News Links

War in Iraq (tm)

1/31/05 - BLOB – Khalid Jarrar, a resident of Baghdad http://secretsinbaghdad.blogspot.com/

1/31/05 - BLOG - Dahr Jamail, unembedded reporter in Iraq http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/

2/27/05 - A Dubious Doc By Earth Melzer, In These Times http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20760/

2/27/05 - ‘The Salvador Option’ The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq By Michael Hirsh and John Barry Newsweek http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek/

2/27/05 - Post-Election Buzzkill: Why Iraq Is Still A Debacle By Arianna Huffington Ariannaonline http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/column.php?id=757

2/27/05 - Living Under the Bombs By Dahr Jamail Tomdispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=2166

2/27/05 - Getting Out Of Iraq By Erik Leaver, Foreign Policy in Focus http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20754/

1/31/05 - Reframing the Iraq Election By Frank Brodhead, ZNet http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=7079

1/31/05 - Block the Vote By David Enders, Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2005/01/baghdad_journal3.html

1/31/05 - Iraqi Elections: The Facade By David Enders, Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2005/01/baghdad_journal2.html

1/31/05 - The Iraq Election Primer By David Enders, Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2005/01/01_402.html

1/31/05 - The Iraqi Election "Bait and Switch": Faulty Poll Will Not Bring Peace or US Withdrawal Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing Report #17 By Carl Conetta 25 January 2005, Project on Defense Alternatives http://www.comw.org/pda/0501br17.html

1/31/05 - Tight Iraq election security includes weapons ban http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/22/iraq.main/index.html

1/31/05 - Of Oil And Elections By Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21100

1/31/05 - MORE MONEY FOR IRAQ? NOT WITHOUT CONDITIONS By Arianna Huffington Ariannaonline http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/column.php?id=755

1/31/05 - Official: U.S. calls off search for Iraqi WMDs http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/12/wmd.search/index.html

1/31/05 - Prisoner Abuse: What About the Other Secret U.S. Prisons? By Reed Brody Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0504-06.htm

1/31/05 - U.S. Army Sergeant Charged with Desertion By Robert S. Finnegan, Southeast Asia News, posted on InterActivist Info Exchange http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/01/20/1457232

1/31/05 - Oil for Food Becomes Isolationist Fodder By Joy Gordon, The Nation http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20642/

1/31/05 - Faces of Death By Dan Kennedy, Boston Phoenix http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20690/

1/31/05 - Rumsfeld Says the Darndest Things By Christy Harvey and Judd Legum and Jonathan Baskin, Center for American Progress http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20711/

1/31/05 - "War Is Not A Noble Enterprise" By Sarah Ruth van Gelder, YES! Magazine http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20725/

1/9/05 - News From Inside Iraq http://dahrjamailiraq.com/

1/9/05 - Iraq: The Devastation By Dahr Jamail, Tomdispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2109

1/2/05 - Bring 'Em Home By Mike Farrell, AlterNet http://alternet.org/story/20845/

1/2/05 - The Unknown Soldiers By Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet http://alternet.org/waroniraq/20254/

1/2/05 - Kerry and the Gift of Impunity By Naomi Klein, The Nation http://www.alternet.org/election04/20602/

12/19/04 - America's Fallujan Dystopia By Michael Schwartz, Tomdispatch.com http://alternet.org/waroniraq/20779/

11/27/04 - U.S. Sends in Secret Weapon: Saddam's Old Commandos By Alastair Macdonald, Reuters http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=5&u=/nm/20041127/ts_nm/iraq_swat_dc

11/27/04 - Eyewitnesses report poison gas and other non-conventional weapons used against civilians By Dahr Jamail, InterPress News Service http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/headline.php?id=291

11/27/04 - Offensives Create Surge of Detainees By Bradley Graham, Washington Post http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112804D.shtml

11/26/04 - Ukraine state TV in revolt By Sebastian Usher, BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4044791.stm

11/23/04 - What really happened in the battle of Fallujah By Dahr Jamail http://www.guerrillanews.com/articles/article.php?id=933

11/19/04 - Breaking Ranks (from Nov/Dec 04 Mother Jones) Iraq Veterans Against the War http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/11/10_400.html

Voter Fraud / Discrimination

11/27/04 - Ukraine's parliament rejects election results http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/27/ukraine/index.html

11/24/04 - Voter Discrimination in the Ukraine http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/24/powell.ukraine/index.html

11/24/04 - We're Sorry By Annalee Newitz, Alternet E Voting Machines weren't hacked, they were just crappy http://alternet.org/columnists/story/20601/

11/19/04 - Voter Fraud in Florida http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112004X.shtml; original at http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-22.htm

11/18/04 - Voter Discrimination in Ohio http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/110077402787260.xml

Tax Cuts / The Deficit (tm)

11/19/04 - Bush raises Deb limit to $800 billion, CNN Money http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/19/news/economy/bush_debt.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

11/19/04 - Balance Budget Amendment History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_Budget_Amendment

11/19/04 - Guardian, UK http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1353645,00.html

9/30/04 - Republicans drop work on Balance Budget Amendment, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60560-2004Sep29.html

Four More Years / What the Left needs to do to win against the Right

2/27/05 - The scandal sheet Print it out, send it to Harry Reid, or just read it and weep. Here are 34 scandals from the first four years of George W. Bush's presidency - every one of them worse than Whitewater. By Peter Dizikes http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/18/scandal/

