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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29:

• Is Diversity in the Newsroom Corrupting American Journalism: Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez vs. William McGowan, author of "Coloring the News".

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28:

• President Bush appoints Henry Kissinger to head the 'independent' commission to investigate 9-11: we'll hear audio excerpts from 'The Trials of Henry Kissinger,' which examines Kissinger's involvement in the bombing of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos (deaths: more than 2 million); the overthrow of the democratically elected leader of Chile President Salvador Allende (deaths: thousands); and Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975 (deaths: over 200,000).
• Howard Zinn on the history of the US government and CIA 'changing regimes' around the world.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27:

• "Miss World 2002 will be the most lavish and spectacular production
  that we've ever undertaken": Now there are 220 people dead, 1000 injured,
  and 8000 homeless from the Miss World riots in Nigeria.
• As UN weapons inspections begin, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist says
  Iraq's atomic program no longer exists: Imad Khadduri also explains how the Eisenhower administration helped start Iraq's atomic program.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26:

• President Bush signs the Homeland Security Bill: Is it "Homeland Security" or a treasure trove of corporate favors?
• Union leaders say labor will be the "first victim" of the Homeland Security Bill: The Bush administration can waive collective bargaining agreements, grievance proceedings, equal pay for equal work provisions and whistle-blower protections.
• INS authorities arrest, imprison, and nearly deport a Pakistani immigrant married to a US citizen: He was on the tarmac when a federal judge called the INS and ordered him off the plane.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25:

• Israel admits an Israeli soldier shot and killed a UN official in the Jenin refugee camp: From the hospital in Jenin, we are joined by an Irish peace activist who was also shot in the leg.
• On the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we speak with four women working for women's human rights around the world: A Palestinian Israeli professor, a Somalian human rights activist, an Indian police official and the Vice Mayor of Cuenca, Ecuador.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22:

• US is monitoring thousands of Iraqis, Iraqi-Americans and 'Iraq sympathizers': A conversation with an Iraqi-American peace advocate and business owner.
• 87 Pakistanis from across the US set back to Pakistan in mass deportation: Immigrant rights activists debate the INS.
• Deportation of Seattle-area Somalis halted because there is no functioning government in Somalia: Part 2 of the debate with the INS.
• Imprisoned Palestinian activist calls in from a New Jersey detention center and debates an INS spokesman: Farouk Abdel-Muhti has been imprisoned for over six months.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21:

• Homeland Security Act to pervade daily lives: An overview of the largest reorganization of government in 50 years; a look at how it will affect everything from civil liberties of Americans to corporate privacy.
• The Pentagon's "Total Information Awareness": Pentagon unveils plans to create the world's largest surveillance database to track your phone calls, purchases, Internet usage, reading material, banking transactions.
• Iran-Contra criminal quietly returns to Washington to oversee the Pentagon's massive surveillance project? Reagan's former national security adviser John Poindexter was convicted in 1990 for five felonies of lying to Congress during the Iran-Contra affair.
• Project Lookout: After Sept. 11, over 1,000 people were placed on an FBI watch list. But the list has been out of date for over a year and the government no longer knows who has the old lists which were circulated on the web and to hundreds of corporations.
• New "no-fly blacklist" targets activists: Transportation Security Administration admits it has a list of about 1,000 people who are deemed "threats to aviation" and not allowed to fly, many more are searched at every airport.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20:

• An hour with Independent journalist Robert Fisk: He discusses the Bush Administration's insistence that Iraq is already violating the UN resolution.
• Robert Fisk on Afghanistan: On the fall of Kandahar, the rise of drug trafficking and Osama bin Laden.
• Why did the September 11 attacks happen? Robert Fisk on the modern history of the Middle East.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19:

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and singer Joan Baez in a special on civil disobedience: Baez recalls when King visited her in prison, and we play a rare recording of King's remarks to supporters outside the prison.
• "But if not": Dr. Martin Luther King gives a sermon on civil disobedience in a rare recording.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18:

• Ten Thousand Protest the US Army School of the Americas: we'll hear from decorated Vietnam veteran and protest leader Father Roy Bourgois, as well as Fort Benning's commanding General John LeMoyne, Representatives Barbara Lee and Jim McGovern, author Eduardo Galeano, and others in the new documentary, 'Hidden in Plain Sight'.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15:

