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| Description | Headlines USDA Issues New Cattle Regulations Halliburton Stripped of Iraqi Oil Contract Two Die in Kurdish Protests in Kirkuk Ashcroft Steps Aside in CIA Leak Investigation A Review of 2003 With Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Katha Pollitt, Martin Espada, Michael Parenti and Aarti Shahani As 2003 comes to a close, a small number of stories dominate the headlines and newscasts of major media outlets. The Michael Jackson and Koby Bryant cases, the Mad Cow Scare, the nine democratic candidates for president verbally assaulting one another. But there is one word that characterizes 2003 more than any other—war. The war abroad and the war here at home. On the international front, as the Bush administration expanded its occupation and war in Afghanistan, it intensified its battle to sell a war against Iraq. The American public was bombarded with stories of the grave danger posed by Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction. Administration officials spoke of mushroom clouds and smoking guns. In his January State of the Union address, televised across the world, President Bush accused Iraq of attempting to procure uranium for a nuclear weapons program, an accusation that was the lynchpin of the administration’s justification for war. Though the administration was eventually forced to retract the charge after former US ambassador to Iraq Joseph Wilson blew the whistle , the damage was done. On March 20 at approximately 5:35am Baghdad time, the Bush Administration unleashed what it bragged was a shock and awe campaign, raining bombs and missiles down on Iraq. US forces poured across Iraq’s borders, bombing and shooting their way toward Baghdad and other cities, accompanied by cheerleading journalists, who were embedded with the forces. At the onset of the invasion, NBC anchor Tom Brokaw said “One of the things that we don’t want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we’re going to own that country.” Dan Rather of CBS said, “Good morning Baghdad.” |
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| Description | Headlines Report: Saddam May Be Tried In Secret U.S. Orders Armed Marshals On Foreign Airlines U.S. Oil Companies Prepare To Trade w/ Libya Iran Earthquake Death Toll May Top 50,000 Report: Natural Disasters Make 2003 A Deadly Year 81 Cattle May Have Been Exposed to Mad Cow More Headlines… Scott Ritter: How the British Spy Agency MI6 Secretly Misled A Nation Into War With Iraq Former U.N. Iraqi Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter discusses how he was personally involved in the MI6’s “Operation Mass Appeal” in the late 1990s to “shake up public opinion” by passing dubious intelligence on Iraq to the media. U.S. Scientist Invents Groundbreaking Mad Cow Disease Test But The USDA Refuses To Use It Scientist Andrew Alpert discusses how he helped discovered how to test living cows for mad cow disease. Britain has Okd the test but not the U.S. And John Stauber, author of Mad Cow USA, outlines the latest in the mad cow scandal. Leading Iraqi Feminist Yanar Mohammed On the Role Of Women in Occupied Iraq The founding member of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq joins us in our studio to discuss the women’s struggle in Iraq. |
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| Description | Headlines Iranian Earthquake Kills Up To 40,000 U.S. ‘Mad Cow’ Beef Recall Extends to Eight States Army Blocks Thousands of Soldiers From Retiring Karbula Bombing Kills 19 Report: British Spy Agency Helped Sell Iraq War Ex-UK Cabinet Minister Short Tells Blair to Resign More Headlines… Up to 40,000 Die in Devastating Iranian Earthquake We speak with a survivor who lived in Bam, we go to Tehran for a report from the Iranian capital and speak to two Iranian-Americans. Israel Soldiers Shoots Ex-Israeli Solider At Protest Against Separation Wall Shooting marks the first time an Israeli Jew has been targeted by the Israeli military since the intifada began. We talk to an Israeli refusnik and an American woman who was also shot by Israeli troops on Friday. U.S. Soldier Back From Iraq: I Will Not Die For Oil, It's Not Worth It Sgt. Aaron White talks to Democracy Now! shortly after he returned from Iraq. He is now stationed at Fort Benning in Georgia. |
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An Hour With Noam Chomsky on Iraq, War Profiteers & The Media | |
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| Description | An Hour With Noam Chomsky on Iraq, War Profiteers & The Media In a recent speech at Columbia University, Noam Chomsky strongly criticizes the Bush Administration’s war against Iraq. He speaks against the power investors have over world affairs, the media’s capitulation to them and much more. |
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A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz | |
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| Description | A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such hits as “Brother Can You Spare a Dime” and who put the music into the Wizard of Oz. Born into poverty on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Yip always included a strong social and political component to his work, fighting racism and poverty. A lifelong socialist, Yip was blacklisted and hounded throughout much of his life. Taking us on today’s trip through the music and politics of Yip is his son, Ernie Harburg. First, we’re going to go through Yip’s early life, his collaboration with the Gershwin’s, through “Brother Can You Spare A Dime.” Then we’regoing to take an in-depth look at the Wizard of Oz. And finally, we’ll hear a medley of Yip Harburg’s Broadway songs and the politics of the times in which they were created. |
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| Description | Headlines Mad Cow Suspected in Washington State Malvo Sentence: Life in Prison Bush Least “Pardon Friendly” President White House Faulted On Uranium Claim Iraq: Truck bomb kills four Al Jazeera: Saudi Will Not Forgive Iraqi Debt With IGC More Headlines… Mad Cow in Washington: First Case of Dreaded Disease Detected in U.S. Mad cow disease was detected in the United States for the first time ever when a cow slaughtered in Washington state earlier this month tested positive for BSE. We speak with John Stauber author of Mad Cow USA and Howard Lyman a former cattle rancher-turned-vegetarian and food safety activist. Declassified Documents: Bechtel Planned to Evade Iraq "Genocide" Sanctions in 1988 Newly declassified documents reveal how construction firm Bechtel planned to evade economic sanctions imposed by Washington after Saddam Hussein used poison gas on Iraq’s Kurdish minority and additional documents show that Donald Rumsfeld went to Baghdad for a second visit in March 1984 deliver a private message about WMDs. DC Sniper Lee Boyd Malvo Sentenced to Life in Prison A jury yesterday rejected the death penalty for sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, sentencing him instead to life in prison without parole for a spree of random attacks that killed 10 people in the Washington D.C. area last year. We hear from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. First Amendment Pardon: Comedian Lenny Bruce Pardoned 40 Years After Obscenity Conviction Comedian Lenny Bruce, who died in 1966 of a drug overdose, was convicted on an obscenity charge after a performance in New York two years earlier. We speak with First Amendment expert David Skover, author of The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon. Do Americans Shop Too Much? A Christmas Eve Look At Consumerism in the U.S. As American consumerism reaches its climax on Christmas Eve we speak with sociology professor Juliet Schor author of The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need and Do Americans Shop Too Much? |
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| Description | Headlines Nader Might Still Run, But Not As A Green Israeli Raid in Rafah Kills Six Palestinians Egyptian Foreign Minister Assaulted in Jerusalem 2 U.S. Soldiers Die in Baghdad Attack With Eye on Oil Contracts, Russia To Waive Iraq Debts Gen. Zinni: Bush & Neocons Conned U.S. Into War More Headlines… Who Really Caught Saddam? Reporter Yvonne Ridley Says Kurdish Forces Captured Saddam and Handed Him To U.S. Forces We speak with journalist Yvonne Ridley who reported in last weekend’s Sunday Express that Saddam Hussein was actually captured by Kurdish forces who then drugged him and abandoned him for U.S. troops to find after brokering a deal. In 2001, Ridley was imprisoned for 10 days by the Taliban while on assignment in Afghanistan. Retired Air Force Col. Reveals How The U.S. Orchestrated A Media and PSYOPS Campaign Following Saddam's Capture Retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner discusses how the Bush administration used the press to conduct psychological operations aimed at Iraqi resistance fighters in the days following Saddam Hussein’s capture. "Guilty of Being Palestinian" - Imprisoned Student Describes Harsh Treatment By U.S. Forces In Iraq We speak with Fadi Elayyan, a Palestinian student attending university in Baghdad when U.S. forces arrested him and five of his friends in April. He was imprisoned for two months without charge before being released. |
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| Description | Headlines Libya To Dismantle WMD Program Arab Nations Pressure Israel To Get Rid of Nukes Report: Kurds, Not U.S., Caught Saddam U.S. Detains 200 Iraqis Over Weekend Sabotage Causes Major Iraqi Fuel Shortage U.S. Shoot Dead 3 Police Officers In Kirkuk More Headlines… Is The Libya Agreement To Abandon Arms Programs For Security Or For Oil? On the 15th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 that killed 270 people, Libya agrees to give up its arms program and reestablish diplomatic ties. We speak with the mother of one of the victims as well as a biographer of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Iran Signs Protocol on Surprise Inspections; Israel Threatens Iran's Nuclear Sites As Iran agrees to allow UN inspectors into the country to examine suspected nuclear sites, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has begun publicly discussing a possible Israeli attack on Iran to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability. And two weeks ago, evidence emerged indicating Pakistan might have given Iran and North Korea technology to enrich uranium. Leaning To The Right? A Look At Canada's New Prime Minister Former Canadian finance minister Paul Martin was sworn in as prime minister this month replacing Jean Chretien who has headed up the Liberal Party for the last 10 years. We go to Ottawa to speak with Tony Clark of the Polaris Institute. Gay Couples Seek Marriage Rights In New Jersey Lawsuit A notice of appeal is being filed today before an appellate court in New Jersey that seeks the same rights and responsibilities for gay couples that go along with government-sanctioned heterosexual marriage. We speak with a gay couple who are among seven plaintiffs in the suit. |
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| Description | Headlines Courts Reject Bush Post-9/11 Measures U.S. Threatens to Shoot Iraqi Protesters Dead Bremer Survives Assassination Bid Pentagon: Halliburton Withholding Iraq Docs Details Emerge About Rumsfeld 1984 Visit to Baghdad Sharon Proposes “Unilateral Separation” From Palestinians More Headlines… Bush vs Civil Liberties Pt. 1: Court Rules Bush Cannot Hold Padilla As "Enemy Combatant" A New York federal appeals court ruled the government cannot detain U.S. citizen Jose Padilla indefinitely without pressing charges against him or allowing him access to the courts. We host a debate with Washington Legal Foundation’s Richard Samp and Barbara Olshansky of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Bush vs Civil Liberties Pt. 2: Court Backs Rights of Guantanamo Prisoners A San Francisco Federal Appeals court ruled the government’s treatment of some 660 foreign detainees at Guantanamo Bay was unconstitutional and a violation of international law. We host a debate and speak with lawyer Stephen Kenny who recently visited Australian prisoner David Hicks in Guantanamo. Bush vs Civil Liberties Pt. 3: Justice Department Report Details Abuse of 9/11 Detainees The Inspector General’s office of the Justice Department released a detailed report describing rampant abuse of 9/11 detainees inside a government-run detention center in Brooklyn. Resisting Occupation: From Northern Ireland to Iraq Veteran journalist Ed Moloney, who has been reporting on Northern Ireland for two decades, draws numerous parallels between the situation in Iraq and Northern Ireland. |
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| Description | Headlines 9/11 Chair: Attacks Were Preventable Iraqi Leader: Hussein Will Be Tried in Iraq Chief WMD Hunter in Iraq, David Kay, to Quit White House Rewrites History By Scrubbing Website U.S. Set to Launch Arab Satellite TV Channel Rendon Group Bids To Run Iraq TV & Network More Headlines… The Lie Factory - How the Neocons & the Office of Special Plans Pushed Disinformation and Bogus Intelligence on Iraq We speak with investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss and retired Pentagon official Karen Kwiatkowski about a secret Pentagon intelligence unit created weeks after 9/11 to push disinformation and faulty intelligence to create the case for war in Iraq. Wrongfully Convicted Pt. 1: NYC Agrees to Pay $5M For Jailing Innocent Man For 7 Years We speak with a man who won five million dollars in the largest wrongful conviction settlement in New York state history after spending over seven years in jail for a crime he did not commit. Albert Ramos joins us in our studio along with his lawyer who uncovered dozens of cases of prosecutorial misconduct in the course of his investigation. Wrongfully Convicted Pt. 2: Aaron Patterson On His First Year After Being Released From Death Row in Illinois We bring you the second part of our conversation with Aaron Patterson, who spent 17 years on death row for a crime he did not commit and is now running for Illinois State House. |
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| Description | Headlines Bush Says Saddam Should Face “Ultimate Penalty”; Vatican Cardinal Says Saddam Handled “Like a Cow” Washington Post: U.S. Considers Expanding FBI Database U.S. To Become More Dependent on Foreign Supplies Ashcroft Fined For Campaign Finance Violations Morning-After Pill To Be Sold Over The Counter Bush Backs Amendment To Bar Gay Marriage More Headlines… "His Mistreatment is Pretty Much What The Roman Emperors Used To Do To Defeated Barbarian Kings" - Francis Boyle Discusses Saddam's Capture Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announces the CIA is now heading up the interrogation of Hussein and that he is not being legally accorded prisoner of war status. We speak with professor of international law Francis Boyle. Baker Wins Iraq Debt Relief From France & Germany As U.S. Remains Noncommittal As Presidential envoy James Baker wins agreements from Germany and France to forgive billions of dollars in debt to Iraq, we take a look at the former secretary of state’s talks in Germany, his 1991 meeting with then-Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz and how continued sanctions could have led to Iraq’s withdrawal from Kuwait. [includes transcript] Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq We hear a Democracy Now! interview from last year with global economics correspondent Alan Friedman about how the United States helped illegally arm Iraq in the 1980s in a scandal involving George Bush Sr., James Baker, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Mueller and others. "I Plan On Starting A Revolution In The Illinois Legislature"- Former Death Row Inmate Seeks Office We are joined in our studios by Aaron Patterson, who spent 17 years on death row for a crime he did not commit and is now running for Illinois State House. He is one of four men pardoned this past January as part of then-Gov. George Ryan’s clearing of death row in his final days in office. |
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| Description | Headlines Musharraf Escapes Assassination Attempt Bush Signs Syria Sanctions Bill Bush on Halliburton: “We Expect That Money Be Repaid" Iraqi Americans Rejoice Capture of Hussein But Speak Out Against Occupation We hear reactions from two Iraqi-Americans living in the U.S. on the capture of Saddam Hussein and we go to Baghdad to hear a report from CorpWatch’s Pratap Chatterjee. Robert Fisk Reports From Near Tikrit After Visiting the Hole Where Hussein Was Found Robert Fisk, chief Middle East correspondent for the London Independent reports from the site where Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces in the village of Dawr near Tikrit. Dilip Hiro Predicts Resistance Against U.S. Occupation Will Now Increase Longtime journalist and author of 25 books, Dilip Hiro, joins us from London to discuss his thoughts on the effect Saddam Hussein’s capture will have on the mounting Iraqi resistance movement. Should the Former Iraqi Dictator Be Tried Before An Iraqi or an International Court? Democracy Now! hosts a debate with the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials Benjamin Ferencz, Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights as well a two Iraqi Americans living in the U.S. on how Saddam Hussein should be tried. |
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| Description | Headlines Pentagon: Halliburton Overcharges U.S. $61M Bush Defends Icing Out Anti-War Nations From Contracts Report: Hundreds of Civilian Deaths In Iraq Were Preventable Iraq Suicide Bomber Infiltrates U.S. Base, Kills 1 U.S. Predicts More Assassinations In Iraq Chief U.S. Compound in Baghdad Shelled More Headlines… Halliburton and Private Military Contractors Strike it Rich in Iraq A Pentagon audit finds that Halliburton overcharged the U.S. government by as much as $61 million for gasoline delivered to Iraq. We go to Basra to speak with CorpWatch’s Pratap Chatterjee about Iraqi reconstruction and the more than 10,000 private military contractors on the ground in Iraq. Kucinich & Braun Blast ABC For Reducing Campaign Coverage ABC News announced it will stop having producers travel full time with the presidential campaigns of Carol Moseley Braun, Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton a day after ABC News’ Ted Koppel hosted the democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire. The network says it’s a routine coverage decision, but the move has angered Braun and Kucinich—particularly after the Ohio congressman had a testy exchange with Koppel during Tuesday’s debate. Kucinich criticized Koppel for beginning with a question about Al Gore’s endorsement of Howard Dean. Later, he was angered when Koppel asked whether he, Braun or Sharpton are “in this as sort of a vanity candidacy.” We speak with Kucinich and Moseley-Braun and we hear from ABC News. Singer-Songwriter Michelle Shocked Performs Live in Our Firehouse Studios Singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked joins us in our firehouse studios to play three musical interludes. |
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| Description | Headlines Transcript: Kissinger OK’d Argentina Dirty War At Least 36 Killed in Train Blast Near Chechnya Richard Perle’s Ties To Boeing Revealed Bush Critic Max Cleland To Leave 9/11 Panel Private Contractors Unveil New Ammunition in Iraq Paper: 1,700 U.S. Soldiers Have Deserted in Iraq More Headlines… The Geneva Peace Accords: A Debate Between Rabbi Michael Lerner, AIPAC and Palestinian professor Naseer Aruri Despite protests from Israeli Prime Minister Gen. Ariel Sharon, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfwitz are expected to meet today with the architects of a new proposal for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. We hold a three-way debate on the proposal. Despite Increased Post-9/11 Need, Military Fires 37 Arabic Translators For Being Gay The military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy has led the Pentagon to fire 37 Arabic translators at a time when the military needed them more than ever. We talk to Nathaniel Frank, senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [Includes transcript] New Study Faults Electronic Voting Machines in Ohio John Hopkins University electronic voting expert discuss how faulty electronic voting machines could jeopardize the accuracy of future elections. U.S. Uncovers Weapons of Mass Destruction... In Texas A Texan man with ties to white supremacists has pleaded guilty to possessing chemical weapons in one of the most serious cases of domestic terrorism since Oklahoma City. But the media has all but ignored the story. We examine why. |
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| Description | Headlines Rwandan Journalists Sentenced For Role in Genocide U.S. Rejects Iraqi Plan to Conduct Census U.S. To Create Iraqi Paramilitary Force Poll: 70% of U.S. Says Iraq War Did Not Reduce Terror Threat Coroner: Cincinnati Man’s Death Caused by Police Beating Palestinians Groups in Egypt For Truce Talks More Headlines… As Sentencing in the Lackawanna 6 Case Begins, A U.S. Court Rejects Law That Criminalizes Unknowingly Supporting a Terrorist Organization The federal law that criminalizes providing “material support” to terrorist organizations was in the spotlight yesterday. In Buffalo, sentencing began for six Yemeni-American men, known as the “Lackawanna Six,” who traveled to Afghanistan before 9/11 and attended an Al Qaeda training camp. In San Francisco, a federal court ruled parts of the law unconstitutional. We talk to attorney David Cole. Tariq Ali vs. Christopher Hitchens on the Occupation of Iraq: Postponed Liberation or Recolonisation? It has been 8 months since the U.S. began its invasion of Iraq. In this time, U.S. forces have failed to produce any weapons of mass destruction in the country˜the stated reason for going to war against Baghdad. According to the Pentagon’s own figures, some 440 U.S. troops have died in Iraq. Thousands have been wounded. There are no solid estimates of the number of Iraqis who have been killed since the start of the invasion. November was the bloodiest month for U.S. forces in Iraq 79 soldiers died, 39 of them were killed in the downing of 4 military helicopters. Saddam Hussein remains at-large and the occupation forces face regular attacks throughout the country. Today, we take a look at the U.S. occupation of Iraq with two renowned authors: Tariq Ali, author of Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq and Christopher Hitchens, jounalist and author of A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq. |
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Did the U.S Lie About What Happened in Samarra? | |
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| Description | Did the U.S Lie About What Happened in Samarra? U.S. officials said that up to 54 Iraqi guerillas were killed in a battle and 16 wounded Sunday in the northern Iraqi town of Samarra, but Iraqis say the local hospital received the bodies of only eight dead civilians as well as 60 others wounded. We go to Iraq to speak with Newsday’s Mohamad Bazzi. "We Have More Than One Guantanamo In Iraq" – British Anti-War Lawyer Representing Tariq Aziz Arrested After Charging Blair With War Crimes We go to Britain to speak with Abdul Haq Al-Ani who was released on bond after being arrested for allegedly helping break sanctions against Iraq. He is representing former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and is separatedly charging Prime Minister Tony Blair and members of the cabinet with war crimes. 75 U.S. Soldiers Shout "Kill! Kill! Kill!" Outside Anti-War Priest's House We speak with Father John Dear, author of more than 20 books on peace and justice and outspoken critic of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq about why 75 U.S. soldiers shouted “Kill! Kill! Kill!” outside his front door. Irish Peace Accord In Jeopardy With Elevation of Hard-Line Unionist Ian Paisley Veteran journalist and Ian Paisley biographer Ed Moloney joins us in our studio to talk about the Democratic Unionist Party winning the most seats in the power-sharing assembly in Belfast and its implications on the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement. |
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Democracy Now! television program for Tuesday, December 2, 2003 | |
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| Description | Democracy Now! television program for Tuesday, December 2, 2003 Headlines Israelis & Palestinians Launch Unofficial Peace Plan Iraq Council Members Against Direct Election U.S. Ends Immigrant Registration Program Chavez Opponents Collect Signatures For Recall Cincinnati Police Beat to Death African-American Man Colorado Court Rules Redistricting By GOP Illegal More Headlines… A Debate on One of the Most Frequently Cited Justifications for the 1991 Persian Gulf War: Did PR Firm Hill & Knowlton Invent the Story of Iraqi Soldiers Pulling Kuwaiti Babies From Incubators? We spend the hour with Lauri Fitz-Pegado, the woman who ran the PR campaign for Hill and Knowlton, and John Stauber, co-author of “Weapons Of Mass Deception.” On December 19, 1990, Amnesty International published an 84-page report on human rights violations in occupied Kuwait. The report stated that, “300 premature babies were reported to have died after Iraqi soldiers removed them from incubators, which were then looted.” This allegation, which was widely reported by the global media, became one of the most often cited justifications for the 1991 Gulf War. On January 9 1991, President George HW Bush cited Amnesty’s report in a letter sent to campus newspapers across the country. In the Senate, six senators specifically cited the story in their speeches supporting the resolution to give Bush authorization to use American forces in Kuwait. That vote ultimately passed by a mere half-dozen votes. But the most dramatic moment in this story came on October 10, 1990, when a 15 year old Kuwaiti girl, identified simply as Nayirah testified in front of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus that she had personally witnessed 15 infants taken from incubators by Iraqi forces who she said, “left the babies on the coal floor to die.” California Democrat Tom Lantos explained that her identity would be kept secret to protect her family. What was not said at the time is that Nayirah was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, Saud Nasir al-Sabah. By March of 1991, Amnesty International took the unprecedented move of retracting its report, saying it had become clear that the allegations were baseless. |
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| Description | Headlines U.S. Kills 54 Iraqis In Bloodiest Battle Since April November: Deadliest Month For Coalition Forces So Far N. Irish Peace Accord In Jeopardy With Elevation of Ian Paisley Report: U.S. To Release 140 From Guantanamo Patriot Act Author Concerned Over Jose Padilla Detention Annan: Israel Wall Threatens Peace More Headlines… World AIDS Day: Mandela Calls For More Help to Fight Disease; UN Plan to Provide AIDS Drugs to 3 Million On World AIDS Day we hear a speech by former South African President Nelson Mandela speaking at an event in Cape Town, South Africa this weekend. U.S. Kills 54 Iraqis in Occupation's Bloodiest Weekend; Non-U.S. Coalition Forces Suffer 14 Deaths We go to Spain as the bodies of seven Spanish intelligence agents killed in Iraq return home and we take a look at the reaction in Japan after two Japanese diplomats are killed. "The White House Press Corps Has Turned Into a Full Time Press Agency For The President" – Harpers' Rick MacArthur on Bush's Secretive Thanksgiving Trip to Iraq We speak with Harpers magazine publisher Rick MacArthur about what is being described as one of the most secretive presidential trips in American history. The Strange Case of James Yousef Yee: From Army Muslim Chaplain to Suspected Spy to A Free Man Facing Porn Charges. Is Yee the New Wen Ho Lee? Army Captain James Yousef Yee was released last week from a military jail where he had been held for 76 days, mostly in solitary confinement. Although he was treated as a top spy suspect, the military has now charged with a handful of minor infractions including downloading porn and adultery. Critics say Yee has been the victim of hysteria similar to that of Wen Ho Lee, the Chinese American nuclear scientist who was once accused of spying for the Chinese. |
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Activist Kathy Kelly 'Hogtied" & Abused By Army At SOA Protests | |
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| Description | Activist Kathy Kelly 'Hogtied" & Abused By Army At SOA Protests Voices in the Wilderness founder Kathy Kelly is ‘hogtied’ and abused by the Army after she was arrested for committing peaceful civil disobedience outside Ft. Benning in Gergia where 10,000 protesters had gathered to demand the closure of a U.S. training camp known by critics as the School of the Assassins. Journalist Bill Moyers: "Our Democracy Is In Danger of Being Paralyzed" Journalist Bill Moyers recently gave the keynote address before 2,000 people at the first ever National Conference on Media Reform. He warned, “What we’re talking about is nothing less than rescuing a democracy that is so polarized it is in danger of being paralyzed and pulverized. Alarming words, I know. But the realities we face should trigger alarms. Free and responsible government by popular consent just can’t exist without an informed public.” |
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An Hour With Vandana Shiva, Indian Scientist and Leading Critic of Corporate Globalization | |
