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March 31, 2009
3/31/09 Wyatt, BBC, UK in Iraq, the beginning of the end
3/31/09 Kleinfeld, NYT, Exams of Injured Workers Fuel Mutual Mistrust
3/31/09 WorldFocus, One woman fights for members of India's lowest caste
3/31/09 Dsane, FirstPost, Panoramic Emotions - Globalization
3/31/09 Vanderklippe, Globe & Mail, Syncrude Triples Number of Dead Ducks From Oil Sands
3/31/09 Roy, Boston Globe, The Silence Surrounding Sri Lanka
3/31/09 Lohan, Nation, Blue Gold: Have the Next Resource Wars Begun?
3/31/09 Hayes, Nation, The Senate is Broken
3/31/09 Desai & Wroughton, Reuters, France threatens G20 walkout
3/31/09 Finkle, Reuters, Computer experts brace for "Conficker" worm
3/31/09 Hindery & Riegle, MoJo, An End to False Globalization
3/31/09 Stein, MoJo, Climate Bill Kick Off
3/31/09 Adams, McClatchy, Watchdogs: Treasury won't disclose bank bailout details
3/31/09 Leopold, ITT, Democrats Duck Bush Torture Probe
3/31/09 Seager & Kollewe, Guardian, G20 leaders get OECD warning that global trade is in freefall
3/31/09 Johnson, CNN, Homeowner who shot herself amid eviction dies
3/31/09 Marquand, CSM, Germany's hard line on the stimulus: Why Merkel says 'Nein'
3/31/09, BBC, Giant laser experiment powers up
3/31/09 Searle, Guardian, Whitechapel Gallery reopens with Picasso and anthrax
3/31/09 NYT, Life Lessons From the Family Dog
3/31/09 Dolan, WSJ, Blame Is Put on Management, but More Pain Looms for Hourly Workers, Retirees
3/31/09 NPR, 'The Zone Of Sanity'
3/31/09 AFP, Nazi war crimes suspect loses extradition appeal
3/31/09 Jones, Tom Dispatch, Death on the Home Front: Women in the Crosshairs
3/31/09 Goodman, DemocracyNow, Seymour Hersh: Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations in "A Lot of" Countries, Including in Latin America
3/31/09 Grieder, AlterNet, A Scary Corporate Coup Is Under Way -- We've Got to Stop It
3/31/09 Starkey, AlterNet, Afghan President Signs Law "Legalizing Rape"
3/31/09 Benno, PSL, Heart failure among Black adults 20 times more prevalent
3/31/09 Cotter, PSL, Oil companies hoarding water rights in Colorado
3/31/09 Wintour et al, Guardian, Climate Change Experts Call on G20 Members to Commit to Action
3/31/09 AP, New plan to reduce planes' C02 emissions
3/31/09 Wasserman, SacBee, Yuba County tops nation in 'underwater' loans
3/31/09 Remmer, TruthOut, Merrill Lynch Bonus Payments Dwarf A.I.G.
3/31/09 Kanter, NYT, Is Wasting Energy Uncivilized?
3/31/09 Nassenbaum, McClatchy, Israel closes probe of Gaza incidents, denies they happened
3/31/09 Kollewe, Guardian, UK has run out of money to pump into economy, OECD warns
3/31/09 Yusuf, CSM, Former Khmer Rouge leader asks for forgiveness
3/31/09 BBC, World Bank warns of deep slowdown
3/31/09 BBC, US house prices 'see record fall'
March 30, 2009
3/30/09 Kleinfeld & Greenhouse, NYT, For Injured Workers, a Costly Legal Swamp
3/30/09 CNN, Fishing boats sink off Libyan coast
3/30/09 AP, FDA says to avoid pistachios amid salmonella scare
3/30/09 Baseline Scenario, Structured Finance for Beginners
3/30/09 Scahill, AlterNet, 283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops, and an Army of Mercenaries: The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq
3/30/09 Wasserman, AlterNet, Coal Industry Reacts to EPA Crackdown on Mountaintop Removal Mining with Lies about Job Losses
3/30/09 WorldFocus, India's "untouchables" trudge through sewers
3/30/09 Keim, Wired, Poverty Goes Straight to the Brain
3/30/09 Daly, Reuters, U.S. lawmakers press Fed for minority access to bailout
3/30/09 Nichols, Nation, Sanders Puts Single-Payer On the Agenda
3/30/09 Jelveh, NYT, Houses of God: Did Evangelicals Curb the Housing Bubble?
3/30/09 Fountain, NYT, Concrete Is Remixed With Environment in Mind
3/30/09 Vartabedian & Hamburger , LAT, AIG crisis could be the tip of an insurance iceberg>A?
3/30/09 Receio, McClatchy, DHS secretary proposes forgiving post-Katrina, Rita loans
3/30/09 Doyle, McClatchy, Obama signs massive wilderness bill
3/30/09 Collins, Fresno Times, Life in Mendota, Calif., where the jobless rate is 41 percent
3/30/09 Richards, MoJo, Out of Mind, Out of Sight
3/26/09 Johnson, Reuters, Financier sees oil shock from credit crunch
3/30/09 Grey, WSWS, US: Unemployment hits double digits in seven states
3/30/09 Bawden, IntelDaily, The Tipping Point of the Dollar
3/30/09 Grogg, IPS, RIGHTS: Cuba Launches Anti-Homophobia Campaign
3/30/09 Bleifus, ITT, To Boycott Israel...or Not?
