READING LIST / WEEK ENDING 4-16-2005

Major Port Proposed for Baja Region
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041505EA.shtml

Mapping Reveals Earth's Best Sites for Wind, Solar Power
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041505EC.shtml

House Passes Far-Reaching Mental Health Bill
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041505HB.shtml

Nayla Moawad Women in Lebanon
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041505WA.shtml

Bill Would Help Women Get Birth Control
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041505WB.shtml

Bush Administration Covers Up Rise in Terrorism
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041605A.shtml

Frist Accused of Exploiting Religion
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041605C.shtml

Student Labor Activism Heating Up on Campuses
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041605F.shtml

William Pfaff Empty Threats over China
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041605G.shtml

White House Knew Reporter Was on Payroll
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041605X.shtml

Old School GOP Accuses House of Protecting DeLay
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041605Y.shtml

UC Threatens Service Workers, Says Planned Strike Is Illegal
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041405LB.shtml

Union Merger Makes Steelworkers the Largest
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041405LC.shtml

David Suzuki The Beauty of Wind Farms
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041405EA.shtml

Nuclear Power Is the Problem, Not a Solution
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041405EB.shtml

The House Energy and Commerce Committee Votes against Safety
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041405EC.shtml


Diseases Are Everywhere - Or Are They?http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041405HA.shtml

Study Cautions Runners to Limit Intake of Water
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041405HB.shtml

Breast Cancer Breakthrough Excites Scientists
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041405HC.shtml

Afghanistan: Domestic Violence Intolerable, Say Battered Women and Girls
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041405WA.shtml

FDA Panel Backs Lifting Breast Implant Ban
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041405WB.shtml

Will Cancer Vaccine Get to All Women?
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041405WC.shtml


BEASTS ON THE BUS
Matt Taibbi, AlterNet
Being on the campaign trail is like being trapped in a zoo exhibit with no shelter from the crowd, where the penalty for touching your own genitals is death.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21761/
-->>In a daring feat of journalistic ritual suicide, MattTaibbi reviews his own book, 'Spanking the Donkey'!
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21762/

APRIL 15TH: YOU'RE GETTING SCREWED
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
As more and more rich people cheat on their taxes, the IRS is increasingly unable to go after them because it is so poorly funded. For all this, we can thank the RepublicanParty.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21760/

FRAUGHT WITH AMBIGUITY
Matthew Scott Kelemen, AlterNet
In 'Palindromes,' has Todd Solondz made an anti-anti-choice film? Or a pro-anti-life one? He won't tell you; audiences will have to decide for themselves. That's the beauty of choice.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/21757/

CYCLOPS PINK EYE
Will Durst, AlterNet
Obviously, politics, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, but in terms of idealogues, this administration has developed a serious case of conjunctivitis.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21758/

THE TWO FACES OF THE BLOGOSPHERE
Digby, In These Times
Where right-wing blogs are largely an arm of the Republican message machine, progressive blogs are a loosely collected network of independents.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21755/

FIGHTING TO STAY
Beth Schwartzapfel, WireTap
Cambodian American youth are often caught between their parents' respect for authority and a growing number of lawmakers who want to see them sent -- often for the first time -- to Cambodia.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21744/
More WireTap: http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/

NO REFUGE IS AN ISLAND
Robert L. Fischman, Grist Magazine
In the Arctic Refuge drilling debate, a crucial broader issue has been lost: how will oil drilling and development affect the national refuge system as a whole?
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21745/
More EnviroHealth: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/

The Late, Great Income Tax
by Max B. Sawicky, TomPaine.com
Let's harken back to those halcyon days when wealth was taxed as much as work. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_late_great_income_tax.php?dateid=20050415

Tax Waste, Not Work
by J. Andrew Hoerner, TomPaine.com
Why not tax things we want less of?
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/tax_waste_not_work.php?dateid=20050415

Scapegoating Immigrants
by Rep. John Conyers, Jr., TomPaine.com
Republicans in the House are pushing an anti-immigrant bill in the name of national security. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/scapegoating_immigrants.php?dateid=20050415

Steve Weissman The Religious Right: Hang Ten and Fight!http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505B.shtml

