Stop the madness!

This week I interviewed Sean Donahue, a local activist, journalist, poet, healer. He was a very nice man and he seems like a sincere citizen. Anyways, he tells me about his personal experiences fighting the military-industrial complex face-to-face. I created a feature package for the arrest of some young, local activists who took on the BU bioterror!

The archived mp3s for this show and the previous one are coming! Don't worry. I just need to get to a high-speed internet access point, i.e. my Mom's place in Taunton.

Update: Here's the mp3:




music played

-- "There's A War Going On For Your Mind" and "Same Thing" by the Flobots
-- "Revolution Rock" by The Clash



Oh ya! The stories that got cut off at the beggining because I messed up and forgot to set a CD to record before I started. I cut off a little Kucinich, but when the mp3 arrives, it's got his big booming baby voice coming to you with some war crime news. Here's the forlorn beggining of this show. It's very important so read up.

INTRO (CQ)


Lord Bush's "War on Terror" and the Israeli apartheid system rage on in the Middle East: is this making the West more safe? or incenting more poor folks in inflicted countries to enlist in terrorist cells, deferring to groups like al-Qaeda to earn their families a decent wage. Freedom of expression is smashed by Boston Police when activists take to the sidewalks with chalk at Boston University's potential site for a Level-4 biolab. And Sean Donahue takes his crusade for peace to the personal level, confronting military arms companies at home and attempting to charge them for war crimes.




Hi, welcome to ne(U)waves, your weekly newsmagazine focusing on war, peace and social justice. ne(U)waves is broadcasting from college radio WRBB 104.9 Back Bay, and wrbbradio.org worldwide. I am your host, Marc Larocque.



We'll have a feature story about freedom of expression and Boston University's level-4 biolab and an interview with a local activist with a lifelong history of calling out the military-industrial complex wherever it lurks. But first, headlines:














The Boston Globe reported on Shane Duffy, a soldier who was killed in Iraq last week, whose body was picked up yesterday morning at Logan International Airport and carried back to his hometown, Taunton, where the procession, which included police motorcycles and a fire engine, was greeted by people young and old who wanted to pay their respects, the city's mayor said.


"He is a hero for the ages," said Mayor Charles Crowley, who has known Duffy's father since grade school. "We gave him the reception he deserved as he was brought home by the family."

Taunton is my hometown, too. I deeply respect Duffy, although I've never met him, because he was serving our country, doing what his leaders said, trying to keep us safe.


Duffy, 24, an Army sergeant, was killed just after returning to duty from a visit home in which he was honored at his little sister's softball game, before she made the gamewinning hit. He was the first soldier from Taunton to die in combat in the war. His father, Keavin, is a veteran firefighter in the community.

The body was met at the airport by both a military color guard and a Taunton fire department color guard, said Crowley. And a Taunton fire engine joined the state and Taunton police who escorted the hearse back to the city.




Iraqi Lawmakers Reveal New US Demands on Long-Term Deal (cq)
Iraqi lawmakers have released new details of Bush administration demands in talks over a long-term compact between Iraq and the United States. The negotiations are being held before the UN mandate that authorized the US occupation expires next month. According to the McClatchy Newspapers, Iraqi parliamentarians say the US has demanded control of at least fifty-eight military bases, as well as Iraqi airspace up to 30,000 feet. The fifty-eight US bases would nearly double the current total of around thirty bases. In what could be seen as a threat to Iran, the lawmakers also say the US has demanded rights that would effectively allow it to decide if another country is committing aggression against Iraq. The Bush administration does not consider its invasion and occupation an act of aggression against Iraq. But it’s repeatedly accused Iran of intervening in Iraqi affairs. Iraqi lawmakers say they’ve rejected these proposals and tens of thousands of Iraqis took the streets to protests such deals that would solidify the occupation.

The Independent of London reported last week US officials are leveraging tens of billions of dollars in seized Iraqi assets to push through its demands, which also include complete immunity for American soldiers and contractors. We'll be discussing the controversial private security contractor Blackwater later in the program.

A leading lawmaker from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq called the US proposals “more abominable than the occupation.” The lawmaker, Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, said, “Now we are being asked to sign for our own occupation. That is why we have absolutely refused all that we have seen so far.”

In other Iraq occupation news, the Washington Post reports that the Bush administration continues to award lucrative long-term contracts for US companies in Iraq. In September, a new US-run prison will open. Prospective contractors would be responsible for providing food for up to 5,000 prisoners and 150 employees.
Another plan calls for quote “mentors” that would work alongside officials in Iraq’s Defense and Interior Ministries. The mentors sought would "advise, train [and] assist . . . particular Iraqi officials" who work in the Ministry of Defense, which runs the Iraqi army, or the Ministry of Interior, which runs the police and other security units. Lastly, a State Department deal would hire contractors to create a marshal, or protection, service for the US-overseen Iraqi court system.

The Independent of London reports the United States is holding hostage some $50 billion of Iraq’s money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the Iraqi government into signing an agreement to prolong the US occupation indefinitely. Patrick Cockburn reports the Federal Reserve continues to hold Iraq’s financial reserves as a legacy of the international sanctions against Saddam Hussein. US negotiators are threatening to remove tens of billions of dollars of Iraq’s money to settle outstanding court judgments dating back to the 1980s unless Iraq accepts the highly controversial military deal that allows the permanent occupation.



On Tuesday, Democracy Now! spoke to visiting Iraqi lawmakers in New York. Iraqi parliament member Khalaf Al-Ulayyan criticized the US proposals.

Today's Democracy Now, at 2:00




Iraqi parliament member Khalaf Al-Ulayyan: “I believe the parliament will not ratify the treaty in its current form, because it harms Iraqi sovereignty. Based on the details that have been leaked to the media, it seems that the deal will make Iraq not just an occupied country but an actual part of the US.”






Iraqi officials interviewed by the Washington Post say the US initially demanded control of more than 200 military bases. US officials also demanded the right to refuel the planes while in flight, stoking fears the US would use Iraq as a staging ground for an attack on its neighbor, Iran. The Independent of London reported last week the US is leveraging tens of billions of dollars in seized Iraqi assets to push through its demands. The Bush administration has angered Iraqi officials by refusing to lift support for Iraq’s UN designation as a threat to international security. The designation was imposed following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and has been used to impose sanctions and restrict Iraq’s economy.

Bush: “All Options on the Table” with Iran
President Bush continues to threaten Iran with military attack. Speaking today in Germany, Bush again repeated his threat that “all options are on the table” to halt Iran’s nuclear program. Bush’s comments come one day after he won European backing for threatening Iran with new sanctions unless it stops nuclear enrichment. Iran has offered to negotiate on its nuclear program and a broader peace agreement, but the US insists Iran must suspend nuclear activities as a precondition. Speaking Tuesday in Slovenia, Bush said the US will not waver from its demands.

President Bush: “You know, the fundamental question is not ours to make, it’s theirs to make. And that is, are they going to continue on their path of obstruction? Will they continue to isolate their people? Are they going to continue to deny the people of Iran a bright future by basically saying ‘we don’t care what the world says’? And that’s the position they’re in. I’ll leave behind a multilateral framework to
work this issue.”

Continue in the path of obstruction. That sounds like the rhetoric we heard in the run up to Iraq.


Kucinich Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Bush (cq)
Anyways, on Capitol Hill on Monday, Democratic Congressmember Dennis Kucinich, of Ohio, has introduced thirty-five articles of impeachment against President Bush. At 4:13 p.m., Kucinich took to the House floor to accuse President Bush of war crimes and deceiving the public in the run-up to the Iraq invasion.