AlterNet - May 18, 2006

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The Story That Might Have Stopped 9/11 | The War on Sex

 

 

 

 

Top Stories from AlterNet for May 18, 2006

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AN ALTERNET EXCLUSIVE: Former New York Times reporter

Judy Miller tells Rory O'Connor and William Scott Malone about

the story she'll regret for the rest of her life.

 

THE 9/11 STORY THAT GOT AWAY

Rory O'Connor, William Scott Malone, AlterNet

In 2001, an anonymous White House source leaked top-secret

NSA intelligence to reporter Judith Miller that Al Qaeda

was planning a major attack on the U.S. But the story never

made it into the paper.

http://www.alternet.org/story/36388/

 

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THE WAR ON SEX

Cristina Page, TomPaine.com

The groups trying to ban abortion have another plan up their

sleeve: restricting your access to contraception.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/36371/

 

DAUGHTERS OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION

Amy DePaul, WireTap

Unlike their Iranian-born parents, Persian-American women

are not longing for a lost homeland. But they still feel

torn between cultures.

http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/36303/

 

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http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/

 

DAILY SHOW DECONSTRUCTS BUSH'S IMMIGRATION SPEECH

George Bush: " We cannot build a unified country by

inciting people to anger or playing on anyone's fears. "

Jon Stewart: " That's what terrorism and gay people are for. "

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/36376/

 

HANNITY: 'GLOBAL WARMING JUST A LIBERAL SCARE TACTIC'

Fox's Sean Hannity and his CATO cohort go on the attack against

Al Gore's new environmental documentary.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/36375/

 

COLBERT: 'KNOWLEDGE OF WAR IS BAD FOR YOU'

This video may cause " Journal Leakage " -- the army Surgeon

General says to watch at your own risk!

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/36374/

 

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EXCERPT: THE KATRINA EFFECT

Jared Bernstein, AlterNet

In the wreckage that followed Hurricane Katrina, we saw the

failure of Bush's 'You're-on-your-own' economic and social

policies.

http://www.alternet.org/story/36294/

 

YOUR ECONOMY OR YOUR LIFE

G. Pascal Zachary, AlterNet

Jared Bernstein explains how Republicans are dividing the

spoils among themselves and leaving the rest of us to fend

for ourselves -- and how we can change the trend.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/36278/

 

BUSH'S BORDER FOLLY

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Pacific News Service

Bush latched onto the troops-on-the-border issue in part to

show that he can get a policy initiative through Congress,

but mainly to appease conservatives.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/36380/

 

BUSH MORE RIGHT THAN WRONG ON IMMIGRATION

Robert Scheer, Truthdig

What's different is that the president is, at long last,

dealing with a subject he actually knows something about.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/36379/

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** New in THE MIX:

 

Laura Barcella on why Sri-Lankan born rapper MIA

was denied a visa to enter America

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/36387/

 

Joshua Holland's latest Bush and co. conspiracy theory

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/36384/

 

** New in THE ECHO CHAMBER:

 

Jeffrey Feldman: how Bush's immigration speech avoided

the real issues of racism -- and incited fear-mongering

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/echochamber/36352/

 

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