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| Description | An Hour With Vandana Shiva, Indian Scientist and Leading Critic of Corporate Globalization From Bolivia to Cancun to Miami, this fall has seen major protests against corporate globalization across the hemisphere. Today we spend the hour listening to the words of Vandana Shiva |
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| Description | Headlines AFL-CIO & ACLU Announced Plans to Sue Miami Over Protests Senate Approves Medicare Bill Garner Admits Major Mistakes Made in Iraq White House Rescinds $300M Loan to Israel HIV Kills Record 3 Million This Year Pinochet Claims He Is An Angel The Radical Mind of Dick Cheney: An In-Depth Look at the Vice President We take an in-depth look at the historical role Vice President Dick Cheney has played in U.S. foreign policy, his treatment of the intelligence community and his hawkish influence on President George W. Bush. We speak with The New Republic’s Spencer Ackerman who co-wrote this week’s cover story on Cheney. Bush Lifts Ban on Mini Nukes President Bush signed a $401 billion defense appropriations bill that includes funding for for continued research into new H-bombs, including low-yield, “mini-nukes.” We speak with the Los Alamos Study Group’s Greg Mello. Unions Call For Timoney to Be Fired & Congressional Investigation After Bloody Miami FTAA Protests The mostly peaceful protests against the FTAA ministerial meeting in Miami were marred by scores of reports of police brutality. Over 200 people were arrested and jailed. We speak with a United Steelworkers of America spokesman and a 71-year old retired airline pilot who attended the protests, as well as Global Exchange’s Medea Benjamin. "There's an Incredible Mismatch Between Military Doctrine And The Situation That Actually Exists There Right Now" – A Conversation With Two Fathers of Soldiers Deployed in Iraq We speak with Vietnam veteran Sean Dougherty who is traveling to Iraq this week on a delegation organized by Global Exchange and Stan Goff who retired from the Army Special Forces seven years ago. Both of them have children serving in Iraq. |
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| Description | Headlines Passage of Medicare Overhaul Near in Senate Congress Caves In To White House On FCC Rules Iraqi Council Shuts Down Arab TV Network Pentagon Retracts GI Torture Story W.Post Ombudsman Blasts Paper’s Jessica Lynch Coverage Bush Makes Rare Visit With Families of Dead Troops More Headlines… Privatizing Medicare? A Debate on the Controversial Medicare Drug Bill The Senate overcame two blocks to a massive Medicare overhaul to provide prescription drug coverage to seniors which introduces competition with private healthcare plans. We host a debate with the Mass. Senior Action Council and the AARP and we take a look at who will receive tax benefits from the bill. TV Ownership Cap Raised After Congress Backs Down Congress backed down on its strong opposition to the new media ownership regulations of the FCC by agreeing to a compromise with the White House, raising the TV ownership cap from 35 to 39 percent. We speak with the Consumers Union Gene Kimmelman. Bush Backers to Reap Energy, Medicare Bill Tax Benefits The Senate abandoned attempts to vote this year on a massive energy bill after Republican leaders refused to drop lawsuit protection for oil companies. We take a look at the energy bill’s environmental implications with the National Environmental Trust and speak with Public Citizen’s Congress Watch on who would receive tax benefits from the bill. Will Anti Spam Bill Erode First Amendment Rights? The response to legislation aiming to limit the sending of unsolicited email has been mixed. While some praise the bill, critics charge it may actually encourage more spam while others say it could change the future of all email, not just spam. We speak the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Alexander Cockburn Speaks Out On Rupert Murdoch the Israel-Palestine Conflict and the Politics of Anti-Semitism Counterpunch editor and Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn joins us in our firehouse studios to talk about the media and his new book The Politics of Anti-Semitism |
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| Description | Headlines U.S. Resumes Bombing Raids in Iraq U.S. Considers Replacing Iraqi Governing Council Red Cross to Pull Out of Iraq 17 Die in Saudi Bombing; Al Qaeda Blamed Dean Opts Out of Public Financing & Gains Union Support Kerry Fires Campaign Manager More Headlines… Iraq is Not America's to Sell – Author and Journalist Naomi Klein on America's Corporate Control of Iraq “It’s too late to stop the war, but it’s not too late to deny Iraq’s invaders the myriad economic prizes they went to war to collect in the first place”–We speak with renowned author and journalist Naomi Klein. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right Author Al Franken spoke to a packed house this weekend at the National Conference on Media Reform about the Bush administration, the Fox News lawsuit and why Bill O’Reilly is “a pathological liar.” Ex-Guantanamo Pakistani Man Sues U.S. And Pakistan Governments In the first case of its kind, a Pakistani cleric who spent a year detained at Guantanamo Bay is suing the U.S. and Pakistani governments for his “illegal detention, torture and humiliation.” We go to Islamabad to speak with his lawyer. Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate in New Hampshire on Iraq, Domestic Policy Issues and Gore's Endorsement of Dean The final democratic presidential debate of the year drew all nine candidates in New Hampshire last night where the first primary takes place on Jan. 27, 2004. The debate got underway just hours after former vice president Al Gore announced his endorsement of former Vermont governor Howard Dean for president in a move that surprised many campaign observers. Gore, who ran for president in 2000 and won the popular vote, made his announcement in Harlem alongside Dean who is already seen as the frontrunner in the campaign. For Dean, the endorsement gives him the backing of one of the best-known establishment Democrats. The debate, broadcast live on C-SPAN, turned immediately to Gore’s move. Noting that Dean had had an “extraordinary day,” moderator Ted Koppel of ABC News asked the nine candidates to raise a hand if they thought Dean could beat President Bush. Dean was the only one to raise his hand. Koppel began the debate by asking the other eight candidates why they did not raise their hands and went on to discuss U.S. policy in Iraq as well as domestic policy issues. We hear extended excerpts of the debate and speak with former Green Party California gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo and journalist John Nichols of The Nation. |
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| Public Date | 2008-03-07 21:45:32 |
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Canadian Man Deported by U.S. Details Torture in Syria | |
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| Description | Canadian Man Deported by U.S. Details Torture in Syria Canadian citizen Maher Arar said he was repeatedly beaten and tortured and kept in a cell three feet wide after the U.S. secretly deported him to Syria. Anonymous officials told the Washington Post that the U.S. knowingly sends suspects abroad to be tortured. We go to Canada to speak with Maher Arar. "The Violations of Human Rights by the Israeli Army is Unprecedented" - Mustafa Barghouti Discusses the Occupation of Palestine As a UN committee monitoring human rights abuses of Palestinians concludes that the situation in the Occupied Territories was the worst ever last year we speak with renowned Palestinian Mustafa Barghouti of the Palestinian National Initiative. "Bush is a Dangerous Nincompoop" - Actor/Musician Jack Black on the War on Terror, the Democrats and the Rockefeller Drug Laws In a Democracy Now! exclusive, rising movie star and Tenacious D bandmember Jack Black speaks about Hollywood politics and his new documentary, “60 Spins Around the Sun,” about comedian/activist Randy Credico. |
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| Description | Headlines Reports: CIA Rebuffed Iraq Efforts To Stop Invasion EPA Drops Investigations of Polluting Power Plants EPA Plans to Rewrite Clean Water Act Bush Signs Law Banning Late Term Abortions U.S. Plans to Send Marines Back to Iraq Prosecutors Drop Death Penalty For Serial Killer More Headlines… As Occupation Worsens, White House Tries to Blame CIA For Rejecting Iraqi Offer on Eve of War New reports say the U.S. rejected an offer from Iraqi representatives to stop the invasion of Iraq by giving the U.S. rights to Iraqi oil, to hold elections in Iraq, to allow for an intensive search for WMDs and to hand over an Iraqi man who was connected to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Why is Amnesty Not Screening a New Documentary About the Failed 2002 Coup in Venezuela? We play excerpts of a controversial new documentary about the unsuccessful 2002 coup in Venezuela and host a debate on why a planned screening of the film was canceled by the organizers of the Amnesty International Film Festival in Vancouver. Censorship at CBS? – A Look at Why "The Reagans" Was Cancelled CBS cancelled plans to run a two-part miniseries about the presidency of Ronald Reagan after the Republican National Committee complained the docudrama was too critical and inaccurate. We speak with Steve Rendall of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. |
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| Description | Headlines GOP Wins Governor Races in Kentucky & Mississippi Pentagon Recruits Volunteers To Fill Draft Boards More U.S. Troops Needed in Iraq As Turkey Balks U.S. HQ in Baghdad Comes Under Mortar Attack Mother of Deceased Soldier: Why Are We Still In Iraq? Canadian Man Says Syrians Tortured Him After U.S. Detained Him More Headlines… Live From Baghdad An Ordinary Iraqi Speaks Out: "The U.S. Has No Intention of Leaving Iraq" As the Baghdad headquarters of U.S. occupation forces comes under fire, we turn to a voice rarely heard in the U.S. media—that of an ordinary Iraqi. We go to Baghdad to hear from retired engineer Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar. "I Find That A Travesty" - Joseph Wilson On Reports the White House May Invoke Executive Privilege In the Investigation of the Outting of His Wife As a CIA Operative Joseph Wilson, the former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, joins us in our firehouse studios to discuss the ongoing investigation as to who outted his wife as a CIA operative days after he blew the whistle on the White House’s key case that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear program. Scientific McCarthyism: Is The Bush Administration Compiling a Hit List of AIDS Scientists? A list of over 150 scientists–which may have originated in the Department of Health–researching a wide range of topics related to health and sexuality, including HIV/AIDS, has been given to federal officials and is being used in attempts to discredit the researchers and challenge or revoke their federal grants. |
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Democracy Now! television program for Tuesday, November 4, 2003 | |
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| Description | Democracy Now! television program for Tuesday, November 4, 2003 Headlines Senate OKs $87B Iraq Reconstruction Package Three More U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq U.S. To Give Israel $2.2B in Military Aid Mutual Fund Scandals Rock Investment World Indonesia Extends Martial Law in Aceh Saudi Arrest Six After Mecca Shootout More Headlines… Radio For Peace International Under Siege in Costa Rica The only shortwave radio station dedicated to peace and social justice in the Western Hemisphere is under siege by the UN mandated University For Peace where it is housed. In July, the university served an eviction notice to the radio station staff, who refused to leave. We go to Costa Rica to speak with the station’s CEO from inside the locked studios. Hope Dies Last - An Hour with Legendary Broadcaster and Author Studs Terkel Studs Terkel, 91, has worked as an activist, a civil servant, a labor organizer, an ad writer, a television actor, and a radio DJ, among many other occupations. But since the 1960s, he’s been particularly well-known as a world-class interviewer, a writer and radio personality who draws celebrities and, far more often, average citizens into sharing their oral histories. For 45 years, Studs Terkel spent an hour each weekday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conversing with famous and not-so-famous guests and with a loyal audience of Chicago listeners. With his unique style of oral history on subjects such as race, war and employment, Terkel has spent decades interviewing Americans across the country, creating intimate portraits of everyday life and chronicling changing times through this century. Hope Dies Last is the latest in the series of American oral histories he’s been publishing since his first book, Division Street: America appeared in 1967. In the thirty-six years between then and now, he’s covered, in separate books, the Great Depression, World War II, race relations, working, the American Dream, and aging. Hope Dies Last features interviews with presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, Voices in the Wilderness founder Kathy Kelly, Tom Hayden and many others. |
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| Description | Headlines Missile Attack in Baghdad Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose Bush Iraq Policy U.S. Considers Recalling Units of Old Iraq Army Trent Lott on Iraq: “Just Mow the Whole Place Down” Episcopal Church Consecrates First Gay Bishop Inuit Sue to Close U.S. Air Base in Greenland More Headlines… 16 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Missile Attack in Iraq In the deadliest attack on U.S. troops since the start of the invasion, Iraqi resistance fighters downed a helicopter Sunday killing 16 U.S soldiers and injuring 20. We go to Baghdad to speak with Christian Science Monitor’s Dan Murphy. [Includes transcript] Pacifica Correspondent Jerry Quickley on Iraqi Resistance and Life Under Occupation in Baghdad “It’s clear how difficult it is to be an Iraqi and survive in Baghdad now”–KPFK/Pacifica Radio producer Jerry Quickley joins us in our firehouse studio to talk about his experience on Iraq. As Rumsfeld Calls For Action Against "Schools That Teach Terrorism" We Take A Look At the School of the Americas, What Many Critics Call the "School of Assassins Thousands of people will descend on the School of the Americas (now renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) headquarters in Fort Benning, Georgia this month to protest the U.S. military program that trains Latin American soldiers in combat, counterinsurgency and counter-narcotics and whose graduates, critics say, are responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America. |
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| Description | Headlines Report: Justice Dept. Faces Internal Diversity Problem U.S. Soldiers May Face Prison For Showing “Cowardice” in Iraq Bush Campaign Backers Reap $8 Billion in Iraq Contracts U.S. Officials: Saddam Hussein May Be Behind Attacks Paul Wolfowitz Heckled At Washington Speech Poll: Israel and US Major Threats to World peace More Headlines… The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception “Lying has been one of the essential tools of [Bush’s] presidency”–We speak the Nation’s David Corn about his new book The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception on how the president lied about the invasion of Iraq, tax cuts, the environment and September 11th. Generous New Tax Break For Bechtel and Halliburton? A new tax break being considered by a House committee could generously benefit two of the biggest recipients of government contracts for Iraqi reconstruction: Bechtel and Halliburton. Bechtel hired a former IRS commissioner to lobby on its behalf and won GOP support for the tax break. Democracy Now! Exclusive: EPA Scientist Resigns in Protest Over Agency's Acceptance of Developer-Financed Wetlands Study We speak with former Environmental Protection Agency biologist Bruce Boler who resigned to protest the agency’s acceptance of a developer-financed study that concluded wetlands give off more pollutants than they absorb. |
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| Description | Headlines Red Cross And U.N. Reduce Staff in Iraq U.S. Combat Death Toll Now Higher During Occupation Than Invasion Congress to CIA: Handover Iraq Intelligence Docs By Friday U.S. Extends Halliburton Contract in Iraq Congress Considers Major New Corporate Tax Breaks California Wildfire Death Toll Tops 20; 2,600 Homes Destroyed More Headlines… Can Democracy in America Survive Electronic Voting? Electronic voting may place the integrity of elections in the unchallenged, unscrutinized control of a few large–and pro-Republican—corporations while software concerns raise questions about the reliability and security of electronic voting. ISP Defies Electronic Voting Machine Maker's Copyright Claims Electronic voting company Diebold sent out dozens of notices to ISPs linking to or publishing copies of controversial internal Diebold memos demanding they remove the information from their websites. One ISP, Online Policy Group, rejected the takedown demand. Iraqis Denied Worker Rights Under U.S. Occupation Labor journalist David Bacon exposes how the Bush administration is systematically busting unions in Iraq to facilitate privatization and how none of the $87 billion appropriated by Congress for reconstruction will go to Iraqi workers or the unemployed. The War Business: Squeezing a Profit from the Wreckage in Iraq We speak with leading scholar and author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire Chalmers Johnson about reconstruction in Iraq and profiting from empire. |
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| Description | Headlines Car Bombing in Falluja Kills Six Bush Finds Bright Side in the Baghad Bombings Poll: Only 33% of Iraqis Support U.S. Occupation Bush Refuses to Promise To Hand Over 9/11 Docs California Fires Kill 17; Destroy 1,500 Homes Palestinians Ordered to Obtain Permits to Live in Homes More Headlines… The Trials of Henry Kissinger – 30 Years After Being Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize We Take A Look Kissinger's Role in the Bombing of Cambodia and the Genocide in East Timor Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger turned 80 years old earlier this year. Although his birthday was on May 27th, he celebrated this past Sunday at the posh Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. Kissinger spoke at a black-tie birthday party in his honor where drinks were followed by dinner and dancing. Tickets sold for $1,500. Kissinger served as secretary of state under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He has been heavily criticized for his involvement with the overthrow of the democratically elected leader of Chile, President Salvador Allende; for the secret, illegal bombing of Cambodia in 1969; and the approval of U.S. military support for the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. A month after backing the bloody 1973 military coup in Chile, Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in Vietnam. We play excerpts from the documentary “The Trials of Henry Kissinger,” featuring Seymour Hersh, William Saffire, Roger Morris, former Kissinger aides Alexander Haig Jr. and Brent Scowcroft and others. |
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| Description | Headlines Up to 40 Killed, 200 Injured in Series of Baghdad Bombings Baghdad Hotel Housing Wolfowitz Comes Under Rocket Attack Turkish Plans to Send Troops to Iraq Stalled Halliburton Head Calls On Employees to Publicly Defend Company Israeli Forces Raze Gaza Buildings & Raid West Bank Hospitals 9/11 Investigator: Bush Not Releasing Docs Because of 2004 Election More Headlines… Up to 40 Killed, 200 Injured in Series of Baghdad Bombings Up to 40 people were killed in a series of near simultaneous bombings in Baghdad including a suicide car bombing outside the Red Cross and four Iraqi police stations. We go to Baghdad to hear from Pacifica Radio’s Jerry Quickley. The Loss of Liberty – Why Did the U.S. Allow Israel To Attack Its Largest Spyship Killing 34 Americans and Wounding Over 170 Others? The USS Liberty was an electronic intelligence-gathering ship that was cruising international waters off the Egyptian coast on June 8, 1967. Israeli planes and torpedo boats opened fire on the Liberty in the midst of what became known as the Israeli-Arab Six-Day War. 34 Americans were killed and more than 170 were wounded in the attack. Israel and its supporters have long maintained that the attack was a “tragic case of misidentification,” an explanation that Lyndon Johnson’s administration did not formally challenge. Israel claimed its forces thought the ship was an Egyptian vessel and apologized to the United States. After the attack, a Navy court of inquiry concluded there was insufficient information to make a judgment about why Israel attacked the ship, stopping short of assigning blame or determining whether it was an accident. On Wednesday, a former top Navy attorney publicly said for the first time that President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara ordered the U.S. military investigation to conclude that the Israeli attack was an accident. The attorney, retired Captain Ward Boston, said the White House ordered investigators to “conclude that the attack was a case of ‘mistaken identity’ despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.” |
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| Description | Headlines Leaked Rumsfeld Memo Questions Successes of War on Terror UN Faulted For Lack of Security at Baghdad HQ Army: 28 Soldiers on Leave Refuse to Return to Iraq Ex-Navy Attorney: U.S. Ordered USS Liberty Cover-Up Saudi Arabia To Try 83 Protesters Report: EPA Rules Changes Will Lead to More Pollution More Headlines… "Mr. Wolfowitz, Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rumsfeld, You Hate Our Troops and You've Sent Them Off To Die So Your Friends Can Get Rich" – An Hour With Michael Moore Democracy Now! spends the hour hearing the words of Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, television producer and author Michael Moore speaking at part of his current nation-wide tour promoting his latest book Dude, Where’s My Country? |
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| Description | Headlines UN Condemns Israeli Wall in the West Bank Senate OKs Abortion Ban Iran Agrees To Curb Nuclear Activities Report: U.S. Set To Arrest Leading Shia Cleric In Iraq Pentagon Probes General Over Islam Remarks Report: One in Six U.S. Prisoners Suffer From Mental Illness More Headlines… Noam Chomsky on Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest For Global Dominance “If you repeat it loudly enough it will become the truth”–MIT Institute Professor of Linguistics and author Noam Chomsky speaks out on U.S. hegemony, controlling the domestic population through fear and the historical parallels of current U.S. foreign policy. |
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| Description | Headlines Up to 14 Palestinians Die During Israeli Raids in Gaza "This Administration Is A Smash And Grab Robbery Writ Large" – Author and Political Analyst William Rivers Pitt Speaks Out On The Bush Administration and Iraq We spend the hour hearing a speech by acclaimed young author, political analyst and managing editor of truthout.org William Rivers Pitt. He is the author of War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You To Know and The Greatest Sedition Is Silence: Four Years in America. |
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Bolivian President Steps Down and Flees to U.S. Amid Mass Protests; VP Takes Over | |
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| Description | Bolivian President Steps Down and Flees to U.S. Amid Mass Protests; VP Takes Over Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada resigned late Friday after tens of thousands took to the streets to protest the government’s plan to export natural gas to the U.S. and called for his resignation. As many as 80 people were killed in the protests. We go to La Paz and Cochabamba to hear the latest updates. On Dignity and Solidarity: Scholar, Activist, Palestinian, Edward Said Speaks Out in One of His Last Major Addresses We spend the hour hearing a speech by the late Palestinian scholar, activist and intellectual, professor Edward Said. He died three weeks ago at the age of 67 after a decade-long battle with leukemia. Speaking of the Palestinian struggle, he says, “It is a just cause, a noble ideal, a moral quest for equality and human rights.” |
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Sen. Kennedy Says He Will Oppose Iraq Funding | |
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| Description | Sen. Kennedy Says He Will Oppose Iraq Funding Sen. Ted Kennedy spoke on the floor of the senate last night on the Bush administration’s failure to provide a realistic, specific plan to bring stability to Iraq. We hear an excerpt of his speech. Democracy Now! Exclusive: Retired Air Force Col. On How Bush Admin. Used Psy-Ops, Propaganda and Information Warfare In Build-Up to Iraq Invasion A new report by retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner charges the U.S. and Britain relied on information warfare and psychological operations to inform the public in the lead-up and during the invasion of Iraq. He outlines over 50 stories that appeared in the U.S. media that were either purposely false or misleading. PR Specialist of Debunked Persian Gulf War Incubator Story Promotes New Book on Lynch "Rescue" Weapons of Mass Deception co-author John Stauber takes a look at how a new Jessica Lynch-related book is being promoted by the PR specialist infamous for coaching “Nayirah,” the Kuwaiti girl, in the later-debunked 1990 testimony to Congress that she’d seen Iraqi soldiers murdering Kuwaiti babies. |
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| Description | Headlines Poll: 40% Of U.S. Soldiers in Iraq Suffer Low Morale 3 U.S. Guards Killed in Gaza Worked For Dyncorp Kofi Annan Warns of Split Between Islamic & Western World Saudis Arrest 150 Protesters At Rare Protest in Riyadh US House Votes 398-4 to Impose Sanctions Against Syria Justice Department & FBI Officials Fault Ashcroft on CIA Leak Case More Headlines… Two More Killed in Bolivia; Opposition Leaders Reject President's Offer on Gas Export Deal As many as 86 people have been killed in the four weeks of demonstrations against President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. We go to Cochabamba, Bolivia to speak with a consultant for the Washington Office on Latin America. "Without a Strong American Opposition We Are Doomed" – Renowned Author and Middle East Expert Tariq Ali Speaks Out on Iraq We spend the hour hearing a speech by renowned author and Middle East expert Tariq Ali. His latest book is Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq. |
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| Description | Headlines Bomb In Gaza Kills Three in U.S. Diplomatic Convoy Dude, Where's My Country? – Democracy Now! Interviews Documentary Filmmaker, Television Producer and Author Michael Moore We spend the hour with Michael Moore talking about his latest book Dude, Where’s My Country?, Bush’s connections to the Bin Ladens and the candidacy of Wesley Clark for president. France, Russia, Germany Drop Demands For Greater UN Role in Iraq The United Nations Security Council appears poised to approve a U.S. resolution that would preserve Washington’s power over occupied Iraq and give greater legitimacy to the U.S. appointed Iraqi Governing Council. Israeli Raids Into Gaza Leave 8 Palestinians Dead and Over 1,500 Homeless Israel codenamed the raids into Gaza Operation Root Canal. Up to 120 homes were demolished and 8 Palestinians were killed. We go to Gaza to speak with a Palestinian online journalist living in Rafah. |
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Democracy Now! South of the Border: From Nogales, Arizona to Nogales, Mexico | |
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| Description | Democracy Now! South of the Border: From Nogales, Arizona to Nogales, Mexico Democracy Now! reports from the streets of a protest that went from the border towns of Nogales, Arizona to Nogales, Mexico in the state of Sonora. Over the last year at least 151 immigrants—some put the figure at over 200–have died crossing the Arizona border from Mexico into the United States. Ambos Nogales: A Look At Border Patrol, Pollution and Maquiladoras at the Arizona-Mexico Border We speak with an attorney and activist for the Coalition of Human Rights and an organizer Southwest Network For Environmental and Economic Justice about the plight of immigrants, industrialization and the dangers of the U.S.-Mexico border. Grassroots Grant Funding: Redistributing Wealth to Redistribute Power Democracy Now! attends a major conference of progressive foundations and grant makers from across the country in Tucson, Arizona. We speak with members of the Jesse Smith Noyes Foundation and Funding Exchange about grant funding strategies and opportunities. "This is Cultural Genocide at its Worst" – Environmental Activist Rod Coronado On UofA's Plans For Construction On Apache Sacred Ground Students at the University of Arizona marked Indigenous People’s Day, in solidarity with the San Carlos Apache people, by protesting plans of the university to build telescopes on Mt. Graham, which is considered sacred by the Apache people. We speak with well-known Native American environmental activist and former ELF and ALF direct action participant Rod Coronado. |
