Democracy Now! (6 am) – April 22, 2004
Saudi Woman Running for Office in U.S. On the Riyadh Bombing & the House of Saud The Other War: A Look At the Role of Women in Post-9/11 Afghanistan Voters in Inglewood, CA Reject Wal-Mart Superstore
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Saudi Woman Running for Office in U.S. On the Riyadh Bombing & the House of Saud The Other War: A Look At the Role of Women in Post-9/11 Afghanistan Voters in Inglewood, CA Reject Wal-Mart Superstore
"You Cannot Break the Human Spirit": Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu Released After 18 Years Major Bomb Attacks Across Iraq; Leaked CPA Memo Warns of Civil War Supreme Court Grills Gov’t Over Guantanamo Bay Detentions Sen. Kennedy Blasts Wolfowitz For Giving "Disingenuous" Testimony on Iraq B-Boy in Baghdad: KPFK Producer Jerry Quickley On Alternative Media … Continued
Did Bush Cut Secret Oil Deal With Saudis Ahead of 2004 Election? Bush Appoints Negroponte Iraq Ambassador No Child Left Unrecruited: Army Recruiters Target High Schools Coalition Crumbling: Spain Pulls Out of Iraq
World Community, Except for the US, Condemns Israel’s Assassination of Top Hamas Leader Hip Hop Journalist Davey D on Police Surveillance of Rappers, the National Hip Hop Convention and the 2004 Election "Reflections on Return": Injured Soldiers Speak About Coming Home From Iraq
Exclusive: Mumia Abu Jamal Speaks to Democracy Now From Death Row "Factory of Misery and Child Abuse": Van Jones on Child Prisons in California Environmnetal Racism & Dirty Skies Former Hostages Held in Iraq Speak About Their Captors & the U.S. Occupation
55th Anniversary: KPFA On the Air On April 15, 1949, at 3 pm, a charismatic, chain smoking conscientious objector named Lewis Hill sat before a microphone and said "This is KPFA Berkeley." 55 years ago today, KPFA went on the air and the first listener-supported radio station in the United States was born. Hill had … Continued
Massacre in Fallujah: Over 600 Dead, 1,000 Injured, 60,000 Refugees Mass Antiwar Protests in Japan, Fate of Iraq Hostages Remains Unclear Hundreds of Corpses Fill Haiti Morgues Palestinian Activist Ordered Released After Two Years in Prison Without Charge
Rice Defends Bush, Says White House Couldn’t Have Done More to Avoid 9/11 Two Ex-CIA Analysts Blast Bush Administration on 9/11 Two FBI Whistleblowers Accuse Bureau of Ignoring Warnings Before 9/11 9/11 Widow Blames White House for Mishandling 9/11 Threat and Hampering Investigation
Battles Rage Across Iraq As U.S. Comes Face To Face With a Unified Armed Resistance The Roots of Resistance: Why The U.S. Faces a Joint Shia, Sunni Uprising in Iraq The Other War: Pentagon’s Own Report On Afghanistan Invasion Blasts U.S. War Strategy Witnesses: U.S. Special Forces Trained and Armed Haitian Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries in D.R.
Iraq Intifada: U.S. Faces New Resistance Front As Shiites Join Armed Uprising Worse Than Watergate: Former Nixon Counsel John Dean Says Bush Should Be Impeached