Africa

  • Democracy Now! June 9, 2003

    Hour 1: 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; Rebels call for Liberian President Charles Taylor to step down as attack on the capital intensifies: As…

  • Democracy Now! June 9, 2003

    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; Rebels call for Liberian President Charles Taylor to step down as attack on the capital intensifies: As tens of…

  • Democracy Now! May 23, 2003

    U.N. Security Council Lifts a Decade of Devastating Sanctions Responsible for the Deaths of up to One Million Iraqi Children; Was the Invasion of Iraq the Deadliest U.S. Military Campaign for Civilians Since Vietnam?; U.S. Threatens to Withhold AIDS Drugs from African Countries That Bar Genetically Engineered Foods; Children s Programming is at Risk from…

  • Democracy Now! May 27, 2003

    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; Africa s World War One Fueled in Part by Western Countries and Corporations |8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines 8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break 8:07-8:20: Israeli Army Radio is reporting the Foreign…

  • Democracy Now! May 22, 2003

    Telecommunications Industry Has Lavished FCC Commissioners with Millions of Dollars in Travel Gifts; FCC Commissioner Michael Copps Speaks at the Final Public Hearing Before FCC Overhauls Decades-Old Rules Governing Media Consolidation; The Peaceful Mbuti People Call on the UN to Prosecute Government and Rebel Fighters as Civil War Rages in the Congo |8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06…

  • Democracy Now! May 22, 2003

    Hour 1: Telecommunications Industry Has Lavished FCC Commissioners with Millions of Dollars in Travel Gifts; FCC Commissioner Michael Copps Speaks at the Final Public Hearing Before FCC Overhauls Decades-Old Rules Governing Media Consolidation; The Peaceful Mbuti People Call on the UN to Prosecute Government and Rebel Fighters as Civil War Rages in the Congo Hour…

  • Democracy Now! May 23, 2003

    Hour 1:U.N. Security Council Lifts a Decade of Devastating Sanctions Responsible for the Deaths of up to One Million Iraqi Children; Was the Invasion of Iraq the Deadliest U.S. Military Campaign for Civilians Since Vietnam?; U.S. Threatens to Withhold AIDS Drugs from African Countries That Bar Genetically Engineered Foods; Children s Programming is at Risk…

  • Democracy Now! May 27, 2003

    Hour 1: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; Africa s World War One Fueled in Part by Western Countries and Corporations Hour 2: Democracy Now! interviews Kadiatou Diallo, author of My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My…

  • Democracy Now! April 25, 2003

    Hour 1: An infringement of freedom of the press? The FBI opens and seizes mail sent from one Associated Press reporter to another; 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; An…

  • Democracy Now! April 25, 2003

    US forces detain former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz: We speak with author and journalist Dilip Hiro and Democracy Now s Jeremy Scahill; China quarantines thousands of Beijing residents as SARS worsens: World attention remains fixated on SARS even as 3,000 African children die of malaria every day. We speak with Dan Sermand and…