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March 2005

Thursday, March 31
  • UN Monitor: War on Iraq Has Doubled Malnutrition Among Iraqi Children
  • Most Americans Say No Nations Should Have Nuclear Weapons
  • Guantánamo Bay Captives Tell Their Side
  • Terry Schiavo Dies
  • Ousted Kyrgyzstan President Blames US for Coups
  • Canadian Waters Stained Red by Baby Seal Cull
  • Iraq WMD Report to Lay Blame on CIA
  • Electronic Voting Problems Discovered in Miami-Dade County
  • Bush is Hostage to Religious Right, Says Top Republican
  • Mental Disorders Are On the Rise Among Afghanistan, Iraq Veterans
  • A Year After the Launch of the Air America Radio Network, Progressive Talk is Making Progress
  • Senator gives big boost to Byrd; Obama's Appeal Helps Raise $634,000
  • UN Rights Expert Charges US Using Food Access as Military Tactic
  • U.S. Soldiers Told to "Beat the F**k Out of" Detainees

    Wednesday, March 30
  • The State of the World? It is on the Brink of Disaster
  • Bush Critics Blocked from Presidential Events
  • Commander Approved Interrogations Violating Geneva Conventions: ACLU
  • US Treasury Gives Int'l Banks "Free Ride" - Group
  • Nine States Sue Gov't Over Mercury Rules
  • US Treasury Gives Int'l Banks "Free Ride" - Group
  • Nine States Sue Gov't Over Mercury Rules
  • Suit by Detainee on Transfer to Syria Finds Support in Jet's Log
  • Powell Says U.S. Was 'Too Loud' Over Iraq -Magazine
  • Case Allegedly Shows U.S. Practice of Secret Arrests
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer Wants Deadline for Leaving Iraq
  • Report Clears UN Chief of Corruption Allegations

    Tuesday, March 29
  • 'We Are In Crisis': Iraq Parliament in Uproar Over Stalemate
  • Judges Say Overhaul Would Weaken Bankruptcy System
  • 59 American Ex-Diplomats Oppose Bolton
  • Female Students in Fear as Shias Push for Headscarves
  • Oil Clouds Gather Over Alaskan Eden
  • Florida 'Journalist' On Jeb Bush's State Payroll
  • Homeland Security Gives Grant for $10,000 Toy
  • A Ban on New 5th Avenue Parades? Who Knew?
  • Brazil: Battle for the Heart of the Rainforest
  • US Arms Industry Fishing in Troubled South Asian Waters
  • Unlikely Bedfellows Lobby Against U.S. Gas-Guzzlers
  • Bush Shows No Remorse for Fake Newscasts

    Monday, March 28
  • Bee Killer Imperils Crops
  • Missiles, Microbes Missing in Iraq
  • Nuclear Fuel Storage Method Questioned
  • Business is Basking in Strong GOP Majority
  • Some Pharmacists Say No to Filling Birth-Control Prescriptions
  • Sunnis' Exclusion from Political Process Stokes Fears of Civil War
  • Public Displeasure Prompts US Politicians to Tread Gently in Schiavo Case
  • Activists Gear Up to Fight Seal and Elephant Culls
  • White House Turns Up Heat on Social Security; Medicare in More Serious Danger, Warn Critics

    Sunday, March 27
  • Largest Seal Cull in Half a Century Reaches Bloody Climax
  • DeLay's Pulled Plug on Own Father
  • Gays Aren't Allowed to Visit Their Partners Hospital
  • Bush's U.N. Nominee Still Faces a Fight
  • Progressives Seek Common Ground: Web Project Aims to Define, Promote Democrats' Beliefs

    Saturday, March 26
  • U.S. Troops Tortured Iraqis in Mosul, Documents Show
  • Bush's Approval Rating Hits New Low for His Presidency - Only 45%
  • Jeb Bush's Troopers Backed Down in 'Showdown' with Local Police
  • Bush Administration Misled Public, Press, Congress on Passenger Data, Report Says
  • Man Sells Device That Blocks Fox News

    Friday, March 25
  • Anti-War Prankster Smuggles Art Into Top Museums
  • The Rabbi Who Pricks Israel's Conscience
  • Bush's Social Security Plan Is Losing Support, Pew Poll Shows
  • Agency's Web Site Out of Sync With Bush Plan
  • Circus Comes to Town - and With it, Animal-Rights Activists
  • Rehearsals for the Rapture
  • U.S. Deserter Denied Asylum
  • Conservatives Invoke Case in Fund-Raising Campaigns
  • Documentary Filmmaker Danny Schechter Reflects on a Dangerous Turn in the Media
  • Pressure Mounts on U.S. as Darfur Vote Looms
  • Army Investigators Says 27 Iraqis and Afghans Killed in U.S. Custody

