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

May 11, 2008
5/11/08 Lakshmi, WP, U.S. Legal Work Booms in India
5/11/08 Priest & Goldstein, System of Neglect - Healthcare for Immigrant Detainees
5/11/08 Cho, WP, Growing Deficits Threaten Pensions
5/11/08 McKenzie, TimesOnline, Burma's cyclone children facing wipeout, say charities
5/11/08 NYT, Bodies Flow Into Hard-Hit Area of Myanmar
5/11/08 MacKinnon, Guardian, Burma exports rice as cyclone victims starve
5/11/08 Osnos & Goering, Chicago Tribune, World's Giants to Alter Food Equation
5/11/08 Streater, Seattle Times, Harmful Chemical Wafts Off Your TV
5/11/08 Harris, Guardian, Hidden gay life of macho hip hop stars
5/11/08 Nylan, Seattle P-I, The Myth of the Stay-at-Home Mom
5/11/08 BBC, Burma eases restrictions on aid
5/11/08 Al Jazeera, Sudan 'repulses' rebel attack
5/11/08 Al Jazeera, Turkey bombs PKK bases in Iraq
May 10, 2008
5/10/08 BBC, Sporadic aid trickles into Burma
5/10/08 Kaufman, WP, New Mexico Moves Ahead on Spaceport
5/10/08 Risen, NYT, Iraq Contractor in Shooting Case Makes Comeback
5/10/08 Fletcher & Sugden, Times Online, Second catastrophe looms in Burma as regime blocks aid shipments
5/10/08 Plemming, Reuters, U.S. says North Korea documents date back to 1986
5/10/08 Abbott, Reuters, U.S. sees record world food crops easing crisis
5/10/08 Sack, NYT, Illegal Farm Workers Get Health Care in Shadows
5/10/08 Barboza, NYT, Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages
5/10/08 Glaberson, NYT, Judge Drops General From Trial of Detainee
5/10/08 Collins, News Observer, U.S.: Colleges may admit illegals
5/10/08 Pae, LAT, Military contracts boost prospects for Northrop -- and Southern California
5/10/08 Rosenberg, Open Left, Shadow Elites And Religion--Part 1
5/10/08 Zarembo, LAT, British birds adapt to global warming
5/10/08 Vidal, Guardian, At 15p a litre, home-brew biodiesel is fuel of the future
5/10/08 Curtis, Guardian, Pressure intensifies to cut 'excessive' school tests
5/10/08 Gow, Guardian, Microsoft starts appeal against 700m EC fine
5/09/08 Wahlstrom, OneWorld, US Urged to Reform Foreign Aid
5/10/08 Van Vuuren, IPS, "Literally, This Is Energy From Dirt"
5/10/08 Paperny, Globe & Mail, Studies on Tasers Are Flawed, Cardiologist Tells Inquiry
5/10/08 Pepper, SF Chron., Depleted Groundwater Threatens Food Chain
5/10/08 Al Jazeera, US 'authenticates' Chavez-Farc ties
5/10/08 Al Jazeera, Many killed in Baghdad battles
5/10/08 Al Jazeera, Lebanon PM calls for action by army
5/10/08 Al Jazeera, Who's who in Lebanese politics
May 9, 2008
5/09/08 Vidal, Guardian, Fifth of UK bee colonies killed
5/09/08 BBC, Burma 'wants aid not foreigners'
5/09/08 BBC, Oil hits yet another fresh high
5/09/08 Al Jazeera, Myanmar cyclone: How you can help
5/09/08 Hsu, WP, Respiratory Illness Rose in Children After Katrina Hit
5/09/08 Bimbaum, WP, Oil Lobby Reaches Out to Citizens Peeved at the Pump
5/09/08 Midgley, Times Online, Is in vitro meat the future?
