Reading LIst Week Ending 3-12-2005

Senator Robert Byrd A Cry for Freedom in the U.S. Senate
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031205B.shtml

Noam Chomsky Elections Run by Same Guys Who Sell Toothpaste
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031205G.shtml

Amy Quinn What Now for the Peace Movement?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031205H.shtml

Halliburtons Spoils of War Exposed by Whistleblower
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031105A.shtml

Frank Rich The Greatest Dirty Joke Ever Told
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031105E.shtml

Dean Blasts Bush as 'Un-American' on Town-Hall Meetings
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031105F.shtml

Evangelical Leaders Throw Weight to Combat Global Warming
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031105G.shtml

Obama Slams Bush for Linking Soc. Security to Blacks' Life Span
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031105Y.shtml

RUNNING RED LIGHTS
Matthew Scott Kelemen, AlterNet
The children featured in 'Born into Brothels' are growing upfast. Filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman hope to give them some tools to navigate with.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/21470/

CAN DEMOCRACY SURVIVE BUSH'S EMBRACE?
Naomi Klein, The Nation
The problem is not that Iraqis have lost faith in the democracy for which they risked their lives on January 30; it's that the electoral system imposed on them byWashington is profoundly undemocratic.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21471/

CHEMICAL SOUP AND FEDERAL LOOPHOLES
Kelly Hearn, AlterNet
Toxic cosmetics ingredients were recently banned in the European Union. Here in the U.S., the $35 billion cosmetics industry is fighting a similar ban tooth and nail.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21468/

UNITED IN LOSS; DIVIDED ON LESSONS
Lisa Abend, Christian Science Monitor
As the world marks the first anniversary of the train bombings in Madrid that killed 191 people, there is little agreement on whether Spain is safer now than it was a yearago.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21474/

MAKING UNNECESSARY ENEMIES
David Corn, DavidCorn.com
Can independent publishers step up and provide support to the progressive authors they seek to publish?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21472/

THE TWO BLACK AMERICAS
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
Bush's policies make it both the best and worst of times formany in black America.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21464/

MOVE UP THE DATE FOR ARMAGEDDONMolly Ivins, AlterNet
John Bolton is known for being arrogant, humorless, self-righteous and confrontational, and he hates the United Nations. In other words, the perfect diplomat.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21467/

OH, GIVE ME A HOME
Noah Leavitt, Rafi Rom, AlterNet
A new hearing gives legitimacy to the idea that adequatehousing is a human right, a necessary foundation forhealth, privacy, property, security, and education.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21469/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/

Today's Working Assets (www.workingforchange.com) column is on the appointments of John Bolton, John Negroponte, and possibly Paul Wolfowitz to new high-profile jobs -- showing just how radical the Bush/Cheney clique has become. It's at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18700

Kelpie Wilson Interview: Suing the Climate Changers
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030905EA.shtml

Marcelo Ballve Paving the Amazon
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030905EB.shtml

Food and Cancer, the Best and the Worst
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030905HB.shtml

A New Kind of Crowd for Governor
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030905LA.shtml

Labor Unions under the Microscope
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030905LB.shtml

Victory for California Nurses against Schwarzenegger Injunction
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030905LC.shtml

Robert Scheer Social Security Ain't Broke, so Bush Is Obsessed with Fixing I
thttp://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030905SA.shtml

Women's Peace Organization Sees Middle East Peace, Water Resources as Key Issues
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030905WB.shtml

Judge Recommends Pharmacist Be Reprimanded for Withholding Birth Control
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030905WC.shtml

OPEN FIRE ON U.S. CONSUMERS
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet
It's one thing for credit card companies to exact theirpound of flesh even as their profits soar. But shouldn't we hold our elected officials to a higher standard?
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21462/

WHAT NOW FOR THE PEACE MOVEMENT?
Amy Quinn, TomPaine.com
Recent polls show 59 percent of Americans are in favor ofwithdrawing troops from Iraq. The task for the peace movement in its upcoming protests is speaking to thes econcerns as it mobilizes untapped public sentiment against the occupation.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21461/

