Reading List / Week ending 1-22-05

FOCUS: Laura Miller Python Swallows Bush!http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012305X.shtml

Bob Herbert Dancing the War Away
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012205E.shtml

Thom Hartmann The Robber Baron's Party
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012205I.shtml

David Ignatius Worrisome Hubris
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012205J.shtml

Marshall Auerback What Could Go Wrong in 2005?http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012205L.shtml

Bernie Sanders Ground Control to Mr. Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012205V.shtml

Deleting Hazardous Waste
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012205X.shtml

Sidney Blumenthal Regime Change That Could Destroy Our Homeland
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012105D.shtml

Jonathan Schell What Is Wrong with Torture
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012105E.shtml

At the Limits of Ocean and Air
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml

Patrick Sabatier Demolition Derby
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012105H.shtml

Scott Horton A Nuremberg Lesson
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012105I.shtml

Norman Solomon A Shaky Media Taboo - Withdrawal from Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012105J.shtml

Private Intelligence Agency Gathers Personal Information
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012105K.shtml

WHAT WE OWE IRAQ
Bradford Plumer, MotherJones.com
Noah Feldman, an author and a former adviser to theCoalition Provisional Authority, talks about America’smoral responsibility in rebuilding the nation and thepromise and perils of Iraqi elections.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21047/

AN EMPTY EXERCISE IN DECEIT
John Nichols, The Nation
Bush's inaugural address provided plenty of lofty rhetoric.Now we await the less-than-lofty deeds that are sure tofollow.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21046/-->
The Progress Report puts together some illuminating numbers on the inauguration. http://www.alternet.org/story/21038/

IS THE DOCTOR IN?
Doug Ireland, LA Weekly
Despite some rabid opposition, Howard Dean becomes the man to beat in the race for chairman of the Democratic NationalCommittee.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21043/

FEAR OF THE SEA
Chris Johnson, AlterNet
Among the casualties of the tsunami in Thailand are fishermen afraid of the sea and people afraid of eating fish.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21045/

FANTASTIC FOUR
Jordan E. Rosenfeld, AlterNet
A new quartet of superheroes steps up to fight evil. Their turf? The Middle East.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21044/

WHEN THERE WAS NO CHOICE
Sharon Lerner, Village Voice
On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, those who remember the days of illegal abortion fight to keep that time a distant memory.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21049/
More Rights & Liberties:
http://www.alternet.org/rights/

HENHOUSES OVERSTAFFED WITH FOXES
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
Jonathan L. Snare has been named to head the OccupationalSafety and Health Administration (OSHA). No, he's not an expert in health or safety, but he used to be the lobbyist for Metabolife.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21041/

MORE MONEY FOR IRAQ? NOT WITHOUT CONDITIONS
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet
The Democrats should do everything in their admittedly diminished power to try to place some conditions before they vote for another $80 to $100 billion in supplemental funding for the war in Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21033/

THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION
Rick Perlstein, Village Voice
George Bush is getting four more years to remake the world
in his image. (Too bad for us, he already started.)
http://www.alternet.org/story/21031/-->
Take your pick from the many ways to protest Bush's inauguration:
http://www.alternet.org/rights/2005/01/002836.html

PROSECUTING MOM AND DAD
Marsha Rosenbaum, AlterNet
In communities across the country, 'social host' laws passed
in an effort to stop teenage drinking are making criminalsout of otherwise responsible, law-abiding parents.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21028/

THE RISE OF OPEN-SOURCE POLITICS
Micah L. Sifry, The Nation
Thanks to web-savvy agitators, insiderism and elitism are under heavy attack. The era of top-down politics is over.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21032/

EASILY UNHINGED
Nina Siegal, The Progressive
Author and illustrator Art Spiegelman talks about depicting9/11, censorship at 'The New Yorker' and writing -- and living -- 'In the Shadow of No Towers.'
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21034/

TURNING THEIR BACKS ON BUSH
Melina Brown, WireTap
An estimated 10,000-30,000 people will line the streets of Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C. this week without pins, buttons or signs. Their voices will not rise inunison, and there will not be a bullhorn among them. But there will be protest.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21017/
More WireTap:
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/

STOLEN OR LOST?
Steven F. Freeman, AlterNet
Freeman, a polling expert, disputes journalist Russ Baker's critique of his work analyzing the exit poll discrepancy.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21036/

HERSH REALITIES
Matthew Clark, Christian Science Monitor
The U.S., Pakistan, Iran all criticize Seymour Hersh'slatest New Yorker bombshell -- but the Pentagon refuses to refute it.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21024/
More MediaCulture:
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/

