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A Mighty Heart Directed by Micheal Winterbottom (2007)

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A Mighty Heart Directed by Micheal Winterbottom (2007) On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s world changed forever. Her husband Daniel (Dan Futterman), the South Asia Bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi, Pakistan, where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane (Angelina Jolie) he might be late for dinner. He never returned. In the face of death, Danny’s spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murderer in her memoir "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl," the basis for this film. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane’s courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared.
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60 Minutes Special Don Hewitt August 23 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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60 Minutes Special Don Hewitt August 23 2009 (CBS) This has not been a happy summer for those of us who work at CBS News: last month Walter Cronkite died, and this past week we lost Don Hewitt, the man who created 60 Minutes 41 years ago. Don was 86, but in his head and in his heart he was a kid. Words like "passion" and "enthusiasm" are too weak to describe this human dynamo. As correspondent Morley Safer explains, Don was his boss for most of the 45 years he has worked at the network and he was not an easy man to please. But when you did please him, you were on top of the world. And so was he. He was also a thorn in the side of his corporate bosses, though he liked to describe himself as a pain in the ass. And he was madly in love with broadcast journalism. We take a look at Don Hewitt - this founder, producer and above all, ringmaster of what he regarded as the greatest show on earth. "I once said to CBS, 'In my next contract I want a gun, and a whip and a chair,' because it's like being in a cage full of tigers. And there are temperaments. Not the least of which is mine," Don Hewitt once said. Ringmaster and lion tamer - Don became a show unto himself. Since the very beginning of television news more than six decades ago, he lived by a deceptively simple motto: "It's four little words. Tell me a story. And that's all we do. Tell 'em a story," he explained. Years before 60 Minutes, he was at Edward R. Murrow's side as television expanded its reach to broadcast live, from coast to coast. He produced the very first televised presidential debate, Kennedy vs. Nixon, in 1960. He was with Walter Cronkite the day John F. Kennedy was shot. And with 60 Minutes, he revolutionized broadcast news, dispatching what he called his "team of tigers" to the four corners of the globe to carry out that four-word mandate: Tell me a story. "There is no place on Earth that you haven’t been," Hewitt said when the broadcast turned 25. "And there's nobody on Earth that you haven't met. …And that is the great value of what we do, I think." He was, in fact, the boy wonder of CBS News, and remained the awestruck kid well past retirement age. He was opinionated, outrageous, with a quick wit and a short fuse. "The only problem is that when you've been around as long as I have, you get to be kind of a pain in the ass," Hewitt once said. And as his friends and colleagues will tell you, on balance, the pleasure of Don's company was mostly worth the pain. "I mean, he put on a show in the control room. And it was just wonderful. It was hypnotic," Phil Scheffler remembered, who worked at Don's side for over half a century. 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager remembers his first meeting with Hewitt. "I remember it well. He said, 'Listen kid. All you need to do is bring us good stories.'" Fager succeeded Don in 2004 as executive producer, and he remembers all too well being the new kid on the block, 20 years ago: screening one of his first 60 Minutes stories for the ringmaster. It was a somewhat dry report on the Polish economy. "The first thing he said was, 'Where do you want it kid, right between the eyes?' He hated it. And what really was amazing is a couple of hours later he called and he said, 'I have some ideas for how we can make this story better.' And he did," Fager remembered. "He was like P.T. Barnum in the sense that he would bring the circus truck to town every time he got to talk to you," actor Alan Alda said. Don called Alda his best friend; Alda says that even after hours, Don talked constantly about work. "Because it excited him so much that he was, I think he was still a boy who was amazed at his success." The boy grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y., 45 minutes from Broadway. Fifteen cents would buy him a Saturday afternoon of cartoons, newsreels and melodramas. The movies got under his skin and stayed there. "He once said to me that when he goes to a Western movie, he comes out walking bowlegged," Safer remembered, laughing. "He told us many times how when he was in the war, he had seen so many war movies that when he was finally standing on the ship, and the enemy planes were coming at him, he thought 'Where's the music?'" Alda added. The movies gave him his role models: rascals who had the moxie to beat the system during the Great Depression. "I never knew whether I wanted to be Julian Marsh, the Broadway producer on 42nd Street, or