Uncommon Thought News: February 2009 Uncommon Thought News Monthly Archives

2/28/09 Denvir, ITT, Resource Wars in Ecuador

2/28/09 Glennie, Guardian, It starts with a council estate

2/28/09 Pifer-Bixler, CNN, No job, no insurance -- Now what?

2/28/09 BBC, US may boycott racism conference

2/28/09 BBC, California in drought emergency

2/28/09 BBC, Malaysian plan to oust foreign workers

2/28/09 Alieva, Asia Times, Tajik cotton farms picked clean

2/27/09 Barrett, AP, Court Rejects Obama Bid to Stop Wiretapping Suit

2/27/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Clean Natural Gas? Not in My Backyard

2/27/09 Foster, AP, Guard to Pull Out of New Orleans After 3 1/2 Years

2/27/09 Tavares, LA Sun, Adapting to Water Woes

2/27/09 Applebaum, WP, Bank Failures Take Toll on Insurance Fund

2/27/09 Sheridan & Harris, WP, D.C. Voting Measure Clears The Senate

2/27/09 Mutikani, Reuters, U.S. economy plummets

2/27/09 Szakacs, Reuters, World faces last chance to avoid fatal warming: EU

2/27/09 Nichols & Moore, Reuters, In hard times, more U.S. women try to sell their eggs

2/27/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Mortgage Bankruptcy Reform Update

2/27/09 IntelDaily, Hedge Funds Pulling Most of Their Money Out of Market at the End of Each Day

2/27/09 BBC, Argentina-US row over CIA comment

2/27/09 Young, CNN, White House set to reverse health care conscience clause

2/27/09 BBC, Mexico rejects US drugs warning

2/27/09 BBC, US increases stake in Citigroup

2/27/09 BBC, US detainee 'on terror charges'

2/27/09 Dymond, BBC, Hungarians feel force of economic storm

2/26/08 BBC, Global marketplaces feel the downturn

2/26/09 Nasaw, Guardian, Obama's budget projects estimated $1.75tn deficit

2/26/09 Read, AP, Source: Citi-gov't aid deal may come this week

2/26/09 Al Jazeera, UK admits to Iraq rendition case

2/26/09 McGee, Star-Telegram, Bill offers leeway on deportations

2/26/09 MoJo, Factcheck, Mate

2/26/09 AP, Official: Obama budget sees $1.75 trillion deficit

2/26/09 LAT, 667K new jobless claims; continuing claims top 5M

2/26/09 Osava, IPS, Amazon Teetering on the Edge

2/26/09 Frykberg, IPS, Trapped Between the Wall and the Green Line

2/26/09 Pearce, Guardian, Greenwash: Why 'clean coal' is the ultimate climate change oxymoron

2/26/09 Moscrip, CNN, Jobless claims spike to 26-year high

2/26/09 Prusher, CSM, Why 88 Arab homes received eviction notices

2/26/09 Vembu, DNA, 'Next oil shock will be far worse than $147 a barrel'

2/26/09 AFP, Pentagon moves to impose secrecy on budget talks

2/25/09 Reuters, AIG may abandon asset sales plan: report

2/25/09 Flood & Irvine, Guardian, Outstanding 'complexity' wins Naomi Klein 50,000(pnd) inaugural Warwick prize

2/25/09 Montlake, CSM, Sri Lankan refugees face open-ended detention in camps

2/25/09 Amos, BBC, 'Ghost peaks' emerge from the ice

2/25/09 WorldFocus, Immigrants in South Africa deal with hostility, xenophobia

2/25/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, David Sirota For MSNBC!

2/25/09 Hall, McClatchy, Now, the details: Treasury to give banks unlimited refills

2/25/09 Levey, LAT, Medicare cuts, tax hike on wealthy to pay for healthcare plan

2/25/09 Stern, ProPublica, Corruption Touched CIA's Covert Operations

2/25/09 Cutter, PSL, European toxic waste dumped in Africa

2/25/09 Engeler, AP, Study: Antarctic glaciers slipping swiftly seaward

2/25/09 Merle, WP, U.S. Stocks Fall in Early Trading

2/25/09 Nishikawa, Reuters, WTO urges G20 to uphold pledge to fight protectionism

2/25/09 Watkins, Oil&Gas Journal, Bolivian president accuses CIA of corrupting state oil firm

2/25/09 Avery & Volmer, FDA ignored debris in syringes

2/25/09 Russell, Winnipeg Free Press, Oil's not well in Canada

2/25/09 Oil Drum, Are Reserves of the Largest US Coal Field Overstated by 50%?

2/25/09 PSL, Latinos now account for 40 percent of all federal prisoners

2/25/09 Klare, IntelDaily, A Planet at the Brink: Will Economic Brushfires Prove Too Virulent to Contain?

2/25/09 AP, Border guards launch mutiny in Bangladesh capital

2/25/09 Vieira, IPS, COLOMBIA: Rebels Kill Awá Indians as Army Informants

2/25/09 Telegraph, Global financial crisis 'could put end to civil war crimes tribunal'

2/25/09 Moberg, ITT, SEIU Split Widens

2/25/09 Gardiner, FPIF, It's a Global Economic Crisis

2/25/09 CNN, Banker in Obama speech recognized for his generosity

2/25/09 Greco, FPIF, Too Many Overseas Bases

2/25/09 BBC, Slumdog children to be rehoused

2/25/09 BBC, Long hours link to dementia risk

2/25/09 Smith, BBC, Can you rebrand a bad memory?

2/25/09 Chacon, Progressive, Increase in Latino federal prison population reveals flaws in immigration policy

2/24/09 Baumann, MoJo, Barney Frank to Obama: Cut Military Spending

2/24/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Rove Defies Congressional Subpoena Again; Contempt Unlikely

2/24/05 McClatchy, Full text of Obama's speech 2/24/09 to full Congress

2/24/09 Schoof, McClatchy, Expert; Carbon dioxide emissions could last millenniums

2/24/09 Burkeman, Guardian, George Bush plans world tour

2/24/09 CNN, Cost overruns have military facing 'train wreck,' McCain says

2/24/09 BBC, Latvian debt is given junk status

2/24/09 BBC, Straw vetoes Iraq minutes release

2/24/09 Fouche, Guardian, UK supermarkets protest against Iceland's whaling quota increase

2/24/09 Renner, Truthout, Financiers Used "Hotline" to SEC Examiners

2/24/09 Lawder & Rucker, Reuters, Treasury battles financial crisis short-handed

2/24/09 Weaver, ProPublica, IG of Abramoff Fame to Oversee Stimulus Spending

2/24/09 Kiel, ProPublica, The Delphic Temple at Treasury: Can You Read the Signs?