SPINNING OUT OF SIGHT
Diane Farsetta, AlterNet
In their refusal to reveal the details of federal contracts,seven major public relations companies reveal a startling lack of accountability.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21459/

BEYOND THE GOD PODSilja J.A. Talvi, Santa Fe Reporter
The nation's biggest private prison corporation is forging strong ties with a fundamentalist Christian ministry,blurring the line between church and state and harkening a new turn in corrections toward Christian-based programming.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21457/

NOT SO PRETTY IN PINK
Mubarak S. Dahir, AlterNet
A high school senior has her picture rejected from the year book because she's wearing a tuxedo. In most schools,it's still true that blue is for boys, and pink is forgirls. What about the kids in lavender?
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21456/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/

FOCUS: Secret FBI Report Questions Al Qaeda Capabilities
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031005Z.shtml

The Fundamental Right You Don't Have
by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., TomPaine.com
Think the 2004 election was a mess? Things will just get worse unless voting is made a citizenship right. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_fundamental_right_you_dont_have.php

UN Marks International Women's Day
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030805WA.shtml

The Personal Is Still Political This International Women's Day
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030805WB.shtml

Dian Harrison Women Worldwide Face Effects of Bush's Gag Rule http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030805WC.shtml

If you own a TV, you've probably seen what many of Wal-Mart's critics call its"happy black people" ad, which has been airing since 2003 as part of the company's efforts to curry favor with the black community. And, as Liza Featherstone notes in a new Nation article, "much like that of the Bush Administration, Wal-Mart's image-making strategy includes not only advertising but paying for positive media coverage from black journalists."
For more, read Featherstone's "Race to the Bottom"
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050328&s=featherstone
And check out Featherstone's new book, "Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart ," which chronicles the largest civil rights classaction suit in history. Click below for more info and to order copies.
http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/basic/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465023150

Joseph Galloway Remembering Arguments Made 1,500 Deaths Ago
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031005C.shtml

Egyptian Official Rejects Bush Views on Mideast Democracy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031005B.shtml

Rather Ends Tenure on Bittersweet Note
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031005D.shtml

Sidney Blumenthal The Enemy Within
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031005F.shtml

Tom Engelhardt Are We in World War IV?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031005J.shtml

Former Marine Offers Cautionary War Story
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031005K.shtml

NOW Losing American Jobs
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031005N.shtml

Secret FBI Report Questions al Qaeda Capabilities
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031005Z.shtml

Celebrating Women as Custodians of the Environment
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031005EA.shtml

Tobacco Giant Downplayed Smoking Link to SIDS
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031005HB.shtml

U.S. Blocks Drugs Sent from Canada
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031005HC.shtml

Guatemalans Protest U.S. Free-Trade Vote
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031005LA.shtml

Are They Advocating Default?
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031005SA.shtml

First Woman Appointed Governor in Afghanistan
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031005WA.shtml

More Than 30 Million Women Worldwide Are Entrepreneurs
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031005WB.shtml

U.N. Affirms Women's Equality as U.S. Retreats on Abortion Issue
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031005WC.shtml

WHAT JESUS WOULDN'T DO
Jim Wallis, AlterNet
In an excerpt from his book, Jim Wallis explains that much of the religious Right's agenda is in directcontradiction to Christ's own teachings -- and mostdevout Christians know it.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21428/
Plus, Wallis conducts a 'values audit' of the president's 2006 federal budget -- which reveals a document that is deeply un-Christian.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21426/

WAL-MART JOBS AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN DREAMS
James M. Lawson, Jr., AlterNet
The Wal-Mart model of low costs, underwritten by low wages, has cast a shadow on Dr. King's dreams of an American economy that provides stability and prosperity for all workers.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21450/

THE LAST EXIT
Bethany Kohoutek, Rocky Mountain Bullhorn
An older Wyoming couple chose to ease their physical -- and political -- pain through 'united self-deliverance.' In other words, they committed suicide.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21442/