    Thursday, March 24
  • Canada Begins Annual Seal Cull Amid Call to Boycott its Seafood
  • Smoking Gun? UK Foreign Office Official's Resignation Letter Reveals Change of Mind on Legality of Iraq War
  • Access to Land Essential to Eradicating Poverty, Experts Say
  • Green-Themed World Expo a First for the Millennium
  • Poll: Even Evangelicals Oppose Bush, Congress on Schiavo
  • No Bull: Animal Rights Group to Stage 'Running of the Nudes'
  • Group Decries Abortion Records Searches
  • Army to Use 'Patriotic' Appeal After Missing Recruiting Goals Again
  • Insurgents Control Raided 'Qaeda-Baath' Training Camp in Iraq

    Wednesday, March 23
  • Left and Right Unite to Challenge Patriot Act Provisions
  • Administration Kept Mum About Unapproved Modified Corn Sold
  • EPA Chided for Disregarding Mercury Study
  • India's Clampdown on Generic Drugs Imperils World's Poor, Say Advocates
  • Republicans Have Deserted Their Core Principles, Critics Say
  • Sandinista Official Says U.S. Is Meddling
  • On World Water Day, One Billion People Still Lack a Clean Supply
  • Death at 'Immoral' Picnic in the Park
  • Wife of Sailor Battles U.S. Over Abortion

    Tuesday, March 22
  • More of F.B.I. Memo Criticizing Guantánamo Methods Is Released
  • 'Inconsistent': Texas Law Signed by Bush Enters Debate
  • The End for GM Crops: Final British Trial Confirms Threat to Wildlife
  • Pentagon Reaffirms Globocop Role
  • World Water Day 2005: Private Sector Wants to Own Every Drop
  • Landmark U.N. Report on Reform Gets Mixed Reviews
  • Pentagon Reaffirms Globocop Role
  • Student Banned from Bush Speech for Wearing 'Young Democrat' T-Shirt
  • Europe Prepares Its Case Against Wolfowitz

    Monday, March 21
  • Israeli Photographs Show Extensive New Illegal Settlements
  • Rock Dust Grows Extra-Big Vegetables (and Might Save Us from Global Warming)
  • Universities Squirm After Donations Linked to Corporate Criminals
  • World Water Day: EU Urged to Stop Privatization
  • Nonprofit Groups Question Motive for Federal Actions
  • Guantanamo Abuse 'Videotaped'
  • U.S. Rallies Mark Iraq Anniversary, Reflect Anti-War Groups' Growth, Challenges

    Sunday, March 20
  • Stiglitz Warns of Violence If Wolfowitz Goes to World Bank
  • EU Fury Grows at Wolfowitz Appointment
  • Creationists Take Their Fight to the Really Big Screen
  • Boston Red Sox Jet Tied to Secret Guantanamo Flights
  • Anger and Grief Mark Second Anniversary of Iraq War
  • MI6 Chief Told Blair That US 'Fixed' Case for Iraq War
  • White House Contender in 'Quackery' Row Over Dying Woman

    Saturday, March 19
  • Policy OKs First Strike to Protect US
  • Tens of Thousands March Through London in Iraq War Protest
  • Don't Deposit Wolfowitz with Us, Plead World Bank Workers
  • Opposition to Wolfowitz Gathers Steam
  • Two Years After the War Began, A Growing Number of US Troops are Refusing to Return to Iraq
  • Arms Inspector Turned Peace Activist Says Get Ready for the Draft
  • Afghanistan: 'One Huge US Jail'
  • Parents of Slain Soldiers Protest US Involvement in Iraq
  • Estes Park Property to Remain 'Peace Tree' Free

    Friday, March 18
  • Senate Nod to Arctic Oil Drilling Stiffens Opposition
  • Soldiers' Families to Hold Anti-War Rally at Ft. Bragg
  • Your Guide to a Weekend of Resistance
  • Kerry Intensifies Attack on Bush
  • Reflections of a Firebrand: As Chronic Heart Failure Saps His Health
  • Suburbs a World Away from War
  • Questions Are Left by C.I.A. Chief on the Use of Torture
  • Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Vanunu Faces New Jail Term

    Thursday, March 17
  • Many Iraqis Losing Hope That Politics Will Yield Real Change
  • Mercury Pollution, Autism Link Found - U.S. Study
  • Wolfowitz Pick for World Bank Prompts Head-Scratching
  • Journalists Tell of US Falluja Killings
  • EPA Watchdog to Investigate Halliburton Drilling Method Backed by White House
  • Scientists Suspected of Falsifying Documents on Nuclear Waste Site
  • Kerry: Bush $2.6T Budget Plan Dishonest
  • Italian Press Cynical on Troop Move
  • Massachusetts Activists Protest CAT Bulldozer Use by Israel
  • Bush FDA Choice Rattles Advocacy Groups

