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September 30, 2007
9/30/07 Reuters, Huge Crowds in Costa Rica Protest US Pact
9/30/07 Hester, AP, Ground Beef Recall Expanded Across U.S.
9/30/07 AP, Army Sniper, Acquitted of Murder, Is Sentenced for Planting Evidence
9/30/07 Vick, WP, Isolating the Menace In a Sterile Supermax
9/30/07 Singletary, WP, Help for Home Buyers From the Inside
9/30/07 Solomon & Eilperin, WP, Bush's EPA Is Pursuing Fewer Polluters
9/30/07 Atkinson, WP, The single most effective weapon against our deployed forces
9/30/07 Shanker, NYT, Meeting Today's Military Demands, With an Eye on Tomorrow's
9/30/07 Fathi, NYT, Despite Denials, Gays Insist They Exist, if Quietly, in Iran
9/30/07 Morgenson, NYT, Can These Mortgages Be Saved?
9/30/07 AP, U.S. Embassy Condemns Iraq Division Plan
9/30/07 Van Natta, NYT, Big Coffers and a Rising Voice Lift Group on the Right
10/08/07 Hersh, NY Observer, Shifting Targets: The Administration's plan for Iran.
9/30/07 Krauss, NYT, Ethanol's Boom Stalling as Glut Depresses Price
9/30/07 Jasiewicz, Independent, Black gold turns grey as Western giants prepare to draw from the wells of Iraq
9/30/07 Wolff, Independent, Immigration... Immigration... Immigration: Cameron hoped to ignore it
9/30/07 Parfitt, Guardian, Wave of killings fuels fear of a second Chechnya
9/30/07 McCurry et al, Guardian, How Junta stemmed a saffron tide
9/30/07 BBC, Darfur attack kills peacekeepers
September 29, 2007
9/29/07 Eggen, WP, Iraq Wiretap Delay Not Quite as Presented
9/29/07 Zavis, LA Times, Petraeus Admits to Rise in Iraq Violence
9/29/07 Trejos, WP, FHA Down Payment Rule To Ban Seller Financing
9/29/07 Raghavan & DeYoung, WP, 5 Witnesses Insist Iraqis Didn't Fire On Guards
9/29/07 Kessler & DeYoung, WP, State Dept. Agents Say Jobs Were Threatened
9/29/07 AP, Iran Labels CIA 'Terrorist Organization'
9/29/07 Blumenthal & Greenhouse, NYT, Texas Planning New Execution Despite Ruling
9/29/07 Harris, NYT, Ban Sought on Cold Medicine for Very Young
9/29/07 McNeill, Independent, Japanese outraged by rewriting of Okinawa history
9/29/07 Doyle, Independent, Bush's voluntary targets for emissions fail to win support
9/29/07 Doyle, Independent, Saddam 'ready to walk away for $1bn'
9/29/07 Carrell, Guardian, Fish billionaire in plea to save wild salmon
9/29/07 Goldenberg, Guardian, Lethal injection review may halt US executions
9/29/07 Vidal, Guardian, Major bluetongue outbreak feared
9/29/07 MacAskill, Guardian, Europeans angry after Bush climate speech 'charade'
9/29/07 BBC, Bush climate plans spark debate
9/29/07 BBC, Farc woman steals plane to desert
9/29/07 Ehrlich, Asia Times, Myanmar's blogs of bloodshed
9/29/07 Al Jazeera, US confirms Baghdad air strike
September 28, 2007
9/28/07 Shachtman, Wired, Navy Calls MySpace Kids "Alien Life Force" (And They Hate the War, Too)
9/28/07 Kramer & Rubin, NYT, Official Calls Kurd Oil Deal at Odds With Baghdad
9/28/07 Kramer & Rubin, NYT, Official Calls Kurd Oil Deal at Odds With Baghdad
9/28/07 UPI, State Department slams Hunt Oil-Iraq deal
9/28/07 AFP, US Accused of Killing Women and Children in Baghdad Raid
9/28/07 Mieville, ITT, Floating Utopias
9/28/07 Clayton, CSM, Nuclear power surge coming
9/28/07 Al Jazeera, New IMF chief named
9/28/07 Al Jazeera, Iraqi PM rejects US federal plan
September 27, 2007
9/27/07 Vandeb Heuvel, Nation, Ending War for Profit
9/27/07 Spotts, CSM, Are sunspots prime suspects in global warming?
9/27/07 Trumbull, CSM, Auto workers make concessions to keep jobs in U.S.
