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 3/31
(Now Two Hours!)
First Hour: The prince of darkness resigns: A look
at the controversial businesses dealings of Pentagon adviser
and war hawk Richard Perle; Three Dominican nuns face 50 years
in prison for conducting citizens weapons inspections: Trial
begins today in Colorado; What will a U.S. occupation of Iraq
look like? A speech by Asla Bali of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee;
Second Hour: Six journalists still missing in Iraq including
two from Newsday: We talk to Newsday editor Les Payne and
Pacifica’s unembedded reporter Jerry Quickly who was
expelled from Iraq last week; War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
reportedly rejected advice from top Pentagon planners on how
to invade Iraq: Former Marine & UN Weapons Inspector Scott
Ritter explains why the U.S. may lose the war;
3/28
(Now Two Hours!)
Hour 1: We go to a Houston immigration detention center
as a Palestinian family prepares to be deported to Jordan;
A Muslim man in Indiana is attacked and set on fire: Hate
crimes against Muslim Americans on the rise again; A U.S.
B-2 stealth bomber drops two bunker busters on Baghdad: We
go to the Iraqi capital for a report from May Ying Welsh;
International Black Coalition for Peace and Justice Rally
Calls for major anti-war protest in Los Angeles: We have a
discussion on race and war;
Hour2: NYPD arrests 215 as protesters shut down traffic on
Fifth Avenue: News media targeted at demonstration for its
biased Iraq coverage; “Time’s Up!”: Academy
Award winning director Michael Moore tells the White House
comment line with thousands of cheering supporters; “This
has been one long Orwellian week”: Michael Moore on
the corporate media war coverage
3/27
(Now Two Hours!)
Hour 1: Live from Baghdad: 14 killed in a Baghdad market,
as Iraqi clerics call for jihad against US invasion forces;
The Pentagon knows large percentages of “smart”
bombs malfunction and civilian deaths are a certainty: a discussion
on how “smart” the bombs really are; Live from
the streets of NYC: hundreds “die in” and shut
down 5th Ave.; Iraqi families sue Powell, Cheney, and Bush,
Sr. over bombing of civilian shelter in 1991 that killed over
400 people; but the Belgian parliament passes a law that could
prevent the lawsuit from moving forward; Shi’ites warn
US troops will face armed resistance if they occupy Iraq after
the invasion; this, as coalition hopes of uprising in Basra
evaporate; NYC protesters “die in” under bulldozer
at an Israeli bank, shutting down 5th Ave;“Palestinian
Cleaver” family again faces deportation: we hear from
the eldest daughter, Noor Kesbeh;
Hour2: In New York City scores are being arrested this morning
in direct action protests against the war; U.S. bombs Iraqi
Television again: International Federation of Journalists
condemns attack as a violation of the Geneva conventions;
Is the world watching two different versions of the invasion
of Iraq? A comparison of the Arab-language and western media;
U.S. government pressures UN nations (again) not to oppose
Iraq attack; Could the war cost $800 billion? A discussion
on the cost of the Iraq invasion and what it means to the
American public; Under surveillance from the military and
under pressure from MTV: Hip hop star Michael Franti talks
about the pressure caused by speaking out against war;
3/26
(Now Two Hours!)
Hour 1 The Arabic's world CNN comes under fire
for its Iraq coverage: An Al Jazeera top producer discusses
the broadcast of the POW footage, the network's banning
from the NYSE & NASDAQ and the launching (and hacking)
of an English-language site U.S. escalates Iraq war in Kurdish-controlled
area: We go to northern Iraq for a report from Christian Science
Monitor reporter Cameron Ward Turkey considers sending forces
into Northern Iraq in coordination with U.S.
Hour 2 How oil interests obscured the U.S. Government's focus
on Saddam Hussein's dictatorship: A look at the role
of Bechtel and Halliburton UK + US = United to Kill Us All:
An ordinary Iraqi citizens speaks out on the war from Baghdad
near where U.S. forces bombed a busy market today killing
15 Could protesting become a form of terrorism?: Oregon and
Tuscon consider new so-called anti-terrorism laws. Meanwhile
direct action protests against war continue across the country.
3/25
(Now Two Hours!)
