READING LIST WEEK ENDING 3-26-2005

Sorry about the delay in getting this posted in a timely manner. Life interfered. I hate it when that happens. Some of this may not be relevent anymore but I felt that it needed to be included as historical references. Thanks to everyone who reads this and "keep those cards and letters coming"....................PEACE...................Scott


School Shooting vs. Schiavo: Why is Bush Silent on Red Lake?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032505B.shtml

Jimmy Carter to Chair Election Reform Commission
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032505C.shtml

Norman Solomon Little Reporting on Paranoia in High Places
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032505D.shtml

Left-Right Coalition Rises to Fight Patriot Act
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032505F.shtml

Canada Denies Refugee Status to US Soldier
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032505G.shtml

James Howard Kunstler When We Run Out of Cheap Gas to Guzzle
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032505I.shtml

Revolution Topples Former Soviet Republic
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032505J.shtml

Venezuela Defends Right to Defend Itself against US
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032505K.shtml

Christian Parenti Hugo Chavez and Petro Populism
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032505L.shtml

Cost-Cutting Medicare Law Is a Money Loser for States
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032505N.shtml

US Bases in Iraq Set for Long Stay
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032605C.shtml

Report to Blast US Agencies on Weapons of Mass Destruction
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032605D.shtml

Administration Misled Public on Passenger Screening
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032605E.shtml

Antiwar Sailor Faces Special Court-Martial
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032605F.shtml

From War Hero to Homeless
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032605Y.shtml

Privatizing Survivors, Abandoning Children
by Nancy K. Cauthen, TomPaine.com
Each year, Social Security keeps 1 million children out of poverty. But you don't hear about that during Bush's stump speeches. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/privatizing_survivors_abandoning_children.php

All PART Of The Game
by Gary Bass and Adam Hughes, TomPaine.com
Two OMB Watch analysts reveal Bush's main budget- management tool to be yet another farce. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/all_part_of_the_game.php

No Blood On Our Hands
by Sister Dianna Ortiz, TomPaine.com
A torture survivor speaks on the U.S. policy of systematically passing off the blame in torture cases
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/no_blood_on_our_hands.php

Oil, Porn, Death And Dignity: Your Letters
by TomPaine.com Readers
Readers react to our recent pieces about oil, hypocrisy in Congress and the Terri Schiavo case. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/oil_porn_death_and_dignity_your_letters.php

Will Pitt FYI: The United States of Jesus
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/25/10383/0260

Ever since its "I'd like to teach the world to sing" commercials from the 1970s,Coca-Cola has billed itself as the world's beverage, uniting colors and cultures within its red-and-white swoosh. Behind that image, however, writes MichaelBlanding in a new Nation online exclusive, a growing student movement is taking the company to task for its shoddy human rights record around the globe.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050411&s=blanding

And click below to check out a new activist website offering detailed background on scores of allegations of human rights abuses against Coke from South America as well as a host of ways you can get involved in the campaign to stop the gruesome cycle of killings of union organizers at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia.
http://www.killercoke.org/

Steve Weissman Freedom's Coming, All Aboard!http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032405B.shtml

House Bill Attacks 'Leftist' Professors, Allows Students to Sue over Beliefs
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032405G.shtml

Eric Leser How Much Longer Can the American Economy Live on Credit?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032405H.shtml

Canada Unveils Annual Seal Hunt, Blasts Activists
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032405I.shtml

Sovereignty over Spectators Chippewa Grieve in Private
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032405J.shtml

Dowd & Rich DeLay and His Demagogues
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032405N.shtml

Mood Shifting in Favor of Nuclear Power
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032405EA.shtml

Agency Admits Panther Whistleblower Was Right
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032405EB.shtml

Everglades Restoration Project in Disarray, Feds Say
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032405EC.shtml

Vietnam: "The Biggest Chemical War" in History
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032405HA.shtml

New Defense Department Workforce Rules 'Threaten National Security'
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032405LA.shtml

HP Labor Suits Highlight Tech Industry Trend
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032405LB.shtml

US Initial Jobless Claims Rose by 3,000 Last Week to 324,000
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032405LC.shtml

Ann Marlowe The Politics of Home
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032405WA.shtml

Michele Weldon Flare-Up over the Shortage of Female Op-Ed Writers
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032405WB.shtml

Planned Parenthood Denounces Record Search
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032405WC.shtml

HOW TO TURN YOUR RED STATE BLUE
Christopher Hayes, In These Times
In order to grow, progressives need to learn from evangelical movements: Systematically expand the universe of access points to their worldview and actively recruit people into the fold.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21584/