Hildy Johnson, the reporter in Front Page," Hewitt said. Johnson came from the newspaper world, just as Don's father did. It was a whiskey soaked jungle of snappy talk and scooping the competition. And impresario Julian Marsh in 42nd Street was surrounded by bright lights and Broadway babes - Don's kind of world. "We always thought if Don Hewitt went into Broadway, he would have been just as big and just as successful," Fager said. "I mean, he had that way, he had that showmanship." In 1948, CBS put on its first TV newscast; Don was 25, with some wartime reporting experience under his belt. Somebody suggested he check out the CBS News studio, upstairs at Grand Central Station. "And I walked in. I couldn't believe it. You know, there are lights and cameras and makeup people and it looked like a Hollywood set. And I fell in love," Hewitt remembered. And the best thing was: no longer did he have to choose between being ace reporter Hildy Johnson or Broadway star maker Julian Marsh. "I thought, 'Oh my God, in television you can be both of them.' And I got hired," Hewitt remembered. Soon, he was producing Douglas Edwards' newscast, the forerunner of the CBS Evening News. There were no satellites, no computers - nothing much except huge, bulky cameras and Don's manic enthusiasm. "It wasn't very good, but it was respectable. I always thought it was the infancy of television. Like we were making those shows out of Play-Doh," Hewitt said when the Evening News turned 50. "Don has described those early days as playing with Play-Doh. Kind of making it up as you go along," Safer remarked. "No question about that. There were no signposts. No rules," Scheffler agreed. "Nobody had any experience in this before. And so he really was the inventor of the kind of television news that we do now." In the summer of 1956, the ocean liner Andrea Doria collided with a ship off Nantucket. Don, Doug Edwards and a cameraman flew off to have a look. The other networks had already come and gone, beating them to the first pictures of the crippled ship, dead in the water. "I said, 'Well, what the hell. We're here. Let's go anyway,'" Hewitt remembered. "We're flying over the Andrea Doria, it turns over, and like a big dead elephant, it sank right beneath us." "Dumb luck. By being late, we got the story," he added. Hewitt would do just about anything to get the story and shaft the competition. When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited a farm in Coon Rapids, Iowa in 1959, Don put one over on NBC. "He stole their truck, their video truck," Alda explained. "And drove it into the middle of a corn field, where no one could find it. Now that's not Mr. Nice Guy, you know. He did return it, eventually." But Hewitt clashed often with CBS News President Fred Friendly, who found him too brash and too unpredictable. In 1965, Friendly figured out a way to get Don off the Evening News; Don thought it was a promotion. "His wife told me later that he came home and said, told her the story about how Friendly had come to see him and said, 'You know, Don, this Evening News is not big enough for you. We're gonna find really great projects for you to do.' And his wife said to him: 'Idiot. You just got fired,'" Scheffler said. "It was devastating at the time. You know, I had my legs cut off," Hewitt remembered. He remained at CBS, but sought solace out on his beloved beach. Next to television, he worshiped the sun and his kids. He produced a few earnest documentaries, but hungered after something with a little more punch. "He got bored easily, is the problem," Scheffler said. And out of that boredom came Don's greatest idea: 60 Minutes. In a sense, it should have been called "15 minutes." Don couldn't sit still for anything longer than that. "It's really a reflection, I think, of his attention span," Scheffler said. "His attention span was 15 minutes. And so he said 'We'll do a program that has three 15-minute stories on it." It began in the fall of 1968, without, at first, Phil Scheffler. "I turned him down. I said, 'You know, Don, I don't think your show's gonna be serious enough.' And I said, 'Besides, you know, it's not gonna last very long,'" Scheffler remembered. That was more than 40 years ago. Scheffler eventually came on board, as did any number of oddballs. "Don managed to attract the best people in the business. And he kept this ensemble full of crazy egos all working towards the same end," Fager said. Asked what he means by crazy egos, Fager said, "More like tigers in a cage, and every once in a while they'd jump out of their cages and Don would have to figure out a way to coax them back in." With Don cracking the whip, it was not a place for the fainthearted. "I saw him fire the same producer three times in the halls," Fager recalled. "He fired Mike [Wallace] at least 50 times," Safer added. "Well, Mike probably deserved it," Fager joked. Alan Alda wondered if all that high drama achieved any purpose. "Was it successful in getting you to think on another level?" Alda asked. "Oh, absolutely," Safer replied. "I think it made the pieces, the stories, in the final analysis, much leaner and much more direct." "And would he turn out to be right?" Alda asked. "Mainly he was right," Safer said, laughing. But there were some rough moments in an otherwise brilliant career. In 1995, the then CBS management suppressed a 60 Minutes expose of the tobacco industry. The story eventually was broadcast, after it was reported in The Wall