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Today's Stories:
UN Representative to Iraq Appointed
Harvey Wasserman in Reloading to Fight the Bush Matrix
Iranian American Activist Simin Royanian On The Oil Factor
In Iran
Peace Activist Former Pacifica Board Chair Jack O’Dell
Examines What’s Next for Peace Movement
Christmas Coup Comedy Players
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UN Representative to Iraq Appointed
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan held a press conference
yesterday to announce the appointment of Sergio Vieira de
Mello, the UN’s top human rights official, to serve
as Special Representative in Iraq for a four-month period.
Peacewatch spoke earlier today with our correspondent Aaron
Glantz who recently returned from Baghdad, and we asked him
a bit about de Mello’s background.
Tape: Peacewatch report Aaron Glantz recently returned from
Baghdad, Iraq, currently in Ankara, Turkey
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Harvey Wasserman in Reloading to Fight the Bush Matrix
President-select Bush and the neo-conservatives have come
under criticism from political analysts for the administration‘s
policy of pre-emptive strikes and what has been seen as the
erosion of civil liberties under the so-called patriot act.
Peace activists and celebrities have been ostracized for expressing
opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Today, Harvey Wasserman,
of Columbus Free Press offers this unique critique in a commentary
entitled Reloading to Fight the Bush Matrix.
Tape: Harvey Wasserman is senior editor of the Columbus
Free Press an independent newsletter. Their website is www.freepress.org.
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Iranian American Activist Simin Royanian On The Oil
Factor In Iran
Senior Bush administration officials postponed a meeting
at the White House yesterday morning that was scheduled to
discuss US strategy towards Iran. The meeting-- rescheduled
for tomorrow-- comes in light of recent intelligence information
the administration say suggests Iranian al Qaeda operatives
played a role in the May 12th suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia.
Those attacks killed 11 and injured 200 in Western housing
compounds in the capitol, Riyadh.
Peacewatch spoke earlier today with Simin Royanian, a Kurdish
Iranian economist and co-founder of Women for Peace and Justice
in Iran. We asked her how much oil factors into the equation.
Tape: Simin Royanian is a Kurdish Iranian economist and
a co-founder of the group Women for Peace and Justice in Iran.
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Peace Activist Former Pacifica Board Chair Jack O’Dell
Examines What’s Next for Peace Movement
With the lifting of the sanctions against Iraq, the UN seems
to have legitimized the U.S. led invasion of Iraq. Meanwhile
peace activists are re-grouping and deciding their next steps.
Jack Odell, an American who works for the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, and former Chair of Pacifica Radio National Board,
recently stopped by Peacewatch's studios. He discussed the
media coverage of the war in Iraq, and his vision for the
peace movement.
Tape: Jack Odell, former chair of Pacifica Radio National
Board and long time peace activist.
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Christmas Coup Comedy Players
On a lighter note the Christmas Coup Comedy Players of Pacifica
stations WBAI in New York and KPFT in Houston.
Tape:
Credits
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