READING LIST / WEEKENDING 2-5-05
Spiking News That Could Have Made Kerry President
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020505F.shtml
Frank Rich Touchdown for the Indecency Police
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020505G.shtml
Nine New Environmental 'Hot Spots' Listed
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Watergate Papers Go Public, 'Deep Throat' Not Yet Revealed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405F.shtml
Joseph Yacoub "Democracy Cannot Be Imposed from Without"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405H.shtml
Sidney Blumenthal No Time for Euphoria
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405K.shtml
Senate Panel Approves Class Action Suit Bill
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405L.shtml
Technology to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Already in Place
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405Y.shtml
Harry Reid Voting No on Gonzales
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405Z.shtml
David Corn The State of George W. Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020305A.shtml
Open Secret: U.S. Condoned Iraq Oil Smuggling
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020305E.shtml
Global Warming: Scientists Reveal Timetable
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Jacques Coubard Bush Declares War on the Poor
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020305H.shtml
Feinstein Gathering Co-Sponsors for Bill to Abolish Electoral College
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020305I.shtml
Iran-Contra Figure to Lead Democracy Efforts Abroad
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020305J.shtml
Kelpie Wilson Old Growth Going Down
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020305Y.shtml
GREETINGS FROM THE NEW FLAT EARTH
Matt Wheeland, AlterNet
Global warming deniers beware, or you may end up therecipient of a new award given to those who belittle thevery real threat of global warming.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21164/
SINKING IN DEEPER
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Rather than pointing toward an exit for the United States,the Iraq election may just lead U.S. troops deeper intoIraq's long and bloody history of sectarian violencebetween Sunnis and Shiites.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21176/
TOO MUCH STENOGRAPHY, NOT ENOUGH CURIOSITY
Norman Solomon, AlterNet
The media is telling us what the president wants us to hear -- and ignoring historic echoes and basic contradictions.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21172/
DELIVERY UNDER DURESS
Joanne Omang, PlanetWire.org
More than 150,000 women were pregnant in the 12 countriesravaged by the tsunami, and their needs are only nowbeginning to be understood.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21175/
RESPECTING THE SPIRIT AND LETTER OF THE LAW
Senator Robert Byrd, AlterNet
Senator Byrd speaks on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to be attorney general of the United States.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21170/
STRAIGHT TO THE TOP
Kari Lydersen, The NewStandard
Despite a poor civil liberties record, Michael Chertoff is, so far, getting a free pass to becoming our new HomelandSecurity chief.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21168/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
Today's Working Assets (www.workingforchange.com) column is on the sweeping agenda Bush has proposed for his second term -- and whether or not we can stop it. It's at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18497
Less Perfect Union: Shock Jock President
by Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com Exclusive
On the lies the president peddles to dismantle Social Security. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/less_perfect_union_shock_jock_president.php
Less Perfect Union: Opportunity Cost
by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, TomPaine.com Exclusive
A bold Democratic response on achieving freedom and security. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/less_perfect_union_opportunity_cost.php
Less Perfect Union: Falling Short
by William D. Hartung, TomPaine.com Exclusive
On foreign policy, the president was lacking in facts and the Democrats in vision. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/less_perfect_union_falling_short.php
Less Perfect Union: Wall Street Divided
by Robert Reich, TomPaine.com Exclusive
A look at how Bush's agenda plays -- or doesn't play -- on Wall Street. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/less_perfect_union_wall_street_divided.php
Marjorie Cohn Another World Is Possiblehttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020205AA.shtml
John Cory Down a Dark Road
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020205A.shtml
State of the Union: Dominance on GOP Agenda
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020205D.shtml
Social Security: Democrats Claim Votes to Block Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020205E.shtml
Bush, Iraq and the Hydrogen Economy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020205G.shtml
Health Secretary Calls for Medicaid Changes
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020205J.shtml
BATTLE PROGRESSIVES CAN WIN
Roger Hickey, The American Prospect
Bush's social security privatization splinters Republicans and unites Democrats.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21158/
THE STATE OF GEORGE W. BUSH
David Corn, The Nation
Whether speaking about the Iraq war, gay marriage or SocialSecurity, the president re-affirmed that he does not reside in a reality-based community.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21166/
RICE AND THE NEW BLACK PARADIGM
Erin Aubry Kaplan, LA Weekly
When it comes to black history, Condi makes cynics of us all.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21162/
S'MORES AND DRUMSTICKS
Ann Farmer, Women's eNews
Rock 'n' roll camps for girls are spreading across thecountry, encouraging fledgling female rockers to turn up amplifiers, bang on drum sets, make raucous music and feel good about themselves.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21160/
CHERTOFF AND TORTURE
Dave Lindorff, The Nation
The new Homeland Security nominee has a lot to answer for:including hiding the U.S.' use of torture and the detentionof over 700 immigrants without charges.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21156/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
George W. Bush knows what to do with a bully pulpit. From the days of ThomasJefferson to those of William Taft, the State of the Union was a written messagedelivered by presidents to Congress. Woodrow Wilson turned it into a speech.Subsequent presidents used the State of the Union as a high-profile opportunityto promote their political agendas. Bush went beyond that last night.