2/24/09 Loy, ADN, State slams BP for 2008 explosion

2/24/09 Reuters, Stanford reportedly had links to fund run by Bidens

2/24/09 Avery, Charlotte Observer, Tainted syringes killed five people

2/24/09 Madsen, Online Journal, Stanford a cog in the U.S. intelligence dirty money laundering machine

2/24/09 Facing South, Is the Army covering up KBR's poisoning of U.S. soldiers?

2/24/09 BBC, US recession 'may last into 2010'

2/24/09 AFP, Climate Change Risk Underestimated: Study

2/24/09 Alonso-Zalvidar, AP, Health care costs to top $8,000 per person

2/24/09 Schmid, AP, Beauty and the brain, women use more than men

2/24/09 Vargas, WP, Gay Bloggers' Voices Rise in Chorus of Growing Political Influence

2/24/09 CNN, Rupert Murdoch apologizes for chimp cartoon

2/24/09 Murphy, LAT, 'Secret' was deadly for Montana town saturated in asbestos, prosecutors say

2/24/09 Deen & Young-Gon, IPS, Sanitation Crisis Runs Deep in Africa, Asia

2/24/09 Huffington, Huffington Post, The Credit Card Debt Crisis: The Next Economic Domino

2/24/09 CNN, Indian woman accused of selling baby for $130

2/24/09 Ferrette, BBC, Zimbabwe elite seeks to evade sanctions

2/23/09 Weaver, ProPublica, Obama Administration on Detention Policy: What He Said

2/23/09 WorldFocus, U.S. secretly trains Pakistani soldiers to fight insurgents

2/23/09 WorldFocus, Class divisions widen in racially free South Africa

2/23/09 Schmid, AP, Global warming danger threat increased

2/23/09, Nessman, AP, Sri Lankans who escaped war zone now fenced in

2/23/09 Tanner, AP, Calcium tied to lower cancer risk in older people

2/23/09 Naiman, Truthout, Guadeloupe Strikes: A Warning to Obama?

2/23/09 Reuters, Financial job losses accelerating: U.N. agency

2/23/09 NYT, A.I.G. to Seek More Government Aid

2/23/09 Turse, MoJo, Closing Down Main Street

2/23/09 Vieira, IPS, COLOMBIA: A Hundred-Year War on Drugs

2/23/09 Rodriguez, CNN, In tough economy, working 7 days becomes norm for some

2/23/09 BBC, Child prostitutes rescued in US

2/23/09 Piette, BBC, Drought sucks life from Argentina's farm

2/23/09 Katz & Coto, AP, Unrest in Caribbean has roots in slavery past

2/23/09 Hanley, AP, Ministers get close look at Antarctic ice threat

2/23/09 Vedantam, WP, Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe

2/23/09 Applebaum, WP, Government Moves to Shore Up Banking System

2/23/09 McCarthy, Guardian, Suspend Military Aid to Israel, Amnesty Urges Obama After Detailing US Weapons Used in Gaza

2/23/09 Reuters, UAW and Ford reach deal over retiree health care

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/23/network-coal-burning-protest-washington">Why I'll get arrested to stop the burning of coal

2/23/09 Stone, IntelDaily, FBI Arrests Four Animal Rights Activists, Claims "Terrorism"

2/23/09 Becker, IntelDaily, Food industry 'self-regulation' behind salmonella epidemic

2/23/09 Ross, IntelDaily, A Dozen Books For Americans That Tell It Like It Is

2/23/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Surging Towards Disaster in the "Afpak Theatre"

2/23/09 Lamb, Guardian, Fairtrade Week: smallholders farm a route out of poverty

2/23/09 EDIE, New advice on nuclear safety published

2/23/09 CNN, China: 70 ill from tainted pig organs

2/23/09 Ford, CSM, China's buying spree in global fire sale

2/23/09 Salmon, Wired, Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street

2/23/09 CNN, U.S. to pay 'forgotten' Filipino World War II veterans

2/23/09 BBC, Child abuse 'alters stress gene'

2/23/09 BBC, Deadly Australian bushfires flare

2/22/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Let's Stop Monkeying Around With Colorblind Racism

2/22/09 Jacobs, NYT, China Fears Tremors as Jobs Vanish From Coast

2/22/09 Falloon, Reuters, Europe says all markets must be regulated

2/22/09 Therolf, LAT, 20% in Los Angeles County receive public aid

2/22/09 AP, Correa: US diplomat directed CIA in Ecuador

2/22/09 Travis, Guardian, Foreign workers could be barred from entering UK

2/22/09 Hrizi, PSL, Stimulus package aimed at salvaging capitalism

2/22/09 Lawder, Reuters, U.S. bank stress tests to show capital needs: source

2/22/09 Reuters, EU leaders back oversight, tax haven sanctions

2/22/09 Townsend, BBC, UK agents 'colluded with torture in Pakistan'

2/22/09 BBC, Deadly explosion in China coalmine

2/22/09 Morris, BBC, India's home-grown terror dilemma

2/22/09 BBC, Warning over child ear infections

2/22/09 BBC, Bush declines hardware store job

2/21/09 de Costa & Lagorio, Reuters, Soros Sees No Bottom for World Financial "Collapse"

2/21/09 Shin, WP, Support Urged for Eastern Europe

2/21/09 Barsanti, ITT, War Without Warriors

2/21/09 Jha, Guardian, Nasa to launch Earth's first carbon dioxide tracking satellite

2/21/09 BBC, Huge protest over Irish economy

2/21/09 Etzler & FlorCruz, CNN, Road to riches ends for 20 million Chinese poor

2/21/09 CNN, Army medic gets life in killing of 4 Iraqis

2/21/09 Ford, CSM, China, taking advantage of global recession, goes on a buying spree

2/21/09 Muir, BBC, New jail opens at Abu Ghraib site

2/21/09 BBC, Ridge: We were wrong to torture

2/21/09 BBC, 'No US rights' for Bagram inmates

2/21/09 Mazzetti & Sanger, NYT, Obama Widens Missile Strikes Inside Pakistan

2/21/09 Hanley, AP, Mass migrations and war: Dire climate scenario

2/21/09 Ferguson & Johnson, Nation, Nationalize Failing Banks? GOP and Single-Payer 2.0

2/21/09 Heller, OpenLeft, Forcing Burger King to Backtrack on Employee Free Choice

2/21/09 Frosch, NYT, In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock

2/21/09 Morgenson, NYT, After Losses, a Move to Reclaim Executives' Pay

2/21/09 Burnett, IPS, Fighting for the Right to Fish

2/21/09 Lobe, Asia Times, Storm brews between US and Israel

2/20/09 MSNBC, Federal Water May Be Cut off From Calif. Farms

2/20/09 Roosevelt, LAT, Bubbles of warming, beneath the ice

2/20/09 Redman, FPIF, Postcard From...Belém

2/20/09 Askari & Krichene, Asia Times, G-7 points to more instability

2/20/09 Myslewski, THe Register, Storage breakthrough could bust density record

2/20/09 Al Jazeera, US expands prison in Afghanistan

2/20/09 Reuters, Scientists Make Advances On 'Nano' Electronics

2/20/09 Sirota, Open Left, Market Populism vs. Grassroots Populism - Which Side Are You On?

