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March 2003 Archive
Monday, March 31, 2003
- Headlines for March 31, 2003
- The Prince of Darkness Resigns: A Look at the Controversial Businesses Dealings of Pentagon Adviser Richard Perle
- Three Dominican Nuns Face 50 Years in Prison for Conducting Citizens Weapons Inspections: Trial Begins Today in Colorado
- What Will a U.S. Occupation of Iraq Look Like? a Speech By Asla Bali of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
- Six Journalists Still Missing in Iraq Including Two From Newsday: We Talk to Newsday Editor Les Payne and Pacifica’s Unembedded Reporter Jerry Quickley Who Was Expelled From Iraq Last We
- War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Reportedly Rejected Advice From Top Pentagon Planners On How to Invade Iraq: Former Marine & UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Explains Why the U.S. May Lose the War
Friday, March 28, 2003
- Headlines for March 28, 2003
- We Go to a Houston Immigration Detention Center As a Palestinian Family Prepares to Be Deported to Jordan
- A Muslim Man in Indiana Is Attacked and Set On Fire: Hate Crimes Against Muslim Americans On the Rise Again
- A U.S. B-2 Stealth Bomber Drops Two Bunker Busters On Baghdad: We Go to the Iraqi Capital for a Report From May Ying Welsh
- International Black Coalition for Peace and Justice Rally Calls for Major Anti-War Protest in Los Angeles: We Talk to Organizer Maulana Karenga
- Nypd Arrests 215 As Protesters Shut Down Traffic On Fifth Avenue: News Media Targeted at Demonstration for Biased Iraq Coverage
- “Time’s Up!”: Academy Award Winning Director Michael Moore Tells the White House Comment Line with Thousands of Cheering Supporters
- “This Has Been One Long Orwellian Week”: Michael Moore On the Corporate Media War Coverage
Thursday, March 27, 2003
- Headlines for March 27, 2003
- Live From Baghdad: 14 Killed in a Baghdad Market, As Iraqi Clerics Call for Jihad Against US Invasion Forces
- Pentagon Knows Large Percentages of “Smart” Bombs Malfunction and Civilian Deaths Are a Certainty
- Live to the Streets of NYC: Hundreds “Die in” and Shut Down 5th Ave
- Iraqi Families Sue Powell, Cheney, and Bush, Sr. Over Bombing of Civilian Shelter in 1991 That Killed Over 400 People
- Shi’ites Warn US Troops Will Face Armed Resistance If They Occupy Iraq After Invasion, As Coalition Hopes of Uprising in Basra Evaporate
- NYC Protesters “Die in” Under Bulldozer at An Israeli Bank, Shutting Down 5th Ave
- “Palestinian Cleaver” Family Again Faces Deportation
- U.S. Bombs Iraqi Television Again: International Federation of Journalists Condemns Attack As a Violation of the Geneva Conventions
- Is the World Watching Two Different Versions of the Invasion of Iraq? a Comparison of the Arab-Language Media and Western Media
- U.S. Government Pressures UN Nations Not to Oppose Iraq Attack
- Could the War Cost $800 Billion? a Discussion On the Cost of the Iraq Invasion and What It Means to the American Public
- The FBI Vs. Franti?: Hip Hop Star and Anti-War Activist Michael Franti Reveals Members of His Group Spearhead Are Under Intense Governmental Surveillance
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
- Headlines for March 25, 2003
- U.S. and British Warplanes Begin Intense Bombardment of Republican Guard Positions Outside Baghdad: We Go to the Iraqi Capital
- Kurdish Officials Say 150 Killed By U.S. Bombing, Scores of Iraqi Civilians Casualties Elsewhere
- Broadcasting Images of Pows, Distributing Propaganda Leaflets, ‘Embedding’ Reporters: The Pentagon’s Psychological Operations
- Spanish Newspaper Reveals U.S. Military Is Refueling Its B-52s Over Spanish Cities
- Will Iraq Become a “Quagmire for the Americans”? Non-Embedded Journalist Robert Fisk Reports From Baghdad
- Veteran War Correspondent Robert Fisk: Debating Whether Its Really Saddam Detracts From the Issue of What the Iraqi President Actually Says
