Democracy Now! Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Today's Headlines

• Death Toll in Iraq Fighting Reaches 460
• Swiss Bank UBS Loses $19 Billion
• Paulson Unveils Plan to Overhaul Regulation of Financial Markets
• Truckers to Stage Fuel Strike to Protest Rising Fuel Costs
• 59 Percent of US Doctors Back National Healthcare Plan
• Military Considers Recruiting & Hiring Bloggers
• Israel to Build 1,400 New Homes in West Bank & East Jerusalem
• Zimbabweans Await Election Results
• 100 Indian Workers March to D.C. to Protest Slave Conditions
• Pro-Tibet Activists Protest at White House
• Military Issues New Rules on Recruiters on Campuses
• Canada’s Seal Hunt Enters Fifth Day

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  "Iraq Has Really Become Somalia...A Collection of Different Militias" -- Back from Baghdad, Journalist Nir Rosen Paints a Picture of a Broken Iraq

  Independent journalist Nir Rosen joins us in our firehouse studio soon after returning from three months in Iraq, his latest visit since moving to Baghdad to cover the US invasion in 2003. “It’s been propagated by the right and accepted by the left in the US that the surge, which is really an escalation of troops […] by 30,000 soldiers, somehow brought peace to Iraq,” Rosen says. “This is just an absolute lie. Violence has subsided somewhat in Baghdad, that’s true, but it’s not the result of the increase in American troops directly. It’s the result of a few other factors.” [includes rush transcript]

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  EXCLUSIVE...Bush's Law: Eric Lichtblau on Exposing the NSA's Warrantless Wiretapping Program and How the White House Pressured the New York Times to Kill the Story

  In a national broadcast exclusive, we speak with New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau about his new book, Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice. Lichtblau won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program in December 2005. He reveals the inside story of the New York Times’s decision to delay publication of the story for more than a year after intense lobbying from the White House. [includes rush transcript]