Democracy Now! June 13, 2003
Democracy Now! Airs Excerpts from the The Panama Deception an Academy Award-Winning Documentary Which Tells the Story of the December 1989 U.S. Invasion of Panama. The documentary uncovers the hidden reasons for this internationally condemned attack and provides a devastating critique of the mainstream media and its complicity with the official government line.
8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:05 Headlines 8:05-8:58: Today, on Democracy Now! we air the academy award-winning documentary: The Panama Deception. On December 19, 1989, U.S. troops invaded Panama with the stated purpose of ousting the man the media loved to hate, General Manuel Noriega. After 1986, Noriega s relationship with Washington took a turn for the worse.