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

TGR-RE: January 01, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

States’ jobless funds are being drained in recession
Treasury’s assistance to Fannie and Freddie
AIG executives’ promises to return bonuses have gone largely unfulfilled
Autumn of the Republic?
New York on track for fewest homicides on record
Federal appeals court sets limits on police use of Tasers
Teen helps Iraqi kids in U.S.
Escalated Afghan War brings escalated civilian deaths
US forces mount secret Pakistan raids
Haunted by 40 Months in Iraq
Software fraudster ‘fooled CIA’ into terror alert: Spooks ‘f*cking livid’
Middle East / Med region could solar power world
138 journalists died on the job in 2009
US criticizes Israel for plans to build hundreds more Jerusalem homes
Faiths join to stress vital challenge of nuclear disarmament
Kyrgyz president blamed in homicide
Iraqi Shiites protest Maliki’s government

TGR-RE: December 25, 2009

This week’s broadcast includes:

Muslims say FBI tactics sow anger and fear
4 big mortgage backers swim in ocean of debt
Glenn Beck – Media Matters’ ‘Misinformer of the Year’
American Indian land sold off by IRS to pay off taxes
Kucinich panel to investigate Citigroup tax ruling
New CDC estimate: 1 in 110 children have autism
Politifact’s ‘Lie of the Year’ – Death Panels
NIH’s New Year’s resolution?
The brain may feel other people’s pain
US silent about Taliban guarantee offer on al Qaeda
Obama ordered missile strikes in Yemen
Stunning statistics about the war every American should know
Perils of empire-building
Colombia to build new military base on Venezuelan border
Iraq’s security forces implicated in December bombings
Israel harvested organs in ’90s without permission
India’s killer cookers a recipe for disaster
Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man’s best friend
Iran charges 12 at prison over death of protesters

TGR-RE: December 18, 2009:

This week’s broadcast includes:

I have no living friends in Iraq now
Petraeus warns of long and expensive mission in Afghanistan
US still opposed to bio-weapons checks mechanism
Despite US laws, thousands still virtual slaves in America
Obama foreclosure relief program faces long list of challenges
Pregnant, in prison, and denied care
Houston becomes largest US city to elect gay mayor
Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor
Bush birth control policies helped fuel Africa’s baby boom
Europe urges ’social’ tax on banks worldwide
Decade of 2000s was warmest ever, scientists say
Honduran president-elect Lobo wants coup amnesty
Morales’ big win – voters ratify his remaking of Bolivia
Hospital cleaners ‘worth more to society’ than bankers – study
Settlers attack West Bank mosque and burn holy Muslim books
Baghdad’s nightclubs closed in moral crusade
Copenhagen: clashes inside and outside climate summit
Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: a potent poison is clear and present danger
Yemen – Population of biggest IDP camp doubles

The Global Report – Radio Edition: December 11, 2009:

This week’s broadcast includes:

Kucinich plans to force vote on US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Hunger, family homelessness on rise in U.S. cities
Obama administration extends bailout program
USAID rejects NGO concerns over aid militarization
Going to war – Commentary by Jim Hightower
Obama administration seeks to kill Gitmo lawsuit
Iraqi cab driver was source for Iraq WMD claim, British MP says
Torture ’systematic’ in Egypt
Pakistan opposes expanded US drone attacks
New film unravels mystery of vanishing honeybees
British researchers – little evidence Tamiflu works
French plan to force gender equality on boardrooms
Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after ‘Danish text’ leak
Yemen teeters on brink of failure
Mexico: Manufacturing poverty for women
Israel accused of ethnic discrimination after stripping Palestinians of East Jerusalem residency
Murdered Chilean folk singer laid to rest after 36 years
Copenhagen climate change talks must fail, says top scientist
MSNBC Afghan ‘expert’ Barry McCaffrey will profit from war

The Global Report – Radio Edition: December 04, 2009:

This week’s broadcast includes:

Americans toss out 40 percent of all food
Senator Cantwell: Gambling laws should apply to Wall Street
Study says lesbians make better parents
Wal-Mart price pressure hurts China workers: report
Presidential victory in Honduras marred by dispute
Israel okays new building projects in West Bank despite moratorium
Protest of largest one-day massacre of journalists ever
Ghana -Cell phones cut maternal deaths
Killings by Nigerian soldiers, police still unpunished
Afghan children ‘die from neglect’
Baghdad garden becomes graveyard, full of grieving
In Afghan debate, few antiwar op-eds
British soldiers sexually abused us, claim Iraqis
Trigger-happy security complicates convoys
Woman awarded nearly $3 million in rape claim against Halliburton/KBR