Street Journal. Though the tobacco story haunted him for years, Don continued masterminding the broadcast for another decade. "His job was his life. And that's what made it so hard for him to give it up. In fact, he said quite publicly 'I wanna die at my desk,'" Fager said. Don left the broadcast - reluctantly - in 2004, at age 81, and slowly made peace with the idea of having more time for the grandchildren. And of watching 60 Minutes not in the screening room, but in his own living room. Asked what he thinks Hewitt's legacy is, Phil Scheffler said, "His legacy is 60 Minutes. There's no question. I mean, this was his shining, his crowning success." Fager said, "It's a great legacy, this broadcast, and it hasn't strayed much from what he envisioned in the first place more than 40 years ago." "He gave the country nourishment but in the form of, to a great extent in the form of entertainment. It wasn't like eating your broccoli. What he gave us was a good old-fashioned hot dog, but somehow it nourished us like broccoli," Alda added. "There is some kind of genius in that. He was able to fuse those two things."
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PBS America at a Crossroads - The Mosque in Morgantown (2009.HDTV.SoS)

Category: Documentary
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Originally aired: 2009.06.15 Note: This is the final part in the series - all 20 programs have now been released. "Working in Pakistan after September 11, 2001, former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani (shown) faced a double shock: a surprise pregnancy and abandonment by the Pakistani man she thought would be her husband, then the murder of her close friend Daniel Pearl at the hands of Muslim extremists. Still reeling, and with a son to raise, she returned to her hometown in West Virginia to find that the mosque had been taken over by men she viewed as extremists. This documentary chronicles what happens when she decides to fight back — angering even the mosque's moderates — telling a story of competing paths to social change, American identity, and the nature of religion itself." more info: http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/about/show_mosque.html == Runtime: 55:42 Source: OTA High Definition 1080i Encoding: xvid.720x400.1615kbps.mp3.160.vbr File Size: 700MB Support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs. To help speed up future releases, please try to seed this torrent as much as possible. Thanks.
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Audiobook: The Isreal Lobby And U.S. Foreign Policy

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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The Israel Lobby,” by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Originally published in theLondon Review of Books in March 2006, it provoked both howls of outrage and cheers of gratitude for challenging what had been a taboo issue in America: the impact of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy. Now in a work of major importance, Mearsheimer and Walt deepen and expand their argument and confront recent developments in Lebanon and Iran. They describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. Mearsheimer and Walt provocatively contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America’s posture throughout the Middle East—in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America’s national interest nor Israel’s long-term interest. The lobby’s influence also affects America’s relationship with important allies and increases dangers that all states face from global jihadist terror. Writing in The New York Review of Books, Michael Massing declared, “Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ in 1993 has an academic essay detonated with such force.” The publication of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is certain to widen the debate and to be one of the most talked-about books of the year. “Controversial.” —Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR “It could not be more timely.” —David Bromwich, The Huffington Post “The strategic questions they raise now, particularly about Israel’s privileged relationship with the United States, are worth debating.” —David Remnick. The New Yorker “Ruthlessly realistic.” —William Grimes, The New York Times “The argument they present is towering and clear and about time.” —Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss.com “Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, and Walt, on the faculty at Harvard, set off a political firestorm.” —Jay Solomon, The Wall Street Journal.com “Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.” —Stefan Halper, National Interest.com “Deals with Middle East policymaking at a time when America’s problems in that region surpass our problems anywhere else . . . People are definitely arguing about it. It’s also the kind of book you do not have to agree with on every count (I certainly don’t) to benefit from reading.” —MJ Rosenberg, Israel Policy Forum Newsletter About the Author(s) John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago. He has published several books, including The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. Stephen M. Walt is the Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and was academic dean of the Kennedy School from 2002 to 2006. He is the author of Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy, among other books.