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People's Historian Howard Zinn on Occupied Iraq, the Role of Resistance Movements, Government Lies and the Media | |
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| Description | People's Historian Howard Zinn on Occupied Iraq, the Role of Resistance Movements, Government Lies and the Media On this Indigenous Peoples Day, we hear from historian Howard Zinn who wrote extensively about Columbus’ so-called discovery of the Americas. Today Zinn examines the occupation of Iraq, the role of the media in the build-up to war and the historical role of dissent in the United States. An Alaskan Indigineous Leader Speaks Out Against Corporate Exploitation and Cultural Genocide Dune Lankard discusses how the Exxon Valdez oil spill destroyed not just Alaska’s coastlne but a way of a life for many indigenous peoples including the Eyak tribe. |
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| Description | Headlines Iranian Activist Wins Nobel Peace Prize Clark Under Fire In Democratic Debate White House Launches PR Campaign To Increase Support on Iraq Int’l Red Cross Condemns Guantanamo Detentions Second UN Human Rights Witness Shot in Brazil Israeli Tanks Storm Gaza Camp; 6 Palestinians Killed More Headlines… The Iraqi Gold Rush: "The Privatization of U.S. Foreign Policy" As the U.S. Congress takes its first step toward approving the $87 billion President Bush has requested for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, we take a look at the corporations poised to make a killing as private contractors flood into Baghdad. Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq We speak with renowned author and Middle East scholar Tariq Ali, author of Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq, about the emerging Iraqi resistance against the U.S. occupation. 9 Killed in Street Battles Between Army Troops and Protesters in Bolivia Over the Past Month A new cycle of conflict has developed in Bolivia as worker unions, coca farmers and ordinary citizens unite to prevent the sale of the nation’s gas reserves to the United States through a Chilean port. We got to Bolivia to hear from a member of the Bolivian Movement Against the FTAA. Clark Under Fire In Democratic Presidential Debate Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark came under attack last night in a debate between the nine Democratic presidential candidates for shifting positions on the war in Iraq and for supporting President Bush’s tax cuts. |
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| Description | Headlines 8 Die in Bombing of Baghdad Police Station; Spanish Diplomat Killed Bush Launches New PR Campaign To Justify Iraq Policies Israel Mobilizes 1,500 Reserve Troops Vatican Condemns Use of Condoms Despite AIDS Threat White House May Use Executive Privilege in CIA Investigation Texas GOP Lawmakers Near New Districting Deal More Headlines… Congressman Demands Rove's Resignation Over Outting Of CIA Operative Rep. John Conyers wrote a letter to Bush’s closest aide Karl Rove calling on him to step down. He also said the Bush administration is engaged in what he called an “orchestrated campaign to smear and intimidate truth-telling critics.” We speak with Rep. Conyers and hear an excerpt of his speech on the floor of the U.S. Congress. [Includes transcript] With White House Approval, House Panel OKs Sanctions Against Syria The House International Relations Committee voted 33 to 2 yesterday to impose sanctions against Syria. The Arab League warned today sanctions will “increase the tension in the region and make the chances for peace more remote.” We talk to Syrian expert Patrick Seale. 8 Die in Iraq Suicide Bombing; Tensions Grow Between U.S. & Iraqi Governing Council In one of the deadliest days in weeks, a car bomb exploded outside a Baghdad police station today killing at least eight and a Spanish diplomat was shot dead. Meanwhile the White House has launched a new PR effort to increase support for the invasion. We go to Baghdad to speak with The Christian Science Monitor’s Dan Murphy. Peace Group Infiltrated By Government Agent Peace Fresno was infiltrated by an agent working for the Fresno Sheriff’s Department and local anti-terrorism unit. Aaron Kilner, known by Peace Fresno activists as Aaron Stokes, died in a motorcycle accident in late August. Peace Fresno activists learned his true identity in the local paper’s obituary. Teen Activists Defend Themselves At Trial After Arrest At Military Recruitment Protest Thirteen people were arrested for participating in a “die-in” at a military recruitment office in Ithaca, NY late last year. Four of these activists were minors who chose to represent themselves at the trial. We hear from Ana Grady Flores and Marie DeMott Grady. |
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| Description | Headlines Rep. Candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger Overwhelmingly Elected to Replace Dem. Gray Davis As California Gov. Arnold for President in 2008? Turkish Parliament Backs Sending Troops to Iraq; Iraqi Governing Council Objects Rumsfeld Not Informed of Iraq Shake-Up House and Senate Support Sanctions on Syria Syrian Amb. Vows Military Response if Israel Continues Attacks More Headlines… Total Recall: Rep. Candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger Overwhelmingly Elected to Replace Dem. Gray Davis As California Gov. Gray Davis became the first California governor in history to be recalled yesterday with Republican candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger winning the vote to replace him. We host a roundtable discussion on the recall including Green Party candidate Peter Camejo, United Farm Workers of America’s co-founder Dolores Huerta, former California State Senator Tom Hayden and others. [Includes transcript] Canadian Citizen Deported to Syria By U.S. Returns Home to Montreal After Spending A Year in Damascus Jail Syrian-born Canadian citizen Maher Arar spent a year in a Damascus jail without charges. He was deported to Syria, where he had not lived for 14 years, after being detained by U.S. officials in JFK airport on a stopover flight from Tunisia. We speak his brother Bassam Arar and the ACLU’s Dalia Hashad. Study Finds Fox News Viewers Most Likely To Have Misperceptions About Iraq Invasion A new study has found that regular viewers of Fox News held more misperceptions about the invasion of Iraq than regular viewers of any other networks. NPR/PBS viewers were found to have the best understanding of the facts. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-03 13:52:52 |
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| Description | Headlines Bush Backs Israel Over Attack on Syria Syria on Israel: “War is the Justification for its Existence” Israeli Soldiers Dies near Lebanese Border Arafat Swears in Emergency Palestinian Cabinet Turkey Set to Send Troops To Iraq Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad Attacked More Headlines… HIStory Repeats Itself? 16 Women Accuse Schwarzenegger of Sexual Misconduct, We Look Back At the Eerily Similar Case of Sen. Bob Packwood We speak with investigative reporter Florence Graves about revealing scores of sexual misconduct accusations in 1992 against then-Oregon Senator Bob Packwood and about Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger who is expected to win today’s historic recall election in California despite facing similar accusations. The Great Energy Scam – How Companies Are Making a Killing Off Coal at the Expense of Taxpayers Time’s prize winning journalists Don Barlett and Jim Steele reveal how the Marriot Hotel, utility companies and a handful of individual investors are making hundreds of millions dollars exploiting an obscure tax loophole designed to reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil in a debate with Washington lobbyist Kenneth Kies. Afghanistan Two Years After the Bombing: Osama's Not Caught; The Taliban Are Back & Fighting Intensifies Masuda Sultan, who lost 19 members of her family in the U.S. bombing, discusses the state of Afghanistan on the second anniversary of the start of the U.S. attack. She recently returned from Kabul where she helped draft the Afghan Women’s Bill of Rights. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-03 13:21:12 |
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| Description | Headlines Israel Warplane Bombs Syria for First Time in 30 Years Israel Bombs Syria for the First Time in 30 Years in Major Escalation of Conflict Syrian expert Patrick Seale discusses the impact on the bombing raid which came hours after a Palestinian attorney blew herself up in Haifa killing 19 people on the eve of Yom Kippur. Remains of 419 Enslaved Africans Re-Buried at the African Burial Ground in New York City The skeletons of hundreds of enslaved Africans discovered 12 years ago during construction of a building in New York City were reinterred at the African Burial Ground in a solemn ceremony on Friday. 100,000 Immigrant Workers and Supporters Demand Change to Nation's Immigration Laws Demonstrations on Friday and Saturday were the climax of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, a two-week journey of nearly 900 immigrants and their supporters across the country to challenge the nation’s immigration laws. Schwarzenegger Accused of Involvement in $9B California Swindle with Enron's Ken Lay Investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals how Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger is part of a larger scheme to help Enron and other power companies avoid paying back $9 billion in illicit profits by replacing Gov. Gray Davis. Arnold Denies Allegations That he "Admired" Hitler Schwarzenegger was quoted as saying he “admired” Hitler in a 1975 transcript of an interview while filming the documentary “Pumping Iron.” We speak with Martin Lee, author of “The Beast Reawakens: Fascism’s Resurgence from Hitler’s Spymasters to Today’s Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists” |
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| Description | Headlines U.S. Weapons Inspector: No WMD in Iraq Annan Suggests Limited UN Role in Iraq USA Today: U.S. Forces Attacked 17 Times Per Day in Iraq Justice Department Dealt Major Blow in Moussaoui Case Justice To Begin Interviews in CIA Leak; No Independent Counsel Yet House Rejects Bush Proposal To End Overtime for 8 Million More Headlines… Arnold Forced to Admit He "Behaved Badly" Towards Women and Deny Reports That He Admired Hitler Just days before the California recall election, we speak with former gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington about the recent reports that have rocked Schwarzenegger’s campaign and why she is now urging voters to oppose the recall and keep Gov. Gray Davis in office. Nearly 1,000 Immigrant Workers Arrive in New York to End Cross-Country Freedom Rides Hundreds of immigrants and their supporters around the country, who have been staging Immigrant Workers Freedom Rides for the last two weeks to call for better working conditions for undocumented workers, will converge in New York for a major rally this weekend. Hugo Chavez Says U.S. is Harboring "Terrorists" Plotting to Assassinate Him Citing security threats, the Venezuelan president last week canceled a planned visit to New York. Meanwhile U.S. intelligence officers are lobbying charges that it is Chavez who is harboring Islamic fundamentalists in Venezuela. We talk to Venezuelan ambassador Bernardo Alvarez. Poet, Author, Priest, Activist Dan Berrigan Remembers His Brother Phil Hundreds of people are gathering in New York City to remember the life of legendary peace activist Phil Berrigan who would have turned 80 years old this weekend. His brother, the Reverend Daniel Berrigan, joins us in our firehouse studios to remember him. |
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| Description | Headlines 70% of Americans Want Independent Probe on CIA Leak LA Times: Six Women Describe Mistreatment by Schwarzenegger North Korea Claims It’s Making Nuclear Bombs El Baradei Calls For Nuclear Nations To Disarm Supreme Court Asked to Rule on Enemy Combatant Case Democrats stall Leavitt’s EPA Appointment More Headlines… Former CIA Agent Lashes Out at White House For Blowing Colleague's Cover As administration allies seek to discredit former ambassador Joseph Wilson as a partisan critic disregarding his commendation by President Bush Sr. for his “heroism” in the 1991 Persian Gulf War we speak with former intelligence officer Larry Johnson who worked with Joseph Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, at the CIA. Former CIA Agent Phillip Agee On the Wilson Affair, the Iraq Invasion and Why Bush Sr. Calls Him A Traitor Whoever in the White House burned Wilson’s wife could be charged under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act which imposes strict penalties on the outting of agents. We speak with former CIA agent Phillip Agee, for whom, many believe, the Act was written. "Intimigate" Scandal at the White House The outting of Joseph Wilson’s wife a week after he publicly challenged President Bush’s claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger is just the latest in a pattern of retaliation by the White House against critics of the Iraq invasion. The Center for American Progress outlines 6 prior examples of critics who were fired, intimidated or defamed by the administration. Own a Piece of Iraq: How U.S. Gvt. Officials Are Leaving Public Office To Cash In On Iraq As President Bush asks U.S. taxpayers to cough up $87 billion for the reconstruction of Iraq, some of his closest allies have set up a new private business firm in Washington and Iraq to advise companies that want to do business in Iraq including companies who are seeking government contracts. |
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| Description | Headlines Justice Opens Full Investigation on CIA Leak U.S. Arrests Guantanamo Translator Bush Raises $5.3M in Record 12-Hour Period Arianna Huffington Drops Out Of Calif. Recall Race Israeli Cabinet OKs West Bank Wall Expansion Israel Detains Islamic Jihad Leader More Headlines… Conflict of Interest? White House Rejects Call for Independent Counsel On CIA Leak Despite Longtime Rove-Ashcroft Ties President Bush’s closest aide Karl Rove was a consultant for John Ashcroft since 1985 in his gubernatorial and senatorial bids and pushed Bush to nominate Ashcroft as Attorney General. Rove has been accused of blowing the cover of a CIA operative to retaliate against her whistleblower husband. We speak to the author of Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush President. [Includes transcript] The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance: A Conversation with Nat Hentoff Democracy Now! speaks with prolific author, journalist, Village Voice columnist and longtime civil liberties commentator Nat Hentoff about the controversial USA Patriot Act. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-03 13:20:43 |
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| Description | Headlines White House Rejects Independent Council in Wilson Affair Bush Allies Start Biz To “Take Advantage” of Iraq Reconstruction Census: 44 Million Without Health Insurance in U.S. UN Staff Leaving Iraq Following Bombings Israeli Army Destroys Home of Dead Palestinian Bomber’s Family Israeli Panel Likens Refusniks To Mutineers More Headlines… White House Rejects Demands by Congress Members for an Independent Probe of White House Leak That Blew CIA Operative's Cover The CIA operative’s identity was first revealed by senior administration officials in July a week after her husband former ambassador to Iraq, Joseph Wilson, publicly challenged President Bush’s claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger. When asked directly, White House press secretary said for the first time Bush’s chief advisor Karl Rove “wasn’t involved. The president knows he wasn’t involved.” Foreign Students Need Not Apply: A Look At the New Target of U.S. Govt's Hunt For "Potential Terrorists" A new monitoring system that took full effect Aug. 1st is generating fears that foreign students coming under increasing government scrutiny may choose to study in other countries. We host a debate between a New York University Dean and a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security. Military Families And Soldiers Speak Out Against War A week after the White House’s announcement that thousands more National Guard and Reserve troops might have to be called up if allies don’t agree to send troops to Iraq, we hear a speech by Nancy Lessin, founder of Military Families Speak Out and from Abdul Henderson, a soldier who recently returned from military duty in Iraq. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-01 15:54:24 |
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| Description | Headlines CIA Calls For Investigation On Wilson Affair NYT: INC & Ahmad Chalabi Provided Faulty Intelligence House Leaders Call on Tenent For Investigation on Iraq Intelligence Dean & Kerry Call for Rumsfeld to Resign Gen. Zinni Questions Bush on Iraq Father: “My Son Died Because Bush Lied” More Headlines… Congress Members Call For Independent Probe of White House Leak That Blew CIA Operative's Cover After CIA Refers Investigation To Justice Dept. The CIA operative’s identity was revealed by senior administration officials in July, a week after her husband former ambassador to Iraq, Joseph C. Wilson IV, publicly challenged President Bush’s claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Africa. It is a felony for someone with authorized access to classified information to intentionally disclose a covert operative’s identity. Halabja: How Bush Sr. Continued to Support Saddam After the 1988 Gassing of Thousands And Bush Jr. Used it As a Pretext For War 15 Years Later After the Halabja gassing President Bush I and Sen. Bob Dole fought sanctions against Iraq even though the gassing killed thousands and was reportedly carried out in part by U.S.-made helicopters. From 1989 to 1990 the gassing was mentioned about once a month in major press outlets, yet in the three weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion, the press mentioned it 150 times. In 15 years the gassing went from an untold story to a pretext for invasion. |
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| Description | Professor Edward Said: Scholar, Activist, Palestinian 1935 - 2003 Renowned scholar, activist and intellectual, Professor Edward W. Said, 67, died Thursday morning after a decade-long battle with leukemia. His death comes just days before the third anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada, or uprising. He had been diagnosed with cancer during the Persian Gulf War. The past decade he fought tirelessly against both the cancer and the war. Said, a Palestinian-American, was known throughout the world as a leading thinker, and there are few fields of intellectual endeavor that have been untouched by his contributions. He was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of over a dozen books, including Peace and its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process, Culture and Imperialism and Orientalism. His writings have been translated into 26 languages. He was a frequent guest on Democracy Now! and other Pacifica programs and a great fighter for voiceless victims around the world. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-01 15:25:42 |
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| Description | Headlines Annan To Accuse U.S. of “Lawless Use of Force” Bush to Defend Iraq Invasion at UN Chalabi Calls for Sovereignty for Iraq Governing Council U.N.: Over 10 Million Iraqis Still Need Food Al Jazeera Faces Expulsion From Iraq FCC Votes 3-2 to OK $3.5B Univision-Hispanic Broadcasting Merger More Headlines… Democracy Now! Hosts a Debate On the Roots of 9/11 and the Failures of Three Successive Presidential Administrations to Stop Bin Laden We speak with author Peter Lance, a five-time Emmy-award winning investigative reporter and former ABC News correspondent. His latest book is 1000 Years For Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI—The Untold Story which outlines how the FBI missed dozens of chances to stop the Sept. 11 attacks going as far back as 1989. And Richard Miniter, investigative reporter and author of Losing bin Laden: How Bill Clinton’s Failures Unleashed Global Terror that claims that President Bill Clinton had the opportunity to stop, catch, or kill bin Laden more than twelve times during his presidency and knowingly refused to wage a real war on “terror” which may have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks. |
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| Description | Headlines Two Die in Car Bomb Blast at UN HQ in Baghdad Striking Yale Workers Win Major Labor Victory Army Detains Muslim Military Chaplain UN Votes 133-4 To Back Arafat Bush to Tell U.N. Tuesday He Made ‘Right Decision’ Plans to Privatize Iraqi Economy Revealed More Headlines… "The Position of the Bush Administration is Truly Criminal" – Environmental Reporter Ross Gelbspan on George Bush, Oil and Coal As reports emerge that the White House undermined its own government scientists’ research into climate change to play down the impact of global warming we play a speech by environmental reporter Ross Gelbspan. Doing Justice: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy Arthur Kinoy, prominent civil rights lawyer, a founder of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a longtime member of the National Lawyers Guild died Friday at his home in New Jersey at the age of 82. We air an excerpt of a documentary by Abby Ginzberg featuring Kinoy, William Kunstler, Fannie Lou Hamer and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. |
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| Description | "Global Warming" –Two Words You Never Hear in Wall-to-Wall Coverage of Hurricane Isabel Hurricane Isabel crashed ashore in North Carolina yesterday. 100mph winds brought down trees, caused air travel chaos and knocked out electricity to more than 3 million people. We speak with author David Helvarg about hurricane Isabel, Bush’s environmental policy and the federal insurance system. NYPD Settles "Stop & Frisk" Lawsuit The New York City Police Department has agreed to formalize a policy that bars its officers from stopping suspects solely on the basis of race. As part of a legal settlement, the NYPD agreed to pay out a total of nearly $170,00 to 10 plaintiffs who filed a class action lawsuit. Did JetBlue Airways Give the Pentagon Data on 5 Million Passengers? Wired.com reported that JetBlue Airways confirmed it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor in September 2002 for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security. Ex-CIA Analysts: "The Real Question is How Post-9/11 Was Exploited…To Curtail Our Freedoms and Launch an Unprovoked War" Former CIA analysts Ray McGovern and David MacMichael discuss how the White House exploited the September 11 attacks to fulfill an ideological strategic concept and wage a war that had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction or ties with al-Qaeda. |
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| Description | Headlines Saudi Considers Acquiring Nuclear Arms Dems Protest $87B Iraq War Tab Economic News Out of Washington Worsens Bush, Unlike Cheney, Rejects Iraq-9/11 Link Blix: Iraq Dumped WMDs 10 Years Ago U.S. Kills Iraqi Teen At Wedding More Headlines… General Wesley Clark: The Anti War Warrior? General Wesley Clark—the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and the man who led the 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999—announced his candidacy for president yesterday, bringing to 10 the number of Democratic candidates. Clark is the first four-star general in history to run for President as a Democrat. Robert Fisk on Wesley Clark & Iraq: "What is Happening Is An Absolute Slaughter Every Night of Iraqi People" As the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq approaches 300, we go to Baghdad to hear from London Independent reporter Robert Fisk on the virtually unreported number of Iraqis killed in feuds, looting, revenge killings and raids by U.S. troops. Ashcroft Declassifies Number of Records Sought Under Patriot Act After Calling Critics "Hysterical" In a telephone call to the American Library Association, Attorney General John Ashcroft decided to disclose previously classified information on how many requests law enforcement officials have made for records from libraries and businesses under the Patriot Act. He did not indicate how soon information would be released. Gov't Sets Up Massive Watchlist of "Known and Suspected Terrorists" The watch list of over 100,000 names will be widely accessible to law enforcement agents, border police, airport workers as well as some private industries. It will contain the names of both international and domestic “suspects.” |
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| Description | Headlines Senate Votes 55-40 to Block FCC Media Rules U.S. Vetoes UN Resolution To Protect Arafat U.S. Delays Releasing Iraq WMD Report Ordinary Iraqis, Not Foreigners The Bigger Threat to the US U.S. Holds 10,000 Iraqi Prisoners Senate Rejects Ban on Nuclear Weapons Tests More Headlines… Where is the Government Investigation Into Who in the White House Outted Joseph Wilson's Wife as an Alleged CIA Operative? Wilson is the former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq who traveled to Niger on a CIA-sponsored trip and and found no link between Iraq and Niger. After he speaks out the press reports senior administration officials outting his wife as an alleged CIA operative. Was this in retaliation to his speaking out on Iraq? "The Crazies Are Back": Bush Sr.'s CIA Briefer Discusses How Wolfowitz & Allies Falsely Led the U.S. To War Former CIA analysts Ray McGovern and David MacMichael accuse President Bush of waging the Iraq war based on a series of lies, discuss the unprecedented pressure that VP Dick Cheney put on the CIA before the invasion and call on CIA analysts and agents to come forward with information that will reveal the lies of the Bush administration. |
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| Description | Headlines Fed. Court Orders Calif. Recall Postponed CNN Reporter Admits Self-Censorship Over Iraq & White House Intimidation Iraqi Police Chief Killed U.S. Official: Syria Developing WMDs & Backing Iraq Resistance Police Raid & Shut Down Zimbabwe Paper 3 Die in Chechnya Bomb Blast More Headlines… Cheney Justifies Invasion Of Iraq In First Televised Interview in Six Months In attempting to sell the reasons for the war against Baghdad, Vice President Dick Cheney repeats many allegations about Iraq that have been proven false over the past two years. We spend the hour dissecting some of Cheney’s statements in his interview with Tim Russert on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Cheney Claims Again Iraq Tried To Acquire Uranium From Niger We talk to Joseph Wilson, the former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq who traveled to Niger on a CIA-sponsored trip and found no link between Iraq and Niger. Wilson also talks about who in the Bush administration illegally outted his wife to be an alleged covert CIA operative. Cheney Claims No Knowledge That White House Helped Evacuate 24 Members of the Bin Laden Family Days After 9/11 Retired chief White House aide Richard Clarke revealed that top White House officials approved the evacuation of 140 influential Saudis, including relatives of Osama Bin Laden, days after the Sept. 11 attacks at a time when all commercial and private flights were grounded. We speak with Vanity Fair reporter Craig Unger who broke the story. Cheney Suggests Iraq Is Linked To '93 WTC Bombing Through Wanted Iraqi-American Abdul Rahman Yasin is an Iraqi American that Cheney claims is proof of a link between Iraq and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. There is a $25 million price on his head. But when Saddam Hussein offered to hand him over, the Bush Administration said no. We speak with Yasin’s lawyer. Cheney Reasserts Already Debunked Atta–Iraq Connection Czech intelligence officials said they had a report shortly after 9/11 that Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence official in April 2001. U.S. media reports, the FBI and the CIA subsequently revealed that the report was unsubstantiated. We speak with New York Times reporter Chris Hedges. |
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| Description | Headlines Developing Nations Walk Out of WTO Meetings; Talks Collapse Deputy PM Warns Israel May Kill Arafat Cheney Defends Iraq Invasion; Claims Iraq-9/11 Link U.S. Attacked After Friday’s Shooting of Iraqi Police 10,000 Rally in New Haven for Striking Yale Workers Anti-Chavez Recall Petitions Invalidated More Headlines… WTO Talks Collapse Amid Rift Between Rich and Poor Nations A powerful alliance of poor but populous farming nations emerged as the major opposition to the U.S. and European positions and argued strongly for deeper cuts in US/EU farm protection. The collapse of the talks comes as a major blow to the WTO that many poor countries called a victory against the West. Second Black Bodybuilder Claims Schwarzenegger Repeatedly Made Racist Comments to Him KPFK/Pacifica interview with Robby Robinson who claims fellow bodybuilder Schwarzenegger repeatedly directed the term “nigger” at him. And we hear from San Jose Mercury News reporter who writes that while supporting anti-immigrant Proposition 187 Schwarzenegger himself violated the terms of his immigrant visa in the 1970s. Israel Threatens to Kill Yasser Arafat ; Ex-PM Peres Blames Sharon For Destroying the Peace Process Ali Abunimah, founder of electronicintifada.net, reviews the news of the weekend, the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords. |
