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NOTEWORTHY OR AMUSING ARTICLES:
 

Why is AIDS Worse in Africa? by Helen Epstein

http://www.discover.com/issues/feb-04/features/why-aids-worse-in-africa/

 

Americans Revolt in Pennsylvania - New Battle Lines Are Drawn by Thom Hartmann
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1219-06.htm

 

How a clerical error made corporations “people” by Jim Hightower
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/articles%5Capr03_v5_n4/apr03_v5_n4_lead1.cfm

 

How Wal-Mart is remaking our world by Jim Hightower
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/articles/apr02_v4_n4/apr02_v4_n4_lead1.cfm

 

Don’t focus on Enron, focus on the system by Jim Hightower
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/articles/mar02_v4_n3/mar02_v4_n3_lead1.cfm

 

The Death of Horatio Alger by Paul Krugman
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040105&s=krugman
 
 
George Will offers a "Sopranos"-style defense of his shoddy ethics -by Joe Conason
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/12/23/tuesday/?ref=http://www.salon.com/src/ads/vote/begin.html
 
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Going for Broke
By PAUL KRUGMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/20/opinion/20KRUG.html

 

America as a One-Party State by Robert Kuttner
Today's hard right seeks total dominion. It's packing the courts and rigging the rules. The target is not the Democrats but democracy itself.
http://www.prospect.org/print/V15/2/kuttner-r.html

Who Gets It? By PAUL KRUGMAN

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/opinion/16KRUG.html?ex=1075271904&ei=1&en=68e1515a33a177d3
 
Drip, Drip, Drip: Eroding the Barriers to Corporate Crime By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2002/000102.html

Baker Takes The Whole Loaf By Greg Palast
And who will net the big bucks under Jim Baker's plan? Answer: his client, Saudi Arabia, which claims $30.7 billion due from Iraq plus $12 billion in reparations from the First Gulf war.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9571

The Saudi Connection: How billions in oil money spawned a global terror network By David E. Kaplan
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031215/usnews/15terror.htm

Manservant by Jonathan Chait
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031215&s=trb121503

Looting the Future By PAUL KRUGMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/05/opinion/05KRUG.html

America’s Secret Madrassas By Lowell Ponte
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11132

A Dangerous New Policy Toward Taiwan? Two proposed policy changes make a military confrontation in the Taiwan Strait more, not less, likely. by William Kristol & Gary Schmitt
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/447lynce.asp

Hack the Vote by Paul Krugman
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1202-02.htm 

The Unemployment Myth The reality is that we didn't have a mild recession.  Jobs-wise, we had a deep one.
 By AUSTAN GOOLSBEE http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/opinion/30GOOL.html?ex=1071217358&ei=1&en=90b549a27d84724a

The Productivity Paradox By STEPHEN S. ROACH
We aren’t working smarter, we’re working harder.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/opinion/30ROAC.html?ex=1071216368&ei=1&en=5741552119b047d8

Sleeping With The Enemy by David Corn
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9495

AARP Gone Astray  by Paul Krugman
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1121-02.htm

Funds and Games By PAUL KRUGMAN mutual fund scams
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/18/opinion/18KRUG.html?ex=1070186895&ei=1&en=d7b0e11f8259b26e

W Is for What? Bush may be compassionate, but he's no conservative.  By Jacob Sullum
http://www.reason.com/sullum/111403.shtml

Real Cynical  Molly Ivins As Lily Tomlin observed, no matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up. http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9385
 
Righting History  by David Corn
Bush was linking Reagan to the fall of apartheid and the strengthening of democracy in Latin America. If
history could sue for slander, then Bush would need a team of attorneys.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9370

The Real Jobs Numbers  by Lee Price with Yulia Fungard
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9351

No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/voices.html

Too Low a Bar By PAUL KRUGMAN define as success a performance that, even if it materializes, should really be
considered a dismal failure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/24/opinion/24KRUG.html?ex=1068011940&ei=1&en=79dd5be2fcf2d54c

Report: Saudis funded infiltration of U.S. military By WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
http://bigjweb.com/artman/publish/article_1455.shtml 

Palestinian terrorism, American blood http://www.boston.com:80/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/10/19/palestinian_terrorism_american_blood

