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Freedom of Speech Watch: U.S. journalist, Amy Goodman, grilled at Canada border crossing
Source: CBC

A U.S. journalist was grilled by Canadian border officials for 90 minutes Wednesday. Officials demanded to know if Democracy Now's Amy Goodman was going to speak against hosting the Olympic games in Canada.

Truthdig - Reports - Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero
Source: Truthdig

At a protest in 2000 against efforts to roll back the Medicare system in the province of Alberta, Kiefer Sutherland defended Canada's public, single-payer system: "Private health care does not work. America is trying to change their system.

Obama's Secret Police
Source: AntiWar.com

Just when you thought it was safe to be critical of government: Obama is spying on you.

Video: Noam Chomsky on "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours"
Source: Democracy Now!

Noam Chomsky, the MIT professor, author and dissident intellectual, just turned eighty years old this past December.

Is Congress Too Polluted By Health Industry Money To Deliver On Health Care Reform?
Source: Truthdig

As the Obama administration pushes for a vote on health-care reform before Congress recesses in August, has health-industry money too thoroughly polluted the process for anything good to come of it?

Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil
Source: Truthdig

The economy is in shambles, unemployment is soaring, the auto industry is collapsing. But profits are higher than ever at oil companies Chevron and Shell.

Amy Goodman: Baucus' Raucous Caucus
Source: Truthdig

This is beginning to look like a replay of the failed 1993 health-care reform efforts led by then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Noam Chomsky on the Global Economic Crisis, Healthcare, US Foreign Policy and Resistance to American Empire (VIDEO)
Source: Democracy Now!

Part II of our conversation with MIT professor and author Noam Chomsky on the global economic crisis, healthcare, the media, US foreign policy, the expanding wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, resistance to American empire, and more.

Seymour Hersh: Secret U.S. Forces Carried Out Assassinations in 'a Lot of' Countries, Including in Latin America
Source: AlterNet.org

The investigative journalist for The New Yorker explains his recent bombshell revelation about Dick Cheney's "executive assassination" squads. "Syria Calling" by Seymour Hersh is seeded elsewhere in my column.

Editorial: Too big to fail, too big to jail
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

Torture, wiretapping and "extraordinary rendition" - these are serious crimes that have been alleged. Obama now has, more than anyone else, the power to investigate.

Former Amb. Martin Indyk vs. Author Norman Finkelstein: A Debate on Israel�s Assault on Gaza and the US Role in the Conflict
Source: Democracy Now!

Former Amb. Martin Indyk vs. Author Norman Finkelstein: A Debate on Israel's Assault on Gaza and the US Role in the Conflict Martin Indyk could not rebut his Zionist lies...Finkelstein, an Anti Zionist, and Jewish kicked his butt, and Western/Israeli duplicity

Amy Goodman: Tens of Thousands of Iraqis Protest U.S. Plan to Stay Until 2011
Source: AlterNet.org

An interview with Iraq correspondent Patrick Cockburn and Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar on the Status of Forces Agreement.

Author: American 'way of war' has replaced American way (Eisenhower's prescience)
Source: Raw Story

Documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki has a new book, The American Way of War, which discusses how the military-industrial complex has become all-pervasive in our society, to the point of pushing aside what was formerly the American way of life.

Q&A with Amy Goodman : Independent Media and her RNC Arrest
Source: memphisflyer.com

The Democracy Now! host says that all charges against her and her producers have been dropped, but "it has a chilling effect on our ability to report."

John Nichols on the GOP's New McCarthyism and the 2008 Congressional Races
Source: Democracy Now!

Twenty-three Republican incumbents are up for re-election, compared to just twelve Democrats.

Third-party candidates to debate on Sunday
Source: MiamiHerald.com

Third-party presidential candidates finally will have their own debate: at 8 p.m. Sunday at Columbia University in New York.

Former McCain Supporter: McCain Is "Unleashing the Monster of American Prejudice"
Source: AlterNet.org

Frank Schaeffer, a life-long Republican and from a renowned evangelical family, comes out against John McCain (whom he supported in 2000) and the hatred his campaign is generating.

Amy Goodman First Journalist to Win "Alternative Nobel"

New York City, NY – Award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely recognized as the world's premier award for personal courage and social transformation.

Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs
Source: Truthdig

A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team. "Beginning Oct.

Charges Dropped Against DN! Journalists - Investigation Needed
Source: Democracy Now!

The St. Paul City Attorney's office announced Friday it will not prosecute Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. St.

Wall Street Socialists
Source: Truthdig

Amy Goodman succinctly describes the economic disaster we are all watching.

September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Continue Advocacy for Victims of US Attacks on Iraq, Afghanistan
Source: Democracy Now!

Nearly seven years ago, a group of family members of those killed on Sept. 11 united to advocate for a nonviolent response to the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

t r u t h o u t | Silencing the Town Crier
Source: t r u t h o u t

Our conduits of information have been hijacked; a man, acting like a dictator, is in the White House; the town criers of democracy are getting arrested, and Americans' heads are so full of infotainment, Prozac and Zoloft that getting off the couch seems like a real inconvenience.

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