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Peace Activists Protest Military Drones
12/06/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: drone strikes, Pakistan, Yemen, drones
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up we'll talk with Kathleen Rumpf (KthleenRumpf@aol.com) and Ed Kinane (EdKinane@verizon.net) who have been among a group of anti-drone protestors outside Hancock Air National Guard base in upstate New York. Both have been arrested for peacefully protesting. Recently a judge has placed a restraining order on the activists from approaching the home, school or workplace of a commander at the base. If they violate the order they face ...
Be the first to commentMalala Yousafzai
10/25/12 Malala Yousafzai in a CNN interviewFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan
Women's Show host Mary Glenney highlights Malala Yousafzai in a CNN interview discussing why she wants an education and why she feels that all girls should be allowed to go to school to pursue an education. She recently survived an assassination attempt in Pakistan and continues to improve in a London hospital.
Malala began blogging for the BBC and Guardian newspaper under a pseudonym when she was just 11 yrs old. She was awarded the International Peace Award for Children in Pakistan an...
Be the first to commentFormer Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command Anthony Zinni defends Pakistan drone strikes listen
10/18/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: drone strikes, Pakistan, Yemen, Anthony Zinni, Al Cardenas, drones
Many people criticize the United State’s use of drone strikes in places like Pakistan and Yemen because they often claim civilian lives. A retired Marine Corps General defends the strikes saying they are necessary to thwart terrorist activity.
Anthony Zinni is the former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command and a current peace envoy in the Middle East. Most of the deadly attacks have occurred in Pakistan. Zinni says that’s because it’s the epicenter...
Be the first to commentNew take on nonviolence: pillow fight for peace listen
10/15/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: peace, pillow fight for peace, drone strikes, Pakistan, Afghanistan
With uprisings in overseas countries and U.S. occupations of places like Afghanistan, peace activists called attention to the problems yesterday in downtown St. Pete by hitting each other with pillows.
“Everybody is out here just hitting each other, but laughing at the same time. So, it’s kind of like a play on words.”
Elizabeth Dunn planned the event because, as she put it, it was on her bucket list. The idea was to promote peace through togetherness.
Be the first to comment“You end up fighting with y...
Anti-drone protest at Raytheon draws more than 100 peace activists to Largo listen
08/24/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, drones, drone warfare, Pakistan, Raytheon, peace, Republican convention
The Tampa Tribune reports the city will use drones for surveillance during the Republican National Convention next week. More than 100 peace activists protested the use of unmanned drones in countries overseas at Raytheon in Largo Thursday afternoon.
Tighe Barry is with the group Code Pink. One of their main focuses is on anti-war efforts. Barry has long suspected that the U.S. might start using the technology on American soil.
Be the first to comment“And they’re going to be used on us. They’re going ...
Pakistan on the Brink of Collapse? Followed by Open Phones
03/27/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Pakistan, Afghanistan War, Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink, nuclear weapons, Taliban, Al Quaed(
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up on the first part of today’s program---One of Pakistan’s leading journalists and best-selling author Ahmed Rashid warns that Pakistan is heading towards meltdown and anarchy.
In his new book PAKISTAN ON THE BRINK Rashid offers solutions for his country's frayed ties with the United States and how U.S. peace talks with the Taliban is crucial in its exit strategy from Afghanistan.
Ahmed Rashid,...
Be the first to commentPakistan: A nuclear power on the brink?
08/18/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Susan Taylor Martin, Pakistan, nuclear weapons, war on terrorism, drones
We spoke with St. Petersburg Times reporter Susan Taylor Martin who recently returned from a reporting trip to Pakistan. A country that has nuclear weapons, is a US ally but which has huge internal problems. What’s the future of Pakistan? We’ll talk about that in a moment.
But first one listener comment about yesterday’s program on which we talked about the Governor taking advantage of the state’s cut rate health insurance program for some top state workers and ...
2 commentsU.S. officials siezed bin Laden's hand-written journal with operational plans listen
05/11/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan
U.S. officials say that Osama bin Laden kept a hand-written journal filled with planning ideas and details of operations. it was seized in the U.S. raid as part of a huge cache of intelligence that included about 100 flash drives and five computers.
In remarks today at a Democratic National Committee event in Austin, President Barack Obama said a determined effort by U.S. intelligence and military led to the discovery and killing of bin Laden.
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Musharraf says there was no deal with U.S. to let Americans kill or capture bin Laden inside Pakistan listen
05/10/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, John Kerry
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he never struck an agreement with the United States to let American special forces kill or capture Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan.
Musharraf's spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry said today that news reports claiming Musharraf and the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush had such an understanding are baseless.
The spokesperson says Musharraf always rejected U.S. requests to launch raids in Pakistan. Chaudhry spoke from Dubai wh...
Be the first to commentPakistan promises investigation into how bin Laden wasn't detected listen
05/09/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Barack Obama
Pakistan's prime minister says the army will investigate how al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden hid for years on his country's soil without being detected.
Yousuf Raza Gilani made the comments during an address to Parliament today, a week after a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad killed the suspected terrorist mastermind.
Gilani rejected claims that Pakistani authorities were either incompetent in searching for bin Laden or complicit in hiding him, and exp...
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