Archive - Sep 8, 2008

• The US Offers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the Largest Bailout in History
• Kashmir's Movement for Independence Faces Heavy Repression from India
• SCHIP Legislation Delayed Until Next Year
• Over a Million Evicted from Slums in Nigeria
• Mainstream Media Coverage of DNC and RNC Critiqued

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• More Civilians Die in US Drone Raids
• Sri Lanka Bars Aid Groups from Rebel Regions
• NRC Moves Forward on Yucca Mountain Despite Nevada Protest
• Boeing Strike
• Canadian PM Dissolves Parliament, Calls New Elections
• US and Vietnam Meet on Agent Orange

US taxpayers are bailing out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
victims of – and culprits in – the sub-prime mortgage crisis. This
solution could cost hundreds of billions of dollars, by far the most
extensive corporate bailout to date. FSRN's Tanya Snyder has more.

In Indian-administered Kashmir today, more than a dozen people were
wounded as police fired on protest rallies. Kashmir has recently seen
some of the largest pro-freedom demonstrations in decades and the human
toll has been heavy – over 40 killed, a thousand wounded and hundreds
detained.  The flow of news from the valley has been controlled over
the past few weeks, keeping much of the world in the dark about recent
developments in the region.  Foreign journalists have not had freedom
of mobility and local papers were stopped from publishing.  FSRN's
Shanawaz Khan files this report from the city of Srinagar in Kashmir.

In one of the worst violations of housing rights in the world, Nigeria
has evicted 1.2 million people since the year 2000 – in an effort to
clean up its cities.  In the Country's Capitol city Abuja, hundreds of
thousands of people have become homeless.  And many have simply been
pushed farther and farther away from the path of bulldozers – only to
create new slums.  FSRN's Sam Olukoya has this report from Nigeria.
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Today Congress announced that it would not be taking up legislation
this year to expand the States Children Health Insurance Program or
SCHIP.   As FSRN's Karen Miller reports, this may leave some states
that administer these programs in the lurch.