WEEKLY READING LIST / 2-26-2005
Halliburton Wins in Iraq with $9.6 Billion and More
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022605A.shtml
Powell Slams Rumsfeld, But Politely
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022605B.shtml
HIV Infection Rate among Blacks Doubles
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022605F.shtml
Social Security Debate Gets Harsher
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022605G.shtml
Dean Comes Out Firing in Kansas, Gingrich Books 2008
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022605H.shtml
Bush Team Readying Backdoor to Drill Arctic Refuge
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
TO INVESTIGATION: Reporters Without Borders Two Murders and a Lie
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505A.shtml
Iraq to Be a Vietnam, Says Retired General
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505D.shtml
Edward Wasserman 'Dean Scream' Clip Was Media Fraud
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505F.shtml
Vietnam Looks to Win Agent Orange Law Suit
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505G.shtml
David Bacon No Rest for the Weary
http://www.truthout.org/labor.shtml
Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Roe Abortion Rights Decision
http://www.truthout.org/women.shtml
U.S. Blocked from Getting Reporters' Phone Records
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505L.shtml
Chris Hoffman Hunter Thompson: May He Rest in Peace, Finally
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505M.shtml
Military Recruiters Face Resistance from Young Anti-War Activists
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505N.shtml
UN Predicts 9.1 Billion People on Earth by 2050
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
TO INVESTIGATION: Steve Weissman Dead Messengers: How the U.S. MilitaryThreatens Journalists
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405A.shtml
German Protesters Call Bush 'No. 1 Terrorist'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405B.shtml
Anti-War Solider May Be Court-Martialed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405D.shtml
Eric Boehlert Gannongate: It's Worse Than You Think
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405E.shtml
Bipartisan Study Assails No Child Left Behind Act
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405F.shtml
John Nichols Hunter Thompson's Political Genius
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405G.shtml
Dollar: The Warning
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405H.shtml
Juan Cole The Downside of Democracy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405K.shtml
Gavan McCormack Pyongyang Waiting for the Spring
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405L.shtml
NOW America's Digital Divide
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405M.shtml
Kelpie Wilson Interviews Ross Gelbspan
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Bush Gets Stoned by World Media
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405Z.shtml
RACE AND 'RAY'
J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, AlterNet
Watching 'Ray,' white America sees a biopic of a legendary performer. Black America sees a film that speaks intimately to a cultural zeitgeist. What does it mean for 'Ray' to succeed -- or fail -- in the Oscar race?
http://www.alternet.org/movies/21352/
THE VEIL OF FREEDOM
Zelie Pollon, AlterNet
With Shiites victorious in the elections and a theocratic state a possibility, the future for Iraqi women looks bleak.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21347/
VISUALIZING A NEO-RAINBOW
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Danny Glover, The Nation
History -- in the form of the Rainbow insurgency ofthe 1980s -- holds clues to a winning electoralstrategy for progressives.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21348/
-->> In PEEK, AlterNet's blog of blogs:Is Santorum helping or hindering Bush in his Social Security crusade? Gannon/Guckert speaks of truth, not so much of consequences.
http://www.alternet.org/peek/
THE 'CLEAR SKIES' BATTLE HEATS UP
Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor
Ten state attorneys general are accusing the Bush administration of diluting air-pollution standards --and experts agree that the administration "has distanced itself from scientific information."
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21353/
COMMUNITIES IN CRISIS
Kathryn Gillick, WireTap
A new study, conducted by students around the nation, shows that more and more people in the U.S. are hungry, homeless and getting turned away from shelters lacking the funds to help.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21277/
HORROR STORIES
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
In Texas, among the nasty horrors awaiting us is H.B. 1212, mandating parental consent for the performance of an abortion.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21346/
JAILHOUSE CROCK
Dan Frosch, AlterNet
Some Republicans in Arizona want to take all Mexican nationals in state prisons and build a new prison for them-- in Mexico.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21342/
THE NEW COLOSSUS
William Greider, The Nation
Are public pension funds the real progressive power?
http://www.alternet.org/story/21336/
REBUILDING LABOR
Dan Carol, AlterNet
As the AFL-CIO convenes its convention in Las Vegas, an open letter to Andy Stern: Let's not just reorganize, let's re-brand, dammit.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21335/
SUGAR HILL TO THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS
Ed Rampell, AlterNet
Black actors in Hollywood live a very different life todaythan they did 75 years ago. Donald Bogle talks about BlackHollywood, then and now.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/21340/
REVISITING THE MALCOLM X ASSASSINATION
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
The whitewash of the issues and even mystery that often surround the murder of a popular, but controversial, leader always raises questions and doubts, no matter how many years pass.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21334/
WHERE THE WORKING POOR EAT
Richard Manning, AlterNet
Increasingly, the new clients at small-town food banks are not the beggars from beneath the bridge, but neighbors or colleagues.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21332/
More EnviroHealth: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/
Calling Congress To Account
by Ellen Miller, TomPaine.com Exclusive
On Social Security, Jim McCrery and the most corrupt Congress in memory. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/calling_congress_to_account.php
The Challenge For Dean
by Patrick Doherty, TomPaine.com Exclusive
If Howard Dean wants Democrats to win, he has to focus on big ideas. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_challenge_for_dean.php
Does the weird tale of the fake White House reporter sound a cautionary note about investigations-via-blogs? Read David Corn's new Capital Games and Eric Alterman's new Nation column for some answers.
