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2001

February 15 – Glickman/Akin Gump Links to ADM Price-Fixing Scandal

 

March 3 – Iowa Congressmen Pressing for Ethanol

March 9 – Ethanol Expansion Sparks New Energy Woes for California Governor

March 14 – ADM Contributes to California Governor Gray Davis Stirs Uproar (Commentary on Wall Street Journal Article – March 8)

 

April 24 - Punishing Gas Prices in Chicago/Midwest

April 25 – Gasoline Price Hikes Focus on Real Problem: Ethanol

April 26 – ADM Maneuvers with Farmland Cooperative

April 26 - Ethanol Update: The Real Culprit in the Gas Price Spikes

 

May 5 - Shipment of Tainted Ethanol Shuts down Gas Stations in Wisconsin

 

June 10 - Bush Waiver on California (Oxygenate Requirement for Gas)

June 10 - EPA’s Whitman Soon to Announce Big Market/Smog Advance in California

 

July 25 - Illinois to help Mexico Ethanol (Sugarcane Feedstock)

July 28 - Ethanol’s Expansion Move

 

August 8 - Thermopylae and The Alamo

August 13 - Shell Game Continues at ADM

August 22 - AARCC Scandal:USDA/ IG Audit Report on New Uses (Alternate Agriculture Research & Commercialization Corporation)

 

September 7 – New Uses Corruption

 

December 15 - Creed of Greed

December 31 – Anybody but Brownback (New Uses Council: Sam’s Link to ADM)

2002

January 6 – New Setback for ADM/Ethanol (Glickman Group’s Cuba Trip Blocked)

January 9 - Fleecing of America (New Uses Exposed by Tom Brokaw)

January 11 - AARCC: USDA/IG Report

January 25 – ADM: Agriculture’s Enron

 

February 20 – Ethanol Link to Enron: Secrets of the Everglades

February 23 – Fog of Battle Enshrouded

February 23 – Jennings and the Ethanol Connect

 

March 2 - Overseas School Lunch Program: Another ADM Rip-Off

March 16 - Postcard of a Hanging

March 22 – Fiddlin’ While the Cornfields Burn

 

April16 - Ethanol’s Ambitions (Commentary on Washington Post Article)

 

May 13 - Ethics in Agribusiness (Poland Lecture Follow-Up)

May 16 - Agro-Balt Speech Summary

 

June 6 – ADM’s Bid Rigging: Old Wine in New Bottles

June 19 - Reinstated High Fructose Corn Syrup Lawsuit against ADM

 

July 20 – When Crop Becomes King

 

August 16 – Corn Price Surge Threatens Ethanol

 

October 24 – Dole: Ethanol Queen Revisited

 

November 9 – Sugar Barometer

November 12 – Lame Duck Congress May Delay Ethanol ‘Putsch’

November 14 – Lame Duck Session Deals ADM/Ethanol Setback

November 19 – Hijacked Legacy: JR and Highway Trust Fund

2003

February 6 - Minnesota Corn Processors: ADM’s Unfriendly Takeover of Farm Coop

 

June 3 – Insider’s Game: New Drive for Hegemony

June 14 – Long Day’s Journey into Night: David Brinkley’s Passing

June 14 – Ethanol Subsidies (North Dakota Coop)

 

July 11 – North Dakota’s Ethanol Referendum

 

August 20 – Grassroots Anti-Ethanol Activism is Rising

August 29 – Anti-Ethanol Speech in Madison

 

September 4 – Ethanol Battles: Northern Wisconsin

September 17 – Behind the Curtains: Farmland’s Bankruptcy

September 29 – Deal-Cutting on Energy/Ethanol

 

October 10 - World Economic Ethanol Summit (Quebec)

October 23 - Ethanol Blast in Benson, Minnesota

October 28 – Ethanol Threatens Energy Plan

October 31 – Green Mountain Perspective on Ethanol (Op Ed)

October 31 – Invasive Actions Heading for Gas Stations Near You

 

November 1 – Ethanol Legislation: New Pressure to Eliminate Choice at Pump

November 3 – Quebec Meeting: Why?

November 5 – Vermont Ethanol Story

November 6 – EPA Drops Cases

November 14 – Brokaw Slams Ethanol

November 15 - Ethanol: Corrupting Albatross around Energy Bill

November 18 – Scandal Allegations Rock Andreas’ Media Network

November 19 – Ethanol’s Politics of the Breadbasket

November 19 – Media Scandal Broadside Shatters Hollinger: Where is Dark Raider?

