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July 3, 2009

7/03/09 Kindley & Layton, WP, Purity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned

7/03/09 BBC, New dinosaurs found in Australia

7/03/09 Moran, Times Online, Footage of last ever Michael Jackson rehearsal released

7/03/09 Hess & Pickler, AP, Documents Describe Chaos of Gitmo's Early Months

7/03/09 Woodall, Reuters, Los Angeles Will End Use of Coal-Fired Power

7/03/09 Loney, Reuters, Loss of World's Seagrass Beds Seen Accelerating

7/03/09 Ramer, AP, Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard

7/03/09 Leopold, Truthout, Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion

7/03/09 Thompson & Costello, Times online, Rogue trader sends oil to year-high on $10m gamble

7/03/09 Russia Today, Video: US sent Afghan mercenaries into Iraq (U.S. creates and controls all of its "enemies")

7/03/09 McAfee, IntelDaily, Questioning The Ethical Legitimacy of Drone Attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan

7/03/09 Duffy, BBC, Brazil's huge wetland under threat

7/03/09 Fazal-e-Haider, Asia times, Miners bank $3bn on Baloch project

July 2, 2009

7/02/09 Scahill, RebelReports, For $25-250K, Washington Post Offered Lobbyists Access to Obama Officials, Congress and Reporters

7/02/09 NPR, IMF Bonds (!!!!)

7/02/09 Pierce, ProPublica, ,a href="http://www.propublica.org/feature/many-states-leave-federal-unemployment-money-unclaimed-702#11390">Many States Leave Federal Unemployment Money Unclaimed

7/02/09 Linzer, ProPublica, Obama Seems to Rule Out Executive Order on Indefinite Detentions

7/02/09 Reeves, AP, EPA Allows TVA to Dump Spilled Coal Ash in Ala.

7/02/09 Chart, OpenLeft, Hamstringing Environmental Protection for Coal

7/02/09 Kessler, WP, Hussein Pointed to Iranian Threat

7/02/09 Thompson & Elliot, Times Online, Credit card companies face a ban on 'exploiting' debtors

7/02/09 Preston, NYT, U.S. Shifts Strategy on Illicit Work by Immigrants

7/02/09 Weiser & Shane, NYT, U.S. Says It Will Preserve C.I.A. Secret Jails for Terrorism Case

7/02/09 Johnson, MoJo, How to Deal with America's Empire of Bases

7/02/09 Porter, IPS, POLITICS: U.S. Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran

7/02/09 BBC, China babies 'sold for adoption'

7/02/09 BBC, Saddam interview tapes released

7/02/09 Gill, BBC, Climate change is shrinking sheep

7/02/09 Doyle, BBC, Developing world faces age crisis

7/02/09 BBC, Moon probe returns first images

7/02/09 Taibi, Rolling Stone, The Great American Bubble Machine

7/02/09 Clemons, Washington Note, America's Effective Unemployment Rate at 18.7%?

7/02/09 Mears, CNN, New Sotomayor documents detail work of Puerto Rican rights group

7/02/09 Delasantellis, Asia Times, Cheating still beats real work

7/02/09 Buzzell, AlterNet, Slow Down: How Our Fast-Paced World Is Making Us Sick

7/02/09 Klapper, AP, Extinction Looms, Study Says

7/02/09 Reuters, SEC lawyer raised alarm about Madoff: report

7/02/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Senate Already Passed A Budget That Can Pay For A Public Option

7/02/09 Timmons & Kumar, NYT, Indian Court Overturns Gay Sex Ban

7/02/09 Hecht, SacBee, In S.F., thou shalt compost: It's the law

7/02/09 Lee, LAT, Hiring might not rebound in an economic recovery

7/02/09 Agazi, IPS, TRADE: Who's Harming Fish Stocks? Trawlers or Artisanal Fishers?

7/02/09 Hamilton, Guardian, How to create a drought-friendly garden

7/02/09 CNN, Amnesty: Israel killed hundreds of Gaza civilians

7/02/09 Steinhauser, CNN, Poll: Few Americans say recovery under way

7/02/09 Bryant, BBC, Gap dividing Aborigines growing

7/02/09 BBC, California in 'fiscal emergency'

7/02/09 BBC, Swine flu 'cannot be contained'

7/02/09 Walker, BBC, Amur tigers on 'genetic brink'

7/02/09 BBC, US job losses worse than expected

7/02/09 BBC, Nigaz name sparks racism debate

July 1, 2009

7/01/09 Goldstein, NYT, Nuns in the U.S. Are Facing Scrutiny by the Vatican

7/01/09 Landau, CNN, CDC: U.S. may need 600 million swine flu vaccine doses

7/01/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier is Up for Parole This Month

7/01/09 Fernandez, AlterNet, Why is the Government Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid at the U.S.-Mexico Border?