House GOP Backs "Ethics Standards of Tom DeLay"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505C.shtml

Paul Krugman The Medical Money Pit
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505H.shtml

Iraq Finds Its Bearings
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505I.shtml

Scott Klinger Your Risk, Their Gain
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505J.shtml

New York Times Long Live the Estate Tax
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505K.shtml

Carter: Rich States 'Don't Give a Damn' About Poor
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505L.shtml

Lisa Lambert GodAssault: Morality as the Ultimate Game
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505O.shtml

White House Blocking Propaganda Probe
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505X.shtml

Special Interests "Giddy" over Bankruptcy Victory
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505Y.shtml

'Nuclear' Showdown All but Certain in Senate
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505Z.shtml

We've all seen how badly the reconstruction process has been going in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, as Naomi Klein argues in her new Nation column, "if the reconstruction industry is stunningly inept at rebuilding, that may be because rebuilding is not its primary purpose." http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050502&s=klein

Eric Boehlert Indecency Wars
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041405G.shtml

House Passes Permanent Estate Tax Repeal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041405H.shtml

Pentagon's War Spending 'Hard to Track' http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041405J.shtml

Afghanistan's Karzai Hints at Permanent US Military Basing
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041405K.shtml

Richard Cohen Disaster, Not Diplomacy http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041405L.shtml

New York Times Congress's Deepening Shadow World
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041405M.shtml

David Bacon Central America Up in Arms over CAFTA
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041305LA.shtml

Union Files Wal-Mart Complaint
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041305LB.shtml

Government Backs Off Cutting Aid to Farmers
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041305LC.shtml

Derrick Z. Jackson US Takes the Lead in Trashing Planet
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041305EA.shtml

Elizabeth Kolbert Wasted Energy
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041305EB.shtml

UN Presses India to Save Tigers
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041305EC.shtml

Health Care Goes South: Look to North
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041305HA.shtml

Brand-Name Drug Prices Reach Largest Increase in Five Years
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041305HB.shtml

James K. Hammitt Is the EPA Lowballing the Mercury Risk?http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041305HC.shtml

Breakthrough for Saudi Women
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041305WA.shtml

Groups Protest Possible Changes in Medical Leave Act
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041305WB.shtml

The San Francisco Chronicle Risking Women's Health
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041305WC.shtml

GOODBYE UNCLE SAM, HELLO TEAM EUROPE
John Feffer, AlterNet
Not only does the world hate us, a new poll shows that forthe first time most countries want us to get the hell out of the driver's seat.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21753/

'DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES' CAUSES ANOTHER BREAKUP
Sheelah Kolhatkar, New York Observer
The owners of Ms. magazine and its editor part ways; was'Desperate Housewives' the final straw?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21748/

MISLEADING.GOV
Chris Mooney, The American Prospect
A new government website misinforms parents about how to protect their kids from sexually transmitted diseases.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21749/

STRAIGHTWASHING
Rebecca Hyman, Clamor
Some advocacy and human rights groups have issued a thinly veiled ultimatum to queer activists: If you want to fight for gay rights, you have to act straight.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21750/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/

DA VINCI CODE TURNS TWO
Glenn Michael McDonald, PopMatters
What exactly is true in the mega-hit that spawned a cottageindustry?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21751/
More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/

Exposing Incompetent Incumbents
by Ray McGovern, TomPaine.com
John Bolton's confirmation hearings expose the culture of political intimidation pervading the intelligence community.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/exposing_incompetent_incumbents.phpdateid=20050414

Questioning Bush's Motives
by Earl Hadley, TomPaine.com
Are the changes to the federal education law meant to help all children succeed--or just a public relations stunt?
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/questioning_bushs_motives.php?dateid=20050414

Darfur: Women Raped after Seeking Refuge
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041205WA.shtml

The Cape Transforms Human Ova into an Export Product
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041205WB.shtml

Women Testify before FDA Panel on Breast Implants
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041205WC.shtml

Arni Finnsson The Iceman InterActivateth
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041205EA.shtml

Why Our Food Is So Dependent on Oil
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041205EB.shtml

Emergency Physicians: Whole-Person Doctors
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041205HA.shtml

