The longtime civil rights activist has been described as americas most revolutionary mayor. He died of Heart Failure tuesday, less than a year after taking office. He was 66 years old. We will hear lumumba in his own words and speak to several of his close associates. Then as japan pushes to restart its dormant nuclear program, the crisis that fukushima continues. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration is ramping up pressure on afghan president karzai to sign a deal to keep u. S. Troops in afghanistan beyond this year. In a phone call with karzai tuesday, obama said he has ordered the pentagon to launch new Contingency Planning for total withdrawal of u. S. Troops by the end of 2014. White House Press Secretary jay carney said karzais replacement after april elections might still sign the deal, known as the bilateral Security Agreement or bsa. The fact that president karzai has indica
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Reaction and the nra. Is this any different . Million dollar question and hopefully well get a little bit of an answer when the president steps out on the lawn in just a few minutes to go out to these fund raisers. But, look, youre chutely right, jim, this president has been down this road more than once and he stopped short of really pushing through anything significant. Interesting when you look at those tweets this morning the president essentially indicating that there are talks going on about gun control, specifically background checks and we know that because some of the people the president has talked to effectively have said publicly their talking with the president. Thats Mitch Mcconnell, the democratic leader Chuck Schumer as well as House Speaker nancy pelosi. The question of course is where is all this going . We do know also theres been some talk about executive action, but what kind of executive action, anyones guess. So the president s tweets this morning indicating, yes