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October 2002
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10/31 Who do you believe, the New York Times,
or the New York Times? An Update; Private education corporation
sells students’ textbooks for cash as its stock plunges:
What’s next at Edison Schools in Philadelphia? Possibly
child labor; Juror speaks out against convictions in the Central
Park jogger case: A meeting between the juror and the mother
of one of the young men who was sentenced to ten years in
prison;
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10/30 Who do you believe the New York Times
or the New York Times?: As the nation’s paper of record
changes its story on this weekend’s anti-war protests,
we look at how the Times and National Public Radio have minimized
the peace movement. The PR industry unspun: How public relations
helped mold opinion leading up to the Gulf War a decade ago.
We look at an excerpt from the documentary "Toxic Sludge
is Good for You." Sen. Paul Wellstone remembered: 20,000
turn out in Minneapolis to celebrate the life of the late
Senator, his family, staff and the pilots who died in a plane
crash last week. We hear a speech from his close friend Sen.
Tom Harkin (D-IA).
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10/29 Iraq Journal: General Director of
Iraq’s Oil Ministry: US will send his country into Armageddon
for Iraqi oil fields; Russia refuses to identify the gas which
killed 117 in Moscow; scientists say US is developing chemical
and biological weapons in violation of international treaties;
US terrorism against Cuba? Attorney Leonard Weinglass calls
for the release of five Cuban men who tried to investigate
a series of terrorist bombings in Cuba;Saying "No"
to War: From Boston to Washington, D.C. to Madison, Wisconsin,
we hear from Howard Zinn, Medea Benjamin and others
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10/28 Lula Wins!: Worker’s Party candidate
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wins in a landslide to become Brazil’s
first working class leader. Sen. Paul Wellstone, 1944-2002:
Less than two weeks before election day, the populist Democrat
from Minnesota dies with seven others in a plane crash. Iraq
Journal: US activists take to the streets of Baghdad to protest
the Bush administration’s plans for war. Hundreds of
thousands protest war from coast to coast: From D.C. to San
Francisco to Seattle, to the Twin Cities and dozens of other
cities; we hear from Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton,
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), former U.S. Attorney
General Ramsey Clark and actress Susan Sarandon.
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10/25 Tens of thousands to protest war:
This Saturday is an international day of action with demonstrations
from Washington DC and San Francisco, to Baghdad, Berlin,
Madrid and Mexico City. Police Brutality in Brooklyn, a Democracy
Now exclusive: High school counselors witness police brutality
and become victims themselves. Police arrest sniper suspects:
A conversation with filmmaker Michael Moore about ballistic
fingerprinting, militarism and US gun culture.
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10/24 From Death Row: Mumia Abu-Jamal conducts
his first interview in 22 years, with indicted human rights
lawyer Lynne Stewart. The Meaning of "Terror": Professor
Noam Chomsky explores the rhetoric of "terrorism"
in the US since the Reagan era.
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10/23 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.
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10/22 Iraq Journal: Saddam Hussein empties
the nation’s prisons. Jeremy Scahill and Jacquie Soohen
report from inside Abu Ghraib, Iraq’s most notorious
prison. Power Politics: Arundhati Roy speaks out on Iraq,
U.S. foreign policy, Palestine & corporate globalization.
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10/21 Bush presses for quick inspections
to ensure U.S. has time to attack Iraq before heat and sand
storms set in: Scott Ritter, former U.N. weapons inspector
in Iraq, speaks on weapons inspections & the human cost
of another Gulf War.
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10/18 Iraq Journal: As the UN Security council
continues to fight the US resolution for an invasion of Iraq,
Democracy Now’s Jeremy Scahill interviews former Iraqi
ambassador Abdul al-Hashemi. Michael Moore’s “Bowling
for Columbine”: The filmmaker and TV producer talks
about gun violence and war in the U.S.
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10/17 “The World’s Most Dangerous
Man”: Those were the words of Henry Kissinger to describe
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who risked his life to expose the
Pentagon Papers, a 7,000 page top secret study of decision-making
in Vietnam. We talk to him for an hour on how he went from
being a Pentagon official to a protester. He is considered
to be among the most important whistleblower in U.S. history
and a leading antiwar activist.
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10/16 Iraq Journal: A rare visit to the
birthplace of Saddam Hussein. Democracy Now correspondent
Jeremy Scahill reports from Takrit. Sniper Politics: Does
the technology exist to find the DC sniper? The Bush Administration
and the NRA are opposing ballistic fingerprinting legislation
that would trace the bullet to the gun. The militarization
of the police: The Pentagon is called in to track down the
DC sniper. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile
Crisis: Filmmaker Estela Bravo talks about her new film "Fidel:
The Untold Story" which includes Alice Walker, Mohammed
Ali, Angela Davis, Nelson Mandela, Harry Belafonte and others.