Poor Performance Records Are Easily Outdistanced
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041205HB.shtml

Falling Fortunes of the Wage Earner
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041205LA.shtml

AFL-CIO Unveils 'Jaw-Dropping' Case Studies of CEO Pay and Rigged Deals
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041205LB.shtml

Showdown Looms over US Labor
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041205LC.shtml

NAACP Criticizes Bush on Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041205SA.shtml

WAR GAMES AND WAR NAMES
Dave Zirin, AlterNet
The National Guard's proposed $6 million purchase of naming rights for a pro baseball stadium in D.C. isn't surprising --just shameful.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21739/


GLOBAL WARNING
Paula Routly, Seven Days
When cheap oil disappears, says James Howard Kunstler, so will life as we know it.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21737/

SECULAR VOICES SOUND ON PAPAL SUCCESSION
Marcelo Ballve, Pacific News Service
Latin American politicians, eager to put their region back on the world's radar screen, are openly promoting LatinAmerican cardinals for the papacy, sometimes to the chagrin of Catholic Church leaders.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21741/

THE POPE PLEADED. WE DIDN'T LISTEN.
Robert Scheer, AlterNet
It's conveniently ignored that John Paul strongly opposedBush over Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21734/

Today's Working Assets (http://www.workingforchange.com/) column is on Tax Day, an annual event that forces us to confront the fact that most people don't like how our taxes are spent. It's at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18887

Bringing Down The House
by David Corn, TomPaine.com
With prominent Republicans publicly denouncing him, how much longer will Tom DeLay survive as majority leader? http://www.tompaine.com/articles/bringing_down_the_house.php?dateid=20050413

Democracy Without Borders
by Rami G. Khouri, TomPaine.com
America's failure in Iraq has pointed Arab and Islamic thinkers toward international law as much as democracy.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/democracy_without_borders.php?dateid=20050413

WAL-MART'S WILY WAYS
Kelly Hearn, AlterNet.
A softer, gentler megacolossal? Wal-Mart would like you to think so.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21724/

A CORNUCOPIA OF DEATH
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet.
The media have outed themselves as the ultimate necrophiliacs. I expect CNN and Forest Lawn to announce a sponsorship agreement any day now.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21738/


THE WMDUH REPORT
Eric Alterman, The Nation.
The new WMD investigation is a farce designed to shift responsibility from the people who demanded corrupt intelligence to serve their ideological obsessions to those who were forced to provide it.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21708/

UN-EMBED THE MEDIA
Amy Goodman, David Goodman, AlterNet.
Government-supplied propaganda has become pervasive in mainstream media, from hiring journalists to write puff pieces to creden-tialing fake reporters to fawning reports from embedded reporters in Iraq. Where is independent media?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21703/

MUSLIM REFUSENIK
Terrence McNally, AlterNet.
Irshad Manji, author of 'The Trouble with Islam Today,' discusses the close mindedness and literalism of present-day Islam and her path to free thinking.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21705/

ALTERNATIVE PULITZERG.
Pascal Zachary, AlterNet.
The Pulitzer Prize for investigative report-ing is a reminder of the importance of alternative weekly newspapers and the con-tinuing tendency for monopoly newspapers to pursue profit or behind-the-scenes influence.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21694/

Report: California "Energy Crisis" II
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041305A.shtml

Liberals Look to 'Take Back Constitution'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041305F.shtml

Indiana Senate Passes Strict ID Law to Limit Vote
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041305G.shtml

David Kaczynski New York Rejects Death Penalty
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041305H.shtml

Jamison Foser Five Ways to Combat Conservative Media
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041305J.shtml

Congressman Ron Paul Who's Better Off?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041305K.shtml

In Jeans or Veils, Iraqi Women Are Split on New Political Power
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041305M.shtml

Pentagon Budget Sacrifices Human Needs
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041305O.shtml

Lott: "Power of Prayer" Will Sustain Tom Delay
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041305X.shtml

US Firm May Have Unleashed Deadly Flu Strain http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041305Z.shtml

