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Thursday, May 2, 2002
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Attorney General John Ashcroft Indicts the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for the Killing of Three Americans–Relatives Say He’s Using the Murders to Drum Up Support for Increased U.S. Milita
Attorney General John Ashcroft on Tuesday announced indictments against Colombia’s leading leftist guerrilla group and six of its members in the "terrorist murders" of three Americans in 1999. The three murdered US activists were Lahe’ena’e Gay of Hawaii, and Terence Freitas and Ingrid Washinawatok of Brooklyn.
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Washington Changes Its Story About Its Role in the Coup in Venezuela: The London Guardian Says the U.S. Navy Was Involved
Washington keeps on changing its story about its role in the coup in Venezuela. First, senior administration officials acknowledged they met several times with coup leaders, were briefed of the situation in advance, didn’t discourage people, and sent signals that Washington doesn’t like Chavez.
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Congress Stalls the Bankruptcy Bill Over An Amendment That Would Prevent Anti-Abortion Protesters From Escaping Their Debt
A five-year struggle to rewrite the US bankruptcy laws is stalled in Congress this week, over an amendment that would prevent anti-abortion protesters from wiping out their debts by filing bankruptcy. The financial industry has never been so close to tightening the rules on debtors. Yet Republican leaders in the solidly anti-choice House of Representatives hint that they may block the bill unless the language is changed. Despite intense pressure from the banking and credit card industries to save the legislation, the stridently anti-choice Representative Henry Hyde has threatened to stymie the bill.
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The Tenth Anniversary of the Rodney King Uprising in Los Angeles: A Roundtable Discussion
This week is the tenth anniversary of one of the largest uprisings in modern US history, the uprising in Los Angeles sparked by the acquittal of four white police officers who were videotaped beating an African American man, Rodney King.
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
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Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]
