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Truthout
Index April 1-15 2005
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t r u t h o u t | 04.15 200 Groups Lobbying to Protect Family Leave Act Overwhelming Support for UC Service Workers Strike Bush’s Immigration Plan Divides Republicans, Deadlocks Congress Major Port Proposed for Baja Region Robert L. Fischman | No Refuge Is an Island Mapping Reveals Earth’s Best Sites for Wind, Solar Power UN Health Agency Confronts Angolan Families’ Refusal to Isolate Marburg Patients House Passes Far-Reaching Mental Health Bill Scott Klinger | Your Risk, Their Gain Nayla Moawad | Women in Lebanon Bill Would Help Women Get Birth Control Iran’s Parliament Votes to Liberalize Abortion Laws Steve Weissman | The Religious Right: Hang Ten and Fight! House GOP Backs “Ethics Standards of Tom DeLay” Bolton Faces Allegations That He Tried to Fire Analysts Ray McGovern | Bolton Hearings: Paying the Price for Getting It Right Iraq’s Northern Capital Stalked by Suicide Bombers Mexico: Tension Builds over Fox’s Attack on Foe Paul Krugman | The Medical Money Pit Iraq Finds Its Bearings Scott Klinger | Your Risk, Their Gain New York Times | Long Live the Estate Tax Carter: Rich States ‘Don’t Give a Damn’ About Poor Berlusconi Coalition Starts to Unravel Israel Clears Officer of Killing Journalist Who Had White Flag Lisa Lambert | GodAssault: Morality as the Ultimate Game White House Blocking Propaganda Probe Special Interests “Giddy” over Bankruptcy Victory ‘Nuclear’ Showdown All but Certain in Senate
t r u t h o u t | 04.14 Nike Publishes Details of Abuse at Factories UC Threatens Service Workers, Says Planned Strike Is Illegal Union Merger Makes Steelworkers the Largest David Suzuki | The Beauty of Wind Farms Nuclear Power Is the Problem, Not a Solution The House Energy and Commerce Committee Votes against Safety Diseases Are Everywhere – Or Are They? Study Cautions Runners to Limit Intake of Water Breast Cancer Breakthrough Excites Scientists Afghanistan: Domestic Violence Intolerable, Say Battered Women and Girls FDA Panel Backs Lifting Breast Implant Ban Will Cancer Vaccine Get to All Women? Under Fire, DeLay Attacks Federal Courts Senator Asks UN Nominee to Explain His Security Requests Protests Rock Mexico as Lead Candidate Faces Jail Eric Boehlert | Indecency Wars House Passes Permanent Estate Tax Repeal Darfur Eclipsed by Peace in Southern Sudan Pentagon’s War Spending ‘Hard to Track’ Afghanistan’s Karzai Hints at Permanent US Military Basing Richard Cohen | Disaster, Not Diplomacy New York Times | Congress’s Deepening Shadow World Richard A. Serrano | Gitmo ‘Lifetime,’ Interrupted 10,000 Fugitives Nabbed, Officials Admit PR Stunt Carnage in Iraq as Car Bombs Kill and Injure Dozens Gitmo Detainee Sues US for Video of His Torture
t r u t h o u t | 04.13 BREAKING | Democrats Block Vote on Bolton David Bacon | Central America Up in Arms over CAFTA Union Files Wal-Mart Complaint Government Backs Off Cutting Aid to Farmers Derrick Z. Jackson | US Takes the Lead in Trashing Planet Elizabeth Kolbert | Wasted Energy UN Presses India to Save Tigers Health Care Goes South: Look to North Brand-Name Drug Prices Reach Largest Increase in Five Years James K. Hammitt | Is the EPA Lowballing the Mercury Risk? Breakthrough for Saudi Women Groups Protest Possible Changes in Medical Leave Act The San Francisco Chronicle | Risking Women’s