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January 31, 2009

1/31/09 Fletcher, WP, 8 Questions on the Stimulus Package

1/31/09 BBC, Crisis may 'spark social unrest'

1/31/09 McCarthy, Independent, Rainforest Razed so Cattle Can Graze

1/31/09 Miller, Chicago Tribune, Obama Lets CIA Keep Controversial Renditions Tool

1/31/09 La Duke, Progressive, Obama's green plan must include Native Americans

1/31/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Racial Profiling? No, It's WORSE Than That

Obama's Cabinet - pics and brief bio from the Charlotte Pbserver.

1/31/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The Utterly Innocent At Guantanamo

1/31/09 Rowe, Wired, Amazing Chemicals Invented by Nature, Rebuilt in Lab

1/31/09 Kraske & Helling, KC Star, Missouri senator calls for $400,000 limit on exec pay

1/31/09 Gonzalez, CNN, Water cutbacks on tap for Mexico City

1/31/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: Discovering a 'lost forest'

1/31/09 BBC, US to run peanut salmonella probe

1/31/09 BBC, Nigerians can sue US drugs firm

1/31/09 BBC, Thousands protest in Russian east

1/31/09 BBC, PM says 'no clear map' for crisis

January 30, 2009

1/30/09 Freeland, Financial Times, The Credit Crunch According to Soros

1/30/09 Smith, CNN, Job cuts exceed 100,000 for the week

1/30/09 Barr, AP, 1/30/09 Buskirk, Wired, LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source Approach to Urban Planning

1/30/09 AP, FDA panel recommends ban on the painkiller Darvon

1/30/09 Al Jazeera, Settlement data 'implicates Israel'

1/30/09 Finn, WP, Guantanamo Judge Denies Obama's Request for Delay

1/30/09 Palast, TruthOut, Obama Is a Two-Faced Liar. Aw-RIGHT!

1/30/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Bernie Sanders Demands Investigation of Banks

1/30/09 Burch, Reuters, New U.S. strategy needed in Afghanistan: Oxfam

1/30/09 The Creek, Wall Street Bailout Exceeds Cost of All US Wars Combined: And you can throw in the New Deal, Marshall Plan and Moon Shots as well

1/30/09 Bridges, McClatchy, Lithium could be Bolivia's future, if politics don't get in way

1/30/09 Johnson, McClatchy, North Korea scraps its non-aggression pact with the south

1/30/09 Hargreaves, CNN, Exxon posts annual profit record

1/30/09 Johnson, USA, FBI: Burgeoning gangs behind up to 80% of U.S. crime

1/30/09 Crathy, CNN, TSA will keep an eye on fans at Super Bowl

1/30/09 Reynolds, LAT, Economy is going from bad to worse, reports show

1/30/09 BBC, Israel 'hides settlements data'

1/30/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Letter to Rove Says He Has 'Absolute Immunity' and Can Ignore Subpoena

1/30/09 Eley, WSWS, After freezing death of 93-year-old, Michigan city suspends electricity shutoffs

1/30/09 BBC, Acid oceans 'need urgent action'

1/30/09 Estrada & Baquedano, IPS, Q&A: Water Pushed to the Limit

1/30/09 BBC, Financial rules 'worsened crisis'

January 29, 2009

1/29/09 Insley, Guardian. Capital One card holders braced for interest rate rises

1/29/09 BBC, 'Unprecedented' fall in air cargo

1/29/09 CNN, Day of vindication for grandma as pay law signed

1/29/09 CNN, How a 'perfect storm' led to the economic crisis

1/29/09 Klomegah, IPS, TRADE: Russia Supplying Legal And ''Illegal'' Arms to Africa

1/29/09 Kiel, ProPublica, How Much of the Bailout Is Going to Small Banks?

1/29/09 Stringer, AP, Arctic's thaw brings security risks for NATO

1/29/09 Seward, AP, Nationwide French strike shuts trains, subways

1/29/09 Booth, Times Online, Opec pledges to push oil back above $50 a barrel

1/29/09 Applebaum, WP, U.S. Aid Goes to Credit Unions

1/28/09 Nation, Jobless in America

1/29/09 Reuters,

1/29/09 Mutikani, Reuters, Jobless rolls hit record peak, orders plummet

1/29/09 Healy, NYT, Orders for Factory Goods Fall for 5th Month

1/29/09 Dougherty & Bennhold, IHT, Russia and China blame capitalists for crisis

1/29/09 Lindorff, IntelDaily, The Ugly Truth: America's Economy is Not Coming Back

1/29/09 CNN, Nearly 2,000 people warned of possible beryllium exposure

1/29/09 CNN, Army to report record number of suicides

1/29/09 CNN, Iraq denies Blackwater an operating license

1/29/09 Turse, MoJo, Desperate Times and Desperate Measures

1/29/09 Umanski, ProPublica, Missing Memos: Take A Look Yourself ... List

1/29/09 Cooper, Reuters, Seed Bank for the World Threatened by Financial Crisis

1/29/09 Huus, MSNBC, Homelessness Surges as Funding Falters

1/29/09 McGreal, Guardian, Zimbabwe's Starving Millions Face Halving of Rations as UN Cash Dries Up

1/29/09 Wutkowski, Reuters, U.S. to unveil menu of bank fixes next week: source

1/29/09 Harris & Belluck, NYT, New Look at Food Safety After Peanut Tainting

1/29/09 Bluemink, ADN, Subsistence harvest near Red Dog mine declines

1/29/09 Mulrine, US News, The Pentagon Takes Aim at Sexual Assaults

1/29/09 Blegon, FPIF, Somali Piracy and the International Response

1/29/09 EDIE, Experts slam media global warming claims

1/29/09 Mount, CNN, Army recalls 16,000 body armor sets amid testing dispute

1/29/09 CNN, Electric shocks came often at U.S. bases in Iraq, report finds

January 28, 2009

1/28/09 Huang, CSM, Migrant workers struggle as China's factories slow

1/28/09 Llana, CSM, Mexican workers send less cash home from the US

1/28/09 BBC, Bomb blast hits Colombian capital

1/28/09 Lee, ProPublica, Bush's Secret Counterterrorism Law Book--and the Demands to Release It

1/28/09 Nguyen & Weaver, ProPublica, The Missing Memos

1/28/09 Ward, Charleston Gazette, Coal Wins Big in Senate Stimulus Package

1/28/09 AP, Pentagon Nominee May Make $500,000 on Raytheon Stock

1/28/09 Schmid, AP, Report: Some climate damage already irreversible

1/28/09 Straziuso, AP, US pays $40,000 after 15 Afghans die in raid

1/28/09 Booth, Times Online, UK economy will shrink faster than rest of the developed world, IMF predicts

1/28/09 Aversa, AP, Fed moves to help distressed homeowners

1/28/09 Hopper, CNN, Pakistan: U.S. must halt drone attacks

1/28/09 Reuters, Plant Shipped Tainted Products, F.D.A. Says

1/28/09 Stein, MoJo, Is Obama's Regulatory Czar a "Radical Animal Rights Activist"?

