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TelevisionMark Hertsgaard hosts the weekly investigative news program Spotlight on the LinkTV satellite network. Spotlight airs hard-hitting news and documentary programs from around the world, exposing Americans to information and perspectives mainstream television ignores or denigrates. Who's Afraid of Nuclear PowerGlobal warming may be the best thing to happen to the nuclear industry in a long time. >>>> At The EpicenterOn December 26 2004, the planet's most powerful earthquake in four decades erupted beneath the Indian Ocean. The epicenter was off the coast of Indonesia. But the gigantic wave the quake unleashed traveled thousands of miles, spreading death and destruction as far away as Sri Lanka, India, even Africa. >>>> Australian Atomic ConfessionsThe bombs were exploded above ground and released vast amounts of radioactivity, most of which fell back to earth in Australia. >>>> Global Warming — Bush's Climate of FearThe global warming debate in the United States remains years behind that in the rest of the world. >>>> Iraq's Missing BillionsDuring World War II, Harry Truman, the Missouri Senator and future president, uncovered $160 billion of fraud by corporate contractors. >>>> Sex, Needles & RublesAIDS is spreading particularly quickly in Russia, where the shock transition to capitalism has reduced two thirds of the public to below or very near the poverty level. >>>> The Panama DeceptionBoth president Bushes justified their invasions as victories for democracy. >>>> American Virgins... only abstinence offers true protection against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. >>>> The Baghdad BloggerNo one knows his real name, but he calls himself Salam Pax-peace, in Arabic and Latin. Born and raised in the Iraqi capital, he speaks perfect, idiomatic English. >>>> Hidden DaughtersOur spotlight is on the teenage daughters of Islamic immigrants in Europe. >>>> The Oil FactorWithout oil, our economy would crash, our suburbs would become uninhabitable, modern life itself would shudder to a halt. >>>> Operation CondorIn the name of fighting terrorism in the 1970s, military dictatorships in Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay and Bolivia secretly collaborated to hunt down and eliminate each other's political opponents. >>>> |
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