![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Host Verna Avery Brown interviews Fabrina Nawa. (4:50) Sputnik Kilambi reports on Colin Powell's visit to Pakistan and India. (5:06) Tony Cross reports on the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) from Shanghai. (2:50) Kata Mester reports from Washington D.C. on the anthrax threat. (2:48) Joshua Welsh reports from South Dakota on the effects of the production of weapons.(3:50)
Keywords: biological weapons; india; pakistan; washington
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| People Rise Up - 8/2/06 - US 'Biodefense' Planning - Andrew Geller
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (1975) prohibits any signatory from ever developing, producing, stockpiling or otherwise acquiring microbial or other biological agents that have no peaceful purpose. The U.S., through the Department of Homeland Security, is claiming that its plans to build an unusually secretive National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center qualify under this exception...
Keywords: biodefense; biological weapons; bioweapons; fort detrick; NBACC; NBAF; Sunshine Project
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, October 18, 2001
PRESIDENT BUSH GOES TO CHINA (2:56) US President George W. Bush has arrived in Shanghi on his first official visit to China and his first trip abroad since the September 11th attacks on the United States. The ultra modern Chinese port city is this week hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum or APEC. Trade and forign affairs ministers from Pacific rim countries today expressed solidarity with the US's declaired fight against global terrorism, but as Tony Cross reports from Shanghi t...
Keywords: 9-11; afghanistan; biological weapons; bush; china; islam
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, October 19, 2001
Fariba Nawa reports on US troops in Afghanistan. (1:41) Tony Cross reports on Bush and Chinese President Jiang Zemin's meeting. (2:28) Mitch Jeserich reports on the effect of the 9-11 attacks on immigrants in California. (4:33) Kata Mester reports from DC on patents for anthrax medication. (2:55) Verna Avery Brown went to Black Voices for Peace and files this report. (6:44)
Keywords: 9-11; afghanistan; biological weapons; bush; california; china
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, October 23, 2001
TALIBAN SAYS U-S BOMBS NURSING HOME Fariba Nawa reports from Pakistan/Afghanistan border. CHEAP ANTHRAX DRUGS AVAILABLE IN INDIA, BUT NOT U-S Sputnik Kilambi reports from New Dehli AN INTERVIEW WITH THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE Rafael Krafft reports from Ramallah TURKEY WANTS 6 BILLION DOLLARS FOR MILITARY COOPERATION James Smoot reports from Istanbul REMEMBERING A MASSACRE OF ALGERIANS Khaled Sid Mohand in Paris, France
Keywords: afghanistan; algeria; biological weapons; france; india; military; pakistan; palestine; turkey
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, January 08, 2004
US weapons inspectors are being pulled out of Iraq.One think tank issues a report showing there never were any weapons to find.David Gruen in D.C. reports. Today the Center for Public Integrity released a new book looking at all the Presidential candidates' financial interests.As Mitch Jeserich reports from D.C., at least one democratic candidate is linked to corporations vying for Homeland Security contracts...
Keywords: biological weapons; bush; elections; halliburton; iraq; kellogg; military; pentagon
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, October 28, 2004
DOD Ordered to Stop Anthrax Vaccine The Department of Defense must immediately stop involuntarily administering the anthrax vaccine, according to a judge?s ruling. Heather Buckheim reports from D.C. Non-Lethal Crowd Control Kills The Seattle Police Department announced they will stop using a particular piece of equipment referred to as non-lethal crowd control while investigations are pending into the death of a Boston Red Sox fan...
Keywords: EU; biological weapons; california; elections; environment; iraq; israel; japan; military; palestine; suicide; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, October 15, 2001
US BOMBS ? DID THEY HIT A TERROR CAMP OR SMALL TOWN? 3:30 U.S. jets pounded targets around Afghanistan's capital todayand attacked a military headquarters and what Bush Administration officials called a terrorist training camp near the eastern city of Jalalabad.But Taliban officials say the alleged training camp was actually the village of Karam. The Taliban says the bombs killed up to 200 people ? a claim that?s been confirmed by on scene reporters from the BBC.Jeremy Scahill has more...
Keywords: afghanistan; biological weapons; bush; china; islam; military; nuclear weapons; pakistan; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, October 29, 2001
ANTHRAX AND THE RIGHT WING 5:19 Mystery continues to surround the source of the anthrax attacks on America. Certain elements of the racist right in the United States have had an intense interest in biological weapons over the years. From Spokane, Washington Leigh Robartes takes a look at those connections and the impact of the World Trade Center attacks on the far right. SEND IN THE GROUND TROOPS? 3:02 The Pentagon says US bombs are targeting a complex system of caves in the North, believed to b...
