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August 31, 2007
8/31/07 Ehenreich, Nation, Travails of the Super-Rich
8/31/07 Hall, McClatchy, Bush's plan for aiding homeowners is less than it appears
8/31/07 Hall, McClatchy, Data sifters help unscrupulous mortgage lenders find their prey
8/31/07 BBC, Vast ice island trapped in Arctic
8/31/07 Anderson & Warrick, WP, IAEA: Iran Cooperating In Nuclear Investigation
8/31/07 Pitt, AP, Judge: Same-Sex Couples Can Wed in Iowa
8/31/07 Eggen & Kane, WP, Justice Dept. Probing Whether Gonzales Lied
8/31/07 Lichtblau, NYT, U.S. Cites 'Secrets' Privilege as It Tries to Stop Suit on Banking Records
8/31/07 Blumenthal, NYT, Governor Commutes Sentence in Texas
8/31/07 Kovach, NYT, Got Arachnophobia? Here's Your Worst Nightmare
8/31/07 Sciolino & Broad, NYT, Report Showing Rise in Iran's Nuclear Activity Exposes Split Between U.S. and U.N.
8/31/07 Schmitt & Glanz, NYT, U.S. Says Company Bribed Officers for Work in Iraq
8/31/07 Timmons & Sengupta, NYT, Building a Modern Arsenal in India
8/31/07 Reuters, Bush And Bernanke to Launch Twin Subprime Assault
8/31/07 Cloud, NYT, Panel Will Urge Broad Overhaul of Iraqi Police
8/31/07 Foley, Independent, Freddie Mac plunges as housing crisis rumbles on
8/31/07 Cockburn, Independent, Cholera spreads in Iraq as health services collapse
8/31/07 Rice, Guardian, The looting of Kenya
8/31/07 Prusher, CSM, Israelis extend mixed welcome to Sudanese
8/31/07 Trumbull, CSM, Historic fall in home prices
8/31/07 Al JAzeera, US condemns Myanmar crackdown
8/31/07 BBC, Barclays needs central bank loan
8/31/07 BBC, Indian growth tops expectations
8/31/07 BBC, Musharraf 'keeping options open'
8/31/07 BBC, Bush to announce sub-prime plan
8/31/07 BBC, Iraqi government appeals for calm
August 30, 2007
8/30/07 Keim, Wired, Gene Therapy: Is Death an Acceptable Risk?
8/30/07 Kuhnhenn, AP, FEC Fines Political Group From 2004 Race
8/30/07 Craig, WP, Va. Republican Bill Would Bar Illegal Immigrants From College
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 Reuters, Rare Dolphin Seen in China, Experts Say
8/30/07 Blumenthal, NYT, Not the Killer, but Still Facing a Date With the Executioner
8/30/07 vonZielbauer, NYT, Marines' Trials in Iraq Killings Are Withering
8/30/07 Cloud & Schmitt, NYT, U.S. Weapons, Given to Iraqis, Move to Turkey
8/30/07 Cockburn, Independent, Sadr calls six-month ceasefire to prevent civil war
8/30/07 Coonan, Independent, Great Wall could be lost to sands of the desert
8/30/07 Murphy, CSM, For Sudanese refugees, a cycle of flight
8/30/07 Brodzinzky, CSM, Colombians buy shares in state oil firm
8/30/07 Bowers, CSM, More people, more concrete, and lots more heat in Phoenix
8/30/07 Scherer, CSM, Subprime loans face big hikes
8/30/07 BBC, Climate flooding risk 'misjudged'
8/30/07 BBC, Deadly cholera outbreak in Iraq
8/30/07 BBC, Sudan to help Iraq's Palestinians
8/30/07 Bhaumik, BBC, Al Gore wins Indian tribal award
8/30/07 BBC, US college faulted over massacre
8/30/07 BBC, US Anglicans consecrated in Kenya
8/30/07 Black, BBC, World facing 'arsenic timebomb'
8/30/07 Al Jazeera, China 'must clarify' arms spending
August 29, 2007
8/29/07 Singel, Wired, Point, Click ... Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates
8/29/07 Eggen & Fletcher, WP, Bush May Fight for New Attorney General
8/29/07 Ricks, WP, Bush Wants $50 Billion More for Iraq War
8/29/07 vonZielbaur, NYT, Colonel Is Acquitted in Abu Ghraib Abuse Case
8/29/07 Timmons & Bennhold, NYT, Calls Grow for Foreigners to Have a Say on U.S. Market Rules
8/29/07 AP, Pranksters Wrap Rove's Car
8/29/07 Tavernise & Rohde, NYT, Obstacles Keep Iraqi Refugees From U.S.
