Month of Category: January 2008 | Return to Uncommon Thought News

January 31, 2008
1/31/08 Klare, MoJo, Barreling into Recession
1/31/08 Pemberton, FPIF, Military vs. Climate Security
1/31/08 Allen, WP, Entering Sector D
1/31/08 Hooker & Bogdanich, NYT, Tainted Drugs Tied to Maker of Abortion Pill
1/31/08 Grynbaum, NYT, Consumer Spending Falls Off
1/31/08 Bengali, McClatchy, How Kenya's election was rigged
1/31/08 AL Jazeera, China warns of winter shortages
1/31/08 Aslam, Asia Times, IMF cuts growth guess and confidences
January 30, 2008
1/30/08 Jones & Yoshino, LAT, US Troops Allegedly Killed Detainees
1/30/08 Jones & Yoshino, LAT, US Troops Allegedly Killed Detainees
1/30/08 Irwin, WP, For Fed, It's Not Clear-Cut
1/30/08 Elliott, Guardian, US economy comes to virtual standstill
1/30/08 Burros, NYT, Scientists Weigh In on Mercury
1/30/08 Christensen, News Observer, John Edwards quits presidential race
1/30/08 Brodzinsky, CSM, Chavez sees U.S.-Colombian war plans
1/30/08 AL Jazeera, Kenya violence 'ethnic cleansing'
January 29, 2008
1/29/08 Baldauf, CSM, How Kenya came undone
1/29/08 Noland, Asia Times, More than 20 years in the making
1/29/08 Jamail, Asia Times, A bitter taste to Iraqi reality
1/29/08 Afrasiabi, Asia Times, A China base in Iran?
1/29/08 Eaton, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kucinich Postpones Bush Impeachment Effort
1/29/08 Englehardt, MoJo, Looking Up: Bombs Away Over Iraq
1/29/08 Fadel & al Jabouri, McClatchy, Headless bodies found in Iraq
1/29/08 Feffer, FPIF, False Sense of Security in Iraq
1/29/08 Herszenhorn, NYT, Grants Would Finance Private Schooling
January 28, 2008
1/28/08 Revkin, NYT, Earth is Us
1/28/08 Jamail, MoJo, Missing Voices in the Iraq Debate
1/28/08 Feffer, FPIF, Who Owns the World?
1/28/08 Feffer, FPIF, Arming the Middle East
1/28/08 Connor, Independent, War Again In Fallujah?
1/28/08 Deutch, Boston Globe, Mass Killings Under Suharto Recalled
1/28/08 Briggs, BBC, Cells' internal clocks revealed
1/28/08 AL Jazeera, Canada warns of Afghan withdrawal
1/28/08 Al Jazeera, Protests erupt over Guyana deaths
1/28/08 Tierney, NYT, Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?
1/28/08 Ingham, BBC, Chavez calls for anti-US alliance
1/28/08 Bhaumik, BBC, India bird flu disease 'alarming'
1/28/08 Majumdar, BBC, 'Kidney racket' exposed in India
1/28/08 Black, BBC, 'Action needed' on home emissions
January 27, 2008
1/27/08 Chang & Hall, McClatchy, How will the world weather America's economic storm?
1/27/08 Whitaker & Macintyre, Independent, Bush: Pace of Withdrawal from Iraq May Have to Slow
1/27/08 Smallheer, Rutland Herald, Brattleboro to Vote on Arresting Bush, Cheney
1/27/08 Sontag & Alvarez, NYT, In More Cases, Combat Trauma Is Taking the Stand
1/28/08 Al Jazeera, US spy satellite to fall to Earth
1/28/08 Al Jazeera, Indonesia's Suharto dies
January 26, 2008
1/26/08 Al Jazeera, Iran set to face more sanctions
1/26/08 Plett, BBC, Pakistan nuclear sites on alert
1/26/08 Magnier, LAT, China targets plastic bags Blight
1/26/08 McCarthy & Hughes, Independent, Wind farm plan is blown off course
January 25, 2008
1/25/08 Sirota, ITT, The Stimulus Swindle
1/25/08 Helderman, WP, Violence, Crowding At Jail Decried
1/25/08 Otto, WP, A Growing Desperation
1/25/08 Myers & Shanker, NYT, U.S. Asking Iraq for Wide Rights on War
1/25/08 Fisher & Provoledo, NYT, Surprising Few, Italy's Government Collapses
1/25/08 Schwartz & Kanter, NYT, New Details Emerge on Rogue Trader's Deals
1/25/08 Weber, BBC, Top companies join poverty fight
1/25/08 Al Jazeera, Myanmar 'jailing more activists'
1/25/08 Al Jazeera, Serbia signs Russia energy deal
1/25/08 Al Jazeera, Iraq prepares for Mosul battle
1/25/08 Richard & Hong, LAT, Big loans could get cheaper
January 24, 2008
1/24/08 Fadel, McClatchy, Iran no longer wants to talk to U.S.
