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Jose Padilla has been found guilty in court and faces possible life in prison, but forensic psychiatrist Dr. Angela Hegarty explains after interviewing him that Padilla already paid the ultimate price through torture -- he's lost his mind. By Amy Goodman

In Part II of Joint interview with Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, we speak with the two leading dissidents about U.S. wars from Iraq to Vietnam, resistance and academia. Zinn speaks about the importance of Henry David Thoreau and his relevance today.

In Rare Joint Interview, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn on Iraq, Vietnam, Activism and History

Scahill discusses Blackwater's role in the Caspian Sea region in Central Asia and the battle in Congress over accountability for private contractors.

"Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the 'global war on terror,' with its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and 20,000 private contractors at the ready.

It's been almost one year since the first of six retired US generals began calling for the departure of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

As Seymour Hersh reports the Pentagon has created a special panel to plan a bombing attack on Iran, we examine how the Bush administration ignored a secret offer to negotiate with Iran in 2003.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced plans for the withdrawal of an initial 1,600 British troops from Iraq. We go to London to get reaction from distinguished British politician Tony Benn.

The Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar has obtained a copy of the proposed oil law and has just translated it into English. He discusses the new law with Antonia Juhasz, author of "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time."

After we finished our conference on Monday, November 20th, and that's conference for North American Imams Federation, where over 150 imams were there to discuss how to build more bridges with non-Muslims, how to be open-minded imams.

So, in trying to answer the question, I looked a little at the history of Nazi Germany. No, it's not that we are Nazi Germany, but you can learn lessons from everybody and from anybody's history.

Israel has ratcheted up threats of a massive ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. Israeli troops backed by tanks, helicopters and drones have already staged ground operations in parts of Gaza in yet another escalation in the ongoing assault on the Occupied Territories.

Moyers Investigates Abramoff Lobbying Scandal

Now, when you say "randomly selected," obviously in Haiti, one of the poorest -- the poorest country in the western hemisphere, a lot of people don't have phones -- or even locating folks. Could you explain your use of GPS to actually develop who would be the random households selected?

Amnesty International is a very respectable organization, and I'm sure they're doing a good job, but I still feel that many things have been lacking, from what I heard. We haven't seen the report yet and will be glad to comment later on the specifics.

You know, I've heard this theory about, you know, everything was just fine until we arrived, and then, you know, kind of that we're going to stir up the hornet's nest theory.

Right now, Sub-Saharan Africa, that's facing the highest AIDS epidemic, needs one million more health workers in order to combat this crisis.

I close with noting that the recently elected Prime Minister of Israel addressed a joint session of Congress about a month or so ago.

The uniqueness of the Zionist experience, as it were, was in that the Zionists were able, under the protection of the mandate, of the British mandate, to set up the essentials of a state

I don't have that information. But what I know is, inside the mindset against the UN force in South Lebanon, [inaudible] very badly in the last few days, and that's dripping down to their own people, who are not very famous for their [inaudible] anyway. And they just don't care.

Today the Israeli attack has taken the lives, not of seven people, as you have mentioned, but of thirteen people. And that brings the total death toll in Palestine by the most recent Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank, it brings it up to 241, actually.

The Israeli attack on Lebanon has entered its second week and the death toll now stands at about 300, nearly all Lebanese civilians. We go to Beirut to speak with Robert Fisk, chief Middle East correspondent for the London Independent.

The big telecom communications -- Comcast, Verizon, Viacom, Clear Channel -- all of these corporations are using big omnibus pieces of legislation like this to divide our movement.

The Palestinian Authority is on the brink of financial disaster. This week, the P.A. announced it will be unable to issue paychecks to its more than 130,000 employees. It's the largest employer in the Occupied Territories.

There has been a massive show of force. I can see hundreds of police cars and I can't even tell you how many police and storm trooper outfits. And they're executing an eviction, which is -- seems to be unnecessary. By Daryl Hannah

What's really incredible is that over the last two or three years, we've seen blogging take off to just an unprecedented degree. At this point, we believe that there's something like 40 to 50 million blogs worldwide.

The Palestinian Authority, the P.A., is today controlled by a terrorist entity, an entity that is on the U.S.

We spend the rest of the hour with one of Latin America's most acclaimed writers: Eduardo Galeano. His works from the trilogy Memory of Fire to the classic Open Veins of Latin America are a unique blend of history, fiction, journalism and political analysis.

the government -- I'm not sure what Mr. Maliki was referring to in terms of saying that the government was nearly complete.

The State's Attorney of Cook County at the time this evidence first came to light in the mid-'80s was none other than the now major Richard Daley.