• President of the Cuban National Assembly Ricardo Alarcón talks about terror, trade and tyranny...of the U.S. Government: and civil rights attorney Leonard Weinglass on the case of the Cuban 5.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14:

• Saddam Hussein approves the return of UN weapons inspectors: An interview with Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill in Baghdad and an Iraqi man whose house was searched by UN inspectors in 1997.
• "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 Baker and Donald Rumsfeld.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13:

• No Child Unrecruited: Should the military be given contact information for every high school student?: A round-table discussion on President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act.
• Hey kids! Let's Play War!: US military recruiters target children with a new video game called "America's Army".
• CIA On Campus: Intelligence Community Reemerges after 9/11 as a force in academia. Democracy Now! hosts a debate between two professors, a CIA consultant & a vocal CIA critic.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12:

• Iraqi Parliament votes no on UN weapons inspectors resolution: We go to Baghdad for a live report from Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill.
• Leading Colombian trade unionist goes into hiding after receiving threats on his life: A discussion with Francisco Ramirez on the life of trade unionists in Colombia, as Washington increases aid for Colombia's rightwing military.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11:

• For Veteran's Day, we go back to Vietnam to remember My Lai, one of the darkest events in U.S. Army history: A discussion with Vietnam veteran Mike Boehm about the massacre and the documentary "The Sound of the Violin in My Lai." .
• What do the Washington-area sniper, the University of Arizona killer and Timothy McVeigh have in common? They were all Gulf War vets: We talk with Gulf War veteran Charles Sheehan-Miles, author of the article, "Another Gulf War Vet Opens Fire".
• Domestic violence advocates criticize new military study examining why four Fort Bragg soldiers killed their wives: : Army blames murders on stress and stigma of psychological counseling.

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Adopted By A White Family: A Conversation With Hip Hop Singer And Spoken Word Poet Michael Franti

 

DN! Exclusive: 21-Year-Old U.S. Citizen, Suraida Saleh, Is Gunned Down By Israeli Soldiers In Ramullah: A Story The Mainstream Media Ignored Suraida Saleh's Family Speaks Out

 

Drilling And Killing: Chevron And Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship

 

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Crashing the Stock Market, DN! Style: Through the Police Barricades, the Metal Detectors, and the Security Checks to the Gala Soiree of the World Economic Forum on the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Exclusive - Afghan Death Toll:The number of civilians killed in the US bombing of Afghanistan over 3700 Drilling & Killing: Chevron & Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship Massacre: The Story of East Timor

Exclusive Iraq Journal Archives:

• 11/8: Jeremy Scahill talks with Iraq's most famous artist, Mohammed Ghani, in Baghdad
• 11/7: As the United Nations Security Council prepares to OK the new U.S.-drafted Iraq resolution, citizens in Basra prepare for the worst.
• 11/4: A senior Iraqi diplomat predicts France and Russia will veto Washington's Iraq resolution.
• 10/29: General Director of Iraq's Oil Ministry: US will send his country into Armageddon for Iraqi oil fields.
• 10/28: US activists take to the streets of Baghdad to protest the Bush administration’s plans for war.
• 10/23: The trail of gifts from Ronald Reagan and other US officials to Saddam Hussein.
• 10/22: Iraq empties the nation's prisons.
• 10/18: An interview with former Iraqi ambassador Abdul al-Hashemin
• 10/16: A rare report from Tikrit, the birthplace of Saddam Hussein
• 10/15: Iraq Holds Presidential Referendum
• 10/14: A Talk With British MP George Galloway
• 10/11: Inside an Iraqi Nuclear Weapons Plant?
• 10/09: Road to Baghdad

More Reports at IraqJournal.org

DEMOCRACY NOW HIGHLIGHTS:

• Confronting the Lies: Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark Debates the Pentagon. August 27, 2002. Read the full transcript


• The Silenced Majority: Voters Across The Nation Are Flooding Their Elected Officials With Calls Demanding No Military Action In Iraq. September 27, 2002
  

OCTOBER 2, 2002:

• Bush's Single-Bullet Theory - Assassinate Saddam Hussein: International Human Rights Attorneys Michael Ratner and Reed Brody Respond To Bush's Press Secretary Ari Fleischer's Call to Kill
  

• Is President Bush Lying?: From Baghdad Congressman Jim Mcdermott (D-Wash.) Questions Bush's War Rhetoric And Urges The Return Of Weapons Inspectors

• A Texas Republican Comes Out Against The War In Iraq: A Talk With U.S. Representative Ron Paul


