Democracy Now: Headlines for June 8 - 10. 2004

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Democracy Now: Headlines for June 8 - 10. 2004

Headlines for June 10, 2004

- World Military Spending Nears $1 Trillion in 2003
- Private U.S. Firms Sued Over Iraq Prison Torture
- U.S. General: Iraqi Police Training Has Failed
- State Dept. Rewrites Report Praising War On Terror
- 50 Million Phone Customers Could Face Higher Bills
- Haitian Singer So Anne Jailed For Month


Wednesday, June 9th, 2004 | Purchase Video/CD

• 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 Connection: "We Create These Monsters And When It's Not Convenient We Cover Them Up"


Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 | Purchase Video/CD

• Remembering the Dead: Reagan Foreign Policy From the Target End
• "Reagan Was the Butcher of My People:" Fr. Miguel D'Escoto Speaks From Nicaragua
• Congressional Medal of Honor Winner: Reagan Was "An Accomplice to the Death of Literally Thousands and Thousands of People"
• Journalist Allan Nairn: Reagan Was Behind "One Of The Most Intensive Campaigns Of Mass Murder In Recent History"


Kurdish Political Prisoner Leyla Zana Released After a Decade in Jail

Kurdish leader Leyla Zana was released yesterday after spending 10 years in a Turkish jail for daring to speak Kurdish and wear the Kurdish colors in the ribbons in her headband in Parliament. We play the historic addresses of Leyla Zana speaking in parliament and defending herself at her trial and go to Turkey for a report from activists on the ground.


Ghost Wars: How Reagan Armed the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan

During Reagan's 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We take a look at America's role in Afghanistan that led to the rise of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda with Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.


Remembering Reagan's Invasion of Grenada

We take a look at the 1983 U.S.-invasion of Grenada that led to the installation of a pro-American government to replace the former rule of the leftist President Maurice Bishop. We speak with Bishop's former Press Secretary Don Rojas, who was deported from Grenada by the U.S. military.


Ignoring AIDS: The Reagan Years

We take a look at the Reagan administration blatant refusal to deal with the issue of AIDS while thousands of Americans were dying from the disease. We speak with Andy Humm of Gay USA who confronted Reagan in 1987 when he first addressed the issue near the end of his second term.

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[Zuni]

1. Half the stuff on Democracy Now

makes me think I am listening to a left wing Sean Hannity. They only put people on who say what they want to say.
Maurice Bishop was killed by coup plotters in a Pro-Soviet military coup (led by general Hudson Austin and Bishop's Vice President), I wouldn't be surprised if Rojas was complicit in Bishop's murder. Reagan did not intervene against any democratic administration there.

Like Reagan armed Iraq and Iran---technically true, but deceptive. Reagan did not send very much arms to either one. Most of Iraq's arms came from the USSR. In fact, every one of the 5 permanent members of the security council sent him weapons. USSR and France mainly

[buddhamama]

3. Bwahahaha!

"They only put people on who say what they want to say."

The people one hears on Democracy Now are not heard in the 'mainstream' media.

Hannity features the same talking heads as all the other networks offer to the public. Reagan can be thanked for that too re: The Fairness Doctrine.

[papau]

4. So Maurice Bishop was not a CIA officer seen with Oswald and who took

power via a coup by his part against the previous government - and was killed because he could not be trusted - if under arrest and tortured - to not reveal GOP connections to the murder of JFK? (this idea is out there but it does seem nuts - Reagan needed a simple wag-the dog - and Bishop's problems were made for that moment - but the 1976 (CIA/JFK) testimony is confusing to me)

But Thank God/Reagan, we stopped that Pro-Soviet military coup.

And those ground to air missiles we sent Afghanistan, and our gift to Iraq of the chemical poison weapons (WMD), and the special helicopters to distributed the chemical weapons over a village, were duplicated by the other 4 members of the Security Council?

Granted the people on the site say what they (the folks on the left) want to say, but is what they say wrong - a lie - or given a Fox like spin, leaving out extremely important contrary facts?

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6. Call Art Bell.

This is great entertainment.

[papau]

7. I enjoy reading of Art Bell's latest - but can't handle listening to him!

But this is fun!

:-)

[I thought so.]

5. Hear, Hear!

They love to trash the USA. You have to understand that it is always better to bitch and whine rather than to vote. Never have these people ever promoted democracy. The system is corrupt so why bother?

There is a permanent loser(left wing) crowd that has to always lose to be viable. If we would say ,what would you do? they would run away.

It is just like that.

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9. You and certain others like to bitch and moan...

...and call the 'left wing' liars...but I haven't seen a whit of documented fact from either of you. How about providing something, anything to back up your silly assertions?

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8. Perhaps you should read all the declassified documents...

...floating around on the web? Reagan/Bush White House email and other FOIA documents clearly SHOW that Reagan/Bush used other countries...such as China and Israel to ship (American-made and other) weapons to South America, Iraq and Iran. Take a look at these documents and you won't have to believe 'left wing' news sources.

- Why did Reagan/Bush use other countries to supply weapons (and funding) to the contras and other terrorist groups? Because it was/is against the friggin law...both domestic and international. Saudi Arabia was a principle among those who donated to sponor terrorist groups through Reagan's/North's secret government.

- Sources for FOIA documentation:

The National Security Archive

Federation of American Scientists

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10. Please stop generalizing...

...Which 'half' of the 'stuff' is a lie or distorted? It's not 'deceptive' at all to say that Reagan/Bush armed Iraq and Iran. There are FOIA documents to prove it. The 'fact' that other countries also sent weapons should not dismiss the fact that Reagan was also supplying terrorist states with American-made weapons, intelligence and biological weapons.

[buddhamama]

2. their coverage of Reagan this week has been excellent.

i listen everday.