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  • 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…

  • Democracy Now! April 14, 2003

    Over 170,000 ancient artifacts have been destroyed or stolen from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. We will go to Baghdad and Oxford to talk about what was lost; Indian writer Arundhati Roy on the invasion of Iraq and India s threat to preemptively attack Pakistan; Who is set to profit in post-invasion Iraq?…

  • 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! 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…

  • Democracy Now!

    FLOODS, LANDSLIDES, HEAT-WAVES AND TOXIC CLOUDS/A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT FROM A TIMORESE HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER |9:00-9:01 Billboard: Toxic clouds, floods, heat-waves and landslides, plagues from god or god awful corporations?: We ll look at the (un)natural disasters from Bangladesh to Nepal to Prague. An Indonesian court acquits 6 military and police officers from the carnage during…

  • Democracy Now! Ju;y 17 2002

    THE WORLD BANK AND THE BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT STALL A PLAN FOR SAFE WATER/THE BHOPAL DISASTER |Its the “largest mass poisoning of a population in history.” 35 million Bangladeshis are drinking arsenic as the World Bank and the Bangladesh government stall on a plan for safe water Two survivors of the Bhopal disaster are hospitalized after…

  • Democracy Now! June 11 , 2002

    TRIBAL LEADERS POUR INTO KABULTO BEGIN THE LOYA JIRGA PROCESS THAT WILL DETERMINE AFGHANISTANS FUTURE |Date: June 11, 2002 CO-HOST: JUAN GONZALEZ 9:00-9:01 Billboard: Delegates at Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga threaten to walk out in fury after the former king Mohammed Zahir Shah announces he will not be a candidate for head of state. The US…

  • Democracy Now! May 29, 2002

    INDIA AND PAKISTAN MOVE NUCLEAR WARHEADS TO THE BORDER AS TENSIONS ESCALATE |The Pentagon says a nuclear war between India and Pakistan could kill 12 million people. Today, well look at the threat of nuclear war–with a family of Indian and Pakistani anti-nuclear activists. Well talk to a former Indian navy chief and two prominent…

  • Democracy Now! May 31, 2002

    AN INTERVIEW WITH ARUN GANDHI |9:00-9:01 Billboard: Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill and U2 rock star Bonos unprecedented joint Africa Tour has drawn to a close. Well look at the politics of the tour, at some of the countries in Africa, and at the farm bill Bush recently passed. And, as Pakistan and India draw closer…

  • Democracy Now! June 3, 2002

    AS INDIA AND PAKISTAN POISE FOR WAR, A LOOK AT THE LEVEL OF DESTRUCTION A NUCLEAR BLAST COULD CAUSE |9:00-9:01 Billboard: As India and Pakistan poise for war, well talk about the level of destruction a nuclear blast could cause. Then, as Israel sweeps across the west bank, the US begins to take tips from…