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May 2006
 5/31
Electronic Voting Machine Study Exposes Most Serious Security
Flaws Ever Documented; Citizen Journalism: A Look at How Blogging
is Changing the Media Landscape from the Congo to Korea;
5/30
Haditha Massacre: Was it an Isolated Event and Did the Military
Try to Cover it Up?; East Timor Declares State Of Emergency
As Violence Spreads; Earthquake Death Toll Tops 5,400 in Indonesia;
200,000 Left Homeless;
5/29
Ex-British Navy Spokesperson Steve Tatham on "Losing
Arab Hearts and Minds: The Coalition, Al Jazeera and Muslim
Public Opinion";
5/26
Enron Execs Found Guilty on Multiple Conspiracy, Fraud Charges;
Enron: The Bush Connection; Enron Played Central Role in California
Energy Crisis; Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room;
5/25
Afghanistan in Turmoil: 330+ Killed in One Week, U.S. Bombing
Raids Continue, Taliban Seizing Control in Southern Region;
While Some See Compromise, Critics Say Senate Immigration
Bill Punishes Undocumented Immigrants; U.S. Court Rules Wrongfully-Held
Detainee Khaled El-Masri Can't Sue CIA For Kidnapping Him;
Special Memorial Day Preview...Fmr. British Navy Spokesman
Lieutenant Commander Steve Tatham on Losing Arab Hearts and
Minds;
5/24
President Bush Embraces “Bold” Israeli Plan To
Annex West Bank Settlements; House Palestinian Anti-Terrorism
Act: A Debate; Study Alleging Dominant Influence of Israeli
Lobby Sparks Heated Fallout; Retired Army Col. Charged With
Sedition For Handing Flyer on Anti-War Vietnam Vets;
5/23
Arundhati Roy on India, Iraq, U.S. Empire and Dissent;
5/22
UN Panel Calls for Bush Administration to Close Guantanamo
Bay Military Prison; Ex-Guantanamo Chaplain James Yee on Faith
and Patriotism Under Fire;
5/19
Hayden Defends Domestic Spy Program At Confirmation Hearing;
“Voices of Time”: Legendary Uruguayan Writer Eduardo
Galeano on Immigration, Latin America, Iraq, Writing –
and Soccer;
5/18
Confirmation Hearing Opens for CIA Nominee and Former NSA-Head
Michael Hayden; New Internet Legislation Would Force ISPs
To Track Customers' Online Activities; Will the Public Lose
its Right to Know About Toxic Releases by Industry?; Is the
U.S. Government Fueling Civil War in Somalia?;
5/17
FBI Launches Criminal Civil Rights Investigation of NYPD Over
RNC Protests; Ex-NSA Head Bobby Ray Inman on the National
Security Agency’s Domestic Surveillance Program: “This
Activity Was Not Authorized”; Church Committee Counsel
Frederick Schwarz on Corporate Involvement in Government Spying;
Baghdad ER: Documentary On US Military Hospital in Iraq Gets
Cold Reception From Army;
5/16
Freedom of the Press Under Attack: Government Begins Tracking
Phone Calls of Journalists; Militarizing the Border: Bush
Calls For 6,000 National Guard Troops to Deploy to U.S.-Mexican
Border; Hundreds Gather in Duncan Oklahoma to Protest Outside
Halliburton Shareholder Meeting;
5/15
Darfur: Inside the Crisis; Greg Palast on His New Book “Armed
Madhouse : Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush
Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08…”;
5/12
Three Major Telecom Companies Help US Government Spy on Millions
of Americans; The Yes Men Strike Again: Group Poses As Halliburton
Reps At “Catastrophic Loss” Conference; Mothers
Say No To War: Peace Activists Plan Mother’s Day Protest
Outside White House;
5/11
Georgetown Faculty Object to Appointment of Iraq War Architect
Douglas Feith as Professor in School of Foreign Service; Controversy
Brews at New School Over Pick of McCain as Graduation Speaker;
Crackdown in Mexico: 200 Jailed, Women Claim Sexual Abuse
by Police; Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States,
and the Rise of the New Imperialism;
5/10
Brandeis University Takes Down Palestinian Youth Art Exhibit
Mounted by Israeli Jewish Student; House of War: James Carroll
on the Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power;
Should Boston College Award Condoleezza Rice An Honorary Degree?
A Debate;
5/9
Chicago's Abu Ghraib: UN Committee Against Torture Hears Report
on How Police Tortured Over 135 African-American Men Inside
Chicago Jails; LA Times Baghdad Bureau Chief: "[More
People] Are Dying Violently Now Than At Any Time Since The
U.S.-Led Invasion"; Ken Silverstein on CIA Chief Porter
Goss’ Abrupt Resignation & The Duke Cunningham Bribery
Scandal;
5/8
Fmr. NSA Chief General Michael Hayden Nominated to Replace
Porter Goss as CIA Director; COPE Telecom Bill Affects Net
Neutrality, Local Cable Franchises and Funding for Public
Access; Part II Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change
from Hawaii to Iraq;
5/5
Damu Smith 1952-2006: Legendary Peace Activist Dies After
Battle with Colon Cancer; Retired CIA Analyst Ray McGovern
Takes on Rumsfeld Over Justification for Iraq Invasion; FBI
Counterterrorism Unit Spies on Peace Group School of the Americas
Watch; FBI Targeted Freelance Journalist Covering FTAA Miami
Talks; Evo Morales Nationalizes Gas Resources in Bolivia;
Bullets in the Hood: Bed-Stuy Documentary Goes on Tour to
Raise Awareness About Gun Violence;
5/4
Jury Rejects Death Penalty for Moussaoui in Major Defeat for
Bush Administration; Two Immigrants Who Followed the Path
to Citizenship Tell Stories of Detention and Deportation;
A Look Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons;
5/3
Daughter of Sami Al-Arian Says Family "Devastated"
by Father's Continued Imprisonment, Blasts Media Coverage;
Sami Al-Arian Co-Defendant Sameeh Hammoudeh Remains in Jail
Four Months After Being Acquitted of All Charges; Stephen
Colbert's Blistering Performance Mocking Bush and the Press
Goes Ignored by the Media;
5/2
Over 1.5 Million March for Immigrant Rights in One of Largest
Days of Protest in U.S. History; Juan Gonzalez: On Streets
of New York, Solidarity Reigns; The Meaning of the May Day
Marches and the Future of the Immigrant Rights Movement; Are
U.S. Trade Policies & NAFTA Causing An Influx of Undocumented
Workers in U.S.?; Puerto Rico Imposes Partial Government Shutdown
Amid Financial Crisis;
5/1
Thousands of Protesters Demand End to Darfur Genocide in Largest
Public U.S. Outcry Since Conflict Began; Up To 350,000 March
in New York for Peace, Justice and Democracy; A Day Without
Immigrants: Millions Expected to Boycott Work, Not Consume
to Protest Anti-Immigrant Bill; The Origins of May Day: A
Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing
That Divided Gilded Age America;
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