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Truthout Index May 16-30 2005 |
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t r u t h o u t | 05.30 Cindy Sheehan: “Honor Our Children’s Sacrifices” San Francisco Chronicle | Honor Their Sacrifice A Mother’s War Barb Guy | They Also Serve Those Who Stand for Peace John Wheeler | Remember the Wounded Christine Ahn and Gwyn Kirk | Why War Is All the Rage Paul Krugman: Too Few, Yet Too Many t r u t h o u t | 05.29 Long Jailings Anger Iraqis John Conyers | 100,000 Signatures Needed Reports of Mishandling Koran Bring Protest Worldwide William Fisher | Why Rumsfeld Should Go US Is Set to Test Missile Defenses aboard Airlines Lebanese Seek to Map a Future Mired in Past Health Leaders Seek Consensus over Uninsured US and UK Bombing Raids Tried to Goad Saddam into War British Troops Face War Crimes Trial Fear of Civil War Spreads Across Iraq t r u t h o u t | 05.28 Inside America’s Most Powerful Megachurch Anti-War Sailor Lifts Foes of Iraq Policy Rice Interrupted by Enactment of Abu Ghraib Abuse Analysts Behind Iraq Intelligence Were Rewarded Joe Conason | Still to Blame Santorum Faulted for Donation Consideration Former Clinton Campaign Aide Acquitted Rothschild | Stripping Rumsfeld and Bush of Impunity Burning Crosses Signal Return of KKK US Blamed for Nuclear Conference Failure
t r u t h o u t | 05.27 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Florida Woman Charged over Daughter’s Abortion Martha Ackmann | House Respects Women by Refusing to Limit Women in Combat Women’s Weight Gain Brings Loss of Income, Job Prestige Energy Bill Would Strip States’ LNG Rights Government Shirked Its Duty to Wild Fish, a Judge Rules James Howard Kunstler | Long Day’s Journey into Night Spread of AIDS in India Outpaces Scant Treatment Effort New Meningitis Shot Ready for Children Four Sentenced in Trafficking Involving Migrants David Moberg | Three-Dimensional Economics Business, Labor Reach Accord on Workers’ Compensation Social Security in Spotlight at Conference on Aging Pentagon Confirms Koran Desecrated, Denies Flushing Thomas L. Friedman | Just Shut It Down US Amnesty Chief: Treat Rumsfeld Like Pinochet House Votes on Withdrawing Troops from Iraq Time Short for Deal with Israel, Abbas Tells Bush ‘20 Killed’ as Bomb Hits Pakistan Shrine For the Wounded, No Miracle Is Small Democrats Push Harder on Bolton 40,000 Iraqi Police to Form Shield in Baghdad DeLay Angered by ‘Law & Order’ Mention Campaign Wants Inquiry of Impeachable Offenses Robert Fisk | Protesters Beaten as Egypt Votes on Electoral Reform Saul Landau | China, Venezuela and the USA – Trouble Brewing Max J. Castro | Afghan Gambit Fails Republican Donor Embroiled in $10M Coin Scandal Judge Orders Govt. to Release Abuse Photos Iraq Violence Takes Distinct Sectarian Turn
t r u t h o u t | 05.26 The Truthout Town Meeting is in progress. Get perspective on today’s important issues from Truthout’s editorial team and prominent guest bloggers. Join the debate! forum.truthout.org/blog/ Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Bush’s Stem Cell Theology Bird Flu Virus ‘Close to Pandemic’ Medical Schools Found to Vary in Their Drug-Testing Standards Administration Opposition to Auto Fuel Economy Costing Billions House Calls for Temporary Storage of Nuclear Waste at Federal Sites Mexico Pressured to Stop Attacks on Ecologists Thousands Rally against Schwarzenegger’s Handling of ‘Reforms,’ Education Funding Strike Preparations at Northwest Liza Featherstone | Wal-Mart Tries to Grow a Pair John Tierney | What Women Want Rights