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Truthout
Index March
1-16 2005
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t r u t h o u t | 03.16 Kelpie Wilson | Interview: Nigeria’s Oil Killing Fields New EPA Mercury Rule Called Illegal Activists Held, Blocked from Logging Areas An Overnight Infirmary Is a Campus Luxury Kansas Abortion Clinics Fight Data Request Liza Featherstone | Race to the Bottom Suburb’s Secret Is Sweatshops New Work Rules Draw Harsh Response from Local Unions Senate Splits in Test Vote on Social Security Bush Concedes Accounts Won’t Fix Social Security State Government of India Gives Cash Incentives to Raise Daughters New Bill Seeks to Correct Decision to Omit EC from National Guidelines Professors, in Close Vote, Censure Harvard Leader
The TO Overview Reid, Frist Prepare to Go Nuclear in the Senate Juan Cole | Democracy – by George? Hi-Tech Hit-Them-from-Home Orbiters Set for New Wars 44 Days after Ballot, Still No Iraqi Government Amnesty International | The Killing of Rachel Corrie Congress Battles Over Budget AFL-CIO Plans Rallies on Social Security WorldCom Fraud Verdict Could Hurt Former Chief Execs Corruption Flourishes from Iraq to Tsunami Asia U.S. Military: At Least 26 Prisoners’ Deaths May Be Criminal Homicide Explosions Target First Iraq Assembly Meeting Bush Rejects Timetable for Iraq Pullout Israel Handover of West Bank Town of Jericho Begins 6 U.S. Banks Kept Secret Web of Pinochet Accounts New York Times | And Now, the Counterfeit News Alaska Wildlife Refuge Open for Drilling Pentagon Hawk Wolfowitz to Run World Bank Coalition of the Leaving: Italy to Quit Iraq
t r u t h o u t | 03.15 The TO Overview Flash Presentation: Vietnam Redux: Iraq War Vets on Anti-War Offensive Stirling Newberry | The Boom That Feels Like a Bust Kurds Push Shiite Majority on Kirkuk, Oil, Pesh Merga Chavez Casts Himself as the Anti-Bush Paul Krugman | The $600 Billion Man Bush TV to Show More ‘Illegal Propaganda’ Big Oil Running on Empty, Analysts Warn Chalmers Johnson | No Longer the “Lone” Superpower The Practice of Torture by the U.S. Was Widespread in Afghanistan Pentagon Auditors: Halliburton Overcharged $100 Million Robert Scheer | The Bankruptcy Bill: A Tutorial in Greed WorldCom’s Ebbers Found Guilty of Fraud, Conspiracy Army Ignored Slain Whistleblower on Questionable Arms Deal Gas Price at Second Highest Level Ever Three and a Half Years Later, Bush Outwitted by Public Enemy No. 1 DeLay Ethics Scandal Hits Critical Mass Gonzales Shields White House on News Forgeries Secretary Norton Tied to Republican Lobby Group under Investigation EPA Targets Utilities’ Mercury Pollution Commodity Prices Climb to 24-Year High on Global Demand Growth Brain’s Own Stem Cells Might Fight Alzheimer’s Samoa Becomes UN Labour Agency’s 178th Member Germans Stew over Joblessness The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality New Poll Affirms Bush Weakness on Social Security Paul Krugman | The $600 Billion Man Berkeley Tops in U.S. for Female PhDs in Science Eartha Melzer | Trafficking in Politics Anti-Abortion Extremist Eric Rudolph Could Face Death Penalty if Convicted
