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Today's lead stories:
Abortion Ban: Legal Challenges
Abortion Ban: Protests
Abortion Ban: Fallout in Texas
Independent investigation into White House pre-war intelligence?
Global Power Exposed: Part 9: Indonesian Military
A New HIV Threat in Uganda
Who controls Internet Content?
Free Speech Radio News Headlines by Randi
Zimmerman
Bush on Middle East Governance
Today President Bush subtlety threatened Middle Eastern states
that refused to adopt US-style governments. He said that poverty
and lack of women’s rights in those nations is a result
of failed economic and political policies.
LA Times Says No Resistance Fighters in Iraq
The Los Angeles Times assistant managing editor sent out a
memo instructing the staff to stop using the words “resistance
fighters” when writing about the people who are fighting
against the U.S. military occupation of Iraq. In an interview
with Reuters news service, the editor said while it may be
an accurate description, it also evoked a certain romanticism
or heroism to resistance similar to those who fought the Nazis
during World War II.
Security Issues in Iraq -- Ahmed Al-arawi
Ahmed Al-arawi reports on the situation in Iraq from Baghdad.
US to Pay More for Iraqi Police Than in US -- Oula Farawati
Contractors, paid by U.S. taxpayers to rebuild Iraq, will
pay more for police personnel set to be trained in Jordan
than the highest salaries for equivalent work in the United
States. Oula Farawati reports from Amman.
EU Set to Impose Sanctions on Bush Tariffs -- Patrick Beckett
European officials say they will selectively punish a wide
range of US companies for tariffs imposed by the free market
minded Bush administration on foreign steel imports. Patrick
Beckett has more.
Radio for Peace International Silenced
The cord was cut and Radio For Peace International went silent.
In a property dispute with the University for Peace in Costa
Rica, an organization partially run by the United Nations,
the electricity was cut from the building prohibiting any
more broadcasts. Going out over the shortwave to over 120
countries around the world, Radio For Peace International
aired programming that championed human rights and social
justice issues, like Free Speech Radio News, Making Contact,
Democracy Now, and locally produced shows. James Latham who
has been with the station for 16 years was moving equipment
from the radio station building to a newly donated site. James
Latham expects to be back on the air after about 6 months.
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Abortion Ban: Legal Challenges (0:45)
Less than an hour after President Bush signed the federal
anti-abortion law yesterday, four doctors won a temporary
restraining order from a federal judge to block it. The order
by U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf in Lincoln, Nebraska,
applies only to the four doctors, who together are licensed
in 13 states across the Midwest and East, and their staffs.
Federal judges in New York and San Francisco also scheduled
arguments in similar challenges by Planned Parenthood, the
Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties
Union. Ama Buadi has more from NYC.
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Abortion Ban: Protests (1:00)
Protests to the new legislation banning a very safe form
of abortion occurred in big cities and small towns across
the country over the past 24 hours. In Nanuet, NY, protestors
stood along route 59 with placards denouncing the attack on
women's rights, while students at the University of Washington
in Seattle gathered on a bridge to show their outrage. Meanwhile
in Washington DC, outside the Ronald Regan building where
President Bush yesterday signed the bill into law, both pro
and anti abortion activists gathered. Yet as Selina Masuta
reports, those who were representing women's reproductive
rights were forced to disperse.
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Abortion Ban: Fallout in Texas (1:30)
Meanwhile, a Texas firm, a subsidiary of Halliburton, announced
it is withdrawing from a project to construct a new family
planning and preventative health care facility in a college
town in Austin known as the Berkeley of Texas. From KPFT Renee
Feltz reports.
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Independent investigation into White House pre-war
intelligence? (3:39)
Today President George Bush signed the 87 billion dollar
supplemental request for Iraq and Afghanistan, most of which
goes to the continuing occupation of Iraq. Meanwhile controversy
continues to brew at the U.S.Congress over the investigation
of pre-invasion intelligence on Iraq. Republican Senators
accuse Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee of trying
to damage President Bush's credibility for his re-election
campaign next year. Republican Senators uncovered a memo from
a Democratic committee staff member that states the Democrats
should launch their own investigation into the White House
when they can no longer collaborate with the Republicans.
However Democrats on the committee say the memo only highlights
their frustration of the committee's refusal to look at the
how the White House represented intelligence in justifying
the invasion of Iraq. And, as Mitch Jeserich reports from
Capitol Hill, some lawmakers are calling for the formation
of an independent commission to take over the investigations.
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Global Power Exposed: Part 9: Indonesian Military
(3:58)
The Indonesian military announced today it will continue
its State of Emergency rule in Aceh for at least another six
months. The news comes at the same time as reports emerge
that the Indonesian army has killed 10 people in West Papua.
In another province, the Spice Islands of Maluku, the population
is just starting to recover from riots that resulted in the
deaths of thousands. As we continue our Global Power series,
we look at the role the Indonesian military played in those
riots and the way the America government supported it. From
Maluku, Indonesia Aaron Glantz reports
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A New HIV Threat in Uganda (3:59)
The government of Uganda has announced a new plan to stop
what it says is the growing threat of people maliciously infecting
others with the HIV virus. While Uganda has struggled for
many years with a lack of anti-retrieval drugs to treat AIDS
patients, the falling prices of drugs due to the availability
of generic versions has allowed countries like Uganda to begin
to treat the epidemic, yet the Ugandan government now fears
infection rates will soar again, as either through ignorance
or malice, people begin to infect others. Joshua Kyalimpa
reports.
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Who controls Internet Content? (3:29)
The state of Massachusetts this week told a US appeals court
that the Justice Department's landmark antitrust settlement
with Microsoft was an "ineffective" remedy for preventing
anti-competitive behavior by the software giant. Massachusetts
is arguing that Microsoft should be forced to take action
to reduce its market dominance in Internet browsers. Meanwhile,
cable Internet services have won the race into American consumers’
homes, beating out D.S.L. and wireless connections. So when
the FCC voted last year to define broadband Internet as an
‘information service’ rather than a ‘telecommunications
service,’ it freed cable Internet of most regulation.
Critics, including dissenting FCC commissioner Michael Copps,
say this has put the Internet as we know it in danger; opening
the door for Comcast and other corporations that sell broadband
to control content. Leigh Robartes has more.
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