1/28/09 Dolan, LAT, School can expel lesbian students, court rules

1/28/09 de Tarczynski, IPS, AUSTRALIA: Complicit in East Timor Occupation - Records

1/28/09 Harding, Guardian, Russia scraps plan to deploy nuclear-capable missiles in Kaliningrad

1/28/09 Devarakonda, IPS, ECONOMY: 'Privatise Profits, Socialise Losses'

1/28/09 Kollewe, Guardian, IMF: UK economy will be hardest hit in worst recession since second world war

1/28/09 Demytrie, BBC, Tajik women who buy and sell babies

1/28/09 Coutts, ProPublica, How Serious Are Treasury's New TARP Lobbying Limits?

1/28/09 Stringer, AP, Iceland to appoint gay woman minister to PM post

1/28/09 BBC, Global job losses 'could hit 51m'

1/28/09 BBC, World growth 'worst for 60 years'

1/28/09 Gatti & Henriques, NYT, JPMorgan Exited Madoff-Linked Funds Last Fall

1/28/09 Hall, McClatchy, Fed warns of deepening slump, may move on mortgage rates

1/28/09 Nesbitt & Yusuf, FPIF, Strategic Dialogue: Somalia

1/28/09 Montero, CSM, Growing Taliban clout threatens Pakistani government

January 27, 2009

1/27/09 Pawlowski, CNN, Apocalypse in 2012? Date spawns theories, film

1/27/09 Robertson, CNN, 'Jihadi rehab' is a possibility for post-Gitmo

1/27/09 Pepitone, CNN, More than 11,500 job cuts announced Tuesday

1/27/09 CNN, Gates says missile attacks in Pakistan will continue

1/27/09 CNN, House passes act to make pay-discrimination suits easier

1/27/09 BBC, Chad charcoal ban enflames public

1/27/09 BBC, 'Crisis unfolding' in Sri Lanka

1/27/09 BBC, Iceland sets major whaling quota

1/27/09 Reuters, Studies Find Mercury in Much US Corn Syrup

1/27/09 Whitlock, WP, E.U. Willing to Help U.S. on Guantanamo

1/27/09 Eilperin, WP, Long Droughts, Rising Seas Predicted Despite Future CO2 Curbs

1/27/09 Boudreau, Progressive, To Kill or Not to Kill

1/27/09 Bernstein, NYT, Another Jail Death, and Mounting Questions

1/27/09 Reuters, First batch of extra U.S. troops in east Afghanistan

1/27/09 Haviv, Reuters, Home prices plunge record 18.2 percent in November

1/27/09 Martin, WSWS, Obama's new foreign policy team prepares escalated bloodletting in Afghanistan and Pakistan

1/27/09 Burghart, IntelDaily, CIA-ISI Jihadi "Frankenstein" Sows Chaos, Reaps Death

1/27/09 Eley, WSWS, Bloody Monday: 74,000 layoffs announced in one day

1/27/09 Blomfield, Telegraph, Russian stability threatened by anger over economy

1/27/09 Cogan, IntelDaily, US moves to consolidate new supply routes to Afghanistan

1/27/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Halliburton Settles Cheney-Era Bribery Probe With U.S Government

1/27/09 Hart, IntelDaily, Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government

1/27/09 LeMelle & Stulman, FPIF, Africa Policy Outlook 2009

1/27/09 Fenton, FPIF, Bush, Obama, and the 'Freedom Agenda'

1/27/09 Condon, Cnet, Senate OKs delay of digital TV transition

1/27/09 Stiglitz, CNN, Commentary: How to rescue the bank bailout

1/27/09 CNN, 'Americans are not your enemy,' Obama tells Muslims

1/27/09 Schliefer, CSM, Gas dispute with Russia boosts European interest in alternative pipeline

1/27/09 Llana, CSM, Bolivia sets new global high mark for indigenous rights

1/27/09 BBC, 390,000 to access child database

1/27/09 BBC, Man 'finds US troop data' on MP3

1/27/09 BBC, Canada set for stimulus spending

1/27/09 Kinver, BBC, UK gets biofuels research centre

1/27/09 Lieber, Village Voice, What Cooked the World's Economy?

January 26, 2009

1/26/09 Irwin & Applebaum, WP, Fed May Gain More Financial Oversight

1/26/09 Hong & reynolds, LAT, U.S. weighs strategies to stem home foreclosures

1/26/09 Adams, CSM, Filipina activist boosts overseas workers

1/26/09 Loyn, BBC, UN debates global food cost rise

1/26/09 Finch et al, Guardian, Twenty-five people at the heart of the meltdown ...

1/26/09 Madrigal, Wired, March of Penguins Turning Into Trail of Tears

1/26/09 Zetter, Wired, NSA Whistleblower: Grill the CEOs on Illegal Spying

1/26/09 Branigin et al, Obama Announces New Energy, Environmental Policies

1/26/09 Crabtree, The Hill, Conyers Subpoenas Rove

1/26/09 BBC, Tanzania witchdoctors flout ban

1/26/09 Kanter, NYT, Analysts Warn Emissions Are Growing

1/26/09 Abaca, MarketRap, Peak Oil Production in Russia Suggests Worldwide Supplies on the Brink

1/26/09 Reuters, Caterpillar Moves to Cut 20,000 Jobs

1/26/09 Reuters, Sprint Nextel to cut up to 8,000 jobs

1/26/09 Finoli, IntelDaily, Brazil: Occupying Slum

1/26/09 Sinharoy, ITT, Blackwater to Battle Pirates

1/26/09 Hickman, Guardian, Carbon comparison site launched

1/26/09 Lah, CNN, Workers urged: Go home and multiply

1/26/09 BBC, Caterpillar reveals huge job cuts

1/26/09 BBC, Single cell 'can store memories'

1/26/09 BBC, Pfizer acquires Wyeth for $68bn

1/26/09 BBC, Sex drive link to prostate cancer

1/26/09 BBC, Crisis claims Icelandic cabinet

January 25, 2009

1/25/09 Sanger, NYT, Nationalization Gets a New, Serious Look

1/25/09 La Riva, PSL, Take action: Political prisoner Leonard Peltier at risk!

1/25/09 Peat, Toronto Star, The War Against Water Bottles

1/25/09 McDonald & Hanley, AP, China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon

1/25/09 Mason, AP, World's highest drug levels entering India stream

1/25/09 Rosenberg, Open Left, The CBO Report That Wasn't, Dissing Stimulus -- Case Study In Beltway Incompetence?

1/25/09 Rosenberg, Open Left, USGS Report: "Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems"

1/25/09 Rutenberg & Nagourney, NYT, Retooling a Grass-Roots Network for a Presidency

1/25/09 Schwartz, NYT, At Davos, Crisis Culls the Guest List

1/25/09 CNN, Protests, resignation pressure Iceland's government

1/25/09 CNN, One month, 14 fires, one big arson investigation

1/25/09 CNN, Eight inmates sent to Florida hospitals after prison fight

1/25/09 Macaskill & Shah, Guardian, Obama administration warns public to expect rise in US casualties

1/25/09 McGuirk, AP, Tasmanian devils threatened by contagious cancer

1/25/09 Keane, AP, Bolivia constitution would empower Indian majority

1/25/09 Al Jazeera, Iraq to reopen Abu Ghraib

1/25/09 Shahdid, NYT, Iraq Election Highlights Ascendancy of Tribes

1/25/09 Oakeshoft, Times Online, Women losing jobs twice as fast as men

1/25/09 Faiez & King, LAT, Deadly U.S.-led raid in Afghanistan prompts new dispute

1/25/09 Cart, LAT, Bush legacy leaves uphill climb for U.S. parks, critics say

1/25/09 Macan-Markar, IPS, SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Businesses Cold to Climate Change Says Study

