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Aug 2006
 8/31
Shocking Lancet Study: 8,000 Murders, 35,000 Rapes and Sexual
Assaults in Haiti During U.S.-Backed Coup Regime After Aristide
Ouster; Eyewitnesses Account: UN Forces Open Fire on Poor
Haitian Neighborhood; Women Recount Gang Rape, Abuse at Hearing
Against Haitian Death Squad Leader Emmanuel Constant; Public
Outcry Forces Ohio to Delay Destruction of Presidential Ballots;
"I Am Not Willing To Kill Or Be Killed For Something
I Don't Believe In" - AWOL Soldier Refuses to Return
to Iraq
8/30
Congressmember Murtha: "I'm Disappointed" by Hillary
Clinton's Refusal to Endorse Troop Withdrawal Plan; Congressmember
Weiner Gets It Wrong On Palestinian Group He Tried To Bar
From U.S.; Lebanon Considers Suing Israel for War Crimes;
"We Don't Want War" - Leading Iranian Dissident
and Former Political Prisoner Akbar Ganji
8/29
Hurricane Katrina, One Year Later: Democracy Now! Looks Back
to the Days After the Disaster; Breach of Faith: Times-Picayune
Editor Jed Horne on "Neoconservative" Ray Nagin
and "Federal Oppression" in the South; One Year
After Katrina, New Orleans Public Housing Projects Remain
Closed; New Orleans Judge Slated to Release Prisoners Citing
Breakdown in Criminal Justice System
8/28
Top Hurricane Expert Says Officials Threatened His Job Over
Pre-Katrina Warnings; For Whom is New Orleans Being Rebuilt?
City Demographics Radically Altered With Many Black Residents
Still Unable to Return; Common Ground Collective Continues
to Bring Thousands of Volunteers From Around the World to
Gulf Coast For Post-Katrina Relief Efforts; Lebanese MP Ghassan
Moukheiber on the Future of Lebanon Politics, Hezbollah and
the Ongoing Israeli Occupation
8/25
"I Was Made to Feel Like an Outsider in My Own Country"
- Muslim-Americans Say Racial Profiling Led to Detention,
Harassment at Airport; Sudan Rejects UN Proposal for Peacekeeping
Force in Darfur as Security Deteriorates; Report: Over 200
Sudanese Women Sexually Assaulted in Darfur Camp Over 5-Week
Period; Venezuela Says China Backs UN Security Council Bid
That U.S. Opposes
8/24
Memo: NY City Hall Divided Over Handling of Post-9/11 Contamination;
Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Committing War Crimes
in Lebanon; Israel’s Deputy UN Ambassador Defends Israel’s
Attacks on Lebanon: “We Cannot For Sure Prove That All
Of The Civilians In Southern Lebanon Were Purely Innocent”;
Was the Mexican Election Stolen? Questions Raised Over Results
From Preliminary Recount
8/23
Special Democracy Now! Report from Southern Lebanon: Ana Nogueira
Investigates the Lasting Dangers of Unexploded Israeli Cluster
Bombs; Landmines and Unexploded Ordinances: Israel's Legacy
in Southern Lebanon; 80 Military Recruiters Disciplined for
Sexual Misconduct Over the Past Year;
8/22
Grieving Relatives of Qana Massacre Emerge From the Rubble
to Bury Their Dead;President Bush Admits Iraq Had No WMDs
and 'Nothing' to Do With 9/11; "I Fear God Much More
Than I Fear Homeland Security" - Chicago Pastor on Why
He is Allowing Mexican Mother to Stay in Church to Avoid Deportation;
"Humiliated and Appalled," Virginia Student Calls
for Apology From Sen. Allen for 'Macaca' Slur
8/21
Kofi Annan: Israeli Raid Violated Ceasefire; Israel Accused
of Carpeting Lebanon With Cluster Bombs; Israeli Gov’t
Abducts Two More Palestinian Parliamentarians; Snipers Kill
20 Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq; 300 Wounded; Length of Iraq War
Exceeds Length of U.S. Involvement in WWII; Bush “Strongly
Disagrees” With NSA Ruling; TV Networks Focus on JonBenet
Ramsey Over NSA Ruling; First CIA Civilian Contractor Convicted
for Assaulting Detainee; U.S. Names CIA Official to Head Venezuelan
& Cuban Spy Ops; AP: 80 Military Recruiters Disciplined
for Sexual Misconduct; Mexican Mother Stays in Chicago Church
to Avoid Deportation
8/18
"There Are No Hereditary Kings in America" - Judge
Rules NSA Warrantless Spy Program Unconstitutional; Can Journalists
Be Prosecuted for Receiving Classified Information?; "More
Propaganda Than Plot" - Former British Ambassador on
Alleged UK Terror Plot; Arrest Warrants Issued for Over 50
Grassroots Leaders in Oaxaca, Mexico;
8/17
AIDS Brain Drain: Countries Hit Hardest by AIDS Lacking Millions
of Medical Workers; African-American Groups Call on Black
