Democracy Now! 2011-12-21 Wednesday

• Headlines for December 21, 2011
• Bradley Manning's Defense Strategy on Display as Military Prosecutors Rest Case in Pretrial Hearing
• Iraq Combat Veteran Dan Choi Forcibly Ousted, Barred from Bradley Manning Hearing at Ft. Meade
• In Exiting Iraq, U.S. Military Discards Trove of Found Documents on 2005 Haditha Massacre of Iraqis
• With Pre-Caucus Focus on GOP Race, Occupy Movement Steps Up Activism in Iowa

Celebrating the Winter Solstice, Billie and guests discuss memories and feelings about the dark.

Cast: Billie Bivins

Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Emery N. Brown, M.D., PhD, Harvard Medical School and MIT Cognitive Neuroscience: Dr. Brown, a leading researcher in anesthesiology whose work has received considerable publicity lately, discusses the differences between types of unconsciousness and what these distinctions reveal about the structure of the brain.

Democracy Now! 2011-12-19 Monday

• Headlines for December 19, 2011
• Bradley Manning Hearing: Alleged WikiLeaks Whistleblower in Military Court, 19 Months After Arrest
• Adrian Lamo, Bradley Manning Informant, Defends Role in Turning in Alleged WikiLeaks Whistleblower
• Bradley Manning Faces Life Sentence, While Criminals WikiLeaks Exposed Have Suffered No Consequences - Glenn Greenwald
• Obama Prepares to Authorize Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens For First Time Since McCarthy Era - Glenn Greenwald on NDAA

12/16/11: Janette interviews one of Belmont's busiest and most engaged citizens, Sandy Kendall.

12/1/11 - Belmont's Annual "Turn on the Town tradition, where Santa arrives on a fire truck and switches on the lights for the Christmas Tree and Belmont Center shops.