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Headlines for June 27, 2006 - Supreme Court Rejects Vermont Campaign Finance Law - Attacks Kill Dozens in 3 Iraq Cities - US Expels 50 Iraqis From Ramadi Homes - Report: Military Equipment Cost To Triple - Israel Prepares For Gaza Incursion - Supreme Court To Rule On Bush C02 Stance - Bush: US Should "Get Beyond" Global Warming "Debate" - University of Colorado To Fire Professor Ward Churchill - Pentagon Admits To New Spying of Student Groups - Ex-CIA Officer: Bush Admin Ignored "Curveball" Warnings - Military: Latin American Nationalism Threatens Oil Supplies - 25 Arrested At Anti-Gitmo Protest |
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Supreme Court Overturns Vermont Campaign Finance Law We take a look to the Supreme Court's decision overturning Vermont's campaign finance law. The 1997 law placed the nation's tightest restrictions on much candidates running for state office in Vermont could spend on elections and on how much individuals could bankroll candidates. [includes rush transcript] |
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Is Bush Administration's Bank Spy Program One Part of a Resurgent Total Information Awareness? The Bush administration is lashing out at media outlets for their reports on the government's secret monitoring of international bank transactions without court-approval. We speak with Georgetown law professor Jonathan Turley about Total Information Awareness - he says the program was never really killed. [includes rush transcript] |
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Former Bush Spokesman Urges Newspapers to Run Pro-War Stories by Former Vets With GOP Ties The Buffalo News has revealed that a former spokesman for President Bush has been encouraging U.S. newspapers to run news stories from Iraq written by two combat veterans who are now embedded reporters in Iraq. The veterans are from a pro-war group called Vets for Freedom that has ties to the Republican Party. We speak with John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy. |
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Lawmakers, Regulators Face Key Decisions on Future of Media Ownership, Internet, Public Access, Low Power Radio Lawmakers and regulators in Washington are in the midst of making a number of decisions that could affect the nation's media ownership laws, the future of the Internet, public access television and the expansion of low power FM radio stations. We speak with Hannah Sassaman of the Prometheus Radio Project which successfully sued the FCC three years ago in an effort to block the new media ownership rule changes. [includes rush transcript] |
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
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- Headlines for June 26, 2006
- Los Titulares de Hoy: Democracy Now!'s daily news summary translated into Spanish
- "Aspirational Rather than Operational" - 7 Arrested in Miami Terror Plot
- Nativo Lopez on Immigration Legislation and the Future of the Immigrant Rights Movement
- The World Cup: War, Peace and Racism in the Biggest Sporting Event on the Planet
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
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- Headlines for June 23, 2006
- Los Titulares de Hoy: Democracy Now!'s daily news summary translated into Spanish
- Army Lies to Mother of Slain Guardsman for Two Years, Says Killed by Insurgents Instead of Allied Iraqi Soldiers
- Tennessee Schedules Five Executions for June 28
- Julia Wright, Daughter of Famed Writer Richard Wright, on Mumia Abu-Jamal
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