READING LIST WEEK ENDING 2-19-2005
Mark Benjamin The Soldiers behind the Walls of Ward 54
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805D.shtml
Milbank, Dowd and Others Weigh In on Gannon/Guckert
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805E.shtml
U.S. Treasury's Role in Illicit Iraq Oil Sales Cited
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805F.shtml
Senator Clinton Pushes for Voting Holiday
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805G.shtml
Edwy Plenel The Question Will Not Be Asked
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805H.shtml
'America Would Back Israel Attack on Iran'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805I.shtml
Bob Herbert Our Friends, the Torturers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805J.shtml
David Cole The Lynne Stewart Tria
lhttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805K.shtml
Conservatives Put Off by Bush's Talk of Tax Hike
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805L.shtml
Farmers Who Backed Bush Upset with Budget
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805M.shtml
Study Predicts City Flood Threat Due to Warming
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
CIA: Iraq War Helps Recruit Terrorists
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705B.shtml
Sidney Blumenthal A Hireling, a Fraud and a Prostitute
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705C.shtml
Bush May Raise Taxes for Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705D.shtml
States Fall Behind on Voting-System Improvements
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705F.shtml
John Aglionby A Story Half-Told
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705G.shtml
Francois-Bernard Huyghe Terrorism, Evil and Democracy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705H.shtml
Max J. Castro In High Gear: The GOP Class War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705K.shtml
Andrew P. Napolitano No Defense
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705L.shtml
Frank Rich The White House Stages Its 'Daily Show'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705M.shtml
Waxman Wants Rice-9/11 Hearings
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705W.shtml
Global Warming: The Danger of Tilting at Windmills
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Negroponte a Controversial Pick for Intelligence Post
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705Y.shtml
Camilo Mejia Regaining My Humanity
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705Z.shtml
SLUM POLITICS
James Westcott, AlterNet
The squalid mini-city states known as slums now house at least one billion people across the world, living outside normal regulations. As their ranks swell, some are sayingthat it's time to start thinking of them a little differently.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21297/
BUSTING THE SOCIAL SECURITY MYTHS
William E. Spriggs, The Black Commentator
The claims about Social Security are wrong: A privatized program would not serve African Americans better.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21295/
NEGROPONTE'S DARK PAST
David Corn, The Nation
Bush's appointee to the new post of Director of NationalIntelligence, John Negroponte, has skated through appointments in the past, and is likely to do so again.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21299/
SCREW THE CHILDREN
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
What's really sad about the budget is that all this damageis being done to real, living children -- to save what is, in Washington terms, pennies.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21294/
SHELTER UNDER THE ANTI-WAR UMBRELLA
David Solnit, AlterNet
A call to the U.S. anti-war movement: it is possible for us to promote a people power strategic framework that makes our various efforts and campaigns complementary and cumulative.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21298/
NOT YOUR PARENT'S DRUG TEST
Paul Armentano, Reason
A surge in the number of Americans peeing on demand has coincided with an explosion of alternative drug testingtechnology.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21267/
More DrugReporter: http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/
AL GORE'S MORAL LEADERSHIP LESSON
Kelpie Wilson, TruthOut.org
When it comes to global warming, Gore says that PresidentBush inhabits an 'un-reality bubble,' created by his advisers in the oil and coal industries, that will soon burst.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21293/
More EnviroHealth: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/
Today's Working Assets (http://www.workingforchange.com/) column is on President Bush's budget proposal, which uses the deficit as his excuse for a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich.
It's at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18583
Will Pitt FYI: Experts See Military Draft as Inevitable
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/18/9166/09308
On February 10, a jury in New York City convicted longtime activist attorney Lynne Stewart of conspiracy, providing material support to terrorists, defrauding the government and making false statements.
But, as David Cole comments in the latest issue of The Nation, rather than making us safer, this conviction "illustrates how out of hand things have gotten in the 'war on terrorism.'" As Cole adds, "to inflate its successes in ferreting out terrorism, the Justice Department turned an administrative infraction into a terrorism conviction that, unless reversed, will likely send Stewart to prisonfor the rest of her life."