5/09/08 Urbina, NYT, Utah Mine Disaster Was Preventable, Report Says
5/09/08 Rogers, CSM, Ortega leads anti-U.S. critique at Latin American food summit
5/09/08 Herman, Asia Times, G7 loses grip on global policy to O5
5/09/08 Madrigal, Reuters, A Close Look at the Colossal Squid
5/09/08 Cavaganol, WP, 'We Have Nothing. How Do We Go On?'
5/09/08 Tun, Reuters, UN Says 1.5 Million People Affected by Burma Storm
5/09/08 Spencer, WSWS, US congressional hearings expose stonewalling on veteran suicide data
5/09/08 PressTV, Ecuador: US behind cross-border raid
5/09/08 Hawley, USA Today, Mexican farms employ kids illegally, U.N. says
5/09/08 Zigler, Seeking Alpha, NYMEX: Speculators Aren't Driving Oil Market
5/09/08 Yates & Mohammed, Reuters, U.S. says man held in Iraq is not al Qaeda leader
5/09/08 Haider, Reuters, Pakistan new govt. opposed to U.S. action on its soil
5/09/08 Yardley, NYT, Salmon Gone, Fishermen Try to Adapt on a Changing Coast
5/09/08 Bezlova, IPS, CHINA: Buying Farmland Abroad, Ensuring Food Security
5/09/08 Carter, IPS, BIODIVERSITY-US: Loggers, Owls Not Out of the Woods Yet
5/09/08 Ali & Jamail, IPS, IRAQ: Running Out of Water in Rising Heat
5/09/08 Sirota, ITT, Acknowledging the Race Chasm
5/09/08 Barnes, LAT, US Army's 'Stop-Loss' Orders Up Dramatically Over Last Year
5/09/08 CNN, U.N. 'furious' as Myanmar aid 'seized'
5/09/08 Williams, LAT, Human Rights Groups Unveil Traveling Exhibit Aimed To Bring Guantanamo Home
5/09/08 CNN, Oil over $126 a barrel
5/09/08 BBC, Burma voices: Rangoon's hardship
5/09/08 CNN, Katrina survivor: 'I was gonna blow myself away'
5/09/08 Al Jazeera, UN suspends aid flights to Myanmar
5/09/08 Al Jazeera, Disease stalks cyclone survivors
5/09/08 Weinberger, Wired, Army Yanks 'Voice-To-Skull Devices' Site
5/09/08 Project Vote, Missouri House Votes To Disenfranchise 240,000
5/09/08 Pugh, McClatchy, Credit card nightmares prompt long-awaited crackdown
5/09/08 Cone, LAT, Peregrine falcons in California's urban areas are contaminated with toxic chemicals
5/09/08 Glanz, FPIF, The Truth About Veteran Suicides
5/09/08 Walsh, Star Tribune, Three Suspended for Not Standing for Pledge of Allegiance
5/09/08 McMillan, NY Times, Urban Farmers' Crops Go From Vacant Lot to Market
5/09/08 Mount, CNN, Army barracks set for repair after nationwide inspection
5/09/08 NY Times, Myanmar's Biggest City Still Paralyzed After 5 Days
May 8, 2008
5/08/08 CNN, Myanmar cyclone: Perfect storm of conditions
5/08/08 Shachtman, Wired, $50 Billion for New Planes, Gear in War-Funding Bill
5/08/08 Carlson, WP, The National Security Archive, Spilling Government Secrets
5/08/08 Pal, Progressive, Burma in the Grip of Yet Another Tragedy
