Reading List / Week ending 1-15-05

John Cory The Bush Zone
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011505A.shtml

Jonathan Steele A Global Gulag to Hide the War on Terror's Dirty Secrets
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011505C.shtml

Paul Krugman The British Evasion
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011505D.shtml

Ring of Steel as Bush Sworn In
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011505J.shtml

Iraq: The Surprising Sheikh Ghazi Al-Yaouar
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011505H.shtml

Military Has Discharged 26 Gay Linguists
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011505L.shtml

Glaciers Melting at Alarming Rate
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011505X.shtml

Report: Iraq Now the New Terrorism Breeding Ground
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011505Z.shtml

PRISONERS OF HOPE
Cornel West, AlterNet
Over 30 years after the cowardly murder of Martin LutherKing, Jr., black America sits on the brink of collectivedisaster. We need a moral prophetic minority of all colorswho muster the courage to question the powers that be.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20982/

HOLIDAY FOR A HERO
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
Though Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is an officially declared public holiday, many local government agencies still refuse to shut their doors, while opposition is most persistent among businesses.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20984/

A PROGRESSIVE VISION FOR AMERICA
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, AlterNet
"We cannot become Republican clones. If we do, we will loseagain, and deserve to lose."
http://www.alternet.org/story/20991/

DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Matthew Scott Kelemen, AlterNet
Once upon a time, according to 'The Assassination of RichardNixon,' an American dreamer tried to kill the 37thpresident.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/20989/

Harold Meyerson President of Fabricated Crises
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011405C.shtml

J. Sri Raman Of History and a Barely Escaped Nuclear Horror
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011405D.shtml

Margaret Carlson The Truth Shall Set You Back
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011405F.shtml

Federal Land Purchase Fails - Yellowstone Kills Solitary Buffalo
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml

Doug Ireland Dirty Little Secrets
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011405I.shtml

Renato Redentor Constantino As We Grieve
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011405K.shtml

Many Wondering What Happened to Europe's Winter
ttp://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011405X.shtml


Last week, AlterNet ran a provocative piece by SeniorEditor Lakshmi Chaudhry, in which she questioned the wisdom of the call to immediately withdraw American troops fromIraq. Chaudhry asserted that we should consider the moral issues of immediate withdrawal, perhaps instead"transfer[ring] the control of Iraq to a truly multinational force entrusted with the humanitarian task of rebuilding the nation and helping the Iraqi people gain control over their future."

Today, we offer four responses to Chaudhry's story, as well as a response from Chaudhry.

Read "Rethinking Iraq":
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20902/

Tom Hayden says that the occupation itself isthe chief cause of the insurgency and the upcomingelections are the cause of the impending civil war.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20976/

Jonathan Schell believes that no foreign power, not eventhe world's sole superpower, can create democracy in Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20975/

Kamil Mahdi says that Iraqi resistance and public awarenessof neocon designs for empire will bring the occupation to anend -- not the anti-war movement.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20969/

Erik Leaver says that in order to succeed, the anti-warmovement has to answer the big question: what role shouldthe U.S. be playing in the world?http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20960/

In response, Lakshmi Chaudhry says that we control the country at this time, and so we must be the ones to come up with a plan to transfer control to an Iraqi-led process that has international support and financing.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20980/

Also on AlterNet today:

AMERICA'S FINITE FUTURE?
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet
The evidence is overwhelming. Everywhere you look, it's IOUspassed on to future generations: Record federal debt. Recordforeign debt. Record budget deficits. Record trade deficits.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20974/

Steve Weissman Torture in the Senate
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011305A.shtml

Greg Palast CBS' Cowardice and Conflicts behind Purge
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011305E.shtml

Solar Photovoltaic Breakthrough Taps Infrared Light
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Nature: A Real Moral Value
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011305X.shtml


FIRE THE CONSULTANTS
Amy Sullivan, Washington Monthly
Why do Democrats continue to hire campaign advisors who lose races?http://www.alternet.org/story/20961/

REPEATING ERRORS OF HISTORY
Jason Vest, AlterNet
The U.S. counterinsurgency tactics used in El Salvador areat best a case study in how to prolong an insurgency, notend it. And it won't be any different in Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20962/

IS AL QAEDA JUST A BUSH BOOGEYMAN?
Robert Scheer, AlterNet
A new BBC film argues coherently that much of what we havebeen told about the threat of international terrorism "is afantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted bypoliticians."
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20954/
More Robert Scheer:
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/2676/

37 QUESTIONS FOR DONALD RUMSFELD
Karen J. Greenberg, Joshua L. Dratel, Tomdispatch.com
Here are the real questions Congress should ask thesecretary of defense about torture policies.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/20956/
More Rights & Liberties:
://www.alternet.org/rights/

AFGHAN POPPIES BLOOM
Christian Parenti, The Nation
After three years of ignoring opium poppy cultivation inwar-ravaged Afghanistan, the United States has suddenlychanged course.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20958/
More DrugReporter:
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/

COVERING ELECTIONS THERE, MISCOVERING THEM HERE
Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org
With so much rhetoric devoted to voting rights and mediamis-coverage of elections, why aren't progressive groupshelping to build an alternative media that offers acorrective?http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20952/
More MediaCulture:
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/


