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

March 31, 2008
3/31/08 Harding & Elliott, Guardian, Credit crunch threatens 11,000 jobs
3/31/08 Turse, TomDispatch, Weaponizing the Pentagon's Cyborg Insects
3/31/08 Al Jazeera, N Korea 'will turn South to ash'
3/31/08 Greco, FPIF, World Bank Climate Profiteering
3/31/08 Al Jazeera, Ecuador takes Colombia to court
March 30, 2008
3/30/08 Strong, Consortium News, PBS on Iraq: A Compilation of Deceit
3/30/08 Revkin, NY Times, Polar Cities a Haven in Warming World?
3/30/08 Morgenson & Glater, NYT, Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes
3/30/08 Leppard, Times Online, Home Office in illegal immigrants cover-up
3/30/08 Lovell, Reuters, "Earth Hour" goes global
3/30/08 Tinsley et al, Star Telegram, Huge delays frustrate delegates at district conventions
3/30/08 McKie, Guardian, Acid bacteria threat to Peak beauty
3/30/08 Hinsliff, Guardian, Power firms forced to help the poor
3/30/08 Al Jazeera, Hopes fade for Tanzanian miners
March 29, 2008
3/29/08 Goodrich, Star-Telegram, Black church leaders offer support for Wright
3/29/08 Crutsinger, AP, Fed Offers $100 Billion More to Banks
March 28, 2008
3/28/08 Raghavan & Freeman, WP, U.S. Appears to Take Lead in Fighting in Baghdad
3/28/08 Graff & Ibrahim, Reuters, U.S. forces drawn deeper into Iraq crackdown
3/28/08 Steenhuysen, Reuters, Older Americans wealthier, living longer
3/28/08 Sirota, ITT, Is Wright Right About Racism?
3/28/08 Belcher, Al Jazeera, Asian rice crisis starts to bite
3/28/08 Ridgeway, MoJo, It's the Deregulation, Stupid
3/28/08 Mazzetti & Shane, NYT, Tapes' Destruction Hovers Over Detainee Cases
3/28/08 Al Jazeera, UK apologises over Iraq abuses
March 27, 2008
3/27/08 Talvi, ITT, Seattle Battles the Homeless
3/27/08 Winter, MoJo, The Apex of Slavery
3/27/08 Cockburn, Independent, Iraq Implodes As Shia Fights Shia
3/27/08 Hafenback, Southern Florida Sun-Sentinel, Florida Legislature Makes Formal Apology For Slavery
3/27/08 Hall, McClatchy, Home prices may not rebound till 2010
3/27/08 Yusufzei, IPS, Refugees Fear Return to Afghanistan
3/27/08 Frykberg, Al Jazeera, West Bank Faces Toxic Waste Crisis
3/27/08 Kate, CSM, Grain prices soar globally
3/27/08 al-Fadhily & Jamail, IPS, Fever Named After Blackwater
3/27/08 Casella, Asia Times, Very sick, and not getting better
March 26, 2008
3/26/08 Wright & Warrick, MSNBC, U.S. steps up unilateral strikes in Pakistan
3/26/08 Isikoff & Hosenball, Newsweek, How dangerous is Al Qaeda's latest tape?
3/26/08 Schenwar, Truthout, The "Rules" of War includes video testimony.
3/26/08 Weinberg, Intel Daily, Bread riots in Egypt
3/26/08 Grynbaum, NYT, Factory Orders Drop Unexpectedly
3/26/08 Abramsky, ITT, Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards
3/26/08 Macalister, Guardian, BP faces Kremlin tax investigation
3/26/08 Sparrow & Wintour, Guardian, Nuclear is UK's new North Sea oil - minister
3/26/08 Al Jazeera, Bush waives law to help Pakistan
3/26/08 Al Jazeera, Antarctic ice shelf breaking up
3/26/08 Al Jazeera, US admits Suez Canal killing
3/26/08 Bennett, Asia Times, Tibet, the 'great game' and the CIA
3/26/08 Noland, Asia Times, Nationalization and dislocation
3/26/08 Helmer, Asia Times, IMF blows whistle on Tajik corruption
March 25, 2008
3/25/08 Danner, MoJo, Bush's Pax Americana
3/25/08 Ciccarello-Maher, Intel Daily, The Coming War on Venezuela
3/25/06 Mojumdar, Al Jazeera, UN: End Abuse of Afghan Women
3/25/08 Kelley, NYT, Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why
3/25/08 Douglas, ITT, Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla
3/25/08 Randerson & Watt, Guardian, Top scientists warn against rush to biofuel
March 24, 2008
3/24/08 CNN, Zen (dog) master
3/24/08 Krugman, NYT, Taming the Beast
3/24/08 O'Neall, Intel Daily, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see Virtually the full documentary is on YouTube from Neospeaker in 10 parts.