3/30/09 Bradlow, FPIF, Fixing the IMF
3/30/09 Ford, CSM, Ahead of G-20, China questions US's financial dominance
3/30/09 BBC, Mapping the fall of communism
3/30/09 BBC, African body suspends Madagascar
3/30/09 BBC, Migrants drown off Libyan coast
3/30/09 Engelhardt, Nation, The Great Afghan Bailout
3/30/09 Gawavde, New Yorker, Hellhole: The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?
March 29, 2009
3/29/09 Finn & Warrick, Seattle Times, Torture did not yield significant leads, officials say
3/29/09 Ford, CNN, Can the West cultivate ideas from Cuba's 'Special Period'?
3/29/09 Gordon, Baltimore Sun, College students sell the CIA to their peers
3/29/09 Kole, AP, Bosnia's jobless rate at 43 percent and rising
3/29/09 Razzi, WP, Overhaul Targets Money Market
3/29/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Money For Nothing
3/29/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Tax havens batten down as the hurricane looms
3/29/09 Borger & Fuchs, Guardian, Spanish judge to hear torture case against six Bush officials
3/29/09 McVeigh & Lewis, Guardian, The 'revolution' starts here as 35,000 pack the G20 march
3/29/09 CNN, Lights go out across planet for Earth Hour
3/29/09 Wells, BBC, New York's school for immigrants
3/29/09 Peter, CSM, Cyber spy network with global reach raises alarms
March 28, 2009
3/28/09 Geranios, AP, Spokane residents smuggle suds over green brands
3/28/09 Al Jazeera, France seals African uranium deals
3/28/09 Lewis et al, Guardian, G20 protests: Cry havoc - and let slip a rainbow alliance of summit protesters
3/28/09 Hyde, Guardian, No more excuses. It's time for another Iraq whitewash
3/28/09 CNN, Saudi king appoints successor's successor to throne
3/28/09 CNN, AIG director named to Obama tax task force
3/28/09 BBC, Bloody clash in south Philippines
3/28/09 BBC, US warns Pakistan on Taleban link
3/28/09 Dorschner, Miami Herald, Insurers Shun Those Taking Certain Meds
3/28/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Obama to Bring More Mercenaries to Afghanistan -- Sound Familiar?
3/28/09 Thompson, ProPublica, FBI Opens Inquiry Into Death of Henry Glover
3/28/09 Stone & Richtel, NYT, Forging a Hot Link to the Farmer Who Grows the Food
3/28/09 Grieder, Nation, Trust Your Guts
3/28/09 Pitts, CNN, Commentary: 'Post-racial' America isn't here yet
3/28/09 Heilperin, AP, For Congo's uprooted, fear trumps hopes for peace
3/28/09 Werner, AP, Senate takes on out-of-network insurance issue
3/28/09 Al Jazeera, Zadari hands Punjab back to Sharif
3/28/09 Bourne, TimesOnline, G20 protests begin with wet march through London
5/28/09 BBC, Russia to build 6 nuclear subs with cruise missiles
3/28/09 BBC, 'Nothing to discuss' on Falklands
March 27, 2009
3/27/09 Blas, Financial Times, Number of Chronically Hungry Tops 1 Billion
3/27/09 Hendawi, AP, Fallujah is test case for post-US Iraq
3/27/09 Eddy & Stobbe, AP, Experimental vaccine used in Ebola exposure case
3/27/09 Lynch, WP, Ex-U.N. Official Spent Development Funds on Luxury Items, Probe Says
3/27/09 Parenti, Nation, Three Mile Island, the NRC and Obama
3/27/09 Vestel, NYT, Do New Bulbs Save Energy if They Don't Work?
3/27/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Role reversal: Some Americans seeking jobs head to India
3/27/09 AP, Jury finds Kansas doctor not guilty in abortion case
3/27/09 Lantier, IntelDaily, Global investors ponder implications of US dollar collapse
3/27/09 Pilkington, Guardian, Barack Obama's aunt faces crucial immigration hearing
3/27/09 EDIE, Elastoplast solution to African water crisis not working
3/27/09 AP, Top bank regulator placed on leave pending review
3/27/09 Goldfarb, WP, Freddie Mac's Duel With Regulator: Does It Report Government's Role in Its Losses?
