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ALC -- Uncovering the Truth

Uncovering the Truth Assignment

Abu Ghraib
The Abu Ghraib Scandal You Don't Know
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1025139,00.html

Abu Ghraib Swept Under the Carpet
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/opinion/30thu1.html

The Abu Ghraib files
http://www.salon.com/news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/introduction/

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/ghostsofabughraib/index.html

After Abu Ghraib
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/20/usa.iraq

Abuse Of Iraqi POWs By GIs Probed
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/27/60II/main614063.shtml

New Abu Ghraib pictures spark fear, outrage
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11362767/

Arab Book Banning
Arab: A peep into treasure trove of banned books in Geneva
http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Switzerland/10206990.html

Is the Arab world ready for a literary revolution?
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/is-the-arab-world-ready-for-a-literary-revolution-808946.html

A Bloody Era of Syria’s History Informs a Writer’s Banned Novel
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/world/middleeast/12khalifa.html

Argentina -- Dirty War
Argentine mothers' march for justice
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6677715.stm

PBS: Refusing to Forget
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/july-dec97/argentina_10-16.html

'Disappeared' mass grave found in Argentina
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/713996.stm

Identifying Argentina's disappeared
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5DD1E3EF934A15751C1A961948260

Argentina's disappeared: Father Christian, the priest who did the devil's work
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/argentinas-disappeared-father-christian-the-priest-who-did-the-devils-work-396564.html

Cambodia
Cambodia: Two Million Dead
The tragedy of those killed during Pol Pot's regime. http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htm

Cambodia Genocide Project
A study of the millions killed over three years. http://www.yale.edu/cgp/

"Killing Fields" Lure Tourists in Cambodia
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0110_030110_tvcambodia.html

Pol Pot's Shadow
The aftermath of Cambodia after Pol Pot's regime. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/cambodia/

Pol Pot in Cambodia
How Pol Pot terrorized Cambodia. http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/pol_pot.htm

Pol Pot
The life and death of Pol Pot. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9804/15/pol.pot.915pm/

Censorship -- General
ALA: Book Burning
http://ala8.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bookburning/bookburning.htm

ALA: Censorship and Challenges
http://ala8.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=ifissues&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=60668

ALA: Banned Books Week
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.cfm

ALA: Intellectual Freedom
http://pla.org/ala/oif/basics/intellectual.cfm

China -- Book Banning
China: Authors of Banned Book in China Visit New York
http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/3049.html

China: China’s peasant revolt revealed in banned book
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/23/wchin23.xml

Book ban backdown
http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2003/1023/fo22-1.html

Chinese take-away: guidebooks
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/11/15/1194766854001.html

China -- Internet Firewall
The Great Firewall of China
http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/

Cracking the 'Great Firewall' of China's Web censorship
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2008-04-22-InternetBandits_N.htm

China steps up war on Web
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080425/NEWS07/804250325

China Quietly Unblocks English-Language Websites
http://www.dailytech.com/China+Quietly+Unblocks+EnglishLanguage+Websites/article11413c.htm

Beijing: All Dressed Up And Ready To Go
http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/04/16/china-environment-olympics-oped-cx_dhs_0416china.html

Business Week: The Great Firewall of China
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2006/tc20060112_434051.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech

Coal Slurry Spill
Toxic Cover-up
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/01/60minutes/main609889.shtml

Dirty Business
http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/11/13/slurry_coverup/

Settlement reached on coal slurry spill
http://www.geotimes.org/oct03/WebExtra101703.html

Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition: Danger in Our Own Backyard?
http://www.ohvec.org/issues/slurry_impoundments/index.html

Mine Workers Chief Nabbed at Site of Coal Slurry Spill
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2002/2002-03-15-03.asp

Harry Potter Challenge
Harry Potter: Ga. mother will appeal decision to keep 'Harry Potter' on shelves
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/011807dnentpotterprotest.a89cec.html

'Ban Harry Potter or face more school shootings'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=408490&in_page_id=1811

Look Out Harry Potter! -- Book Banning Heats Up
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin157.shtml

School bans Harry Potter
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/693779.stm

Man from ministry bans Harry Potter
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/10/25/man_from_ministry_bans_potter/

Human Rights & Guantanamo
CIA Acknowledges It Has More Than 7000 Documents Relating to Secret Detention Program, Rendition and Totures
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8817

Torture victim's records lost at Guantánamo, admits camp general
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/21/guantanamo.humanrights

Is US losing moral authority on human rights?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0307/dailyUpdate.html

Hyperbole and Human Rights
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR2005060201749.html

UN calls for Guantanamo closure
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4718724.stm

Iraq -- Weapons of Mass Destruction
Bush panel rips U.S. intelligence abilities
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7331220

Report concludes no WMD in Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3718150.stm

CIA’s final report: No WMD found in Iraq
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7634313/

U.S. Spy Boss: Iraq WMD Intel Failure Just 'A Bad Hair Day'
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4475589

Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/

Iraq -- War Dead
Iraq Body Count: War dead figures
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4525412.stm

How many Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the war?
http://www.slate.com/id/2108887/

Estimates of Iraqi Civilian Deaths
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/us/01deathsbox.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Study: 151,000 Iraqis died in conflict’s violence
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22578010/

Survey Puts Iraqi War Dead Above One Million
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14501232