Read Cole's editorial for more on why Stewart's conviction is so unjust andpolitically-motivated.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050307&s=cole
Check out ActNow, The Nation's activist weblog, for ways you can help defendStewart.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?bid=4&pid=2205
And follow lynnestewart.org for the latest developments in her case.
http://www.lynnestewart.org
For Democrats, Rethinking Abortion Runs Risks
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021605G.shtml
Jean Daniel "To Change the World..."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021605H.shtml
Rumsfeld to Face a Wary Congress
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021605K.shtml
Rick Jahnkow A Turning Point for the Anti-War Movement?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021605L.shtml
NOW Corporate Rights
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021605M.shtml
Nun, Rain-Forest Defender Murdered in Brazil
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
SINCLAIR BROADCAST: THE PUPPETMASTERS
Paul Schmelzer, AlterNet
What's driving the Sinclair news cycle? Some employees say the company is pulling strings based on its -- and its executives' -- financial and political interests.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21278/-->>
Timothy Karr reports on a new business deal with Comcast that could mean a five-fold increase in audience for Sinclair.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21290/
DIVINE INTERVENTIONA
BuzzFlash Interview
Susan Jacoby, the author of 'Freethinkers: A History ofAmerican Secularism,' dissects the fundamentalist antipathy to free thought -- and discusses how dangerous the 'God is on our side' philosophy is to government.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21288/
ISRAEL IS FAILING THE MORAL TEST
Patrick Connors, AlterNet
Apparently, it is forbidden for Palestinians to use the tactics of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. to try to save their land and their communities from destruction.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21287/
ASHCROFT'S LEGACY
Nancy Talanian, AlterNet
John Ashcroft's legacy as attorney general included preventing the Senate from seeing documents that might have shed light on the actions of the new attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, and on Homeland Security chief MichaelChertoff.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21280/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
Our Spook Speaks
by David Corn, TomPaine.com Exclusive
A TomPaine.com columnist and accused CIA plant lays out the case against himself. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/our_spook_speaks.php
Ending The "I Didn't Know" Defense
by Robert Reich, TomPaine.com
CEOs on trial are testing the strength of corporate accountability laws. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/ending_the_i_didnt_know_defense.php
Will Pitt FYI: Find the Cost of Freedom
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/17/85035/7270
The Jeff Gannon/James Guckert affair is still buzzing around the internet. But even though the scandal exposed a right-wing journalist operating undermisleading cover, David Corn raises a cautionary note or two in Capital Games.
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2196
As importantly, as Katrina vanden Heuvel says in Editor's Cut, it is worth remembering that how the White House operated in the Gannon scandal is but the latest round in the Bush Administration's assault on the freedom of the press. http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2196
Many of the attacks on University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill also raise basic questions about our country's commitment to ideals like true freedom of expression. John Nichols explores these issues in his Online Beat, which applauds UW-Whitewater chancellor Jack Miller for keeping his school's speaking engagement with the controversial writer and teacher.
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=219
Wal-Mart's Sweetheart Deal
by Jonathan Tasini, TomPaine.com Exclusive
The feds' recent slap on the hand for Wal-Mart is the last straw -- it's time for a Safe Workplace Act.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/walmarts_sweetheart_deal.php
Funding The Culture Wars
by Jeff Krehely, TomPaine.com Exclusive
Under George W. Bush, evangelical groups are tapping public coffers and influencing policy decisions like never before. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/funding_the_culture_wars.php
Marjorie Cohn First They Came for Lynne Stewart
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505A.shtml
Bush Urges Renewal of Patriot Act
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505C.shtml
Amy Goodman: Voice of America
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505G.shtml
The Twenty-Five Opposite the Bush Revolution
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505H.shtml
Court: Reporters Must Testify in CIA Leak Case
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505I.shtml
Paul Krugman The Fighting Moderates
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505K.shtml
Dahr Jamail Media Held Guilty of Deception
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505L.shtml
Maya Keyes Sets the Record Gay in Interview Exclusive http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505M.shtml
Dr. James J. Zogby Understanding the Speeches
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505N.shtml
"Jeff Gannon's" Secret Life
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505Z.shtml
A GAME AS OLD AS EMPIRE
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
The author of the gripping new book, 'Confessions of anEconomic Hit Man,' reveals how the U.S. became the world's largest superpower: by forcing developing countries into debt.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21245/
WHY WOMEN WILL LOSE
Heather Boushey, Women's eNews
Women live longer, earn less and fill more caretaking roles than men. For all these reasons, they stand to lose the most if Social Security is changed.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21271/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
A CULTURE OF SECRECY
Charles Lewis, The Center for Public Integrity
