READING LIST WEEK ENDING 3-19-2005

How to Prepare a Planet for Global Warming
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031805EB.shtml

92% of UC Service Workers Vote to Strike
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031805LA.shtml

Social Security Misinformation Common on Fox's Special Report
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031805SA.shtml

ACLU Report: US Drug Laws Harm Women
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031805WA.shtml

International Women's Day: WISE up to Women's Leadership in Ghana
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031805WC.shtml

Ray McGovern The Intelligence Made Me Do It
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031905C.shtml

World Bank Workers Reject Wolfowitz
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031905D.shtml

'Preemptive Strikes' Become Policy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031905F.shtml

Wal-Mart to Pay U.S. $11 Million in Lawsuit on Illegal Workers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031905H.shtml

Niall Ferguson Sinking Globalization
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031905I.shtml

Survey: Third of Americans Are Overworked
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031705HA.shtml

Study: Obesity Will Lessen Life Span
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031705HB.shtml

Mercury Pollution, Autism Link Found - US Study
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031705HC.shtml

Ford Motor Co. Charged with Trying to Sidestep a Union Contract
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031705LA.shtml

Company Going to Supreme Court to Avoid Paying Workers Overtime Pay
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031705LC.shtml

Medicaid Subsidies Crucial to Working Mothers
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031705WA.shtml

E&P Study: Percentage of Female Syndicated Pundits Barely up Since 1999
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031705WB.shtml

Women as Peacemakers: From Victims to Re-Builders of Society
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031705WC.shtml

-->> Two Years Later...This weekend will mark the second anniversary of theU.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Since March 19, 2003, more than1,500 U.S. soldiers have been killed. Tens of thousands of Iraqi men, women, and children have lost their lives. This weekend we join our friends at Moveon.org and Sojourners in calling for citizens around the globe to gather together at candlelight vigils in your local communities.
More than 800 vigils have already been planned around thecountry to mark and mourn two years of war in Iraq.
In our coverage of the two-year anniversary, we tackle threeaspects of the war -- the people fighting, the people protesting, and how we can get out.
Gareth Porter looks at the exit strategy.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21526/
Peter Gorman talks to families with children serving in Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21534/
Katherine Brengle points out that the peace movement is alive and well.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21533/
Adam Waxman looks at youth activism planned in Ft. Bragg.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21511/
Meanwhile, reporter Greg Palast unveils the secretU.S. plansfor Iraqi oil -- in the works long before 9/11.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21535/

ROTTEN APPLE?
Scott Thill, AlterNet
Are Apple's strong-arm tactics -- aggressively targeting reporters who leak information -- putting the highly lauded company at risk for a backlash?http://www.alternet.org/story/21536/

DEFENDING WOODY
Jon Frosch, AlterNet
An impassioned plea: Don't discount one of the most talented filmmakers of our time.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/21530/

UNIONS TO WAL-MART: THE GLOVES ARE OFF
Wade Rathke, New Labor Forum
After a few piece-meal failed attempts, a full force effort and new creative strategy are needed to organize the nation's largest retailer.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21531/

BUSH GRABS FOR "DICTATORSHIP"
David Swanson, AlterNet
At a MoveOn rally, Democratic senators denounce the Republican attempts to eliminate the filibuster as a "powergrab."
http://www.alternet.org/story/21524/

Mapping The Oil Motive
by Michael Klare, TomPaine.com
If America's thirst for oil led Bush to Iraq, can Bush claim mission accomplished? http://www.tompaine.com/articles/mapping_the_oil_motive.php

The Intelligence Made Them Do It
by Ray McGovern, TomPaine.com
Debunking the White House's "bad intelligence" excuse for Iraq and warning of the same with Iran.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_intelligence_made_them_do_it.php

The Democracy Lie
by Juan Cole, TomPaine.com
First off: flickers of democracy do not justify the Iraq war. Second: they have nothing to do with the United States.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_democracy_lie.php

Mr. Bush, Tear Down That Metaphor!
by John Brown, TomPaine.com
The Middle East is not Communist Eastern Europe. A former diplomat counts the ways. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/mr_bush_tear_down_that_metaphor.php

Will Pitt FYI: Congress and the Long Haul
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/18/11719/9579

Paul Krugman The Ugly American Bank
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031805C.shtml

Un-Volunteering: Troops Improvise to Find Way Out
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031805D.shtml

