Democracy Now! The War & Peace Report 11/01/05

Independent news show, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez Headlines for November 1, 2005 - Senate Prepares for Battle Over Alito Nomination - NY Times: Alito Nomination is "Another Lost Opportunity" - Alito's Mother: "Of Course He's Against Abortion" - Report: 40 Iraqis Die in U.S. Bombings Near Syria - October Marks Fourth Deadlines Month for U.S. In Iraq - Bush's Church Calls for U.S. Troop Withdrawal - U.S. Army Dumped 64 Million Pounds of WMDs into Ocean Los Titulares de Hoy: Democracy Now!'s daily news summary translated into Spanish Cheney Taps Torture Memo Author to Replace Scooter Libby On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney appointed his legal counsel, David Addington, to be his new chief of staff following the resignation of Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Addington once wrote the war on terorrism has rendered the Geneva Conventions "obsolete." We speak with investigative reporter Murray Waas and hear former Ambassador Joseph Wilson speak out on the outing of his wife, CIA operative Valerie Plame. [includes rush transcript] Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson, Julian Bond, Dorothy Height & Others Pay Tribute to Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks On Monday, thousands of mourners filled the Metropolitian AME church in Washington for a memorial service for the late Rosa Parks, who died last week at the age of 92. Over the past two days, more than 40,000 people filed past her casket in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda Monday where her body had lain in honor. She was the first civilian and only second woman or African-American to receive such an honor. Speakers at Monday's memorial included Oprah Winfrey, actress Cicely Tyson, NAACP chair Julian Bond, civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height, Parks' childhood friend Johnnie Carr, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and NAACP President Bruce Gordon. [includes rush transcript]