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Halliburton Hires Bush Family Lawyer To Conduct Internal Probe Over Nigeria Bribes alliburton hired James Doty of the law firm Baker Botts to conduct an internal investigation into allegedly corrupt payments the company made in Nigeria in the late 1990s when Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO. We speak with Russell Mokhiber of Corporate Crime reporter about how both the lawyer and the law firm have close ties to the Bush family and administration....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:54am PST
20, 000 Civil Servants on Strike in UK (video/x-pn-realvideo 29.4MB) 20, 000 low paid civil servants are on strike in UK. This was an interview with the Public and Commercial Service union (PCS) representative on the picket line outside Manchester Crown Court...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:44am PST
Survival Trumps Marriage for Local Queer Youth Opponents and advocates of gay and lesbian marriage have been mobilizing in the past weeks, following the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling that only marriage, not civil union, would satisfy its initial decision. While all mainstream attention continues to focus on the issue of gay marriage, a recent report issued in Washington, D.C. puts day-to-day survival as the number one priority for youth of color who are transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay, or queer. Darby Hickey of the D.C. Radio Coo...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:44am PST
Rep. Maxine Waters Charges U.S. Is Encouraging A Coup in Haiti Several thousand demonstrators clashed with supporters of Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide this weekend as they marched through the streets of the capital Port-au-Prince. We speak with Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) about what role the U.S. is playing in the current events in the country....
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2004 4:27pm PST
The Ruckus Society rethinks the U.S. anti-globalization movement “Close your eyes,” directs a young workshop facilitator. In the sticky heat of a secluded Florida campground, under a large open-air tent, a group of activists closes their eyes. “Now I want you to picture an anti-corporate globalization activist.” The campers furrow their collective brows. “Okay,” says the facilitator, after a brief pause, “how many saw a white person?”...
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2004 2:36pm PST
More U.S. gay couples marry in Canada TORONTO - Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham spoke of tolerance Saturday as he addressed a crowd celebrating the marriages of several same-sex couples from the United States....
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2004 12:06pm PST
El EZLN recuerda sus fallecidos El EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL marca un día dedicado a sus compañeros fallecidos....
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2004 10:39am PST
Drug War Film Festival Fund Raiser On March 12/2004 in Seattle at the 911media.org location at 8pm a most extraordinary film festival event will take place.911media and the British Columbia Compassion Club Society www.thecompassionclub.org are presenting the Drug War Film Festival, a fund raiser for the society....
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 2:31pm PST
Germ Warfare: Dr Kelly's Last Interview (video/x-pn-realvideo 47.0MB) Germ Warfare: Dr Kelly's Last Interview...
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 2:06pm PST
Call for Global Women's Strike 3/8 8 March 2004 -- Calling all women
5th GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE
Calling all men to join with women to STOP THE WORLD AND CHANGE IT!
INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 12:52pm PST
Religious rightist to head FDA’s Reproductive Committee Dr. Hager is a practicing OB/GYN who describes himself as "pro-life" and refuses to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women...
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 12:24pm PST
2/15 5 pm KQED Arthur Kinoy, Civil Rights Lawyer Arthur Kinoy, the famous civil rights lawyer who died September 19, 2003 at age 82, is the subject of a documentary, "Doing Justice: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy" on KQED-TV, Sunday, 2/15/04 at 5 p.m. His life story is the history of a variety of workingclass struggles....
Posted: Sat, Feb 14, 2004 4:32pm PST
CORRUPT UBC OFFICIALS IN SPOKANE Recent charges against owner of local98.com are illegal and do not follow UBC protocol. Executive Board members of the Pacific Northwest Regional Council turn a blind eye and accept charges....
Posted: Sat, Feb 14, 2004 12:02am PST
Drowned Iraqi 'was forced into river by five US soldiers' Five American soldiers have been accused of driving a 19-year-old Iraqi civilian to his death in the Tigris river in one of the main centres of resistance to the occupation....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 8:09pm PST
Author has lethal solution to Blair's weapon dilemma The pen may be mightier than the sword, but Louis de Bernieres leans toward a gun. If he were Tony Blair, he would shoot himself if claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction prove unfounded, he has announced....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 8:05pm PST
Haiti's militias claim to uphold the law - but now they have become the law Gary Younge in St Marc finds both government and opposition enfeebled...
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 8:02pm PST
March 22, Anniversary of our friend's death Our friend, "Angel" of Basra (real name unknown) passed on March 22, 2003 (as best we know). She will not be forgotten, especially now that we have proof: Bush lied and she died. [Various links and stories attached with some commentary.]...
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 6:27pm PST
White House Admits Bush Lied in 2002 Over Al Qaeda Obtaining U.S. Nuke Plant Plans President Bush claimed in his 2002 State of the Union address that the U.S. discovered in Afghanistan detailed plans of U.S. nuclear plants. The Bush administration was forced to admit this week that the claim was not based on factual evidence after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said there was no evidence any such plans were found in Afghanistan....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 5:35pm PST
Ashcroft Seeks Hospital Abortion Records The Justice Department is demanding that at least six hospitals in New York City, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor and other cities turn over hundreds of patient medical records on certain abortions performed there. We speak with the president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 5:33pm PST
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