Archive - Oct 22, 2007

• Bush Wants Billions More for War
• Oil Production Peaked in 2006: Report
  
• Tamil Tigers Attack Sri Lanka Air Base
• Outcome of Chinese Communist Party Congress
• Shipwreck Kills Migrants Near Oaxacan Coast

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The Senate is debating a 600 billion dollar labor and health
bill. Despite a Presidential veto threat, the massive piece of
legislation advances the Democrat's domestic agenda. It increases
funding to Medicaid, provides additional protections for workers, and
includes broader capabilities for stem cell research. But one thing
that it does not include, are changes for HIV and AIDS patients. Women
living with HIV/AIDS say they have become the forgotten faces of the
disease.

FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.

Hundreds of protestors disrupted morning rush hour on Capitol Hill
today. They want lawmakers to end the war in Iraq and to get serious
about stopping global warming.

FSRN Correspondent Matt Laslo reports from Washington.

India's Central Bureau of Investigation has absolved a former minister
and M-P of the ruling Congress party. His charges were related to
alleged involvement in incidents of anti-Sikh violence in 1984. In that
year, more than 3,000 members of India's Sikh minority were killed in
Dehli alone during four days of mob violence immediately following the
assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The acquittal has
sparked protests from the Sikhs who demand the Bureau re-open the case
against the politician.

FSRN's Bismillah Geelani has the details

This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of
Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary and former President of Burkina Faso
who was assassinated in 1987.

Sankara was known as the Che of Africa. He gave Burkina Faso its
name – changing it from Upper Volta – and personally wrote the
country's national anthem. He was popular for not living extravagantly;
he traded in the government's fleet of Mercedes for Renaults and rode
his bike to work. He also stood up to Western Imperialism, countering
the World Bank and IMF.

Commentary from Mumia Abu-Jamal: Planning to Fail