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Truthout Index June 16-30 2005 |
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t r u t h o u t 30/6/05 One in Six Countries Facing Food Shortage US EPA Awards Key Permit for Big Alaska Gold Mine Political Appointees Pollute Waters at Ocean Agency For GM Retirees, a Growing Sense of Unease Canada Is Drafting Regulations to Curb Bulk Drug Exports to US Health Groups Expect to Miss AIDS Target Mark Engler | CAFTA Deserves a Quiet Death BART Strike Deadline Set for Next Week National Guard Enlists Labor Ready to Help Recruitment Republicans Ride the Third Rail Pakistan Lifts Ban on Rape Victim’s Travel Recognizing the Female Peacemakers: The Nobel Cause Highest-Ranking Woman Fired from Pennsylvania Police Time Magazine to Turn Over Documents in Plame Case Negroponte to Head Domestic Intelligence Unit CA National Guard Spied on Peace Rally Robert Dreyfuss | An Iraqi Peace Process Mood of Anxiety Engulfs Afghans as Violence Rises The High Cost of a Rush to Security Bob Herbert | Dangerous Incompetence Torture and Accountability Jacques Juilliard | Democracy: Instigators of Populism Unocal Bid Shows China Needs Oil For Growth Secular Shiites in Iraq Seek Autonomy in Oil-Rich South Iraqi Security Forces Plagued By Infiltrators Normon Solomon | This Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Death Sidney Blumenthal | Empty Words Molly Ivins | Eminent Development NOW | Milton Glaser: Politics in Wartime William Rivers Pitt | The Supremacy of the Super-Citizen Lynn N. Hargis | When China Owns Our Utilities Blair Scoffs at Downing Memos
t r u t h o u t | 29/6/05 Bonnie Erbe | Rice Doesn’t Stand Up for Saudi Women After Fleeing Polygamist Community, an Opportunity for Influence Supreme Court to Tackle Abortion Protests California Farmers Clean Up Using Solar Power Micro-Power Hailed as Cheap, Safe Energy of Future Hungry for an Alternative Debate over Vaccines, Autism Continues Board: Teflon Cancer Risks Downplayed Teen Mental Health Declining in the United States Newsom Backs Sweatshop Labor Ban Unions Have Blunted Bids to Curb Political Spending The Daily News Journal | Bridgestone Labor Crisis Troubling for Workers Rick Wilson | Conservative Extremists Want to Undermine Social Security ush Criticized over Speech about Iraq War Juan Cole | Arguing with Bush Torture Fatigue US Blocked Release of CAFTA Reports China Economy Rising at Pace to Rival US FBI Whistle-Blower to Run for Congress G8 Gets Ultimatum on Climate Change Michel Veuille | It’s Too Late to Deplore the Evolution of the Species Opponents of Gaza Plan Halt Traffic with ‘Ninja’ Nails, Oil Tom Engelhardt | Immoral Relativism Robert Dreyfuss | The Vietnam Solution J. Sri Raman | Will Iran Change Put Out India-Pak ‘Peace Pipe?’ Gay Marriage Is Extended Nationwide in Canada John F. Sugg | Racial Healing in Mississippi Gary Kamiya | Fox News: War? What War? Ray McGovern | Stay the Crooked Course Chopper Carrying 17 Troops Presumed Shot Down US Suspected of Keeping Secret Prisoners on Warships
t r u t h o u t | 28/6/05 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Lee Louis | CAFTA: ‘Sweatshop Labor’ State of the Unions: The Chicago Convention Reduced Salmon Season Is Felt at Wharf and Table Endangered Species Act Under Fire from Two Directions The Washington Post | Lost Energy Europe May Force Airlines to Pay for CO2 Emissions Rush Toward New Weight-Loss Drugs Tramples Patients’ Health Patrick Sabatier | With a Single Voice Privatized Social Security – Take 2 Turkey’s Sex Trade Entraps Slavic Women Charm Tong | The War on Burma’s Women FL: Reproductive Rights Groups File Lawsuit against