Capital Games: Problems With Gannongate? by David Corn
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2219
The Liberal Media: The Pajama Game by Eric Alterman
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050314&s=alterman
And don't miss Katrina vanden Heuvel's recent weblog posting arguing that it's 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
Iraq's Likely Leader Slams Hillary
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022305E.shtml
Harry Kelber Richard Trumka Could Become AFL-CIO Chief
http://www.truthout.org/labor.shtml
Molly Ivins The $200 Million Disinformation Campaign
http://www.truthout.org/health.shtml
McCain Calls for Permanent Afghan Bases
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022305K.shtml
Scott Ritter Doomed to Fail
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022305L.shtml
Nicholas D. Kristof The Secret Genocide Archive
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022305M.shtml
Jesse Jackson The Princely Paradox of Malcolm X
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022305O.shtml
Bush Is Plotting to Kill Me, Says Chavez
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022205E.shtml
Privatizing Social Security: Whose Idea Was It?
http://www.truthout.org/health.shtml
A Velvet Glove in an Iron Fist
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022205I.shtml
For Some, a Loss in Iraq Turns into Antiwar Activism
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022205K.shtml
New York Times Tackling Election Reform
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022205L.shtml
Ruth Conniff Standing Their Ground
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022205M.shtml
Paul Krugman Wag-the-Dog Protection
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022205N.shtml
Harvard Chief Again to Face Angry Faculty over Remarks
http://www.truthout.org/women.shtml
ON GOD'S SIDE
A BuzzFlash Interview
Jim Wallis talks about 'God's Politics' and values -- by which Wallis doesn't mean hate, greed, and war-mongering.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21327/
OF, BY AND FOR BIG BUSINESS
Robert Scheer, AlterNet
What is so phony about the much ballyhooed tort reform is that it aims not at overzealous lawyers but only at those who happen to represent poorer plaintiffs.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21325/
THE DRAGON CHASES OIL
David Morris, AlterNet
China's booming economy is increasingly dependent on imported oil. But unlike the U.S., its strategies to maintain access to oil are farsighted and coherent.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21313/
A LIVABLE MINIMUM WAGE
David Swanson, AlterNet
Despite the lack of interest or action at the federal level,more than 30 states are taking direct action to increase theminimum wage.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21318/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
Anyone who read Hunter S. Thompson knew that the so-called "gonzo journalist"was about a lot more than sex, drugs and rock-and-roll--although it is Thompsonwho gets credit for introducing all three of those precious commodities to themainstream of American journalism. The gun-toting, mescaline-downing wildmanthat showed up in the Doonesbury strip as "Uncle Duke" was merely the cartoonversion of an often serious political commentator who said that his beat was thedeath of the American dream.
Read John Nichols's Online Beat for an appreciation of Thompson's life and work:
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2214
In 1965 the then-unknown Thompson was living in San Francisco, dead broke, whenNation editor Carey McWilliams sent him a query, enclosing a report of the California Attorney General's office on motorcycle gangs and an offer of one hundred dollars for an article, Thompson accepted. He later expanded his Nation article into his best selling book, Hell's Angels.
Read the piece, published in the May 17, 1965 issue of The Nation, today:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050307&s=thompson
SIGN UP FOR PEEK!*Why was a US citizen, recently tortured in Saudi Arabia, charged with plotting to kill the president? *What controversial warning did Sen. Clinton give about Iraq's leading candidate for Prime Minister? *What new evidence has emerged in the "Bush bulge" story? Love them or hate them blogs have not only changed the way the news is brought to us, they're beginning to change the news. AlterNet's "PEEK," a blog of blogs brings the best of the blogs to your inbox every morning (http://alternet.org/subscribe.html) or you can read it online throughout the day at: http://alternet.org/peek/ ---------------------------------------------
BLOGGING:--->BLOGGING WHILE BLACK
Christopher Rabb, Afro-Netizen.
