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 1/31
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 over a 16-year-old rape victim's counseling records;
over 2,500 people offer to spend time in jail in lieu of the
fine
1/30
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 for his work. We go
to Baghdad to speak with former U.N. humanitarian coordinator
Hans Von Sponeck about a new report on the health affects
of war.
1/29
President Bush takes the nation to the brink of war
and defends American empire with his State of the Union Address:
we’ll hear from British journalist Robert Fisk and people’s
historian Howard Zinn. President Bush tries to buck criticism
that he cares only about war and not about jobs in his State
of the Union Address: Francis Fox Piven and Meizhu Lui analyze
his conservative social agenda. An alternative State of the
Union: we’ll hear from Dennis Kucinich, Raul Grijalva
and Sheila Jackson Lee of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
1/28
U.N. inspectors says Iraq has no nukes as it criticizes
Iraq’s lack of cooperation: Bush Administration &
Britain seize on the mixed verdict to say time is running
out for Iraq despite no evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction. “The Cold Test: What the Administration
Knew About Pakistan and the North Korea Nuclear Program”:
We talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh
1/27
Israel considers full reoccupation of Gaza Strip; Weekend
raid kills 14 Palestinians and injures dozens. UN weapons
inspectors set to ask for more time Iraq: U.S. threatens to
go to war alone and unleash massive attack (possibly nuclear)
on Iraq. From Porto Allegre to Davos to New York: We hear
from activists at the World Social Forum, World Economic Forum
and at anti-war protests outside the United Nations.
1/24
Ari & I: Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter
describes what it’s like to cover the White House: "They
keep you at the gate. They don’t let you in. They don’t
give you a press pass. If they let you in they let you in
late. If you get in they don’t call on you. If they
call on you. They don’t answer the question." "Why
I refused to testify against the Clintons & what I learned
in jail": an interview with Susan Mcdougal.
1/23
College students, beware of cutting classes: INS jails and
threatens to deport foreign students for taking less than
12 credits. Electronic tracking of international students
begins Jan. 30: Schools must transmit students’ grades,
course loads, majors, addresses to the INS and State Department.
The Supreme Court of Venezuela suspends a referendum on President
Hugo Chavez & the government halts foreign currency trading:
We go to Caracas.
1/22 It's the 30th anniversary of Roe v.
Wade, but almost 90% of counties have no abortion provider,
the Supreme Court hangs in a 5-4 balance, states impose restrictions,
harassment and attacks continue: an hour special. From Mobile,
AL to San Francisco, CA: a conversation on access to abortion
and abortion training for med students. Post Roe v. Wade,
women still die from back-alley abortions: we'll hear two
women's stories
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1/21 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 state's connection to
depleted uranium, nuclear weapons and the Predator Drone.
If New Mexico seceded it would be the third biggest nuclear
power in the world: a Vietnam Veteran and an elementary school
teacher talk about living in the heart of nuclear America
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1/20 From Washington, D.C. to San Francisco,
Cairo to London, Tokyo to Paris to Antarctica, hundreds of
thousands demonstrate against war; many invoked the memory
of Martin Luther King, Jr. On this Martin Luther King holiday,
a conversation with his son Dexter Scott King
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1/17 Should the FCC scrap all remaining
media ownership rules? we go to the FCC public hearing with
a former FCC chair, Fox Entertainment Group, the Nat’l
Assoc. of Black Owned Broadcasters, the Nat’l Assoc.
of Hispanic Journalists, the Center for Public Integrity,
and the Project for Excellence in Journalism. British punk-rock-pop-anarchist-activist
band Chumbawamba performs; they also talk about the anti-war
movement. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets with UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan.
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1/16 Today, Democracy Now! goes live to
the FCC hearings in New York: with FCC chair Michael Powell,
dissident FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, AFTRA President
John Connolly, micro-broadcasting pioneer Pete Tridish, media
critic Mark Crispin Miller, Newspaper Guild President Linda
Foley, Harlem Consumer Education Committee President Florence
RiceŠ and co-host Juan Gonzalez. President Bush says
affirmative action is divisive, unfair and unconstitutional:
White House plans to file a Supreme Court brief in the University
of Michigan case.
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1/15 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan.
15, 1929 April 4, 1968: On his birthday, we hear King
outline his opposition to war. From Death Row, Mumia speaks
out on the death penalty & the "broken" system.
Sarah Jones performs ‘Waking The American Dream,’
about new immigrants’ experience in America; she also
discusses ‘The Exonerated,’ a play about innocent
death row prisoners. "Your Revolution Will Not Happen
Between These Thighs": Sarah Jones vs. the FCC.