Kid Gloves for Neo-con Cranks  by David Olive
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1019-04.htm

The Secondhand Smoking Gun By ROSEMARY ELLIS http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/15/opinion/15ELLI.html?ex=1067231009&ei=1&en=b00a379aebf36f5c

Don't Look Down By PAUL KRUGMAN http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/opinion/14KRUG.html?ex=1067153387&ei=1&en=37f19a18460f5265

48-Hour Internet Outage Plunges Nation Into Productivity by The Onion http://www.theonion.com/3938/top_story.html

Joe Conason's Journal
Now that liberals are finally pushing back on the playground, the Bush bullies are running to tell the teacher.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/09/30/brooks/?ref=http://images.salon.com/src/ads/care2/care2_3.html

Who's Sordid Now?  By PAUL KRUGMAN Cronyism in Iraq: Yes, it matters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/opinion/30KRUG.html?ex=1065942673&ei=1&en=f079662ac2f83a92

Financing Terror? by Michael Isakoff and Mark Hosenball
http://www.msnbc.com/news/946237.asp?cp1=1

 
The price of intransigence By Mortimer B. Zuckerman 
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031215/opinion/15edit.htm
 

As Millions Die By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/01/opinion/01KRIS.html

 

Mad About You by Jonathan Chait

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=gfI/vvY5VZirXupcsQoN5m==

 
 
Patriots and Profits By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/16/opinion/16KRUG.html?ex=1072592010&ei=1&en=a3db168181957532
 
PowerPoint Makes You Dumb By CLIVE THOMPSON 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/magazine/14POWER.html?ex=1072511319&ei=1&en=b3e3b1c65fb1e9f5
 
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-11-08&id=3699
 
"A Miserable Failure" Will Bush be re-elected? Only if voters wittingly ignore his long list of failures while in office
by Jack Beatty 
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2003-09-24.htm
 
 
 
Foot Fault: The media portrayed Nike's recent out-of-court settlement in a sweatshop case as a victory for human rights and a defeat for free speech. They got it wrong. By Peter Dreier and Richard Appelbaum
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/09/dreier-p-09-23.html
 
Exploiting the Atrocity By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/opinion/12KRUG.html?ex=1064381502&ei=1&en=019ffec13e9da581
 
The Futile Pursuit of Happiness By JON GERTNER
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/magazine/07HAPPINESS.html
 
Mass Extinction from Buried Carbon? AFP/ABC Science Online
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20030721/carbon.html
 
 
Who's Poor? Don't Ask the Census Bureau By JARED BERNSTEIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/26/opinion/26BERN.html
 
Bush's Data Dump: The administration is hiding bad economic news By Russ Baker
http://slate.msn.com/id/2085481/
 
 
Bush's Saudi Connections: And why this is a crucial issue in 2004  By Michael Steinberger
http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/9/steinberger-m.html
 
Believe It, or Not By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Americans believe, 58 percent to 40 percent, that it is necessary to believe in God to be moral
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/15/opinion/15KRIS.html
 
Twilight Zone Economics By PAUL KRUGMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/15/opinion/15KRUG.html
 
The big wedding: This week should mark my second anniversary, but my wife died in the Sept. 11 attacks. By R. William Harvey
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/08/14/truth/
 
 
No Work, No Homes By BOB HERBERT
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/opinion/14HERB.html
 
 
Great Haven for Families, but Don't Bring Children By LAURA MANSNERUS
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/13/nyregion/13SUBU.html
 
 
 
Fleeing Prosecution by Robert Lane Greene 
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=foreign&s=greene081203
 
Thanks for the M.R.E.'s By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/12/opinion/12KRUG.html?ex=1061703228&ei=1&en=166a4716c0c0a8b1
 
The Fruits of Bushonomics  by Robert Kuttner 
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0806-02.htm
 
 
The Insider Game  by Paul Krugman 
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0712-01.htm
 
'Virtual Slave Labor' In The American Heartland
http://www.tompaine.com/op_ads/opad2.cfm/ID/5763
 
Gods and monsters By Marion Winik
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/07/11/winik/
 
Passing It Along By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/18/opinion/18KRUG.html?ex=1059545410&ei=1&en=9e131465652dca7d
 