Group Says Violations Persist in Mexico The Pill May Cause Permanent Loss of Sex Drive Senate Dems Push to Delay Vote on Bolton Bolton ‘Mishandled Secret Documents,’ Say Senators Amnesty Slams Gitmo as “Gulag of Our Time” Sidney Blumenthal | Bush the Despot Norman Solomon | The Silent Media Curse of Memorial Day Jonathan Schell | A Revolution in American Nuclear Policy Abbas Seeks ‘Clear’ US Pledge to Palestinian State Corporate Censors Show Who’s Boss US Diverts an Air France Flight by Mistake Bolivians Fight to Nationalize Oil and Gas Seal Officer’s Trial Exposes CIA’s Abuse Role Day After Nuclear Deal, Iran is Cleared to Start WTO Process Violence Erupts at Minuteman Protest Senators Contemplate Formal Apology to Native Americans Whaling Politics: Japan Lobbies to Ease Ban NOW | Low Wage Jobs Texas Court Rules against DeLay’s PAC Stark Challenge to Bush on Stem Cells New Reports: Koran Desecrated at Guantanamo
t r u t h o u t | 05.25 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Violence against Women Rampant in Asia Where Girls Marry Rapists for Honor Study: Exercise Helps Odds against Breast Cancer Senate Deal on Judges May Help Environment Capitulation to the Nuclear Lobby Is a Politics of Despair Joshua Zaffos | Buffalo Soldiers House Defies Bush on Stem Cells Maker of Heart Device Kept Flaw from Doctors Assembly Bill Targets Forced Labor Harry Kelber | Can a ‘Third Way’ Save the AFL-CIO? Sol Stetin, 95, Labor Leader Who Unionized J.P. Stevens, Dies AARP Pushes Legislator on Social Security Plan Ray McGovern | Bolton Threat to Intel Community Peace in Iraq ‘Will Take at Least Five Years to Impose’ Death Rate for Reservists in Iraq Rises Republicans Face Backlash after Senate Deal over Bush’s Judges House Defies Bush on Stem Cell Research New Patriot Act to Expand FBI’s Power, Democrats Wary Vermont’s Bernie Sanders Runs for Senate Juan Cole | Sometimes You Are Just Screwed Voinovich Letter Rips Bolton Canada Fights over Islamic Courts Senate Truce Faces Test of Bush’s Next Nominations Huge US Raid on Western Iraq Town Howard Zinn | Against Discouragement James Zogby | As AIPAC Meets William Rivers Pitt | Exploit the Rift Amnesty Says US Leads Global Assault on Human Rights McNamara: US Nuke Policies ‘Immoral and Dangerous’
t r u t h o u t | 05.24 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Immelt and Lash | The Courage to Develop Clean Energy Global Warming Versus Nuclear Power Fueling America: Canadian Oil Showdown Time Is Ripe for Urban Agriculture Robin Cook | Decoding Health Insurance The New Profile of the Long-Term Unemployed Insurance Option Has Workers Pay More The Workplace: For French, Cheap Labor Is a Specter Fight on Judges Obscures Social Security Saudi Campaigner to Fight On for Women Drivers Canada Gives $5 Million to Native Women Violence Study Banks Penalize Women in Business William Rivers Pitt | Take the Long Way Home Filibuster Compromise ‘Kicks the Can Down the Road’ Senate Panel Set to Debate Patriot Act US Plans Retreat to Four Giant Bases in Iraq Bush Rules Out Afghan Command over US Troops Evangelicals Protest Bush Visit Trial Begins in Washington over Election for Governor Eight US Soldiers Killed over Two Days in Iraq $100 Million in Iraqi Oil Money ‘Mishandled’ Ohio’s Election Theft Scandal Re-Fired Afghanistan: Violence Surges Bush, Congress Struggling for Approval New York Times | Weapons in Space Low Income Students Likely College Dropouts Marjorie Cohn | The Vietnam War is Over US Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally Over 600 Dead Since Bush Trumpeted New Iraq Govt.
