CLINTON ADMINISTRATION

  • Democracy Now! July 25, 1997

    Campaign Finance Hearings; Inside the FBI; Gay Rights |(14 Minutes) Highlights from yesterday’s Senate Government Affairs hearing on Campaign Finance Abuses. Former GOP Party chairman Haley Barbour’s testimony (19 Minutes) Inside the FBI GUEST: David Burnham, investigative journalist whose explosive reporting is in the August edition of The Nation. (17 Minutes) Gay Rights GUEST: Kerry…

  • Democracy Now! August 14, 1997

    Chemical Weapons Incineration; NY Torture; US Policy and Africa |(14 Minutes) Chemical Weapons Incineration The Pentagon is preparing to dispose of 60 million pounds of lethal chemical weapons. Army engineers want to burn the chemicals and have been testing incinerator tech. at a prototype facility at Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. GUEST: Graig Williams,…

  • 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…

  • Impeachment Update; Chevron Protest, San Francisco; School of the Americas Demonstration

    (14 Minutes) Impeachment Update Update on the Impeachment hearings. GUEST: Michael Ratner, lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights. (19 Minutes) Chevron Protest, San Francisco Today we are joined by GUEST: Uche Onyeacucha, lawyer with Environmental Rights Action, a Nigerian environmental rights group which has also investigated the killings of Jola Ogunbege and Aroleka Irowaninu.…

  • Democracy Now! November 6, 1998

    U.S. Options After U.N. Iraq Resolution; Jefferson’s Emancipation; Presidential Task Force-Sweatshops; Activists’ Tribunal on Police Brutality |U.S. Considers Options After U.N. Iraq ResolutionU.S. has signaled that it plans to move ahead with preparations for unilateral aire strikes against Iraq. GUEST: Farhan Haq, U.N. correspondent for the Inter-Press ServiceJefferson’s Emancipation – CommentaryA DNA study pubished yesterday…

  • Democracy Now! November 11, 1998

    Latest on Iraq-Nwe Gulf War Veterans Legislation; Gulf War Veterans Roundtable; LA Progressive Organizations |(14 Minutes) Latest on Iraq-New Golf War Veterans Legislation As the US beats its war drums on Baghdad, Gulf War veterans beat on gevernment doors for health benefits, and speak out against a US military strike on Iraq. GUEST: Eric Gustafson,…

  • Democracy Now! November 16, 1998

    U. S. Stern on Iraqi Sanctions; Former Black Panther, SNCC Chari Kwame Ture Dies; California University Workders Hold Hunger Strike |U. S. Stern on Iraqi Sanctions President Clinton yesterday accepted Iraqi’s promise to allow weapons inspections to resume, but warned Baghdad that the u.S. remains poised to attack weapons facilities if Iraq refused to cooperate…

  • Democracy Now! December 1, 1998

    World Aids Day; Monthly Commentary by Mumia Abu Jamal; Holocaust Reparations / Arafat in Washington |(33 Minutes) World Aids Day World Aids Day and the poor. as over 95% of HIV positive people in the world are unable to afford drug costs, protesters in the US target pharmaceutical giant DuPont for its high prices. GUEST:…

  • Democracy Now! October 30, 1998

    Immigrant Voter Eligibility and the Latino Vote; The Latino Vote; Eliminating the Prisoner Vote; Election Races Around the Country |(14 Minutes) Immigrant Voter Eligibility and the Latino Vote A look at the status of the immigrant vote and why the INS has had problems processing the 500,000 citizenship applicants. A large portion of these applicants…