Parental Notification Law t r u t h o u t | 06.28 Bush Speech: ‘A Clear Path to Victory’ General Admits to Secret Air War Gary Younge | The Tipping Point Halliburton Hearing Unearths New Abuse Post Editorial | The Right to Offend Christian Groups Plan More Monuments Low Power FM Taking Back Airwaves in Vermont The USA: World’s Biggest Prison Justice Department Abuses Material Witness Law A Tenuous Grip on Sovereignty in Iraq Senate Passes Energy Bill Un-Exploded US Ordnance Shadows New Panama Bridge White House to Keep CIA in Charge of Covert Operations US Military to Expand Prisons in Iraq Pakistan Reopens Gang-Rape Case William Rivers Pitt: The Bush Speech Drinking Game Kerry: The Speech the President Should Give British Officials Predicted “Disaster” in Iraq
t r u t h o u t | 27/6/05 Health Care for Veterans $1 Billion Short Testing Changes Ordered after US Mad Cow Case Senator Aims to Kill Agency That Tracks Salmon Climate Change Blow to Human Cradle Nuclear Industry Stands to Get Help from Taxpayers Rich Rewards for the Region’s Corporate Elite Strike Affects Key South African Industries Bush Likely to Pay High Price for CAFTA Accord Ellen Goodman | Demonizing Granddad Despite Rule, US Women on Front Line in Iraq War Breast Cancer: Unthinkable Success Colombia: Women Face Prison for Abortion World Tribunal on Iraq Findings Rumsfeld: Iraq Insurgency Could Last Years Paul Krugman | The Chinese Challenge China’s Costly Quest for Energy Control Norman Solomon | An Axis of Demagogues Just Got More Dangerous Bush Says US Seeks to Eliminate Torture Worldwide In Battle to Pick Next Justice, Right Says, Avoid a Kennedy US, Rebels in Iraq Talking US Acknowledges Torture Supreme Court Rejects Appeal on Plame CIA Leak Report: Witnesses Were Held Illegally James J. Zogby | Senator Durbin Defends America’s Values Bob Herbert | The Army’s Hard Sell Michael T. Klare | The Impending Decline of Saudi Oil Output Iran’s President-Elect Calls for Moderation Zimbabwe’s Secret Famine Supreme Court Splits on Ten Commandments Bush Plans Plutonium Production for Secret Missions Is This What They Call Democracy?
t r u t h o u t | 26/06/05 In Italy, Anger at US Tactics Colors Spy Case Unocal Bid Pours Oil on China-US Political Fire Beleaguered Bush Struggles to Reverse Pessimism over Iraq Nicholas D. Kristof | A Glide Path to Ruin Frank Rich | The Armstrong Williams NewsHour Home Sale Causes Woes for Rep. Cunningham Coastal Nightmares Brewing Brendan Smith | The “Tribunal Movement” How ‘Britain’s Deep Throat’ Leaked the Memos
t r u t h o u t | 06.25 Thirty-Six Female Troops Have Died in Iraq Most Parents Wouldn’t Encourage Children to Enlist Jeremy Scahill | The Smoking Bullet in the Smoking Gun Hardline Mayor Wins Iran Election in Landslide US Court Backs Bush’s Changes on Clean Air Act America Turns on Bush over Iraq Joe Conason | Karl Rove Is a Liar One Year After “Sovereignty” Iraq Still in Crisis Arundhati Roy | The Most Cowardly War in History Kerry’s Letter on Downing Street Memos
t r u t h o u t | 06.24 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Andrew Greeley | Church Silent on Abuse of Women Aftermath: Effect of Sex Abuse Lingers, but Many Victims Recover In Greece, Challenges Remain for Women Senate Nears Completion of Energy Bill; Conflict Expected with House California’s Solar Derby Coal Rush? Power Project Signals Boom, Debate A Potentially Dangerous GMO Is Sold in Canada FDA Approves Controversial Heart Medication for Blacks 19 Named in Medicinal Pot Indictment Iraqi Oil Workers Lament Lack of Jobs Pelosi: Labor-HHS-Education Bill Falls Short Jewish Humanitarian Organization Opposes CAFTA Italian