Hard Knock Radio – June 30, 2004
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Continuing Hard Knock’s coverage of the National Hip Hop Political Convention – www.hiphopconvention.org.
this episode is no longer available
Continuing Hard Knock’s coverage of the National Hip Hop Political Convention – www.hiphopconvention.org.
Dahr Jamail reports from occupied Baghdad with a scathing report on the medical situation in Iraq; we take a look at the recent massive raids on immigrants in Southern California; excerpts from the riviting documentary Uncovered – The Whole Truth About The War in Iraq; and the Knight Report.
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader selects California Green Party activist Peter Camejo as his Vice Presidential running mate. . . Four U.S. Marines are killed in Ramadi…while hundreds protest in Fallujah following a weekend airstrike by the U.S. on a house authorities claimed was the base of a Jordanian born resistance leader… The C.I.A. is … Continued
Lee Price on economic recovery & Tala Dowlatshahi on foreign journalist visas.
The Marin County "Seniors for Peace": Its members have been demonstrating against the Iraq war for over a year. They have been gradually building a broader thrust to the protests to cover other issues. Pushing Limits looks at the disabled activists behind this nationally prominent protest icon, "Seniors for Peace". (originally broadcast April 18th, 2004)
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