Keywords: NATO; afghanistan; biological weapons; bush; india; islam; israel; military; pakistan; palestine; pentagon; rebellion; washington; wtc
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, October 31, 2001
US BOMBS HEATH CLINIC 2:39 Thirteen civilians including five women and children were killed today when a US jet bombed a medical dispensary and a neighbouring house. The Afghan Red Cresent Society clinic and the house were destroyed in the attack, one of two waves of bombing raids over the Southern City of Khandahar around dawn. The Taliban's Ambassor to Pakistan said today that 1,300 Afghani civilans have been killed in four weeks of US airstrikes...
Keywords: 9-11; NSA; UN; afghanistan; biological weapons; disease; islam; pakistan; protest; rights; visas; wtc
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, November 01, 2001
US BOMBS HYDRO DAM 4:14 US B-52 war-planes bombed Afghanistan's largest hydroelectric dam today,a move the Taliban says puts thousands of lives at risk. The Taliban's Education Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi told the Afghan Islamic Press news agency that seven US raids severely damaged the Kajaki dam and hydroelectric plant, completely knocking out the power supplies of the Southern city of Kandahar. The damn holds back 2.7 billion cubic meters of water...
Keywords: 9-11; NSA; afghanistan; attorney general; biological weapons; disease; hijack; immigration; india; islam; rights; riots; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, November 09, 2001
NORTHERN ALLIANCE TAKES KEY CITY (2:06) As this program went to air, leaders of the CIA-backed Northern Alliance claimed they took the key Afghan city of Mazar e- Shareef. If true, it could prove to be a pivitol turningpoint in the US war against Afghanistan. Jeremy Scahill reports. WHAT THE OFFENSIVE MEANS (1:16) Free Speech Radio News Correspondent Fariba Nawa is in Islamabaad. She explains the importance of Mazar e-Shareef...
Keywords: NGO; WTO; afghanistan; biological weapons; bush; democratic party; elections; india; islam; military; pakistan
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, November 20, 2001
WAR-LORDS FIGHT OVER VACATED LAND (2:59) US war-planes continued their assaults on Afghanistantoday trying to stomp out the last areas of Taliban control. With the Talaban withdrawn from all of Afghanistan's major cities, except their stronghold Kandahar, the country is left with no central government and rival factions are jockying for power.Many Afghans fear that violence and crime will soar and there are already signs of that, yesterday four journalists were killed by armed men on the road fr...
Keywords: UN; WTO; afghanistan; al-qaeda; biological weapons; bush; iran; iraq; korea; military; rebellion; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, November 30, 2001
We uploaded a montoge of voices of African women with AIDS, produced by Rupert Cook (please credit him if you use it), which we ran last June. Please feel free to air it for World Aids Day. Download the 6:17 long file. US BOMBS AFGHANISTAN AS TALKS CONTINUE IN BONN (3:04) While Northern Alliance forces push into the city of Kandahar, UN Officials say the fourth day of talks on the future government in Afghanistan inching towards a conclusion, but many afghan groups say the peopel ofAfghanistan a...
Keywords: afghanistan; attorney general; biological weapons; bush; india; iran; kennedy; privitization; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, March 05, 2002
More Carnage in Israel and the Occupied Territories (1:38) The Bush administration is considering returning special envoy Anthony Zinni to the to the Middle East. Secretary of State Colin Powell will discuss Zinni's return with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon later today. President Bush previously refused to return the special envoy to the region. Inigo Gilmore reports from Jerusalem that the carnage continues...
Keywords: biological weapons; bush; courage; environment; iran; iraq; israel; mexico; pentagon; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Bush and Blair Announce Iraq's Intent to Use "Weapons of Mass Destruction"(3:53) A storm of controversy surrounds a newly released dossier of evidence about Iraq's development of weapons of mass destruction. British Prime Minister Tony Blair presented the document today saying it proves Iraq has plans to use chemical and biological weapons. The dossier, Blair's most direct call for war on Iraq, states that Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons are ready to be used within 45 minutes of...
Keywords: EU; argentina; biological weapons; bush; iraq; korea; military; privacy; protest; saddam hussein
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, December 18, 2003
State Employee Says No Random Drug Testing A veteran Florida state employee is suing the state's Department of Juvenile Justice for firing him after refusing to submit to a random drug test.Mitch Perry reports from WMNF. Australian at Gitmo Gets Attorney An Australian lawyer has just been granted access to see his client being held by the United States government for close to two years at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Josh Chaffin has more...
