Month of Category: June 2007 | Return to Uncommon Thought News

June 30, 2007
6/30/07 Al Jazeera, Bush to lose special trade powers
6/30/07 Higgins, WP, Saving Earth From the Ground Up
6/30/07 Powers, Asia Times, What Tenet knew
6/30/07 Bhadrakumar, Asia Times, A pipeline into the heart of Europe
June 29, 2007
6/29/07 Shahzad, Asia Times, Pakistan to help as the US's jailer
6/29/07 Weinberger, Wired, Pain Ray, Please," Says Exotic Weaponeer
6/29/07 AL Jazeera, Iraqi security forces 'not ready'
6/29/07 Al Jazeera, Brazil forces in slum shootout
6/29/07 Al Jazeera, Chavez shops for arms in Russia
6/29/07 Al Jazeera, Protests in Pakistan over relief
6/29/07 Kurtz, WP, Cheney's World
6/29/07 Abramowitz & Goldstein, WP, Bush Claims Executive Privilege on Subpoenas
6/29/07 Greenlee-Donnell, ITT, Stories of Survival
6/29/07 Doyle, Independent, Extreme weather wakes US up to climate change
6/29/07 Hickman, Independent, Co-operative's green approach wins acclaim
6/29/07 Attewill,Guardian, UN agrees deal over North Korea reactor
6/29/07 Sevastopulo & Waldmeir, FT.com, US Supreme Court in U-turn on Gitmo
June 28, 2007
6/28/07 Economist, Tilting to the right
6/28/07 Wolfson, Courier-Journal, Analysis: Civil rights leaders find some hope
6/28/07 Al Jazeera, Egypt outlaws female circumcision
6/28/07 Nichols, Nation, Contempt of Congress
6/28/07 Beutler, ITT, Can Habeas Corpus Be Restored?
June 27, 2007
6/27/07 Gilbertson, Wired, Google Earth Zooms In on Darfur Genocide
6/27/07 NYT, Gitmos Across America
6/27/07 Romero & Krauss, NYT, 2 Oil Firms Are Defiant in Venezuela
6/27/07 DeYoung & Pincus, WP, CIA Releases Files On Past Misdeeds
6/27/07 Becker & Gellman, WP, Cheney: Leaving No Tracks
6/27/07 Ireland, ITT, He Shoots, She Scores
6/27/07 Guardian, The BAE Files
June 26, 2007
6/26/06 Huq, Nation, Cheney and the Constitution
6/26/06 Corn, Nation, Where's the CIA's Missing Jewel?
6/26/07 Hamburger & Savage, LA Times, Ex-Governor Says He Was Target of Republican Plot
66/27/07 Morris, Asia Times, The world that Bob made - P3 Part 1 Part 2
June 25, 2007
6/25/07 Al Jazeera, China's hot energy-saving idea
6/25/07 Gellman & Becker, WP, Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power
6/25/07 Makanga, IPS, ZIMBABWE: Food a Political Tool?
