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	<h1>ReclaimDemocracy.org<br />
        Editors' Picks Archives</h1>        
          <h5>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</h5>
        <h3>December 2003</h3>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/corporate_theft_through_bogus_fees.html"> Checking Your Bill for a New Charge Called 'Oops' </a>
            <p> New York Times  </p>            <a href="/weekly_2003/american_dream_death.html">Waking Up from the American
                    Dream: Meritocracy and Equal Opportunity Are Fading Fast</a><p>Business Week                    </p>            <a href="/weekly_2003/ashcroft_tax_election_fraud.html">John Ashcroft Gets a Bye in Investigation of Campaign Financing
            Fraud </a>
                    <p>Washington Post                  </p>                                    <a href="/weekly_2003/when_workers_die.html">When
                Workers Die:
 U.S. Rarely Seeks Charges for Deaths in Workplace</a><p>New York Times             
              </p>
              <a href="/weekly_2003/conservatives_honor_free_speech.html">Real Conservatives Honor Free Speech</a><p> The American Conservative  </p>
            <a href="/weekly_2003/computers_dumbingdown_kids.html">Computers Are &quot;Dumbing Down&quot; Our
                Schools and Kids</a>
            <p>San Francisco Chronicle</p>
            <a href="/articles_2003/monsanto_corporation_schmeiser_background.html">Monsanto Corporation v. Percy Schmeiser </a><p>CBC News Online</p>
        <a href="/articles_2003/energy_bill_billionsfordonors.html">Republican Energy Bill Gives Away Billions to Bush Investors</a><p> The
        Washington Post</p>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/bush_government_spending_highest.html">U.S. Government Spending Under Bush Is Highest Since World War II</a>
        <p>The Christian Science
  Monitor</p>        
        <a href="/weekly_2003/unions_walmart_middle_class.html">Striking Home: Will an 
          American Middle Class Survive?</a><p>Los Angeles Times</p>
        <h3>November 2003</h3>
         <a href="/weekly_2003/dissent_criminalized_miami.html">Dissent Criminalized in Miami: 
Bill of Rights Trashed by Police and Federal Agents</a><p>americas.org</p>        
        <a href="/weekly_2003/canada_vs_us_healthcare.html">Health Care Models Compared:
    Canada vs. U.S.</a>
        <p>The
        Wall St Journal</p>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/electronic_voting_fraud.html">Secrets, Lies, and Electronic Voting</a><p>Reason 
        Magazine</p>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/kids_learn_tothink.html">The Real Test: Did the Kids Learn 
          to Think?</a><p>The 
          Los Angeles Times</p>
        <h3>October 2003</h3>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/corporate_tax_dodges_grow.html">Corporate Tax Dodges Grow</a><p>TomPaine.com</p>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/free_speech_denied_protest_pens.html">Free 
          Speech Denied: &quot;Protest Pens&quot; at Bush Events Disgrace 
          Our Constitution</a><p>Toronto 
        Star</p>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/school_lunches_agribusiness.html">School Lunches Dumping 
          Ground for Agribusiness</a><p> TomPaine.com</p>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/big_government_makes_comeback.htm">Era of Big 
          Government Makes a Comeback</a><p>The Missoulian</p>
        <h3>September 2003</h3>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/small_business_job_creation.html">Small Business 
          Owners Raising Their Voice </a><p>S.F. Chronicle</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/media_oligopoly.html">How Media Giants 
            Are Reassembling The Old Oligopoly</a><p>
        the Wall Street journal</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/bush_dismantling_environmentallaw.html">Bush 
          Fulfills Corporations' Wish List for Dismantling Environmental Laws</a><p>
        Knight-Ridder 
          Newspapers </p>       <a href="/weekly_2003/energy_crisis_solution.html">Solution 
          to Energy Woes? Localization</a><p>TomPaine.com</p>        
        <h3>August 2003</h3>
         <a href="/weekly_2003/powell_false_evidence.html">Powell's 
          Push Toward Iraq War Questioned</a><p> The 
          Associated Press</p>
          <a href="/weekly_2003/ashcroft_sentencing_discretion.html">The 
          Point of Departures: Just Sentences Require Judicial Discretion</a><p>Reason Magazine</p>        
        <a href="/weekly_2003/ignoring_custom_destructive.html">Ignoring 
        Custom Can Be Destructive</a><p>The 
          Washington Post</p>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/rank_divides_america.html">Rank Divides 
        America</a><p>Newsday</p>
        <h3>July 2003</h3>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/oil_corporations_iraq_immunity.html">Bush 
        Gives Legal Immunity to
        Transnational Oil Corporations in Iraq</a>
        <p>TomPaine.com</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/bill_ban_antibiotics_livestock.html">Senate 
          Bill Would Ban Routine Feeding of Antibiotics
        </a><p>The
