August 12, 2003
Tuesday Reading
Pedantry on the cost of American military, a piece on Islamic finance, and the integration of Mennonites into Paraguayan society.
Over at Lunaville, elvis56 brings to our attention those stories about Iraq that we won't see on Fox.
Body and Soul has a very moving post asking What Would Bobby Do, that starts with a discussion of Robert Kennedy's response to a group of doctors trying to bring attention to hungry children in America.
Making Light brings us the news that Fox News is pretty thin-skinned, and apparently, more boneheaded than even I thought. Go find out why they're trying to stop the publication of Al Franken's forthcoming book.
Emma of Late Night Thoughts has returned from vacation, and tells why she knows that gay marriage is a dead issue on which conservatives will gain no traction.
Sisyphus on the administration's repeated efforts to politicize scientific information.
Vietnam still living with Agent Orange, US says the matter needs more study.
The Guerrilla News Network on the ongoing entanglements of US government and World Bank funded projects run as partnerships with Enron.
The Guardian with an editorial about the nuclear trouble caused by John Bolton's big mouth, and another about our ostrich approach to global warming. They also point out that the brightest economic spots in Europe this year are the Balkan economies, which are growing at quite a clip.
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