Blogging is not a luxury, it's a civic responsibility.
http://alternet.org/mediaculture/21301/--->
BUILDING BLOGSZack Pelta-Heller, AlterNet. Online journals are under fire in Iran, but bloggers there and around the world refuse to let their voices be silenced. http://alternet.org/mediaculture/21316/
THE TIMES SEES NO EVIL
Craig Aaron, Timothy Karr, AlterNet.
The Times' story on community internet, as with most Times stories, quotes a number of think tanks and other 'experts.' What they don't tell you is who's writing their checks. http://alternet.org/mediaculture/21328/
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://alternet.org/mediaculture/21278/--->
SINCLAIR GOES DIGITAL AND MULTIPLIESTimothy Karr, AlterNet. A new business deal with Comcast could mean a five-fold increase in audience for Sinclair. http://alternet.org/mediaculture/21290/
GREAT MEDIA CRITICS
Norman Solomon, AlterNet.
The written words of George Seldes and Ben Bagdikian clearly mirrored their personal demeanor: principled and compassionate while living out a commitment to journalis on behalf of democracy and human rights.
http://alternet.org/mediaculture/21324/
The GOP's Wingnuts
by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com Exclusive
It's nigh time Republicans embrace or repudiate their radical supporters. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_gops_wingnuts.php
A "FRE" Iraq?
by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com Exclusive
The CIA's talks with the Iraqi resistance are a direct challenge to pro-war U.S. neoconservatives.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/a_fre_iraq.php
A Hidden Budget Blow
by Earl Hadley, TomPaine.com Exclusive
There are hidden education cuts in Bush's budget that the GOP leadership doesn't want you to see.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/a_hidden_budget_blow.php
Marjorie Cohn Negroponte: Director of Intelligence Manipulation
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105B.shtml
Army Having Difficulty Meeting Goals in Recruiting
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105E.shtml
Cash Pours into Social Security Fight
http://www.truthout.org/health.shtml
Swift Boat Vets to Attack A.A.R.P.
http://www.truthout.org/health.shtml
David Bacon U.S. Labor Debates Direction
http://www.truthout.org/labor.shtml
Pierre Rosanvallon Europe - United States: The Two Universalisms
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105I.shtml
Bob Herbert Iraq, Then and Now
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105K.shtml
Dr. James J. Zogby Rafiq Hariri: Visionary for Lebanon
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105L.shtml
Panelists Decry Bush Science Policies
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
FATE OF THE UNION
Frank Joyce, AlterNet
Organized labor is steadily declining in membership and influence. Survival will require a radical shift.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21312/
SLEUTHS OF SPIN
Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet
By harnessing the investigative power of hundreds of citizenjournalists, media activists John Stauber and SheldonRampton aim to reinvent journalism.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21307/
A CHURCH AT THE CROSSROADS
Heidi Schlumpf, Sojourners
Sex abuse scandal, priest shortages, celibacy, ordaining women: The issues roiling the Catholic Church offer challenges -- and hope? -- for the future.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21306/
A JURY OF HER PEERS
Kathy Plonsky, Brain, Child
A single mother on trial has a right to be judged by a juryof her peers. But what if the jurors can't find childcarefor their own children?
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21296/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
Today's Working Assets (www.workingforchange.com) column is an interview withErnest Callenbach, the author of Ecotopia, who holds forth 30 years later on thedifficulties of creating a utopia in the era of George Bush. It's at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18604
Will Pitt FYI: "The Major Press Is Under Attack"
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/22/82236/6314
Women's Liberation Redux
by Martha Burk and Alison Stein, TomPaine.com Exclusive
Engaging young women in progressive politics requires some 21st century consciousness-raising.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/womens_liberation_redux.php
Calling global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" and comparing the EPA to the Gestapo apparently wasn't enough for Senator James Inhofe, as Ari Berman writes in today's installment of The Daily Outrage. "Unable to ram Bush's polluter-friendly Clear Skies Act through the Senate, the Chairman of the Environmental and Public Works Committee (EPW) ordered two national organizations opposing Bush's plan to turn over their financial and tax records."
Click below for more on this one-man wrecking machine from Oklahoma:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?bid=13&pid=2211
You can check The Daily Outrage regularly for original reporting on lobbyists stifling reformers in both parties, defense contractors profiting off pre-emptive war, the mainstream media echoing government deceptions, and a rightwing attack machine defending neo-imperialists and distorting progressive values. Updated every weekday. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?bid=13
And click below to let us know of any outrages you think we should be covering.
http://www.thenation.com/contact/outr
O'REILLY VS. THE DOC
Bill O'Reilly.com
Marsha Rosenbaum gives Bill O'Reilly a reality check about teen drinking, parental responsibility and the real meaning of safety.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21308/
BASEBALL ON DRUGS
Steven Beitler, DRCNet
Major league baseball's new, harsher penalties for steroid use are unlikely to deter extremely competitive people from gaining an edge in an ultra-high-stakes game.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21319/
-->>DrugReporter now has its own RSS webfeed! http://alternet.org/module/feed/rss/coverage/drugreporter
HUNTER S. THOMPSON, R.I.P.
