The
Nation.
THE
STRUGGLE FOR RUSSIA
by Stephen F. Cohen
The
arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the principal owner
of Russia's biggest oil company, Yukos, and the richest
of the country's seventeen state-anointed billionaire
oligarchs, has spurred allegations of authoritarian
tactics by Russia's President... [Full
Story]
COLLAPSE
IN CANCÚN
by Doug Henwood
The
mid-September failure of the World Trade Organization's
ministerial conference in Cancún... [Full
Story]
DYING
FOR AIDS DRUGS
by Esther Kaplan | 16 October 2003
As
the growing epidemic slams up against state austerity
measures, ADAP has descended into crisis, and Republicans
in Washington have refused to intervene. As of early
October, more than 600 people with HIV have been denied
access to medications through the program.
[Full
Story]
Mother
Jones
FOOD
FOR THOUGHT
27
November 2003
A
new U.N.
report says that hunger around the world is increasing,
with the number of undernourished people up to almost
850 million, an increase of 18 million from the mid
1990s. Perhaps more shockingly, at least in this country,
is that around 30 million Americans aren't getting
enough to eat this year. [Full
Story]
DEFICIT
DISORDER
26 November 2003
The
bipartisan Concord Coalition, which monitors federal
spending, called the first six months of 2003, the
"most fiscally irresponsible in recent memory."
The result is a budget deficit that looks set to soar
to $500 billion at the end of 2004. [Full
Story]
CHAD
2.0
Computer voting was supposed to revolutionize
elections. But has it just updated old problems?
Tech experts say voting-terminal technology lags years
behind the state of the art in both encryption and
design. Not only are the machines susceptible to the
kinds of voting mishaps--undervotes, misvotes--that
produced Bush v. Gore, but they also may be vulnerable
to hackers bent on stealing an election. [Full
Story]
TOXIC
IMMUNITY
by
Jon R. Luoma
Faced
with a hazardous-waste crisis, the Pentagon is pushing
hard to exempt itself from the nation's environmental
laws. [Full
Story]
THE
MAKING OF THE CORPORATE JUDICIARY
by Michael Scherer
How big business is quietly funding a judicial revolution
in the nation's courts... [Full
Story]
Earth
Policy Institute
WORLD
FACING FOURTH CONSECUTIVE GRAIN HARVEST SHORTFALL
Lester R. Brown
As
rising temperatures and falling water tables hamstring
farmers' efforts to expand production, prices of wheat
and rice are turning upward. [Keep
Reading]
WORLD
CREATING FOOD BUBBLE ECONOMY BASED
ON UNSUSTAINABLE USE OF WATER
Lester R. Brown
As
world water demand has tripled over the last half-century,
it has exceeded the sustainable yield of aquifers
in scores of countries, leading to falling water tables.
In effect, governments are satisfying the growing
demand for food by overpumping groundwater, a measure
that virtually assures a drop in food production when
the aquifer is depleted.
[Keep
Reading]
ILLEGAL
LOGGING THREATENS ECOLOGICAL & ECONOMIC STABILITY
Janet Larsen
Rampant
deforestation, much of it from illegal logging, has
destroyed forests that stabilize soils and regulate
river flow, causing record floods and landslides.
[Keep
Reading]
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AL ESPAÑOL
The
Wilson Quarterly
THE
KNOW NOTHING VOTE
People
respond to surveys all the time, even on subjects
about which they know absolutely nothing... [Keep
Reading]
A
WORLD ON THE EDGE
by Amy Chua
Is
the current formula for universal free markets and
democracy spurring ethnic violence around the world?
[Keep
Reading]
GIVE
AMERICANS THE RIGHT TO VOTE!
A Brief Review of “Shoring Up
the Right to Vote for President: A Modest Proposal”
by Alexander Keyssar
Though
attention soon shifted elsewhere in all the excitement
at the close of the 2000 election, when Republicans
in the Florida legislature threatened to select the
state’s presidential electors, it came as a shock
even to many knowledgeable observers that Americans
do not possess a constitutionally guaranteed right
to vote for president. [Keep
Reading]
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