![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, November 14, 2003
Protests and Tanks in Republic of Georgia As many as 20-thousand people reportedly marched to and surrounded in a human chain President Eduard Shevardnadze's office in the capitol of Georgia today.The protestors say they are angry over the November 2nd elections they say were rigged and demand Shevardnadze resign.Shevardnadze said he would meet with opposition leaders, but refused to resign warning of pending civil war.Western governments are anxiously watching the situation hoping to soon start...
Keywords: NATO; bush; democratic party; elections; iraq; oil; pakistan; protest; suicide; turkey
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, December 14, 2001
MORE ISRAELI ATTACKS ON WEST BANK, GAZA Israel launched deadly multi-pronged raids into West Bank towns before dawn and intensified its political assault on Yasser Arafat. Israeli forces launched at least five raids overnight, killing and arresting Palestinians and demolishing houses, following the second consecutive night of air strikes on Palestinian Authority targets in retaliation for a West Bank bus ambush that killed 10 Jewish settlers in the Occupied West Bank...
Keywords: afghanistan; bush; california; environment; immigration; israel; mexico; palestine; rights; south africa; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, May 07, 2002
Negotiations Stall in Bethlehem (3:28) The U.N. General Assembly scheduled an emergency session today as a draft resolution introduced by Sudan on behalf of the Arab Group of nations and by South Africa on behalf of the Nonaligned Movement of developing countries would ask Secretary-General Kofi Annan to submit a report on events in Jenin and other Palestinian cities within two weeks. This as the Israeli military said today that an end to the 36-day standoff at the Church of the Nativity was bei...
Keywords: EU; bush; elections; islam; israel; military; nuclear weapons; palestine; rebellion; south africa; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, January 08, 2003
Venezuelan Banks Stop Work For 48 Hours(4:13) Early this morning all banks in Venezuela, except the state run bank, declared a complete stop work for 48 hours. After Oil executives shut down their operations 38 days ago demanding that President Chavez resign before they re-opened their operations, Venezuela has suffered many shortages and many workers of the big corporations leading this so-called "strike" have been forced to stay at home because their factory executives have shut down operation...
Keywords: bush; india; iraq; turkey; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, July 03, 2003
Free Speech Radio News European Union parliament overturned a ban on genetically modified food products - Patrick Beckett Preparations for another U.S. ordered regime change in Liberia - Charles Taylor US soldiers in Iraq at risk, say former soldiers - Erica Price Walmart has adopted a policy banning discrimination based on sexual orientation - John Hamilton Federal Communications Commission released the much-anticipated new rules on media ownership - James Cullem Redeployment, Not Withdrawal in...
Keywords: EU; UN; california; environment; india; iraq; israel; military; palestine; rebellion; wal-mart
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, September 02, 2003
**DUE TO TECH DIFFICULTIES, ONLY LOW-FI NEWCAST AVAILABLE ON THE TWO LINKS ABOVE, SORRY** Congress Resumes The 108th U.S. Congress reconvened today after a month long recess.With just a month before the new fiscal year begins, Congress will have to deal with 13 appropriations bills that will shape Government spending for 2004.Today the Senate debated spending on Education in which Senate Democrats say President Bush?s No Child Left Behind Act is not being fully funded for disadvantaged students....
Keywords: bush; democratic party; ethnic; india; nigeria; oil; rights; scotus; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, July 08, 2002
Jury begins deliberation in NY Police Torture case In New York today a federal jury began deliberations in the trial of former police officer Charles Schwartz for his role in the 1997 torture of Haitian Immigrant Abner Louima. Another police officer, Justin Volpe pled guilty to taking a broom handle and forcing it up Louima's rectum and is now serving 30 years. Schwartz was said to have helped Volpe torture Louima by holding him down...
Keywords: afghanistan; bush; environment; mexico; military; protest; torture
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, June 07, 2004
Pentagon Says Torture Legitimate Pentagon officials argued that torture is a legitimate form of interrogation, under presidential orders, in a document reported by the Wall Street Journal today. Selina Musuta reports from the D.C. coop. Supreme Court Rules Trade over Environment Today the U.S. Supreme Court chose to support an international trade agreement instead of the environment.Amarutha Nanjapta explains from D.C...
Keywords: NATO; bush; democratic party; disease; drug companies; elections; environment; federal government; louisiana; military; nuclear power; pentagon; protest; scotus; torture
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, March 16, 2005
US HOUSE HANDILY APPROVES ANOTHER 81.4 BIL FOR WARS The US House overwhelmingly approved an $81.4 billion emergency-spending package for combat and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan today that if passed by the Senate will push the total cost of the wars beyond $300 billion. The legislation is the fifth emergency-spending measure President Bush has sent to Congress for wars since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks...
