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Here and Now for Tuesday, June 26, 2008
Just-released reports from the Defense of Department and the General Accountability Office see a real decline in violence in Iraq. But while the DOD sees positive trends in political, economic, and security developments, the GAO says that crucial measures the administration uses to demonstrate progress are wrong. And, the GAO goes on to assert that the US still lacks a meaningful strategy to move beyond the administration's troop surge. We'll speak with Demetri Sevastopoulo, Pentagon and Intelligence Correspondent for the Financial Times. Less than a week after a fragile truce took effect between Israel and Gaza militants, shots were fired today into Southern Israel. We check in with blogger, author, and commentator Bernard Avishai about the situation in Gaza, as well as the growing tensions between Israel and Iran over Iran's alleged nuclear facilities...and Israel's alleged "attack rehearsals" to destroy them. What now for the flooded residents of the Midwest? A nationally-r
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Here and Now for Monday, July 14, 2008
Stock markets rebounded this morning with the news that the US Treasury and Federal Reserve are taking action to shore up struggling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the dominant providers of funding for home mortgages in the US. Federal regulators are temporarily opening their so-called discount lending window to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We speak with Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at Global Insight, an economic analysis firm. For two months this summer, U.S. and coalition troop deaths in Afghanistan surpassed casualties in Iraq, raising questions about the strength of the Taliban and the NATO forces fighting them. Anna Mulrine, a senior editor at U.S. News and World Report just spent a month with U.S. soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan and joins us to talk about what she saw. This month, commissioners in Cook County, Illinois voted to raise the county's sales tax by a full percentage point - up to 10.25%. The county now has among the nation's highest sales tax rate. Th
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Here and Now for Thursday, April 17, 2008
At least 50 are dead after a suicide bomber struck the funeral of two Sunni brothers who had joined the US backed Awakening Council movement to fight Al Qaeda. More than a hundred Iraqis have been killed in a series of bombings around the country this week, raising fears that insurgent groups are re-organizing in Iraq. With Ned Parker, Baghdad Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. What's the fallout from last night's bruising Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia last night? We speak with Donald Kettl, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government, and Rob Christensen, longtime political reporter for the Raleigh News and Observer in North Carolina and author of new history of 20th century North Carolina politics, called "The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics." As the Pope visits the United States, we speak with Boston College history professor, James O'Toole. His new book is "The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America." He says the churc
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“…backed awakening council movement. Fighting the relatively small in number but violent Al Qaeda force in Iraq. Today's deaths are the latest in a string of events Tuesday at least sixty were killed in suicide bombings …”
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Here and Now for Friday, April 11, 2008
The White House is staying mum on reports from A-B-C News that high level administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down helped choreograph harsh interrogation techniques on al Qaeda suspects, including waterboarding. ABC News Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg fills us in on the details. Police in Buenos Aires, Argentina are bracing for protests today along the route of the Olympic torch relay. And, the International Olympic Committee met in Beijing to discuss the controversy that has followed the torch on its journey around the world. We speak with Wall Street Journal correspondent Mei Fong in Beijing, Olympic historian and author David Wallechinsky, and Chinese security expert Murray Scot Tanner. A new documentary film tells the story of a young soldier who was paralyzed by a gunshot while serving in Iraq. The film's co-director is TV talk show legend Phil Donahue. The young soldier, Tomas Young, becomes an anti-war spokesman as he tries to adjust t
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