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Today's lead stories:
Democratic Convention the Most Expensive in History –
Who Pays?
No Critique at the DNC
Medicare Cuts
EPA Can’t Determine Risk From Toxics
60th Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising
FSRN Headlines
Afghanistan Loses International Aid
The international aid group, Doctors Without Borders, has
announced it will pull its staff out of Afghanistan because
of continued violence against aid workers there. Leigh Ann
Caldwell has the story from WBAI in New York City.
Half-a-Billion Dollar Navy Deal
The U.S. Navy has signed a 500 million-dollar contract with
a subsidiary of Halliburton, the energy and oil giant formerly
run by vice president Dick Cheney. Selina Musuta reports from
Washington, DC.
Ashcroft Acuses Muslim Group of Money Laundering
Attorney General John Ashcroft has indicted Seven members
of a Dallas-based Muslim charity for funneling money to the
militant Palestinian group Hamas. From KPFT in Houston, Renee
Feltz has more
White African Farmers Will Recoop Land
Roughly 200 of the white farmers who lost their land in Zimbabwe
under a controversial redistribution program have reached
a deal that will secure them new land in Nigeria. Sam Olukoya
reports from Lagos.
Corruption in Guatemala
A Guatemalan judge has decided to send the country's former
vice president to jail while prosecutors prepare corruption
charges against him. Catherine Elton has this report from
Guatemala City.
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Democratic Convention the Most Expensive in History
– Who Pays?
The Democratic National Convention this week in Boston is
a lavish event – in fact, it’s the most expensive
political party convention ever. FSRN sat down in Boston with
Pratap Chatterjee -- the Managing Editor and Program Director
for Corpwatch -- to discuss how changes to campaign finance
law affect the flow of money from major donors to candidates
and political parties – and ultimately foot the bill
for this tremendously expensive convention.
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No Critique at the DNC
The Reverend Jesse Jackson has come under fire from Democratic
Massachusetts lawmakers for commenting that Boston has yet
to live up to its promise of racial justice and equal opportunity
for minorities. As Senator John Kerry made his way to Boston
today, the city and the Democratic Party have been busy quashing
any critical analysis of its platform, its convention and
its Presidential candidate. Mitch Jeserich has the story.
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Medicare Cuts
Payment cuts for cancer drugs and new comprehensive medical
exams for Medicare beneficiaries are among changes to Medicare
announced by the Bush Administration on Tuesday. Jenny Johnson
report from Washington D.C.
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EPA Can’t Determine Risk From Toxics
A lapse in federal taxes on polluters has virtually bankrupted
the Superfund, a government program designed to clean up toxic
sites around the nation. Environmental Protection Agency data
compiled by the Sierra Club shows the EPA is unable to control
or even assess the exposure from toxic contaminants at 20
percent of the nation's most polluted sites. From KPFT in
Houston, Erika McDonald reports.
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60th Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising
Poland's former foreign minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
lashed out in an interview for "Welt am Sonntag"
at plans by German conservatives from the German Association
of Expellees to laud the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising on August 1st. The Association, which is an organization
of German refugees from former German territories in Poland
wanted to mark the occasion with a special ceremony held in
one of Berlin’s churches under the slogan “Empathy:
the Road to Co-existence.” According to Bartoszewski
it was a provocation and manipulation of the Association headed
by Erika Steinbach who in Poland is often called the biggest
obstacle to Polish-German relations. This is not the first
idea of hers that evoked such sharp reactions in Poland. Another
is a project of establishing the so-called Centre Against
Expulsions in Berlin which would document ethnic expulsion
during and after WW II. Danuta Szfraniecz reports from Warsaw.
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