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Today's headlines:
Robert Fisk talks about the attack on UN headquarters in Baghdad
and discusses the current state of the US occupation;
Gulf War Vet and nurse-activist Joyce Riley investigates the
mysterious pneumonia plaguing US GIs;
John Ashcroft goes on the stump for the Patriot Act;
The Knight Report
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report with Robert Knight
Nearly two-dozen die in a Jerusalum bus bombing and over a
dozen more die in a truck bombing at the UN headquarters in
occupied Iraq.
5:06 PM PST
Dennis Bernstein talks with Robert Fisk, writer with the Independent
of London Robert Fisk speaks with Dennis from Norway about
the current state of the US occupation in Iraq and the attack
on the UN headquarters in Baghdad.
5:24 PM PST
Music Break: Michael Franti - Bomb the World
5:26 PM PST
Dennis Bernstein talks with Gulf War Vet and RN, Joyce Riley
about the mysterious illness among US troops in Iraq. Ever
since the US invaded Iraq, we have slowly been getting reports
of soldiers coming down with mysterious illnesses and mysterious
flu-like symptoms. Strangely enough, very few people are really
trying to figure what is so mysterious about this - what is
the illness, is there some connection between now and what
happened in Gulf War I? One person who should be counted among
the few who's looking into this is Joyce Riley. Joyce Riley
is a Gulf War Vet and an RN. She talks with Dennis from Missouri.
5:40 PM PST
Music Break
5:41 PM PST
Dennis Berstein speaks with George Washington University Law
Professor, Jonathon Turley about John Ashcroft's latest campaign
for the Patriot Act. Today the New York Times reported the
Bush Administration is sending Attorney General John Ashcroft
on a multi-city tour to, in the words of Viet Dinh, the man
who drafted the Patriot Act, "correct the misperceptions
that are out there and to disabuse the American public of
the misinformation they've gotten." Dennis is joined
by Jonathon Turley, a nationally recognized legal scholar
and law Professor at George Washington University. Jonathon
has written extensively on the Patriot Act and is an expert
on Constitutional Law.
comments by David Green
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