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Haiti: A Natural Disaster?
MATT MAREK Available for a limited number of interviews, Marek is head of programs for the American Red Cross in Haiti. He is in rural Haiti, where he is traveling in isolated communities to facilitate aid deliveries. PAUL FARMER Available for a limited number of interviews, Farmer is just back from Haiti. He is author…
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* Outsourcing the G.I. Bill? * Making of “the Greatest Generation”
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs is holding a hearing Thursday on the G.I. Bill. AARON GLANTZ Author of the forthcoming book The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans, Glantz reported extensively from Iraq as an unembedded journalist from 2003 to 2005. He has been covering U.S. war veterans since his return. He…
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9/11 Family Member Just Back from Iraq
TERRY ROCKEFELLER Rockefeller is just back from Iraq. She lost her sister, Laura, in the attacks on the World Trade Center and is a member of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, which just released the following statement: “On Thursday, September 11, 2008, the first bell will ring at 8:46 am. Bells will ring at…
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Causes of Fannie’s Collapse — and How to Stop the Speculators
JAMES K. GALBRAITH Galbraith’s latest book is The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. He said today: “The collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is partly the result of their own practices, but it is also part and parcel of the broader collapse of regulation that took…
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Group Calls for Making Presidential Debates Contract Public
GEORGE FARAH Executive director of the group Open Debates, Farah said today: “Sen. Lindsay Graham of the McCain campaign and Rep. Rahm Emanuel of the Obama campaign have negotiated a detailed contract that dictates the terms of the 2008 presidential debates, including who can participate and the structure of the formats. The Commission on Presidential…
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“You Can’t Win an Occupation”
ADAM KOKESH Kokesh held up a sign — “You Can’t Win an Occupation” on one side and “McCain Votes Against Vets” on the other — at the beginning of McCain’s speech at the Republican convention last night. Video is online. A member of the board of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Kokesh said today: “It’s…
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Palin: * Record * Teen Moms * Disability Rights
SHANNYN MOORE KELLY WALTERS Moore is a radio talk show host in Anchorage. She has covered Palin for years and interviewed her numerous times. Walters is Moore’s producer. Several recent pieces by Moore and other material on Palin are at the “Progressive Alaska” blog. MIMI ABRAMOVITZ Abramovitz is professor at Hunter College School of Social…
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McCain: Vietnam and Iraq
BEAU GROSSCUP Author of the book Strategic Terror: The Politics and Ethics of Aerial Bombardment, Grosscup is professor of international relations at California State University in Chico. He said today: “McCain was part of Operation Rolling Thunder, which was bombing ‘military targets’ in North Vietnam. Military targets by then included civilian ‘dual use’ infrastructure; thus…
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Why was al-Arian Imprisoned?
AP reports today: “A former Florida professor once accused of being a leading Palestinian terrorist was released from custody yesterday for the first time in more than five years, hours ahead of a judge’s deadline for the government to explain why he was still being held by immigration officials. … “A federal judge on several…
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Convention Clampdown?
EILEEN CLANCY Founder of I-Witness Video, Clancy said today: “It seems that we’ve been targeted by the FBI for disruption. On Saturday, the FBI visited the house we were staying at and a few hours later it was raided by the police. Several members of I-Witness Video were held inside for at least three hours.…