For more, read David Corn's Capital Games:
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2171
And check out Katrina vanden Heuvel's new Editor's Cut, in which she makes the case for and outlines what a progressive alternative to the Bush Doctrine couldlook like. http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7&pid=2165
Also, watch this space and The Nation.Com for a special analysis of Bush's SOTU by Robert L. Borosage, coming soon.
Finally, please visit http://www.thenation.com regularly for new weblogpostings; exclusive online reports; the RadioNation AudioBlog; info onnationwide activist campaigns; Nation History offerings; reader letters andspecial weekly selections from The Nation magazine!
WMD: THE MOVIE
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!.
Goodman talks to Danny Schechter about his new documentary exploring the US media's inadequate coverage of the war in Iraq; from the lead-up to the fishy deaths of unembedded reporters. (Opening this weekend in New York City, Portland, and Buffalo. Read the interview for details.)
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21157/
GOP LINGUAPALOOZA
Thomas Lang, Columbia Journalism Review.Well aware that 'personal accounts' are more popular than 'private accounts,' Republicans fiercely lobby the press to adopt their language - and it seems to be working.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21106/
A BIGOT'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY
Eric L. Muller, AlterNet.
A new history of America questions everything from civil rights to the legality of the 14th Amendment. According to the NY Times it's the 8th most popular book in America. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21139/
PRESS HAILS THE DRESS
Matt Taibbi, New York Press.
The way the press fauned over the first lady's dress and its designer you wonder how well it'll resume its role as government watchdog.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21124/
THE AXIS OF OIL
Jehangir Pocha, In These Times
With growing energy needs of their own, China and India are increasingly competing with the United States to secure oil exploration rights.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21150/
TORTURERS' TALES Jeff Gillenkirk, AlterNet
A new book about the defendents at the Nuremberg Trials has chilling resonance to discussions of prisoner abuse today.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21151/
Paul Krugman Many Unhappy Returns
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105E.shtml
The Short Path to Oil Independence
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Poverty: A Plan to Plan For a Plan
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105H.shtml
Kevin Drum Filibuster Rule Could Haunt GOP
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105K.shtml
Death in the Wilderness: What Really Happened?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105L.shtml
Arctic Ozone Layer Is Thinning, Scientists Report
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105V.shtml
Democrats Considering Filibuster of Gonzales
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105W.shtml
Robert Scheer Now, U.S. Must Get Out of Iraq's Way
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105X.shtml
State Democrats Back Dean for DNC Post
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105Z.shtml
WHO LET THE DOGS IN?Jacob Sullum, ReasonPolice used to need probable cause to search the trunkof your car. Now, thanks to the Supreme Court, all they need is a dog.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21137/
FIRE UP; GET FIRED?
Tony Newman, AlterNet
When it comes to helping smokers quit, we should be offering compassion and understanding, instead of unemployment and shame.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21131/
HOW I STOPPED PILL POPPING
Matt Mernagh, NOW
Perhaps serious withdrawal from antidepressants was my body's way of saying, 'Don't ever poison me like that again.'
