Democracy Now! · Season 2011

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

2011/03/08 Headlines: Obama Orders Guantánamo Tribunals to Resume; U.N.: 1 Million Trapped in Libya, Need Emergency Aid; Conflicting Reports Emerge over Gaddafi Offer to Step Down; Momentum Grows for No-Fly Zone over Libya; Report: U.S. Develops Secret Plan to Arm Libyan Rebels; Iraq Orders Closing of Political Offices Tied to Protests; 200 Jordanian Journalists Stage Protest; Egypt Orders Arrest of 47 State Security Officers; 2,000 Yemeni Prisoners Revolt; Activists Shut Down Bank of America Branch in D.C. in Tax Protest; Tom Cruise Cited for Dodging Property Taxes in Colorado; Video: Sen. Brown Seeks More Funds from David Koch; Hearings on Muslim Radicalization Decried as a New McCarthyism; Iraqi American Filmmaker Beaten in Iowa; U.S. Judge Sides with Chevron in Ecuador Case; 25 Die in Car Bombing in Pakistan; Report: 19,000 Private Security Personnel in Afghanistan; Israel May Seek Another $20 Billion in Military Aid from U.S.