3/27/09 BBC, Slowdown blights DR Congo economy
3/27/09 Norton-Taylor & Cobain, Guardian, Torture victim Binyam Mohamed: don't scapegoat MI5 officer
3/27/09 Fox, Guardian, How not to look like a banker
3/27/09 Arraf, CSM, US general: American forces may not leave key Iraqi cities
3/27/09 BBC, Medical scan sensitivity boosted
3/27/09 BBC, Deadly dam burst outside Jakarta
3/27/09 BBC, Japan to 'destroy' N Korea rocket
3/27/09 Krugman, NYT, The Market Wizards Were Exposed as Frauds -- Too Bad Obama's Team Still Believes in Their Magic
3/27/09 Strobel, CSM, Clinton says US shares responsibility for Mexico's drug violence
3/27/09 Wheatley, FT, Brazil's leader blames white people for crisis
3/27/09 BBC, Russian 'Arctic military' plan
3/27/09 Wilemon, Memphis Daily News, Farmers Worry About Proposed Legislation
3/27/09 Boxun, Chinese Migrant Workers Totaled 225.42 Million at the End of 2008
3/27/09 Rousseau, AP, Lights out in 84 countries for Earth Hour 2009
3/27/09 Zhang, AP, China: Hand, foot and mouth virus kills 18 kids
3/27/09 Fram, AP, The Influence Game: Obama limits stimulus lobbying
3/27/09 Seager, Guardian, UK recession: 'It's even worse than we thought,' says ONS
3/27/09 Treanor, Guardian, Lloyds and Halifax City branches set to shut during G20 protests
3/27/09 CNN, Red River reaches record level, floods Fargo with uncertainty
3/27/09 BBC, Medics 'can mend a broken heart'
3/27/09 BBC, Crabs 'sense and remember pain'
March 26, 2009
3/26/09 Partlow, RH Reality Check, Egg-as-Person Laws Deprive Pregnant Women of Their Personhood
3/26/09 Baseline Scenario, What the IMF Would Tell the United States, If It Could
3/26/09 NPR, U.K. Can't Sell Its Debt
3/26/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Bonus Social Security Payments, Like Flowers, to Sprout in May
3/26/09 Prtoess, ProPublica, Stop the Clock: Treasury Releases Bailout Contract
3/26/09 Schmitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, US Infrastructure Is Deplored
3/26/09 Luban & Lobe, IPS, Neo-Con Ideologues Launch New Foreign Policy Group
3/26/09 Gorman & Hurt, Reuters, Hidden Homeless Emerge as US Economy Worsens
3/21/09 Boxun, A Terrible Picture: Chinese Military and Police Beating Tibetans to Death
3/26/09 Ferraro, Reuters, Senate votes to expand U.S. public service
3/26/09 BBC, EU warns Spain over development
3/26/09 Nichols, Nation, Shouldn't Congress Hold the Pentagon to Account?
3/26/09 Browning, NYT, I.R.S. to Ease Penalties for Some Offshore Tax Evaders
3/26/09 Davey, NYT, Heartbreaking Triage as Fargo Battles Floods
3/26/09 Gettleman & Gordon, NYT, U.S. Officials Say Israel Struck in Sudan
3/26/09 AP, Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania
3/26/09 Baker & Shanker, NYT, Obama to Set Benchmarks in Fight Against Militants
3/26/09 Goodnough, NYT, New Hampshire Names 27 Clerics in Abuse Cases
3/26/09 Schulman, MoJo, Crying Foul Over a Loon Decision
3/26/09 Fiore, MoJo, Leverage Me Tender
3/26/09 Astore, MoJo, Aboard the Imperial Star Ship Ameriprise
3/26/09 Youseff & Talev, McClatchy, Obama shifts strategy in Afghanistan: more troops, modest goals
3/26/09 Fisher, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Obama Faces Spate of "Terror War" Lawsuits
3/26/09 Strategic Roundtable, Empire Roundtable
3/26/09 Dean, Army vet billed $3,000 for war wounds
3/26/09 BBC, Ex-DEA agent: Treatment, education key in drug war
3/26/09 CNN, U.S. destroyers on move as N. Korea prepares rocket launch
3/26/09 Bourdreau & Bronstein, CNN, Shoddy wiring 'everywhere' on Iraq bases, Army inspector says
3/26/09 BBC, US plans to rein in Wall Street
3/26/09 Hunt, BBC, Will the US dollar remain king?