- “When the British Were Fired Upon . . . From Delhi and in Northern Ireland, They Did Not Use Artillery. But Here, Apparently, It Is Ok to Use Artillery On a Crowded City.” Interview with Robert Fisk,
Monday, March 24, 2003
- Headlines for March 24, 2003
- Red Cross Says Humanitarian Crisis Is Looming in Basra As TV Networks Are Preoccupied with Action Footage From Reporters Embedded with U.S. Military
- A Report From Baghdad During the “Shock and Awe” Bombing
- A Report From Baghdad During the “Shock and Awe” Bombing
- Millions Protest Around the World, Hundreds of Thousands Protest in NYC
- Up to 209 Civilians Killed in Early Days of U.S. Invasion: We Talk to Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness in Baghdad
- 11 Members of Congress Vote to Oppose War: We Talk to Rep. Jim Mcdermott (D-Wa)
- U.S. Reportedly Fires Du Shells in Basra: Despite Evidence of Health and Environmental Effects, Pentagon Denies Du Is Dangerous
- “We Are Against This War, Mr Bush. Shame On You, Mr Bush!”: Michael Moore Wins An Oscar and Joins Others Calling for Peace
Friday, March 21, 2003
- Headlines for March 21, 2003
- “Bridge to Baghdad”: On This Second Day of War, Students in Baghdad Talk with Students in New York Students
- Tens of Thousands of U.S. Troops Race Through Southern Iraq As the Bombing of Baghdad Continues: A Report On Civilian Casualties From Baghdad
- Former CIA Officials Call for Intelligence Officers to Leak Documents That Challenge Bush Administration Propaganda
- U.S. Attack Plans for Iraq Are Modeled On Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Discussion of “Shock and Awe”
- 1,500 Arrested in San Francisco As Millions More Take to the Streets Around the Globe
- The “New” Afghanistan? U.S. Launches a Major Attack in Afghanistan and Is Outfitting Militias: We Speak with An Afghan-American Woman in Kandahar Who Is Investigating Why 19 Members of Her Family Were
- Inside Baghdad: Democracy Now! Correspondent Jeremy Scahill Reports On What Iraqis Fear
Thursday, March 20, 2003
- Headlines for March 20, 2003
- U.S. Begins Invasion of Iraq in An Attempt to Assassinate Iraqi President Saddam Hussein: We Go Live to Baghdad with Kathy Kelly and Hear President Bush, Hussein
- Hundreds of Thousands Take to the Streets to Protest War Starting Just Hours After the War Starts: We Go Sydney, London and Washington
- Talk-Back to War: Listeners Tell US What They’re Doing in This Time of War
- June Jordan, An Anti-War Voice of the Past From the Pacifica Archives
- Iraqi People Speak Out Against the U.S. Invasion
- Booker Prize-Winning Author Arundhati Roy Slams U.S. Invasion As Protests Intensify and U.N. Security Council Members Voice Their Opposition
- Burning the “Bridge to Baghdad”: As War Begins, the Media Censors the Voices of Ordinary Iraqi People
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
- Headlines for March 19, 2003
- Will Iraqi-Americans Be Detained?
- Hundreds of Pakistanis Try to Flee to Canada As New Registration Deadline Looms
- As U.S. Names 30 Countries Supposedly Supporting War, Protests Intensify: A Cross-Continental Discussion
- Talk-Back to War: More Listeners Tell US What They’re Doing in This Time of War
- Is War Against Iraq Legal Or Not? a Debate Between Roger Normand and Ruth Wedgewood
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
- Headlines for March 18, 2003
- President Bush Gives Iraqi President Saddam Hussein a 48-Hour Deadline to Leave Iraq Or Face: We Hear Response From Dennis Halliday, Ralph Nader, Leslie Cagan and Jeremy Scahill
- With 300,000 Troops Set to Invade Iraq, Gulf War Veterans Are Concerned the Safety of US Forces May Be Compromised: We Talk to Steve Robinson of the National Gulf War Resource Center
- U.S. Government Executes Celebrated Gulf War Veteran: Did Exposure to Nerve Agents Lead Louis Jones, Jr. to Kill?
