DEMOCRACY NOW : MAY 15 : NOAM CHOMSKY-- DOWNSIZING GOVERNMENT. FACISM AND RIGHT WING POLITICS. FASTERS FOR PEACE / produced by Julie Drizin and Amy Goodman| hosted by Amy Goodman. - A daily election year program which takes an in-depth look at the political landscape and interviews visionaries from all walks of life, including members of grassroots organizations, who challenge the status quo. - CONTENT: pt.1. Guest Noam Chomsky, America's leading progressive intellectual talks about the national trend toward downsizing governments and cutting social services, while members of Congress fight for an increase in military spending. (19:00) -- pt.2. Guest Stanley Payne, Professor of History at University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of the book, The History of Fascism| discussion about the facism and right- wing politics.(12:00) -- pt.3. Sarah Chayes report on Jean Marie Le Pen, the right-wing demagogue considered by some on the French Left to be a fascist.(6:00) -- pt 4. Guest Reverend Lucius Walker of Pastors for Peace, who is in the 85th day of a hunger strike to get the U.S. government to release hundreds of computers and allow them to be shipped to Cuba for use in hospitals and medical clinics.(17:00) _ Satellite, May 14, 1996
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