TGR-RE: June 11, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

BP leaks 500,000 pounds of nitrates, benzene from Texas refinery,
Female migrants charge sexual abuse in detention,
Who ate the dessert?,
Latin America still divided over coup in Honduras,
Kids with lesbian parents do just fine,
Obama secretly deploys US special forces to 75 countries across world,
Texas students in innocence projects play key role in exonerations,
UN says 1.5 million people still homeless in Haiti,
Study: In long-term, immigrants are good for US,
Iran Red Crescent to send two aid ships to Gaza,
US demands IDF probe how American lost eye at West Bank protest,
US cruise missile parts found in Yemeni village where 52 died,
Ex-Union Carbide officials sentenced over Bhopal leak,
With US aid, warlord builds Afghan empire,
DR Congo: Rights defender’s death renews calls to end impunity,
3rd Iraqi candidate from Sunni-backed party killed.

TGR-RE: June 04, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

Thousands march in Phoenix to protest immigration law,
This country needs a few good communists (and socialists, anarchists, and pacifists),
Detroit to bulldoze thousands of homes in fight for survival,
US Senate rejects exit timetable for Afghanistan,
UN report highly critical of US drone attacks,
Air Force drone crew, ground commanders faulted for civilian deaths,
Air strike kills Yemen mediator,
Homeless Iraqis prompt fears of social crisis,
Nigeria’s agony dwarfs Gulf oil spill,
Lawmakers finally get earful about global government,
Amnesty report slams Israel on treatment of Palestinians,
Syria grapples with surging population,
Rotting bodies pile up in Kingston, Jamaica,
The really creepy people behind the Libertarian-inspired billionaire sea castles,
Toronto police get ‘sound cannons’ for G20.

TGR-RE: May 28, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

State finances rigged in conspiracy between banks, advisers,
The media’s ‘business model’ for CEO pay,
Okla. Legislature overrides another abortion veto,
Pushy fliers may show up on TSA’s radar
Israel to stop Gaza aid ships,
U.S. Geothermal awarded Guatemala rights,
Congress moves to end ban on gays in military,
Court: Bagram prisoners don’t have Guantanamo habeas rights,
US said to expand secret military acts in Middle East,
Results of Kandahar offensive may affect future US moves
Honduran judges who opposed coup dismissed,
Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons,
Plan to privatize motorway network in UK,
Egypt: Hopes fade for US help to restore civil liberties,
Gold rising as Euro weakens sparking more speculation.

TGR-RE: May 21, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

Does immigration cost jobs?,
US actors, intellectuals protest Obama ‘crimes’,
Only $242 million spent so far on govt. $75 billion mortgage program,
‘Star Wars’ meets reality? Military testing laser weapons,
FBI finds pipe bomb used in blast at FL mosque,
Knowledge, truth, and human action – America hits the wall,
17,000 Japanese circle US base in peaceful protest,
First openly gay female bishop ordained by Episcopal Church,
Mental care stays are up in military,
Iran agrees to exchange of nuclear material,
Indonesia: Gender inequality endangers women’s health,
Obama urges funds for Israeli missile system,
Iran shells Kurdish rebels in Iraq,
The global economic crisis, the Great Depression of the 21st century,
Cleric who criticized al-Qaida beheaded in north Iraq,
Somali fighting kills 24,
Afghans angry at ‘civilian deaths’.

TGR-RE: May 14, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

In job market shift, some workers are left behind,
US facing ‘grievous harm’ from chemicals in air, food, water, panel says,
Journalists file lawsuit in GOP convention arrests,
Obama biggest recipient of BP cash,
Rig survivors felt coerced to sign waivers,
The new prison industrial complex,
Strict anti-abortion laws stymied by veto, lawsuit,
School ban on gay anthology challenged by US free speech organizations,
Fear surrounding over the counter genetic tests,
UN: Afghanistan runs on drugs, corruption & aid,
The trouble with US terrorist watch lists,
Toll for devastating Iraq attacks rises to 119,
Deadly clashes erupt in Bangkok,
Honduras: Disputed truth commission to investigate coup,
The danger of Israel’s nuke hypocrisy,
US-trained Somali soldiers defect to insurgents.