6/25/07 Prosser, Independent, BP back to full capacity in Alaska after spill
6/25/07 Independent, Cheney opts out of secrets order
6/25/07 Elliott, Guardian, Pound breaks through $2
6/25/07 Johnson, Guardian, Social websites expose class divide
6/25/07 Bhadrakumar, Asia times, Russia's tango with Tehran
6/25/07 Bryant, BBC, Aborigine abuse crackdown begins
6/25/07 Hersch, New Yorker, The General's Report
June 24, 2007
6/24/07 Bailey, Al Jazeera, Gaza sewage crisis ongoing
6/24/07 Slevenis & Lydersen, WP, Project Aims To Convert Farmland Into Wetlands
6/24/07 MacGillis & Mufson, WP, Coal Fuels A Debate Over Obama
6/24/07 McLaughlin, Guardian, Mountain men's life under threat
6/24/07 Owen, Independent, England prepares for the smoking ban
June 23, 2007
6/23/07 Al Jazeera, Many injured in Colombia blasts
6/23/07 Al Jazeera, Chavez warns major oil firms
6/23/07 Al Jazeera, SA unions reject pay offer
6/23/07 Boorstein, WP, Putting Faith in Affordable Housing
6/23/07 Bhadrakumar, Asia Times, All roads leading to Pakistan
6/23/07 Morris, Asia Times, The tortured world of US intelligence
June 22, 2007
6/22/08 Freeman, WP, Senate Passes Energy Bill
6/22/07 Al Jazeera, Fight to survive for Borneo tribe
6/22/07 Al Jazeera, Draft Iraq oil law makes headway
6/22/07 AL Jazeera, China envoy defends Darfur record
6/22/07 AL Jazeera, China cancels Iraq debt
6/22/07 Al Jazeera, Nigeria strike set to intensify
6/22/07 Al Jazeera, Iran boasts of uranium enrichment
6/22/07 Montlake, CSM, Milk formula goes on trial in Asia
6/22/07 Mitnick & Prusher, CSM, All eyes on Abbas in West Bank
6/22/07 Connelly, ITT, Two Degrees From Devastation
6/22/07 Bloomfield, Independent, UN food aid 'causing chaos and violence' in Somalia
6/22/07 Independent, You, Europe, and your rights
6/22/07 Kershaw & Macnamara, Independent, North-west is unhealthiest region
6/22/07 Ritson, BBC, EU deal drops 'free competition'
June 21, 2007
6/21/07 Perlstein, Nation, Will the Progressive Majority Emerge?
6/21/07 Doyle, CommonDreams, Inmates' Words: The Poems of Guantanamo
6/21/07 Savage, LA Times, High Court Has Been Good For Business
6/21/07 WP, Flooding Risks
6/21/07 Partlow & Wright, WP, Top Iraqi Officials Growing Restless
6/21//07 Barbaro & Dash, NYT, At Wal-Mart, a Back Door Into Banking
6/21/07 Anderson & Sorkin, NYT, Congress Weighs End to Hedge Fund Tax Break
6/21/07 Onishi & Snager, NYT, U.S. Holds Direct Talks in North Korea
6/21/07 Velasquez-Manoff, CSM, Surviving a Warmer World
6/21/07 Warner, Independent, Rates are going higher. Get used to it
6/21/07 Lichfield, Independent, Backlash over Sarkozy 'rainbow government'
6/21/07 Sturcke, Guardian, Aborigines face ban on alcohol and porn
6/21/07 McGrath, BBC, Fruit could make 'powerful fuel'
June 20, 2007
6/20/07 Perry, Asia Times, GATES' WAY FORWARD, Part 2 A clean sweep
6/20/07 Gaul & Morgan, WP, A Slow Demise in the Delta
6/20/07 Trumbull, CSM, CEOs under fire to perform - or else
6/20/07 Tady, ITT, The Battle for the Air
6/20/07 Tapsfield, Independent, Think of decades, says UK's Afghanistan envoy
June 19, 2007
6/19/07 Gage, Wired, Electric Lawn Mowers
6/19/07 Al Jazeera, China builds highway to Everest
6/19/07 Lipton & Barboza, NYT, As More Toys Are Recalled, Trail Ends in China
6/19/07 St. George, WP, Getting Lost in the Great Indoors
6/19/07 Sappenfeld, CSM, Could Pakistan fall to extremists?