William Rivers Pitt, TruthOut.org
With Thompson's suicide, journalism lost a deeply flawed andunconventional practitioner -- but one who always sought the truth with his highball.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21320/
INDULGING COLOMBIA'S PARAMILITARIES
Joanne Mariner, FindLaw.com
Colombia's approach to demobilizing illegal armed groups may amount to amnesty for some of the country's most notorious drug kingpins and vicious murderers.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21322/
FELON BAN HURTS BLACKS AND DEMOCRATS
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
The denial of voting rights to hundreds of thousands ofblacks is a travesty of justice, and a blot on the democratic process.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21300/
Federal Drug Agency Risks Lives
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022005D.shtml
Secret Tapes: Bush Weighed Religion, Behavior
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022005F.shtml
Tony Norman: Why Isn't Bob Novak Going to Jail?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022005G.shtml
Global Warming Could Worsen U.S. Pollution
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/environment.shtml
GIs Rap Their Anger
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022005Z.shtml
George Hunsinger gives the lie to the Right's caricature of progressives as anti-religious zealots. As a minister, professor of theology, and coordinator of Church Folks for a Better America, Hunsinger is working to reframe the "moral values" debate by raising questions about how torture, pre-emption, unjust war, and poverty can be tolerated by people of moral and religious conviction.
For more about Hunsinger, read Katrina vanden Heuvel's Editor's Cut:
http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7&pid=2206
And check out the CFBA website for much more about the group:
http://www.cfba.info/
And don't miss other featured Nation online material.
David Corn on John Negroponte:
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2203
John Nichols on Ward Churchill:
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2193
David Cole on Lynne Stewart:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050307&s=cole
And see ActNow for ways you can help keep Stewart out of jail for an unjustterror conviction: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?bid=4&pid=2205
NOW HE HAS THE POWER
John Nichols, The Nation
Unlike past DNC chairs, Howard Dean won't have to scream for attention. He is in a position to make his party more newsworthy and potentially more dangerous than it has been in decades.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21304/
MONUMENTS TO DECENT LIVES
Joseph H. Cooper, Christian Science Monitor
It takes a special kind of following to warrant being memorialized on a postage stamp, let alone on coin orcurrency -- or Mount Rushmore. Still, each of us, in our own way, carves out a bit of history that should be set down.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21305/
WANTED: ALL CRUISERS
Celina De León, WireTap
Cruising is an age-old ritual involving a car, friends and the desire to see and be seen. While some see it as an issue of public safety, others believe it's an important rite of passage that needs to be preserved.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21233/
SHOW ME THE MONEY
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet
Bush's privatization plan for Social Security is a case where it helps to read the fine print.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21302/
THE TOXIC TERROR OF DIAMOND, LOUISIANA
Ruth Rosen, Dissent Magazine
In one of the most remarkable tales ever told about the environmental justice movement, an African American community fought for, and won, the human right to breathe clean air.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21286/
SPY'S EYE VIEW
Sandip Roy, Pacific News Service
Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman to head the British spy agency MI5 and the real-life inspiration for the James Bond spymaster "M," says the notion of a war on terror obscures what it takes to fight terrorism.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21303/
FOCUS - William Rivers Pitt HST and the Proverbial 'Live Boy'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105Z.shtml
"Considering the ugly state to which the American experiment has degenerated,"John Nichols argues in The Online Beat, "it would make sense for the rest of usto renew our affiliation with the first GW. Indeed, patriots need to callGeneral Washington back into the service of his country--not merely as aclarification of national memory but as a blunt challenge to those who haveusurped America's promise with their illegal invasions and recklessmisadventures."
Click below for more on why the commander of America's revolutionary armies didnot want his country to follow the European course of collecting colonies.
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2208
And don't miss Nichols's new, Against the Beast: A Documentary History ofAmerican Opposition to Empire, recently released by Nation Books, for a good review of the longstanding anti-imperialist current of American history.
http://www.nationbooks.org/book.mhtml?t=nichols
As Howard Zinn says, "At exactly the when we need it most, John Nichols gives us a special gift--a collection of writings, speeches, poems and songs from thoughout American history--that reminds us that our revulsion to war and empire has a long and noble tradition in this country."
