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November 2002
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11/29 debate at National Press Club between
Juan Gonzalez and William McGowan.
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11/28 President Bush appoints Henry Kissinger
to head the‘independent’ commission to investigate
9-11: we’ll hear audio excerpts from ‘The Trials
of Henry Kissinger,’ which examines Kissinger’s
involvement in the bombing of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos (deaths:
more than 2 million); the overthrow of the democratically
elected leader of Chile President Salvador Allende (deaths:
thousands); and Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor in
1975 (deaths: over 200,000). Howard Zinn on the history of
the US government and CIA ‘changing regimes’ around
the world.
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11/27 ³Miss World 2002 will be the
most lavish and spectacular production that we've ever undertaken²:
now there are 220 people dead, 1000 injured, and 8000 homeless
from the Miss World riots in Nigeria. As UN weapons inspections
begin, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist says Iraq's nation's
atomic program no longer exists: Imad Khadduri also Explains
how the Eisenhower administration helped start Iraq's
atomic program.
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11/26 President Bush signs the Homeland
Security Bill: is it "Homeland Security" or a treasure
trove of corporate favors? Union leaders say labor will be
the "first victim" of the Homeland Security Bill:
the Bush administration can waive collective bargaining agreements,
grievance proceedings, equal pay for equal work provisions
and whistle-blower protections. INS authorities arrest, imprison,
and nearly deport a Pakistani immigrant married to a US citizen:
he was on the tarmac when a federal judge called the INS and
ordered him off the plane.
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11/25 Israel admits an Israeli soldier shot
and killed a UN official in the Jenin refugee camp: From the
hospital in Jenin, we are joined by an Irish peace activist
who was also shot in the leg. On the UN’s International
Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we speak
with four women working for women’s human rights around
the world: A Palestinian Israeli professor, a Somalian human
rights activist, an Indian police official and the Vice Mayor
of Cuenca, Ecuador.
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11/22 US is monitoring thousands of Iraqis,
Iraqi-Americans and ‘Iraq sympathizers’: a conversation
with an Iraqi-American peace advocate and business owner.
87 Pakistanis from across the US set back to Pakistan in mass
deportation: immigrant rights activists debate the INS. Deportation
of Seattle-area Somalis halted because there is no functioning
government in Somalia: Part 2 of the debate with the INS.
Imprisoned Palestinian activist calls in from a New Jersey
detention center and debates an INS spokesman: Farouk Abdel-Muhti
has been imprisoned for over six months.
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11/21 Homeland Security Act to pervade daily
lives: An overview of the largest reorganization of government
in 50 years; a look at how it will affect everything from
civil liberties of Americans to corporate privacy. The Pentagon’s
"Total Information Awareness": Pentagon unveils
plans to create the world’s largest surveillance database
to track your phone calls, purchases, Internet usage, reading
material, banking transactions. Iran-Contra criminal quietly
returns to Washington to oversee the Pentagon’s massive
surveillance project: Reagan’s former national security
adviser John Poindexter was convicted in 1990 for five felonies
of lying to Congress during the Iran-Contra affair. Post-Sept.
11 watch list acquires life of its own: A talk with Wall Street
Journal reporter Ann Davis on how an outdated FBI list dogs
the innocent. New "no-fly blacklist" targets activists:
Transportation Security Administration admits it has a list
of about 1,000 people who are deemed "threats to aviation"
and not allowed to fly, many more are searched at every airport.
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11/20 An hour with Independent journalist
Robert Fisk: He discusses the Bush Administration’s
insistence that Iraq is already violating the UN resolution.
Robert Fisk on Afghanistan: on the fall of Kandahar, the rise
of drug trafficking and Osama bin Laden. Why did the September
11 attacks happen? Robert Fisk on the modern history of the
Middle East.
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11/19 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and singer
Joan Baez in a special on civil disobedience: Baez recalls
when King visited her in prison, and we play a rare recording
of King’s remarks to supporters outside the prison.
"But if not": Dr. Martin Luther King gives a sermon
on civil disobedience in a rare recording.
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11/18 Ten Thousand Protest the US Army School
of the Americas: we’ll hear from decorated Vietnam veteran
and protest leader Father Roy Bourgois, as well as Fort Benning’s
commanding General John LeMoyne, Representatives Barbara Lee
and Jim McGovern, author Eduardo Galeano, and others in the
new documentary, ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’.
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11/15 President of the Cuban National Assembly
Ricardo Alarcón talks about terror, trade, and tyranny…of
the US government; and civil rights attorney Leonard Weinglass
on the case of the Cuban 5.