6/19/07 Gibler, ITT, Militarizing Mexico's Drug War
6/19/07 Usborne, Independent, Bush and Rumsfeld 'knew about Abu Ghraib'
6/19/07 Barrett, Independent, Police smash paedophile ring
6/19/07 Douglas, ITT, The Enduring Lies of Ronald Reagan
6/19/07 Harriban, BBC, China building more power plants
June 18, 2007
6/18/07 Hawkins, Al Jazeera, Chinese dams disrupt Mekong lives
6/18/07 AL Jazeera, Talks open on Western Sahara
6/18/07 Clayton, CSM, Progress on preventing blackouts
6/18/07 Angier, Independent, The true story of a refugee in Britain
6/18/07 Vanden Heuvel, Nation, Blackstone Greed
June 17, 2007
6/17/07 White & Goldstein, WP, Abu Ghraib Investigator Points to Pentagon
6/17/07 Hsu & Aizenman, WP, FBI Name Check Cited In Naturalization Delays
6/17/07 Orange, Independent, India's war of the vegetables
6/17/07 Gray, Independent, Scrap metal thieves target churches
6/17/07 Cuffe, BBC, African dream of a better life
June 16, 2007
6/16/07 Anderson & Sorkin, NYT, Tax Gap Puts Private Equity Firms on Hot Seat
6/16/07 Cooper & Sanger, NYT, Iran Strategy Stirs Debate at White House
6/16/07 Topping & Pidd, Guardian, Soldier missing and 40 factory staff trapped in floods
June 15, 2007
6/15/07 Bowers, CSM, States preempt US on immigration
6/15/07 Anderson & Partlow, WP, U.S. Says Iraq Troop Surge Complete
6/15/07 Arenson & Schemo, NYT, Report Details Deals in Student Loan Industry
6/15/07 Morgenson & Balja, NYT, Rising Rates Squeeze Consumers and Companies
6/15/07 Leigh & Evans, Guardian, BAE bought 75m Airbus for Saudi prince
6/15/07 Sturcke, Guardian, Further storms forecast as floods hit UK
June 14, 2007
6/14/07 Klein, Nation, Laboratory for a Fortressed World
6/14/07 Klein, Nation, Laboratory for a Fortressed World
6/14/07 Eggen & Kane, WP, 2 Former Aides to Bush Get Subpoenas
6/14/07 Scherer, CSM, Jammed cities eye 'pay to drive'
6/14/07 Leigh & Evans, Guardian, BAE faces criminal inquiry in US over 1bn payments
6/14/07 Black, BBC, African deal cut on ivory trade
6/14/07 Tirone & Dudikova, Bloomberg, Iran Rejects Atomic Suspension, Sees `Hidden Agenda'
6/14/07 Gerstenzang & Reynolds, LA Times, Bush picks Washington insider as White House counselor
6/14/07 Crutsinger, AP, Gas Prices Push Whole Inflation Rate Up
6/14/07 Detroit Free Press, Global warming news
June 13, 2007
6/13/07 Boustany, WP, Allies Cited for Human Trafficking
6/13/07 McCarthy & WIlliams, Guardian, Secret UN Report Condemns US for Middle East Failures
6/13/07 Ross, Toronto Star, Fatah, Hamas on Brink of Civil War
6/13/07 Fekeiki, WP, The Toll of Communism
6/13/07 Laurance, Independent, Test all wells for arsenic, says health expert
6/13/07 Oliver & Tempest, Guardian, Blair: Blame me for BAE
June 12, 2007
6/12/07 Ehrenreich, Nation, What America Owes its 'Illegals'
6/12/07 LaFranchi, CSM, US civilians drive Iraq's other surge
6/12/07 LaFranchi, CSM, US signals permanent stay in Iraq
6/12/07 Blumenthal, NYT, 3 Guardsmen Charged With Human Smuggling
6/12/07 Coonan, Independent, China's culture of secrecy 'deadly to society'
6/12/07 Laurance, Independent, Hay fever: the cure and the catch
6/12/07 Black, BBC, Test kit targets cruel bear trade
June 11, 2007
6/11/07 Chessler, Nation, In Praise of Immigrant Students
6/11/07 Goldstein & Eggen, WP, Immigration Judges Often Picked Based On GOP Ties
6/11/07 Miller & Meyer, LA Times, U.S. Relies on Sudan Despite Condemning It
6/11/07 Gumbel, Independent, The wrath of 2007: America's great drought
June 10, 2007
6/10/07 Bai, NYT, The Poverty Platform
6/10/07 Independent, 780 million litres of leaked water
6/10/07 Cockburn, Independent, UN warns of five million Iraqi refugees
6/10/07 Goodchild & Owen, Independent, What happened to childhood? How we are failing the young
6/10/07 Tevill et al, Guardian, 700,000 elderly people 'are being abused'
6/10/07 Whitehall, Guardian, Plan for new 'teenage call-up'
6/10/07 Townsend, Guardian, MI6 probes UK link to nuclear trade with Iran
6/10/07 Asthana, Guardian, Call to ban all school exams for under-16s
June 9, 2007
6/09/07 McCaffrey, WP, Naval Academy Gets New Leader
6/09/07 Jeffreys, Independent, 'Sickness' of suicides plagues South Korea
6/09/07 Bloomfield, Independent, Zambia feels the reality of G8's empty promises
6/09/07 Grice, Independent, The G8: What they said and what they meant
6/09/07 Fisk, Independent, Lies and outrages... would you believe it?
