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»Despite House Passage, Feingold Maintains Opposition to Financial Reform Bill as “Too Weak” in Face of Wall St. Recklessness2 Jul 2010Democrats may still be one vote short of approving an overhaul of financial regulation with Senator Russ Feingold vowing to vote against the measure again. The House approved the measure this week following over three weeks of conference committee negotiations. We speak to former investment banker turned journalist Nomi Prins, author of several books including “It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street.”[includes rush transcript]
Headlines for July 2, 20102 Jul 2010House Approves Over $30B for Escalating Afghan War, Taliban Attack U.S. Contractor in Afghanistan, 42 Killed in Suicide Attack on Sufi Shrine in Pakistan, Tropical Storm Alex Delays Gulf Coast Cleanup, Spill Could Be Worse in Gulf History; House Expands Damages for Victims’ Families, Kagan Confirmation Hearings Conclude With Supporters, Critics, Obama Calls for Compromise in Immigration Reform, Obama Signs New Iran Sanctions into Law, Canadians Rally Against G20 Crackdown, 4 Massey Supervisors Charged for Deadly 2006 Coal Mine Fire, New Details Emerge on “Backdoor Bailout” Through AIG, Jury Deliberations Expected in Oscar Grant Killing Trial, New York Lawmakers Approve Labor Standards for Domestic Workers, Penn State Panel Clears “Climategate” Scientist
Fmr. Marine, State Dept. Official Matthew Hoh is First U.S. Official to Resign Over Afghan War1 Jul 2010Last September Matthew Hoh became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war. At the time of resignation he was serving as the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province on the Pakistani border. In his resignation letter Hoh wrote: “I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan. I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.”[includes rush transcript]
Rep. John Conyers and Out of Afghanistan Caucus Oppose Obama Admin’s $33B Escalation of Afghan War1 Jul 2010Democratic Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee and the co-chair of the Out of Afghanistan Caucus, joins us to discuss his opposition to the $33 billion earmarked for the escalation of the War in Afghanistan. Conyers and other anti-war lawmakers are holding a news conference today after the end of the bloodiest month for international troops in Afghanistan.[includes rush transcript]
Headlines for July 1, 20101 Jul 2010Kagan Concludes Testimony at Confirmation Hearings, House Approves Financial Regulation Overhaul, GOP Continues Senate Filibuster of Unemployment Benefits, Senate Panel Votes to Remove Spill Liability Cap, BP Accused of Using Dispersant to Mask Spill Size, BP Fined $5.2M for False Reporting on Colorado Leases, Senate Approves Petraus Nomination for Afghan Command, House Panel Votes to Undo Cuba Trade, Travel Restrictions, Palestinian Children in Israeli-Run West Bank Areas Suffer Worst Conditions Than Gazans, Israeli Peace Group Calls for New Flotilla Probe, Study: Media Stopped Calling Waterboarding “Torture” Following Its Disclosure as Routine U.S. Practice, ACLU Sues U.S. over No-Fly List, Puerto Rican Police Quash Protest at State Capitol
Fmr. Marine, State Dept. Official Matthew Hoh is First U.S. Official to Resign Over Afghan War1 Jul 2010Last September Matthew Hoh became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war. At the time of resignation he was serving as the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province on the Pakistani border. In his resignation letter Hoh wrote: “I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan. I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.”[includes rush transcript]
Rep. John Conyers and Out of Afghanistan Caucus Oppose Obama Admin’s $33B Escalation of Afghan War1 Jul 2010Democratic Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee and the co-chair of the Out of Afghanistan Caucus, joins us to discuss his opposition to the $33 billion earmarked for the escalation of the War in Afghanistan. Conyers and other anti-war lawmakers are holding a news conference today after the end of the bloodiest month for international troops in Afghanistan.[includes rush transcript]
Headlines for July 1, 20101 Jul 2010Kagan Concludes Testimony at Confirmation Hearings, House Approves Financial Regulation Overhaul, GOP Continues Senate Filibuster of Unemployment Benefits, Senate Panel Votes to Remove Spill Liability Cap, BP Accused of Using Dispersant to Mask Spill Size, BP Fined $5.2M for False Reporting on Colorado Leases, Senate Approves Petraus Nomination for Afghan Command, House Panel Votes to Undo Cuba Trade, Travel Restrictions, Palestinian Children in Israeli-Run West Bank Areas Suffer Worst Conditions Than Gazans, Israeli Peace Group Calls for New Flotilla Probe, Study: Media Stopped Calling Waterboarding “Torture” Following Its Disclosure as Routine U.S. Practice, ACLU Sues U.S. over No-Fly List, Puerto Rican Police Quash Protest at State Capitol
Fmr. Marine, State Dept. Official Matthew Hoh is First U.S. Official to Resign Over Afghan War1 Jul 2010Last September Matthew Hoh became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war. At the time of resignation he was serving as the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province on the Pakistani border. In his resignation letter Hoh wrote: “I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan. I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.”
