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February 2003
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 2/28
Investigative reporter Greg Palast on how Bush killed
the FBI's investigation into Saudi Arabia’s financing
of terrorist organizations; he also discusses the head of
the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness Program John
Poindexter’s ties to a data-mining corporation. New
Orleans mother appeals to the Pope to help prevent the execution
of her son: the murder was committed when Ryan Matthews was
barely 17 years old
2/27
Democracy Now! has learned the Pentagon is asking humanitarian
groups for global positioning coordinates of civilian sites
in Iraq, such as water treatment facilities and power plants:
is it to bomb them or save them? “The press will once
again serve primarily as the mouthpiece for the government”
– as journalists prepare to ‘embed’ with
US troops to cover a war on Iraq, we talk with veteran war
correspondents Chris Hedges of ‘The New York Times’
and Robert Fisk of the ‘Independent’ President
Bush claims an unprovoked invasion of Iraq will set the stage
for peace to the Middle East: Chris Hedges and Robert Fisk
respond
2/26
British Labour MPs set to deliver Prime Minister Tony
Blair his most serious challenge yet: an interview with Dilip
Hiro. 'Blood on their hands': acclaimed journalist John Pilger
explores the fate of Iraqi children, and the world leaders
who are responsible.
2/25
A People’s History of the United States, 1,000,000
copies and counting: “This book delivered our history
to us” said actress Alfre Woodard who joins Alice Walker,
Danny Glover, Kurt Vonnegut, Marisa Tomei and others in celebrating
Howard Zinn’s classic. Historian Howard Zinn talks about
bombs, terrorism, the anti-war movement and the Bush administration’s
impending war on Iraq. Iraq Journal: As the U.S. tells the
world it is ready to go to war with or without the UN , we
go to southern Iraq where thousands of children have fallen
victim to a post-Gulf War cancer epidemic. The millionth copy
of Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History Of
The United States’ has been sold, and renowned actors,
authors and editors gather to celebrate
2/24
As Spanish Prime Minister Aznar and President Bush
strategize at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, 94% of Spaniards
oppose war: we go to Madrid for a live report. World-renowned
Irish civil rights leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey is turned
away at the border and deported: we go live to McAliskey in
Northern Ireland. 'Come September': award-winning author Arundhati
Roy speaks out on Iraq, U.S. foreign policy & corporate
globalization.
2/21
"Whenever you have war and oppression overseas, rest
assured you're going to have repression and injustice at home"
outspoken Palestinian Professor Sami al-Arian; he was
indicted yesterday by Ashcroft on charges of material support
to terrorists and led away in handcuffs. Today is the 38th
anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X: we hear his
famous speech, "The Ballot or the Bullet". Iraq Journal: gun
sales are booming as Iraqis prepare for war
2/20
Michigan High School student is sent home for wearing
a T-shirt with a picture of President Bush and the caption
‘International Terrorist’: he’ll give us
his first nationally broadcast interview. ‘The Hidden
Wars of Desert Storm’: as the Pentagon prepares to deploy
journalists with troops preparing to invade Iraq, as part
of its new PR campaign, we go back in time to the Pentagon
propaganda and censorship in the first Gulf War. Headlines:
Peace protests continue despite President Bush’s dismissal
of the anti-war movement as a mere“focus group”
2/19
War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld refuses to rule out unleashing
nuclear weapons on Iraq, the CIA warns of a nuclear arms race,
& the Bush administration lowers the threshold for nuclear
attacks: We spend the hour with leading anti-nuclear expert
Dr. Helen Caldicott.
2/18
A respected Greek professor is detained, shackled and
asked if he is anti-American: a Democracy Now! exclusive.
“They evidently believe that the means of violence in
their hands are so extraordinary that they can dismiss with
contempt anyone who stands in their way”: professor
Noam Chomsky on U.S. empire and the global movement against
it. Police crack down on anti-war protesters from New York
to Colorado Springs to San Francisco.
2/17
The World Says No to War! Rome2 million people;
London, Madrid, Barcelonaover a million each; Berlin
and New York City half a million; Melbourne, Sydney and
Francehundreds of thousands; and hundreds of other protests
around the world. “Listen to the voice of the people,
for many times the voice of the people is the voice of God!”
