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The Radical Mind of Dick Cheney
Bush Lifts Ban on Mini Nukes
Unions Call For Timoney to Be Fired & Congressional Investigation
After Bloody Miami FTAA Protests
“There’s an Incredible Mismatch Between Military
Doctrine And The Situation That Actually Exists There Right
Now” – A Conversation With Two Fathers of Soldiers
Deployed in Iraq
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:20 The Radical Mind of Dick Cheney
We take an in-depth look at the historical role Vice President
Dick Cheney has played in U.S. foreign policy, his treatment
of the intelligence community and his hawkish influence on
President George W. Bush. We speak with The New Republic’s
Spencer Ackerman who co-wrote this week’s cover story
on Cheney.
- Spencer Ackerman, assistant editor at The New Republic.
Link: www.tnr.com
8:20-8:21 One Minute Music Break
8:21-8:35 Bush Lifts Ban on Mini Nukes
INTRO: President Bush signed a $401 billion defense appropriations
bill that includes funding for for continued research into
new H-bombs, including low-yield, “mini-nukes."
We speak with the Los Alamos Study Group’s Greg Mello.
President Bush signed a $401 billion defense authorization
bill Monday saying, “America's military is standing
between our country and grave danger.”
Tucked away within the bill is $15 million for continued
research into new H-bombs, including low-yield, so-called
"mini-nukes." The bill lifts a decade-old ban on
research into low-yield nuclear weapons.
Japanese officials expressed concern yesterday about the
plan saying it could have a “negative impact on nuclear
nonproliferation." The U.S. is the only country in history
to have dropped an atomic bomb. In 1945 it dropped one on
the city of Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki in Japan. Over 340,000
died as a result.
- Greg Mello, executive director of the Los Alamos Study
Group
Link: www.lasg.org
8:35-8:50 Unions Call For Timoney to Be Fired &
Congressional Investigation After Bloody Miami FTAA Protests
INTRO: The mostly peaceful protests against the FTAA ministerial
meeting in Miami were marred by scores of reports of police
brutality. Over 200 people were arrested and jailed. We speak
with a United Steelworkers of America spokesman and 71-year
old retired airline pilot who attended the protests as well
as Global Exchange’s Medea Benjamin.
The United Steelworkers of America is calling for the firing
of Miami police John Timoney following last week's protests
against the Free Trade Area of the Americas and the dropping
of all charges against peaceful protesters. The mostly peaceful
protests were marred by scores of reports of police brutality.
Police shot rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters and
beat demonstrators with batons.
Over 200 people were arrested and jailed. At least one protester
remains hospitalized from injuries he said he sustained at
the hands of the police
The AFL-CIO and the American Civil Liberties Union are considering
suing the city.
And the president of the steelworkers union, [Leo Gerard]
called for a congressional investigation into why $8.5 million
from the Iraq reconstruction bill was used to pay for security
at the protests. He said the money went towards "homeland
repression."
The Alliance for Retired Americans also held a rally Tuesday
in Miami to protest how the police handled senior citizens
who attended the FTAA demonstrations.
One 71-year-old man, Bentley Killmon, told the Associated
Press he was arrested while he was looking for his organization's
bus. But then he encountered police dressed in riot gear.
They pushed him to the ground, arrested him, handcuffed him
for 12 hours and denied him water or a chance to make a phone
call. Killmon said, "The way I was treated, you would
expect it in a third world country, not in this country."
The Miami police continue to defend their actions. A spokesman
told the Associated Press: "The object of the show of
force was twofold: one to let the peaceful demonstrators know
they could protest safely and two to let the troublemakers
know that we would not tolerate anarchy. It was successful."
- Marco Trbovich, spokesman for the United Steelworkers
of America.
Link: www.uswa.org
- Bently Killmon, 71-year-old retired airline pilot who
attended the protests with a delegation from the Alliance
for Retired Americans.
Link: www.retiredamericans.org
8:50-8:58 “There’s an Incredible Mismatch
Between Military Doctrine And The Situation That Actually
Exists There Right Now” – A Conversation With
Two Fathers of Soldiers Deployed in Iraq
INTRO: We speak with Vietnam veteran Sean Dougherty who
is traveling to Iraq this week on a delegation organized by
Global Exchange and Stan Goff who retired from the Army Special
Forces seven years ago. Both of them have children serving
in Iraq.
The Washington Post is reporting that for just the third
time, President Bush met Monday with families of soldiers
who died in Iraq. He has yet to attend any funerals of the
431 troops who have died in Iraq although at least 40 of the
funerals took place just at Arlington National Cemetery, four
miles from the White House. In addition to those killed, up
to 9,000 soldiers have been wounded since the beginning of
the invasion. A senior Army officer has told the New York
Times that the Army is planning to keep about 100,000 U.S.
troops in Iraq until at least 2006.
- Sean Dougherty, Vietnam veteran whose 24-year-old daughter
Kelly is serving in Iraq. He is traveling to Iraq this week
on a delegation organized by Global Exchange. He is speaking
to us from San Francisco.
- Stan Goff, author of "Hideous Dream: A Soldier's
Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti” and of the upcoming
book "Full Spectrum Disorder." He joined the Armed
Forces in 1970 and retired in 1996 from the US Army, from
3rd Special Forces. He speaks to us from Raleigh, NC. Read
Stan Goff’s Open Letter to GIs in Iraq
Link: www.bringthemhomenow.org/what/
latest.html#openletter031115
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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