Dear Radio Friend,

The latest Shortwave Report (February 29) is up at the website

http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)

This week's show features stories from China Radio International, Radio Netherlands, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.

From CHINA- Raul Castro, Cuba's new President, said he will make the economy stronger and the government more efficient. Sudan's Foreign Minister thanked China for helping solve the Darfur issue. China has begun work on the world's first third-generation nuclear power plant.

From NETHERLANDS- The US government has been working on selling India fighter jets, nuclear fuel, and nuclear technology- the Indian Parliament has serious reservations about making the deal. In Pakistan General Musharaf's ruling political party was defeated in recent elections- while the US government supports the General, human rights groups are working on impeachment.

From CUBA- On Monday 10,000 Palestinians formed a human chain to protest Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. On Tuesday, Israeli helicopter gunships killed 7 Palestinians, pushing the death toll to over 200 since November. 20 years after the worst oil spill in US history, Exxon is at the Supreme Court appealing the ruling that it pay anything for the environmental disaster it was responsible for. Cuba held a roundtable radio broadcast on the topic of "The Mass Media and Its Manipulations."

From RUSSIA- Russia restated its strong opposition to the unilateral proclamation of Kosovo's independence. A commentary on why parts of Europe fear Kosovo's action. Turkey is working on justifying its deadly incursion into Iraq to kill off Kurdish rebel fighters- an action that the US was aware of before it began.

There is an article about the Shortwave Report by Cassandra Roos on line at-http://www.campusprogress.org/soundvision/780/big-stories-shortwaves



I was interviewed for an informative weekly radio show Mediageek, available at http://radio.mediageek.net

All that plus times and frequencies for listening at home. It's free to rebroadcast, please notify me if you're airing it and haven't notified me in the last month, please mention the website if you only air a portion. If you just want to listen and have a slow connection, try the streaming version- lower sound quality but good enough and way easier if you don't have a high-speed internet connection. If streaming is a problem because of your slow connection, download the smaller file- it takes 20 minutes or less, and will play swell in any mp3 player application (RealPlayer, Winamp, Quicktime, iTunes, etc) you have on your computer.

This program will be aired on Friday afternoon at 4:30pm (PST) on KZYX/Z Philo CA, you might be able to stream via http://www.kzyx.org >

There are several other streams that work better- http://www.freakradio.org >Freak Radio Santa Cruz now streams this program on Friday at 9:00am and Monday at 5:30pm(PST)

The Shortwave Report may be downloaded as a podcast from http://www.radio4all.net/podcast.php/.xml?series=outFarpress%20presents > or iTunes (search for "shortwave" in podcasts)

Check out the amazing streams at http://www.radicalradio.org >

And Radio For Peace International at http://www.rfpi.org >

I hope you'll listen and air this if you're connected with a radio station. I am still wondering how to get financially compensated for the 25 hours I put into this program weekly- any ideas are appreciated. Any stations rebroadcasting this (or listeners) are welcome to donate for production costs. You can do so through the website. Many thanks to those that have donated! No Guilt! (maybe a little)

link for broadcast edition-

http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/swr_02_29_08.mp3 >(13.3MB)

link for smaller file and streaming-

http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml >

¡FurthuR! Dan Roberts

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

-Jimmy Carter