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January 2003 Archive
Friday, January 31, 2003
- Headlines for January 31, 2003
- Part 2 of Our Discussion On Depleted Uranium, with the Scientific Secretary with the European Committee On Radiation Risk, and a U.N. Human Rights Lawyer
- Judge Fines a Women’s Center $500 a Day for Refusing to Hand Over a 16-Year-Old Rape Victim’s Counseling Records; Over 2,500 People Offer to Spend Time in Jail in Lieu of the Fine
Thursday, January 30, 2003
- Headlines for January 30, 2003
- Former U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Hans Von Sponeck Talks to US From Baghdad About a New Report On the Health Affects of War
- The U.S. Is Thinking the Unthinkable: It Is Preparing for the Possible Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Iraq
- Dr. Asaf Durakovic Gives a Rare Interview About Depleted Uranium in Iraq: He Was the First Military Doctor to Test Gulf War Veterans for Radiation Exposure and Was Terminated for His Work
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
- Headlines for January 29, 2003
- President Bush Takes the Nation to the Brink of War and Defends American Empire in His State of the Union Address; Simultaneously, He Tries to Prove He Cares About the Economy
- An Alternative State of the Union: We’ll Hear From Dennis Kucinich, Raul Grijalva and Sheila Jackson Lee of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
- Headlines for January 28, 2003
- U.N. Inspectors Says Iraq Has No Nukes As It Criticizes Iraq’s Lack of Cooperation: Bush Administration & Britain Seize On the Mixed Verdict to Say Time Is Running Out for Iraq Despite No Evidence of
- "The Cold Test: What the Administration Knew About Pakistan and the North Korea Nuclear Program": We Talk with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Seymour Hersh
Monday, January 27, 2003
- Headlines for January 27, 2003
- Israel Considers Full Reoccupation of Gaza Strip; Weekend Raid Kills 14 Palestinians and Injures Dozens
- UN Weapons Inspectors Set to Ask for More Time in Iraq: Meanwhile U.S. Threatens to Go to War Alone and Unleash Massive Attack (Possibly Nuclear) On Baghdad
- From Porto Allegre to Davos to New York: We Hear From Activists at the World Social Forum, World Economic Forum and at Anti-War Protests Outside the United Nations
Friday, January 24, 2003
- Headlines for January 24, 2003
- Ari & I: Russell Mokhiber, Editor of Corporate Crime Reporter Describes What It’s Like to Cover the White House: "They Keep You at the Gate. They Don’t Let You in. They Don’t Give You a Press P
- "Why I Refused to Testify Against the Clintons & What I Learned in Jail": An Interview with Susan Mcdougal
Thursday, January 23, 2003
- Headlines for January 23, 2003
- College Students, Beware of Cutting Classes: Ins Jails and Threatens to Deport Foreign Students for Taking Less Than 12 Credits of Courses
- Electronic Tracking of International Students Begins Jan. 30: New Federal System Forces Schools to Share Detailed Personal Information with the Ins, State Department and Board of Education
- The Supreme Court of Venezuela Suspends a Referendum On President Hugo Chavez & the Government Halts Foreign Currency Trading: We Go to Caracas
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
- Headlines for January 22, 2003
- It’s the 30th Anniversary of Roe V. Wade, But Almost 90% of Counties Have No Abortion Provider, the Supreme Court Hangs in a 5-4 Balance, States Impose Restrictions, Harassment and Attacks Continue: A
- From Mobile, Al to San Francisco, Ca: A Conversation On Access to Abortion and Abortion Training for Med Students
- Post Roe V. Wade, Women Still Die From Back-Alley Abortions
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
- Headlines for January 21, 2003
- Hundreds of Thousands Rally Against War in the U.S. Capitol: We Hear From Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Vietnam War Vet Ron Kovic, Actress Jessica Lange and Muslim Leader Mahdi Bray
- Albuquerque Sees Its Largest Anti-War Rally Since the Vietnam War: We Go to the Nuclear State of New Mexico to Hear About the State’s Connection to Depleted Uranium, Nuclear Weapons and the Predator D
- If New Mexico Seceded It Would Be the Third Biggest Nuclear Power in the World: A Vietnam Veteran and An Elementary School Teacher Talk About Living in the Heart of Nuclear America
Monday, January 20, 2003
- Headlines for January 20, 2003
- From Washington, D.C. to San Francisco, Cairo to London, Tokyo to Paris to Antarctica, Hundreds of Thousands Demonstrate Against War, Many Invoking the Memory of Martin Luther King
- On This Martin Luther King Holiday, a Conversation with His Son Dexter Scott King
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam"
Friday, January 17, 2003
- Headlines for January 17, 2003
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Meets with UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan
- Should the FCC Scrap All Remaining Media Ownership Rules? We Go to the FCC Public Hearing with a Former FCC Chair, Fox Entertainment Group, the Nat’l Assoc. of Black Owned Broadcasters, the Nat’l Asso
- British Punk-Rock-Pop-Anarchist-Activist Band Chumbawamba Performs, and Talks About the Anti-War Movement
Thursday, January 16, 2003
- Headlines for January 16, 2003
- President Bush Says Affirmative Action Is Divisive, Unfair and Unconstitutional: White House Plans to File a Supreme Court Brief in the University of Michigan Case
