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Headlines for Oct 10, 2011

- New York City's "Occupy Wall Street" Demonstration Enters Fourth Week
- Anti-Drone Protest Closes D.C. Museum After Agent Provocateur Provokes Police
- Scores Arrested in "Occupy" Movement Protests Across the Country
- Over 2,000 Occupy Westminster Bridge in U.K. to Protest Planned Cuts, Privatization
- U.S. Obtains Controversial Secret Order to Access Email Accounts of WikiLeaks Volunteer
- Obama Administration Guarding Secret Memo Used to Authorize U.S. Citizen's Assassination
- Report: Computer Virus Detected In Predator Drone Cockpits
- Iraq Prime Minister: U.S. Troops May Stay Beyond 2011 Withdrawal Date
- Syria: At Least 31 Killed in Ongoing Clashes
- Household Incomes Fall in Years Following Recession to Lowest Levels In Decades
- California Enacts Dream Act, Benefiting 2,500 Undocumented Immigrant Students
- U.S. Prosecutors Crackdown on California Medical Marijuana Industry
- State Department Assigned Keystone XL Pipeline Impact Study to Company With Ties To Operator


Special reports

- "Chaos and Bloodshed": 25 Die in Cairo as Egyptian Military Attacks Coptic Christian Protesters

In Egypt, at least two dozen people died on Sunday when the Egyptian military attacked a large gathering of Coptic Christians protests. The violence broke out after a demonstration protest in Cairo against an attack on a church in Aswan province last week. Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous was in Cairo and witnessed the killings. "Then the military attacked. They came rushing forward, beating anyone in their path and then they started opening fire. The sound of gunfire filled the air," said Kouddous. "It was a scene of chaos, a scene of bloodshed, the likes of which I had not seen since the revolution here in Cairo. The reaction of the army does not bode well for the future."


- Occupy Wall Street Spreads: 32 Arrested in Iowa; Right-Wing Editor Infiltrates D.C. Anti-Drone Protest

Protests inspired by the "Occupy Wall Street" encampment in New York City continued to expand this weekend with protests taking place in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, San Fransisco and Oakland, among others. Many of the protests have led to arrests. After about 500 protesters gathered during the day in front of the Iowa statehouse in Des Moines, renaming the capital complex "People's Park," police arrested 32 people after they spend the night in the park. Also over the weekend, in Washington, D.C., the National Air and Space Museum was closed Saturday afternoon after security guards used pepper spray to repel more than 100 demonstrators protestingan exhibit on drones. Afterward, an assistant editor with the conservative publication, The American Spectator, later infiltrating the group and provoking guards to pepper spray the crows. Back in New York City, thousands of protesters marched from their base in the Financial District - where the "Occupy Wall Street" encampment is entering its fourth week - to Washington Square Park in the Greenwich Village. Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek addressed demonstrators Sunday at Zuccotti Park. "They tell you are we are dreamers. The true dreamers are those who think things can go on indefinitely the way they are. We are not dreamers," Zizek says. "We are awakening from a dream which is tuning into a nightmare. We are not destroying anything. We are only witnessing how the system is destroying itself."


- Occupy Wall Street Emerges as "First Populist Movement" on the Left Since the 1930s

As the "Occupy" movement expand from the "Occupy Wall Street" protest in New York City throughout the United States, we look its historical significance. "This is an incredibly significant moment in U.S. history," says Dorian Warren of Columbia University. "It might be a turning point because this is the first time we have seen an emergence of populist movement on the left since the 1930s." We also speak to FireDogLake blogger Kevin Gosztola who has been reporting from the occupations in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.


- America's Longest War: New Study Examines Demographics of U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan

Nearly 1,800 U.S. military members have been killed in Afghanistan since the war began there 10 years ago - the longest war in U.S. history. A new report examines these deaths, based on information drawn from obituaries and tribute pages for all 1,446 U.S. military casualties since the war began in October 2001 unitl December 2010. We speak with the lead author of "American Military Deaths in Afghanistan, and the Communities from Which These Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines Came." Michael Zweig is a professor of economics and director of the Center for the Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. "In the U.S., about 62 percent of the population are now working class," Zweig says. "Of the casualties, a 78 percent are working-class people."


- Nobel Peace Winner Tawakkul Karman on Yemen and the U.S. War on Terror

Yemeni activist and journalist, Tawakkul Karman, was one of the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize awarded Friday. Karman spoke in New York City at the Brecht Forum in September 2010 about state violence, targeted killings, and human rights abuses enabled by the so-called "War on Terror." Democracy Now! was there and bring you part of her address. Karman notes that by cooperating with the Yemeni government's repression of its opponents, the United States "has transitioned from being the leader of the free world to a watch dog for tyrant regimes."
 
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