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Is a better world possible? As Wall Street brokers face record
fines, John Cavanagh, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz and Martin Khor
examine alternatives to economic globalization.
A preventive or preemptive attack? Stanford professor David
Palumbo-Liu discusses U.S. military policy
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:20 IS A BETTER WORLD POSSIBLE? AS WALL STREET BROKERS
FACE RECORD FINES, JOHN CAVANAGH, VICTORIA TAULI-CORPUZ AND
MARTIN KHOR EXAMINE ALTERNATIVES TO ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION.
Prosecutors yesterday announced a $1.4 billion settlement
with the nation’s largest investment firms.
At firm after firm, brokers and analysts convinced investors
to buy billions of dollars worth of stock in companies they
knew were going to do badly.
Some investment houses received secret payments from companies
when they gave a strong recommendation to buy stock in that
company.
The SEC accused three firms in particular of fraud: Citigroup’s
Saloman Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse First
Boston.
The settlement bars Citigroup’s CEO, Sanford Weill,
from even communicating with his firm’s stock analysts
without a lawyer present. Citigroup is Wall Street’s
biggest bank.
Soloman Smith Barney and First Boston were accused of “spinning”-
selling terrific stock offerings to senior executives who
turned around and sold the shares for a guaranteed profit.
Today we will look at the connection between war and economic
globalization. In our firehouse studio we are joined by three
of the leading voices in the global justice movement all of
whom have helped write the new book “Alternatives to
Economic Globalization -- A Better World is Possible.”
The book is being billed as an answer to the critics who
assert that the anti-corporate globalization movement has
failed to put forward alternative proposals.
- John Cavanagh, Director at the Institute for Policy Studies,
Vice President of the International Forum on Globalization
Board. He worked as an international economist for the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1978-1981)
and the World Health Organization (1981-1982). He directed
IPS's Global Economy Project from 1983-1997. He is the co-author
of 10 books and numerous articles on the global economy.
- Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, founder and executive director
of the Philippines-based Indigenous Peoples' International
Centre for Policy Research and Education. She is also a
member of the International Forum on Globalization
- Martin Khor, Director of Third World Network / International
Forum on Globalization
Links:
Forum on Globalization: www.ifg.org
Institute for Policy Studies: www.ips-dc.org
Third World Network: www.twnside.org.sg
Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research
and Education: www.tebtebba.org
8:20-8:21 One Minute Music Break
8:21-8:40 ALTERNATIVES TO ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION CONT’D
8:40 - 8:41 One Minute Music Break
8:41-8:58 A PREVENTIVE OR PREEMPTIVE ATTACK? STANFORD PROFESSOR
DAVID PALUMBO-LIU DISCUSSES U.S. MILITARY POLICY
Stanford University professor David Palumbo-Liu spoke on
April 23 at New York University. He discussed the difference
between preventive and preemptive military policies.
- David Palumbo-Liu, Professor of Comparative Literature,
and Director of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature
at Stanford University
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
9:00-9:01 Billboard:
The Bush administration binds and gags environmental regulators:
We discuss “Operation End Extremism,” rocket fuel
contaminated lettuce and gag-orders on the EPA.
Democratic elections in Nigeria?: The voting ended a week
ago but the results are still in dispute. We talk with Nigerian
student leader Sowore Omoyele.
Native American who denies US or Canadian citizenship faces
deportation: Charlie “Wolf” Smoke is set to be
deported to the United States today after months of battling
Canadian immigration authorities.
9:01-9:12 Headlines
9:12-9:13 One Minute Music Break
9:13-9:25 DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA?: THE VOTING ENDED
A WEEK AGO BUT THE RESULTS ARE STILL IN DISPUTE. WE WILL EXAMINE
WHY WITH NIGERIAN STUDENT LEADER SOWORE OMOYELE.
This news just in from Nigeria: Nearly 100 foreign oil workers
- including 21 Americans and 35 Britons - were being held
hostage by striking Nigerian workers aboard offshore installations.
This according to company officials and union workers said
Tuesday.
