The anger provoked by the U.S. soldier’s attack on 16 Afghan civilians comes amidst outrage over civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes and a growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Hundreds of Afghan children die daily from hunger even as the United States spends some $2 billion a month on maintaining its occupation. We speak...
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Kathy Kelly on Afghan Humanitarian Crisis Civilian Casualties and Drone Warfare
Entrepreneur Capitalism Will Save World from Climate Crisis to Preserve Markets for iPads Coke
On Sunday, Democracy Now! attended the corporate-sponsored World Climate Summit in Durban that advocates a market approach to solving the climate crisis. One attendee, South African entrepreneur Jason Drew, called for the United Nations to step aside and let businesses and markets fix the problems caused by global warming. When asked why business would...
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America’s Not Broke Solving the Debt Crisis By Making Nation More Equitable Green amp Secure
The bipartisan so-called “supercommittee” has failed to reach an agreement on reducing the federal deficit after three months of negotiations over taxes and spending. The full Congress will now have a little over a year to come up with an alternative. A trigger of $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts over 10 years to...
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Noam Chomsky on the U.S. Economic Crisis Joblessness Excessive Military Spending and Healthcare
President Obama sent his new jobs proposal to Congress on Monday with a plan to pay for the $447 billion package by raising taxes on the wealthy. Noam Chomsky says, “The healthcare system…the huge military spending, the very low taxes for the rich …those are fundamental problems that have to be dealt with...
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Pushing Crisis GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling in Order to Impose Radical ProRich Agenda
President Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But the deal is coming under fire from both congressional Democrats and Republicans. Part of it calls for lowering personal and...
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Pushing Crisis GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling in Order to Impose Radical ProRich Agenda
President Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But the deal is coming under fire from both congressional Democrats and Republicans. Part of it calls for lowering personal and...
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Pushing Crisis GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling in Order to Impose Radical ProRich Agenda
President Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But the deal is coming under fire from both congressional Democrats and Republicans. Part of it calls for lowering personal and...
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Ralph Nader’s Solution to Debt Crisis End Corporate Welfare and Corporate Tax Loopholes
As negotiations continue on a debt deal, we ask longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader for his solution. Nader says, “Now we have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And it’s not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of...
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Citing Domestic Economic Crisis U.S. Mayors Back Resolution to Redirect War Funds Home
Mayors from cities nationwide have endorsed a resolution calling on Congress to end funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and instead spend the money at home. The measure from the U.S. Conference of Mayors was drafted and pushed through by the activist group CodePink. We speak with the resolution’s sponsor, Kitty Piercy,...
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Political Crisis in Greece Amidst Revolt Against Massive Budget Cuts and Tax Hikes
Greece was rocked Wednesday by massive street protests and a strike of millions of workers against the government’s austerity plans. In response, embattled Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou announced he will reshuffle his cabinet to try to achieve consensus on how to address the country’s crippling debt crisis. The new austerity package for Greece...
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