Thoughts for a Holiday Weekend / Reading List Nov 27th & 28th

The radical Right's use of language is no accident.


* Do not call it the Clear Skies initiative. Call it the Dirty Skies
initiative.

* Do not call it Healthy Forests. Call it No Tree Left Behind.

* Do not call it Compassionate Conservatism. Call it Callous
Conservatism".

http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/rockridge/orwellian




House GOP Spurns Cooperation
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112804E.shtml

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Molly Ivins | A Few Political Developments
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112804F.shtml
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Critics Tackle Ohio Vote
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112804I.shtml

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Economic 'Armageddon' Predicted
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112804K.shtml
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Naomi Klein | Smoking While Iraq Burns
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112804L.shtml

Halliburton 'Loses' Millions in Government Property in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112804W.shtml

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FOCUS: LA Times | Chipping Away at Roe vs. Wade
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112904Y.shtml

FOCUS | Justice Scalia Rejects Separation of Church and State
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112704X.shtml
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FOCUS: Senator Robert Byrd | A Thanksgiving Prayer in a Time of War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112704U.shtml

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Jacqueline Keeler | Thanksgiving: A Native American View
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112604A.shtml
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Susan Lenfestey | Even for a Liberal, There's Comfort to be Found
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112604B.shtml

James Carroll | America's Heartfelt Holiday
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112604C.shtml

Christopher D. Cook | Thanksgiving's Hidden Costs
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112604D.shtml

Christian Welch | Thoughts on Thanksgiving from Austin
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112604E.shtml

Ralph G. Neas | Fundamental Flaws Put Our Voting System at Risk
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112604K.shtml

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Max Castro | Bush Again: Tightening the Noose
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112604O.shtml
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Leonard Steinhorn | Scrooge's Nightmare
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112604R.shtml

James A. Nickel | Following the Ukrainian Lead
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112704D.shtml

Sidney Blumenthal | Counterinaugural at the Clinton Library
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112704F.shtml

Patrick Jarreau | Americaniphobic Nervousness
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112704H.shtml

More Voting Questions Raised
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112704K.shtml

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John W. Dean | Does Bush Now Have Political Capital to Spend?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112704L.shtml
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Workers Suffer in Sweat Shops to Make Our Toys
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112704V.shtml




THE FATE OF MEDICAL POT
Raymond Cushing, AlterNet
The Supreme Court is set to rule on whether the feds have
the right to arrest medical marijuana patients. But will
the justices have all the facts?
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20577/

-->>NEXT WEEK: Steven Wishnia reports from
Washington on Ashcroft v. Raich.

HEALERS AND DEALERS
Jacob Sullum, Reason
By prosecuting William Hurwitz for trusting his patients too
much, the government is criminalizing the sort of mistake
doctors already are so keen to avoid that they routinely
turn away or undertreat patients in pain.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20608/

A PROHIBITION-STYLE CRIME WAVE
Anthony Gregory, The Independent Institute
The more the government spends on the drug war, the more
violent crime increases. One researcher says eliminating
drug prohibition could reduce the homicide rate by up to 75 percent.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20578/

CULTIVATING OPIUM, NOT DEMOCRACY
Robert Scheer, AlterNet
In the opium haze that threatens to swallow up Afghanistan's
vaunted rebirth, it is only the illusion of progress -- not progress
-- that is being sold.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20582/