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May 2005

Tuesday, May 31
  • US Military Finds Itself in Twilight Zone
  • No Place Like Home for Poor Under Bush Housing Plan?
  • Fewer and Fewer Latinos Willing to Die in Iraq
  • Global Nuclear Weapons Talks End Without Agreement
  • 'Tank Girl' Army Accused of Torture
  • Basra Out of Control, says Chief of Police
  • Huge Rise in Siberian Forest Fires Puts Planet at Risk, Scientists Warn
  • Six Burnt Alive as Protesters Torch US Fast Food Outlet in Pakistan
  • Ex-FBI Official Says He's 'Deep Throat'

    Monday, May 30
  • France Delivers Its Judgment, and Europe is Plunged into Crisis
  • The Real Star Wars: Bush Revives Missile Defense Plan
  • In Rising Numbers, Lawyers Head for Guantánamo Bay
  • Facing Chaos, Iraqi Doctors Are Quitting
  • Poverty Wristbands Manufactured 'Unethically'
  • G-8 Summit: The Climate Does Not Look Good

    Sunday, May 29
  • Owners of Gas-Guzzling Cars to be Hit by Five-Fold Tax Increase
  • Greenpeace in Rift with US Branch Over Free Flights Competition Prize
  • English Priest Stops Amazon Logging Giants in Their Tracks
  • Long Jailings Anger Iraqis
  • Election Chief Wants to Ditch Touch-Screen Polls

    Saturday, May 28
  • Rice Interrupted by Enactment of Abu Ghraib Abuse
  • Anti-War Sailor Lifts Foes of Iraq Policy
  • Experts: Petroleum May Be Nearing Peak
  • Shut Bases Could Get Nuclear Waste
  • Burning Crosses Signal Return of Ku Klux Klan

    Friday, May 27
  • Muslims Rally Across World Against Koran Abuse
  • Democrats Force Senate to Delay a Vote on Bolton
  • Improper Handling of Koran Confirmed
  • World Bank Chief's Send-off Stirs Conflict Among His Critics
  • 'Father' of Malaysia Savages Bush and Blair
  • Drama Students Learn Tough Lesson: Dubya's No Joke
  • UN Nuclear Arms Conference Ending in Failure; US Blamed

    Thursday, May 26
  • Landmark Deal to Increase Aid to Poor Countries; U.S. Urged to Join In
  • US Terror Laws 'Creating a New Generation of the Disappeared'
  • Give Rumsfeld the Pinochet Treatment, Says US Amnesty Chief
  • FBI Documents Show Repeated Detainee Complaints Over Koran Mistreatment
  • Prospects at Nuclear Conference Unravel
  • Missouri Teacher Stands Up for Student; Gets Fired
  • School Takes Boy's Internet Privileges Away

    Wednesday, May 25
  • Amnesty International Takes Aim at United States in Annual Human Rights Report
  • US Selling More Weapons to Undemocratic Regimes That Support 'War on Terror'
  • French Fries Protester Regrets War Jibe
  • Rewriting History: US Brochure Drops Arms-Control Deals
  • May On Target to Become One of Deadliest Months for US Troops
  • Bush Accused of Complacency, Double-Dealing on Darfur
  • Public Backlash Over Private Water Deals

    Tuesday, May 24
  • A Community Celebrates a Nun's Return after Her Protest Led to a Term in Federal Prison
  • World Bank, IMF Requirements Stifling Poor Countries' Health Spending
  • Conservative Groups Accuse Senators of Sellout
  • North Carolina Church Puts Up Sign: 'The Koran Needs to Be Flushed!'
  • American Think-tank Looks Ahead to Palestine, 2015
  • Mexico: Yet More Casualties in War on Indigenous Activists
  • Sharpton Says Mexico's Fox Making Race Spat Worse
  • At Least 8,000 Treasures Looted from Iraq Museum Still Untraced

    Monday, May 23
  • Chavez Considers Breaking US Ties
  • Escalating Violence Threatens to Throw Iraq into Civil War
  • Tillman's Parents Criticize Army Investigations
  • Connecticut Nears Strict School Junk Food Ban
  • US Military to Build four Giant New Bases in Iraq
  • Supreme Court Taking Up Abortion Notification
  • As Nuclear Tensions Rise, Time Winds Down on Conference Meant to Ease Them
  • Preaching to the Choir? Not This Time