8/29/07 Foley, NY Times, Credit fears return to rattle stock markets
8/29/07 Olson, ITT, Extending Tours, Stressing Troops
8/29/07 Tran, Guardian, US kills 100 'insurgents' in Afghanistan battle
8/29/07 Marks, CSM, In US, fewer are poor, more are working
8/29/07 Knickerbocker, CSM, Active-duty US troops become outspoken critics of Iraq war
8/29/07 BBC, Coastguard helps Libya sea rescue
8/29/07 Plett, BBC, Bhutto 'ultimatum' to Musharraf
8/29/07 BBC, Sudan launches flood aid appeal
August 28, 2007
8/28/07 Gugliotta, Wired, Researchers Hope Creatures From Black Lagoon Can Help Fight Cancer
8/28/07 Heath & Cho, WP, As Mortgage Mess Unravels, Some Investors Clean Up
8/28/07 Krauss, NYT, Facing Trial, Government Agrees to Improve Conditions at Immigrant Center
8/28/07 Yardley, NYT, The Wealthy Get an Extra Shield for Wildfires
8/28/07 Andrews, NYT, In Washington, Aid to Homeowners Debated
8/28/07 Glanz & Schmitt, NYT, Iraq Weapons Are a Focus of Criminal Investigations
8/28/07 Soares, Independent, Lighting up Africa: Why today's residents are still making do with wax and wicks
8/28/07 Independent, Firms fined over fatal gas blast
8/28/07 Clayton, CSM. US suspends vast ADVISE data-sifting system
8/28/07 Marks, CSM, Shift in Pentagon's security-privacy balance?
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 White, WP, Many Take Army's 'Quick Ship' Bonus
8/27/07 NYT, Ravaging Appalachia
8/27/07 Myers, NYT, A Familiar Strategy to Help Stay the Course
8/27/07 Schneider, WP, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Resigns
8/27/07 Myers, NYT, Embattled Attorney General Resigns
8/27/07 Buncombe, Independent, Indian shopkeepers force new supermarkets to close
8/27/07 Lichfield, Independent, Police tear-gas farmers in clash over French GM crops
8/27/07 Schapiro, CSM, Zimbabwe economy in free fall
8/27/07 Ellner, ITT, The Trial (And Errors) of Hugo Chavez
8/27/07 Sawary, BBC, Inside an Afghan opium market
8/27/07 BBC, Bush ally Gonzales 'steps down'
8/27/07 Ndege, Al Jazeera, Africa's most toxic town
August 26, 2007
8/26/07 Hurst, WP, Iraq Body Count Running at Double Pace
8/26/07 Fisher, NYT, For African Migrants, Europe Becomes Further Away
8/26/07 Kahn & Yardley, NYT, As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes
8/26/07 Leonhardt & Bajaj, NYT, Drop Foreseen in Median Price of U.S. Homes
8/26/07 Drogin, LA Times, Democrats tell Florida: Move primary or lose delegates
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 Woolf, Independent, US 'will not stop' British pull-out at Basra Palace
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 Woolf, Independent, DNA database chaos with 500,000 false or misspelt entries
8/26/07 BBC, Australia unveils immigrant tests
8/26/07 Whitehall, Guardian, Scientists' plea to use new hybrid embryos
8/26/07 BBC, Mystery deaths hit Saudi camels
8/26/07 BBC, Iraqi leaders sign unity accord
August 25, 2007
8/25/07 Nakashima, WP, Terror Suspect List Yields Few Arrests
8/25/07 Shanker, NYT, With Troop Rise, Iraqi Detainees Soar in Number
8/25/07 Fisk, Independent, Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11
8/25/07 Doyle, Independent, US surge sees 600,000 more Iraqis abandon home
8/25/07 BBC, US Sikhs angry over turban plan
8/25/07 BBC, China to act on gender imbalance
August 24, 2007
8/243/07 Nakashima, WP, Telecom Firms Helped With Government's Warrantless Wiretaps
8/24/07 Bulman, AP, WHO Ties Rising Population, New Diseases
8/24/07 Trejos, WP, What Credit Crunch?
