Democracy Now! Thursday, June 18, 2009

Today's Headlines

• Supporters of Mousavi Hold Mourning Rally in Tehran
• Iran Accuses US of Meddling in its Internal Affairs
• US State Dept Asks Twitter to Delay Shutdown Due to Iran Protests
• Obama Extends Some Benefits to Same-Sex Partners of Federal Workers
• Holder Refuses to Say Bush’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program Was Illegal
• NSA Database Collects Millions of Intercepted Emails
• Obama Proposes New Regulations of Financial Industry
• EPA Declares Public Health Emergency in Libby, Montana
• US Drone Strike Kills Nine in Pakistan
• Suicide Bombing Kills Somalia’s National Security Minister
• GOP Aide in Tennessee Distributes Racist Image of Obama
• GOP Operative in SC Compares First Lady to a Gorilla

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  "American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone"

  
  Twenty years ago today, I.F. Stone died at the age of eighty-one. He was the premier investigative reporter of the twentieth century, a self-described radical journalist. I.F. Stone’s legacy of work spanned the New Deal, World War II, McCarthyism, the Cold War, Israel/Palestine, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and beyond. He scooped reporters right and left. As the FBI tracked him, he tracked down the story. He is best remembered for his self-published I.F. Stone’s Weekly. At its peak in the 1960s, the one-man publication had a circulation of about 70,000. We speak to his biographer, D.D. Guttenplan, and air historic recordings of I.F. Stone at the 1965 Vietnam teach-in in Berkeley, CA, and on The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. [includes rush transcript]