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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