Category: 2004

August 24, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines The Israeli attorney general recommends that his government should finally refer to operations in the Palestinian territories as an occupation and fall in line with international law. Laila El-Haddad has more...

August 23, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Great Lawn Off Limits for RNC Activists have lost another battle with the courts to peacefully demonstrate in New York City during the Republican National Convention. The groups, the ANSWER coalition...

August 20, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines As many as 300-thousand people many undocumented immigrants, are expected to have their driver’s licenses suspended in New York State. Leigh Ann Caldwell has the story from WBAI in New York....

August 19, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines The Iranian Defense Minister said his nation would consider a pre-emptive strike to protect their nuclear facilities. Talking in Farsi through an Arabic translator with Al-Jazeera, Minister Ali Shamkhani said some...

August 18, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr signaled today that he would dissolve his Mehdi militia and agreed to leave the sacred Imam Ali shrine in Najaf. In a letter delivered to delegates at...

August 17, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Calling the policy a backdoor draft, lawyers for an unnamed California Army Reservist is suing the government’s so called “stop loss” plan. The decorated combat veteran referred to as “John Doe”...

August 16, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Around 15-hundred Palestinian political prisoners started an open-ended hunger strike in four Israeli jails yesterday. The prisoners say they are subject to unnecessary strip searches, want more access to family visits...

August 13, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines This morning, the US military suspended its offensive against forces loyal to Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr in the city of Najaf. The move brought a temporary halt to fighting that has...

August 12, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines The California Supreme Court has ruled that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom exceeded his authority when he ordered the City to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Kellia Ramares reports from...

August 11, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Middle East Update A bomb exploded between two Israeli army checkpoints today on a busy transit route outside Jerusalem in the first such attack in six months. Two Palestinians were killed...