Monday, January 2, 2006
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2005 in Review Pt. 2: Power, Politics and Resistance
Today, part two of our special look back at 2005, including the devastating Katrina hurricane, Cindy Sheehan & Camp Casey, the 60th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the political crackdown in Haiti, the Sept. 24 anti-war protest in Washington D.C., the genocide in Sudan, the death of Rosa Parks, the Israeli pullout of Gaza and much more.
Featuring the voices of:
George Bush, Scott McCellan
Alfred Ross, Nancy Northup
Ralph Neas, Debo Adegbile
Kofi Annan, Andrew Revkin
Jan Egeland, Nelson Mandela
David Miller, Jacques Rogge
Tony Blair, George Galloway
Ajmal Masroor, Dahr Jamail
Patrick Cockburn, Yanar Mohammed
Antonia Juhasz, Seth Donnelly
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Johanna Berrigan
Jan Vande Putte, Paul Tibbets
Tadatoshi Akiba, Sunao Tsuboi
Ramsey Clark, Cynthia McKinney
Edward Mortimer, Salih Booker
Roland Martin, Mahmoud Abbas
David Matar, Ali Abunimah
Peter Jennings, Stan Glantz
Lt. Gen. William Odom, Cindy Sheehan
Ann Wright, Nadia McCaffrey
Patricia Roberts, Becky Lourey
Charlie Anderson, Mimi Evans
Andrea Hackett, Ray Nagin
Bill Quigley, Tamer El-Ghobashy
Hurricane Katrina Survivors, Olivia Johnson McQueen
Henry Alexander, Damu Smith
Kanye West, Tuti Sheiban
John Hamilton, Floyd Simeon
Michael Brown, Judd Legum
Pat Robertson, Bernardo Alvarez
Chris Hedges, Hugo Chavez
Tom DeLay, Jake Bernstein
Doug Ireland, Patrick Fitzgerald
Larry Johnson, Harriet Miers
Arlen Specter, Robert Fisk
Oprah Winfrey, Rev. Jesse Jackson
Julian Bond, Beatrice Manz
Moeen Cheema, Tariq Ali
Stanley Tookie Williams, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Kevin Fagan, Donald Rumsfeld
Yousri Fouda, Jeremy Scahill
Reed Brody, Peter Kornbluh
Scott Horton, Tony Lagouranis
Gareth Peirce, Dahr Jamail
Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, Lt. Col. Barry Venable
Patrick Leahy and John Conyers. [includes rush transcript]
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