3/24/08 Shannan, Intel Daily, How the Fed Buys an Ounce of Gold for 10ยข
3/24/08 Lim, News&Observer, Rise in gas prices wrecks family budgets
3/24/08 Doster, ITT,
3/24/08 Turse, FPIF, The Military-Petroleum Complex
3/24/08 Hargreaves, CNN, 'You're working for gas now'
3/24/08 Al Jazeera, Brazil tackles dengue outbreak
March 23, 2008
3/23/08 Backman, The Age, Behind Dalai Lama's holy cloak (the CIA)
3/23/08 Schwartz & Creswell, NYT, What Created This Monster?
3/23/08 McDonnell, LAT, Peru sees cocaine making a comeback
3/21/08 Krugman, NYT, Partying Like It's 1929
3/23/08 Jowitt, Guardian, Krill fishing threatens the Antarctic
3/23/08 Al Jazeera, Opec chief sees oil at $80-110
March 22, 2008
March 21, 2008
3/21/08 Mufson, WP, Greenspan Stands His Ground
3/21/08 Sirota, ITT, New Housing Crisis, Old Isms
3/21/08 Wilson, Truthout, The Rising Price of Coal
March 20, 2008
3/20/08 SFalconer & Schulman, MoJo, Blackwater's World of Warcraft
3/20/08 Gutierrez & Drash, CNN, 'Green-card Marine' prepares for 3rd deployment
3/20/08 Llana, CSM, Tropical glaciers slowly vanish
3/20/08 Al Jazeera, Sudan 'targeted Darfur civilians'
3/20/08 Paige, Boston Globe, 2 Towns Weigh Privatizing Libraries
3/20/08 Fleck, Albuquerque Journal, Energy, Water In "Catch-22"
3/20/08 Rogoff, Asia Times, An inflation reality check
March 19, 2008
3/19/08 Moreci, ITT, Beyond Propaganda
3/19/08 Palley, Asia Times, Preventing a financial crash
3/19/08 Kantor, NYT, An Effort to Bridge a Divide
3/19/08 Dagher, CSM, Is life for Iraqis improving?
3/19/08 Al Jazeera, Deaths in US raid on Afghan home
3/19/08 Al Jazeera, ExxonMobil loses Venezuela case
March 18, 2008
3/18/08 Porter, Asia Times, My Lai probe hid policy that led to massacre
3/18/08 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign
3/18/08 Prins, MoJo, Ode to Bear Stearns
3/18/08 Herman, Times Online, US legal system 'worse than Russia'
3/18/08 Spence, Intel Daily, A Culture Of Death And Destruction
3/18/08 Schmitt & Shanker, NYT, U.S. Adapts Cold-War Idea to Fight Terrorists
3/18/08 Revkin, NYT, A Farewell to Ice
3/18/08 Owles, NYT, Q&A: Answers From Iraqis
3/18/08 Allam & Hamoudi, McClatchy, Cheney again links Iraq invasion to 9/11 attacks
March 17, 2008
3/17/08 Kao, Reuters, Oil sinks in commodities sell-off
3/17/08 Cameron-Moore, Reuters, FBI presence in bombed Pakistan diner adds to murk
3/17/08 Andrews, NYT, Fed Acts to Rescue Financial Markets
3/17/08 Leovy, LAT, Fiery death sent a message
3/17/08 Al Jazeera, World leaders 'share Kenya blame'
3/17/08 AL Jazeera, Credit crunch fears hit US stocks
3/17/08 Allen, ITT, Pig Intestines, Downer Cows
March 16, 2008
3/16/08 Bailey, LAT, Gays fear an influx of hate
3/16/08 Downey, WP, The Power Drain
3/16/08 Quart, NYT, When Girls Will Be Boys
3/16/08 Hirsch, LAT, Our daily bread? It's costing more
March 15, 2008
3/15/08 Martin & Grynbaum, NYT, Costs Surge for Stocking the Pantry
3/15/08 Rosenberg, McClatchy, U.S. ordered to name Canadian's interrogators
3/15/08 Shlapentokh, Asia Times, US enters 'checkbook war' with China
3/15/08 Bhadrakumar, Asia Times, Russia throws a wrench in NATO's works
3/15/08 Sparrow, Asia Times, Philippines exporting labor and sex
March 14, 2008
3/14/08 Al Jazeera, Fears mount over US economy