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11/14 Saddam Hussein approves the return
of UN weapons inspectors: an interview with Democracy Now!
correspondent Jeremy Scahill in Baghdad and an Iraqi man whose
house was searched by UN inspectors in 1997. "Spider’s
Web": the secret history of how the United States illegally
armed Saddam Hussein; a conversation with the journalist who
broke the Iraqgate scandal that involved President George
Bush, James Baker and Donald Rumsfeld.
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11/13 No Child Unrecruited: Should the military
be given contact information for every high school student?
A round-table discussion on President Bush’s No Child
Left Behind Act. Hey kids! Let’s Play War!: US military
recruiters target children with a new video game called "America’s
Army". CIA On Campus: Intelligence Community Reemerges
after 9/11 as a force in academia. Democracy Now! hosts a
debate between two professors, a CIA consultant & a vocal
CIA critic.
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11/12 Iraqi Parliament votes no on UN weapons
inspectors resolution: We go to Baghdad for a live report
from Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill. Leading
Colombian trade unionist goes into hiding after receiving
threats on his life: a discussion with Francisco Ramirez on
the life of trade unionists in Colombia, as Washington increases
aid for Colombia’s rightwing military.
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11/11 For Veteran’s Day, we go back
to Vietnam to remember My Lai, one of the darkest events in
U.S. Army history: a discussion with Vietnam veteran Mike
Boehm about the massacre and the documentary "The Sound
of the Violin in My Lai." What do the Washington-area
sniper, the University of Arizona killer and Timothy McVeigh
have in common? They were all Gulf War vets. We talk with
Gulf War veteran Charles Sheehan-Miles, author of the article,
"Another Gulf War Vet Opens Fire". Domestic violence
advocates criticize new military study examining why four
Fort Bragg soldiers killed their wives: Army blames murders
on stress and stigma of psychological counseling
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11/08 UN prepares to OK Iraq weapons inspections:
A conversation with Dennis Halliday, ex-Director of UN Humanitarian
Program for Iraq. Iraq Journal: Democracy Now’s Jeremy
Scahill talks with Iraqi’s most famous artist, Mohammed
Ghani, in Baghdad. Voices from an Indonesian prison: A Democracy
Now Exclusive!: we hear from Joy Lee Sadler, a US citizen
and Lesley McCulloch, a Scottish professor who have been imprisoned
in Aceh, Indonesia since September.
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11/07 Iraq Journal: As the United Nations
Security Council prepares to OK the new U.S.-drafted Iraq
resolution, citizens in Basra prepare for the worst. A Democracy
Now! Exclusive interview with a Pakistani human rights attorney
minutes before he is deported on Election Day; organizers
estimate between 3-4 people are deported every day from New
York City alone. Canada warns its citizens about traveling
in the United States: Advisory comes after U.S. officials
secretly detain a Canadian citizen and deports him to Syria,
where he hasn’t lived in 14 years. Runners carry a torch
from Mexico City to New York: Activists honor the many undocumented
workers who have died in the US and draw attention to the
rights of immigrants
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11/06 Republicans regain the Senate and
increase House majority, with only one-third of Americans
voting; In Florida a Bush wins again amid complaints from
African Americans of voting problems and irregularities. Meanwhile,
Minnesota throws out tens of thousands of absentee ballots
for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone. Bilingual education loses
in Massachusetts but wins in Colorado; Oregon rejects universal
health care and anti-genetically modified foods measures.Green
Party candidates win over 30 races on Election Day: Across
40 states, over 450 candidates run Green. In California gubernatorial
race, Peter Miguel Camejo earns 5 percent of vote.
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11/05 Who gets to vote? A roundtable discussion
on Election Day: Two years after the Stolen Election, the
voter rolls in Florida are still illegally purged; a discussion
with BBC journalist Greg Palast, Miami/Dade County Elections
supervisor, filmmaker Danny Schechter, and election observers
from Florida to Baltimore. If you have problems voting today,
call 1 (866) OUR-VOTE
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11/04 Iraq Journal: In an interview with
Democracy Now!, a senior Iraqi diplomat predicts France and
Russia will veto Washington’s Iraq resolution. Former
2000 Green Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader debates
Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI): On the eve of the mid-term
elections a discussion on whether there is a difference between
the Democratic and Republican parties and on how progressives
should vote Tuesday. DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe: Democracy
Now! confronts the Democratic Party’s head fundraiser
on the party’s efforts to thwart the new soft money
ban and how he personally made $18 million in possible insider
trading off Global Crossing, the fallen telecommunications
giant.
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11/01 “We don’t want to be a
North American Colony”: Thousands rally in Quito, Ecuador
to protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Water and
War: Bolivian activist Oscar Olivera on the struggle against
Bechtel and the privatization of Cochabamba’s water
in 2000. The mother of the alleged 20th hijacker talks: Two
months before Zacarias Moussaoui goes on trial evidence emerges
that indicates the U.S. may have the wrong man.
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