America to Renew Efforts to Fight AIDS and Homophobia; AIDS
Prevention: Bush Admin Abstinence Policy Criticized at Int'l
AIDS Conference; South African AIDS Activist: "Total
Failure of Gvt to Lead Coordinated Response to What Has Presented
Itself as a Catastrophe for the New Democracy";
8/16
Lebanon Ceasefire Holds As Negotiations Continue; Fox News
Producer Resigns Over Middle East Coverage; Victoria Gray
Adams 1926-2006: Civil Rights Pioneer, Founder of Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party Dies at 73; Fearing Prosecution,
Bush Admin Tries to Change War Crimes Act;
8/15
EXCLUSIVE: Haitian Political Prisoner So Anne Released After
Over 2 Years in Haitian Jail; Christians United for Israel:
New Christian Zionism Lobby Hopes to Rival AIPAC; Fmr. White
House Counsel John Dean on Conservatives Without Conscience;
8/14
Seymour Hersh: U.S. Helped Plan Israeli Attack, Cheney "Convinced"
Assault on Lebanon Could Serve as Prelude to Preemptive Attack
on Iran; No Shelters, Sirens for Israel's Arab Citizens;
8/11
Britain Names Suspects in Alleged Airline Bomb Plot; British
Muslims Skeptical, Fear Backlash; Broadcast Exclusive...AWOL
Army Sgt. On the Run for a Year Speaks Out for the First Time;
8/10
Report Rules FBI Justified in Fatal Shooting of Puerto Rican
Independence Leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios; Did BP Purposefully
Allow its Alaska Pipeline to Corrode in Order to Shut it Down
and Boost Oil Prices?; Lebanon Facing its Worst Environmental
Disaster Ever: Oil Spill From Israeli Strike Still Untreated
After One Month; Israeli Ambassador Grilled on Targeting of
Civilians, Use of Cluster Bombs and Other War Crimes in Lebanon;
8/9
Ralph Nader on Lamont's Antiwar Win in Connecticut Primary
and Lieberman's Vow to Run as an Independent; Time Warner's
NY1 Bars New York Senate Candidate From TV Debate; Fmr. Israeli
Air Force Captain Reports Israeli Pilots Deliberately Missing
Targets Over Concerns of Civilian Casualties; Nagasaki Marks
61st Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombing;
8/8
It's Primary Day: Anti-Iraq War Candidate Ned Lamont Takes
on Sen. Joe Lieberman in Nation’s Most-Watched Primary;
Former President of Morgan Stanley Int'l: "It's Now Considered
the American War Against the Arabs...It Will Take Us Decades
to Recover from What We've Done";
8/7
As Hezbollah Rocket Attacks Kill 15 in Northern Israel, An
Israeli Red Cross Official Describes Haifa Under Siege; Death
Toll in Lebanon Reaches 1000; Humanitarian Crisis Mounts As
1/4th of Lebanese Residents Are Displaced; “The War
The World Ignores”: A Look at War-Devastated Congo &
The Country’s First Multi-Party Elections in 45 Years;
Protesters Target Bechtel for War-Profiteering In Iraq &
Its Ties to Nuclear Industry;
8/4
Hundreds of Thousands Rally in Iraq Against the War in Lebanon:
Middle East Analyst Juan Cole on War in the Middle East -
from Baghdad to Beirut; Newsday Middle East Bureau Chief Mohamad
Bazzi on Reporting the War in Lebanon; "The Republicans
Are Trying to Take Over The Democratic Primary": Congressmember
Cynthia McKinney on The Political Fight of Her Life;
8/3
Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes For Indiscriminately
Targeting Lebanese Civilians; Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised
Land: Documentary Examines US Media Coverage of the Israeli
Palestinian Conflict; Is America Watching a Different War?
American, Lebanese and Israeli Panel on How the US Media is
Covering the Invasion of Lebanon;
8/2
Fidel Castro Temporarily Cedes Power While Undergoing Surgery;
Exclusive From Havana: Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo
Alarcon Says Castro is "Very Alive and Very Alert";
Condemns US Plans for Post-Castro Cuba and Bush’s Meeting
With Exiles Advocating Cuba’s Violent Overthrow; Cuban
5 Remain Imprisoned Despite Orders For Their Release; Israel
Launches Massive Ground Invasion of Lebanon;
8/1
Robert Fisk Reports From Lebanon On the Intensifying Israeli
Attack, Qana, Tony Blair and the Possibility of a Ceasefire;
Survivors of 1996 Qana Massacre Sue Israel Military Chief
For War Crimes; Pt. 2: Enemy Combatant: Moazzam Begg on His
Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar;
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