Keywords: EU; afghanistan; bush; chemical weapons; china; elections; environment; iran; iraq; israel; kurds; military; oil; palestine; saddam hussein; washington; wolfowitz
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, March 21, 2005
Nepal Locked Down Tight The streets of Katmandu remain unusually quiet as taxies, trucks, rickshaws and the thousands of motorcycles that usually fill the streets are virtually absent.About two-dozen student and youth leaders were arrested in the Kathmandu Valley after staging rallies last week demanding the restoration of democracy. Many of the leaders of the major political parties remain in jail or under house-arrest.On February-1 the king of Nepal issued a Royal Proclamation suspending all c...
Keywords: 9-11; NSA; UN; afghanistan; attorney general; bush; california; hijack; iraq; military; oil; protest; rights; scotus; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, February 14, 2003
Blix: No Weapons of Mass Destruction (4:54) Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix spoke today before the UN Security Council. His message was clear -- Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction. Blix also directly questioned some of the intelligence that Secretary of State Powell delivered to the Security Council last week, citing the two satellite images shown in Powell's presentation and saying they did not prove that Iraq was clearing the site of forbidden munitions...
Keywords: iraq; israel; mexico; nuclear weapons; oil; palestine; pentagon; protest; rights; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, November 19, 2004
A Venezuelan prosecutor pressing charges against hundreds of the nation?s richest and most powerful who are allegedly involved in a failed coup attempt has been murdered. An explosion tore apart Danilo Anderson?s truck as he was driving through the capitol of Caracas late last night. Free Speech Radio News Correspondent William Camacaro says Anderson was a strong supporter of leftist president Hugo Chavez and an honest man who may be irreplaceable...
Keywords: EU; NATO; UN; attorney general; bush; elections; iran; iraq; islam; military; protest; rebellion; torture; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, December 03, 2003
Cincinnati Coroner Rules Nathaniel Jones Death a Homicide ? Evan Davis The cause of death in the case of an Ohio man beaten by police over the weekend has been ruled a homicide. Evan Davis has more from Cincinnati. Attica Settlement ? Leslie George In New York, the families of Attica prison guards killed by state troopers 32 years ago are saying a proposed multi-million dollar settlement falls short...
Keywords: EU; bush; california; christmas; environment; israel; palestine; riots; wal-mart
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, November 29, 2004
US Supreme Court Silent on Gay Marriage The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Massachusetts state law allowing same sex marriage without comment.The Massachusetts Supreme Court voted by a narrow margin to mandate such marriages late last year.Since May of this year, more than 3-thousand gay and lesbian couples have married in Massachusetts. At that time, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to interfere with the issuance of marriage licenses.Next year, Massachusetts?s voters may have the oppor...
Keywords: EU; USSR; elections; federal government; iraq; marijuana; rumsfeld; russia; scotus; torture; unions
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, November 19, 2002
US Spies Infiltrate UN Inspection Team? As UN weapons inspectors went back to into Iraq this week for the first time in five years, Chief Inspector Hans Blix says the White House is already being quote "unhelpful". US officials have questioned Mr. Blix's ability to do the job of disarming Saddam Hussein. Critics of US foreign policy see the White House trying to undermine the inspections effort. The last time inspectors were in Iraq, the mission was infiltrated by US spies, undermining its legit...
Keywords: immigration; india; iraq; pentagon; saddam hussein; visas; wtc
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, November 25, 2002
Gutierrez is Ecuador's New President Yesterday, Ecuadorians chose the ex colonel, Lucio Guiterrez, as their new president. Guiterrez beat the banana billionaire Alvaro Noboa in the runoff election with his promise to end poverty and invest in education and health, but his battle has just begun as he inherits a country steeped in economic crisis, unemployment, corruption, and the cyncism of many citizens who distrust the government.Guiterrez does not have the support of Congress, which is compose...
Keywords: EU; NATO; NGO; UN; WTO; bush; elections; israel; mexico; military; palestine; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, June 24, 2005
Voter turnout in Irans run-off election is high, but the outcome is too close to call. Saeedah Jamshidi reports from Iran. Sri Lanka's government on Friday signed a controversial tsunami aid sharing deal with Tamil Tiger rebels despite stiff opposition from the Marxists who stalled a Parliamentary debate on the issue. Government minister Maithripala Sirisena said the deal was signed in the morning by the government's rehabilitation ministry secretary M S Jayasinghe...