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21138/
THE INVISIBLE DISABILITY
Gail Johnson, The Georgia Straight
A Vancouver doctor who draws on his own past to treat addictions says tobacco and marijuana are the toughest habits to kick.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21146/
PRIMING THE PROPAGANDA MILL
Steve Fox, AlterNet
The federal government has spent over a billion dollars in recent years telling Americans what to think about marijuana and illegal drugs.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21136/
Show Us The Jobs
by Jonathan Tasini, TomPaine.com Exclusive
The final results are in -- Bush's tax cuts failed to stimulate the economy. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/show_us_the_jobs.php
NICKLE-AND-DIMING THE TROOPS
David Hackworth, DefenseWatch
The combat pay of the average soldier in Afghanistan andIraq is only $7.50 a day. What's the meaning of 'supportthe troops' if we can't even pay them a living wage?http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21130/
21ST-CENTURY CASSANDRA
Scott Thill, AlterNet
Art-punk poetess Lydia Lunch tells you things you don't wantto hear. She lays it on the line with her new album.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21134/
THIS ELECTION LOOKS LIKE A WAR
Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service
Many Iraqis who had intended to vote stayed indoors as gunfire echoed around the downtown area of Baghdad on Election Day.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21125/
More War on Iraq: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/
CHASING AIDS CONSPIRACIES
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
AIDS activists blame loose and irresponsible talk about AIDS as a reason many blacks resist pleas to get tested andtreated.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21127/
More Columnists: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/
THREE GIANT STEPS BACKWARD
Cynthia L. Cooper, In These Times
At a time when religious fundamentalists are gaining ground,Democratic Party leadership is wavering on reproductiverights.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21133/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
Steve Weissman Calling the President's Bluff
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105A.shtml
Soros Says Kerry's Failings Undermined Campaign against Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105D.shtml
Bob Herbert Acts of Bravery
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105E.shtml
Bill Moyers The Delusional Is No Longer Marginal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105F.shtml
Robert Fisk Triumph and Tragedy for Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105J.shtml
Nick Turse The Emergence of the Homeland Security State
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105K.shtml
Healthcare Overhaul Is Quietly Underway
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105L.shtml
William Rivers Pitt The Story of the Ghost
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105W.shtml
Losing Feith
by Jim Lobe, TomPaine.com Exclusive
Get the inside scoop on last week's sacking of a senior neocon.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/leave_no_cartoon_behind.php
The Incredible, Shrinking Government
by Robert Greenstein, TomPaine.com Exclusive
Why the coming battle over guns, butter and the federal budget matters more than ever. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_incredible_shrinking_government.php
THE IDEA THAT BROUGHT SLAVERY TO ITS KNEES
Adam Hochschild, AlterNetIn 1787,
British abolitionists saw a link among all humankind.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21121/
THE JOURNEY TO WILD DIVINE
Patricia King, Common Ground
Welcome to the Brave New World of neurofeedback, where computer games and desktop technology are intersecting withancient mind-body techniques.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21114/
IRAQ'S ELECTORAL CUL-DE-SAC
Dilip Hiro, Tomdispatch.com
Starting with Saddam's arrest in 2003, each of Washington'srosy scenarios -- in which a diminution of violenceis predicted and a path to success declared -- has turned to dust.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21109/
TAKE ME OUT OF THE BALL GAME
Holly Beck, WireTap
As long as sports teams continue to use names like Savages and Redskins, a growing number of Americans will find ithard to root for the home team.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21115/
THE INQUISITION STRIKES BACK
Jules Siegel, AlterNet
In 'Guantanamo: What the World Should Know,' it's hard to say which is more disgusting, the descriptions of the torture or the bone-chilling analyses of how the president gave himself the powers of an absolute military dictator.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21105/
One More 'Moral Value': Fighting Poverty
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013005D.shtml
Boxer Not Willing to Pull Punches
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013005E.shtml
Fareed Zakaria Elections Are Not Democracy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013005F.shtml
Robert Fisk Iraqi Election Will Change the World. But ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/01292005A.shtml
Senator Russ Feingold Abolish the Federal Death Penalty
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/01292005F.shtml
Who's Dying in Our War?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/01292005Y.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020505F.shtml
Frank Rich Touchdown for the Indecency Police
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020505G.shtml
Nine New Environmental 'Hot Spots' Listed
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Watergate Papers Go Public, 'Deep Throat' Not Yet Revealed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405F.shtml
Joseph Yacoub "Democracy Cannot Be Imposed from Without"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405H.shtml
Sidney Blumenthal No Time for Euphoria
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405K.shtml
Senate Panel Approves Class Action Suit Bill
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405L.shtml
Technology to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Already in Place
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405Y.shtml
Harry Reid Voting No on Gonzales
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405Z.shtml
David Corn The State of George W. Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020305A.shtml
Open Secret: U.S. Condoned Iraq Oil Smuggling
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020305E.shtml
Global Warming: Scientists Reveal Timetable
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Jacques Coubard Bush Declares War on the Poor
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020305H.shtml
Feinstein Gathering Co-Sponsors for Bill to Abolish Electoral College
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020305I.shtml
Iran-Contra Figure to Lead Democracy Efforts Abroad
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020305J.shtml
Kelpie Wilson Old Growth Going Down
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020305Y.shtml
GREETINGS FROM THE NEW FLAT EARTH
Matt Wheeland, AlterNet
Global warming deniers beware, or you may end up therecipient of a new award given to those who belittle thevery real threat of global warming.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21164/
SINKING IN DEEPER
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Rather than pointing toward an exit for the United States,the Iraq election may just lead U.S. troops deeper intoIraq's long and bloody history of sectarian violencebetween Sunnis and Shiites.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21176/
TOO MUCH STENOGRAPHY, NOT ENOUGH CURIOSITY
Norman Solomon, AlterNet
The media is telling us what the president wants us to hear -- and ignoring historic echoes and basic contradictions.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21172/
DELIVERY UNDER DURESS
Joanne Omang, PlanetWire.org
More than 150,000 women were pregnant in the 12 countriesravaged by the tsunami, and their needs are only nowbeginning to be understood.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21175/
RESPECTING THE SPIRIT AND LETTER OF THE LAW
Senator Robert Byrd, AlterNet
Senator Byrd speaks on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to be attorney general of the United States.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21170/
STRAIGHT TO THE TOP
Kari Lydersen, The NewStandard
Despite a poor civil liberties record, Michael Chertoff is, so far, getting a free pass to becoming our new HomelandSecurity chief.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21168/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
Today's Working Assets (www.workingforchange.com) column is on the sweeping agenda Bush has proposed for his second term -- and whether or not we can stop it. It's at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18497
Less Perfect Union: Shock Jock President
by Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com Exclusive
On the lies the president peddles to dismantle Social Security. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/less_perfect_union_shock_jock_president.php
Less Perfect Union: Opportunity Cost
by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, TomPaine.com Exclusive
A bold Democratic response on achieving freedom and security. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/less_perfect_union_opportunity_cost.php
Less Perfect Union: Falling Short
by William D. Hartung, TomPaine.com Exclusive
On foreign policy, the president was lacking in facts and the Democrats in vision. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/less_perfect_union_falling_short.php
Less Perfect Union: Wall Street Divided
by Robert Reich, TomPaine.com Exclusive
A look at how Bush's agenda plays -- or doesn't play -- on Wall Street. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/less_perfect_union_wall_street_divided.php
Marjorie Cohn Another World Is Possiblehttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020205AA.shtml
John Cory Down a Dark Road
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020205A.shtml
State of the Union: Dominance on GOP Agenda
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020205D.shtml
Social Security: Democrats Claim Votes to Block Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020205E.shtml
Bush, Iraq and the Hydrogen Economy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020205G.shtml
Health Secretary Calls for Medicaid Changes
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020205J.shtml
BATTLE PROGRESSIVES CAN WIN
Roger Hickey, The American Prospect
Bush's social security privatization splinters Republicans and unites Democrats.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21158/
THE STATE OF GEORGE W. BUSH
David Corn, The Nation
Whether speaking about the Iraq war, gay marriage or SocialSecurity, the president re-affirmed that he does not reside in a reality-based community.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21166/
RICE AND THE NEW BLACK PARADIGM
Erin Aubry Kaplan, LA Weekly
When it comes to black history, Condi makes cynics of us all.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21162/
S'MORES AND DRUMSTICKS
Ann Farmer, Women's eNews
Rock 'n' roll camps for girls are spreading across thecountry, encouraging fledgling female rockers to turn up amplifiers, bang on drum sets, make raucous music and feel good about themselves.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21160/
CHERTOFF AND TORTURE
Dave Lindorff, The Nation
The new Homeland Security nominee has a lot to answer for:including hiding the U.S.' use of torture and the detentionof over 700 immigrants without charges.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21156/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
George W. Bush knows what to do with a bully pulpit. From the days of ThomasJefferson to those of William Taft, the State of the Union was a written messagedelivered by presidents to Congress. Woodrow Wilson turned it into a speech.Subsequent presidents used the State of the Union as a high-profile opportunityto promote their political agendas. Bush went beyond that last night.