1/25/09 Hill, Guardian, Men become richer after divorce

1/25/09 Swann, BBC, Brother campaigns for 'enemy combatant'

1/25/09 BBC, Bolivians vote on Indian rights

January 24, 2009

1/24/09 Wolf, Times Online, Obama pricks America's bubble of denial

1/24/09 AL Jazeera, Israel forms war crime defence team

1/24/09 Faiola, WP, Downturn Accelerates As It Circles The Globe

1/24/09 Pagnamenta et al, Times Online, Iran in scramble for fresh uranium supplies

1/24/09 King, LAT, Suspected U.S. missile attacks kill 18 in Pakistan

1/24/09 Seager & Milner, Guardian, Lights go out across Britain as recession hits home

1/24/09 Scanlon, BBC, Bolivia nationalises energy firm

1/24/09 Lamb, Merced Sun-Star, Water: Cities, agriculture compete for precious, dwindling resource

1/24/09 Goldman, Asia Times, Fixing the bank crisis is the easy part

1/24/09 Greenwell, WP, Activists Seek New ways to Get Food to 35 Million

1/24/09 Fernandez, SF Chron, Researchers Shocked: Tasers Cause Dramatic Rise of In-Custody Sudden Deaths

1/24/09 Reuters, China denounces U.S. currency accusation

1/24/09 IHT, Iceland's political scene melting

1/24/09 Graybow, Reuters, Jews struggle to come to grips with Madoff

1/24/09 Whipple, IntelDaily, The Peak Oil Crisis: What of 2009?

1/24/09 Kwidini, IPS, ZIMBABWE: ''Dollarisation'' of Economy Hitting Poor Hard

1/24/09 Watt, Guardian, ITV to air Gaza aid appeal as pressure mounts on BBC

1/24/09 CNN, Security experts skeptical on Gitmo detainee report

1/24/09 Dys, Herald, Hate. Remorse. Forgiveness

1/24/09 Fadel & Kadhim, McClatchy, U.S. raid kills Iraqi man, woman in their bed

1/24/09 BBC, Migrants escape on Italian island

1/24/09 O'Malley, McClatchy, Flight for life: Young mom tries to find her place

January 23, 2009

1/23/09 Gunnarson, AP, Iceland prime minister calls national elections

1/23/09 Gorski, AP, Disgraced pastor faces more gay sex accusations

1/23/09 Shachtman, Wired, Pics: Inside the Tunnels of Gaza

1/23/09 Chen, Wired, White House Tech More Tired Than Wired

1/23/09 Zetter, Wired, NSA Whistleblower: Wiretaps Were Combined With Credit Card Records of US Citizens

1/23/09 Foster, Times Online, C4 faces censure after Jon Snow calls Bush presidency 'a nightmare'

1/23/09 Reid, Times Online, President Obama 'orders Pakistan drone attacks'

1/23/09 CNN, Musharraf: Pakistan 'treated unequally' in war on terror

1/23/09 Park, CNN, Rare sickness kills child; officials urge vaccination

1/23/09 BBC, Oil rises as Opec output reduced

1/23/09 Christie, CNN, Flood of Foreclosures: It's Worse Than You Think

1/23/09 Chung, Guardian, Neighbours take care of each other'

1/23/09 Cutter, PSL, Commercial logging behind severe floods in Washington State

1/23/09 Gharib, IPS, Few Govts Seen to Take the Foreign Policy High Road

1/23/08 Dolmage, Des Moines Reporters, Poverty Simulation Program in West Des Moines Helps Teachers

1/23/09 Boxun, Hu Jintao's Plan to Dramatically Expand China's International Propaganda Network is Utilizing the Peoples Money to Deceive the World's People

1/23/09 Talmage, AP, Japan launches rocket with greenhouse-gas probe

1/23/09 Wielaard, AP, Pending EU deal to take Iran group off terror list

1/23/09 Tessler, AP, Senate nears deal to delay digital TV transition

1/23/09 Harden, WP, Japan Works Hard to Help Immigrants Find Jobs

1/23/09 Hall & Lightman, McClatchy, Senate panel rolls out pro-business tax breaks for stimulus

1/23/09 Reuters, Obama removes restrictions on abortion funding

1/23/09 Glover, Sacramento Bee, Jobless situation even worse than numbers show, experts say

1/22/09 Worth, NYT, Freed by U.S., Saudi Becomes a Qaeda Chief

1/23/09 Duffy, BBC, Changing times for Brazil's landless

1/23/09 BBC, Spain's jobless rate hits 13.9%

1/23/09 Bridges, McClatchy, Bolivia's native peoples poised to win new rights

1/23/09 Nebehay, Reuters, Red Cross: Zimbabwe Cholera Epidemic Could Top 60,000

1/23/09 Reuters, Venezuela's Chavez warms to Obama after insults

1/23/09 BBC, Saudi warns US over Middle East

1/23/09 BBC, Obama diary: The first 100 days

January 22, 2009

1/22/09 Reuters, Report cites FDA's weaknesses over drugs, devices

1/22/09 Karon, MoJo, Obama's Gaza Opportunity

1/22/09 Kizzia, ADN, Critics protest Homer deal for Healy power

1/22/09 AP, Senate panel approves Geithner for treasury post

1/22/09 EDIE, Don't waste sewage - it's a resource

1/22/09 CNN, Obama signs executive order to close Guantanamo Bay

1/22/09 Landau, CNN, What is virginity worth today?

1/22/09 Ehrenreich, Nation, Foreclosure Fightback

1/22/09 Lewis, Times Online, Ecologists Warn the Planet Is Running Short of Water

1/22/09 Castro, AP, Texas wrestles with science standards, evolution

1/22/09 Al Jazeera, Global slump hits Asian economies

1/22/09 Applebaum, WP, By Switching Their Charters, Banks Skirt Supervision

1/22/09 Shah, Guardian, US Accused of Killing 25 Afghan Civilians in Raid on Militants

1/15/09 (web 1/22) Grieder, Nation, The Crisis Is Global

1/22/09 Wulfhorst, Reuters, Job losses hitting men harder than women

1/22/09 Healy, NYT, Home Construction Ends Worst Year Since 1959

1/22/09 Goldsmith, McClatchy, FTC urges Wachovia customers to cash checks

1/22/09 Maugh, LAT, Cleaner air, longer life: Study provides evidence

1/22/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Nationalization of Banks? Citi, Gov't Agreement Already Provides for Partial Takeover

1/22/09 CNN, Mayor investigated for affair with teen

1/22/09 Rugaber, AP, New jobless claims rise more than expected to 589K

1/22/09 The Hindu, US spy agencies databases set to be linked: report

1/22/09 All THings Digital, Microsoft Earnings and Revenues Take a Big Hit; 5,000 to be Laid Off (Plus the Full Press Release)

1/22/09 RIA Novosti, China sentences two to death over melamine milk

1/22/09 Cunningham, IPS, MIDEAST: Alarm Spreads Over Use of Lethal New Weapons

1/22/09 de Tarczyniski, IPS, HEALTH-AUSTRALIA: Fighting Dengue With Bacterial Ally

1/22/09 Bezlova, IPS, CHINA: Modernising the World's Biggest Army

1/22/09 Bennis, ITT, Gaza Under Siege

1/22/09 Hefling, AP, Army: Negligence Caused GI's Death

1/22/09 CNN, Obama retakes oath of office after Roberts' mistake

1/22/09 Abrams, AP, Senate Passes Wage Discrimination Bill

1/22/09 CNN, Obama 'to get spy-proof smartphone'

1/22/09 AP, Obama Moves to Reshape US Foreign Policy

1/22/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Maryland Legislators Introduce Bill to Ban Police Spying

1/22/09 Squires, CSM, Venice floodgate plan: boon or boondoggle?