2/20/09 Barboza, NYT, With Cash to Spend, China Starts Investing Globally

2/20/09 Leonard, AP, Jobless hit with bank fees on benefits

2/20/09 GW Blog, The Next Big Thing: Barter

2/20/09 White, WSWS, Nearly five million on jobless benefits in US

2/20/09 Kaunda, IPS, ZAMBIA: Corruption in Water Sector Makes Clean Water A Pipedream

2/20/09 Cronin, IPS, MIDEAST: 'EU Paying for Gaza Blockade'

2/20/09 Guardian, Warning! Eating books could seriously damage your health

2/20/09 Talvi, ITT, Our Town vs. Exxon

2/20/09 Griffin & Trunham, CNN, Navigation alert went out to pilots weeks before Buffalo crash

2/20/09 Steff, Texas Observer, Access Denied

2/20/09 CNN, Bank of America's CEO is subpoenaed

2/20/09 BBC, Zimbabwe recovery costs 'massive'

2/20/09 Wyatt, BBC, Increasing Afghan challenges for Nato

2/20/09 BBC, US finds new Afghan supply route

2/20/09 BBC, Civilian 'slaughter' in Sri Lanka

2/20/09 Kindall, BBC, Iran in 'backroom offers' to West

2/20/09 BBC, Pakistan's evolving sectarian schism

2/20/09 BBC, Latvian PM quits as crisis bites

February 19, 2009

2/19/09 Adam, Guardian, Bigger Trees Helping Fight Against Climate Change

2/19/09 gRAY, tELEGRAPH, Trees Absorb a Fifth of Carbon Emissions Pumped out by Humans

2/19/09 Lombardi, CFPI, Coal Ash: The Hidden Story

2/19/09 Felsenthal & Bull, Reuters, Bernanke cuts growth view, considers inflation target

2/19/09 Weaver & Brannigan, Miami Herald, Swiss bank USB to pay U.S. in tax havens scheme

2/19/09 Ordonez, Charlotte Observer, Stimulus dollars may end up helping illegal workers

2/19/09 Jamail, IPS, IRAQ: Still Homeless in Baghdad

2/19/09 Leahy, IPS, HEALTH: Warmer Climate Gives Malaria New Hunting Grounds

2/19/09 Allen, ITT, All-Consuming Poverty

2/19/09 Frieden, CNN, Holder: U.S. a 'nation of cowards' on race discussions

2/19/09 Candiotti, CNN, Man who froze had history of late utility payments

2/19/09 CNN, Who's eligible for mortgage assistance?

2/19/09 BBC, 'Racist' US cartoon causes stir

2/19/09 Mannak, IPS, Climate Change Threatens Livelihoods Along Africa's Coast

2/19/09 Sutter, CNN, Volunteers, scientists guard endangered whales

2/19/09 Landeau, CNN, Men see bikini-clad women as objects, psychologists say

2/19/09 BBC, China lets it snow to end drought

February 18, 2009

2/18/09 Baldauf, CSM, Why did Sudan make a deal with Darfur rebels?

2/18/09 Milmo, Independent, Dumped in Africa: Britain's Toxic Waste

2/18/09 Schoof, McClatchy, Wetlands Decline Along East, Gulf Coasts, Report Shows

2/18/09 Crutsinger, AP, Home construction drops far more than expected

2/18/09 Al Jazeera, GM and Chrysler to shed 50,000 jobs

2/18/09 AL Jazeera, Violent protests hit French island

2/18/09 AL Jazeera, US production 'worse than expected'

2/18/09 Tse, WP, Swift, Steep Downturn Crosses Globe

2/18/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Geithner: I Make A Bad Treasury Secretary

2/18/09 Bryson, ADN, Beaufort Sea rapidly washes away shoreline

2/18/09 Stolberg, NYT, Nafta Looming Over Obama's Canada Trip

2/18/09 Healy, NYT, Obama Plans $75 Billion Outlay to Fight Foreclosures

2/18/09 Conn, McClatchy, Guess what? The New Deal worked!

2/18/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Watchdog: Bush FDA decision put patients in danger

2/18/09 Greco, FPIF, The U.S. and Afghan Tragedy

2/18/09 Ahlers, CNN, New nuclear plants to protect against jet strikes

2/18/09 Guha & Lucer, Financial Times, Greenspan backs nationalisation (or here)

2/18/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Obama Working to Strike a Deal Over Bush Advisers' Testimony

2/18/09 Walberg, IntelDaily, Henry Kissinger's Choice To The World: New World Order or 'chaos'

2/18/09 Machtinger, ITT, You Say You Want a Revolution

2/18/09 Fouche, Guardian, Melt-pools 'accelerating Arctic ice loss'

2/18/09 BBC, Obama's housing plan to help 9m

2/18/09 BBC, Germany drafts bank takeover law

2/18/09 BBC, Zimbabwe pays wages in US dollar

February 17, 2009

2/17/09 The Economist, Doubling Up. Why the IMF is scrambling to raise extra capital.

2/17/09 Weir, CSM, Moscow again eyes Afghanistan 20 years after retreat

2/17/09 Llana, CSM, Hugo Chavez for life?

2/17/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Pakistan accepts Islamic law in Swat Valley

2/17/09 Sonner, AP, Call for End to USDA's Wildlife Killing Agency

2/17/09 Heller, OpenLeft, Burger King Bailout Shocker

2/17/09 Leonnig, WP, Father Sues D.C. Water Utility Over Lead Warnings

2/17/09 Santos, NYT, Resisting Home Evictions Becomes a Group Effort

2/17/09 Hamilton, LAT, Stocks plunge on concerns over banking system

2/17/09 CNN, Bristol Palin: Abstinence for all teens 'not realistic'

2/17/09 Goodman, Truthdig, Jailing Kids for Cash

2/17/09 Malvaeux, Progressive, Time to fix the safety net

2/17/09 Wassener, NYT, Stocks Are Flat in U.S. and Lower in Europe

2/17/09 Smith, Times Online, Huge oil slick from Russian ship heads for British coastline

2/17/09 Weiser, SacBee, California river conditions could starve killer whales

2/17/09 Dodge, Olympian, Challenge aims to reduce emissions

2/17/09 Zavis, LAT, Wealthy cities discovering they're not recession-proof

2/17/09 Girion, LAT, Insurers exceed state-issued rates for last-resort health coverage

2/17/09 AP, Largest banks that received aid cut lending

2/17/09 Mandel, Business Week, Stock Decline Hits Depression Levels

2/17/09 Goldsmith, News&Observer, Recession tougher on older people

2/17/09 AP, Asian stock markets slump amid financial fears

2/17/09 Al Jazeera, Jobless Chinese stranded in Romania

2/17/09 Press TV, US to remove soldiers from Okinawa

2/17/09 Stanton, IntelDaily, The Mystical Realm of Human Terrain and COIN: Who is in Charge?