GIVING BUSH'S RETREADS THE BYRD
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
In the magical upside-down world of right-wing blogs, it is now an accepted article of faith that Sen. Robert Byrd compared George W. Bush to Hitler last week.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21443/

THE BIRTH OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
Louise Bernikow, Women's eNews
How March came to be the month dedicated to women.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21445/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/

The Campaign For Black Republicans
by Glen Ford and Peter Gamble, TomPaine.com
A fascinating look at the GOP's full-throttle push to woo black voters. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_campaign_for_black_republicans.php

BLOGGED DOWN
Garance Franke-Ruta, The American Prospect.
Pseudo-journalistic web sites are another way right-wingers get around "the filter" of mainstream media.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21449/

AMERICAN WAHABBIS AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
William Thatcher Dowell, Tomdispatch.com.
The increasing reliance upon fanatical religious populations to maintain political power - in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and even the U.S. - is about just that: political power.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21441/

Will Pitt FYI: How Do We Get Out of Iraq?http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/9/95244/45396

Jesse Jackson Jr. Securing the Right to Vote
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030905A.shtml

Paul Krugman The Debt-Peonage Society
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030905G.shtml

Harry Kelber Stern-Hoffa Group Loses First Round
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030905H.shtml

Jean-Marcel Bouguereau A War without Pictures
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030905I.shtml

Chavez: Our Oil Reserve Does Not Belong to Mr. Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030905L.shtml

Report: Nation's Infrastructure Crumbling
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030905M.shtml

Why Pick a Military Town as the Site for an Antiwar Rally?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030905N.shtml

Nicholas D. Kristof Homegrown Osamas
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030905Z.shtml

SELMA MARCH REMEMBERED
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-03-06-selma-march-bridge_x.htm?csp=34

INTERVIEW WITH R CRUMB
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/crumb/story/0,15829,1431884,00.html

GREAT MOMENTS IN PROHIBITION
The scholars at the Annals of Improbable Research has come up with some of the great prohibitions from around the world
http://www.improbable.com/projects/park-rules/2005/palm_cove_1314-HIRES.jpg

Discharged and Dishonored: Shortchanging Our Veterans
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030705F.shtml

Labor's Divisions Widen as Membership Declines
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030705G.shtml

Bloggers under Attack at Work and in Politics
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030705H.shtml

Public Would Significantly Alter Administration's Budget
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030705J.shtml

New York Times A Destabilizing Bit of Research
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030705K.shtml

'I Just Want to Survive and Go Home with All My Body Parts'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030705L.shtml

Greenspan under Fire for Support of Tax Cuts
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030705M.shtml

James Baker U.S. Must Address Global Warming
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030705EA.shtml

Survival Still Not Assured for Rescued Dolphins
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030705EC.shtml

Ageism Said to Erode Care Given to Elders
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030705HC.shtml

As Demands on Workers Grow, Groups Push for Paid Family and Sick Leave
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030705LA.shtml

Work: Ever More Painful
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030705LC.shtml

Note to Iraq's Women
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/030705WB.shtml

ILL-WILL AMBASSADOR
Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service
John Bolton is a man best known for sabotaging international treaties and alienating entire nations. That's why he's been picked to be our ambassador to the United Nations.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21439/

SHOOT FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
As the Italian intelligence agent who lost his life protecting Giuliana Sgrena is laid to rest, Amy Goodman speaks with a founder of Sgrena's newspaper about differing accounts,Italians' reaction and the brutality of war.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21437/
Plus, Danny Schechter looks at the reactions from the U.S. press and right-wing blogs.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21427/

AN UPHILL STRUGGLE AND DOWNHILL BATTLE
Zack Pelta-Heller, AlterNet
All it takes for a copyright firestorm is one man and his doctored iPod.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21434/

"GOING TO WAR WITH THE ARMY YOU HAVE"
Michael Schwartz, Tomdispatch.com
Why the U.S. cannot correct its military blunders in Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21435/

