Democracy Now! - Season 2011 Episode 129 Thursday, June 30, 2011
7.6060 minutes
2011/06/30 Headlines: U.S. Drone Strike Targets Militant Islamist Group in Somalia; Pakistan Calls on U.S. to Stop Using Air Base to Launch Drone Strikes; Greece Prepares to Pass Second Austerity Bill amid Massive Protests; Hundreds of Thousands of British Public Workers Launch National Strike; President Obama Pushes to Raise National Debt Ceiling; President Obama Defends U.S., NATO Military Operations in Libya; French Military Secretly Arms Libyan Rebels; Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq, Deadliest Month in Three Years; U.S. Wars Projected to Cost Nearly $4 Trillion with Hundreds of Thousands Dead; Top U.S. Nuclear Lab Remains Closed Due to Massive Wildfire; Leading U.S. Climate Scientist: Current Extreme Weather in Line with Climate Change; Drought in Somalia Causes Mass Influx of Climate Refugees to Kenya; Three New York Men Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Bomb Plot, Critics Claim FBI Entrapment; Federal Appeals Court Rules Government Can Require Minimum Insurance for Americans; Operators at West Virginia Mine Kept Separate Records for Inspectors in Run-Up to Deadly Explosion; Ohio: Thousands Deliver Signatures to Repeal Collective Bargaining Law; California Transit Agency Agrees to Pay $1.3 Million to Family of Oscar Grant over Murder Case