Judge Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Officers William O. Beeman | Ignorance on Iran May Lead to an Unwise Attack Iraq Not a Quagmire, Rumsfeld Insists Marines Hit by Suicide Bomber in Fallujah Prosecute 1946 Lynchings near Atlanta, Officials Ask Journalists, Not Activists China’s Image Better Than US Kirk Stapp | Advising My Students on Marching to War Jean-Marcel Bouguereau | The Pyromaniac Fireman Chinese Unocal Deal: More Than Money at Issue Republicans Voice Their Doubts about the War in Iraq Stocks Slide as Oil Prices Hit $60 a Barrel Ray McGovern | Fixing To Fix “Fixed” Dahr Jamail | Censorship John F. Sugg | Mississippi Justice: My Reactions US Stonewalls UN on Gitmo Torture John Cory | The Howling Rove Under Intense Fire for 9/11 Smear
t r u t h o u t | 06.23 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Health Professionals Involved in Gitmo Interrogations UK Example – Public and Private Health Care Rub Elbows Senate Moves Toward Final Vote on Energy Bill US Seeks to Change Overfishing Standards Small-Scale Competitors Beat Nuclear Power Pay Abuses Common for Day Laborers A UAW Chief Awaits a GM Showdown Taking Heat for Sweatshops House GOP Offers Plan for Social Security Mbeki Appoints Woman as Deputy Congress Considers Parental Notification for Contraceptives AMA Resolution Says Pharmacists Should Be Required to Fill Prescriptions Kelpie Wilson | Exponential Enrons Ahead US Spy Plane Pilot Dies in Asia Crash Car Bombs Kill Nearly 40 People in Baghdad Sidney Blumenthal | Blinded by the Light at the End of the Tunnel GOP Lobbyist Bilks Native-American Nation Democrats Fear GOP Push on Flag-Burning Democrats Call for Firing of Broadcast Chairman Bob Herbert | Jeb Bush: Cruel and Unusual Peasant Revolts Defy Chinese Authorities Senator Levin Urges Withdrawal Ultimatum John Sugg | Mississippi Sentence: 60 Years in Prison Reid Calls on Bush to Repudiate Rove’s Remarks Justices Back Seizure of Property for Development 5-4 Norman Solomon | Voluntary Amnesia in the Service of War Bush Spurned Secret 2002 N. Korea Overture Arlie Hochschild | The Chauffeur’s Dilemma Pentagon Creating Student Database NOW | Eminent Domain William Rivers Pitt | The Thing We Don’t Talk About Marjorie Cohn | Bush & Bolton: The Bully Twins Unocal, Maytag, IBM in China’s Crosshairs
t r u t h o u t | 06.22 Abuse Victims Suffer in Silence US Doctors Weigh In on Morning-After Pill Denials Specter of Ahmadinejad Victory Haunts Women Tax Breaks Pad Senate Energy Bill Nuclear Power Regains Viability in Some Quarters How Warming Is Changing the Wild Kingdom Schwind and Poole-Kavana | We Need GM Food Like a Hole in Our Kidneys USDA Must Use Best Mad Cow Test AMA to Study Effect of Marketing Drugs to Consumers For CAFTA, Party Pressure and Pork Why There Is So Little Support for ‘Change to Win Coalition’ Foreign Makers, Settled in South, Pace Car Industry Social Security Accounts Plan Gains Support among Republicans Steve Weissman | Kill the Messenger, Hide the News Iraq Offers Training Lab for Islamic Extremists, Says CIA Iraqi Rebels Refine Bomb Skills, Killing More GI’s Israel Resumes Targeted Killing of Militants Republican Rule Makes Lobbying Big Business Halliburton Wins New Army Contract FBI Targets Animal Rights Activists Limits of the American Strategy Democrats Sharpening Criticisms of Iraq War Iraq Rebuilding Fails to Deliver Outcry Grows over Public TV, Radio Mark Morford | Downing Street Is for Liars Anthony Lewis | Guantanamo’s Long Shadow Ubiquitous Technology, Bad Practices Drive Up Data Theft US Spent Billions of Iraq’s Funds Days Before Handover Afghan War Widening GOP Bolton Strategy Coming Unraveled