t r u t h o u t | 03.14 Kelpie Wilson | ANWR on the Brink – Again Scientists Prove Less Trees, Less Rain Natalie Canavor | Running on Empty Internal Dissension Grows as CDC Faces Big Threats to Public Health James V. Grimaldi | Baby’s First Helmet California Healthcare Recipes Could Whet National Appetite David Swanson | Nursing Against the Odds: The Workers’ View Blood and Coal: The Human Cost of Cheap Chinese Goods New Work Rule for Truckers Isn’t Improving Safety Ellen Goodman | Taxing Our Children Study Shows Older Workers More Open to Change The Washington Post | Women of Islam UN Commission Calls for More Action on Women’s Rights The TO Overview Congress Declares War on the Poor U.N. May Condemn U.S. for Human Rights Abuses Government Report Warns of Security Holes in U.S. Aviation Hundreds of Thousands in Lebanon Rally against Syria Karen J. Greenberg | The Courts and the War on Terror White House Acknowledges Iran Intel ‘Hard to Come By’ Serge Truffaut | Democracy According to Aladdin Kurds’ Return to City Shakes Politics in Iraq James J. Zogby | An Effort to Rebuild U.S.-Arab Relations Juan Cole | An Update on Fallujah…There is No Fallujah to Update On J. Sri Raman | “Peace Pipe” or Pipe Dream? Bolton’s Baggage: UN Basher as UN Ambassador Danusha Veronica Goska | Political Paralysis Governor Calls for Return of National Guard Troops from Iraq William Rivers Pitt | Exiting Iraq t r u t h o u t | 03.13 Scott Galindez | Why We Must Withdraw from Iraq DeLay Drowning in Scandal and Cash Looting at Weapons Plants Was Systematic, Iraqi Says Irritated Iraqis Wait for Change Energy Regulatory Commission: ‘Enron Committed Fraud’ New York Times | Mr. Bush’s Stealthy Tax Increase Poll: 7 in 10 Worried About Gov’t Secrecy Sexual Misconduct Alleged at Guantanamo Bay CIA Abductions Suspected in Europe “White House News Forgeries Widespread”
t r u t h o u t | 03.12 We Beat Prisoners to Death, Says U.S. Army Senator Robert Byrd | A Cry for Freedom in the U.S. Senate Europe and U.S. Agree on Carrot-and-Stick Approach to Iran Fraud and Chaos in U.S. Rebuilding of Iraq U.S. Played Big Role in Ukraine’s Orange Revolution BBC Apologizes to Israel for Uncensored Vanunu Interview Noam Chomsky | Elections Run by Same Guys Who Sell Toothpaste Amy Quinn | What Now for the Peace Movement? Georgia Democrats Walk Out to Protest Weakening of Voting Rights Annan Attacks Erosion of Rights in War on Terror Schwarzenegger Forged News Reports
t r u t h o u t | 03.11 The TO Overview Halliburtons Spoils of War Exposed by Whistleblower Kerry Vows Fight for ANWR against Bush Another Iraqi Horror as 47 Die The Los Angeles Times | Torture by Proxy Frank Rich | The Greatest Dirty Joke Ever Told Dean Blasts Bush as ‘Un-American’ on Town-Hall Meetings Evangelical Leaders Throw Weight to Combat Global Warming Health Experts Demand an Inquiry into Mortality in Iraq Children among Prisoners at Abu Ghraib UK Went to War on One Page of Legal Advice Pentagon Seeks to Send Guantanamo Prisoners to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Yemen Haiti: Former PM in Critical Condition from Hunger Strike Vietnam Fury with Agent Orange Case Obama Slams Bush for Linking Soc. Security to Blacks’ Life Span Negroponte’s Guards Shot Italian Agent FOCUS | U.S. Trade Deficit Hits $58.3 Billion as Chinese Imports Surge
t r u t h o u t | 03.10 The TO Overview Joseph Galloway | Remembering Arguments Made 1,500 Deaths Ago Egyptian Official Rejects Bush Views on Mideast Democracy Rather Ends Tenure on Bittersweet Note G.O.P. Senators Balk at Tax Cuts in Bush’s Budget Sidney Blumenthal | The Enemy Within Doris Matsui Will Replace Her Husband in House of Reps. A Bush Speech Judged Aggressive Inflames Oil Prices Berlusconi: U.S. Knew of Rescue Plan to Free Reporter Tom Engelhardt | Are We in World War IV? Former Marine Offers Cautionary War Story South Korean Agent Pays for DeLay Trip Israeli Government Guilty of Funding Illegal West Bank Outposts NOW | Losing American Jobs Secret FBI Report Questions al Qaeda Capabilities Celebrating Women as Custodians of the Environment Bush-Backed Emissions Bill Fails to Reach Senate Floor Senate Tries New Strategy to Win Alaska Drilling Malaria: The Forgotten Killer Tobacco Giant Downplayed Smoking Link to SIDS U.S. Blocks Drugs Sent from Canada Guatemalans Protest U.S. Free-Trade Vote Jobless Claims at Highest Level in 2 Months France’s Labor Strike May Effect Bid for 2012 Olympics Are They Advocating Default? First Woman Appointed Governor in Afghanistan More Than 30 Million Women Worldwide Are Entrepreneurs U.N. Affirms Women’s Equality as U.S. Retreats on Abortion Issue