Rep. John Conyers and Out of Afghanistan Caucus Oppose Obama Admin’s $33B Escalation of Afghan War1 Jul 2010Democratic Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee and the co-chair of the Out of Afghanistan Caucus, joins us to discuss his opposition to the $33 billion earmarked for the escalation of the War in Afghanistan. Conyers and other anti-war lawmakers are holding a news conference today after the end of the bloodiest month for international troops in Afghanistan.[includes rush transcript]
Headlines for July 1, 20101 Jul 2010Kagan Concludes Testimony at Confirmation Hearings, House Approves Financial Regulation Overhaul, GOP Continues Senate Filibuster of Unemployment Benefits, Senate Panel Votes to Remove Spill Liability Cap, BP Accused of Using Dispersant to Mask Spill Size, BP Fined $5.2M for False Reporting on Colorado Leases, Senate Approves Petraus Nomination for Afghan Command, House Panel Votes to Undo Cuba Trade, Travel Restrictions, Palestinian Children in Israeli-Run West Bank Areas Suffer Worst Conditions Than Gazans, Israeli Peace Group Calls for New Flotilla Probe, Study: Media Stopped Calling Waterboarding “Torture” Following Its Disclosure as Routine U.S. Practice, ACLU Sues U.S. over No-Fly List, Puerto Rican Police Quash Protest at State Capitol
From Ku Klux Klan Member to Iraq War Opponent and Obama Supporter, Late Sen. Robert Byrd Remembered for “Principle and Honor”30 Jun 2010Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia will lie in state today following his death at the age of ninety-two. Elected in 1958, Byrd served an unprecedented nine terms in the US Senate. In the 1940s, Byrd was a prominent member of Ku Klux Klan in West Virginia, rising to the position of “exalted cyclops.” He opposed the desegregation of the US military and filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Byrd would later apologize, saying his association with the Klan was a sad mistake. In 2008, he endorsed President Obama for president. In 2003, he was a leading critic of President Bush?s push to invade Iraq. Charles Ogletree says: “We don’t judge people by how they were born but how they lived their life, and here is a man who in the long-term was a giant and a champion.”[includes rush transcript]
Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree on “The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America”30 Jun 2010The Cambridge Police Department is scheduled to release the results today of an independent review of the arrest of leading African American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by a white police officer last year. The incident made national headlines and sparked a national debate on race relations that reached all the way to the White House. Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree acted as counsel to professor Gates throughout the incident, which he documents along with other incidents of racial profiling in his new book, “The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America.”[includes rush transcript]
From Ku Klux Klan Member to Iraq War Opponent and Obama Supporter, Late Sen. Robert Byrd Remembered for “Principle and Honor”30 Jun 2010Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia will lie in state today following his death at the age of ninety-two. Elected in 1958, Byrd served an unprecedented nine terms in the US Senate. In the 1940s, Byrd was a prominent member of Ku Klux Klan in West Virginia, rising to the position of “exalted cyclops.” He opposed the desegregation of the US military and filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Byrd would later apologize, saying his association with the Klan was a sad mistake. In 2008, he endorsed President Obama for president. In 2003, he was a leading critic of President Bush?s push to invade Iraq. Charles Ogletree says: “We don’t judge people by how they were born but how they lived their life, and here is a man who in the long-term was a giant and a champion.”[includes rush transcript]
Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree on “The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America”30 Jun 2010The Cambridge Police Department is scheduled to release the results today of an independent review of the arrest of leading African American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by a white police officer last year. The incident made national headlines and sparked a national debate on race relations that reached all the way to the White House. Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree acted as counsel to professor Gates throughout the incident, which he documents along with other incidents of racial profiling in his new book, “The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America.”[includes rush transcript]
