Thursday, March 03, 2005

HEAR YEA! HEAR YEA! ITS THE NEWS!

DEARTH OF A NATION
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, Washington Monthly
America's economy is losing its high-tech competitive edge and Washington hasn't noticed.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21400/

NEW POLL FINDS BUSH PRIORITIES ARE OUT OF STEP WITH AMERICANS
A.Nagourney & J.Elder, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/politics/03poll.html?hp&ex=1109912400&en=1b7c8514d044e85b&ei=5094&partner=homepage

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
Jennifer Nix, AlterNet
Amy Goodman, Michael Moore, Al Franken: Why line the pockets of corporate publishers? The time has come for progressive authors -- concerned about media reform -- to make a commitment to independent book publishing.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21397/

BUSH FAILING IN SOCIAL SECURITY PUSH [AARP, Greenspan Most Trusted on Social Security]
The PEW Research Center for the People and the Press

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=238

SOUTHERN STRATEGIES
Chris Kromm, The Nation
To win back the South, Democrats and progressives must find answers to two questions: What kind of politics can -- and should -- win in the region? And what are our bedrock values and long-term vision for the future?
http://www.alternet.org/story/21396/

CLEANING UP FACTORY FARMS
J.R. Pegg, Environment News Service
The Bush administration thinks it's perfectly OK to let factory farms discharge waste into the nation's waters. A federal appeals court says the policy stinks.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21391/

GUNNER PALACE
Documentary by Michael Tucker & Petra Epperlein
Rolling Stone Review by Peter Travers
GUNNER PALACE is a riveting and indispensable record of the war in Iraq because it comes from the men who lived it.
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/_/id/6824107?rnd=1109875079814&has-player=false

I SPY A SELLOUT
Matt Taibbi, New York Press
A former rabble-rousing liberal joins the 'with us or against us' crowd.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21390/



QUOTE OF THE DAY ... Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. Thomas Jefferson

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