 
Scandalized by TNR Editors
https://ssl.tnr.com/p/docsub.mhtml?i=20030609&s=editorial060903
 
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Gone by Tom Junod
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2001/020327_mfe_gone_1.html
 
Killing Libby by Mark Levine 
http://www.mensjournal.com/promotions/wildStories/toc.html
 
Millions die, Bush is silent The Congo's descent into a vortex of murder and destruction is the globe's worst human crisis. But as he travels in Africa this week, the president will ignore it. By Laura McClure
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/04/congo/
 
The Black Widow by Gordon Grice
http://www.harpers.org/reader_services/back_issues.php3
 
Really Reinventing Government by Peter F. drucker
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/polibig/reallyre.htm
 
Why Americans Hate the Media by James Fallows
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96feb/media/media.htm
 
Nobel Prize Speech by William Faulkner
http://www.zip.com.au/~orson/Faulkner.htm
 
Still Blowing Bubbles By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/opinion/20KRUG.html?ex=1057124657&ei=1&en=2b6fdf550cddd6eb
 
Overblown: By fighting a bogeyman today, the Fed is creating real problems for the economy in the future by Noam Scheiber
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030707&s=scheiber070703
 
 
Duped and Betrayed By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/opinion/06KRUG.html?ex=1056167395&ei=1&en=c84b6a5b3ef1c8fe
 
Arab Press Fans the Flames of Hate  By J. Michael Waller
http://www.insightmag.com/news/438505.html
 
Character Witness: Remember when conservatives worried  about the abuse of power?
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030602&s=trb060203
 
Ugly Stepfather: Think the United States is imperialist? Tell it to Liberia.
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030623&s=trb062303
 
Dancing With the Devil By BOB HERBERT 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/opinion/22HERB.html?ex=1054632656&ei=1&en=af483f28ebd1408a
 
'Some Crazy Guy' By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/opinion/13KRUG.html?ex=1056524011&ei=1&en=fe178489489517c6
 
Squandering Prosperity
http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/6/meyerson-h.html
 
Tolerating Saudi Bigotry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8212-2003May18.html?referrer=emailarticle
 
SARS 101 What an Asian virus teaches North America. By David Gratzer
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-gratzer051903.asp
 
Paths of Glory By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/opinion/16KRUG.html?ex=1054101543&ei=1&en=d733fff009ed121b
 
 
 
Eroding Principles  By Jim Hoagland
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57206-2003Apr29.html
 
Matters of Emphasis By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/opinion/29KRUG.html?ex=1052632791&ei=1&en=cbfb719efabbe9fc
 
Hair-Trigger Missiles Risk Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism 
http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=912&from_page=../index.cfm
 
 
Crony Capitalism Goes To War  by Arianna Huffington 
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0423-07.htm
 
Mainstream Media Still Treating Bush With Kid Gloves by Ed Garvey 
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0513-04.htm
 
 
The Last Refuge By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08KRUG.html?ex=1050854979&ei=1&en=474181b0d4d5f231
 
 
Behind Our Backs
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/15KRUG.html?ex=1051424233&ei=1&en=432e7e8542bbeeb3
 
 
THE ANIMUS AGAINST AMERICA by Diana West
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20030404-39564090.htm
 
 
Gun, Germs and Stall? By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/opinion/04KRUG.html?ex=1050477767&ei=1&en=2913e8fbf2164627
 
The Health of Nations by Phillip J. Longman
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0304.longman.html
 
 
How the U.S. Misjudged Iraq  by Christopher Dickey
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_email.asp?/news/891794.asp
 
War Diary by Kanan Makiya 
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=iraq&s=diary032703
 
CAN WAR SELL THE TAX CUT? by Jonathan Chait 
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030407&s=chait040703
 
Delusions of Power By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28KRUG.html?ex=1049873523&ei=1&en=0d8b8b5656a4145c
 
Bush's Sneak Attack on 'Average' Taxpayers by Molly Ivins
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28KRUG.html?ex=1049873523&ei=1&en=0d8b8b5656a4145c
 
The Philosopher of Islamic Terror By PAUL BERMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/magazine/23GURU.html?ex=1049529576&ei=1&en=0a6237ebfbb47ff8
 
