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  • Democracy Now! March 10, 2003

    Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Medea Benjamin & 20 other women are arrested outside the White House: Thousands gather in Washington for Code Pink peace demonstration; Should President Bush be impeached? Progressive Congressional Democrats consider introducing articles of impeachment if the U.S. attacks Iraq; US & UK relied on forged document in making the case…

  • Democracy Now! February 10, 2003

    Chief U.N. inspectors cite an encouraging Iraqi change of heart ; Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill confronts chief inspector Hans Blix over U.S.-imposed no-fly zones; Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation” is this about Iraq, or Britain? Britain admits its latest intelligence report was plagiarized from a post-doc s thesis; Justice Department secretly drafts legislation…

  • Democracy Now! February 14, 2003

    Nelson Mandela is condemning President Bush s plans to invade Iraq; meanwhile South African President Thabo Mbeki announced today Baghdad and UN inspectors have accepted South Africa s offer to help Iraq disarm; Empire may well go to war, but it s out in the open now, too ugly to behold its own reflection, too…

  • Democracy Now! February 17, 2003

    The World Says No to War! Rome 2 million people; London, Madrid, Barcelona over a million each; Berlin and New York City half a million; Melbourne, Sydney and France hundreds of thousands; and hundreds of other protests around the world; Listen to the voice of the people, for many times the voice of the people…

  • 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! February 5, 2003

    Secretary of State Powell today tries to persuade the U.N. Security Council to authorize an American first-strike attack on Iraq; we hear excerpts of an exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein by former British MP Tony Benn; Democracy now! obtains top secret U.N. documents revealing the U.N. s plans for a post-war Iraq: Jeremy Scahill reports…

  • Democracy Now! February 6, 2003

    Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council to argue for a first-strike attack on Iraq; most of his claims can t be verified; Powell claims Iraq is harboring Al Qaeda terrorists, but leaves out evidence implicating US allies; we hear responses from Baghdad, France and Cameroon; United for Peace and Justice sues the NYPD for…

  • Democracy Now! January 27, 2003

    Israel considers full reoccupation of Gaza Strip. Weekend raid kills 14 Palestinians and injures dozens; UN weapons inspectors set to ask for more time Iraq: U.S. threatens to go to war alone and unleash massive attack (possibly nuclear) on Iraq; From Porto Allegre to Davos to New York: We hear from activists at the World…

  • Democracy Now! July 24, 2002

    SUIT ON BEHALF OF PALESTINIAN AMERICANS FOR RACKETEERING AND WAR CRIMES, BUSH ADMINISTRATION WITHDRAWS FUNDS TO THE UN POPULATION FUND |What do Ariel Sharon, George Bush, Boeing, Bell helicopter, and McDonald Douglas have in common? Stanley Cohen. He’s suing them all on behalf of Palestinian Americans for racketeering and war crimes Banks plunge as Congress…

  • Democracy Now! August 6, 2002

    A LOOK AT THE CASE OF LEONARD PELTIER |The Hague Invasion Act : Bush signs a new law designed to intimidate countries that ratify the treaty for the international criminal court. The Case Of Indigenous Rights Activist Leonard Peltier: As FBI powers rapidly expand during the so-called War on Terror, a history of the FBI…