3/26/09 Dowling, BBC, What we learned from the Exxon Valdez
3/26/09 BBC, Israel disputes Gaza death rates
3/26/09 Taibbi, AlterNet, AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We're Supposed to Pity Him? Yeah, Right
3/26/09 NPR, Blaming Glass-Steagall
3/26/09 Breen, AP, States consider drug tests for welfare recipients
3/26/09 Al Jazeera, US jets 'bombed convoy in Sudan'
3/26/09 Sherman, Times Online, 'Negligent' councils broke rules to invest in Icelandic banks
3/26/09 Andrews & Story, NYT, Geithner Calls for Major Overhaul of Financial Rules
3/26/09 GritTV, Geithner Should Go: Matt Taibbi, Robert Johnson, and Jane Hamsher
3/26/09 Reuters, U.S. workers on jobless benefits hit record
3/26/09 Sirota, Open Left, "Their Stated Goal Is to Protect Business Interests"
3/26/09 Kollewe, Guardian, Dollar regains ground after Timothy Geithner qualifies global currency remarks
3/26/09 Pearce, Guardian, Greenwash: Shell betrays 'new energy future' promises
3/26/09 BBC, US concerned over assertive China
3/26/09 Escobar, Asia Times, Liquid war: Welcome to Pipelineistan
3/26/09 Greste, BBC, The dam that divides Ethiopians
3/26/09 BBC, US economy sees quicker decline
3/26/09 Noble, KC.com, Missouri Highway Patrol retracts controversial report on militia activity
3/26/09 Moore, KC Star, Missouri System Treats Juvenile Offenders With Lighter Hand
3/26/09 Mock & McLaughlin, Independent, Fears of unrest in eastern Europe grow as Czech government collapses
3/26/09 Dowd, Reuters, Police taser use down in Canada amid safety fears
3/26/09 DW, Investigator: NATO Countries Knew About Secret CIA Flights
March 25, 2009
3/25/09 Coutts, ProPublica, How Hard the Fed Looked for AIG's Potential Losses
3/25/09 Mendoza, AP, Study: Range of Pharmaceuticals in Fish Across US
3/25/09 Wolff, AlterNet, Do the Secret Bush Memos Amount to Treason? Top Constitutional Scholar Says Yes
3/25/09 Dreyfus, Nation, The Real Economic Crisis
3/25/09 Reuters, U.S. watchdog says billions of U.S. aid wasted in Iraq
3/25/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Populist Caucus Organizes Around Trade and Globalization
3/25/09 Trueman, OpenLeft, Fedco Seeds: The David To Monsanto's Goliath
3/25/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Freddie Mac Loan Contractor Has Spotty Record
3/25/09 Wilson & Kaman, WP, 'Global War on Terror' Is Given New Name
3/25/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Cheney War Crimes: Just Look at the Statute
3/25/09 McKinley, NYT, Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns
3/25/09 Hagey, News Tribune, Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow
3/25/09 Hopkins, ADN, Villages will get free Citgo heating fuel again
3/25/09 Boyd, McClatchy, Pentagon exploring robot killers that can fire on their own
3/25/09 Scheer, Nation, Obama's Toxic Advisers
3/25/09 Taylor, McClatchy, Why secretly funded DEA surveillance planes aren't flying
3/25/09 Hall, McClatchy, Geithner outlines regulatory changes for financial system
3/25/09 Perlez, NYT, U.S. Weighs Sharif as Partner in Pakistan
3/25/09 MINA, U.S. State wants to use Silver, Gold as legal tender
3/25/09 Mead, Kentucky.com, EPA signals mining crackdown
3/25/09 Simon, LAT, Feinstein wants desert swath off-limits to solar, wind projects
3/25/09 McClatchy, $410,000 in 2006, $112,00 now: When will prices hit bottom?
3/25/09 Meyer, LAT, White House unveils plan to fight drug cartels at border
3/25/09 McLaughlin, CNN, Feds' plan to poison banks of Rio Grande stalled
3/25/09 Charles. Reuters, U.S. immigrant detentions violate human rights: report
3/25/09 Sheer, ITT, Uncovering Haiti's Hidden History
3/25/09 Sheer, ITT, Uncovering Haiti's Hidden History
3/25/09 Park, CNN, 'Miracle fruit' turns sour things sweet
3/25/09 Knell, BBC, Nubia: Lost civilisation of Egypt
3/25/09 EDIE, Europe running out of water
3/25/09 McClements, BBC, Secrets of mass grave revealed
3/25/09 BBC, IMF announces new lending reforms
3/25/09 BBC, Romania gets IMF emergency loan
March 24, 2009
3/24/09 Miller, PSL, Hundreds protest commercialization of water
3/24/09 Schiller, Houston Chron, Plans to Kill Plants Along US/Mexico Border Reminiscent of Agent Orange Use
3/24/09 Barnett & Sullivan, AP, White House unveils anti-cartel effort for border
3/24/09 Haynes, WP, Senate to Consider Relief for Credit Card Holders
3/24/09 Reuters, Bernanke: AIG shows urgent need for new regulations
3/24/09 Englehardt, MoJo, Economic Dirty Bomb Goes Off in New York
3/24/09 Hamilton, LAT, U.S. workers at AIG return $50 million in bonuses
3/24/09 BBC, HIV-TB 'double trouble' warning
3/24/09 Grieder, Nation, Obama's New Monopoly Set
3/24/09 Pear, NYT, Insurers Ease Stance on Pre-Existing Conditions
3/24/09 Andrews & Dash, NYT, U.S. Seeks Expanded Power in Seizing Firms
3/24/09 Malveaux, CNN, Geithner to seek unprecedented powers, insiders say