Thom Hartmann First They Came for the Terrorists...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011205C.shtml

The Los Angeles Times A Property Rights 'Trophy'
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml

Paul Krugman The Iceberg Cometh
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011205J.shtml

In GOP, Resistance on Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011205K.shtml

Molly Ivins These People Are Slicker Than Bus Station Chili
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011205L.shtml

NRDC Says U.S. Tried to Bury Pollutant Study
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011205X.shtml

Let Bin Laden Stay Free, Says C.I.A. Man
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011205Z.shtml


THE CONSERVATIVE MARKETING MACHINE
Laurie Spivak, AlterNet
Armstrong Williams being paid to promote Bush administrationpolicies in his columns is just one part of the behemothmarketing effort that the right wing has perfected.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20946/
Plus, David Corn relates a conversation with Williams, in which the shamed commentator reveals that he's not the only one taking money from the big boys.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20947/

-->> In the MediaCulture News Log: "Listen to me you dirty rat-eater." This is what, among other things, a Philadelphia-based Clear Channel shock jock tells an Indian operator when he discovers his call has been outsourced.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/2005/01/002815.html

THE DEATH SQUAD OPTION
Christy Harvey, Judd Legum, Jonathan Baskin, Center for American Progress
Faced with an intractable insurgency in Iraq, the Pentagonis returning to its bad old ways. Remember El Salvador?
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20941/

IRAQ: THE DEVASTATION
Dahr Jamail, Tomdispatch.com
The invasion of Iraq was just a preview of the untold miseryand destruction to come under U.S. occupation.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20942/

FULL FRONTAL OFFENSE
Rebecca Hyman, Bitch Magazine
A T-shirt proclaiming 'I had an abortion' puts the battlefor choice front and center -- and stirs up controversy on both sides of the issue.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/20949/

NATURE: A REAL MORAL VALUE
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., AlterNet
Despite the rejection of some of Bush's worst environmentalinitiatives, the White House still hasn't learned that it'ssailing against the public tide.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/20937/

MY YEAR ON A KIBBUTZ
Naomi Lightman, YPP.net
One girl questions the so-called idyllic culture of thekibbutz, saying, "I had a great time working with the animals, picking mangoes off the trees and partying on the lawns until dawn, but was that really enough?
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/20924/
More WireTap:
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/

Quitting Iraq after Vote Gains Support
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011105A.shtml

Open Letter: Retired Military Leaders Slam Gonzales
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011105C.shtml

Investment Pros See Bonanza in Bush Social Security Plan
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011105E.shtml

Ronald Brownstein Bush Deficit Plagues the Unborn
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011105F.shtml

Battle Looms Again over Drilling Alaska Wildlife Refuge
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml

Gerard Dupuy Palestine's Limited "Window of Opportunity"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011105H.shtml

Democrats United in Plans to Block Top Bush Initiatives
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011105I.shtml

Michelle Goldberg The New Monkey Trial
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011105L.shtml

Will Pitt Interview from Camp Kerry
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011105W.shtml

Environmentalists, Feds Face Off over Wilderness Lawsuit
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011105X.shtml

White House Is Discussing Cuts in Social Security Benefits
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011105Y.shtml

GOP 'Doomsday' Plan Rewrites U.S. Constitution
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011005E.shtml

Maureen Dowd Defining Victory Down
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011005F.shtml

Geoffrey Lean God and Mangroves
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml

For Unemployed, Wait for New Work Grows Longer
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011005J.shtml

Automakers Put Hydrogen Power On the Fast Track
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011005W.shtml

U.S. Soldiers Flee to Canada to Avoid Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011005Y.shtml

IN GOOD CONSCIENCE
Scott Fleming, LiP Magazine
A soldier who served with the 320th Military Police Companyat Abu Ghraib speaks out about the atrocities he witnessed.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20935/

BAD MEDICINE
David Morris, AlterNet
Attacking patients or their lawyers won't cure what ails the health care industry. Insurance reform is a better place to start.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/20936/

BLACK POINT MAN FOR THE RIGHT
The Black Commentator
In joining in the Republican mission to destroy SocialSecurity, Congressman Harold Ford has journeyed far afield to inhabit a place dangerous and alien to black interests
.http://www.alternet.org/story/20931/

ELECTION 2004: STOLEN OR LOST
Russ Baker, TomPaine.com
As time passes and allegations of fraud are investigated, itseems clearer that the story of the 2004 election is more about incompetence and dysfunction than intentional misconduct.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20934/

WHY I MUST OBJECT
Barbara Boxer, AlterNet
The senator explains why she felt compelled to object to thecertification of Ohio's electoral votes.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20928/

RADIO INSURGENTE
Deepa Fernandes, In These Times
Mexico's Zapatistas have been broadcasting their popular radio show for the past 21 years; now, a new website is allowing them to archive the history they're recording.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20932/

TIN SOLDIER
Mariah Blake, Columbia Journalism Review
How did a former Special Forces soldier -- and convicted criminal -- manage to use a hungry pressfor profit and glory?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20930/