          Portland (Maine) Press Herald</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/bush_language_power_fear.html">George
            Bush &amp; the Rhetoric of Fear
        </a><p>The Nation</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/trading_with_enemy.html">Corporations 
          Trading With the Enemy
        </a><p>Mother Jones</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/intel_employee_free_speech.html">California 
          High Court Rules Against Intel in E-mail Case
          </a><p>The Wall Street Journal 
        </p>
        <h3>June 2003</h3>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/copps_fcc_dissent.html">FCC Commissioner 
        Michael Copps' Dissent</a><p>Statement from 
          FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps, June 2, 2003</p>        
        <a href="/weekly_2003/nuclear_power_corporate_welfare.html">No 
        Corporate Welfare for Nuclear Power </a><p>Chicago 
          Tribune</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/jesus_corporate_land_owners.html">What 
        Would Jesus Do? Sock It to
          Alabama's Corporate Landowners</a><p>The New York Time</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/world_bank_deception_poverty.html">Rich 
        in Imagination
        </a><p>Monbiot.com</p>                
        <h3>May 2003</h3>
          <a href="/weekly_2003/government_interference_ballot_initiatives.html">Your 
          Tax Dollars, Their Agenda
        </a><p>St. Petersburg Times</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/saudi_bombing_vinnell_corporation.html">Corporate 
          Military Force Was the Target of
        Saudi Bombing
        </a><p>Pacific News Service</p>
        <a href="http://reclaimdemocracy.org/weekly_2003/fines_arent_holding_corporations_accountable.html">Fines 
          Aren't Holding Corporations Accountable
        </a><p>Forbes.com</p>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/bush_911_secrecy.html">Bush Suppresses 
        September 11 Investigation Report
        </a><p>Newsweek</p>        
        <h3>April 2003</h3>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/no_fly_list_challenged.html">'No Fly' 
        List Challenged in Lawsuit</a><p>The New York 
          Times</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/communities_replace_chainstores.html">Community-Owned 
          Department Stores Replace Chains
        </a><p>The 
          Home Town Advantage Bulletin</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/agriculture_myth_three.html">Deadly
            Myths  of Industrial Agriculture No. 3</a><p> 
          excerpt from 
        the book<em> Fatal 
          Harvest</em></p>        <em> 
          </em>        <a href="/weekly_2003/state_tobacco_dependence.html">States 
        Hooked on Cigarettes</a><p> The Wall Street 
          Journal</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/iraq_corporate_contracts.html">Contracts 
          Doled Out to
          Rebuild Iraq are Questioned
        </a><p>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</p>                
          <h3>March 2003</h3>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/iraq_democracy.html">Democracy in Iraq? 
        Be careful</a><p>The Washington
          Post</p>        <a href="/weekly_2003/uninsured_pay_most.html">Gouging the 
        Uninsured for Health Care
        </a><p>The Wall Street Journal</p>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/kiesling_resignation.html">&quot;Why 
        I'm Resigning as U.S. Ambassador&quot;</a><p>John Brady Kiesling</p>        
        <a href="/weekly_2003/spying_on_un.html">U.S. National Security 
        Administration Allegedly Spying on U.N. Delegates</a><p> 
          Observer/UK
        </p>
        <h3>February 2003</h3>
		 <a href="/weekly_2003/estrada_judicial_politics.html">Estrada 
        Fight's True Victor? Democracy
        </a><p>        The Atlanta Journal-Constitution </p>
        <a href="/weekly_2003/beef_checkoff.html">Independent 
        Ranchers Fight Corporate Control </a><p> Writers
           on the Range</p> 
        <a href="http://reclaimdemocracy.org/weekly_2003/senior_citizen_frontgroups.html">
		&quot;Senior Citizen&quot; Front Groups Exposed</a><p>AARP</p>                <a href="/weekly_2003/unequl_education.html">U.S. Education: 
        Separate &amp; Unequal </a><p> Los Angeles 
          Times</p>
        <a href="/articles_2003/byrd_speech.html">Contemplating the 
          Horrors of War
        </a><p>Senator Robert Byrd</p>        
        <h3>January 2003</h3>        
        <a href="/weekly_2003/safire_media_giantism.html">On Media 
        Giantism
        </a><p>The New York Times</p> 
        <a href="/weekly_2003/the_real_mlk.html">The Martin
         Luther King You Don't See on TV
        </a><p> Media Beat</p>
		<a href="/weekly_2003/venezuela_deception.html">A Split 
        Screen in Strike-Torn Venezuela</a><p> The 
        Washington Post</p> <a href="/weekly_2003/weisbrot_courts_democracy.html">Courts 
        Provide Duct-tape for Broken Democracy</a><p> Center 
        for Economic and Policy Research
        </p>        
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