3/24/09 BBC, Brain waves 'foreshadow mistakes'
3/24/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Most electronic voting isn't secure, CIA expert says
3/24/09 Steffan & Feyerick, CNN, Tenant evicted even though she pays rent on time
3/24/09 Chopra, CSM, Debt weighs on Indian middle class
March 23, 2009
3/23/09 Clark, CSM, Hutu rebels in Congo strike back against joint offensive
3/23/09 Mack, Wired, New Database Tells Big Brother You're Uninsured
3/23/09 Beiser, Wired, Store Power in Super Batteries
3/23/09 Binyamin & Cho, NYT, White House to Seek Power to Seize Non-Bank Financial Companies
3/23/09 Abcarian, LAT, Abortion provider's trial opens in Kansas
3/23/09 RIA Novosti, China ready to discuss new reserve currency at G20 summit
3/23/09 IntelDaily, Killer Chemtrails: The Shocking Truth (Video)
3/23/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, CIA Says Agency Has 3,000 Documents Related to Videotaped Torture
3/23/09 Abedin, CNN, Study: Blacks suffer heart failure at alarmingly high rates
3/23/09 GR Reporter, Bilderberg - The most powerful elite will meet in Athens
3/23/09 Borger & Macaskill, Guardian, US Will Appoint Afghan 'Prime Minister' to Bypass Hamid Karzai
3/23/09 Reuters, AIG rivals met Bernanke to complain: report
3/23/09 Baltic Times, Human trafficking from Lithuania increases
3/23/09 Topolski, Guardian, The monster impulse
3/23/09 BBC, Cancer drug 'fuels tumour growth'
3/23/09 BBC, Call to scrap 'illegal databases'
March 22, 2009
3/22/09 Beaumont, Guardian, Gaza war crime claims gather pace as more troops speak out
3/22/09 BBC, US 'needs new Pakistan strategy'
3/22/09 Haas, Haaretz, IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot at Gaza Rescuers, Note Says
3/22/09 Stewart & Elliott, Observer, World Bank: G20 Warned Unrest Will Sweep Globe
3/22/09 Constable, WP, Pakistani Villagers Pay a Price for Defying Rebels
3/22/09 Dahl, Reuters, Iran sets terms for U.S. ties
3/22/09 Zabrenko, Reuters, As climate changes, is water the new oil?
3/22/09 Shadid, WP, In Iraq, Chaos Feared as U.S. Closes Prison
3/22/09 Cho, WP, Treasury Presses Ahead With Plan For Toxic Assets
3/22/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, As credit markets froze, banks loaned millions to insiders
3/22/09 LAT, Gulp! The swallows don't visit San Juan Capistrano much anymore
3/22/09 Watson, CNN, U.S. troop withdrawal through Turkey may get PM's OK
3/22/09 BBC, Tibetan monks 'held after riot'
3/22/09 Isikoff & Hosenball, Newsweek, Coming Soon: Declassified Bush-Era Torture Memos
3/22/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The Nature Of Ideology And Mental Freedom
3/22/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Krugman Cuts To The Chase
3/22/09 Zoroya, USA Today,
3/21/09 CNN, Connecticut attorney general says AIG understated bonuses
3/21/09 CNN, U.S. Navy vessels in Bahrain for evaluation after collision
3/21/09 Murray & Jan, AP, Romania weighs decriminalizing consensual incest
3/21/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Embedded In Wall Street
3/21/09 BBC, AIG bonuses 'higher than thought'
3/21/09 White & Lifsher, LAT, Blacks lose ground in job slump
3/21/09 Baseline Scenario, This Time I'm Not the One Calling It a Subsidy
3/21/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, BofA's insider loans zoomed in 2008, but no one will say why
3/21/09 CNN, Zoellick slams 'sugar high' stimulus plans
3/21/09 NYT, In Village, Palestinians Face Gas With Rocks
3/21/09 BBC, US banking losses revised upward
3/21/09 BBC, Sudan 'extermination' as aid cut
3/21/09 Winchester, BBC, Wallowing off the coast of Tristan
3/21/09 Obama, Transcript, President Barack Obama on the Federal Budget: Four Principles
March 20, 2009
3/20/09 WorldFocus, Obama to sign United Nations gay rights declaration
3/20/09 Gamel, AP, Iraqi budget woes force security hiring freeze
3/21/09 Hilzenrath, WP, AIG Suing To Recover Taxes in IRS Dispute
3/18/09 Adam, Guardian, Leading Climate Scientist: "Democratic Process Isn't Working"
3/20/09 Brush, The Hill, Frank Asks Fannie, Freddie to Halt Bonuses
3/20/09 AP, Congress Budget Estimate Shows Much Bigger Deficits
3/20/09 Gordon & Hall, AIG still a major threat to global economy, top official says
3/20/09 Zunes, FPIF, The Budget's Foreign Policy Handcuffs
3/20/09 Minow, CNN, Commentary: Boards are real culprits in AIG mess
3/20/09 CNN, Dodd defends actions as an AIG exec returns $6 million bonus
3/20/09 Meeserve, CNN, 'Smart Grid' may be vulnerable to hackers
3/20/09 Clifford, CNN, U.S. seizes 2 big credit unions
3/20/09 Mitnick, CSM, Gaza offensive: Israel confronts soldiers' testimony of excessive force
3/20/09 BBC, Argentine farmers in food strike
3/20/09 Baseline Scenario, Parallel Bankers
3/20/09 NPR, How Many Toxic Assets Are There?
