Democracy Now! Thursday, March 13, 2008

Today's Headlines

• Iraqi Girl Slain By U.S. Troops
• Study: Most Americans Undercount U.S. Toll in Iraq
• U.S. Receives Severed Fingers of Captured Contractors
• Admin Blocks Release of Exhaustive Report on Key Pre-War Claim
• 40 Militants, 8 Civilians Killed in Afghanistan
• Israel-Hamas Truce Collapses With Israeli Attack in West Bank
• Israel Boycotts Al Jazeera
• Protesters Call Rice “War Criminal” at House Hearing
• Britain Orders 1,400 Asylum Seekers to Return to Iraq
• UK Urged to Grant Asylym Gay Iranian Teen
• Clinton, Obama Talk Michigan, Florida Re-Vote
• Spitzer Resigns; Paterson to Become New York’s First Black Governor
• Pentagon Reviewing Newly-Disclosed Interrogation Tapes
• Bush: Chavez Represents “Vision of Terrorists and Demagogues”
• New EPA Smog Standards Lower Than Scientists Recommend
• Al-Arian Hospitalized on 9th Day of Hunger Strike
• Former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum Dies at 90

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  David Paterson to Become First African American Gov in NY History, First Blind Gov in US History

  On Monday, New York Lieutenant Governor David Paterson will be sworn in to replace Eliot Spitzer as the state’s chief executive. Paterson will become New York’s first African American governor and the first blind governor in the nation’s history. We speak with Harlem journalist Herb Boyd, who has covered Paterson for years; New York State Senator Liz Krueger, who worked closely with David Paterson during his time in the New York Senate; and Carl Augusto, the president of the American Foundation for the Blind. [includes rush transcript–partial]

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  David Paterson Invokes Paul Robeson, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X in Remembrance of Jazz Legend Max Roach

  Last August, New York’s incoming governor David Paterson spoke at Riverside Church in Manhattan during at the funeral of the jazz legend Max Roach. In his address, Paterson invoked the memory of blacklisted actor and singer Paul Robeson, abolitionist Harriet Tubman and black nationalist leader Malcolm X.

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  Defeat: British Journalist Jonathan Steele on Why America and Britain Lost Iraq

  As the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq approaches, we speak with Jonathan Steele, one of the journalists who was covered the Iraq war since 2003. Steele is the senior foreign correspondent and in-house columnist on international affairs for the London Guardian. His latest book is “Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq.”