BUSH, GEORGE W.

  • Democracy Now! February 24, 2003

    As Spanish Prime Minister Aznar and President Bush strategize at Bush s ranch in Crawford, Texas, 94% of Spaniards oppose war: we go to Madrid for a live report; World-renowned Irish civil rights leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey is turned away at the border and deported: we go live to McAliskey in Northern Ireland; Come September…

  • Democracy Now! February 27, 2003

    Democracy Now! has learned the Pentagon is asking humanitarian groups for global positioning coordinates of civilian sites in Iraq, such as water treatment facilities and power plants: is it to bomb them or save them?; The press will once again serve primarily as the mouthpiece for the government as journalists prepare to embed with US…

  • Democracy Now! February 28, 2003

    Investigative reporter Greg Palast on how Bush killed the FBI’s investigation into Saudi Arabia s financing of terrorist organizations; he also discusses the head of the Pentagon s Total Information Awareness Program John Poindexter s ties to a data-mining corporation; New Orleans mother appeals to the Pope to help prevent the execution of her son:…

  • 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! March 10, 2003

    Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Medea Benjamin & 20 other women are arrested outside the White House: Thousands gather in Washington for Code Pink peace demonstration; Should President Bush be impeached? Progressive Congressional Democrats consider introducing articles of impeachment if the U.S. attacks Iraq; US & UK relied on forged document in making the case…

  • 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! 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! December 16, 2002

    The second-highest ranking Senate Republican calls for a meeting to consider Trent Lott s ouster: we go to Jackson, Mississippi, where African-Americans are holding a protest against the segregationist Republican; India lurches further to the fundamentalist religious right as the Hindu Nationalist party wins in a landslide in Gujarat: a citizens tribunal recently concluded the…

  • Democracy Now! February 5, 2003

    Secretary of State Powell today tries to persuade the U.N. Security Council to authorize an American first-strike attack on Iraq; we hear excerpts of an exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein by former British MP Tony Benn; Democracy now! obtains top secret U.N. documents revealing the U.N. s plans for a post-war Iraq: Jeremy Scahill reports…