8/24/07 Strumpf, AP, Flooded Midwest Slammed by More Storms
8/24/07 Baker & Weisman, WP, Warner Calls for Pullouts By Winter
8/24/07 Roberts, NYT, Officials Won't Delay Raids on Immigrants for Census
8/24/07 Sander, NYT, Death Toll Climbs in Flood-Stricken Midwest
8/24/07 Krauss, NYT, Belatedly, Some States Move to Limit Damage From Subprime Lending
8/24/07 Mazzetti, NYT, Report Offers Grim View of Iraqi Leaders
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 Tran, Guardian, 'US friendly fire' kills British soldiers in Afghanistan
8/24/07 BBC, Wheat prices reach record level
8/24/07 Peter, CSM, US intelligence describes 'paralyzed' Iraqi government
8/24/07 Stobbe, AP, Experts: U.S. Childbirth Deaths on Rise
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 Economic Times, Global warming to decimate China's harvests
8/23/07 Cockburn, Nation, An Inconvenient Truth - Hussein
8/23/07 Schneier, Wired, Time to Close Gaps in Emergency Communications
8/23/07 Eggen, WP, White House Declares Office Off-Limits
8/23/07 AP, Intel Report Questions Iraq's Progress
8/23/07 Glanz & Farrell, NYT, Militias Seizing Control of Iraqi Electricity Grid
8/23/07 Doyle & Sengupta, Independent, Iraq: The vanishing coalition
8/23/07 Chen, ITT, The Promise of Low Power FM
8/23/07 Scherer, CSM, Layoffs spreading in the housing industry
8/23/07 Casciana, BBC, A hidden world of money transfers
8/23/07 BBC, WHO warns of global epidemic risk
August 22, 2007
8/22/07 Seewer, AP, Midwest, Plains Flooding Deaths Reach 22
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 AP, Pentagon to Close Disputed Database
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 Macintyre, Independent, Plight of the refugees locked out of the 'promised land'
8/22/07 Harding, Guardian, Russia steps up military expansion
8/22/07 Beyerstein, ITT, Perverse Justice
8/22/07 BBC, Iraq PM hits back at US criticism
8/22/07 Chea, AP, Bush Must Release Global Warming Reports
August 21, 2007
8/21/07 Shahzad, Asia Times, Taliban, US in new round of peace talks
8/21/07 Bimbaum, WP, Wall Street Paying High Price to Keep Cash
8/21/07 Fan, WP, Beijing's Pollution Rises in 4-Day Test Of Restricted Driving
8/21/07 Irwin, WP, Investors Tap Treasurys As Stocks Take Breather
8/21/07 Eggen, WP, Cheney's Office Says It Has Wiretap Documents
8/21/07 Lichtblau, NYT, Senator Threatens to Charge White House With Contempt
8/21/07 Polgreen & French, NYT, China's Trade in Africa Carries a Price Tag
8/21/07 Pear, NYT, Rules May Limit Health Program Aiding Children
8/21/07 Steel, ITT, A Dream Deferred
8/21/07 Weisman, Wp, Senator Calls for Maliki's Ouster
8/21/07 Morris, Independent, Amazon forest sold off in housing scam, claims Greenpeace
8/21/07 Verkaik, Independent, Law firm settles 'homophobia' discrimination case
8/22/07 Hiro, Asia Times, Rising powers have the US in their sights
8/21/07 BBC, China hails car trial a 'success'
8/21/07 BBC, Copies of Nazi files transferred
8/21/07 BBC, Plans needed for Zimbabwe exodus
8/21/07 BBC, Clash over Nigeria cross-dressing
August 20, 2007
8/20/07 Stanley, NYT, Rove Talks: If Mistakes Were Made, They Weren't His
8/20/07 Kershner, NYT, Israel Returns Illegal African Migrants to Egypt
8/20/07 AP, Immigration Activist Deported
8/20/07 DeParle, NYT, Rising Breed of Migrant: Skilled and Welcome
8/20/07 Greenwell, WP, Iran Trains Militiamen Inside Iraq, U.S. Says
8/20/07 Witte & Ali, WP, Taliban Fighters Void Second Truce in Pakistan
8/20/07 Wax, WP, India's Lower Castes Seek Social Progress In Global Job Market
8/20/07 Struck, WP, Warming Will Exacerbate Global Water Conflicts
8/20/07 Vick & Geis, WP, Many Pressures Led to Cave-In
8/20/07 Marks, CSM, Moving the homeless out of shelters, into homes
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 Spotts, CSM, US Coast Guard joins in Arctic oil rush
8/20/07 Moberg, Universal Health Care for Wisconsin?