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| Description | Headlines Israel Authorizes “Removal” of Arafat Financial Times: Senate in Move to Overturn New FCC Rules Blair Ignored Warnings of War Risk California Recall Race Tightens U.S. Troops Kill Eight Iraqi Policemen 2 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq Raid More Headlines… Third Day of WTO Protests Continue in Cancun Thousands of protesters in Cancun continue to protest the ministerial of the World Trade Organization. Inside the meetings Brazil yesterday led the formation of a G-21—21 nation bloc of developing countries that vowed to work together to fight U.S. and European agricultural policies. Over 140 Protesters Arrested in London at Europe's Biggest Arms Show Government officials from around the world attended the arms exhibition in London to see military hardware showcased by some 950 companies. Meanwhile, civil rights campaigners won the right to challenge police use of anti-terror powers against protesters. Thousands of Palestinians Rally in Support of Arafat After Israel Authorizes His "Removal" Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat declared no one will “kick me out” after the Israeli Security Cabinet authorized the army to “remove” him. Meanwhile the Jerusalem Post called for Arafat’s death. We speak with Electronic Intifada founder Ali Abunimah. How Do Prisons Profit From Immigrant Detainees? According to current estimates county jails get $35 a day for regular prisoners from the federal government. They get between $75 to $100 a day for immigrant detainees. We take a look at how the prison industrial complex is profiting from the fastest-growing group of prisoners in the nation. Farouk Abdel Muhti Spends His 500th Day in Prison & Faces Deportation Farouk Abdel Muhti, who often spoke out on Palestinian issues on New York radio station WBAI, has been charged with no crime and faces possible deportation from the country where he has lived for 37 years. Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How it Distorts the Truth Democracy Now! speaks with editor and columnist Joe Conason about the how the right wing has taken control of mainstream media in the United States. |
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| Description | Headlines Peace Process in Shambles As 22 Israelis & Palestinians Die DEMOCRACY NOW! SPECIAL:9/11 TWO YEARS LATER (pt. 1 of 3) Victims' Families Call For Peaceful Tomorrows Tomorrow is the 2nd anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and the plane crash in Pennsylvania. In these 2 years, the Bush administration has used the events of September 11 to push ahead with a massive scale war, that it has dubbed the “war on terror.” First, the U.S. bombed Afghanistan, killing thousands of civilians. The country remains a war zone with U.S. and other foreign troops occupying large parts of the country. Last March, despite no evidence linking the government of Iraq to the September 11 attacks, President Bush launched a massive “Shock and Awe” campaign against Iraq followed by an invasion of some 140,000 U.S. troops. Like Afghanistan, thousands of innocent civilians were killed and as the U.S. occupation of the country drags on, and many U.S. soldiers die, the situation is boiling into a civil war. The corporate media and U.S. officials seized on the tragedy of September 11 to whip up a frenzy of what was called patriotism. Bush told the world: You are with us or you are with the terrorists. But a small group of families who lost loved ones in the attacks of September 11 have raised their voices over the past 2 years under the banner: “Peaceful Tomorrows.” We spend the hour hearing the stories of these people and looking at their individual journeys over the 2 years since they lost their brothers, sisters, children, husbands or wives. For some of them, these journeys have brought them into the homes of ordinary Afghans who had family members killed by U.S. missiles, others to the homes of Iraqis whose families were killed in the U.S. attacks over the past decade. Some of these people have traveled across this country promoting peace and opposing the use of the loss of their loved ones to justify war. Others have campaigned internationally. Some just spoke with their family and friends. A new book tells their story. It is called “September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows: Turning Our Grief Into Action for Peace.” From top to bottom: Bob McIlvaine (his 26 year-old son Bob died in the World Trade Center), Adele Welty (her son, Tim was a firefighter who died in the World Trade Center), Megan Bartlett (she founded Ground Zero for Peace–First Responders Against the War. She is a former Emergency Medical Technician. Many of her co-workers died in the World Trade Center), Fekkak Mamdouh (he worked at Windows on the World, the restaurant on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center where 73 of his co-workers died. He co-founded ROC-NY a membership-based workers center for immigrants), Jeremy Glick (his father, Barry, died in the World Trade Center. He was interviewed by Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor February, 4 2003), Andrew Rice (his brother, David, died in the World Trade Center). |
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| Description | Headlines Army Extends Duties For 20,000 Reserves White House Sources: More Than $87 Billion Needed For Iraq Poll: Iraq Invasion Increased Terror Threat to U.S. Arab League Grants Iraq Seat CIA Warned of “Chaos” in Iraq & Armed Resistance Congressman Obey Calls For Rumsfeld & Wolfowitz To Resign More Headlines… Protest Planned Against Ashcroft's NYC Visit as Part of Nationwide Tour to Defend Patriot Act Attorney General John Ashcroft attends a closed meeting with law enforcement officials to defend the Patriot Act against mounting claims that it undermines civil liberties. We host a debate between the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Jailed African American Webmaster Sherman Austin Moved Into Isolation After Receiving White Supremacist Death Threats Austin began a yearlong prison term last week. Federal officials charged that he had illegally distributed information about how to build Molotov cocktails on his website. We speak with his mother Jennifer Martin. Conscientious Objector Sentenced to Six Months in Jail 21 year-old U.S. Marine reservist Stephen Funk was found guilty of unauthorized absence for refusing to report to his unit during the Iraq war. We speak with his lawyer Stephen Collier. "Guarding the Oil Underworld in Iraq" – U.S. Hires Private Security Firm in Iraq; WTO Protesters Head to Cancun We go to Cancun, Mexico to hear from Pratap Chatterjee of CorpWatch.org on a private security firm recently contracted by the U.S. to train 6,500 Iraqis to guard oil pipelines in Iraq and to discuss the upcoming WTO ministerial meeting. Supreme Court Appears Split On Overturning New Campaign Finance Law In a special summer session, the nation’s high court heard arguments on the constitutionality of the law regulating soft money donations from corporations and labor unions. Democracy hosts a debate between Common Cause and the Cato Institute. |
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| Description | Headlines Bush Addresses Nation Poll Shows Bush Popularity at Lowest Point Ever Arafat Taps Legislator As Premier Hamas Leader Vows Revenge Second Black Body Builder Claims Schwarzenegger Racist Comments Rare Tape of WTC Attack Surfaces Bush in Crisis: Slipping in the Polls, GW Looks to Congress for Money and UN for Troops In a nationally televised prime-time address President Bush said that he would ask Congress for $87 billion in emergency spending for Iraq and Afghanistan. We go to Baghdad to hear from Michael Birmingham of Voices in the Wilderness and we speak with American Kurdish Information Network’s Kani Xulam. Israeli PM Sharon Makes Unprecedented Visit to India; Will India and Pakistan Send Troops to Iraq? As Ariel Sharon begins his three-day visit to India and as the White House continues to pressure Indian troops to come to Iraq- Democracy Now! goes to India and to Pakistan and hosts a debate between journalists C. Raja Mohan, Praful Bidwai and M. Ziauddin. Arafat Names New Palestinian PM as Abu Mazen Resigns Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat picks Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Ahmed Qureia as the next PA prime minister. We speak to Middle East expert Mouin Rabbani and professor Tanya Reinhart. |
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| Description | Headlines Europe Scorns U.S. Plea for More Troops in Iraq Rumsfeld Calls for Iraqis To Take Over Security Report: Mossad In Iraq for Anti-Terror Efforts Halliburton Worker Fatally Shot in Iraq Iraq Foreign Minister Rejects Turkish Troops Slain Soldiers Father Criticizes Lynchs Book Deal More Headlines "The Only Spanish [Bush] Speaks When it Comes to Jobs is Hasta La Vista" - Democratic Candidates Slam GW in First Ever Bilingual Presidential Debate Eight candidates took part in the first official debate of the Democratic presidential contenders yesterday. We play an excerpt of the debate as candidates criticized the White House policy on Iraq. Ex-World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz & Public Citizen's Lori Wallach Preview Next Week's WTO Meetings in Cancun The Nobel Prize winning Stiglitz criticizes U.S. trade policy saying the worlds poorest including Sub-Sahara Africa suffers more because of our trade agreements. Meanwhile Lori Wallach discusses why she was placed on a watchlist of activists developed by Mexican officials. Up To 8 Million Americans Could Lose Overtime Pay Under New GOP Plan We host a debate on overtime regulations with AFL-CIOs Karen Nussbaum and Michael Eastman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and we take a look at a plan to create a new association for people not currently represented by unions. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-31 20:35:00 |
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| Description | Headlines Judges Orders Stay on FCC Media Ownership Rules Joints Chief Of Staff Criticize White House War Planning Bush to Seek $60-$70 Billion More To Pay Iraq Costs UK Intelligence Experts Protested Iraq Dossier U.S. Fails To Meet Deadline in Destroying Chemical Weapons Report: White House OKd Evacuation of 140 Saudis Post 9/11 More Headlines In Surprise Decision, Federal Judges Block FCC Media Ownership Rules Court ruling marks major setback to the FCC and Michael Powell; the regulations were to go into effect today. This comes as the major networks launch new pro-FCC lobbying effort. Their message? America Says: Dont Get Between Me And My TV. With Occupation Costs Soaring, U.S. Set to Go Back To U.N. Asking For Unprecedented Resolution As the Pentagon outlines Washingtons failed Iraq plans, the White House plans to ask Congress for $60-$70 billion more for Iraq and is seeking a UN approval to force other nations to contribute troops and funds. Will Bush Backers Manipulate Votes to Deliver GW Another Election? As millions of voters prepare to use electronic voting machines for the first time we take a look at the companies selling these machines and their ties to the Bush administration. We speak with reporter Julie Carr Smyth and author Bev Harris. A Tortured Path to Justice We take a look at the case of a torture-victim from El Salvador who confronted two former Salvadoran generals living in the U.S. He won a watershed victory last summer when a jury ruled that the two generals held command responsibility over abuses by the military. We speak with an investigative journalist who covered the story. Under Pressure from Corporations, Ashcroft Threatens to Overturn a 200 Year-Old Law Used to Fight Human Rights Abusers and War Criminals We host a debate between Daniel Griswold of the Center for Trade Policy Studies and international human rights lawyer Michael Ratner. |
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| Description | The Blackout of 2003: Democracy Now! Broadcasts By Candlelight in NYC The nation’s largest blackout ever leaves tens of millions without power. The lights are out in New York City, Toronto, Cleveland, Ottawa, Detroit. Deregulation of the energy is cited by some as possible cause of the massive blackout. Democracy Now! broadcasts a blackout special powered by a gas generator. Iraq: Protests Erupt in Basra Over Lack of Electricity We go to Baghdad to speak with Guardian reporter Jamie Wilson. He recently wrote an article titled “Basra simmers in the heat while tempers boil over” that looks at the constant blackouts in post-Hussein Iraq. He talks about how Iraqis understand all too well what New Yorkers are going through now. George Monbiot: Climate Change Threatens the Future of Humanity, but we Refuse to Respond Rationally In the United States millions are without power. Europe is suffering from a record heatwave. In France, the government estimates up to 3,000 people may have died from conditions connected to the heat wave. We talk to George Monbiot on climate change. The Democracy Now! Staff Talks About the Blackout of 2003 A dozen members of the Democracy Now! staff made it into our Firehouse studios by foot, bike and taxi to produce the radio and tv show by candlelight. Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman talks with the staff. |
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| Description | Headlines Pentagon To Create “ Death Ray Bomb” 200 U.S. Troops Head to Liberia Afghanistan Suffers Deadliest Day in Almost A Year; 55+ Dead Family of Slain Journalist Criticizes U.S. Report on Palestine Hotel Attack in Iraq Israeli Troops Kill Islamic Jihad Leader Libya Sets up $2.7B Fund To Settle Lockerbie Case More Headlines… Fela Kuti The Black President : An Hour Remembering the Legendary Nigerian Afrobeat Singer, We Speak with his Son Femi and his Biographer Michael Veal Six years ago this week over a million Nigerians took to the streets to mourn the death of Fela Kuti, the great bandleader and political dissident who had succumbed to AIDS. He is viewed by many as the greatest African musician of the last half-century. By the time of his death in 1997 he had released 77 albums. He once established a short-lived independent country within Nigeria named the Kalakuta Republic. He was arrested some 356 times for his political dissidence. In one case 1,000 troops under the dictator Obasanjo, now president again, stormed his compound with mortar fire. They repeatedly attacked, beat and raped members of Fela’s extended family. They threw his mother and brother from a window. Fela was hospitalized. His mother eventually died of her injuries. She was a well-known anti-colonialist and feminist. She started the Nigerian Women’s union and was an inspiration for Fela throughout his life. Following her death in 1978 Fela brought a replica of her coffin to Obasanjo’s house. Fela established a new form of music, Afrobeat, which combined the funkiness of James Brown, the politics of Kwame Nkrumah, the soulfulness of John Coltrane with a base rooted in traditional African music. |
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| Description | Headlines * Liberian President Taylor Steps Down; Goes Into Exile in Nigeria * Back-to-back Suicide Attacks Kill Four In Israel & West Bank * Bush Taps Utah Gov. Leavitt to Head EPA * SF Chronicle: Davis Recall Orchestrated by GOP to Help Bush in 2004 * New Cost of War Estimate & Reconstruction in Iraq tops $600B * Other UK Intel Officers Backed Kelly’s Charge That Blair Distorted Iraq Intelligence * More Headlines… - Liberian President Charles Taylor Surrenders Power and Flies Into Exile in Nigeria Charles Taylor stepped down as president of Liberia yesterday leaving vice president Moses Blah in charge but not before saying, “God willing I will return.” We go to Monrovia to hear from Christian Science Monitor’s Nicole Itano. - Environmentalists Protest Selection of Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt as EPA Head In Utah, Leavitt came under criticism for opening the state’s wildlands to polluting industries and opening millions of acres of wilderness to roadbuilding and development. He also backed a massive highway project that would have destroyed wetlands and fertile farmlands along the Great Salt Lake. [Includes transcript] - White House Pressured EPA Not To Warn Public About Health Effects of 9/11 New yet-to-be-released report from the EPA’s inspector criticizes the White House for ordering the deletion of information warning downtown New York residents about possible health effects and preventing the release on information on how the public should clean contaminated apartments. [Includes Transcript] - Egyptian Man Married to American Woman and Father of 3 American Children is Deported as Case is Still Under Appeal As Walid Ghounem an Egyptian father of 3 is deported we join him and his family on their way to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration. - Sikh American Family Attacked in Queens, Police Call it Bias Surinder Singh, a Sikh cab driver, his wife, two children and a cousin were attacked and beaten up in Queens last week by white male assailants who told them “Bin laden family, go back to your country.” - NYPD Cop Fired For Refusing to Take Off his Turban and Shave his Beard We speak with the attorney for Amric Singh Rathour, the policeman who was fired on June 18 last year for refusing to take off his turban and shave his beard. He has filed a federal discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of his client. |
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| Description | Headlines Taylor To Resign Today in Liberia, Blames U.S. For His Downfall White House Pressured EPA Not To Warn Public About Effects of 9/11 Violence Mounts Along Israeli-Lebanese Border CIA Warned Guerilla War May Begin After Saddam Hussein Fell Three More U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq, Total is Now 263 “Worst Unrest in Iraq” Breaks Out in Basra More Headlines… Democracy Now! Premieres the Full Interview with Bush Biographer J.H. Hatfield Who Died 2 Years Ago of an Alleged Suicide Amidst Controversy Over his Book Fortunate Son Today we play an interview that we have held for over three years. It involves allegations of President Bush, drugs, obstruction of justice and corporate scandal. It raises questions about why Bush’s driver license number was changed. In the book Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President author J.H. Hatfield charges that President Bush was arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession and that Bush’s father George Sr. used his political connections to have his son’s record expunged. Soon after publication, Hatfield’s credibility was challenged. He had been convicted in 1988 for hiring a hit-man in a failed attempt to kill his boss and had served five years in prison. J.H. Hatfield died of an alleged suicide in July 2001 |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-25 22:18:32 |
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| Description | Headlines Gore: “Something Pretty Basic Has Gone Wrong in Our Country” Rivals Claim Gov’t Favors Halliburton on $1B Iraq Contract California Supreme Court: The Recall Is On Ashcroft To Target Judges Who Hand Down Lenient Sentences Saudi Gov’t Backed Man Linked to 9/11 Hijackers Financing For Peruvian Pipeline Blocked More Headlines… Ex-Pentagon Official Suggests Bush Administration Should Face War Crimes Tribunal For Misleading World About Iraq “If one is seeking the answers to why peculiar bits of ‘intelligence’ found sanctity in a presidential speech…one need look no further than the process inside the Office of the Secretary of Defense.” We speak with Former senior Pentagon Middle East specialist Air Force Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski. Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq Authors John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton discuss how the Bush administration created a “show war” through the use of propaganda, lies, half-truths and Hollywood imaging techniques. Mumia Abu Jamal on the 25th Anniversary of the Arrest of the MOVE 9 25 years ago today in West Philadelphia hundreds of armed police officers raided the homes of the African-American political group known as MOVE. By the end of the day one police officer was dead and 12 members of MOVE were arrested and jailed. Nine of them would later be convicted in a controversial trial. Black August: Erykah Badu joins Talib Kweli & Dead Prez To Raise $$$ For Political Prisoners Democracy Now! talks to Erykah Badu and Black August organizer Saki Hall. This Sunday in Brooklyn, the Black August collective will host a major hip hop concert benefit to raise awareness and money for political prisoners. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-23 21:50:31 |
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| Description | Headlines U.S. Top Secret Nuke Meeting May Mark Start of New Nuclear Age Up to 10 Die in Car Bombing at Jordanian Embassy in Iraq Palestinians Charge Israel’s Release of Prisoners Is PR Ploy The ABCs of Who’s Who in the Calif. Recall: A is for Arnold, B is for Bustmante, C is for Coleman Bali Bomber Sentenced to Death Ashcroft To Launch Victory Tour To Lobby For More Power More Headlines… Florida Creates "the Matrix", a Big Brother-Like Surveillance System with Help From Choicepoint-Related Firm Remember the Florida election of 2000 when a private database company scrubbed thousands of eligible voters from the rolls? Well now one of the co-founders of Database Technologies is back in the headlines—he’s working with law enforcement agents in Florida to create what may soon expand into a national surveillance system. We talk with privacy expert Wayne Madsen, investigative reporter Greg Palast and a top intelligence official from the state of Florida. The Taliban are Back, the Suppression of Women is Increasing, the Drug Market is Flourishing: A Look at Afghanistan 22 Months After the U.S. Started Bombing Nearly two years after the U.S. started bombing Afghanistan the country is still at war. We speak with author Anne Brodsky, Women for Afghan Women’s Masuda Sultan and we go to Afghanistan to hear from journalist Fariba Nawa. "Coca and the Congressman" – A New Documentary on Bolivia and the Plight of Coca Growers The U.S. pressured the Bolivian government to declare a war on coca and the people who grow it. Evo Morales, the most powerful opposition leader in Bolivia and the first coca grower to be elected to congress is fighting back. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-23 21:46:13 |
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| Description | Headlines Episcopal Church Confirms Gay Bishop; Conservatives Plan to Appeal Vote U.S. Admits to Dropping Napalm-Like Firebombs on Iraq Halliburton Employee Killed in Iraq Arab League Rejects Iraqi Governing Council 9/11 Report: “High Levels” of Saudi Gov’t Connected to Attacks Pregnant Women Suffered Effects From 9/11 Pollution More Headlines… Democracy Now! Commemorates the 58th Anniversary of the Hiroshima Bombing: An Interview with Hiroshima Survivor Shigeko Sasamori On August 6th, 1945 the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The total number killed by the bomb exceeded 200,000. Three days later a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. 140,000 people died as a result. A Pacifica Radio Special: Ruby Dee & Others Read John Hersey's Hiroshima To mark the anniversary of the dropping of the first nuclear bomb, the Pacifica Radio Archives helped arrange a dramatic reading of Hersey’s classic work. Democracy Now! broadcasts an excerpt looking at the story of Dr. Sasaki, one of the few doctors to survive the attack. In addition DN! televises original video footage—once classified by the U.S. government—of the horrific aftermath. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-23 14:31:49 |
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| Description | Headlines Treasury Dept. Classifies List of Saudi Suspects 10 Die in Indonesian Car Bombing Indonesian General Jailed Over East Timor Massacre Powell: Resignation Report is Just ‘Gossip’ Filipino Muslim Rebel Leader Dies Lieberman Warns of Extremist Democratic Opponents More Headlines… 47 Activists Arrested While Protesting "Apartheid wall;" We Go to an Israeli Police Station to Hear From One of the Palestinian Activists Being Held The Bush Administration yesterday said it may reduce a 9 billion dollar aid package to Israel if the Israeli government continues construction of a wall cutting off Gaza and the West Bank. Vote to Confirm Openly Gay Bishop Postponed After Allegations Made in the 11th Hour The vote was delayed after allegations emerged that Rev. Gene Robinson “inappropriately” touched a man and that he is affiliated with a gay youth counselling Web site that links to sites that link to pornography. The allegations came less than an hour before the House of Bishops was scheduled to begin debate. U.S. Marks Hiroshima Anniversary By Holding Top Secret Summit to Discuss Expanding Nation's Nuclear Arsenal Some 150 top U.S. officials and military contractors are scheduled to gather Thursday in Omaha, Nebraska at the U.S. Strategic Command Center. The meeting’s agenda is secret as is the guest list. But observers say the Bush administration will likely agree to launch a new nuclear age. [Includes transcript] Feds OK Evacuation Plan for NYC-area Nuke Plant Critics question how millions of the people could safely leave the metropolitan area if the Indian Point nuclear point was attacked or suffered a meltdown. We host a debate between the plant’s operator and nuclear activists including Harvey Wasserman. [Includes transcript] Vote Looms for Financing of Oil Pipeline in Peru The main beneficiaries of the project are a subsidiary of Dick Cheney’s Halliburton and Hunt Oil Company, whose vice president was a top energy advisor to George W. Bush. Construction of the pipeline is causing forest erosion, landslides, spreading non-indigenous diseases, and creating a shortage of food supplies in the region. |
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| Description | Headlines 46 Senators Call For Bush To Declassify 9/11 Report Peacekeeping Troops Arrive in Liberia Wolfowitz: The Next Secretary of State? 50 Die in Hospital Bombing Near Chechnya Episcopalian Church Approves Gay Bishop Israel Prepares to Release Palestinian Prisoners More Headlines… Bush & Blair Launch PR Campaign To Silence Iraq Critics Andrew Buncombe of the London Independent reviews the new “big impact” plan designed to counter critics of the Iraq invasion in an effort to convince the public that Saddam Hussein was in fact developing weapons of mass destruction. Operation Oily Immunity: Bush Quietly Moves to Protect U.S. Oil Interests in Iraq The Institute for Policy Studies and Government Accountability Project are calling on Congress to investigate and repeal an executive order signed by President George W. Bush that they say gives sweeping powers to U.S. oil companies operating in Iraq. "I Did Not Want to Be a Collaborator" - Former Member of the Iraqi Reconstruction Council Explains His Decision to Resign After 25 years in exile, Iraqi scholar and professor Isam al-Khafagi accepted an invitation by the U.S. government to return to Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein to help with postwar reconstruction and rehabilitation of ministries. He resigned a few weeks ago saying, “there seemed to be no interest on the part of the coalition in involving Iraqis as advisers on the future of their nation.” Openly Gay Reverend Wins One of Two Votes Required To Be Elected Bishop in Episcopal Church Rev. V. Gene Robinson faces a final vote today in the House of Bishops. We speak with Rev. Susan Russell of the Claiming the Blessing Collaborative on whether the decision threatens to divide the church. West African Troops Land in Liberia, Charles Taylor to Resign, U.S. Troops Still Not Deployed As West African forces land in Liberia we speak with author and freelance journalist David Goodman on Liberia’s history and its relationship with the U.S. government. |
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| Description | Headlines * Bush Holds 9th Press Conference Since He Took Office * The NYT on Bush: Vague and Sometimes Nearly Incoherent * Report: Poindexter to Resign From DARPA * CIA Warned Blair Over Iraq Intelligence; Warning Ignored * Iraqi Scientists to U.S.: No WMD Program Existed * U.S. Disbands Nuclear Weapons Watchdog * More Headlines - Bush Speaks On Iraq, Economy and Gay Marriage; NYT Describes Performance as "Vague and Sometimes Nearly Incoherent" In his first press conference since before the invasion of Iraq, President George Bush yesterday vowed that weapons of mass destruction would still be found in Iraq. - As President Bush Assumes "Personal Responsibility" for Uranium-Niger Statement We Take a Look at Another Lie in the State of the Union In his speech Bush claims that Saddam Hussein attempted to buy aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons construction. We speak with Mother Jones reporter Tim Dickinson who reveals the falsity of the statement and how the administration knew about it. - ACLU Files First Major Lawsuit Against Patriot Act The suit seeks to have a major section of the U.S.A. Patriot Act declared unconstitutional arguing that the law gives federal agents virtually unchecked authority to spy on Americans. We speak with ACLU attorney Noel Saleh. - Ashcroft Seeks Death Penalty in Puerto Rico Murder Case Overriding Island's Constitution and 74-Year Capital Punishment Ban The trial of two men accused of kidnapping and murder has reignited a political debate about Puerto Rico?s political status. Democracy Now! hosts a debate between University of Puerto Rico?s Rafael Bernabe and Justice Department spokesman Jorge Martinez. - Should the Media ID the Alleged Victim in the Kobe Bryant Sexual Assault Case? Pulitzer Prize wining LA Times columnist David Shaw debates rape survivor and advocate Karen Pomer over whether the media should rethink its guidelines on naming victims of rape and sexual abuse. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-16 14:36:21 |