    Wednesday, March 16
  • Senate Votes to Open Alaskan Oil Drilling; How Did Your Senators Vote?
  • Tom Ridge's October Surprise
  • 162 House Democrats Vote to Give Bush $81 Billion More for Iraq War; How Did Your US Rep Vote?
  • Senate Democrats Erect Shield to Obstruct "Nuclear Option"
  • U.S. Military Says 26 Inmate Deaths May Be Homicide
  • Democrats Raise Concerns Over Iraq
  • Americans Worry About Casualties, Costs on Second Anniversary of Iraq War: Poll
  • As Anti-War Sentiment Mounts, More Nations Dropping Out of U.S.-Led Coalition in Iraq
  • Group to Stage Anti-War March on Recruitment Centers
  • Ex-'Baywatch' Star Arrested at Protest to Save Electric Cars
  • Too Soon to Talk of Arabian Spring
  • Bush Taps Hardliner Wolfowitz as New World Bank President
  • Groups Condemn EPA's Mercury Rule

    Tuesday, March 15
  • Showdown Vote Approaches on Arctic Drilling
  • Judge Strikes Down Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
  • Interrogators for Hire
  • Pakistan Reviving Nuclear Black Market, Experts Say
  • White House to Agencies: Ignore GAO's Ruling On 'illegal' TV News Releases
  • Dueling Demonstrations: Thousands Demand Syria Leave Lebanon
  • Show's Not So 'Purrfect' for Female Forces In Iraq
  • African-American Youths Are Rejecting Army, Military Says
  • Business Lobby Pushing Agenda Before Judicial Showdown Deadlocks Senate

    Monday, March 14
  • Critic Alleges Homeland Security's Ridge Urged 'Spin'
  • GIs Shoot Iraq battle Footage and Edit it Into Music Videos Filled with Death and Destruction
  • Guantánamo Prisoners Win Transfer Reprieve
  • Here is the News... from President Bush
  • Business, RNC Lend Hand to Bush Blitz
  • UN has Proof of Hariri Murder Cover-Up- Report
  • Revealed: Israel Plans Strike on Iranian Nuclear Plant
  • Kerik's Royalties Shocker: Gets 75G for 9/11 Book
  • Prosecutors: G8 Protesters Were Abused
  • Iraq Toll Makes 2004 Worst Year for Press in a Decade
  • Mount Kilimanjaro Photo Wake-Up Call for Action Against Global Warming

    Saturday, March 12
  • Bankruptcy Bill Said to Hit Poorest Americans Hardest
  • World's Women Stand Together for Equality
  • Uncle Sam Really, Really Wants You...

    Friday, March 11
  • Annan Attacks Erosion of Rights in War on Terror
  • Nixon Library Stirs Anger by Canceling Conference
  • Another Body Blow Hits the Questionable Case for Conflict
  • Foreigners On US Death Row No Longer Have Right to Make International Appeal
  • Remembering All Those Arguments Made 1,500 Deaths Ago
  • Britain's Terrorism Debate Rages as Suspects Go Free
  • ABC Edits Fox News Out of 'Boston Legal'
  • Bush's Unipolar World View Re-Affirmed
  • Vietnam Fury at Agent Orange Case

    Thursday, March 10
  • Pentagon Clears Top Personnel, Policies in Abuses
  • 60 Years Ago: US Firebombing of Tokyo Killed 100,000 Civilians
  • U.S. Says It Has Withdrawn From World Judicial Body
  • Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction
  • Personal Accounts Could Hasten Social Security Shortfall, GAO Finds
  • Planet Faces Nightmare Forecasts as Chinese Consumption Grows and Grows
  • Beirut Crowd Shows Support for Syrian Role
  • Evangelical Leaders Swing Influence Behind Effort to Combat Global Warming
  • Italy PM Disputes U.S. Version of Shooting

    Wednesday, March 9
  • War on Terror May Breed More Terrorism, Experts Tell Madrid Summit
  • Military News Programs Secure a Public Outlet
  • Report: Nation's Infrastructure Crumbling
  • Bush's Spending Priorities Not in Line with Americans' - Poll
  • Bush Risks Losing the Plot Over Cuba
  • Senate Gearing Up for Fight Over Oil Drilling in Alaska
  • Former Marine Offers Cautionary War Story
  • Pulitzer Winner Hersh Gives Skeptical Outlook On Iraq
  • U.S. Bullets Found in Body Armor of Dead Bulgarian
  • CDOT Fells the "Peace Tree"
  • Seminar Eyes 'Good Ol' Boy' Gap for Progressives
  • Documents Suggest Bigger DeLay Role in Donations