8/20/07 Cevallo, IPS, ENVIRONMENT-MEXICO: High Voltage Conflict Over Dam
8/20/07 BBC, Student dig unearths ancient gum
8/20/07 BBC, US Midwest heatwave kills dozens
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 AP, A Free - For - All Over Oil Money in Nigeria
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 Solomon et al, WP, How Rove Directed Federal Assets for GOP Gains
8/19/07 Makan-Markar, IPS, THAILAND/LAOS: Hmong Refugees Starve to Resist Deportation
8/19/07 Whitaker, Independent, A symbol of the desolation of Iraq
8/19/07 Whitaker & Fox, Independent, Military commanders tell Brown to withdraw from Iraq without delay
8/19/07 Buncombe, Independent, Birth of two nations: India and Pakistan: a parting of the ways
8/19/07, Doyle, Independent, Poor huddle in flimsy shacks as Hurricane Dean gathers speed
8/19/07 BBC, Market turmoil 'set to continue'
August 18, 2007
8/18/07 Brown, AP, Camps Offer Comfort to Children Whose Fathers Were Killed in Iraq, Afghanistan
8/18/07 Leahy, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Satellites Show Logging Decline in Peru's Amazon Region
8/18/07 Reeves, AP, Hot Weather Forces Partial Shutdown of TVA Nuclear Plant
8/18/07 BBC, Girls at risk amid India's prosperity
8/18/07 Schiferes, BBC, Nafta trade talks likely to stall
8/18/07 Rosen, NYT, Latest Genealogy Tools Create a Need to Know
8/18/07 Greenhouse, NYT, U.S. Proposes $2.78 Million Fine in Worker's Death
8/18/07 Feuer, NYT, Texas Trader Admits Guilt in Iraq Oil-for-Food Fraud
8/18/07 Romero, NYT, Grimmest Site in a Grim Peruvian City: The Cemetery
8/18/07 Broder, NYT, New Field for Earmarks in U.S. Goals on Energy
8/18/07 French & Polgreen, NYT, Entrepreneurs From China Flourish in Africa
8/18/07 Liptak, NYT, Padilla Case Offers a New Model of Terrorism Trial
8/18/07 Myers & Shanker, NYT, White House to Offer Iraq Plan of Gradual Cuts
8/18/07 Vogel, WP, Naval Academy Sets Tough Wartime Rules
8/18/07 Eggen, WP, Secret Court Asks For White House View on Inquiry
8/18/07 WP, The Discount-Rate Cut and You
8/18/07 Doyle, Independent, Alaskan politicians investigated for 'taking favours from oil companies'
8/18/07 Elliott & Seager, Guardian, Recession fear forces hand of US central bank
8/18/07 Peters & Bajaj, NYT, In Surprise Move, Fed Cuts Key Rate to Calm Markets
August 17, 2007
8/17/07 Hunt, AP, Financial Pressures Force Snow Departure
8/17/07 Moore, WP, Trouble Tracks Far and Wide
8/17/07 Aslam, IPS, ENERGY: Biofuel Seen as Boost for Poor Farmers
8/17/07 Wolf, Reuters, US Paid $1 Million to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers
8/17/07 BBC, EU biofuel policy is a 'mistake'
8/17/07 BBC, Warrant out for Saddam daughter
8/17/07 BBC, Russia restarts Cold War patrols
8/17/07 Weiss, WP, Fungus Infected Woman Who Died After Gene Therapy
8/17/07 Eggen, WP, FBI Director's Notes Contradict Gonzales's Version Of Ashcroft Visit
8/17/07 Kessler, WP, Construction Woes Plague U.S. Embassies
8/17/07 Banerjee, NYT, Advocates Hail Lutheran Act on Gay Clergy Members
8/17/07 Schwartz, NYT, One Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans Is Still at Risk
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 Orr, Guardian, Hardware firm charges Pentagon $1m to deliver two washers
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
8/17/07 BBC, WHO fears over Beijing pollution
August 16, 2007
8/16/07 Shachtman, Wired, Armed Robots Pushed to Police
8/16/07 Al Jazeera, Tribe's losing battle with loggers
8/16/07 Al Jazeera, Farmers turned fighters - Darfur Fur tribe
8/16/07 MacFarquhar, NYT, Muslim Groups Oppose a List of 'Co-Conspirators'
8/16/07 Lewis, NYT, Inquiry Threatens Ex-Leader of Securities Agency (Chiquita-Colombia)
8/16/07 Johnson, NYT, Facing the Multiple Risks of Newer, Deeper Mines
8/16/07 AP, Countrywide Borrows $11.5 Billion From 40 Banks
8/16/07 Healy, NYT, Rove Steps Up His Attacks on Clinton's Candidacy
8/16/07 Liptak, NYT, U.S. Defends Surveillance to 3 Skeptical Judges
8/16/07 Harris, NYT, Parents Warned Cough Medicines Imperil Infants
8/16/07 Dugger, NYT, CARE Turns Down Federal Funds for Food Aid
8/16/07 Bajaj, NYT, U.S. Stocks Open Lower After Major Asian Sell-Off
8/16/07 Fletcher, WP, As Rove Departs, President Again Turns to Gillespie
8/16/07 Fahrenthold & Mufson, WP, Cost of Saving the Climate Meets Real-World Hurdles
8/16/07 Warrick, WP, Domestic Use of Spy Satellites To Widen
8/16/07 Weisman & DeYoung, WP, An Early Clash Over Iraq Report
8/16/07 Dagher, CSM, Crisis summit aims to save Iraq's Maliki
8/16/07 Lubold, CSM, Future US Air Force missile: speeds up to Mach 6.5
8/16/07 Montlake, CSM, China sounds retreat against encroaching deserts
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 Keim, Wired, Can't See the Forest for the Biofuels
8/16/07 Penketh, Independent, US set to blacklist 'terrorist' Iranian guards
8/16/07 Cockburn, Independent, Desperate search for survivors among Yazidi homes destroyed by bombers
8/16/07 Orr, Guardian, US soldier suicides at highest level for 26 years
8/16/07 BBC, 'Heavy losses' in Afghan fighting
8/16/07 BBC, Gun battles in Nigeria oil city
8/16/07 BBC, Fears over rising Iraq bomb toll
8/16/07 BBC, Scores killed in Peru earthquake
8/16/07 BBC, US and Israel in $30bn arms deal
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 Granick, Wired, Nation's Soul Is at Stake in NSA Surveillance Case
8/15/07 Al Jazeera, Australia 'to sell India uranium'
8/15/07 Nossiter, There's Money in Oil, Oystermen Find
8/15/07 Romero, NYT, Chavez to Propose Removing His Term Limits
8/15/07 AP, Report Details Terror Cell Threat
8/15/07 Martin, NYT, U.S.-Made Toys Benefit From China's Troubles
8/15/07 Hsu & Warrick, WP, Intelligence Agencies Urged to Hire Minorities
8/15/07 Eggen, WP, Gonzales to Get Power In Death Penalty Cases
8/15/07 Merle, WP, Mattel Recalls More Chinese-Made Toys
8/15/07 Wright, WP, Iranian Unit to Be Labeled 'Terrorist'
8/15/07 Woodward, CSM, On US border, a surge in tidal-power projects
8/15/07 Richey, CSM, Beyond Padilla terror case, huge legal issues
8/15/07 Marks, CSM, Airport screening raises privacy issue
8/15/07 Hirschberg, IPS, MIDEAST: 'Quiet Transfer' Pushes Palestinians Out
8/15/07 Godoy, IPS, MEXICO: Truth Commission or Justice Commission?
8/15/07 Deen, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Water as a Right and Key to Social Stability
8/15/07 Gumbel, Independent, Bush's lethal legacy: more executions
8/15/07 Morris, Independent, Culture change needed to protect the elderly, say MPs
8/15/07 Clark, Guardian, US mortgage malaise spreads to low-risk lenders
8/15/07 BBC, Tiny wind engines cool computers
8/15/07 Reynolds, BBC, US turns heat up on Iran
8/15/07 BBC, N Korea floods devastate farmland
8/15/07 BBC, Deadly Iraq sect attacks kill 200
August 14, 2007
8/14/07 Al Jazeera, Denmark dismisses Arctic claims
8/14/07 Al Jazeera, Iran denies arming Taliban
8/14/07 Porter, IPS, IRAQ: U.S. Tags Iran for Casualties from Its Own Attacks
8/14/07 Hall, McClatchey, Prices for Key Foods Are Rising Sharply
8/14/07 Gumbel, Independent, Wolfowitz 'Tried to Censor World Bank on Climate Change'
8/14/07 Hotakainen, McClatchy, Study: Half of Nation's Poor Don't Get Food Stamps
8/14/07 Kinver, BBC, Chernobyl 'not a wildlife haven'
8/14/07 Borland, Wired, See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
8/14/07 McCrummen, WP, Civilian Toll Cited In Somali Conflict
8/14/07 Graff, WP, U.S. troops launch new Iraq offensive
8/14/07 Cho, WP, Nasdaq Gives High Rollers A Market Free Of Regulation
8/14/07 Nossiter, NYT, New Blow to New Orleans in Council Leader's Plea
8/14/07 AP, Producer Prices Rise 0.6% in July
8/14/07 Eshelman, ITT, Palestinians in Iraq Face a Second Exile
8/14/07 Sturcke, Guardian, Gangmaster shut down for mistreating workers
8/14/07 Chaddock, CSM, US crackdown on hiring illegals irks business community
8/14/07 Richey, CSM, US Gov't broke Padilla through intense isolation, say experts
8/14/07 Knickerbocker, CSM, NSA wiretapping trial begins
8/14/07 BBC, Paper battery offers future power
8/14/07 Burnell & Denwood, BBC, Perils of a new Pacific arms race
8/14/07 BBC, Pakistan marks 60th anniversary
August 13, 2007
8/13/07 AP, Easing Economic Concerns Boost Oil, Gas
8/13/07 French & Polgreen, NYT, China, Filling a Void, Drills for Riches in Chad
8/13/07 Rutenberg, NYT, Karl Rove, Top Strategist, Is Leaving the White House
8/13/07 Welsh, WP, Navy Selects Alion for Combat Simulations
8/13/07 Baker & Wilgoren, WP, Karl Rove, Adviser to President Bush, to Resign
8/13/07 Richey, CSM, US terror interrogation went too far, experts say
8/13/07 Trumbull, CSM, Credit crisis has Main Street watching Wall Street
8/13/07 Gopal & Kawzilly, IPS, LEBANON: 'Army Torturing Palestinian Refugees'
8/13/07 Godoy, IPS, MEXICO: 16,000 Victims of Child Sexual Exploitation
8/13/07 Watts, Guardian, Chinese toy factory boss commits suicide over lead paint scandal
8/13/07 MacAskill, Guardian, US Tumbles Down the World Ratings List for Life Expectancy
8/13/07 Tait, Guardian, Ahmadinejad dismisses two key ministers
8/13/07 BBC, EU's climate targets 'ambitious'
8/13/07 BBC, Top White House aide Rove resigns
8/13/07 BBC, US markets join global recovery
8/13/07 Shapin, New Yorker, Man with a Plan: Herbert Spencer's theory of everything.
8/13/07 MacAskill, Guardian, US Tumbles Down the World Ratings List for Life Expectancy
8/13/07 Jackson, BBC, Crushing Iraq's human mosaic
8/13/07 Al Jazeera, Abandoned by the world - Stateless people
8/13/07 AL Jazeera, In Iraq, sex is traded for survival
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 Mayer, New Yorker, The Black Sites: A rare look inside the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program
8/13/07 Kinver, BBC, Arctic sea ice set to hit new low
August 12, 2007
8/12/07 Al Jazeera, Argentina's neglected Indian tribe
8/12/07 BBC, Iraqi PM calls for crisis summit
8/12/07 MacFarquhar, NYT, Black Pillar Dissolves in Debt and Unrest
8/12/07 Fitzgerald, NYT, It Takes Deep Pockets to Fight Global Warming
8/12/07 Schwartz, NYT, Far From the Reservation, but Still Sacred?
8/12/07 NYT, World's Best Medical Care?
8/12/07 Bradsher, NYT, China Enacting a High-Tech Plan to Track People
8/12/07 Norris & Dash, In a Credit Crisis, Large Mortgages Grow Costly
8/12/07 NY Times, Afghanistan: Terrorism on the rise
8/12/07 Rohde & Sanger, NYT, How the 'Good War' in Afghanistan Went Bad
8/12/07 Whoriskey, WP, Engineers to Test Flood Defenses In New Orleans
8/12/07 AP, Lebanon Group Given Terrorist Label by U.S.
8/12/07 Warrick & Pincus, WP, How the Fight for Vast New Spying Powers Was Won
8/12/07 Fainaru, WP, U.S. Pays Millions In Cost Overruns For Security in Iraq
8/12/07 Balz & Shear, WP, Romney Wins Iowa's GOP Poll
8/12/07 Dobson, Independent, Beautiful people earn 12% more than Ugly Bettys
8/12/07 Lakhani, Independent, Monsoon flooding spreads west across India and Pakistan
8/12/07 Beaumont, Guardian, Fatigue cripples US army in Iraq
8/12/07 BBC, Ancient forest found in Hungary
8/12/07 BBC, S Leone election ballots counted
August 11, 2007
8/11/07 Preston, NYT, Farmers Call Crackdown on Illegal Workers Unfair
8/11/07 Burnette, NYT, To Curb Illegal Migration, Spain Offers a Legal Route
8/11/07 Schneider & Cave, NYT, Security Council Approves a Broader U.N. Mandate in Iraq to Seek Reconciliation
8/11/07 Steinhauer, NYT, States Try to Alter How Presidents Are Elected
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 Troinovsky, WP, Rights Movement Divides Russia's Gay Community
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 Independent, Sub-prime lending slump sends markets into freefall
8/11/07 Sharp, Independent, The Continental guide to urban living: how European ways could transform our cities
8/12/07 Dodd, Guardian, Guantanamo man's family release 'torture' dossier
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 BBC, IMF seeks to calm financial fears
8/11/07 Plaut, BBC, UN troops 'helped smuggle gold'
8/11/07 Carter, BBC, Arctic neighbours draw up battle lines
8/11/07 BBC, Russia unveils air defence plan
August 10, 2007
8/10/07 Singel, Wired, TSA Unveils Planned Overhaul of Airport Screening
8/10/07 Rutenberg, NYT, Bush Rejects Gas Tax as Way to Shore Up Bridges
8/10/07 Pear, NYT, Bush Plans Immigration Crackdown
8/10/07 Revkin, NYT, Analysts See 'Simply Incredible' Shrinking of Floating Ice in the Arctic
8/10/07 Norris, NYT, A New Kind of Bank Run Tests Old Safeguards
8/10/07 AP, North Korea Condemns U.S. War Games
8/10/07 Fattah, NYT, U.S. Backs Free Elections, Only to See Allies Lose
8/10/07 Tavernise, NYT, Jordan Yields Poverty and Pain for the Well-Off Fleeing Iraq
8/10/09 White, WP, Detainees Ruled Enemy Combatants
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 Llana, CSM, Brazil, Venezuela vie for energy clout
8/10/07 Hrier, CSM, American dream falters
8/10/07 Lucht, ITT, Risking Everything for Europe
8/10/07 Butler, Independent, A President in denial, a ravaged nation denied hope
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 Dean, FindLaw, The So-Called Protect America Act: Why Its Sweeping Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Pose Not Only a Civil Liberties Threat, But a Greater Danger As Well
8/10/07 BBC, Soot 'influences Arctic climate'
8/10/07 Cohn, CommonDreams, FISA Revised: A Blank Check for Domestic Spying
8/10/07 BBC, Democrats reach out to gay voters
8/10/07 Strobel et al, McClatchy, Cheney Urging Strikes On Iran
8/10/07 BBC, Chavez pushes new energy projects
8/10/07 BBC, Danes set for North Pole mission
8/10/07 Macintyre, Independent, MoD to impose gagging order on blogs written by army personnel
8/10/07 BBC, Gay Nigerians face Sharia death
8/10/07 BBC, Canada PM asserts Arctic claims
8/10/07 Sothern, Nation, Goodbye, St. Thomas
8/10/07 BBC, World shares fall on credit fears ... Q&A: World stock market falls ... Are global market bubbles set to blow?