Iraq Body Count
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

Katyn Massacre
The Katyn Massacre
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/spotlight/index.html

Film reopens Poland's Katyn wound
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7028365.stm

Remembering Katyn
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3486292.html

Katyn Forest Massacre
WARNING: Very graphic images
http://www.katyn.org.au/naziphotos.html

Katyn Memorial Wall
http://www.electronicmuseum.ca/Poland-WW2/katyn_memorial_wall/kmw.html

McCarthy (Joseph)
McCarthyism in 1950s America
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/mccarthy.htm

McCarthy's State Department Speeches
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/06/documents/mccarthy/

PBS: McCarthyism
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/mccarthyism.html

The Hollywood Ten
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html

Blacklisted Hollywood
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/blacklist_10-24.html

National Archives Reclassifying Information
U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/politics/21reclassify.html

US 'reclassifying' public files
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4735570.stm

Secret Agreement Reveals Covert Program to Hide Reclassification from Public
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20060411/index.htm

Secret Again: The absurd scheme to reclassify documents
http://www.slate.com/id/2136480/

Archivist: We're restoring records access
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=18297

Nazi Book Burning
USHMM: Nazi Book Burning
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005852

Holocaust: Book Burning images
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/gallery/71188.HTM

Events mark Nazi Book Burning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3016567.stm

Museum of Tolerance: Nazi Book Burning
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=395007

NCLB Graduation Accountability
Study: NCLB’s Accountability Requirement Feeds Drop-out Rates
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6533974.html

Campaign for High School Equity Urges Senate to Hold Schools Accountable for Increasing
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS291987+24-Jan-2008+PRN20080124

US pushes states to count graduation rates the same
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0424/p02s01-uspo.html

It's worse than you think
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080416/OPINION03/804160302/1039/OPINION03

Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth Are Being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis
http://www.urban.org/publications/410936.html

North Korea Censorship
North Korea tops CPJ list of '10 most censored countries'
http://www.cpj.org/censored/index.html

Free Press under threat
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/russia/map_nkorea.html

North Korea Tops Media Censorship List
http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/Archive/2006/May/03-589050.html

North Korea: The media
http://countrystudies.us/north-korea/64.htm

North Korea : Tensions rise over press censorship
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parentid=41275

The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/technology/23link.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Poland -- Homosexuality
Poland to ban schools from discussing homosexuality
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/mar/20/schools.gayrights

Fears of Poland's gay community
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5068318.stm

Polish 'anti-gay' bill criticized
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6466205.stm

EU lawmakers to study Polish homosexual law plan
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL2021558220070320

Poles apart: how gay people suffer under the new regime
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/poles-apart-how-gay-people-suffer-under-the-new-regime-426564.html

Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie biography
Needs a password outside of school. Check library passwords for remote access. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&CH=nrb_K1607000232&OP=contains&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=1&AI=U13036814&c=2&NA=rushdie&ste=12&tbst=prp&tab=1&docNum=K1607000232&bConts=59

Biography of Salman Rushdie
Scroll down to read passage on Satanic Verses controversy.
Needs a password outside of school. Check library passwords for remote access. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=contains&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=1&c=1&AI=U13036814&NA=rushdie&ste=12&tbst=prp&tab=1&docNum=K1603001422&bConts=59

Salman Rushdie and the freedom of expression
http://www.crf-usa.org/terror/rushdie.htm

Salman Rushdie knighted in honours list
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6756149.stm

Tillman (Pat)
Barrage of Bullets Drowned Out Cries of Comrades
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35717-2004Dec4.html

Family demands the truth
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/25/MNGD7ETMNM1.DTL

Tillman killed in Afghanistan
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/football/nfl/04/23/tillman.killed/index.html

Soldier: Army ordered me not to tell truth about Tillman
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/24/tillman.hearing/index.html

Pat Tillman, Our Hero
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051024/zirin

Ukrainian Genocide
Ukraine (Famine)
Needs a password outside of school. Check library passwords for remote access. http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?contentSet=EBKS&docType=EBKS.Article&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3434600345&userGroupName=dist214_gvrl&version=1.0&searchType=BasicSearchForm&source=gale

Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-1933
http://www.ukrainiangenocide.com/

Ukraine remembers famine horror
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7111296.stm

Ukraine demands 'genocide' marked
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4471256.stm

Ukraine 1932
http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_ukraine.html

Ukraine Famine: 7,000,000 Deaths
http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/Ukraine_famine.htm

Vietnam: My Lai
My Lai: the cover-up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/64640.stm

Into the dark: the My Lai massacre
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/lai/up_7.html

An account of the My Lai Courts-Martial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/Myl_intro.html

1968, Forty Years Later: My Lai Massacre Remembered by Survivors, Victims’ Families and US War Vets
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/17/1968_forty_years_later_my_lai

My Lai: the struggle over outrage
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/08pc.html

Watergate
Coverup surfaces in newly public tapes
http://www.cnn.com/US/9611/18/nixon.tapes.final/

The Watergate story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/index.html

Dean Alleges Nixon Knew of Cover-up Plan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/060373-1.htm

The burglary that brought down a president
http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/special/watergate/watergate1.html

Richard M. Nixon: The Watergate Tapes
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/watergate.html

Prospect High School
Library Technology Center
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Created by: Christie Sylvester
Updated by: Cheryl Petrone
Last updated: April 30, 2008