6/09/07 Leigh & Evans, Guardian, The Bandar cover-up: who knew what, and when?
6/09/07 Black, BBC, Shark trade restriction bid fails
June 8, 2007
6/08/07 Jerome, Wired, New Technology Boosts Ethanol Mileage
6/08/07 Shachtman, Wired, Military Target: Solar-Beaming Sats
6/08/07 Moore & Tate, WP, European Report Addresses CIA Sites
6/08/07 Mufson & Morgan, WP, Switching To Biofuels Could Cost Lots of Green
6/08/07 Peterson, CSM, Tensions on Iraq border rile Turkey
6/08/07 Soares, Independent, Chocoholics may be funding war in Africa
6/08/07 Popham & Taylor, Independent, The war on terror: Inside the dark world of rendition
6/08/07 Gray, Independent, Scientists produce wireless electricity
6/08/07 Leigh & Evans, Guardian, Attorney general responds to Bandar, $2bn and BAE
6/08/07 Bristow, BBC, 'Slaves' rescued from China firm
June 7, 2007
6/07/07Kuppasammy, IPS, MALAYSIA: Mired in Holy Quandary
6/07/07 Brown & Hsu, WP, Officials Detail Errors in TB Case
6/07/07 Eggen, WP, Official: Cheney Urged Wiretaps
6/07/07 Gumbel, Independent, Tesco plans to storm the stores of America
6/07/07 Leigh & Evans, Guardian, BAE accused of secretly paying 1bn to Saudi prince
6/07/07 Reynolds, BBC, Students go on rampage in China
June 6, 2007
6/06/07 Landler & Stolberg, NYT, Rifts Seen on Climate and Security at G-8 Summit
6/06/07 Black, BBC, Horn trade pressures some rhinos
6/06/07 Majumder, BBC, India, China under pressure at G8
6/06/07 Shaik, ITT, NOLA: Priced Out of the Parade
6/06/07 Levitt, Nation, When Prosecutors Get Political
June 5, 2007
Impacts of Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Programs. Mathematica Policy Research. April 2007 (164 page pdf report)
6/05/07 Markon & Lengel, WP, Lawmaker Indicted on Corruption Charges
6/05/07 Johnston & Zeleny, NYT, Congressman Sought Bribes, Indictment Says
6/05/07 WIntour, Guardian, Rules to make migrants integrate
June 4, 2007
6/04/07 Moberg, ITT, Whose Subsidy Is It Anyway?
6/04/07 Vanden Heuvel, Nation, Sex and Reality
6/04/07 Spotts & Blake, CSM, Climate debate heats up G-8
6/04/07 Marks, CSM, JFK plot derailed
6/04/07 Hari, Independnent, Iraq's Mercenaries - With A Licence To Kill
June 3, 2007
6/03/07 El-Haddad, Al Jazeera, A life in legal limbo
6/03/07 Novarror, NYT, Surf's Up, but the Water Is Brown
6/03/07 Faiola & Mufson, WP, N.Y. Airport Target of Plot, Officials Say
6/03/07 Lean, Independent, Rice made with