2/17/09 BBC, Australia fire deaths rise to 200

2/17/09 BBC, Alarm over Afghan civilian deaths

February 16, 2009

2/16/09 Chen, ITT, Unequal Education

2/16/09 Basravi, CNN, Finger pointed at U.S. over deadly missile strike

2/16/09 CNN, British, French nuclear submarines collide

2/16/09 CNN, France 'responsible' for Holocaust deaths

2/16/09 BBC, Rome to dismantle illegal camps

2/16/09 Hedges, Truthdig, Bad News From America's Top Spy

2/16/09 Hambling, WIred, Army's Ultimate Paintball Gun is No Toy

2/16/09 McInnis, Reuters, U.S. "war on terror" eroded rights worldwide: experts

2/16/09 Taylor & Talev, McClatchy, Obama seeks delay in deciding on Rove subpoena

2/16/09 Susman, LAT, Iraq's young jobless threaten stability, report says

2/16/09 Sahagun, LAT, Culture of seclusion among homeless hampers homicide investigation

2/16/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, DOJ Probe on Yoo Torture Memos 'Damning,' Senators Demand Answers

February 15, 2009

2/15/09 Gray, NYT, Experts: Nationalization Is Only Way Out

2/15/09 Layton & Miroff, WP, The Rise And Fall of A Peanut Empire

2/15/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Despite trillions for economy, next job might mean less pay

2/15/09 Stoner, ITT, Attack of the Killer Robots

2/15/09 BBC, Pollution link to asthma in womb

2/15/09 BBC, US army 'wants more immigrants'

2/15/09 BBC, Global warming 'underestimated'

2/15/09 BBC, Gaza population 'rising rapidly'

2/15/09 Xinhua, Over 200,000 Nepali girls being trafficked to Indian red light areas

2/15/09 Whitley, ABC, Could 'Liquid Wood' Replace Plastic?

February 14, 2009

2/14/09 Abott, AP, Iraqi Kurds want US help to avoid war with Arabs

2/14/09 Reuters, U.S. officers probed on Iraq rebuilding: report

2/14/09 Schwartz, NYT, Job Losses Pose a Threat to Stability Worldwide

2/14/09 Warner, NYT, Is America Ready to Quit Coal?

2/14/09 Bilefsky, NYT, In Romania, Children Left Behind Suffer the Strains of Migration

2/14/09 Landay, McClatchy, Is the U.S. repeating Soviet mistakes in Afghanistan?

2/14/09 Reuters, Citi, Morgan Stanley May Pay $3 Billion "Retention Awards"

2/14/09 Revkin, NYT, Coal Industry Wins a Round on Mining

2/14/09 Xanthaki, IPS, Human Slavery Thriving in the Shadows

2/14/09 Linklater & Rosie, TimesOnline, Secret plan to deprive independent Scotland of North Sea oil fields

2/14/09 Heller, Reuters, G7 commits to firm crisis response and free trade

2/14/09 BBC, US Congress passes stimulus plan

2/14/09 BBC, 'US strike' kills 27 in Pakistan

2/14/09 BBC, Major reshuffle in Saudi Arabia

2/14/09 Jamail, Asia Times, The new Fallujah up close and ugly

February 13, 2009

2/13/09 The Age, Defense Role in CIA's Secret Jails

2/13/09 Lef & Dobnick, AP, Gay Couples Protest at Marriage Bureaus Across US

2/13/09 Madrigal, Wired, Global Shipping Industry Makes World Flat -- Biologically

2/13/09 Martin, NYT, Peanut Corporation of America to Liquidate

2/13/09 TimesOnline, Penguins in peril as food search turns into marathon

2/13/09 Andrews & Dash, NYT, Stimulus Plan Places New Limits on Wall St. Bonuses

2/13/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, Three major banks suspending foreclosures for several weeks

2/13/09 Sloan, Lexington Herald, Toyota cutting costs with lower pay, buyout programs, more

2/13/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Declassified DoD Documents Suggest Detainees Were Tortured to Death

2/13/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, State Secrets and Deceit: Obama Embraces CIA Torture

2/13/09 Valente, IPS, SOUTH AMERICA: Tenacious Drought Puzzles Climate Experts

2/13/09 Guardian/AP, US security firm mired in Iraq controversy changes its name

2/13/09 Ruder, IntelDaily, Revolt is in the air: Countries across Europe in turmoil

2/13/09 Artens, FPIF, Multilateralism in Munich

2/13/09 Macan-Markar, IPS, CAMBODIA: Justice In Sight for Khmer Rouge Victims

2/13/09 CNN, Plane crashes into suburban Buffalo home; 50 killed

2/13/09 BBC, US judges admit taking kickbacks

2/13/09 Morgan, BBC, Bleak forecast on fishery stocks

2/13/09 Wolf et al, BBC, Peace in the pipeline

February 12, 2009

2/12/09 Chen, BBC, China seeks broader Africa role

2/12/09 Whoriskey, WP, Employers Fighting Unemployment Benefits

2/12/09 Connolly, Guardian, Maoris win battle to control All Blacks' haka ritual

2/12/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, A Readable Summary of the Stimulus / Jobs Bill

2/12/09 WorldFocus, Gypsies are at home in Hungary, but still don't fit in

2/12/09 ANdrews, ProPublica, Quick Picks: Army Under Fire for PTSD Care and Troop Chemical Exposure in Iraq

2/12/09 Randerson, Guardian, David King: Iraq as the First 'Resource War' of the Century

2/12/09 Williams, Boston Globe, Bills Would Limit Use of 'State Secrets'

2/12/09 Zhang, AP, The Chinese are coming, to buy bargain US homes

2/12/09 Hambling, Wired, Special Forces' Gigapixel Flying Spy Sees All

2/12/09 Wall, Wired, Orbiting Carbon Lab to Provide Missing Climate Data

2/12/09 Reuters, Global economy crisis top security threat: U.S.

2/12/09 Dean, NYT, Tracking the Flight of Birds, With Tiny Backpacks

2/12/09 Benson, CNN, In today's intelligence hierarchy, who really runs the show?

