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

August 31, 2007
8/31/07 Ehenreich, Nation, Travails of the Super-Rich
8/31/07 Anderson & Warrick, WP, IAEA: Iran Cooperating In Nuclear Investigation
8/31/07 Blumenthal, NYT, Governor Commutes Sentence in Texas
8/31/07 Timmons & Sengupta, NYT, Building a Modern Arsenal in India
8/31/07 Rice, Guardian, The looting of Kenya
8/31/07 Trumbull, CSM, Historic fall in home prices
8/31/07 Al JAzeera, US condemns Myanmar crackdown
August 30, 2007
8/30/07 Weisman, WP, Terrorism Policies Split Democrats
8/30/07 DeYoung & Ricks, WP, Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals
8/30/07 Cloud & Schmitt, NYT, U.S. Weapons, Given to Iraqis, Move to Turkey
8/30/07 Brodzinzky, CSM, Colombians buy shares in state oil firm
8/30/07 Scherer, CSM, Subprime loans face big hikes
8/30/07 Bhaumik, BBC, Al Gore wins Indian tribal award
8/30/07 Black, BBC, World facing 'arsenic timebomb'
August 29, 2007
8/29/07 Eggen & Fletcher, WP, Bush May Fight for New Attorney General
8/29/07 Tavernise & Rohde, NYT, Obstacles Keep Iraqi Refugees From U.S.
8/29/07 Olson, ITT, Extending Tours, Stressing Troops
8/29/07 Plett, BBC, Bhutto 'ultimatum' to Musharraf
August 28, 2007
8/28/07 Independent, Firms fined over fatal gas blast
August 27, 2007
8/27/07 Surowiecki, New Yorker, Beware Bailouts
8/27/07 Seabrook, New Yorker, What You Sow
8/27/07 Kang & ElBoghady, WP, Cutbacks Mount in Real Estate Industry
8/27/07 NYT, Ravaging Appalachia
8/27/07 Schapiro, CSM, Zimbabwe economy in free fall
8/27/07 Sawary, BBC, Inside an Afghan opium market
8/27/07 Ndege, Al Jazeera, Africa's most toxic town
August 26, 2007
8/26/07 Leonhardt & Bajaj, NYT, Drop Foreseen in Median Price of U.S. Homes
8/26/07 Murphy, LA Times, Iran's Guard builds a fiscal empire
8/26/07 Dobson, Independent, Talcum powder 'poses cancer risk to women'
8/26/07 Lakhani, Independent, Pharmageddon: the prescription pill epidemic
8/26/07 Evans, Independent, Race row hits memorial for Martin Luther King
8/26/07 Whitehall, Guardian, Scientists' plea to use new hybrid embryos
August 25, 2007
8/25/07 Fisk, Independent, Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11
August 24, 2007
8/24/07 Trejos, WP, What Credit Crunch?
8/24/07 Baker & Weisman, WP, Warner Calls for Pullouts By Winter
8/24/07 Glanz & Farrell, NYT, More Iraqis Said to Flee Since Troop Increase
8/24/07 Connelly & Ross, ITT, Farming the Concrete Jungle
8/24/07 Contreras, Al Jazeera, Jeans blues in Mexico
August 23, 2007
8/23/07 Ketcham, Nation, The Hundred-Mile Diet
8/23/07 Greider, Nation, Waiting for 'The Big One' (economic crash)
8/23/07 Strobel & Fadel, McClatchy, A new intelligence report paints a bleak picture of Iraq
8/23/07 Accra, All Africa, Ghana: More Oil!
8/23/07 Cockburn, Nation, An Inconvenient Truth - Hussein
8/23/07 Doyle & Sengupta, Independent, Iraq: The vanishing coalition
8/23/07 Chen, ITT, The Promise of Low Power FM
8/23/07 Casciana, BBC, A hidden world of money transfers
August 22, 2007
8/22/07 Roig-Franzia & Variallas, WP, Dean Batters Mexico's Oil Industry
8/22/07 O'Harrow, WP, Federal No-Bid Contracts On Rise
8/22/07 Saulny & Buckley, NYT, Bid to Reopen Mine Divides Grieving Utah Town
8/22/07 Farrel & Fortson, Independent, Anatomy of a global credit crisis
8/22/07 Harding, Guardian, Russia steps up military expansion
8/22/07 Beyerstein, ITT, Perverse Justice
August 21, 2007
8/21/07 Shahzad, Asia Times, Taliban, US in new round of peace talks
8/21/07 Polgreen & French, NYT, China's Trade in Africa Carries a Price Tag
8/21/07 Steel, ITT, A Dream Deferred
8/21/07 Weisman, Wp, Senator Calls for Maliki's Ouster
8/22/07 Hiro, Asia Times, Rising powers have the US in their sights
August 20, 2007
8/20/07 Vick & Geis, WP, Many Pressures Led to Cave-In
8/20/07 Abend & Pingree, CSM, 750 million rodents devouring crops in Spain
8/20/07 Woodard, CSM, Who resolves Arctic oil disputes?
