Keystone xl pipeline. The fight against the controversial project isnt over. We will also look at the link to South African spy cables. I was greenpeaces kumi naidoo being spied on . The to the corinthian 15, and group of students go on a debt strike refusing to pay their debt owed to a forprofit college. A lot of the older generations the criticized the millennials grew up in a time when you could go to a State University and pay your way through with summer jobs. These millennial children they got to college and realized, the money is not there to pay for me, im not going to be able to try to it in took issue job. In fact, everything i was told about the way the world works turns out not to be the case. And we will hear why adjunct professors are holding a national walkout. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has vetoed a republican bill approving the keystone xl Tar Sands Oil pipeline.
In 1404, duke philip the bold died at the stag inn near brussels. 20 years earlier his royayal sculptors had begun work on philips tomb. One of them carved these images of the funeral procession which transported his body back to burgundy. Clothed in the habit of a carthusian monk philips embalmed body was sealed in a lead coffin and carried in a funeral cortege whh took nearly seven weeks to wind the 250 miles from brussels to dijon. Accompanied by his sons, his chaplains, and members of his royal court the hearse was drawn by six horses in black with the blue banners of burgundy fluttering at its corners. At dijon, it was received not only by the weeping clergy but by 100 chosen townspeople and 100 poor also clad in black at the dukes expense. As with the other great royal and ducal rituals of the later middle ages death itself could be turned into public theater. Philips tomb itself lay just outside dijon at the carthusian monastery of champmol. It took nearly 30 years to complete a
Previous such accusations come are ludicrous. As a matter of longstanding policy, the United States does not support political transitions by nonconstitutional means. Amy gateway to freedom the Hidden History of the underground railroad. We will speak with the pulitzer prizewinning author and historian eric foner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Iraqi Military and iranianbacked shiite militias have seized large parts of tikrit as part of their offensive to retake the city from the selfproclaimed islamic state. The operation marks iraqs Largest Military attempt to roll back the gains made by isis last june. Iranian advisers and iranianbacked shiite fighters are playing a key role while the u. S. Has been sidelined. Colombia is halting air attacks on farc rebels for one month as peace talks between the two sides advance. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said the pause reflects the rebels adher
Victory, putting him on course for a fourth term in office. We will speak to the israeli journalist amira hass and Jamal Zahalka, and arab member of the Israeli Knesset and chair of the political block of arab parties known as the joint arab list which took third place in tuesdays election. Then to life after guantanamo. We will look at the story of a father and son who were both imprisoned at guantanamo and held for eight years. They were never charged. One was resettled in portugal, the other two kate the other twoto cape verde. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won a surprise election victory, putting him on course for a fourth term. His likud party is poised to control 29 or 30 seats in the 120 member knesset. The Zionist Union opposition based second with 24 seats. A united list of arab parties came in third. Netanyahu closed out his campaign with a vow to oppose a palestinian state,
Despite opposition from walmart. We will go to indianapolis and speak with Indiana Senate democratic leader tim lanane. Senator lanane we need to take clear, actionable steps to repair the image of our state. We cannot drive out a single job or an individual because there is no, mys it comes to dissemination. So, lets start with a full repeal of rfra, period. Repeal repeal, repeal. Amy then the nation magazine, the countrys oldest weekly news magazine turns 150 years old. We will speak the nations editor and publisher katrina everybody wrote for the nation. Pat buchanan. Langston hughes. Kurt vonnegut. Gore vidal. Amy we will speak the nations editor and publisher katrina vanden heuvel. We will speak about the hundred 50 year history, to politics today, from Elizabeth Warren, to ted cruz, to arming ukraine. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari has defeated incumbent Goo