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Download MP3 Palestinians React to Bush Speech  (4:47) Israeli soldiers stormed the Palestinian headquarters in the city of Hebron early this morning, occupying the seventh of eight main West Bank centers. Four Palestinian policemen were...

Download MP3 President Bush Addresses the Nation (0:55) Earlier today, President Bush addressed the nation. He laid out his peace plan for two separate states to bring peace to the Middle East. Notably Bush...

Download MP3 Colombian President-Elect Visits Washington (3:00) Colombia’s president-elect Alvaro Uribe was in the US this week asking Washington for help fighting the drug trade. Uribe was elected in May with a hard-line mandate...

Download MP3 Supreme Court: Executing Mentally Retarded is Unconstitutional (3:23) A divided Supreme Court reversed course today and ruled that executing mentally retarded people is unconstitutionally cruel, giving scores of inmates on death row...

Download MP3 A Reparations Bill Before the New York City Council “Forty acres and a mule” was the unkept promise made to African Americans during the Reconstruction Period, following the Civil War. More than...

Download MP3 Sharon Responds to Suicide Bombing with Call for Repression  (4:10) A Palestinian Human Rights Attorney, Shawqi Issa was arrested yesterday by Israel. Issa is the executive director of a Palestinian human rights group...

Download MP3 Bush to CIA: Oust Hussein (3:42) The Washington Post reported yesterday that earlier this year, President Bush signed an intelligence order directing the CIA to conduct covert operations to topple Iraqi President...

Download MP3 G8 Meeting in Alberta  (3:43) For the last two days, foreign ministers from the G8–the group of 8 most-industrialized nations–met in Whistler, British Columbia to prepare for the G8 summit in Alberta. Their...

Download MP3 Karzai Declared President Hamid Karzai, the U.S.-backed leader of the interim Afghan administration, can now call himself the victor of Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga. Karzai won the presidency after all his serious challengers...

Download MP3 Earth First! Wins FBI Suit  (3:40) The verdicts are in and they add up to four-point-four million dollars for plaintiffs Darryl Cherney and Judi Bari in their lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland...