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August 2005
 8/31
Report from Inside New Orleans Hospital: "Who
is Left Behind?...The Sickest, The Oldest, The Poorest, The
Youngest"; Journalists Under Fire in Iraq: Reuters Chief
Debates Pentagon Over Slain and Detained Media Workers; The
Day Casey Died: Cindy Sheehan, Journalist and Wounded Soldier
Remember the Battle of Sadr City;
8/30
Dozens Dead as Hurricane Katrina Slams into Gulf Coast:
A Look at Extreme Weather, Oil Development and Who Gets Hit
the Hardest; Environmental Pollution Along the Mississippi:
From the Headwater to the Delta; Environmental Racism: How
Minority Communities Are Exposed to "Toxic Soup";
Katrina Rescue Operations: Are National Guard and Equipment
Stretched Thin by Iraq War?; Juan Cole on U.S.-Saudi Relations;
8/29
Is Global Warming Causing More Devastating Hurricanes
Worldwide?; Pro-Bush Counter Protesters Rally in Crawford;
Military Mothers Call for Troop Pullout on Last Weekend of
Camp Casey; The Posada Files: El Paso Judge to Determine Whether
Bay of Pigs Was Terrorist Act;
8/26
20 Massacred in Port-au-Prince Soccer Stadium, Jailed
Jean-Juste Mulls Presidential Run; Grieving Military Mothers
Rally Around Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey; 50 Years After the
Murder of Emmett Till, the Investigation Continues; Bob Dylan
Performing "The Ballad of the Emmett Till" on Pacifica
Radio's WBAI in 1962;
8/25
Bush Rejects Calls for Immediate Withdrawal from Iraq
as Approval Rating Plummets to New Low; Cindy's Crawford:
Sheehan Returns to Camp Casey for Remaining Days of Bush's
Vacation; Exclusive: Joan Baez Performs "Joe Hill"
at Camp Casey; Iraq Veterans, Military Mothers and Peace Activists
Discuss Bush and Iraq; From Death Row: Texas Set to Execute
First African-American Woman Since Civil War;
8/24
The Cannon of Christianity: Pat Robertson Calls for
the Assassination of Hugo Chavez; Hybrid Cars: How Alternative
Technologies Are Shaping the Future of Car Travel;
8/23
Juan Cole's 10-Point Plan for U.S. Troop Withdrawal
From Iraq; Draft Constitution May Strip Iraqi Women of Basic
Human Rights; Rev. Joseph Lowery: "The Mothers in Iraq
Call Us the Terrorists";
8/22
Cindy's Crawford: Camp Casey Continues to Grow Despite
Sheehan's Absence; Pro-Bush Demonstrators Mount "I Give
a Sheet" Campaign; "If Bush Is Right, Martin Luther
King Jr. Was Wrong" - Activist Rev. Peter Johnson Speaks
at Camp Casey; Mother of First Soldier from Georgia Killed
in Iraq Also Demands to Speak with Bush; Former Homeless Veteran
Describes How Horrors of War Continues to Plague Soldiers
at Home; Military Wife Speaks Out on Eve of Husband's Deployment;
Brother of First Pennsylvania National Guardsman Killed in
Combat in 60 years Speaks at Camp Casey; Mother of Soldier
Serving in Iraq Calls Continued U.S. Troop Presence a "Moral
Sin";
8/19
Cindy Sheehan: "I Was Just a Spark That Lit This
Fire"; Army Vet Ann Wright Running "Field Operations
for Peace, Not War"; Mother Nadia McCaffrey Showed the
World a Casualty of the Iraq War; State Senator Becky Lourey
Lost Her Son in Iraq, Now She’s Fighting Against the
War; Navy Officer Charlie Anderson: "We Don't Need Yellow
Ribbons, We Need Help, We Need Jobs"; F.B.I. Whistle-Blower
Colleen Rowley Says No to Occupation; Crawford Peace House
Supports Camp Casey;
8/18
Conyers Calls For Investigation Into Ascroft's Role
In CIA Leak Case; Media Culpa: Should The New York Times and
Time Magazine Have Exposed Karl Rove's Role in the Outing