You can also read the prolific Nichols's new Nation cover-story examining what excatly Howard Dean plans to do with his new power as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050307&s=nichols
Paul Krugman Three-Card Maestro
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021905G.shtml
Groups Preparing New Push Against Iraq War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021905Y.shtml
Frank Rich When the Real News Debunks Fake News
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021905Z.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022605A.shtml
Powell Slams Rumsfeld, But Politely
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022605B.shtml
HIV Infection Rate among Blacks Doubles
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022605F.shtml
Social Security Debate Gets Harsher
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022605G.shtml
Dean Comes Out Firing in Kansas, Gingrich Books 2008
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022605H.shtml
Bush Team Readying Backdoor to Drill Arctic Refuge
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
TO INVESTIGATION: Reporters Without Borders Two Murders and a Lie
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505A.shtml
Iraq to Be a Vietnam, Says Retired General
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505D.shtml
Edward Wasserman 'Dean Scream' Clip Was Media Fraud
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505F.shtml
Vietnam Looks to Win Agent Orange Law Suit
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505G.shtml
David Bacon No Rest for the Weary
http://www.truthout.org/labor.shtml
Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Roe Abortion Rights Decision
http://www.truthout.org/women.shtml
U.S. Blocked from Getting Reporters' Phone Records
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505L.shtml
Chris Hoffman Hunter Thompson: May He Rest in Peace, Finally
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505M.shtml
Military Recruiters Face Resistance from Young Anti-War Activists
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022505N.shtml
UN Predicts 9.1 Billion People on Earth by 2050
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
TO INVESTIGATION: Steve Weissman Dead Messengers: How the U.S. MilitaryThreatens Journalists
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405A.shtml
German Protesters Call Bush 'No. 1 Terrorist'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405B.shtml
Anti-War Solider May Be Court-Martialed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405D.shtml
Eric Boehlert Gannongate: It's Worse Than You Think
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405E.shtml
Bipartisan Study Assails No Child Left Behind Act
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405F.shtml
John Nichols Hunter Thompson's Political Genius
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405G.shtml
Dollar: The Warning
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405H.shtml
Juan Cole The Downside of Democracy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405K.shtml
Gavan McCormack Pyongyang Waiting for the Spring
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405L.shtml
NOW America's Digital Divide
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405M.shtml
Kelpie Wilson Interviews Ross Gelbspan
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Bush Gets Stoned by World Media
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405Z.shtml
RACE AND 'RAY'
J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, AlterNet
Watching 'Ray,' white America sees a biopic of a legendary performer. Black America sees a film that speaks intimately to a cultural zeitgeist. What does it mean for 'Ray' to succeed -- or fail -- in the Oscar race?
http://www.alternet.org/movies/21352/
THE VEIL OF FREEDOM
Zelie Pollon, AlterNet
With Shiites victorious in the elections and a theocratic state a possibility, the future for Iraqi women looks bleak.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21347/
VISUALIZING A NEO-RAINBOW
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Danny Glover, The Nation
History -- in the form of the Rainbow insurgency ofthe 1980s -- holds clues to a winning electoralstrategy for progressives.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21348/
-->> In PEEK, AlterNet's blog of blogs:Is Santorum helping or hindering Bush in his Social Security crusade? Gannon/Guckert speaks of truth, not so much of consequences.
http://www.alternet.org/peek/
THE 'CLEAR SKIES' BATTLE HEATS UP
Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor
Ten state attorneys general are accusing the Bush administration of diluting air-pollution standards --and experts agree that the administration "has distanced itself from scientific information."
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21353/
COMMUNITIES IN CRISIS
Kathryn Gillick, WireTap
A new study, conducted by students around the nation, shows that more and more people in the U.S. are hungry, homeless and getting turned away from shelters lacking the funds to help.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21277/
HORROR STORIES
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
In Texas, among the nasty horrors awaiting us is H.B. 1212, mandating parental consent for the performance of an abortion.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21346/
JAILHOUSE CROCK
Dan Frosch, AlterNet
Some Republicans in Arizona want to take all Mexican nationals in state prisons and build a new prison for them-- in Mexico.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21342/
THE NEW COLOSSUS
William Greider, The Nation
Are public pension funds the real progressive power?
http://www.alternet.org/story/21336/
REBUILDING LABOR
Dan Carol, AlterNet
As the AFL-CIO convenes its convention in Las Vegas, an open letter to Andy Stern: Let's not just reorganize, let's re-brand, dammit.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21335/
SUGAR HILL TO THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS
Ed Rampell, AlterNet
Black actors in Hollywood live a very different life todaythan they did 75 years ago. Donald Bogle talks about BlackHollywood, then and now.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/21340/
REVISITING THE MALCOLM X ASSASSINATION
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
The whitewash of the issues and even mystery that often surround the murder of a popular, but controversial, leader always raises questions and doubts, no matter how many years pass.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21334/
WHERE THE WORKING POOR EAT
Richard Manning, AlterNet
Increasingly, the new clients at small-town food banks are not the beggars from beneath the bridge, but neighbors or colleagues.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21332/
More EnviroHealth: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/
Calling Congress To Account
by Ellen Miller, TomPaine.com Exclusive
On Social Security, Jim McCrery and the most corrupt Congress in memory. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/calling_congress_to_account.php
The Challenge For Dean
by Patrick Doherty, TomPaine.com Exclusive
If Howard Dean wants Democrats to win, he has to focus on big ideas. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_challenge_for_dean.php
Does the weird tale of the fake White House reporter sound a cautionary note about investigations-via-blogs? Read David Corn's new Capital Games and Eric Alterman's new Nation column for some answers.
