Top 10 t r u t h o u t Stories of 2005

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Top 10 t r u t h o u t Stories of 2005

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:29:30 -0800

 

 

 

 

In 2005 TruthOut brought you exclusive coverage of the year's most

important stories including much original content. This New Year's

edition showcases the top 10 TruthOut stories of 2005.

 

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t r u t h o u t | Mr. Fitzgerald Calling

http://server1.truthout.org/fitzgeraldcalling.shtml

One of the years biggest stories, federal prosecutor Patrick

Fitzgerald's dramatic quest to bring White House officials to justice

for revealing the name of under cover CIA agent Valerie Plame needed

special coverage. TruthOut was there.

 

Steve Weissman | Dead Messengers: How the US Military Threatens

Journalists

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405A.shtml

2004 was the deadliest year for reporters since 1980. At the time many

reporters believed that the military was purposely targeting

journalists. As a result TruthOut Director, Marc Ash asked Steve

Weissman to investigate this claim. In this award winning five part

series that came out early 2005, Steve Weissman reports his findings.

 

William Rivers Pitt | Nail It to the White House Door

http://server1.truthout.org/docs_2005/061505X.shtml

On the eve of the Conyers hearing on June 16th, William Rivers Pitt

writes on the Downing Street Minutes -the document leaked by a British

version of Deep Throat that describes in plain language the manner in

which the Bush and Blair administrations planned to manipulate their

way into an invasion of Iraq. A collection of more than 120

organizations and news outlets came together for the purpose of

nailing the facts of the Downing Street Minutes to the White House door.

 

Marjorie Cohn | Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration

http://server1.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405Z.shtml

In this exclusive TruthOut interview Marjorie Cohn talks with Janis

Karpinski, the Army Reserve Brigadier General who was in charge of the

infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq when the now famous torture

photographs were taken in fall of 2003.

 

t r u t h o u t | MayDay Mississippi Delta

http://www.truthout.org/mayday.shtml

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina the TruthOut staff created a special

page to provide our readers with around the clock coverage of the

events unfolding. In addition to providing coverage from a variety of

sources our page also provided resources and information for

prospective donors and hurricane victims in need of help.

 

t r u t h o u t | One Mother's Stand

http://server1.truthout.org/cindy.shtml

In August and September TruthOut's Managing Editor, Scott Galindez

spent three weeks at Camp Casey providing our readers with exclusive

coverage. As a result TruthOut created this special page " One Mother's

Stand. " TruthOut also followed Camp Casey to Washington DC for a

historic mobalization against the Iraq war

http://truthout.org/campcaseydc.shtml.

 

Bill Moyers | There Is No Tomorrow

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/38/8664

Bill Moyers looks at what he calls one of the biggest changes in

politics in his lifetime: the delusional is no longer marginal. For

the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly

of power in Washington. The offspring of ideology and theology are not

always bad but they are always blind. And that is the danger: voters

and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.

 

Confessions of a Marine

http://server1.truthout.org/docs_2005/110205A.shtml

TruthOut's French correspondent, Leslie Thatcher, translated this

piece that appeared in Le Nouvel Observateur. It was the story that no

American publisher wanted. In this excerpt, Master-Sergeant Jimmy

Massey tells about his mission to recruit for, then fight in, the war

in Iraq. He tells why he killed. And cracked.

 

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | We Must Take America Back

http://server1.truthout.org/docs_2005/091705Z.shtml

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. delivered this speech at the Sierra Summit 2005

in San Francisco in acceptance of the William O. Douglas Award. " This

is the worst environmental president we've had in American history.

The White House has used all kinds of ingenious machinations to try to

conceal its radical agenda from the American people including

Orwellian rhetoric. But most insidiously, they have put polluters in

charge of virtually all the agencies that are supposed to protect

Americans from pollution. "

 

Harold Pinter | The Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth and Politics

http://server1.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805M.shtml

Harold Pinter gave this lecture when he received the 2005 Nobel prize

for literature in early December. " The invasion of Iraq was a bandit

act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute

contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an

arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and

gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public. "

 

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