TGR-RE: August 06, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

Regulators shut down banks in Fla., Ga., Ore., Wash.; makes 108 US bank failures this year,
House Democrats buck President Obama on Afghanistan,
Proposition 8: federal judge overturns California gay marriage ban,
Google, CIA invest in ‘future’ of web monitoring,
A political filter for info requests,
Families of dead US vets accuse insurer of massive scam,
Afghans march in Kabul to denounce NATO strikes that killed civilians,
Bold rainforest idea makes good: Ecuador secures trust fund to save park from oil developers,
UN declares access to clean water a human right,
Global warming blamed for 40 percent decline in ocean phytoplankton,
Colombia: US aid may have sparked civilian killings,
Honduras: Rights situation deteriorates,
Greece: Society begins to crack under harsh measures,
More protests rock tense Kashmir,
Iraq death toll in July highest in more than two years,
Israeli Arabs have no choice but to build illegally.

TGR-RE: July 09, 2010

This week’s broadcast includes:

How Goldman gambled on starvation,
Media, boaters could face criminal penalties by entering oil cleanup ‘safety zone’,
BART cop Mehserle convicted of involuntary manslaughter in New Year’s Day shooting,
37 arrested in Y-12 civil disobedience,
Fed made taxpayers unwitting junk bond buyers,
Solar powered plane flies for 26 hours,
Tribal Law and Order Act passes in US Senate,
America’s tragic descent into empire,
Unmanned drones: Targeted killing vs. ‘collateral murder’,
Army intelligence analyst charged with leaking classified information,
Afghan companies say US did not pay them,
Economies in Latin America race ahead,
Nixon and Kissinger joked over Chile assassination,
Jury clears activists who broke into Brighton arms factory,
More than 50 killed in attacks across Baghdad,
Octavia Nasr’s firing and what the liberal media allows.

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 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: 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: 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 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

The Global Report – Radio Edition: October 30, 2009:

This week’s broadcast includes:

UN envoy slams US for unanswered drone questions
Lithuanian president announces investigation into CIA secret prison
Explosions kill at least 147 in Baghdad’s govt. center
UN nuclear team in Iran to visit newly revealed site
Afghans condemn ‘Quran-burning’
Canada threatens tar sands activists with anti-terror laws
Obama names nuclear advocate to regulate industry
Hate crime bill signed into law
Judge refuses to dismiss war crimes case against Blackwater
Car dealers protected from new consumer protection agency
EU blocking medicines for the poor
West Bank land belongs to Jews, says Israeli army judge
Companies reap the swine flu windfall
Belgian, Pakistani bag UN prize for promoting Gandhian ideals
Activists in UK repeatedly stopped and searched as police officers ‘mark’ cars
Shell fire kills at least 30 in Mogadishu
Deal reached in Honduras to restore ousted President

The Global Report – Radio Edition: July 03, 2009

This week’s broadcast includes:

Obama moves against workers on $106 bilion war bill
50,000 Bangladesh garment workers in wage protest
Amnesty report cites Israel for indiscriminate drone bombing and use of human shields in Gaza
Loophole helps GE benefit from bank rescue program
Key leaders of Honduras military coup trained in US
CIA crucified captive in Abu Ghraib prison
Faulty database overcharges patients billions
Bagram detainees treated ‘worse than animals’
Afghanistan: 800 civilians killed in conflict in January-May – UN report
Study: Infants with HIV at risk from tuberculosis vaccine
Nigerian militants say attack Shell despite amnesty
New York State allows payment for egg donations for research
Journalism rules are bent in news coverage from Iran
Despite ruling, testing debate far from settled
COHA responds to the UN drug report
Minnesota Supremes rule for Franken, Coleman concedes
Acme workers overwhelmingly reject company’s contract proposal; Union calls offer “belligerent”
Poll: Pakistanis worried about terrorists, wary of U.S.
Army bans embedded Stripes reporter in Iraq