1/25/08 Wallace, CSM, Power cuts cripple Southern Africa
1/24/08 Scherer, CSM, Economic outlook dims sharply
1/24/08 Tierney, NYT, More Snow in Antarctica
1/24/08 Herzenhorn, NYT, Kucinich Starts New Impeachment Drive
1/24/08 Goodnough, NYT, 2 Big Dig Companies to Pay $407 Million
1/24/08 Ali & Jamail, IPS, IRAQ: Under Curfew, This Is No Life
1/23/08 Hurdle, Reuters, Poor Still Suffering From Last Recession
1/24/08 Al Jazeera, Winter saps China energy supplies
1/24/08 Al Jazeera, French bank uncovers $7bn fraud
January 23, 2008
1/23/08 Fildes, Independent, New watchdog will monitor hedge funds
1/23/08 Cowan, Reuters, U.S. war costs in Iraq up: report
1/23/08 Ridgeway & Casella, MoJo, Don't Even Think About It
1/23/08 Reich, Newsweek, Darker Days Ahead?
1/23/08 Shank, FPIF, Chomsky on World Ownership
1/23/08 AL Jazeera, EU unveils climate action plan
1/23/08 Gibler, ITT, Counterinsurgency in Chiapas
1/23/08 Aldred, Guardian, EU sets 20% target for carbon cuts
1/23/08 Al Jazeera, Davos opens amid economic turmoil
January 22, 2008
1/22/08 Johnson, MoJo, Going Bankrupt
1/22/08 Montgomery, McClatchy, Assaults on U.S. border agents surge
1/22/08 Al Jazeera, World powers agree new Iran draft
1/22/08 Chang, NYT, Designs for a Downsized Future
1/22/08 Paulson, SeattleP-I, The Lowdown on Topsoil: It's Disappearing
1/22/08 Pearlstein, WP, More Room to Fall
1/22/08 Cooke, Reuters, Wall Street joins global equity plunge
1/22/08 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Northwest looks to develop energy from volcanoes
1/22/08 Douglas, LAT, High fuel prices are puzzling
1/22/08 Duffy, BBC, 'Huge' oil field found off Brazil
1/22/08 Al Jazeera, Bank of China shares suspended
January 21, 2008
1/21/08 Hoking & Lewis, TimesOnline, US recession fears wipe £77bn from London shares
1/21/08 Gordon & Schmitt, NYT, Pentagon Weighs Top Iraq General as Chief of NATO
1/21/08 al-Fadhily & Jamail, IPS, IRAQ: Police and Army Getting Sidelined
1/21/08 Udell, ITT, Selling Out Grandma
1/21/08 Black, BBC, Abu Dhabi plots hydrogen future
1/21/08 Rosenblatt, LAT, Food shortage hits charity pantries
1/21/08 Al Jazeera, Outcry over Sudan appointment
January 20, 2008
1/20/08 Mufson, WP, Power Switch
1/20/08 al-Mughrabi, Reuters, Gaza power plant begins shutting down
1/20/08 Montgomery, McClatchy, Aerospace industry fears aging workforce's impact
1/20/08 Owen, Independent, Community? We don't know our neighbours
1/20/08 Lakhani, Independent, Drug firms 'bury' poor trial results
1/20/08 Jowitt, Guardian, Biofuels 'do more harm than good'
1/20/08 Templeton & Kellaway, Guardian, These were the days that shook the world
1/20/08 Connors & Sunderland, Guardian, Savers hit by new property fund plunge
1/20/08 AL Jazeera, Gazans facing power shutdown
1/20/08 Kavanaugh, Daily Trib - MI, Is US on Brink of War with Iran?