Keywords: UN; bush; california; china; elections; heart disease; india; iran; iraq; lebanon; mexico; rebellion; washington; whistleblower
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, January 28, 2002
No Medical Care for Prisoners Held in Afghanistan (4:45) Afghan Premier Hamid Karzai is in Washington meeting with President Bush today and a group called Physicians for Human Rights is urging the US government not to forget about the combatants still imprisoned in Afghanistan. The doctors have just returned from a tour of the Shibargan prison in the North of that country, where they say conditions are deplorable, and many have died for lack of adequate sanitation and medical care...
Keywords: EU; afghanistan; bush; islam; kennedy; military; protest; rights; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, March 31, 2006
VIOLENCE IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA Three Palestinians are dead after gunfights erupted in the wake of a bombing that killed a commander of the armed Popular Resistance Committees. Intense Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip followed a suicide bombing in the West Bank. For the first time in years, an Israeli F-16 dropped a bomb on Gaza City last night. Manar Jibreen reports from the West Bank. Four Israelis died Thursday night when a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near the entrance of the Qad...
Keywords: NATO; NSA; brazil; bush; democratic party; elections; environment; india; iran; iraq; israel; jihad; military; oil; pakistan; palestine; protest; suicide; unions; wal-mart
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, April 11, 2003
Turkish role in Iraq (3:03) US military officials today announced they have secured all of Northern Iraq?s main oil facilities.The oil under the city of Kirkukk inNorthern Iraq,is estimated to be some of the most valuable and untapped resources in the world.British Petroleum estimates its worth to be $100 billion U-S dollars. This as Turkish Nationalist Protesters hit the streets in Ankara demanding the Turkish Army invade Iraq to oust Kurdish fighters who took North Iraq?s two largest cities, K...
Keywords: bush; epidemic; ethnic; india; iraq; islam; kurds; military; oil; protest; saddam hussein
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, July 14, 2003
Mandela at AIDS conference -- Zeenat Hansrod Iraq's Governing Council -- Ahmed alRawi Report on Low Power Radio -- Dante Toza Monsanto sues small dairy farm -- Heather Candon Controversey Continues over State of the Union Allegations Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and National Security advisor Condoleezza Rice say that President Bush's disputed statements of an attempted purchase of Uranium in Africa by Iraqi officials SHOULD have been left out of last January's state of the Union Address,...
Keywords: NSA; afghanistan; bush; death penalty; elections; iraq; islam; mexico; nigeria; oil; pakistan; rights; rumsfeld; state of the union; uranium; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, July 15, 2004
Peace activists will be able to rally during the Republican National Convention. Negotiations tomorrow with the New York City Police will determine where it will be.Leigh Ann Caldwell reports from WBAI. U.S. diplomats are meeting with Pakistani officials hoping to negotiate more troops from Pakistan to Iraq as well as a way to steal headlines from the Democrats at home.Masror Hussein reports from Islamabad...
Keywords: afghanistan; bush; coca-cola; democratic party; detainees; disease; drug companies; elections; immigration; india; iraq; islam; pakistan; protest; rights; tobacco; washington; whistleblower
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, December 05, 2001
WOMEN AND THE NEW AFGHAN GOVERNMENT 4:14 The Afghan Women?s Peace Summit in Brussells is now underway.A colaition fo Wommens groups form around the world and A group of about 50 Afghan Wommen are at the meeitng calling for womens rights and full participation in the new governemnt that is being formed.FSRN?s Charles Michael Ray has this story from Brussells. SHARING POWER HARD INSIDE AFGHANISTAN 3:35 Delegates from four Afghan factions have signed an agreement on a transitional government to run...
Keywords: afghanistan; attorney general; bush; detainees; elections; hamas; israel; military; palestine; rights; riots; suicide
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, March 20, 2002
Palestinian Authority "Fully Ready" for Ceasefire (1:29) Palestinian security officials say a cease-fire declaration is possible after a joint security meeting later today. The Palestinian Authority said yesterday it is "fully ready" to begin implementing the Tenet plan. The areas from which the Israeli Defense Force withdrew remained quiet yesterday, but there were incidents in other areas of the West Bank and Gaza...