1/22/09 Ehrenreich, Nation, Foreclosure Fightback

1/22/09 BBC, Intel shedding up to 6,000 jobs

1/22/09 Barber, Nation, A Revolution in Spirit

1/22/09 Schifferes, BBC, Tim Geithner's taxing problems

1/22/09 Nye, BBC, Citi wants further help for banks

1/22/09 BBC, White House plans open government

January 21, 2009

1/21/09 LeFleur, ProPublica, Obama Begins Rollback of Bush-Era Secrecy

1/21/09 LeFleur, ProPublica, Obama Reverses Bush Executive Privilege Claim Over Documents

1/21/09 Woods, Toronto Star, Tar Sands Smog Seen Worsening

1/21/09 Borenstein, AP, Study: Antarctica joins rest of globe in warming

1/21/09 Chang, AP, Chinese translation cuts out parts of Obama speech

1/21/09 Al Jazeera, Israel accused of war crimes

1/21/09 Al Jazeera, US investigates Afghan deaths

1/21/09 Douglas, McClatchy, Senate confirms Clinton as secretary of state by 94-2

1/21/09 Hart, WP, Technical Difficulties: Digital Switch

1/21/09 Reuters, Geithner calls for TARP reform: report

1/21/09 BBC, 'Safe zone' in Sri Lanka conflict

1/21/09 Zavis, LAT, Federal regulators identify new problems at UCI hospital

1/21/09 Rau, LAT, Funding freeze halts environmental projects across California

1/21/09 Frieden,CNN, Holder confirmation hearing delayed a week

1/21/09 BEaumont, Guardian, Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza

1/21/09 France, CNN, Obama unveils new presidential Web site

1/21/09 CNN, Israeli troops complete Gaza withdrawal

1/21/09 Mitnick, CSM, Gaza war widens lead of Israel's conservative Likud Party

1/21/09 Ahmed, CSM, Pakistan: Do school texts fuel bias?

1/21/09 BBC, Obama plea stops Guantanamo trial

1/21/09 CNN, Vowing transparency, Obama OKs ethics guidelines

1/21/09 Ahmed, BBC, Slumdog actors show Mumbai's rags and riches

1/20/09 Jackson, BBC, Cold War in paradise: how British troops faced nuclear tests

1/21/09 BBC, Hungry Liberian army worms invade

1/21/09 Shahzad, Asia TImes, Pakistan's shift alarms the US

January 20, 2009

1/20/09 Pilkington, Guardian, Obama inauguration: Words of history ... crafted by 27-year-old in Starbucks

1/20/09 Roberts, Guardian, The nuclear options (economy)

1/20/09 Kravets, Wired, In Final Legal Act, Bush Appeals Spy Ruling

1/20/09 Straziuso & Shah, AP, Afghanistan Seeks Control Over NATO Deployments

1/20/09 Johnson, NYT, Trials for Parents Who Chose Faith Over Medicine

1/20/09 Gantz, ITT, Mo' Power for Low Power

1/20/09 Bronner, NYT, U.N. Chief Visits Gaza as Forces Leave

1/20/09 Lundberg, IntelDaily, Peak-oil activist approach for the coming change in culture

1/20/09 Macalister, Guardian, The Arab royal who's going off oil

1/20/09 CNN, Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real

1/20/09 BBC, US 'agrees Afghan supply route'

1/20/09 House, Bul. Atom Science, The limits of energy storage technology

Bush's Midnight Regulations. ProPublica.

January 19, 2009

1/19/09 Jowit, Guardian, Many Glaciers Will Disappear by Middle of Century and Add to Rising Sea Levels, Expert Warns

1/19/09 Beech, St. Catherine's Standard, Scientist Issues Genetic Food Warning

1/19/09 Boxun, Press Freedom Award Announced

1/19/09 Alvarez, NYT, More Joining US Military as Jobs Dwindle

1/19/09 Tanner, AP, MRSA rising in kids' ear, nose, throat infections

1/19/09 Vedantam, WP, Why the Ideological Melting Pot Is Getting So Lumpy

1/120/09 Frean, Times Online, Home education 'can be cover for abuse and forced marriage'

1/19/09 Kroll, MoJo, Will Public Education Be Militarized?

1/19/09 Booth, Guardian, Gaza film shows white phosphorus from alleged Israeli attack

1/19/09 EDIE, German government halts ocean-seeding experiment

1/19/09 Mears, CNN, U.N. court rules U.S. execution violated treaty

1/19/09 CNN, Israel says it plans swift Gaza withdrawal

1/19/09 Malveaux, CNN, Sources: Obama may quickly reverse abortion policy

1/19/09 BBC, Ex-rebels lead El Salvador poll

1/19/09 BBC, Gaza 'looks like earthquake zone'

1/19/09 McDowell, AP, Palm oil frenzy threatens to wipe out orangutans

1/19/09 Eilperin & Hsu, WP, White House Directive Guides Policy on Arctic

1/19/09 Walker, MoJo, Dreams From My Father

1/19/09 Mannak, IPS, AFRICA: Climate Change Threatens Food Security

1/19/09 Klein, ITT, Which Way to Universal Healthcare?

1/19/09 EDIE, Carbon problem 'worse than we thought' - think tank

1/19/09 BBC, New plan to boost banks' lending

1/19/09 BBC, Scale of Gaza destruction emerges (includes video)

1/19/09 BBC, Fresh attacks on Pakistan schools

January 18, 2009

1/18/0-9 Hennessey-Fisk, LAT, Tuskegee Airmen ready to take part in history -- again

1/18/09 Beaumont & Balousha, Guardian, Can Hamas still walk tall in Gaza's streets? ... here)

1/18/09 Asthana & Smith, Guardian, Revealed: the rise of mixed-race Britain

1/18/09 al-Mughrabi, Reuters, Hamas announces ceasefire after Israel declares truce

1/18/09 IntelDaily, George Bush is a genius (Video and Transcript)

1/18/09 Kessel & Klochendler, IPS, MIDEAST: Shock, Awe, and a Belated Soul-Search

1/18/09 Cook, ITT, Contemplating King's Legacy

1/18/09 Rayner, Guardian, Top stores call them 'budget food lines'. I say they are a disgrace

1/18/09 CNN, China confirms girl infected with bird flu

1/18/09 BBC, Rockets threaten Gaza ceasefire

1/18/09 BBC, Mugabe calls for government deal

1/18/09 Sammon, FOX news, Pelosi Open to Prosecution of Bush Administration Officials

1/18/09 Bruce, ABC News, Obama to Order Iraq Withdrawal on Day One, Axelrod Says

January 17, 2009

1/17/09 Story, NYT, Hedge Funds, Unhinged

1/17/09 BBC, Downturn hits Romania's tinkers

1/17/09 Ahmann, Reuters, Obama team weighs government bank to ease crisis

1/17/09 Nsingo, IPS, ZIMBABWE: Now a 'Factory for Poverty'

