Tuesday, February 22, 2005

QUOTE OF THE DAY ... If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him. Mark Twain

BUSH DISAPPOINTS EUROPE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE IDEAS
Jeff Mason, Reuters [UK]

[European Protesters ... Hurray!]
Brussels - US President G.W. Bush has disappointed European environmental activists who had hoped for a wider commitment from the worlds largest polluter to fighting global warming.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0222-09.htm

LIVE FROM NEW YORK ITS THE WHOLE NEWS AND NOTHING BUT THE NEWS

BUILDING BLOGS
Zack Pelta-Heller, AlterNet
Online journals are under fire in Iran, but bloggers there and around the world refuse to let their voices be silenced.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21316/

WHY BUSH WILL FAIL IN EUROPE
William Pfaff, The Guardian [UK]
The president has an enormous political gulf to bridge. The trouble is, he doesn't even know it's there.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0220-22.htm

SLEUTHS OF SPIN
Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet
By harnessing the investigative power of hundreds of citizen journalists, media activists John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton aim to reinvent journalism.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21307/

WILL BERT AND ERNIE BE NEXT?
Marty Jezer Commentary
http://commondreams.org/views05/0221-22.htm

CATCH AND RELEASE
Ben Lynfield, Christian Science Monitor
Opinions are mixed on Israel's release of 500 Palestinian prisoners.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21317/

BUSH'S JOURNALISM JIHAD EXPOSED
Dave Zweifel, Capital Times
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0221.23.htm

A CHURCH AT THE CROSSROADS
Heidi Schlumpf, Sojourners
Sex abuse scandal, priest shortages, celibacy, ordaining women: The issues roiling the Catholic Church offer challenges -- and hope? -- for the future.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21306/

A JURY OF HER PEERS
Kathy Plonsky, Brain, Child
A single mother on trial has a right to be judged by a jury of her peers. But what if the jurors can't find childcare for their own children?
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21296/

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