Seeders: 31
Leeches: 11

Democracy Now! Friday, March 27, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Admin Unveils Wall Street Regulatory Overhaul AIG Questioned on Billions in Bank Payouts Obama to Order Additional 4,000 Troops to Afghanistan 48 Killed in Suicide Attack on Pakistan Mosque 16 Die in Iraq Car Bombing Attack US Says Israel Carried Out Sudan Bombing Estimate of Chronically Hungry Passes 1B Obama Questioned on Marijuana Legalization in Online Town Hall North Dakota Braces for Flooding as Red River Rises Pennsylvania Youth Sentences Overturned Sen. Sanders Introduces Single-Payer Healthcare Act House Expands Wilderness Protection Sen. Webb Calls for Review of Criminal Justice System Canada Stays Deportation Order of US War Resister Geithner Outlines Plan to Overhaul Nation's Financial Regulatory System Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner outlined plans Thursday to rewrite the nation’s financial rules as part of what the Wall Street Journal described as the most comprehensive changes to financial market regulation since the New Deal. Geithner’s plan includes the creation of a single regulator to monitor any firm whose failure could threaten the financial system. We speak with economist James Galbraith. [includes rush transcript] Labor Victory in Guadeloupe After Six-Week Strike Reverberates Across French Caribbean and France The financial crisis has had reverberations beyond the United States and Europe, with people taking to the streets in cities across the globe to protest rising wealth inequality and to call for economic and labor rights. Perhaps the most significant action took place in the French Caribbean, on the island of Guadeloupe. Amid rising costs of living, labor leaders in Guadeloupe led a forty-four-day general strike that closed down roads, schools, gas stations and public transportation. The strikers claimed a victory earlier this month with a plan to improve wages and living standards. [includes rush transcript] Robert McChesney on "The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers" The New York Times and Washington Post have become the latest newspapers to announce plans to downsize their staffs. As papers across the country continue to fold or downsize, policy officials and experts are contemplating a series of proposals to help newspapers stay afloat. On Capitol Hill, Democratic Senator Benjamin Cardin of Maryland has introduced the Newspaper Revitalization Act. Meanwhile, in an article in The Nation magazine titled “The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers,” media activists Robert McChesney and John Nichols are proposing a multi-part journalism economic stimulus package. [includes rush transcript] Three Mile Island: 30th Anniversary of the Worst Nuclear Accident in US History Thirty years ago this Saturday, the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania malfunctioned, sparking a meltdown that resulted in the release of radioactivity. It was the worst nuclear accident in US history. The accident at Three Mile Island fueled the nuclear debate in this country that continues to rage to this day. We speak with anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman.
Seeders: 128
Leeches: 29

PBS-Bill Moyers Journal-January 23, 2009-sdtv xvid (PTC)

Category: Documentary
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DAVID SIROTA AND THOMAS FRANK Political columnist and blogger David Sirota and WALL STREET JOURNAL columnist Thomas Frank talk with Bill Moyers about their hopes and expectations of this administration. >Read a web-exclusive conversation between Bill Moyers and Thomas Frank about corruption in Washington. PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS AND MELISSA HARRIS-LACEWELL Bill Moyers sits down with Columbia law professor and Nation columnist Patricia Williams and Princeton politics and African American studies professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell about the significance of this milestone and what it means for the future. MAKING HIS MARK President Barack Obama quickly enacted changes with far reaching implications in his first few days in office. Find out what they are. VOLUNTEERING 101 Tips on how to get started volunteering in your locale. DEEPENING THE AMERICAN DREAM Take part in our web-only project. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html --------------------------------------------- progressivetorrents.com
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Leeches: 1

PBS Now – 2008 12 05 Our Pakistan Problem

Category: News & Current Affairs