INDIA'S BAREFOOT REPORTERS
Ammu Joseph, Women's eNews
Ten years after the U.N. recognized that women's participation in media was a critical area of concern,trailblazers in rural India are telling stories from the margins of society.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21425/
More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/

NICE ISN’T ENOUGH
Pat Dowell, In These Times
'Sunset Story' re-emphasizes the old cliche that the older you are, the more your life becomes about dying -- but it does avoid the "aren't they cute?" trap.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/21431/
More Movie Mix: http://www.alternet.org/movies/

THE PLEASANT PROBATION OF TOMMY CHONG
Dave Shulman, LA Weekly
The comedian talks about going to jail for selling bongs,the devolution of Dennis Miller, why life is better
straight, and other pinko commie leftist lunatic things.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21447/

THE JOY OF SIX MILLIGRAMS
Alexis Luna, IntheFray.com
For my monthly prescription of Xanax, there wasn't much I wouldn't do. My shrink prided himself in his knowledge of drugs and dosages, yet I was playing him for a fool.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21448/

PSYCHOSIS, HYPE AND BALONEY
Bruce Mirken, Mitch Earleywine, AlterNet
Although the mainstream media is eating it up, a new study claiming a link between marijuana use and psychosis should be approached with great caution.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21436/

MORE METH MANIA
Maia Szalavitz, STATS
There's no evidence to support the 'Today' show's claims that an increasing number of suburban moms are using methamphetamine.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21446/

TO INVESTIGATION: Steve Weissman Part IV: But What about al-Jazeera?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030805A.shtml

William O. Beeman George W. Bush - The 13th Shi'a Imam
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030805F.shtml

Pierre Marcelle Capital of Blunder
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030805I.shtml

Mark Benjamin The Invisible Wounded
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030805J.shtml

Dean: Democrats Raise $3.4 Million in Three Weeks
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030805M.shtml

Steve Weissman Part III: Targeting the Media the American Way
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030605A.shtml

New York Times The Senate on the Brink
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030605G.shtml

INTELLIGENCE, INC.
Pratap Chatterjee, AlterNet
The privatization of military intelligence and interrogation
has been a booming business. It may also be the cause of the prison scandals in Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21422/
Plus: A former military interrogator talks about what went wrongat Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21423/

SEVEN MISTAKES SUPERHEROINES MAKE
Christina Larson, Washington Monthly
Why the latest action-babe flicks flopped. Fighting demons:good. Fighting inner demons: bad.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21418/

WHO OWNS WHAT?
David Morris, AlterNet
George Bush's "ownership society" leaves out the things we actually own -- our bodies, our privacy, our dignity, our bedrooms.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21408/

BATTLE FOR CHOICE RAGES THROUGH STATES
Cynthia L. Cooper, Women's eNews
As state legislatures face a deluge of anti-abortion proposals, pro-choice activists are hustling to stem further losses to reproductive health rights.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21419/

WANTED: DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDREL
John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies
Ten reasons why Paul Wolfowitz would be perfect for the job of World Bank president.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21415/

MANUFACTURING MARTHA
Rory O'Connor, AlterNet
Newsweek's latest cover features a fake photo of Martha Stewart -- any wonder people are losing faith in the news?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21412/
More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/

BASHING HARM REDUCTION ABROAD
Kerry Howley, Reason
From drug policies purged of pragmatism to AIDS prevention measures stigmatizing sex, foreign aid has become an American adventure in social engineering.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21414/
More DrugReporter: http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/

FOCUS - William Rivers Pitt: The Prophecy of Oil
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030705Z.shtml

Ray McGovern Who Now Will Read to the President in the Morning?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030505A.shtml

Afghanistan Now Nearly 'a Narcotics State'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030505C.shtml

Washington Post Abuse in Secret
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030505F.shtml

Joe Conason Bush's Social Security Mess
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030505H.shtml

Maximum Pain is Aim of New U.S. Weapon
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030505I.shtml