Health Report: California “Energy Crisis” II Religious Right Escalates War on Judges CIA Agent Seeks to Subpoena Gonzales, Tenet Iraqis Increase Calls for US to Leave Israelis Expand West Bank Settlement Liberals Look to ‘Take Back Constitution’ Indiana Senate Passes Strict ID Law to Limit Vote David Kaczynski | New York Rejects Death Penalty John Bolton Heckled during His Senate Hearing Jamison Foser | Five Ways to Combat Conservative Media Congressman Ron Paul | Who’s Better Off? Spencer Ackerman | Negroponte’s Sealed Lips In Jeans or Veils, Iraqi Women Are Split on New Political Power US, UK Nuclear Policies Send ‘Most Dangerous Message’ Pentagon Budget Sacrifices Human Needs Lott: “Power of Prayer” Will Sustain Tom Delay Iraq Violence Flares, Overshadows US Visit US Firm May Have Unleashed Deadly Flu Strain
t r u t h o u t | 04.12 Darfur: Women Raped after Seeking Refuge The Cape Transforms Human Ova into an Export Product Women Testify before FDA Panel on Breast Implants Arni Finnsson | The Iceman InterActivateth Why Our Food Is So Dependent on Oil States Seek EPA Action on Greenhouse Gases Emergency Physicians: Whole-Person Doctors Poor Performance Records Are Easily Outdistanced Falling Fortunes of the Wage Earner AFL-CIO Unveils ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Case Studies of CEO Pay and Rigged Deals Showdown Looms over US Labor NAACP Criticizes Bush on Social Security Marjorie Cohn | Senators Challenge Bolton on Contempt for UN US Has No Exit Strategy to Pull Out of Iraq, Rumsfeld Says Mark Benjamin | How Many Have Gone to War? Ehud Barak | Trust Is Built on Realities India, China Bid to ‘Reshape World Order’ GOP Leaders Whisper: ‘Only a Matter of Time’ for DeLay Max Blumenthal | In Contempt of Courts Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention Unrest In Spite of Growth, American Industry Continues to Decline US Trade Deficit Widened to Record $61 Billion in February US Appears to Have Fought War for Oil and Lost It E. J. Dionne Jr. | The Paris Hilton Tax Cut Poland Confirms Iraq Withdrawal Robert B. Reich | Inflation: The Fed’s Preemptive War Bush Nominee Bolton Accused of Being “Serial Abuser” Halliburton’s No-Bid Bilking Twice Previous Estimate Negroponte Used CIA Back Channels to Defy Congress
t r u t h o u t | 04.11 Desperate Measures for Millions of Uninsured Health Workers Race to Block Deadly Virus in Angolan Town The New York Times | Congress’s Default on Stem Cells Acting EPA Chief Withdraws Controversial Pesticide Project Federal Solar Energy Bill Rewards State Leadership David Lazarus | ChevronTexaco’s CEO Banking on Peak Oil Situation Wages Lagging behind Prices United Airlines Faces Possible Strikes Berlin Wants to Wage War on Wage Dumping Linda Greenhouse | The Evolution of a Justice NIH Women Describe Sex Harassment Breast Cancer, Hormone Type May Be Linked Bolton Nomination Under Attack by Democrats Israeli Cops Thwart Holy Site Protest Michael T. Klare | Oil, Geopolitics, and the Coming War with Iran Venezuela: US-Backed Coup Made Chavez Stronger Michelle Goldberg | In Theocracy They Trust Two GOP Leaders Turn on DeLay Paul Krugman | Ailing Health Care Jean-Pierre Rousselin | Mounting Dangers US Nuclear Warhead Plan under Fire James J. Zogby | The Pope and the World : Then and Now Kerry: Trickery Kept Voters From Polls In the Partisan Power Struggle, a New Underdog Tries Old Tricks Clinton To Serve 2 Years as UN Envoy Anthony R. Pico | Putting Indian Realities in Context for the Media Bush’s Poll Numbers Worst on Record IRS Rigs the System in Favor of Super-Rich US Workers Hit by ‘Perfect Storm’ of Economic Forces
