2007 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance

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Mon, Dec 31, 2007 7:47AM

Monday, December 31, 2007 :Today, part one of our special look back at 2007, including Saddam Hussein's execution, the U.S. bombing of Somalia, the Appeal for Redress, Scooter Libby's convicton, the firing of Don Imus, the Virginia Tech massacre, the rise of Blackwater, the death of Molly Ivins and Kurt Vonnegut Michael Moore's Sicko, Greg Palast on vulture funds, the Hamas-Fatah split in the Palestinian territories, the U.S. Social Forum and more.

Featuring the Voices of:

Nancy Pelosi, Cindy Sheehan
Salim Lone, President Bush
Sgt. Ronn Cantu, Leslie Cagan
Sen. Patrick Leahy, Zanku Armenian
Patrick Cockburn, Rep. Maxine Waters
Molly Ivins, Sami Al-Arian
Greg Palast, Rep. John Conyers
Patrick Fitzgerald, Murray Waas
Rev. Al Sharpton, Jeremy Scahill
Don Imus, Kurt Vonnegut
Bill McKibben, Cho Seung-Hui
Louise Melling, Alberto Gonzales
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Ernesto Arce, Sen. Daniel Akaka
Joan Baez, Doug Ireland
Ricardo Alarcon, Tony Blair
Tariq Ali, Studs Terkel
Leonard Rubenstein, Mona El-Farra
Daniel McGowan and more

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§2007 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance Pt. 2

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Tue, Jan 1, 2008 8:34AM

Today, part two of our special look back at 2007, including the Jena Six, the Petraeus report, the trial of Jose Padilla, Alberto Gonzales’ resignation, Alan Greenspan v. Naomi Klein, Michael Mukasey on waterboarding, Blackwater’s Massacre in Baghdad, Jimmy Carter on apartheid in the Palestinian territories, Al Gore and ICC win the Nobel Peace Prize, the pro-democracy uprising in Burma, the firing of Norman Finkelstein and Ward Churchill, New Jersey abolishes the death penalty, the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and more.

Featuring the Voices of:

Joseph Wilson, Alan Johnston, Robert Bailey,
Caseptla Bailey, Marcus Jones, Helen Thomas,
President Bush, Rep. Dennis Kucinich,
Ward Churchill, Sen. Barack Obama,
Marjorie Cohn, Nydesha Foster, Angela Hegarty,
Amira Baraka, Nir Rosen, Camilo Mejia,
Grace Paley, Alberto Gonzales,
Sen. Larry Craig, Norman Finkelstein,
President Jimmy Carter, Sen. Robert Byrd,
Gen. David Petraeus, Rev. Al Sharpton,
Alan Greenspan, Naomi Klein, Mark Canning,
Rep, Danny Davis, Erik Prince,
Sen. Ted Kennedy, Jeremy Scahill,
Katie Redford, Yoko Ono, Bill McKibben,
Maher Arar, John Tanner, Jonathan Paul,
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Michael Mukasey,
Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz, Mark Klein,
Evo Morales, Asma Jahangir, Wayne Barrett,
John Edwards, Noam Chomsky. Desmond Tutu,
Mitt Romney, John McCain, Nelson Mandela,
Lou Dobbs, Mohamed ElBaradei, Michael Ratner,
Mark Benjamin, Rev. Jesse Jackson,
Rajendra Pachauri, Al Gore, Jon Corzine,
Benazir Bhutto, and more.