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Today's lead stories:
Senate Intelligence Committees Resist Holding Public Hearings
India will not Send Troops to Iraq
Hearings on the Closure of a Venezuelan Community Television
Station
Safety of Aging Nukes
Who Will Benefit from the Africa Growth Opportunity Act?
Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary: "'W' does Africa"
Free Speech Radio News Headlines
Attempted Coup Related to Oil Reserves?
$3.7 Billion Dollar Oil Pipeline in Chad - Sam Olukoya
Bush Administration Pushes Forward With WMD Production - Joe
Gardner Wessely
Environmental Groups Appeal Injunction Against Roadless Rule
- Leigh Robartes
US House Blocks Funding to UN Agency That Promotes Family
Planning - Susan Wood
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Senate Intelligence Committees Resist Holding Public
Hearings
Behind closed doors in the Senate Intelligence Committee
today, CIA Director George Tenet was scheduled to testify
about the use of U.S. intelligence before the latest Iraq
war. The Republican controlled intelligence Committees in
both houses are resisting calls to hold public hearings on
the President's use of bogus nuclear evidence in the State
of the Union address. Josh Chaffin has this report from DC.
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India will not Send Troops to Iraq
This week the Indian government announced it will not send
troops to Iraq, despite the US request to do so. India declared
it would only consider the request if there were a UN mandate
for the troops. Yesterday France also said it will not send
its troops to Iraq without a UN mandate. The refusals come
as the US announced that 9,000 of its soldiers are to remain
in Iraq indefinitely, and as attacks on coalition forces stationed
there continue to escalate. From New Delhi, Miranda Kennedy
reports.
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Hearings on the Closure of a Venezuelan Community
Television Station
The mayor of Caracas, Venezuela is being asked to attend
hearings this week by the Venezuelan legislature. Last Thursday,
Mayor Alfred Peña closed one of the country’s
largest community Television stations, “Catia TV.”
Workers at Catia, TV say the mayor of Caracas targeted the
public station because it was instrumental in reporting the
events that led to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s
reinstatement during last year’s coup attempt. Pena
has publicly admitted his opposition to Chavez - supporters
assert Catia TV provided a balance to the private opposition
media they say organized a media blackout during the coup.
Carol Delgado and Greg Wilpert bring you more from Caracas,
Venezuela.
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Safety of Aging Nukes
In Boston today, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission—the
NRC—is holding the last of four regional public meetings
on the environmental impacts of renewing nuclear power plant
licenses. The meetings are part of a process to update the
NRC’s Generic Environmental Impact Statement, or GEIS,
a 1996 document which covers environmental issues for all
nuclear power plants. Compliance with the GEIS is part of
the criteria for plant license renewal. Meanwhile, plant owners
are starting to renew their licenses under the old GEIS. The
license renewal process takes 2 to 2 and a half years, depending
on whether or not there is a hearing. Yet, as long as the
process takes, some people are concerned that important questions
about nuclear reactor safety may not be adequately raised
or answered. Kellia Ramares filed this report.
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Who Will Benefit from the Africa Growth Opportunity
Act?
Even before President Bush made his tour of Africa last
week, Gambian President Yaya Jammeh, led a delegation to attend
a US/Africa Business Summit in Washington where the Bush Administration
pushed the Africa Growth Opportunity Act or (AGOA). Even as
delegations met in select countries in continental Africa
and in the US capitol, many Gambians in the small west african
nation wonder how the Africa Growth Opportunity Act will really
benefit them. Momodou Jaiteh, has the rest of the story from
Gambia, West Africa.
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Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary: "'W' does Africa"
Bush’s visit to Africa was seen by many in the mainstream
corporate media as a success. Pictures depicted him in friendly
embrace with people from all five African nation’s he
visited, but as Free Speech Radio News commentator, Mumia
Abu-Jamal notes, it’s what is not depicted that matters.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is on death row in Pennsylvania where he observes
national and international events.
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