There’s no letup to violence in Iraq, as a car bomb explosion in Baghdad kills 12 Iraqis Secretary of State Colin Powell says he didn’t see the Justice Department memo that suggested President Bush had the authority to order torture…. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon apparently mill avoid being charged with bribery… And a new … Continued
The Pinochet Principle: Bush Defends Torture in the Name of National Security Remembering the Dead: Reagan Armed Iraq and Iran in 1980s War That Killed Over 1 Million Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi: "The Same People That Gave Saddam Hussein Chemicals to Make These Weapons Used it as an Excuse To Attack Him" The Reagan-Saddam … Continued
As Cosmos continues to do fantastic job of story-telling, Caroline is joined by fellow deep-delvers Catherine Austin Fitts (Recovering Republican, former Under sec. of HUD under Bush I, $ guide) (www.solari.com) and Kyle Hence, founder of 911 Unanswered Questions.
Spinning Wheels: Well-respected mainstream media sources like The New York Times and The Economist magazine are enormously influential. But how reliable or biased is their information? Martha Starr examines how The Economist covers and presents the phenomenon of corporate globalization; Norman Solomon dissects media (and government) spin on all things Iraq.
Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Heat Is on: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription. Also: U.S. government trying to reclaim nuclear devices and uranium that were dispersed around the world during the Cold War; Both human and chimp genomes have been sequenced and are being compared: Is it possible to … Continued
Attorney General John Ashcroft warns of a possible Al Qaeda attack on the United States ..some democrats question the timing of the warning– saying it may be politically motivated. Former Vice President Al Gore with a slashing critique of top Bush adminsitration officials whom he accuses of causing a catastrophe in Iraq …Gore says Defense … Continued
Part 1: Refugee Rights: Global Survey Results Part 2: Refugee Rights: Children Detained in Australia Bush Addresses Nation as his Popularity Hits All-Time Low Iraqi’s React to Bush’s Speech Argentina: Economic Recovery for Whom?
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Weyland discusses the Discovery Channel reality show San Quinton Film School. Later in the program in light of the recent Somali Piracy that's been making headlines, we re-broadcast an excerpt of an interview Davey D did with Somali Rapper K'Naan who spoke about that issue.
More drumbeat coverage of the continuing genocide in Gaza; our special correspondent on the ground in Baghdad speaks to the family of a comatose man who was beaten and tortured by US soldiers; and the Knight Report.
Join co-hosts Malihe and Khali for a talk by Tariq Ali, writer, filmmaker and a long-time political activist. Tariq delivered this presentation on April 23 at the 2004 Conference of the Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) held in Saint Louis, Missouri. The theme for this year’s conference was “The Axis of Empire”. The conference was … Continued