For more, read David Corn's Capital Games:
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2171
And check out Katrina vanden Heuvel's new Editor's Cut, in which she makes the case for and outlines what a progressive alternative to the Bush Doctrine couldlook like. http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7&pid=2165
Also, watch this space and The Nation.Com for a special analysis of Bush's SOTU by Robert L. Borosage, coming soon.
Finally, please visit http://www.thenation.com regularly for new weblogpostings; exclusive online reports; the RadioNation AudioBlog; info onnationwide activist campaigns; Nation History offerings; reader letters andspecial weekly selections from The Nation magazine!
WMD: THE MOVIE
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!.
Goodman talks to Danny Schechter about his new documentary exploring the US media's inadequate coverage of the war in Iraq; from the lead-up to the fishy deaths of unembedded reporters. (Opening this weekend in New York City, Portland, and Buffalo. Read the interview for details.)
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21157/
GOP LINGUAPALOOZA
Thomas Lang, Columbia Journalism Review.Well aware that 'personal accounts' are more popular than 'private accounts,' Republicans fiercely lobby the press to adopt their language - and it seems to be working.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21106/
A BIGOT'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY
Eric L. Muller, AlterNet.
A new history of America questions everything from civil rights to the legality of the 14th Amendment. According to the NY Times it's the 8th most popular book in America. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21139/
PRESS HAILS THE DRESS
Matt Taibbi, New York Press.
The way the press fauned over the first lady's dress and its designer you wonder how well it'll resume its role as government watchdog.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21124/
THE AXIS OF OIL
Jehangir Pocha, In These Times
With growing energy needs of their own, China and India are increasingly competing with the United States to secure oil exploration rights.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21150/
TORTURERS' TALES Jeff Gillenkirk, AlterNet
A new book about the defendents at the Nuremberg Trials has chilling resonance to discussions of prisoner abuse today.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21151/
Paul Krugman Many Unhappy Returns
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105E.shtml
The Short Path to Oil Independence
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Poverty: A Plan to Plan For a Plan
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105H.shtml
Kevin Drum Filibuster Rule Could Haunt GOP
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105K.shtml
Death in the Wilderness: What Really Happened?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105L.shtml
Arctic Ozone Layer Is Thinning, Scientists Report
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105V.shtml
Democrats Considering Filibuster of Gonzales
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105W.shtml
Robert Scheer Now, U.S. Must Get Out of Iraq's Way
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105X.shtml
State Democrats Back Dean for DNC Post
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020105Z.shtml
WHO LET THE DOGS IN?Jacob Sullum, ReasonPolice used to need probable cause to search the trunkof your car. Now, thanks to the Supreme Court, all they need is a dog.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21137/
FIRE UP; GET FIRED?
Tony Newman, AlterNet
When it comes to helping smokers quit, we should be offering compassion and understanding, instead of unemployment and shame.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21131/
HOW I STOPPED PILL POPPING
Matt Mernagh, NOW
Perhaps serious withdrawal from antidepressants was my body's way of saying, 'Don't ever poison me like that again.'
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21138/
THE INVISIBLE DISABILITY
Gail Johnson, The Georgia Straight
A Vancouver doctor who draws on his own past to treat addictions says tobacco and marijuana are the toughest habits to kick.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21146/
PRIMING THE PROPAGANDA MILL
Steve Fox, AlterNet
The federal government has spent over a billion dollars in recent years telling Americans what to think about marijuana and illegal drugs.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21136/
Show Us The Jobs
by Jonathan Tasini, TomPaine.com Exclusive
The final results are in -- Bush's tax cuts failed to stimulate the economy. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/show_us_the_jobs.php
NICKLE-AND-DIMING THE TROOPS
David Hackworth, DefenseWatch
The combat pay of the average soldier in Afghanistan andIraq is only $7.50 a day. What's the meaning of 'supportthe troops' if we can't even pay them a living wage?http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21130/
21ST-CENTURY CASSANDRA
Scott Thill, AlterNet
Art-punk poetess Lydia Lunch tells you things you don't wantto hear. She lays it on the line with her new album.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21134/
THIS ELECTION LOOKS LIKE A WAR
Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service
Many Iraqis who had intended to vote stayed indoors as gunfire echoed around the downtown area of Baghdad on Election Day.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21125/
More War on Iraq: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/
CHASING AIDS CONSPIRACIES
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
AIDS activists blame loose and irresponsible talk about AIDS as a reason many blacks resist pleas to get tested andtreated.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21127/
More Columnists: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/
THREE GIANT STEPS BACKWARD
Cynthia L. Cooper, In These Times
At a time when religious fundamentalists are gaining ground,Democratic Party leadership is wavering on reproductiverights.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21133/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
Steve Weissman Calling the President's Bluff
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105A.shtml
Soros Says Kerry's Failings Undermined Campaign against Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105D.shtml
Bob Herbert Acts of Bravery
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105E.shtml
Bill Moyers The Delusional Is No Longer Marginal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105F.shtml
Robert Fisk Triumph and Tragedy for Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105J.shtml
Nick Turse The Emergence of the Homeland Security State
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105K.shtml
Healthcare Overhaul Is Quietly Underway
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105L.shtml
William Rivers Pitt The Story of the Ghost
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105W.shtml
Losing Feith
by Jim Lobe, TomPaine.com Exclusive
Get the inside scoop on last week's sacking of a senior neocon.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/leave_no_cartoon_behind.php
The Incredible, Shrinking Government
by Robert Greenstein, TomPaine.com Exclusive
Why the coming battle over guns, butter and the federal budget matters more than ever. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_incredible_shrinking_government.php
THE IDEA THAT BROUGHT SLAVERY TO ITS KNEES
Adam Hochschild, AlterNetIn 1787,
British abolitionists saw a link among all humankind.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21121/
THE JOURNEY TO WILD DIVINE
Patricia King, Common Ground
Welcome to the Brave New World of neurofeedback, where computer games and desktop technology are intersecting withancient mind-body techniques.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21114/
IRAQ'S ELECTORAL CUL-DE-SAC
Dilip Hiro, Tomdispatch.com
Starting with Saddam's arrest in 2003, each of Washington'srosy scenarios -- in which a diminution of violenceis predicted and a path to success declared -- has turned to dust.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21109/
TAKE ME OUT OF THE BALL GAME
Holly Beck, WireTap
As long as sports teams continue to use names like Savages and Redskins, a growing number of Americans will find ithard to root for the home team.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21115/
THE INQUISITION STRIKES BACK
Jules Siegel, AlterNet
In 'Guantanamo: What the World Should Know,' it's hard to say which is more disgusting, the descriptions of the torture or the bone-chilling analyses of how the president gave himself the powers of an absolute military dictator.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21105/
One More 'Moral Value': Fighting Poverty
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013005D.shtml
Boxer Not Willing to Pull Punches
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013005E.shtml
Fareed Zakaria Elections Are Not Democracy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013005F.shtml
Robert Fisk Iraqi Election Will Change the World. But ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/01292005A.shtml
Senator Russ Feingold Abolish the Federal Death Penalty
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/01292005F.shtml
Who's Dying in Our War?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/01292005Y.shtml
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