Capital Games: Problems With Gannongate? by David Corn
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2219
The Liberal Media: The Pajama Game by Eric Alterman
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050314&s=alterman
And don't miss Katrina vanden Heuvel's recent weblog posting arguing that it's 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
Iraq's Likely Leader Slams Hillary
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022305E.shtml
Harry Kelber Richard Trumka Could Become AFL-CIO Chief
http://www.truthout.org/labor.shtml
Molly Ivins The $200 Million Disinformation Campaign
http://www.truthout.org/health.shtml
McCain Calls for Permanent Afghan Bases
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022305K.shtml
Scott Ritter Doomed to Fail
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022305L.shtml
Nicholas D. Kristof The Secret Genocide Archive
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022305M.shtml
Jesse Jackson The Princely Paradox of Malcolm X
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022305O.shtml
Bush Is Plotting to Kill Me, Says Chavez
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022205E.shtml
Privatizing Social Security: Whose Idea Was It?
http://www.truthout.org/health.shtml
A Velvet Glove in an Iron Fist
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022205I.shtml
For Some, a Loss in Iraq Turns into Antiwar Activism
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022205K.shtml
New York Times Tackling Election Reform
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022205L.shtml
Ruth Conniff Standing Their Ground
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022205M.shtml
Paul Krugman Wag-the-Dog Protection
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022205N.shtml
Harvard Chief Again to Face Angry Faculty over Remarks
http://www.truthout.org/women.shtml
ON GOD'S SIDE
A BuzzFlash Interview
Jim Wallis talks about 'God's Politics' and values -- by which Wallis doesn't mean hate, greed, and war-mongering.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21327/
OF, BY AND FOR BIG BUSINESS
Robert Scheer, AlterNet
What is so phony about the much ballyhooed tort reform is that it aims not at overzealous lawyers but only at those who happen to represent poorer plaintiffs.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21325/
THE DRAGON CHASES OIL
David Morris, AlterNet
China's booming economy is increasingly dependent on imported oil. But unlike the U.S., its strategies to maintain access to oil are farsighted and coherent.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21313/
A LIVABLE MINIMUM WAGE
David Swanson, AlterNet
Despite the lack of interest or action at the federal level,more than 30 states are taking direct action to increase theminimum wage.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21318/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
Anyone who read Hunter S. Thompson knew that the so-called "gonzo journalist"was about a lot more than sex, drugs and rock-and-roll--although it is Thompsonwho gets credit for introducing all three of those precious commodities to themainstream of American journalism. The gun-toting, mescaline-downing wildmanthat showed up in the Doonesbury strip as "Uncle Duke" was merely the cartoonversion of an often serious political commentator who said that his beat was thedeath of the American dream.
Read John Nichols's Online Beat for an appreciation of Thompson's life and work:
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2214
In 1965 the then-unknown Thompson was living in San Francisco, dead broke, whenNation editor Carey McWilliams sent him a query, enclosing a report of the California Attorney General's office on motorcycle gangs and an offer of one hundred dollars for an article, Thompson accepted. He later expanded his Nation article into his best selling book, Hell's Angels.
Read the piece, published in the May 17, 1965 issue of The Nation, today:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050307&s=thompson
SIGN UP FOR PEEK!*Why was a US citizen, recently tortured in Saudi Arabia, charged with plotting to kill the president? *What controversial warning did Sen. Clinton give about Iraq's leading candidate for Prime Minister? *What new evidence has emerged in the "Bush bulge" story? Love them or hate them blogs have not only changed the way the news is brought to us, they're beginning to change the news. AlterNet's "PEEK," a blog of blogs brings the best of the blogs to your inbox every morning (http://alternet.org/subscribe.html) or you can read it online throughout the day at: http://alternet.org/peek/ ---------------------------------------------
BLOGGING:--->BLOGGING WHILE BLACK
Christopher Rabb, Afro-Netizen.
Blogging is not a luxury, it's a civic responsibility.
http://alternet.org/mediaculture/21301/--->
BUILDING BLOGSZack Pelta-Heller, AlterNet. Online journals are under fire in Iran, but bloggers there and around the world refuse to let their voices be silenced. http://alternet.org/mediaculture/21316/
THE TIMES SEES NO EVIL
Craig Aaron, Timothy Karr, AlterNet.
