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Thursday, December 1, 2005
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- Bush Launches “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq”
- Pelosi Backs Murtha Call for Withdrawal
- California Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Reopen Tookie Williams Case
- Alito Sought to Undo Roe v. Wade
- Report: Over 300 CIA Flights at European Airports
- EPA Dissolves Panel, Halts Dust Testing
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Iraqi-American Member of Muslim Peacemaker Team Speaks Out for Four Kidnapped Colleagues
As a group of influential Sunni scholars in Iraq calls for the release of four kidnapped aid workers of the Christian Peacemakers Team, we go to Najaf to speak with Sami Rasouli, an Iraqi American who is a member of the Muslim Peacemaker Team that was founded in conjunction with the CPT. [includes rush transcript]
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Is the U.S. Training Iraqi Death Squads to Fight the Insurgency?
In what the White House billed as a major policy address, President Bush outlined the administration’s Iraq war strategy. Bush again linked a withdrawal of U.S. troops to improvements in the capability of Iraqi security forces. We speak with independent journalist Arun Gupta about the presence Iraqi death squads and the U.S. training of Iraqi security forces. [includes rush transcript]
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Rep. Jose Serrano: One of Three Congressmembers to Vote for Immediate U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Iraq, One of Two to Accept Venezuelan President Chavez’ Offer of Cheap Oil to Poor U.S. Communities
We speak with Rep. Jose Serrano (D–NY), one of only three Congressmembers out of more than 400 who voted for an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. He’s also one of the two to take up an offer by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for cheap oil here in the United States. [includes rush transcript]
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50th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was arrested December 1st, 1955, for violating segregation laws when she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. The move sparked a one-year boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. We hear some of the voices of people who were outside Parks’ memorial in Washington DC last month. [includes rush transcript]
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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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In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. [includes rush transcript]
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]