t r u t h o u t | 03.09 The TO Overview Jesse Jackson Jr. | Securing the Right to Vote Steady Drop in Black Army Recruits U.S. Intelligence on Iran Lacking, Says Bush Panel Sharon Government Paid for Illegal Settlements Robert Fisk | 500,000 Lebanese Rally for Syria, against U.S. Senate Gearing Up for Fight over Oil Drilling in Alaska Paul Krugman | The Debt-Peonage Society Harry Kelber | Stern-Hoffa Group Loses First Round Jean-Marcel Bouguereau | A War without Pictures Bomb Hits Baghdad after Headless Bodies Found Pushed by World Court Ruling, Bush Orders Hearings for Mexicans on Death Row Chavez: Our Oil Reserve Does Not Belong to Mr. Bush Report: Nation’s Infrastructure Crumbling Why Pick a Military Town as the Site for an Antiwar Rally? Nicholas D. Kristof | Homegrown Osamas Kelpie Wilson | Interview: Suing the Climate Changers Marcelo Ballve | Paving the Amazon Mercury Study Identifies Problem Spots Minor Stroke a Major Warning Food and Cancer, the Best and the Worst Drug to Fight Cholesterol Is Promising in High Doses A New Kind of Crowd for Governor Labor Unions under the Microscope Victory for California Nurses against Schwarzenegger Injunction Robert Scheer | Social Security Ain’t Broke, so Bush Is Obsessed with Fixing It Report Shows Dire State of Family Planning Funding Women’s Peace Organization Sees Middle East Peace, Water Resources as Key Issues Judge Recommends Pharmacist Be Reprimanded for Withholding Birth Control
t r u t h o u t | 03.08 UN Marks International Women’s Day The Personal Is Still Political This International Women’s Day Dian Harrison | Women Worldwide Face Effects of Bush’s Gag Rule Burn-Area Logging Starts after Protests Knowledge Fades as African Languages Die Bush “Clear Skies” Bill Showdown Tomorrow Aspirin Is Found to Protect Women from Strokes, Not Heart Attacks Dr. Klaus Stohr | “A Ticking Time Bomb in Your Backyard” Colicky Baby? Read This before Calling an Exorcist Change Is in the Air at the AFL-CIO World’s Largest Meatpacker Busts Teamsters Reform Local Senate GOP Twice Votes Down Minimum Wage Group Opens $2 Million Drive for Bush Social Security Plan The Minneapolis Star Tribune | Social Security / Mis-Leadership from Bush
The TO Overview TO INVESTIGATION: Steve Weissman | Part IV: But What about al-Jazeera? Gonzales Defends Sending Suspects to Torturers “Bombthrower Bolton” Gets U.N. Post Terror Suspects Buying Firearms, U.S. Report Finds Italy Rejects U.S. Claims on Shooting William O. Beeman | George W. Bush – The 13th Shi’a Imam Senate GOP Twice Votes Down Minimum Wage $2 Million Drive to Back Bush Social Security Plan Pierre Marcelle | Capital of Blunder Mark Benjamin | The Invisible Wounded Bill Clinton to Undergo Second Heart Operation The New York Times | Torture by Proxy Dean: Democrats Raise $3.4 Million in Three Weeks Video Shows U.S. Soldiers in ‘Ramadi Madness’ Abuse