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| Description | Headlines Bush Refuses to Declassify 9/11 Report Sharon: Wall Will Not Come Down Myers Admits Central Iraq Is A “War Zone” Al-Jazeera Says US Is Harassing Staff In Iraq Army Nominee: Larger Military Needed Pentagon Abandons System to Allow Betting on Terror Attacks More Headlines… Assassination as Foreign Policy, Should the U.S. Kill Saddam Hussein? The U.S. hunt for the former Iraqi president intensified yesterday near Tikrit as troops carried out dozens of raids. Democracy Now! hosts a debate between National Security Law director Robert Turner and Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of law on whether the U.S. should assassinate Saddam as they did to his sons last week. Ex-Diplomat Joseph Wilson: Bush May Start Another War in 2004 To Win The Election Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Joseph Wilson predicts the situation in Iraq will deteriorate so much over the next year Bush may resort to start another war in order to win the 2004 election. Wilson is the retired diplomat who visited Niger in a CIA-sponsored trip last year during which he determined the alleged Iraq-Niger uranium deal was bogus. His conclusion was ignored by the Bush White House. U.S. Prison Population Jumps 3.7% to 2 Million; Increase of 700 Inmates Every Week The rapid increase comes at a time when crime is decreasing and state budget deficits are soaring. We speak with the Justice Policy Institute’s Michael Blain. Over 200 WTO Protesters Arrested in Montreal The mini-ministerial meeting in Montreal is a prelude to a much bigger WTO gathering this September where all 146 members will meet in Cancun, Mexico. We speak with Margrete Strand of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-11 21:19:38 |
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| Description | Headlines * Pentagon Program To Launch Market To Bet On Future Terror Attacks * Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Pay $300M For Helping Enron Deceive Investors * Saudis & Bush Hold Emergency Meeting Over 9/11 Report * AIDS Cases Rise For First Time In Decade * Indiana Postpones Execution To Test DNA * Texas Dem. Lawyers Flee to NM to Protest GOP * More Headlines… * Israeli Troops Fire Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets at Protesters Outside West Bank "Apartheid Wall" Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon arrives in Washington today to meet with President Bush on the so-called “road map to peace.” Among issues they will discuss is construction of what the Israelis call a security wall and Palestinians see as an apartheid wall. We go to Jenin to talk with injured ISM activist Jordan Flaherty. * Australian Man Pleads for U.S. Not To Try Son By Secret Military Tribunal Terry Hicks visits the United States with hopes to see his son, David, who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay. Yesterday Hicks locked himself in a cage in New York City to protest his son’s detention. * Could Arianna Huffington Become Governor of California? With the gubernatorial recall vote two months away, Democracy Now! speaks with author Arianna Huffington on her potential candidacy; Green Party candidate Peter Camejo on Gov. Gray Davis and the Enron connection; and Ted Costa, the anti-tax advocate who started the recall initiative. * U.N.-backed School Threatens to Shutdown Radio For Peace International Administrators at the University for Peace in Costa Rico orders shut the hemisphere’s only shortwave radio station dedicated to peace and social justice. Station staff have locked themselves in the station. We go inside the studios to talk to station head James Latham. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-12 03:06:40 |
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| Description | Headlines * 15 More U.S. Soldiers Die In Iraq Over Bloody 8-Day Period * Report: Iraq Occupation Could Turn Into “The Third Gulf War” * U.S. Soldiers Charged With Beating Iraqi POWs * Blair to Face ICC Charges Over Iraq War * U.S. Pressures India To Send Troops to Iraq * Weapons Inspector Nuns Sentenced * More Headlines… * North Korea Threatens to Conduct its First Underground Nuclear Test as Veterans Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Veterans from 16 nations attended a ceremony in Panmunjom, in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea to mark the 50th anniversary of the armistice. We hear from activist Seung Hye Suh and author Martin Hart-Landsberg. * Castro Criticizes EU in Speech Marking 50th Anniversary of the Launch of the Cuban Revolution The nationally broadcast speech was billed as the highlight of three days celebration of Castro’s bold attack on the Moncada army barracks on July 26, 1953. We speak with professor Lillian Guerra and go to Cuba to hear from exiled activist Nehanda Abiodun. * Mother Jones' March of the Mill Children 100 Years Later Actress Betsy Means retraces the steps of Mother Jones’ historic 1903 march from Philadelphia to the Long Island home of President Teddy Roosevelt. The 70-year-old labor organizer was protesting the plight of child laborers. Means performs as Mother Jones in the Democracy Now! studios. |
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| Description | Headlines 9/11: More Damning Indictment of FBI & CIA Than Expected Pentagon Warns Against Liberia Intervention Military Officers Protested Against Releasing Hussein Sons Photos DeLay Heads to Middle East to Oppose Palestinian State California Prepares for an Oct. 7 Gov Recall Vote House OKs Chile, Singapore Free Trade Pacts More Headlines… 9/11 Report: "Incontrovertible Evidence" that Saudi Gov't Supported Hijackers; CIA and FBI Face Scathing Critique Report findings include: FBI informant housed two of the hijackers; no link existed between Iraq and Al Qaeda; possible Saudi agent directly helped two hijackes; U.S. knew Al Qaeda was considering flying planes into buildings. We speak to former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman, reporter Robert Fisk and Stephen Push whose wife died on Sept. 11. Ex-CIA Agent on Cheney Iraq Speech: "Longest Statement of Disinformation" Ever Fed U.S. Public Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday attempted to restate the administration’s case for war at a speech at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute. Robert Fisk: "The Publication of the Uday and Qusay Photographs will Prove to be Either a Stroke of Genius or a Historic Mistake of Catastrophic Consequences" As the U.S. releases the bloody and grisly photos of two men identified as the sons of Saddam Hussein we go to Baghdad to hear from London Independent reporter Robert Fisk about the reaction in Iraq. Monsanto Sues Milk Producer For Advertising It Sells Hormone-Free Milk Monsanto claims the advertisements give the public the impression artificial growth hormones are not safe. But there have long been concerns of the effect on the hormones on both the cows and humans. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-11 15:16:55 |
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| Description | Headlines House Votes to Repeal FCC Regs Congress 9/11 report: No Iraq link to al-Qaida Wolfowitz Admits U.S. Erred in Preparing for Post-Invasion Iraq 3 More U.S. Soldiers Killed; Total Now 238 Mass AG: At least 789 Kids in Boston Area Sexually Abused By Priests California Prepares for Gubernatorial Recall More Headlines… Humanitarian Crisis in Liberia Worsens as U.S. Continues to Debate Sending Troops Monrovia is short of water, food and medicine, 300,000 people are displaced from their homes and hospitals are brimming with wounded civilians. We go to Liberia to speak with Reuters correspondent Alphonso Toweh. In A Stunning 400-21 Vote, House Howls Foul Over Powell & FCC Media Regulations The House overwhelming votes to repeal a key provision of the Federal Communications Commission new media ownership rules. Such a vote was unimaginable just six weeks ago when the FCC voted 3-2 to allow the nation’s largest television networks to grow bigger by owning more stations. How Bush Sacrificed the War on Al Qaeda for the War on Iraq Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh details how the Bush Administration destroyed U.S.-Syrian relations by attacking a convoy of cars inside Syria last month in an attempt to assassinate Saddam Hussein. It turned out the convoy was made up of dozens smuggling goods out of Iraq. Syria has since stopped sharing intelligence with the U.S. Landmark Legislation Proposed to Improve Working Conditions of Day Laborers People rallied throughout the country for the proposed introduction of legislation that ensures wage and health protections for day laborers. The move comes days after the house of a day-laborer in Farmingville, NY was firebombed. Thousands of Young People Gather on Capitol Hill to Protest Child Tax Credit Payments That Shut Out Millions of Low Income Families The protest was organized by the Children’s Defense Fund and elected officials for families with incomes between $10,500 and $27,000 who will not receive the refund. |
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| Description | Headlines U.S. Assassinates Sons of Saddam Hussein, Pentagon Says Two More U.S. Soldiers Die in U.S. Bringing Total to 235 White House Admits CIA Did Warn Them Over Iraq-Niger Link 400,000 Write to Congress Demanding Iraq Intelligence Investigation Judge Rebukes Ashcroft & Drops Two Charges Against Attorney Lynne Stewart U.S. Shuts Down Iraqi Newspaper; Editor Arrested More Headlines… U.S. Army Says Hussein's Two Sons Killed In Firefight With American Troops The top U.S. military commander in Iraq says his troops yesterday killed Saddam Hussein’s two sons, Uday and Qusay. They were the most wanted men in Iraq besides their father. We speak with London Independent reporter Patrick Cockburn. What Really Happened to Jessica Lynch? As Private Jessica Lynch arrives in West Virgina Democracy Now! takes a look at the media coverage of her capture and “rescue” in Iraq. We speak with Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler and listen to an earlier interview with London Times reporter Richard Lloyd Parry. Judge Drops Two Terrorism Counts Against Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart in Major Defeat for the Justice Department A federal judge said the charges Lynne Stewart conspired to support a terrorism organization by delivering messages from her client, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman�s prison cell to his followers in Egypt were unconstitutionally vague. We speak with Lynne Stewart and her lawyer Michael Tigar. House Votes 309-118 to Scale Back Patriot Act; FCC Rules May Be Overturned Too Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) discusses last night?s vote where the House surprisingly voted to bar the Justice Department from secretly searching homes in first vote against Patriot Act. The House may also vote this week to oppose the FCC?s recent media ownership rule changes. And Sanders raises questions about what Vice President Dick Cheney knew about the Iraq intelligence. GOP Warns TV Stations Not to Air Ad Alleging Bush Mislead the Nation Over Iraq Republican attorneys claim that it isn’t the Bush administration who is guilty of misleading the country but the Democrats for running an anti-Bush TV spot. Only one station has refused to run the ad, a Fox station. |
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| Description | Headlines 600 Die in Liberian Fighting; Bush Takes No Action Bush Warns Syria, Iran Will Be Held ?Accountable? For Supporting Terror Congress: FBI Informant Lived With Two of the 9/11 Hijackers Blair Ratings Plunge After Iraq Scientist Suicide GOP Threaten TV Stations Not to Air Dem Anti-Bush Ad U.S. May Open Nuke Talks With N. Korea More Headlines… - Bush Refuses To Take Action as Over 600 Killed In Liberia Dozens of mortar shells were fired throughout the capital, two hit the U.S. Embassy. Secretary General Kofi Annan called for immediate deployment of peacekeeping troops. We talk to Salih Booker of Africa Action. - Nearly 40% of Brits Want Blair To Resign Following Suicide of Gov't Scientist Iraq intelligence scandal grows in London as reporters ask Blair if he has blood on his hands following the apparent suicide of scientist David Kelly. Blair denies he OK’d the leaking of Kelly’s name as a possible source for the BBC’s report that the UK’s Iraq intelligence data was “sexed” up. We talk to longtime Labor MP Tony Benn and the chief political reporter at the London Telegraph. - Can You Achieve Democracy Through Undemocratic Means? A Look At Occupation Watch & the New Governing Council in Iraq We speak with Occupation Watch Center’s Medea Benjamin and Nermeen Al-Mufti in Baghdad and Rev. Patricia Ackerman of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. And we play an interview with the founder of a new women’s shelter in Baghdad Yanar Muhammed. - Republican Committee Chair Calls Police to Arrest Democrats Republican Bill Thomas called in the police to arrest a group of Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee who had fled a late night meeting to protest the way Republicans were handling a pension bill. We hear from Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel who was part of the protest and Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-10 22:29:51 |
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| Description | - Senator Paul Wellstone Demands Albright Investigate "Killing Frenzy" in Colombia Last week, President Clinton signed a $1.6 billion military aid bill for Colombia, allegedly to be used in the so-called war on drugs. This aid package comes at a time when numerous massacres committed by forces linked to the U.S.-backed Colombian military, are being uncovered. It’s interesting that The New York Times ran a front-page article on one of these massacres that took place in February. The piece ran a day after Clinton signed the aid package - Drug Control Or Bio-Warfare Against Colombia? Under pressure from the United States, Colombia has reluctantly agreed to take the first step toward developing a powerful biological herbicide. But scientists and environmentalists say it is virtually a biological weapon. They say that along with killing coca plants, the toxic fungus may pose serious dangers to the environment and human health. These threats are so serious that Florida has suspended plans to test the fungus for its own anti-drug efforts. - Big Losses for Big Tobacco Or Not? It is a number that has captured the attention of the nation–$145 billion. It’s big enough that it sounds like a tax bill being debated in Congress or some new Pentagon project. But, in fact, it is the amount that a Florida jury has ruled that tobacco companies have to pay for damage caused to smokers in the state–and it’s raising a fundamental question: Can Big Tobacco survive it? |
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| Description | Headlines * U.S. General: Troops Facing “Guerilla” War in Iraq * Pentagon To Call Up 10,000 New Reserves; Troop Calls on Rumsfeld to Resign * U.S. Considers Returning to UN to Seek Int’l Help * Pro-American Mayor Murder in Iraq * Tenet Grilled By Senators in Closed Door Session * North, South Korea Soldiers Exchange Fire Along DMZ * More Headlines… - Oakland & FBI Agree Not to Appeal Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney Bombing Decision $4 million jury decision upheld for pair of environmental activists who were nearly killed when a bomb exploded in their car. The FBI originally blamed them although they had been receiving death threats from timber industry supporters. - Jeff "Free" Luers was Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Burning 3 SUVs; He Has Now Been Thrown in Solitary Confinement for Sending a Letter to a Journal We play excerpts of an interview with “Free,” hear a speech from death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and have a debate with filmmaker and anarchist organizer Warcry, Kelly Stoner of Stop Eco-Violence! and Professor Bron Taylor. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-09 20:06:02 |
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| Description | Headlines Bush Takes in $34M in Fundraising With Help From Enron Pals Bomb Kills Puerto Rican Soldier in Iraq Washington Post: Niger-Iraq Link Among Several White House Nuclear Claims Proved False CIA Says Administration Exaggerating Syria’s WMD Threat Anti-Muslim Incidents Increases By 15 percent in U.S. Human Rights Watch: Rapes & Sexual Assault Increase in Iraq More Headlines… - Iran Admits its Security Forces Beat to Death an International Journalist; her Son Demands the Return of her Body to Canada Zahra Kazemi was taking pictures of a notorious prison in Tehran. Democracy Now! speaks with her son, her friend, a Doctor who spoke with witnesses to her beating by Iranian police and a member of the Committee to Protect Journalists. - Trading With the "Enemy": Halliburton & GE Make Millions Trading With Iran As head of Halliburton and as U.S. Vice President, Dick Cheney lobbied to remove sanctions against Iran to allow his business to profit off the Iranian dictatorship. - U.S. Freelance Reporter Billy Nessen Faces a Five Year Sentence in Indonesia We speak with filmmaker David Martinez who traveled with Billy Nessen through Aceh, former U.S. embassy official Edward McWilliams and Lesley McCulloch who was jailed in Aceh. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-09 14:33:18 |
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| Description | Headlines Pentagon Indefinitely Postpones Departure of Some Troops From Iraq Mugabe OKs Secret Deal To Step Down As Zimbabwe President Ex-Defense Secretary: U.S.-N.Korean War Could Begin This Year Iran Offer To Hold Nuclear Talks, U.S. Says No Iran Discovers Giant New Oil Find U.S. Annual Budget Deficit May Surpass Record $450 Billion More Headlines - Intelligence Agents from the U.S. and Australia & a Top UK Researcher Condemn Gov't Falsehoods that Led to Iraq War As President Bush says he relied on darn good intelligence related to Iraq, questions abound in Washington, London and Australia over whether intelligence was misused. Democracy Now! speaks to former Australian intelligence analyst Andrew Wilkie, Cambridge Universitys Glen Rangwala and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern. - The Greatest Hits of Ari Fleischer White House Press Secretary steps down after his 300th press briefing. We look back on his warning Americans to watch what they do and what they say, his memorable exchange with Helen Thomas over whether President Bush valued the lives of Iraqi children and his interactions with Russell Mokhiber, of Ari & I fame. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-08 14:42:25 |
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| Description | Headlines CIA Removed Mention of Iraq-Niger Uranium Deal Three Months Before Bushs State of the Union address London Independent: 20 Lies About the War Another U.S. Soldier Killed as Rumsfeld Warns More Soldiers May Be Needed Belgium Rescinds War Crimes Law Under U.S. Pressure Monsanto Sues Milk Producer For Advertising It Sells Hormone-Free Milk Unemployment Among African-American Rises More Headlines - "It's a Shame that you Have to Walk Down the Street not Knowing What's Going to Happen to Us": The Sakia Gunn Murder Two months after a 15-year-old African-American lesbian is stabbed to death in Newark, NJ in a vicious hate crime, friends, family members and community leaders take on the mayor of Newark, the Principal of West Side High School, the school board, and the national media. - Africa Aftermath As Bush returns from his five-nation tour of Africa we go to Uganda to speak with Hellen Wangusa of African Womens Economic Policy Network and Nigeria to speak with Environmental Rights Actions Oronto Douglas. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-09 14:38:12 |
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| Description | Headlines Rumsfeld: New Evidence Did Not Exist on WMDs before War India, Pakistan and Portugal Say No To U.S. Over Troop Deployment Sen. Levin on Bush’s Use of Fabricated Niger-Iraq Link: “Absolutely Startling” Ex-State Dep’t Official: Bush Lied Over Iraq Threat Top Officials in UK Say Iraq Weapons ‘Unlikely to be Found’ 3 More U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq More Headlines… - Joseph Wilson, Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Debunks Iraq-Niger Uranium Deal and Why the U.S. Went to War Last year the Bush administration sent Wilson to Niger to investigate reports that the African nation sold uranium to Iraq to revamp nuclear program. He found no evidence of the sale, but President Bush cited the “sale” as a reason to invade Iraq. - A Survivor and the Children of One of the Victims Discuss the Racially-Motivated Shooting at Lockheed Martin's plant in Miss. Four of those killed were African-American and evidence is mounting that the incident was a hate crime with colleagues reporting racist incidents involving the killer. - A Tribute to KPFA & Pacifica News Reporter Chris Bruney Chris anchored KPFA’s morning newscasts in Berkeley, CA for the past ten years. He died yesterday at the age of 44 of an apparent heart attack. His colleagues at KPFA remembered him in this tribute. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-09 14:33:11 |
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| Description | Headlines Abbas Threatens to Resign as Palestinian PM Pentagon & Justice Department Blamed For Slowing 9/11 Investigation BBC: CIA Told White House in 2002 No Iraq-Niger Nuclear Link Existed Congressional Dems Call For Investigation Over Iraq Intelligence Pentagon Accused of Under-reporting Number of Attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq Man Kills 5 Co-workers, Including 4 African-Americans, in Racially-Motivated Attack at Lockheed Martin plant - As Bush Travels to South Africa We Hear From Nelson Mandela, Poet and Activist Dennis Brutus, Greg Palast and Others Breaking precedent, Bush is not seeking to speak with Mandela. We’ll go back to January to hear Mandela say Bush “cannot think properly " and that the invasion of Iraq was "the greatest mistake of his life.” And we go to the streets of Pretoria where thousands are protesting Bush’s arrival. - Pentagon Goes Sci-Fi: A Review of DARPA's Plans to Build Hypersonic Attack Drones, the Big Brother-like Lifelog and a Massive Urban Surveillance System The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announces new projects that would give U.S. military the ability to strike at any target in the world within two hours without the need of foreign bases. Meanwhile proposed surveillance programs raise ire of civil libertarians. - Clear Channel Sued For Firing Radio Host Opposed to Iraq War While Clear Channel has kept shock jock Michael Savage on its airwaves, a radio host in South Carolina is fired for speaking out against the war. Roxanne Walker says Clear Channel also forced her to attend pro-war rallies. |
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| Description | Headlines White House Admits Niger Never Provided Uranium To Iraq Despite Statements Saying Otherwise From Bush Islamic Jihad Breaks Cease Fire Citing Palestinian Prisoner Dispute Wall Street Journal: White House Is Hindering 9/11 Commission Investigation In Iraq three U.S. Soldiers Injured U.S. Military Team Arrives in Liberia 10 Demonstrators Die In Nigeria, Police Blamed More Headlines… - Bush Arrives in Senegal to Kick-off Five-Nation Tour of Africa The President will visit Goree Island, one of the best-known memorials to millions of Africans driven from West Africa’s jungles and sold into slavery. In Dakar, more than thousand protesters were arrested ahead of Bush’s arrival. - Five Months Before Being Killed in Iraq a U.S. Marine Speaks Out for Peace We play an excerpt from an interview he gave the day before he was deployed. At the time he asked not to be identified and his voice was electronically altered. - When Are Our Sons, Daughters and Spouses Coming Home From Iraq? Democracy Now! talks to two parents of troops stationed near Iraq. They expected their children to return weeks ago, now all plans are off. And a pair of reporters discuss the changing mood at Fort Stewart Georgia where hundreds of military wives met recently with an official from Pentagon. The wives grew so angry that their husbands were not returning home soon that the official needed to be escorted out of the room. - MSNBC Fires Shock Host Michael Savage After He Tells Caller, "Get AIDS and Die, You Pig" Weekly TV show “Savage Nation” was canned yesterday, two days after Savage’s homophobic remarks aired. He remains on 300 radio stations. We talk to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting’s Steve Rendall and broadcast an excerpt of Savage’s show. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-08 16:39:17 |
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| Description | Headlines 3 U.S. Troops Killed Over 12-Hour Period in Iraq Morale Hits New Low For Soldiers and Families British and Australian Journalists Killed U.S. to Detainees Before Military Tribunal: Confess or Die Liberian Charles Taylor Agrees to Step Down & Urges U.S. peacekeepers Ex-Ambassador Says Bush Administration Misrepresented His Report on Iraq-Niger link More Headlines… - Should the U.S. Send Troops Into Liberia? As Liberian President Charles Taylor accepts asylum offer in Nigeria, Democracy Now! hosts a debate with TransAfrica’s Bill Fletcher and Mel Foote of Constituency for Africa on what the U.S. should do. This comes as President Bush starts a five-nation tour of Africa. - Protests Held Outside "Crypto City," the HQ of the Top-Secret National Security Agency In their annual July 4th protest, Plowshares activists target the NSA for its role in wars from Vietnam to Iraq. - Domestic Weapon Inspecting Nuns Face up to 10 Years in Prison for Anti-Nuclear Protest Action Roman Catholic nun Ardeth Platte talks with Democracy Now! about why she broke into a nuclear silo in Colorado to hammer on a U.S. warplane. This weekend she protested outside the National Security Agency for its role in providing the intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq. - Morale of U.S. Troops and Their Families Back Home Reaches New Low as Three More Soldiers are Killed in Iraq Democracy Now! speaks with Global Exchange’s Medea Benjamin who is leading an international group in Iraq to launch an Occupation Watch Center. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-07 19:38:20 |
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Independence Day Special: A Dramatic Reading of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States with James Earl Jones, Alfre Woodard, Kurt Vonnegut, Danny Glover, Harris Yulin and others | |
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| Description | Independence Day Special: A Dramatic Reading of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States with James Earl Jones, Alfre Woodard, Kurt Vonnegut, Danny Glover, Harris Yulin and others Today is a national holiday commemorating July 4th when American colonies declared their independence from England in 1776. While many in the US hang flags, attend parades and watch fireworks, Independence Day is not a cause of celebration for everyone. For Native Americans it is a bitter reminder of colonialism, which brought disease, genocide and the destruction of their culture and way of life. For African Americans Independence Day did not extend to them. While white colonists were declaring their freedom from the crown, that liberation was not shared with millions of Africans who were captured, beaten, separated from their families and forced into slavery thousands of miles from home. Today we will go back more than 150 years to hear one of the most powerful voices of the abolition movement–Frederick Douglas. Born a slave in Maryland in 1818, Douglas escaped from slavery in the 1830s and became a leader in the growing abolition campaign through lectures and his anti-slavery newspaper The Northstar. He would become a major civil right leader in the Unites States. Douglas gave his Independence Day oration in 1852. Today we’ll hear excerpts of that speech as part of a dramatic reading of Howard Zinn’s classic work: A People’s History of the United States. The great historian gathered with actors and writers several months ago at the 92nd Street Y in New York. The cast included Alfre Woodard, Danny Glover, Marisa Tomei, Kurt Vonnegut, James Earl Jones and others. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-10 14:59:45 |
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| Description | Headlines Bush Taunts Iraqi Opposition: Bring em On One Marine Dead; 10 More US Troops Wounded Bush: Marriage is between a man and a woman. U.S. Govt To Launch TV Broadcasts in Iran Israeli Assassinate Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Member U.S. Considers Troops in Liberia to Monitor Truce - Democracy Now! Exclusive: Why The Carlyle Group Pushed George W. Bush Off Its Board In a broadcast exclusive, Democracy Now! airs a recording of a recent talk by David Rubenstein, founder of the secretive defense contractor Carlyle Group. He recalls how useless Bush was as a board member of Carlyles firm Caterair and his surprise that George W. is now president. We also talk to Dan Briody, author of The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group. - Exposed: U.S. Secretly Built Mobile Germ Unit & Plans to Vastly Expand Bioterrorism Labs U.S. plans to spend about $2.5 billion to build new bioterrorism defense laboratories around the country, many in densely populated areas. 6,000 new employees may soon be given access to some of the worlds most dangerous pathogens. The New York Times revealed yesterday that Dr. Steven Hatfill helped build a U.S. secret germ lab even after he was cited as a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks. - 35 Nations Lose U.S. Military Aid For Not Exempting Americans From International Criminal Court The Bush administration cut off military aid to 35 friendly countries on Tuesday because they have signed on to the International Criminal Court without exempting Americans from possible prosecution. Countries include Brazil, Columbia, Ireland, Peru, South Africa, Switzerland and Venezuela. Democracy Now! hosts a debate on the International Criminal Court. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-08 20:43:55 |
