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Category: 2002

June 03, 2002

Download MP3 Bush: New Plutonium Triggers Needed (3:16) As the US media continue to focus on the possibility of nuclear war in the South Asia region, the Bush Administration is hurtling along in solidifying...

May 31, 2002

Download MP3 Rumsfeld, US Arms to India, Pakistan The White House is sending high-level officials–including defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld to south Asia to help avert a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. The Pentagon...

May 30, 2002

Download MP3 Is the FBI in Your Bread Box? The FBI will soon be able to monitor internet websites, and enter places of worship and public libraries…without having to first present evidence of criminal...

May 29, 2002

Download MP3 Texas Executes Napoleon Beazley Napoleon Beazley, an African American man convicted by an all white jury for killing a white man in an attempted car-jacking, was executed Tuesday night by the state...

May 28, 2002

Download MP3 More Short-Range Missile Tests in Pakistan                                                                                                   Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arrived in Islamabad today for talks on the tension that has pushed India and Pakistan to the brink of war. With...

May 24, 2002

Download MP3 Arms Treaty for U.S. and Russia President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed what they’re calling a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty in a gilded Kremlin today. The two leaders proclaimed...

May 22, 2002

Download MP3 Former Klansman Guilty in Church Bombing A mostly white jury found 71 year-old Robert Frank Cherry guilty of murdering four black girls in connection with the bombing the Six Street Baptist Church...

May 20, 2002

Download MP3 East Timor: First Days of Independence (4:57) After 400 hundred years of colonization and brutal occupation, yesterday the people’s dream for a democratic republic of East Timor became a reality. Today, East...

May 17, 2002

Download MP3 East Timor: Days to Independence Sunday is the day East Timor will be handed the baton of independence by Kofi Annan. Bill Clinton, Richard Hollbrook, and Australian Prime Minister John Howard are...