5/08/08 Zoroya, USA Today, U.S. deploys more than 43,000 unfit for combat
5/08/08 Reuters, Judge orders CIA to turn over "torture" memo: ACLU
5/08/08 Chart, Open Left, Global Suicide Pact: Darfur Engine, Pt 1 .... Part 2
5/08/08 Phillips, NYT, Clinton Touts White Support
5/08/08 Corn, MoJo, McCain's Pastor Problem: The Video
5/08/08 Klare, MoJo, America Out of Gas
5/08/08 Doyle, McClatchy, Lawmakers craft big farm bill, defy Bush's veto threat
5/08/08 Fadel, McClatchy, Iraqi military orders Sadr City residents to evacuate
5/08/08 Kwa, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Food Crisis Linked to Doha Deal
5/08/08 LAT, More rain batters victims of Myanmar cyclone
5/08/08 Osava, IPS, BRAZIL: Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels
5/08/08 Leahy, IPS, ENERGY-AFRICA: From Kerosene to the LED, O-HUB and O-BOX
5/08/08 Wong, McClatchy, US Consumers Rank Last In World Survey of Green Habits
5/08/08 BBC, Russia 'expels US embassy staff'
5/08/08 Al Jazeera, Patience wears thin for Myanmar
5/08/08 Al Jazeera, Argentine farmers in fresh protests
5/08/08 Reuters, Judge Orders CIA to Turn Over "Torture" Memo: ACLU
5/08/08 Schoof, McClatchy, Another recipe for ethanol: homegrown sweet sorghum
5/08/08 Weiss, WP, Platypus Genome Found Fittingly Strange
5/08/08 Nakashima, WP, FBI Backs Off From Secret Order for Data After Lawsuit
5/08/08 Crow, IntelDaily, Are Vampire Capitalists About to Descend on Crisis Wrought Myanmar?
5/08/08 Leopold, IntelDaily, Groundbreaking New Book Documents Widespread Election Fraud
5/08/08 Mouawad, NYT, Oil Giants to Settle Water Suit
5/08/08 Baker, NY Times, 11 Years of Police Gunfire, in Painstaking Detail
5/08/08 Morris, BBC, Can Tanzania reap bumper harvests?
5/07/08 Taylor, McClatchy, FBI seeking records of 2004 Condoleeza Rice ethics probe
5/08/08 BBC, Supply worries push oil near $124
5/08/08 Chapman, BBC, Wild times in changing China
5/08/08 Raja M, Asia Times Public water, privately bottled profits
5/08/08 BBC, Colombia massacre troops jailed
5/08/08 BBC, Nasa set to join petaflop elite
5/08/08 Al Jazeera, Myanmar survivors fight for life
5/08/08 Al Jazeera, China steps up child virus fight
5/08/08 Al Jazeera, Putin confirmed as Russian PM
5/08/08 Al Jazeera, Frustration over Myanmar aid delays
May 7, 2008
5/07/08 Al Jazeera, Cyclone smashes Myanmar 'rice bowl'
5/07/08 Englehardt, Nation, The Next War
5/07/08 Leaver, FPIF, The "Surge" of Iraqi Prisoners
5/07/08 BBC, Germany bans two far-right groups
5/07/08 Hambling, Wired, In Next-Gen Bullets and Bombs, Even the Casing Explodes
5/07/08 Keim, Wired, New Anti-Obesity Drugs Could Stunt Kids' Brains
5/07/08 Reuters, Iran's influence in Latin America worries U.S.