November 19 - Report from the Trenches

November 21 – Pressure Mounts on Ethanol

November 25 – Energy/Ethanol Bill Dead

November 25 – Casualties

November 25 – Energy and National Interest

November 26 – Red Badge of Courage

November 30 – Bryan in Washington Post: Election of 1896 Revisited

 

December 2 – Corn-Shucked

December 6 – Commentary: Chicago Tribune Story on Ethanol

December 8 – Iowa Primary

2004

January 17 – Dark Horse in Iowa Primary: Ethanol Signals on the Homestretch

January 20 – Iowa’s Wake-up Call: Ethanol Factor

January 27 – State of Perpetual Corruption: Ethanol Lobby’s Grip on Washington

 

February 4 – Ethanol Moves Closer to the Prize: Behind the Fog Bank (Energy Bill)

February 11 – Letter to the Editor: Williams Jennings Bryan and George Will

February 12 – Ethanol’s Downside for Farmers

February 16 – Educational Pioneers: New Jennings Website

February 18 – "Revised" Energy Bill: S.2095

February 23 – Jennings Heritage Project Description

February 28 – Ethanol Assault Case: Study of Corruption/Bullying

February 29 – Huge Ethanol Tanker Explodes: 23 Seamen Lost

 

March 3 – Mad Cow Walking?

March 10 – Food Security in an Age of Terrorism: UK Lecture Tour

March 26 – Omaha Beach: Sixty Years Later

March 30 – Backdraft: Ethanol Firestorm in Election Year

 

April 13 – Caruso’s Singing Canary in Mineshaft

April 16 – Glimpsing Early Brookfield: Jennings Heritage in New England

April 21 – Jennings Heritage Speech (Commentary in Springfield Republican)

April 28 – Desperate Daschle Seeks Ethanol Rider on Internet Tax Bill

April 29 – Journey to Brookfield: Jennings Farm Revisited

April 30 – Ethanol Derailed

 

May 4 – Critique of USDA Closing Ag History Office

May 6 – Longstreet at the Wilderness: 140th Anniversary

May 8 – Ethics and Agribusiness Speech (Digital Release in UK/Europe)

May 19 – Ethanol’s Latest Legislative Hop-Scotch (S.1637)

 

June 2 – House May Consider Ethanol Expansion Rider on Farm Bill

June 12 – One More for the Gipper: Reagan’s Opposition to Ethanol Revisited

June 15 – Wisconsin’s Bad Actors

June 16 – Walking the Plank: Ethanol and the Great Blame Game of 2004

June 17 - Unraveling Ethanol’s Big Lie

June 18 – ADM Agrees to $400 Million Settlement in High Fructose Corn Class Action

June 21 – Another Take on Ethanol and the Environment (Perry Fischer Article)

 

July 2 – Glickman’s Latest Stunt: Falling Upwards

July 13 – Agriculture’s Enron Perspective: Enron Revisited

July 26 – Trojan Horse in Fight against World Hunger

 

August 4 - Farm Subsidy Debate: Breakthrough in Geneva -- or Sellout?

 

September 8 - Pancho Villa Rides Again: Dangerous Lessons

September 16 - Ethanol in the Big Tent: Fear Factor in Election 2004

September 17 - Heroes of the Alamo

 

October 4 - Jennings Randolph and the Youth Vote in 2004

October 7 - Political "Corn Shucking" and Tom DeLay

October 14 - Ethanol Elbows in on Tax Credit Cornucopia Package

October 22 - Ethanol’s Drive for Hegemony

October 29 - Dancing with Wolves: Ethanol in the Heartland

 

November 10 - Baby Boomer "Snake Oil" May be Harmful

November 15 - Our Dances with Wolves Ancestor: Edmund Jennings

November 18 - West Wing Blasts Ethanol

November 30 - Proposed Ethanol Plants in Central California

 

December 4 - Widespread Fuel Injector Malfunctions: Ethanol Suspected

2005

January 22 - Ethanol Plant Scandal in Louisiana

January 26 - Governor Kathleen Blanco’s Action Slows Louisiana Sugar Mill Plans

January 27 - Sugarcoating Ethanol on "West Wing"

January 27 - Wisconsin’s Corn Growers

January 30 - Ethanol Juggernaut Targets Wisconsin (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Story)

January 30 - Ethanol Battle Unfolding in America’s Dairyland

January 31- Dairyland Corruption Battle Underway

 

February 1 - Ethanol Vice Targets Wisconsin – Is Poland Next?