RAGING FOR THE MACHINE
Scott Thill, AlterNet
In Brian K. Vaughan's 'Ex Machina,' the comic book hero paradigm is turned upside down -- a gay mayor of NewYork dealing with rather more real -- but no lessheroic -- situations.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21587/

BRAZIL'S BOLD MOVE
Kelly Hearn, AlterNet
Determined to get affordable drugs for its citizens livingwith HIV/AIDS, the Brazilian government threatens to breaksome of Big Pharma's patents.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21586/

ONE-WAY PLANET
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
Exactly how narrow have the boundaries of discussion about the American "mission" in the world grown in the Bushyears?
http://www.alternet.org/story/21589/

TRAGEDY AT RED LAKE
H. Mathew Barkhausen III, SNAG Magazine
"I can only wonder how things might have turned out differently if Weise had had a traditional Ojibwe upbringing, was well-acquainted with his native tongue andtraditions."
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21594/
More WireTap: http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/

MEET THE NEW FCC BOSS
Eric Alterman, Center for American Progress
Bush's new FCC chairman looks a lot like his old FCC chairman; but he'll soon be forced to decide whether he's a free-marketeer or a local values champ.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21582/
More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/

An Auto Industry Ad Leaves Critics Choking
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032305EC.shtml

After Drug Scare, No Easy Answers for Depressed Kids
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032305HA.shtml

Californians Support Plan to Provide Health Coverage for Every Child
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032305HB.shtml

Marking World Water Day, UN to Launch Water for Life Decade
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032305HC.shtml

Deuschle Named to Lead Labor Department
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032305LA.shtml

DHL: Labor Woes Not Company's Fault
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032305LB.shtml

PACE Says DuPont Fails to Come Clean about C8 Health Risks
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032305LC.shtml

Iraq: Focus on Threats against Progressive Women
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032305WA.shtml

Women-Owned Businesses Gain Increased Access to Capital
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032305WB.shtml

US Rule on Women's Sports May Ease College Compliance
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032305WC.shtml

AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL
J.D. Smith, Grist Magazine
How a little blue pill could get big results -- in species conservation, we mean. Save the black bears! Take Viagra.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21578/

PAYING THE PRICE FOR BUSH'S RETRO ENERGY POLICY
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet
When it comes to dealing with the many energy-related crises we're facing, can the Bushies really go on pretending that their policies are any more forward-looking than a rerun of 'That '70s Show'?
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21577/

THE 21ST CENTURY TEACH-IN
Andrea Buffa, AlterNet
With new ideas and plans for action brewing, the antiwar movement marks the 40th anniversary of the first teach-in with a flurry of new opportunities for education.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21580/

THE FRONT
Laura Rozen, Jeet Heer, The American Prospect
Hard-liners want evidence that Iran is up to no good. And they're turning to strange sources to get it.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21579/

MILITARY RECRUITING 101
Justin Sane, WorkingForChange.com
No Child Left Behind has turned American high schools into military recruiting zones.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21574/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/

"The real outrage here," insists Katrina vanden Heuvel writing in Editor's Cut,"was the Republicans' decision to violate conservative ideals about state rights, limited government, and the sanctity of marriage by muscling into theTerri Schiavo tragedy." http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?pid=2279
"What this case is really about," adds Robert Scheer in his weekly column, "is keeping politics and state-endorsed religion out of our private lives."
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050404&s=scheer0323
As David Corn notes in Capital Games, "the GOPers tossed the reddest of meat to their reddest of supporters. (You gotta keep them fed!)"
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2281

Remembering Romero
by Mark Engler, TomPaine.com
Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered 25 years ago today as part of the original 'Salvador Option.'
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/remembering_romero.php

Choosing Poverty's Banker
by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., TomPaine.com
The people most affected by World Bank policies must have a hand in choosing its leader. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/choosing_povertys_banker.php

Battling Insects, Parasites and Politics
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032205HA.shtml

Mercury in Fish Linked to Increased Heart Disease
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032205HB.shtml

John J. Sweeney A Bad Deal on Free Trade
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032205LB.shtml

Jerry Tucker US Labor in Crisis
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032205LC.shtml

One in Seven Women in Military Academies Report Sexual Assault
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032205WA.shtml

Women on the Front Lines
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032205WB.shtml

Djibouti Comes Out against All Excisions
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032205WC.shtml

PERSISTENT LEGISLATIVE STATE
Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet
The legislation allowing Terri Schiavo's parents into federal courts violates the rule of law and due process.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21572/