Building The Next Paul Wellstone
by Gloria Totten, TomPaine.com Exclusive
We know the inauguration is hard -- but instead of crying in your beer, check out Progressive Majority's plan to take back America. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/_building_the_next_paul_wellstone.php

Cheers For Bush's Ownership Society
by Robert Reich, TomPaine.com
If Bush were sincere about building an ownership society he'd reform taxes and reduce wealth concentration.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/cheers_for_bushs_ownership_society.php

Today's Working Assets (www.workingforchange.com) column is on reports, by theNew Yorker’s Seymour Hersh and others, that the Bush Administration has alreadybegun military operations in Iran. It's at:http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18408

Steve Weissman Target Iran. War with No End
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012005A.shtml

Why the Hawks Are Circling Over Iran
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012005C.shtml

Dahr Jamail U.S. Military Resorting to Collective Punishment
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012005D.shtml

New Doubts on Plan for Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012005F.shtml

George Monbiot A Televisual Fairyland
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012005I.shtml

The Fog Of Phony War
by David Corn, TomPaine.com Exclusive
Last week's WMD news showed how the right-wing spin machine prevents the public from hearing the truth about Iraq.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_fog_of_phony_war.php

Democrats' Time To Choose
by Kate Michelman, TomPaine.com Exclusive
The former head of NARAL says the DNC needs to move the center -- not move to the center. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/democrats_time_to_choose.php

--->UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS
PARDONING JACK JOHNSON
Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher.
Ken Burns' campaign to pardon Jack Johnson was inspired by racist editorials from some surprising sources.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21025/
PLUS: Earl Ofari Hutchinson discusses the heavy price Johnson paid for his transgression of America's interracial sex taboo.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21011/
AND: Cynthia Fuchs of PopMatters reviews the Ken Burns documentary http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21022/

CBS' URGE TO PURGE
Greg Palast, GregPalast.com.
Lost in the folly of the 'CBS Report' - and the subsequent purges - is the fact that the story behind it is the truth.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20979/

IRAN: THE NEXT STRATEGIC TARGET
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh bust open the secret neocon plans aimed at Iran. In an interview, Hersh explainshow Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are trying to keeping America in the dark about their war games.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21021/

ANNALS OF OUTRAGE
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation
The Bush administration's ten most outrageous scandals -- an orgy of fraud, mismanagement and corruption.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21018/

----> In the MediaCulture News Log: Lazy, Lazy Bill O'ReillyLiberal radio personality -- and rising star -- Ed Schultztakes on Bill O'Reilly.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/2005/01/002831.html

THE SCIENCE OF COMEDY
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
I have always aspired to wit and rarely achieve it -- I'm one of those people who always thinks of the right thing to say 20 minutes after the opportunity has passed. Well,sometimes, hours after, days even.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21014/

FEDS MADE INTERRACIAL SEX AMERICA'S TABOO
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
Black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson paid a heavy pricefor defying interracial sex and marriage laws.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21011/

HIDING BEHIND SECRECY
John Prados, TomPaine.com
The failure to find WMD points to a White House strategy to hide behind the secrecy barriers of the intelligencecommunity.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21010/
More War on Iraq:
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/

Sergeant Kevin Benderman A Matter of Conscience
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905B.shtml

The 34 Scandals of George W. Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905D.shtml

Bid for DNC Chair Recharges Governor Dean
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905E.shtml

U.S. Lobbyists Attack Scientist Warning of Global Warming
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml

"An Indivisible World Where the Rich May No Longer Ignore the Poor"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905H.shtml

James Zogby Cultural and Commercial Influences on the Free Press
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905I.shtml

Doris 'Granny D' Haddock Our Velvet Revolution
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905J.shtml

Harley Sorensen Social Security Needs Tuning Fork, Not Sledgehammer
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905L.shtml

DuPont Accused of Concealing Teflon Ingredient's Health Risk
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905X.shtml

Kerry Denounces 'Voter Suppression' in November Election
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905Z.shtml

FYI: Bush's 34 Scandals
http://www.truthout.org/fyi

FOCUS: The American Conservative A Time for Leaving
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905Y.shtml

GLUTTONS FOR PUNISHMENT
Jacob Sullum, Reason
The Supreme Court's expansion of judicial sentencing discretion could provoke a dangerous congressional backlash.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21007/

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

THE AFGHAN 'DARK ALLIANCE'
Bill Weinberg, Pacific News Service
The same dynamic that journalist Gary Webb described--a CIA proxy army supporting itself through the drug trade--was also at work in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20972/

THE PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND
Nate Blakeslee, Texas Observer
Another look at the story of Elaine Bartlett reminds us that mass incarceration is not part of the solution to this country's problems.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20971/