January 19, 2008
1/19/08 Rothfeld, LAT, Deal on state's prisons is possible
1/19/08 Lightman & Douglas, McClatchy, McCain wins South Carolina; Clinton, Romney take Nevada
1/19/08 White and Richburg, WP, Terror Informant for FBI Allegedly Targeted Agents
1/19/08 Weismann & Andrews, NYT, Economists Debate the Quickest Cure
1/19/08 Nissenbaum, McClatchy, More Jerusalem Arabs seek Israeli citizenship
1/19/08 Weikle, LAT, State to curb toxic runoff
1/19/08 Sanders, Deadly clashes in Kenya
1/19/08 Zavis, LAT, 80 killed in clashes in Iraq
1/19/08 Hickman, Independent, Spectre of negative equity haunts Britain
1/19/08 Peta, Independent, Zimbabwe forced to issue record bank note
1/19/08 Shahzad, Asia Times, The Rise and Rise of Al-Qaeda - Part 2 ... Part 1
January 18, 2008
1/18/08 Bohan & Smith, Reuters, Bush wants $150 billion economic package
1/18/08 Erlanger, NYT, Israel Closes Gaza Borders
1/18/08 Lees, Edmonton Journal, Canada Urged Not To Share Water with Americans
1/18/08 Al Jazeera, Floods ravage southern Africa
1/18/08 Al Jazeera, EU urged to watch biofuel costs
1/18/08 Al Jazeera, Israel pounds besieged Gaza
1/18/08 Blumenthal, Nation, Mike Huckabee's White Supremacist Links
January 17, 2008
1/17/08 Morrill & Huntley, McClatchy, Dirty tricks erupt in S.C. Republican campaign
1/17/08 Porter, Asia Times, How the Pentagon planted a false story
1/17/08 Revkin, NYT, The White House and the Whales
1/17/08 Andrews & Herszenhorn, NYTm Bernanke Is Said to Support Stimulus Measures
1/17/08 Mazzetti & Shane, Account of C.I.A. Tapes Is Challenged
1/17/08 Foley, Independent, Enron investors set for final payout
1/17/08 Fortson, Independent, Hydrogen power plant plan for UAE
1/17/08 Kim, ITT, N.J. Closes Death Row
1/17/08 Knickerbocker, CSM, New research raises concern on biofuel safety
1/17/08 LaFranchi, CSM, Freedom takes a hit worldwide
1/17/08 Thorold, BBC, Mid-East suffers rare cold snap
1/17/08 Al Jazeera, Pakistan faces wheat shortage
1/17/08 Al Jazeera, IMF says Iraq economy to boom
January 16, 2008
1/16/08 Barnes & Johnson, Corporate Fraud Lawsuits Restricted
1/16/08 Warrick & Pincus, WP, Station Chief Made Appeal To Destroy CIA Tapes
1/16/08 Aslam, Asia Times, Myanmar's gem trade loses its shine
1/16/08 Hutchinson, Asia Times, Tears on Wall Street
1/16/08 Isenberg, Asia Times, Smart bombs, dangerous ideas
1/16/08 Bhadrakumar, Asia Times, Gulf allies turn their backs on Bush
1/16/08 Wallace, ITT, First Came Katrina, Then Came HUD
January 15, 2008
1/15/08 Aratani, WP, Ending Homelessness
1/15/08 DeYoung, WP, Allies Feel Strain of Afghan War
1/15/08 SteenHuysem, Reuters, New study blames Columbus for syphilis spread
1/14/08 Chernus, MoJo, Is Religion a Threat to Democracy?
1/15/08 Vasquez, CNN, Guatemala's Colom takes office
1/15/08 AL Jazeera, Bush complains over oil prices
January 14, 2008
1/14/08 Berenson, NYT, Drug Approved. Is Disease Real?
