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8:00-8:01 Billboard:
Iraq is Not America’s to Sell – Author and Journalist
Naomi Klein on America’s Corporate Control of Iraq
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced
Look at the Right
Ex-Guantanamo Pakistani Man Sues U.S. And Pakistan Governments
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:20 Iraq is Not America’s to Sell –
Author and Journalist Naomi Klein on America’s Corporate
Control of Iraq
INTRO: “It's too late to stop the war, but it's not
too late to deny Iraq's invaders the myriad economic prizes
they went to war to collect in the first place” - We
speak with renowned author and journalist Naomi Klein.
In her latest article, Naomi Klein writes:
“Bring Halliburton home. Cancel the contracts. Ditch
the deals. Rip up the rules. Those are just a few of the suggestions
for slogans that could help unify the growing movement against
the occupation of Iraq. So far, activist debates have focused
on whether the demand should be for a complete withdrawal
of troops, or for the United States to cede power to the United
Nations.
“But the "troops out" debate overlooks an
important fact. If every last soldier pulled out of the Gulf
tomorrow and a sovereign government came to power, Iraq would
still be occupied: by laws written in the interest of another
country; by foreign corporations controlling its essential
services; by 70% unemployment sparked by public sector layoffs.
Any movement serious about Iraqi self-determination must
call not only for an end to Iraq's military occupation, but
to its economic colonisation as well.”
- Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist and author of Fences
and Windows: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Globalization
Debate and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies.
8:20-8:21 One Minute Music Break
8:21-8:45 Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them:
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
INTRO: Author Al Franken spoke to a packed house this weekend
at the National Conference on Media Reform. He spoke about
the Bush administration, the Fox News lawsuit and why Bill
O’Reilly is “a pathological liar.”
This past weekend, members of the Democracy Now! crew traveled
to Madison, Wisconsin to attend the National Conference on
Media Reform hosted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
campus.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, comedian Al Franken and consumer
activist Ralph Nader were among the hundreds who attended
this weekend to discuss the concentration of media power.
Speakers also included public TV journalist Bill Moyers, AFL-CIO
President John Sweeney, five members of Congress and others.
On Sunday, political author Al Franken spoke in front of
a packed house at the Orpheum Theater.
Earlier in the evening, 91-year-old author and radio personality
Studs Terkel introduced the speakers. Terkel has said of Franken
"Three of the best-selling authors in America are Franken,
Michael Moore and Molly Ivins. That should tell you something.
The people are ahead of the politicians and the media, as
usual."
- Al Franken, author of the best-selling new book "Lies
and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look
at the Right." He spoke Saturday night at the National
Conference on Media Reform in Madison, Wisconsin.
8:45-8:58 Ex-Guantanamo Pakistani Man Sues U.S. And
Pakistan Governments
INTRO: In the first case of its kind, a Pakistani cleric
who spent a year detained at Guantanamo Bay is suing the U.S.
and Pakistani governments for his “illegal detention,
torture and humiliation.” We go to Islamabad to speak
with his lawyer.
A Pakistani cleric who spent a year detained at Guantanamo
Bay is suing the U.S. and Pakistani governments for $10.4
million for his “illegal detention, torture and humiliation.”
His lawyers claimed he was mentally and physically tortured
and kept in a cage that was meant for animals.
53 year-old Mohammad Sagheer filed the petition in an Islamabad
court on Tuesday. He is suing the U.S. secretary of state,
secretary of defense and the Justice Department as well as
the Pakistan’s Interior Ministry.
In the first case of its kind, Sagheer said he wanted compensating
“for the losses I suffered during a year of captivity
and mental anguish,” adding “I am a poor man.”
He is the father of 10 sons and eight daughters.
Sagheer says he was arrested by Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum’s
forces in 2001 soon after the Taliban’s ouster in Afghanistan’s
northern Kunduz province. The BBC reports that he is emerging
as the first eyewitness to grave human rights violation by
the Northern Alliance forces.
In May this year, Democracy Now! broadcast a film never before
shown in the U.S. titled: “Afghan Massacre: The Convoy
of Death,” which alleges U.S. complicity in the massacre
of thousands of prisoners who surrendered to the US military’s
Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz.
- Mohammad Ikram Chaudhry, Mohammad Sagheer’s lawyer
and an advocate in the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Islamabad.
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Eric Rweyemamu
(RAY MA MU), Jenny Filipazzo and Isis Phillips.
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