3/20/09 Greenberg, PSL, Israel uses new, more-lethal tear gas canisters on Palestinians
3/20/09 Ling, NYT, NRC Decision on Depleted Uranium Draws Rebuke on Hill
3/20/09 Capiello, AP, Report: Energy production choking bird population
3/20/09 Lopatka & Prenesti, Reuters, EU backs stronger IMF, eastern aid lifeline
3/20/09 BBC, U.S. SEC probes subprime, builders, hedge funds
3/20/09 Kassolowsky, Reuters, U.S. nuclear submarine collides in strait near Iran
3/20/09 Story, NYT, $2.5 Billion in Merrill Bonuses Would Not Be Covered by Tax
3/20/09 Healy, NYT, Fed Chief Calls for Scrutiny of Pay at Financial Firms
3/20/09 Corn & Stein, MoJo, Top Geithner Aide Fought CEO Pay Reform
3/20/09 Asia One, 60,000 children in S-E Asian sex trade
3/20/09 Sharma, IntelDaily, Do GM Crops Increase Yield? The Answer is No
3/20/09 McLaughlin, CNN, FBI planting spies in U.S. mosques, Muslim groups say
3/20/09 BBC, Finches choose sex of offspring
3/20/09 BBC, US high school 'held cage fights'
3/20/09 Toy, NYT, Up in Smoke: The Deposit Vanishes
3/20/09 Hencke, Guardian, Intelligence Made It Clear Saddam Was Not a Threat, Diplomat Tells MPs
3/20/09 Frayssinet, IPS, BRAZIL: Landmark Ruling Confirms Indian Reservation
3/20/09 Garai & Khalili, Guardian, 'For these refugees, resettlement is the only option'
3/20/09 Reisser, Guardian, The US cannot drill its way out of energy dependence
3/20/09 Guardian, Rare reptile hatchling found in New Zealand
3/20/09 Kavanagh, CNN, Turning toxic coal ash into bridges, buildings
3/20/09 White, CSM, Latvia uses police to quash talk of economic collapse
3/20/09 BBC, Ecuador plane crash kills seven
3/20/09 BBC, Nazi trial letters open to public
3/20/09 BBC, Port awaits liquid gas delivery
3/20/09 Gram, AP, Vermont Senate Panel Approves Gay Marriage Bill
March 19, 2009
3/19/09 Coutts, ProPublica, Which Hedge Funds Are Collecting Under the AIG Bailout?
3/19/09 Coutts, ProPublica, Conflicting Accounts About Geithner's Involvement With AIG Bonuses
3/19/09 Lee, Star-Telegram, Industry group rebuts researcher's study on pollution from natural gas drilling
3/19/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Banks Lied to the Government While Getting Taxpayers to Hand Over Billions
3/19/09 Barron & Buettner, NYT, Scorn Trails A.I.G. Executives, Even in Their Driveways
3/19/09 Reuters, Obama administration launches mortgage aid website
3/19/09 Gertz, Wa. Times, Chinese spy who defected tells all
3/19/09 Poirier, Reuters, U.S. systemic risk watchdog not panacea: regulators
3/19/09 Mutikani, Reuters, U.S. workers on jobless benefits hit record high
3/19/09 Saltmarsh & Jolly, NYT, Workers Protest Across France
3/19/09 Hamburger & Hook, LAT, In AIG flap, it's not just about bonuses anymore
3/19/09 McKenzie, FRANCE: Young Face a Jobless Future
3/19/09 Luban, IPS, POLITICS-US: New Calls for a More Tolerant Intl Order
3/19/09 Tady, ITT, Building A Broadband Bridge that Holds Weight
3/19/09 Selsky, Yahoo, Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent
3/18/09 Gaunt, Reuters, U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
3/19/09 Sender, FT, Banks warned on commercial property 'black hole'
3/19/09 Hoffet, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Coping in a World of "Peak Water"
3/19/09 CNN, Dodd: Administration pushed for language protecting bonuses
3/19/09 Feffer, FPIF, Sex Trafficking: The Abolitionist Fallacy
3/19/09 CNN, Four Fannie Mae execs to get big bonuses
3/19/09 Feffer, FPIF, Arms Race in Space
3/19/09 CNN, Many bird populations in trouble, report says
3/19/09 Schleifer, CSM, Is access to clean water a basic human right?