- Oil, Security and World Domination: Professor Michael Klare Discusses How the U.S. Is Working to Redraw the Strategic Map of the Middle East
- President Bush Vows to Attack Iraq If Saddam Hussein Doesn’t Flee Within 48 Hours—Protests Intensify Around the World ­British Government in Uproar As Senior Officials Resign
- Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Arrested in Washington, D.C.
- Pinwheel of Protest: From San Francisco to Tuscon to Austin to Kansas
- Pinwheel of Protest: From San Francisco to Tuscon to Austin to Kansas
- 300 New Yorkers Protest the Israeli Military Killing of U.S. Citizen Rachel Corrie and Demand a Congressional Investigation
Friday, March 14, 2003
- Headlines for March 14, 2003
- Will the Pentagon Target Journalists in Iraq? An Interview with Veteran BBC War Correspondent Kate Adie
- Oakland Police Beat Reporters and Young People of Color at Otherwise Peaceful Rally
- San Francisco Police Conducting Unauthorized Surveillance Ops On Anti-War Activists
- Woman Who Lost Relative in 9-11 Attacks Arrested for Protesting War
- 12-Year-Old Middle School Student Speaks Out Against War
- U.S. Military Seeks Freedom to Dump Spent Munitions, Pollute the Air and Poison Endangered Species Without Risk of Liability: Pentagon Quietly Seeks Major Exemptions From Environmental Laws
- 11 Arrested at Boeing Hq in Chicago
- Easter Bunny-Dressed Protester Arrested at Kmart at Demonstration Against Easter Baskets Containing Toy Soldiers
- University of New Mexico Agrees to Stop Investing in World Bank Bonds
- Acclaimed Writer Tariq Ali Calls On Kofi Annan to Go to Baghdad As a Human Shield: A Discussion with Ali and Gilbert Achcar
Thursday, March 13, 2003
- Headlines for March 13, 2003
- Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic Is Assassinated: We’ll Go to Belgrade
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
- Headlines for March 12, 2003
- “Throughout the Globe, the United States Is Becoming Associated with the Unjustified Use of Force”: Diplomat John Brown Explains Why He Resigned From the State Department to Protest U.S. War Plans in
- Halliburton, Bechtel and Other U.S. Firms Set to Profit From the Rebuilding of Postwar Iraq: Meanwhile the Guardian Reports Halliburton Is Still Paying VP Dick Cheney Up to $1 Million Annually
- Marked for Death: How the SAT Can Recruit You for the Military
- Listener Comments From Democracy Now! Listeners and Viewers
- Did Pakistani Intelligence Officials Fake the Arrest of Alleged Qaeda Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?: Foreign Journalists in Pakistan Begin to Question Pakistani Intelligence Officials
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
- Headlines for March 11, 2003
- Immigrant Rights Groups Prepare for a Fourth Round of Mass Deportation of Pakistani Detainees
- Police in Montpelier Photograph Student Protesters & Ask for Surveillance Help From the Local Media: Meanwhile in Minnesota, Law Enforcement Identifies Student Anti-War Group As Possible Threat
- A Bigger Leak Than the Pentagon Papers?: Daniel Ellsberg Discusses the Leaked Email That Shows the U.S. Is Spying On UN Diplomats
- U.S. Chains & Shackles Naked Detainees to the Ceiling in Afghanistan: Is the U.S. Torturing Detainees?