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PBS Now – 2008 12 05 Our Pakistan Problem PBS Now – 2008 12 05 Our Pakistan Problem Name.............: Now.20081205.OurPakistanProblem.xvid.avi Filesize..........: 299 MB (or 306,950 KB or 314,316,800 bytes) Runtime.........: 00:22:55 (41,222 fr) Video Codec...: XviD Announce URL: http://tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce Info Hash: dae83be084b58cf3641ae36940bed3a7ef1af83b How should President-elect Barack Obama handle our tricky relations with Pakistan? This week, David Brancaccio sits down with author and journalist Tariq Ali, who grew up in Pakistan, to discuss what he thinks team Obama should do to improve its standing in Pakistan in particular and the region as a whole. "I think it should back off militarily. That's the key," Ali tells NOW. Ali says the U.S.'s roughly 20 reported attacks against Al Qaeda inside Pakistan's borders since late August are doing more harm than good because they "mainly have hit civilian targets." The question of how to handle nuclear-armed Pakistan has become especially difficult amidst Indian claims of Pakistani links to the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, which left at least 170 people dead. What's the best strategy for the U.S. in Pakistan and how will it impact the war in Afghanistan, where Obama has said he plans to send more troops? Watch for an insider's view of how the president-elect should proceed. More Inof: http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/448/index.html Support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs. Please try to seed this torrent as much as possible. Thanks. Pakistan in the News: Foreign Affairs: Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan New York Times: India's Suspicion of Pakistan Clouds U.S. Strategy Reuters: Pakistani Taliban shrug off U.S. missile strikes Wall Street Journal: Pakistan Is Big Test for Obama Time: The Key to Afghanistan: India-Pakistan Peace
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Democracy Now! Monday, September 22, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Congress Asked to Approve $700 Billion Wall Street Bailout Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Leave Investment Banking Obama Slams McCain Over Privatization of Social Security McCain Defends Deregulation of Financial Industry South African President Mbeki Resigns Hotel Bomb Blast Kills 53 in Pakistan Jimmy Carter Urges Georgia to Stay Execution of Troy Davis Study: Ethnic Cleansing Was Primary Factor in Reducing Iraq Violence St. Paul Drops Charges Against Journalists Arrested at RNC Army Unit to Deploy in October for Domestic Operations 200 Arrested in Immigration Raids Vermont Candidate Pledges to Prosecute Bush for Murder Sen. Bernie Sanders, Robert Scheer and Dean Baker on the Proposed $700 Billion Bailout of Wall Street, the Largest Government Bailout of Private Industry in US History It’s being described as the largest government intervention in private markets since the Great Depression. The Bush administration has asked Congress to swiftly approve a massive $700 billion package to rescue the crippled financial institutions on Wall Street. Some analysts say the final cost to taxpayers could top one trillion dollars. Over the weekend, the size of the proposed bailout grew as the Bush administration said foreign banks, including Barclays and UBS, should be eligible for the bailout. [includes rush transcript] Farnaz Fassihi on "Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq" It was the email read around the world. Four years ago in September 2004, Farnaz Fassihi, an Iranian American correspondent in Iraq for the Wall Street Journal, sent a private email to family and friends that described the situation in Iraq more sincerely than her published newspaper articles ever could. She wrote, “One could argue that Iraq is already lost beyond salvation. For those of us on the ground it’s hard to imagine what if any thing could salvage it from its violent downward spiral." She is author of the new book Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq. [includes rush transcript]
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Leeches: 33

Democracy Now! Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines UN: 90 Afghan Civilians, Including 60 Children, Died in US Attack Clinton Calls for Unity Behind Obama Kucinich Blasts Iraq War, Corporate Dominance in DNC Speech 28 Killed in Iraq Suicide Bombing Officers Admit to Fatal Shooting of Handcuffed, Blindfolded Iraqi Prisoners Judge Upholds Charges in Iraq Rape, Murder Case Arctic Ice Shrinking at Record Pace L.A. Woman Removed from Fed Building for “Lesbian.com” Shirt Shunning US, Honduras Joins ALBA Sheehan Reports Possible Phone Bugging at DNC Denver Police Downplay Alleged Obama Assassination Plot Police Assault on Code Pink Member Caught on Tape Amy Goodman Questions Fmr. President Jimmy Carter on Being Sidelined at DNC Former President Jimmy Carter was removed from Monday’s speakers’ list in what appeared to be a last-minute change. The move immediately fueled speculation Carter is being sidelined for his outspoken criticism of the Bush administration and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Amy Goodman asked Carter about his apparent demotion in the halls of the convention center. [includes rush transcript] Clinton Calls on Supporters to Unite Behind Obama Senator Hillary Clinton captured the limelight for the last time in the 2008 presidential campaign with her speech before the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night. Standing before thousands of delegates, nearly half of them her backers, Clinton endorsed Obama for the party’s nomination. [includes rush transcript] Narrowing the Obama-Clinton Divide: A Roundtable Discussion As Hillary Clinton