DN!: LAST CHANCE TIX: DN! Gala//Fidel Castro Resigns as Cuban Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:35:14 -0500 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST February 19, 2008 = = = = = = = = = LAST CHANCE TIX: February 20 DN! Gala: Help Us Build Our New Home You can still get reduced-price tix for our Feb20 DN! 12 anniversary event with major performances by Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, and Tony-award winning actor Sarah Jones, Dick Gregory. Join Danny Glover, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Jeremy Scahill, John Perkins, Greg Palast, Wally Shawn and the whole Democracy Now! team for an evening you won't forget!! Get more details and tix at: http://www.democracynow.org/get_involved/donate/willie = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now! has immediate job openings for: TV Producer/Editor For more information visit http://www.democracynow.org/about/jobs. = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * Fidel Castro Resigns as Cuban President * Fidel Castro announced today he is resigning as Cuban president, ending forty-nine years in office. In a statement, the eighty-one-year-old Castro wrote, ³It would betray my conscience to take up a responsibility that requires mobility and total devotion, that I am not in a physical condition to offer.² We speak to Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/19/fidel_castro_resigns_as_cuban * Democratic Race Heats Up as Wisconsin Holds Deadlocked Primary * John Nichols of The Nation magazine joins us from Wisconsin, where voters go to polls today in possibly the tightest contest in the Democratic race since Super Tuesday. Sen. Hillary Clinton is hoping to end Sen. Barack Obama¹s string of eight straight victories over the past two weeks. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/19/democratic_race_heats_up * Outspoken Niece of Benazir Bhutto Accuses Aunt's Party of Fraud in Pakistani Elections * In Pakistan, voters have handed President General Pervez Musharraf¹s ruling party an overwhelming defeat in the country¹s parliamentary elections. We go to Pakistan to speak to columnist Fatima Bhutto, the niece of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. Fatima has been critical both of Bhutto¹s party, which she says committed fraud in Monday¹s vote, and of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/19/pakistan * Kosovo's Independence: Genuine Liberation or Front for U.S.-NATO Expansion? * Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on Monday. The move was welcomed by the United States, Turkey, and some European Union countries Monday even as it was sharply condemned by Serbia, Russia, China, and Spain. While supporters have welcomed the decree as an act of liberation, critics call the move a front for advancing U.S.-NATO aims. We host a debate between George Szamuely, a New York-based writer and long-time commentator on the Balkans, and Isa Blumi, professor of Middle East and Balkan history and a former member of the Kosovar Provisional government. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/19/kosovo * Headlines for February 19, 2008 * Castro Steps Down as Cuban Leader Musharraf¹s Party Loses Seats in Pakistani Elections U.S. Recognizes Independent Kosovo 36 Die in Afghan Suicide Bombing Wisconsin, Hawaii Hold Primaries Bush: No Link Between Economy, Iraq War ³Dossier² Author: Britain Was ³Wrong² on Iraq U.S. to Keep AFRICOM in Germany St. Paul Orders Taser Weapons Ahead of RNC U.S. Court Shuts Down Whistleblower Site Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/19/headlines = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now!'s daily news summaries are now available in Spanish: Read Tuesday, February 19, 2008: http://www.democracynow.org/es To subscribe to these "Titulares de Hoy" by email, send a blank message to: boletin-sub@list.democracynow.org = = = = = = = = = COMING UP ON DEMOCRACY NOW! 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