Hour 1: US and British warplanes begin intense bombardment
of Republican Guard positions outside the Iraqi capital: We
go to Baghdad for report from May Ying Welsh; Kurdish officials
say 150 killed by U.S. bombing, scores of Iraqi civilian casualties
elsewhere: British writer Milan Rai analyzes the opening days
of the U.S. invasion; From broadcasting images of POWs to
distributing propaganda leaflets to embedding reports in the
military: a review of the Pentagon’s psychological operations;
U.S. military has been quietly refueling its B-52s over Spain:
Protesters fear a reoccurrence of the 1966 disaster when a
B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed with an aerial
tanker over Spain;
Hour 2: Will Iraq become a “quagmire for the Americans”?
Non-embedded, Independent reporter Robert Fisk reports from
Baghdad; Veteran war correspondent Robert Fisk says debating
whether it’s really Saddam detracts from the issue –
what the Iraqi President actually says. Part 2 of the interview;
“When the British were fired upon… from Delhi
and in Northern Ireland, they did not use artillery. But here,
apparently, it is ok to use artillery on a crowded city. What
on Earth is the British army doing in Iraq firing artillery
into a city?”: Part 3 of the interview with journalist
Robert Fisk;
3/24
(Now Two Hours!)
Hour 1: Red Cross says humanitarian crisis is looming
in Basra; TV networks are preoccupied with action footage
from reporters embedded with U.S. military; US says Iraq’s
treatment of American POWs breaks Geneva Convention; legal
experts call Bush administration hypocritical, citing US treatment
of Taliban prisoners and the invasion of Iraq; A report from
Baghdad during the “Shock And Awe” bombing: independent
journalist Mei Ying Welsh reports from Baghdad; Millions protest
around the world, hundreds of thousands protest in NYC: we
go to the streets of NYC;
Hour 2: Up to 209 civilians killed in early days of U.S.
invasion: Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness reports
from Baghdad; 11 members of Congress vote to oppose war: We
talk to Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA); U.S. reportedly fires DU
shells in Basra: Despite evidence of health and environmental
effects, Pentagon denies DU is dangerous; “We are against
this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush!": Michael
Moore wins an Oscar and joins others calling for peace
3/20
(Now Two Hours!)
U.S. begins invasion of Iraq, attempts to assassinate
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein: We go live to Baghdad to speak
with Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness and hear President
Bush and Hussein; Hundreds of thousands take to the streets
to protest war just hours after the U.S. attack: We go to
Sydney, London and Washington; Talk-back to war: Listeners
tell us what they’re doing in this time of war; June
Jordan, an anti-war voice of the past from the Pacifica Archives;
Iraqi people speak out against the U.S. invasion: we go live
to Baghdad; Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy slams
US invasion as protests intensify; U.N. Security Council members
voice their opposition; Burning the “Bridge to Baghdad”:
as war begins, the media censors the voices of ordinary Iraqi
people;
3/19
(Now Two Hours!)
Hour 1: Will Iraqi-Americans be detained? Round-ups
may be part of the government’s “Operation Liberty
Shield”; Hundreds of Pakistanis try to flee to Canada
as new registration deadline looms: border cities have been
transformed into “unlikely refugee camps”; As
US names 30 countries supposedly supporting war, protests
intensify: a cross-continental discussion; Talk-back to war:
more listeners tell us what they’re doing in this time
of war; Is war against Iraq legal or not? A debate between
Roger Normand and Ruth Wedgewood; Activists blockade Australian
Prime Minister John Howard’s house, a Turkish port where
US military is unloading equipment, a US naval base in Spain
and damage US bombers in Scotland: direct actions around the
world to stop the war; Are the networks megaphones for official
views on Iraq?: FAIR finds few voices of dissent in recent
war coverage;
3/18
(Now Two Hours!)
President Bush vows to attack Iraq if Saddam Hussein
doesn’t flee within 48 hours: protests intensify around
the world & British government in uproar as senior officials
resign, Democracy Now talks to response Dennis Halliday, Ralph
Nader, Leslie Cagan and Jeremy Scahill; With 300,000 troops
set to invade Iraq, Gulf War veterans are concerned the safety
of US forces may be compromised: We talk to Steve Robinson
of the National Gulf War Resource Center; U.S. government
executes celebrated Gulf War veteran: Did exposure to nerve
agents lead Louis Jones, Jr. to kill?; Oil, security and world
domination: Professor Michael Klare discusses how the U.S.
is working to redraw the strategic map of the Middle East;
Vandenberg Air Force Base authorizes 'deadly force' against
protesters: protesters aren’t deterred; 300 New Yorkers
protest the Israeli military killing of U.S. citizen Rachel
Corrie: they demand a Congressional investigation;
3/17
(Now Two Hours!)
