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April 2006
 4/28
Has Global Oil Production Reached Maximum Capacity? A Debate
on Peak Oil; Jesse Jackson on Race Comments by New White House
Press Secretary Tony Snow: "An Attempt to Make the Quest
for Racial Justice Illegitimate"; March for Peace, Justice
and Democracy Scheduled in New York; Immigrant Rights Groups
Call for Massive Nationwide General Work Strike and Economic
Boycott; Tens of Thousands Expected for DC Demonstration Against
Darfur Genocide; Raging Grannies Acquitted in New York;
4/27
EXCLUSIVE: Nixon White House Counsel John Dean and Pentagon
Papers Leaker Daniel Ellsberg on Watergate and the Abuse of
Presidential Power from Nixon to Bush; The Assassination of
Digna Ochoa: A Look at the Life and Death of the Renowned
Mexican Human Rights Lawyer;
4/26
Nat Hentoff on the Government Crackdown on Information From
Whistleblowers to Journalists; FBI Seeks to Seize Control
of Files of Deceased Investigative Journalist Jack Anderson;
Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg to Government
Insiders: Risk Prison to Leak Information Exposing Illegal
Government Actions; Chernobyl 20 Years Later: New Report Finds
Death Toll From Nuclear Disaster Close to 100,000;
4/25
Nepal King Agrees to Reinstate Parliament Amidst Massive Pro-Democracy
Protests; Antonia Juhasz on The Bush Agenda: Invading the
World, One Economy at a Time; The Peace Patriots: New Film
Documents Dissent in a Time of War;
4/24
Nagin, Landrieu Face Run-Off in New Orleans Election, Tens
of Thousands of Displaced Residents Barred from Voting; FEMA's
Dirty Little Secret: A Rare Look Inside the Renaissance Village
Trailer Park, Home to Over 2,000 Hurricane Katrina Evacuees;
NYC Union Chief Roger Toussaint Remains Defiant Hours Before
Heading to Jail for Leading Transit Strike;
4/21
Immigration Crackdown: 1,200 Undocumented Workers Detained
Across U.S.; Democracy Now! Interviews New Orleans Mayoral
Candidates Mitch Landrieu and Ray Nagin; Overthrow: America's
Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq;
4/20
Blackwater in the Crosshairs: The Families of Four Private
Security Contractors Killed in Fallujah File a Ground-Breaking
Lawsuit;
4/19
Israel Holds Hamas-Led PA Directly Responsible for Tel Aviv
Attack as Occupied Territories Starved of International Aid;
Legendary Nigerian Writer Wole Soyinka on Oil in the Niger
Delta, the Effect of Iraq on Africa and His New Memoir;
4/18
Outrage in Milwaukee Over Acquittal by All-White Jury of Police
Officers Charged in Vicious Beating; Darfur Refugee and Top
UN Envoy for Prevention of Genocide Discuss Humanitarian Crisis
in Sudan and Role of International Community; Legendary Nigerian
Writer Wole Soyinka: Darfur Crisis "A Blot on the Conscience
of the World";
4/17
Retired Colonel Sam Gardiner on Iran War Plans: "The
Issue is Not Whether the Military Option Would Be Used But
Who Approved the Start of Operations Already"; Fmr. Top
Italian News Anchor Lilli Gruber on the Italy Elections, Media
Monopoly and Beating Berlusconi for a Seat in European Parliament;
Jailed Palestinian Professor Sami Al-Arian to Be Deported
After Prosecutors Fail to Convict Him on a Single Charge;
4/14
Thousands of Protesters, Journalists, Lawyers Arrested in
Nepal as Mass Pro-Democracy Demonstrations Continue Against
King; Part II: The End of the Internet? Net Neutrality Threatened
by Cable, Telecom Interests; Iraqi CBS Cameraman Released
After 1 Year Imprisonment by U.S. Forces;
4/13
Village Voice Shakeup: Top Investigative Journalist Fired,
Prize-Winning Writers Resign Following Merger with New Times
Media; The End of the Internet? Net Neutrality Threatened
by Cable, Telecom Interests;
4/12
Seymour Hersh: Bush Administration Planning Possible Major
Air Attack on Iran; French Student Leaders Hail 'Historic
Victory' After Mass Protests Force Government to Abandon Controversial
Youth Job Law; Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Refuses
to Concede Defeat Despite Official Election Results; Investigative
Reporter Greg Palast: U.S. Energy Dept. Concludes Venezuela
Could Have Biggest Oil Reserves in OPEC;
4/11
Immigrant Rights Protests Rock the Country: Up to 2 Million
Take to the Streets in the Largest Wave of Demonstrations
in U.S. History; Publisher of Texas Spanish-Language Daily
on Immigrant Protests: "This is a Personal Issue...A
True Political Mobilization"; Dallas High School Student
Describes Organizing Mass Walkout; Eighth Grader Commits Suicide
After Being Threatened by School Official With Jail Time for
Organizing Walkouts; Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson Reacts
to Unprecedented Immigrant Rights March; Immigrant Rights
Marches Likened to Second Civil Rights Movement;
4/10
Historic African-American New Orleans Church Reopened After
Weeks Of Protests & Rectory Sit-In; New Orleans Residents
and Evacuees Blast State of Schools, Housing, Jobs at Mayoral
Forum; "Poor People, Disabled People, People of Color
Are Not Welcomed Back to New Orleans" - Activists Paint
Grim Picture of Struggling City;
4/7
Libby Says Bush Authorized Leaks of Highly Classified Iraq
Intel to Bolster Case for War; Amy Goodman Questions Fmr.
Chief Military Spokesman in Iraq About U.S. Killing, Detaining
of Journalists and Planting of News Stories in Iraqi Press;
Robert Fisk on Iraq, Palestine and the Failure of the U.S.
Corporate Media to Challenge Authority;
4/6
Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed... How Corporate-Funded
Propaganda Is Airing On Local Newscasts As "News";
"The Queen of the VNR" Robin Raskin Reveals Why
She Appears In Corporate-Sponsored "News Segments"
& Why She Feels Stations Need To Disclose Who Is Funding
the VNRs; FCC Commissioner Says Broadcasting VNRs Without
Disclosure May Violate Federal Law;
4/5
Military Tribunals Resume at Guantanamo Despite Pending Supreme
Court Case on Legality of Hearings; Inside the Resistance:
Leading Arab Journalist Zaki Chehab on the Iraqi Insurgency
and the Future of the Middle East;
4/4
The Hammer Leaving Congress: DeLay Announces Resignation Amid
Controversy; Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Immigration is the Civil
Rights Issue of Our Time; Cynthia McKinney Accuses Capitol
Police of Racial Profiling; FBI Whistleblower Colleen Rowley
Warns Zacarias Moussaoui Trial May Mark Last Time Bush Administration
Use Courts to Try Terror Suspects; Former Liberian President
Charles Taylor Pleads Not Guilty Before UN-backed War Crimes
Tribunal In Sierra Leone; Duke University Rape Case Raises
Issues of Race and Class in Durham;
4/3
Immigration Reform, Big Business, NAFTA and the Impact on
the African American Workforce; "A Silent People Will
Never be Heard" - Tens of Thousands March for Immigrant
Rights in New York; Noam Chomsky on Iraq Troop Withdrawal,
Haiti, Democracy in Latin America and the Israeli Elections;
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