BUSH, G. W. ADMINISTRATION

  • Democracy Now! March 3, 2003

    U.S. is tapping the phones of U.N. Security Council members and reading their e-mail: the story makes headlines around the world but is not reported here; Top Iraqi defector says Iraq destroyed its WMDs, but Bush and Blair continue to cite him to drum up support for war, and the US media buries the story:…

  • Democracy Now! March 7, 2003

    pResident Bush: US will call for U.N. Security Council vote whether or not US has votes lined up; News conference scripted and reporters silenced: a report on the President s first primetime press conference in 1 and 1/2 years; Air Force admits at least 54 cases of rape and sexual assault at Air Force Academy…

  • Democracy Now! January 7, 2003

    President Bush unveils an economic plan that is expected to cost nearly $700 billion over the next decade. Congress opens today with Republicans in control of the Senate and House. And, pro-war Democrats line up for the 2004 presidential election: A conversation with Ralph Nader; Fox, NBC, Viacom, Walt Disney Co. urge the government to…

  • Democracy Now! January 6, 2003

    White House plans 18-month long occupation of Iraq, but remains silent on humanitarian aid: a conversation with Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill; In Venezuela, thousands of supporters of President Hugo Chavez march in a funeral procession mourning the deaths of two men shot dead during protests: we go…

  • Democracy Now! December 27, 2002

    Today Kenyans go to the polls for the first time in 24 years: We interview Kenyan professor Ali Mazrui about his country s politics and the US militarization of the horn of Africa; I Refuse to Die : Koigi wa Wamwere, one of Kenya s leading human rights activists, is running for parliament in today…

  • Democracy Now! February 14, 2003

    Nelson Mandela is condemning President Bush s plans to invade Iraq; meanwhile South African President Thabo Mbeki announced today Baghdad and UN inspectors have accepted South Africa s offer to help Iraq disarm; Empire may well go to war, but it s out in the open now, too ugly to behold its own reflection, too…

  • Democracy Now! February 17, 2003

    The World Says No to War! Rome 2 million people; London, Madrid, Barcelona over a million each; Berlin and New York City half a million; Melbourne, Sydney and France hundreds of thousands; and hundreds of other protests around the world; Listen to the voice of the people, for many times the voice of the people…

  • Democracy Now! January 13, 2003

    Illinois governor commutes sentences of 167 inmates on death row; The United States listed [North Korea] as part of an ‘axis of evil’ and singled it out as a target of pre-emptive nuclear attack, openly declaring a nuclear war : a discussion about North Korea s perspective on the nuclear stand-off with the Bush administration;…

  • Democracy Now! August 14, 2002

    BIN LADEN: THE FORBIDDEN TRUTH |9:00-9:01 Billboard: we ll spend a conversation with once banned by the bin Laden family. And, Israel s first lady of human rights: a conversation with Shulamit Aloni, former Knesset member who headed the Meretz Party. All that and more coming up on Pacifica Radio s Democracy Now! 9:01-9:06 Headlines…

  • Democracy Now! August 19, 2002

    WASHINGTON S COVERT SUPPORT FOR SADDAM/ALTERNATIVE VIGILS FOR SEPTEMBER 11TH ANNIVERSARY |Washington’s covert support for Saddam: a covert Reagan Administration program helped Iraq plan battles against Iran even though us intelligence agencies knew Iraq would use chemical weapons. Alternative vigils for September 11th anniversary: human rights groups have formed a coalition called United for Peace…