Hour 1: Three men on an island prepare to declare war
despite oceans of protest around them: President Bush gives
the U.N. Security Council 24 hours to support a US invasion
of Iraq as over a million protest around the world; The “Clash
of Fundamentalisms” and “The Clash of Barbarisms”:
part 2 of our discussion with acclaimed authors Tariq Ali
and Gilbert Achcar; Hour 2: Israeli troops kill US citizen
Rachel Corrie in the town of Rafah by running her over with
a bulldozer; last month, Corrie entreated US citizens
to “Look… Find whatever information you can about
Rafah… watch what’s going on here, because this
isn’t a place that gets a lot of attention, and people…
facing death continuously”; “US military equipment
– caterpillar bulldozers, Apache helicopters, F16 fighters
– that is what’s bombing and killing people”:
a discussion at the Socialist Scholars Conference on the U.S.,
Israel and the Occupied Territories; Over a million people
protest against a US invasion of Iraq; organizers say 100,000
marched on Washington
3/14
(Now Two Hours!)
Hour 1: Will the Pentagon target journalists in Iraq?
An interview with veteran BBC war correspondent Kate Adie.
Oakland police beat reporters and young people of color at
otherwise peaceful rally: San Francisco Bay View journalist
Ra’shida Askey says police jumped her, slammed her head
to the ground and beat her. San Francisco police conducting
unauthorized surveillance ops on anti-war activists. Woman
who lost relative in 9-11 attacks arrested for protesting
war. 12-year-old Middle School student speaks out against
war. Hour 2: U.S. military seeks freedom to dump spent munitions,
pollute the air and poison endangered species without risk
of liability: Pentagon quietly seeks major exemptions from
environmental laws. Easter Bunny-dressed protester arrested
at Kmart at demonstration against Easter baskets containing
toy soldiers; in other protest news 11 arrested at Boeing
HQ in Chicago. University of New Mexico agrees to stop investing
in World Bank bonds. Acclaimed writer Tariq Ali calls on Kofi
Annan to go to Baghdad as a human shield: A discussion with
Ali and Gilbert Achcar.
3/13
(Now Two Hours!)
Prime Minister Tony Blair says Britain will deploy
troops with or without UN backing: we talk to a Conservative
Party MP who opposes war and former Labour Party Chair Tony
Benn;“Uniting For Peace”: can the UN General Assembly
trump the Security Council by invoking a little-known resolution,
and stop the war? Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is
assassinated: we’ll go to Belgrade; Delma Banks lives:
U.S. Supreme Court grants emergency stay 15 minutes before
Texan man was scheduled to be executed; Elizabeth Smart is
found while Alexis Patterson is largely forgotten: We look
at the cases of two girls who were abducted last year and
why one made headlines and the other didn’t; New York
says no to war: the City Council joins 140 other cities and
towns opposing a U.S. invasion of Iraq; And then we will talk
to the man Pentagon advisor Richard Perle says is the closest
thing American journalism has to a terrorist, investigative
reporter Sy Hersh;
3/12
"Throughout the globe, the United States is becoming
associated with the unjustified use of force”: Diplomat
John Brown explains why he resigned from the State Department
to protest U.S. war plans in Iraq; Halliburton, Bechtel and
other U.S. firms set to profit from the rebuilding of postwar
Iraq: Meanwhile the Guardian reports Halliburton is still
paying VP Dick Cheney up to $1 million annually; Marked for
Death: How the SAT can recruit you for the military; Did Pakistani
intelligence officials fake the arrest of alleged Qaeda mastermind
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?: Foreign journalists in Pakistan begin
to question Pakistani intelligence officials. We’ll
have a report from Islamabad; Serbian Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic is assassinated: We go to Belgrade for a live report
from Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill; Angola,
Guinea, and Cameroon: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Danny Glover and
US-based Africa advocacy groups are calling on these Security
Council members to stand firm against US pressure; “Searching
Jenin, Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion”:
Suzanne Barouds reads a personal accounts of survivors from
Jenin;
3/11
Anti-war protesters plan for massive civil disobedience
in Washington next week; Immigrant rights groups prepare for
a fourth round of mass deportations of Pakistani detainees;
Police in Montpelier, Vt. photograph student protesters &
ask for surveillance help from the local media: Meanwhile
in Minnesota, law enforcement identifies student anti-war
group as possible threat; A bigger leak than the Pentagon
Papers? Daniel Ellsberg discusses the leaked email that shows
the U.S. is spying on UN documents; U.S. chains & shackles
naked detainees to the ceiling in Afghanistan: Is the U.S.