t r u t h o u t | 04.10 Bolton Faces Opposition from Government Officials Israel Seals Off Shrine, Foils Jewish Protest March 15 Iraqi Guardsmen Ambushed, Killed Community Outraged at Arrest of 16-Year-Old Girl as Terror Suspect Rumsfeld Sends Cambone to Oversee Negroponte Drug Dealers Killing Journalists in Mexico FOCUS: DeLay May Be Headed for Hotter Water Battle-Weary Marine Unit Awaits ‘Taste of Freedom’ Most Homeland Security Funding Goes Unspent t r u t h o u t | 04.09 US Troops Shoot, Detain CBS Cameraman Baghdad Protestors Demand US Out GITMO Detainees Speak Out in Court Papers Army of God Bombed Gays, Abortion Clinics, Olympics Wal-Mart’s Top US Exec: ‘I Funded Union-Busting’ DeLay Steps Up His Attack on Federal Judiciary For-Profit Schools Vie for Federal Funds Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire under Threat Scientists Fudged Nuke Waste Data, Won’t Testify Testing Pesticides on Babies, EPA Forced to Stop
t r u t h o u t | 04.08 Marjorie Cohn | Stories of a Charmed Life Senate Passes Boxer-Snowe Provision to Overturn the Global Gag Rule India: Corporates Must Help Check Trafficking of Women Confirmation of EPA, FDA Heads Stalled US Oil Drillers’ Strategy: Today ANWR, Tomorrow the Coastlines? Power Company Chief Wants Warming Tax Cancer ‘Vaccine’ Is Set Back as Treatment Fails in Trial States Told Not to Steer Beneficiaries to Drug Plans Chinese Currency Law Could Save US Jobs Police, Firefighter Unions Trump Schwarzenegger New Report: CAFTA Weakens Workers’ Rights GOP Leaders May Abandon Bush’s Social Security Plan Guardsman: Armor for Vehicles Still Inadequate Cindy Sheehan | Casey’s Story Lou Dubose | Broken Hammer? Bob Herbert | Black, Dead and Invisible Students’ Clout Helping Workers and Unions Public Disapproves of Congress and Bush Border Vigilantes May Have Played Prank A New Eldorado or Nightmare for South African Mercenaries GOP Leaders May Abandon Bush’s Social Security Plan Shiite Mahdi Army Reopens Second Iraqi Resistance Front White House Wants Detainee Ruling Reversed New York Times | The Worst of the Bad Nominees Mark Danner | Iraq: The Real Election Mexico’s Presidential Frontrunner Could Be Jailed Unchecked Lobbyists Thrive in the Shadows Waxman Probes Legality of Bush Social Security Trips John Nichols | The Anti-War Pope
t r u t h o u t | 04.07 Iraq’s Oilworkers Organize to Protect Their Oil A Side Order of Human Rights Sweeney Hits Bush on Social Security Remarks California Justices Debate on Coastal Panel Amanda Griscom Little | Friedman Fighter The Ugly Side of Pretty World Health Day Report Focuses on ‘Invisible Crisis’ in Maternal, Infant Mortality Anorexia Linked to Brain Defect, Rather Than Social Pressures Hill Takes a Back Seat on Social Security Democrats Block Nomination over Morning-After Pill Colorado Governor Vetoes Rape Bill Sweden: Traditional Parties’ Feminist Nightmare Bolton Nomination Faces Many Hurdles Shiite Jafari Is Named Iraqi Prime Minister Norman Solomon | Beyond the Narrow Limits of News Coverage Jonathan Schell | Faking Civil Society In Tsunami Area, Relief Is Very Slow in Coming Democrats Block Nomination over Morning-After Pill GOP Is Fracturing over Power of Judiciary Cocaine Policy: American Impasse Memo Politicizing Schiavo Came From GOP Senate Office Iraq: Ethnic Tensions in Kirkuk Raising Fears of Civil War Max J. Castro | The Bush Syndrome: Dead Wrong and Proud of It Sidney Blumenthal | Politics in Red Robes NOW | Economic Insecurity Santorum: Frist Will Go Nuclear Homeland Insecurity: Nuclear Plants Open to Attack CIA Leak Case Hits Dead End