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- Two African-American New Yorkers Die Following Recent NYPD Raids | |
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| Description | - Two African-American New Yorkers Die Following Recent NYPD Raids A month ago Alberta Spruill suffered a heart attack and died after the police kicked down her door and tossed a flash grenade into her apartment. On Saturday a Brooklyn man died 10 days after suffering a heart attack after police raided his house. We talk to other victims of police raids and Manhattan Borough President Virginia Fields. - Another New York Times Scandal? Officers Say Embedded Reporter Judith Miller Influenced Military Decisions in Iraq, Provided Intelligence & Took Part in Army Ceremony We talk to Harpers Magazine Publisher Rick MacArthur who compares The New York Times to the state-run newspapers of the Soviet Union. And we broadcast an excerpt of a recent address by Miller on journalistic ethics. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-08 14:42:58 |
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| Description | Headlines Pentagon To Develop New Generation of Superweapons In Iraq World Food Program Launches Largest Food Emergency Ever AFP: Four US Soldiers Killed in Baghdad Falluja Mosque Destroyed By Explosion U.S. May Cut Aid to 35 Allied Countries Over International Criminal Court The White House Considers $300M Aid to the Palestinians More Headlines… - New Evidence Points to US Violations of International Law in its Treatment of Iraqi Detainees Amnesty International reports that Iraqi prisoners are subject to “cruel, inhuman and degrading conditions” at US detention centers in Baghdad. Hundreds of detainees have also have been denied the right to see families or lawyers or have a judge review their detention. - Anti-War Protestors Sue the New York Police for Violating Their Civil Rights Many protesters found themselves trapped in “pens” and subsequently attacked or arrested by the police department as they protested the upcoming invasion of Iraq by the US. - Could the Supreme Court's Recent Rulings Pave the Way for Bush to Pack the Federal Court w/ Conservative Judges? Attorney Martin Garbus, author of Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court & the Unmaking of American Law, reviews the Court’s recent session and its impact on the future of the federal courts. - The Head of the Environmental Protection Agency Christie Todd Whitman Steps Down Critics say Whitman took an active role in weakening environmental standards across the board–in everything from arsenic in the drinking water to slashing funding for enforcement. |
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| Public Date | 2008-01-07 21:02:38 |
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| Description | Headlines Over 1 Million Celebrate Gay Pride & Major Victories in U.S. & Canada Frist Supports Gay Marriage Constitutional Ban U.S. Delays Elections in Iraq US Launches Crackdown on Opposition as U.S. Death Toll Tops 200 Ex-Argentine Officer Jailed in Spain on Genocide Charges Iran Arrests 4,000 Pro-Reform Protesters More Headlines On the Eve of President Bush's First Trip to Africa, Democracy Now! Looks at Two Flashpoints on the Continent - Liberia and Congo A discussion with Jacob Massaquoi, political and human rights activist in Liberia, Director of Africa Action Salih Booker and founder of the Patrice Lumumba Coalition Elombe Brath. Today is the 43rd anniversary of Congolese independence. Sen. Robert Byrd on Iraq: The Road of Cover-Up is a Road to Ruin The Senates eldest member accuses the White House of revising history regarding Iraqs threat to the world and calls for a full-scale investigation into U.S. intelligence failures. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-22 16:27:39 |
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Supreme Court Strikes Down All Bans on Sodomy and Gay Sex: Largest Victory Ever for Gay And Lesbian Civil Rights in the U.S. | |
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| Description | Supreme Court Strikes Down All Bans on Sodomy and Gay Sex: Largest Victory Ever for Gay And Lesbian Civil Rights in the U.S. The ruling takes away the legal tool courts have used to justify anti-gay discrimination in everything from custody cases to employment. We talk to a lesbian mother who lost custody of her daughter under Alabamas anti-sodomy law. For five years, her partner has been banned from seeing her daughter. Remembering Stonewall A look back on that June night in 1969 when the NYPD raided a gay bar in Greenwich Village leading to the Stonewall Rebellion and a new movement. |
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Edward Said on Israel, Palestine and the Most Recent Middle East Peace Plan | |
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| Description | Edward Said on Israel, Palestine and the Most Recent Middle East Peace Plan Hamas agrees to ceasefire but President Bush derides it and Israel attacks Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinian civilians. Today we hear a major address recorded last week from Edward Said, the internationally renowned author and scholar. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-22 16:27:30 |
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The Two Georges, Orwell and Bush: A Dramatic Reading of George Orwell's Classic Work 1984 Interspersed With Recent News Clips From President Bush and Others | |
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| Description | The Two Georges, Orwell and Bush: A Dramatic Reading of George Orwell's Classic Work 1984 Interspersed With Recent News Clips From President Bush and Others 100 years ago today, author and journalist George Orwell was born. Well spend the hour hearing excerpts from his classic work 1984. The book introduced the terms Big Brother, thought police, newspeak and doublethink. Well also hear clips from President Bush, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Fox News Bill ORelly, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Sen. Robert Byrd and broadcast footage of Donald Rumsfeld meeting with Saddam Hussein in 1983. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-22 18:44:47 |
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| Description | Headlines Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action Bush names Qatari man enemy combatant Israelis conduct mass arrests of Palestinians in West Bank Five Syrians injured in U.S. attack Afghan Man Dies in U.S. custory Supreme Court OKs use of internet filters in libraries More Headlines Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action: Landmark Rulings Hailed as Sweeping Victory for University of Michigan and Colleges Across the Country We go to the steps of the University of Michigan student union and hear the reaction. Students hail the decision as the most important victory in affirmative action in 25 years. Democracy Now! then hosts a roundtable discussion with a leading U. Michigan lawyer and an opponent of affirmative action, leading race critic Manning Marable argues the Supreme Court backed affirmative action to help the U.S. compete under globalized capitalismnot to make reparation or to level the playing field S.C. Man Charged with Threatening the President's Safety For Holding Protest Sign Brett Bursey goes on trial today for simply holding a sign that read No War For Oil outside a President Bush speech last October. Teaching Youth Media: Educational Video Center Airs Film at Human Rights Watch Film Festival The Educational Video Center is holding a benefit film screening at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival on Wednesday. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-22 16:27:42 |
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| Description | Headlines Another Iraqi Oil Pipeline Bombed In Attempt to Prevent US Exports US General Condemns Pentagon’s Iraq ‘Failures’ Report Cast Doubt on Iraq-Al Qaeda Connection US Admits Bombing in Syria in Strikes Aimed at Top Iraqis US Taxpayers to Pay for ‘Coalition of the Billing’ in Iraq Outdated US Cluster Bombs May Have Killed Thousands in Iraq More Headlines… Protesting the War on Women and the "War on Terror" As President Bush and Karl Rove launch the largest political fundraising campaign in history, women’s rights advocates join forces with the peace movement to protest today’s fundraiser in NYC. USDA Opens $3 Million Biotech Conference in Sacramento; Agriculture Ministers From Over 100 countries Are Attending; 1000 march in protest A debate between the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Counsel David Hegwood, Food First’s Anuradha Mittal, who co-edited a new report called: “Voices from the South: The Third World Debunks Corporate Myths on Genetically Engineered Crops,” and Luke Anderson, author of Genetic Engineering: Food and Our Environment Benton Harbor: Where Does it Go From Here? A week after an African-American motorcyclist died in a police crash, the Rev. Russell Baker of Benton Harbor examines the impact of the recent protests and riots on Michigan’s poorest city |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-29 16:29:48 |
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| Description | Headlines Senate Panel Votes to Reverse FCC Decisions, Activists Call Vote Historic Victory Washington May Consider Force Against Syria American Soldier Killed in Attack on US Military Ambulance in Iraq Powell in Israel 21 Settlers Arrested at Yitzhar; Molotov Cocktails Found at Site Justice Dept. Nabs Truck Driver, Accuses Him of Terror Plot on Bkln Bridge More Headlines Senate Commerce Committee Votes to Prevent Nation's Largest Media Conglomerates from Growing Even Larger The Senate has begun to reverse the FCCs vote to relax media concentration rules, but the legislation faces an uphill battle in the House. Zimbabwe's Top Court Orders Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai Freed After Spending Two Weeks in Prison The Zimbabwean ambassador to the U.S. debates critic Patrick Bond on Mugabes rule, free speech and land reform. White House orders EPA to Remove Global Warming Conclusions from State of the Environment Report Original draft concluded that global warming is caused in part by rising concentrations of smokestack and automobile emissions. The final study does not. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-22 16:27:20 |
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| Description | Headlines Pentagon Admits Iraq Guerrilla War Former CIA Chief Blasts Bush on WMD Extra Troops Must Fill Vacuum Beyond Kabul to Quell Warlords, Warns Musharraf Despite US Pressure, UN Declines to Censure Iran on Nuclear Program Bush Warns Iran on Nuclear Weapons Suicide Attack Kills Israeli, Bomber More Headlines The Rosenberg Execution 50 Years Later It was 50 years ago today. June 19, 1953. At around 8 p.m. the U.S. government sent Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair at Sing Sing prison. Thousands demonstrated around the world demanding a last minute stay. It would become the most controversial death sentence in U.S. history. They are the only U.S. citizens to be executed for conspiracy to commit espionage. The government alleged the couple along with Morton Sobell helped the Soviet Union acquire the secret of the atomic bomb. They were survived by two sons. Robert Meeropol was six-years-old at the time. His brother, Michael was 10. They were adopted by the Meeropol family, friends of their parents. One of their sons Robert Meeropols book, An Execution in the Family, has just been published an autobiography by St. Martins Press. Tonight there will be a commemoration titled Celebrate the Children of Resistance at the City Center in New York City. Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte, Pete Seeger and others. On the anniversary of the execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Democracy Now! talks with their children Robert and Michael Meeropol, their granddaughter Rachel and their co-defendant Morton Sobell. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-22 16:27:56 |
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The People vs. The FCC: The War is Not Over | |
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| Description | The People vs. The FCC: The War is Not Over Just two weeks after the Federal Communications Commission granted big media conglomerates greater powers to secure monopolies on media markets, the Senate Commerce Committee will consider legislation tomorrow that would roll-back significant portions of the new rules. Federal Court OKs Post-9/11 Secret Arrests Appeals court backs Justice Dept. decision to withhold the names of hundreds of immigrants detained after Sept. 11. We talk to attorney Kate Martin. Bush Taps 'Embedded Lobbyist' to Head RNC We talk to Public Citizens Joan Claybrook on longtime lobbyist Ed Gillespie and the merger of the Republican Party and corporate America. As U.S. Kills Two Iraqi Demonstrators in Baghdad, Human Rights Watch Demands Full Investigation of U.S. Killings in Falluja New report indicates U.S. troops shot dead 17 and injured 70 in Fallujah on April 28 without provocation. No evidence has emerged that Iraqis shot at the U.S. soldiers first. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-22 16:28:11 |
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Former Green Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader Gives his First Major Address on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | |
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| Description | Former Green Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader Gives his First Major Address on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict It is a severe criticism of our policy that our government has never allied itself with the very, very sizable peace movement in Israel. Judge Frees 12 Residents of Tulia, Texas Who Served Years in Prison Based on the Testimony of a Narcotics Agent Who Has Since Been Indicted More than ten percent of the African-American community was arrested in the 1999 drug sting. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-22 16:28:07 |
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Iranian Student Protests Continue as the UN's Nuclear Agency Calls on Iran to Allow Inspections | |
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| Description | Iranian Student Protests Continue as the UN's Nuclear Agency Calls on Iran to Allow Inspections While President Bush praises the anti-government student protests in Tehran, demonstrators are critical of the U.S., the U.S.-backed monarchists as well as the current Iranian government. Cindy Corrie Speaks at Evergreen State College Commencement to the Classmates of her Slain Daughter Rachel Corrie Rachel Corrie died three months ago today when an Israeli military bulldozer crushed her to death as she tried to nonviolently protest the demolition of a Palestinian home in Gaza. U.S. Peace Activist Brian Avery Returns Home Two Months After Being Shot in the Face in Jenin by Israeli Troops At the time of the attack, doctors feared Avery would never speak again. His tongue was split in two. His jaw remains clamped shut. Today he joins us for a rare interview. The Red and The Blacklist Part 2 Blacklisted screenwriter Norma Barzman recalls how she faced two blacklists in McCarthy-era Hollywood, one for being a political radical, the other for being a woman. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-22 19:39:52 |
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Myrlie Evers-Williams on the Murder of Her Husband Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers Who Died 40 Years Ago Today | |
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| Description | Myrlie Evers-Williams on the Murder of Her Husband Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers Who Died 40 Years Ago Today It was 40 years ago today that a gunshot in the night took the life of Medgar Evers, the Civil Rights leader. His assassination concluded a seminal day in the Civil Rights movement. Should Corporate Criminals Face Jail Time for White Collar Crime? As Martha Stewart might face jail time, former imprisoned insider trader Foster Winans debates Russell Mokhiber, editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter. Road Map to Peace or Road Map to War? Just one week after President Bush met with the Israeli and Palestinian Prime ministers, 25 Israelis and Palestinians were killed in suicide bombings and Israeli military attacks in one of the bloodiest days in the region in years. Pentagon Advisor Richard Perle on North Korea: "We Should Always be Prepared to Go it Alone, if Necessary" Democracy Now! speaks with author John Feffer about the U.S. and North Korea. The House Votes on Whether to Include Some of the Nation's Poorest Working Families in President Bush's Tax Cut A debate between freelance reporter Aaron Schatz and Chief Economist for the Americans for Tax Reform, Dan Clifton. The Red & The Blacklist A look at Hollywood during the McCarthy Era with blacklisted screenwriter Norma Barzman. |
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| Public Date | 2008-03-12 18:17:39 |
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As Attacks on US Soldiers Continue in Iraq We Talk to Robert Fisk who Just Returned from Fallujah | |
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| Description | As Attacks on US Soldiers Continue in Iraq We Talk to Robert Fisk who Just Returned from Fallujah Britain Independent’s chief foreign correspondent discusses the growing revolt among Iraqis, the so-called road map to peace in the Middle East and on his meeting with Hamas leader Abdul Aziz Rantissi. The U.S. and U.N. Refuse to Provide Protection for Witnesses of Massacres: Dr. Sima Samar, Chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission “We keep asking the [UN] Human Rights Commission for an inquiry and investigation into [the mass graves]…I don’t know why it’s delayed…because we do believe in peace with justice…but there is a lot of argument that they don’t want to exchange stability for justice.” Shock Radio/TV Host Michael Savage Sues Online Critics Websites savagestupidity.com, www.michaelsavagesucks.com and www.takebackthemedia.com face $500,000 for backing a boycott organized by GLAAD. Former Congressmember Cynthia McKinney Speaks about the War Abroad and the War at Home “All Americans are being asked to sacrifice so that a few can get butter while the masses get guns.” US Occupation Forces Draw up New Rules for Press Censorship of Iraqi Media Officials say the code is not intended to censor the media, only to “stifle intemperate speech,” but Iraqi journalists who endured censorship under Saddam Hussein are protesting the decision. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-21 22:10:32 |
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Worse than Watergate? Nixon's Chief Counsel on why Bush Could be Impeached Over Iraq | |
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| Description | Worse than Watergate? Nixon's Chief Counsel on why Bush Could be Impeached Over Iraq 30 years after the Watergate scandal which led to the resignation of President Nixon, John Dean, convicted in the cover-up, says President Bush could be impeached if he lied about Iraq’s posession of weapons of mass destruction. On Both Sides of the Atlantic Criticism Mounts Over Bush and Blair's Claims of Weapons of Mass Destruction As weapons inspectors scale back their search in Iraq we talk to reporters from the Washington Post and the London Independent and hear White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer defend the administration’s claims. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft Bans Gay Pride from the Justice Department; President Bush Refuses to Declare June Gay Pride month, Proclaiming June "Home-Owner's Month" The NGLTF says its no surprise there were 12 anti-gay murders last year when homophobia reaches the highest level of government. The Battle for the Courts: Three Supreme Court Justices May Retire, and Hearings for Federal Judge Nominee William Pryor Begin Tomorrow Nan Aron of the Alliance for Justice and James Swanson of the Cato Institute square off. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-21 22:08:01 |
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Rebels call for Liberian President Charles Taylor to Step Down as Attack on the Capital Intensifies | |
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| Description | Rebels call for Liberian President Charles Taylor to Step Down as Attack on the Capital Intensifies As tens of thousands flee the Liberian capital of Monrovia we talk with an opposition leader, Tarty Teh, Washington Post reporter Douglas Farah and Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch. For the First Time in New York History, the Green Party Wins Control of a Village On June 1st, 26 year-old Jason West and his two running mates Rebecca Rotzler, 39, and student Julia Walsh, 23, won majority control of New Paltz, NY. As mayor, West is advocating soybean fuel in village vehicles, reed beds that filter sewage, and college students in village government. 13,000 Arabs & Muslims in U.S. Face Deportation & John Ashcroft Attempts to Expand Patriot Act Constitutional law expert David Cole examines the links between the Palmer Raids of the 1920s and the Justice Department post-9/11 A Gulf War Marine and a War Correspondent Speak About the Reality of War A discussion with New York Times war correspondent and author of What Every Person Should Know About War, Chris Hedges, and Gulf War veteran Anthony Swofford and author of Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles |
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The Two Top Editors of The New York Times Resign | |
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| Description | The Two Top Editors of The New York Times Resign Yes–The New York Times is at a 152-year low—but is it thanks to Jayson Blair? Or is it because the paper has become the Pentagon’s most effective mouthpiece? Rachel Corrie was Crushed by an Israeli Military Bulldozer, Tom Hurndall was Shot in the Head by an Israeli Soldier. Today on the 36th Anniversary of the Occupied Territories, we Speak with the Parent Corrie’s family is supporting resolution HCR111 which calls for an independent investigation into Rachel’s death and for the U.S. to work with the Israeli government to ensure the safety of activists in the Occupied Territories. Rafeef Ziadah, who Lost her Parents in the 1982 Massacre at the Shatilla Refugee Camp, Speaks About Life as a Palestinian Refugee Rafeef hid under a bed while the massacre went on around her. She was four years old. She now works for SUSTAIN–Stop U.S. Tax-Funded Aid to Israel Now. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-21 22:17:42 |
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Acclaimed Author Isabel Allende Compares Two September 11ths: the 1973 CIA-Backed Coup that Overthrew her Uncle, the Democratically Elected President of Chile, and the 2001 Attacks | |
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| Description | Acclaimed Author Isabel Allende Compares Two September 11ths: the 1973 CIA-Backed Coup that Overthrew her Uncle, the Democratically Elected President of Chile, and the 2001 Attacks Isabel Allende’s latest book, My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile is a memoir and a reflection on exile. She writes on 9-11 in 1973 she lost a country, and on 9-11 2001, she gained one. The Weather Underground: A Look Back at the Antiwar Activists Who Met Violence with Violence A conversation with Weather Underground co-founder Mark Rudd on why he went underground for 7 years and has since renounced violence. A new documentary which tells the story of the militant antiwar group holds its premiere run in New York. The First Meeting Between the Israeli and Palestinian Prime Ministers Since the Beginning of the Intifada Comes to an End. Christian Science Monitor’s Cameron Barr reports on the summit in Aqaba, Jordan. Coordinated Actions Across the World Call for an end to the Israeli Occupation and for Immediate Deployment of International Observers in the Occupied Territories “It’s imperative that the international community faces up to its responsibility to bear witness and protect the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza,” says Israeli peace activist Simona Sharoni. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-21 22:13:48 |
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Former Head of the American Jewish Congress Says There Will Never be an Independent Palestinian State as Long as Sharon is in Power | |
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| Description | Former Head of the American Jewish Congress Says There Will Never be an Independent Palestinian State as Long as Sharon is in Power As President Bush Meets with the Palestinian and Israeli Prime Ministers for the first time, a debate on U.S. involvement on the Middle East. Henry Siegman calls Sharon a “destructive force” and recalls Sharon is the “granddaddy” of the settlement movement, which was designed to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. An Army Reservist is Kicked Out of the Service for Refusing to Take the Controversial Anthrax Vaccine A military panel took 40 minutes to return a guilty verdict against Private Kamila Iwanowska. "Direct Order": An Award-Winning Documentary Tells the Story of Members of the Military who were Ordered Against their Will to Take the Controversial Anthrax Vaccine “I’d rather have caught a bullet from an AK 47 than gotten injected with this stuff. At least I would have known what my fate would have been.” American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's Hussein Ibish Discusses Civil Liberties During the "War on Terror" “One of the major features of the so-called war on terror was been a major campaign to reduce civil liberties in the United States to increase the power of the government over the individual.” |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-29 19:33:05 |
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Democracy Now! Goes Live to the FCC Vote on Rules Governing Media Consolidation | |
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| Description | Democracy Now! Goes Live to the FCC Vote on Rules Governing Media Consolidation FCC members prepare the way for the largest wave of media consolidation in U.S. history. "The Whole Thing Reeks of Conflict of Interest. To Begin the Catalog of Corruption Here, You Would Have to do a 24-Hour Marathon." Robert McChesney, author of eight books on media and politics, discusses the the inner-workings of the FCC and the importance of media diversity. Diverse Organizations from Around the Country Testify Against Media Consolidation From the United Church of Christ to the National Association of Black Journalists to Children Now, organizations around the country speak out. "George Bush has Indeed Succeeded in Granting Osama Bin Laden a Wish Beyond his Wildest Dreams…He's Turned the U.S. into the Most Feared and Disliked and, in Many Quarters, Hated Country in the World. Renowned author, linguistics professor and one of the leading dissident voices in the U.S., Noam Chomsky speaks at the University of the District of Columbia. |
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| Public Date | 2008-02-21 22:09:29 |
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Exclusive: Democracy Now! Broadcasts a Recording of a Police Sergeant Interrogating a Man Moments After Police Shoot him 5 Times, Paralyzing and Blinding Him. | |
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| Description | Exclusive: Democracy Now! Broadcasts a Recording of a Police Sergeant Interrogating a Man Moments After Police Shoot him 5 Times, Paralyzing and Blinding Him. Farmworker Oliverio Martinez wails for help, says he is choking and dying, and pleads with the sergeant to stop questioning him. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that his 5th amendment rights against self-incrimination were not violated. We speak with the lawyers for the farm worker and for the police sergeant who interrogated him. Sweet Honey in the Rock: Part II with the Legendary Civil Rights Singers “I think that it is very important to understand that there is an American history of terrorizing its own citizens that’s held in the legacy of African Americans. Families wonder how they can get their young boys to the age of 35 without being killed.” Former Presidential Candidate Ron Daniels, on How the Fight for Civil Rights Continues Today “The Republicans have gained control of both houses of the congress of the United States and their aim and goal is very clear, they also want to take over the judiciary…the right-wing, the arch-conservatives, the reactionaries they will control all three branches of government and that is terrifying to people of color.” President Bush Signs Tax Law that Excludes Some of the Country's Poorest Families from Receiving Child Tax Credit We speak with the director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the watchdog group that discovered how House and Senate leaders excluded these families at the last minute. |
