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Less Safe/Less Free

Paul Corrigan

George W. Bush often jokes that trading Sammy Sosa to the Chicago Cubs when he was an owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team was his biggest professional mistake. The latest Bush trade, freedom for security, makes even less sense. Americans are now both less safe and less free. It would appear that Bush has a slow learning curve, assuming that he cared about liberty when he made the trade. He didn't.

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No other articles this week.

Tim Francis-Wright

Tim was working too hard on web design this weekend and won't have an article this week.

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Links of the Week

Bin Laden's "Letter to America": Here is the translation of a possibly apocryphal message from Osama bin Laden: you be the judge (The Observer).

Victors and Spoils: Privatizing the federal payroll is about political cover and a new spoils system (Paul Krugman, New York Times).

More [Tax] Reductions Won't Work: Congress is proposing tax plans that will make the economy even worse (Max Sawicky, Detroit News).

The Man Who Pulled State Plug: Timothy Belden, the brains behind Enron's manipulation of West Coast power networks, is helping investigators (Mark Martin, San Francisco Chronicle).

Madison Ave. Plays Growing Role in Drug Research: Advertising agencies are beginning to run the pharmaceutical show from the beginning (Melody Petersen, New York Times).

Missiles R Us Takes on the World: The United States is going global with a 'son of star wars' program (Simon Tisdall, The Guardian).

The Other War Room: As his pollsters will tell you, George Bush does not believe in polling (Joshua Green, The Washington Monthly).

Links of Previous Weeks are in our voluminous archives.

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Fact of the Week

In an effort to increase sales of Lupron, a lucrative anticancer drug, TAP Pharmaceuticals representatives targeted potential customers in prostate cancer support groups. Internal TAP documents show that sales representatives in 1997 and 1998 were instructed to get close to patient support groups, even to attend meetings themselves, to pitch the company's hormone therapy. And people say that drug companies have no souls.

Our favorite links on the impending war with Iraq

Red Pepper news on Iraq.

No Rush to War: a collection of articles from The Nation.

Target: Iraq from GlobalSecurity.org.

Iraq's Nuclear Weapon Programme from the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Iraq dossier presented to Parliament by Tony Blair.

New York Times op-ed ad signed by 33 international relations scholars (HTML version of the ad).

Stand Down cross-ideological, anti-war weblog.

Alternative Resources on the US-Iraq Conflict: like it says, from the American Library Association.

Iraq War Debate: a huge collection of links from the University of Michigan.

Project on Defense Alternatives: analyses of Iraq and Afghanistan.

More, alas, likely to come.

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