At Confirmation Hearings, Kagan Faces Questioning on Political Leanings, Gun Ownership, Military Recruiting, and Abortion30 Jun 2010The Senate Judiciary Committee will continue questioning Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan today after she mounted a spirited defense against her critics Tuesday. Fifteen years ago, Kagan called the Supreme Court confirmation process “a vapid and hollow charade” where nominees simply offer a “repetition of platitudes.” Although many noted that Kagan did not significantly depart from this script, her confirmation did have a few heated as well as light moments in exchanges with Senators from both sides of the aisle. We play excerpts, and get commentary from Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, who has known Kagan for 25 years and serves as special counsel to President Obama. [includes rush transcript]
From Ku Klux Klan Member to Iraq War Opponent and Obama Supporter, Late Sen. Robert Byrd Remembered for “Principle and Honor”30 Jun 2010Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia will lie in state today following his death at the age of ninety-two. Elected in 1958, Byrd served an unprecedented nine terms in the US Senate. In the 1940s, Byrd was a prominent member of Ku Klux Klan in West Virginia, rising to the position of “exalted cyclops.” He opposed the desegregation of the US military and filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Byrd would later apologize, saying his association with the Klan was a sad mistake. In 2008, he endorsed President Obama for president. In 2003, he was a leading critic of President Bush?s push to invade Iraq. Charles Ogletree says: “We don’t judge people by how they were born but how they lived their life, and here is a man who in the long-term was a giant and a champion.”
Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree on “The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America”30 Jun 2010The Cambridge Police Department is scheduled to release the results today of an independent review of the arrest of leading African American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by a white police officer last year. The incident made national headlines and sparked a national debate on race relations that reached all the way to the White House. Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree acted as counsel to professor Gates throughout the incident, which he documents along with other incidents of racial profiling in his new book, “The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America.”
At Confirmation Hearings, Kagan Faces Questioning on Political Leanings, Gun Ownership, Military Recruiting, and Abortion30 Jun 2010The Senate Judiciary Committee will continue questioning Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan today after she mounted a spirited defense against her critics Tuesday. Fifteen years ago, Kagan called the Supreme Court confirmation process “a vapid and hollow charade” where nominees simply offer a “repetition of platitudes.” Although many noted that Kagan did not significantly depart from this script, her confirmation did have a few heated as well as light moments in exchanges with Senators from both sides of the aisle. We play excerpts, and get commentary from Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, who has known Kagan for 25 years and serves as special counsel to President Obama.
Headlines for June 30, 201030 Jun 2010Kagan Faces Opening Day of Questioning at Confirmation Hearings, Petraeus Vows to Review Restrictions on U.S. Attacks in Afghanistan, Taliban Fighters Attack NATO Base, Claim: U.S. Ambassador Threatens Afghan Attorney General With Dismissal, Kerry, Lieberman Offer to Further Weaken Climate Bill, Dems Remove $17.9B Bank Tax from Financial Overhaul, BP, Coast Guard Sued for Burning Endangered Sea Turtles, Putin Criticizes U.S. Arrests of Alleged Russian Spies, Israeli FM: No Palestinian State By 2012, Supreme Court Orders New Hearing in Siegelman Case, Survey: Majority of Americans Hit by Recession, Olympia Peace Activist Wins $400,000 in Damages for Gov’t Surveillance, CNN Host Larry King to End Talk Show
As Congo Marks 50th Anniversary of Independence, Human Rights Abuses Rise in Congo and Neighboring Rwanda29 Jun 2010Tomorrow marks the fiftieth anniversary of Congolese independence from colonial Belgian rule. On June 30, 1960, the new prime minister of the independent Congolese government, Patrice Lumumba, declared an end to the slavery of colonialism and a new beginning for the country and the liberation of the entire continent of Africa. But today, jubilee independence celebrations in the Democratic Republic of Congo are marred by ongoing violence and increasing political repression, in particular the recent murder of Congo’s leading human rights activist Floribert Chebeya. Meanwhile, repression is on the rise in neighboring Rwanda, as well, ahead of scheduled elections this August, which incumbent president Paul Kagame is widely expected to win.
John Pilger: There Is a War on Journalism29 Jun 2010It’s been a week since Rolling Stone published its article on General Stanley McChrystal that eventually led to him being fired by President Obama. Since the article came out, Rolling Stone and the reporter who broke the story, Michael Hastings, have come under attack in the mainstream media for violating the so-called “ground rules” of journalism. But the investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger says Hastings was simply doing what all true journalists need to do.
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