Several weeks ago, two 16 year-old Muslim girls, one from Bangladesh and the other from Guinea, were arrested in New York City on the specious grounds that they were potential suicide bombers. Neither of the girls has been formally charged with any crime, but both have been detained indefinitely in facilities far away from their homes and families.
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Today's Working Assets (http://www.workingforchange.com/) column is on the NinthCircuit's look at the legality of President Bush's 'stop-loss' program. It'sthe soldiers who lost. It's at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18868

EXTREME UNILATERALIST OR STRONG LEADER?
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Phyllis Bennis and Peter Brookes debate nominee John Bolton's credentials for U.N. Ambassador.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21728/

THE ARMAGEDDON MAN
Tom Barry, Foreign Policy in Focus
A comprehensive look at John Bolton's career reveals a man who champions extremism in the service of expediency.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21730/

BORDER BROUHAHA
Dan Frosch, AlterNet
While much is made of the Minutemen patrolling theMexico-U.S. border, lawsuits pile up against an Arizona rancher with a troubling history.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21727/

BLOOD, OIL, AND IRAN
Michael Klare, Tomdispatch.com
Contrary to administration claims, Iran's nuclear program is not the paramount reason to attack the country. Any assessment of Iran's strategic importance to the United States should focus on its huge oil reserves.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21731/

DON'T TREAD ON MONTANA
Mike Keefe-Feldman, AlterNet
A state that voted overwhelmingly for Bush in the last election passes the fifth statewide anti-Patriot Actresolution, and it's the strongest one yet. Bipartisan support and grassroots persistence got the job done.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21729/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/

I WANT MY 'SHE' TVWill Rasmussen, Christian Science Monitor
A new satellite station run by women is delicately breaking new ground in the dialogue on women's rights in the Middle East.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21720/
More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/

Desperate Measures for Millions of Uninsured
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041105HA.shtml

The New York Times Congress's Default on Stem Cells
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041105HC.shtml

Acting EPA Chief Withdraws Controversial Pesticide Project
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041105EA.shtml

Federal Solar Energy Bill Rewards State Leadership
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041105EB.shtml

David Lazarus ChevronTexaco's CEO Banking on Peak Oil Situation
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041105EC.shtml

Wages Lagging behind Prices
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041105LA.shtml

United Airlines Faces Possible Strikes
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041105LB.shtml

Berlin Wants to Wage War on Wage Dumping
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041105LC.shtml

Linda Greenhouse The Evolution of a Justice
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041105WA.shtml

NIH Women Describe Sex Harassment
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041105WB.shtml

Breast Cancer, Hormone Type May Be Linked
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/041105WC.shtml

The Oprah Society
by Beth Shulman, TomPaine.com
The American belief in the power of the individual creates a society where the odds for many citizens are nearly impossible to overcome.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_oprah_society.php?dateid=20050412

Bush's Social Security Playbook
by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com
The Republicans are constantly moving the goalposts on the Social Security debate -- but the American public isn't fooled.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/bushs_social_security_playbook.php?dateid=20050412

Freelance journalist Max Blumenthal reports from the Confronting the Judicial War on Faith conference held in Washington DC last week which featured Rep. TomDeLay, Phyllis Schlafly, Alan Keyes and other religious extremists who are determined to pass legislation which, among many things, would require federa ljudges to acknowledge "God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, orgovernment."
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050425&c=1&s=blumenthal

SEX, DRUGS AND DOCTRINEMarsha Rosenbaum, AlterNet
When policymakers advocate rigid, abstinence-only drug and sex education programs, they put our young people in real jeopardy.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21721/

DEAR JUDGE WEXLER
David Borden, DRCNet
Given the multiple, fundamental errors made by jurors, I believe your legal and moral obligation is to reverse the convictions and release Dr. Hurwitz immediately.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21732/

PROTECT PATIENTS FROM POLITICS
Montel Williams, AlterNet
In 40 states, I am a criminal. My crime? Using the medicine that has allowed me to lead a normal life,despite multiple sclerosis: medical marijuana.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21742/

HICK FLICKS AND STONER CINEMA
Jesse Walker, Reason
How did the good ol' boys and the hippies, two American tribes who were supposed to be sworn enemies, wind up flocking to such similar movies?
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21743/

