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MAIN News Archives for January 2005

 01/31 -  British MP Galloway calls Iraq elections "flawed beyond redemption"
 01/31 -  Corporate welfare on steroids
 01/31 -  What is the law against government propaganda?
 01/31 -  Open-source software urged for poor nations
 01/31 -  What the rest of the world saw Inauguration Day
 01/30 -  Auditor: US can't account for $8.8 billion in Iraq
 01/30 -  The Ten Worst Corporations of 2004
 01/30 -  Marketing, not discourse, drives US politics
 01/30 -  NC congressional delegation split over Social Security
 01/30 -  CIA defies law requiring release of Nazi records
 01/30 -  Democracy at gunpoint
 01/29 -  Veteran pursues legal challenge of Iraq War
 01/29 -  Media companies to appeal ownership rules
 01/29 -  Two vie for soul of NC Democrats
 01/28 -  Bush payola scandal deepens as third columnist admits being paid
 01/28 -  Gonzales misrepresented role in shielding Bush's drunk-driving record
 01/28 -  Global warming twice as bad as previously thought?
 01/28 -  Greensboro sit-in focus of PBS documentary
 01/28 -  Pundits helped with Bush speech, then lavished praise on it
 01/27 -  World remembers liberation of Auschwitz
 01/27 -  Hendersonville soldier killed in Iraq
 01/27 -  Making a killing in Iraq
 01/27 -  Report: PR spending doubled under Bush
 01/27 -  FCC won't appeal media ownership decision
 01/27 -  Chomsky: US future in Iraq driven by oil
 01/27 -  Bush renounces government propaganda efforts
 01/27 -  US tightens grip on Cuba
 01/27 -  Free trade leaves world food in grip of global giants
 01/27 -  Democrats in control of NC legislature
 01/26 -  Turner calls Fox 'propaganda voice' for government
 01/26 -  Top Pentagon official to step down
 01/26 -  The wrong attorney general
 01/26 -  Many faces of the baby boomers
 01/26 -  Seymour Hersh: 'We've been taken over by a cult'
 01/26 -  Second pundit on Bush payroll
 01/25 -  A nation of religious illiterates
 01/25 -  Senator accuses Rice of lying about Iraq
 01/25 -  Is the Pentagon overstepping its authority?
 01/25 -  NC computer experts predicted voting glitches
 01/25 -  Churches spar with media over advertising
 01/25 -  Has US shifted to a one-party media?
 01/25 -  NC ag chief asks for patience
 01/25 -  Bush's fantasy of freedom
 01/25 -  Bush to seek $80 billion more for Iraq War
 01/24 -  Media activists discuss Powell's departure at FCC
 01/24 -  War-weary public leery of new overseas adventures
 01/24 -  "Not a moment to lose" warns top global warming expert
 01/24 -  Odds shifting on gambling in NC?
 01/24 -  Terror detainees and America's gulag
 01/23 -  NC ponders tax hikes on beer, tobacco
 01/23 -  Questions raised about hurricane relief funds in eastern NC
 01/23 -  Some Iraq vets turn war critics
 01/23 -  Senator leaning against Gonzales confirmation
 01/23 -  Social Security questions and answers
 01/22 -  Bush pulls 'Neocons' out of the shadows
 01/22 -  China edits its history
 01/22 -  Worrisome hubris in Washington
 01/22 -  NC panel agrees on paper record for voting machines
 01/21 -  Soaring words, sinking policies
 01/21 -  WPVM launches new call-in show
 01/21 -  Mainline churches' silence fueling rapture movement?
 01/21 -  Conservative ponders Bush's 'mission inebriation'
 01/21 -  WNC reservist returns home with doubts about Iraq War
 01/21 -  Powell poised to leave FCC
 01/21 -  SpongeBob alarms conservative activists
 01/20 -  Groups support FBI whistleblower's appeal
 01/20 -  Doing the math with Bush and Condi
 01/20 -  Asheville backs away from watershed plan
 01/20 -  'Occupied Democracy' -- a new US foreign policy
 01/20 -  Dell used patriotism to press NC for concessions
 01/20 -  Will the media ignore inaugural protests again?
 01/20 -  UNC taps book on racial slaying for new students
 01/19 -  Deaths and missing weapons demand accountability
 01/19 -  Cadillac's ultimate 'product placement'
 01/19 -  Media training required for Iraq-bound soldiers
 01/19 -  Intelligence reports paint grim future for Iraq War
 01/19 -  Developer reneges on tree-cutting promise
 01/19 -  Rice dodges Abu Ghraib torture issue
 01/19 -  Does justice for Abu Ghraib end with Graner trial?