6/10/07 BBC, Sickness spreads in S Asia floods
August 9, 2007
8/09/07 AP, U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,683
8/09/07 Schneier, Wired, E-Voting Certification Gets Security Completely Backward
8/09/07 Gilbertson, Wired, Netflix Hack Enables Play-Anywhere Downloads
8/09/07 Zetter, Wired, Medeco Readies Assembly-Line Fix for DefCon Lock Hack
8/09/07 Macdonald, Al Jazeera, Cambodia alienating its own
8/09/07 Al Jazeera, Russia rejects missile claim
8/09/07 Baron, NYT, A Sudden Storm Brings New York City to Its Knees
8/09/07 Roberts, NYT, Minorities Now Form Majority in One-Third of Most-Populous Counties
8/09/07 Cave, NYT, U.S. Attack Kills 32 in Sadr City
8/09/07 Gall, NYT, British Criticize U.S. Air Attacks in Afghan Region
8/09/07 Williams, WP, Another Shot in Currency Fight: Chinese Threaten Divestment
8/09/07 Aizenman, WP, The Face of Local Counties Shifts With Surge in Minorities
8/09/07 Brodzinky, CSM, A quest to save South America's freshwater dolphins
8/09/07 Griffin, Independent, The economic scramble for Africa
8/09/07 Weir, CSM, Russia stretches 'extremism' laws
8/09/07 Benjamin, Guardian, Pygmy elephants face uncertain future
8/09/07 Carroll & Oni, Guardian, Chávez opens his wallet wider to boost Latin American influence
8/09/07 BBC, US bridge 'design issue' detected
8/09/07 BBC, Spain burns fields to kill voles
8/09/07 BBC, Mauritanian MPs pass slavery law
8/09/07 BBC, Musharraf rejects emergency rule
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 Lasker, Wired, Air Force Draws Weekend Cyberwarriors From Microsoft, Cisco
8/07/07 Creswell, NYT, Even Nonhousing Markets Feel Mortgage Fallout
8/07/07 McFadden, NYT, Judge Orders Release of Reports on '04 Surveillance
8/07/07 Struck, WP, Russia's Deep-Sea Flag-Planting at North Pole Strikes a Chill in Canada
8/07/07 Seymour, AP, N.Y. Lender Files for Bankruptcy Protection
8/07/07 Eggen, WP, FBI Bows to Modern Realities, Eases Rules on Past Drug Use
8/07/07 Mosk, WP, Fundraisers Tap Those Who Can't Say No
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 BBC, Georgia in Russian attack claim
8/07/07 Blumenthal, Nation, Kill Or Convert, Brought To You By the Pentagon
8/07/07 Huq, Nation, Data-Mining Our Liberties
August 6, 2007
8/06/07 Al JAzeera, Taliban 'no threat' says Karzai
8/06/07 Stuart, NY Sun, Veterans' Rare Cancers Raise Fears of Toxic Battlefields
8/06/07 Mainchi Daily, Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2007: Aim for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
8/06/07 BBC, US lender on brink of bankruptcy
8/06/07 BBC, Losing track of guns, losing track of Iraq?
8/06/07 Tobin, New Yorker, An Unsolved Killing: What does the firing of a U.S. Attorney have to do with a murder case?
