ATROCITIES

  • Democracy Now! September 25, 1998

    Critical Resistance; King Leopoldus Ghost; |(14 Minutes) Critical Resistance Focus on the conference; Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison -Industrial Complex. GUEST: Angela Davis, Professor, UC Berkeley, a former member of the Black Panther Party and one of the organizers of the Critical Resistance conference. (19 Minutes) King Leopold’s Ghost The Democratic Republic of the Congo…

  • Democracy Now! August 6, 1997

    HIROSHIMA ANNIVERSARY |Hiroshima Anniversay GUEST: Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City University of NY. TAPE OF: Excerpts from a radio documentary on Hiroshima produced by Kaku in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the A-bomb attack on Japan. TAPE OF: ibid. – includes interviews with Manhattan project scientists Dr. Philip Morrison and…

  • Democracy Now! January 6, 1999

    U.S. Military Spending; What did Mobil Know? The Killing Fields of Aceh; Y2K and the Progressive Community. Does it Matter? |(14 Minutes) U. S. Military Spending Analysis of President Clinton’s proposal which is the largest peace-time military spending increase since the Reagan era for fiscal year 2000 budget. $110 billion increase has been proposed. Also…

  • Democracy Now! December 10, 1998

    Pinochet Extradition; UN Declaration on Human Rights |(14 Minutes) Pinochet Extradition Britain rules that the extradition case against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet can proceed. GUEST: Saul Landau, is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in D.C. and is author of several books. GUEST: Joan Garces, Lawyer in Madrid representing over 3, 000…

  • Democracy Now! November 25, 1998

    Pinochet Decision |Pinochet Decision — Expected at 9:05 AM The British House of Lords handed down its decision on the fate of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet today. They ruled that Pinochet is not protected by diplomatic immunity, and can be held in custody while Britain considers an extradition request from Spain. We hear from those…

  • Iraqi Official Escapes Assassination Attempt; Crackdowns in Indonesia, East Timor; Shopping with Conscience Labor Campaign

    –Iraqi Official Escapes Assassination Attempt Unidentified gunmen hurled hand grenades at an official representing Saddam Hussein at a religious ceremony. GUEST: Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now Producer in Baghdad. –Crackdowns in Indonesia, East Timor Thousands of students have taken to the streets today in Dili, the capital of East Timor, to demand an investigation into the…