 01/19 -  Recrowning the king of fairyland
 01/19 -  9/11 moving America from republic to empire
 01/19 -  Seymour Hersh on covert operations in Iran
 01/18 -  Bush's moment of accountability
 01/18 -  ABC News muddles Social Security debate
 01/17 -  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
 01/17 -  When art doesn't imitate science
 01/17 -  China bans news coverage of Zhao Ziyang's death
 01/17 -  Catholic archbishop kidnapped in Iraq
 01/17 -  Childhood cancers linked to air pollution
 01/17 -  Secretive religious group subsidizes housing for conservative members of Congress
 01/17 -  New Yorker reports US commandos in Iran
 01/16 -  Spam, spyware drive some off the 'Net
 01/16 -  More than 30 pilot whales beach at Oregon Inlet
 01/16 -  Corporate America funds Bush inauguration
 01/16 -  Social Security agency told to push privatization
 01/15 -  Rifts appear in neo-con ranks
 01/15 -  Monsanto 'seed police' target US farmers
 01/15 -  MLK's vision -- more than a dream
 01/15 -  FCC orders probe of government propagandist
 01/15 -  Bible note debated in Rudolph bombing case
 01/14 -  ABC News muddles Social Security debate
 01/14 -  While Bush targets Social Security, real crisis looms for Medicare, Medicaid
 01/14 -  High-rollers line up for inauguration
 01/14 -  White House lobbied against torture limits
 01/14 -  A spooky walk in the mountains
 01/14 -  Bush's "crisis" strategy
 01/14 -  Education chief defends deal with conservative pundit
 01/14 -  Are there more paid propagandists among US media elite?
 01/14 -  CIA says Iraq is terror's new breeding ground
 01/14 -  UNCA fined for exceeding out-of-state student cap
 01/14 -  NC justices disclose tobacco ties
 01/13 -  Whistleblower challenges credibility of Homeland Security nominee
 01/13 -  Senators launch government propaganda probe
 01/13 -  Judge: Evolution stickers on textbooks unconstitutional
 01/13 -  No WMD, no regrets
 01/13 -  Judge stops ag commissioner re-vote
 01/13 -  Family of brain-damaged Durham boy gets $500,000 jury award
 01/13 -  WNC events honor Martin Luther King's vision
 01/13 -  WNC lawmakers seek more hurricane relief funds
 01/12 -  FAIR: CBS offended the wrong people
 01/12 -  Court strikes down some federal sentencing rules
 01/12 -  Former Fox journalists challenge TV license
 01/12 -  Asheville City Council tackles homeless issue
 01/12 -  WNC agency says your computer can help with clean air
 01/12 -  Memo to Democrats: Fire the consultants!
 01/12 -  The government's secret domestic propaganda campaign
 01/12 -  CBS's show trial
 01/12 -  Soros group raises stakes in battle with neo-cons
 01/12 -  NC community colleges seek $38 million to upgrade online courses
 01/12 -  Feds hit brakes on rail money for Triangle
 01/12 -  It's time to clean up the copyright system
 01/12 -  Group files FOIA request on government propaganda
 01/12 -  CBS, government propaganda scandals fuel media criticism
 01/11 -  IBM boosts "open innovation" with patent donation
 01/10 -  The bigger story behind government payola to conservative columnist
 01/10 -  Dissent on war quietly heard in Pentagon ranks
 01/10 -  What went wrong at CBS
 01/10 -  Public art, private prejudice
 01/10 -  The myth of medical malpractice
 01/10 -  Coble says it may be time to pull out of Iraq
 01/08 -  Congress should pass election reform
 01/08 -  GOP anxiety grows over Social Security fix
 01/08 -  NC museum lifts sketching ban
 01/08 -  Critics question $90 million NC prison
 01/08 -  NC highway funding spurs rural-urban debate
 01/07 -  Corporate welfare cheating in NC
 01/07 -  Gonzales ducks torture questions
 01/07 -  Highway Patrol seeks help in hit-and-run
 01/07 -  Challenge shines light on voting irregularities
 01/07 -  Staples says politics played no role in Sinclair ad pull
 01/07 -  White House paid pundit to plug education plan
 01/07 -  Public access TV lives or dies via funding model
 01/07 -  Eight dead from toxic fumes in SC train crash
 01/07 -  The Ohio Objection
 01/07 -  NC bans sketching at Matisse exhibit
 01/06 -  In historic move, Democrats challenge Ohio electoral vote
 01/06 -  Army Reserve chief warns of 'broken force'
 01/06 -  Business lobby joins social conservatives in judicial fight
 01/06 -  Canada may halt drug sales to US
 01/06 -  Democrats to force debate in Congress on Ohio vote
 01/06 -  Veterans' groups oppose Gonzales nomination
 01/05 -  Torture -- not just illegal, just plain wrong
 01/05 -  Richard Berman: Corporate wolf in consumer clothing
 01/05 -  House Democrats will challenge electoral tally
 01/05 -  Pell Grant cuts mark attack on working people
 01/05 -  GOP deserves no praise for ethics rule flip-flop
 01/05 -  Is US creeping toward facism?
 01/05 -  Military brass oppose Bush nominee
 01/05 -  Staples pulls ads from Sinclair
 01/04 -  Liberal voices disappearing from mainstream media
 01/04 -  Tom Delay, ethics and the new Congress
 01/04 -  Latino center links cultures in Mitchell County
 01/04 -  Are college students red or blue?
 01/04 -  He lost an arm in Iraq, and Army sends him a bill
 01/04 -  Two-thirds of provisional ballots rejected in Florida
 01/04 -  Shirley Chisholm: 'Unbought and unbossed'
 01/04 -  Paying for college just got harder
 01/04 -  Harrah's owes $45 million to Cherokee
 01/03 -  Drugmakers, feds squeeze imports from Canada
 01/03 -  Blue Ridge-Appalachia named 'Keystone Forest'
 01/03 -  First item for new Congress: Change the rules
 01/03 -  Democrats debate party's direction
 01/03 -  WNC nonprofits awarded grants
 01/03 -  Thomas top gift recipient among justices