t r u t h o u t | 06.21 No Climate Change in Energy Bill Energy: Ignoring the Obvious Fix Commission Upholds Ban on Commercial Whaling Alaska Natives Push for More Toxin Studies Nevada Helps Consumers Buy Canadian Drugs FDA Tentatively OKs Generic AIDS Drugs Sweeney Reaches Out to Dissident Unions Members Must Have Right to Vote to Stay or Leave AFL-CIO LA County Labor Delegates Fail to Pick New Chief Wisconsin Bans Emergency Contraception on Campus One Woman Who Leads 21st Century Will Belong to Women John Sugg | Mississippi Justice: Klansman Found Guilty Bill Moyers | A Moral Transaction Bush Defends War, Secret Detentions For Bush, Stark Choices on Bolton Nomination US Strategy in Iraq: Is It Working? Israel Arrests 52 Palestinian Militants Robert Scheer | Even Bush’s GOP Allies Are Breaking Ranks 10 Commandments Judge Warns of ‘Judicial Tyranny’ Nicolas Barre | Europe in the Mirror of the United States Sibel Edmonds | FBI & 9/11 David Swanson | Remember When Bush’s Lies Weren’t “Old News”? Marine Units Lack Equipment Iraq Oil Sales Concern Security Council Oil Hits Record, Demand Attracts Funds Rigases Given Prison Terms Klansman Guilty of Manslaughter Government Spied, Lied to Congress John F. Sugg: Mississippi Drama: Jurors Split 6-6 on First Day of Deliberations
t r u t h o u t | 06.20 Rep. Maxine Waters delivered the following Speech to the crowd: Reid, Dems Repel Bolton Again Global Warming Gains Higher Profile in Senate New Grazing Rules Mean Less Down Time Whalers Call for Return to Commercial Hunting Experts Say Schizophrenia Drug Cures SARS Alzheimer’s Risk May Be Cut USDA’s Pro-CAFTA ‘News’ Draws Fire Central American Labor Pact Stirs Strong Emotions Abuse in Indonesia Cited GOP Links Pensions, Social Security William Grieder | Riding into the Sunset Deborah Scroggins | The Dutch-Muslim Culture War Caltech to Harvard: Redo the Math HIV/AIDS Pandemic Spreading in Women Chuck Hagel: ‘White House Disconnected from Reality’ Clinton Adds Voice to Criticism of Guantanamo John F. Sugg | Mississippi Drama: Widow Tells Jury, “It Hit Me … They Were Dead” Iraqis Found in Torture House Tell of Brutality of Insurgents Libraries Say Yes, Officials Do Quiz Them about Users Bob Herbert | Someone Else’s Child Engelhardt & Danner | The Media and Why the Memo Matters The Lost Boys of the Mormon Dissidence US Snatch Squads and Torture Flights Anger Allies 60 Killed as US Launches Major Offensives on Two Fronts in Iraq 50 House Democrats Form ‘Out of Iraq Caucus’ Norman Solomon | Picture-Perfect Killers John Sugg | Mississippi Emotion US Impatient with Pakistan’s Cooperation in Hunt for Bin Laden Promotions Considered for US Commanders of Abu Ghraib Bush Plans End-Run of Senate on Bolton Lawyer: FBI Counterterror Officials Ignorant of Basics Bolton Obstructed Critical Programs
t r u t h o u t | 06.19 Stirling Newberry | The Queen and the Soldier Soldier Sues over Guantanamo Beating Robert Fisk | We Are All Complicit Stars and Stripes Reports on Downing Street Memo Iran’s Election Results in Dispute Ken Sanders | High Crimes and Misdemeanors Schools and Military Recruiters Face Off Climate-gate: New Leaked Memos John F. Sugg | Mississippi Changes Memogate Finally Covered by AP
t r u t h o u t | 06.18 US Trained and Aided Uzbek Forces Tyco’s Ex-Chief and Top Aide Are Convicted of Grand Larceny House Votes to Bully UN with Ultimatum New York Times | Who We Are Paul Krugman | What’s the Matter With Ohio? Groups Unite Against Military Recruiters Downing Street Memo a Growing Problem for Bush John F. Sugg | Mississippi Contrast, Innis and Hatcher Conyers Slams Washington Post The Free Press | Did Bush Steal 2004 Election?