9/27/07 Peter, CSM, Iraqi oil exports to north rise
9/27/07 Grier, CSM, Bush's fiscal legacy: bigger debt
9/27/07 Aizenman, WP, Influx of U.S. Inmates Slowing, Census Says
9/27/07 Eggen, WP, Patriot Act Provisions Voided
9/27/07 Vogel, WP, Report Says Fixes Slow To Come at Walter Reed
9/27/07 White & Tyson, WP, Increase In War Funding Sought
9/27/07 Sanger & Shanker, NYT, Washington Sees an Opportunity on Iran
9/27/07 Banerjee, NYT, Prisons to Restore Purged Religious Books
9/27/07 Herszenhorn, NYT, Senate Urges Bush to Declare Iran Guard a Terrorist Group
9/27/07 Broder & Risen, NYT, Blackwater Tops All Firms in Iraq in Shooting Rate
9/27/07 Jackson, Independent, Against the grain: 'Economics, not common sense, drives GM crops'
9/27/07 Hike, Independent, Voices from cyberspace: how Burma's bloggers are bearing witness to the unfolding revolution
9/27/07 Sturcke, Guardian, Musharraf nominates for presidential vote
9/27/07 BBC, Rice chairs climate change talks
9/27/07 Smith-Spark, BBC, The good life of the Auschwitz guards
September 26, 2007
9/26/07 Shachtman, Wired, Soldier of the Future Gets His Gear On
9/26/07 Kanter, NYT, Banks Urging U.S. to Adopt the Trading of Emissions
9/26/07 Baldauf, CSM, Africa's AIDS Orphans
9/26/07 Eilperin, WP, World Leaders Press U.S. To Act on Climate Change
9/26/07 Raghavan & Ricks, WP, Private Security Puts Diplomats, Military at Odds
9/26/07 AP, Iraq Drafts Law on Security Companies
9/26/07 Risen, NYT, Blackwater Inquiry Blocked by State Dept., Official Says
9/26/07 Kucinich, Press Release, Congress Must Stop Funding The War
9/26/07 AP, Durable Goods Orders Plummet
9/26/07 Belson & Capuzo, NYT, Towns Rethink Laws Against Illegal Immigrants
9/26/07 Andrews, NYT, Inspector Finds Broad Failures in Oil Program
9/26/07 O'Grady, Independent, Steepest fall in US house prices in 16 years fuels fears of recession
9/26/07 Howden, Independent, Supermarkets run out of food as Mugabe tightens his stranglehold
9/26/07 Hickman, Independent, UK backs African farmers in battle over imported produce
9/26/07 Usborne, Independent, Revealed: script for Bush's mangled words
9/26/07 Penketh, Independent, Is America right to demonise President Ahmadinejad of Iran?
9/26/07 Walker, Independent, Making a land fit for oligarchs: Russia's island of the super-rich
9/26/07 Judd, Independent, Firms that invest in Burma 'have paid for bullets'
9/26/07 BBC, UAW ends General Motors walkout
9/26/07 BBC, US Anglicans reject gay bishops
9/26/07 Smith-Spark, BBC, US lethal injection: end of the line?
9/26/07 BBC, Dollar falls to another euro low
9/26/07 BBC, China dam 'catastrophe' warning
9/26/07 AL Jazeera, Cholera 'spreading in Iraq'
September 25, 2007
9/25/07 Clark, CSM, Darfur conflict spills into Chad
9/25/07 Woodard, CSM, As race for oil-rich Arctic heats up, Inuit stake their claim, too
9/25/07 Ford, CSM, Why China shut down 18,401 websites
9/25/07 Fletcher, WP, Treasury Rekindles Social Security Debate
9/25/07 Witte, WP, U.S. Rebukes Pakistan on Detentions
9/25/07 Eilperin, WP, U.S. Trying to Block Calif. on Emissions
9/25/07 Mufson, WP, U.S. Nuclear Power Revival Grows
9/25/07 DeYoung, WP, What Defines a Killing as Sectarian?
9/25/07 Herzenhorn, NYT, Big Water-Project Measure Is Approved by the Senate
9/25/07 Preston, NYT, U.S. Sues Illinois to Let Employers Use Immigrant Databases
9/25/07 Zielbauer, NYT, Snipers Baited and Killed Iraqis, Soldiers Testify
9/25/07 AP, Existing Home Sales Fall for 6th Straight Month
9/25/07 Bajaj & Helft, NYT, The Loan That Keeps On Taking
9/25/07 Glaberson, NYT, Court Advances Military Trials for Detainees
9/25/07 Foley, Independent, Fallout from global financial crisis will be long lasting, warns IMF
9/25/07 Foley, Independent, GM workers strike over healthcare plan
9/25/07 Puri, BBC, Beyond the pale?
9/24/07 BBC, Legacy of the Little Rock Nine
9/25/07 Flanders, Nation, Is Jena America?
9/25/07 Kucinich, Press Release, Iran Counter-Proliferation Act Unintentionally Undermines Diplomatic Efforts
9/25/07 Witt, Chicago Tribune, School Discipline Tougher on African Americans
9/25/07 Coile, SF Chron., How the White House Worked to Scuttle California's Climate Law
9/25/07 AL Jazeera, DR Congo gorillas under threat
September 24, 2007
9/24/07 LaFranchi, CSM, U.N. revs up over global warming
9/24/07 Scherer, CSM, How the falling dollar affects Americans
9/24/07 Weinberger, Wired, Pain Ray Heading for LA Streets?