Keywords: bush; campaign finance; elections; fox news; israel; military; palestine; privacy; rights; riots; rumsfeld; scotus
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, March 29, 2002
Sharon: "Arafat is the Enemy" Report from Ramallah Arab Reaction to Israel's Invasion An Interview With the Mother of Zacarias Moussaoui Second Execution in Tennessee Planned March Against INS Raids at LAX
Keywords: death penalty; israel
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, April 09, 2002
? Hundreds of Palestinian Dead in Jenin Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres disputed Palestinian claims of a massacre at refugee camps in the West Bank town of Jenin. Over 100 Palestinians died in Jenin today, but Peres says Israeli troops faced fierce resistance from Palestinian militants holed up in a small pocket in the Jenin refugee camp. The Palestinian Authority has compared the casualties in Jenin to the massacre by Israeli-allied Lebanese Christian militia of hundreds of Palestinians i...
Keywords: california; detainees; elections; environment; islam; israel; lebanon; military; palestine
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, April 25, 2002
Palestinian Court Finds Assasins Guilty In the latest Israeli invasion of Palestinian areas, the Israeli army has admitted it shot dead 5 Palestinian police officers. This comes as the Palestinian Authority convicted 4 Palestinians for last year's assassination of Israel's tourism minister. Free speech radio news correspondent Jeremy Scahill has more on today's developments in the Middle East. Human Rights Watch Report on Jenin While the world waits for the UN to make its mind up about the compo...
Keywords: disease; drug companies; israel; military; palestine; privitization; rights
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, June 06, 2002
Justice Department Aims to Fingerprint Arab and Muslim Visitors to America Yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Justice Department regulations that would require 100,000 foreign students, tourists and other visitors to be scrutinized upon entry into the country. The measures include fingerprinting and photographing, and the new regulations would largely target people from Muslim and Arab nations...
Keywords: FEMA; NATO; UN; afghanistan; attorney general; bush; elections; immigration; islam; israel; palestine; suicide; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, July 03, 2002
Attacks on Hebron(4:26) Israel today announced it would marginally lift curfews inpmosed on Plaestinian cities captured by the Israeli Army. The Israeli Security Cabimet also said it was in favor of allowing some 5000 Palestinians workers to communte to Israel for their jobs every day. Before the latest Israeli incurions some 150,000 Palestinians from the Westbank and the Gaza Strip entered Israeli everyday...
Keywords: elections; israel; military; palestine; pentagon; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, July 31, 2002
Senate Hearings on Iraq Attack In the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today, senators heard that it would be more effective--and less costly--if the US were to attack Iraq sooner rather than later.But questions remain about the credentials of some of today's witnesses.Critics of US policy toward Iraq--and some senators--complain the committee's witness list is stacked with those who favor renewed attacks.Joshua Chaffin reports from Capitol Hill A Trip Through No Fly Zones Although the Bush ad...
Keywords: NATO; bush; human trading; iraq; pentagon; rebellion
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, August 05, 2002
Victims in Nablus(3:50) The United Nations General Assembly is today holding the 10th Emergency Special Assembly on the Illegal Israeli Actions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It is a closed session with a draft resolution demanding the withdrawl of the Israeli occupying forces from Palestinian cities and stresses the need for necessary and appropriate action against violators of international humanitarian law, in particular the perpetrators of war crimes...
Keywords: 9-11; UN; bush; detainees; elections; environment; israel; palestine
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, August 26, 2002
CA Farm Workers March for Just Negotiations (3:36) In 1966 Ceasar Chavez and the newly founded United Farm Workers marched 150 miles from a small farming town in California to the state?s capitol demanding justice for farm workers.Now, 36 years later the United Farm Workers are marching again:this time for justice in labor negotiations.Since 1975 California farm workers have had the right to unionize, but the UFW claims that less than half of the farm worker groups which voted to unionize have n...
Keywords: bush; california; elections; environment; india; iran; israel; mexico; military; pakistan; protest; whistleblower
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, October 08, 2002
Congressional Hearings on Iraq Begin The house started debate this morning and could vote as soon as tomorrow authorizing the use of force against Iraq. Passage of the president's version of the bill is assured in the Republican dominated house. Democratic amendments to limit the president's power and keep the power to declare war in the hands of the congress seem likely to die. Josh Chaffin prepared this collage from the hearings...
Keywords: EU; NATO; bush; elections; france; india; iraq; louisiana; military
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, January 01, 2003
Today we invite you to join us on an odyssey that takes us from deep inside Zapatista rebel territory with the biodiversity of the rainforests of Mexico's south east, through maquiladoras in Central America and finally making the last leg of the perilous journey, illegally, crossing the US/Mexico border in search of work on the streets of San Francisco. FSRN's Chiapas team, Mariana Mora, Luz Ruiz and Tim Russo bring us this special documentary.
