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.

Democracy Now! 2011-12-16 Friday

• Headlines for December 16, 2011
• U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq: "In Terms of Destroying Iraq, It's 'Mission Accomplished'"
• The Costs of War: Tens of Thousands Dead, Billions Spent, and a Country Torn Apart
• Iraqi Women's Activist Rebuffs U.S. Claims of a Freer Iraq: "This Is Not a Democratic Country"
• Bradley Manning: Famed Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Alleged WikiLeaks Soldier's 1st Day in Court

12/14/11 - Warrant Committee meeting in Belmont, MA.