9/24/07 Barzanji, AP, Iran Closes Border With Northern Iraq
9/24/07 Lydersen, WP, Taking Measures to Control an Invasive Species
9/24/07 Nakashima & Krebs, WP, Contractor Blamed in DHS Data Breaches
9/24/07 White & Partlow, WP, U.S. Aims To Lure Insurgents With 'Bait'
9/24/07 Slackman, NYT, U.S. Focus on Ahmadinejad Puzzles Iranians
9/24/07 Lohr, NYT, Buy a Laptop for a Child, Get Another Laptop Free
9/24/07 AP, U.N. Chief Urges Immediate Climate Action
9/24/07 Thompson & Schmitt, NYT, Graft in U.S. Army Contracts Spread From Kuwait Base
9/24/07 Wired, 4 Technologies on the Brink
9/24/07 King, Independent, The longer-term consequences of the sub-prime crisis have yet to be seen
9/24/07 Justo, Wired, The Prescription: Switching to Renewables
9/24/07 Ratliff, Wired, The Formula: From Grass to Gas
9/24/07 Birch, Independent, Dwindling farm water threatens Turkish disaster
9/24/07 MacKinnon, Guardian, Record numbers join Burmese protests
9/24/07 Ratliff, WIred, One Molecule Could Cure Our Addiction to Oil
9/24/07 BBC, Burmese military threatens monks
9/24/07 BBC, Credit crunch 'hits world growth'
9/24/07 Knudson, Sacramento Bee, Promises and Poverty
9/24/07 Englehardt, Nation, Order 17
September 23, 2007
9/23/07 Henderson, McClatchy, Death is Different
9/23/07 Douglas, McClatchy, Bolten quietly orchestrates change in White House
9/23/07 Warren & Pincus, WP, Missteps in the Bunker: How Nuclear Warheads Made Unplanned Flight
9/23/07 Raghavan & Fainru, WP, U.S. Repeatedly Rebuffed Iraq on Blackwater Complaints
9/23/07 Markon, WP, Human Trafficking Evokes Outrage, Little Evidence
9/23/07 Cooper, NYT, $50 Billion for Military Is Added to Budget
9/23/07 Glanz & Tavernise, NYT, Security Company Faces Iraqi Criminal Charges
9/23/07 Brady, Independent, US security firms warned of Iraq risks months ago
9/23/07 Sauer, Union-Tribune, Generals Opposing Iraq War Break with Military Tradition
9/23/07 AP, Bush To Be No-Show At U.N. Climate Summit
9/23/07 Lydersen, WP, War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says
9/23/07 Duhigg, NYT, More Profit and Less Nursing at Many Homes
9/23/07 Dobson, Independent, East European immigrants fuel return of servant class
9/23/07 Lakhani, Independent, Children trafficked from Asia to UK to work in cannabis factories
9/23/07 BBC, Further bluetongue tests at farm
9/23/07 BBC, Burma march 'largest in 20 years'
September 22, 2007
9/22/07 Partlow & Raghavan, WP, Iraq Probe of U.S. Security Firm Grows ... timeline of violent encounters
9/22/07 Loven, AP, Bush: Kids' Health Care Will Get Vetoed
9/22/07 Nakashima, WP, Collecting of Details on Travelers Documented
9/22/07 Gettleman, NYT, Cracks in the Peace in Oil-Rich Sudan as Old Tensions Fester
9/22/07 Kramer, NYT, Blackwater Resumes Guarding U.S. Envoys in Iraq
9/22/07 Reuters, U.S. Officials Ask Turkey to Seek Energy Alternatives
9/22/07 Mazzetti & Sanger, NYT, Israeli Raid on Syria Fuels Debate on Weapons
9/22/07 Kershaw, NYT, U.S. Rule Limits Emergency Care for Immigrants
9/22/07 Doyle, Independent, Syria strike: US shared intelligence with Israel
9/22/07 Vidal, Guardian, From Scotland to the Channel Islands the cry goes up: 'Banish the plastic bag'
9/22/07 Bowcott, Guardian, The new British empire? UK plans to annex south Atlantic
9/22/07 MacAskill & Norton-Taylor, Guardian, Iraq's hired hands under fire as the pot of gold starts to run low
9/22/07 Peter, CSM, Bush wants permanent warrantless wiretap law
9/22/07 BBC, New Ebola cases seen in DR Congo
9/22/07 Al Jazeera, Two million displaced inside Iraq
9/22/07 Al Jazeera, Blackwater probed over Iraq weapons
9/22/07 BBC, Blackwater denies Iraq smuggling
9/22/07 AL Jazeera, Hmong refugees sent back to Laos
September 21, 2007
9/21/07 Nichols, Nation, Blackwater, Oil and the Colonial Enterprise
9/21/07 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater: Hired Guns, Above the Law
9/21/07 Mufson, WP, Utility Fined $11.4 Million for Acid Rain
9/21/07 Eggen, WP, Alaska Senator's Calls Were Secretly Taped
9/21/07 Kurtz, WP, Discussing His Lawsuit Against CBS, Dan Rather Is Sticking to His Story
9/21/07 Tse, WP, Dubai Agrees To Acquire 20% Stake in Nasdaq Market
9/21/07 Greenwell, WP, Fear Drives Baghdad's Housing Bust
9/21/07 Kessler & Wright, WP, Israel, U.S. Shared Data On Suspected Nuclear Site
9/21/07 Schwartz, NYT, NASA Presents Details of Plans for Moon Base
9/21/07 Sorokin, NYT, Carlyle to Sell Stake to a Mideast Government