Report Uncovers Massive Corruption in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031805Y.shtml

Norman Solomon Why Iraq Withdrawal Makes Sense
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031805Z.shtml

Kelpie Wilson Interview: Nigeria's Oil Killing Fields
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031605EA.shtml

New EPA Mercury Rule Called Illegal
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031605EB.shtml

Kansas Abortion Clinics Fight Data Request
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031605HB.shtml

Suburb's Secret Is Sweatshops
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031605LB.shtml

New Work Rules Draw Harsh Response from Local Unions
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031605LC.shtml

New Bill Seeks to Correct Decision to Omit EC from National Guidelines
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031605WB.shtml

Professors, in Close Vote, Censure Harvard Leader
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031605WC.shtml

WOMEN WITHOUT A CLUE
Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet
It's not the number of women in the newsroom that counts towards diversity. It's what they have to say.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21521/

TEN REASONS FOR TOO FEW WOMEN BLOGGERS
Chris Nolan, Politics From Left to Right
Why aren't there more women bloggers? Chris Nolan runs it down for you.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21516/

HOME TEAM ADVANTAGE
Bob Williams, The Center for Public Integrity
The Department of Homeland Security deems tiny MercyhurstCollege -- located in ex-DHS secretary Tom Ridge's hometown -- the sole source to provide training for intelligence analysts.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21519/

THE FALL OF A TITAN
Lucy Komisar, AlterNet
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, one of the world’s richestmen, head of AIG, one of the world’s largest financialcompanies, was forced to resign this week as prosecutors closed in on him and the company.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21517/

CARIBOU-HOO-HOO
Amanda Griscom Little, Grist Magazine
A razor-thin Senate vote to open the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling sends enviros reeling. If they can get into theArctic, then no place is off-limits.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21522/

THE CASE FOR COMICS
Kristian Williams, Columbia Journalism Review
Fusing images with text, comics can convey far more than traditional news stories to a readership hungry for voice and meaning.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21520/

WOLFOWITZ TO RULE THE WORLD (BANK)
David Corn, The Nation
Wolfowitz's record on Iraq is one of miscalculation and exaggeration. And the poor of the world deserve a World Bank president with better judgment.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21518/

IN A GREEN MOOD
Sabrina Ford, Pop and Politics
The fact that McDonald’s markets their chemically-engineered goodies to black people using people who look like us is nothing new. But their latest efforts -- ads featuring the Williams sisters and bootleg spoken word -- is just wrong!
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21507/

THE COURTS AND THE WAR ON TERROR
Karen J. Greenberg, Tomdispatch.com
The Bush administration's legal battle with terrorism is over-hyped, ineffective, and suggests a deep contempt of human rights and the law.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21515/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/

The suppression of "anti-American" dissent, a disconcerting feature of political life since the Bush Administration took power, has been most sharply felt on college campuses.
As The Nation's lead editorial explains, the main battleground, as Scott Sherman reports in a related magazine feature, is Columbia University, where, in a campaign of vilification, a Boston-based outfit known as the David Project has accused three professors of Middle Eastern origin of intimidating Jewish students.
"Not since the McCarthy era," the editorial adds, "have American campuses felt such a cold breeze--make that an idiot wind. And the new campus McCarthyism is made of much the same ingredients: thuggish intimidation, the circulation of specious rumors and, as Russell Jacoby observes in the same issue of the magazine, that least venerable of American traditions, anti-intellectualism."
The Captive Mind by Nation Editors
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050404&s=editors
The New PC by Russell Jacoby
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050404&s=jacoby
The Mideast Comes to Columbia by Scott Sherman
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050404&s=sherman

Will Pitt FYI: The Darkness Drops Again
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/17/94845/3273

Why Wolfowitz?
by Jim Vallette, TomPaine.com
A longtime World Bank observer looks at how Bush's pick will consolidate U.S. global power. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/why_wolfowitz.php

The Forked Tongue Awards
by Melanie Sloan, TomPaine.com
Porn profits, anyone? A new report removes the fig leaf concealing the biggest hypocrites in Congress.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_forkedtongue_awards.php

Mr. Greenspan, I Beg To Differ
by Robert Reich, TomPaine.com
It's the tax cuts you so vigorously support that deserve most of the blame for America's rising debt.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/mr_greenspan_i_beg_to_differ.php

