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February 2005
2/28
Chaos and Bloodshed Grip Haiti One Year After the Coup;
The Haiti Coup One Year Later: A Look Back at the U.S. Role
in the Overthrow of Aristide; Intelligence Inc: The Privatization
of U.S. Interrogations at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and Afghanistan;
2/25
Justice Dept. Accuses U.S. Citizen Jailed in Saudi
Arabia for 20 Months Without Charge of Plotting to Kill Bush;
Shocking Weapons: Taser Launches Campaign to Market New Model
to U.S. Public; U.S. Peace Activist Brian Avery Returns to
Israel Two Years After Being Shot in the Face;
2/24
Katrina vanden Heuvel on U.S.-Russian Relations; Archbishop
Desmond Tutu on South Africa, Poverty and Militarism; Race
and Imprisonment in Texas: The Disparate Incarceration of
Latinos and African Americans in the Lone Star State; Remembering
Latino Journalist Ruben Salazar Who Was Gunned Down in 1970
by the LAPD;
2/23
Juan Cole on Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Iraqi Elections
and the Future of Islamic Law in Iraq; Hunter S. Thompson
(1937-2005) on the Iraq War & the Bush Presidency; Jailed
War Resister Camilo Mejia Speaks Out After Spending Nine Months
in Military Prison;
2/22
Bush Calls for "New Era of Trans-Atlantic Unity"
Between the US and Europe; Good Pills, Bad Pills: Dr. Sidney
Wolfe Condemns FDA Advisors For Backing the Sale of Vioxx,
Celebrex and Bextra Despite Known Dangers; Murder in the Amazon:
A U.S.-Born Nun and Environmentalist is Gunned Down in Brazil
For Opposing Rainforest Logging;
2/21
The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the
Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black
Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from
His Autobiography
2/18
Promoting the 'Ambassador of Torture': Bush Nominates
Negroponte for Intel Czar; The Justice of Roosting Chickens:
Ward Churchill Speaks;
2/17
Iran in the Crosshairs?: As U.S. Increases Threats,
Iran Vows to Form "United Front" With Syria; New
Highly Resistant Strain of HIV Diagnosed in NYC; Outsourcing
Torture: The Secret History of America's "Extraordinary
Rendition"; The CBS Three Won't Slink Off;
2/16
Robert Fisk on the Beirut Bombing, U.S.-Syrian Relations
and the Iraqi Elections; McLibel: British Activists Sued for
Distributing McDonald's Flyers Win Court Case; McDonald's
To Pay $8.5 Million For Misleading Public About Use of Trans
Fat;
2/15
Ex-Lebanese Prime Minister Assassinated in Car Bombing;
Clare Short On Why She Quit Tony Blair's Government In Protest
of the Iraq War & How British Intelligence Spied On UN
Chief Kofi Annan; Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response
to War and Occupation;
2/14
Remembering Ossie Davis 1917-2005: Maya Angelou, Harry
Belafonte, Bill Clinton Pay Tribute to the Famed Actor &
Civil Rights Activist;
2/11
Convicted Attorney Lynne Stewart: "You Can't Lock
Up the Lawyers"; Iraqi-American Doctor Convicted of Violating
Iraq Sanctions;
2/10
No Place to Hide: Award-Winning Journalist Robert O'Harrow
Goes Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society;
Nepal: The Completion of a Coup?;
2/9
Noam Chomsky: U.S. Might Face "Ultimate Nightmare"
in Middle East Where Shiites Control Most of World's Oil;
2/8
Sharon & Abbas Hold Summit & Call For End of
Violence; Bush's New $2.5 Trillion Budget Boosts Pentagon
Spending, Slashes Domestic Programs; Copyright Issues Block
Broadcast of Award-Winning Civil Rights Documentary "Eyes
on the Prize";
2/7
Ossie Davis 1917-2005: A Tribute to the Actor and Civil
Rights Activist; Danny Glover on Ossie Davis: "He Saw
No Separation Between His Social Commitment and His Artistic
Commitment"; Ossie Davis Eulogizes Malcolm X in 1965:
Malcolm Taught "Us to Stand Up Off Of Our Knees to Address
Ourselves to the Truth"; Ossie Davis Remembers Martin
Luther King in 1968: King Was "One of the Bravest Black
Men We Have Lost in This Struggle"; Ossie Davis Protesting
the Iraq War: "I Choose to Live for Brotherhood and Not
For Folly"; Mumia Abu Jamal Remembers Ossie Davis: "A
Lion Has Fallen";
2/4
Tort Reform: The Big Payoff for Corporations, Curbing
the Lawsuits that Hold them Accountable; Study: Soaring Medical
Bills Account for Half of All U.S. Bankruptcies; Bush Taps
Iran-Contra Figure Elliot Abrams to Promote Democracy; Black
History Month Tribute to Paul Robeson;
2/3
State of the Union 2005: Bush Pushes Aggressive Foreign
Policy of "Spreading Democracy"; The New Bush Agenda:
A Debate on Social Security with Paul Krugman vs. the American
Enterprise Institute; Chertoff's Role in Aug. 2002 Torture
Memo Called into Question at Confirmation Hearing;
2/2
Should the Mass Kiling in Sudan Be Considered a Genocide?
A Debate Between Africa Action and Kofi Annan’s Adviser;
Debate on Alberto Gonzales Continues; Democrats Lash Out At
His Role in Approving Torture; No Mercy: Gonzales Clemency
Memos to Bush Facilitated Texas Executions;
2/1
EXCLUSIVE: British Human Rights Lawyer Gareth Pierce
Says Torture "Is the Recipe for the Destruction"
of International Human Rights; World Social Forum 2005: Speakers
Take on Bush, Iraq War in Porto Alegre;
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