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Today's lead stories:
Bush Greeted in Senegal by Protests
Senate FCC Hearings
Mexico’s Governing PAN Loses Seats
Bush Plan: Privatizing the Workforce
Mosque Attack in Pakistan
Free Speech Radio News Headlines
Bush Administration Knew Key Justification for Invading
Iraq is False
President Bush is Calling for Liberia’s President Charles
Taylor to Step Down
UN to Stop the Illegal Arms Trade
Nuclear Policy Research Institute is Calling for the
United States to Cease the Use of Depleted Uranium
Recall of California Governor Gray Davis to Be Put on the
Ballot
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Bush Greeted in Senegal by Protests
After weekend long protests in South Africa against the
pending US presidential visit, today President Bush arrived
in Senegal to be greeted by large demonstrations. The only
French speaking country to be visited by President Bush in
his 5 nation African tour against terror and Aids, Senegal
as recently gained White House favor for supporting President
Bush in his war against Iraq. Top on the President’s
covert agenda in Senegal, is the use of the county’s
military bases for refueling of its warships, but as Ndiaga
Seck reports from Dakar, at a time when France and its former
colony are exchanging chartered flights in a deportation process,
many are noting that Senegal is shifting more to the American
side.
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Senate FCC Hearings
The Dixie Chicks, the famously censored pop-country group,
made a comeback today becoming the major focus of a Senate
commerce committee hearing on the radio market. After a major
kick in the tail from the American people last month, some
in congress are setting about the business of trying to prevent
a fast-approaching wave of media mergers, like those that
have so consolidated the ownership of radio stations. Activists
are trying to capitalize on all the attention finally being
paid to the issue of media democracy. Josh Chaffin reports
from Capitol Hill.
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Mexico’s Governing PAN Loses Seats
With the defeat of Mexican President Vicente Fox’s
conservative PAN party in congressional and state races last
weekend, the Mexican political map has turned more volatile
and made life more difficult for the beleaguered president.
No single party holds an absolute majority in the new congress,
while much of the Mexican electorate is running out of patience
with politicians of all stripes. Kent Paterson has more from
Mexico.
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Bush Plan: Privatizing the Workforce
Critics call the administration's goal to privatize up to
half of the federal work force by 2004, a part of a plan to
'roll back the 20th century.' The plan will withdraw the government
from a direct role in housing, healthcare, social security
and other established social priorities, by steadily paring
down the federal government's financial commitment. Critics
charge that like the administration's tax cuts, privatization
will reward special interests - private corporations - while
ignoring shared public priorities. Martha Baskin reports from
Seattle.
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Mosque Attack in Pakistan
On Friday, an attack on a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan, on
the border of Afghanistan, killed over 50 people. Pakistani
authorities are investigating whether Afghan Taliban were
linked to the attack, which they suspect was a sectarian attack
by the Sunni Muslim sect on a Shia Muslim mosque. The attack
came the day before Pakistan’s president General Pervez
Musharraf returned to Pakistan from a 20 day tour of four
nations, including the US. While he was greeted with the highest
honors by President Bush at Camp David, Musharraf faces growing
opposition at home from Islamist parties and democratic reformers.
Masror Hussain reports from Islamabad.
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