9/21/07 Jones, NYT, Louisiana Protest Echoes the Civil Rights Era
9/21/07 Bajaj & Austen, NYT, Dollar Falls to New Low Against the Euro
9/21/07 Tavernise & Glanz, NYT, Guards' Shots Not Provoked, Iraq Concludes
9/21/07 Macintyre, Independent, Fury as Netanyahu confirms Syria strike
9/21/07 Bloomfield, Independent, 100,000 flee violence in Kenya as tribal conflict over land worsens
9/21/07 Howden & Doyle, Independent, Making a killing: how private armies became a $120bn global industry
9/21/07 Bloomfield, Independent, 100,000 flee violence in Kenya as tribal conflict over land worsens
9/21/07 Tran, Guardian, Israel consulted US before Syria strike, report says
9/21/07 Asma, ITT, Holy Toyland
9/21/07 Knickerbocker, CSM, A legal danger zone for Blackwater
9/21/07 Jonsson, CSM, 'Jena 6' case raises questions of bias in U.S. justice
9/21/07 BBC, Protesters highlight US race row
9/21/07 BBC, Counting the cost of wheat price hike
9/21/07 BBC, Bill Gates leads Forbes rich list
9/21/07 BBC, Ice withdrawal shatters records
September 20, 2007
9/20/07 Lardner, AP, In Iraq, Private Contractors Outnumber US Troops
9/20/07 Kay, SF Chron. Environmental Groups Petition US to Regulate Air Fresheners
9/20/07 Godoy, IPS, Incentives Offered to Destroy Forests
9/20/07 OneWorld, Groups Urge New Drive to Fight Oil-Climate Crisis
9/20/07 Lobe, IPS, Republicans Block Habeas for Gitmo Detainees
9/20/07 Younge, Nation, 'Jena Is America'
9/20/07 Corn, Nation, An Iraqi "Eliot Ness" Out in the Cold
9/20/07 AL Jazeera, Iraqis offered new life in Brazil
9/20/07 Al Jazeera, Bin Laden wants Musharraf 'removed'
September 19, 2007
9/19/07 Tucker, WP, A Small College, Painted Into a Corner
9/19/07 Fan, WP, China Rushes to Halt Bird Flu Among Ducks
9/19/07 Eggen, WP, Democrats May Tie Confirmation to Gonzales Papers
9/19/07 Timberg, WP, Group Urges Amnesty For Zimbabwe Leaders
9/19/07 Rein & Otto, WP, Md. Ban On Gay Marriage Is Upheld
9/19/07 Pincus, WP, U.S. Working to Reshape Iraqi Detainees
9/19/07 Meyerson, WP, China's Hot Stock: Orwell Inc.
9/19/07 Jones, NYT, In Louisiana, a Tree, a Fight and a Question of Justice
9/19/07 Risen, NYT, Warrantless Wiretaps Not Used, Official Says
9/19/07 Masood, NYT, New Twist on Musharraf Plan Emerges
9/19/07 Glanz & Rubin, NYT, Migration Reshapes Iraq's Sectarian Landscape
9/19/07 Fortson, Independent, Bank of England injects 4.4bn into money markets
9/19/07 Foley, Independent, Fed bolsters economy with bold half-point cut
9/19/07 Sengupta, Independent, Iraq to review legal status of private security companies
9/19/07 Macintyre, Independent, Palestinians left helpless by Israelis, World Bank warns
9/19/07 Soares, Independent, The languages of extinction: The world's endangered tongues
9/19/07 Lichfield, Independent, 'Health disaster' in French Caribbean linked to pesticides
9/19/07 Wintour, Guardian, West's strategy on terrorism all wrong, says Ashdown
9/19/07 BBC, Scores ill in Peru 'meteor crash'
9/19/07 BBC, Police chief fears migrant impact
9/19/07 Al Jazeera, Powerful storm hits eastern China
9/19/07 Baldauf, CSM, Ranks of child soldiers swell again in Congo
9/19/07 Tavernise & Glanz, NYT, Iraqi Report Says Blackwater Guards Fired First
9/19/07 Al Jazeera, UN warns Israel over 'enemy' Gaza
September 18, 2007
9/18/07 Yager, LA Times, Chiquita Fined for Colombia Payments
9/18/07 Hess, AP, Spy Chief Seeks More Eavesdropping Power
9/18/07 Leopold, Truthout, Pentagon Sued Over Mandatory Christianity
9/18/07 DemocracyNow, Can Iraq (or Anyone) Hold Blackwater Accountable for Killing Iraqi Civilians? A Debate on the Role of Private Contractors in Iraq
9/18/07 Barringer, NYT, Effort to Get Companies to Disclose Climate Risk
9/18/07 NYT, Considering Mr. Mukasey
9/18/07 BBC, Russia and China 'spying on US'
9/18/07 Al Jazeera, Russia cautions against Iran attack
9/18/07 AFP, Global Trade Union Reports 144 Activists Killed in 2006
9/19/07 Borger & Chrisafis, Guardian, Drift into War with Iran Out of Control, Says UN
September 17, 2007
9/17/07 Montgomery, McClatchy, Russia's Aggressive Moves Spark Fears of a New Cold War
9/17/07 Sherwell & Shipman, Telegraph, Bush Setting America Up for War With Iran
9/17/07 Burns, AP, Abizaid: World Could Abide Nuclear Iran
9/17/07 Toronto Star, Pollution Killing Kids in China, India
9/17/07 Lean, Independent, EU Watchdog Calls for Urgent Action on Wi-Fi Radiation
9/17/07 Packer, New Yorker, Planning for Defeat: How should we withdraw from Iraq?
