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Truthout
Index March
17-31 2005
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t r u t h o u t | 03.31 Molly Ivins | Cheney Energy Policy ‘Monumentally’ Dumb Richard Louv | Replanting the Environmental Garden Eastern Europe to Ban Ozone-Depleting Pesticide by End of 2005 Mental Disorders Are on the Rise among Afghanistan, Iraq Veterans Attack on AIDS Antiretroviral Therapy Wrong, Misleading and Dangerous Iraqi Union Leader Opposes Occupation and Privatization China | The Workplace: Seeking Unskilled Workers AFL-CIO’s 50-Year Organizing Record under Meany, Kirkland and Sweeney Bush Tries to Reassure Seniors Saudi Princess Charged with Forcing Women to Be Domestic Servants “Tradition: The Obstacle to Women’s Rights” Hundreds of Germans Protest Honor Killings in Their Communities The TO Overview Kelpie Wilson | Going Geo-Green Draft May Be Needed in a Year, Military Analysts Warn The Expanding Evangelical Frontier Suicide Bombers Kill 8, Two US Soldiers Killed in Iraq Glenn Harlan Reynolds | Will the GOP Need Life Support? Poll: Most in US Oppose Nuclear Weapons Patrick Sabatier | Bankruptcy Volunteer Posse to Patrol Border Bill Bradley | A Party Inverted Francisco Zermeo | Cesar Chavez’s Lasting Legacy Daniel Ellsberg: Revelations from an Insider GOP Agenda vs. States’ Rights WMD Report Directly Contradicts Bush Claims Iraqi Children Fared Better under Saddam – Report t r u t h o u t | 03.30 Steve Weissman | If You Believe in Freedom, Step Aside Effort to Form Iraqi Government Collapsing US Commander Authorized Torture US Paved Way for Kyrgyzstan’s Uprising Annan Is Criticized, but UN Report Finds No Wrongdoing President Sinks in Polls, Supporters Grow Skittish John C. Danforth | GOP Now “Political Arm of Conservative Christians” An al-Arabiya Journalist Arrested in Iraq John Brown | Why World War IV Can’t Sell Johnnie Cochran Defended Victims, Not Just OJ WMD Found and Destroyed – in Arkansas Brother of Slain Journalist Seeks Answers Case Allegedly Shows US Practice of Secret Arrests Three Were Told to Leave Bush Town Meeting Powell Revelation: Cheney Shunned Iraq Diplomacy FAA Logs Corroborate Torture Transfer
t r u t h o u t | 03.29 Schwarzenegger Goes After Worker Holidays Nuclear Industry Moving Waste to Dry Sites Rare Bugs Arrest a Development Oil Town Residents Sue Over Leaky Pipeline Africa Shows Alarming Rise in Tuberculosis Sweden Learns to Laze About UAW Hears of a Climate of Fear at Nissan Conservatives Splitting on Social Security Personal Savings Likely to Offer Workers More Risk than Reward Forgetting Afghanistan – Again An Activism of One’s Own Maureen Dowd | The Vatican Code The TO Overview Ex-Diplomats Oppose Bolton Nomination to UN Human Rights: US Report Omits Major Abuser Polls: Iraq War Top Concern, US Major Menace Sunni Leader Backs Rebels Paul Krugman | What’s Going On? Jurors Consulted Bible, Court Bars Execution Two Issues Strain GOP Grip in Florida Hubert Védrine | Is George W. Bush Right? Reporters Kicked Out, Video Feed Cut at Iraqi Assembly Ray McGovern | Needed: An Honest Intelligence Estimate on Iran New York Times | Walking in the Opposition’s Shoes Robert Scheer | A Con Job by Pakistan’s Pal, George Bush Riggs Bank, Pinochet Drama Nears End Dr. James J. Zogby | Is the US Contributing to Democracy? Two Months after Election, Iraqi Parliament in Disarray Intelligence Report Ridicules Bush, Cheney Assertions
