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Today's lead stories:
New Sanctions on North Korea
Palestinian PM Meets President Bush
Global Gag Rule: A Danger to Women’s Health
LPFM Victory
Congress Recess Approaches
Free Speech Radio News Headlines by Randi
Zimmerman
US Troops Prepare for Liberia - Martin Browne
Voting Rights Restored in Florida - Mitch Perry
CA Supreme Court Rejects Effort to Halt Recall - Mitch Jeserich
Three Nuns Arrested at Nuclear Missile Silo - Sam Fuqua
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New Sanctions on North Korea (4:09)
The United States imposed new sanctions on the North Korean
government today saying an already punished firm in the country
had continued to violate US law with the sales of missile
parts and technology. The State Department announced that
the Changgwang Sinyong Corporation, which has been found to
be in violation of US arms export control laws on at least
five previous occasions, including earlier this month, would
be subject to additional sanctions. The United States has
consistently imposed economic sanctions on North Korea and
asked China, Japan, and South Korea to further squeeze Pyongyang
into complying with its demands. But, as Ngoc Nguyen and Aaron
Glantz report from Seoul, the sanctions could be fueling the
country’s nuclear ambitions.
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Palestinian PM Meets President Bush (4:00)
In Washington Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas met
with US president George Bush today to negotiate the "roadmap".
This as House Majority leader Tom Delay denounced the creation
of a Palestinian state saying it would be a "state of
terrorists", while Secretary of State Colin Powell remarked
yesterday that a Palestinian state would be quote "difficult"
to achieve by 2005. As these meetings take place in Washington,
Mohammed Ghalayini send this report from Gaza with Palestinian
reaction to the meeting of leaders.
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Global Gag Rule: A Danger to Women’s Health
The last two weeks have been tumultuous for leaders in the
reproductive health field. On July 10th the Senate voted to
rescind the global gag rule, otherwise known as the Mexico
City policy. This policy pulls US AID money to foreign organizations
that provide or educate about abortion services. Yet on the
heels of this victory in the Senate for reproductive rights
advocates, the US House of representatives voted against an
amendment to contribute $50 million to United Nations Population
Fund (UNFPA). In this report by Pauline Bartolone from Costa
Rica, leaders in the global south explain how the Bush administration's
stance on abortion affects women's health worldwide.
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LPFM Victory (3:58)
On the heels of this week’s overwhelming vote by the
House to undo some of the FCC’s pending media ownership
rules which would allow greater consolidation in the media
market, advocates of LPFM--Low Power FM radio -- are saying
“We told you so!” in the wake of the recent release
of the Mitre Report, an independently produced technical study
that shows that LPFM stations will not cause interference
with full power radio signals unless the LPFM stations are
located very close to the full power stations. The Mitre Report
recommends lifting the restrictions that have kept LPFM out
of urban areas. But, as Kellia Ramares reports from Pacifica
station KPFA in Berkeley, it will take more than a technical
report to get LPFM into the cities.
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Congress Recess Approaches (4:07)
As Congress readies itself for the August 1 summer recess,
the senate today was working on the energy bill, which this
time around is not going to include the Arctic wildlife refuge.
However environmentalists and consumer advocates say it's
full of subsidies for big oil and nuclear power, and that
it leaves little for conservation and alternative energy sources.
The White House still opposes moves to make cars more fuel
efficient, and anything that would confirm the existence of
climate change. Meanwhile, the House voted to fund the aids
initiative to the tune of two billion dollars which is a billion
dollars less than the three billion Bush pledged in Africa,
which aids activists had already said was too little. And
today Congress is fighting over whether to expand the Child
Tax Credit to include low-income families who don't pay enough
taxes to offset the credit. On this, his last day as our DC
editor and reporter, we are joined from the Capitol by Josh
Chaffin.
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