Keywords: california; mexico; rebellion
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, January 13, 2003
IL Gov Commutes Death Sentences Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the death sentences all of the state's death row inmates on Saturday, in a move that has ignited a growing national controversy over the fundamental racism and unfairness of the death penalty system - a system that activists say will never be able to ensure that the innocent will not be executed. Chris Geovanis reports from Chicago...
Keywords: bush; death penalty; iraq; islam; israel; military; protest
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Powell to Address UN US Secretary of State Colin Powell is at the United Nations today, seeking support from the other 14 members of the Security Council for a US-led war on Iraq. Powell is slated to give a briefing to the Council tomorrow that is widely expected to begin the countdown to war. President Bush promised in his State of the Union speech last week that Powell would present damning evidence of Iraq's determination to thwart UN weapons inspections.Today Powell himself played down expec...
Keywords: UN; bush; elections; iraq; mexico; military; nuclear power; nuclear weapons; protest; state of the union
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, March 28, 2003
Fisk on Baghdad Devastation (1:37) UN Security Council members have reached a broad agreement on modifying the 'oil-for-food' program in Iraq which would enable the UN to run it for an initial period of 45 days renewing humanitarian aid to now very needy Iraqis. Meanwhile despite many reports to the contrary from embedded journalists over the past days, a British commander today said that British forces are "nowhere near" capturing Iraq?s second biggest city of Basra in southern Iraq...
Keywords: iraq; japan; nuclear weapons; oil; palestine
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, August 29, 2003
Protesting Yale Workers Arrested - Melinda Tuhus DNA Evidence Not Good Enough for Innocence - Sally Watt 1 in 5 Women Assaulted at Academy - Daniel Costello UN Considering Multi-National Force in Iraq - Haider Risvi Mosque Blast Kills Shiite Leader (3:00) Soon after Friday morning prayers began in a mosque in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in Iraq, a powerful car bomb exploded outside the mosque killing some 75 and injuring scores more...
Keywords: bush; china; death penalty; india; iraq; islam; japan; korea; nigeria; nuclear weapons; rights; russia
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, September 15, 2003
WTO Talks Break Down India joined Malaysia in rejecting the revised draft Cancun ministerial declaration, charging that the WTO is not only deliberately neglecting their concerns, but comfort is being given to developed countries which provide huge trade-distorting subsidies. Meanwhile, many activists and delegates of non-government organizations (NGOs) celebrated the collapse of the talks as a triumph for developing nations, which proved their increased negotiating power...
Keywords: NGO; UN; WTO; brazil; china; civil disobediance; france; highschool; india; iraq; mexico
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, September 23, 2003
The American Civil Liberties Union is charging the Secret Service with discrimination against protestors and violating their free speech rights during Presidential appearances -- Craig Murphy Steelworkers rallied in the nation's capital this morning in support of tariffs on foreign steel -- John Hamilton Hundreds in Bolivia are protesting the government's decision to sell the nation's natural gas to the United States and are attacking travelers as the demonstrations escalate -- Ian Forrest Today...
Keywords: UN; attorney general; bush; california; democratic party; elections; environment; iraq; korea; mexico; military; protest; rights; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, October 09, 2003
Syria Warns the US: No Sanctions Syria hit back at the United States today saying it is further degrading its reputation in the Middle East after the U.S. Congress yesterday took a step towards slapping sanctions on Syria. The Syrian Accountability Act passed a House Committee, and appears to also have support in the Senate and White House. Sponsors of measure, numbering more than 275, accuse Syria of sponsoring terrorism, occupying Lebanon, and seeking weapons of mass destruction...
Keywords: NATO; bush; california; elections; environment; india; iraq; islam; lebanon; military; oil; pakistan; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Historic Deficit Today the Bush administration was proud of new numbers showing the federal deficit is lower than what was predicted.Yet, the $374.2 billion dollar figure is the largest deficit in the history of the United States.Bush administration officials say the deficit is mostly due to the so-called war on terrorism.An official with the White House office of Budget and Management says next year, the deficit will be even larger at around $500 billion...