The strikers have been holding 97 foreign counterparts aboard
four offshore drilling rigs owned by Houston-based Transocean
since April 19. The action in a remote area off the West African
nation's coastline became known only recently.
The rigs were drilling wells on behalf of oil multinationals
Royal/Dutch Shell and TotalFina Elf.
In other news from Nigeria, It has been 10 days since voters
there went to the polls but the results are still in dispute.
Sitting Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has claimed
victory but international election monitors reported widespread
voting fraud.
Nigeria's main opposition parties had called on the international
community not to recognize the election results.
Obasanjo's main challenger, Muhammadu Buhari vowed to challenge
the results. Buhari is the head of the All Nigeria Peoples
Party. The opposition parties have also rejected the April
12 legislative election results citing vote rigging on behalf
of Obasanjo’s party.
- Sowore Omoyele, Nigerian student leader who is now enrolled
at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia
University
9:25-9:37 NATIVE AMERICAN WHO DENIES US OR CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP
FACES DEPORTATION: CHARLIE “WOLF” SMOKE IS SET
TO BE DEPORTED TO THE UNITED STATES TODAY AFTER MONTHS OF
BATTLING CANADIAN IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES.
Canadian immigration officials are attempting again to deport
Charlie Wolf Smoke to the U.S.
Smoke claims he is an aboriginal Indian and that his ancestors
were in North America long before white settlers. He says
he can float freely across the border without proof of citizenship.
These are his words:
“My "Americanized" name is Charlie Smoke.
My ancestry is Lakota & Mohawk. I am neither American
nor Canadian - I am an aboriginal member of Turtle Island.
Both "Pre-American" & "Pre-Canadian".
An Indigenous person from the Western Hemisphere. A Native
North American. A member of the Red Race. An Ikce Wicasa.
A Lakota National.”
Ambiguity surrounds Smoke’s citizenship because his
birth was never registered and he was never registered as
a status Indian.
He says he was born in his family’s house on the Akwesasne
reserve, which straddles the borders of Quebec, Ontario and
New York State.
Smoke was escorted to the U.S. border in January of last
year but was refused entry when U.S. officials said there
was not sufficient paperwork to prove he is an American.
After months of digging, Canadian immigration officials say
they can prove Smoke is an American. They say there’s
a birth certificate and fingerprints showing he’s really
Roger Adams, a lost boy from Memphis, Tennessee.
We join Charlie Wolf Smoke at his home in Regina where he
is scheduled to be deported in a couple of hours.
Charlie Wolf Smoke, native American who denies US or Canadian
citizenship.
Link: http://charlie_smoke.tripod.com/indigenousawakening/
9:37-9:55 THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION BINDS AND GAGS ENVIRONMENTAL
REGULATORS: WE DISCUSS “OPERATION END EXTREMISM,”
ROCKET FUEL CONTAMINATED LETTUCE AND GAG-ORDERS ON THE EPA.
“Operation End Extremism” This is the name of
the campaign started by the Senate Environment and Public
Works Committee to combat what it sees as a new threat to
the US military: environmental regulations.
Last month, the Defense Department asked Congress to “clarify”
environmental regulations.
The Pentagon’s basic complaint is that laws governing
air pollution, toxic waste dumps, endangered species and even
marine mammals interfere with training and readiness exercises
necessary for national security.
Employing an unusual tactic for a committee, periodic emails
are sent to journalists offering sentence-by-sentence rebuttals
of environmental groups’ criticisms of the Pentagon’s
request.
Meanwhile, the Bush administration has imposed a gag order
on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from publicly
discussing perchlorate pollution.
This comes as two new studies reveal high-levels of the rocket-fuel
component, which the Pentagon uses, may be contaminating the
nation’s lettuce supply.
The studies, commissioned by the Environmental Working Group,
found perchlorate in samples of lettuce traced to growers
in Southern California and Arizona.
High-level exposure of perchlorate in young children can
produce deficits in brain function and motor skills.
- Bill Walker, Vice President for the West Coast office
of the Environmental Working Group.
- Demetri Sevastopulos, reporter for the Financial Times.
Link: Environmental Working Group: www.ewg.org
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