2/12/09 Hagey, Tacoma Tribune, Over 800 applicants take test for one job in Tacoma

2/12/09 ANdrews, ProPublica, New Scandal: House of Murtha

2/12/09 Thompson, ProPublica, Justice Department Sat on Youth Suicide Study

2/12/09 ENS, Just Breathing in Katrina-Flooded Homes Poses Health Risks

2/12/09 Stockman, Boston Globe, Anthropologist's Death Highlights Questionable Role of Social Science in War

2/12/09 AP, Court says measles vaccine not to blame for autism

2/12/09 Allen, ITT, Forget Marriage--Civil Unions For All

2/12/09 Lydersen, ITT, In Mexico, Resistance is Utile

2/12/09 Perkins, Guardian, Say water pumps, think livelihoods

2/12/09 Hanna, AP, Kansas House Panel Endorses Bill on Coal Plants

2/12/09 Jha, Guardian, UK government announces green makeover for every home by 2030

2/12/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: From the Afghan archives

2/12/09 BBC, Pakistan admits India attack link

2/12/09 Schmid, AP, Researchers say animals plan for the future

2/12/09 Rincon, BBC, Sat collision highlights growing threat

2/12/09 BBC, US 'lost track of Afghan weapons'

2/12/09 AP, Jail considers making inmates pay for toilet paper

2/12/09 Stengle, WP, TX officials order Peanut Corp. to recall products

2/12/09 Jimenez, TAP, The Real Economics of Immigration Reform

2/12/09 Page, The Register, NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution

2/12/09 Ltivinsky, IPS, POLITICS: Latin American Leaders Say 'No' to U.S. Drug War

2/12/09 Brannigan, Guardian, Chinese living standards poll 'brazenly rigged'

2/12/09 Macalister, Guardian, Britain should prepare for massive loss of landmass, warn engineers

2/12/09 CNN, Dead rodents, excrement in peanut processor lead to recall

2/12/09 CNN, Senate confirms Panetta as CIA director

2/12/09 BBC, 'More tribe killings' in Colombia

February 11, 2009

2/11/09 WorldFocus, Indigenous languages revive and thrive in Mexico

2/11/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Search What the Senate Cuts Mean for Your School District

2/11/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Economic Stimulus: Resolution Confusion

2/11/09 Fogarty, Reuters, Australia Fires a Climate Wake-up Call: Experts

2/11/09 Smith, AP, Heartbreak at home as Aussies return after fires

2/11/09 AP, Clever dog uses snow bank to climb up on roof

2/11/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Nationalize the Banks

2/11/09 Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Judge OK's use of Guantanamo forced-feeding chair

2/11/09 Wolf, Reuters, U.S., Russian satellites collide in space

2/11/09 McKinnley, NYT, Texas Ranchers and Farmers Struggle in Drought

2/11/09 Lasseter, McClatchy, A Ukraine mystery: Who benefited from Russian gas sales?

2/11/09 IntelDaily, Nearly 1 billion starving in world

2/11/09 Spiegel, 'We Cannot Continue to Waste Valuable Natural Resources'

2/12/09 Norton-Taylor & CObain, Guardian, Binyam Mohamed torture evidence 'hidden from Obama'

2/11/09 Hallinan, FPIF, Gaza: Death's Laboratory

2/11/09 Perron, CNN, Why you're likely to marry your parent

2/11/09 CNN, Peanut company officials spurn Congress' questions

2/11/09 BBC, US lawmakers reach stimulus deal

2/11/09 Gelineau, AP, Turtle's shell melts in Australia's fires

2/11/09 Pearlstein, WP, Big Lessons in Finance From a Little Bank You've Never Heard Of

2/11/09 Perry, Times Online, US launches spy operation over North Korea

2/11/09 Goodman, Miami Herald, Fewer women winning jobs in executive suites

2/11/09 Freking, AP, Ranks of uninsured to grow

2/11/09 Wheeler, ITT, GI Skinhead

2/11/09 BBC, US trade deficit at six-year low

2/11/09 Hananele, AP, Senate Panel Approves Labor Nominee Hilda Solis

February 10, 2009

2/10/09 Halperin, CSM, Inuit sled dog controversy brings troubled past to light

2/10/09 Borenstein & Blackledge, AP, US relies on states for food safety inspections

2/10/09 Cappiello, AP, Study: Birds shifting north; global warming cited

2/10/09 Eggen, WP, Bush Faithful Rewarded With Jobs

2/10/09 Guiterrez & Drash, CNN, Bad economy forcing immigrants to reconsider U.S.

2/10/09 WorldFocus, Immigrants stream across Mexico's southern border

2/10/09 LaFleur, ProPublica, WikiLeaks Publishes CRS Reports; Gov't Still Doesn't

2/10/09 WW4 Report, Eco-militant gets 21 years; violent racists half that

2/10/09 Muwakkil, ITT, Justice for Jon Burge's Victims?

2/10/09 Guardian, Gaza's labyrinth lifeline (11 pictures)

2/10/09 Feffer, FPIF, Pacific Freeze: Call to Action

2/10/09 Ravitz, CNN, Muslim in America: a 'voyage of discovery'

2/10/09 CNN, Philippines works to save 200 dolphins

2/10/09 Grabell, ProPublica, The Stimulus Bills: House vs. Senate

2/10/09 Cronin, IPS, RIGHTS: Violations Privatised Away

2/10/09 Dossani, FPIF, Chomsky: Understanding the Crisis -- Markets, the State and Hypocrisy

2/10/09 Barr, CNN. Geithner unveils new bank rescue plan

2/10/09 Smith, CNN, Military recruitment surges as jobs disappear

2/10/09 Isodore, CNN, GM cutting 10,000 jobs

2/10/09 BBC, 'Arctic unicorns' in icy display - amazing video http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7870300.stm

February 9, 2009

2/09/09 Ebrahim,IPS, PAKISTAN: Bracing For More Drone Attacks

2/09/09 Taylor & Norton-Taylor, Guardian. US Using British Atomic Weapons Factory for Its Nuclear Programme

2/09/09 Benjamin & de Yoanna, Salon, "The Death Dealers took my life!" - suicides among troops

2/09/09 Sigger, Wired, Top Army Biowar Lab Suspends Research After Toxin-Tracking Scare (Updated)

2/08/09 Lexington-Herald, Cold, hard lessons Kentucky

2/09/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, "What He's Missing Is Financial People"

2/09/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Another Frightening Recession Graph

2/09/09 NYT, Madoff Won't Contest S.E.C. Civil Claims

2/09/09 EDIE, Irish firm unveils 'most efficient solar panel'

2/09/09 CNN, Commentary: Free trade has sold out the American worker

2/09/09 BBC, Storm fear to shut Paris airports

2/09/09 BBC, Countries face new UK visa rules

2/09/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, KBR to Plead Guilty to Massive Cheney-Era Bribery Scheme

2/09/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, NATO's, Pentagon's New Strategic Battleground: The Arctic

2/09/09 BBC, Latvia's economy shrinks rapidly

2/09/09 Baltmore, Reuters, Fed's Fisher says Fed independence must be ensured

2/09/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, New Bailout Strategy: Corporatist Victory

2/09/09 Cooke, Financial Sense, The End of Wealth Creation

2/09/09 Reid, Global Monitor, Support for Private Medicine Wanes in U.S.

2/09/09 Heinrich, Calgary Herald Mafia millions buoying banks: UN

2/09/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Track the Stimulus (Decoder Ring Included!)

2/09/09 Woodward, AP, Cracking the case of the poison processed peanuts

2/09/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Energy Taxes' Faustian Bargain

2/09/09 GW's Blog, WTO Chief Joins Others in Warning of Crash-Induced Unrest

2/09/09 Whitley & Adam, Bloomberg, IMF Says Advanced Economies Already in Depression

2/09/09 IntelDaily, Venezuela braces for $20 oil

2/09/09 Kearney, IntelDaily, Pentagon warns of US military intervention in Mexico's "war on drugs"

2/09/09 Weber, ITT, Green Jobs for Whom?

2/09/07 Lah, CNN, Nissan to cut 20,000 jobs

2/09/09 Simon, CNN, In rural Alaska villages, families struggle to survive

2/09/09 BBC, Japan corporate bankruptcies soar

2/09/09 BBC, Gaza: Out of the Ruins

February 8, 2009

2/08/09 Solnit, TomDispatch, The Icelandic Volcano Erupts

2/08/09 Bajak, AP, US rancher at center stage in Bolivia land dispute

2/08/09 Reuters, 65,000 gallons of oil sludge spills near Chicago

2/08/09 Glod, WP, Schools Face Sharp Rise In Homeless Students

2/04/08 Steenhuysen, Reuters, Doctors: Under the Drug Industry's Influence?

2/08/09 Rucker,Reuters, Fannie, Freddie to channel mortgage rescue: sources

2/08/09 Moss, NYT, Peanut Case Shows Holes in Safety Net

2/08/09 Starr, CNN, Sources: Iraq, Afghanistan withdrawals delayed

2/08/09 USA TOday, New anticapitalist party born in France

2/08/09 McDonald, AP, China fights drought with chemical cloud-seeding

2/08/09 Sample, AP, Navy takes off fuel, water, people to lighten ship

2/08/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, 1,000 Words From Speaker Pelosi About Why This Recession Is Different

2/08/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Collins-Nelson Ax 600,000 Jobs! "In Your Face Caterpillar, Microsoft, Boeing, US Steel, Motorola!"

2/08/09 Groves, LAT, Obama poster artist Shepard Fairey is arrested on tagging charges

2/08/09 Towers & Fausset, LAT, States' only option now is budget pain

2/08/09 Seliger, Guardian, Hamas, Gaza and Bush's Legacy

2/08/09 Ahmed, CNN, Scores killed in raging Australia bushfires

2/08/09 CNN, French toxic ship ends global odyssey

2/08/09 BBC, Woman scores Atlantic swim first

2/08/09 BBC, US diplomat expelled from Ecuador

2/08/09 BBC, The banker and the biologist e. coli and Genetech

2/08/09 BBC, Afghanistan 'tougher than Iraq'

2/08/09 BBC, Swiss to extend EU worker access

February 7, 2009

2/07/09 Cronin, IPS, TRADE: South Africa in Growing Conflict With EU

2/07/09 BBC, Latin America poverty 'may soar'

2/07/09 Figueroa, Miami Herald, Gay woman fights over hospital visitation rights in Miami court

2/07/09 Hopkins, ADN, Debate persists about long-term effects of Exxon Valdez oil spill

2/07/09 Reuters, Obama to revamp National Security Council: report

2/07/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Purified Kleptocracy: New Bank Bailout Plan Aims to Enrich Private Investors

2/07/09 Filkins, NYT, Afghan Leader Finds Himself Hero No More

2/07/09 Swarns, NYT, 'Mom in Chief' Touches on Policy, and Tongues Wag

2/07/09 Ruder, IntelDaily, The starving of Gaza

2/07/09 IntelDaily, High-Level CIA Officer: It Is Time to Re-Open the 9/11 Investigation

2/07/09 New Scientist, Renewable Energy Needs to Become a Lot More Renewable

2/07/09 Stoker, LAT, To the Streets

2/07/09 Ross, IntelDaily, U.S. Replaces Germany and Japan As World's Principal Rogue State

2/07/09 BBC, 'My life cleaning Delhi's sewers'

2/07/09 CNN, What got cut from the stimulus bill

2/07/09 CNN, 23 killed at Madagascar protest

2/07/09 Eckel, AP, Russia allows transit of US military supplies

2/07/09 CNN, Israeli jets hit targets in Gaza

2/07/09 BBC, US fishermen trapped on ice slab

2/07/09 BBC, New Bolivia constitution in force

February 6, 2009

2/06/09 Protess, ProPublica, Details on $20 Million TARP Contract Still Secret

2/06/09 Miller, PSL, Indian man set ablaze in anti-immigrant assault in Italy

2/05/09 AP, Sea level rise may be worse than expected

2/06/09 Keim, Wired, Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains

2/06/09 Stiglitz, Deutche Welle, Joseph Stiglitz: Nationalized Banks Are "Only Answer"

2/06/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, "More to Promote Outsourcing Than Nearly Anyone Else In America"

2/06/09 Pollack, NYT, F.D.A. Approves Drug From Gene-Altered Goats

2/06/09 Gettleman & Schmitt, NYT, U.S. Aided a Failed Plan to Rout Ugandan Rebels

2/06/09 Bagli, NYT, Sam Zell's Empire, Underwater in a Big Way

2/06/09 Taylor, Belingham Herald, Army deserter deported from Canada, placed in Whatcom County Jail

2/06/09 Loy, ADN, Council outlaws Arctic fisheries

2/06/09 Tasal & Dayee, Institute for War & Peace Reporting, Commentary: Afghans angered by broken promises

2/06/09 Halpin, ADN, Man faces 64 counts of child sexual abuse

2/06/09 Muskal & Silva, LAT, Obama names outside economic experts to advisory panel

2/06/09 Macan-Markar, IPS, CAMBODIA: Chevron Silent on Bribery Allegations

2/06/09 Estrada, IPS, CHILE: Biofuels Head to the Forests

2/06/09 Sanders, ITT, The Failed Prophet

2/06/09 CNN, Medicine man says he can cure AIDS

2/06/09 CNN, FDA: Peanut plant knew product was tainted with salmonella

2/06/09 CNN, KBR charged with bribing Nigerian officials for contracts

2/06/09 CNN, Texan who died in prison cleared of rape conviction

2/06/09 CSM, Sudan expels a Canadian contributor to the Monitor

2/06/09 BBC, Kyrgyz closure of US base 'final'

2/06/09 BBC, Nigeria baby poison deaths rise

2/06/09 Reynolds, LAT, U.S. unemployment rate at 7.6%; jobs disappearing at faster pace

2/06/09 BBC, Alternative views of the economic crisis

2/06/09 Partlow, Wp, A Protected Forest's Fast Decline

2/06/09 Weir, CSM, Global downturn hammers Ukraine's economy

2/06/09 Reuters, Regulators Close Three More US Banks

2/06/09 Bloomfield, Telegraph, Cold warrior Henry Kissinger woos Russia for Barack Obama

2/06/09 Wald, NYT, Bomb Plants Could Shift to Control of Pentagon

February 5, 2009

2/05/09 WorldFocus, One in five Israeli citizens is Arab

2/05/09 AP, Ants tricked into raising butterflies

2/05/09 Englehardt, MoJo, Whistling Past the Afghan Graveyard

2/05/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, Obama's Energy Secretary Outlines Dire Climate Change Scenario

2/05/09 Luban, IPS, ICC Investigating Israel War Crimes

2/05/09 Shachtman, WIred, Drone 'Surge'; Predator Flights Up 94% in 2008

2/05/09 Keim, WIred, Seeing Red: Tweak Your Brain With Colors

2/05/09 Shear, WP, Raccoons Invade White House Grounds

2/05/09 BBC, Number of alien worlds quantified

2/05/09 Oliver, Guardian, A guide on how to eat your way to a healthy mind and body

2/05/09 Costello & Seib, TimesOnline, Madoff's clients at heart of UK establishment

2/05/09 Mooney, CNN, Controversy surrounds Obama's faith office

2/05/09 Susskind, FPIF, Un-Gagging Women's Human Rights

2/05/09 CNN, Court may exonerate man, years after his death, for rape

2/05/09 Mulitple Authors, IntelDaily, Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government (3 parts)

2/05/09 Brittain-Catlin, Guardian, How offshore capitalism ate our economies - and itself

2/05/09 Ritter, AP, Sweden changes course on nuclear power

2/05/09 Aversa, AP, Rising unemployment hits 98 percent of metro areas

2/05/09 Shachtman, Wired, 27,000 Work in Pentagon PR and Recruiting

2/05/09 Al Jazeera, Elite 'selling Cambodia's future'

2/05/09 Schneider, WP, New Jobless Claims Surge to 626,000

2/05/09 Barry & Schwartz, NYT, Dispute Mounts Over Key US Base in Kyrgyzstan

2/05/09 Reuters, U.S. jobless claims surge to 26-year high

2/05/09 Helms, Charlotte Observer, Poverty level in CMS rises past 50%

2/05/09 Levey, LAT, Obama signs expansion of children's health insurance

2/05/09 Puzanghera et al, LAT, Wall Street finds ways around executive pay caps

2/05/09 Douglas, ITT, The Dragon We Must Slay

2/05/09 CNN, FEMA food kits may contain tainted peanut butter

2/05/09 CNN, Teen attempts suicide to give liver to dying father

2/05/09 Nasir, CSM, In Pakistan, Swat Valley police give up in face of Taliban attacks

2/05/09 BBC, Ten killed in Brazilian slum raid

2/05/09 Martin, Utne Reader, The People's Professor: Community Education Goes Ivy League

2/05/09 BBC, Somali pirates 'free arms ship'

2/05/09 BBC, China declares drought emergency

February 4, 2009

2/04/09 Taylor, Guardian, Smith faces questions on MI5 torture collusion

2/04/09 BBC, Deal hope in foreign workers row

2/04/09 Klein, Nation, All of Them Must Go

2/04/09 Naughton, TimesOnline, Gordon Brown suggests world heading for a 'depression'

2/04/09 Booth, TimesOnline, UK judges accuse Obama Administration of suppressing torture claim

2/04/09 Younglai & Wutkowski, Reuters, Madoff whistleblower blasts SEC's shortcomings

2/04/09 Scoop, Option ARMs and Recast Shock Syndrome: Toxic Financial Products are Imploding on Schedule. Examining the Impact on California.

2/04/09 Zeller, NYT, A Tough Week for Coal

2/04/09 Donadio, NYT, Vatican Demands Holocaust Denier Publicly Recant

2/04/09 Reuters, Vote Fraud Allegations in Iraq

2/04/09 Reuters, Afghan President Hits Out At NATO And U.S. Allies

2/04/09 Kasler, Sac Bee, Million-dollar home sales plummet in California

2/04/09 AP, Panasonic to cut 15,000 jobs, shut plants

2/04/09 Fox, ITT, This Land Is Their Land

2/04/09 Ramesh, Guardian, Patients killed in cluster bomb attack on Sri Lankan hospital

2/04/09 Porter, Guardian, The horror of the ID card system

2/04/09 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, US threats mean evidence of British resident's Guantanamo torture must stay secret, judges rule

2/04/09 BBC, Indonesian divorce rate surges

2/04/09 BBC, Pulse rate clue to heart attacks

2/04/09 BBC, Italy torn by racial strains

2/04/09 BBC, Iraqi death researcher censured

2/04/09 BBC, Hamas police 'seize aid for Gaza'

2/04/09 Leyva, Progressive, Unaccompanied immigrant children deserve protection

2/04/09 WorldFocus, Iceland in upheaval as banks and government implode

2/04/09 Zhang, AP, Scientist says dam may have triggered China quake

2/04/09 Ritter, AP, Ancient fossil find: This snake could eat a cow!

2/04/09 Gordon, McClatchy, For bank execs, $500,000 a year is a big comedown

2/04/09 Telegraph, World's youngest sex-change operation

2/04/09 CNN, Post-Soviet nations to form military force

2/04/09 Duffy, BBC, Brazil's battle for shanty town residents

2/04/09 BBC, Gaddafi condemns Africa democracy

February 3, 2009

2/03/09 Reuters, Obama sets salary cap for bailout companies: U.S. official

2/03/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Banks Getting TARP Money Lending Less Than Other Banks

2/03/09 Barnard, AP, Herbal tea ingredient helps beetle-plagued trees

2/03/09 Hill, AP, Bat-killing syndrome spreads in Northeast

2/03/09 Bernstein, NYT, Despite Vow, Target of Immigrant Raids Shifted

2/03/09 Keely, TimesOnline, Madoff victims could reach 3m, say lawyers

2/03/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Blacklisting Progressives: The Untold Story Beneath the Daschle Headlines

2/03/09 Rampell, NYT, How Common Is Tax Evasion?

