3/29/2008 Community Gumbo

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Democracy Now

• Listen | Anti-Epileptics, Sex Hormones, Mood Stabilizers, Antibiotics Among Pharmaceuticals in US Water Supply (3/24/08)

An exhaustive five-month investigation by Associated Press has found the drinking water in at least twenty-four major American cities across the country contains trace amounts of a wide array of pharmaceuticals. Amy Goodman speaks with Associated Press national writer, Jeff Donn.

• Listen | A Century in Iraq, Replacing UN with “League of Democracies,” Rogue State Rollback? A Look at John McCain’s Foreign Policy Vision (3/26/08)

Amy Goodman talks to investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss about Senator John McCain’s vision for foreign policy. “McCain is drawing up plans for a new set of global institutions,” Dreyfuss writes, “from a potent covert operations unit to a ‘League of Democracies’ that can bypass the balky United Nations, from an expanded NATO that will bump up against Russian interests in Central Asia and the Caucasus to a revived US unilateralism that will engage in ‘rogue state rollback’ against his version of the ‘axis of evil.’ In all, it’s a new apparatus designed to carry the ‘war on terror’ deep into the twenty-first century.”

Listen | Climate Change: In the Community & the Courtroom

Tulane Law School's 13th Annual Environmental Conference on Law, Science & the Public Interest (April 4 & 5). Conference organizer Dante DiPasquale, and Mary Kathryn.