February 1- Corn Pone (Realities of Farm Silence on Ethanol)

February 8 - Bush Proposal to Slash Farm Subsidies (Commentary on New York Times story)

February 11 - Onward, On Wisconsin!

February 14 - Countdown to Ethanol Hegemony

February 14 - Coming Ethanol Regime : Michigan in the Crosshairs

February 15 - Countdown to National Ethanol "Fix"

February 15 - Wisconsin Ethanol Fight May Have National Stakes

February 16 - Ethanol Mandate in Big Sky Country?

February 18 - Ethanol Bullying: Comments on AP Story

February 22 - Ethanol Crossroads: Decision at Chambersburg (PA)

 

March 1 - Darker Sides of Ethanol

March 3 - Associated Press Ethanol Story

March 3 - Associated Press Ethanol Story (Polish Version)

March 5 - Associated Press Ethanol Story Revisits Populist Themes (WJBP)

March 7 - Spirits of "New Populism" Rise with AP Story (JRRP)

March 8 - Lincoln, Illinois Ethanol Meets Local Opposition

March 12 – Wall Street Journal (Scott Kilman) Story on Ethanol/ADM: Commentary

March 17- Ethanol Expansion Legislation Moving

March 22 - Ethanol Economics: The So-Called "Ethanol Glut"

March 23 - Predicting an Ethanol "Tsunami"

March 23 - High Fructose Corn Syrup: Trade Bullying Mexico

March 23 - Response to Official’s Outburst (Chambersburg, PA)

March 26 - Ethanol Fingered in Milwaukee Fuel Injector Probe

March 31 - Ethanol Blitz Falters in Pennsylvania : Testimony to Public Activism

March 31 - Insiders Mount New Coalition for Ethanol

 

April 1 - Recycling Ethanol Hucksters in Pin-Striped Suits

April 3 - Ethanol Economics 101

April 5 - Ethanol Realities (Rep. Joe Barton’s Decision on Energy Bill)

April 5 - Break-Up of Energy Bill May Hurt Ethanol’s Chances

April 6 - Ethanol Glut Triggers ADM Stock Free Fall

April 7 - Arrows of Truth Pierce Ethanol Behemoth

April 8 - Media Complicity in Stock Slide Cover-up?

April 9 - Octogenarian Control Secrets: Beyond Retirement?

April 13 - Milton (WI): The Growing Incivility and Ethanol

April 18 - Road Kill Ethics and Ethanol 101

April 20 - Teetering on the Brink of Democratic Anarchy

April 20 - Call for Investigation

April 21 - Energy Bill Vote

April 22 - Dangerous Amendments

April 26 - Farm Co-ops or Wolves Disguised as Sheep?

April 28 - New ADM Push for Cuba (Sugar Feedstock for Ethanol?)

 

May 7 - Minneapolis Radio "The Patriot" Interview

May 23 - Lipstick on Another Pig (Commentary on Washington Post Editorial)

May 25 - Semi-Respectable Ethanol (Commentary on Washington Post Editorial)

 

June 3 - Deep Throat’s Last Stand

June 6 - Flex Fuel Vehicles (Ethanol) Tax Credit Draws Fire

June 13 - Ethanol Transport Costs: One if by Land, Two if by Sea

June 25 - Anniversary Reminders: Operation "Harvest King" Revisited

 

July 11 - MTBE: Ethanol Trade Offs?

July 30 - Ethanol Debacle: Commentary on Passage of Energy Policy Act

 

August 9 - Ethanol Aftermath: New Problems for Ethanol

November 5 - Penn-Mar Decision (Chambersburg PA) Setback for Ethanol Plant

November 7 – Ethanol Secrecy and Judicial Accountability

November 9 – Corn Farmers Left Out of Ethanol Bonanza

November 11 – Missouri Straits: Ethanol and Biodiesel

November 17 – Dangerous Intersections: Dawn of a New McCarthyism?