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10/15 Iraq Journal: Millions Of Iraqis Vote
For Saddam Hussein In The Face Of The Bush Administration’s
Threat Of Invasion. Come September: Arundhati Roy Speaks Out
On Iraq, U.s. Foreign Policy, Palestine & Corporate Globalization.
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10/14 Iraq Journal: Democracy Now correspondent
Jeremy Scahill talks with British MP George Galloway on the
streets of Baghdad. Bali bombing: After 200 are killed in
Indonesia car bombing, Bush calls for expansion of the war
on terror. Professor Jeff Winters of Northwestern University
talks about the Indonesian military and its involvement with
terrorist groups. Indigenous Peoples Day: From Colorado to
Chiapas, tens of thousands protest new era of corporate colonialism
on the 510th anniversary of Columbus’ "discovery"
of the Americas. Cherokee scholar Ward Churchill, speaks on
the eve of Denver Columbus Day protests where more than 60
were arrested.
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10/11 Iraq Journal: An exclusive look inside
an Iraqi factory that the U.S. claims is part of a convert
nuclear weapons program. Congress gives Bush unilateral power
to invade Iraq without UN approval or Congressional notice:
House members Dennis Kucinich & Barbara Lee try to delay
the vote. Senator Hillary Clinton just says yes… to
the war resolution: students occupy her New York office. A
voice of dissent: Senator Robert Byrd makes a final plea to
preserve the Constitution Selling war: How the PR industry
has partnered with the media from World War I to the Gulf
War.
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10/10 Dissent in the Capitol: As Washington
prepares for war with Iraq we hear voices of peace from the
floor of Congress. Anti-war protests & arrests continue
in Washington & New York. The journey from torture to
truth: A discussion on terror with Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman
and Sister Dianna Ortiz, an American nun tortured by U.S.-backed
Guatemalan security forces.
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10/09 Iraq Journal: Democracy Now’s
exclusive reports from Baghdad with Jeremy Scahill and Jacquie
Soohen. Oil and Gas: Iraq’s Ambassador to the United
Nations, Mohammed Aldouri says Bush wants Iraq’s oil
and admits Iraq used nerve gas against the Iranians. From
the Floor: Congressmembers Dana Rohrabacher (R-Ca), David
Bonior (D-Mi) and Barbara Lee(D-Ca) debate war. The Washington
Post and War: Post Ombudsman Michael Getler vs. FAIR'S Steve
Rendall on coverage of the anti-war movement.
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10/08 Bush wants war: The President addresses
the nation from Cincinnati as thousands protest in the streets
outside. A response from Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Jay
Bookman, Deputy editorial page editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
and Cincinnati protester Sister Alice Gerdeman. Talkback to
War: As millions across the globe continue to speak out against
war, we hear from actors Gabriel Byrne and Susan Sarandon,
and Colleen Kelly who lost her brother on September 11.
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10/07 Lula Takes Big Lead in Brazil: Leftist
candidate from the Workers Party narrowly misses 50 percent
vote forcing presidential run-off. Not In Our Name: More than
20,000 gather in New York’s Central Park. We hear from
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), director Mira Nair,
actor Tim Robbins, hip-hop poet Saul Williams and Afghan-American
Shokriea Yaghi, whose husband was secretly deported in June.
Fannie Lou Hamer: A memorial broadcast to celebrate the 85th
anniversary of the civil rights leader’s birth.
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10/04 U.S. Preemptive Strike & Assassination
Plans from Cuba to Iraq: JFK’s legal counsel Ted Sorensen
debates Cuba historian Jane Franklin. Will Lula win? The barons
of international finance hold their breath as Brazilians go
to the polls.
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10/03 Seven-time Emmy Award winner and
former SAG President Ed Asner talks about his life of political
activism and his opposition to war. Musician/playwright Oscar
Brown Jr., Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad and Miles
Solay of Refuse and Resist, join Ed Asner for a round table
discussion.
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10/02 Bush’s single-bullet theory
– assassinate Saddam Hussein: international human rights
attorneys Michael Ratner and Reed Brody respond to Bush’s
press secretary Ari Fleischer’s call to kill. Police
spying: New York police seeks court approval to monitor political
activists; Denver opens hundreds of spy files collected from
illegal monitoring of citizens. Police crack down on activists
across the country from Maine to California to Washington.
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10/01 400,000 Protestors demonstrate in
Britain: Labor MP George Galloway, filmmaker John Pilger,
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, London mayor and
others address crowd. Dockworkers locked out at thirty west
coast ports from Seattle to San Diego. Is Venezuela on verge
of another attempted coup? As a general strike looms, we speak
with the first indigenous woman vice president of the National
Assembly and an independent reporter
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