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Stirling Newberry | The Next Inaugural

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:08:32 -0700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stirling Newberry; Paul Krugman; Patrick Sabatier on Afghanistan;

Katrina shakes global faith in US; Sharon's UN speech turns Israeli

politics

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Roberts for Life?

http://www.truthout.org/Roberts.shtml

TO's coverage of the Senate's review of John G. Roberts to be Chief

Justice of the United States Supreme Court is under way: " Roberts for

Life? " A hard look at the future of American Justice.

 

Mayday Mississippi Delta

http://www.truthout.org/mayday.shtml

TO continues round-the-clock information support for everyone impacted

by Katrina. We will provide the best sources available for the most

up-to-date and expansive coverage possible.

 

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Stirling Newberry | The Next Inaugural

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605A.shtml

Stirling Newberry: America has awakened and found itself in a new day,

which we must now seize. The people have spoken plainly on this one

point above all: we must end this terrible war, entered without evidence,

pursued without profit, and prolonged without purpose.

 

 

Paul Krugman | Not the New Deal

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605B.shtml

Now it begins: America's biggest relief and recovery program since the

New Deal. And the omens aren't good, says Paul Krugman. It's possible

to spend large sums honestly, as Franklin D. Roosevelt demonstrated in

the 1930's. F.D.R.'s mission in office was to show that government

activism works. But George W. Bush isn't F.D.R. Indeed, in crucial

respects

he's the anti-F.D.R.

 

 

Sharon UN Speech Turns Israeli Politics on Its Head

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605C.shtml

Turning Israeli politics on its head, Ariel Sharon drew attacks from

the right and praise from the left on Friday after taking to the world

stage and voicing recognition of Palestinians' right to statehood.

 

 

Katrina Aid from Cuba? No Thanks, Says US

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605D.shtml

Despite Bush administration assurances that international aid offers

will be kept free of politics, Cold War tensions seem to be freezing out

help from Cuba. In separate Washington press briefings, both the White

House and State Department spokesmen this week downplayed the Cuban

government's offer to send some 1,600 medics, field hospitals and 83 tons

of medical supplies to ease the humanitarian disaster.

 

 

Katrina Shakes Global Faith in US

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605E.shtml

Readers and commentators from abroad are watching images of chaos and

despair in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and are wondering how a

country so mighty could have fallen so far.

 

 

David Helvarg | We Asked for It

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605F.shtml

" There's a 9/11 waiting to happen in the oceans if we let it, " retired

Adm. James Watkins, chairman of the US Commission on Ocean Policy,

warned two years ago. With Hurricane Katrina, we let it happen, David

Helvarg remarks. A huge natural disaster was hugely magnified by greed,

folly and a refusal to respond to a situation long recognized as critical.

 

 

Revealed: BAE's Secret Payments to Pinochet

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605G.shtml

Britain's biggest arms firm, BAE Systems, has been identified on US

banking records as secretly paying more than £1m to General Augusto

Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator.

 

 

Patrick Sabatier | Dangers

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605H.shtml

Democracy does not arrive by decree; it comes through building. Patrick

Sabatier suggests there are dangers beyond the upcoming Afghan

elections to the new state being created there.

 

 

Chavez at UN: US " Terrorist State "

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605I.shtml

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez called the United States a " terrorist

state " and said the United Nations headquarters should be moved away

from New York.

 

 

A Bid to Repair a Presidency

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605J.shtml

Hurricane Katrina struck at the core of Bush's presidency by

undermining the central assertion of his reelection campaign, that he

was a

strong and decisive leader who could keep the country safe in a crisis.

Never again will the White House be able to point to his often-praised

performance after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, without skeptics

recalling

the fumbling and slow-off-the-mark response of his administration after

the hurricane and the flooding in New Orleans.

 

 

US Tempers Its View of Victory in Iraq

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605K.shtml

The Pentagon hoped to quell unrest before a pullout, but violence is

changing US goals.

 

 

Max Blumenthal | The Many Faces of Dr. Coburn

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605L.shtml

Max Blumenthal tells us that on April 7, five months prior to the

Roberts hearing, Michael Schwartz, Tom Coburn's chief of staff, told him,

" Tom doesn't know anything about this judiciary stuff, so I'm feeding him

piles and piles of memos every day. "

 

 

Voting May Be Life-and-Death Choice for Afghans

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605M.shtml

Nearly four years after the Taliban government was routed from

Afghanistan by American-led forces, a newly emboldened insurgency has

stepped

up a campaign of threats and thuggery on the eve of the country's

parliamentary and provincial elections, particularly in the badlands

of the

country's south. Elsewhere, the presence of former warlords on the

ballot has led to charges of voter intimidation.

 

 

Chip Ward | Left Behind: Bush's Holy War on Nature

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605N.shtml

Chip Ward tells us that the Bush administration's environmental record

is lousy. More than lousy, it is potentially disastrous. But why? At

first glance, it's easy enough to understand. Philosophically,

Republicans believe in the power of the marketplace to shape behavior.

Their

animosity toward government regulation is long-standing. They

emphasize the

rights of private-property owners over any notion of the commons, and

so are comfortable letting corporations pursue profit at the expense of

air or water quality.

 

 

Massachusetts Lawmakers Reject Bid to Stop Same-Sex Marriages

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605O.shtml

Amid a pep-rally atmosphere, Massachusetts legislators on Wednesday

overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to halt same-sex marriages here -

showing how quickly gay nuptials have moved from being a court-ordered

imposition to a powerful political cause.

 

 

44 Oil Spills Found in Southeast Louisiana

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605Y.shtml

More than 500 specialists are working to clean up 44 oil spills ranging

from several hundred gallons to nearly 4 million gallons, the US Coast

Guard said in an assessment that goes far beyond initial reports of

just two significant spills.

 

 

Camp Casey Memorial Stolen

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605Z.shtml

The Camp Casey Memorial on Prairie Chapel Road was removed by thieves

earlier today. Not a single item is left at the memorial site.

 

 

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