t r u t h o u t | 04.06 Jonathan Tasini | Wal-Mart’s Culture of Crime and Greed Student Worker Alliance Statement on Sit-In Dick Meister | Extortion in California? Sen. Boxer Threatens to Block Johnson Confirmation Importance of False Data Is in Dispute Canadian Automakers Volunteer to Dramatically Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions Philippe Pons | Minamata, Mercury Bay Maryland Drive against Wal-Mart Advances Asbestos Claims Decline, but Questions Rise Sen. Baucus Says Social Security Accounts Idea Is ‘Dead’ Sex-Trafficking Pleas Detail Abuse of Mexican Women Bonnie Erbe | Moral Judgments on Birth Control Endangering Women’s Lives Paul Rogat Loeb | Abortion and Schiavo – The Stories We Tell Steve Weissman | America’s Religious Right – Saints or Subversives? Iraqis Name Kurd President, Sunnis Uncertain White House Limits Congress Overseeing CIA Detentions Key GOP Senator Expresses Patriot Act Doubts Bolton’s UN Nomination Could Be Blocked Political Groups Paid DeLay’s Wife and Daughter Dr. James J. Zogby | Hypocrisy and Human Rights American Activism around the Black Sea Nine Killed in US Afghan Helicopter Crash New York Times | The Judges Made Them Do It MoveOn Comes Up Big for Byrd Connecticut Prepares to Sue US Over Bush Education Law Michael Kinsley | Democrats Show They’re Better at Hitting GOP Economic Goals George Monbiot | I’m with Wolfowitz US May Be Holding Iraqi Women Hostage 9/11 Aftershocks Hit Canada, Mexico Travel Rules
t r u t h o u t | 04.05 Students Begin Sit-In at Washington University Richard Lamm | The High Cost of Cheap Labor UC Service Workers Threaten to Strike Green Activists to Challenge ExxonMobil on Kyoto Stance Colorado Landowners Lose Crucial Battle to Oil and Gas Industry Oil Cost Stokes Push for Policy Should We All Be Stocking Tamiflu? Zinc Hones Teens’ Thinking Skills Richard Silverman | Keep Social Security NH Senate Approves Emergency Contraception Bill, Rejects Age Limit A Woman’s Place Is in the Struggle: Women’s Rights Eroding in Latin America Rita Henley Jensen | Taking the Gender Apartheid Tour in Saudi Arabia Gonzales Pushes to Renew Patriot Act, Critics Balk Rebels Again Hit Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib Probe Suggests CIA Role in Iraqi Deaths Antiwar Protesters Keep CIA at Bay Senate Wary of Changing Filibuster Rules Illegal Immigrants Bolster Social Security with Billions Paul Krugman | An Academic Question Tariq Ramadan | For a Moratorium on Sharia Robert Scheer | Bush Threw Us a ‘Curveball’ Tom Engelhardt | Afghanistan: Drugs, Bases, and Jails Sister Helen Prejean | Above All Else, Life J. Sri Raman | Mahatma’s Forgotten March UN Warns of Chaotic Upheavals in Arab World Sharon Permits 3,500 New Homes on West Bank FBI Wants Greater Search Powers Military Recruiters Targeting Minority Teens Republican Senator Fans Flames of Courthouse Violence