5/07/08 Kazmin, WP, 60,000 Dead or Missing in Burma
5/07/08 Young, OEN, No Child Left Behind Leaving 70% Of Our Children Behind
5/07/08 Tucker, IntelDaily, Global Elite Gather in D.C.: Trilateral Commission members want suffering U.S. taxpayers to shell out even more money
5/07/08 Ruckler, Reuters, House set to pass sweeping housing rescue bill
5/07/08 Melander, Reuters, Greed behind food price rises: development bank head
5/07/08 Lynn, Reuters, WTO says cannot solve food price crisis
5/07/08 RIA Novosti, Russian uranium will be directly supplied to the United States
5/07/08 Kozloff, IntelDaily, U.S. is Promoting Secession in Bolivia
5/07/08 EDIE, UNICEF: Poorest children hit by climate change
5/07/08 Green, ITT, Louisville Schools Class-ify Brown
5/07/08 Milmo, Independent, Airline Emissions 'Far Higher Than Previous Estimates'
5/07/08 CNN, Penny prices pinched by rising cost of metal
5/07/08 Knickerbocker, CSM, Media survey: Politicians rethink food-based ethanol
5/07/08 BBC, Oil price 'may hit $200 a barrel'
5/07/08 BBC, Cyclone fuels rice price increase
5/07/08 Sevenso, BBC, Making big money in Zimbabwe
5/07/08 Myrie, BBC, Iraq prepares for Baghdad exodus
5/07/08 Porter, Asia Times, Yes, the Pentagon did want to hit Iran
5/07/08 Al Jazeera, Millions left homeless in Myanmar
May 6, 2008
5/06/08 Shachtman, Wired, Investigate the Pentagon Pundit Project - and the New York Times - Yourself, Online
5/06/08 Scheltus, Independent, Bolivia's richest region votes for autonomy
5/06/08 Chin, Online Journal, Pandemic response plan: let the elderly, the sick, and the poor die
5/06/08 Martens, CounterPunch, Obama's Money Cartel: How Barack Obama Fronted for the Most Vicious Predators on Wall Street
5/06/08 Reuters, U.S. crude oil sets new record above $120 a barrel
5/06/08 Porter, IPS, Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11
5/06/08 Eckholm, NYT, Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests
5/06/08 Rizvi, One World, Carbon Trading Blasted by Indigenous Groups
5/06/08 AFP, FBI Agents Raid Office Protecting Whistleblowers: Reports
5/06/08 Duhigg, NYT, Doubts Raised on Mortgage Agencies as Losses Mount
5/06/08 CNN, Cheney's chief of staff subpoenaed
5/06/08 Harkinson, MoJo, Scenes From the Tar Wars
5/06/08 Harkinson, MoJo, Bottom of the Barrel
5/06/08 CNN, More commercial bee colonies lost
5/06/08 Christie, CNN, Bernanke: Foreclosure woes require action
5/06/08 CNN, Chrysler CEO: We can meet job-cutting goals
5/06/08 Myrie, BBC, Unicef warns of Iraqis 'at risk'
5/06/08 BBC, Somalia forces 'out of control'
5/06/08 BBC, Russia and US strike nuclear deal
5/06/08 Al Jazeera, Mortgage crisis 'threat to economy'
5/06/08 Al Jazeera, Map: Deadly path of Cyclone Nargis
5/06/08 Al Jazeera, Indonesia considers Opec pullout
5/06/08 Al Jazeera, Nigeria armed group in truce offer
5/06/08 Al Jazeera, Asia's deadliest storms
5/06/08 Al Jazeera, Myanmar cyclone toll soars
May 5, 2008
5/05/08 Astore, Nation, Leaving Cheyenne Mountain
5/05/08 Izuzndu, Oil & Gas Journal, OTC: $100 trillion needed to rebuild energy infrastructure
5/05/08 McDonnell, LAT, Bolivian province votes for autonomy
5/05/08 Lee, LAT, Chinese firms bargain hunting in U.S.