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1/14 The Pentagon trains journalists to
report on war and promises access to the battlefield, but
is it access or a new PR strategy? A debate with the Pentagon,
two war correspondents and Harper’s Magazine publisher
Rick MacArthur. Activists train reporters to cover the peace
movement: days before the next march on Washington, Democracy
Now! hosts a different kind of reporter boot camp. Bush administration
gives EPA, Agriculture Dept. and Health Dept. authority to
stamp documents "secret": a discussion on the new
White House secrecy.
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1/13 Illinois governor commutes sentences
of 167 inmates on death row. The United States listed [North
Korea] as part of an 'axis of evil' and singled it out as
a target of pre-emptive nuclear attack, openly declaring a
nuclear war: a discussion about North Korea’s perspective
on the nuclear stand-off with the Bush administration. Thousands
rally in support of the Somali community in Lewiston, Maine,
as white supremacists call for their expulsion. "Two
Towns of Jasper": Two filmmakers, one black and one white,
explore the black and white communities where James Byrd was
lynched in 1998.
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1/10 Renowned defense attorney Michael Tigar
files motion to dismiss John Ashcroft’s charges that
lawyer Lynne Stewart is supporting terrorists: we talk with
the man whose clients have included Angela Davis, Abbie Hoffman
and Terry Nichols (of Oklahoma City bombing-fame). Today,
on the deadline for all males over 16 from a dozen Muslim
countries to register with the INS, a ray of hope: Part Two
of Pakistani immigrant Faisal Ulvie’s story.
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1/9 The S.U.V., the World's Most Dangerous
Vehicle and How They Got That Way: A conversation with reporter
Keith Bradsher and the co-founder of a controversial new anti-S.U.V.
ad campaign. Why is the US preparing to attack Iraq and not
North Korea: A discussion on Iraq’s oil and the potential
to break OPEC. 125 tons of oil still leak everyday from the
oil tanker Prestige two months after sinking off the Spanish
coast: We look at the environmental impact and examine alternatives
to oil.
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1/8 Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) introduces
a bill in Congress to reinstate the draft: a debate between
bill co-sponsor Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and David Harris,
who spent 20 months in prison for refusing to fight in Vietnam.
Vice President Cheney would save over $100,000 under President
Bush's $674 billion tax cut plan, but what will it do for
the poor? UN estimates a US attack on Iraq will cause 500,000
Iraqi casualties in the initial stages: we'll talk to Denis
Halliday in Baghdad. Survivors of the Bhopal industrial disaster
that killed 20,000 in India travel to Europe to return toxic
waste to Dow: We talk to a survivor and discuss how the chemical
giant is cracking down on protests from India to cyberspace.
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1/7 President Bush unveils an economic plan
that is expected to cost nearly $700 billion over the next
decade. Congress opens today with Republicans in control of
the Senate and House. And, pro-war Democrats line up for the
2004 presidential election: A conversation with Ralph Nader.
Fox, NBC, Viacom, Walt Disney Co. urge the government to scrap
all remaining media-ownership rules. A debate between the
FCC and media analysts Robert McChesney and Jeff Chester on
media consolidation.
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1/6 White House plans 18-month long occupation
of Iraq, but remains silent on humanitarian aid: a conversation
with Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly and Democracy Now!
correspondent Jeremy Scahill. In Venezuela, thousands of supporters
of President Hugo Chavez march in a funeral procession mourning
the deaths of two men shot dead during protests: we go to
Caracas for an update.
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1/3 We go to the Iraqi-Turkish border for
a report on a Halliburton-run military base: how Dick Cheney’s
former company is making millions on the “war on Terror”.
Venezuela & Brazil, an axis of good? Venezuelan president
Hugo Chavez gains support from Lula, Brazil’s new president.
“The Stealth Crusade”: an investigative report
on how Christian missionaries are being trained to go undercover
and wipe out Islam.
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1/2 "If you love this planet you will
change the priorities of your life and work every second of
every day to save it": Physician and anti-nuclear activist
Helen Caldicott speaks out against war
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1/1 Jan. 1 special on Mexico to mark ninth
anniversary of Zapatista uprising. Hostile takeover in Mexico
City: Armed guards from television giant take over independent
TV station. It’s the ninth anniversary of the Zapatista
uprising & NAFTA: We look at the effects of the free trade
agreement and go to Chiapas for an update on the Zapatista
movement. Military general blows whistle on Mexican human
rights abuses: We talk to Brigadier General Jose Francisco
Gallardo, recently released from jail.
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