    Sunday, May 22
  • UN Condemns Reported US Abuse in Afghanistan
  • Dozens Have Alleged Koran's Mishandling
  • Revealed: Health Fears Over Secret Study into GM Food
  • U.S. Proposal in the O.A.S. Draws Fire as an Attack on Venezuela
  • Officers Plot Exit Strategy
  • First, They Took On Taco Bell. Now, the Fast-Food World
  • Gap 'Encourages Children to Kill Butterflies'

    Saturday, May 21
  • Afghan Prisoners Were 'Tortured to Death' by American Guards
  • Tarnished Image Abroad Fails to Register with Americans at Home
  • US Losing Battle for Hearts and Minds with Abuses and Insensitivity
  • Inaction in New York Prison Abuse Stirs Anger
  • Unseen Pictures, Untold Stories
  • Military Recruiters Lie About Dangers In Iraq

    Friday, May 20
  • Thousands of Shiites, Sunnis Protest US Occupation
  • U.S. Faces Questions Over 'Kidnappings' in Europe
  • Scientists Warn on Space Weaponization
  • Media Expert Expounds Myths of News Coverage
  • US Overstated China's Military Spending, Study Says
  • British Memo on US Plans for Iraq War Fuels Critics
  • Eco-Militants are Greatest Terrorist Threat, Warns FBI
  • The Rape of the Rainforest... and the Man Behind it
  • US Double Standards Claim Over Cuban Militant
  • As Climate Shifts, Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Growing
  • How Bush Makes Sure They Agree

    Thursday, May 19
  • Galloway: The Man Who Took on America
  • 'Operation Matador': US Claims Over Siege Challenged
  • GOP Aides Say New Patriot Act Obliges Bush
  • Generals Offer a Sober Outlook on Iraqi War; Exit from Iraq Could Take 'Many Years'
  • NBC/WSJ Poll Reveals 'Angry Electorate'; Voters Dissatisfied with Bush, Congress
  • Iraq Veterans' Unspoken Epidemic
  • Brazil's Poor are Cut Down After a 150-mile Protest March
  • Rights Group Urges Uzbek Gov't to Show Restraint
  • British MP Galloway Says 'Blew Away' U.S. Committee
  • US Actions in Arar Case Called 'Extremely Troubling'

    Wednesday, May 18
  • Air Force Seeks Bush's Approval for Space Weapons Programs
  • ACLU Seeks Files from FBI on Possible Surveillance
  • Mock Executions of Iraqi Detainees Cited by Army
  • US Arrests Castro Opponent Over 1976 Bombing of Airliner
  • Rift Over Recruiting at Public High Schools
  • US Caught Up Short by Uzbekistan Violence
  • Uzbekistan Uprising Triggered by Rights Violations, Say Activists
  • Jane Fonda Film Banned From Kentucky Theaters

    Tuesday, May 17
  • British Lawmaker Blasts 'Republican Lynch Mob'
  • Cases Against Nuclear Plant Finally Heard
  • New 'Star Wars' Movie Raises Questions on US Policy
  • Iraqi's: 'Operation Matador' A Disaster for Their Communities
  • US 'Backed Illegal Iraqi Oil Deals'
  • 'A Tale of Two Stories: Who is the "Son of a Bitch the Defense Dept Refers To?
  • Spring's Start Coming Earlier, Study Blames Global Warming
  • Hundreds of Thousands of Cubans March Outside US Mission to Demand Arrest of Militant Exile
  • Army 'Kills 200' in Second Uzbek City as Thousands Head for Border
  • Kansas Debate Challenges Science Itself

    Monday, May 16
  • Bill Moyers Defends PBS, Takes Aim at 'Radical Right'
  • The Deserters: AWOL Crisis Hits the US Forces
  • A Battle Over Programming at National Public Radio
  • Saudis Lobby to Limit Liability on Cancer-Causing Gas Additive
  • Priest Denies Gays' Supporters Communion
  • Karzai Warns Heavy-handed US Troops as Riots Spread
  • 'Muslims Skeptical Over Newsweek Back-track on Koran
  • Hundreds of Civilians Killed After Protests Turn to Massacre
  • Chavez Says Venezuela has Plan in Case He's Killed

    Sunday, May 15
  • Iraq is a Bloody no Man's Land
  • Trigger-happy US Troops 'Will Keep Us in Iraq for Years'
  • Anger as US Backs Regime
  • Problems Aplenty in a World of Plenty - Report
  • Increase in 'Dead Zones' Starving the World's Seas
  • 400 and Counting: IRAQ's Grim Death Toll for May

