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Each week we review dozens of articles and essays from both corporate and independent media sources and choose one or more that we believe brings you important information on relevant issues or an exceptionally useful or unique perspective. Opinions presented do not necessarily reflect those of ReclaimDemocracy.org

December 2003

Checking Your Bill for a New Charge Called 'Oops'

New York Times

Waking Up from the American Dream: Meritocracy and Equal Opportunity Are Fading Fast

Business Week

John Ashcroft Gets a Bye in Investigation of Campaign Financing Fraud

Washington Post

When Workers Die: U.S. Rarely Seeks Charges for Deaths in Workplace

New York Times

Real Conservatives Honor Free Speech

The American Conservative

Computers Are "Dumbing Down" Our Schools and Kids

San Francisco Chronicle

Monsanto Corporation v. Percy Schmeiser

CBC News Online

Republican Energy Bill Gives Away Billions to Bush Investors

The Washington Post

U.S. Government Spending Under Bush Is Highest Since World War II

The Christian Science Monitor

Striking Home: Will an American Middle Class Survive?

Los Angeles Times

November 2003

Dissent Criminalized in Miami: Bill of Rights Trashed by Police and Federal Agents

americas.org

Health Care Models Compared: Canada vs. U.S.

The Wall St Journal

Secrets, Lies, and Electronic Voting

Reason Magazine

The Real Test: Did the Kids Learn to Think?

The Los Angeles Times

October 2003

Corporate Tax Dodges Grow

TomPaine.com

Free Speech Denied: "Protest Pens" at Bush Events Disgrace Our Constitution

Toronto Star

School Lunches Dumping Ground for Agribusiness

TomPaine.com

Era of Big Government Makes a Comeback

The Missoulian

September 2003

Small Business Owners Raising Their Voice

S.F. Chronicle

How Media Giants Are Reassembling The Old Oligopoly

the Wall Street journal

Bush Fulfills Corporations' Wish List for Dismantling Environmental Laws

Knight-Ridder Newspapers

Solution to Energy Woes? Localization

TomPaine.com

August 2003

Powell's Push Toward Iraq War Questioned

The Associated Press

The Point of Departures: Just Sentences Require Judicial Discretion

Reason Magazine

Ignoring Custom Can Be Destructive

The Washington Post

Rank Divides America

Newsday

July 2003

Bush Gives Legal Immunity to Transnational Oil Corporations in Iraq

TomPaine.com

Senate Bill Would Ban Routine Feeding of Antibiotics

The Portland (Maine) Press Herald

George Bush & the Rhetoric of Fear

The Nation

Corporations Trading With the Enemy

Mother Jones

California High Court Rules Against Intel in E-mail Case

The Wall Street Journal

June 2003

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps' Dissent

Statement from FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps, June 2, 2003

No Corporate Welfare for Nuclear Power

Chicago Tribune

What Would Jesus Do? Sock It to Alabama's Corporate Landowners

The New York Time

Rich in Imagination

Monbiot.com

May 2003

Your Tax Dollars, Their Agenda

St. Petersburg Times

Corporate Military Force Was the Target of Saudi Bombing

Pacific News Service

Fines Aren't Holding Corporations Accountable

Forbes.com

Bush Suppresses September 11 Investigation Report

Newsweek

April 2003

'No Fly' List Challenged in Lawsuit

The New York Times

Community-Owned Department Stores Replace Chains

The Home Town Advantage Bulletin

Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture No. 3

excerpt from the book Fatal Harvest

States Hooked on Cigarettes

The Wall Street Journal

Contracts Doled Out to Rebuild Iraq are Questioned

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

March 2003

Democracy in Iraq? Be careful

The Washington Post

Gouging the Uninsured for Health Care

The Wall Street Journal

"Why I'm Resigning as U.S. Ambassador"

John Brady Kiesling

U.S. National Security Administration Allegedly Spying on U.N. Delegates

Observer/UK

February 2003

Estrada Fight's True Victor? Democracy

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Independent Ranchers Fight Corporate Control

Writers on the Range

"Senior Citizen" Front Groups Exposed

AARP

U.S. Education: Separate & Unequal

Los Angeles Times

Contemplating the Horrors of War

Senator Robert Byrd

January 2003

On Media Giantism

The New York Times

The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

Media Beat

A Split Screen in Strike-Torn Venezuela

The Washington Post

Courts Provide Duct-tape for Broken Democracy

Center for Economic and Policy Research

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