The Whole Delivery

Here's what you missed on Democracy Now today that you can easily see now: They were all over Iraq today as expected with Nir Rosen's perspective and how the government still continues to shell out millions of dollars on Iraqi bases (and let's not even get to contemplating about the weapons we still will supply to them. And never mentioned in our public discourse about Iraq is how the years of US sanctions really hurt the country . Joy Gordon has been all over that "Invisible War" indeed. Now towards the other deliveries about Iraq: He like the rest of the Bushies will never have any shame: Never ever. The hottest summer ever here in NYC will continue today on September 1st. And somehow the climate change deniers will continue to claim victory over Al Gore. Still the greatest campaign ever . After John McCain's presidential campaign decided to withdraw from Michigan, his vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin dissented. Once the Secret Service...

Another day, another awesome Democracy Now airing. And it was made even more so great by the fact that Blair Kelley, one of the nation's best college professors field for field, talked about her sentiments in regards to "Paul, the younger." Her key quote off a great segment was her response to the nutcase's bizarre quote of comparing the 2nd Amendment to Civil Rights: "Black people aren't guns, so that doesn't work for me." Her whole brand spanking news blog is here . By the way, the whole episode highlight clips are up now at Democracynow.org .

It seems that Democracy Now is the only place where you can find serious, actual grown up, 1 on 1 banter that isn't about garnering ratings or entertainment points, but to informed their viewer on the most important news events and situations of our time. Today, DN featured the settled discussion (for now) in a week long respectful back and forth debate between Glenn Greenwald and Lawrence Lessig on Elena Kagan's nomination. Simply put, for those who didn't have a chance to see or hear about this discussion that took place on the invaluable Amy Goodwin's show, it was the "settling of the score" for these two renowned legal figures on the left after their back to back appearances on Rachel Maddow's Monday show. Even though both certainly left the show with the same sentiment on Kagan as they held before, but exhibited a level of decorum, as well as intelligent colloquy, severely missing in our usually terrible television discourse. Here's the ent...

Democracy Now has a massive exclusive, as independent journalists Rick Rowley and David Enders interview witnesses the very next day after the US helicopter shootings. It is indeed a stunning story that you have to see for yourselves ladies and gentlemen .