DOCTOR NO WAY
Dean Kuipers, LA CityBeat
A top doctor at a major drug testing company claims the newest prescription drugs can do better than medical marijuana.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20970/

Trouble At Home: The Housing Bubble
by Dean Baker, Demos On how the coming collapse of the housing market will hurt middle and low-income families. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/trouble_at_home_the_housing_bubble.php

Hiding Behind Secrecy
by John Prados, TomPaine.com Exclusive
National security analyst John Prados on how the story of the WMDs is one of intelligence rigging -- not intelligence failure. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/hiding_behind_secrecy.php

"CORPORATE AMERICANS"
Joshua Holland, AlterNet
George Bush's "Ownership Society" represents a new form of economic populism -- a populism born in the Hobbesian belief that we all struggle alone in a worldwhere life is nasty, brutish and short.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21000/

PRIMARY COLORS
Steve Cobble, AlterNet
Democrats cannot continue to have two almost-all-white states -- Iowa and New Hampshire -- determine their presidential nominees. The next nominee must be able to activate and inspire a multi-racial, multi-cultural base.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20988/

THE POLITICAL TSUNAMI
Michael I. Niman, AlterNet
Oppressive military regimes and prior environmental degradation add unnatural death and destruction to a supposedly natural disaster.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/20993/
More EnviroHealth:
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/

THE GREAT WHITE WAY
Carrie McLaren, Stay Free! Magazine
Long before Adolf Hitler hit his stride, American activists worked to breed a better, whiter race. Historian DanielKevles discusses the U.S. eugenics movement, Fitter Families, and efforts to segregate, sterilize, and castratethe "unfit."
http://www.alternet.org/rights/20990/


PUNDITS RACE TO THE BOTTOM
Eric Alterman, The Nation
The Armstrong Williams scandal is the latest, and most promising entry, in right-wing pundits' race for the bottom. So why are the networks still inviting them on?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20999/
More MediaCulture:
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/

Seymour M. Hersh The Coming Wars
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805A.shtml

Robert Fisk Hotel Journalism Gives American Troops a Free Hand
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805B.shtml

Dahr Jamail Destroying Babylon
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805C.shtml

War Crimes Judge Sees U.S. Threat to Rule of Law
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805D.shtml

Senator Edward Kennedy George Bush's Vietnam
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805E.shtml

Rev. Martin Luther King Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805F.shtml

Rolling Stone Interviews Krugman: Bush's Social Security Con
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805I.shtml

How Ukraine's Top Spies Changed the Nation's Path
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805J.shtml

Scientists Floored by Photos from Titan
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805L.shtml

Injunction to Block Logging at Wildfire Site Lifted
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805X.shtml

Arlene Ash Why We Must Question Our Elections
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805Y.shtml

MLK JR. IN HIS OWN WORDS"I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. Thegreat initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stopit must be ours." The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s wordsring true more than four decades after he spoke them.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21003/

LIFE OF THE PARTY
Robert L. Borosage, The Nation
The corporate wing of the Democratic Party is trying to reassert control, but progressives must continue to build the reform movement started in 2004.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21005/

CIVIL RIGHTS, BROUGHT TO YOU BY... REPUBLICANS?
Paul von Hippel, Gadflyer
The new taxpayer-funded Republican Freedom Calender highlights "a half century of civil rights achievements by the party of Lincoln." Here's what the calender left out.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21004/

MORE THAN A DREAMER
Paul Rockwell, AlterNet
Dr. Martin Luther King's oft-quoted "I have a dream" speechwas not about far-off visions, it was a call to action.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/20992/

AN APPEAL TO GLOBAL CONSCIENCE
An appeal to the peace and justice movement, calling for along-term strategy for undermining the foundations of war.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20996/

PATTY HEARST & 9/11
Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix
A new doc, 'Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst' alludes to parallels between the taking of an heiress and the taking down of the towers.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/20998/
More Movie Mix:
http://www.alternet.org/movies/

Robert Fisk A Flying Carpet to Baghdad
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011605A.shtml

Christopher Dickey Death-Squad Democracy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011605B.shtml

Eleanor Clift Why Democrats Are Stronger than You Think
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011605E.shtml

Stephen F. Cohen The Media's New Cold War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011605F.shtml

Urban Sprawl Threatens Plants, Animals
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml

Jean-Paul Marthoz "Europe Must Not Hesitate to Criticize Bush"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011605H.shtml

Tribes Gather to Talk Indigenous Rights
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011605J.shtml

David Corn Bush's Kingmaker
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011605L.shtml

F.B.I. Rebuked over Firing of 9/11 Whistle-Blower
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011605X.shtml