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 Broder, NYT, Energy Bill Adopted by House Requires Utilities to Use Renewable Power Sources
8/05/07 AP, House OKs New Taxes on Oil Companies
8/05/07 AP, House Approves $460 Billion Pentagon Budget
8/05/07 Rivlin, NYT, In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich
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 McDougall, Guardian, The forgotten refugees who wait for justice after 60 years
8/05/07 Ricon, BBC, European heatwaves 'have doubled'
8/05/07 Bryan, BBC, The Abu Ghraib whistleblower's ordeal
8/05/07 BBC, China cleans up one-child slogans
8/05/07 BBC, Disease labs face safety inquiry
8/05/07 BBC, Iran and Nicaragua in barter deal
August 4, 2007
8/03/07 Singel, Wired, Senate Committee Votes to Expand TV Ratings Technology To Internet
8/04/07 Eggen & Kane, NYT, Gonzales Now Says Top Aides Got Political Briefings
8/04/07 Fears, NYT, La. Town Fells 'White Tree,' but Tension Runs Deep
8/04/07 Lichtblau & Mazzetti, NYT, Broader Spying Authority Advances in Congress
8/04/07 AP, California Restricts Voting Machines
8/04/07 Appel, NYT, Florida Counties Try to Contain Phosphate Mines
8/04/07 Romero, NYT, Chávez Takes 'Crazy Battalion' of Supporters on the Road
8/04/07 Bajaj, NYT, Markets Fall as Lender Woes Keep Mounting
8/04/07 Independent, Threatened kangaroos set to get first-class treatment
8/04/07 McMahon, Guardian, Aborigine wins payout for stolen childhood
8/04/07 BBC, New World Bank chief in Cambodia
8/04/07 Painter, BBC, Losing land to palm oil in Kalimantan
August 3, 2007
8/03/07 Bohrer, AP, Big Insurers Win Ruling On Katrina Levee Break
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 Miroff, WP, Collapse Spotlights Weaknesses in U.S. Infrastructure
8/03/07 Lewis, NYT, White House Aide Won't Answer Questions of a Senate Panel
8/03/07 Foster, ITT, General Failure: An enduring crisis in civil-military relations threatens America's future
8/03/07 Benjamin, Guardian, 'Disaster map' reveals sites of planned developments
8/03/07 Curtis, Guardian, Iraq veterans suffer stress and alcoholism
8/03/07 Stanway, Guardian, 1,800 Chinese officials admit corruption
8/03/07 BBC, US adds fewer jobs than expected
8/03/07 BBC, Devastating floods hit South Asia
8/03/07 BBC, Nigerian gunmen attack oil boats
8/03/07 Scherer, CSM, Bridge collapse spotlights America's deferred maintenance
8/03/07 Llana, CSM, In Central America, child migrants now face perils alone
August 2, 2007
8/02/07 Palank, NYT, Democrats Plan to Assess Voting State by State
8/02/07 Medina, NYT, A Study Finds Some States Lagging on Graduation Rates
8/02/07 Wines, NYT, Caps on Prices Only Deepen Zimbabweans' Misery
8/02/07 Kellman, AP, House Panel Approves Reporter Shield
8/02/07 Hebert, AP, House Drops Tougher Auto Fuel Economy
8/02/07 Kerr, WP, Nominee Defends Ending Programs
8/02/07 Johnson, WP, How Much Organic Food in One Basket?
8/02/07 Abramowitz & Eggen, WP, Administration Again Rebuffs Senators
8/02/07 Ahrens, WP, For Dow Jones, A Ticket to Take On the World
8/02/07 Paley & Strauss, WP, Top Private Education Lender Cuts Jobs
8/02/07 Leonnig, WP, In Terrorism-Law Case, Chiquita Points to U.S.
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 Guardian, MPs predict failure in bid to close gender pay gap
8/02/07 Weaver, Guardian, Toys recalled in lead paint scare
8/02/07 Tran, Guardian, UN resolution seeks to expand role in Iraq
8/02/07 BBC, Trade dilemma on China-Kazakh border
8/02/07 BBC, Russian subs reach Arctic floor
8/02/07 BBC, Orangutans use 'charades' to talk
August 1, 2007
8/01/07 White, WP, Army General Censured Over Tillman Probe - Memo
8/01/07 Abdul-Zahara & Salaheddin, AP, Sunni Arab Bloc Quits Iraqi Government
8/01/07 Weissman, WP, House Votes 411-8 to Pass Ethics Overhaul
8/01/07 Eggen, WP, NSA Spying Part of Broader Effort
8/01/07 Goldstein & Johnson, WP, U.S. Attorney Became Target After Rebuffing Justice Dept.
8/01/07 Pérez-Peña & Sorkin, NYT, Dow Jones Deal Gives Murdoch a Coveted Prize
8/01/07 McNeill, Independent, Japan's hybrid train hailed as the future of rail travel
8/01/07 Usborne, Independent, UN to send 26,000 troops to halt conflict in Darfur
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
8/01/07 Sappenfeld, CSM, Taliban leaves tribal roots for Al Qaeda tactics
8/01/07 BBC, Gazprom to cut Belarus supplies
8/01/07 BBC, Sudan 'will support Darfur force'
8/01/07 Contreras, Newsweek, Thousands of Unpaid Teens Bag Groceries for Wal-Mart
8/01/07 Bender, Boston Globe, Budget Office Analysis Says War Could Cost $1 Trillion
8/01/07 AP, US Military Doctors Criticized Over Force-Feeding
8/01/07 BBC, Saudis back US Middle East plans
8/01/07 BBC, Murdoch wins fight for Dow Jones