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June 2005
6/30
Fmr. NY Congressmember Holtzman Calls For President
Bush and His Senior Staff To Be Held Accountable for Abu Ghraib
Torture; Zimbabwe Amb. vs. Trade Union Leader on Forced Urban
Removal in Harare;
6/29
Fmr. Pentagon Insider Blasts Bush's Iraq Speech and
Repeated References to 9/11; Journalist Patrick Cockburn Calls
Iraq a "Bloody Mess" One Year After Handover of
"Sovereignty"; Mother of Soldier Killed in Iraq:
"The Best Way To Honor My Son's Death Would Be To Bring
The Troops Home"; Iraqi Blogger Criticizes Western Media
For Excluding Iraqi Voices; Rahul Mahajan: "Bush Trots
Out Bin Laden to Justify Anything He is Doing";
6/28
Protecting Whistleblowers or Shielding Government Wrongdoing?
Supreme Court on Journalists and Anonymous Sources; Eminent
Domain Ruling: Justices Uphold Taking Property for Private
Development; Supreme Court Rules to Hold Internet File-Sharing
Companies Liable; Supreme Court Rules Cable Companies Not
Required to Share Broadband Lines; Supreme Court Delivers
Split Verdict on Ten Commandments Displays;
6/27
Conservative Tehran Mayor Wins Upset Victory in Iran
Run-Off Presidential Election; Italy Judge Orders Arrest of
13 CIA Agents For Illegally Kidnapping Cleric in Milan; World
Tribunal on Iraq Condemns U.S. and Britain, Recognizes Right
of Iraqis to Resist Occupation; Beyond Marriage: A Progressive
Gay Rights Agenda;
6/24
Ex-Klansman Killen Gets Maximum 60-Yr Sentence for
Manslaughter Charge in 1964 Mississippi Killings; Pentagon
Developing Massive Database on Millions of U.S. Students;
Indian Leaders Offer to Settle Largest Class Action Lawsuit
Against Federal Government in U.S. History; House Restores
$100M to Public Broadcasting As CPB Taps Fmr. RNC Chair Pat
Harrison For President;
6/23
Diamond Giant De Beers Opens First U.S. Store Amid
Protests Over Eviction of Bushmen in Botswana; Gloria Steinem
Remembers Feminist Writer and Activist Andrea Dworkin; Milk
Money: How Corporate Interests Shaped Government Health Policy
for Women;
6/22
Bill Moyers: "The Radical Right Wing is Very Close
to Achieving a Longtime Goal of Undermining the Independence
of Public Broadcasting"
6/21
Private Warriors: New PBS Doc Questions Role of Military
Contractors in Iraq; "I Will Go On Until I Have Even
the Slightest Hope of Justice" - Rare Broadcast Interview
With Pakistani Rape Survivor Mukhtar Mai;
6/20
Iran Presidential Race Heads to Unprecedented Runoff
in Election Marred by Fraud Allegations; Bush's Environment
Chief: From the Oil Lobby to the White House to ExxonMobil;
6/17
PBS TV Station President Warns CPB Funding Cuts Will
Launch "Spiral of Death for Public Broadcasting";
Downing Street and Beyond: Hearing Builds Momentum for Full
Investigation; British Father of Soldier Killed in Iraq: "My
Son Died For a Lie"; Iran Votes in Presidential Election;
6/16
Crackdown on Dissent in Ethiopia; South African Activist
Dennis Brutus Calls on Barclays Bank to Pay Reparations for
Apartheid Profits; As CPB Faces Massive Funding Cuts, A Look
Back at the National Media Reform Conference;
6/15
The Downing Street Memo Comes To Washington; Conyers
Blasts "Deafening Sound of Silence"; The Untold
Story of Emmett Louis Till: New Documentary Uncovers Evidence
in 1955 Murder;
6/14
Senate Apologizes For Not Enacting Anti-Lynching Legislation,
A Look at Journalist and Anti-Lynching Crusader Ida B. Wells;
Strange Fruit: Anthem of the Anti-Lynching Movement; Mississippi
Trial Begins in 1964 Civil Rights Killings;
6/13
Following Years of Protests, U.S. & G8 Nations
Agree To Cancel Debt For 18 of the World’s Poorest Countries;
FBI Whistleblower: White Supremacists Are Major Domestic Terrorist
Threat; Iraqi Oil Workers Fight Privatization and Occupation;
6/10
New Bolivian President Sworn in After Weeks of Mass
Rebellion; Anti-Sweatshop Activist and Chief Nicaragua Negotiator
on CAFTA Debate Central America Free Trade;
6/9
Patriot Act Two Passed by Senate Intelligence Committee;
White House Environmental Chief Cooney Watered Down Climate
Reports; MOSAIC: World News From The Middle East;
6/8
Salih Booker on Africa Debt: The Poorest Regions in
the World Have Subsidized the Richest; French Journalist Describes
Mistreatment by U.S. Forces During Siege of Fallujah; French
Reporter Kidnapped by Iraqi Resistance For 4 Months Says Bush
Brought Al Qaeda to Iraq;
6/7
Mass Indigenous-led Rebellion Forces Bolivian President
to Resign; Supreme Court Rules Against Medical Marijuana Use;
Another U.S. War Resister Flees to Canada To Avoid Fighting
in Iraq Via The New 'Underground Railroad';
6/6
The Smoking Bullet in the Smoking Gun: Bush Began Iraq
Invasion in 2002; After the Downing Street Memo: The Case
for Impeachment Builds; Son of Antiwar State Senator Becky
Lourey Killed in Iraq;
6/3
Top Journalist Killed in Lebanon, Opposition Calls
For President to Quit; Indigenous Uprising: The Rebellion
Grows in Bolivia; Famed Brazilian Artist Augusto Boal on the
"Theater of the Oppressed";
6/2
Senators George McGovern and Mike Gravel Reflect on
How Deep Throat Helped Bring Down the Nixon Presidency by
Exposing the Watergate Scandal; Jennifer Dohrn: I Was The
Target Of Illegal FBI Break-Ins Ordered by Mark Felt aka "Deep
Throat"; Investigative Journalist David Wise on the Significance
of Watergate, Anonymous Sources and the Tug-of-War Between
Civil Liberties and National Security;
6/1
Sudan Arrests Two Officials With Doctors Without Borders
Following Report of Widespread Rapes in Darfur; CIA Secretly
Restores Ties to Sudan Despite Ongoing Human Rights Abuses
in Darfur; Guantanamo Bay: A "Gulag Of Our Times"
or a "Model Facility"? A Debate on the U.S. Prison
& Amnesty International;
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