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  • Democracy Now! June 13, 2003

    Hour 1: Democracy Now! Airs Excerpts from the The Panama Deception an Academy Award-Winning Documentary Which Tells the Story of the December 1989 U.S. Invasion of Panama. The documentary uncovers the hidden reasons for this internationally condemned attack and provides a devastating critique of the mainstream media and its complicity with the official government line.…

  • Democracy Now! June 18, 2003

    Senate Commerce Committee Decides Tomorrow Whether to Roll Back FCC Decisions Allowing Massive Media Consolidation; Federal Court OKs Post-9/11 Secret Arrests; Bush Taps Lobbyist Enron and Viacom Lobbyist to Head Republican National Committee; As U.S. Kills Two Iraqi Demonstrators in Baghdad, Human Rights Watch Demands Full Investigation of U.S. Killings in Falluja |8:00- 8:01 Billboard…

  • Democracy Now! June 13, 2003

    Senate Finance Committee OKs Senior Prescription Drug Bill. Senior groups say the bill aids pharmaceutical industry without adequately covering seniors; Is Depleted Uranium Creating a New Nuclear Danger in Iraq? A debate on DU between Nuclear Policy Research Institute President Helen Caldicott, radiation physicist Geoffrey Sea and Dr. Thomas Fasy; Former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner…

  • Democracy Now! June 20, 2003

    Zimbabwe s Top Court Orders Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai Freed After Spending Two Weeks in Prison. The Zimbabwean ambassador to the U.S. debates critic Patrick Bond on Mugabe s rule, free speech and land reform; Senate Commerce Committee Votes to Prevent Nation s Largest Media Conglomerates from Growing Even Larger. The Senate has begun to…

  • Democracy Now! December 24, 2002

    Is Bill Frist another Trent Lott? The NAACP and NOW gives the Tennessee Senator s record an F grade, consumer groups warn about his extensive ties to the medical and pharmaceutical industry. Today is Frist s first day as Senate Majority leader.; Christmas under Siege: Israeli pull back its troops in Bethlehem but warn residents…

  • 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! December 12, 2002

    Should Trent Lott Resign? The Senate Republican leader s support for Strom Thurmond s 1948 Segregation Forever presidential campaign generates mass calls for him to step down, he refuses; Is the strike in Venezuela for the people, or for the businessmen? President Hugo Chavez sends troops to regain control of the oil industry as the…

  • Democracy Now! July 18 2002

    CRACKING DOWN ON CORPORATE CRIME/PBS PREMIERS A NEW FILM ON CHINA |Millions of workers in China are laid off as the country moves toward a market economy; PBS premiers a new film on China, but the arrest of the film crew doesn’t make the cut But first, cracking down on corporate crime: band-aids vs. radical…

  • Democracy Now! January 27, 1999

    Impeachment-Studs Terkel; Multinational Monitor’s 10 Worst Corporations of 1998; Chevron and Nigeria |(14 Minutes) Impeachment – Studs Terkel GUEST: Studs Terkel, the Pulitzer-winning author talks about impeachment. (20 Minutes) Multinational Monitor’s 10 Worst Corporations of 1998 Multinational Monitor magazine reports that 1998 was a record year for corporate crime and abuse that includes death without…

  • Democracy Now! September 15, 1997

    Black Caucus Legislative Weekend; Weld Hearing; Zapatistas |(14 Minutes) Black Caucus Legislative Weekend Report on the opening of the 27th annual legislative conference of the Congressional Black Caucus chaired by Maxine Waters (D-CA) and the many issues it has with the Clinton administration. TAPE OF: Alfred McCoy, prof. of history and author of BOOK: POLITICS…