Omid Memarian (Op-Ed in the San Francisco Chronicle)
Friday, December 9, 2005

The Bush administration claims it is promoting democracy and human rights across the Middle East. But for those of us in Iran who are fighting for these basic freedoms, the White House’s policy is doing more harm than good.

When President Bush labeled Iran as part of “the axis of evil” in his 2002 State of the Union Address, his comment caused shock as well as outrage in Iran. Understandably, we found it insulting for our country of nearly 70 million people to be considered evil en masse.

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Documentary filmmaker and former journalism student Elizabeth Pollack traveled to the tropical paradise of Tuvalu, only six feet above sea level, to make a documentary on the effects of global warming in the South Pacific tentatively titled “Atlantic Approaching.”

Pollack produced a shorter piece out on the same topic for FRONTLINE/World’s Rough Cut series, visible here.

Carrie Ching, Chad Heeter, Jonathan Jones, Krista Mahr and Adam Raney traveled to Phnom Phen and Stockton, California to produce a rich collection of stories for washingpost.com on the lives of Cambodians who want to come to the US and those who’ve already come here.

The set of stories is visible here.

[NOTE: This was a special production of the "Digital TV and the World" program]