2/27/05 - What Is Wrong with Torture By Jonathan Schell Tomdispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=2136

2/27/05 - Interrogating Donald Rumsfeld 37 Questions Congress Should Ask the Secretary of Defense on Administration Torture Policies By Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel Tomdispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=2116

2/27/05 - Undiplomatic Immunity Did Al Gonzales say the president can authorize torture? By ChrisÂ Suellentrop Slate.com http://slate.msn.com/id/2111962/

2/27/05 - What Could Go Wrong in 2005? By Marshall Auerback Tomdispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=2141

2/27/05 - Accommodating Al The canine fidelity of the president’s house consigliere By Lou Dubose, LA Weekly http://www.alternet.org/rights/20559/

2/27/05 - Blocking Mr. Torture By James Schamus, In These Times http://www.alternet.org/rights/20704/

2/27/05 - Is This American? By Molly Ivins, AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20654/

2/27/05 - A Cloud Over the Constitution By Nat Hentoff, Village Voice http://www.alternet.org/rights/20752/

2/27/05 - Clamping Down on Freedom of the Press: What lessons does Watergate offer for today's beleaguered media? By Charles Lewis, The Center for Public Integrity http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=426&sid=200

2/27/05 - Kansas, Fooled, Again By Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com http://www.alternet.org/election04/20730/

2/27/05 - Is Liberalism Dead? By Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/election04/20689/

2/27/05 - It's Time to Look to the Campus By Ben Waxman, WireTap http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/20644/

1/16/05 - History Repeats Itself By Arianna Huffington, AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/election04/20634/

1/2/05 - Hope at Midnight By Rebecca Solnit Tomdispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2088

1/2/05 - How Bush Really Won By Mark Danner, Tomdispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2081

1/2/05 - Voting Their Fears: National Insecurity Key to Bush Victory By Ira Chernus, Tomdispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2068

1/2/05 - Blue Islands, Red Seas By John Gartner, AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/election04/20609/

12/11/04 - The Next DNC Chair: Why You Should Care By Arianna Huffington, AlterNet http://alternet.org/election04/20699/

12/11/04 - The Democrats' Da Vinci Code By David J. Sirota, The American Prospect http://alternet.org/election04/20702/

12/11/04 - Meet Mr. Rogers By By Ruth Conniff, The Progressive http://alternet.org/election04/20722/

12/11/04 - What's the Matter with Democrats? By Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet http://alternet.org/election04/20592

11/28/04 - Bush Heads for the Bunker By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/11/23_bunker.html

11/19/04 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/11/19_bush.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/11/23_bunker.html

Social Security

2/27/05 - Selling Social Security By Dean Baker, In These Times http://www.alternet.org/election04/20721/

2/27/05 - Social Security Suicide By Molly Ivins, AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/election04/20746/

1/2/05 - Promise and Peril For Black Workers By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20837/

Morality

1/5/04 - 2004: Year Of Perversion By Lara Riscol, AlterNet http://alternet.org/story/20857/

12/3/04 - Democrats Should Fight for a Moral Minimum Wage by Peter Dreier & Kelly Candaele - The Nation http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041220&s=dreier

11/21/04 - The Philadelphia Inquirer talks to Evangelical Christians about the elections and God's plan for America http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/10233187.htm?1c

11/18/04 - The Progressive Morality By George Lakoff, The Nation. Liberals & Progressives must clearly explain their moral positions in order to win back the Presidency, Congress, and the country http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041206&s=lakoff

Bush's Unilateralism

11/27/04 - A Moral Civil War By Greg Moses - turning back Bush's secession from the world community http://alternet.org/rights/20604/

Patriot Act & Civil Liberties

12/11/04 - Bush's Posse Roundup By James Bovard, AlterNet http://alternet.org/election04/20712/

Global Warming

12/27/04 - Enough Is Enough By David Morris, AlterNet http://alternet.org/envirohealth/20833/

Miscellany

2/27/05 - Jared Taylor, a racist in the guise of 'expert' By Dennis Roddy, Pittsburg Post-Gazette http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05023/446341.stm

2/27/05 - Gary Webb R.I.P. By Robert Parry, Consortium News http://www.alternet.org/election04/20742

1/9/05 - Porter Goss' WIA – Worthless Intelligence Agency By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2025

1/9/05 - TomGram: Self Portrait in a Tortured World - American Gothic: Self-Portrait with Shackles for the Year 2005 By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2102

1/9/05 - Past Imperfect: Do the Booker T. Shuffle By William Jelani Cobb Africana.com http://www.africana.com/columns/cobb/ht20041123shuffle.asp

1/2/05 - The Delay Transformation By Jaime Malanowski, Washington Monthly (posted on AlterNet ) http://www.alternet.org/election04/20618/

1/2/05 - Will the GOP Nuke the Constitution? By Arianna Huffington, AlterNet - Bush's plan to get rid of the Senate judicial filibuster http://www.alternet.org/election04/20822/

1/2/05 - Outsourcing Detention By Joanne Mariner, Findlaw.com http://writ.corporate.findlaw.com/mariner/20041220.html

1/2/05 - Sore Winners By John Powers, AlterNet http://alternet.org/election04/19466/

11/27/2004 - School of the America's, aka "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation" - Democracy's Real Enemy By David Bastone http://alternet.org/rights/20603/

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