What happened to the principle that American democracy should be accessible and transparent? And what became of the investigative journalism that aided that process?http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21273/
More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/
WHAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT 9/11 HURTS US
Robert Scheer, AlterNet
The terrible fact is that the administration took none of the steps that would have put the protection of human life ahead of a diverse set of economic and political interests.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21269/
Hail, Hail The Gang's All Here
by Ray McGovern, TomPaine.com Exclusive
John Negroponte's appointment is the latest evidence that President Bush is strengthening his cabinet's capacity to mislead Congress and trample civil liberties. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/hail_hail_the_gangs_all_here.php
Today's Working Assets (http://www.workingforchange.com/) column is on George Bush'spartial privatization plan for Social Security, and why it's a game for suckers. It's at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18537
CANADA'S CAUTIOUS FIRST STEP
David Borden, DRCNet
Heroin maintenance is a radical step forward, in political terms. But if it's carried out in a sound fashion, we know it works.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21268/
HOPE FOR METH ADDICTS
Maia Szalavitz, STATS
Despite the NYT's bleak picture of addiction recovery,methamphetamine addicts have relapse rates no worse --and no better -- than for those of any other drug.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21275/
A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD
Scott Henson, DrugSense Weekly
A new study which purports to show that marijuana use is especially dangerous seems to show the opposite.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21266/
JOURNEYS WITH JEFFREY
Ellen Komp, AlterNet
A treatment regimen of medical marijuana was the only thing that helped a 7-year-old boy overcome his behavioral problems and violent tendencies.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21274/
240 Million Risky Pieces
by David Smith, TomPaine.com
A Demos senior fellow on how Bush's private account scheme tears apart the social bargain underlying Social Security.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/240_million_risky_pieces.php
After Bush Leaves Office, His Budget's Costs Balloon
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405E.shtml
Democrats Mobilizing on Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405F.shtml
Paul Craig Roberts Nothing to Fear But Bush Himself
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405G.shtml
Neo-Nazis Upstage Dresden Memorial
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405K.shtml
Rebecca Solnit Liberation Conspiracies
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405M.shtml
Mark Hertsgaard It's Much Too Late to Sweat Global Warming
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Ray McGovern We Need the Oil, Right? So What's the Problem?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405Y.shtml
KYOTO CAN'T SAVE US
Mark Hertsgaard, AlterNet
Emissions have gone too far and global warming is unavoidable. What is needed is recognition and a willingness to confront the very real challenges ahead.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21261/-->>
Can Kyoto save us? According to a UN expert, 'climate change is ready to take its place again at the top of the global agenda.'
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21260/-->>
Felix Kramer writes that if enough people become convinced that global warming has the potential to be as deadly as an asteroid barrage, it might change humanity's priorities.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21264/
MINORITY RETORT
David Morris, AlterNet
A two-tiered strategy for Democrats fighting the GOP majority: Obstruct in Washington and speak up for state and local rights
.http://www.alternet.org/story/21259/
THEY SHOOT JOURNALISTS, DON'T THEY?
Chris Paterson, AlterNet
Eason Jordan of CNN is the latest casualty of a media cowed by the right wing and the military. Unlike some journalistsin Iraq, Jordan only lost his job.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21262/
THE MAKING OF A MOVEMENT
Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com
Adam Hochschild's new book is both a gripping history of a particular movement and a
magnificent portrait of how activism works.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21257/
CLASS ACTION DISMISSED
Amanda Griscom Little, Grist Magazine
Despite a rousing cry of opposition from enviros against the class-action bill, the measure is still likely to pass.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21253/
More EnviroHealth: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/
THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet
Is it acceptable for blacks to use the n-word while whites are morally castigated for it?http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21256/
AN ANTI-VALENTINE TO MCSWEENEY'S MEN
Ada Calhoun, Nerve.com
A writer looks back at her doomed obsession with that eyebrow-cocked, sexless punmaster: the McSweeney's man.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21255/
More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/
VOICE OF AMERICA
Evan Derkacz, AlterNet
An interview with Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! --the only "daily, grassroots, un-embedded, international, independent news hour" in America today.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21250/
HOW TO TALK TO A CONSERVATIVE ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY
Think Progress
Enough facts to defend against the onslaught of misinformation about social security.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21244/
AMERICA OFFLINE AND ONLINE
Zephyr Teachout, Personal Democracy
Creating communities based on online connections but rooted in public places could be the key to reviving civic life – and it's an important lesson for groups like theDNC and the ACLU.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21246/
UNLOCKING THE SYSTEM
Vanessa Huang, WireTap
If the plan for reform at the California Youth Authority goes through, it could become a model of community-based rehabilitation. The promise of such major transformation has some activists asking: Is it too good to be true?