Keywords: 9-11; UN; bill clinton; biological weapons; bush; iraq; military; rights; saddam hussein; scotus; washington; wtc
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, March 05, 2004
Iraqi Constitutional Signing Collapsed The Iraqi constitutional signing ceremony collapsed today when 5 Shi'ite members of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council walked out over the issue of Kurdish autonomy.Aaron Glantz reports from Arbil, Iraq. Venezuela Quiet After Week of Violence As many as seven people are dead in Venezuela after a week of violent clashes between opposition demonstrators and National Guard troops ended today.Greg Wilpert reports from Caracas...
Keywords: biological weapons; bush; california; chemical weapons; environment; iraq; kurds; mexico; military; rights
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Protests Over Power Shift in Togo There are mixed reports from Togo today about protests and demonstrations marring the transfer of power in the country.Some reports from the capital Lome indicate that the protests against the appointment of the late presidents son shut down the main market and businesses. Other news sources say it was business as usual today with only schools being shut down for safety reasons...
Keywords: biological weapons; bush; california; elections; heart disease; highschool; individuality; iraq; islam; israel; mexico; military; palestine; rights
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Bank Launders Money for Pinochet Pays Fine The bank that helped the former Chilean dictator launder money will pay one of the largest fines in U.S. history.Kelly Gidddens reports from D.C. Canadian Seal Hunt Begins Canada?s annual seal hunt begins today, and animal-rights activists in 30 countries are protesting at Canadian embassies, in a campaign launched by the Humane Society of the United States.Kristen Schwartz has more from CKLN in Toronto...
Keywords: biological weapons; bush; disease; elections; environment; india; iraq; kurds; mexico; oil; pentagon; scotus
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| Mother Jones Radio Broadcast 05-08-21: Iraq's Missing Nuclear Scientists - Mother Jones Radio
The Iraqi scientists from Saddam Hussein's nuclear and biological weapons programs posed a huge risk to international safety after Saddam's fall. So why did the Bush administration refuse to track down the scientists after the 2003 invasion of Iraq? Mother Jones reports that all but three of Saddam's top 200-some nuclear scientists are missing. Mother Jones Radio interviews Dr. Mahdi Obeidi, the "mastermind of Saddam Hussein's former nuclear centrifuge program," and the only Iraqi nuclear scient...
Keywords: Mother Jones; Radio; Interview; biological weapons; bush; david albright; iraq; saddam hussein
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, August 06, 2002
European Leaders Hesitant About War on Iraq(4:05) General Tommy Franks, who oversaw the war in Afghanistan and is the general who would command an invasion of Iraq yesterday presented President Bush and his key advisers with the latest Pentagon scenario for a U.S. attack on Iraq. Meanwhile as Patrick Beckett reports from Copenhagen, European politicians are increasingly uneasy about the Bush Administration's hawkish talk of war...
Keywords: 9-11; EU; afghanistan; biological weapons; bush; india; iraq; japan; military; nuclear weapons; pakistan; pentagon; rights; torture; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Sudan Gov't Participants in Darfur Human Rights Watch says that they have documents showing the Sudanese government is directly involved in atrocities in the Darfur region.Kody Emmanuel reports from WBAI. Israelis and Palestinians Clash in Lebanon Fighting has erupted in Southern Lebanon as the Israeli military and the Palestinian resistance group Hezballah exchange fire at the Israeli-Lebanese border.Mohammed Shublaq reports from Beruit...
Keywords: biological weapons; chemical weapons; death penalty; india; islam; israel; lebanon; military; pakistan; palestine; pentagon; rights; scotus; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, October 24, 2001
NEGOTIATING OVER THE FUTURE OF AFGHANISTAN 5:08 U.S. military planes continue for the third day to bomb front line targets of the ruling taliban forces in afghanistan. Pentagon officials said for the first time today that they hoped to choke off fuel, food and other supplies that the Taliban leaders need to maintain their grip on power. Among the targets struck were the main Taliban fuel depots near Kandahar...
Keywords: 9-11; EU; NATO; afghanistan; biological weapons; bush; federal government; islam; israel; military; pakistan; palestine; pentagon; privacy; rights; washington; wiretaps
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, May 14, 2002
Carter Goes to Cuba Tonight, Former President Jimmy Carter will deliver a historic adress live on Cuban television. Yesterday Carter, visited a biotechnology center at the invitation of the government.His planned visit to the center followed accusations last week by US Undersecretary of State John Bolton that Cuba, along with Libya and Syria, constituted a new axis of evil and that Cuba was using its pharmaceuticals industry to create bioweaponry, allegations which were reiterated yesterday by S...
