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February 2006
 2/28
Exclusive: Former UN Human Rights Chief in Iraq Says
US Violating Geneva Conventions, Jailing Innocent Detainees;
Six Months After Katrina, New Report Shows Poor Still Being
Left Behind; National Oral History Project StoryCorps Travels
America, Recording Stories of Ordinary People;
2/27
Total Information Awareness Lives On Inside the National
Security Agency; "Worse" Than Guantanamo: U.S. Expands
Secretive Prison Inside Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan; "They've
Ruined My Life": Torture Survivor Maher Arar Recalls
how U.S. Sent Him to Syria Where He Was Jailed and Tortured
For 10 Months;
2/24
Baghdad Imposes Daytime Curfew as Violence Escalates
Following Shiite Mosque Bombing; Venezuelan-Owned Citgo Faces
Congressional Inquiry For Offering Discounted Oil to U.S.
Poor; Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY) Criticizes FBI For Cracking
Down on Independence Movement in Puerto Rico; The News Dissector
Danny Schechter Calls For March 21 Protests Targeting Media's
Complicity in the Iraq War; CorpWatch's Pratap Chatterjee
on the Link Between the Iraq War and the White House's Support
for a Dubai-Owned Firm to Take Over U.S. Ports;
2/23
Legendary South African Journalist Allister Sparks
on Wiretapping and Torture, Under Apartheid and Bush;
2/22
EXCLUSIVE: Al Jazeera Reporters Give Bloody First Hand
Account of April ’04 U.S. Siege of Fallujah;
2/21
Civil Rights Activist Yuri Kochiyama Remembers Her
Life: From Internment Camps in the U.S. to the Assassination
of Malcolm X and Beyond; On the 41st Anniversary of the Assassination
of Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”;
2/20
Readings From Howard Zinn's "Voices of a People's
History of the United States";
2/17
Australian Report Reveals More Abu Ghraib Torture Photos,
Drawing Public Outrage; Salon.com Runs Abu Ghraib Torture
Photos Leaked from Internal Army Source; Professor McCoy Exposes
the History of CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the
War on Terror;
2/16
Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney Blasts Government For
Creating “New Underclass of Katrina Homeless”;
FEMA Fails Katrina Evacuees on Housing: Hotel Evictions Continue,
Promises of Trailers and Rental Assistance Unmet; Are New
Orleans Evacuees Being Denied the Right to Vote?; U.N. Report
Calls for the Closing of Guantanamo, Former Prison Chaplain
Yee Details Abuses;
2/15
As Cheney Victim Suffers Heart Attack, Questions Raised
About Secrecy and Cronyism; On Third Anniversary of Global
Protest Against Iraq War, A Look at “Challenging Empire:
How People, Governments, and the UN Defy U.S. Power”;
Self-Described Economic Hit Man John Perkins: “We Have
Created the World’s First Truly Global Empire”;
2/14
Fmr. Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami Debates
Outspoken Professor Norman Finkelstein on Israel, the Palestinians,
and the Peace Process; Fmr. Israeli Foreign Minister: "If
I were a Palestinian, I Would Have Rejected Camp David";
Norman Finkelstein on the "Not-so-New New Anti-Semitism"
and Shlomo Ben Ami on Terror, Torture, and Peace;
2/13
"I am a Renegade, an Outlaw, a Pagan" - Author,
Poet and Activist Alice Walker in Her Own Words;
2/10
Exclusive Interview: Murray Waas on How Cheney "Authorized"
Libby to Leak Classified Information; Why We Fight: New Film
Takes a Hard Look at the American War Machine From World War
II to Iraq; The Press, The President and the Privilege of
Power: Part II Of Our Conversation With Fired CBS "Memo-Gate"
Producer Mary Mapes;
2/9
Danish Newspaper At Heart of Controversy Rejected Drawings
Lampooning Jesus Christ; Editor of U.S. Daily Explains Why
He Published Mohammed Cartoons; As Muslim Outcry Grows, Questions
of Rights vs. Responsibilities Come To the Fold; Fired CBS
Producer Stands By Documents Showing Bush Neglected National
Guard Service;
2/8
Haitians Await Results of Election Amid Chaotic Voting
Conditions; Freed Haitian Priest Gerard Jean Juste on His
Imprisonment and the Haitian Elections; Last Tributes to Coretta
Scott King: Maya Angelou, Rev. Lowery, Pres. Jimmy Carter,
Bernice King Remember Civil Rights Pioneer;
2/7
Gonzales Grilled at Senate Hearing, Defends NSA Spy
Program; A Look at Gonzales' Testimony on NSA Spying, the
Role of Attorney General and the Power of the Executive; Freedom
of Speech or Incitement to Violence? A Debate Over the Publication
of Cartoons of Prophet Muhammed and the Global Muslim Protests;
2/6
"Grandpa" Al Lewis 1923-2006: Actor, Radio
Host and Lifelong Political Activist Dead at 82; Betty Friedan
1921-2006: Women's Rights Pioneer Helped Launch Modern-Day
Feminist Movement;
2/3
Democracy Now! in Doha...The Story Behind the Other
Downing Street Memo Where Bush Told Blair He Wanted to Bomb
Al Jazeera; Democracy Now! in Doha…"Why Did You
Want to Bomb Me Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair?": Al Jazeera
Director Demands More Information on Secret Memo;
2/2
Democracy Now! in Doha... How Arab TV Challenged the
News: A Look at Al Jazeera’s Origins; Democracy Now!
in Doha... The Opposite Direction: Why This Al Jazeera Talk
Show Draws Fire From Arab & Western Governments; Democracy
Now! in Doha... Al Jazeera Correspondent Ahmed Mansur On the
Horror of the U.S. Siege of Fallujah;
2/1
Bush Delivers Sixth State of The Union; International
Roundtable On State of The Union, State of The World;
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