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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 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! May 16, 2003

    Hour 1: Radiation is 1,000 Times the Normal Levels Where US Troops Used Depleted Uranium Shells in Baghdad INTRO: a discussion with the Christian Science Monitor s Scott Peterson, who visited four randomly chosen sites in Baghdad and reports that while women and children haven t been warned, US troops have orders to avoid the…

  • Democracy Now! May 16, 2003

    Radiation is 1,000 Times the Normal Levels Where US Troops Used Depleted Uranium Shells in Baghdad INTRO: a discussion with the Christian Science Monitor s Scott Peterson, who visited four randomly chosen sites in Baghdad and reports that while women and children haven t been warned, US troops have orders to avoid the sites; Chinese-American…

  • Democracy Now! October 23, 2002

    Iraq Journal: the trail of gifts from Ronald Reagan and other US officials to Saddam Hussein ; The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm : the illegal arming of Saddam Hussein, the Pentagon s use of depleted uranium, and the US government s lies about the massive Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi Arabian border |9:00-9:01…

  • 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! January 21, 2003

    Hundreds of thousands Rally Against War in the U.S. Capitol: We hear from former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Vietnam War Vet Ron Kovic, actress Jessica Lange and Muslim leader Mahdi Bray; Albuquerque sees its largest anti-war rally since the Vietnam War: We go to the nuclear state of New Mexico to hear about the…

  • Democracy Now! January 30, 2003

    The US is thinking the unthinkable: it is preparing for the possible use of nuclear weapons against Iraq. We ll talk to military analyst William Arkin.; Dr. Asaf Durakovic gives a rare interview about depleted uranium in Iraq: he was the first military doctor to test Gulf War veterans for radiation exposure and was terminated…

  • Democracy Now! January 31, 2003

    Part 2 of our discussion on depleted uranium: we talk to Scientific Secretary with the European Committee on Radiation Risk Dr. Chris Busby, and U.N. human rights lawyer Karen Parker; A new U.N. report finds Afghanistan s environment ravaged by war; A judge fines a women s center $500 a day for refusing to hand…

  • Democracy Now!

    Impeachment; Iraq; Depleted Uranium |(23 Minutes) Impeachment As the debate over the trial of President Clinton shifted yesterday from the House of Representatives to the Senate, it was once again dominated by deep partisan divisions between Republicans, who say that the Senate is obliged to proceed with the trial, and Democrats, who insist on reaching…