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| Public Date | 2008-03-12 18:18:14 |
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"No More Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway" - Despite a National Call for a Delay, the FCC is Poised to Vote on Media Consolidation Rules on June 2nd | |
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| Description | "No More Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway" - Despite a National Call for a Delay, the FCC is Poised to Vote on Media Consolidation Rules on June 2nd Protests across the country today against Clear Channel, the symbol of media consolidation. Legendary Civil Rights Singers, Sweet Honey in the Rock: Part I of a Democracy Now! Special “In the civil rights movement, in jails, in rallies, the sound was a way of announcing a community…and anybody who walked toward you, including the police, would be walking into your sound, and they would get to you long before they would get to your body.” Diverse Organizations from Around the Country Testify Against Media Consolidation It’s the “McDonaldization of American media,” warns FCC commissioner Johnathan Adelstein. “It’s the same everywhere you go: Big Mac, fries and a Coke.” Washington's "War on Terror" has Made the World a More Dangerous Place A new Amnesty International report concludes, Washington’s “war on terror” has undermined human rights, weakened international law and shielded governments from scrutiny. |
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| Public Date | 2008-03-12 18:22:50 |
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Howard Zinn and Arundhati Roy: A Conversation Between Two Leading Social Critics | |
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| Description | Howard Zinn and Arundhati Roy: A Conversation Between Two Leading Social Critics “One of the reasons for the acceptance of the war by so many Americans…is that the American population has had concealed from it the human consequences of what we’ve been doing.” Supreme Court Refuses to Hear an Appeal on the Hundreds of Secret Deportation Hearings for Immigrants Detained After September 11th The decision is a victory for the Bush administration over freedom of the press. It was New Jersey newspapers that challenged the secret hearings. Arcata City Council Criminalizes Compliance with USA Patriot Act Over 100 cities have passed resolutions condemning the Patriot Act, but a small city in California has taken it a step further. Government Investigates Allegations of Abuse in Two Immigration Facilities Detained in the USA: Behind the INS Curtain, Democracy Now!’s Noah Reibel airs the voices of detainees and their familes at detention centers. "Having invaded Iraq, Bush and his Hawks are Now Getting Ready to go for Regime Change in Tehran" First it was Iraq, now Iran. We speak with Middle East expert Dilip Hiro as Washington sets its sights on the second member of the so-called axis-of-evil. Financial Times: The Bush Administration Planned to Invade Iraq as Early as December White House officials told the American people up until March that the president had not decided to use military force against Iraq and would only consider it as a last resort. You Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want! - A Collection of Remixed War Posters Army Ranger-turned cartoonist, Micah Ian Wright, puts a new spin on old war posters as he takes on the media and military propaganda. |
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| Public Date | 2008-03-06 17:26:29 |
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As Outrage Mounts in New York Over the Police Killing of Another African Immigrant, Democracy Now! Interviews Kadiatou Diallo, Mother of Amadou Diallo. | |
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| Description | As Outrage Mounts in New York Over the Police Killing of Another African Immigrant, Democracy Now! Interviews Kadiatou Diallo, Mother of Amadou Diallo. Kadiatou Diallo is author of My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou. Amadou was shot to death on February 4, 1999 in a hail of 41 bullets. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Calls Israeli Presence in Palestine "Occupation," Stunning Lawmakers; Now, the Foreign Ministry is Weighing Lifting a Ban on the Word President Bush will be meeting with Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas next week. A conversation between Rabbi Michael Lerner, and Ziad Asali on the U.S. “roadmap to peace.” Corporate Profiteering: From Congo to Iraq Greg Palast Discusses the Congo War and Reveals Internal USAID Documents that Outline a Master Plan for Reorganizing the Entire Economy of Iraq |
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| Public Date | 2008-03-06 15:14:45 |
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"Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death," Part 2: Award-Winning Director/Producer Jamie Doran Alleges a Media Cover-Up of US Complicity in the Massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban Prisoners | |
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| Description | "Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death," Part 2: Award-Winning Director/Producer Jamie Doran Alleges a Media Cover-Up of US Complicity in the Massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban Prisoners This recording is not available for purchase through Democracy Now!. Buy the recording at ACFTV’s web site . Jamie Doran says of State Department official Larry Schwartz, “Larry said and I quote directly, ‘You have to understand, we’re involved, we’re in touch with the national [newspapers] on a daily basis—this story won’t run, even if it’s true.’” And television industry insiders told Doran, “not now Jamie.” Democracy Now! Exclusive: Four Peace Activists Throw Their Blood on the Deck of the USS Philippine Sea, the First U.S. Warship to Attack Afghanistan After September 11th As President Bush calls for Americans to unite in prayer, Plowshares activists take the call a step further, quoting from the book of Isaiah to “turn swords into plowshares.” Three Dominican Nuns Await Sentencing for Damaging Nuclear Site in Colorado The nuns cut the chain securing a nuclear missile site in northeastern Colorado and entered. They are convicted of injuring and obstructing national defense, and of inflicting more than $1,000 of damage to government property. Five Members of the Pacifist Catholic Worker Movement Face 10 Years in Prison for Peace Protests at Shannon Airport in Ireland The peace activists poured human blood on the runway that has been servicing the U.S. military, built a shrine on the runway dedicated to Iraqi children and entered a hanger to disarm a warplane. Remembering Peace Veteran Phil Berrigan (1923-2002) Phil Berrigan, a WWII veteran, lifelong anti-war activist and founder of the Plowshares Movement, was the first Roman Catholic priest to be imprisoned for political reasons in the United States. |
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"Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death" Broadcast for the First Time Ever in the US: Eyewitnesses Testify that US Troops Were Complicit in the Massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban Prisoners During the Afgha | |
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| Description | "Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death" Broadcast for the First Time Ever in the US: Eyewitnesses Testify that US Troops Were Complicit in the Massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban Prisoners During the Afgha This recording is not available for purchase through Democracy Now!. Buy the recording at ACFTV’s web site . The film has been broadcast on national television in countries all over the world and has been screened by the European parliament. Human rights lawyers are calling for investigation into whether U.S. forces are guilty of war crimes. But no U.S. media outlet has broadcast the film. U.N. Security Council Lifts a Decade of Devastating Sanctions Responsible for the Deaths of up to One Million Iraqi Children The resolution gives the U.S. administration an international legal mandate to rule Iraq and control its oil until a viable Iraqi government is established. Was the Invasion of Iraq the Deadliest U.S. Military Campaign for Civilians Since Vietnam? We speak with Christian Science Monitor reporter Peter Ford who estimates that 10,000 civilians may have died in the U.S. invasion of Iraq. This translates into 33 Iraqi civilian deaths for every U.S. soldier death U.S. Threatens to Withhold AIDS Drugs from African Countries That Bar Genetically Engineered Foods Greenpeace has launched a campaign against Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist for backing a bill that attempts to coerce African nations into accepting food by suggesting that it could be tied to receipt of AIDS prevention funding. Children's Programming is at Risk from a Concentration of Ownership in the Media As the FCC is poised to unleash the largest wave of media consolidation, a new study has found that concentration of media ownership leads to a dramatic decrease in children’s programming. |
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Telecommunications Industry Has Lavished FCC Commissioners with Millions of Dollars in Travel Gifts | |
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| Description | Telecommunications Industry Has Lavished FCC Commissioners with Millions of Dollars in Travel Gifts The revelations come as the FCC is about adopt new media consolidation rules favorable to industry giants FCC Commissioner Michael Copps Speaks at the Final Public Hearing Before FCC Overhauls Decades-Old Rules Governing Media Consolidation FCC Commissioner Michael Powell, son of Sec. of State Gen. Colin Powell, failed to attend the final hearing on new rules that analysts say will lead to the largest wave of corporate media consolidation in U.S. history The Peaceful Mbuti People Call on the UN to Prosecute Government and Rebel Fighters as Civil War Rages in the Congo We speak with Sinafasi Makelo, a representive of the Mbuti people with the organization Support Action for the Protection of the Rights of Minorities in Central Africa—DRC. As the White House Moves to Develop a New Generation of Nuclear Weapons, Dr. Helen Caldicott Speaks on Nuclear Proliferation and the Invasion of Iraq The Senate voted Tuesday to repeal a 10-year-old ban on research and development of low yield nuclear weapons or mini-nukes |
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| Public Date | 2008-03-06 15:14:52 |
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New York Times Reporter, Chris Hedges was Booed off the Stage and had his Microphone Cut Twice as he Delivered a Graduation Speech on War and Empire at Rockford College in Illinois. | |
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| Description | New York Times Reporter, Chris Hedges was Booed off the Stage and had his Microphone Cut Twice as he Delivered a Graduation Speech on War and Empire at Rockford College in Illinois. “As I looked out on the crowd, I was witnessing things I had witnessed in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina or in squares in Belgrade… it breaks my heart when I see it in my country.” "Rupert Murdoch's Digital Death Star” As the FCC prepares to unleash the largest wave of media consolidation in U.S. history, Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy discusses Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp move to buy satellite TV giant DirecTV. Is the Jayson Blair Affair the Low Point in New York Times’ 150-Year History? Alexander Cockburn asks what about the coverage of Wen Ho Lee and the U.S. invasion of Iraq? He is joined by Danny Schechter in our studio. Cuba: The Next Regime Change? Florida Governor Jeb Bush Denies Allegations That He is Urging His Brother to Invade Cuba A talk by Cuba expert and Fidel Castro biographer John Gerassi. St. Louis Police Stage a 'Pre-emptive Strike' and Arrest 27 Activists Prior to Demonstration The activist community in St. Louis is still reeling from a string of arrests and building raids that were carried out on Friday, prior to the opening of the Biodevastation7 conference and the World Agricultural Forum. |
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| Public Date | 2008-03-06 15:14:54 |
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Will Changes in the Nation's Media Ownership Rules Mark "the Beginning of the End of Our Democracy"? | |
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| Description | Will Changes in the Nation's Media Ownership Rules Mark "the Beginning of the End of Our Democracy"? A debate between the publisher of the Seattle Times and a Vice President at the Tribune Co. which owns 15 newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and Newsday as well as over 25 television stations. In an Exclusive U.S. Interview, Democracy Now! Talks with the Widow of the Al Jazeera Journalist Who Died When U.S. Forces Shelled His Office in Baghdad “Look at the American Dream and how it was Implemented Here: We Lost Our Happiness, We Lost Our Lives, We Lost Our Liberty,” says Dima Tahboub who is suing Iraq war commander General Tommy Franks for war crimes. U.S. Bombing of Basra Kills One Iraqi Boy and Wounds His Brother. Their Mother, Umm Haider, Speaks About Her Family?s Plight. In January 1999, a U.S. cruise missile smashed into a Basra neighborhood in southern Iraq killing 6-year old Haider and spraying his brother, Mostafa, with shrapnel. Who, What, When, Where, How? Did the U.S. Media Follow the Basic Rules of Journalism, or did they "Follow the Flag"? Journalism professor Robert Jensen argues the U.S. media would fail Journalism 101 "This is not American Troops Going After Saddam's Folks. This is Violence in the Streets and it's Out of Control." John Alpert and Sharif Abdel Kouddous join us in our studio to discuss their recent visit to Baghdad. |
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| Public Date | 2008-03-06 15:14:57 |
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Indonesian Military Launches a Massive Attack on Separatist Movement in Aceh | |
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| Description | Indonesian Military Launches a Massive Attack on Separatist Movement in Aceh Indonesian fighter jets bombed the Free Aceh Movement rebels and scores of troops began parachuting into Aceh in what is expected to be Indonesia’s biggest military operation since its invasion of East Timor in 1975. The U.S.A. Faces Wave of Media Mergers and Unprecedented Consolidation if FCC Relaxes Media Ownership Rules FCC Chairman Michael Powell last week refused to delay the upcoming June 2nd vote on media ownership rules. Critics say relaxed rules will lead to more mergers, leaving a few huge companies in control of what people see, hear and read. Dissident FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein Speaks Out Against Media Ownership Deregulation Jonathan S. Adelstein, one of five Commissioners on the FCC, has been attending public hearings across the country to find out the public’s views about FCC media ownership rules. Harlem Woman Dies After Botched Police Drug Raid Early Friday morning, New York police raid a Harlem apartment, knock down the door, throw in a stun grenade and handcuff the occupant. She dies of a heart attack two hours later. The police now say they raided the wrong apartment. We talk with the Rev. Al Sharpton and a black police lieutenant. "The Ballot or the Bullet. It's Liberty or Death. It's Freedom for Everybody or Freedom for Nobody": Malcolm X Would Have Been 78 Years Old Today. We’ll hear his famous speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet” recorded in Detroit in 1964 a year before he was assassinated. |
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| Public Date | 2008-03-05 19:12:25 |
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Radiation is 1,000 Times the Normal Levels Where US Troops Used Depleted Uranium Shells in Baghdad | |
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| Description | Radiation is 1,000 Times the Normal Levels Where US Troops Used Depleted Uranium Shells in Baghdad A discussion with the Christian Science Monitor’s Scott Peterson, who visited four randomly chosen sites in Baghdad and reports that while women and children haven’t been warned, US troops have orders to avoid the sites. Michael Franti: On Government Surveillance and the Role of Artists in a Time of War The acclaimed Bay Area singer joins us in the studio for an interview and to perform with members of Spearhead. Chinese-American Journalist, Author, Activist, Feminist, Lesbian Helen Zia Speaks on the Politics of Identity and the Nature of Evil in the Post-911 U.S.A. Zia is the author of My Country Versus Me: the Story of Wen Ho Lee, and Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People. A House Committee Unanimously Approves a Modified Bush "Bioshield": is it to Protect the American People, or the Pharmaceutical Industry? Under the project, the government will create a new market for ‘bioterror’ treatments by purchasing vaccines or therapies from drug companies once they are developed. Right-Wing Media Strives to Have Danny Glover Dropped as MCI Spokesperson TransAfrica Forum is launching an urgent action alert to supporters across the country, calling for a “dial-in for democracy” to MCI on behalf of TransAfrica Board Chairman Danny Glover and the right to free speech and public debate. |
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Democracy Now! television program for Thursday, May 15, 2003 | |
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| Description | Democracy Now! television program for Thursday, May 15, 2003 Arundhati Roy: “Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy, Buy One Get One Free” The award-winning Indian author addresses a packed audience at Riverside Church in Harlem as “a slave who presumes to criticize her king.” Vinnell Corporation: The Link Between Oil Fields, Saudi Troops, “No Jews” Clauses, Coup Attempts in Grenada, and Monday’s Car Bombings in Saudi Arabia For the second time in a decade, Saudi bombers target the U.S. company which has been training the Saudi military. Monday’s triple car bombing killed 34 including eight Americans. One Third of the Texas State Legislature Flees the State and Takes Refuge in a Holiday Inn in Oklahoma 51 Democrats convene across state lines in an attempt to thwart an effort of House Majority Leader Tom Delay to redraw Congressional districts. We talk to a state representative Mark Homer and commentator Jim Hightower. |
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As Washington & Seoul prepare for talks on North Korea, Noam Chomsky discusses U.S.-Korean relations | |
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| Description | As Washington & Seoul prepare for talks on North Korea, Noam Chomsky discusses U.S.-Korean relations North Korea is saying the Bush administration’s decision to keep Pyongyang on its list of “state sponsors of terrorism” is intended to provide a pretext to attack the country and make nuclear talks tougher. UN Security Council to Discuss US Proposal that Would Lift the Sanctions on Iraq and Give US Forces Full Control of Iraq's Oil We talk to the former head of the UN Oil for Food Program, who resigned in protest of the sanctions. Apartheid Victims in South Africa Are Still Suffering Study finds blacks are getting poorer and whites are getting richer, and an activist who lost both his arms in a government assassination attempt says a $4,000 government reparations payment is not enough. Operation Strangelove: "Stop Cowboy Diplomacy!" Nearly 40 years after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s classic Cold War satire “Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” is getting a second life, thanks in part to President Bush. |
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Gore Vidal on the "United States of Amnesia," 9/11, the 2000 Election and the War in Iraq | |
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| Description | Gore Vidal on the "United States of Amnesia," 9/11, the 2000 Election and the War in Iraq One of America’s most acclaimed essayists and historians in an extended interview with Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman. We’ll also hear a recent speech by Gore Vidal recorded last week. Britain’s Longest Serving MP Tam Dalyell Criticized for Calling Bush Administration a "Cabal" Democracy Now! hosts a debate between Dalyell and Eric Moonman of the Zionist Federation on whether the statements were anti-semitic. U.S. Sends Chief Weapons Search Team Home From Iraq Empty-handed Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman, just back from Iraq, discusses the failure of the U.S. to uncover evidence of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons in Iraq. The Philippines: The Next Front in the War on Terror? As Filipino police make an arrest in Saturday’s bombing, we’ll hear from Philippine author and journalist Luis Francia, author of Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999. |
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Arundhati Roy on Empire, the Corporate Media, Indian Politics, Her Childhood and War | |
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| Description | Arundhati Roy on Empire, the Corporate Media, Indian Politics, Her Childhood and War “There are two ways that Empire spreads its tentacles–one is with cruise missiles and daisy cutters…the other is with the IMF checkbook,” says the acclaimed Indian writer who joins us in our Firehouse studios. Israel Raids ISM Headquarters & Bars Peace Activists from Gaza The raid came hours after the Israeli military announced all foreigners entering the Gaza Strip will be required to sign waivers absolving the Israeli army from any responsibility if the army shoots them. The Right Reverend Paul Moore, 1919-2003 The retired Episcopal bishop of New York, known for speaking out against corporate greed, racism, military spending and for more assistance to the nation’s poor, died on May 1. Bombing in Philippines Kills 10 in the Town of Koronadal on the Island of Mindanao We hear from Filipino activist Victoria Tauli-Corpuz of the Indigenous Peoples Network. |
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Protests Mark 30th Anniversary of New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws | |
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| Description | Protests Mark 30th Anniversary of New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws Hip hop legend Russell Simons & the Rev. Al Sharpton call for repeal of the laws outside Gov. Pataki’s office. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act: Is it to Protect Mothers or Undermine Roe v. Wade? On Wednesday, Congressional Republicans introduced the “Unborn Victims of Violence Act” that would make it a crime to kill or injure a fetus. Children Read Mother's Day Cards to Incarcerated Mothers Two million children in the US now have a parent in jail. Today we’ll hear children reading their Mother’s Day Cards to their moms in prison and hold a roundtable discussion on the plight of incarcerated mothers. Mother's Day as a Day of Activism, Resistance and Women's Solidarity in the spirit of suffragist Julia Ward Howe women across the country organize Mother’s Day rallies, actions and celebrations. Cop Takes Midnight Photos of Pacifist Teacher's Classroom Vermont teacher Tom Treece talks about why a local police officer snuck into his classroom at 1:30 a.m. to take photographs. Bush May Invoke Executive Privilege to Keep 9/11 Docs Away From Congressional Investigators Democracy Now! talks to a man who lost his wife in the attacks and is preparing to sue the White House. Wounded Knee II, 30 Years Later American Indian Movement ended its occupation of the village of Wounded Knee in May, 1973, but U.S. government land grabs continue today. |
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Looks Like News, Sounds Like News - But Paid for By Drug Companies | |
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| Description | Looks Like News, Sounds Like News - But Paid for By Drug Companies Morley Safer of 60 Minutes Introduced Hundreds of Fake “News Breaks” Broadcast On Public Television; CNN’s Aaron Brown and CBS’ Walter Cronkite May Back Out After a News Expose Revealed Newscasters Were Blurring the Line Between New and Advertising Global AIDS, TB and Malaria Fund Facing Massive Shortfall in Funding: The US Has Given $200 Million Out of a Requested $3.5 Billion Per Year While the pharmaceutical industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising, lobbying, and political campaign contributions in the last few years, a new Congressional study has found that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is threatened by a lack of money. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz Secretly Create New Pentagon-Based Intelligence Unit Pulitizer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh examines the role the office of special plans in the lead-up to Invading Iraq. Harsh New York Rockefeller Drug Laws Turn 30: Hip Hop Pioneer Russell Simmons & Anthony Papa Who Served 12 Years for a First-Time Offense Call for Repeal of the Laws Three decades ago today, New York became the first state in the nation to require harsh prison sentences for all drug offenders. A Look at How a Single Officer in Tulia Texas Arrested 46 People On False, Trumped-Up Drug Charges: Falsely Convicted Suspects Join us in the Studio In the tiny town of Tulia, Texas in 1999, a single under-cover officer arrested 43 people arrested on charges of selling small amounts of cocaine. The officer had no corroborating evidence in the biggest drug sting in local history. |
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"At Least When Saddam Was Here There May Not Have Been Freedom But There Was Security: Democracy Now! Producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports From The Streets of Baghdad | |
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| Description | "At Least When Saddam Was Here There May Not Have Been Freedom But There Was Security: Democracy Now! Producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports From The Streets of Baghdad The Washington Post is reporting that U.S. occupation authorities have allowed scores of Baath members to reclaim jobs including some of the most senior positions inside such ministries as trade, industry, oil, irrigation, health and education. As President Bush Names a New Ruler of Iraq, Humanitarian Groups Say the U.S. Is More Concerned with Building An Administration Than with the Health and Well-Being of the People Once again, Iraq has a new ruler. Iraqi Civilians Sue General Tommy Franks for War Crimes As the Bush administration gives the leadership in occupied Iraq a face lift, Iraqi civilians are preparing to sue Gen. Tommy Franks and other U.S. military officials for war crimes in Iraq. Survivors of the Worst Industrial Accident in World History to Confront Dow Chemical at Shareholder's Meeting: Over 20,000 People Were Killed in Bhopal, India Tomorrow, the survivors of the worst industrial accident in world history will confront the company responsible at its annual shareholders’ meeting. U.S. Is Buying Data On Foreign Citizens - and ChoicePoint Is Selling It Governments across Latin America have launched investigations after it has been revealed that a US company is obtaining personal information on millions of citizens in the region and selling it to the Bush administration. Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Criticizes President Bush's Proposed $550 Billion Tax Cut As President Bush pushes for a $550 billion tax cut, 2000 Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader discusses his view of the economy. |
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"It's Clear That Islam Is On the Way to Disappearing": The Words of Israeli Tourism Minister Benny Elon, Who Is Set to Lobby Christian Fundamentalists Close to President Bush Against the Middle East P | |
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| Description | "It's Clear That Islam Is On the Way to Disappearing": The Words of Israeli Tourism Minister Benny Elon, Who Is Set to Lobby Christian Fundamentalists Close to President Bush Against the Middle East P Palestinian and Israeli extremists are doing everything they can to sabotage the US-backed so-called “road map to peace”. U.S. Hires Christian Fundamentalists to Produce News for Iraqis The U.S. government last week launched its Arabic language satellite TV news station for Iraq. United for Peace & Justice Organizer Leslie Cagan Speaks On the State of the Anti-War Movement After the Invasion of Iraq This weekend United for Peace and Justice organizer Leslie Cagan spoke at the American Spirit, Values & Power: Resisting “Empire,” Affirming Our Vision. The conference took place at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Anti-Apartheid Leader Walter Sisulu Dies at the Age of 90 Speaker of the South African National Assembly Frene Ginwala Talks About the Man Who Worked Quietly Behind the Scenes As Nelson Mandela Became the Public Face of the Mass Liberation Movement. "The Bookie of Virtue": Moral Crusader and Former Drug Czar Bill Bennett Made Millions Lecturing People On Morality-and Blew $8 Million On High Stakes Gambling He served as Secretary of Education and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President Ronald Reagan. Inside the Secret Hearings of Joseph Mccarthy: Newly Released Documents Shed Light On the Questioning of Aaron Copland, Langston Hughes and Others Sen. Joseph McCarthy used closed-door secret sessions to winnow out witnesses who might have challenged him in the sensational anti-communism hearings 50 years ago. |