OKLAHOMA'S METH RACE
Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org
State officials credit a tough 2004 Oklahoma law restricting the sale of cold tablets for the dramatic decrease in methlab seizures.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21726/

US Has No Exit Strategy to Pull Out of Iraq, Rumsfeld Says
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041205B.shtml

Mark Benjamin How Many Have Gone to War?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041205C.shtml

Ehud Barak Trust Is Built on Realities
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041205D.shtml

India, China Bid to 'Reshape World Order'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041205E.shtml

Max Blumenthal In Contempt of Courts
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041205G.shtml

Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention Unrest
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041205H.shtml

In Spite of Growth, American Industry Continues to Decline
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041205I.shtml

US Appears to Have Fought War for Oil and Lost It
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041205K.shtml

E. J. Dionne Jr. The Paris Hilton Tax Cut
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041205L.shtml

Robert B. Reich Inflation: The Fed's Preemptive War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041205N.shtml

Halliburton's No-Bid Bilking Twice Previous Estimate
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041205Y.shtml

Negroponte Used CIA Back Channels to Defy Congress
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041205Z.shtml

THE NEW PC: CRYBABY CONSERVATIVES
Russell Jacoby, The Nation
Conservatives like David Horowitz complain relentlessly that they do not get a fair shake in the university. What fuels the persistent charges that professors are misleading th eyoung?http://www.alternet.org/story/21715/

NEW ADVENTURES IN CENSORSHIP
Emma Pearse, Women's eNews
Since Judy Blume began writing frankly sexual books for young adults in the 1970s, the category has come of age and moved on to increasingly harsh and sophisticated topics amid persistent efforts to censor what female teens read.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21716/

REVOLUTION, INTERRUPTED
Ben Bush, AlterNet
The Kyrgyz uprising may not result in the Democratic flowering that the West would like to see. Author Tom Bissell takes a cold, hard look at where the small Central Asian state has been, and where it might be going.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21717/

THE TROUBLE WITH TASERS
Anne-Marie Cusac, The Progressive
The use of tasers -- even on the elderly and children asyoung as one year old -- is increasing.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21718/

'THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE OF OUR TIME'
Sandip Roy, Pacific News Service
Once considered a specialized field, immigration law has grown along with scrutiny on immigrants. Law students across the country are making a difference in clinics that fight to uphold the rights of some of the nation's most vulnerable residents.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21714/

FIGHTING FOR THE OP-EDISPHERE
Danny Schechter, TomPaine.com
The op-ed page is no longer the marketplace of ideas it was established to be.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21709/

THE RUDOLPHS OF AMERICA
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
By depicting the demented acts of domestic terrorists as the work of loners, crazies and psychopaths, federal officials duck and dodge the fact that there are still a lot of Rudolphs running around in America.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21711/

PACS For The People
by Derek Cressman, TomPaine.com
A campaign finance law that gives 1,000 people the same political clout as one other person isn't democratic.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/pacs_for_the_people.php?dateid=20050411

Economy On Thin Ice
by Paul Volcker, The Washington Post
Another fiscal conservative rings the warning bells on our collective economic health.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38725-2005Apr8.html

Michael T. Klare Oil, Geopolitics, and the Coming War with Iran
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041105D.shtml

Venezuela: US-Backed Coup Made Chavez Stronger
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041105E.shtml

Michelle Goldberg In Theocracy They Trust
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041105F.shtml

Paul Krugman Ailing Health Care
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041105H.shtml

Jean-Pierre Rousselin Mounting Dangers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041105I.shtml

James J. Zogby The Pope and the World : Then and Now
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041105K.shtml

Kerry: Trickery Kept Voters From Polls
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041105L.shtml

In the Partisan Power Struggle, a New Underdog Tries Old Tricks
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041105M.shtml

Clinton To Serve 2 Years as UN Envoy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041105N.shtml

Bush's Poll Numbers Worst on Record
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041105X.shtml

IRS Rigs the System in Favor of Super-Rich http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041105Y.shtml

US Workers Hit by 'Perfect Storm' of Economic Forces http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041105Z.shtml

Drug Dealers Killing Journalists in Mexico
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041005F.shtml

Battle-Weary Marine Unit Awaits 'Taste of Freedom' http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041005Y.shtml