    Saturday, May 14
  • Probe of Koran Abuse Comes After One Year of Allegations
  • Rebuffing Bush, 132 Mayors Embrace Kyoto Rules
  • Human Rights Group: 200 Killed in Police Assault on Demonstrators in Uzbekistan
  • Bolton Embarrassment Latest Setback for Bush Hawks
  • UK Film at Cannes Says Terror Fears Exaggerated
  • Democrat Wants Congress to Block Pension Defaults
  • Newsweek Sparks Global Riots With One Paragraph on Koran
  • Media Finally Begins to Notice British Intelligence Memo

    Friday, May 13
  • No Jail Time for Sailor's Refusal to Board Ship
  • Media Reform Advocates Meet in St. Louis, Criticize News Providers
  • Public Broadcasting to Launch Self-review
  • U.S. Interrogators Accused of Trying to Divide Detainees, Attorneys
  • A Terrorist Comes Home to Roost
  • Iraqi Barbers in the Firing Line as Fanatics Target Western Symbols
  • Republican's Onslaught Threatens White House Candidate for the UN
  • Iraq Verges on Civil War

    Thursday, May 12
  • Anger as US Backs Regime
  • Forced Labor Said to Bind 12.3 Million People Around the World
  • Tally of Civilian Deaths Depends on Who's Counting
  • One Month's Toll in Iraq: 67 Suicide Bombers
  • Critics Say Satellite TV Beams Western 'Poison' into Iraq
  • Security, Sovereignty at Issue in US-Iraqi Dispute Over Building
  • Probe of Scrutiny on PBS Is Urged
  • Kids' Book on Evolution Stirs Censorship Debate in Minnesota
  • Security Whistleblowers Demand End to Retaliation
  • Protests Over Reported US Koran Abuse Spread

    Wednesday, May 11
  • Real Wages Fall at Fastest Rate in 14 Years
  • U.S. Budget Focus Should Be Security, Not Weapons - Report
  • Four Dead, Scores Hurt in Afghan Riot Over Reported US Koran Abuse
  • Court-Martial Set for Sailor Turned Anti-War Activist Who Refused to Board Ship to Persian Gulf
  • Dean Wants Sanders to Help Negotiate Peace Between Progs and Dems
  • Wal-Mart Crushes Union by Closing Store
  • Pentagon Is Asking Congress to Loosen Environmental Laws
  • Israeli Doctors Experimented on Children
  • North Carolina Pastor Who Urged Parishioners to Vote for Bush Resigns, Leaving Cultural Chasm
  • Agriculture Dept. Paid Journalist for Favorable Stories
  • Pentagon's War Stories Leave a Legacy of Doubt

    Tuesday, May 10
  • Vermonters Come Out in Droves for Bernie's Town Meetings
  • Hans Blix Blames U.S. for Nuke-weapons Stalemate
  • Readers Complain, But Washington Post Ombudsman Mum on Lack of Coverage of U.K.-Iraq Memo
  • Haiti: Former PM's Hunger Strike Highlights Sense of Chaos
  • Afghans Protest Over US Abuse of Koran
  • Howard Dean Endorses Bernie Sanders' Run for US Senate
  • EPA Puts Mandated Lead-Paint Rules on Hold
  • Britain's Blair Faces Calls to Resign
  • Politics Prompt Church Tax Questions
  • North Korea has Plutonium 'to Make Six Nuclear Bombs'

    Monday, May 9
  • US Tourism 'Losing Billions Because of Image'
  • Amidst Doubts, CIA Hangs on to Control of Iraqi Intelligence Service
  • Demand for Organic Foods Soaring
  • Scientists Boycott Kansas Evolution Hearings
  • The Leaning Tower of PBS
  • Blair Demands Nuclear Power to Protect High 'Living Standards'
  • Mercy, Activism Sustain Man Who Lost Son in Iraq
  • Drilling Near Nuclear Blast Cavity Called Risky Business
  • Nations Say US Shirks its Arms Vows
  • War Reporting an Issue in Suit Against ABC

    Sunday, May 8
  • US Backing for Colombia Drug War Criticized
  • Bereaved Accuse Ministers of War Crimes
  • Soldier Lifts Lid on Camp Delta
  • America's Passion for Burly SUV Fizzles
  • Poor May Lose Food Stamps Under Bush's New Medicare Drug Plan
  • Tax Break Gives Huge Benefits to Drugmakers