- Today, Democracy Now! Goes Live to the FCC Hearings in New York: With FCC Chair Michael Powell, Dissident FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, Aftra President John Connolly, Micro-Broadcasting Pioneer Pete
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
- Headlines for January 15, 2003
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 15, 1929 ­ April 4, 1968: On His Birthday, We Hear King Outline His Opposition to War
- From Death Row, Mumia Speaks Out On the Death Penalty & the "Broken" System
- Sarah Jones Performs 'Waking the American Dream,' About New Immigrants’ Experience in America; She Also Discusses 'the Exonerated,' a Play About Innocent Death Row Prisoners
- 'Your Revolution Will Not Happen Between These Thighs': Sarah Jones Vs. the FCC
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
- Headlines for January 14, 2003
- Bush Administration Gives EPA, Agriculture Dept. and Health Dept. Authority to Stamp Documents "Secret": A Discussion On the New White House Secrecy
- Pentagon Trains Journalists Covering the Military
- Activists Train Journalists How to Cover Anti-War Protests
Monday, January 13, 2003
- Headlines for January 13, 2003
- Illinois Governor Commutes Death Sentences of 167 Inmates
- North Korea: "The United States Listed [North Korea] As Part of An 'Axis of Evil' . . . and Singled It Out As a Target of Pre-Emptive Nuclear Attack, Openly Declaring a Nuclear War"
- 4,500 People Rally in Support the Somali Community of Lewiston, Maine Against Neo-Nazi Rally
- "Two Towns of Jasper": Two Filmmakers, One Black and One White, Explore the Black and White Communities in the Town Where James Byrd Was Lynched in 1998
Friday, January 10, 2003
- Headlines for January 10, 2003
- Lawyer Lynne Stewart Files for Motion to Dismiss John Ashcroft’s Charges She Is Supporting Terrorists: A Discussion with Her Renowned Defense Attorney, Michael Tigar
- Today, On the Deadline for All Males Over 16 From a Dozen Muslim Countries to Register with the Ins, a Ray of Hope: Part Two of Pakistani Immigrant Faisal Ulvie’s Story
Thursday, January 09, 2003
- Headlines for January 09, 2003
- The S.U.V.S, the World’s Most Dangerous Vehicle and How They Got That Way: A Conversation with Reporter Keith Bradsher and the Co-Founder of a Controversial New Anti-S.U.V. Ad Campaign
- Why Is the U.S. Preparing to Attack Iraq and Not North Korea? a Discussion On Iraq’s Oil and the Potential to Break Opec
- 125 Tons of Oil Still Leak Everyday From the Oil Tanker Prestige Two Months After Sinking Off the Spanish Coast: We Look at the Environmental Impact and Examine Alternatives to Oil
Wednesday, January 08, 2003
- Headlines for January 08, 2003
- Vice President Cheney Would Save Over $100,000 Under President Bush’s $674 Billion Tax Cut Plan, But What Will It Do for the Poor?
- UN Estimates a US Attack On Iraq Will Cause 500,000 Iraqi Casualties in the Initial Stages
- Survivors of the Bhopal Industrial Disaster That Killed 20,000 in India Travel to Europe to Return Toxic Waste to Dow Chemical
- Charles Rangel Introduces a Bill in Congress to Reinstate the Draft: A Debate Between Bill Co-Sponsor John Conyers and David Harris, Who Spent 20 Months in Prison for Refusing to Fight in Vietnam
Tuesday, January 07, 2003
- Headlines for January 07, 2003
- President Bush Unveils An Economic Plan That Is Expected to Cost Nearly $700 Billion Over the Next Decade: A Conversation with Ralph Nader
- Fox, NBC, Viacom, Walt Disney Co. Urge the Government to Scrap All Remaining Media-Ownership Rules: A Debate Between the FCC and Media Analysts Robert Mcchesney and Jeff Chester On Media Consolidation
Monday, January 06, 2003
- Headlines for January 06, 2003
- White House Plans 18-Month Long Occupation of Iraq, But Remains Silent On Humanitarian Aid: A Conversation with Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Kathy Kelly and Democracy Now! Correspondent Jeremy Scahill
- In Venezuela, Thousands of Supporters of President Hugo Chavez March in a Funeral Procession Mourning Two Men Shot Dead During Protests
Friday, January 03, 2003
- Headlines for January 03, 2003
- We Go to the Iraqi-Turkish Border for a Report On a Halliburton-Run Military Base: How Dick Cheney’s Former Company Is Making Millions On the "War On Terror"
- Venezuela & Brazil, An Axis of Good?: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Gains Support From Lula, Brazil’s New President
- "The Stealth Crusade": An Investigative Report On How Christian Missionaries Are Being Trained to Go Undercover and Wipe Out Islam
Thursday, January 02, 2003
- Headlines for January 02, 2003
- "If You Love This Planet You Will Change the Priorities of Your Life and Work Every Second of Every Day to Save It": Physician and Anti-Nuclear Activist Helen Caldicott Speaks Out Against War
Wednesday, January 01, 2003
- Headlines for January 01, 2003
- Hostile Takeover in Mexico City: Armed Guards From Television Gianttake Over Independent TV Station
- Zapatista Uprising & Nafta Nine Years Later: We Look a the Effects of the Free Trade Agreement and Go to Chiapas for An Update On the Zapatista Movement
- Military General Blows Whistle On Mexican Human Rights Abuses: We Talk to Brigadier General Jose Francisco Gallardo, Recently Released From Jail
Job Openings
Columns
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
Web Exclusives
In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. [includes rush transcript]
Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]