of Valerie Plame?; Conflict of Interest? Roberts' Interviews
with White House Officials Prior to Gitmo Ruling Raise Questions
About Impartiality;
8/17
Israel Begins Forced Removal of Jewish Settlers From
Gaza as Deadline Expires; As Unarmed IDF Soldiers Evacuate
Settlers, A Look at the Israeli Bulldozing of the Palestinian
Home that Killed Rachel Corrie; Debate on Gaza Withdrawal:
Palestinian Sociologist vs. the Zionist Organization of America;
8/16
Jewish Settlers Receive Hundreds of Thousands in Compensation
for Leaving Gaza While Palestinians Working for Them Get Nothing;
Voices in the Wilderness Ordered to Pay $20K for Bringing
Aid to Iraq; Groups Launch "People's Petition for an
Iraq Peace Plan"; Media Giant John H. Johnson Paved the
Way for Black-Owned Press;
8/15
Israeli Settlers Resist Gaza Pullout, Palestinians
Call for Withdrawal from West Bank; Aceh Peace Agreement Leaves
Indonesian Military in Place;
8/12
Women, Oil and the Role of the U.S. in Iraq's New Constitution;
Protest on the Range: Cindy Sheehan Calls for Mass Demos at
Bush's Crawford Ranch; FDR’s Grandson: At 70-Years-Old,
Social Security Will Be "Successful Right Through The
21st Century"; The Fire This Time: The Watts Rebellion
at 40;
8/11
Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental
Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo,
Abu Ghraib and Beyond;
8/10
Landmark Decision Overturns Cuba 5 Convictions; Maher
Arar Fights to Keep Torture Suit Against U.S. Government Alive;
Did Speaker Hastert Accept Turkish Bribes to Deny Armenian
Genocide and Approve Weapons Sales?;
8/9
Energy Bill: Fueling Corporations/Depleting Native
Lands; Nagasaki at 60: The Bombers and the Bombed; Leading
Cigarette Expert: “The Tobacco Industry Helped Kill
Peter Jennings”;
8/8
Harry Belafonte, Stevie Wonder Speak/Sing Out for Voting
Rights; 40th Anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act: Thousands
March to Keep the Vote Alive; NAACP Legal Defense Fund Responds
to Supreme Court Nominee Roberts Push to Limit Voting Rights
Act; SNCC Activist Ekwueme Michael Thelwell: "People
Fought, Died And Bled for the Right to Vote";
8/5
Hiroshima Cover-up: Stripping the War Department's
Timesman of His Pulitzer; The Atomic Bombers Speak; Long-Suppressed
Nagasaki Article Discovered; Film Suppressed; The US Government
Classifies Hiroshima Nagasaki Footage For Decades; From Oak
Ridge to Lawrence Livermore to Los Alamos: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Remembered; Hiroshima Survivor: No More Hiroshimas, No More
Nagasakis, No More War;
8/4
Exclusive: New Information May Reveal Key Details on
Judith Miller's Role in the Rove/CIA Scandal; Presidential
Hopefuls Veto Emergency Contraception Despite FDA Support;
8/3
Victory in Defeat? Anti-Bush Iraq War Vet Nearly Wins
Republican District; Bush's Exit Plan: Fomenting War in Iraq;
War and Peace Corps: Are Pentagon Ties Endangering Volunteers?;
CIA Supports "Secret" CIA Scholarships;
8/2
Dozens Die in Khartoum Riots Following Death of Sudanese
VP Garang; Death in the House of Saud: King Fahd 1921-2005;
"John Bolton is to Diplomacy as Jack the Ripper was to
Surgery";
8/1
Niger Faces Major Food Emergency; The FDA Approves
a Race-Specific Drug for the First Time in History. Will it
Address the Real Health Issues Facing African-Americans?;
Activist Damu Smith: Fighting Colon Cancer and Systemic Racial
Disparities in American Healthcare;
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