t r u t h o u t | 03.28 Uncle Sam’s Promises Broken under Bush Which Comes First: Growth or Clout? Michael Blanding | Coke: The New Nike Energy Special: Oil in Troubled Waters Where High Risk Is a ‘Way of Life’ Battle for Canada’s Underground Resources Eating Disorders Crossing the Color Line Roundup Doesn’t Poison Only Weeds Ease Your Conscience about Chocolate Female GIs Hard Hit by War Syndrome Trudy Rubin | Democracy May Set Back Arab Women In Villages Robbed of Women, There Is No One to Rebuild the Future The TO Overview John Cory | The Savage Carnival Congress Ready to Again Debate End-of-Life Issues Big Pharma Puts Up Millions to Fight Discount Drug Ballots Congress Balks at Cost of Rumsfeld’s “Future Combat Systems” In an Old Mosque, the Blunt Rhetoric of the New Iraq Creditors Make Illegal Demands on Active-Duty Soldiers Grandma Millie, Detectives: Unlikely Team Unmasks Enron Movement in the Pews Tries to Jolt Ohio Esther Duflo | Wolfowitz, the Bad Surprise Fernando Suarez del Solar | Two Years without My Aztec Warrior Johny Dwyer | The Wounded The Nation | Democrats: MIA Tom Engelhardt | Entries for a Devil’s Dictionary of the Bush Era Rebuilding Iraq: Corruption Out of Control? Bob Herbert | Is No One Accountable? Huge Quake Hits Indonesian Coast William Rivers Pitt | Shelter from the Storm Classified Report Contradicts Bush on Nuclear Safety t r u t h o u t | 03.27 Steve Weissman | Mr. Bush and His Easter Rebellion US Torture Center in Mosul Revealed Revolution That Came Too Soon Starts to Fall Apart in Chaotic Kyrgyzstan Despite Evidence, Military Tribunal Found Detainee Guilty Cleric Calls Million-Strong Demo for US Withdrawal Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz: ‘Ooops, Did We Say That about Iran?’ Republicans Pay Back Corporate Donors Army Admits Violating Geneva Convention Stirling Newberry | Collision Course FBI Aided Saudi Flight after 9/11
t r u t h o u t | 03.26 US Fuels Indo-Pakistani Arms Race despite Nuke Fears Washington Focuses on Southern ‘Axis of Evil’ US Bases in Iraq Set for Long Stay Report to Blast US Agencies on Weapons of Mass Destruction Administration Misled Public on Passenger Screening Antiwar Sailor Faces Special Court-Martial Mary Johnson | No; It’s Not about Terri Schiavo Anymore Lawmakers Seek Plan B for Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste From War Hero to Homeless Army Admits 24 Homicides, Refuses to Try 17 Accused
t r u t h o u t | 03.25 Georgetown University Protesters End Hunger Strike, Savor Win Teamsters | Justice at Diamond Walnut UC Service Worker Strike Appears Imminent Trophy Hunting Advocate Named Acting Director of US Fish and Wildlife Service The Green Dream: The Man Who Invented Ecotopia Federal Plans Aim to Control Use of the Desert James Howard Kunstler | When We Run Out of Cheap Gas to Guzzle New Vaccine Said to Offer Hope against Pneumonia Bacterium Reservists to Keep Military Health Insurance Toddler Lunch Money Trumped-Up to Trash Head Start Programs across US Thousands of Women Sold as Sex Slaves Senate Votes Down Emergency Contraception Bill Maureen A. Hartford | Are Women’s Colleges Still Relevant in Today’s Society? The TO Overview School Shooting vs. Schiavo: Why is Bush Silent on Red Lake? Jimmy Carter to Chair Election Reform Commission Norman Solomon | Little Reporting on Paranoia in High Places UK: Firestorm over Illegal War Grows Left-Right Coalition Rises to Fight Patriot Act Canada Denies Refugee Status to US Soldier Jacques Duplouich | Tony Blair Cannot Escape Iraq James Howard Kunstler | When We Run Out of Cheap Gas to Guzzle Revolution Topples Former Soviet Republic Venezuela Defends Right to Defend Itself against US Christian Parenti | Hugo Chavez and Petro Populism Iraqi Kurds and Shiites Still Can’t Form Government Cost-Cutting Medicare Law Is a Money Loser for States Deathbed Dollars: Conservatives Fundraise off Schiavo Rice Locks Horns with Sharon
t r u t h o u t | 03.24 Mood Shifting in Favor of Nuclear Power Agency Admits Panther Whistleblower Was Right Everglades Restoration Project in Disarray, Feds Say Vietnam: “The Biggest Chemical War” in History Report Emphasizes Shortfall in Medicare New Defense Department Workforce Rules ‘Threaten National Security’ HP Labor Suits Highlight Tech Industry Trend US Initial Jobless Claims Rose by 3,000 Last Week to 324,000 Social Security, Medicare Trustees Reports: No Significant Change Ann Marlowe | The Politics of Home Michele Weldon | Flare-Up over the Shortage of Female Op-Ed Writers Planned Parenthood Denounces Record Search The TO Overview Steve Weissman | Freedom’s Coming, All Aboard! Army