    Saturday, May 7
  • In a Reverse, Microsoft Says It Supports Gay Rights Bill
  • Ex-C.I.A. Official Says Bolton Interfered
  • Fundamental Questions:America Debates the Place of Darwin and God in Schools
  • Members Say Church Ousts Kerry Supporters
  • UT Heckling Arrest Raises Hackles - And Concern Over School Policy
  • Venezuela President Calls Bush 'Mr. Danger', Says He Has Reason to Worry

    Friday, May 6
  • British Memo Indicates Bush Made Intelligence Fit Iraq Policy
  • Iraq Clouds Blair Victory
  • UK Votes: Poll Shows War Factor was Key Issue for Many
  • Democrats' Platform Shouldn't Back Gay Marriage, Kerry Says
  • International Court Hears Anti-war Claims
  • Lobbyist Had Close Contact With Bush Team
  • Another SOS From Chernobyl Victims, 19 Years Later
  • U.S. Nuclear Weapons Hypocrisy Highlighted as Int'l Conference Deadlocks in Week One
  • A White House Adrift: Gas Prices, Social Security, Tom DeLay. What Else Can Go Wrong for Bush?
  • Have Proof You're From the Future? Then Join Other Time Travelers for a Party

    Thursday, May 5
  • Families Frustrated in Quest for the Truth
  • New Rule to Open National Forest to Roads
  • Britons Vote With War in Iraq on Minds
  • US Troops Accused of Arming Colombian Death Squads
  • US Border 'Vigilantes' Pledge to Return
  • Federal Auditors Can't Trace $96.6 Million Earmarked for Iraq
  • Pentagon Analyst Charged With Passing Secrets to Pro-Israel Lobby
  • Remembering Kent State in Columbia, Missouri
  • Marijuana Advocates Play it Straight in DC
  • Routine License Check Can Mean Jail and Deportation

    Wednesday, May 4
  • Support for Iraq War at Lowest Level
  • U.S. Seen as Unaccountable in Iraqi Civilian Deaths
  • 'US Invasion of Iraq Was a Resource War'
  • Pacifist Calls for Change: Nobel Nominee Helped Organize 'Iraq Peace Team'
  • Religious Bias Probed at Air Force Academy
  • Old Brutality Among New Iraqi Forces
  • Brazil Spurns US Terms for AIDS Help
  • 'Troops Out' Calls Revived as Italy Seethes Over Calipari Killing
  • Italy Minister Calls US Version of Iraq Killing "a Lie"
  • Japan Plans to Withdraw Troops From Iraq in December
  • Families of Dead Soldiers Threaten Blair With Court

    Tuesday, May 3
  • World Press Freedom Day: Secrecy, Propaganda Seen Sweeping US
  • Iraqi Press Under Attack from Authorities in Iraq
  • NY Times Article Omitted Key Facts About CPB's New Ombudsmen
  • Feds Probing Alleged Mad Cow Cover-up
  • Greenpeace Co-Founder Bob Hunter Dies
  • Women of Kuwait Denied Vote by Islamist Lawmakers
  • Bolton's Style Cited in Treaty Impasse
  • Widow of Soldier Says Prime Minister to Blame for his Death
  • Army Recruiters Say They Feel Pressure to Bend Rules
  • UK Election: 48 Hours to Go: Iraq, the Issue that Won't Go Away

    Monday, May 2
  • War Memories Drive Okinawa's Most Passionate Peace Activist
  • Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases
  • Time To Repair Iraq's Universities, Says Study
  • Deadlock Looms Over Spread of Nuclear Arms
  • Italy Expected to Pick Apart U.S. Conclusions on Death of Italian Agent in Iraq
  • Corruption the Growth Industry of New Iraq
  • 700 Protest Focus' Stance on Gays
  • Anti-Nuclear and Anti-War Activists Rally at United Nations Ahead of Conference
  • Italy Media Reveals Iraq Details

    Sunday, May 1
  • Growing Evidence U.S. Sending Prisoners to Torture Capital
  • Corporate Payback: GOP Gives More Power to Federal Government
  • Anti-Nuclear Demonstrations Held in New York
  • Workers Vent Anger at May Day Rallies Across Europe
  • Vietnam Marks the 30th Anniversary of the Day It Drove American Troops Out
  • Unmentioned Energy Fix: A 55 M.P.H. Speed Limit
  • Revealed: Documents Show Blair's Secret Plans for War
  • Inquiry Finds Abuses at Guantánamo Bay
  • At Last the Truth About Acupuncture: It's as Good as Drugs for Treating Pain

    April 2005

     
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