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Israeli Troops Shoot Dead Another Journalist in the Occupied Territories, According to Witnesses: James Miller Was An Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker | |
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| Description | Israeli Troops Shoot Dead Another Journalist in the Occupied Territories, According to Witnesses: James Miller Was An Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker Another journalist has been killed in the Occupied Territories. James Miller was an award-winning British documentary filmmaker. 33 Years Ago Yesterday, US National Guardsmen Fired Into a Crowd of People at Kent State University Who Were Protesting the Vietnam War, Killing Four We’ve just been talking about the Israeli military’s killing of British journalist James Miller. Another British journalist based in the region, Justin Huggler, told Democracy Now! he believes the US military is partly to blame. He said when US soldiers fired on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, killing two journalists, it sent a message to armies around the world that it is okay to kill journalists. Patriot Raid: Citing Homeland Security & Patriot Act, Ins Raids NYC Restaurant, Questions Staff at Gunpoint and Detains Patrons “A month ago I experienced a very small taste of what hundreds of South Asian immigrants and U.S. citizens of South Asian descent have gone through since 9/11, and what thousands of others have come to fear. I was held, against my will and without warrant or cause, under the USA PATRIOT Act. While I understand the need for some measure of security and precaution in times such as these, the manner in which this detention and interrogation took place raises serious questions about police tactics and the safeguarding of civil liberties in times of war…” Operation Homeland Resistance: As Immigration Detainees Complain About Mistreatment in Jail, a Coalition of Activists Plan New Campaign to Oppose the War at Home Opposition against the Patriot Act continues to grow. Later today a coalition of immigration and human rights groups are launching a new campaign called Operation Homeland Resistance to protest the Patriot Act and the war on home post 9/11. As the US Considers Normalizing Relations with the Indonesia Army, We Talk with Lesley Mcculloch, a Scottish Academic Who Was Recently Released From An Aceh Jail The US Ambassador to Indonesia said last week the United States wants to normalize relations with the Indonesian army. But Ambassador Ralph Boyce said obstacles remain, including suspicions that Indonesian soldiers were involved in the murder of two American teachers. |
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GW's Checkered Military Past | |
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| Description | GW's Checkered Military Past As President Bush Co-Pilots a Navy Plane Onto An Aircraft Carrier, We Speak with Biographer Bill Minutaglio About GW’s Checkered Military Past. "The Iron Triangle: The Secret History of the Carlyle Group" Author Dan Briody connects the dots between the Bush family, the Saudi Royal family, Osama Bin Laden’s family and Donald Rumsfeld’s inner circle The Secrets of September 11, What Is the White House Hiding? a Conversation with Newsweek Investigative Reporter Michael Isikoff As the White House plots a 2004 campaign plan, administration officials are waging a behind-the-scenes battle to restrict public disclosure of key events relating to the September 11 attacks–this according to Newsweek. Did Donald Rumsfeld Aid North Korea's Nuclear Program?: A New Report Reveals Rumsfeld Was On Board of Zurich Firm Abb Which Sold North Korea Two Nuclear Reactors A new report reveals Rumsfeld was on the board of Zurich-based firm ABB which sold North Korea two nuclear reactors. [includes rush transcript] Occidental Petroleum Sued for Role in Civilian Massacre in Colombia On December 13, 1998, Luis Alberto Galvis lost his mother, sister and cousin in a U.S. air raid in Colombia. Celebrations Continue in Vieques Following the Departure of the U.S. Military The residents of Vieques are celebrating the US Navy’s withdrawal from the Puerto Rican Island. |
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U.S.-Backed Middle East Peace Plan Released: A Debate Between Electronic Intifada and AIPAC | |
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| Description | U.S.-Backed Middle East Peace Plan Released: A Debate Between Electronic Intifada and AIPAC A long-awaited U.S.-backed peace plan for the Middle East was published last night. |
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An Infringement of Freedom of the Press? the FBI Opens and Seizes Mail Sent From One Associated Press Reporter to Another | |
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| Description | An Infringement of Freedom of the Press? the FBI Opens and Seizes Mail Sent From One Associated Press Reporter to Another Last September a reporter with the Associated Press in the Philippines sent a FedEx package to a colleague in Washington. Who Was Deep Throat? a University of Illinois Professor and His Class Say They Have Uncovered the Identity of the Nixon Insider Who Exposed the Story Behind the Break-in of Watergate It may be one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century. Who was Deep Throat? Who was the White House insider who tipped off the Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein? An Exclusive Look at a U.S. Bombing in Iraq That Killed Three Family Members in Iraq: Journalist Julia Guest Discusses the Tragedy She Came Across While Reporting in Iraq A month ago a U.S. bomb landed on an Iraqi farmhouse. Three Iraqi civilians were killed. They were all members of the same family. The story received no attention in the international press but independent journalist Julia Guest came across the scene a day after the attack and files this report. Leaked Document Exposes Pro-Israel Lobby's Manipulation of U.S. Public: We Talk with Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada The Electronic Intifada has obtained a document prepared for pro-Israel activists by the public relations firm The Luntz Research Companies and The Israel Project. The document spells out the tactics that Israel and its US advocates should use to maintain support for Israel and its hardline policies. Former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz Turns Himself in to US Forces Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill and journalist Dilip Hiro talk about Aziz. China Quarantines Thousands of Beijing Residents As Sars Worsens Chinese officials sealed off a second major hospital and threw up roadblocks up around Beijing today to combat the deadly virus SARS. Ex-Agent Indicted in Tulia Drug Cases The undercover officer who ran a controversial drug sting in Tulia four years ago was indicted yesterday on charges of lying under oath during recent hearings to determine if the convictions he obtained were legitimate. |
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Precarious Situation in Baghdad: Report From Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness | |
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| Description | Precarious Situation in Baghdad: Report From Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness In Baghdad, hundreds of Shiites yesterday staged demonstrations outside the Palestine Hotel for the second straight day. They demanded the release of Baghdad’s leading Shiite cleric Sheikh Muhammad al-Fartusi, who they said had been arrested by US forces. Mines and Unexploded Munitions in Iraq Continue to Maim and Kill: Sean Sutton of the Mines Advisory Group Speaks From Northern Iraq Mines and unexploded munitions have killed 52 people and injured 63 in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk over just the past week. The Daily Mirror of London is reporting that most of the victims were children. Iraq is being reminded once again that long after the combat fighting ends, the killing continues. Discussion On Use of Animals in the Military “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” Newly Discovered DNA Evidence Proves Death Row Juvenile Innocent Pilgrimage and Protest, the Shia of Iraq: We Speak to Professor Abukhalil About Shia Sentiment in Iraq More than two million Shi’ite Muslims are converging on the Iraqi holy city of Karbala, an Al-Jazeera correspondent told Democracy Now! today. Many of them are demanding that U.S. troops get out of the country. The numbers could surpass one million this week as the pilgrimage climaxes. Columbia University Professor Edward Said: History, Colonialism and How the U.S. Is Changing the Map of the Middle East Last week Columbia University professor Edward Said spoke at a 25th anniversary commemoration of his 1978 classic work “Orientalism.” Today we listen to a short excerpt of Said on colonialism and how the U.S. is changing the map of the Middle East. |
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Dr. April Hurley, Recently Back From Baghdad, Speaks About Ali Ismaeel Abbas, the Badly-Burned Child Amputee Wounded in a Missile Strike On His House | |
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| Description | Dr. April Hurley, Recently Back From Baghdad, Speaks About Ali Ismaeel Abbas, the Badly-Burned Child Amputee Wounded in a Missile Strike On His House “Can you help me get my arms back? Do you think the doctors can get me another pair of hands? If I don’t get a pair of hands I will commit suicide.” These were the words of 12 year-old Ali Ismaeel Abbas who lost his lower arms, was orphaned and received severe burns when a missile hit his home 10 days ago. A Debate Between the Southern Baptist Convention, the Council On American-Islamic Relations and a Professor of Religious Studies On Christian Missionary Groups Heading to Iraq Christian relief agencies are hot on the heels of the invading US army to enter Iraq and provide humanitarian aid–as well as a touch of the gospel. Bechtel Group Wins First Major Iraq Reconstruction Contract The Bush administration has awarded the Bechtel Group the first major contract for Iraq’s reconstruction. On the 100th Anniversary of the Publication of 'The Souls of Black Folk' a Look at the Life of W.E.B. Dubois “Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” That was how writer and civil rights leader W.E.B. DuBois opened his landmark work "The Souls of Black Folk. Ghetto Life 101: Lealan Jones Speaks About War and the Radio Documentary He Made 10 Years Ago in Southside Chicago Ten years ago LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman were given tape recorders and microphones and a little guidance on how to use the equipment. |
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U.S. Forces Kill at Least a Dozen in Mosul: Independent Journalist May Ying Welsh Look at What the City Was Like Before the Invasion | |
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| Description | U.S. Forces Kill at Least a Dozen in Mosul: Independent Journalist May Ying Welsh Look at What the City Was Like Before the Invasion Earlier this week the Iraqi city of Mosul made headlines around the world when US troops fired on a crowd of civilians there. Al Jazeera reports over a dozen people died in the shooting. Dozens more were injured. Did U.S. Antiquities Dealers Plan to Loot Iraq Themselves: A Debate Between the American Council for Cultural Policy and the Cambrian Archaeological Association The looting of museums in Iraq has left thousands of invaluable artifacts missing, including the limestone Warqa Vase of 3,500 BC, the bull’s head harp of Ur, and the squatting Akkadian king of 2,300 BC. The Pentagon, Propaganda & PR: A Look at Victoria Clarke & Margaret Tutwiler and Washington's Public Relations Campaign On Iraq In many ways Victoria Clarke has become the voice of the Pentagon. As the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Clarke oversees daily press briefings. She has also been credited with forming the idea of embedded journalists. Noam Chomsky On the Invasion of Iraq, U.S. Global Dominance, Oil and How Washington Is Helping to Ignite a New Arms Race Baghdad is still in a dangerous state of chaos. |
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The Unexploded Bombs of Baghdad: Christian Science Monitor Reporter Scott Peterson Reveals How Cluster Bombs Are Still Killing Iraqis | |
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| Description | The Unexploded Bombs of Baghdad: Christian Science Monitor Reporter Scott Peterson Reveals How Cluster Bombs Are Still Killing Iraqis “A two-inch-long black cylinder hangs on a white "stabilizer” ribbon from the branch of a lemon tree, a deadly fruit in a leafy Baghdad neighborhood. Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia Mckinney Speaks Out On the Unseen Costs of War The London Observer reported this weekend that the US multinational corporation DynCorp has won a multi-million dollar contract to police Iraq. DynCorp began recruiting for a private police force last week. U.S. Marines Raid the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad: We Go to the Iraqi Capital to Speak with a Reporter Inside the Hotel US Marines raided the Palestine Hotel yesterday morning. That is where foreign journalists are staying, and is also where the US has set up a temporary operations base. The Baseball Hall of Fame Cancels "Bull Durham" Celebration Citing Actor Tim Robbins' Opposition to War. Robbins Joins us in Our Firehouse Studio Bull Durham. Jacob’s Ladder. Bob Roberts. Short Cuts. The Hudsucker Proxy. The Shawshank Redemption. Dead Man Walking. Cradle Will Rock. "Democracy Is Coming To Iraq And Is Being Met With U.S. Gunfire": 20,000 Shia Muslims Protest Against U.S. Led Government Talks In Nasiryah. As'ad Abukhalil Talks About The Prospect Of A Civil War Bet On Tuesday, some 20,000 people, mostly Shia Muslims, converged on Nasiriyah to protest the first talks in Iraq on a post-invasion government. |
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- Democracy Now! Vs.the New York Post: Dn! Host Amy Goodman Debates Post Columnist John Podhoretz On C-Span in a Live Simulcast with Pacifica. They Discuss War, the Peace Movement and What Comes | |
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| Description | - Democracy Now! Vs.the New York Post: Dn! Host Amy Goodman Debates Post Columnist John Podhoretz On C-Span in a Live Simulcast with Pacifica. They Discuss War, the Peace Movement and What Comes - Kurds Pull Out of Kirkuk After Turkey Threatened to Send in Troops: We Go to Northern Iraq for a Report In Northern Iraq Kurdish forces have said they will hand over control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk to US forces. - Congress Considers Bill to Grant Automatic Citizenship to Some Immigrant Soldiers Fighting in Iraq: But There Is a Catch, the Law Would Only Apply to Soldiers Who Die in Combat Immigration officials have decided to grant citizenship to seven US soldiers now that they have died in Iraq. - Saying No to War By Saying No to the Irs: With the Deadline for Filing Income Tax Four Days Away, Thousands of Americans Are Refusing to Pay Federal "War" Taxes According to the government’s Unified Budget for 2003, a measly 17 percent of the federal budget is earmarked for the military, while over three times as much is spent on Social Security and Medicare. However when you look at the actual budget—that which comes from taxes, minus Social Security funds—we’re spending nearly half of our budget, about $775 billion, on past and present military expenses. |
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Iraq Regime Disintegrates As Fighting and Looting Continues in Baghdad: May Ying Welsh Reports Live From the Iraqi Capital | |
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| Description | Iraq Regime Disintegrates As Fighting and Looting Continues in Baghdad: May Ying Welsh Reports Live From the Iraqi Capital Looting is surging and buildings have been set on fire in Baghdad today as fighting continues in some parts of the city. Spanish Journalists Protest Death of Colleague Who Was Killed By U.S. Forces Spanish Journalists protested the death of a Spanish TV cameraman killed by a U.S. tank shell in Baghdad yesterday by putting their cameras, microphones and notebooks on the floor as Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar arrived at the Senate. Kaveh Golestan 1950-2003: A Look at the Life of the Pulitzer Prize Winning Iranian Photojournalist Who Was One of 10 International Journalists Killed in Iraq The lives of Michael Kelly and David Bloom have become widely known across the country over the past week. They are the two U.S. journalists who died while covering the invasion of Iraq. Kelly, an editor of Atlantic Monthly, was killed on Friday and Bloom, an NBC TV host, died on Saturday. U.S. Occupies An Arab Capital for the First Time in History As Hussein's Regime Falls: British Reporter Andrew Buncombe Joins US From Baghdad US troops, tanks, and armored vehicles rolled in and occupied the capitol with only scattered resistance. Thousands of residents poured into the streets. They celebrated, greeted US troops with cheers and even flowers, looted, and tore down symbols of Saddam’s rule. It is the first time in history that the United States has occupied an Arab capital. A Discussion with An Iraqi American Whose Father Was Murdered and Mother Was Jailed By Saddam Hussein As Saddam Hussein’s regime falls, Democracy Now! talks to an Iraqi America man who opposed the war although his family had been brutalized by Hussein. Salam Al-Rawi’s father was tortured and murdered. His mother was jailed. Turkey Sends Military Observers Into Kirkuk While U.S. Prepares to Install a New Government: A Look at What Happens After the Invasion Ends with Writer Dilip Hiro and Iraqi American Salam Al-Rawi Turkey is sending military observers to Kirkuk with U.S. approval, according to the Associated Press. This follows an Iraqi Kurdish move into the oil-rich city in northern Iraq. Turkey has repeatedly said that it will not accept Iraqi Kurdish control of Kirkuk. |
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A President, Viceroy, Governor Or Sheriff? a Look at Jay Garner, the U.S. General and Defense Contractor Slated to Oversee Post-War Iraq | |
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| Description | A President, Viceroy, Governor Or Sheriff? a Look at Jay Garner, the U.S. General and Defense Contractor Slated to Oversee Post-War Iraq “President, viceroy, governor, sheriff. It is difficult to know what to call Jay Garner, the retired US general who will run Iraq if and when Saddam Hussein is deposed” U.S. Bombs Al Jazeera and Abu Dhabi TV Offices in Baghdad Killing One: We Talk to Jihad Ballout From Al Jazeera A US bombing raid also hit Al Jazeera’s Baghdad office. Al-Jazeera reporter Tareq Ayoub has died from injuries sustained in the attack, and a cameraman is in the hospital. The office of another Arabic news network, Abu Dhabi TV, was also hit. The BBC reports the station has lost contact with its reporter. Over 1,000 Protest in Northern Ireland Where Blair & Bush Hold War Summit We are going to go now to Northern Ireland where President Bush and British Prime Minister have been meeting outside Belfast to discuss the administration of post-war Iraq and the role of the United Nations. U.S. Forces Shell Palestine Hotel in Baghdad Where Most of the Unembedded International Reporters Were Staying, at Least One Journalist Is Killed. We Go to Baghdad to Speak with Independent Journalist The Battle for Baghdad is raging. Plumes of smoke are billowing from the city as tanks, artillery and planes attack government ministries and official buildings. Colorado Court Convicts Three Nuns for Anti-War Action: Plowshare Activists Had Broken Into U.S. Missile Silo to Protest War Three Catholic nuns were found guilty yesterday for breaking into a U.S. silo missile in northern Colorado. The women went on to the military base on October 6 to mark the first anniversary of the Afghanistan bombing. They cut cables and drew a cross with their own blood on the lid of the unmanned Minuteman III silo. The women, Carolyn Glibert, Ardeth Platte and Jackie Hudson, face up to 30 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000. The Plowshare activists said their action was in accordance with President Bush’s call to dismantle weapons of mass destruction. Police Fire Rubber Bullets, Wooden Pellets and Concussion Grenades at Anti-War Protesters and Dockworkers Yesterday in Oakland: In New York 100 Arrested at Peaceful Protest Outside of Carlysle Group In California, police yesterday fired rubber bullets, wooden pellets and concussion grenades during an anti-war protest at the Port of Oakland. At least six demonstrators and six longshoremen standing nearby were injured. Longshoremen were pinned against a fence and caught in the line of fire. Police also used sting grenades, which are rubber pellets accompanied by tear gas. To Remember the First Anniversary of the Israeli Invasion of Jenin, We Hear the Story of a Palestinian Survivor Susan Baroud, assistant editor of the book |
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U.S. Forces Reportedly Enter Saddam Hussein's Palaces After Thousands of Iraqis Are Killed: We Go to Baghdad for a Report From May Ying Welsh | |
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| Description | U.S. Forces Reportedly Enter Saddam Hussein's Palaces After Thousands of Iraqis Are Killed: We Go to Baghdad for a Report From May Ying Welsh U.S. ground forces invaded Baghdad again today. US officials say they have entered two palace complexes of President Saddam Hussein. Israeli Forces Shoot and Seriously Injure U.S. Peace Activist: We Talk with An Eyewitness in Jenin Just weeks after Rachel Corrie of Olympia was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza town of Rafah, Israeli forces nearly killed another U.S. peace activist on Saturday, 24-year-old Brian Avery. Justice Department Detains Computer Engineer and Bars Attorneys From Discussing the Case: A Former Intel Vice President Creates Website to Highlight the "Disappearance" His name is Mike Hawash. He is a father. A computer programmer with Intel. A U.S. citizen. With the Number of Casualties in Baghdad Soaring, Hospitals Are Forced to Stop Counting: The International Red Cross Responds to the Humanitarian Crisis The International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday the number of casualties in Baghdad is so high that hospitals have stopped counting. Roundtable On Iraq: Katrina Vanden Heuvel of the Nation, Alexander Cockburn of Counterpunch, Michael Albert of Z Magazine and Afp Reporter Nayla Razzouk in Baghdad Discuss the Fir A US F-16 warplane yesterday bombed a Kurdish convoy traveling with US special forces in Northern Iraq, killing at least 18 people. |
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- U.S. Forces Close in On Baghdad From Two Directions: We Go to the Iraqi Capital to Talk with Umembedded Reporter May Ying Welsh | |
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| Description | - U.S. Forces Close in On Baghdad From Two Directions: We Go to the Iraqi Capital to Talk with Umembedded Reporter May Ying Welsh US troops have reached the Baghdad airport after fierce fighting with Iraqi forces. US troops are closing in on Baghdad from two directions. The Pentagon says they are just six miles from the edge of the city. - Kesbeh Family Arrives in Jordan After Being Deported From Houston: We Talk with Them From a Refugee Camp Where the Family of Nine Now Lives Near Penniless in a Single Bedroom As the U.S.-led invasion rages in Iraq, the persecution of Arabs and Muslims continues at home. - Green You Go, Yellow You Are Questioned and Red You Don't Fly: As Delta Airlines Prepares to Rate the Terror Threat of Every Passenger, We Host a Debate On Privacy and Security There is a new website that you might have heard of. Its address is boycottdelta.org. Its logo is “Less leg room. No privacy.” - Over 60 People Dead After US Bombs Impoverished Iraqi Neighborhood in Hilla: We Talk to the AFP Reporter Who Saw Cluster Bomblets There The London Independent is reporting that over 60 people, mostly civilians, have now died since the US bombed an impoverished Iraqi neighborhood in the town of Hilla, south of Baghdad. Hundreds of people are wounded. - Send in Giant, Armored Bulldozers, Israeli Military Advises U.S. Troops Poised to Invade Baghdad: But When Confronted By Peace Activist, Retired Israeli General Admits Israeli Troops Make "Many Mistak US troops have reached the Baghdad airport after fierce fighting with Iraqi forces and are closing in on the Iraqi capital from two directions. The Pentagon says they are just six miles from the edge of the city. |
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"Until This Administration It Had Been Possible to Believe That By Upholding the Policies of My President I Was Also Upholding the Interests of the American People and the World. I Believe It No Longe | |
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| Description | "Until This Administration It Had Been Possible to Believe That By Upholding the Policies of My President I Was Also Upholding the Interests of the American People and the World. I Believe It No Longe Civilian Casualties Mount in Iraq: We Talk with Iraq Peace Team Member Cliff Kindy Who Just Left Baghdad US forces have begun a major attack against Iraqi Republican Guard divisions surrounding the Iraqi capital. State of Texas to Overturn 39 Drug Convictions in Tulia: In 1999 One White Detective Arrested 15 Percent of the Town's African-American Population in Drug Sweep Remember the story of Tulia Texas where in 1999, more than 15 percent of the town’s African-American population was rounded up in a massive drug sweep. In all, 46 people were arrested, 39 of them African-American. They were jailed on cocaine and crack charges. "Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You": A Discussion with Media Critic Norman Solomon “Two months ago, when I wandered through a large market near the center of Baghdad, the day seemed like any other and no other. A vibrant pulse of humanity throbbed in the shops and on the streets. Meanwhile, a fuse was burning; lit in Washington, it would explode here.” Yesterday the Supreme Court Heard Opening Arguments in Two Landmark Cases That May Decide the Future of Affirmative Action: We'll Have Our Own Debate Today With thousands of protesters outside, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments on two landmark cases that will likely decide the future of affirmative action. An Embedded Reporter Comes Home After a Stint in Iraq It’s a new term that has now become a household phrase in America–“embedded journalists”–reporters who are traveling with US forces as they move through Iraq. |
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- Thousands of Students Protest Outside the U.S. Supreme Court Calling to Preserve Affirmative Action | |
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| Description | - Thousands of Students Protest Outside the U.S. Supreme Court Calling to Preserve Affirmative Action Thousands of students from across the country are in Washington today where the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases. - Democrats Accuse House Republicans of Slashing $15 Billion in Veterans Benefits in Favor of Tax Cuts for the Rich. We Will Have a Debate On the New Budget The vote got little attention. The date was March 20, the invasion of Iraq had just begun. So you might have missed what happened that day in Congress. - Fragging Returns to the Frontlines: A U.S. Army Sgt. Kills Two Fellow Soldiers in Grenade Attack in First Such Attack Since Vietnam Fragging. It is a term that has seldom been heard in a generation. It means “To wound or kill a fellow soldier by throwing a grenade or similar explosive at the victim” - US Troops Shoot and Kill at Least 7 Iraqis Including Women and Children: We Go to Baghdad for a Report From Unembedded Journalist May Ying Welsh US troops shot and killed at least 7 Iraqi civilians yesterday, including women and young children, at an intersection near Karbala. - Rumsfeld Ignored Advice On Top Pentagon Generals On Iraq: Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Seymour Hersh On the War, Richard Perle's Resignation, Gen. Barry Mccaffrey & More This from the New York Times today: “Long-simmering tensions between Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Army commanders have erupted in a series of complaints from officers on the Iraqi battlefield that the Pentagon has not sent enough troops to wage the war as they want to fight it. Raw nerves were obvious as officers compared Rumsfeld to Robert McNamara, an architect of the Vietnam War who failed to grasp the political and military realities of Vietnam. One colonel, who spoke on the condition that his name be withheld, was among the officers criticizing decisions to limit initial deployments of troops to the region. "He wanted to fight this war on the cheap,” the colonel said. “He got what he wanted.” - "Don't Mess with My Soldiers. Don't Mess with Them Because They Are Trained Like Dogs to Kill. And They Will Kill You If You Try Again": U.S. Military Detains and Beats Foreign Journalists in Iraq. We The international press watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres has accused US and British coalition forces in Iraq of displaying “contempt” for journalists covering the conflict who are not embedded with troops. |
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Democracy Now! television program for Thursday, February 27, 2003 | |
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| Description | Democracy Now! television program for Thursday, February 27, 2003
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