t r u t h o u t | 04.04 Ad Campaign to Rip Bush Social Security Scheme US in Race to Unlock New Energy Source Bill McKibben | Small Change Wintry Canada to Use Solar Power to Heat Homes Daniel Costello | At What Cost? Doctors Lobbying to Halt Cuts to Medicare Payments Textile Industry Seeking Job Protection Progressive Coalition Sweeps LA Teachers’ Union Election Bidding Salaries Down on the Net Bankruptcy Reform Hits Women Hard Women to Testify in Sex Trafficking Trial Woman Challenges North Carolina Anti-Cohabitation Law Marjorie Cohn | Bolton Nominated to Destroy UN Iraq’s Ayatollahs Consider Protests over Deadlock Britain to Pull 5,500 Troops Out of Iraq Overcommitted, Bush May Soon Look to Military Draft Gen Ricardo Sanchez Orders Torture in Iraq: His Memo Democrats Hit Road in Social Security War New Pope Could Influence Political Life in America Carlyle Drains Billions from Disappointed Stock Market Investors US-EU Conflict over China Arms Sharon Vows to Pursue Settlement Expansion Bush’s Agenda Faces Opposition from Election-Wary Republicans Kyrgyzstan: Democratic Uprising or Coup? Michael Blanding | The Culture of Life Top Ten Bush’s NRA Friends Let Terrorists Buy AK-47s Oil Prices Race to All-Time Peak Your Social Security Number on Sale for $35
t r u t h o u t | 04.03 Stirling Newberry | American Thermidor From Karol Wojtyla to Pope John Paul II Nick Turse | If You Build It, They Will Kill A Fierce Debate on Atom Bombs from Cold War Cisneros Probe Has Cost $21 Million for $10,000 Fine Bush Plan to Curb Medical Malpractice Suits Stalls Ward Reilly | All We Want Is the TRUTH Did Bolton Try to Intimidate Spies? Panel: US Ignored Work of UN Arms Inspectors Rebels Hit Abu Ghraib, 44 American Casualties t r u t h o u t | 04.02 Army Defies Supreme Court, Illegally Holds US Citizen Curveball Stirs New CIA Fight Clerics Urge Iraqis to Join Security Force DeLay Launches New Attack on Judges Profits Rise as Jobs Fall Chalmers Johnson | Wake Up! As Pope Fades, Oscar Romero Still Stirs Hope Pope John Paul II is Dead Government Wiretaps, Secret Searches Up 75 Percent Yucca Mountain Data Falsified Bolton Faces Stiff Fight Over UN Nomination
t r u t h o u t | 04.01 Environment, Earth on the Brink Judge Rebuffs Rock Creek Mine Approval Shell to Reroute Pipelines over Gray Whale Fears Massachusetts Lawmakers Approve Stem Cell Research Medicare Monthly Premium Rising to $89.20 in 2006 Attacks Threaten UN Ability to Feed Millions in Darfur Justices Give Older Workers More Leeway in Alleging Bias Elana Berkowitz | Eyes on the Fries AFL-CIO Urges Banks Not to Support Bush’s Social Security Plan Indian Policewomen Practice Policing and Politicking Women’s Advocate Eyes Afghan Seat Palestinian Women Bear Brunt of Occupation William Rivers Pitt is on assignment. Afghanistan: ‘One Huge US Jail’ The Rush to War – What Did Bush Know GOP Wants Photo ID for All Voters Pope’s Condition Remains ‘Very Grave’ Wolfowitz Confirmed as World Bank President Rageh Omaar | What Bush Needs to Know about Iran Norman Solomon | A Quarterly Report from Bush-Cheney Media Enterprises Jean-Marcel Bouguereau | Question of Survival Scott Ritter: Neocons as Parasites At Least 12 Iraqis, GI Killed in Attacks UN Votes to Send Any Sudan War Crime Suspects to World Court Military Panel Convicts Soldier for Shooting Wounded Iraqi Venezuela and Chavez Target of Bush Propaganda Campaign Fred Korematsu, 86, Dies; Lost Key Suit on Internment Herbert, NYT: We Can’t Remain Silent The Pentagon’s Secret Stash of Torture Photos |
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