The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays

10.08.04 - 6:00pm

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Pacifica Radio’s live coverage and analysis of the second Presidential Debates.

10.07.04 - 6:00pm

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Suspected car bombs strike three red sea resorts in Egypt where Israelis are vacationing…. .at least 30 are feared dead in the biggest explosion at the Hilton Hotel in Taba Rockets hit the Sheraton Hotel in Baghdad where foreign contractors and journalists are housed. . . . .there are no deaths or serious injuries. . … Continued

10.06.04 - 6:00pm

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The chief U.S. weapons inspector says Iraq had no stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons and its nuclear program had deteriorated before last year’s U.S. invasion …President Bush had cited Iraq’s purported weapons program to justify the invasion. . . Israel presses forward with its weeklong assault on Gaza — the biggest and bloodiest during … Continued

10.04.04 - 6:00pm

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Dozens are dead in Israel’s massive offensive in the Gaza Strip. ..arab nations ask the U.N. Security Council to intervene. .. the U.S. defends Israel’s military action U.S. military forces battle Iraqi resistance fighters in Baghdad’s Sadr City and launch yet more air stakes on the rebellious city of Fallujah…in Baghdad and Mosul, car bombings … Continued

10.03.04 - 6:00pm

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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vows to continue the invasion of the Gaza Strip, which already has killed-dozens of Palestinians… U.S. and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces say they’ve defeated Iraqi insurgents in Samarra… Forest activists turn out in Oregon to try to stop logging in the Klamath-Siskyou region… other forest activists demonstrate in British Columbia against … Continued

10.02.04 - 6:00pm

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Israel hits Palestinian militants hard on the third bloody day of a massive Israel incursion into the Gaza Strip’s largest refugee camp. . . . The Justice for Palestine Coalition host’s a day-long human rights conference about the situation in Palestine. . . . A Southern California peace activist is launching a hunger strike to … Continued

10.01.04 - 6:00pm

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A Day after the Presidential debate, the debate over Iraq goes on. On the campaign trail as challenger John Kerry says President Bush has no plan to end the mess

09.29.04 - 6:00pm

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Hundreds of hotel workers walk off the job in a strike targeting four San Francisco hotels. Hotels not affected by the walkout aren’t saying whether they’ll lock out their workers in response. In a judicial blow to the Bush Administration, a federal judge rules against some of the expanded surveillance powers granted to the FBI … Continued

09.28.04 - 6:00pm

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Two female Italian hostages released in Iraq along with kidnapped Iraqis and Egyptians.. The release of two French journalists may be near …. but the fighting goes on with U.S. strikes on Fallujah and in Sadr City in Baghdad An intelligence report issued to President Bush in January of 2003 warned him that a U.S. … Continued

09.27.04 - 6:00pm

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U.S. air strikes cause dozens of casualties in Fallujah and Sadr City… while Iraqi fighters set off two more car bombs targeting Iraqi national guardsmen and a police academy… Israeli air strikes in Gaza kill seven Palestinians… Bush Administration .officials say the FBI is conducting thousands of’ security interviews to thwart a possible Al Qaeda … Continued