t r u t h o u t | 03.07 James Baker | U.S. Must Address Global Warming Ozone Layer Could Develop Hole over Britain, Scientists Warn Survival Still Not Assured for Rescued Dolphins A U.N. Report Takes a Hard Look at Fighting AIDS in Africa Schwarzenegger Wants School Junk Food Ban Ageism Said to Erode Care Given to Elders As Demands on Workers Grow, Groups Push for Paid Family and Sick Leave Trade Agreement Worries Sugar Beet Producers Work: Ever More Painful Bush Sets Up Social Security ‘War Room’ Report Documents Discrimination at Ivy League Universities Note to Iraq’s Women Anti-Abortion Dem. to Seek Pa. Nomination The TO Overview Bush Reportedly to Nominate Hard-Liner as U.N. Ambassador Ex-Hostage Has Suspicions as Italy Buries Slain Hero Insurgents Kill 31 across Iraq Dr. James J. Zogby | Lebanon, as Complex as Ever Many Missteps Tied to Delay in Armor for Troops in Iraq Discharged and Dishonored: Shortchanging Our Veterans Labor’s Divisions Widen as Membership Declines Bloggers under Attack at Work and in Politics “Foreign Forces Must Leave Iraq as Soon as Possible,” Declares the Head of the Shiite Alliance Public Would Significantly Alter Administration’s Budget New York Times | A Destabilizing Bit of Research ‘I Just Want to Survive and Go Home with All My Body Parts’ Greenspan under Fire for Support of Tax Cuts Robert Parry | Negroponte’s Dark Past William Rivers Pitt: The Prophecy of Oil
t r u t h o u t | 03.06 TO INVESTIGATION: Steve Weissman | Part III: Targeting the Media the American Way Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails Iraqi Ayatollah Pushes Shiites to Stay United Christopher Dickey | An Arabian Spring UN Calls for Full Probe of Massacre in Colombia Can Stagecraft Save Bush on Social Security? New York Times | The Senate on the Brink CIA Chief Porter Goss in Over His Head? Wounded Journalist: GIs Fired Without Warning
t r u t h o u t | 03.05 Ray McGovern | Who Now Will Read to the President in the Morning? Hostage Shot by U.S. Forces Reaches Angry Italy Afghanistan Now Nearly ‘a Narcotics State’ U.S. May Aid Iran Activists London Mayor Assails Israeli Leader Washington Post | Abuse in Secret Senators Protest Bush Cuts to Neighborhood Program Joe Conason | Bush’s Social Security Mess Maximum Pain is Aim of New U.S. Weapon John Cavanagh | Why Wolfowitz Would Be a Good World Bank President Frank Rich: What’s Missing from the News
t r u t h o u t | 03.04 Federal Plan
to Log Sierra Nevada Draws Legal Actions Robert Schroeder
| A Heated Issue California
Sues Bush over Giant Sequoia Logging Report Shows
Large Firms Relying on State Health Plan for Poor USDA Mulls
Listing Stores in Meat Recalls Vietnam War
Victims of Agent Orange Sue U.S. Chemical Companies Clothes Will
Cost Less, but Some Nations Pay Wal-Mart
Workers Sign Union Cards Security
Investigation at Major U.S. Nuclear Weapons Facility in Tenn. 42 Senators
Address Bush on Social Security David Corn
| Express Train to Disaster Deepa Kandaswamy
| Mothers of Invention Face Technical Taliban Women Fear
Losing Rights in New Iraq In Rebuilding
Sudan, Birth Often Brings Suffering and Death The TO Overview American
Jails in Iraq Overflowing with Prisoners Lloyd Axworthy
| Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice Bush Using ‘National
Security’ to End Court Challenges Saudi Arabia
Joins Calls for Syrian Exit from Lebanon ‘Gannongate’ Swinging
Open? New Move in Congress for Info OPEC: Oil
Could Reach $80 per Barrel in Two Years Florence
Aubenas: An Indispensable Witness U.N. Mission
Slams Haitian Police over Human Rights Abuses Head Whistleblower
Now Target of His Own Whistleblowers Paul Krugman
| Deficits and Deceit House Democrats
Push for Reversal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Vietnam War
Victims of Agent Orange Sue U.S. Chemical Companies U.S. Forces
Kill Italian Agent after Reporter Freed Brain Trauma
Is Most Common Injury to U.S. Troops in Iraq 42 Senators
Address Bush on Social Security
t r u t h o u t | 03.03 The TO Overview Marjorie
Cohn | U.S. Finally Outlaws Execution of Children Senator Robert
Byrd | Stopping a Strike at the Heart of the Senate New Poll
