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January 2006
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Gore Vidal Delivers State of the Union: "Let the
Powers That Be Know There is Something Called We the People
of the U.S. and all Sovereignty Rests in Us."; Critics
Warn Bush's Upcoming Policies Will Worsen Health Care Crisis,
Hit Most Vulnerable Hardest; With Exxon Making a Record $5
Million Per Hour, a Look at Bush's Energy Policies Ahead of
His State of the Union; Civil Rights Icon Coretta Scott King,
1927-2006;
1/30
Harry Belafonte on Bush, Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and
Having His Conversations with Martin Luther King Wiretapped
by the FBI;
1/27
How Middle East Media Cover Hamas Victory: Mosaic Compiles
Arab T.V. News for U.S. Audience; Ford and GM Devastate Workers
by Slashing Jobs and Closing Plants; The Great Firewall of
China: Internet Companies Censor Material at Chinese Government's
Request;
1/26
Hamas Wins Sweeping Victory in Palestinian Parliamentary
Elections; How Israel and the United States Helped to Bolster
Hamas; U.S. Soldier Convicted of Murder Receives No Jail Time
While Nonviolent Antiwar Protesters Sentenced to Six Months
in Prison;
1/25
AG Gonzales' Defense Of U.S. Domestic Spy Program Draws
Protests and Criticism from Law Professors, Students; Iraqi
Journalist Ali Fadhil Describes Arrest by U.S. Forces: “They
Used Explosives and Shot Inside My Home”; EXCLUSIVE
- "Fallujah: The Real Story," Documentary by Iraqi
Journalist Captures the Horrors of the U.S. Siege;
1/24
NSA Expert Jim Bamford on Domestic Wiretapping: The
Bush Administration Has "Decided Simply to Violate the
Law"; Former NSA Head Gen. Hayden Grilled by Journalists
on NSA Eavesdropping on U.S. Citizens; Asst. Labor Secretary
Dye Walks Out of Mine Safety Hearing As West Virgnia Mine
Deaths Reach 14;
1/23
Evo Morales Sworn in as Bolivia's First Indigenous
President, Hails Election as End of "Colonial and Neo-Liberal
Era"; U.S. Gvt. Channels Millions Through National Endowment
for Democracy to Fund Anti-Lavalas Groups in Haiti;
1/20
Muslim Leaders in Iraq Call for Release of Kidnapped
U.S. Journalist Jill Carroll as Deadline Set by Captors Expires;
American Hostage: As Jill Carroll Remains Captive in Iraq,
Another Kidnapped U.S. Journalist Talks About the Remarkable
Battle That Won His Release;
1/19
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig
Murray on Why He Defied UK Foreign Office by Posting Classified
Memos Blasting U.S., British Support of Torture by Uzbek Regime;
1/18
Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005): The Legacy of the Former
Senator and Anti-War Presidential Candidate; Hugh Thompson's
Gunner Describes Pointing His Weapon at Fellow U.S. Soldiers
to Stop My Lai Massacre; Selling the Amazon For a Handful
of Beads: A Look at Secret Contracts Between Big Oil and the
Ecuadorian Military;
1/17
Fmr. Political Prisoner and Torture Survivor Michelle
Bachelet Elected as Chile's First Female President; Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf Sworn in as Liberia's New President, First
Elected Female Leader of Africa; Gore Calls For Special Counsel
on Eavesdropping, Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuits Challenging
Bush on NSA Wiretaps; Independent Journalist Reports on Ongoing
Violence in Haiti, Upcoming Elections;
1/16
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968: from "Beyond
Vietnam" to "I Have Been To The Mountaintop";
1/13
Crisis Over Iran's Nuclear Program Intensifies; Rebuilding
New Orleans: The Struggle Continues; FCC vs. The League of
Women Voters: A Look at the Case That Pitted Samuel Alito
Against Pacifica Radio;
1/12
Senators Grill Alito on Membership and Involvement
in Discriminatory Group; Alito Refuses to State Whether Roe
v. Wade is Settled Law; Alito Dismisses Foreign Law as Not
"Appropriate or Useful"; Feinstein Grills Alito
on Rulings in Key Environmental Cases;
1/11
Senators Question Alito on Past Statements and Rulings
on Abortion, Presidential Power and the Role of the Judiciary;
1/10
Abortion, Executive Power to Play Central Role in Senators'
Questioning of Alito at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing;
Top UN Envoy for Prevention of Genocide on Darfur: International
Community Must Do More to End Bloodshed, Insist Sudan Government
Cooperate With ICC; Doctors Without Borders Aid Worker Describes
Dire Humanitarian Situation in Southern Sudan;
1/9
Fmr. NARAL Head Kate Michelman on Alito and Her Own
Pre-Roe v Wade Experience Getting an Abortion and Consent
From the Husband Who Abandoned Her; Abortion, Presidential
Power and Civil rights: A Debate on the Nomination of Samuel
Alito to the Supreme Court; Conservative Christian Organizations
Stage Pro-Alito Rally at Justice Sunday III; Jesse Jackson
on Samuel Alito, Domestic Spying and Poverty in America;
1/6
Human Rights Watch Calls on Bush to Cut Aid To Israel
Over Expansion of Illegal Settlements; An Imperial President?
Bush Claims Right To Ignore New Law Banning Torture; Juan
Gonzalez Hails the New York City Transit Strike as Success;
Union Fought Off City Attempts to Redo Pension Plan;
1/5
Were the Deaths of the 12 Coal Miners Preventable?
A Look At the History of Safety Violations at the Sago Mine;
Whistleblower Warns the Bush Administration Is Cutting Back
Mining Safety Regulations; Ariel Sharon Suffers Major Stroke:
Uri Avnery & Rabbi Michael Lerner Discuss the Future of
Israel;
1/4
The Biggest Congressional Scandal in Over a Century?
GOP Lobbyist Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty to Three Felony Counts;
Congress on Edge As Abramoff Agrees to Testify About Widespread
Corruption on Capitol Hill; Native American Tribes Attempt
to Recover After Being Defrauded of Tens of Millions by Abramoff;
Forced Abortions & Sweatshops: A Look at Jack Abramoff's
Ties to the South Pacific Island of Saipan & How Tom DeLay
Became An Advocate for Sweatshop Factory Owners;
1/3
National Security Agency Whistleblower Warns Domestic
Spying Program Is Sign the U.S. is Decaying Into a “Police
State”; Former “Economic Hit Man” John Perkins
on “The First Truly Global Empire” and its Impact
on Latin America;
1/2
2005 in Review Pt. 2: Power, Politics and Resistance;
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