8/20/07 Al Jazeera, Darfur 'militia leader' warns UN
8/20/07 Kkodr, Al Jazeera, Lebanese army fights for equipment
8/20/07 Ehrenreich, Nation, Smashing Capitalism
8/20/07 Englehardt, Nation, How Super Was Our Power Anyway?
August 19, 2007
8/19/07 Risen & Lichtblau, NYT, Concerns Raised on Wider Spying Under New Law
8/19/07 Schwartz & Bajaj, NYT, In Mortgage Meltdown, Missed Signs
8/19/07 Whitaker, Independent, A symbol of the desolation of Iraq
August 18, 2007
8/18/07 Schiferes, BBC, Nafta trade talks likely to stall
8/18/07 French & Polgreen, NYT, Entrepreneurs From China Flourish in Africa
8/18/07 Myers & Shanker, NYT, White House to Offer Iraq Plan of Gradual Cuts
8/18/07 Elliott & Seager, Guardian, Recession fear forces hand of US central bank
August 17, 2007
8/17/07 Moore, WP, Trouble Tracks Far and Wide
8/17/07 Goodnough & Shane, NYT, Padilla Is Guilty on All Charges in Terror Trial
8/17/07 Moore, ITT, In Condemnation of Opting In
8/17/07 Allen & Wearden, Guardian, Markets surge after Fed acts
8/17/07 Amelio, Forbes, Worldsource Or Perish
8/17/07 Scherer, CSM, US debt jolts world markets
8/17/07 Weir, CSM, Russia's resurgent military
8/17/07 Black, BBC, Atlantic yields climate secrets
August 16, 2007
8/16/07 Shachtman, Wired, Armed Robots Pushed to Police
8/16/07 Al Jazeera, Farmers turned fighters - Darfur Fur tribe
8/16/07 Lewis, NYT, Inquiry Threatens Ex-Leader of Securities Agency (Chiquita-Colombia)
8/16/07 Fahrenthold & Mufson, WP, Cost of Saving the Climate Meets Real-World Hurdles
8/16/07 Weisman & DeYoung, WP, An Early Clash Over Iraq Report
8/16/07 Coonan, Independent, China crisis: the fairy tale goes wrong
8/16/07 Penketh, Independent, US set to blacklist 'terrorist' Iranian guards
8/16/07 Foley & Fortson, Independent, America's biggest mortgage firm at risk
8/16/07 Penketh, Independent, US set to blacklist 'terrorist' Iranian guards
8/16/07 Nichols, Nation, Kucinich Sounds the Alarm
8/16/07 Englehardt, Nation, An Act of Economic Madness
August 15, 2007
8/15/07 Al Jazeera, Australia 'to sell India uranium'
8/15/07 Gumbel, Independent, Bush's lethal legacy: more executions
8/15/07 Reynolds, BBC, US turns heat up on Iran
August 14, 2007
8/14/07 Al Jazeera, Denmark dismisses Arctic claims
8/14/07 Al Jazeera, Iran denies arming Taliban
8/14/07 Hall, McClatchey, Prices for Key Foods Are Rising Sharply
8/14/07 Kinver, BBC, Chernobyl 'not a wildlife haven'
8/14/07 Knickerbocker, CSM, NSA wiretapping trial begins
8/14/07 Burnell & Denwood, BBC, Perils of a new Pacific arms race
August 13, 2007
8/13/07 French & Polgreen, NYT, China, Filling a Void, Drills for Riches in Chad
8/13/07 Baker & Wilgoren, WP, Karl Rove, Adviser to President Bush, to Resign
8/13/07 Gopal & Kawzilly, IPS, LEBANON: 'Army Torturing Palestinian Refugees'
8/13/07 Tait, Guardian, Ahmadinejad dismisses two key ministers
8/13/07 Jackson, BBC, Crushing Iraq's human mosaic
8/13/07 Shachtman, Wired, Radar Bankshots for All-City Surveillance
8/13/07 Shachtman, Wired, Unmanned "Surge": 3000 More Robots for War
8/13/07 Kinver, BBC, Arctic sea ice set to hit new low
August 12, 2007
8/12/07 MacFarquhar, NYT, Black Pillar Dissolves in Debt and Unrest
8/12/07 Rohde & Sanger, NYT, How the 'Good War' in Afghanistan Went Bad
8/12/07 Warrick & Pincus, WP, How the Fight for Vast New Spying Powers Was Won
8/12/07 Balz & Shear, WP, Romney Wins Iowa's GOP Poll
8/12/07 Beaumont, Guardian, Fatigue cripples US army in Iraq
August 11, 2007
8/10/07 Lichtblau et al, NYT, Reported Drop in Surveillance Spurred a Law