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21247/
THE REPUBLICAN DICTIONARY
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation
While Republicans are busy remaking the nation, they're also remaking the English language.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21248/
DEEP THROAT DOC
Ella Taylor, LA Weekly
A new documentary on the 'most successful indie film evermade' is at its best when it follows the lives of those whomade it.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/21241/
More Movie Mix: http://www.alternet.org/movies/
VILLAGE OF THE LIVING
Muzamil Jaleel, Tomdispatch.com
A story of one village surprisingly untouched by the bitter hostility that has roiled Kashmir.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21243/
FOCUS: Nicholas Lemann The Wayward Press
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405Z.shtml
William Rivers Pitt One for All
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021305A.shtml
Bush Budget Chops 154 Programs
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021305G.shtml
Neo-Nazis Aim to Upgrade PR
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021305H.shtml
Tom Harpur Rapture Awaits in the Florida Panhandle
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021305I.shtml
Lessons from Florida Kelpie Wilson Interviews Spencer Lennard
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021305X.shtml
Memo: Clarke Warned Rice on Al Qaeda in January, 2001
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021305Y.shtml
Rice Got Early al-Qaeda Warning But Failed to Act
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021205A.shtml
Bloggers Force CNN's Jordan to Resign
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021205E.shtml
With $400 Billion Miscue, Bush Threatens Medicare Veto
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021205F.shtml
Ronald Brownstein Democrats Aren't Giving Bush a Break This Term
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021205G.shtml
Global Warming Bill Means Thousands of New Jobs
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021205W.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805D.shtml
Milbank, Dowd and Others Weigh In on Gannon/Guckert
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805E.shtml
U.S. Treasury's Role in Illicit Iraq Oil Sales Cited
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805F.shtml
Senator Clinton Pushes for Voting Holiday
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805G.shtml
Edwy Plenel The Question Will Not Be Asked
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805H.shtml
'America Would Back Israel Attack on Iran'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805I.shtml
Bob Herbert Our Friends, the Torturers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805J.shtml
David Cole The Lynne Stewart Tria
lhttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805K.shtml
Conservatives Put Off by Bush's Talk of Tax Hike
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805L.shtml
Farmers Who Backed Bush Upset with Budget
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021805M.shtml
Study Predicts City Flood Threat Due to Warming
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
CIA: Iraq War Helps Recruit Terrorists
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705B.shtml
Sidney Blumenthal A Hireling, a Fraud and a Prostitute
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705C.shtml
Bush May Raise Taxes for Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705D.shtml
States Fall Behind on Voting-System Improvements
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705F.shtml
John Aglionby A Story Half-Told
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705G.shtml
Francois-Bernard Huyghe Terrorism, Evil and Democracy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705H.shtml
Max J. Castro In High Gear: The GOP Class War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705K.shtml
Andrew P. Napolitano No Defense
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705L.shtml
Frank Rich The White House Stages Its 'Daily Show'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705M.shtml
Waxman Wants Rice-9/11 Hearings
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705W.shtml
Global Warming: The Danger of Tilting at Windmills
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Negroponte a Controversial Pick for Intelligence Post
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705Y.shtml
Camilo Mejia Regaining My Humanity
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021705Z.shtml
SLUM POLITICS
James Westcott, AlterNet
The squalid mini-city states known as slums now house at least one billion people across the world, living outside normal regulations. As their ranks swell, some are sayingthat it's time to start thinking of them a little differently.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21297/
BUSTING THE SOCIAL SECURITY MYTHS
William E. Spriggs, The Black Commentator
The claims about Social Security are wrong: A privatized program would not serve African Americans better.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21295/
NEGROPONTE'S DARK PAST
David Corn, The Nation
Bush's appointee to the new post of Director of NationalIntelligence, John Negroponte, has skated through appointments in the past, and is likely to do so again.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21299/
SCREW THE CHILDREN
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
What's really sad about the budget is that all this damageis being done to real, living children -- to save what is, in Washington terms, pennies.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21294/
SHELTER UNDER THE ANTI-WAR UMBRELLA
David Solnit, AlterNet
A call to the U.S. anti-war movement: it is possible for us to promote a people power strategic framework that makes our various efforts and campaigns complementary and cumulative.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21298/
NOT YOUR PARENT'S DRUG TEST
Paul Armentano, Reason
A surge in the number of Americans peeing on demand has coincided with an explosion of alternative drug testingtechnology.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21267/
More DrugReporter: http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/
AL GORE'S MORAL LEADERSHIP LESSON
Kelpie Wilson, TruthOut.org
When it comes to global warming, Gore says that PresidentBush inhabits an 'un-reality bubble,' created by his advisers in the oil and coal industries, that will soon burst.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21293/
More EnviroHealth: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/
Today's Working Assets (http://www.workingforchange.com/) column is on President Bush's budget proposal, which uses the deficit as his excuse for a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich.
