June 28, 2002
Download MP3 G8 & African AIDS Drugs The Group of Eight concluded its two-day summit by endorsing the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, or NEPAD, offering billions of dollars in aid to nations...
Monthly Archive: June 2002
June 27, 2002
Download MP3 Voucher Victory (2:21) The United States Supreme Court handed fans of school vouchers a major victory today. The Court held that public money can be used toward tuition at religious schools. Advocates...
June 26, 2002
Download MP3 WorldCom Faces Enron-like Scandal (3:12) Yet another corporate accounting scandal involving the Arthur Anderson Firm has seventeen thousand American workers looking for new jobs. And world financial markets are reeling. Communications giant WorldCom...
June 25, 2002
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...
June 24, 2002
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...
June 21, 2002
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...
June 20, 2002
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...
June 19, 2002
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...
June 18, 2002
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...
June 17, 2002
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...