PULL THE PLUG ON PANDERING
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
Those who think letting someone who is critically brain dead die is the same as Auschwitz are incapable of making moral distinctions.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21564/

HIJACKING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ
Scott Ritter, AlterNet
What occurred in Iraq on Jan. 30, 2005 was an American-brokered event, not an expression of Iraqi national unity. The U.S. lowering of the Shi'avote is case in point.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21566/

SENDING A MESSAGE ON TRADE
David Sirota, AlterNet
In considering Rob Portman's nomination to the position of trade representative, the Senate will have a unique opportunity to seriously analyze where America's trade policy has gone wrong.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21568/

THE RE-EDUCATION OF LUBBOCK, TX
Rebecca Onion, WireTap
The star of a recent documentary about the fight over sex ed in Texas talks about turning blue while living in the reddest of states.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21570/

THE SECRET LIFE OF DUST
Beverley Thorpe, AlterNet
The first U.S. study to test chemicals in household dust found a toxic cocktail in our homes, made of hazardous chemicals emitted from commonly used products.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21562/
More EnviroHealth: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/

Living With Dignity
by Heather Boushey, TomPaine.com
Congress is in a frenzy to protect one woman's right to food, while voting down measures to protect millions of others.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/living_with_dignity.php

Sharing The Sacrifice
by Chuck Collins, TomPaine.com
For the first time in U.S. history, the wealthy don't have to help shoulder the burdens of war. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/sharing_the_sacrifice.php

Will Pitt FYI: A Glaring Example of Media Bias http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/22/173355/647

NO LIFE SUPPORT FOR YOU
Brian Montopoli, CJR Daily.
The media coverage of the Schiavo case doesn't include one important detail: a Texas law that authorizes health care providers to remove their patients from life support. Guess who signed it into law?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21571/

WOMEN IN OP-EDS
--->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/mediaculture/21521/
--->Michele Weldon, Women's eNews.
The latest flare-up over the shortage of female Op-Ed writers on leading newspapers should not simply die down; female bloggers and journalists must cluster together and create a "fireball" of visibility
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21573/

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

LIPSTICK JIHAD
Ann Marlowe, LA Weekly.
Azadeh Moaveni's memoir of 'growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran' focuses on sexual politics of both cultures.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21569/

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/mediaculture/21536/

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/

SPELL IT OUT
Matt Gaffney, The American Prospect.
Fear, shame, and a puzzle that'll rip your heart out: scenes from a crossword-puzzle tournament.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21523/

Marjorie Cohn Whose Right to Life?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032305A.shtml

Cindy Sheehan The Amazing Hypocrites
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032305B.shtml

Michael T. Klare The Energy Crunch to Come
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032305E.shtml

Strange Bedfellows Unite to Fight Patriot Act
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032305G.shtml

Very Deadly Year for Journalists
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032305I.shtml

Study: Media Self-Censored Some Iraq Coverage
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032305K.shtml

Unocal Settles Human Rights Lawsuit
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032305L.shtml

The Return of the Left in Latin America
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032305M.shtml

Iraq Invasion May Be Start of the Age of Oil Scarcity
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105EA.shtml

Degree of Sonar Harm to Marine Mammals Debated
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105EB.shtml

Bill McKibben When Courage Was Called For, She Punted
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105EC.shtml

Getting Rid of Bad Grub
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105HA.shtml

New Openness in Deciding When and How to Die
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105HB.shtml

Wal-Mart Settles Illegal Labor Case
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105LA.shtml

Farm-Workers Boycott Defeats Taco Bell
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105LB.shtml

Social Security as Dramamine
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105SA.shtml

Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker Let's Be Honest about Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105SB.shtml

Two Women Lead Chile Presidential Pollshttp://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105WA.shtml

Congresswoman Maloney Reintroduces Equal Rights Amendment
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105WB.shtml

Katha Pollitt Invisible Women
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105WC.shtml

SUDDEN DEATH
Dan Frosch, AlterNet
A young steel worker dies and an industry grapples with adisturbing rise in fatalities on the job.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21537/

WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG, BAD WOLFOWITZ
Jason Vest, Village Voice
He bungled Iraq, the Pentagon, and East Timor. Look out,World Bank -- here he comes.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21559/

WOMEN ON THE FRONT LINES
Molly M. Ginty, Women's eNews
With 240 female U.S. soldiers injured and 33 killed so far in Iraq and Afghanistan, some military analysts are calling for a review of U.S. policy on women in combat.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21557/

THE POLITICIZATION OF TERRI SCHIAVO
The Progress Report
A brain-damaged woman's tragic case is being used as an opportunity for political grandstanding.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21552/