The Times' story on community internet, as with most Times stories, quotes a number of think tanks and other 'experts.' What they don't tell you is who's writing their checks. http://alternet.org/mediaculture/21328/
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://alternet.org/mediaculture/21278/--->
SINCLAIR GOES DIGITAL AND MULTIPLIESTimothy Karr, AlterNet. A new business deal with Comcast could mean a five-fold increase in audience for Sinclair. http://alternet.org/mediaculture/21290/
GREAT MEDIA CRITICS
Norman Solomon, AlterNet.
The written words of George Seldes and Ben Bagdikian clearly mirrored their personal demeanor: principled and compassionate while living out a commitment to journalis on behalf of democracy and human rights.
http://alternet.org/mediaculture/21324/
The GOP's Wingnuts
by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com Exclusive
It's nigh time Republicans embrace or repudiate their radical supporters. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_gops_wingnuts.php
A "FRE" Iraq?
by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com Exclusive
The CIA's talks with the Iraqi resistance are a direct challenge to pro-war U.S. neoconservatives.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/a_fre_iraq.php
A Hidden Budget Blow
by Earl Hadley, TomPaine.com Exclusive
There are hidden education cuts in Bush's budget that the GOP leadership doesn't want you to see.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/a_hidden_budget_blow.php
Marjorie Cohn Negroponte: Director of Intelligence Manipulation
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105B.shtml
Army Having Difficulty Meeting Goals in Recruiting
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105E.shtml
Cash Pours into Social Security Fight
http://www.truthout.org/health.shtml
Swift Boat Vets to Attack A.A.R.P.
http://www.truthout.org/health.shtml
David Bacon U.S. Labor Debates Direction
http://www.truthout.org/labor.shtml
Pierre Rosanvallon Europe - United States: The Two Universalisms
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105I.shtml
Bob Herbert Iraq, Then and Now
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105K.shtml
Dr. James J. Zogby Rafiq Hariri: Visionary for Lebanon
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105L.shtml
Panelists Decry Bush Science Policies
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
FATE OF THE UNION
Frank Joyce, AlterNet
Organized labor is steadily declining in membership and influence. Survival will require a radical shift.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21312/
SLEUTHS OF SPIN
Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet
By harnessing the investigative power of hundreds of citizenjournalists, media activists John Stauber and SheldonRampton aim to reinvent journalism.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21307/
A CHURCH AT THE CROSSROADS
Heidi Schlumpf, Sojourners
Sex abuse scandal, priest shortages, celibacy, ordaining women: The issues roiling the Catholic Church offer challenges -- and hope? -- for the future.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21306/
A JURY OF HER PEERS
Kathy Plonsky, Brain, Child
A single mother on trial has a right to be judged by a juryof her peers. But what if the jurors can't find childcarefor their own children?
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21296/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
Today's Working Assets (www.workingforchange.com) column is an interview withErnest Callenbach, the author of Ecotopia, who holds forth 30 years later on thedifficulties of creating a utopia in the era of George Bush. It's at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18604
Will Pitt FYI: "The Major Press Is Under Attack"
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/22/82236/6314
Women's Liberation Redux
by Martha Burk and Alison Stein, TomPaine.com Exclusive
Engaging young women in progressive politics requires some 21st century consciousness-raising.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/womens_liberation_redux.php
Calling global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" and comparing the EPA to the Gestapo apparently wasn't enough for Senator James Inhofe, as Ari Berman writes in today's installment of The Daily Outrage. "Unable to ram Bush's polluter-friendly Clear Skies Act through the Senate, the Chairman of the Environmental and Public Works Committee (EPW) ordered two national organizations opposing Bush's plan to turn over their financial and tax records."
Click below for more on this one-man wrecking machine from Oklahoma:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?bid=13&pid=2211
You can check The Daily Outrage regularly for original reporting on lobbyists stifling reformers in both parties, defense contractors profiting off pre-emptive war, the mainstream media echoing government deceptions, and a rightwing attack machine defending neo-imperialists and distorting progressive values. Updated every weekday. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?bid=13
And click below to let us know of any outrages you think we should be covering.
http://www.thenation.com/contact/outr
O'REILLY VS. THE DOC
Bill O'Reilly.com
Marsha Rosenbaum gives Bill O'Reilly a reality check about teen drinking, parental responsibility and the real meaning of safety.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21308/
BASEBALL ON DRUGS
Steven Beitler, DRCNet
Major league baseball's new, harsher penalties for steroid use are unlikely to deter extremely competitive people from gaining an edge in an ultra-high-stakes game.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21319/
-->>DrugReporter now has its own RSS webfeed! http://alternet.org/module/feed/rss/coverage/drugreporter
HUNTER S. THOMPSON, R.I.P.
