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Today's lead stories:
Law-Makers Request Bush Answer Questions over Internal Document
on Iraq
President Bush Visits Georgia
Democrats Threaten to Shut Down the Senate
Drastic Cuts to the Section 8 Voucher Program
Mumia Abul Jamal Commentary: Harder and Harder to Recruit
FSRN Headlines
All Women Paramilitaries, All Women Protests in Nigeria
The Nigerian government will create an all-women paramilitary
group to confront the mostly all-women protests against oil
companies in the Niger Delta. Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos.
Venezuelan President to Oil Companies: PAY YOUR TAXES
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is giving oil companies a
warning – pay your taxes or leave the country. Greg
Wilpert reports from Caracas.
Neo-Nazi March in Germany
Germans celebrated the end of fascism this weekend while Neo-Nazis,
gaining political power in the country, called the end of
World War II “surrender.” Cinnamon Nippard reports
from Berlin.
Mothers of Unsolved Murders
On Mother’s Day yesterday, some D.C. moms marked the
day with grief as “Mothers of Unsolved Murders.”
From WPFW in D.C. Ryme Katkhouda has more.
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Law-Makers Request Bush Answer Questions over Internal
Document on Iraq (4:10)
Over 300 Iraqis have been killed since April 28, when the
Iraqi interim government first announcement it had filled
key cabinet posts. This past weekend, the total number of
deaths of US troops in Iraq had surpassed 1,600. More than
2,000 Iraqi troops and police who work with the US have been
killed, and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians have been
killed since the invasion of Iraq began. 88 US law-makers
have signed onto a letter calling on President Bush to answer
questions about an internal British documents that suggests
a pre-war deal was made with British Prime Minister Tony Blair
even before the governments publicly announced their intentions
to invade Iraq. Mitch Jeserich reports from Washington.
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President Bush Visits Georgia (4:28)
President Bush spent the day in Russia yesterday with President
Vladimir Putin and other world leaders to commemorate the
60th anniversary of the end of World War II. In what's become
a tense relationship between the two Presidents, Bush publicly
advised Putin to embrace a democratic society for Russia-
while Putin responded that Russia may, in fact be more democratic
than the United States, citing that the US Supreme Court decided
Bush's first election. Bush's next stop is in former Soviet-block
Georgia, where the November 2003 Rose Revolution placed 36-year
old Mikheil Saakashvili in power. Joining us to talk about
Bush's visit is Boris Kagarlitsky, Director of the Institute
of Globalization Studies in Moscow.
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Democrats Threaten to Shut Down the Senate
(4:01)
Senate Democrats continue to threaten Senate Republicans
that they will shut down the Senate if Republicans vote yes
on the "nuclear option", a measure that would end
the filibustering of judicial nominees. Selina Musuta of the
DC Radio Co-op has more from Capitol Hill.
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Drastic Cuts to the Section 8 Voucher Program
(3:40)
The federal department of housing and urban development
is drastically reducing it's support for the section 8 voucher
program that helps low income people pay their rents. This
comes as the bush administration is proposing further cuts
to the federal housing department budget. The effects of the
cuts are being felt by housing authorities and poor tenants
around the country. Eric Klein has more from San Francisco.
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Mumia Abul Jamal Commentary: Harder and Harder to
Recruit (3:59)
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