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  • Democracy Now! May 8, 2003

    Hour 1: Looks like news, sounds like news but paid for by drug companies: Morley Safer of 60 Minutes introduced hundreds of fake news breaks broadcast on public television; CNN s Aaron Brown and CBS Walter Cronkite may back out after a news expose revealed the scheme; Global AIDS, TB and Malaria Fund facing massive…

  • Democracy Now! May 8, 2003

    Looks like news, sounds like news but paid for by drug companies: Morley Safer of 60 Minutes introduced hundreds of fake news breaks broadcast on public television; CNN s Aaron Brown and CBS Walter Cronkite may back out after a news expose revealed the scheme; Global AIDS, TB and Malaria Fund facing massive shortfall in…

  • Democracy Now! May 15, 2003

    Hour 1: Vinnell Corporation: The link between oil fields, Saudi troops, no Jews clauses, coup attempts in Grenada, and Monday s car bombings in Saudi Arabia; One third of the Texas state legislature flees the state and takes refuge in a Holiday Inn in Oklahoma Hour 2: Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy, Buy One Get One Free…

  • Democracy Now! April 28, 2003

    Hour 1: South Africa awards reparations to apartheid victims, some complain the payments of $3,900 are pitifully low : A discussion with Alex Boraine and Dumisa Ntsebeza formerly of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and apartheid victim Thando Shezi; Halliburton, Bechtel and URS profit from the privatization of the military: Charles Lewis of the Center…

  • Democracy Now! April 28, 2003

    South Africa awards reparations to apartheid victims, some complain the payments of $3,900 are pitifully low : A discussion with Alex Boraine and Dumisa Ntsebeza formerly of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and apartheid victim Thando Shezi; Halliburton, Bechtel and URS profit from the privatization of the military: Charles Lewis of the Center for Public…

  • Democracy Now! April 18, 2003

    Hour 1: An icon of civilian suffering: Dr. April Hurley, recently back from Baghdad, speaks about Ali Ismaeel Abbas, the badly-burned child amputee wounded in a missile strike on his house; Christian missionary groups head to Iraq to combine aid with evangelization: A debate between the Southern Baptist Convention, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and…

  • Democracy Now! April 18, 2003

    Bechtel Group wins first major Iraq reconstruction contract: This comes 20 years after Donald Rumsfeld met with Saddam Hussein seeking approval of a Bechtel-owned pipeline to run from Iraq to Jordan; The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line : On the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Souls of…

  • Democracy Now! April 22, 2003

    Hour 1: My feeling is that there will be a war it may already have begun against the Americans by the Iraqis : British journalist Robert Fisk discusses looting, the U.S. targeting of journalists, the possibility of civil war in Iraq and why he feels the U.S. will not attack Syria Hour 2: Nina Simone…

  • Democracy Now! April 22, 2003

    Nina Simone 1933-2003: The High Priestess of Soul dies at age 70; Dennis Kucinich on war, abortion, corporate-financed campaigns & the Democratic Party: The presidential candidate and chair of the Progressive caucus joins us in our Firehouse studios; Publisher of Harper s magazine calls a story in yesterday s New York Times the closest thing…

  • Democracy Now! April 14, 2003

    Hour 1:For the third time in a month Israeli forces have seriously injured or killed an international activist in the Occupied Territories: We talk to a Jewish activist who witnessed the shooting of Tom Hurndall on Friday and the killing of Rachel Corrie last month as well as Corrie s parents and a representative from…