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September 2005
 9/30
Longtime GOP Fundraiser and NPR Critic Elected to Head
CPB; Local Public Access TV Under Attack From Trio of Congressional
Bills; New Orleans Evacuees Blast Lack of Any Aid or Relief
Weeks After Katrina; Head of Small Relief Agency Blasts Red
Cross "Money Pit";
9/29
DeLay Hammered by Campaign Finance Indictment, Steps
Down as House Majority Leader; SEC Opens Formal Investigation
of Frist into Allegations of Insider Trading; FBI Killing
of Puerto Rican Independence Leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios Sparks
Outpouring of Anti-US Sentiment;
9/28
Bush's "Brownie": Former FEMA Head Michael
Brown Said He Warned Bush Directly Before Hurricane Struck;
Homeland Security Chief Chertoff, Not Brown, Was Responsible
For Federal Response To Huricane Katrina; Lott's Bad Bet:
Fomer Senate Majority Leader Blocked Moves to Protect Mississippi
Coast; William Arkin on the Increasing Military Role in Emergency
Response; St. Patrick's Four Acquitted of Federal Conspiracy
Charges;
9/27
After the Hurricane: Where Have All the Prisoners Gone?
More Than 500 From New Orleans Jail Still Unaccounted For;
Has the Government Abandoned New Orleans' Top Black Colleges?;
Al Jazeera Spain Correspondent Sentenced to Prison on Charges
of Collaborating with al Qaeda;
9/26
Military Families Join Hundreds of Thousands of Anti-War
Protesters Rallying in Washington; Actor Jessica Lange Speaks
Out at Anti-War Protest in DC; Former U.S. Attorney General
Ramsey Clark Calls For Impeachment of President Bush; Rep.
Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) on the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina;
Palestinian-American Poet Suheir Hammad: “Of Refuge
and Language”; Loiusiana Native at Anti-War Protest:
“Do Not Allow the Rebuilding of Lives in the Gulf Coast
to Be Another Profit”; NBA Player Etan Thomas Censures
Bush Administration, Outlines Impact on Poor; FBI Shoots Dead
Puerto Rican Nationalist Leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios; Dozens
of Peace Activists Arrested During Protest at Pentagon;
9/23
Disaster Profiteering: Purging the Poor in the New
New Orleans; Blackwater Down: Fresh From Iraq, Private Security
Forces Roam the Streets of an American City With Impunity;
Big, Easy Iraqi-Style Contracts Flood New Orleans; Pacifica
Station KPFT Weathers Hurricane Rita;
9/22
St. Patrick's Four Trial: Civilian Resisters Face Federal
Conspiracy Charges; Governor Bill Richardson on Hurricanes,
Immigration, Iraq, Wen Ho Lee and More;
9/21
Cuba's Number 2, Ricardo Alarcon, Blasts 'Neoliberal'
Katrina Response; Alarcon Demands Immediate Release of 'Cuban
5' : 'They Are Now Kidnapped'; Alarcon Defends Imprisonment
of 'Independent Librarians' in Cuba, Cites Washington's Funding
of Anti-Castro Groups in Havana;
9/20
Venezuela's President Chavez Offers Cheap Oil to the
Poor...of the United States; Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari
Maathai and Son of Executed Nigerian Activist Ken Wiwa Discuss
Oil and the Environment;
9/19
Hugo Chavez: "If the Imperialist Government of
the White House Dares to Invade Venezuela, the War of 100
Years Will be Unleashed in South America"; Jesse Jackson:
Venezuela "Invests in Its People...U.S. Invests In Tax
Cuts for the Wealthy and a War that does not Make Sense in
Iraq";
9/16
New Orleans Police Harass Independent Journalist; The
Militarization of New Orleans: Jeremy Scahill Reports from
Louisiana; George Galloway vs. Christopher Hitchens on the
Bush Administration Response to Hurricane Katrina; Trapped
in New Orleans: Emergency Medical Worker Describes How Police