Death wish: Liberals are in denial about the threat posed to their most cherished values by militant Islam by Mark Steyn 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0303/steyn022703.asp
 
Deadlier Than War By Walter Russell Mead
http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/text2003/0313mead.htm
 
"Hanging above the head of every Iraqi like a sword of Damocles is the memory of March 1991."
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=iraq&s=diary032703
 
Home Front: Bush's hilarious efforts to connect his economic agenda to the war. by Jonathan Chait 
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030407&s=chait040703
 
Delusions of Power By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28KRUG.html?ex=1049873523&ei=1&en=0d8b8b5656a4145c
 
 
A Turkey Shoot, with Marine Targets by Peter Baker
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_email.asp?/news/891868.asp
 
The 9/10 President --Jonathan Chait
https://ssl.tnr.com/p/docsub.mhtml?i=20030310&s=chait031003
 
 
Apocalypse Now --Peter Beinert
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030317&s=trb031703
 
War of Ideas --Ariel Cohen
http://www.nationalreview.com/cohen/cohen031203.asp
 
Take this tech job and shove it --Farhad Manjoo
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/13/tech_workers/
 
 
ISLAM'S CRUEL CRUSADERS --Jonathan Foreman 
http://www.jonathanforeman.com/cruel%20crusaders.htm
 
War Bucks  --Robert Shapiro
http://slate.msn.com/id/2080712/
 
 
It Will Be a Smaller World After All  By Ben J. Wattenberg 
http://www.aei.org/news/newsID.16465/news_detail.asp
 
Garrison Keillor's genius leaves Dave Barry in awe BY DAVE BARRY
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/5282652.htm
 
The Scandal of U.S.-Saudi Relations by Daniel Pipes 
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/995
 
The Peacenik Top 10 --Fred Barnes
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/322bsxwo.asp
 
Can Good Muslims Be Good Multiculturalists? –Mark Steyn
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6342
 
 
 
Kuwait's tale should give us pause on Iraq By Georgie Anne Geyer
 
WHAT LINCOLN KNEW ABOUT WAR. Resolved by Paul Berman 
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030303&s=berman030303
 
World War I Tactics In A Fourth-Generation World by Georgie Anne Geyer
http://209.157.64.200/focus/news/839199/posts
 
Why Palestinians support terror --Joseph Farah
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25777
 
America's Age of Empire: The Liberal Challenge --George Packer
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2003/02/ma_206_01.html
 
 
The Lowdown on the Showdown at Shoney's --By Ann Coulter
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/09-23-02/coulter.htm
 
Deborah Cook Is the Typical Bush Judicial Nominee -- So Watch Out  By ADAM COHEN
http://www.independentjudiciary.com/news/clip.cfm?NewsClipID=119
 
 
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America --Tony Parsons
http://www.iact.ca/views.php?view_id=461
 
 
The George W. Diet Lose unsightly pounds by eating like a pig. By Michael Kinsley
http://slate.msn.com/id/2078870/
 
A Separate Peace by Peter Beinart
http://fbrutsch.perso.ch/11sept/beinart.htm
 
Women Now Empowered By Everything A Woman Does --The Onion
http://www.theonion.com/onion3906/women_now_empowered.html
 
An immigration dictatorship --Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr20030219.shtml
 
Do not try this at home
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~soldier/towboat.htm
 
 
Islam's Other Victims: Africa By Serge Trifkovic
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6099
 
THAT'S LIFE The Heart Beat  by Michelle Cottle 
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=life&s=cottle021403
 
Muhammedanism
http://www.anti-jihad.cjb.net/
 
Bush takes up Islam's pompom by Diana West
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20021122-26550343.htm
 
What Arab Civilization?
http://www.ninevehsoft.com/fiorina.htm
 
Is the Maestro a Hack? By PAUL KRUGMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/opinion/07KRUG.html
 
Bush Seeks Tax Cuts He Had Scorned By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/politics/09TAX.html?ex=1045822380&ei=1&en=e78b98ef03930c82
 
The Case Against G.W. Bush by Cheryl Seal
http://www.unknownnews.net/cdd052002.html
 
Saudi Slavery in America by Joel Mowbray 
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/jm20030212.