1/17/09 Luban, IPS, MIDEAST: U.S. Jewish Peace Lobby Isolated on Gaza

1/17/09 CNN, North Korea claims to have weaponized plutonium

1/17/09 BBC, Israel declares ceasefire in Gaza

1/17/09 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, Fresh Evidence of Israeli Phosphorus Use in Gaza emerges

1/17/09 Kay, SF Chron, US Tells Plan to drill off California coast

1/17/09 Ohlemacher, AP, Stimulus plan repeals big tax break for banks

1/17/09 Leonnig, WP, Bailed-Out Firms Have Tax Havens, GAO Finds

1/17/09 ElBoghdady & Cohen, WP, The Growing Foreclosure Crisis

1/17/09 Drawbaugh, Reuters, Battered Wall St tops Obama inaugural donors: study

1/17/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Warrentless Wiretaps Program Originated From DOJ Legal Memos

1/17/09 CNN, Top Saudi cleric: OK to wed young girls

1/17/09 BBC, Bush signs Peru free trade pact

January 16, 2009

1/16/09 AP, Last year ranked in top 10 for heat

1/16/09 McKibben, Grist, Fiddling While the Coal Burns

1/16/09 Jalon, LAT, Obama Eyes NEA Head

1/16/09 Al Jazeera, US and Israel agree Gaza deal

1/16/09 Kiel, ProPublica, BofA and Gov't's Secret Deal

1/16/09 Shear, WP, Obama Pledges Entitlement Reform

1/16/09 Gilmore, Times Online, Bank shares gyrate as short-selling ban ends

1/16/09 Sheppard, Reuters, World oil demand to shrink sharply this year: IEA

1/16/09 Fox, Reuters, Report shows U.S. only half ready for flu pandemic

1/16/09 Izumi & Massy-Beresford, Reuters, Toyota and Honda cut more output amid EU gloom

1/16/09 Zunes & Martin, McClatchy, Commentary: Why Congress supports Israel

1/16/09 Rothaker & Rexrode, McClatchy, Bank of America loses $2.39 billion in 4th quarter

1/16/09 Michael, IPS, EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable

1/16/09 Keim, Wired, Clever Critters: 8 Best Non-Human Tool Users

1/16/09 Moberg, ITT, Making the Feds Model Employers

1/16/09 Labott, CNN, U.S.-United Arab Emirates sign nuclear deal

1/16/09 Goldman et al, CNN, BofA: $20B bailout, huge Merrill loss

1/16/09 Erlanger, NYT, Weighing Crimes and Ethics in the Fog of Urban Warfare

1/16/09 McLaughlin, CNN, Students, communities pay when schools cut busing

1/16/09 Momigliano, CSM, Russian gas cutoff energizes nuclear comeback

1/17/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Feds Drop Case Against Accused Iraqi Agent

1/16/09 Aly, CSM, War crimes charges rattle Sudan

1/16/09 BBC, Zimbabwe rolls out Z$100tr note

1/16/09 Head, BBC, Thais hold more migrants amid row

1/16/09 BBC, Citigroup to split as losses grow

1/16/09 BBC, Irish bank set to be nationalised

1/16/09 BBC, ICRC fear for Sri Lanka civilians

1/16/09 Sirota, ITT, That Old Saying in Tennessee

1/16/09 Clark, Guardian, US banks reveal further heavy losses

1/16/09 Dossani, FPIF, Chomsky: Undermining Gaza

1/16/09 EDIE, Coal ash dumping 'poisoning water supplies'

January 15, 2009

1/15/09 Jacobsen, AP, UNICEF: Teen births 5 times deadlier than in 20s

1/15/09 Al Jazeera, Israel shells hospital, UN compound

1/15/09 TimesOnline, UN headquarters in Gaza hit by Israeli 'white phosphorus' shells

1/15/09 Rothacker & Rexrode, Charlotte Observer, BofA may get billions in U.S. aid to finish Merrill deal

1/15/09 Comley, Reuters, JPMorgan profit slumps on writedowns

1/15/09 Lichtblau, NYT, Intelligence Court Rules Wiretapping Power Legal

1/15/09 Boudreaux & abu Shammaleh, LAT, UN headquarters in Gaza struck by Israeli shells

1/15/09 Moon, ITT, Lines Drawn in the Sandinistas

1/15/09 Sidner, CNN, India razes slums, leaves poor homeless

1/15/09 Peter, CSM, As house prices rise, Iraqis find they can't go home again

1/15/09 Bhaumik, BBC, Thais 'leave boat people to die'

1/15/09 Barzak & Teibel, AP, Israeli Forces Shell UN Headquarters in Gaza

1/15/09 Andrews, NYT, Rescue of Banks Hints at Nationalization

1/15/09 Barker, Idaho Statesman, Last word on wolves is yet to come

1/15/09 Schoof, McClatchy, Report calls on EPA to ban coal-waste storage in mines

1/15/09 MoJo, Saving Private Industry :Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years.

1/15/09 Prins, MoJo, $3.43 Trillion & Counting

January 14, 2009

1/14/09 Gerth, ProPublica, How Citigroup Unraveled Under Geithner's Watch

1/14/09 ANdrews, ProPublica, Quick Picks: Bank Hoards Bailout Bucks

1/14/09 Laub, AP, First Gaza damage estimate: $1.4 billion

1/14/09 Al Jazeera, Bolivia cuts Israel ties over Gaza

1/14/09 Smith, WP, Judge Orders Search of Administration Appointees' E-Mails

1/14/09 Collins, AP, Ex-Cop Charged With Murder in California Shooting

1/14/09 Aizenman, WP, Despite Economy, Illegal Immigrants Unlikely to Leave U.S.

1/14/09 Schenwar, Truthout, Congress Aims to Take Back Constitutional War Powers

1/14/09 BBC, 'More than 1,000 killed in Gaza'

1/14/09 Gordon, ITT, Gaza in the Crosshairs

1/14/09 Berrigan, FPiF, Israel and the United States: Up In Arms

1/14/09 Reuters, Worries over Citigroup mount

1/14/09 Savage, LAT, Bush appointee saw Justice lawyers as 'commies,' 'crazy libs,' report says

1/14/09 IntelDaily, EU to nationalise North Sea oil and gas

1/14/09 IntelDaily, Greece hinders US arms delivery to Israel

1/14/09 Folkerth, IntelDaily, Educated, Unemployed, and Likely to Stay That Way

1/14/09 IntelDaily, Pentagon report warns of Mexico "collapse"

1/14/09 Higgs, IntelDaily, CBO Report: U.S. Will Go to Hell in 2009

1/14/09 Arthur, IPS, HAITI: New Peasant Alliance Demands Action on Food Crisis

1/14/09 Black, BBC, Challenge to plant methane link

1/14/09 BBC, Guantanamo agents 'used torture'

January 13, 2009

1/13/09 Revkin, NYT, In Parting Move, Bush Sets Arctic Priorities

1/13/09 Sample, Guardian, Rival stem cell technique takes the heat out of hybrid embryo debate

1/13/09 ENS, Navy Allowed to Kill Whales in Hawaii During Sonar Training

1/13/09 Daly, AP, Gold Mine Wants Court to OK Dumping Waste in Lake

1/13/09 Reuters, Pentagon: 61 ex-Guantanamo inmates return to terrorism

1/13/09 Dunham, Reuters, Sexually transmitted disease rates soar: CDC

1/13/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Justice Dept. official lied to Congress, internal probe finds

