{"article":{"id":6833,"heading":"The Shortwave Report 5\/18\/01 \u00a1LISTEN GLOBALLY!","author":"Dan Roberts","created":"2001-05-18 01:18:17","modified":"2013-11-10 23:37:22","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:37:22","article":"

The latest Shortwave Report May 18th is up at the website. (13.6MB 29:44). This week's show is, as always, FREE TO REBROADCAST, please send a notification if you air it. This week's show is up early because I'll be giving a poetry reading on Thursday night. This week's show has 14 stories, a bit more news-oriented. The next show will be up next Friday (May 25) by 9am PDST.

We begin this week with Radio Netherlands- a number of Latin American nations have brought lawsuits against the U.S. tobacco companies; the former Peruvian spy chief was given a $15 million golden handshake by former President Fujimori (now exiled in Japan); the U.N. estimates that 90% of crimes in Mexico go unpunished; a story about Palestine's anniversary of \"the Great Catastrophe.\"

From the Voice of Russia, a story about how much U.S. taxpayers will spend on the National Missle Defense system.

Four stories from China Radio International: China's response to the National Missle Defense system; China is urging Japan to clean up the chemical weapons they left on Chinese soil; China and North Korea want Japan to stop \"white-washing\" in their educational texts the atrocities they committed; China says Taiwan has no right to take part in the W.H.O. as a separate nation.

A European press review from Germany's Radio Deutsche Welle on the results of the presidential election in Italy.

From Radio Havana Cuba: a U.N. envoy to Guatemala finds massive corruption and impunity in the justice system; the Nicaraguan president is further accused of amassing a huge personal fortune; an opinion piece about electoral fraud in the U.S.; and Friends of the Earth give their annual Hypocrisy award to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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