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Today's lead stories:
US Bombings of Sadr City Continue
Last week of 108th Congress
Crack Down on Aristide Supporters in Haiti
Anti-War Protest in DC
Nuke Policy: Sweetheart Deal for Industry?
FSRN Election Special: Part 1: Global Peak Oil Production
FSRN Headlines
The fighting is raging on in the occupied Gaza strip where
today 8 more Palestinians were killed during this fifth day
of the most recent incursion by the Israeli military.
Representatives of the armed group that threatened to shut
down oil installations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region
say they will take up arms again if the government fails to
reach the terms of a cease-fire signed last week. The Nigerian
government hurriedly signed a cease-fire with the group known
as the Niger Delta Volunteer Force after coming under international
pressure to do so. International oil prices went up after
the group threatened to shut down oil installations in the
Niger Delta. Oil prices have since gone down following the
cease-fire. But Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, leader of the group
told a rally in Port Harcourt that they will take to arms
again if President Olusegun Obasanjo does not grant the people
of the Niger Delta a greater share of the oil wealth from
the region.
In the meantime, peace is yet to fully return to the region.
In the Bille community, some lives were lost over the weekend.
For Free Speech Radio News, this is Sam Olukoya in Port Harcourt.
Abused prisoners settled their lawsuit with officials in
upstate New York for a cash award of 80-thousand dollars.
The three lawyers in the case will gain more than 4-times
that amount. Catherine Komp has the story.
An internal report from the US Environmental Protection Agency
finds Bush Administration changes to federal air pollution
laws will jeopardize dozens of EPA law suits against the nation’s
dirtiest power plants. From KPFT, Renee Feltz reports.
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US Bombings of Sadr City Continue
Two car bombs have killed at least 16 people and injured
dozens more in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The first bomb
went off outside an army recruitment center near an entrance
to the high-security Green Zone in the center of the city.
The second exploded as a US military convoy was passing along
a main road in Baghdad. In other developments today, US warplanes
carried out pre-dawn raids on the rebel-held city of Fallujah,
killing at least nine people. The Iraqi police said that a
car bomb exploded near a primary school in the northern city
of Mosul killing at least three people. Back in Baghdad, the
director of Iraq's science ministry, Thamer Abdellatif, was
shot dead on his way to work, along with a female colleague.
Meanwhile, with Deepa Fernandes in NY, FSRN’s correspondent
in Baghdad, Salam Talib reports from Sadr City that the US
has begun using new weapons and hitting mostly civilian targets.
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Last week of 108th Congress
Today begins the final scheduled week of the 108th Congress,
in which the Senate and House will attempt to rush two very
different 9/11 bills through each chamber. Congress will also
attempt in this final week to pass a corporate tax bill, which
was meant to end large WTO tariffs against US companies, but
critics say instead it creates unneeded tax breaks for corporations
while hurting charities. Mitch Jeserich bring us this Congressional
roundup as it begins its final week of session.
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Crack Down on Aristide Supporters in Haiti
As the death toll in Haiti from Hurricane Jeanne passed
2000, over the weekend in the capital Port-au-Prince police
cracked down on protestors demanding the return of ousted
president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Supporters of the former
president were arrested and up to 12 are reported killed during
the protests. Last Thursday, Aristide's Lavalas party began
three days of commemoration of the 1991 coup that toppled
Aristide's first government. FSRN Host Deepa Fernandes speaks
with Haiti Progress Editor, Kim Ives.
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Anti-War Protest in DC
With both Presidential Candidates committing themselves
to continuing the war in Iraq last week, veterans, the families
of dead soldiers and protesters gathered in Washington to
demand that the troops be brought home - immediately. They
brought more than a thousand coffins with them. Tom Allan
reports
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Nuke Policy: Sweetheart Deal for Industry?
Consumer advocates and government watchdog groups say a
sweetheart deal for the nuclear industry may comprise security
efforts at reactors across the nation. Groups last week blasted
the US government's plan for nuclear plant security implemented
late last month, charging the plan does more to save the nuclear
industry money than it does to make nuclear plants less vulnerable
to possible attacks. Erika McDonald has more
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FSRN Election Special: Part 1: Global Peak Oil Production
Oil futures have reached 50 dollars a barrel as speculators
have become concerned about the continuity of supply. Thus
far, most fears have been about disruptions caused by politics
or weather. But flying largely under the radar is the structural
issue of global peak of production. After peak has been achieved,
world oil production will plateau and then start to decline
permanently. Depletion will deal a major blow, some say a
death blow, to oil-based industrial economies. Prominent peak
oil theorists, Drs. Colin Campbell and Ali Samsam Bakhtiari
say the world will reach the peak of oil production sometime
during the next U.S. presidential term. But, as Kellia Ramares
reports, as FSRN kicks of our daily special election coverage
countdown where we will look at under covered issues and constituencies
each day until the election, neither the Democrats nor the
Republicans have made oil depletion an issue in the 2004 campaign.
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