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 8/28
Sen. Clinton & Rep. Nadler Call For Investigation on White
House & EPA Lies Over Health Impact Of 9/11; As Dean Takes
Major Lead in NH Poll Over Kerry, A Debate on His Candidacy;
The Forgotton Ones: A Look at the Life & Work of Photographer
Milton Rogovin;
8/27
NASA Pushes Ahead With Nukes In Space While New Report Predicts
More Space Shuttle Accidents Could Occur; Protesters Greet
Cheney On His Trip to Rumsfeld’s Home In Taos, New Mexico;
U.S. Rounds Up Immigrants For Another Mass Deportation, a
DN! Debate Between Immigrant Advocates & the INS; Former
Jerusalem Post Columnist Discusses Why He Was Forced Out of
the Paper & the Israeli Media’s Shift to the Right;
8/26
Report: White House Lied to New Yorkers About Health Hazards
Near Ground Zero; New Bush Administration Rule Exempts Thousands
of Industrial Plants and Refineries from Part of Clean Air
Act; Last-Ditch Lawsuit Filed to Prevent Removal of Ten Commandments
Monument; A Look at Schwarzenegger’s Father’s
Ties to the Nazis and Arnold’s Connection to Racist
Hate Groups;
8/25
Texas Governor Pardons All 35 Convicted in Tulia Drug Case;
50 Years After America’s First Overthrow of a Democratically
Elected Foreign Government We Take a Look at the 1953 CIA-Backed
Coup of Iran; "Life of Dr. Mossadegh" -- A Look
at the Iranian Leader Overthrown By the U.S.;
8/22
40 Years After Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Gave His “I
Have a Dream” Speech His Son Leads a Mass Rally to Commemorate
the March on Washington; Investigative Reporter Greg Palast
on the Real Reasons for Blackout 2003, Elections Past and
Present and Disenfranchised Voters;
8/21
Ex-Weather Underground Member Kathy Boudin Granted
Parole. After 22 years in jail, Boudin was granted parole
yesterday. We talk to her son Chesa Boudin who was 14 months
old when his parents were arrested; her attorney Leonard Weinglass;
Jeff Jones, a founding member of the Weathermen and Norma
Hill, who called for Boudin’s release even though she
was a victim in the 1981 bank heist that led to Boudin’s
arrest. We also play excerpts of the new documentary “Weather
Underground.”; FCC Head Michael Powell Backpedals &
Announces Study on Local Media Ownership. After hundreds of
thousands of Americans sent letters opposing the FCC’s
changes to the media ownership regulations, Powell is bowing
to public opinion and rethinking the new rules. Among other
things, he yesterday announced the FCC would begin licensing
more low-power community FM stations.
8/19
“The Kleptocrats Have Taken Over” –
Author, Columnist and National Radio Commentator Jim Hightower
on Taking Back the Country Through Democratic Struggle. Jim
Hightower argues that the U.S. is ruled by “thieves
of justice and liberty,” and it is time for the people
to take back their nation. He joins us in our firehouse studio
and we play a speech he gave last night at St. Peters church
in New York City; “Don’t Kill the Truth”
– Hundreds in Hebron Mourn Palestinian Journalist Mazen
Dana Who Was Shot Dead by U.S. Troops in Baghdad. Mazen Dana
was killed covering a mortar attack on a prison in Baghdad
for Reuters on Sunday. U.S. soldiers claimed they mistook
the cameraman’s camera for a rocket propelled grenade
launcher. The Pentagon said the soldiers accidentally “engaged
a cameraman.”;
8/18
Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich on the Blackout
of 2003, Deregulation and Howard Dean's Campaign; Did Deregulation
of the Energy Sector Cause the Blackout of 2003? A Debate
Between Greg Palast, the Competitive Enterprise Institute
and a Former Utility Co. Executive; Will Reliance on Fossil
Fuels & Nuclear Energy Cause More Blackouts? A Discussion
on Alternative Energy sources;
8/15
The Blackout of 2003: Democracy Now! Broadcasts By
Candlelight in NYC; Iraq: Protests Erupt in Basra Over Lack
of Electricity; George Monbiot: Climate Change Threatens the
Future of Humanity, but we Refuse to Respond Rationally; The
Democracy Now! Staff Talks About the Blackout of 2003;
8/11
Democracy Now Special: A Never Before Played Interview
With the Late J.H. Hatfield, Author of Fortunate Son: George
W. Bush and The Making of An American President. Today we
play an interview that we have held for over two years. It
involves allegations of President Bush, drugs, obstruction
of justice and corporate scandal. It raises questions about
why Bush’s driver license number was changed. And it
involves a man who died of an alleged suicide. In the book
Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American
President author J.H. Hatfield charges that President Bush
was arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession and that Bush’s
father George Sr. used his political connections to have his
son’s record expunged. Soon after publication, Hatfield’s
credibility was challenged. He had been convicted in 1988
for hiring a hit-man in a failed attempt to kill his boss
and had served five years in prison. J.H. Hatfield died of
an alleged suicide in July 2001.
8/4
Bush & Blair Launch PR Campaign To Silence Iraq
Critics; Operation Oily Immunity: Bush Quietly Moves to Protect
U.S. Oil Interests in Iraq;“I Did Not Want to Be a Collaborator”
- Former Member of the Iraqi Reconstruction Council Explains
His Decision to Resign;Openly Gay Reverend Wins One of Two
Votes Required To Be Elected Bishop in Episcopal Church; West
African Troops Land in Liberia, Charles Taylor to Resign,
U.S. Troops Still Not Deployed;
8/1
Ex-CIA Agent Robert Baer: How Washington Sold Its Soul
for Saudi Crude; Treasury Dept. Fines Voices in the Wilderness
Thousands for Delivering Medical Supplies to Iraq; Kathleen
Cleaver on the Black Panther Film Fest, Her Life & Activism
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