1/13/09 Guardian, Children of Gaza

1/13/09 CNN, 'Boiling anger' over Bush legacy

1/13/09 Barzak & Hadid, AP, Gazans seek new places to bury the dead

1/13/09 Wired, South of the Future

1/13/09 Boodman, WP, The Rising Costs of Care And a Failing Economy Drive More Americans Into Medical Debt

1/13/09 Hassen, Progressive, Gaza: Israel, Washington to blame

1/13/09 Guerrera, Financial Times, Citigroup moves towards break-up

1/13/09 Desai, Reuters, More steps needed to stabilize banks: Bernanke

1/13/09 REuters, Treasury sees need for TARP contingency funds

1/13/09 Giago, McClatchy, Commentary: 'Cultural Genocide' in the Land of the Free

1/13/09 BBC, HRT 'can shrink women's brains'

1/13/09 BBC, Dangerous coding errors revealed

1/13/09 Morgan, BBC, New soil map for African farmers

1/13/09 Mirani, Asia Times, Race to the death over Kashmir waters

January 12, 2009

1/12/09 Zoroya, USA Today, Army Suicides Rise as Time Spent in Combat Increases

1/12/09 Nankin, ProPublica, Latest Midnight Regs: FOIA, Mining, Logging, Oh My!

1/12/09 Kravetz, Wired, Report: U.S. Surveillance Society Running Rampant

1/12/09 al-Mughrabi, Reuters, Palestinian Death Toll Tops 900: Gaza Official

1/12/09 McClatchy/Guardian, US veterans sue CIA for alleged drug and mind control experiments

1/12/09 Segal & Zarella, CNN, Little Rock Nine set foundation for Obama, students say

1/12/09 Zandi, Progressive, How to Stimulate the Economy

1/12/09 Margolies, KC Star, U.S. mortgage meltdown linked to 2005 bankruptcy law

1/12/09 Bryan, IntelDaily, Worst coal ash spill in US history ruins huge area in Tennessee

1/12/09 Yusufazi, IPS, PAKISTAN: Nightmare for Civilians Uprooted by Conflict

1/12/09 Zimonjic, IPS, BALKANS: In a New Search for Alternative Energy

1/12/09 Prusher, CSM, What's the endgame for Israel and Hamas in Gaza?

1/12/09 BBC, Petrol bombs hit French synagogue

1/12/09 BBC, Israelis 'edge into urban Gaza'

January 11, 2009

1/11/09 Al Jazeera, 'Phosphorus' fears over Gaza wounds

1/11/09 AP, Senate to consider expanding wilderness protection

1/11/09 Warrick, WP, Iran Using Fronts to Get Bomb Parts From U.S.

1/11/09 Gosselin, LAT, Audacity itself as economic experiment

1/11/09 Kraul, LAT, Colombia Indians face down violence

1/11/09 IntelDaily, Gaza Kill and Maim Photos

1/11/09 Bauwens, CNN, MIDEAST: Some Israelis Cry Out for Peace

1/11/09 AP, Indonesian Ferry Sinks in Storm

1/11/09 Labaton, NYT, S.E.C. Choice Is Sued Over a Merger of Regulators

1/11/09 BBC, Gaza hit by new Israeli strikes

January 10, 2009

1/10/09 Sample, Guardian, Billions Face Food Shortages, Study Warns

1/10/09 Wahlstrom, OneWorld, Rights Groups Condemn US Role in Gaza Conflict

1/10/09 ENS, Waste Spills From a Second TVA Coal-Fired Power Plant

1/10/09 Cornwall, Reuters, Few Speak Out for Palestinians in US Congress

1/10/09 Kaplan, LAT, New old-fashioned drug makers: goats

1/10/09 IntelDaily, Riots rock Oakland after police slay youth

1/10/09 IRIN, "We see women and children carrying white flags looking for food" - Israeli soldier

1/10/09 Ross, IntelDaily, War crimes report says White House Rejected All Advice From Government Agencies That Torture Was Illegal

1/10/09 AP, Gap in what we say vs. what we do about racism

1/10/09 Al Jazeera, US congress votes to back Israel

1/10/09 Al Jazeera, Death toll in Gaza exceeds 800

1/10/09 Courson, CNN, Powell endorses Obama service initiative

1/10/09 Cho & Montgomery, WP, Bush Prepares Request for Rest Of Bailout Funds

1/10/09 CNN, Peanut butter recalled amid salmonella outbreak

1/10/09 Henderson & Lister, Times Online, Genetic tests for all - the new approach to preventive medicine

1/10/09 Kaiser, Reuters, Economists see longest recession since World War Two

1/10/09 Ehrlinger, NYT, A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery

1/10/09 Sanger, NYT, U.S. Rejected Aid for Israeli Raid on Iranian Nuclear Site

1/10/09 McClelland, MoJo, The Order of Myths

1/10/09 Barry, NYT, A Crossroad for Russia and America

1/10/09 Rodgers, BBC, Rise of Russia's political fortune

1/10/09 AP, Israel drops leaflets over Gaza warning of 'escalation' in violence

1/10/09 Hinsliff, Guardian, Labour's new blog courts best of the left on the web

1/10/09 BBC, Accord signed in Russian gas row

1/10/09 CNN, Zimbabwe introduces new $50 billion note

1/10/09 BBC, NY eatery frees ancient lobster

1/10/09 Martin, BBC, The unmeasurable price of war

1/10/09 BBC, China officials 'lost millions'

1/10/09 BBC, Ukraine 'making gas crisis worse'

January 9, 2009

1/09/09 Lee, ProPublica, Bush Admin Still Withholding Key 'War on Terror' Memos

1/09/09 Paton, Telegraph, Face scanners to be installed in schools

1/09/09 Reuters, US Senate Supports Israel's Gaza Incursion

1/09/09 Ambrogi, Reuters, U.S. seeks ship to move arms to Israel

1/09/09 Evan & Frenkel, Times Online, Gaza Victims' Burns Increase Concern Over Phosphorus

1/09/09 Taxin, AP, Immigrant Advocates Decry New Rules on Courts, DNA

1/09/09 Gray, Telegraph, Destructive Alien Species Being Transported Around the World by Sea

1/09/09 Deen, IPS, US Weaponry Facilitates Killings in Gaza

1/09/09 Graff & Rasheed, Reuters, US Says Iraqis May Still Be Held Without Charge

1/09/09 Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, Merrill Lynch says rich turning to gold bars for safety

1/09/09 Merle & Montgomery, WP, Citigroup Reaches Deal With Lawmakers on Home Loans

1/09/09 Hurdle, Reuters, US Army Recruiting at the Mall With Video Games

1/09/09 Yochelson, NYT, Emily's Bridge - Emily Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge

1/09/09 Hall, McClatchy, New jobs numbers suggest economy is in free fall

1/09/09 Hamda & Nissenbaum, McClatchy, U.N. wants to know if war crimes were committed in Gaza