3/19/09 CNN, Watch AIG's payouts, not the bonuses, Spitzer says
3/19/09 McGourty, BBC, Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'
3/19/09 BBC, Protein 'behind Alzheimer's fits'
3/19/09 BBC, Iceland interest rates cut to 17%
3/19/09 BBC, North Korea: A glimpse inside a secret state
March 18, 2009
3/18/09 Koeppel, ConsortiumNews, Indentured Servants, Circa 2009
3/18/09 Eland, IntelDaily, Hypocrisy in Government
3/18/09 Walberg, IntelDaily, Pride and Prejudice
3/18/09 Peter, CSM, US considers broadening drone airstrikes in Pakistan
3/18/09 NPR, He Blames Greenspan
3/18/09 Lee, AP, Sources: US to Sign UN Gay Rights Declaration
3/18/09 Gillies, AP, Bush says it's 'essential' to help Obama
3/18/09 Kellman, AP, Analysis: AIG bonuses new cloud over Treasury boss
3/18/09 Faiola, WP, Trade Barriers Could Threaten Global Economy
3/18/09 Vedantam, WP, A Silenced Drug Study Creates An Uproar
3/18/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Lying Or Incompetent - Either Way, Geithner Needs to Be Fired
3/18/09 Arce, IntelDaily, Latin America hit hard by world crisis
3/18/09 IntelDaily, US detains record number of immigrants: report
3/18/09 Wearden, Guardian, UK faces worse recession than US and Europe, IMF warns
3/18/09 CNN, New indictment filed against NY lawyer in fraud case
3/18/09 BBC, US to force AIG to repay bonuses
3/18/09 BBC, World Bank lowers China forecast
3/18/09 BBC, (UK) Unemployment passes two million
3/18/09 BBC, Clinton's warning to Sudan leader
3/18/09 BBC, Strive for '100 steps per minute'
3/18/09 BBC, Rape reports rise in US military
3/18/09 BBC, UK to set out anti-torture rules
3/18/09 BBC, Czechs halt US missile treaties
3/18/09 BBC, Pakistan rejects US strike report
3/18/09 DiNovella, Progressive, A New Day for El Salvador
3/18/09 Coniff, Progressive, Forget AIG Bonuses--The Next Bailout is Here
3/18/09 Case, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Ill Migrants Left to Languish Behind Bars
3/18/09 Klare, FPIF, The Second Shockwave
3/18/09 Levine, CNN, Gates: 'Stop-loss' phasing out, families of fallen to get travel aid
3/18/09 CNN, New Mexico governor repeals death penalty in state
3/18/09 BBC, Fed pumps $1.2tn into US economy
3/18/09 Stoupe, Asia Times, China inoculates itself against dollar collapse (Part 3)... Part 1, Part 2
3/18/09 Delasantellis, Asia Times, Justice on Comedy Central
March 17, 2009
3/17/09 Goldman, McClatchy, Veterans assail proposal to have private insurance plans pay for their service ailments
3/17/09 Weaver, ProPublica, Why Obama's New Definition of Terrorists Is a Lot Like the Old One
3/17/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Contracting Fraud: A Glossary
3/17/09 Brown, AP, Wolf numbers up again, but expansion slowing
3/17/09 Katine, Guardian, Remittances: Time for payback
3/17/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Accounting Standards Eased Today!
3/17/09 Watt, NYT, No Smooth Ride on TV Networks' Road to Diversity
3/17/09 McCullagh, CBS, Report Says 163 Banks Could Be At Risk
3/17/09 Moses, SMH, Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
3/17/09 Dedman, MSNBC, U.S. banks suffer 149 percent rise in bad loans
3/17/09 Webb, Guardian, Shell dumps wind, solar and hydro power in favour of biofuels
3/17/09 BBC, Arctic sea monster's giant bite
3/17/09 Bender, Boston Globe, Gates Readies Big Cuts in Weapons
3/17/09 BBC, Failing hospital 'caused deaths'
3/17/09 Frykberg, IPS, MIDEAST: Gazans Struggle for Clean Drinking Water
3/17/09 Brown, AP, Texas jail was an Animal House, authorities say
3/17/09 Al Jazeera, CIA interrogation called 'torture'
3/17/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Mortgage Fraud Up As Credit Tightens
3/17/09 DeYoung, WP, U.S. Moves to Replace Contractors in Iraq
3/17/09 Cobain, Guardian, FCO admits silence over torture victims
3/17/09 Singh, CNN, Scientists find new bacteria species
3/17/09 Walker, BBC, The day oil was discovered in Nigeria
3/17/09 Gibbs, BBC, El Salvador rebels in from the cold
3/17/09 BBC, US law sparks Mexican trade row
3/17/09 BBC, China seeks export carbon relief
3/17/09 BBC, Russia announces rearmament plan
March 16, 2009
3/16/09 Baseline Scenario, Much Worse Than You Think: International Economic Diplomacy
3/16/09 Coutts, ProPublica, Another $8 Billion Or So on the Line for AIG
3/16/09 AP, Report says 3 percent in DC have HIV or AIDS
3/16/09 Lough & Ilnoiaina, Reuters, Army storms Madagascar presidential palace
3/16/09 Perez-Pena, NYT, Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely to the Web
3/16/09 Cevallos, IPS, MEXICO: Cradle of Maize Rocked by Transgenics
3/16/09 Harkinson, MoJo, The Saline Solution
3/16/09 Clark, McClatchy, Latin Americans in U.S. sending less money home, bank says
3/16/09 LAT, Industrial output down for 4th straight month
3/16/09 Romero, IHT, Chavez tells his navy to take over key seaports
3/16/09 Shachtman, WIred, U.S. Could Use Crisis to Wage 'Financial Warfare'
3/16/09 Lans, WP, Pension Check Guarantees Mean More Budget Woes