3/14/08 Krugman, NYT, Betting the Bank
3/14/08 Cachola et al, FPIF, Gender and U.S. Bases in Asia-Pacific
3/14/08 Savage, Boston Globe, President Weakens Espionage Oversight
March 13, 2008
3/13/08 Al Jazeera, US denies planning strike on Iran
3/13/08 AL Jazeera, Chinese 'arming Darfur conflict'
3/13/08 Al Jazeera, Pentagon reviewing interrogations
3/13/08 White & Warrick, WP, Detainee's Suit Says Abuse Was Videotaped
3/13/08 Knowlton, NYT, Bush Warns House on Surveillance
3/13/08 Pupovac, ITT, Big Oil Imperils Polar Bears
3/13/08 Bradsher, NYT, Flu Outbreak Closes Hong Kong Schools
3/13/08 Rooney, CNN, Foreclosures up 60% in February
3/13/08 Heath, NYT, Carlyle Fund's Assets Seized
3/13/08 Zweig, Nation, The War and the Working Class
3/13/08 Fildes, BBC, Military beacons to aid sea life
March 12, 2008
3/12/08 Rizvi, IPS, UN Panel Finds Two-Tier Society - Racism
3/12/08 Al Jazeera, Warning over world food shortages
3/12/08 Al Jazeera, Bush lashes out at Chavez
3/12/08 Mir, Asia Times, Musharraf faces bench's fury
3/12/08 Liu, Asia TImes, The Shape of US Populism, Part 1
3/12/08 Friedman-Rudovsky, ITT, Recruiting Spies in the Peace Corps
3/12/08 Al Jazeera, US commander quits 'over Iran'
3/12/08 Al Jazeera, US commander quits 'over Iran'
March 11, 2008
3/11/08 Harman, CSM, Who's buying Burma's gems?
3/11/08 Al Jazeera, Storm batters France and UK
3/11/08 Yardley, NYT, China Sticking With One-Child Policy
3/11/08 Ehrenreich, Nation, The Fall of the American Consumer
3/11/08 Weaver, Guardian, Afghan death toll soars to 8,000 last year
3/11/08 Delalsantellis, Asia Times, Why Boeing lost the $40bn tanker deal
3/11/08 Zabarenko, Reuters, Corn-Based Ethanol Could Worsen "Dead Zone"
March 10, 2008
3/10/08 Rogers, Intel Daily, How Low Can The Dollar Go? Zero Value
3/10/08 Mikkelsen, Reuters, Guantanamo trials called tainted by coercion
3/10/08 Busari, CNN, Rare pygmy hippos caught on camera
3/10/08 Al Jazeera, Activists block Brazil railway
3/10/08 Olsen, IPS, Go Green, Save the Indigenous
3/10/08 Jamail & Ali, IPS, Childhood Is Dying
3/10/08 Baghi, Globe & Mail. Tough new green plan targets oil sands
3/10/08 Martinez, Reuters, Venezuela restores Colombia diplomatic ties
3/10/08 Mulholland, Guardian, Government backs coal-fired power stations
3/10/08 Tisdall, Guardian, Sudan rounds on western critics
3/10/08 Siddique, Guardian, Cost of Afghanistan and Iraq operations soars
3/10/08 Anteleva, BBC, US 'not returning to Uzbek base'
3/10/08 Kroeger, BBC, EU warns of climate change threat
March 9, 2008
3/09/08 Lean & Owen, Independent, Secret Plan To Let Japan Resume Whaling
3/09/08 O'Loughlin, Guardian, Settlers vow revenge over Jerusalem massacre
3/09/08 Haviland, BBC, Bhutanese refugees start new life
3/09/08 Al Jazeera, Sharif to join Pakistan coalition
March 8, 2008
3/08/08 Forero, WP, Latin American Crisis Resolved
3/08/08 Partlow, WP, A Kurdish Society of Soldiers
3/08/08 al jAZEERA, Israel imposes West Bank lockdown
3/08/08 Al Jazeera, Serbian government collapses
March 7, 2008
3/07/08 Mencimer, MoJo, Daniel Troy's Poison Pill (Corporate Immunity from Consumer Lawsuits)
3/07/08 Vanden Heuvel, Nation, Missile Defense: "Longest Running Scam" Exposed
3/07/08 Sappenfeld, CSM, Can women find unique ways out of war?