    Tuesday, March 8
  • Few Climbing Aboard to Help Rescue Amtrak
  • Only 2 Low-Ranking Reservists Face Punishment in Detainees' Deaths
  • US Soldiers Accused of Sex Assaults
  • Global March for Equal Rights Begins on Women's Day
  • Italy Demands Justice from U.S. Over Iraq Death
  • Hizbollah Draws Vast Pro-Syrian Crowds in Beirut
  • More Schools are Saying 'No' to Logos
  • Bulgarian Green Leader Threatened With Death
  • Video Documents Iraqi Prisoner Abuse by US Soldiers

    Monday, March 7
  • On Social Security, Lieberman the Centrist Ruffles Democratic Feathers
  • US 'Could End World Poverty by 2025'
  • Bush Accused of 'Fiddling While World Burns' by Ignoring Climate Change
  • Summit May Favor Tackling Causes of Terrorism Over Military Response
  • Anti-Mine Lobby Lists 90 Blighted Lands
  • May's Attack Shows Anguish of Scientists Over Kyoto Protocol
  • Tens of Thousands Said Raped in East Congo
  • 'Bloody Sunday' Anniversary Highlights New Voting Rights Campaign
  • Bush Appoints Right-Wing Extremist to UN Post
  • Friendly Fire in Iraq Takes Toll on U.S.-Led Coalition - and Iraqis

    Sunday, March 6
  • Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails
  • Italy Grieves as Hostage Accuses US of Murder
  • Nuclear Waste Dumped on Britain's Beaches
  • U.S. Army Struggles to Coax Recruits Amid Iraq War

    Saturday, March 5
  • Hostage Recalls 'Hail of Gunfire'
  • Sgrena, A Fighter Against War and Degradation of Women
  • UN Inspectors: 90 Dangerous Sites Looted in Iraq
  • Venezuela's Chavez Says U.S. Plotting His Murder
  • US Attack Against Italians in Baghdad was Deliberate: Companion
  • US Draws Jeers for Abortion Comments at UN

    Friday, March 4
  • Freed Italian Hostage 'Wounded', Negotiator Killed, by US Fire
  • Brazil Triumphs Over U.S. in WTO Subsidies Dispute
  • US Bars Nicaragua Heroine as 'Terrorist'
  • 'I Just Want to Survive and Go Home With All My Body Parts'
  • Saddam's Son Uday Was Poised to Topple Dad
  • Vietnam War Victims of Agent Orange Poisoning Sue US Chemical Companies
  • Bush Greeted by Protestors in Garden State
  • Abortion Stance Isolating U.S. at Global Women's Conference

    Thursday, March 3
  • For Some Central Europeans, US Losing Luster
  • Labor Leaders Reject Rival Plan to Shift More Money to Organizing
  • Portrait Exhibit at Syracuse Gives Faces to Soldiers Killed in Iraq
  • China Lashes Out at Serious US Human Rights Violations
  • 'Just Say No' Called Deadly Advice by Drug Experts
  • Buy Local Produce and Save the World
  • Maximum Pain is Aim of New US Weapon
  • U.S. Troops Deaths in Iraq Top 1,500
  • New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans

    Wednesday, March 2
  • Iraq War Lands in the Midst of Vermont's Town Hall Meetings
  • US Becomes Last Country to End Death Penalty for Under-18s
  • Peace Prize Winner Appeals to U.S. to Forgive Kenya's Debt
  • Arctic Ozone Loss Concerns Researchers
  • US-Mideast: Peace Move Could Be the Kiss of Death
  • US Demand Causes Outcry at UN Meeting
  • Studies Show Crisis Among US Black Men
  • Moyers Discusses Iraq, President Bush, Poetry
  • Canada a Haven Again as American Soldiers Head North
  • Rove Uses Campaign Playbook to Mastermind Social Security Fight
  • With Clout and Civility, Vermonters Debate the War

    Tuesday, March 1
  • ACLU, Ex-Detainees to Sue Rumsfeld Over Abuse
  • Nuclear Survivors Say They Were Fed Lies in Government Cover-Ups
  • America Urges UN to Renounce Abortion Rights
  • New Dispute Blows Through Wind Energy
  • How Latin America Turned to the Left
  • Skepticism Over Renewed Military Ties With Indonesia
  • Ethical Shopping Bears Fruit for Fair-Trade Farmers
  • Montana Governor Isn't Cowed by Bush
  • Lebanon Slips Into Political Turmoil

    February 2005

     
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