TGR-RE: March 12, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

Program will pay homeowners to sell at a loss
Normalizing the police state
Ex-policeman pleads guilty in Katrina killing case
ID card proposed for all American workers
‘Non-drugs’ ease hospital pain
S. Dakota legislature passes bill calling global warming a hoax
FDIC wants pension funds to prop up failed banks
Iowa community sues atrazine maker for contaminated water
Defense Department, Inc.
Report: One third killed by US in Pakistan are civilians
Obama Mideast policy sabotaged by Israel; Abbas withdraws from indirect talks
Militants clash in northern Afghanistan leaving 80 dead including 19 civilians
Clashes in Athens as Greek PM seeks EU debt help
Iraqis turn out to vote amid wave of bombing attacks
Africa’s success stories in gender empowerment
Clinton presses region to recognize Honduras
Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists
South Sudan media ‘under attack,’ watchdog warns

TGR-RE: March 05, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

Ruling restricts Clean Water Act, foiling EPA,
Tap water contaminant ‘castrates’ frogs,
How did media cover GOP’s 2003 use of reconciliation? They didn’t,
White collars are feeling the blue-collar woes,
Obama signs one-year extension of PATRIOT Act,
Rage on the right,
Former police officer pleads guilty to Katrina shooting cover-up,
Utah women may face murder charges after miscarriages,
The Supreme Court’s corporate wonderland,
Pentagon panel has contractor contacts,
UN: 346 Afghan children killed in 2009, more than half by NATO,
Kerry hints: We are here to keep Israel from attacking Iran,
Steps toward nuke-free world,
US soldiers kill Iraqi tribal chief’s son,
Police arrested in Nigeria killings,
Rights abuses continue under new Honduras leader,
How Goldman Sachs wins no matter what.

TGR-RE: February 26, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

Millions of unemployed face years without jobs
Top firms cause $2.2 trillion of environmental damage
Unions blast $15 billion jobs legislation as ‘puny’
A new kind of leaf blower
Kucinich challenges Gates on civilians killed in Afghanistan
Gates calls European mood ‘danger to peace’
US media replays Iraq fiasco on Iran
Iraqi parliamentarian denies US charges of terrorism
Poland admits role in CIA rendition program
Afghan wounded tell of more left behind in Marjah
Darfur signs cease fire as violence in south claims 28 lives
Groups demand Turkey do more to protect transgender people
Rachel Corrie’s family bring civil suit over human shield’s death in Gaza
UN says US aid restrictions on Somalia are hurting millions of hungry Somalis
Escalating Falklands oil dispute goes to UN
Dutch cabinet collapses in dispute over Afghanistan

TGR-RE: February 19, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

Profiting from immigration injustice
Obama’s nuclear giveaway
EFF, library groups argue against Autodesk’s appeal
Palin headlines birther conference; press pretends not to notice
Lawyers petition court to hold Yoo accountable
UN rejects ‘militarization’ of Afghan aid
Former Blackwater employees accuse security contractor of defrauding government
Iraq Shiite spiritual leader urges big poll turnout
Yemen’s alliance poses complication for US
NATO – Missile that killed Afghan civilians not faulty
Former US-backed dictator sentenced to 30 years
Chile: Another chance for reparations for Pinochet victims
Zimbabwe: One year on, reform a failure
Mashaal: US ‘vetoed’ Palestinian unity
Ivory Coast president dissolves ‘unity’ government
Coral can recover from climate change damage

TGR-RE: February 12, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

SC now requires ’subversives’ to register
Legal experts slam ‘targeted killings
Top ten problems with America killing its own citizens
Pentagon to stock health facilities with morning-after pill
Canada’s ‘crown jewel wilderness’ saved from development
Colorado Springs cuts into services considered basic by many
FDA aims to rein in radiation-based medical scans
Canada’s pharmacy regulator advises drug stores to stop selling ‘natural’ remedies
AP article fuels Iran war hysteria
Bahrain official wary of claims about al Qaida threats in Yemen
Obama seeks billions to dramatically expand ‘war on terror’
US says 200 troops on the ground in Pakistan
NATO frustration as Afghan police flunk drug tests
Gazans denied justice as rights take a beating
Iraq expels 250 ex-Blackwater staff
Ancient indian language dies out
Egypt arrests 3 top Muslim Brotherhood leaders

