Journalist Samantha Power is a passionate advocate of international intervention to halt humanitarian crises. She recently flew to the Darfur region of Sudan on assignment for the New Yorker magazine to interview the leader of the Janjaweed militia, Musa Hilal. Also, the ghosts of the Vietnam war in the 2004 campaign, a bill to end car alarm headaches, and your calls on Jon Kerry’s Iraq war votes.
Apolcalypse Then
Michael Sallah National Affairs writer for Toledo Blade, winner of 2004 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting (with Mitch Weiss and Joe Mahr) offers context on atrocities committed during the war in Viet Nam
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Joe Mahr staff reporter at the Toledo Blade
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Joe Mahr staff reporter at the Toledo Blade
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Alarmed
John LiuCity Council--Democrat, District 20 ; Chair of the Transportation Committee discusses the bill he proposed to ban car alarms which Bloomberg vetoed
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» John Liu
Musa Halal: Not Kosher
Samatha Power contributor to the New Yorker, wrote "Dying in Darfur" for 8-30-04 issue shares thoughts from her conversation with Janjaweed's leader in Darfur
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» New Yorker
Kerry Flies the Coop
Andrea Bernstein senior reporter, WNYC, reports live from Cooper Union where John Kerry was about to speak.
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» WNYC Radio
Open Phones
Listeners call in to talk about John Kerry's vote on the war
Kabuki Dance
Newsday published the text of the ruling denying an Arab-American protest group the right to protest on Central Park's Great Lawn during the Republican Convention. Surprisingly, the judge sought fit to inject humor in the 35-page legal document. ...
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