TGR-RE: May 07, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

Henry Giroux – ‘Democracy has taken a major hit’,
US protests mount against immigrant crackdown,
US subpoenas Times reporter over book on CIA,
Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with “rent boy”,
Farmers cope With Roundup-resistant weeds,
US reveals nuclear arsenal: 5,113 warheads,
NPT: How to count the bombs until there are none,
Taliban justice earns locals’ respect in southern Afghanistan,
China to sterilize 10,000 people,
Legal questions raised over CIA drone strikes,
Columbia: State terror in the name of peace,
Iraq civilian death toll rises sharply in April,
Mexico: Terror returns to Oaxaca,
Study links drug enforcement to more violence,
GIs retrain Congo troops known for being violent.

TGR-RE: April 30, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

Tax Wall Street, 7,500 protesters say,
Launch of secret US space ship masks even more secret launch of new weapon,
Wal-Mart to face massive class action suit,
1,500 Idaho soldiers headed for Iraq,
Media advanced falsehood that drilling is safe because no oil spilled during Hurricane Katrina,
Protesters form 75 mile human chain against German nuclear energy,
EPA staffers forced to ignore science, investigation finds,
Awarding of Brazilian dam contract prompts warning of bloodshed,
My life as an insurgent, and why I quit,
18 veterans commit suicide each day,
Afghans burn NATO trucks in response to killing of 3 civilians,
UN: Thousands of children without school in Israeli-blockaded Gaza,
Is the CIA behind Mexico’s bloody drug war?,
Killings, violence wrack rural Colombia – Red Cross,
Guatemala hands over key file in army genocide case,
Israeli soldiers given minor reprimands over shooting of Palestinian civilians.

TGR-RE: April 23, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

FBI chief: Domestic terrorists as big a threat as al-Qaida,
Obama’s disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit,
US military playing expanded role in Pakistan,
Kucinich: White House assassination policy is extrajudicial,
Secret prison revealed in Baghdad,
Iran slams US as ‘world’s only atomic criminal’,
Ex-Blackwater president charged in firearms case,
2nd garbage patch: Plastic soup seen in Atlantic,
Mine disaster calls attention to revolving door between industry, government,
Report: NC ignores coal ash threat,
Live Earth ‘greenwashes’ Dow Chemical Co.,
NYC’s rising Black maternal mortality rate unexplained,
Belgian government collapses after party quits coalition,
Chiquita faces new claims over Colombia terrorism,
European activists against economic growth,
Study: Civilian rape skyrockets in Congo’s east.

TGR-RE: April 16, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

George W. Bush ‘knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent’,
Whistleblowers on US ‘massacre’ fear CIA stalkers,
Leaked video of shooting spurs calls for new probe,
Karzai threatens to block NATO offensive,
Chomsky warns of risk of fascism in America,
Nebraska abortion law opens new front in US debate,
Kansas governor vetoes bill restricting late-term abortion,
School law clinics face backlash from moneyed interests,
Green economy grows despite policy vacuum,
Dozens more Massey mines cited as unsafe,
Obama extends hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners of gays,
Report citing ‘unexplained medical symptoms’ may lead to benefits for Gulf War Syndrome,
BAE Systems tops list as world’s largest arms maker with sales of $32.4bn,
Turkey, Brazil come out against new Iran sanctions,
Israeli groups decry army West Bank deportation rules,
‘Hungary has turned into a grubby hive of nationalism’,
British campaigner urges UN to accept ‘ecocide’ as international crime.

TGR-RE: April 09, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

National debt seen heading for crisis level,
Supreme Court won’t hear appeal from Marshall Islanders,
The limits of ‘state secrets’,
Government opts for secrecy in wiretap suit,
Google, Skype set back as court puts internet in ‘no man’s land’,
Myriad loses ruling over breast cancer detection,
What if Fox News actually wants mob violence?,
US admits role in killing of Afghan women,
Corruption deepens poverty in Afghanistan – UN report,
Iraq: State food aid package slashed,
Uranium-mining nations flout UN on nuclear terror,
Hundreds detained protesting against US nukes,
Israel gags news on extra-judicial killings,
Bolivia, China team up on communications satellite,
Pakistan’s Parliament overwhelmingly approves historic 18th Amendment,
Airline passenger conversations to be monitored under EU project,
At UN, US envoy says vote is going ‘awry’ in Sudan.