July 29, 2002
Download MP3 Interview with Hans Von Sponeck (3:03) The Senate Foreign Relations committee will hold hearings beginning Wednesday on a potential US war against Iraq. The hearings are being billed as a fact-finding investigation, but...
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July 26, 2002
Download Audio Final Push for Fast Track President Bush heads to the House of Representatives today to make an eleventh hour plea for votes to give him Fast Track trade authority. Bush wants the...
July 25, 2002
Download Audio Social Security Still Slated for Privatization? (3:43) Even after the lowest stock market slump in decades, and while a wave of securities fraud scandals is undermining investor and consumer confidence, the White House...
July 24, 2002
Download MP3 Adelphia Communications Founders Arrested (3:30) Three members of the founding family of troubled cable operator Adelphia Communications Corp. were arrested today as government officials claimed they “looted” the company they created over fifty...
July 23, 2002
Download MP3 Israel Kills Hamas Leader and 14 Others in Missile Attack (3:26) Israel today killed Salah Shehada, the commander of the military wing of Hamas as well as 14 other Palestinians, including eight children,...
July 22, 2002
Download MP3 WorldCom Declares Bankruptcy (4:15) In December, Enron filed for Chapter 11 protection, setting the record for the biggest bankruptcy in US history. Now, as the recent wave of corporate scandals continues, WorldCom filed...
July 19, 2002
Download Audio Interview with Hamas Leader (6:27) This morning Israeli officials announced they are considering deporting relatives of Palestinians believed to have committed terrorist acts. Earlier this week Israeli soldiers arrested sixteen relatives of two...
July 18, 2002
Download MP3 Former Enron Exec Not Thoroughly Investigated? (3:42) President Bush’s Army Secretary and former Enron executive Thomas White defended himself in a Congressional subcommittee today. Among other things, White’s accused of helping Enron steal...
July 17, 2002
Download MP3 Retrial in Louima Torture Case (4:16) After six days of deliberation, a jury in the retrial of the Abner Louima torture case found former New York police officer Charles Schwarz guilty of perjury...
July 16, 2002
Download MP3 Bush Plan for Homeland Security Targets Immigrants (3:05) President George Bush laid out his plan to beef up homeland security today. The objectives of the new plan include preventing domestic terrorist attacks, reducing...
