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10-year Anniversary of the Iran-Contra Scandal

10 years since the announcement by Attorney General Edwin Meese regarding the Iran-Contra affair, this show discusses the Iran-Contra scandal and the cover up. The show discusses the Reagan administration conspiracy to deceive and defy congress with its illegal arms sale to Iran, an avowed enemy, in exchange for securing the release of American hostages in Lebanon. The proceeds from that sale were used to illegally fund the Nicaraguan contras....
Nov 25, 1996 | Story
10-year anniversary of the Iran-Contra Scandal, continued

Guests: Lawrence Walsh, Peter Cornblue, Bob Parry
Nov 25, 1996 | Story
10-year anniversary of the Iran-Contra Scandal, continued

Lawrence Walsh, Mary Belcher, Peter Cornblue, Andy Messing.
Nov 25, 1996 | Story
Iran/Afghanistan Conflict Intensifies

Army divisions from nine Iranian provinces are heading for the border with Afghanistan for military maneuvers that could begin as early as this weekend. This follows weeks of increased tension between the two countries, which may go to war in the next few weeks.
Sep 17, 1998 | Story
The CIA's Role in the War On Drugs

As the Senate today resumes the impeachment trial of President Clinton, we again turn to the issue of impeachable offenses. In 1987, when Congress learned that the White House had been funneling funds from illegal weapons sales to Iran to the U.S.-backed Contras in Nicaragua, an independent prosecutor conducted an investigation into who had known about what, and who had directed the operation. In that instance, Congress did not go ahead with the...
Feb 04, 1999 | Story
U.S. Oil Interests in the Caspian Sea

With the discovery of vast energy reserves in countries bordering the Caspian Sea, just a few hundred miles from Yugoslavia, the region has been catapulted onto the world stage. The U.S. is waging a campaign to win influence in the Caspian, as are Russia, Iran and other nations. With intense competition for oil and gas pipeline routes, this has become the newest arena for global power politics. Multinational giants such as Shell and BP-Amoco are...
Apr 02, 1999 | Story
Iranian Police Crack Down On Thousands of Students

Thousands of Iranian students took to the streets of Tehran yesterday, demanding the execution of a police chief, who reports to Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini, after the police conducted a bloody crackdown against pro-democracy students last week.
Jul 12, 1999 | Story
"Spider's Web": The Secret History of How the United States Illegally Armed Saddam Hussein; a Conversation with the Journalist Who Broke the Iraqgate Scandal That Involved President George Bush, James

With Iraqi President Saddam Hussein insisting that Iraq no longer has weapons of mass destruction we are going to spend the rest of the hour looking at how the United States helped illegally arm Iraq in the 1980s.
Nov 14, 2002 | Story
Reagan's Former National Security Advisor and Iran-Contra Criminal John Poindexter Oversees Pentagon's Massive Surveillance Project

Pentagon officials defended the selection yesterday of John Poindexter to head the Total Information Surveillance program.
Nov 21, 2002 | Story
Iranian-American Attorney Banafsheh Akhlaghi Speaks Out Against the Detention of Her Clients and Hundreds of Other Men From Muslim Nations Last Week in Los Angeles

Immigration lawyers have estimated that between 500and 2,500 Middle Eastern immigrants have been detainedin California since last week. That is when male visaholders ages 16 and older from Iran, Iraq, Libya,Sudan and Syria were asked to report to immigrationoffices to be fingerprinted and photographed.
Dec 23, 2002 | Story

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10-year Anniversary of the Iran-Contra Scandal

10-year anniversary of the Iran-Contra Scandal, continued

10-year anniversary of the Iran-Contra Scandal, continued

Iran/Afghanistan Conflict Intensifies

The CIA's Role in the War On Drugs

U.S. Oil Interests in the Caspian Sea

Iranian Police Crack Down On Thousands of Students

"Spider's Web": The Secret History of How the United States Illegally Armed Saddam Hussein; a Conversation with the Journalist Who Broke the Iraqgate Scandal That Involved President George Bush, James

Reagan's Former National Security Advisor and Iran-Contra Criminal John Poindexter Oversees Pentagon's Massive Surveillance Project

Iranian-American Attorney Banafsheh Akhlaghi Speaks Out Against the Detention of Her Clients and Hundreds of Other Men From Muslim Nations Last Week in Los Angeles

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