Collection of the author's commentaries from Democracy now!, the daily grassroots global news hour that broadcasts the program via radio, satellite and cable television, and Internet.

Includes index.

Democracy now! (Radio program)

Internet Archive collection.

Introduction: beyond the nine-second soundbite

War. The art of war and deception

Resistance to war cannot be jailed

Clinton to antiwar voters: bring 'em on

Carlos Arredondo exploding into action

Hang up on war: claim your telephone tax rebate

War and censorship at Wilton High School

The time is right for new Pentagon papers

The uncounted casualties of war

Winter soldier marches again

Body of war

Whistle-blower points to target list in U.S. attack on hotel

Threats, lies, and audiotape

Invasion of the sea-smurfs

Obama's Afghan trap

Obama's coalition of the unwilling

Climate change. Global warring, global warming, global warning

McKibben: hold politicians' feet to the fire

From oil wars to water wars

Weather reports are missing the story

Don't drink the nuclear Kool-aid

Lessons of the Exxon Valdez

Torture. Rumsfeld's mount misery

Up to Democrats to investigate torture

Hypocritical oath: psychologists and torture

High school students teach the president a lesson about torture

Psychologists in denial about torture

A vote for Mukasey is a vote for torture

Surviving a CIA "black site"

Taxi to the dark side

A torture debate among healers

Torturers should be punished

Health care. SICKO: Michael Moore's prescription for change

Children's health care is a no-brainer

For whom the Bell's palsy tolls

Nothing to fear but no health care

Toxins "r" us

Put single-payer on the table

Baucus' raucous caucus

Congre$$ heal thyself

Health insurance whistle-blower knows where the bodies are buried

Global economic meltdown. Ticker tape ain't spaghetti

Wall Street socialists

Workers laid off, executives paid off, Bernard Madoff

Too big to fail, too big to jail

Produce the note

Media. Death in Oaxaca

Shooting the messenger is a war crime

NAB-bing the election

CBS silences general dissent

The dubious Mr. Dobbs

The FCC's Christmas gift to big media

The broadcasters' big payday

The U.S. war on journalists

Why we were falsely arrested

Pacifica Radio at sixty: a sanctuary for dissent

Yoo's views make Philly news

News from the unreported world. Timor: Bush has a chance to hold terrorists accountable

Ask Kissinger about Pinochet

Chiquita's slipping appeal

Global consensus, not global conquest

Chevron's pipeline is the Burmese regime's lifeline

Congo: the invisible war

Colombia: celebrate the release, not the regime

Chevron, Shell, and the true cost of oil

The free market's marked men

Undo the coup

Grassroots activism. From the Bayou to Baghdad: mission accomplished?

Time is running out for brother and sister

The Orangeburg massacre

Don't cage dissent

A tale of two Nobel nations

Bush and the monkey wrench guy or: one man's bid to aid the environment

Seattle's lessons for London

Disclosure of "secrets" in the '70s didn't destroy the nation

Two standards of detention

Obama's military is spying on U.S. peace groups

Elections. New Vermont senator not standard fare

Not all is debated in love and war

Millions without a voice

As goes Vermont

Who's paying for the conventions?

"It's a global election"

Poverty is the real scandal

The party police

Open the debates

Who gets to vote?

Election protection

Obama. Obama strikes a chord with a disaffected Republican

It's not the man, it's the movement

Change big donors can believe in

Organizer in chief

President Obama can redeem the White House

Chevron in the White House

A long train ride

U.S. Muslims still under siege

Free speech vs. surveillance in the digital age

Luminaries. King's message: stop the War, help the poor

Bang pots and pans for Molly Ivins

Harry Belafonte: the lion at 80

Howard Zinn: dissent can sometimes be the best form of patriotism

Clarence Kailin: voices from the Spanish Civil War

Jimmy Carter: tear down that wall

John Lennon: imagine peace-a ray of light in dark times

Studs Terkel: curiosity didn't kill this cat

Yuri Kochiyama: lessons of internment

Martin Luther King, Jr.: where do we go from here?

Utah Phillips has left the stage

Evo Morales: a view from the South

Tutu, Obama, and the Middle East

Pete Seeger carries us on

Dr. George Tiller didn't have to die

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: the 21st-century color line

Kiefer Sutherland's grandfather, Tommy Douglas: health care reform needs an action hero.

War on Terrorism, 2001- > Atrocities.

Torture > United States.

Elections > Corrupt practices > United States.

Mass media > Political aspects > United States.

Political activists > United States.

United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009.

United States > Economic conditions > 2001-2009.

United States > Social conditions > 21st century.