Democracy Now! today looks good:

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http://www.democracynow.org/

From Damascus: Iraqi Refugees in Syria Speak Out Against U.S. Occupation

Over four years of brutal warfare in Iraq has spawned a refugee crisis of staggering proportions. Two million Iraqis have been forced to leave their country and are now scattered across Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Turkey. There are an estimated 1.2 million Iraqi refugees in Syria. This report was filed by Democracy Now correspondent Jen Utz.

"Iraq Does Not Exist Anymore": Journalist Nir Rosen On How The U.S. Invasion of Iraq Has Led to Ethnic Cleansing, A Worsening Refugee Crisis and the Destabilization of the Middle East

Nir Rosen is an independent journalist and the author of "In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq." He is a fellow at the New America Foundation and has reported extensively from Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.

March for Peace: Two Teenagers Walk From San Francisco to Washington D.C. To Protest The Iraq War

Ashley Casale will be a sophomore this fall at Wesleyan University. She came up with the idea of a cross-country march for peace last year and set up a website to invite more people to join her. The only person who stuck it out was Michael Israel, an 18 year old just out of high school. Democracy Now! caught with them last week in Indianapolis.

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1. Watched this morning.

"Iraq will never have another election." Good point. Junior has turned Iraq into Afghanistan II. Warlords, militias, and death squads. Nice job, asshole.

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2. The dim one's picture should be next to the definition of 'miserable failure'.

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3. The show's been hot all summer long

I'm really impressed with Amy Goodman.
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4. She's relentless, covers topics no one else dares. nt