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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 Krugmanhttp://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040105&s=krugman George Will offers a "Sopranos"-style defense of his shoddy ethics -by Joe Conasonhttp://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/12/23/tuesday/?ref=http://www.salon.com/src/ads/vote/begin.html g
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
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. The Productivity
Paradox By STEPHEN S. ROACH AARP Gone
Astray by Paul Krugman Funds and Games By
PAUL KRUGMAN mutual fund scams W Is for What? Bush
may be compassionate, but he's no conservative. By Jacob Sullum The
Real Jobs Numbers by
Lee Price with Yulia Fungard 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 Report: Saudis
funded infiltration of U.S. military By WORLD TRIBUNE.COM 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 The Secondhand
Smoking Gun By ROSEMARY ELLIS http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/15/opinion/15ELLI.html?ex=1067231009&ei=1&en=b00a379aebf36f5c 48-Hour Internet
Outage Plunges Nation Into Productivity by The Onion http://www.theonion.com/3938/top_story.html Joe Conason's
Journal Who's Sordid
Now? By PAUL KRUGMAN Cronyism in Iraq:
Yes, it matters. Financing Terror? by Michael Isakoff and Mark Hosenball
By AUSTAN GOOLSBEE http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/opinion/30GOOL.html?ex=1071217358&ei=1&en=90b549a27d84724a
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
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1121-02.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/18/opinion/18KRUG.html?ex=1070186895&ei=1&en=d7b0e11f8259b26e
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
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9351
considered a dismal failure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/24/opinion/24KRUG.html?ex=1068011940&ei=1&en=79dd5be2fcf2d54c
http://bigjweb.com/artman/publish/article_1455.shtml
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1019-04.htm
Don't Look Down By PAUL KRUGMAN http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/opinion/14KRUG.html?ex=1067153387&ei=1&en=37f19a18460f5265
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
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/opinion/30KRUG.html?ex=1065942673&ei=1&en=f079662ac2f83a92
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 officeby 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 Appelbaumhttp://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 GERTNERhttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/magazine/07HAPPINESS.html
Mass Extinction from Buried Carbon? AFP/ABC Science Onlinehttp://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20030721/carbon.html
Who's Poor? Don't Ask the Census Bureau By JARED BERNSTEINhttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/26/opinion/26BERN.html
Bush's Data Dump: The administration is hiding bad economic news By Russ Bakerhttp://slate.msn.com/id/2085481/
Bush's Saudi Connections: And why this is a crucial issue in 2004 By Michael Steinbergerhttp://www.prospect.org/print/V14/9/steinberger-m.html
Believe It, or Not By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFAmericans believe, 58 percent to 40 percent, that it is necessary to believe in God to be moralhttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/15/opinion/15KRIS.html
Twilight Zone Economics By PAUL KRUGMANhttp://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 Harveyhttp://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/08/14/truth/
No Work, No Homes By BOB HERBERThttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/opinion/14HERB.html
Great Haven for Families, but Don't Bring Children By LAURA MANSNERUShttp://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 Heartlandhttp://www.tompaine.com/op_ads/opad2.cfm/ID/5763
Gods and monsters By Marion Winikhttp://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 Editorshttps://ssl.tnr.com/p/docsub.mhtml?i=20030609&s=editorial060903
o:p> Gone by Tom Junodhttp://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 McClurehttp://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/04/congo/
The Black Widow by Gordon Gricehttp://www.harpers.org/reader_services/back_issues.php3
Really Reinventing Government by Peter F. druckerhttp://www.theatlantic.com/politics/polibig/reallyre.htm
Why Americans Hate the Media by James Fallowshttp://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96feb/media/media.htm
Nobel Prize Speech by William Faulknerhttp://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 Scheiberhttp://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 Wallerhttp://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 Prosperityhttp://www.prospect.org/print/V14/6/meyerson-h.html
Tolerating Saudi Bigotryhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8212-2003May18.html?referrer=emailarticle
SARS 101 What an Asian virus teaches North America. By David Gratzerhttp://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 Hoaglandhttp://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 Backshttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/15KRUG.html?ex=1051424233&ei=1&en=432e7e8542bbeeb3
THE ANIMUS AGAINST AMERICA by Diana Westhttp://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. Longmanhttp://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0304.longman.html
How the U.S. Misjudged Iraq by Christopher Dickeyhttp://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 Ivinshttp://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 Meadhttp://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 Bakerhttp://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_email.asp?/news/891868.asp
The 9/10 President --Jonathan Chaithttps://ssl.tnr.com/p/docsub.mhtml?i=20030310&s=chait031003
Apocalypse Now --Peter Beinerthttp://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030317&s=trb031703
War of Ideas --Ariel Cohenhttp://www.nationalreview.com/cohen/cohen031203.asp
Take this tech job and shove it --Farhad Manjoohttp://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 Shapirohttp://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 BARRYhttp://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 Barneshttp://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/322bsxwo.asp
Can Good Muslims Be Good Multiculturalists? –Mark Steynhttp://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 Geyerhttp://209.157.64.200/focus/news/839199/posts
Why Palestinians support terror --Joseph Farahhttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25777
America's Age of Empire: The Liberal Challenge --George Packerhttp://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2003/02/ma_206_01.html
The Lowdown on the Showdown at Shoney's --By Ann Coulterhttp://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/09-23-02/coulter.htm
Deborah Cook Is the Typical Bush Judicial Nominee -- So Watch Out By ADAM COHENhttp://www.independentjudiciary.com/news/clip.cfm?NewsClipID=119
ml America --Tony Parsonshttp://www.iact.ca/views.php?view_id=461
The George W. Diet Lose unsightly pounds by eating like a pig. By Michael Kinsleyhttp://slate.msn.com/id/2078870/
A Separate Peace by Peter Beinarthttp://fbrutsch.perso.ch/11sept/beinart.htm
Women Now Empowered By Everything A Woman Does --The Onionhttp://www.theonion.com/onion3906/women_now_empowered.html
An immigration dictatorship --Paul Craig Robertshttp://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr20030219.shtml
Do not try this at homehttp://koti.mbnet.fi/~soldier/towboat.htm
Islam's Other Victims: Africa By Serge Trifkovichttp://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
Muhammedanismhttp://www.anti-jihad.cjb.net/
Bush takes up Islam's pompom by Diana Westhttp://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 Sealhttp://www.unknownnews.net/cdd052002.html
Saudi Slavery in America by Joel Mowbray http://www.townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/jm20030212.