3/07/08 DiNovella, The Progressive, Retroactive Immunity Should Be Off the Table
March 6, 2008
3/06/08 O'Harrow & Nakashima, WP, National Dragnet Is a Click Away
3/06/08 Hawkes & Webster, Times Online, Energy 'tax' on the poor
3/06/08 Tiplett, Variety, Media Ownership Rules Back Into Play
3/06/08 Hawkins, Al Jazeera, Safety fears dog Japan N-plants
3/06/08 Macan-Markar, Asia Times, Rice now too costly to give away
3/06/08 Srivastava, Asia Times, Iran gas: China waits as India wavers
March 5, 2008
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3/05/08 Campbell, Guardian, Drug cartels running rampant, says UN
3/05/08 Black, BBC, 'Big shift' to rail urged for UK
3/05/08 Nizza, NYT, Zimbabwe Dollar Slides to New Low
3/05/08 Hall, McClatchy, What's behind record oil prices?
3/05/08 Connolly, Guardia, Bamboo Laptop Is Star of Computer Show
3/05/08 Klare, FPIF, The China Syndrome
3/05/08 Lydersen, ITT, Salties Ordered to Swish and Spit
March 4, 2008
3/04/08 Hartung, MoJo, The Cost of a Week in Hell
3/04/08 Weaver & Chardy, McClatchy, Border agents warned after dozens charged with crimes
3/04/08 Lee & Shin, FPIF, The Iraq Quagmire
3/04/08 Glaberson, Toronto Star, Gitmo 'Attack Dog' Turns on His Pentagon Masters
3/04/08 Gogoi, Business Week, States Move to Label Cloned Food
3/04/08 Al Jazeera, Gazprom cuts Ukraine gas further
3/04/08 Al Jazeera, Uribe makes Chavez legal threat
3/04/08 Johnson, McClatchy, China announces largest military budget ever
3/04/08 Shah, Global Issues, Poverty Facts and Stats
3/04/08 Crispin, Asia TImes, Why Arroyo won't go
3/04/08 Porter, Asia Times, The 'laptop of mass destruction'
3/04/08 Hartzell, CSM, Wave-power proposals alarm locals
3/04/08 Clayton, CSM, U.S. coal power boom suddenly wanes
3/04/08 Al Jazeera, US anger over EADS contract
3/04/08 Al Jazeera, 'US plot against Hamas' revealed
March 3, 2008
3/03/08 Munchi & Nguyen, Bloomberg, Gold Beats Financial Assets as Investors Seek Haven
3/03/08 Lendman, IntelDaily, Israeli Extra-Judicial Executions
3/03/08 Lendman, IntelDaily, Israeli Extra-Judicial Executions
3/03/08 Shah, World Military Spending
3/03/08 Paglen & Emerson, MoJo, Exclusive: I Was Kidnapped by the CIA
3/03/08 Bergen & Tiedemann, MoJo, Disappearing Act: Rendition by the Numbers
3/03/08 al-Nazzal & Jamzil, IPS, IRAQ: 'Not Our Country To Return To'
3/03/08 Pupovac, ITT, Silenced in the Barracks
3/03/08 Treanor, Guardian, US woes weigh on HSBC
3/03/08 de la Merced, NYT, Diebol