Documents Shed Light on CIA ‘Ghosting’ of Prisoners Joe Conason | Shameless Right-Wingers Exploiting Terri Schiavo Once-Beautiful Baghdad Falling into Ruin Texas Oil Refinery Blast Kills At Least 14 House Bill Attacks ‘Leftist’ Professors, Allows Students to Sue over Beliefs Eric Leser | How Much Longer Can the American Economy Live on Credit? Canada Unveils Annual Seal Hunt, Blasts Activists Sovereignty over Spectators | Chippewa Grieve in Private Medicare May Raise US Seniors’ Premiums 12% in 2006 Insurgents Cling to Training Camp after Iraq-US Assault New EU Momentum on China Arms Sales Dowd & Rich | DeLay and His Demagogues Christopher Hayes | How to Turn Your Red State Blue Bush Credibility Gap Grows as Court Rejects Schiavo Case UK Was Warned Iraq Invasion Illegal
t r u t h o u t | 03.23 Mercury Study Stripped from Public Documents Beverley Thorpe | The Secret Life of Dust An Auto Industry Ad Leaves Critics Choking After Drug Scare, No Easy Answers for Depressed Kids Californians Support Plan to Provide Health Coverage for Every Child Marking World Water Day, UN to Launch Water for Life Decade Deuschle Named to Lead Labor Department DHL: Labor Woes Not Company’s Fault PACE Says DuPont Fails to Come Clean about C8 Health Risks Iraq: Focus on Threats against Progressive Women Women-Owned Businesses Gain Increased Access to Capital US Rule on Women’s Sports May Ease College Compliance The TO Overview Marjorie Cohn | Whose Right to Life? Cindy Sheehan | The Amazing Hypocrites Second Federal Court Rules No Feeding Tube for Schiavo Iraqi Commandos Seize Insurgent Base, Dozens Killed Michael T. Klare | The Energy Crunch to Come Pentagon Reaffirms Globocop Role Strange Bedfellows Unite to Fight Patriot Act Bush Warns Democrats about Opposing Accounts Very Deadly Year for Journalists Europe Prepares Its Case against Wolfowitz Study: Media Self-Censored Some Iraq Coverage Unocal Settles Human Rights Lawsuit The Return of the Left in Latin America Army Eases Age Limit for Guard, Reserve Expert Witness: Afghan Detainees Brutalized Judge Blocks Gitmo Torture Traffic
t r u t h o u t | 03.22 GU Students Starve to Help Janitors Damning Verdict on GM Crop Creating a Logjam in Honduras EPA Reverses Key Lead Abatement Rule: Children at Risk Battling Insects, Parasites and Politics Mercury in Fish Linked to Increased Heart Disease John J. Sweeney | A Bad Deal on Free Trade Jerry Tucker | US Labor in Crisis It’s ‘Private’ vs. ‘Personal’ in Social Security Debate One in Seven Women in Military Academies Report Sexual Assault Women on the Front Lines Djibouti Comes Out against All Excisions The TO Overview DOJ Blocked Criticism of Guantanamo Torture Ayatollah Sistani Pushes Iraqis to Form Government Juan Cole | The Schiavo Case and the Islamization of the Republican Party Arab Leaders to Show Solidarity with Syria at Summit Meeting Europeans Yielding to Bush on China Arms and Wolfowitz Lou Plummer | A Real American Value Cheney and Thomas Slam AARP on Social Security Jacques Julliard | Europe-USA: Continental Drift Ian Williams | Bolton vs. United Nations Mike Farrell | An Indecent Administration Rolls On New York Times | A Blow to the Rule of Law Larry Williams | “Conspiracy of Fools:” A Thriller about Enron Scott Klinger | Gap between Rich and Poor Growing Ohio’s Blackwell Ridicules Election Fraud “Conspiracy” William Rivers Pitt | Dictators, Tyrants and Fools School Massacre Stirs Echoes of Columbine