Finds Bush out of Step with Americans Sidney Blumenthal
| Recycled Rhetoric Iraqi Power-Sharing
Talks Falter New York
Times | Bush Looking the Other Way Senators
Portray Bankruptcy Bill as Unfair Frédéric
Faux | Victims of the “Beast” Jonathan
Schell | A Less Super Superpower U.S. Contractors
Tap Latin Americans for Iraq Al Kennedy
| Why Death is No Big Deal Dean says
Democrats ‘Not Going to Concede the South’ NOW | Civil
Liberties Conyers to
Force Election Reform on House Floor Military
Families Speak Out as Death Toll Reaches 1,500 U.S. Seeking
Looser Environmental Laws Renewable
Energy Gathers under One Roof, One Vision Tom Burke
| Nuclear Delusion Britain Announces
Flu Pandemic Plan Gene Therapy
Is Facing a Crucial Hearing Labor Leaders
Reject Rival Plan to Shift More Money to Organizing Tim Nesbitt
| Welcome to the Franchise Society Angelides
Recruits Labor Advocates for Pension Fight AARP Calls
for Social Security Plan Alternatives Republicans
Attack Democrats, AARP on Pensions The Death
of a Muslim Woman Over 300
Women with Injuries from Fistula Treated in Nigeria New Group
to Raise Women’s Issues in Parliament
t r u t h o u t | 03.02 Ray McGovern
| Attacking Iran: I Know It Sounds Crazy, But… Iraq War
Lands in the Midst of Vermont’s Town Hall Meetings Saddam Tribunal
Judge, Lawyer Killed Senate Renews
Fight over Bush Judicial Nominees Jeffrey Toobin
| Blowing Up the Senate Critics Winning
on Social Security, May Delay Vote Eric Boehlert
| Tearing Down the Press The Fight
against Illegal Immigration Divides America James Zogby
| Hopeful, but Not Optimistic White Supremacists
Eyed in Murder of Judge’s Family Bush Stresses
Support for ‘Faith-Based’ Agenda Haiti: A
Bleak and Dismal Country One Year Later Canada a
Haven Again NeoCon to
Run World Bank? Senate Showdown
Looms over Wildlife Refuge China Weighs
Stripping Environmental Costs from GDP NRDC: Oversight
of DOE Needed to Protect Public Health IQ Loss Linked
to Mercury Deemed Costly Digital Rx:
Take Two Aspirins and E-Mail Me in the Morning Kentucky
Legislates Student Nutrition Nurses: ACMH
Has Crossed the Line AFL-CIO Leaders,
Howard Dean Plan Political Strategy in Las Vegas Wal-Mart,
Unions Battle, Charges Fly Critics Winning
on Social Security, May Delay Vote Older Women
with Breast Cancer Missing Out on Chemo Jon Cohen
| Beyond Miscarriage Women’s
Rights Leaders Call on U.S. to Reaffirm Historic Platform
t r u t h o u t | 03.01 Rumsfeld
Sued over Prisoner Torture China Changes
the Global Game Paul Krugman
| Just Say No Charge Terror
Suspect or Free Him, Says Court Porn, Patriot
Act and Judges Are Gonzales Priorities Secret Society:
Council for National Policy Big Biz Battles
for Bush’s Bench Tom DeLay’s
PAC Goes to Trial Jean-Claude
Magendie | Terrorism and Human Rights Lebanon’s
Pro-Syria Government Quits after Protests Robert Scheer
| The Force Bush Won’t Use on Iran Shifter and
Jawahar | Latin America Defies Old Labels One Year
Later…Doubts Linger on Aristide’s Exit Karen Houppert
| Peace Activists in the War Room Supreme Court
Bars Death Penalty for Juvenile Killers William Rivers
Pitt | The Third Stage of American Empire Bush Plans
Further Cuts in Forest Protections China Legislature
Passes Renewable Energy Bill White House
Budget Slashes Clean Energy A Spotty
Record of Health Care at Juvenile Sites in New York Worldwide
Anti-Tobacco Treaty Takes Effect Labor Debates
Its Future Unions’ Issue
Is Unity Itself Union Miners
Arrested during Bankruptcy Law Protest Paul Krugman
| Just Say No Montana Governor
Isn’t Cowed by Bush Women’s
Situation Has Improved, but Serious Challenges Remain U.N. Meeting
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