Democracy Now! 2013-05-14 Tuesday
Democracy Now! 2013-05-14 Tuesday Headlines for May 14, 2013 Jailed Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Seeks Compassionate Release Over Worsening Cancer Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Decries Government's "Big Brother" Seizure of AP Phone Records Dr. Paul Farmer on Rwanda's Health Leap, Haiti's Struggles & How Communities Can Repair the World Download this show ...
Democracy Now! 2013-05-13 Monday
Democracy Now! 2013-05-13 Monday Headlines for May 13, 2013 Ríos Montt Guilty of Genocide: Are Guatemalan President Pérez Molina, U.S. Officials Next? Climate Tipping Point? Concentration of Carbon Dioxide Tops 400 ppm For First Time in Human History Download this show ...
Democracy Now! 2013-05-09 Thursday
Democracy Now! 2013-05-09 Thursday Headlines for May 09, 2013 Did Police Negligence & Suspect Ariel Castro's Unpunished Domestic Abuse Prolong Victims' Captivity? Behind the Cleveland Kidnappings, A Culture of "Toxic Masculinity" & Gender-Based Violence Chicago Workers Open New Cooperatively Owned Factory Five Years After Republic Windows Occupation Prosecutors Seek 75-Year Sentence for U.S.-Backed Guatemalan Dictator Ríos Montt in Genocide Trial ...
Democracy Now! 2013-05-10 Friday
Democracy Now! 2013-05-10 Friday Headlines for May 10, 2013 Despite Evidence of Massacres, Former Guatemalan Dictator Proclaims Innocence at Genocide Trial With Father and Sister Imprisoned, Exiled Bahraini Activist Maryam Alkhawaja Condemns Ongoing Abuses Are the FBI and IRS Secretly Reading Your Email Without a Warrant? Download this show ...
Democracy Now! 2013-05-06 Monday
Democracy Now! 2013-05-06 Monday Headlines for May 06, 2013 Michael Pollan on How Reclaiming Cooking Can Save Our Food System, Make Us Healthy & Grow Democracy Download this show ...
Democracy Now! 2013-05-07 Tuesday
Democracy Now! 2013-05-07 Tuesday Headlines for May 07, 2013 Robert Fisk on Syria's Civil War, Chemical Weapons "Theater" & Obama's Backing of Israeli Strikes Mississippi to Execute Willie Manning Tonight After Rejecting DNA Tests & FBI's Admission of Error "Over the Line": U.S. Agents Shooting Dead Innocent Mexicans Across the Border With Impunity Download this show ...
Heat-trapping gas passes milestone, raising fears.
The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.
Heat-trapping gas passes milestone, raising fears.
The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.
Elizabeth Smart: Abstinence Education Teaches Rape Victims They’re Worthless, Dirty, And Filthy
Elizabeth Smart, human trafficking victim and sexual violence prevention advocate Elizabeth Smart became a household name after she was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, UT at the age of 14 and held in captivity for nine months. She was forced into a polygamous marriage, tethered to a metal cable, and raped daily until she was rescued from ...
Charles Ramsey: ‘Take that reward and give it to’ the kidnap victims
The man who is being hailed as a hero for rescuing the lives of three women kidnapped for a decade says that he would like any reward money to be turned over to the victims. Charles Ramsey became an instant Internet sensation on Monday when he helped free Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus and Michele Knight from the house next to ...
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus Found Alive In Ohio After Being Reported Missing For 10 Years
CLEVELAND -- Two women who went missing as teenagers about a decade ago were found alive Monday in a residential area just south of downtown, within a few miles of where they disappeared. Cheering crowds gathered Monday night on the street near the home where police said Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and a third woman were found earlier in the ...
Pearl Cantrell, 105-Year-Old Woman, Says Bacon Is Key To Longevity
A 105-year-old Texas woman who worked a life of physical labor and mothered seven children revealed the secret to her longevity: bacon. "I love bacon, I eat it everyday," Pearl Cantrell told NBC affiliate KRBC when asked the secret to living so long. "I don't feel as old as I am, that's all I can say," Cantrell added. Cantrell, who ...
Benghazi Bombshell: Leaked Emails Were Edited to Make Obama Look Bad
Turns out the press got played again by Republicans. Jake Tapper has the smoking gun of the original email from the Obama administration which differs significantly from the emails ABC ran with.
When the IRS targeted liberals
While few are defending the Internal Revenue Service for targeting some 300 conservative groups, there are two critical pieces of context missing from the conventional wisdom on the "scandal." First, at least from what we know so far, the groups were not targeted in a political vendetta -- but rather were executing a makeshift enforcement test (an ugly one, mind ...
Why Cops Bust Down Doors of Medical Pot Growers, But Ignore Men Who Keep Naked Girls on Leashes
Thanks to the drug war, police have much more incentive to go after drug crimes than more heinous crimes. Earlier this year, men wearing black ski masks whipped out their guns and raided the home of 62-year-old Cathy Jordan, a medical marijuana patient and activist. They seized 23 of her plants, two of which were mature enough to be used ...
Is Stephen Hawking right to join the academic boycott of Israel? | Poll
Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Is he right to do so?
How ‘Slut Shaming’ Has Been Written Into School Dress Codes Across The Country
Capistrano Valley High's school dance dress code. (Credit: Peter Schelden) Last month, a New Jersey high school banned girls from wearing strapless dresses to prom. Administrators claimed that the dresses were “distracting” — though they refused to specify exactly how or why. Parents reacted strongly to the rule; some supported the dress code while others deemed it ‘slut-shaming.’ On Friday, ...
Nancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield Hold Split-Screen Interview in Same Parking Lot
In a bizarre television and spatial anomaly on CNN this morning, the blanket coverage of two true-crime stories led two news anchors to conduct an odd "satellite" interview from the very same parking lot, background traffic and all. The two suspects are Ashley Banfield of CNN and Nancy Grace of Headline News, who were updating viewers on the latest from ...
Charles Ramsey, Ohio Man, Helped Free 3 Women Held Captive For A Decade (VIDEO)
Charles Ramsey became a national hero on Monday when he helped rescue three missing women. Ramsey was eating in his home south of downtown Cleveland when he heard screaming next door and went to investigate. That's when he saw Amanda Berry, a woman who went missing 10 years ago, and a young child. Berry was shouting for help and trying ...
Hospital Bill Shocker: U.S. Releases Thousands Of Records Showing Huge, Wildly Differing Prices
When a patient arrives at Bayonne Hospital Center in New Jersey requiring treatment for the respiratory ailment known as COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, she faces an official price tag of $99,690. Less than 30 miles away in the Bronx, N.Y., the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center charges only $7,044 for the same treatment, according to a massive ...
Minnesota Senate Passes Gay Marriage
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Senate voted Monday to make gay marriage legal, the last legislative step before Gov. Mark Dayton's promised signature will make the state the 12th in the U.S. to do so. The Senate vote of 37-30 came four days after the House passed the bill on a 75-59 vote. A cheer erupted in the chamber ...
Cicadas To Emerge In Massive Swarms After 17 Years Underground
If you live on the East Coast between Georgia and Connecticut, get ready for the air to be filled with billions of large, buzzing insects known as cicadas, a massive brood of which have been feeding on roots underground for the past 17 years -- all in preparation for this one moment. A small number of the "Brood II" cicadas, ...
105-year-old woman says eating bacon every day is her key to long life
A 105-year-old woman from Richland, Texas says that the key to long life is bacon. Pearl Cantrell’s love of bacon is so strong that the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile made a stop through town last week to wish her a happy birthday, all because she told a local news station her amazing secret. “I love bacon, I eat it everyday,” she ...
