Democracy Now - 13 sep 2010 torrent

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Headlines for Sep 13, 2010

- Amnesty: 30,000 Prisoners Held in Iraq Without Trial
- Feds Probe Deadly Natural Gas Explosion in California
- Imam Rauf: Moving Islamic Center Will Strengthen Radicals
- Poverty Rate Sharply Rises in US
- Chamber of Commerce Accused of Money Laundering
- John Boehner Scrutinized for Close Ties to Corporate Lobbyists
- Gingrich: Obama Has a \"Kenyan, Anti-Colonial\" Worldview
- N. Carolina Man Arrested for Plotting to Blow Up Abortion Clinic
- Obama Says No to Placing Carter-Era Solar Panels on White House
- Israeli Shelling Kills Three Palestinians in Gaza
- African American Scholar Ron Walters, 72, Dies
- Puerto Rican Independence Leader Juan Mari Brás, 82, Dies
- Folk Magazine Publisher Irwin Silber, 84, Dies


Special reports

- Tariq Ramadan Debates Moustafa Bayoumi On Proposed Islamic Center Near Ground Zero

On the ninth anniversary of 9/11, thousands take to the streets of Lower Manhattan for and against the plans to build an Islamic community center near Ground Zero. We host a different kind of debate: Tariq Ramadan—one the world\'s most renowned Muslim scholars who was barred from entering the United States for six years under the Bush administration—says it should be built elsewhere. He debates Mustafa Bayoumi, an associate professor at Brooklyn College, and author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America.


- Activists Go On Trial in Nevada For Protesting Obama Admin Drone Program

This week marks the beginning of a trial for 14 anti-war activists who held a ten-day vigil outside the Creech Airforce base in Indian Springs, Nevada last year. The base is one of several homes of the American military\'s aerial drone program in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The activists were charged with criminal trespassing for entering the base with a letter describing their opposition to drone program.


- \"This is the Worst Catastrophe to Hit Any State Since Biblical Times\"-Just Back From Pakistan, Feryal Ali Gauhar Describes the Suffering From the Flood

It\'s been over a month since the floods began in Pakistan. Although the water has receded in many areas, there are still towns and villages that remain submerged. Some 21 million people have been displaced from their homes and the threat of forcing victims to stay outside their villages in camps or alone on roadsides. We speak with Pakistani actress, filmmaker, writer, and human rights activist, Feryal Ali Gauhar.


- While Gingrich Says Obama Acts \"Kenyan, Anti-Colonial,\" What Does a Real Kenyan Anti-Colonialist Think? A Conversation with Novelist Ngugi wa Thiongo

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is coming under fire from many Democrats for saying one needs to turn to \"Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior\" in order to understand President Obama. We turn to a recent interview with a real Kenyan anti-colonialist: Ngugi wa Thiongo, a world-renowned novelist, playwright, and literary critic and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.


- Kenyan Father, White American Mother, From Illinois & Went to Harvard: President Obama? No, It\'s Guitarist Tom Morello

Guitarist Tom Morello—whose great uncle was Kenya\'s first Prime Minister, Jomo Kenyatta—talks about his similarities between his background and President Obama\'s. \"Other than the fact that we\'re devastatingly handsome half black dudes with Kenyan fathers, white American mothers from Illinois who both went to Harvard, there\'s very little in common between us.\"

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