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Storm Turns Focus to Global Warming

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005A.shtml

Although most mainstream hurricane scientists are skeptical of any

connection between global warming and heightened storm activity, the

growing intensity of hurricanes and the frequency of large storms are

leading

some to rethink long-held views.

 

 

Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005B.shtml

The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last

year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said

Tuesday.

 

 

In Largest Tax Fraud Case Ever, KPMG Cost Taxpayers $250B

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005C.shtml

Eight former partners of KPMG, the accounting firm under investigation

for its role in creating and selling questionable tax shelters, were

named by federal prosecutors in an indictment unsealed yesterday in

federal court in Manhattan.

 

 

Louisiana National Guard's 8 Long Days

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005D.shtml

Nearing the end of their tour in Iraq, National Guard troops from

Louisiana face an uncertain homecoming. With only eight days left before

their tours end, the biggest worry on these soldiers' minds is 10,000

miles away. " We were going to have a homecoming, " said Carrigee. " Now we

don't know if we'll have homes to go home to. "

 

 

Democrats Demand Probe of Demotion

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005E.shtml

Congressional Democrats demanded an investigation Monday into the

demotion of a senior US military contracting official who publicly

criticized a controversial no-bid contract awarded to Halliburton

Corp. for work

in Iraq.

 

 

George Monbiot | How to Stop Civil War

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005F.shtml

Monbiot argues that Nicaragua and South Africa, not the US, should be

the inspiration for the people framing Iraq's constitution.

 

 

Gordon Livingston | Iraq Looking More and More Like Vietnam

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005G.shtml

As if the resemblance between Iraq and Vietnam were not enough,

President Bush, Livingston argues, has closed the circle for us. Never

mind

that the original rationale for the war - preventing Iraq from using its

stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction against us - has evaporated;

the issue now is that ever-reliable call to arms: freedom, ours and the

Iraqis'.

 

 

Palestinian Authority's US Assets Are Frozen

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005H.shtml

A Rhode Island lawyer trying to collect a $116 million terrorism

judgment against the Palestinian Authority has obtained a court-ordered

freeze on all its US-based assets, severely limiting most Palestinian

economic and diplomatic activities in the United States at a critical

moment

for the fledgling government.

 

 

William Rivers Pitt | Here's the Funny Part

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005I.shtml

George W. Bush coughed up his latest rationale for continuing the Iraq

war - I think this is the fourth or fifth one of these to this point -

by saying that because so many American soldiers have been killed, we

have to keep sending American soldiers to get killed as a means of

honoring the American soldiers who have been killed. William Rivers Pitt

says this is big talk from a guy who spends more time on vacation than a

French aristocrat.

 

 

Sunni Opposition to Iraqi Draft Constitution Intensifies

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005J.shtml

More leaders of Iraq's Sunni Arab minority spoke out Monday against the

nation's draft constitution, and thousands of people took to the

streets to denounce the document in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown.

 

 

Bolton Wants '11th Hour' Changes to UN Reform Plan

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005K.shtml

General Assembly President Jean Ping named a core group of 30 countries

to try and work through Mr. Bolton's 750 requested amendments. The

group will focus on hard-core issues, such as " defining terrorism and

financing development " where the US and most other countries in the world

have completely opposite positions.

 

 

Immigration Hearing Set for Accused Terrorist and Cuban Militant

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005L.shtml

Venezuelan officials have alleged that Posada, an ex-Venezuelan

security official, was in Caracas when he plotted the deadly 1976

bombing of a

Cuban jetliner that crashed off the coast of Barbados, killing 73

people.

 

 

Hendrik Hertzberg | War and Anti-War

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005M.shtml

A few days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bush,

during a visit to the still smoldering Pentagon, said that what was

already called the " war on terror " would be " a different type of war " ...

Hendrik Hertzberg says that four years later, many of Bush's (and

others')

expectations about the ensuing struggle have fallen by the wayside but

that one has proved right.

 

 

Intelligent Design Has No Place in the Science Curriculum

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005N.shtml

At least 19 states are now debating the use of intelligent design in

public education, and President Bush commented in August that he thought

both evolution and intelligent design " ought to be properly taught. "

 

 

California Patrol Won't Seize Marijuana Used as Medicine

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005O.shtml

In a turnaround, one of the state's biggest law enforcement agencies

says it is taking a hands-off approach to the possession and use of

marijuana for medical purposes.

 

 

Patriot Act Support Shrinks with Increased Info

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005Y.shtml

Fewer than half of Americans know the purpose of the Patriot Act, and

the more they know about it the less they like it, according to a poll

released Monday. Almost two-thirds of all Americans, 64 percent, said

they support the Patriot Act. But support dropped to 57 percent among

those who could accurately identify the intent of the legislation.

 

 

Sadr's Movement on the Rise in Iraq

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005Z.shtml

In a country whose sectarian and ethnic divides have relentlessly

deepened, Sadr stands as a rare figure with support among both Sunnis and

Shiites. At a protest Monday against Iraq's new constitution in Tikrit,

near Hussein's home town, Sunnis held aloft pictures of the cleric.

" Yes, yes to Sadr! " some of the 1,500 protesters shouted.

 

 

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