5/05/08 Eilperin, WP, Air Pollution Impedes Bees' Ability to Find Flowers
5/05/08 Foster, GreenLeft, Global economic crisis: 'No-one knows where the toxic debt is buried'
5/05/08 Hassan, WP, 2 killed as troops fire into Somali riot over food prices
5/05/08 Reuters, U.S. ready for emergency student loan advances: report
5/05/08 Sheikh & Mohamed, Reuters, Mogadishu rocked by food demonstrations
5/05/08 Browning, NYT, Government Intensifies Mortgage Investigation
5/05/08 Bernstein, NYT, Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in Custody
5/05/08 Wyss, Miami Heerald, U.S. base is no longer welcome in Ecuador
5/05/08 Tierney, NYT, Rethinking the Oil Curse
5/05/08 Sinharoy, ITT, A Boon for T. Boone
5/05/08 Boyd, McClatchy, More killer germs resisting world's antibiotics
5/05/08 CNN, Somalis riot over food prices
5/05/08 BBC, Illegal workers prosecutions rise
5/05/08 Bernstein, NYT, Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in Custody
5/05/08 Pinglay, BBC, No let up in India farm suicides
5/05/08 Independent, Sinking Without Trace: Australia's Climate Change Victims
5/05/08 Mackinnon, Akron, Remembering Kent State Shooting Victims
5/05/08 Dummett, BBC, Bangladesh companies in food move
5/05/08 Al Jazeera, US gets Grameen micro-credit bank
5/05/08 Downie, CSM, Brazil defends ethanol in food-versus-fuel fight
5/05/08 Al Jazeera, Myanmar cyclone toll soars to 4,000
5/05/08 Al Jazeera, UN set to suspend Gaza food aid
May 4, 2008
5/04/08 Eilperin, WP, Fighting Global Warming Block by Block
5/04/08 Kotlowitz, NYT, Blocking the Transmission of Violence
5/04/08 McKinley, NYT, Nicaraguan Councils Stir Fear of Dictatorship
5/03/08 BBC, Attack on Shell plant in Nigeria
5/04/08 Al Jazeera, Asian bank unveils food aid plan
5/04/08 BBC, Malaysia plans women travel curbs
5/04/08 Grey, Daily Press, China farms the world to feed a ravenous economy
5/04/08 Stockman, Boston Globe, Shell Firms Shielded US Contractor From Taxes
5/04/08 Lean, Independent, Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis
5/0408 Daraghai & Salman, LAT, Blackwater Shooting Highlights A US, Iraq Culture Clash
May 3, 2008
5/03/08 CNN, U.S. attack damages hospital, Iraqi official says
5/03/08 Freeman, IntelDaily, Undocumented youth may be target for military recruiters
5/03/08 Reuters, U.S. weighs thousands more troops for Afghan war: paper
5/03/08 Dahlberg, SacBee, Residents rattled in Reno
5/03/08 Schoch, LAT, Water shortage worst in decades, official says
5/03/08 Bustillo, LAT, Love, death and questions in the South's bloodiest prison
5/03/08 Dach, AdBusters, America's Chemically Modified 21st Century Soldiers
5/03/08 BBC, US envoys leave Belarus amid row
5/03/08 Saleh, BBC, Food price crisis bites in Egypt
5/03/08 Greene, Miami Herald, Small-town residents living on deadly ground
5/03/08 Gimbel, Fortune, Hunting for oil beneath the ice
5/03/08 Al Jazeera, New nuclear incentives for Iran
5/03/08 BBC, Asian bank in food crisis warning
May 2, 2008
5/02/08 Lungescu, BBC, Detained migrants riot in Belgium
5/02/08 Rowe, Wired, How Would You Make a Murder Look Like a Suicide?
5/02/08 Mufson, WP, Up $10.9 Billion, Exxon Worries About New Tax
5/02/08 Jenkins, WP, Economic Troubles Multiply Requests for Help in D.C. Area
5/02/08 Duggan & Shipley, WP, Operator of D.C. Call-Girl Ring Is Dead in Apparent Suicide
5/02/08 Scott, IntelDaily, Affirmative action for capitalism
5/02/08 Press TV, US fears of more Iran-Europe gas deals
5/02/08 NYT, Agency Seeks New Credit Card Rules
5/02/08 Schmid, AP, Major Arctic sea ice melt is expected this summer
5/02/08 Doyle, Independent, US Plan to Protect Right Whale From Shipping Blocked by Cheney
5/02/08 Kearsley, News Tribune, No work at ports as longshore protests war
5/02/08 Dobbs, WP, McCain's Birth Abroad Stirs Legal Debate
5/02/08 Klepper, KC.com, Lawmakers fail to override coal plant veto
5/02/08 Sahagun & Witte, LAT, Dockworkers take May Day off, idling all West Coast ports
5/02/08 Felsenthal & Hughes, Reuters, Global central banks extend lifeline to credit markets
5/02/08 Kirchoff, USA Today, Surplus U.S. food supplies dry up
5/02/08 Pleming, Reuters, U.S. ponders Guantanamo closure as Bush term ends
5/02/08 Weiss, LAT, Oxygen-poor ocean zones are growing
5/02/08 Hawthorne, Chicago Tirb, EPA Official Ousted While Fighting Dow Chemical
5/02/08 AP, Panel threatens to subpoena Rove
5/02/08 Hotakainen, McClatchy, Fed proposes sweeping change to credit card rules
5/02/08 BBC, Somalia - East Africa's new Afghanistan?