Behind Bush's Youth Agenda
by Rich Benjamin, TomPaine.com
Demos senior fellow Rich Benjamin explains how Bush's new youth initiative is designed to reward his socially conservative base. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/behind_bushs_youth_agenda.php

Greg Palast Secret US Plans for Iraq's Oil
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031705A.shtml

Senate Democrats Erect Shield to Obstruct "Nuclear Option"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031705D.shtml

Maureen Dowd A Wink and a Fraud
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031705F.shtml

Europe Upset with Bush over More than Bolton/Wolfowitz Appointments
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031705H.shtml

Administration Withheld Halliburton Overcharges from International Auditors
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031705I.shtml

Dilip Hiro Playing the Democracy Card
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031705K.shtml

The 2006 Budget Takes Several Pages from the Grover Norquist Songbook
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031705L.shtml

David Swanson Dem Senators Denounce Bush Grab for "Dictatorship"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031705M.shtml

NOW Are We Responsible for What the Government Does in Our Name?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031705N.shtml

Commodity Prices Climb to 24-Year High on Global Demand Growth
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031505EC.shtml

Brain's Own Stem Cells Might Fight Alzheimer's
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031505HA.shtml

The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031505LC.shtml

New Poll Affirms Bush Weakness on Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031505SA.shtml

Paul Krugman The $600 Billion Man
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031505SB.shtml

Berkeley Tops in U.S. for Female PhDs in Science
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031505WA.shtml

Eartha Melzer Trafficking in Politics
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031505WB.shtml

DO YOU PUFF, DADDY?
Larry Smith, AlterNet
What to tell the children about past -- and, in many cases, current -- drug use isn't easy. Where do you draw the line between being a hypocrite and protecting your kids?http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21424/

DELAY'S DIRTY DOZEN
Think Progress
A scandalous round-up of Tom DeLay's flagrant trespasses against decency.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21509/

OPERATION POCKET FULL OF WISHES
Anne Elizabeth Moore, In These Times
At American Girl Place, girls can pick dolls whose eye and hair color and ethnic background match their own. Why not go there and see if these young shoppers want more from their role models than an array of outfits?
http://www.alternet.org/story/21508/

THE BANKRUPTCY BILL: A TUTORIAL IN GREED
Robert Scheer, AlterNet
Lesson No. 1: Campaign cash is worth more than family values.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21499/

SAY HELLO TO THE NEW PC
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet
The new political correctness is about doling out Scarlet Letters through moralistic scrutiny with little or no concern for matters of public interest or institutional morality.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21500/

PLOWING IRAQ FOR PROFITS
Christopher D. Cook, In These Times
American agribusiness isn't wasting any time exploitingIraq's fragile food sector, battered by decades of war and sanctions.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21496/
More EnviroHealth: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/

Laughing Through The Spin
by David Corn, TomPaine.com
The Washington media's cozy relationship with the White House leaves everyone a bit too comfortable.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/laughing_through_the_spin.php

David Corn writes in Capital Games, "Wolfowitz's achievements as a warmonger may say little about his views on international development, but his record on Iraq is one of miscalculation and exaggeration. And the poor of theworld deserve a World Bank president with better judgment."
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2265

Juan Cole Democracy - by George?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031605B.shtml

Hi-Tech Hit-Them-from-Home Orbiters Set for New Wars
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031605C.shtml

Amnesty International The Killing of Rachel Corrie
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031605E.shtml

AFL-CIO Plans Rallies on Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031605G.shtml

New York Times And Now, the Counterfeit News
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031605O.shtml

Kelpie Wilson ANWR on the Brink - Again
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031405EA.shtml

Scientists Prove Less Trees, Less Rain
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031405EB.shtml

Natalie Canavor Running on Empty
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031405EC.shtml

James V. Grimaldi Baby's First Helmet
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031405HB.shtml

California Healthcare Recipes Could Whet National Appetite
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031405HC.shtml

Blood and Coal: The Human Cost of Cheap Chinese Goods
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031405LB.shtml

Ellen Goodman Taxing Our Children
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031405SA.shtml

Study Shows Older Workers More Open to Change
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031405WA.shtml

The Washington Post Women of Islam
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031405WB.shtml

UN Commission Calls for More Action on Women's Rights
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031405WC.shtml

NOT NECESSARILY THE NEWS
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
PR expert John Stauber and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Laurie Garrett comment on the Times' front page investigation of the 'fake news' scandals.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21493/
Read the Progress Report's take on the New York Times investigation of the White House's affinity for fake news.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21485/