September 16, 2007
9/16/07 NYT, The Need for Regulation: For All of the Nation's Imports
9/16/07 AP, Missile Defense Strains US - Russian Ties
9/16/07 AP, Presidential Candidates on Health Care
9/16/07 Lipton, NYT, In Turnaround, Industries Seek U.S. Regulation
9/16/07 Wright, WP, Iranian Arms Destined for Taliban Seized in Afghanistan, Officials Say
9/16/07 Cha, WP, Pig Disease in China Worries the World
9/16/07 Boorstein et al, WP, Dueling Demonstrations
9/16/07 McRae, Independent, Economic View: There'll be no meltdown. There'll be no recession. But the world's central banks will ride to the rescue again
9/16/07 Strahan & Murray-Watson, Independent, Oil industry 'sleepwalking into crisis'
9/16/07 Brady, Independent, Nato comes clean on cluster bombs
9/16/07 Bayley, Independent, Loaded generation: The lives of Britain's new super-rich
9/16/07 Beaumont, Guardian, Was Israeli raid a dry run for attack on Iran?
9/16/07 Beaumont & Walters, Guardian, Greenspan admits Iraq was about oil, as deaths put at 1.2m
9/16/07 Stewart, Guardian, 'Housing boom over' as UK bank chaos grows
9/16/07 Hawksley, BBC, Big Brother is watching us all
9/16/07 BBC, Worldwide rallies held for Darfur
9/16/07 Al Jazeera, Hundreds held in US anti-war march
September 15, 2007
9/15/07 BBC, Greenspan attacks Bush on economy
9/15/07 Al Jazeera, Melting ice opens Northwest Passage
9/15/07 Al Jazeera, Floods hit large parts of Africa
September 14, 2007
9/14/07 AP, Consumer Confidence Tumbles in Sept.
9/14/07 Barrett, Mcclatchy, Communities take very different paths on illegal immigrants
9/14/07 Susman, LA Times, Poll: Civilian Death Toll in Iraq May Top 1 Million
9/14/07 Barrett, Mcclatchy, Communities take very different paths on illegal immigrants
9/14/07 Macintyre, Independent, Living off scraps: The West Bank's bitter harvest
9/14/07 Judd, Independent, Saudi women to put their foot down on driving ban
9/14/07 Verkaik, Independent, The case of the Guantanamo lawyer, the detainees and the illegal pairs of pants
9/14/07 Soares, Independent, Tuareg rebels attack US plane as insurgency in Mali intensifies
9/14/07 Trumbull, CSM, Credit crunch likely to spur reforms
9/14/07 Calyton, CSM, States are closer to trimming autos' CO2 emissions
9/14/07 BBC, Bush aide says warming man-made
9/14/07 Al Jazeera, UN adopts indigenous rights bill
9/14/07 BBC, Northern Rock shares plunge 25%
September 13, 2007
9/13/07 Youseff, Mcclatchy, New Iraq plan recalls strategies past
9/13/07 Leahy, IPS, Worst Places on Earth Are Home to Millions
9/13/07 Lewis, WP, In W.Va., Police Hold Six In Case of Alleged Torture
9/13/07 Broder, NYT, Hopes Dim for Measures to Conserve Energy
9/13/07 McKinley, NYT, University Fences In a Berkeley Protest, and a New One Arises
9/13/07 Bajaj, NYT, Euro Hits New High; Oil Nears $80 a Barrel
9/13/07 NYT, The Next Attorney General
9/13/07 Barringer, NYT, U.S. Court Backs States' Measures to Cut Emissions
9/13/07 Glanz, NYT, Compromise on Oil Law in Iraq Seems to Be Collapsing
9/13/07 Cockburn, Independent, President Petraeus? Iraqi official recalls the day US general revealed ambition
9/13/07 Tran, Guardian, Iran accused over attack on US Iraq base
9/13/07 Clayton, CSM, Problem dams on the rise in US
9/13/07 Foulkes, BBC, Swiss citizenship system 'racist'
9/13/07 Al Jazeera, Powerful aftershocks hit Sumatra
9/13/07 Al Jazeera, Abe in hospital after resignation
September 12, 2007
9/12/07 Hambling, Wired, Lessons Of War Disputed
9/24/07 Olsen, Nation, Patriot Act's Wide Net
9/06/07 Hayden, Nation, The New Counterinsurgency
9/06/07 Hayden, Nation, The New Counterinsurgency
9/12/07 Leland, NYT, Housing Costs Consumed More of Paychecks in 2006
9/12/07 Mouawad, NYT, OPEC to Lift Oil Output Modestly
9/12/07 NYT, Running on Empty
9/12/07 Shenon & Johnson, NYT, Bush Nearing Choice to Lead Justice Dept.
