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Download MP3 Enron Execs Take the 5th Accused by lawmakers of corporate thievery and dubbed–“economic terrorists”—Enron Former Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, Former Managing Director Michael Kopper, and two Enron Executives Richard Bey and...

Download MP3 ENRON HEARING CANCELLED, LAY WOULDN’T SHOW The chairman of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee today said he would force former Enron chief Kenneth Lay to appear before his panel and called for...

Download MP3 •WEF Protests in NYC (3:38) •Labor and the WEF (3:46) •South Korea; “Yankees go Home” (4:16) •Bush Says Healthcare for Fetuses, Abstinence for Adults (3:18) •NATO Protests in Munich (4:24)

Download MP3   More Damaging Enron Documents Potentially damning revelations for board members of the embattled energy trading giant Enron Thursday. Just released minutes of Enron board meetings suggest that board members knew as...

Download MP3   State of the Union, State of War President George W Bush’s first State of the Union speech has prompted angry reactions from those singled out as “sponsors of terror” – particularly...

Download MP3 Bush Won’t Give Up Enron Documents Bush Administration told newspapers the President won’t touch the Enron issue in his first state of the union speech tonight. Instead he’ll make a plea for...

Download MP3   No Medical Care for Prisoners Held in Afghanistan (4:45) Afghan Premier Hamid Karzai is in Washington meeting with President Bush today and a group called Physicians for Human Rights is urging...

Download MP3 Senate Debates Big Tax Cuts for Big Donors In the wake of the collapse of Enron, the Texas based energy corporation which donated liberally to Republicans and Democrats in recent years. The...

Download MP3   Arthur Anderson Auditor Takes the Fifth On the eve of the first set of Congressional hearings into the collapse of the 7th largest company in America, ENRON’s chief executive Kenneth Lay...

Download MP3 Rumsfeld: “Sunny Guantanamo Bay” Means Humane Treatment for Taliban (3:29) US military officials say they are suspending transfers of prisoners from Afghanistan to the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.  They...