It's at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18583
Will Pitt FYI: Experts See Military Draft as Inevitable
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/18/9166/09308
On February 10, a jury in New York City convicted longtime activist attorney Lynne Stewart of conspiracy, providing material support to terrorists, defrauding the government and making false statements.
But, as David Cole comments in the latest issue of The Nation, rather than making us safer, this conviction "illustrates how out of hand things have gotten in the 'war on terrorism.'" As Cole adds, "to inflate its successes in ferreting out terrorism, the Justice Department turned an administrative infraction into a terrorism conviction that, unless reversed, will likely send Stewart to prisonfor the rest of her life."
Read Cole's editorial for more on why Stewart's conviction is so unjust andpolitically-motivated.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050307&s=cole
Check out ActNow, The Nation's activist weblog, for ways you can help defendStewart.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?bid=4&pid=2205
And follow lynnestewart.org for the latest developments in her case.
http://www.lynnestewart.org
For Democrats, Rethinking Abortion Runs Risks
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021605G.shtml
Jean Daniel "To Change the World..."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021605H.shtml
Rumsfeld to Face a Wary Congress
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021605K.shtml
Rick Jahnkow A Turning Point for the Anti-War Movement?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021605L.shtml
NOW Corporate Rights
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021605M.shtml
Nun, Rain-Forest Defender Murdered in Brazil
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
SINCLAIR BROADCAST: THE PUPPETMASTERS
Paul Schmelzer, AlterNet
What's driving the Sinclair news cycle? Some employees say the company is pulling strings based on its -- and its executives' -- financial and political interests.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21278/-->>
Timothy Karr reports on a new business deal with Comcast that could mean a five-fold increase in audience for Sinclair.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21290/
DIVINE INTERVENTIONA
BuzzFlash Interview
Susan Jacoby, the author of 'Freethinkers: A History ofAmerican Secularism,' dissects the fundamentalist antipathy to free thought -- and discusses how dangerous the 'God is on our side' philosophy is to government.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21288/
ISRAEL IS FAILING THE MORAL TEST
Patrick Connors, AlterNet
Apparently, it is forbidden for Palestinians to use the tactics of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. to try to save their land and their communities from destruction.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21287/
ASHCROFT'S LEGACY
Nancy Talanian, AlterNet
John Ashcroft's legacy as attorney general included preventing the Senate from seeing documents that might have shed light on the actions of the new attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, and on Homeland Security chief MichaelChertoff.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21280/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
Our Spook Speaks
by David Corn, TomPaine.com Exclusive
A TomPaine.com columnist and accused CIA plant lays out the case against himself. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/our_spook_speaks.php
Ending The "I Didn't Know" Defense
by Robert Reich, TomPaine.com
CEOs on trial are testing the strength of corporate accountability laws. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/ending_the_i_didnt_know_defense.php
Will Pitt FYI: Find the Cost of Freedom
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/17/85035/7270
The Jeff Gannon/James Guckert affair is still buzzing around the internet. But even though the scandal exposed a right-wing journalist operating undermisleading cover, David Corn raises a cautionary note or two in Capital Games.