9/12/07 Weaver, Guardian, Russians given day off work to make babies
9/12/07 Harding, Guardian, Putin dissolves government ahead of elections
9/12/07 Wood, CSM, Water crisis squeezes California's economy
9/12/07 Lubold, CSM, Anbar streets illustrate Petraeus's testimony
9/12/07 CSM, Beyond food and toys, China struggles with its global reputation
9/12/07 Black, BBC, Gorillas head race to extinction
9/12/07 BBC, Dollar at record low against euro
September 11, 2007
9/11/07 Hartmann, CommonDreams, The Problem With a "War" Strategy
9/11/07 Sorrel, Wired, Study: RFID Implants Could Cause Cancer
9/11/07 Hambling, Wired, Thermobarics: Driving Metal
9/11/07 Eilperin, WP, Warming May Be Hurting Gray Whales' Recovery
9/11/07 Shapira, WP, Titans of Ecology
9/11/07 Cho & Heath, WP, KKR Buyouts to Test the Stretched Credit Market
9/11/07 Barboza, NYT, Why Lead in Toy Paint? It's Cheaper
9/11/07 Bradsher, NYT, An Opportunity for Wall St. in China's Surveillance Boom
9/11/07 Youssef & Fadel, McClatchy, What Crocker and Petraeus didn't say
9/11/07 Gordon, McClatchy, Would notebook's clues have headed off 9-11?
9/11/07 Sengupta, Independent, The view from Baghdad: Mounting death toll which makes a mockery of US optimism
9/11/07 Clayton, CSM, Climate-change paradox: Greenhouse gas is Big Oil boon
9/11/07 Chaddock, CSM, Democrats on Hill aim to aid middle class
9/11/07 LaFranchi, CSM, Petraeus, Crocker try to buy time for US efforts in Iraq
9/11/07 Murphy, CSM, Al Qaeda slips further from political goals
9/11/07 BBC, Opec discusses rise in oil output
9/11/07 BBC, S Asia flood devastation worsens
9/11/07 BBC, US home woes 'near-perfect storm'
9/11/07 BBC, Deadly Ebola resurfaces in Congo
9/11/07 BBC, US marks sixth 9/11 anniversary
September 10, 2007
9/10/07 Keim, Wired, Gallery: Mountaintop Mining Ravages Appalachia
9/10/07 Keim, Wired, Blowing the Top Off Mountaintop Mining
9/09/07 Reuters, Pacific Rim Nations Agree on Global Warming, Without Targets
9/10/07 AP, Explosions Hit Mexican Oil Pipelines
9/10/07 Goodstein, NYT, Prisons Purging Books on Faith From Libraries
9/10/07 McNeil, NYT, Drugs Banned, Many of World's Poor Suffer in Pain
9/10/07 Judd, Independent, Amnesty film shows agony of US detention techniques
9/10/07 Enders, ITT, Why Iraq is Getting Worse
9/10/07 Weir, CSM, Kremlin extends grip on oil
9/10/07 Trumbull, CSM, Could a recession lie ahead? Watch the job market.
9/10/07 BBC, US predicts polar bear meltdown
9/10/07 BBC, Black empowerment deal for Sasol
9/10/07 Al Jazeera, US plans military base near Iran
9/10/07 BBC, Viewpoints: Iraq surge
9/10/07 Shachtman, Wired, Iraq Diary: Why Jake Volunteered for a Third Tour
9/10/07 Bishara, Al Jazeera, Debating the US troop 'surge'
September 9, 2007
9/09/07 Lichtblau, NYT, F.B.I. Data Mining Reached Beyond Initial Targets
9/09/07 Polgreen, NYT, Mali's Farmers Discover a Weed's Potential Power
9/09/07 Webb, Independent, Shell could take nuclear option to mine oil from Canadian tar sands
9/09/07 Jowitt, Guardian, One in four mammals under threat
9/09/07 Watt, Guardian, Ban the standby button, say Tories
9/09/07 BBC, Migrant workers face English test
9/09/07 Blunt, BBC, US gives stark warning to Eritrea
9/09/07 Al Jazeera, Suit over British colonial past
September 8, 2007
9/08/07 Leonhardt, NYT, Unexpected Loss of Jobs Raises Risk of Recession
9/08/07 Bloomberg News, House Passes Bill to Curb Suits by Patent Owners
9/08/07 Eggen, WP, Bush Expected to Nominate Attorney General Next Week
9/08/07 Harden, WP, Japan's Floundering Abe Fights for Floating Gas Station
9/08/07 O'Harrow, WP, House Committee Probes No-Bid Contract at DHS
9/08/07 Forero, WP, Traffickers Infiltrate Military in Colombia
9/08/07 Doyle, Independent, National parks hit by global warming
9/08/07 Brown, Guardian, Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes
9/08/07 BBc, Iran faces $2.65bn US bomb award
9/08/07 Lloyd-Roberts, BBC, Zimbabwe's precarious survival
9/08/07 Porretto, AP, Dallas Oil Company Signs Deal With Kurds
9/08/07 Klein, Guardian, The Shock Doctrine
September 7, 2007
9/07/07 Rosen, Nation, The Secret White House
9/07/07 Clayton, CSM, New tool to fight global warming: Endangered Species Act?