t r u t h o u t | 05.23 David Bacon | Fast Track to the Past Inmate Labor Costs More Than Imports Taking On the Fast Food World Legislators Working to Reshape Endangered Species Act The Rape of the Rainforest… and the Man behind It DDT May Outlast Eagles Health Fears over Secret GM Food Study Emergency Avian Flu Measures in China Making Cells to Cure Blood Disease Young Slowly Entering Social Security Fray Study: Media Often Ignore Women as Sources Races Turn into Fight for Pakistani Women’s Rights Hospitals Ignore Rape Victim Law Marjorie Cohn | Close Guantanamo Prison GOP Pushes Tuesday Vote on Far Right Judge, Filibuster Leading Shiite Militant Seeks Peace with Sunnis David Axe | Down and Out with Iraqi Forces Bob Herbert | The Rumsfeld Stain Darwin’s Theory Evolves into Culture War Frank Rich | It’s All Newsweek’s Fault Analysts Consistently Doubted Justification for War Toe Tags Offer Clues to Uzbeks’ Uprising The New York Times | Patterns of Abuse Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Abortion Case Tom Engelhardt | The Return of the Body Count Norman Solomon | And Now, It’s Time for … “Media Jeopardy!” Top Rightwing Activist Tied to Lobbyist Scandal Paul Krugman | America Wants Security Chicken Farmer, Invalid among Gitmo Detainees Steve Weissman | Neo-Cons and Theo-Cons at Armageddon Pat Tillman’s Family Blasts ‘Disgusting’ Army Lies
t r u t h o u t | 05.22 Stirling Newberry | Neo-Victorian America? Secret Plan to Track US “Terror Mail” Joe Conason | Fortas Who? Senate Torn over Party Loyalties US Security Trumps Iraqi Reconstruction Inaction in New York Prison Abuse Stirs Anger Schwarzenegger’s “No Matter What” Election Seymour Hersh | The Unknown Unknowns of the Abu Ghraib Scandal Nat Hentoff | The CIA and Sudan Genocide Rush for Homeland Security Led to Abuse
t r u t h o u t | 05.21 US Chided on Disarmament Violations Stage Set for Filibuster Showdown Bush Vows to Veto Stem Cell Legislation GOP Continues Crusade against Public TV Guantanamo Comes to Define US to Muslims J. Sri Raman | India : A Year after the Fascist Rout Gideon Levy | The Dead Who Walk among Us Swedish Probe Finds CIA Renditions Illegal Karzai ‘Shocked’ over US Torture Report US Questioned over ‘Kidnappings’ in Europe
t r u t h o u t | 05.20 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Millions in Asia Endure Slave-Like Conditions America West, US Airways Merger May Hinge on Labor Cost Control Labor Union Rift Opening; GOP Sees Opportunity Jay Inslee | Apollo Creed Amazon Deforestation up 6 Percent in 2004 Groups Seek Tougher EPA Rules on Mercury from Power Plants US Consumers Increasingly Using Web Sites to Find Health Information Chile’s Mapuche Indians Reinvent Cosmetology White House Conducts Event Castings Advancing Women’s Rights in Malaysia Uzbekistan: Andijon Events Seen through Women’s Eyes Women Rising to the Challenge of Weightlessness Red Cross Told US of Koran Incidents Sidney Blumenthal | Wrong and Right Vicious Circle: Occupation and Resistance in Iraq Iraq Admits Fault for US-Backed War with Iran Britain’s Galloway Turns into Media Hero US Accused of Hypocrisy over Alleged Anti-Castro Terrorist Paul Krugman | The Chinese Connection Iraq: Washington Increases Pressure on Damascus Senate Nears Showdown on Judges Bill Zide | A New Political Lexicon White House Conducts Event Castings Dahr Jamail | Coming Home Fred Kaplan | Kaboom! How to Enrage Iraq’s Sunnis Aaron Sarver | Howard Zinn Gets to the Source Underwear-Clad Saddam Photo Stirs Anger Report Uncovers Savage Killing of Afghan Inmates Koreans Report Major Stem Cell Breakthrough
t r u t h o u t | 05.19 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Petroleum Engineering among Hot Jobs Minimum Wage Workers Trapped in Their Jobs Union Chief Says NWA Is Facing Bankruptcy Papuans Seek Forest Carbon Credit To Track Global Warming, Watch the Water Flow US Doubts New Kyoto Climate Deal after 2012 Taiwan Says China Tries to Suffocate the Island Binge Drinking Urge Suppressed by Taking the Herb Kudzu The Seattle Times | The Gates Challenge for Global Health Women in Combat: Lawmakers Draw New Line Egypt: Mixed Reaction to WEF Report on Women’s Status Nigeria: Still Pitching for Women Development Bush Wants Global Intervention Corps Report: Muslim World Largely Anti-American Sydney H. Schanberg | War Is Not a Pretty Picture Army Staged Mock Executions of Iraqi Detainees Rift over Recruiting at Public High Schools Bolton, on Hold, Still Feeling the Heat Monkey Trial or Kangaroo Court? Jean de Kervasdoue | Better Societies, Longer Lives Senator Harry Reid | Floor Statement on the ‘Nuclear Option’ George H. Beres | Where Are Whistleblowers with Courage? Uzbek Government Troops Reclaim Eastern Town Max J. Castro | Things Fall Apart: Bush’s Second Term Dahr Jamail | US Claims over Siege of Al-Qa’im Challenged Juan Cole | The Lies That Led to War William Rivers Pitt | Short Tales from Bizarro World Generals Give Bleak Assessment of Iraq New Patriot Act Dramatically Expands Secret Searches
