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 8/31
Hurricane Katrina Refugees Head West; US Announces Release
of Emergency Oil Stock; Rising Oil Prices Takes Toll on the
Poor in the Philippines; Homeland Security Makes Case Against
Posada Carriles; Netenyahu and Sharon Row Over Likud Party
Leadership; 25th Anniversary of Literacy Campaign in Nicaragua;
8/30
Growing Opposition Towards John Roberts Nomination to Supreme
Court; Luis Posadas Carriles' Immigration Case; Philippines
President Faces Possible Impeachment; A New Wave of Haitian
Massacres Ahead of Presidential Elections; More African Immigrants
Dead in New Paris Housing Blaze;
8/29
Hurricane Katrina Devastation Poses Toxic Threat for New Orleans;
The Case of Ahmed Abu Ali; Critics Fear New Iraqi Constitution
Will Lead to Increased Violence; Manmohan Singh Visits Afghanistan;
Closing Arguments in Gwen Araujo Case; Chicano Moratorium
35-Year Anniversary; Historic Memorial of Minority World War
2 Vets;
8/26
Increased Violence and Deportations of Haitians in the Dominican
Republic; The Roots of Violence in Southern Iraq; ACLU Documents
FBI Library Monitoring; Israel Seizes Palestinian Land; A
Look at Mercury Rules and Utility Companies;
8/25
Confusion over Iraq Constitution; The Economic Structure of
Iraq's Future; Calls for Investigation Over Racial Profiling
Data Coverup; Gag Rule Imposed for HIV and Anti-Trafficking
Funding; Children's Hospital Staff on Strike in Argentina;
8/24
Environmentalists Denounces New Gas Consumption Measures;
Venezuela Reacts to the Bush Administration's Luke Warm Response
to Pat Robinson's Call for Presidential Assignation; Striking
Oil Workers in Negotiations with Ecuadorian Government; "State
of Emergency" Declared at US/Mexico Border; Commission
Elects to Close and Realign Naval Bases; India's Legislation
for Rural Poverty;
8/23
Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and The Right of Return; A
Look at What the New Iraqi Constitution Will Mean for Women;
The State of the Muslim Minority in Britain; Connecticut Files
Suit Against No Child Left Behind Implementation; Watchdogs
Denounce Police Tactics at Anti-War Rally in Pittsburgh; Turkey's
Government and Kurds Discuss Peace Talks;
8/22
Iraq’s Parliament Receives a Draft Constitution With
“Pending Points”; Palestinians Examine Ways to
Revive Economy in Gaza; Israeli Youth Used By Settlers During
Evacuation From Gaza; Halliburton’s KBR Recruits Workers
In Florida; Court Hears Arguments Over Medical Marijuana;
Formerly Interned Japanese Americans Receive High School Diplomas;
8/19
LGBT Seniors Face Obstacles in Nursing Homes; Coca Cola Faces
Another Battle in India; Catholic World Church Day Ignores
High Unemployment Rate in Host Country of Germany; Rights
Groups Demand Documents Surrounding John Roberts; National
Labor Committee; Israeli Evacuation of Gaza Strip Nears Completion;
8/18
Israeli Soldiers Continue to Remove Israeli Settlers from
Gaza Strip; Rights Groups Say Afghan Election Process Disenfranchises
Women; Iraq's National Assembly Still Grapples with Draft
Constitution; Anti-War Vigils Throughout the United States;
Polish Workers Complain of Asbestos at World Trade Center
Site; Native American Voting Rights Violated in South Dakota;
Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary: Terrorism at Home;
8/17
Palestinians Hopes and Anxieties Over Israeli Pullout; Bush
Makes More Controversial Nominations; California Faces Drinking
Water Crisis; Consumers Worry over Rising Inflation and Gas
Prices; Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary: The Mama & The War
President;
8/16
Peru's New Prime Minister; Immigrant Rights Groups Outraged
at New Deportation Techniques; Contamination of Native Corn