8/11/07 Boustany, WP, Flooding Creates Dire Need
8/11/07 Murakami & Trejos, WP, Banks Add More Funds To Stabilize Markets
8/11/07 Foley & Forston, Independent, Crisis spreads from US lenders to UK hedge funds
8/11/07 MacAskill, Guardian, Canada uses military might in Arctic scramble
8/11/07 Shahzad, Asia Times, Taliban a step ahead of US assault
8/11/07 Plaut, BBC, UN troops 'helped smuggle gold'
August 10, 2007
8/10/07 Raghavan, WP, 'In the Land of the Blood Feuds'
8/10/07 Murakami & Cho, WP, Credit Crunch In U.S. Upends Global Markets
8/09/07 Williams, Nation, The Protect Alberto Gonzales Act of 2007
8/10/07 Hrier, CSM, American dream falters
8/10/07 Lucht, ITT, Risking Everything for Europe
8/10/07 Rifkin, LA Times, The Crisis Under The Ice
8/10/07 Penketh, Independent, Russian bombers play war games with US
8/10/07 Strobel et al, McClatchy, Cheney Urging Strikes On Iran
8/10/07 Sothern, Nation, Goodbye, St. Thomas
August 9, 2007
8/09/07 Macdonald, Al Jazeera, Cambodia alienating its own
8/09/07 Al Jazeera, Russia rejects missile claim
8/09/07 Griffin, Independent, The economic scramble for Africa
8/09/07 Benjamin, Guardian, Pygmy elephants face uncertain future
August 8, 2007
8/08/07 Bachelete, McClatchy, Study: Outlook bleaker for migrants
8/08/07 Scheer, Nation, The Terror America Wrought
8/08/07 Pilger, DemocracyNow, The Unseen Lies: Journalism As Propaganda
8/08/07 Glantz, OneWorld, Poll: Iraqis Oppose Oil Privatization
August 7, 2007
8/07/07 DeYoung & Ricks, WP, As British Leave, Basra Deteriorates
8/07/07 Peter, CSM, Warrantless wiretaps expanded
8/07/07 Macan-Markar, IPS, CAMBODIA: World Bank Faces Kleptocracy Test
8/07/07 MacAskill, Guardian, The US arsenal lost in Iraq
8/07/07 Huq, Nation, Data-Mining Our Liberties
August 6, 2007
8/06/07 Al JAzeera, Taliban 'no threat' says Karzai
August 5, 2007
8/05/07 Hawkins, Al Jazeera, Caught without a country
8/05/07 Lydersen, WP, Illegal Crops Creep Into the Suburbs
8/05/07 Berenson, NYT, What's a Fed Chairman to Do?
8/05/07 Hulse & Andrews, NYT, House Passes Changes in Eavesdropping Program
8/05/07 Lakhani, Independent, Millions left homeless by Asia's monsoon floods
8/05/07 Ricon, BBC, European heatwaves 'have doubled'
August 4, 2007
8/04/07 Lichtblau & Mazzetti, NYT, Broader Spying Authority Advances in Congress
8/04/07 McMahon, Guardian, Aborigine wins payout for stolen childhood
August 3, 2007
8/03/07 Bimbaum & Montgomery, NYT, Wall Street's Lucrative Tax Break Is Under Fire
8/03/07 Leonnig & Nakashima, NYT, Ruling Limited Spying Efforts
8/03/07 Curtis, Guardian, Iraq veterans suffer stress and alcoholism
8/03/07 Stanway, Guardian, 1,800 Chinese officials admit corruption
August 2, 2007
8/02/07 Abramowitz & Eggen, WP, Administration Again Rebuffs Senators
8/02/07 Paley & Strauss, WP, Top Private Education Lender Cuts Jobs
8/02/07 Solomon & Kaufman, WP, FDA's Retention Bonuses Rise to the Top
8/02/07 Independent, King coal makes a comeback
8/02/07 Scherer, CSM, How powerful is Rupert Murdoch now?
8/02/07 McKittrick, Independent, First peace, now a breakthrough in gay rights
8/02/07 Grice, Independent, Darfur: The evidence of war crimes
8/02/07 Weaver, Guardian, Toys recalled in lead paint scare
August 1, 2007
8/01/07 Abdul-Zahara & Salaheddin, AP, Sunni Arab Bloc Quits Iraqi Government
8/01/07 Pérez-Peña & Sorkin, NYT, Dow Jones Deal Gives Murdoch a Coveted Prize
8/01/07 Tady, ITT, A Win in the Water War
8/01/07 CSM, Is China Good for Africa? (3 part series)
8/01/07 Richissin, CSM, Feeling the burn in Death Valley