MSNBC

11/17/05

Americans' appetite for world leadership [sic] has waned significantly since before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, with more than two-fifths saying the United States should mind its own business, according to a major new survey released Thursday. The survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Council on Foreign Relations, found an isolationist [sic] streak that rivals sentiments that emerged in the mid-1970s in the aftermath of the Vietnam War...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10086642/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Elizabeth de la Vega, TomPaine.com

Why Scooter Libby's "some other guy did it" defense won't work.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051118/libbys_blame_game.php

A bipartisan group of senators threatened to derail the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act today, only hours after Congressional negotiators had seemed on the verge of an agreement to extend and keep largely intact its sweeping antiterrorism powers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111805Z.shtml

Enrollment begins this week for the Bush administration's shiny new Medicare drug plan. "But very few of my patients are enrolling or even asking about it," says Doctor Marc Siegel. He goes on to explore why.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/111705HB.shtml

People injured by a vaccine against bird flu or anthrax would have to prove willful misconduct to bring a claim for damages against drug manufacturers or distributors, according to legislation being drafted behind the scenes by Republicans.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/111705HA.shtml


http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Vaccines/

Cheney's rough-edged remarks, and the president's unequivocal endorsement of them, were the latest in the Bush administration's new campaign to challenge critics of the Iraq war, accusing them of twisting the historical record about how and why the war was launched. Yet in accusing these critics of "rewriting history," Bush, Cheney, and other senior administration officials are tinkering with the truth themselves.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111705T.shtml

My name is Katherine Jashinski. I am a SPC in the Texas Army National Guard. I have a deeply held belief that people must solve all conflicts through peaceful diplomacy and without the use of violence. Violence only begets more violence.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111705S.shtml

Legislation to fund many of the nation's health, education and social programs went down to a startling defeat in the House on Thursday, led by Democrats who said cuts in the bill hurt some of America's neediest people.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111705Q.shtml

http://michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4904


Informant: John Calvert