Democracy Now - 22 mar 2011

An alternative daily newschannel. One hour with news as you do not see it elsewhere. http://www.democracynow.org Headlines for Mar 22, 2011 - U.S. Warplane Goes Down in Libya As Air Campaign Enters Fourth Day - Obama Criticized For Failing to Consult Congress on Libya Attacks - Storage PooliIn Japan Nuclear Facility Nears Boiling Point - NRC Extends Vermont Nuclear Plant License By 20 Years - Earthquake-Prone Chile Signs Nuclear Plant Agreement With U.S. - Israel Launches Attacks On Gaza Injuring 20, Including 7 Children - U.N. Investigator Accuses Israel of “Ethnic Cleansing” - Court OKs to Challenge Bush-Era Warrantless Wiretapping Amendment - First Deepwater Oil Exploration Project Approved Since BP Spill - FBI Ordered to Preserve Evidence In Judi Bari Bombing Case Special reports - Jeremy Scahill: As Mass Uprising Threatens the Regime, A Look at the Covert U.S. War in Yemen The crisis in Yemen is growing following high-level defections from the regime of U.S.-backed President Ali Abudullah Saleh. On Monday, a dozen top military leaders announced their pledge to protect the protest movement after 45 people were killed and some 350 were wounded when Yemeni forces opened fire on demonstrators in the capital of Sana’a on Friday—after two months of nationwide demonstrations. In recent years, the United States has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in military and security aid to Yemen. “The Obama administration has really escalated the covert war inside of Yemen and has dramatically increased the funding to Yemen’s military, particularly its elite counter-terrorism unit, which is trained by U.S. special operations forces," says Democracy Now! correspondent and independent journalist Jeremy Scahill. "It could get much worse if President Saleh decides to release the U.S. trained counter-terrorism units on his own." - “The No-Fly Zone Has Always Been a Recipe for Disaster”: Jeremy Scahill Says Libyan Strategy Has No Endgame The U.S. and allied air strikes on Libya have entered their fourth day as part of an international effort to enforce a no-fly zone. While the United States is denying it is attempting to assassinate Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi, allied forces bombed his compound for the second night in a row. “In Iraq, [the no-fly zone] resulted in the strengthening of Saddam Hussein’s regime ... I think it could end up backfiring in a tremendous way and keeping Gaddafi in power even longer,” says Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now! correspondent and independent journalist. - Long Night’s Journey Into Day: Democracy Now!’s Exclusive Interview Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide and his family returned to Haiti last week for the first time since a 2004 U.S.-backed coup forced him out of office. A 2005 State Department cable recently released by WikiLeaks recounts how U.S. and French diplomats threatened to block several Caribbean countries and South Africa’s seating on the UN Security Council unless South Africa kept Aristide in exile. This time, President Obama called South African President Jacob Zuma to tell him not to fly the Aristides home to Haiti. South Africa refused to comply. In a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive, Amy Goodman was there on Aristide’s flight from exile. Today, part two of her conversation on the flight with Aristide the plane approached Haiti. - Former First Lady, Mildred Aristide, on Her Historic Return to Haiti: “Aristide Is Ever Present In The Haitian Psyche and History” “We’re about to step on ground made hallowed by the Haitian revolution and all the progressive movements by the Haitian people,” says Former Haitian First Lady, Mildred Aristide, minutes from landing in Haiti after seven years in exile in South Africa. In a Democracy Now! exclusive she says, “Aristide as a priest, as an educator, when he was president and now as a Haitian and continues to be a person who always, always, always withstands.” http://www.democracynow.org

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