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Search results for "civil war" ...
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Mauritania: Slavery's Last Stronghold
Two CNN Digital reporters traveled to Mauritania -- a West African nation that became the last country in the world to abolish slavery – to document a practice the Mauritanian government denies still exists. Spending nearly a year to gain entry into the country and conducting many of their interviews at night and in covert locations, John Sutter and Edythe McNamee went to great lengths to uncover the tragedy of multigenerational servitude in Mauritania. They met people who’ve never known freedom; people who escaped slavery to find their lives hadn't changed; and abolitionists who have been fighting against slavery for years with minimal results. It was only five years ago -- in 2007 -- that the country finally passed a law that making slavery a crime. So far, only one slave owner has been convicted. The United Nations estimates 10% to 20% of Mauritanians live in slavery today. But the country continues to deny slavery’s existence and attempted to subvert Sutter’s and McNamee’s reporting by assigning to them a government “minder.” Nonetheless, the two succeeded at putting a face on a shocking practice that is similar to slavery in America before the Civil War, in which people are born into slavery and rarely escape. Their report – “Slavery’s Last Stronghold” -- featured a variety of mediums, including personal video accounts and written stories featuring firsthand accounts from freed slaves and one man’s transformative journey from slave owner to abolitionist. It also included related stories – such as the story of escaped Mauritanian slaves now living in Ohio. In response to the initiative, CNN iReport, the network’s global participatory news community, gathered messages of hope and support to be shared at a school for escaped slaves in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
Tags: slavery; Mauritania; Africa; freedom
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Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World
The book examines the Iraqi civil war, its causes and how it came to an end. It provides the persepective of Iraqi militiamen, Iraqi security forces, Iraqi civilians, and American soldiers, officers and officials.
Tags: Middle East; counterinsurgency; Iraq; Taliban; Aghanistan; War on Terrorism
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"The Clarks, an American story"
Reporter Bill Dedman tells the story of the Clark family. What started as a feature story quickly morphed into an investigative story, which then led to a "breaking story about a district attorney's investigation." Dedman revealed that the wealthy Clark family has ties to the Civil War era. Dedman became interested in the story when he decided to investigate why Huguette Clark's mansions are "sitting vacant."
Tags: Civil War; mansions; public records
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Witness to War
This first-hand account of conflict in region of Afghanistan and Pakistan reveals how horrific living and working in this region can be. This investigation reveals the “human cost of conflict, reality of life in refugee camps, examine how children are impacted by the instability, and discuss whether there’s any hope for the future”.
Tags: documentary; danger; devastation; distrust; civil war; war on terror; media; violence; journalists; death; disease; global issues; oppression
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The Terrorism Trade-Off
"The Seattle P-I chronicled how the Bush Administration is paying for its domestic War on Terror by gutting the FBI's traditional crime-fighting capabilities."
Tags: FBI; terrorism; Bush; methamphetamine; meth; Native Americans; tribes; criminals; rogue cops; civil rights;
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The Hunley: Government by Stealth
The Confederate submarine the Hunley has earned a storied place in South Carolina history, and has received a lot of attention since being raised in 2000. The State investigated the money spent for the preservation and promotion of the Hunley, and revealed the amounts of money spent in the name of this historic artifact, including $10.3 million earmarked to Clemson University to "build a remote campus around the conservation lab that is home to the Hunley submarine."
Tags: The Hunley; submarine; Civil War-era submarine; Confederate submarine; government funds; Clemson University
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The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland
This book is the author's "account of a fifteen -year journey with the Kurds of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, beginning in 1991 in refugee camps in the mountains and ending in 2005 n the corridors of power in the Green Zone in Iraq. It is an intimate portrayal of an independence-seeking people.."
Tags: international reporting; Middle Eastern politics; civil war; Iraq; ethnicity; Saddam Hussein
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The Heartless Stone; a journey through the world of diamonds, deceit and desire
This book is the result of Zoellner's investigation into the diamond industry. It covers the continuing problem of 'blood diamonds' in Africa, the scandal of child labor in polishing factories in India, and the pricing manipulations of De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd.
Tags: diamonds; mining; natural resources; civil war; blood diamonds
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Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back
A sister and brother reporting team examine the history of deception and use of propaganda by the U.S. Government and "major corporate media outlets". "We also investigate violations of civil liberties, and international law, and interview people intimately involved in or affected by torture, the Iraq War, and the crackdown on political dissent. We conclude by interviewing creative resisters, both in the media, the military, the government and civil society."
Tags: www.democracynow.org; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; FAIR; Abu Ghraib; torture; CIA; President Geaorge W. Bush; New York Times; Washington Post; FEMA; dissent; propaganda; Eduardo Galeano; Cindy Crawford; Coleen Rowley; Arundhati Roy; Amira Hass; Mukhtar Mai; Robert Fisk; Allister Sparks; Alice Walker; Stephen Colbert; truthiness; Tony Lagouranis
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"Under Fire"
This is a profile of marines in combat in Ramadi, one of the most dangerous cities in Iraq. They face roadside bombs, injuries, difficulty in identifying their enemies, and one marine is killed in action.
Tags: U.S. Military; combat conditions; wounded; injuries; casualties; military strategy; enemy; civil war; insurgency; roadside bombs