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| Abuse of female protester, Ukraine (FEMEN) |
At least 30 pro-Russian rebels have reportedly died in fierce fighting at the airport in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The Ukrainian government bombarded the airport with air strikes, then paratroopers, after rebels seized it on Monday. The fighting began just hours after the pro-European billionaire candy tycoon Petro Poroshenko won Ukraine’s first presidential election since the ouster of Viktor Yanukovych.
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After his election, Petro Poroshenko said he was ready to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he ruled out any talks with pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. To discuss these developments, DN is joined by three guests: Christopher Miller of the Kyiv Post, reporting just steps from the embattled airport in Donetsk; Jack Matlock, the former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991; and Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University, who just returned from Kiev and wrote the article in The New York Review of Books titled Ukraine: The Edge of Democracy. More
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Remembering Vincent Harding, the great civil rights activist who wrote MLK’s speech against the U.S. War on Vietnam Theologian and civil rights activist Dr. Vincent Harding died on May 19 at the age of 82 in Philadelphia. He lived in Denver, but
was in Pennsylvania where he had been teaching at Pendle Hill, a Quaker
retreat center. Harding was a close adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. and wrote King’s famous antiwar speech, "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to
Break the Silence." King delivered the address at Riverside Church in
New York City on April 4, 1967 — exactly one year...
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