t r u t h o u t | 03.21 The TO Overview Iraq Invasion May Be Start of the Age of Oil Scarcity Degree of Sonar Harm to Marine Mammals Debated Bill McKibben | When Courage Was Called For, She Punted Getting Rid of Bad Grub New Openness in Deciding When and How to Die Wal-Mart Settles Illegal Labor Case Farm-Workers Boycott Defeats Taco Bell Social Security as Dramamine Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker | Let’s Be Honest about Social Security Two Women Lead Chile Presidential Polls Congresswoman Maloney Reintroduces Equal Rights Amendment Katha Pollitt | Invisible Women Marjorie Cohn | Getting Away with Murder Kissing Saddam’s Military Muscle Michael T. Klare | Mapping the Oil Motive Annan Will Recommend Sweeping Reforms for the UN Israeli Photographs Show Extensive New Illegal Settlements J. Sri Raman | From Fascist Massacre to Fake Martyrdom Ronald Brownstein | Social Security Fight Heads into 2006 Elections Serge Truffaut | News Held Hostage Elizabeth Sullivan | Wolfowitz Is Laughing All the Way to the World Bank Pakistani’s Black Market May Offer Secrets to Build Nuclear Weapons Dr. James J. Zogby | Congress’ Bad Behavior U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Nicaragua GOP Governors Cut State Workers’ Rights Fort Bragg | A Film by Chris Hume Conyers: Casting Aside the Separation of Powers
t r u t h o u t | 03.20 Scott Galindez | Media Downplay Historic Day of Protests “George Bush, Uncle Sam. Iraq Will Be Your Vietnam” U.S. Frees Iraqi Kidnappers So They Can Spy on Insurgents Angry E.U. Calls Wolfowitz to Brussels over World Bank Tom Engelhardt | Deconstructing Iraq: Year Three Begins AARP Wages Fiery Blitz vs. Social Security Plan Jeffrey Goldberg | Can the Democrats Make Themselves Look Tough? China Warns Rice on Taiwan Stirling Newberry | Greed is Good? Calvin Trillin | A Fallen Soldier’s Family
t r u t h o u t | 03.19 Two Years Later, Iraq War Drains Military Ray McGovern | The Intelligence Made Me Do It World Bank Workers Reject Wolfowitz Shoot First, Pay Later Culture Pervades Iraq ‘Preemptive Strikes’ Become Policy Senate’s Spending Plan Goes Billions Over Budget Wal-Mart to Pay U.S. $11 Million in Lawsuit on Illegal Workers Niall Ferguson | Sinking Globalization Social Security Moving to Make-or-Break for Bush Worldwide Protests against Occupation of Iraq t r u t h o u t | 03.18 Iraq Veterans Lead Anti-War Movement Bush’s ‘Shocking’ Choice of Wolfowitz for World Bank Provokes Outrage Paul Krugman | The Ugly American Bank Un-Volunteering: Troops Improvise to Find Way Out CIA Torture Might Have Broken Law, Says Goss Bush’s Social Security Tour Hits Orlando Frank Rich | Enron: Patron Saint of Bush’s Fake News Monique Canto-Sperber | No Alliance without Principles Soldiers’ Families to Hold Anti-War Rally at Ft. Bragg Senate Rejects Bush’s Medicaid Cuts Selling WMD to Iraq: One Prosecution, Many to Go Venezuelans Train to Repel US Invasion Dick Meyer | CEO Predators Tamed? Report Uncovers Massive Corruption in Iraq Norman Solomon | Why Iraq Withdrawal Makes Sense
t r u t h o u t | 03.17 The TO Overview Greg Palast | Secret US Plans for Iraq’s Oil Wolfowitz Nomination Shocks, Worries Europeans House Approves $81.4 Billion Iraq War Package Senate Democrats Erect Shield to Obstruct “Nuclear Option” 108 Dead Iraqi Prisoners and Counting Maureen Dowd | A Wink and a Fraud Rep. DeLay Takes Heat from Friend and Foe Alike Europe Upset with Bush over More than Bolton/Wolfowitz Appointments Administration Withheld Halliburton Overcharges from International Auditors Dilip Hiro | Playing the Democracy Card The 2006 Budget Takes Several Pages from the Grover Norquist Songbook David Swanson | Dem Senators Denounce Bush Grab for “Dictatorship” NOW | Are We Responsible for What the Government Does in Our Name? Congo Crisis Dwarfs Both Iraq and Darfur, Bush Turns Blind Eye Assurances on Torture of Transferred Suspects a “Farce” TO SPECIAL: Frist Responds to Reid Andrew Christie | The Death of Environmentalism? Mr. Kristof’s Kool-Aid Senate Votes to Open Arctic National Wildlife Reserve to Oil Drilling Documents for Nuclear Waste Project May Have Been Falsified Survey: Third of Americans Are Overworked Study: Obesity Will Lessen Life Span Mercury Pollution, Autism Link Found – US Study Ford Motor Co. Charged with Trying to Sidestep a Union Contract Northwest Airlines to Reduce Jobs and Fleet Company Going to Supreme Court to Avoid Paying Workers Overtime Pay Medicaid Subsidies Crucial to Working Mothers E&P Study: Percentage of Female Syndicated Pundits Barely up Since 1999 |
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