Home > Programs
> FSRN
> Wed., June 9, 2004
FSRN
FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS
Thanks to FSRN.org
for making the daily programs available to Pacifica.org
Today's lead stories:
White House Judicial Nominee Oversaw DOJ Memo on Torture
Iraqi Police And US Forces
G8 Summit Update
Street Children in the Congo
Report Says Power Plant Pollution Kills
FSRN Headlines
White House Judicial Nominee Oversaw DOJ Memo on
Torture
The Wall St. Journal reported on Monday that the Pentagon's
top civilian lawyer, William Haynes, is the person in charge
of a team of lawyers that created a memo suggesting that President
Bush did not have to abide by international and domestic anti-torture
laws when security is at risk. William Haynes is also President
Bush's judicial nominee for the 4th Circuit court of appeals
in Virginia, which commonly hears anti terrorism cases. And
Mitch Jeserich reports that U.S. lawyers representing abused
Iraqi detainees filed lawsuits today against private contractors
that allegedly provided interrogative services at Iraqi prisons.
[top]
Iraqi Police And US Forces
President Bush today called on NATO allies to help with
security in Iraq even though Germany and France have refused
to send troops to the region. Interim Prime Minister Iyad
Allawi said Iraq will need foreign troops to fight guerrillas
even after the U.S.-led occupation formally ends on June 30.
Kurdish security forces, which are not overseen by the U-S-led
occupation authority, have managed to keep peace in the three
governorates they control. But as Dave Enders and Salam Talib
report from Baghdad -- Iraqi police say US forces have complicated
their efforts.
[top]
G8 Summit Update
Today marks the first day of formal talks between leaders
of the World’s most powerful nations on Sea Island,
Georgia for the G8. Pushing other important environmental
and health issues aside, George Bush is using the occasion
as an opportunity to push forward his own agenda dubbed the
Broader Middle East initiative, focusing on so-called stability
and progress in the region. Meanwhile, activists have been
converging all week in the town of Brunswick. FSRN Correspondent
Aura Bogado is on Sea Island and in Brunswick, and files this
report.
[top]
Street Children in the Congo
The eastern Congo city of Bukavu is under control of the
government today after the last dissident forces fled during
the night. More than 2000 refugees fled to Rwanda after fighting
broke out late last month – and relief organizations
have scaled back their work in the region. There has been
anxiety among regional observers and aid agencies that the
rebels' weeklong takeover of the strategic city could mark
the unraveling of the central African country's peace process.
The transitional government under President Joseph Kabila
took power last June, after a five-year war that left dead
an estimated 3.3 million people, many of them through disease
and famine. Many in the DRC still live in abject poverty.
Rupert Cook reports that with the breakdown of infrastructure
and the massive social displacement caused by the conflict,
the number of street-children has risen dramatically.
[top]
Report Says Power Plant Pollution Kills
Pollution from power plants caused more deaths in America
than either drunk driving or homicide. That's according to
a first-of-its-kind report released by a national education
campaign for clean air. The largest power plants in the country
operate in and around Houston Texas. Erika McDonald takes
us there for this report.
[top]
|
Listen
to the show 
Help
stream
download