Prevented Evacuation;
9/15
Senate Dems Frustrated by Roberts' Refusal to Answer
Questions on Wide Range of Topics;
9/14
Roberts Grilled on Voting Rights Act; Roberts Testifies
Roe v. Wade is "Settled As a Precedent" But Refuses
to Say Whether He Would Reverse Abortion Ruling; Texas Death
Row Prisoner Scheduled to Die Today: Lawyers Seek Last-Minute
Stay;
9/13
Roberts at High Court Confirmation Hearing: "I
Have No Agenda"; Senate Dems Call For Open Questioning
of Roberts as GOPs Encourage Nominee to Avoid Controversial
Topics; Honduran Immigrants in New Orleans: Fleeing Hurricanes
Mitch, Katrina and Now the U.S. Government; After Katrina,
Where Have All the Prisoners Gone?;
9/12
New Orleans Activist Points to Neglected Corpse as
U.S. Military Passes Off Blame; New Orleans Resident Discusses
Race and Looting at Circle K; New Orleans "Holdout"
Compares U.S. Military Evacuating Residents to Nazi Germany;
New Orleans Resident Outlines the Seven Betrayals by Government
and Rescue Operations; New Orleans Evacuee Compares Louisiana
Shelter to Jail; Overkill: Feared Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy
in New Orleans; NY Firefighter in New Orleans : "This
Is Much Worse, This Dwarfs 9/11";
9/9
Is the Government Trying to Stem the Tide of Images
From New Orleans by Threatening Journalists?; FEMA Promotes
Pat Robertson Charity; Crisis Profiteering: Dick Cheney, Halliburton
and Hurricane Katrina; Democracy Now! Engineer Mike DiFilippo
Lends A Hand in Alabama and Mississippi;
9/8
FEMA Chief Brown: Former head of the Arabian Horse
Association Qualified to Manage Agency?; Why FEMA Failed:
The Bush Administration and Disaster Relief; Politicizing
Disaster Relief: How FEMA Overcompensated Florida Citizens
in the Run-Up to the Presidential Election; Toxic Soup: The
Deadly Floodwaters of New Orleans; Depleted Disaster Aid:
Rejecting International Donations and the Using Resources
in Iraq;
9/7
Three Displaced New Orleans Residents Discuss Race
and Hurricane Katrina; Radio Astrodome: Independent Media
to Provide Critical Info for Displaced New Orleans Residents;
9/6
New Orleans Locals Rescue Their Neighbors in Absence
of Government Response; Bush Nominates Roberts to Replace
Rehnquist as Chief Justice; African American Residents Tell
Tales of Survival, Blast Racially-Skewed Government Response;
Missing in New Orleans: Voices of Those Seeking Loved Ones;
9/5
Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff Refuses
To Resign Over Handling Of Hurricane Katrina Relief; Louisiana
Offical: The Federal Gov't Has Abandoned Us; Survivors From
New Orleans Speak Out About Week of Horror; Kanye West: "Bush
Doesn't Care About Black People"; Rev. Al Sharpton: President
Bush's Response "Inexcusable"; New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin's Desperate Plea For Help; New Orleans Activist
Malik Rahim Blasts Mayor Nagin; DN! Producers Describe the
Devastation in New Orleans & The Survivors In Baton Rouge;
9/2
Nightmarish Scenes at New Orleans Convention Center;
Daily News Reporter in New Orleans: Scope of Destruction Much
Worse Than 9/11; White House Response to Gulf Coast Disaster
Sparks Criticism; Race in New Orleans: Shaping the Response
to Katrina?; Desperately Seeking Loved Ones Missing in New
Orleans; Historian: Government Relief Efforts to 1927 Mississippi
Flood Faster Than Katrina;
9/1
Bill Quigley in New Orleans Hospital: “No Water,
Sick, No Heat, Call Somebody for Help”; The Drowning
of New Orleans: Hurricane Devastation Was Predicted; Homeland
Emergency: Disaster Relief is Suffering Under New DHS Bureaucracy;
"Katrina's Real Name is Global Warming";
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