William Rivers Pitt, TruthOut.org
With Thompson's suicide, journalism lost a deeply flawed andunconventional practitioner -- but one who always sought the truth with his highball.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21320/
INDULGING COLOMBIA'S PARAMILITARIES
Joanne Mariner, FindLaw.com
Colombia's approach to demobilizing illegal armed groups may amount to amnesty for some of the country's most notorious drug kingpins and vicious murderers.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21322/
FELON BAN HURTS BLACKS AND DEMOCRATS
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
The denial of voting rights to hundreds of thousands ofblacks is a travesty of justice, and a blot on the democratic process.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21300/
Federal Drug Agency Risks Lives
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022005D.shtml
Secret Tapes: Bush Weighed Religion, Behavior
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022005F.shtml
Tony Norman: Why Isn't Bob Novak Going to Jail?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022005G.shtml
Global Warming Could Worsen U.S. Pollution
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/environment.shtml
GIs Rap Their Anger
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022005Z.shtml
George Hunsinger gives the lie to the Right's caricature of progressives as anti-religious zealots. As a minister, professor of theology, and coordinator of Church Folks for a Better America, Hunsinger is working to reframe the "moral values" debate by raising questions about how torture, pre-emption, unjust war, and poverty can be tolerated by people of moral and religious conviction.
For more about Hunsinger, read Katrina vanden Heuvel's Editor's Cut:
http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7&pid=2206
And check out the CFBA website for much more about the group:
http://www.cfba.info/
And don't miss other featured Nation online material.
David Corn on John Negroponte:
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2203
John Nichols on Ward Churchill:
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2193
David Cole on Lynne Stewart:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050307&s=cole
And see ActNow for ways you can help keep Stewart out of jail for an unjustterror conviction: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?bid=4&pid=2205
NOW HE HAS THE POWER
John Nichols, The Nation
Unlike past DNC chairs, Howard Dean won't have to scream for attention. He is in a position to make his party more newsworthy and potentially more dangerous than it has been in decades.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21304/
MONUMENTS TO DECENT LIVES
Joseph H. Cooper, Christian Science Monitor
It takes a special kind of following to warrant being memorialized on a postage stamp, let alone on coin orcurrency -- or Mount Rushmore. Still, each of us, in our own way, carves out a bit of history that should be set down.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21305/
WANTED: ALL CRUISERS
Celina De León, WireTap
Cruising is an age-old ritual involving a car, friends and the desire to see and be seen. While some see it as an issue of public safety, others believe it's an important rite of passage that needs to be preserved.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21233/
SHOW ME THE MONEY
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet
Bush's privatization plan for Social Security is a case where it helps to read the fine print.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21302/
THE TOXIC TERROR OF DIAMOND, LOUISIANA
Ruth Rosen, Dissent Magazine
In one of the most remarkable tales ever told about the environmental justice movement, an African American community fought for, and won, the human right to breathe clean air.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21286/
SPY'S EYE VIEW
Sandip Roy, Pacific News Service
Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman to head the British spy agency MI5 and the real-life inspiration for the James Bond spymaster "M," says the notion of a war on terror obscures what it takes to fight terrorism.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21303/
FOCUS - William Rivers Pitt HST and the Proverbial 'Live Boy'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105Z.shtml
"Considering the ugly state to which the American experiment has degenerated,"John Nichols argues in The Online Beat, "it would make sense for the rest of usto renew our affiliation with the first GW. Indeed, patriots need to callGeneral Washington back into the service of his country--not merely as aclarification of national memory but as a blunt challenge to those who haveusurped America's promise with their illegal invasions and recklessmisadventures."
Click below for more on why the commander of America's revolutionary armies didnot want his country to follow the European course of collecting colonies.
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2208
And don't miss Nichols's new, Against the Beast: A Documentary History ofAmerican Opposition to Empire, recently released by Nation Books, for a good review of the longstanding anti-imperialist current of American history.
http://www.nationbooks.org/book.mhtml?t=nichols
As Howard Zinn says, "At exactly the when we need it most, John Nichols gives us a special gift--a collection of writings, speeches, poems and songs from thoughout American history--that reminds us that our revulsion to war and empire has a long and noble tradition in this country."
You can also read the prolific Nichols's new Nation cover-story examining what excatly Howard Dean plans to do with his new power as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050307&s=nichols
Paul Krugman Three-Card Maestro
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021905G.shtml
Groups Preparing New Push Against Iraq War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021905Y.shtml
Frank Rich When the Real News Debunks Fake News
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021905Z.shtml
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