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TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!:

 

* In 4th State of the Union Since Invasion of Iraq, President Bush Urges

Congress to Back Escalating War *

 

Despite increasing opposition, President Bush vowed last night to escalate the

war in Iraq and proceed with his plan to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq. He

urged Congress to give his new Iraq strategy “a chance to work.”

 

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/24/1533216

 

 

* The Occupation: Veteran Correspondent Patrick Cockburn Reports from Iraq *

 

As President Bush calls on Congress to support his call to send more troops to

Iraq, we go to Baghdad for a report from London Independent correspondent

Patrick Cockburn.

 

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/24/1533239

 

 

* Rep. Maxine Waters Calls on Congressional Colleagues to Join Massive Anti-War

Rally *

 

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California has sent a letter to every other

member of the House urging them to participate in SaturdayÂ’s anti-war protest

in Washington. She joins us to talk about her call and her resolution to

withdraw US troops from Iraq.

 

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/24/1534208

 

 

* The View from Nairobi: Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai Reacts to State of

the Union from the World Social Forum in Kenya *

 

While President Bush delivered his State of the Union address, more than eighty

thousand people have been gathering in Kenya this week for the seventh annual

World Social Forum. The theme of the meeting is “People’s Struggles, People’s

Alternatives – Another World is Possible.” Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai

joins

us from Nairobi.

 

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/24/1534232

 

 

* BushÂ’s New Energy Proposals: A Break from the Past or More of the Same? *

 

President Bush introduced proposals to cut US gasoline consumption by twenty

percent over ten years and ease the countryÂ’s dependance on foreign oil. The

president steered clear of calling for mandatory caps on U.S. carbon dioxide

emissions and rejected calls for a commitment to stricter fuel economy rules.

Award-winning New York Times science reporter Andrew Revkin analyses President

BushÂ’s proposals.

 

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/24/1534251

 

 

* Critics: New Bush Proposals Shift More Health Care Costs onto Working

Americans *

 

Health care advocates are heavily criticizing BushÂ’s health plan. They say that

it actually shifts more of the cost of health care onto working Americans,

imposes a new tax on those that already have health care and does nothing to

hold down skyrocketing health care costs. We speak with Dr. Steffie

Woolhandler, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program.

 

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/24/1535212

 

 

" Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies

in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are

cold and are not clothed. "

-- Dwight Eisenhower