using torture?; Bush delays plans for Israeli-Palestinian
peace plan: Israeli forces kill over 60 Palestinians since
Feb. 15; Former FBI chief calls for the Supreme Court to halt
the execution of Delma Banks in Texas: We talk to Banks’
mother and attorney;
3/10
Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Medea Benjamin
& 20 other women are arrested outside the White House:
Thousands gather in Washington for Code Pink peace demonstration.
Should President Bush be impeached? Progressive Congressional
Democrats consider introducing articles of impeachment if
the U.S. attacks Iraq. US & UK relied on forged document
in making the case that Iraq has a nuclear program; chief
nuclear weapons inspector Mohamed ElBaradei says there is
no proof that Niger aided Iraq. British woman arrested for
violating the Official Secrets Act & the United Nations
launches inquiry into U.S. spying of UN diplomats. We talk
to Observer reporter Marin Bright who broke the story. Is
MSNBC trying to out-fox Fox?: The GE-owned network fires anti-war
host Phil Donahue and hires Michael Savage who calls for the
jailing of protesters and describes immigrants as “turd
world immigrants".
3/7
President Bush: US will call for U.N. Security Council
vote whether or not US has votes lined up. News conference
scripted and reporters silenced: a report on the President’s
first primetime press conference in 1 and 1/2 years. Air Force
admits at least 54 cases of rape and sexual assault at Air
Force Academy – scandal called bigger than Tailhook:
we’ll talk to two survivors. If women ruled the world,
would there be war? A roundtable discussion a day before thousands
of women march on Washington.
3/6
Iraq Journal: The ghosts of Safwan, A report from the
Iraq/Kuwait border. Over 100,000 students walk out and protest
war around the nation and the globe: we’ll hear from
students Los Angeles, New York, Madison, Wisconsin, Buffalo,
Stanford, as well as in Australia, Canada and Ireland. International
human shields prepare for war in Iraq: We talk to John Ross
and Kathy Kelly in Baghdad. New York man arrested at shopping
mall for wearing“Give Peace A Chance” t-shirt:
Over 150 respond by showing up in similar shirts at the mall.
3/5
Networks ignore explosive story revealing U.S. is spying
on U.N. Security Council members: Behind the scenes U.N. diplomats
are furious at the dirty tricks. "Books not bombs!"
"We need weapons of mass instruction!": Students
walk out of classes around the country to protest the billions
of dollars that is going to the US military and not schools.
British Labour Party MP defects from Labour Party in protest
of Tony Blair. FBI plane spies on Bloomington, Indiana: peace
groups, Muslims and international students likely targeted.
3/4
The White House dismisses Iraq’s destruction
of banned missiles as a distraction: We join Rev. Dr. Herbert
Daughtry & Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill
in Baghdad. Turkish peace movement claims victory following
a no-war vote: Meanwhile the Kurdish population in Northern
Iraq prepares for a Turkish invasion. Could the U.S. have
caught alleged Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 1996?
We talk to BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast. Anti-war
protests continue across the world: Over 1,000 readings of
Lysistrata are held & the former head of the Pacific Stock
Exchange calls for direct action against war.
3/3
U.S. is tapping the phones of U.N. Security Council
members and reading their e-mail: the story makes headlines
around the world but is not reported here. Top Iraqi defector
says Iraq destroyed its WMDs, but Bush and Blair continue
to cite him to drum up support for war, and the US media buries
the story: an interview with former UNSCOM chair Rolf Ekeus
and weapons inspector Scott Ritter. “The Thirty Year
Itch: For Three Decades, Washington Hawks Have Pushed For
The Us To Seize Control Of The Persian Gulf. Their Time Is
Now.” interview with Mother Jones Magazine contributing
editor Robert Dreyfuss.
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