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2196
As importantly, as Katrina vanden Heuvel says in Editor's Cut, it is worth remembering that how the White House operated in the Gannon scandal is but the latest round in the Bush Administration's assault on the freedom of the press. http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2196
Many of the attacks on University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill also raise basic questions about our country's commitment to ideals like true freedom of expression. John Nichols explores these issues in his Online Beat, which applauds UW-Whitewater chancellor Jack Miller for keeping his school's speaking engagement with the controversial writer and teacher.
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=219
Wal-Mart's Sweetheart Deal
by Jonathan Tasini, TomPaine.com Exclusive
The feds' recent slap on the hand for Wal-Mart is the last straw -- it's time for a Safe Workplace Act.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/walmarts_sweetheart_deal.php
Funding The Culture Wars
by Jeff Krehely, TomPaine.com Exclusive
Under George W. Bush, evangelical groups are tapping public coffers and influencing policy decisions like never before. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/funding_the_culture_wars.php
Marjorie Cohn First They Came for Lynne Stewart
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505A.shtml
Bush Urges Renewal of Patriot Act
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505C.shtml
Amy Goodman: Voice of America
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505G.shtml
The Twenty-Five Opposite the Bush Revolution
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505H.shtml
Court: Reporters Must Testify in CIA Leak Case
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505I.shtml
Paul Krugman The Fighting Moderates
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505K.shtml
Dahr Jamail Media Held Guilty of Deception
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505L.shtml
Maya Keyes Sets the Record Gay in Interview Exclusive http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505M.shtml
Dr. James J. Zogby Understanding the Speeches
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505N.shtml
"Jeff Gannon's" Secret Life
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505Z.shtml
A GAME AS OLD AS EMPIRE
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
The author of the gripping new book, 'Confessions of anEconomic Hit Man,' reveals how the U.S. became the world's largest superpower: by forcing developing countries into debt.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21245/
WHY WOMEN WILL LOSE
Heather Boushey, Women's eNews
Women live longer, earn less and fill more caretaking roles than men. For all these reasons, they stand to lose the most if Social Security is changed.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21271/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
A CULTURE OF SECRECY
Charles Lewis, The Center for Public Integrity
What happened to the principle that American democracy should be accessible and transparent? And what became of the investigative journalism that aided that process?http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21273/
More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/
WHAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT 9/11 HURTS US
Robert Scheer, AlterNet
The terrible fact is that the administration took none of the steps that would have put the protection of human life ahead of a diverse set of economic and political interests.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21269/
Hail, Hail The Gang's All Here
by Ray McGovern, TomPaine.com Exclusive
John Negroponte's appointment is the latest evidence that President Bush is strengthening his cabinet's capacity to mislead Congress and trample civil liberties. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/hail_hail_the_gangs_all_here.php
Today's Working Assets (http://www.workingforchange.com/) column is on George Bush'spartial privatization plan for Social Security, and why it's a game for suckers. It's at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18537
CANADA'S CAUTIOUS FIRST STEP
David Borden, DRCNet
Heroin maintenance is a radical step forward, in political terms. But if it's carried out in a sound fashion, we know it works.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21268/
HOPE FOR METH ADDICTS
Maia Szalavitz, STATS
Despite the NYT's bleak picture of addiction recovery,methamphetamine addicts have relapse rates no worse --and no better -- than for those of any other drug.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21275/
A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD
Scott Henson, DrugSense Weekly
A new study which purports to show that marijuana use is especially dangerous seems to show the opposite.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21266/
JOURNEYS WITH JEFFREY
Ellen Komp, AlterNet
A treatment regimen of medical marijuana was the only thing that helped a 7-year-old boy overcome his behavioral problems and violent tendencies.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21274/
240 Million Risky Pieces
by David Smith, TomPaine.com
A Demos senior fellow on how Bush's private account scheme tears apart the social bargain underlying Social Security.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/240_million_risky_pieces.php
After Bush Leaves Office, His Budget's Costs Balloon
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405E.shtml
Democrats Mobilizing on Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405F.shtml
Paul Craig Roberts Nothing to Fear But Bush Himself
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405G.shtml
Neo-Nazis Upstage Dresden Memorial
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405K.shtml
Rebecca Solnit Liberation Conspiracies
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405M.shtml
Mark Hertsgaard It's Much Too Late to Sweat Global Warming
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Ray McGovern We Need the Oil, Right? So What's the Problem?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405Y.shtml
KYOTO CAN'T SAVE US
Mark Hertsgaard, AlterNet
Emissions have gone too far and global warming is unavoidable. What is needed is recognition and a willingness to confront the very real challenges ahead.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21261/-->>
Can Kyoto save us? According to a UN expert, 'climate change is ready to take its place again at the top of the global agenda.'
