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Today's lead stories:
Worldwide protests against Bechtel & Halliburton (3 parts)
Climate change = Nuclear War?
The Case of Mohammed Warsame
EU Pressure brings New Trial in Turkey
Aboriginal stolen wages rife in Australia
FSRN Headlines
Bush Pushes for Constitutional Amend Banning Gay Marriage
Today, President George W. Bush is formally encouraging Congress
to move forward on a constitutional amendment that would define
marriage in the United States as being between one man and
one woman. Bush said the issuance of marriage licenses to
same gendered couples in San Francisco and the Massachusetts’s
court decision to allow the same in that state are issues
of national priority. Bush claims the existing marriage law
signed by former President Clinton is unable to prevent same
gendered marriage being accepted across the country in the
event one state makes it legal.Representative Marilyn Musgrave
of Colorado introduced such an amendment and there is a similar
one already in the Senate. Legal experts thus far differ on
whether that legal language will allow individual states to
have civil unions.
Aboriginal Teen Mourned in Sydney
Relatives and hundreds of other mourners gathered an outback
New South Wales town to bid farewell to the Aboriginal teenager
whose death sparked last week's riot in the inner Sydney suburb
of Redfern. Elise Potaka reports from Sydney.
US Supreme Court Overturns Death Sentence
The Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a Texas
prisoner in a 7 to 2 ruling. Renee Feltz reports from KPFT
in Houston.
Indian Workers Strike
Indian workers went on strike today thumbing their noses at
recent legislation and court decision. Binu Alex reports from
Ahmedabad.
Political Dissidents Picked Up in Jordan
Activists in Jordan are asking why political dissidents are
being picked up and held in secrecy. Oula Al-Farawati reports
from Amman.
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Part 1: Worldwide protests against Bechtel &
Halliburton
Today people came out around the world to call attention
to the war profiteering of two giant American companies Halliburton
and Bechtel. We begin our coverage in London with reporter
Naomi Fowler.
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Part 2: Worldwide protests against Bechtel &
Halliburton
Meanwhile in NYC activists wanted to expose the location
of the secretive Bechtel corporation. Ian Forest was at the
unmarked office building in Manhattan.
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Part 3: Worldwide protests against Bechtel &
Halliburton
Investigative reports from Iraq have shed light on the work
that is being done to fulfill the multibillion dollar contracts
by Bechtel and Halliburton. Pratap Chaterjee, managing editor
of Corpwatch tells Deepa Fernandes about his investigations.
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Climate change = Nuclear War?
Three directors from different intelligence and investigative
agencies testified at a rare open session of the Senate Intelligence
Committee concerning threats to the United States. CIA Director
George Tenet told the Committee that the victories by Iranian
conservatives in the parliamentary elections is of concern.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said that al-Queda is still intent
on attacking U.S. locations including the White House and
the Capitol. However none of the heads of the Intelligence
agencies mentioned a Pentagon report warning that the greatest
future threat could be climate change. The report, in a worse
case scenario, suggests that in the next 20 years climate
change could cause a violent global battle for the remaining
scarce resources, which could result in a nuclear war. Mitch
Jeserich reports.
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The Case of Mohammed Warsame
A Minneapolis man, Mohammed Warsame, seems to be the latest
victim in the government’s continuing policy of mass
detentions. Warsame was a student and a tutor at the Minneapolis
Community and Technical College when he was arrested December
9th. A Canadian citizen of Somali descent, Warsame had moved
permanently to the United States in 2002 to live with his
American wife and child. In late January he was served with
a one-paragraph indictment, charged with conspiring to provide
material support to al-Qaeda. From Minneapolis, Kristin Lerstrom
and Carey Biron have this story.
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EU Pressure brings New Trial in Turkey
Turkeys most celebrated political prisoner Leyla Zana will
remain behind bars for at least another month. This after
Turkey’s State Security Court opted to continue the
retrial of the jailed Kurdish politician Zana and 3 other
former members of the Turkish Parliament. The Kurdish politicians
have been in jail for almost ten years now, but thanks to
pressure from the European Parliament they are getting a new
trial. FSRN Correspondent Ozlem Sariyldiz files this report
from the courthouse.
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Aboriginal stolen wages rife in Australia
As we reported in the headlines, indigenous peoples across
Australia today mourned for the life of Thomas Hickey who
was killed last week after being chased by police. And after
the funeral concluded, Aboriginal leaders called for their
people’s issues to be put squarely on the national agenda,
one of which is the millions of dollars in wages that was
stolen from Aborigines. Just weeks ago, a leaked cabinet submission
revealed that successive New South Wales governments knowingly
withheld millions of dollars in trust funds from their rightful
indigenous owners. Christine Baker reports from community
radio station 2SER in Sydney.
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