NEO-CONSERVATIVE: SAY WHAT?
Parker Blackman, AlterNet
Why not call the current leaders of the Republican party what they are? Irresponsible, reckless, extreme, and radical.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21495/

THE REAL CHOICES WOMEN MAKE
Karen Rosenberg, AlterNet
The real stories of women who have had abortions can't be pigeonholed in a propaganda debate. They surprise even a seasoned activist and could change minds in unlikely places.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21494/

AN INDECENT PROPOSAL
Eric Alterman, Center for American Progress
While the FCC cracks down on four-letter words, the FEC eyesbloggers.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21490/
More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/

Washington's Two-Headed Pig
by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com
The bankruptcy bill was a taste of things to come-- thanks to the tighter alliance between lobbyists and the GOP.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/washingtons_twoheaded_pig.php

$225 Billion And No Exit Plan
by Erik Leaver, Foreign Policy In Focus
It's time we demand a plan to accompany the Iraq spending bill Congress begins debating today.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/225_billion_and_no_exit_plan.php

Will Pitt FYI: Congressional Cretins and the Ides of March
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/15/9534/38779

FOCUS: Three and a Half Years Later, Bush Outwitted by Public Enemy No. 1
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031505Y.shtml

BAD ADVICE HANGOVER
Maia Szalavitz, STATS
Looking for misstatements, myths and outright errors about drug addiction and recovery? Watch CNN's 'House Call.'
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21502/

ARTISTS AGAINST THE DRUG WAR
Anthony Papa, AlterNet
A unique benefit art exhibition aims to help stop the madness of the war on drugs.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21501/

POT PEDIATRICS
Paul Armentano, AlterNet
Newly published scientific research suggests there may be arole for cannabinoids in pediatric medicine.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21504/

Stirling Newberry The Boom That Feels Like a Bust
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031505B.shtml

Paul Krugman The $600 Billion Man
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031505E.shtml

Bush TV to Show More 'Illegal Propaganda'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031505F.shtml

Big Oil Running on Empty, Analysts Warn
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031505G.shtml

Chalmers Johnson No Longer the "Lone" Superpower
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031505H.shtml

Pentagon Auditors: Halliburton Overcharged $100 Million
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031505J.shtml

WorldCom's Ebbers Found Guilty of Fraud, Conspiracy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031505L.shtml

Army Ignored Slain Whistleblower on Questionable Arms Deal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031505M.shtml

WAL-MART à LA MEXICANA
John Ross, The Progressive
Wal-Mart puts down roots in the shadow of the Pyramid of the Sun in San Juan Teotihuacan. Is the global leviathan any match for Quetzalcoatl?
http://www.alternet.org/story/21398/

THE FIX BEHIND FIXING SOCIAL SECURITY
Laura Miller, Center for Media and Democracy
The Bush administration is giving Social Security privatization the hard sell, with campaign-style tactics.But convincing the public to go along with the dismantlement of the program is proving to be an uphillbattle.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21478/

THE MEDIA LOBBY
Alexander Lynch, AlterNet
How can the corporate media be expected to critically cover the issues its parent companies have a financial stake in?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21477/

CEL-SHADED DEPRESSION
Joshua Love, Rocky Mountain Bullhorn
Children's cartoons of past generations have caused an epidemic.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21458/

LET US NOW PRAISE INNOCUOUS MEN
Amanda Griscom Little, Grist Magazine
Bush EPA nominee, Steve Johnson -- the first career employee and scientist ever to be nominated as EPA administrator -- garners praise and sympathy.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21451/
More EnviroHealth: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/

Government Report Warns of Security Holes in U.S. Aviation
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031405D.shtml

White House Acknowledges Iran Intel 'Hard to Come By'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031405G.shtml

Serge Truffaut Democracy According to Aladdin
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031405H.shtml

James J. Zogby An Effort to Rebuild U.S.-Arab Relations
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031405J.shtml

J. Sri Raman "Peace Pipe" or Pipe Dream?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031405L.shtml

Danusha Veronica Goska Political Paralysis
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031405N.shtml

Governor Calls for Return of National Guard Troops from Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031405Y.shtml

William Rivers Pitt Exiting Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031405Z.shtml

New York Times Mr. Bush's Stealthy Tax Increase
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031305F.shtml

Poll: 7 in 10 Worried About Gov't Secrecy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031305G.shtml