Monthly Archive: May 2004

May 28, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines The Bush administration controlled Iraqi Governing Council has named their candidate for Prime Minister — Iyad Allawi. Beginning in 1991, with an order signed by the first President Bush, Allawi and...

May 27, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Pentagon officials announced they are seeking to deny some prisoners in Iraq protection under the Geneva Convention. Adam Sharon reports from D.C. Yesterday, Free Speech Radio News reported that Amnesty International...

May 26, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines DEATH TOLL ON HISPANIOLA CONTINUES TO RISE The death toll on Hispaniola continued to rise today. The Haitian government says more than 200 bodies have been recovered there after deadly floods...

May 25, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines The Israeli military’s stronghold on the refugee camp of Rafah has eased as the last of the tanks pulled out today and the roads were re-opened. People are re-uniting with their...

May 24, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines The U.S Supreme Court ruled today that a lower court must hear a death row inmate’s charge that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. Sogomon Toronsti reports from D.C. A...

May 21, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Israeli Army Says it is Pulling Back from Rafah The Israeli military is partially pulling back from its incursion into Rafah. More from the International Middle East Media Center in Bethlehem....

May 20, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Charges Dropped Against Greenpeace A Miami judge threw out the federal criminal charges against Greenpeace.  In the rare verdict, the U.S. District judge said the government failed to prove their case against...

May 19, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines  (5:13) CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR COURT MARTIALED While courts-martial proceedings were held in Baghdad today in the Abu Graib prisoner abuse scandal – another court-martial began at Fort Stewart, Georgia.  The attorney for the US...

May 18, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines 19 Palestinians are now dead in what some are calling the worst Israeli invasion into the occupied territories since 1967. Dozens of Israeli tanks and hundreds of troops are moving through...