Evening News

  General David Petraeus said today that he wants the US army to stay in Iraq at least another year.Petraeus told two Senate committees that last year's influx of 30 thousand troops in Iraq had helped calm some of the sectarian violence.  This is the first time in seven mon... Read more

  A South African satellite technician, Abdulla Gaibee, has spent the last week in a jail in Zimbabwe.He had gone to Zimbabwe to cover the presidential elections of March 29th.The election was highly contested, with numerous allegations of abuse.  The results still have no... Read more

 Three weeks ago, a major event called 'Winter Soldier' was held outside Washington DC to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war.  In three days of gripping testimony, hundreds of veterans of the Iraq war described war crimes that they committed or witnessed in I... Read more

 The Bonneville Power Administration has reached a 900 million dollar settlement with Indian tribes on ways to increase protection for endangered and threatened salmon in the Columbia River Basin over the next 10 years.The tribes and the federal agency have been at odds for... Read more

 An estimated 47 million Americans lack health insurance coverage while another 50 million are underinsured.A new survey released yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a leading medical journal, shows a majority of American doctors are for establishing national heat... Read more

A discussion about Colin Stryker's film, Riverways, which addresses the following and how they interconnect: salmon, dams, private fisherman, commercial fishing, wheat farmers. Read more

   As US policy worldwide results in thousands of refugees being displaced from their homes, many of those refugees end up trying to come here.  KBOO's Stephanie Potter spoke with Kayse Jama of the Center for Intercultural Organizing in Portland about the issues faced by... Read more

 Much of what is said about responding to climate change and the coming climate crisis puts the responsibility on the consumer, on the individual.  We're told to buy fluorescent light bulbs, or hybrid cars, or recycled paper, or other products - and that's supposed to someh... Read more

KBOO's Saed Bannoura brings us an interview with Fouad Khoffash on the issue of Palestinian political detainees.  Special thanks to Waddah Sofan for help with voicing. Read more

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