- Bush Delays Plans for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan; Israeli Forces Kill Over 60 Palestinians Since Feb. 15
- Former FBI Chief Calls for the Supreme Court to Halt the Execution of Delma Banks in Texas: We Talk to Banks’ Mother & Legal Team
Monday, March 10, 2003
- Headlines for March 10, 2003
- Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston. Medea Benjamin & 20 Other Women Arrested Outside the White House: Thousands Gather in Washington for Code Pink Peace Demonstration
- Should President Bush Be Impeached? Progressive Congressional Democrats Consider Introducing Articles of Impeachment If the U.S. Attacks Iraq
- US & UK Relied On Forged Document in Making the Case That Iraq Has a Nuclear Program; Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector Mohamed Elbaradei Says There Is No Proof That Niger Aided Iraq
- Thousands Protest at Code Pink Protest in Washington: We Hear Speeches From Gloria Johnson, Nancy Lessin and Hafsat Abiola
- British Woman Arrested for Violating the Official Secrets Act & the United Nations Launches Inquiry Into U.S. Spying of UN Diplomats. We Talk to Observer Reporter Marin Bright Who Broke the Sto
- Is Msnbc Trying to Out-Fox Fox?: The Ge-Owned Network Fires Anti-War Host Phil Donahue and Hires Michael Savage Who Calls for the Jailing of Protesters and Describes Immigrants As "Turd World Immigran
Friday, March 07, 2003
- Headlines for March 07, 2003
- President Bush: U.S. Will Call for Security Council Vote Whether Or Not U.S. Has Votes Lined Up
- News Conference Scripted and Reporters Silenced: A Report On the President’s First Primetime Press Conference in 1 and 1/2 Years
- Air Force Admits at Least 54 Cases of Rape and Sexual Assault at Air Force Academy–Scandal Called Bigger Than Tailhook: We’ll Talk to Two Survivors
- If Women Ruled the World, Would There Be War? a Roundtable Discussion a Day Before Thousands of Women March On Washington
Thursday, March 06, 2003
- Headlines for March 06, 2003
- Iraq Journal: The Ghosts of Safwan, a Report From the Iraq/Kuwait Border
- International Human Shields Prepare for War in Iraq: We Talk to John Ross and Kathy Kelly in Baghdad
- Over 100,000 Students Walk Out and Protest War Around the Nation and the Globe: We’ll Hear From Students Los Angeles, New York, Madison, Wisconsin, Buffalo, Stanford, As Well As in Australia, Canada a
- New York Man Arrested at Shopping Mall for Wearing “Give Peace a Chance” T-Shirt: Over 150 Respond By Showing Up in Similar Shirts at the Mall
Wednesday, March 05, 2003
- Headlines for March 05, 2003
- U.S. Networks Ignore Explosive Story Revealing U.S. Is Spying On U.N. Security Council Members: U.N. Diplomats Are Furious at the Dirty Tricks
- FBI Plane Spies On Bloomington, Indiana: Peace Groups, Muslims and International Students Are Likely Targeted
- “Books Not Bombs!” “We Need Weapons of Mass Instruction!”: Students Walk Out of Classes Around the Country to Protest the Billions of Dollars That Is Going to the US Military ­ and Not Schools
- British Labour Party MP Defects From Labour Party in Protest of Tony Blair
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
- Headlines for March 04, 2003
- White House Dismisses Iraq’s Destruction of Banned Missiles: We Join Rev. Dr. Herbert Daughtry & Democracy Now! Correspondent Jeremy Scahill in Baghdad
- Turkish Peace Movement Claim Victory Following No-War Vote; Meanwhile the Kurdish Population in Northern Iraq Prepares for a Turkish Invasion
- Could the U.S. Have Caught Alleged Al Qaeda Leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 1996? We Talk to BBC Investigative Reporter Greg Palast
- Anti-War Protests Continue Across the World: Over 1000 Readings of Lysistrata Are Held & the Former Head of the Pacific Stock Exchange Calls for Direct Action
Monday, March 03, 2003
- Headlines for March 03, 2003
- U.S. Is Tapping the Phones of U.N. Security Council Members and Reading Their E-Mail: It’s Headlines Around the World But Not Reported Here
- Top Iraqi Defector Says Iraq Destroyed Its Wmds, But Bush and Blair Continue to Cite Him to Drum Up Support for War, and the U.S. Media Buries the Story: An Interview with Former Unscom Chair Rolf Eke
- “The Thirty Year Itch: For Three Decades, Washington Hawks Have Pushed for the U.S. to Seize Control of the Persian Gulf. Their Time Is Now.”