t r u t h o u t | 05.18 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Study Reveals Racial Inequalities in Cancer Treatment Chemotherapy Combo Poses Grave Risks Senators Seek Bipartisan Energy Bill with No Showstoppers Arctic Oil Search Moves to New Turf, New Controversies New Four-Legged Species Aren’t Common, but Here’s One Now Malaysia: Migrant Workers Fall Prey to Abuse UC Research and Technical Workers to Strike on May 26th Korea: Labor Unions in Crisis Again over Corruption Scandal Mark Weisbrot | Social Security: Another Media Failure 2 Women at the Heart of Debate Vote for Women Expected to Stimulate Reforms in Kuwait Harvard to Boost Women Scientists Kelpie Wilson | Siskiyou Grandmothers Sustain Campaign for Trees Air Force Seeks Bush’s Approval for Space Weapons Programs Molly Ivins | Don’t Blame Newsweek Chalabi Back Pulling Strings in Iraq Robert A. Pape | Blowing Up an Assumption Uzbek Rebel Wants Islamic Government Feds Bust Anti-Castro Terror Suspect Patrick Sabatier | Severed Heads Villaraigosa Wins LA Mayor’s Race in Historic Victory The Mournful Math of Darfur: The Dead Don’t Add Up Child Abuse Death Risk High in Military Families James Carroll | Climate Change Greg Palast | Is There Another Hugo Chavez in Latin America? Eric Boehlert | Making PBS as “Fair and Balanced” as Fox NOW | Judicial Nominees GOP Power Grab Underway in Senate Scott Galindez | Villaraigosa’s Rainbow Coalition British MP Delivers Blistering War Critique
t r u t h o u t | 05.17 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Rights Groups Fight Turkish ‘Honor Killings’ of Women Kuwait Grants Political Rights to Its Women Susan Plum | Light and Solidarity Kathie Durbin | Unsalvageable Europe’s Rules Forcing US Firms to Clean Up Oil and Food: A Rising Security Challenge 10,000 Steps a Day Help Middle-Aged Women Breast Cancer Patients Benefit from Low-Fat Diets Mobile Phone Use in Rural Areas Carries Higher Cancer Risk Workers Protest Mandatory Overtime PA to Wal-Mart: Pay Up for Health Care Tim McFeeley | Living-Wage Politics Corporate America Pulling Back Pension Safety Net Reid, Frist Break Off Negotiations ACLU Sues to Stop Funds for Christian Sex-Ed Jesse Jackson | Rightwing Judges Threaten All Our Gains After Abu Ghraib, Newsweek’s Gaffe Too Easy to Believe Media Matters | An Open Letter to The New York Times Iraqi Cleric to US: Get Out Louis Klarevas | Dismissing the Lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney US Places Large Bet on Oil Pipeline Serge Truffaut | The Little Opening Robert Scheer | US Is Its Own Worst Enemy in Iraq Iraqi Leaders: Marine-Led Campaign Killed Friends and Foes Italian Aid Worker Kidnapped in Kabul Army ‘Kills 200' in Second Uzbek City as Thousands Head for Border Amazon Tribe Faces Annihilation in Brazil Stirling Newberry | End the Cold War Economy Explosive Iraq Memo Greeted with US Apathy US Backed Illegal Iraqi Oil Deals – Report
t r u t h o u t | 05.16 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml For Female GIs, Combat Is a Fact AIDS Now Compels Africa to Challenge Widows’ ‘Cleansing’ Women’s Minister Must Work Unpaid after Late Call-Up Old Foes Soften to New Reactors Phil Yost | California: Solar-Power Rebate Legislation Is a Bright Idea Pacific Lumber May Be on the Ropes Health Is a Priority, but for Whom? Maggots Clean Wounds Well Wages Begin to Outpace Inflation as US Labor Market Tightens UAE to Provide 1 Million Jobs to Nepalese Workers Immigration’s Not-So-Hidden Costs Hurt American Workers Social Security Not in Peril as President Bush Suggests, Expert Says Senator Reid | Republican Abuse of Power Deserters: AWOL Crisis Hits US Forces Mark Danner | Secret Way to War Paul Krugman | Staying What Course? Juan Cole | Guantanamo Controversies: The Bible and the Koran Marilyn Berlin Snell | Dangerous Liaisons The Children of El Salvador’s Rape Oil Nationalism David Bacon | Democracy, but More Death Toll Soars in Uzbekistan Star Wars Wins at Cannes: ‘Wake Up, America’ Kansas Challenges Evolution and Science Bill Moyers Blasts CPB Chairman Tomlinson Norman Solomon | News Media and “the Madness of Militarism” TO Editorial | No Compromise Rove’s Fingerprints on Radical Bush Nominee Defense Dept. Scrubs Report Criticizing Rumsfeld |
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