Keywords: 9-11; NSA; biological weapons; china; detainees; drug companies; france; immigration; israel; mexico; nuclear weapons; palestine; scotus
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, November 21, 2002
Protests Against NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is meeting this week in Prague marking the first NATO summit behind the former Iron Curtain. NATO just passed a resolution pressing Iraq to comply with UN inspectors or face serious consequences. Meanwhile, several peaceful street demonstrations are taking place against the summit. FSRN's Charles Michael Ray has this story from the streets of Prague...
Keywords: 9-11; NATO; biological weapons; california; highschool; immigration; india; iran; iraq; kennedy; military; privacy; rights; riots; saddam hussein; scotus; wiretaps
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Intensified Bombing in Iraq (3:51) The Bush Administration is attempting to exempt the Pentagon's controversial National Missile Defense System from operational testing which is legally required of every new weapons system in order to deploy it by 2004. This information was buried in the White House's proposed FY2004 budget. Meanwhile, as Iraq continues to destroy it's Al-Samoud missiles and has promised to deliver a detailed report on what happened to stocks of Anthrax and VX nerve gas agents e...
Keywords: attorney general; biological weapons; bush; drug companies; iraq; japan; korea; medicare; military; missile defense; pentagon; saddam hussein; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Gay Marriage In Portland, Oregon today, officials issued the state's first marriage licenses to same-gendered couples after county officials determined the state constitution required them to do so. In Georgia, a Constitutional ammenment banning gay marriage was defeated largely by the Black Caucus -- legislators who's constiuents largely support the measure. The ammedment may come back up as early as tommorw...
Keywords: NATO; afghanistan; al-qaeda; biological weapons; elections; individuality; iraq; islam; john kerry; kurds; military; pakistan; rebellion; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Tuesday, April 12, 2005
8 States File Suit Against EPA The state of Wisconsin joins eight other states in their lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency?s mercury standards.JoAnne Powers from WORT in Madison has the story. Workers Wages Decrease Relative to Inflation U.S. workers? wages have fallen relative to inflation for the first time in a decade.From the Worker?s Independent News Service, Doug Cunningham has more...
Keywords: UN; biological weapons; bush; california; china; civil disobediance; disease; elections; environment; india; israel; nicaragua; palestine; protest; washington
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, November 02, 2001
U.S. WILL DELIVER BOMBS FOR RAMADAN (2:29) B-52 bombers pounded the front line north of Kabul in one of the strongest attacks so far, blasting a Taliban field headquarters. Afghan opposition forces said the bombing appeared directed by U.S. forces on the ground. Strong U.S. attacks were also reported Friday against Taliban positions defending the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.The attacks against both the Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif fronts showed increased U.S...
Keywords: NATO; afghanistan; biological weapons; california; censorship; detainees; elections; immigration; india; kennedy; missile defense; nicaragua; pakistan; pentagon; privacy; protest; rights; rumsfeld; wtc
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, October 25, 2001
CLUSTER BOMBS IN AFGHANISTAN 2:25 US forces peppered Taliban frontlines with cluster bombs for the first time today. Military officials said the cluster bombs -- fist-sized, armour-penetrating anti-personnel explosives that scatter over a wide area -- were part of intense overnight raids on frontlines north of Kabul, including Bagram air base, and Keshendeh and Dara-e-Souf, near Mazar-i-Sharif. The United Nations had already reported use of the ordnance in the western city of Herat, but this is ...
Keywords: 9-11; NATO; UN; USSR; afghanistan; biological weapons; bush; california; iraq; islam; israel; military; pakistan; palestine; rights; turkey; unions; washington; wiretaps
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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, March 04, 2004
Carribean Leaders Want Haiti Investigation Carribean leaders are calling for a full-scale investigation into the departure of Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide.Patrick Scudder reports from Jamaica. Bus Strike in Twin Cities Public transport in Minneapolis-St. Paul ground to a halt today as 2,200 drivers, mechanics, bus cleaners and clerical workers with the Twin cities' Metro Transit walked out on strike...
Keywords: UN; afghanistan; biological weapons; brazil; bush; california; detainees; disease; elections; environment; india; islam; military; pakistan; protest; rights; riots; south africa; suicide
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| Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, June 06, 2005
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a case that could have challenged the anti-discrimination federal Title IX law.The National Wrestling Coaches Association said in order to comply with the law colleges and universities unfairly eliminated men?s sports programs so that women?s sport teams and athletes could be adequately funded.By rejecting the case, the court essentially upheld a lower court?s decision that ruled lawsuits should name individual schools rather than the federal government...
Keywords: NATO; biological weapons; bush; california; coca-cola; elections; environment; federal government; india; israel; marijuana; mexico; nicaragua; palestine; protest; scotus; washington
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