BATTERED WOMEN
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, Washington Monthly
Boxing has long existed in a cultural ghetto, revelling in its corruption and violence. Women's boxing operates in a further ghetto still, a brutal and hopeless sport.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21554/

TWO YEARS AFTER THE WAR
Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor
An unrelenting insurgency, pervasive chaos, little electricity or water, and widespread unemployment. Aftertwo years of occupation, Iraq looks pretty much the same.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21558/
More War on Iraq: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/

UNDEMOCRATIC MEDIA OVERSEAS
Rory O'Connor, AlterNet
A new book argues that Japan has the least trustworthy media in the democratic world -- and guess how it began.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21553/
More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/

Mercurial Rulemaking
by Frank O'Donnell, TomPaine.com
An environmental expert on the tainted politics and science behind the EPA's new mercury rule.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/mercurial_rulemaking.php

Falling Off The Competitive Edge
by Christian E. Weller and Tyler Tepfer, TomPaine.com
Without much better funding and research support, the United States will continue to slip in the high-tech sector.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/falling_off_the_competitive_edge.php

JUST SAY ... NOTHING
Alexandra Marks, Christian Science Monitor
Today's parents are more likely to have used drugs in adolescence than any other generation. Yet they're proving more reluctant to talk about it to their children.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21438/

THE SHAME OF THE STEROID HUNT
Matt Welch, AlterNet
The public shaming of high-profile athletes has been a conscious policy all along, outstripping any real desire to prosecute criminals or get at the truth about steroid use.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21551/

SHILLING FOR STEROIDS
David Borden, DRCNet
If there were any teenagers in America who didn't know that steroids can enhance athleticism, they almost certainly know it now.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21539/

A FIX FOR VANCOUVER'S ADDICTS
Am Johal, AlterNet
The first heroin prescription program in North America brings hope to chronic drug users and controversy to those conducting the study
.http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21567/

Decoding Lebanon
by Helena Cobban -
http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1267&issue_id=36
Democratization and War in the Middle East
by Helena Cobban -
http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1279&issue_id=36
Democracy Hijacked
by Col. Dan Smith -
http://www.fcnl.org/smith/dem_hijack.htm

Juan Cole The Schiavo Case and the Islamization of the Republican Party
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032205D.shtml

Lou Plummer A Real American Value
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032205G.shtml

Jacques Julliard Europe-USA: Continental Drift
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032205I.shtml

Mike Farrell An Indecent Administration Rolls On
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032205K.shtml

New York Times A Blow to the Rule of Law
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032205L.shtml

Larry Williams "Conspiracy of Fools:" A Thriller about Enron
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032205M.shtml

Scott Klinger Gap between Rich and Poor Growing
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032205N.shtml

Ohio's Blackwell Ridicules Election Fraud "Conspiracy"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032205X.shtml

William Rivers Pitt Dictators, Tyrants and Fools
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032205Y.shtml

Needed: Voter Rolls, Clean And Complete
by Rob Richie and Steven Hill, TomPaine.com
It's time for a coherent system that ensures all of us can vote, but none of us can vote more than once.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/needed_voter_rolls_clean_and_complete.php

Shooting At The Wrong Target
by Alan Sager and Deborah Socolar, TomPaine.com
Reviving our ailing health care system means focusing on physicians to cut costs--not patients. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/shooting_at_the_wrong_target.php

Today's Working Assets (www.workingforchange.com) column is an argument that to end the war, voices of military personnel and their families will be essential. It's at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18757

Will Pitt FYI: Protest Stories
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/21/9466/08728

Marjorie Cohn Getting Away with Murder
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032105B.shtml

Michael T. Klare Mapping the Oil Motive
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032105D.shtml

Annan Will Recommend Sweeping Reforms for the UN
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032105E.shtml

Ronald Brownstein Social Security Fight Heads into 2006 Elections
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032105H.shtml

Serge Truffaut News Held Hostage
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032105I.shtml

Dr. James J. Zogby Congress' Bad Behavior
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032105L.shtml

GOP Governors Cut State Workers' Rights
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032105N.shtml

Conyers: Casting Aside the Separation of Powers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032105Z.shtml

Scott Galindez Media Downplay Historic Day of Protests
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032005A.shtml

"George Bush, Uncle Sam. Iraq Will Be Your Vietnam"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032005B.shtml

Tom Engelhardt Deconstructing Iraq: Year Three Begins
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032005E.shtml

Jeffrey Goldberg Can the Democrats Make Themselves Look Tough?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032005G.shtml

Stirling Newberry Greed is Good?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032005Y.shtml