Democracy Now! - Season 2011 Episode 141 Monday, July 18, 2011
7.6060 minutes
2011/07/18 Headlines: British PM Cameron to Hold Emergency Session in Growing Phone-Hacking Scandal; Senior Adviser to Afghan President Assassinated; U.S. Joins 31 Other Nations to Recognize Libyan Rebel Council as Legitimate Government; At Least 30 Activists Killed as Syrian Forces Expand Crackdown; Secret Iraqi Prison, Torture Facility Uncovered in Green Zone; First Emergency U.N. Aid to Somalia Drought Victims Arrives in Kenya; Obama Passes Over Elizabeth Warren for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Ruptured Exxon Mobil Montana Pipeline Carried Tar Sands Oil; NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake Sentenced to a Year of Probation; Shooting Victim Attempts to Stop Assailant’s Execution in Texas; Japan Plans to Suspend Cattle Shipments from Stricken Fukushima Region; Lawyers, Relatives of Pakistan Drone Strike Victims Call for Arrest of Former CIA Legal Chief; Doctors Without Borders Condemns CIA over Fake Vaccination Program; Egypt PM Appoints 14 New Ministers in Cabinet Shuffle; Pro-Palestine Ship Hopes to Reach Gaza Strip by Tuesday; Radio Journalist Murdered in Honduras; Japan Wins Women’s World Cup; Nelson Mandela International Day Celebrated as Anti-Apartheid Leader Turns 93