November 21 – Loose Lips (and Book Deals) Sink Ships

 

December 1 - Ethanol Mandate Defeated by Iowa Farm Bureau

December 14 - Decision at Chambersburg: Ethanol Rejected

December 14 - Traces of Red: Another Shark Attack? (Dole/ADM Links at Red Cross)

2006

January 14 – Ethanol’s Volatility: Overlook Factor

January 5 – Bow Mariner Ethanol Explosion

January 5 – The Lesser of Two Weevils

January 6 – Bow Mariner Ethanol Explosion: Shaken, Not Stirred

 

February 16 – EPA’s Lift of Oxygenate Requirement: Closing the Barn Door Late

February 21 - Letter to the Editor (re Justin Blum’s Editorial-Washington Post- Feb 18)

February 24 – ICM: Another Ethanol Shell Game

February 28 – The Road to Perdition: Ethanol Shell Game Revisited

 

March 2 – Another Ethanol Myth Shatters: Are U.S. Farmers Pawns – Not Owners – of Distilleries?

March 2 – Who Will Control Ethanol Future? (Foreign Investment in US)

March 3 – Raisin River Massacre Revisited

March 5 – Point: Counterpoint on Ethanol

March 5 – Wisconsin State Senator Tom Reynolds

March 7 – Who Dares Fight?

March 17 – Ideas Emerge from Wisconsin Ethanol Rejection

March 18 – Ethanol Huckster Ejects Media at Ohio Meeting

March 21 – Ethanol’s Role in Gas Price Spikes: New Vulnerability

March 24 – Corn Farmers Fear Corn-Shucking in Ethanol Switch

March 29 – Ethanol Over-Reach ?: America’s Fuels Act of 2006

March 31 – Economic Quicksand in Louisiana

March 31 – Detroit News Article Slams Ethanol

 

April 1 – Sugarcoating Ethanol Greed: Post Katrina Report

April 3 – Ethanol and Gas Spike Rollercoaster

April 4 – Poisonous Choices: Texas Medicine – or Railroad Gin?

April 10 – Legal Times Targets ADM’s Ethanol Influence Game

April 12 – ADM’s Latest Ethanol Pact (Sioux Land)

April 15 – Ethanol Economics?

April 17 – Missouri Ethanol Mandate Questioned

April 17 – ADM Corruption in Church Organizations

April 19 – Commentary on St. Louis Post-Dispatch Columnist on Ethanol Mandate

April 20 – Sweet and Sour Ethanol Corruption Targets Pennsylvania, Missouri

April 25 – No Fault Gas Spikes?

April 25 – Motorcyclists Fuming on Ethanol Switch

April 25 – Bush Authorizes EPA Waiver on Ethanol Use

April 27 – Gas Price Spikes: The Humbug Factor

April 28 – Countering the Ethanol Myth

 

May 1 – Reckoning Ethanol

May 1 – Reckoning Ethanol: Bait and Switch (Grass)?

May 3 – Ethanol Growth Reveals ADM-Cargill Differences

May 3 – Food vs. Fuel (Ethanol) Debate Looms

May 8 – Legacy of Ethanol Tariff: The Wall Dole Built

May 10 – Boehner Calls for Ethanol Reduction

May 16 – Brazil and the Ethanol Hype: Dirty Secrets

May 17 – Asleep at the Blackboard

May 18 – Extraterritorial Justice: EU $57 Million Fine Upheld for ADM

May 18 – Pipelining Ethanol Truth: Case Study of AP Story

May 19 – Call for ADM/Andreas Resignation

May 22 – PBS News Hour Sponsor Ripped in Online Article

May 23 – Investigate Big Ethanol

May 24 – The Constant Globalist

May 25 – Washington Post Discussion on Ethanol

May 25 – Green Mountaineer Takes on Ethanol Lobby

 

June 15 – Ethanol "Snake Oil" Arguments

June 29 – Stop Ethanol with Truth Campaign Rolls

June 30 – Interstate Highway Anniversary: Forgotten Pioneer/Hidden Costs

 

July 26 – Chambersburg Ethanol Setback Draws Attention

 

August 2 – Car-Damaging Sludge is in Our Costly Fuel

August 3 – Failure to Launch: Ethanol Gains Little Acceptance in California

August 10 – America’s Waterways: Ethanol’s Transport Assault Revisited

August 16 – Columbia Tribune Editorial (Commentary)

August 18 – Closing the Barn Door

 

September 20 – Showdown at White’s Ferry: Another Homeland Security Fiasco

September 26 – Ethanol’s Red Line: Connecting the Dots in Pennsylvania and The Bayou State

 

