Miércoles 26 de Abril de 2006

LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• El Presidente Bush anuncia medidas para frenar el aumento del combustible, mientras republicanos bloquean impuestos a empresas petroleras
• Zarqawi denuncia a gobierno iraquí y a Bush en nuevo video
• Inspector General de Petróleo de Irak afirma que la corrupción y el contrabando son las mayores amenazas para la economía de su país
• Nuevo portavoz de la Casa Blanca criticó a Bush
• Gobierno de Bush exhorta a nicaragüenses a votar contra líder sandinista
• Sri Lanka: Enfrentamientos entre gobierno y rebeldes suscitan temor de guerra civil
• Banco Mundial acusado de falsificar información sobre programa para la malaria
• Carriles solicita ciudadanía estadounidense
• Venezuela extenderá su programa de petróleo subsidiado en Estados Unidos
• Tribu de Nevada se opone a prueba nuclear en el desierto
• AT&T donó un millón de dólares a una organización sin fines de lucro presidida por impulsor de ley de telecomunicaciones
• AT&T Donated $1M To Non-Profit Chaired By Telecom Bill Sponsor

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• Nat Hentoff on the Government Crackdown on Information From Whistleblowers to Journalists

  
  

  Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff discusses the government’s attempt to clamp down on the ability of the public to transmit or receive information the government deems secret. Hentoff says the prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is the "first in which the federal government is charging violations of the Espionage Act by American citizens who are not government officials for being involved in ,until now, what have been regarded as first amendment protected activities." [includes rush transcript]

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• FBI Seeks to Seize Control of Files of Deceased Investigative Journalist Jack Anderson

  
  

  FBI agents last month sought to sift through the files of the late muckracking journalist Jack Anderson to take back those it deemed classified over concern they could hurt U.S. interests. We speak Jack Anderson’s son, Kevin, as well as George Washington University journalism professor, Mark Feldstein. [includes rush transcript]

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• Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg to Government Insiders: Risk Prison to Leak Information Exposing Illegal Government Actions

  
  

  As we focus on the government crackdown against leakers, we speak with perhaps the most famous government whistleblower of the twentieth century, Daniel Ellsberg. In 1969 he leaked the Pentagon Papers, setting in motion actions that would eventually topple the Nixon presidency and end the Vietnam War. [includes rush transcript]

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• Chernobyl 20 Years Later: New Report Finds Death Toll From Nuclear Disaster Close to 100,000

  
  

  Today marks the 20th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A new report by Greenpeace claims the consequences of the disaster could top one million cancer cases, nearly 100,000 of them fatal, far higher than previous estimates. [includes rush transcript]

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