Monthly Archive: May 2003

May 16, 2003

Download MP3 Tax Cuts Pass Senate  (4:03) President George W Bush announced his 2004 reelection bid today.  The campaign will focus on  Republican plans to boost the economy, namely the president’s proposed multi-hundred-billion dollar tax-cut plan. With...

May 15, 2003

Download MP3 Lawsuit Against Gen. Tommy Franks Relatives of victims of the war on Iraq are poised to file a lawsuit alleging war crimes against commander of the US coalition forces in Iraq, General...

May 14, 2003

Download MP3 Congress On Defense Budget  (3:34) US officials insist there’s no humanitarian crisis in Iraq. Independent aid groups beg to differ, citing a UN report that warns More than 300,000 Iraqi children are facing...

May 13, 2003

Download MP3 Powell In The Middle East  (2:46) At least 10 Americans were killed today in a series of explosions that rocked the Saudi capital Riyadh in the worst deadly suicide attack against US citizens...

May 12, 2003

Download MP3 New Class Of Nukes: Congress Debate  (3:30) Congressional debate continues this week over the President’s package of tax cuts. Bush is calling on congress to change the rules for judicial nominees, as the...

May 09, 2003

Download MP3 Wiretaps and Tax Cuts in DC (3:49) Some in Washington call it a compromise.  The Senate has rejected attempts to make permanent the Patriot Act’s limits on civil liberties.  But the Senate did pass...

May 08, 2003

Download MP3 Justice in Iraq – American Style.  3:44 American authorities announced today arrested officials of Saddam Hussein’s regime will be tried inside Iraq under a new Iraqi justice system set up by the Americans....

May 07, 2003

Download MP3 Halliburton’s Iraqi Jackpot!  (4:19) The Halliburton company is back in the news, as the US Army Corps of Engineers reveals the vice president’s so-called former employer has been given a contract to run...

May 06, 2003

Download MP3 Garner Announces Iraqi Government The EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Poul Nielson, is in Iraq today. He is the first top level EU official to visit since the US occupation...

May 05, 2003

Download MP3 National Security Or Big Business? National media focused this weekend on what they saw as a battle between the State Department and the Pentagon over the fate of the more than 600...