October 18 – Ethanol’s End Run (Commentary on Chicago Tribune Editorial)

October 20 – Proposed Ethanol in Vermillion County (Indiana)

October 26 – Letter to The Editor (Terre Haute Star)

October 27 – Underwriters Laboratories: No Approval for E85 Pumps

2007

January 27 – Ethanol and the "Tortilla Crisis": New Dangers in Mexico

 

February 15 - Ohio Environmental Group Slams Ethanol Surge

February 16 – Celunol Breaks Ground on Cellulosic Ethanol Facility (Again)

February 24 - Central Ohio Group Exposes Ethanol Environmental Hoax

February 27 - Central Ohio Group Fights Ethanol

 

March 7 - Vermont Native Fights Ethanol Surge

March 8 - Pork Producers Urge End to Ethanol Subsidy/Tariff

March 12 - Dodgey Crook or Visionary?: Warrenton’s Mayor Seeks Conversion of Ethanol Baggage

March 14 - Hemispheric Ethanol Diplomacy Backfires

March 14 - Ethanol Tsunami Heads for Florida

March 14 - Hemispheric Ethanol Scam (Bush’s Latin America Tour)

March 14 - Ethanol Game in South Florida

March 23 - Ethanol Backlash Featured in Wall Street Journal

March 28 - Activism Light? Citizens vs. Ethanol

March 29 - Chicago Trial Begins for "Corn Shucked" Conrad Black

March 29 - "Corn Shucking" of Conrad Black: High Stakes Trial Begins in Chicago

March 29 - Castro’s Flip: Ethanol Politics

March 29 - Ethanol on the Waterways (Aliquippa, PA Case)

March 30 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Castro’s Flip on Andreas

 

April 2 - Iowa Burning: Tommy Thompson’s Ethanol Baggage

April 3 - Madison Speech

April 18 - Ethanol Smog is Cancer Producing

April 18 - Ethanol and Air Pollution: Stanford U. Environmental Study

April 20 - Ethanol Debate (Fox News Channel Advisory)

April 23 - Big Green Lie: Ethanol Emissions Study Featured on Fox

April 24 - On the Southern Front (Louisiana)

April 30 - Big Green Lie – Video Clip

 

May 4 - Truth to Power: Ethanol’s "Green Lie" Exposed (GLRP)

May 19 - Ethanol’s Bitter Taste – Commentary on Wall Street Journal Opinion Piece

May 21 – Ethanol’s Bitter Taste – Commentary II

May 24 - Oil Industry Cites "Ethanol Factor" in Gas Price Spikes

 

June 3 - Project Aims at Curbing Ethanol Subsidy/Abuses

June 22 - Food vs Fuel Conflict Sparks New Project

June 25 - Corn: Strip-Mining in the Field of Dreams

June 25 - New Project Targets Ethanol Abuses and Subsidies

June 27 - Erasing Heritage: Ethanol's Ripple Effects

 

July 20 - Class War in Media Mogul Conrad Black's Court Trial

July 20 - Chicago Wind

July 28 - Letter to Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA): Ethanol Scam

 

August 1 - Ethanol Retreat in Ohio

August 1 - Congressman Elevates Growing Ethanol Doubts

August 2 - Hidden Cracks in U.S. Infrastructure: Bridge Disaster at Twin Cities

August 3 - Hidden Cracks in PA Infrastructure (Pennsylvania Variation)

August 9 - Missing the Background: Media and the Bridge Collapse

August 13 - Tommy Thompson: Fading into the Corn Stalks

August 16 - View from the Bridge

August 18 - Growing Public Outcry Threatens Ethanol Gains

August 28 - Saving Justice: Investigate ADM's Ethanol Links

 

September 15 - New Study Slams Ethanol, Questions Motives

September 17 - Global Backlash Grows Against Ethanol

September 19 - New York Times (editorial): The High Cost of Ethanol

September 19 - Cornhusker Politics: Weak Hand in the Breadbasket

 

October 1 - Long Walk Home (Springsteen and Ethanol)

October 10 - Spartan Victory (Sparta, Wisconsin)

October 10 - Environmental Chicanery and Ethanol

October 12 - Ethanol Industry is Losing Its Clout in Congress as Food Prices Climb

October 17 - Corn Group Links: Corrupting the Heartland

October 17 - Inconvenient Truths: Ethanol's Corruption of Environmental Media/Leaders

 

 

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