TGR-RE: February 05, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

Global unemployment hits highest levels on record
Incarceration nation
US lawmakers to Obama: Press Israel to ease Gaza siege
Obama proposes cut in coal mining watchdog’s budget
Right-wing media forward conspiracy theory that NASA, NOAA manipulate climate data
World’s glaciers continue to melt at historic rates
Thousands protest in Tokyo against US military presence in Japan
Our incredible shrinking democracy
Campaign group says both Uganda and UK complicit in dodgy oil deals
US drones killed 123 civilians, three al-Qaeda men in January
Oliver Stone: US, British bankers helped Hitler
Karzai reinstates Afghan warlord accused of atrocities
Italy seizes Bank of America, Dexia assets amid probe
US boosts missile presence in Gulf as warning to Iran
Legislation poses risks for US bank system, says Standard and Poor’s

TGR-RE: January 29, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

Pentagon calls for ‘Office of Strategic Deception’
Brain scan offers first biological test in diagnosis of PTSD
Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
Supreme Court allows China and others unlimited spending in US elections
This week in crazy: Clarence Thomas
Report slams US for building power plant Afghans can’t run
Afghanistan postpones parliamentary elections
CIA deaths prompt surge in drone strikes
US accused of ‘mismanagement’ of Iraq police contract
Mexicans in US fear violent Mexico
Past decade warmest on record, NASA data shows
As China rises, conflict with West rises too
Nigeria – ‘Our lives will never be the same again’
Israel ‘to keep’ parts of West Bank
Venezuela cancels Haiti’s oil debt

TGR-RE: January 22, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

US accused of ‘occupying’ Haiti as troops flood in
US waves white flag in disastrous ‘war on drugs’
Two dozen states’ unemployment funds in the red; nine more in next six months
Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal
US military weapons inscribed with secret ‘Jesus Bible codes’
Harpers: Guantánamo inmates were killed during questioning
Arctic permafrost leaking methane at record levels, figures show
Kabul paralyzed by bombings, shootouts with Taliban fighters
Israel crushes local dissent, attacks international criticism
Pakistan seen becoming more Islamist, anti-US
Dueling protests erupt at Iran professor’s funeral
Ukraine candidates relying on US advisers
Iraqi province gives Saddam loyalists 24 hours to leave
Haiti – an unwelcome Katrina redux
Low-tech radios connect some Haitians

TGR-RE: January 15, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

Scientists demand govt. ban on mountaintop mining
FDA says RFID’s interfere with pacemakers, defibrillators
Officials hid truth of immigrant deaths in jail
Liberty has been lost
Afghan women turning to suicide in greater numbers: report
Two defense contractors indicted in shooting of Afghans
Kabul’s reconciliation strategy gains momentum
Iraq bars 15 political parties with Baathist ties from upcoming elections
Our role in Haiti’s plight
Help Haiti: Partners in Health
Bolivia banks on ‘Coca Colla,’ fizzy coca-leaf drink
Honduras – arson attack on community radio previously targeted by coup supporters
Portuguese parliament votes to legalise gay marriage
Israel’s treatment of Ethiopians ‘racist’
Israeli general denies Iran is nuclear threat
Stop and search powers illegal, European court rules
Podcast provider change information

TGR-RE: January 08, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

The real Top Ten stories of the past decade
Living on nothing but food stamps
Historic bills expanding LGBT rights and resources become CA law
Obama appoints first openly transgender person to post
With help from Sweden, 4 northern Virginia families are ‘Climate Pilots’
Monsanto GMOs linked to organ damage
Ex-Homeland Security chief pushes client’s body scanners
Afghans condemn ‘civilian deaths’
The public anger has never faded
Over 700 killed in 44 drone strikes in 2009
The pictures of war you aren’t supposed to see
At least 140 killed in South Sudan clashes
Construction in West Bank settlements booming despite declared freeze
Israeli nuclear whistleblower under house arrest
US aid tied to purchase of arms
Hundreds of thousands at pro-government rallies in Iran
Kazakhstan cracks down on press freedom
CIA workers were Xe contractors
Body scanner wouldn’t have foiled syringe bomber, says MP who worked on new machines