in Mexico; Groups Meet in Chiapas for the Other Campaign;
Alarming Report on Witness Abuse; A Community Battles with
Gentrification in Washington DC;
8/15
Iraqi National Assembly Decides to Extend Deadline; Some Israeli
Settlers Still Vow to Remain in Gaza; Historic Peace Deal
Between Indonesian Government and The Free Aceh Movement;
Many Weary of New Anti-Terrorism Measures in Britain; First
Ever "Family Members of Inmates" Rally in DC; Direct
Action Against Mountaintop Removal Mining in Knowxville;
8/12
A Look At John Roberts' Record on Civil Rights; Ugandan Government
Shuts Down Dissident Radio Station and Arrest Radio Host;
Idaho Residents Stand Against Plutonium-238; Seniors Confused
Over Changes to Medicare; Native Americans Affected by New
Energy Bill;
8/11
Some Israeli Settlers in the Gaza Strip Vow to Stay; Protests
from Sikhs and Opposition in India; The Case of Afzal Guru;
FBI's Expanded Powers: The Joint Terrorism Task Forces; Workers
in Connecticut Garner Community Support; Remembering the Watts
Riots;
8/10
John Robert's New Corporate Backers; Activists in DC Back
Cindy Sheehan's Request to Meet with Bush; Reaction from Cuba
on Cuban Five Granted New Trial; Severe Food Crisis on the
African Continent; Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary: When Raising
Consciousness Ain't Enough; Judicial System Failing Rape Victims
in Britain;
8/9
IAEA Holds Emergency Meeting on Iran's Nuclear Plans; Donald
Rumsfeld Links Weapons in Iraq to Iran; Iraqi Draft Constitution
Continues in Deadlock; Court Hears Arguments to Dismiss Walmart
Gender Discrimination Lawsuit; Nagasaki Anniversary Prompts
Calls for Abolition of Nukes; States Pass Legislation to Aid
Soldier's Treatment for Depleted Uranium;
8/8
EZLN Launches the Other Campaign; NRA Begins Campaign to Allow
Workers to Bring Guns to Work; Thousands Rally in Hawaii Over
Hawaiian Only School Ruling; Mountain Justice Summer Campaign
in Tennessee; Anniversary of Voting Rights Act; Valley Free
Radio on the Air After 2005 Grass Roots Radio Conference;
8/5
AWOL Israeli Soldier Opens Fire on Bus, Killing Four; Death
Row Detainee from India's War on Terror Aquited; Left Split
on Eve on Venezelan Local Elections; Iranians Wonder if Their
New President Can Deliver; Mauritania's African Union Membership
Suspended After Coup; Survivors of the Atomic Bombing of Japan
Visit Los Alamos Lab 60 Years Later;
8/4
Iraqi National Assembly Strikes Agreement on New Political
System; Countdown to Israel's Withdrawal from Gaza; Pentagon
Requesting $1.3 Billion for New High Tech Mine; Human Rights
Groups Denounce New Pro-Nazi School Books in India; Female
Candidate for Chilean President Leads in the Polls: A Symbol
of Progress for Working Women;
8/3
Soldiers on Trial for Death of Iraqi General; Activists Demonstrate
Against New Energy Bill; Debate in Germany Over GMOs Continues;
EU Banana Tariff Ruling Ignores Worker and Environmental Rights;
Record Settlement from Enron Linked Investment Bank; Schwarzenegger's
Very Expensive Special Election;
8/2
Southern Iraqi Governors Calling for Greater Autonomy; Immigration
Rights Advocates Denounce New Deportation Program; Connecticut
to Close Scandal-Ridden Youth Facility; Bolton Begins New
Job as UN Ambassador; New Political Tensions Brewing in Papua;
University Students Demonstrate over Ford Foundation Funding;
8/1
John Bolton Appointed as UN Ambassador While Congress is in
Recess; John Garang Dies in Helicopter Crash; The Refilling
of Iraq's Marshlands; Entire Pastors for Peace Caravan Crosses
US-Mexico Border; Anti-Gay Hate Crimes on the Rise in Tampa
Bay, Florida; US Senate Passes Bill Favorable to the Gun Industry;
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