1/09/09 Sirota, ITT, Mind the Gap

1/09/09 CNN, Gaza video genuine, journalists say

1/09/09 Bice, CNN, Government fights slave labor in Brazil

1/09/09 Henshaw, BBC, Uneasy peace in Sudan ghost town

1/09/09 BBC, US job losses hit record in 2008

1/09/09 Tewary, BBC, India flood victims still suffering

1/09/09 BBC, Words that sum up Bush's America

January 8, 2009

1/08/09 Smith, Rocky Mountain News, Shell Stakes Claim on Yampa River

1/08/09 Shachtman, Wired, Pentagon Wants Loving Chat-Bot to Calm Troops' Kids

1/08/09 McNeil, NYT, Flu Found Resistant to Main Antiviral Drug

1/08/09 Frykberg, IPS, MIDEAST: Children Found Starving

1/08/09 LAT, Continuing jobless claims rise more than expected

1/08/09 Cronin, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Africa May Face 'Centuries' of Poverty

1/08/09 Clark, Guardian, The masters of the universe who cannot live with failure

1/08/09 Sterling, CNN, Navy creates force devoted to fighting piracy

1/08/09 BBC, UN suspends Gaza aid operations

1/08/09 Reich, Truthout, The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers

1/08/09 Miller, Fox, NYPD Eyes Disrupting Cell Phones in Event of Terrorist Attack

1/08/09 Barzak & Laub, AP, UN: 257 Palestinian children killed in Gaza

1/08/09 Legal Times, Mukasey: Aliens Have No Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel

1/08/09 Alonzo-Zaldivar, AP, FDA Scientists Complain to Obama of "Corruption"

1/08/09 Al Jazeera, Israel fires on UN Gaza convoy

1/08/09 Al Jazeera, 'Indian Enron' rocks business world

1/08/09 Monaghan, Daily Telegraph, Bank of England cuts interest rates to lowest in more than 300 years

1/08/09 Cowell, NYT, Gaza Children Found With Mothers' Corpses

1/08/09 Cevallos, IPS, MEXICO: Films on Indigenous People - But Who Will See Them?

1/08/09 Steele, ITT, Jim Crow in the North

1/08/09 Boseley, Guardian, If pandemic strikes, avoid doctor and get a 'flu buddy'

1/08/09 CNN, Israel launches strikes on 60 Gaza targets

1/08/09 CNN, Lebanese PM condemns rocket attack on Israel

January 7, 2009

2/01/09 Gerttleman, MoJo, Conspiracy Watch: The Wisest Guys in the Room

1/07/09 Bridges, McClatchy, Venezuela reinstates free home heating oil for poor in U.S

1/07/09 Nicholas, LAT, Obama names Nancy Killefer 'chief performance officer'

1/07/09 Niva, FPIF, War of Choice: How Israel Manufactured the Gaza Escalation

1/07/08 Mount, CNN, Army sorry for 'John Doe' letters to relatives of war dead

1/07/09 Austen, NYT, The Costly Compromises of Oil From Sand

1/07/09 Hilzenrath, WP, Stock Losses Leave Pensions Underfunded by $400 Billion

1/07/09 Times Online, Gaza truce hopes fade as Israel approves intensified attacks

1/07/09 Reuters, Salmonella outbreak sickens 388 across U.S.: CDC

1/07/09 el-Khodary, NYT, Grief and Rage at Stricken Gaza School

1/07/09 BBC, Black holes 'preceded galaxies'

1/07/09 Bennard, BBC, Afghan foetus 'aborted by razor'

1/07/09 Guardian, The Rural Media Company's documentary, Show & Tell, exposes the serious problem of rural poverty.

1/07/09 Guardian, A prenatal test for autism would deprive the world of future geniuses

1/07/09 Pinker, NYT, My Genome, My Self

1/07/09 Grogg, IPS, CUBA: Racism - "Taboo, Complicated and Thorny" Issue

1/07/09 Petski, AP, Increase of sick brown pelicans baffles experts

1/07/09 Laub, AP, Ground war in Gaza drives up civilian casualties

1/07/09 Al Jazeera, Sarkozy: Israel accepts Gaza truce

1/07/09 AL Jazeera, DR Congo alert over 'Ebola virus'

12/23/08 Hentoff, Village Voice, Obama's Black Widow

1/07/09 Zhdannikov & Polityuk, Reuters, Russian gas flow halted through Ukraine to Europe

1/07/09 Frierson, Reuters, Private job losses mount in December

1/07/09 Reuters, Budget deficit seen hitting $1.2 trillion

1/07/09 Nation, Your Guide to the Nation

1/07/09 BBC, Rise and fall of Bush's popularity

1/07/09 Kravets, Wired, Terror, Anthrax, Explosives and More in Free, Downloadable 'Counterterrorism Calendar'

1/07/09 Wood, BBC, Did Bush cause the financial crisis?

1/07/09 BBC, The 'misunderestimated' president?

January 6, 2009

1/06/09 Reuters, Toyota Will Halt Output for 11 Days

1/06/09 Meyer & Savage, LAT, Obama picks Clinton officials for four Justice Department posts

1/06/09 Weir, CSM, Europe begins to feel gas pipeline pinch

1/06/09 BBC, Casualties rise in Gaza offensive

1/06/09 Black, BBC, US vows 'huge' marine protection

1/06/09 Hopkins, ADN, Residents fear effects of Kotzebue-area mine on caribou

1/06/09 Klas et al, Miami Herald, Budget crisis getting worse, Florida lawmakers are told

1/06/09 Shachtman, Wired, Air Force Releases 'Counter-Blog' Marching Orders

Mini-turbines to harness energy from pressure in UK's gas pipelines

Wealth of U.S. millionaires down 30 percent: survey

1/06/09 Phillips, Guardian, Rio Slum Barrier Plans Spark Outcry

1/06/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Outsourcing Health Care in Texas

1/06/09 Nankin, ProPublica, Midnight Regulations: Fugitive Emissions, Gray Wolves and More!

1/06/09 Shalal-Esa, Reuters, Gates projects Pentagon needs $70 billion more for wars

1/06/09 Liecester, AP, Gaza conflict spreads to Europe with Jews attacked

1/06/09 Giago, McClatchy, Commentary: Indian country looks to Daschle for help

1/06/09 Dunham, Reuters, More Americans getting multiple chronic illnesses

1/06/09 Schoof, McClatchy, Coal ash spill reveals risks, lapses in waste regulation

1/06/09 Mukherjee, Reuters, India PM says Pakistan "agencies" linked to attack

1/06/09 BBC, Strike on Gaza school 'kills 40'

1/06/09 Belluck, NYT, Food Dance Gets New Life When Bees Get Cocaine

1/06/09 Galbraith, NYT, Regulators Push Energy Efficiency for TVs

1/05/09 Sanders, Star-Telegram, Commentary: A real race discussion is necessary

1/06/09 Bengali, McClatchy, Airstrike kills 3 at Gaza school U.N. using as refugee center

1/06/09 McGreal et al, Guardian, Gaza civilian death toll rises dramatically

1/06/09 CNN, U.N. protests school hit as Israel attacks intensify

1/06/09 Goldman, CNN, The $8 trillion bailout

1/06/09 BBC, Gaza clashes spark 'major crisis'

January 5, 2009

1/06/09 BBC, Singh accuses Pakistan on Mumbai

1/05/09 Moynihan, NYT, Activist Unmasks Himself as Federal Informant in G.O.P. Convention Case

1/05/09 Izikovich, Ha'aretz, Despite Ruling, Israel Prevents Foreign Journalists From Entering Gaza

1/05/09 Kravetz, Wired, Judge: 'Sufficient Facts' Exist That U.S. Spied on Islamic Charity Lawyers