delivers a prime-time address on the eve of Barack Obama’s presidential nomination, we host a roundtable discussion with Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, who had been an active supporter of Clinton’s campaign and now supports Obama; Sacha Millstone, a Democratic delegate from Colorado, who remains a vocal supporter of Clinton; and Patricia Wilson-Smith, the founder of Black Women for Obama. Huerta says she expects to put Clinton’s name into nomination tonight from the podium. [includes rush transcript] 600 Arrested at Mississippi Factory in Largest Immigration Raid in US History Nearly 600 people were arrested this week in a massive immigration raid on an electrical equipment factory in Laurel, Mississippi. The raid is now being described as the largest in US history, topping the May raid on a meat-processing plant in Postville, Iowa. [includes rush transcript] "Operation First Casualty": Outside Democratic Convention, Iraq Veterans Against the War Re-Enact Raids on Iraqi Civilians On the streets of Denver, outside the suites of the convention, Iraq Veterans Against the War organized a dramatic re-enactment of the raids they participated in while serving in Iraq. They called it “Operation First Casualty.” Rep. Dennis Kucinich: "Wake Up America!" Former presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich delivered one of the most passionate addresses Tuesday night. “Wake up, America! We went into Iraq for oil. The oil companies want more,” Kucinich said. “War against Iran will mean $10-a-gallon gasoline. The oil administration wants to drill more, into your wallet. Wake up, America! Weapons contractors want more. An Iran war will cost $5 to $10 trillion.” [includes rush transcript] In Wake of Deadly U.S. Airstrike, Jeremy Scahill Questions Lawmakers About Obama's Afghanistan Policy A UN probe in Afghanistan has backed claims of a massive civilian death toll from a U.S. air strike last Thursday. The UN mission in Kabul says investigators found some 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in the attack. Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill goes inside the Democratic National Convention to ask lawmakers about Barack Obama’s foreign policy plan to deploy an addition 7,000-9,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Labor Groups Challenge Retail Giant Wal-Mart on Pressuring Employees to Vote Against Obama Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, is being accused of violating federal election laws by urging its employees to vote against Senator Barack Obama in the November election. Last month, the Wall Street Journal revealed Wal-Mart has been warning its managers that an Obama victory would lead to unionization at Wal-Mart stores. A coalition of prominent labor groups recently filed a complaint against Wal-Mart with the Federal Elections Commission. [includes rush transcript] Tarnished by Sex Scandal, John Edwards' Absence Reduces Focus on Poverty at Democratic Convention John Edwards’ recent admission of an extra-marital affair effectively removed him from the 2008 campaign and jeopardized his political future. With his and his wife Elizabeth’s absence goes the Democrats’ leading voices on poverty in the United States. Chris Chafe, who served as a senior advisor to Edwards’ campaign says: “This is about a movement… We have to continue moving forward with all the values and strength and the policies and the leadership he brought to this race.” When Off the Silver Screen, Actress Daryl Hannah Seen on Frontlines of Environmental Movements Actress Daryl Hannah is in Denver this week to attend the Green Frontier Fest and other environmental events around the Democratic National Convention. Over the past 25 years, Hannah has starred in dozens of films, including Blade Runner, Splash and Kill Bill. But besides the big screen, Hannah can often be seen on the frontlines of various environmental movements. Last year she traveled to Ecuador to meet with indigenous groups suing Chevron to stop contaminating the Amazon and before that, she spent three weeks camped in a tree in a South Central Farm in Los Angeles.
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Leeches: 14

PBS: Bill Moyers Journal, June 20, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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RACE IN AMERICA BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines racial inequality in America through the prisms of the legacy of slavery and the current socio-economic landscape with perspective from historical and cultural sociologist Orlando Patterson and Glenn C. Loury, an economist and expert on race and social division. DOUGLAS BLACKMON ON NEOSLAVERY Bill Moyers interviews Douglas Blackmon, the Atlanta bureau chief of the WALL STREET JOURNAL, about his latest book, SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME, which looks at an "age of neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. DOCUMENTARY PREVIEW: TRACES OF THE TRADE Katrina Browne tells the story of her forefathers, the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Premiering next week on POV on PBS. sdtv xvid 1hr
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