2/03/09 Johnson, MoJo, Economic Death Spiral at the Pentagon

2/03/09 Case, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Racist Ideology Permeates Anti-Immigrant Lobby

2/03/09 BBC, Riot police occupy Sao Paulo slum

2/03/09 Tisdall, Guardian, No way out for nearly 3 million trapped in cycle of despair in Darfur's camps

2/03/09 Feffer, FPIF, Our Pirates and Theirs

2/03/09 CNN, Habitat for Humanity founder dies

2/03/09 Stack, CSM, Pakistani militants cut off key NATO supply line to Afghanistan

2/03/08 Ash, BBC, Kansas rethinks its prison policies

2/03/09 Morgan, BBC, Liberian crop pest mystery solved

2/03/09 BBC, Kyrgyzstan 'to shut key US base'

2/03/09 Waughray, BBC, ,a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7790711.stm">The pending scramble for water

2/03/09 Relyea, Belingham Herald, Nationwide shortage of popular painkiller affects Whatcom County

2/03/09 Rosenberg, AlterNet, Big Pharma Gone Wild

2/03/09 Sturcke, Guardian, Anti-foreign labour strikes bed in as talks continue

2/03/09 Shahzad, Asia Times, Taliban ideology echoes in the valley (PT4), PT1, PT2, PT3

February 2, 2009

2/02/09 Hedges, TruthDig, It's Not Going to Be OK

2/02/09 Hartmann, CommonDreams, Citigroup's Football Madness

2/02/09 Jha, Guardian, Biofuels More Harmful to Humans Than Petrol and Diesel, Warn Scientists

2/02/09 Macalister, Guardian, We can't check everything, admits atomic safety chief after 14-year leak

2/02/09 Murphy, CSM, Mitchell gets earful from Mideast

2/02/09 Grant, BBC, A tale of two Venezuelas

2/02/09 Lardner, AP, Commission gets grim report on wartime spending

2/02/09 Al Jazeera, UN official abducted in Pakistan

2/02/09 TimesOnline, Whalers attacked us with 'sound guns' claim conservationists

2/02/09 Dreyfus, Nation, Sunnis, Nationalists Make Gains in Iraq

2/02/09 Garvin, Miami Herald, Tired humor, big-name dropouts make ads a Super Bore ... Super Bowl 2009 Ads at MySpace

2/02/09 Goldmacher, McClatchy, Mormons admit larger role in California's Prop. 8 campaign

2/02/09 Demick, LAT, China blames pollution for surge in birth defects

2/02/09 Commodity Online, Peak Gold: The depleting world of Yellow Metal

2/02/09 Eley, IntelDaily, For top 400 Americans, combined income of $105 billion in 2006

2/02/09 Burghart, IntelDaily, Afghanistan and Pakistan's "Salvador Option"

2/02/09 Feeney, BBC, Population: The elephant in the room

2/02/09 Wirth, IntelDaily, Peak Oil and the Global Economy

2/02/09 Booth, Guardian, Porn interrupts Super Bowl TV coverage

2/02/09 Adams, CSM, Niger militants scrap cease-fire, vow offensive

2/02/09 BBC, France unveils stimulus package

2/02/09 BBC, Chinese spending creates deficit

2/02/09 BBC, Zimbabwe dollar sheds 12 zeros

2/02/09 Miller, ProPublica, Commission on Wartime Contractors Discovers...Afghanistan

2/02/09 Porter, IPS, Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision

2/02/09 Schmid, AP, New step reported in untangling nature vs nurture

2/02/09 Crutsinger, AP, Treasury needs to borrow $493B in current quarter

2/02/09 Keim, Wired, Rising Ocean Acidity Could Disorient Fish

2/02/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Wall Streeters "Can't Live on $150,000 to $180,000 a Year"

2/02/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Defense Spending To Increase by 8% in 2010

2/02/09 CNN, Holder confirmed as attorney general

2/02/09 CNN, New species found in Colombian forests

2/02/09 CNN, What GOP Leaders deem wasteful in Senate stimulus bill

2/02/09 de Tarczynski, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: New Findings Show Antarctic Warming

2/02/09 Kirk, IPS, WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Resolution and a Plan of Action

2/02/09 CNN, Enoki mushrooms from Phillips Farms recalled

2/29/09 Harrabin, BBC, 'Green' gas could help heat homes

2/02/09 Hogg, BBC, Chinese migrant job losses mount

2/02/09 BBC, India to unveil low cost laptop

February 1, 2009

2/01/09 Adams, McClatchy, Late move on drugs by Bush FDA could be dangerous

2/01/09 Al Jazeera, Icelanders agree on new government

2/01/09 Faiola, WP, Out of Gaps In Treaties, First Salvos Of Trade War

2/01/09 Girling, Times Online, Plight of the humble bee

2/01/09 Doward, Guardian, Britain 'must revive farms' to avoid grave food crisis

2/01/09 Doward et al, Guardian, Unions: Labour was warned about jobs for foreigners

2/01/09 Beaumont, Guardian, Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmland

2/01/09 BBC, Cancer protection secret revealed

2/01/09 BBC, Synagogue desecrated in Venezuela

2/01/09 Henley, BBC, French government fears rise of left

2/01/09 Black, BBC, Water - Another Global "Crisis"?

2/01/09 Fisher, PSL, More than two million protest anti-worker policies in France

2/01/09 Garcia, PSL, School segregation at highest level in decades

2/01/09 Adams, McClatchy, Late Move on Drugs by Bush FDA Could Be Dangerous

2/01/09 Kanter, IHT, Rebound of Nuclear Plants Raising Worries Over Waste

2/01/09 Grudgings, Reuters, Leftist Forum Ends in Amazon; Capitalism Seen Dying

2/01/09 Bryan, AP, States fail in latest prairie dog report card

2/01/09 Yamaguchi, AP, In Japan, you are what your blood type is

2/01/09 Tyson, WP, Weight of Combat Gear Is Taking Toll

2/01/09 Bajaj & Labaton, NYT, Risks Are Vast in Revaluation of Assets

2/01/09 al-Mughrabi, Reuters, Israel bombs Gaza tunnels in series of air raids

2/01/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Why are the Feds Bailing Out the Highway Privatization Industry?

2/01/09 Deparle, NYT, Welfare System Failing to Grow as Economy Lags

2/01/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Bailout Cash Subsidizing Outsourcing

2/01/09 Rubin, NYT, Election Turnout: Analysis

2/01/09 Fadel, Guardian, Low turnout in Iraq's election reflects a disillusioned nation

2/01/09 BBC, Cancer protection secret revealed

2/01/09 BBC, Synagogue desecrated in Venezuela

2/01/09 Johnson, Guardian, Google Earth, Google Ocean: mysteries of the seafloor are mapped for the first time

2/01/09 BBC, EU rules 'not protecting workers'

2/01/09 Kiem, Wired, Melting Arctic Prompts Calls for 'National Park' on Ice

2/01/09 Bash & Beamish, AP, AP Investigation: Banks sought foreign workers

2/01/09 Gustavo Capdevila interviews academic ALAIN BIHR, IPS, Q&A: Crisis Could Lead to 'Revolutionary Change'

2/01/09 CNN, Inmates riot for second time at Texas prison

2/01/09 BBC, Israel vows tough rocket response

2/01/09 BBC, Glaxo 'to cut thousands of jobs'