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Today's lead stories:
Mass Funeral for Assassinated Hamas Leader
Bush Set to Circumvent Nominations Process
Bush Tours the Northwest: Seattle
Bush Tours the Northwest: Portland
Dumping Nuclear Waste in South Korea
Bring Them Home!
40 Years Since MLK Dreamed
FSRN Headlines Produced by Randi Zimmerman
UN Officials Suspect the Bombing was an Inside Job
Indian Government to charge US CEO for Environmental Disaster
- Vinod K. Jose
Argentina Takes Another Step to Abolish the Nation's Amnesty
Laws
Gun Sale Settlement in California - Christopher Martinez
Tampa Will No Longer use Facial Recognition Software - Mitch
Perry
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Mass Funeral for Assassinated Hamas Leader
(4:32)
One hundred thousand people poured out on to the streets
of Gaza city today to mourn the assassination of Hamas leader
Ismail Abu Shanab. Mohammed Ghalayini reports from the streets
of the funeral in Gaza City.
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Bush Set to Circumvent Nominations Process
(3:30)
Today, President Bush is set to circumvent the Congressional
nomination process by making a recess appointment of Mid East
Scholar Daniel Pipes to the Institute of Peace, a federally
funded think tank for international peaceful conflict resolution.
Earlier Senate Democrats rejected the appointment after Islamic
and civil rights groups touted Pipes as a racist. They say
Pipes’ support of racial profiling of Arabs as possible
terrorists makes him unfit for the Institute. But under the
law, Bush could make the appointment without
Senate confirmation because Congress is at recess and won’t
return to the Capitol until September; this will allow Pipes
to serve for the next 18 months. Mitch Jeserich reports from
Washington D.C.
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Bush Tours the Northwest: Seattle (1:12)
The current leg of President Bush’s reelection fundraising
tour brings him to the Northwestern United States, where he
is also making stops to promote his healthy forests initiative.
We begin our coverage of the President’s tour with Martha
Baskin in Seattle.
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Bush Tours the Northwest: Portland (2:47)
Meanwhile, in Portland, Oregon, Bush’s motorcade drove
to a fundraiser, past fences which had been erected to keep
back the over 2000 protestors gathered to let the president
know that the American public does not approve of his agenda.
Andrew Stelzer reports from Portland.
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Dumping Nuclear Waste in South Korea (4:28)
A senior State Department official told reporters today
the Bush Administration is not willing to offer incentives
or inducements for North Korea to end its nuclear program
as part of six way peace talks in Beijing next week. Peace
activists though, have long criticized the United States for
failing to live up its commitments to help North Korea develop
nuclear power that was part of a settlement brokered by Jimmy
Carter in 1994. Meanwhile, in South Korea, Ngoc Nguyen and
Aaron Glantz report that a community is in uproar over that
country's plans for its nuclear waste.
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Bring Them Home! (3:52)
Months after President Bush’s May declaration of the
end to “major combat in Iraq,” at least two more
US servicemen were killed in the last 24 hours bringing the
US military death toll since May to 65 with a total of 196
troops killed since the US launched its attack against Iraq
in March – this according to Reuters. And as troops
continue to die in what military analysts predict will be
a long and drawn out guerilla war, family members of US troops
are increasingly vocal about bringing their loved ones back
home. In solidarity with these efforts, former Congresswoman
Cynthia McKinney spoke earlier this week at the House of the
Lord Church in Brooklyn, New York along with family members
of US service men and women, labor leaders and progressive
politicians to call for an end to the US occupation of Iraq.
From Pacifica Station, WBAI in New York, Jackson Allers reports.
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40 Years Since MLK Dreamed (1:34)
This weekend celebrations begin to mark forty years from
the historic March on Washington in 1963. Tomorrow thousands
will converge on the Capitol in a mass demonstration. The
Reverend James Lawson, a long time associate of Dr Martin
Luther King Jrn, says the dreams Dr King told the world he
had 40 years ago are far from realized today.
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