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Today's lead stories:
Latest from Fallujah
Bush’s Environmental Record Under Fire
Five Brits still in Guantanamo
Update on DC Stadium
Mumia Commentary: Is Fascism Possible Here?
FSRN Headlines
The Palestinian Foreign Minister said Yasser Arafat was in
critical condition but his brain, heart and lungs are still
functioning, dispelling some reports that Arafat has died.
Nabil Shaath went to the Paris hospital with other members
of the Palestinian leadership to get first hand information
about Arafat’s health.
Colombia’s right leaning President Uribe wants to change
the national constitution so he can run for office again while
making a pipeline deal with Venezuela’s leftist president.
Nicole Karsin reports from Bogotá.
Nicaragua’s Sandanistas won numerous local elections
this week. Nan McCurdy has more from Managua.
Pentagon officials have approved a massive new contract for
military contractor Lockheed Martin to build fighter jets
designed to take on Soviet era planes. Mat Matthew Swope reports
from D.C.
A lawyer accused by the federal government of aiding terrorism
by helping her client was questioned about statements she
made about violence in 1995. Rebecca Myles reports from WBAI
in New York.
Halliburton disclosed in financial filings that they might
have indeed bribed Nigerian officials. Erika McDonald reports
from KPFT in Houston.
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Latest from Fallujah
Today US troops shot and bombed their way into the center
of Fallujah, going door to door as frightened residents took
shelter where they could. 16 Americans have been killed in
the last two days of the US attack on Fallujah, with no count
on the number of Iraqis dead. Meanwhile U.S. forces have cut
off electricity to Fallujah and residents say they are without
running water and worried about food shortages because most
shops in the city have been closed for the past two days.
The Iraqi resistance has been carrying out retaliatory attacks
across Iraq. Meanwhile in Baghdad, the city is feeling the
effects of Sunday’s implementation of a state of emergency
which gives the US-backed government extraordinary security
powers. Deepa Fernandes speaks with independent journalist
Dahr Jamail in Baghdad.
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Bush’s Environmental Record Under Fire
The Arctic Council and the International Arctic Science
Committee released a four year assessment that shows about
8% of arctic sea ice has melted away in the last 30 year:
roughly the size of Texas and Arizona combined. In the last
50 years the average temperature in Alaska and Siberia rose
5% and winters in Canada and Alaska are about 5 to 7 percent
warmer. Scientists warn the continual warming of the arctic
endangers the existence of polar bears and seals, and threatens
the way of life for millions of indigenous inhabitants. Last
year the Bush administration and the GOP Congressional leadership
rejected a bi-partisan measure to curb the emissions of green
house gasses that contribute to global warming. DC Correspondent
Mitch Jeserich looks at the Bush administration’s environmental
plan and how environmentalists plan to counter act it.
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Five Brits still in Guantanamo
The Bush administration has announced it will seek a stay
on a decision by a federal judge yesterday that President
Bush had both overstepped his constitutional bounds and improperly
brushed aside the Geneva Conventions in establishing military
commissions to try detainees at the United States naval base
here as war criminals. The ruling by Judge James Robertson
of United States District Court in Washington threw into doubt
the future of the first set of United States military trials
currently underway. This comes as the controversy grows in
Britain about the five British residents still detained in
Guantanamo. As Naomi Fowler reports from London, there’s
been relative silence from both the British media and political
establishment about the detainees until a special meeting
in Parliament was called to mark two years of captivity for
two of those men.
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Update on DC Stadium
From Arlington, Texas to Memphis, Tennessee, every year
Major League sports seems to wrangle more cities to bear the
brunt of financing the building of new stadiums. Washington,
DC is no exception. In the last two months, DC residents have
been fighting to stop the Mayor's negotiated deal with Major
League Baseball to publicly finance a new baseball stadium
along the Anacostia River. From DC, Selina Musuta tells you
why.
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Mumia Commentary: Is Fascism Possible Here?
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