9/07/07 Hambling, Wired, HardSTOP: Selective Urban Lethality
9/07/07 Rizvi, IPS, South Stands with Indigenous Peoples at the U.N.
9/07/07 Eggen, WP, Judge Invalidates Patriot Act Provisions
9/07/07 Deen, IPS, NGOs Unite on Earth's Greatest Crisis
9/07/07 AP, APEC Officials Agree on Global Warming
9/07/07 Burns, ITT, A Freegan World
9/07/07 Peters, NYT, 4-Year Growth in Jobs Ends; Stocks Plunge
9/07/07 Rosen, TomDispatch, Soft Crimes Against Democracy
9/07/07 Rizvi, OneWorld, Fasters Urge Congress to Cancel Poor Countries' Debts
9/07/07 Laurance, Independent, Thirty Years: Difference in Life Expectancy Between the World's Rich and Poor Peoples
9/07/07 BBC, Dingo had measure of Tassie tiger
9/07/07 Burns, ITT, A Freegan World
9/07/07 Black, BBC, Virus implicated in bee decline
9/07/07 BBC, US backing for two-tier internet
September 6, 2007
9/06/07 Sniffen, Wired, DHS Ends Criticized Data-Mining Program
9/06/07 White, WP, In Error, B-52 Flew Over U.S. With Nuclear-Armed Missiles
9/06/07 Oweiss, Reuters, Syria says Israel bombs territory
9/06/07 Hilzenrath & ElBoghdady, WP, New Mortgage Foreclosures Set Record
9/06/07 DeYoung, WP, Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq
9/06/07 NYT, Group Says 'Indiscriminate' Israeli Attacks Caused Most Civilian Deaths in Hezbollah War
9/06/07 Moore, Independent, Old king coal still burning
9/06/07 O'Grady, Independent, Halifax confirms housing bubble is bursting
9/06/07 Coonan, Independent, Invisible arms race: The internet balance of power
9/06/07 Tuhus, ITT, Scorned on the Bayou
9/06/07 Prusher, CSM, Israel to grant Darfur refugees citizenship
9/06/07 Peter, CSM, Alleged Chinese hacker attack stirs fears of digital cold war
9/06/07 Smithers, Guardian, Danger to children from food and drink additives is exposed
9/06/07 BBC, World economy 'facing slowdown'
9/03/07 BBC, Nippon Oil to buy Iran oil in yen
9/06/07 BBC, Oil prices up as Opec hopes fade
9/06/07 BBC, Credit fears spark fresh action
9/06/07 BBC, In pictures: Felix aftermath
9/06/07 Ravi, BBC, Cholera-hit Indians 'face hunger'
9/06/07 BBC, Mosquito virus arrives in Europe
9/06/07 Al Jazeera, Jets intercept Russian bombers
9/06/07 Al Jazeera, Lawyers rally against Musharraf
9/06/07 Ryan, ABC, Spy Satellites Turned on the US
9/06/07 Ritter, Truthdig, Reporting From Baghdad
September 5, 2007
9/05/07 Eggen & Baker, WP, New Book Details Cheney Lawyer's Efforts to Expand Executive Power
9/05/07 Forero, WP, New Chapter in Drug Trade
9/05/07 Kovach, NYT, Musician Is Killed for Banging on a Door
9/05/07 Barnes & Nakamura, WP, D.C. Asks Supreme Court to Back Gun Ban
9/05/07 Rosen, NYT, Conscience of a Conservative
9/05/07 Preston, NYT, Short on Labor, Farmers in U.S. Shift to Mexico
9/05/07 Sanger, NYT, Bush Shifts Terms for Measuring Progress in Iraq
9/05/07 Slackman, NYT, Hard Times Help Leaders in Iran Tighten Their Grip
9/05/07 Carvel, Guardian, The figure that shows it pays to be a man
9/05/07 Wintour, Guardian, Construction workers may have spread foot and mouth virus, says official study
9/05/07 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, Titan Rain - how Chinese hackers targeted Whitehall
9/05/07 Tuckman, Guardian, Four dead as Hurricane Felix hits land at 160mph
9/05/07 Ford, CSM, China ready to leap from industrial to information-age economy
9/05/07 BBC, Third recall for China-made toys
9/05/07 BBC, US economy 'heading for slowdown'
September 4, 2007
9/04/07 AP, SoCal Heat Wave Strains Power Grid
9/04/07 Mufson, WP, Coal Rush Reverses, Power Firms Follow
9/04/07 Gordon, McClatchy, 50 years later, lamenting state of Civil Rights Division
9/04/07 Bengali, McClatchy, Aid agency warns of possible starvation in eastern Ethiopia
9/04/07 Schoof & Strobel, McClatchy, Surge hasn't cut attacks on Iraqi civilians
9/04/07 Al Jazeera, Panama Canal expansion begins
9/04/07 Al Jazeera, Court rules Israel barrier be moved
9/04/07 Al Jazeera, Iraqi parliament faces US deadline
9/04/07 Vanden Huevel, Nation, Facing Down Poverty
9/04/07 Allen, ITT, Climate Change Refugees
9/04/07 Hambling, Wired, Tasers Worry Brits
9/04/07 Lenz, AP, Documents Show Soldiers Disregard Rules
9/04/07 Sloan, WP, Sleight-of-Hand Math for the Budget Deficit
9/04/07 Mufson, WP, Coal Rush Reverses, Power Firms Follow
9/04/07 Weiss, WP, Mom's Genes or Dad's? Map Can Tell.