1/14/08 Barbaro & Uchitelle, NYT, Americans Cut Back Sharply on Spending
1/14/08 Farmer, Independent, Port down to its last fishing boat
1/14/08 Spiegel, LAT, US Shifts Sunni Strategy in Iraq
1/14/08 Krugman, NYT, Responding to Recession
1/14/08 Galindez, Truthout, The Real Delegate Count
1/14/08 Kilner & Sweeney, Reuters, Russia restrict visas for British Council staff
1/14/08 Pitzer, MoJo, Off Target
1/14/08 al-Fadhily & Jamail, IPS, IRAQ: Awoken to a New Danger
January 13, 2008
1/13/08 Apuzzo & Jordan, AP, FBI Finds Blackwater Trucks Patched
1/13/08 Singletary, WP, You Can Lend P2P, but Can You Collect?
1/13/08 Kornblut & Murray, Clintons Move to Ease Some Racial Friction
1/13/08 Swinford, TimesOnline, Energy rip-off exposed
1/13/08 Sontag & Alvarez, NYT, Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles
1/13/08 Mooallem, NYT, The Afterlife of Cellphones
1/13/08 Brady, Independent, Prisoners 'to be chipped like dogs'
1/13/08 Taylor, Independent, Sex trafficking: 'I was sold for £4,500'
1/13/08 Mesure, Independent, The fish that could just save the cod
1/13/08 McKie, Guardian, Green ships in deadly duel with whalers
1/13/08 McKie, Guardian, Green ships in deadly duel with whalers
1/13/08 Townsend, Guardian, Libya key transit for UK-bound migrants
1/13/08 Beaumont, Guardian, Iraq opens door to Saddam's followers
1/12/08 Leyne, BBC, Tehran warns US over nuclear row
January 12, 2008
1/12/08 Pittman, Wired, Gorilla Sanctuary Is Congo War Front
1/12/08 Faiola & Tse, WP, Fears About Economy Increase
1/12/08 Onishi, NYT, Japan Approves Bill on Afghan War
1/12/08 Blake, MoJo, Let There Be Light Crude
1/12/08 Foley, Independent, US hit by price rises in Chinese imports
1/12/08 Zimonjic, Independent, Serbia bans US and British election monitors
1/12/08 Clarke & Usherwood, Independent, Vomiting bug puts three hospitals on red alert
1/12/08 Al Jazeera, Guantanamo protesters arrested
1/12/08 Al Jazeera, Iraq parliament passes Baath law
January 11, 2008
1/11/08 Renner, Truthout, Andrew Roth on Front Page Depictions of War video
1/11/08 Drawbaugh, Reuters, US Corporate Elite Fear Candidate Edwards
1/11/08 Werdigier & Anderson, NYT, Giant Write-Down Is Seen for Merrill
1/11/08 Hall, McClatchy, How Clinton's stimulus plan stacks up
1/11/08 Bowes, BBC, FBI wiretaps cut for unpaid bills
1/11/08 Al Jazeera, Turkey shells northern Iraq
1/11/08 Al Jazeera, US military chief warns Tehran
January 10, 2008
1/10/08 Schneier, Wired, Steal This Wi-Fi
1/10/08 Rothingham, AP, Kucinich Seeks NH Dem Vote Recount
1/10/08 Susskind, ZNet, Who Is Killing the Women of Basra?
1/10/08 Kavilanz, CNN, Weakest holiday season in years
1/10/08 Scherer, CSM, Why oil prices are stubbornly high
1/10/08 Al Jazeera, Floods wreak havoc in Sri Lanka
1/10/08 Al Jazeera, Study: Iraqi death toll 151,000
1/10/08 Al Jazeera, US bombs outskirts of Baghdad
1/10/08 Al Jazeera, Blair joins JP Morgan
January 9, 2008
1/09/08 Hutchinson, Asia Times, Eroding Western living standards
1/09/08 Shahzad, Asia Times, US wants Pakistan to bite the bullet
1/09/08 Keinon & Katz, Jerusalem Post, Bush expedites Saudi smart bomb deal
1/09/08 Broadle, CommonDreams, CIA Whistle-Blower Philip Agee Dies in Cuba
1/09/08 Willis & Fraher, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs Says U.S. Economy Faces Recession
1/09/08 McDuffee, ITT, RoboCop in Iraq
January 8, 2008
1/08/08 Revkin, NYT, In Greenland, Ice and Instability
1/08/08 Reuters,