Keywords: NGO; bush; china; courage; elections; environment; immigration; iraq; islam; military; pakistan; protest; rights
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, October 22, 2003
TEXACO ON TRIAL ChevronTexaco is in an Ecuadoran court today facing aone billion-dollar lawsuit The trial - brought on behalf of 30,000indigenous Ecuadoreansaccuses the company of polluting the country's rainforest and water resources.Plaintiffs also say the company's activities led to an increased risk of cancer among the local population. Shannon Wright with Amazon Watch says that scientific studies prove that toxicity levels of carcinogens are still excessive...
Keywords: UN; amazon; bush; iraq; israel; japan; mexico; military; oil; palestine; rights; suicide
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, December 22, 2003
9/11 Fund Deadline Approaches The 9/11 fund deadline is midnight on Monday December 22nd.After that the families of those who died or were injured in the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks will be unable to apply for the billions offered by the U.S. Congress as compensation for their loss.In order to receive a portion of the funds, the family must agree to not sue any airline or other U.S. entities for negligence.As of last week the fund has paid out nearly 1 point 5 billion dollars and as m...
Keywords: 9-11; NSA; UN; bush; california; chemical weapons; democratic party; elections; france; islam; israel; military; nuclear power; nuclear weapons; palestine; rights; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Nader Won't Run Green Today a Green Party official announced that Ralph Nader is not running for President, at least as a Green.However, the consumer advocate may consider running as an independent.Democrats blame Nader for spoiling the election for Vice President Al Gore?s bid for the White House in 2000.Greens spokespersons were unclear about Nader?s reasons behind the decision.Nader aids say he wants to run a serious campaign and is trying to figure out how to best do that...
Keywords: UN; argentina; biological weapons; bush; communism; death penalty; democratic party; elections; iraq; islam; korea; mexico; military; pentagon; rights; russia; saddam hussein; torture
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, January 15, 2004
Moseley-Braun Drops Out Today, the only woman in the race for President of the United States dropped out.Carol Moseley-Braun, one of two African-Americans running announced that she would throw her support behind the current Democratic frontrunner Howard Dean. Moseley-Braun is the first black woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate and then became ambassador to New Zealand.Her endorsement may mean little for Dean in Iowa?s Monday night contest where she has little support.However, Dean?s mostly y...
Keywords: EU; WTO; attorney general; bill clinton; birthday; bush; campaign finance; disease; halliburton; india; iraq; islam; nigeria; pentagon; suicide; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, January 27, 2004
HR Watch Says Humanitarian War in Iraq Unjustifiable Human Rights Watch declares U.S. and British official?s justification for invading Iraq on humanitarian grounds as unjustifiable. The 407-page report released yesterday, said ?before war, mass slaughter should be taking place or imminent.? The Executive Director of the London based organization said, while summary executions and other brutality did occur, ?ongoing or imminent slaughter?was NOT the case in Saddam Hussein?s Iraq in March 2003.? ...
Keywords: 9-11; UN; bush; civil disobediance; death penalty; disease; elections; environment; ethnic; immigration; iraq; japan; korea; mexico; rebellion; rights; saddam hussein; unions
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, March 16, 2004
A Florida soldier, who filed for conscientious objector status, is being called a deserter according to a National Guard spokesperson. Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia walked inside the Florida National Guard building today after being absent from his military unit for more than 30 days. Mejia served 5 months in Iraq as part of the occupation forces and said during his time there he became increasingly convinced that the U.S...
Keywords: NSA; UN; bush; disease; environment; iraq; mexico; military; rights; scotus; washington
Downloads: 86 |
| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Clashes in Kosovo At least 7 people have been killed and up to 200 injured in the worst street clashes between Kosovo Serbs and ethnic Albanians in the four years since the United Nations assumed administrative control of the region. Jackson Allers reports from Kosovo?s capital, Pristina. Gearing Up to El Salvador's Elections International monitors for El Salvador?s upcoming elections on Sunday are being stopped at the airport.Rebecca Myles has more...
Keywords: UN; afghanistan; bush; california; elections; ethnic; india; iran; iraq; islam; kurds; mexico; military; nuclear weapons; saddam hussein; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, March 31, 2004
5 Killed in Iraq Violence Four people were killed and dragged through the streets of the Iraqi city of Fallujah today. Three of them were Americans. The four worked as contrators for the US-led coalition. Rebels killed the four men in an ambush that left their vehicle in flames -- and then dragged the corpses through the streets before hanging the charred remains from a bridge. In the same area, five US soldiers were killed today when a bomb exploded under their armored personnel carrier...
Keywords: bush; california; death penalty; democratic party; environment; iraq; mexico; military; nigeria; oil; rebellion; turkey; unions; washington
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