5/02/08 BBC, China virus 'hits 3,000 children'
5/02/08 Morelle, BBC, Study sheds light on spider sex
5/02/08 Claure, IPS, RIGHTS-BOLIVIA: Guaraní Families in Forced Servitude
5/02/08 Cevallos, IPS, MEXICO: No Place for Small Farmers at the Supermarkets
5/02/08 al-Fadhily & Jamail, IPS, IRAQ: Corruption Eats Into Food Rations
5/02/08 Baddorf, IPS, IRAQ: Refugees Look to Europe
5/02/08 AP, 'An Evangelical Manifesto' criticizes politics of faith
5/02/08 Adams, CSM, Taiwan's indigenous rights: enough?
5/02/08 Eccelston, Telegraph, Ape Genius reveals depth of animal intelligence
May 1, 2008
5/01/06 Phillips, MoJo, Pork Power States
5/01/08 Schneier, Wired, America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves
5/01/08 Lo & Hu, Bloomberg, Mobius Sees Fed Rates at 1%, Dollar Is `Bombed Out'
5/01/08 Escobar, TomDispatch, The Iranian Chessboard
5/01/08 Youssef, McClatchy, Facing PTSD deluge, Pentagon changes security standards
5/01/08 Stearn & Strobel, MaClatchy, What's McCain thinking when he says boot Russia from G-8?
5/01/08 Sahagun, LAT, Dockworkers Take May Day Off, Idling All West Coast Ports
5/01/08 Goldman, AP, ACLU: Pentagon Documents Highlight Interrogation Methods
5/01/08 Lubold, CSM, Americans build elite Afghan commando force
5/01/08 Al Jazeera, Bolivia nationalises key firms
5/01/08 Al Jazeera, Anti-war strikes hit US ports
5/01/08 Roberts, MoJo, The Seven Myths of Energy Independence
5/01/08 Ridgeway, MoJo, Scrubbing King Coal
5/01/08 Kennedy, Miami Herald, Report: Gas pipeline carries risk
5/01/08 Reynolds, BBC, Still no 'mission accomplished'
5/01/08 Middle East Online, Non-OPEC oil producers unable to boost output
5/01/08 de Sousa, Oil Drum, The Coal Crunch is Materializing
5/01/08 Leopold, IntelDaily, US Military Coordinated Day of Prayer Events With Christian Right Group
5/01/08 MacGillis & Mufson, WP, Clinton Gas-Tax Proposal Criticized
5/01/08 Fletcher, WP, For Striking Factory Workers, U.S.-First Pledge Falls Flat
5/01/08 Reuters, U.S. Hispanic population hits 45.5 million
5/01/08 Parsons, Reuters, Iran complains to U.N. about Clinton comment
5/01/08 Preston, NYT, Fewer Latino Immigrants Sending Money Home
5/01/08 Macalister, Guardian, Winds of change: Shell ditches renewable stake amid fears of a retreat to carbons
5/01/08 AP, China launches child slavery probe
5/01/08 Spotts, CSM, A 10-year timeout for global warming, study says
5/01/08 BBC, Chavez calls for steel takeover
5/01/08 Brabrant, BBC, Lesbos islanders dispute gay name
5/01/08 Al Jazeera, US bombing kills Somali fighters
5/01/08 Al Jazeera, US 'terror' report targets Iran