TRUTHOUT 11/11/05

House Could Alter 19th Century Mining Law
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105S.shtml
As many as 20 million acres of public land could be sold under a proposed change in mining law that is tucked into a budget bill in the House. At issue is the possible overturning of a congressional ban that has prevented mineral companies and individuals from "patenting," or buying, public land, including some in national forests and parks, at cheap prices if the land contains mineral deposits.


Hybrid Taxicabs Make Their Debut in New York
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/111105EA.shtml
Delighted environmentalists, city officials and the chairman of Ford Motor Co. posed with the owner of the first hybrid cabs atop a Manhattan auto showroom Thursday to belatedly celebrate last week's debut of the vehicles.


Saro-Wiwa Vigil: Lead Anti-Shell Activist Remembered
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/111105EB.shtml
Hundreds of members of Nigeria's Ogoni minority have marched in the oil city of Port Harcourt to mark the tenth anniversary of the execution of rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa after he protested against the energy giant Shell.


Warning Issued for Birth-Control Patch
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/111105HA.shtml
The Food and Drug Administration warned users of the popular Ortho Evra birth control patch that they are being exposed to increased hormones, and are therefore at higher risk of blood clots and other serious side effects than previously disclosed.


Gray Brechin | Keeping the Faith: The New Deal Rises
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/111105LA.shtml
Seventy-two years after it first emerged from Franklin Roosevelt's Hundred Days, the New Deal rises from the grave to haunt those who thought they had buried it for good. Gray Brechin discusses federal activism in the wake of the hurricanes.


Wooing Workers for New Orleans
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/111105LB.shtml
Canal Street, once a crowded boulevard of commerce, now resembles a sparsely populated open-air job fair. Burger King is offering a $6,000 signing bonus to anyone who agrees to work for a year at one of its New Orleans outlets.


GM's Workers Ratify Healthcare Deal
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/111105LC.shtml
Unionized workers at General Motors Corp., the world's largest automaker, have ratified a landmark deal to help the automaker cut its massive healthcare costs, the United Auto Workers Union said on Friday.


Profile: Liberia's "Iron Lady"
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/111105WA.shtml
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, fondly called the "Iron Lady" by her supporters, is set to become Africa's first elected female head of state following Liberia's presidential run-off.


Kenneth L. Stephens | Veterans Day Is upon Us
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105I.shtml
Viet Nam vet Kenneth "Larry" Stephens writes, "I do not support the policy of this 21st century Viet Nam. But having said that, I do support our troops, and as a demonstration of that support, I will speak out and fight vigorously against the abuse of our troops and the failure of honesty in this administration by their deliberately hiding the true human cost of this war."


House Budget Measure Is Pulled
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105J.shtml
House Republican leaders were forced to abruptly pull their $54 billion budget-cutting bill off the House floor yesterday, amid growing dissension in Republican ranks over spending priorities, taxes, oil exploration and the reach of government.


Paul Krugman | The Deadly Doughnut
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105K.shtml
Paul Krugman writes that soon millions of Americans will learn that doughnuts are bad for your health. And if we're lucky, Americans will also learn a bigger lesson: politicians who don't believe in a positive role for government shouldn't be allowed to design new government programs.


Mike Marqusee | Fallujah: A Name That Lives in Infamy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105M.shtml
Mike Marqusee writes, "Like Jallianwallah Bagh, Guernica, My Lai, Halabja and Grozny, Fallujah is a place name that has become a symbol of unconscionable brutality. As the war in Iraq claims more lives, we need to ensure that this atrocity - so recent, so easily erased from public memory - is recognized as an example of the barbarism of nations that call themselves civilized."


Schools in Kansas to Challenge Darwinism
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105N.shtml
"This action is likely to be the playbook for creationism for the next several years," Eugenie Scott, director of the National Centre for Science Education told the Associated Press news agency. "We can predict this fight happening elsewhere."


Televangelist Warns of Evolution Doomsday
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105O.shtml
Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson told citizens of a Pennsylvania town that they had rejected God by voting their school board out of office for supporting "intelligent design" and warned them Thursday not to be surprised if disaster struck.


Bob Moser | Cornbread and Roses
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105P.shtml
Bob Moser writes that in February John Edwards surprised everyone, announcing a campaign to "eradicate poverty in America." With a $40,000 annual salary paid by private funds, Edwards became the first director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC, Chapel Hill's law school, largely a think tank designed to bring antipoverty scholars, activists, journalists and politicians together to cook up innovative ways to tackle economic and racial inequities.




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