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Democracy Now! April 11, 2003
Hour 1: Democracy Now! v. The New York Post: DN! Host Amy Goodman debates Post Columnist John Podhoretz on C-SPAN in a live simulcast with Pacifica. They discuss war, the peace movement and what comes next in Iraq. And they take questions from callers. Hour 2: Kurds pull out of Kirkuk after Turkey threatened to…
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Democracy Now! April 11, 2003
Kurds pull out of Kirkuk after Turkey threatened to send in troops: We go to northern Iraq for a report; Congress considers bill to grant automatic citizenship to some immigrant soldiers fighting in Iraq: But there is a catch, the law would only apply to soldiers who die in combat; Saying no to war by…
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Democracy Now! October 11, 2002
Iraq Journal: An exclusive look inside an Iraqi factory that the U.S. claims is part of a convert nuclear weapons program; Congress gives Bush unilateral power to invade Iraq without UN approval or Congressional notice: House members Dennis Kucinich & Barbara Lee try to delay the vote; Senator Hillary Clinton just says yes to the…
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Democracy Now! January 8, 2003
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) introduces a bill in Congress to reinstate the draft: a debate between bill co-sponsor Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and David Harris, who spent 20 months in prison for refusing to fight in Vietnam ; Vice President Cheney would save over $100,000 under President Bush s $674 billion tax cut plan, but…
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Democracy Now! February 4, 2003
What did the seven Columbia astronauts die for? Velcroe? Tractors? Pharmaceuticals? We ll look at the experiments in the sky and the commercialization of space; It s kind of like me putting a spinning gun to my head : a soldier refuses to take the anthrax vaccination and faces court martial; Physicians and Congresspeople present…
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Democracy Now! August 20, 2002
WITCHHUNT AGAINST AIDS ACTIVIST GROUPS/FBI IS SUED/ THOUSANDS RALLY IN DC FOR REPARATIONS |9:00-9:01 Billboard: The Health Department launches a witchhunt against AIDS activists: groups that protested against Health Secretary Tommy Thompson at the AIDS conference in Barcelona are targeted. FBI is sued for hundreds of millions of dollars for shielding The Animal mobster and…
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Democracy Now! October 5, 1998
Moving Toward Impeachment; Dennis Brutus; |(14 Minutes) Moving Toward Impeachment House Judiciary Committee begins considering today whether ther is enough evidence to start an impeachment investigation of Prisident Clinton. Meanwhile ther are several close Congressional races. GUEST: Bob Hennelly, Democracy Now’s election correspondent. (36 Minutes) Dennis Brutus South African poet Dennis Brutus talks about the…
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Democracy Now! October 7, 1998
Ralph Nader: Clinto Referendum; The Kosovo Crisis |(14 Minutes) Ralph Nader: Clinton Referendum Consumer advocate Ralph Nader has written a memo to government leaders proposing an alternative to the impeachment inquiry/hearing/trial process. He proposes that Congress and the White House enact legislation that provides for an advisory national referendum on election day in November to…