WALKER, WILLIAM.

  • Democracy Now! January 19, 1999

    Y2K and Nuclear Weapons; Massacre in Kosovo; Clinton’s Defense Team |Y2K and Nuclear Weapons Millenium approaches and anit-nuckear activists around the world are sounding alarms at the possibility that computer malfunctions caused by Y2K could jeopardize public safety. The Defense Department announced that all its computer systems deemed critical to national defense are safe. Activists…

  • With Walker in Nicaragua : Ed Asner reads Ernesto Cardenal / produced by Jonathan Cohen and Raymond Meyer.

    Readings from the work of poet Ernesto Cardenal. The Nicaraguan Minister of Culture, he wrote a narrative poem about American adventurer William Walker who gained control of Nicaragua by force during the 1850’s. The poem traces his ascendency to the Presidency in July 1856, to his execution of September 12, 1860.|WITH WALKER IN NICARAGUA: ED…