t r u t h o u t | 06.17 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Inuit to File Anti-US Climate Petition Senate Defeats Steep Oil Import Cuts Desertification, Dust Are Global Threats Waxman and Boxer Release Report on Human Pesticide Experiments Mark Winne | Battling Big Cola Labor Union, Hotel Del Reach Terms $1.3 Million More Lost in Bureau Investments Older Americans Want Jobs That Improve Quality of Life Exit Strategy on Social Security Is Sought Cars Reserved for Women Universally Approved in Tokyo Italy: Referendum Vote Upholds Fertility Law Women Take Environmental Health into Their Own Hands Americans Sour on Iraq, Block Bush Domestic Goals John F. Sugg | Mississippi Lawyer: What’s White Is Right Lawmakers Push Iraq Pullout Plan as Tempers Flare US Lied to Britain over Use of Napalm in Iraq War Joe Conason | A Press Coverup US Pressure Weakens G-8 Climate Plan Jonathan Schell | The Exception Is the Rule Election Day in Iran – A Republic at the Crossroads North Korean Leader Signals Willingness to Resume Talks Norman Solomon | The Killing Street Memo US Sergeant Charged in Killing of 2 Officers J. Sri Raman | Kashmiri Mission Proves Counterproductive Public Broadcasting Funds May Be Halved David Paul Kuhn | Just Say No How Haiti’s Future May Depend on a Starving Prisoner Halliburton to Build $30 Million Gitmo Prison Bush in Polling Freefall Calls for Impeachment at Downing St. Hearing
t r u t h o u t | 06.16 Go directly to our issues page: www.truthout.org/issues.shtml Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Deadly Immunity EPA Encouraging Pesticide Companies to Conduct Human Studies City Emerges as Model in China’s Effort to Reverse AIDS Record Senate Approves Ethanol Mandate for Gasoline as Part of Energy Bill Chairman of Shell: ‘The Boat Is Sinking’ Trawling Ban off West Coast Approved Five Top Unions Join Forces, Raising Threat of Labor Rift G8 Talks Poverty Reduction While Trade Policies Destroy Jobs Housing Starts Up, Jobless Claims Rise Title IX Opponent Confirmed to US Court of Appeals Argentina: Limits on Birth Control Threaten Human Rights Women to Cash In at NYC Marathon Marjorie Cohn | Bush Plays Politics with Guantanamo “Gulag” John F. Sugg | Mississippi Surprise: Yep, He’s a Klansman “Exit Strategy” Urged, Conyers Slams Early War Plan Iraqi Rebels Kill Five Marines, One Sailor Bob Herbert | Uncle Sam Really Wants You DoJ’s Number 3 Ordered Low Fine for Big Tobacco Sidney Blumenthal | Tom DeLay’s Broken Body Patrick Sabatier | The European Summit: Triple Freeze Federal Contractors Owe over $3 Billion in Taxes William O. Beeman | Iran’s Presidential Campaign – Harbinger of the Future Paul Loeb | More Damning Than Downing Street Molly Ivins | Destroying PBS Black Church Leaders Embarrass Bush over African Aid Shortfall Joseph L. Galloway | From Iraq, a Soldier/Father’s Perspective on the War Comedian for Senator? Don’t Laugh NOW | Activist Judges? Reid: Bush Runs “Roughshod over the Constitution” House Defies Bush on Patriot Act Senators Blast Administration over Gitmo |
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