9/04/07 Wade, NYT, In the Genome Race, the Sequel Is Personal
9/04/07 Carey, NYT, Bipolar Illness Soars as a Diagnosis for the Young
9/04/07 AP, Texas Startup Says It Has Batteries Beat
9/04/07 Fildes, Independent, GE snaps up oil services group Sondex
9/04/07 Wallace, ITT, Restoring Classroom Justice
9/04/07 Rice-Oxley, CSM, Britain decides boundaries of stem-cell tech
9/04/07 Trumbull, CSM, Great global shift to service jobs
9/04/07 Danahar, BBC, Taleban 'getting Chinese weapons'
9/04/07 BBC, China denies Pentagon cyber-raid
9/04/07 BBC, EU climate flight plans 'deluded'
9/04/07 BBC, US row over Iraq army dismantling
9/04/07 BBC, China denies Pentagon cyber-raid
9/04/07 BBC, Felix slams into Central America
September 3, 2007
9/03/07 Pincus, WP, Army Examines Possibility of Private Medical Contractor
9/23/07 Motavalli, NYT, Power to the People: Run Your House on a Prius
9/03/07 Leland, NYT, A Way Out of Debt by Way of Iraq
9/03/07 Lange, NYT, Immigrants' Labors Lost
9/03/07 NYT, Testing Time on Energy
9/03/07 Gettleman, NYT, Chaos in Darfur on Rise as Arabs Fight With Arabs
9/03/07 Doster, ITT, Labor Takes a Seat in the Classroom
9/03/07 Younge, Guardian, In the US, class war still means just one thing: the rich attacking the poor
9/03/07 Franks, BBC, Israel's other demographic challenge
9/03/07 BBC, Why kissing means more to women
9/03/07 BBC, N Korea 'to come off terror list'
9/03/07 BBC, Livestock breeds face 'meltdown'
9/03/07 Al Jazeera, Mexico criticises US on immigration
9/03/07 BBC, French utility firms agree merger
9/03/07 Surowiecki, New Yorker, Profits of Doom
September 2, 2007
9/02/07 Al Jazeera, Iraq's many armies
9/02/07 Moore, WP, In Northern France, Warming Presses Fall Grape Harvest Into Summertime
9/02/07 Hedgpeth, WP, Iraq Far From U.S. Goals for Energy
9/02/07 Greenhouse, NYT, Legal Battle Resuming on Guantanamo Detainees
9/02/07 McKinley, NYT, For Struggling Tribe, Dark Side to a Windfall
9/02/07 Murray-Watson, Independent, Give us all the super-wealthy's tax breaks
9/02/07 Independent, Clouds on China's horizon: could the greatest growth story ever told have an American sting in the tail?
9/02/07 BBC, 'State of war' in eastern Congo
9/02/07 BBC, Pope leads eco-friendly festival
9/02/07 BBC, Iran 'reaches key nuclear goal'
September 1, 2007
9/01/07 Eilperin, WP, Beyond Wind and Solar, a New Generation of Clean Energy
9/01/07 Hsu, WP, Immigrant Crackdown Halted
9/01/07 Salmon, WP, Bush Apologizes to Wiccan Soldier's Widow for Meeting Slip-Up
9/01/07 Abramowitz, WP, Military Briefs Bush On Troops' Welfare
9/01/07 McKinley, NYT, Navy Advances in Sonar Fight
9/01/07 Johnston, NYT, Pay at Investment Banks Eclipses All Private Jobs
9/01/07 Andrews & Peters, NYT, Chief Says Fed Is Ready to Act on Credit Pinch
9/01/07 Fisk, Independent, Strange goings-on here in Lebanon
9/01/07 Bloomfield, Independent, Report reveals scale of corruption in Kenya
9/01/07 Evans, Guardian, Military scientists tested mustard gas on Indians
9/01/07 Richards, Guardian, British army chief attacks US as 'intellectually bankrupt' over Iraq
9/01/07 BBC, Record rains for British summer
9/01/07 BBC, Gaza children deaths 'accident'
9/01/07 BBC, US senator to resign amid scandal
9/01/07 BBC, Mystery DR Congo fever kills 100
9/01/07 Al Jazeera, Darfur rebels 'attack Sudan base'