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu entreats George Bush
before hundreds of thousands in New York City. “We stand
here because our right to dissent and our right to be participants
in a true democracy has been hijacked by an administration
of liars and murderers, who curse us because we stand in the
way of their tyranny, who curse us because we stand in the
way of their unholy and brutal agenda, an administration whose
villainy and greed is insatiable. We stand at this threshold
of history, and say to them, not in our names, not in our
names!” Actor Danny Glover; Harry Belafonte and
Angela Davis also addressed the crowd. UN breaks into unprecedented
applause for French Foreign Minister’s anti-war address:
We hear Dominique de Villepin and chief UN weapons inspector
Hans Blix
2/14
Nelson Mandela is condemning President Bush's plans
to invade Iraq; meanwhile South African President Thabo Mbeki
announced today Baghdad and UN inspectors have accepted South
Africa's offer to help Iraq disarm. "Empire may well go to
war, but it's out in the open now, too ugly to behold its
own reflection, too ugly even to rally its own people. It
won't be long before the majority of American people become
our allies": award-winning author Arundhati Roy condemns Bush's
plans to invade Iraq. "Deflowering Ecuador: the bloom is off
the rose in Cayambe Valley, homeland of your valentine bouquet"
2/13
Renowned historian Howard Zinn on the history of government
and media lies in time of war: from the Mexican-American war
to the Spanish-American war, the Philippines to Panama, Vietnam
to the Gulf War to the present. Over a hundred thousand people
are expected to protest in Manhattan this Saturday despite
the banning of a march: the Federal Second District Court
of Appeals yesterday upheld the ban. Iraq Journal: the Vatican
sends an envoy to Baghdad to avert war.
2/12
Indian philosopher and physicist Vandana Shiva: if
terrorism is the systematic use of terror as a means of coercion,
then the WTO rules are terrorist; she also calls for the peace
and global justice movements to unite. NATO's plans to defend
Turkey in case of war with Iraq are deadlocked as France,
Germany and Belgium refuse to back down: we go live to Brussels.
Iraq Journal: the Iraq Peace Team demonstrates outside an
electrical plant bombed during the Gulf War. Democracy Now!
listeners/viewers report on their own methods of protesting
the war
2/11
“It makes me think back to the awful days when
we were struggling against Apartheid in South Africa”:
Desmond Tutu condemns a federal court ban on the Feb. 15th
anti-war march in New York. From Hawaii to Maine, over 70
city councils and state legislatures have passed resolutions
saying no to war: We hear from elected officials in Maine,
Chicago, Baltimore, Des Moines, Oregon and Cleveland. Fox’s
Bill O’Reilly tells the son of a man who perished in
the WTC to shut up, cuts his microphone and then threatens
him with violence: O’Reilly didn’t like Jeremy
Glick’s call for peace. Peace groups resort to buying
TV and newspaper ads to get their message out: Cable giant
Comcast charged with censorship for rejecting anti-war commercial.
2/10
Chief U.N. inspectors cite an encouraging Iraqi "change
of heart"; Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill confronts
chief inspector Hans Blix over U.S.-imposed "no-fly zones".
"Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation"
is this about Iraq, or Britain? Britain admits its latest
'intelligence' report was plagiarized from a post-doc's thesis.
Justice Department secretly drafts legislation to strengthen
the Patriot Act: the bill would allow the government to strip
citizenship from people who support groups the US considers
terrorist organizations, and invalidate all state laws regulating
police spying.
2/7
First Lady Laura Bush Cancels Poetry Gathering Fearing
Anti-War Poems: Democracy Now! hosts its own poetry slam with
Def Poetry Jam stars Staceyann Chin, Suheir Hammad, Steve
Colman. North Korea Threatens a Pre-emptive Strike on U.S.
troops, and Reactivates Its Nuclear Reactor: We talk with
Korean expert Bruce Cumings
2/6
Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council to argue
for a first-strike attack on Iraq; most of his claims can’t
be verified. Powell claims Iraq is harboring Al Qaeda terrorists,
but leaves out evidence implicating US allies; we hear responses
from Baghdad, France and Cameroon. United for Peace and Justice
sues the NYPD for the right to march against war on Feb. 15.
2/5
Secretary of State Powell today tries to persuade the
U.N. Security Council to authorize an American first-strike
attack on Iraq; we hear excerpts of an exclusive interview
with Saddam Hussein by former British MP Tony Benn. Democracy
now! obtains top secret U.N. documents revealing the U.N.¹s
plans for a post-war Iraq: Jeremy Scahill reports from Baghdad.
NGO-Pentagon collaboration? The International Rescue Committee,
World Vision, Save the Children, the International Medical
Corps, and Mercy Corps have already received $2 million from
the US. Can President Bush be impeached? Former US Attorney
General Ramsey Clark makes his case. Live from the United
Nations: a report from U.N. correspondent Andreas Zumach
2/4
What did the seven Columbia astronauts die for? Velcroe?
Tractors? Pharmaceuticals? We'll look at the experiments in
the sky and the commercialization of space. "It's kind of
like me putting a spinning gun to my head": a soldier refuses
to take the anthrax vaccination and faces court martial. Physicians
and Congresspeople present a national health insurance bill.
"The Price of Oil is too High": hundreds of protests outside
gas stations from Logansport, Indiana to London, England.
2/3
White House & NASA ignored warnings of “another
catastrophic space shuttle accident”: We talk to the
former NASA engineer who called for a moratorium on shuttle
fights six months before Columbia exploded. Texas sheriff
warns of radioactive debris as the Bush Administration pushes
for nuclear-powered spaceships: A conversation on nukes in
space and the militarization of the heavens with Dr. Michio
Kaku, Karl Grossman and Bruce Gagnon. Thousands rally against
war in Madison Wisconsin. We hear a commentary from Matthew
Rothschild, editor of the Progressive magazine.
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