Essential reading compiled by staff and subscribers
Iraq
The not so noble lie www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=2486
Bush Told Blair Invasion was “Inevitable” www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051405Z.shtml
Mark Danner: Secret Way to War www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051605C.shtml
Marjorie Cohn: Navy Judge Finds War Protest Reasonable www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051305X.shtml
Iraqi Civil War: Has It Already Started? ” target=”_blank”>www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051205K.shtml
Child Labor Growing Problem in Iraq www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051505B.shtml
Anti-American Protests Spread through Islamic World www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051405F.shtml
Paul Krugman: Staying What Course? www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051405F.shtml
Marilyn Berlin Snell: Dangerous Liaisons www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051605F.shtml
The Children of El Salvador’s Rape www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051605G.shtml
Oil Nationalism www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051605I.shtml
Democracy
David Bacon: Democracy, but More www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051605J.shtml
Paul Loeb: Nuking Democracy www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051405A.shtml
New York Times – Bolton: Plenty of Harm, Lots of Fouls www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051405C.shtml
J. Sri Raman | Where Proliferation is Non-Proliferation www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051405E.shtml
Iran
Dilip Hiro: The Iranian Nuclear Issue in a Global Context ” target=”_blank”>www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051505F.shtml
US Congress New York Times: The Roads Are Paved with Pork www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051505A.shtml
Paul Krugman: Always Low Wages. Always. www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051305H.shtml
Media “In his first public address since leaving PBS six months ago, journalist Bill Moyers responds to charges by Kenneth Tomlinson – the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – of liberal bias and revelations that Tomlinson hired a consultant to monitor the political content of Moyers’ PBS show “Now.” www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/16/1329245
Chavez Builds Non-US Alternative TV for Latin America www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051305E.shtml
Juan Cole – Guantanamo Controversies: The Bible and the Koran www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051605E.shtml
Tsunami
Mark Steyn on the bureacratic response to a catastrophic event: “Five hundred containers, representing one-quarter of all aid sent to Sri Lanka since the tsunami hit on Dec. 26, are still sitting on the dock in Colombo, unclaimed or unprocessed. At the Indonesian port of Medan, 1,500 containers of aid are still sitting on the dock …” timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/sitting_on_the_dock_of_the_bay_wasting_time/
“Australians too generous, tsunami charity says I wonder how many Australian charities would act this ethically, World Vision raised a LOT of tsunami money maybe its time for them to give us a progress report: Medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontiers has offered to return thousands… More trevorcook.typepad.com/election/2005/05/australians_too.html
Tortures Dirty Secret: It works Naomi Klein, The Nation www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21997/
At least 12.3 million people are trapped in forced labour around the world, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in a new study released today. ILO Director-General Juan Somavia called forced labour “a social evil which has no place in the modern world”. Der Spiegel