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Today's lead stories:
United Nations Update
Peace Plan That Wall Street Would Love
Civil Disobedience Begins Nationwide
Blair Out On A Limb
Australia Commits Troops
Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary
United Nations Update
Last night President Bush told the Iraqi President he had
48 hours to leave Iraq or face war. Nadja Middleton begins
our special CountDown to war coverage in NY.
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Peace Plan That Wall Street Would Love
Meanwhile an 11thhour plan to avert war has been shunned
by the State Department. An African American-led, interfaith
coalition of spiritual leaders who have just returned from
Iraq where former District of Columbia representative Walter
Fauntory met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz constructed
a peace plan aimed at averting the war in Iraq which Fauntory
says will give corporate America full access to doloraized
Iraqi oil. He tells Deepa Fernandes that if Wall Street knew
of this plan they would surely not advocate war. This segment
was produced by WBAI’s Sharan Louise Harper.
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Civil Disobedience Begins Nationwide
In the ultimatum heard round the world last night, President
Bush made clear the US is determined to enter Iraq whether
or not Hussein goes. It was a speech based on disputed claims
Bush has made many times before, but today elected Democrats
have remained largely silent. Some individual citizens have
started what they hope will be a wave of civil disobedience
nationwide. Josh Chaffin reports from Capitol Hill.
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Blair Out On A Limb
The last few months have seen fraught in-fighting within
the British Labour party about the war. This has culminated
over the past few days in the resignations of three cabinet
members. Today an emergency debate is being held in both houses
of parliament seen by some as the only way for opponents of
war to be heard, yet acknowledged as unlikely to change the
outcome. Commentators say that if Tony Blair gives the command
for war this week, it could lead to a party torn apart by
what many say is the most important political decision in
many years. Anastasia Kershaw has more from London.
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Australia Commits Troops
And as the U.S. and British Governments abandon their lobbying
of fellow UN Security Council members to support the forceful
disarming of Iraq, the Australian Government, not a security
council member, is prepared to go against majority public
opinion and play a small, but not insignificant role in a
war in Iraq. About 2000 Australian troops were pre-deployed
in the Gulf in February and since then Australians have taken
to the streets in large numbers opposing what they see as
an undemocratic and unnecessary move by the Prime Minister
John Howard. Just prior to Bush's 48 hour ultimatum last night,
the President phoned Prime Minister Howard in Australia asking
him to formally commit Australian troops, which he has now
done. Michael Bushell compiled this report from Sydney Australia.
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Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary
"The Power of Protest"
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