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21260/-->>
Felix Kramer writes that if enough people become convinced that global warming has the potential to be as deadly as an asteroid barrage, it might change humanity's priorities.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21264/
MINORITY RETORT
David Morris, AlterNet
A two-tiered strategy for Democrats fighting the GOP majority: Obstruct in Washington and speak up for state and local rights
.http://www.alternet.org/story/21259/
THEY SHOOT JOURNALISTS, DON'T THEY?
Chris Paterson, AlterNet
Eason Jordan of CNN is the latest casualty of a media cowed by the right wing and the military. Unlike some journalistsin Iraq, Jordan only lost his job.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21262/
THE MAKING OF A MOVEMENT
Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com
Adam Hochschild's new book is both a gripping history of a particular movement and a
magnificent portrait of how activism works.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21257/
CLASS ACTION DISMISSED
Amanda Griscom Little, Grist Magazine
Despite a rousing cry of opposition from enviros against the class-action bill, the measure is still likely to pass.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21253/
More EnviroHealth: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/
THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet
Is it acceptable for blacks to use the n-word while whites are morally castigated for it?http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21256/
AN ANTI-VALENTINE TO MCSWEENEY'S MEN
Ada Calhoun, Nerve.com
A writer looks back at her doomed obsession with that eyebrow-cocked, sexless punmaster: the McSweeney's man.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21255/
More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/
VOICE OF AMERICA
Evan Derkacz, AlterNet
An interview with Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! --the only "daily, grassroots, un-embedded, international, independent news hour" in America today.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21250/
HOW TO TALK TO A CONSERVATIVE ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY
Think Progress
Enough facts to defend against the onslaught of misinformation about social security.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21244/
AMERICA OFFLINE AND ONLINE
Zephyr Teachout, Personal Democracy
Creating communities based on online connections but rooted in public places could be the key to reviving civic life – and it's an important lesson for groups like theDNC and the ACLU.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21246/
UNLOCKING THE SYSTEM
Vanessa Huang, WireTap
If the plan for reform at the California Youth Authority goes through, it could become a model of community-based rehabilitation. The promise of such major transformation has some activists asking: Is it too good to be true?
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21247/
THE REPUBLICAN DICTIONARY
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation
While Republicans are busy remaking the nation, they're also remaking the English language.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21248/
DEEP THROAT DOC
Ella Taylor, LA Weekly
A new documentary on the 'most successful indie film evermade' is at its best when it follows the lives of those whomade it.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/21241/
More Movie Mix: http://www.alternet.org/movies/
VILLAGE OF THE LIVING
Muzamil Jaleel, Tomdispatch.com
A story of one village surprisingly untouched by the bitter hostility that has roiled Kashmir.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21243/
FOCUS: Nicholas Lemann The Wayward Press
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405Z.shtml
William Rivers Pitt One for All
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021305A.shtml
Bush Budget Chops 154 Programs
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021305G.shtml
Neo-Nazis Aim to Upgrade PR
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021305H.shtml
Tom Harpur Rapture Awaits in the Florida Panhandle
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021305I.shtml
Lessons from Florida Kelpie Wilson Interviews Spencer Lennard
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021305X.shtml
Memo: Clarke Warned Rice on Al Qaeda in January, 2001
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021305Y.shtml
Rice Got Early al-Qaeda Warning But Failed to Act
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021205A.shtml
Bloggers Force CNN's Jordan to Resign
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021205E.shtml
With $400 Billion Miscue, Bush Threatens Medicare Veto
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021205F.shtml
Ronald Brownstein Democrats Aren't Giving Bush a Break This Term
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021205G.shtml
Global Warming Bill Means Thousands of New Jobs
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021205W.shtml
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