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  • Democracy Now! March 24, 2003

    Hour 1: Red Cross says humanitarian crisis is looming in Basra; TV networks are preoccupied with action footage from reporters embedded with U.S. military; US says Iraq s treatment of American POWs breaks Geneva Convention; legal experts call Bush administration hypocritical, citing US treatment of Taliban prisoners and the invasion of Iraq; A report from…

  • Democracy Now! March 27, 2003

    Hour 1: Live from Baghdad: 14 killed in a Baghdad market, as Iraqi clerics call for jihad against US invasion forces; The Pentagon knows large percentages of smart bombs malfunction and civilian deaths are a certainty: a discussion on how smart the bombs really are; Live from the streets of NYC: hundreds die in and…

  • Democracy Now! March 27, 2003

    Live from Baghdad: 14 killed in a Baghdad market, as Iraqi clerics call for jihad against US invasion forces; The Pentagon knows large percentages of smart bombs malfunction and civilian deaths are a certainty: a discussion on how smart the bombs really are; Live from the streets of NYC: hundreds die in and shut down…

  • Democracy Now! March 13, 2003

    Hour 1: Prime Minister Tony Blair says Britain will deploy troops with or without UN backing: we talk to a Conservative Party MP who opposes war and former Labour Party Chair Tony Benn; Uniting For Peace : can the UN General Assembly trump the Security Council by invoking a little-known resolution, and stop the war?;…

  • Democracy Now! March 13, 2003

    Delma Banks lives: U.S. Supreme Court grants emergency stay 15 minutes before Texan man was scheduled to be executed; Elizabeth Smart is found while Alexis Patterson is largely forgotten: We look at the cases of two girls who were abducted last year and why one made headlines and the other didn’t; New York says no…

  • Democracy Now! March 18, 2003

    Hour 1: President Bush vows to attack Iraq if Saddam Hussein doesn t flee within 48 hours: Democracy Now talks to response Dennis Halliday, Ralph Nader, Leslie Cagan and Jeremy Scahill; With 300,000 troops set to invade Iraq, Gulf War veterans are concerned the safety of US forces may be compromised: We talk to Steve…

  • Democracy Now! March 18, 2003

    President Bush vows to attack Iraq if Saddam Hussein doesn t flee within 48 hours: protests intensify around the world & British government in uproar as senior officials resign; Vandenberg Air Force Base authorizes ‘deadly force’ against protesters: protesters aren t deterred; 300 New Yorkers protest the Israeli military killing of U.S. citizen Rachel Corrie:…

  • Democracy Now! December 6, 2002

    We wanted our children to be professionals. We wanted our children to be lawyers and doctors and school teachers. We wanted for all children what all people want for their children : the mothers of the Central Park 5 speak out as the Manhattan DA asks the judge to throw out their convictions Manhattan DA…

  • Democracy Now! December 17, 2002

    Transit Workers Union reaches a tentative agreement with New York City MTA: the deal averts a strike by workers from nation s largest public transportation system; Is cross-burning constitutionally protected speech, or racial intimidation and hatred? A debate between Rodney Smolla, attorney for three white Virginia men who burned crosses and john powell, founder of…

  • Democracy Now! February 13, 2003

    Renowned historian Howard Zinn on the history of government and media lies in time of war: from the Mexican-American war to the Spanish-American war, the Philippines to Panama, Vietnam to the Gulf War to the present.; Over a hundred thousand people are expected to protest in Manhattan this Saturday despite the banning of a march:…