• Congressmember Cynthia Mckinney: Why She Opposes War With Iraq
  

• "We Need Weapons Inspections, Not War": Protesters Interrupt Donald Rumsfeld At A Congressional Briefing On Iraq

• Iraq Says Yes. Iraq Allows Unconditional Return Of Weapons Inspectors, But White House Dismisses The Offer: An Interview With British MP George Galloway In Baghdad, former Senator James Abourezk (D-S.D.) In Syria And U.N. Expert Phyllis Bennis in Washington

• President Bush Addresses The United Nations, Warning That If The U.N. Fails To Enforce Resolutions Demanding Iraq's Disarmament, The U.S. Will Take Action On Its Own: A Roundtable Discussion With Former U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator For Iraq Hans Von Sponeck, Former U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, Maverick British Journalist Robert Fisk, Representative Nick Rahall, (D-W.Va) Who Is In Damascus, On His Way To Iraq, And International Law Expert Francis Boyle

• Earth To Bush: "No Iraq War!"

• The Film "Nowhere To Hide" Reveals The Impact Of Bombing During The Gulf War, But Networks Refuse To Air It: Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark And Award-Winning Independent Filmmaker Jon Alpert Discuss Iraq

• Bush Administration Escalates Propaganda For An Attack On Iraq: Former Head Of The House Foreign Relations Committee, Lee Hamilton, Discusses Past And Present Tactics

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8:

• UN prepares to OK Iraq weapons inspections: A conversation with Dennis Halliday, ex-Director of UN Humanitarian Program for Iraq.
• Iraq Journal: Democracy Now's Jeremy Scahill talks with Iraq's most famous artist, Mohammed Ghani, in Baghdad.
• Voices from an Indonesian prison: A Democracy Now! Exclusive: We hear from Joy Lee Sadler, a US citizen and Lesley McCulloch, a Scottish professor, who have been imprisoned in Aceh, Indonesia since September.
• Indonesia Human Rights Network: www.indonesianetwork.org: The Indonesian Human Rights Network has initiated a campaign to protest the Indonesian government’s detention of Joy Lee Sadler and Lesley McCulloch. Fax the Indonesian ambassador at 202-775-5365 or contact IHRN at their website for more information (click onlink above)

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7:

• Iraq Journal: As the United Nations Security Council prepares to OK the new U.S.-drafted Iraq resolution, citizens in Basra prepare for the worst.
• A Democracy Now! Exclusive interview with a Pakistani human rights attorney minutes before he is deported on Election Day: Organizers estimate between 3-4 people are deported every day from New York City alone.
• Canada warns its citizens about traveling in the United States: Advisory comes after U.S. officials secretly detain a Canadian citizen and deports him to Syria, where he hasn't lived in 14 years
• Runners carry a torch from Mexico City to New York: Activists honor the many undocumented workers who have died in the US and draw attention to the rights of immigrants.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11:

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6:

• Republicans regain the Senate and increase House majority, with only one-third of Americans voting: In Florida a Bush wins again amid complaints from African Americans of voting problems and irregularities. Meanwhile, Minnesota throws out tens of thousands of absentee ballots for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone.
• Bilingual education loses in Massachusetts but wins in Colorado: Oregon rejects universal health care and anti-genetically modified foods measures.
• Green Party candidates win over 30 races on Election Day: Across 40 states, over 450 candidates run Green. In California gubernatorial race, Peter Miguel Camejo earns 5 percent of votes.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5:

• Who gets to vote? A roundtable discussion on Election Day: Two years after the Stolen Election, the voter rolls in Florida are still illegally purged; a discussion with BBC journalist Greg Palast, Miami/Dade County Elections supervisor, filmmaker Danny Schechter, and election observers from Florida to Baltimore.
• If you have problems voting today, call 1 (866) OUR-VOTE .

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4:

• Iraq Journal: In an interview with Democracy Now!, a senior Iraqi diplomat predicts France and Russia will veto Washington's Iraq resolution.
• Former 2000 Green Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader debates Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI): On the eve of the mid-term elections a discussion on whether there is a difference between the Democratic and Republican parties and on how progressives should vote Tuesday.
• DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe: Democracy Now! confronts the Democratic Party's head fundraiser on the party's efforts to thwart the new soft money ban and how he personally made millions off Global Crossing, the fallen telecommunications giant. [Read transcript]

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