1/05/09 Heilprin, AP, UN contradicts Israel over depth of crisis in Gaza

1/05/09 Perlez et al, NYT, Ex-Detainee of U.S. Describes a 6-Year Ordeal

1/05/09 Abu Hamda & Nissenbaum, McClatchy, Crisis takes toll on Gaza's seasoned doctors, medics

1/05/09 Bridges, McClatchy, Friend of America's poor? Chavez shuts off free oil

1/05/09 Grey, IntelDaily, US blocks cease-fire, gives Israel carte blanche to continue killing in Gaza

1/05/09 Whipple, Falls Church, The Peak Oil Crisis: Civil Unrest

1/05/09 Press TV, Ron Paul: Israel had US OK for war on Gaza

1/05/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: Open-Pit Mine Continues to Swallow City

1/05/09 Rizvi, IPS, MIDEAST: U.N. Diplomats Frustrated at Gaza Impasse

1/05/09 Moraff, ITT, Bush's Final Purge

1/05/09 CNN, New American Embassy opens in Baghdad

1/05/08 BBC, Obama 'has selected spying chief'

1/05/09 Allix, Le Monde, A Floating Island to Welcome Climate Refugees

1/05/08 Trotta, Reuters, French Madoff investor found dead in NY office

January 4, 2009

1/04/09 Gibbs, Women's ENews, After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal

1/04/09 Clarkson, Religion Dispatched, New Book Reveals How Faith Is Like a Covert Operation for the Bush Family

1/04/09 Barzak & Hubbard, AP, Gaza civilians left exposed in Israeli invasion

1/04/09 Al Jazeera, Deaths as Israel hits Gaza mosque

1/04/09 Al Jazeera, Civilians die in Gaza fighting

1/04/09 Al Jazeera, World leaders condemn Israel

1/04/09 Laris, WP, O Brave New World That Has Such Avatars in It!

1/04/09 Shiri, WP, College Degree No Shield As More Jobs Are Slashed

1/04/09 Franchetti, TimesOnline, Russian gas cuts start to hit Europe

1/04/09 Hider & Keshawi, Times Online, Israel splits Gaza in three as soldiers battle Hamas

1/04/09 Nissenbaum & Bengali, McClatchy, Israeli troops cut Gaza in two in 'real war' to crush Hamas

1/04/09 Marosi, LAT, U.S. smooths away an illegal border crossing wrinkle

1/04/09 Stewart, Guardian, Credit squeeze will hit poor nations

1/04/09 Tisdal, Guardian, Barack Obama is losing a battle he doesn't know he's in

1/04/09 BBC, Israeli troops clash with Hamas

1/04/09 BBC, Israeli troops enter Gaza Strip

January 3, 2009

1/03/09 Lewis & Einhorn, NYT, The End of the Financial World as We Know It

1/03/09 Vogt, AP, Lead for car batteries poisons an African town

1/03/09 Al Jazeera, Worldwide protests denounce Israel

1/03/09 al-Ansary, Reuters, U.S.-installed Iraqi ex-PM says Bush "utter failure"

1/03/09 Shane, NYT, Portrait Emerges of Anthrax Suspect's Troubled Life

1/03/09 BBC, The curse of Nigerian oil

1/02/09 Chang, McClatchy, Economic woes expected to worsen early this year

1/03/09 Phillips, Guardian, Brazilian taskforce frees more than 4,500 slaves after record number of raids on remote farms

1/03/09 Schweimler, BBC, Che's spirit burns on in Latin America

1/03/09 Reynolds, BBC, Propaganda war: trusting what we see?

January 2, 2009

1/02/09 Hider, Times Online, Gaza rockets put Israel's nuclear plant in battle zone

1/02/09 Rice, Guardian, Three million customers and still counting: the bank getting rich by helping the poor

1/02/09 Steele, Guardian, Iraq plans to close Iranian dissidents' border camp

1/02/09 BBC, 'Bug' could combat dengue fever

1/02/09 Milnick, CSM, How Hamas is altering Israeli politics

1/02/09 Adams, CSM, China favors jobs at home over freer trade

1/02/09 Harlow, CSM, Adoptive parents visit Guatemala to give back

1/02/09 Hines, TimesOnline, Protests against Gaza attack sweep across the world

1/02/09 Al Jazeera, Data points to further Asian woes

1/02/09 Pickard, Truthout, The Invisible Injuries of the Invisible Ranks

1/02/09 Foley & McDonald, NYT, Nations Wary of Taking in Detainees

1/02/09 Pakistan, NYT, Pakistan Reopens Supply Route

1/02/09 Wirth, IntelDaily, Top Story of the Year: Global Oil Production Peaked in 2008

1/02/09 Weber, IntelDaily, Energy in the real world

1/02/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, The Secret and (Very) Profitable World of Intelligence and Narcotrafficking

1/02/09 Abunimah, Guardian, Inheriting Bush's blinkers

1/02/09 Ahlers, CNN, 'Safest' seat remarks get Muslim family kicked off plane

1/02/09 CNN, Israel clamps down on West Bank, Jerusalem mosques

1/02/09 Walton, CNN, Countries in tug-of-war over Arctic resources

1/02/09 Selna, SF Chron, Power Plant Has No Plans to Stop Killing Fish

1/02/09 Jansen, Irish Times, Attacks Condemned as Supplies Dwindle and Deaths Rise

1/02/09 Heller & Barzak, AP, Israel Lets Palestinians Flee; UN Warns of Crisis

1/02/09 Frierson, Reuters, Factories mired in worst slump in 28 years

1/02/09 Stempel. Reuters, GM, GMAC loosen finance pact after lender bailout

1/02/09 Wiley, BBC, Vatican divorces from Italian law

1/02/09 BBC, Ukraine accused of stealing gas

1/02/09 Broder, NYT, In Obama's Team, 2 Camps on Climate

1/02/09 Henderson, Charlotte Observer, Coal ash scrutiny returns

1/02/09 Berrigan, ITT, We Arm the World

1/02/09 Kavanaugh, AP, Tennessee sludge contains elevated levels of arsenic

January 1, 2009

1/01/09 Chopra, Truthout, Nine Steps to Peace for Obama in the New Year

1/01/09 Filkin, NYT, For Afghans, a Price for Everything, and Anything for a Price

1/01/09 Mason, OpenLeft, A simple primer for Americans on the Palestinians

1/01/09 Stack, LAT, New Russian law ends jury trials for 'crimes against state'

1/01/09 Randerson, Guardian, Slowdown of coral growth extremely worrying, say scientists

1/01/09 Kavilanz, CNN, Thousands of stores to disappear in '09

1/01/09 Rahkoen, ICH, The Truth About Those Hamas Rockets

1/01/09 Randerson, Guardian, Climate change policies failing, Nasa scientist warns Obama

1/01/09 Max, AP, Israel targets Gaza mosques used by Hamas

1/01/09 Merle, WP, Wall Street's Final '08 Toll: $6.9 Trillion Wiped Out

1/01/09 Wilber, WP, New Sentencing Guidelines For Crack, New Challenges

1/01/09 McAlister, Guardian, Green revolution stalls on cheap oil

1/01/09 Jackson, BBC, China finds major dinosaur site

1/01/09 BBC, Russia shuts off gas to Ukraine

1/01/09 BBC, Anti-apartheid icon Suzman dies

1/01/09 Alvarez & Frosch, NYT, A Focus on Violence by Returning G.I.'s