BUSH, G. W. ADMINISTRATION

  • Democracy Now! March 11, 2003

    Hour 1 :: Anti-war protesters plan for massive civil disobedience in Washington next week; Immigrant rights groups prepare for a fourth round of mass deportations of Pakistani detainees; Police in Montpelier, Vt. photograph student protesters & ask for surveillance help from the local media: Meanwhile in Minnesota, law enforcement identifies student anti-war group as possible…

  • Democracy Now! March 12, 2003

    “Throughout the globe, the United States is becoming associated with the unjustified use of force : Diplomat John Brown explains why he resigned from the State Department to protest U.S. war plans in Iraq; Halliburton, Bechtel and other U.S. firms set to profit from the rebuilding of postwar Iraq: Meanwhile the Guardian reports Halliburton is…

  • 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 9, 2002

    ACTIVISTS DISRUPT CHENEY S SPEECH ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY/IMF ANNOUNCES IT WILL LEND BRAZIL $30 BILLION |The International Monetary Fund Will Lend Brazil $30 Billion: as Treasury Secretary Paul O Neill ends his Latin America tour, the IMF will lend debt-laden Brazil more than it has ever provided any other country. The Bush Administration s Plans…

  • 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…