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Friday, August 9, 2002
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Activists Disrupt Dick Cheney’s Speech On Corporate Responsibility
More than 300 people demonstrated against Vice President Dick Cheney in San Francisco earlier this week. He was speaking at the posh Commonwealth Club. Inside the gathering five people were arrested, when they disrupted the talk, chanting "corporate crook." We are now joined by one of those activists who was inside the club.
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As Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill Ends His Latin America Tour, the International Monetary Fund Announces It Will Lend Debt-Laden Brazil Another $30 Billion, More Than the IMF Has Ever Provided Any Ot
The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday announced it will lend debt-laden Brazil another $30 billion. That is more than the IMF has ever provided any other country.
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When Public Media Becomes State Media: President Bush Bypasses the Vacationing Senate and Nominates Republican Fundraiser Cheryl Halpern to the Board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
President Bush bypassed the vacationing Senate and installed Cheryl Halpern on the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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British Mp Meets with Saddam Hussein As Iraqi Opposition Groups Meet with State Department
British Labor MP George Galloway met with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein yesterday in Baghdad. He described the Iraqi leader as calm and determined.
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The US State Department Urges a US Court to Dismiss a Human Rights Lawsuit Against Exxon Mobil
US envoy to the Middle East Anthony Zinni is in Indonesia’s Aceh province this week. On Wednesday he held talks with the military chief of Indonesia’s Aceh province as part peace talks between Jakarta and separatist rebels.
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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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