7/01/09 Samuelrich, AlterNet, David v. Goliath: Help Michigan Citizens Protect Their Water from Nestle's Bottling Operations

7/01/09 Kromm, Facing South, Honduran Coup Shines Spotlight on Controversial U.S. Military Training School

7/01/09 Ridgeway, MoJo, Congress's $1.2 Million a Day Drug Habit--and Pharma's Phony "Gift" to Health Care Reform

7/01/09 Klapper, AP, Group: World failing to halt biodiversity decline

7/01/09 Clark, Miami Herald, U.S. money going for reefs

7/01/09 Hambling, Wired, Darpa's Smart, Flat Camera Is Packed With Beady Eyes

7/01/09 Keim, Wired, ,a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/regeneration/">Salamander Discovery Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration

7/01/09 Leopold, TruthOut, John Yoo, Donald Rumsfeld and the Systematic Torture of Prisoners

7/01/09 Hall, McClatchy, Obama expands program to aid borrowers who're 'underwater'

7/01/09 Thomma et al, McClatchy, Jones: No more U.S. troops to Afghanistan this year

7/01/09 AP, Rep. Henry Waxman hospitalized in Los Angeles

7/01/09 Johnson, Guardian, The library that never closes

7/01/09 Grim, Huffington Post, NAFTA And The Drug Cartels: "A Deal Made In Narco Heaven" -- Exclusive Excerpt

7/01/09 Chadbourn, Bloomberg, Delinquencies Double on Least-Risky Loans, U.S. Says

7/01/09 Rappeport, FT, US private sector sheds 473,000 jobs

7/01/09 Randall, WSWS, US state budget crises fuel massive spending cuts: Deadlines threaten government shutdowns

7/01/09 Lalanne, IPS, ECONOMY: Migrant Miseries Will Trickle Down Worldwide, U.N. Warns

7/01/09 Rizvi, IPS, RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling

7/01/09 BBC, UK Afghan civilian death payments

7/01/09 BBC, Amnesty details Gaza 'war crimes'

7/01/09 Nasaw, Guardian, US military panel recommends discharge for gay soldier

7/01/09 Adam, Guardian, ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate skeptic groups, records show

7/01/09 Young, CNN, Two anti-smoking drugs to carry mental-health warnings

7/01/09 Quinn, CSM, Brave new world of British workers: floating 'labor hostels'

7/01/09 BBC, US opens 'major Afghan offensive'

7/01/09 Diaz, IPS, PARAGUAY: President and Congress Face Off Over Agrochemicals

7/01/09 Frykberg, IPS, Nobel Laureate 'Abducted' by Israeli Navy

7/01/09 Benno, PSL, New Orleans housing 'unaffordable'

7/01/09 Roa, AlterNet, The Military Invades U.S. Schools: How Military Academies Are Being Used to Destroy Public Education

7/01/09 Gilson, MoJo, Black and White and Dead All Over

7/01/09 Reuters, Permafrost Melting a Growing Climate Threat: Study

7/01/09 Barnes, WP, Term Saw High Court Move to The Right

7/01/09 Hiaasen, Miami Herald, Prescription drug overdose deaths soar in Florida

7/01/09 Swanson, IntelDaily, Cheney's Top Torture Lawyers Now Work for Obama

7/01/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Cyber Command Launched. U.S. Strategic Command to Oversee Offensive Military Operations

7/01/09 Stracansky, IPS, AUSTRIA: Racism on a Sharp Rise

7/01/09 Starr, CNN, Defense chief giving 'don't ask, don't tell' a closer look

7/01/09 Montero, CSM, Obama could send 1,500 National Guard troops to Mexican border

7/01/09 Walker, BBC, Ant mega-colony takes over world

June 30, 2009

6/30/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Amnesty Attacks Oil Industry for Decades of Damage in Niger Delta

6/30/09 Notte, Boston Herald, Crosby, Stills, and Nash have a lot to say to the next generation

6/30/09 Sutter, CNN, 'Last man standing' at wake for a toxic town

6/30/09 Barnes, WP, Justices to Review Campaign Finance Law Constraints

6/30/09 Gerstein, Politico, Bush Appointees Buck Barack Obama on Terror Policies

6/30/09 Merle, WP, Home Prices Fall at Slower Rate in April

6/30/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Iraq's "National Sovereignty Day" is U.S.-Style Hallmark Hype

6/30/09 Dreyfuss, Nation, Little to Celebrate in Iraq

6/30/09 Ito, Blog of Rights, Tortured to Death: New Details On Detainee Abuse Prove Bush Officials Are (Literally) Getting Away With Murder

6/30/09 Guerrera et al, Financial Times, Citi Raises Rates on Millions of Credit Cards: Report

6/30/09 Drew, NYT, Report Criticizes Israeli Drone Strikes

6/30/09 Brociner, ITT, Progressive Blind Spots

6/30/09 Seager, Guardian, UK economy shrinking at fastest rate in more than 50 years

6/30/09 Abelson, NYT, Insured, but Bankrupted by Health Crises

6/30/09 BBC, Oil companies reject Iraq's terms

6/30/09 BBC, Niger court dissolution 'is coup'

6/30/09 Walker, BBC, Huge declines in woodland birds

6/30/09 BBC, Most complete Earth map published

6/30/09 BBC, Challenges loom as Iraqis celebrate

6/30/09 Berrigan, FPIF, Weapons: Our #1 Export?

6/30/09 CNN, FDA advisers vote to take Vicodin, Percocet off market

6/30/09 Frykberg, CSM, How Israel's naval blockade denies Gazans food, aid

June 29, 2009

6/29/09 Fogerty, Reuters, Crops Face Toxic Timebomb in Warmer World: Study

6/29/09 Schmid, AP, Increasing dust speeds melting of mountain snow

6/29/09 Zetter, Wired, Deep-Packet Inspection in U.S. Scrutinized Following Iran Surveillance

6/29/09 Nichols, Nation, Honduras Coup Poses Challenges, Questions for Obama, Congress