3/16/09 Ria-Novosti, Ex-Marxist guerrilla party candidate wins El Salvador polls
3/16/09 Annan, Guardian, A message from Africa
3/16/09 EDIE, Protect water to save money
3/16/09 EDIE, Rising sea levels threaten one in ten people by 2100
3/16/09 CNN, AIG names recipients of its bailout money
3/16/09 Adams, CSM, Red Cross report says detainees at CIA 'black sites' were tortured
3/16/09 BBC, 'Brain decline' begins at age 27
3/16/09 BBC, Crisis 'will cost Africa $49bn'
3/16/09 BBC, Sudan to 'expel all aid groups'
3/16/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Stimulus Oversight Chief Questions Jobs Numbers Too
3/16/09 Renner, Truthout, Dr. Ravi Batra: New Thinking on the Economy
3/16/09 Alexander, Reuters, Obama unveils steps to aid small businesses
3/16/09 Wolff, Reuters, U.S. OKs record $2.1 billion arms sale to India
3/16/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, AIG Bonuses Raise More Questions About Geithner and Summers
3/16/09 Rampell, NYT, The State of State Budgets
3/16/09 Dreyfus, MoJo, The Freeman Affair
3/16/09 Macalister, Guardian, New generation of nuclear power stations 'risk terrorist anarchy'
3/16/09 Brown, CNN, AIG 'recklessness and greed'
3/16/09 Vivian, CNN, Commentary: Time for dialogue on race is now
March 15, 2009
3/15/09 Borenstein, AP, Northeast US to suffer most from future sea rise
3/15/09 Roberts, AP, Immigrants Face Detentions, Few Rights
3/15/09 Kocher, Lexington, Jessamine teen's rapid decline stunned family
3/15/09 Page, Register, Pentagon inks deal on portable milli-wave raygun tech
3/15/09 Toros, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Preparing for Water Quarrels, if not Wars
3/15/09 CNN, Cheney says Obama's policies 'raise the risk' of U.S. terror attack
3/15/09 Faul, AP, Women in Congo Speak Out about Rape Despite Taboo
3/15/09 Calamachi, AP, Guinea narcostate revealed in TV confessions
3/15/09 Davis, KC Star, Lenexa-based credit union's woes will cost the entire industry
3/15/09 Carroll, Guardian, Now Coca-Cola feels force of Chavez' colourful revolution
3/15/09 Burke, Guardian, Our skewed world view won't let us see the real Pakistan
3/15/09 BBC, Bolivia leader redistributes land
3/15/09 BBC, Opec debates oil production cuts
March 14, 2009
3/14/09 Welz, MoJo, Ethanol's African Landgrab
3/14/09 Lister, TimesOnline, Downturn Could Kill 400,000 Children, Warns Margaret Chan
3/14/09 Schulte, WP, A Trashed Economy Foretold
3/14/09 Hedgepeth, WP, Army Defends Costly Weapons Program
3/14/09 Boxun, 4000 billion is only 1/3 of its plan, yet still a secret
3/14/09 Hubert, SacBee, Some feel burned as media spotlight falls on capital's homeless camp
3/14/09 Greenhouse, NYT, Labor Secretary Proposes Suspending Farm Rules
3/14/09 Sayers, CNN, Washington Post to merge business news into front section
3/14/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism--A Roadmap For Current Debates
3/14/09 Holland, NYT, Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?
3/14/09 BBC, Australia spill '10 times worse'
3/15/09 Hutton, Guardian, Look no further than inequality for the source of all our ills
3/14/09 Ahlers, CNN, GAO: Fake passports easy to get
March 13, 2009
3/13/09 Trainer, IntelDaily, Renewable energy cannot sustain a consumer society
3/13/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, America Unprepared for Climate Change, Say Policy Advisers
3/13/09 Passa, AP, Oil-soaked Australian beaches named disaster zones
3/13/09 Desai, Reuters, G20 rift deepens ahead of crisis response talks
3/13/09 Reuters, BofA seeks more jumbo mortgages: report
3/13/09 Wines & Bradsher, NYT, China's Leader Says He Is 'Worried' Over U.S. Treasuries
3/13/09 Baumann, MoJo, What Economic Crisis?
3/13/09 Kane, IntelDaily, Hersh: 'Executive assassination ring' reported directly to Cheney
3/13/09 Talvi, ITT, De-escalating the Drug War
3/13/09 Doak, FPIF, Making Peace or Fueling War in Africa
3/13/09 CNN, Stewart slings barbs face-to-face with Cramer
3/13/09 Hambling, Wired, New Army Weapon Aims to Fry Gadgets, People
3/13/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Road Tripping Through Whitopia
3/13/09 Guru, Asia Times, Dodging the black hole
3/13/09 Norris, NYT, In This Recession, More Men Are Losing Jobs
3/13/09 AP, U.S. Abandons Term for Detainees but Keeps Policy
3/13/09 Zagaroli, McClatchy, Here's another earmark: More privacy for red wolves to breed
3/13/09 Barnes, LAT, Pentagon plans blimp to spy from new heights
3/13/09 Bash & Walsh, Congresswoman defends advocacy for minority banks
3/13/09 BBC, US drops 'enemy combatant' term
3/13/09 Harvey, BBC, Papua's struggle for independence
3/13/09 Sanchez, KC Star, Commentary: It's time for America to think straight about class
3/13/09 Rowlatt, BBC, In Texas, green power is American power
March 12, 2009
3/12/09 Buchanan, Scoop, A Word From Afar: Leashing the Watchdogs
3/12/09 Lipton & Rutenberg, NYT, Congresswoman With Ties to Bank Helped Seek Funds
3/12/09 Zuckoff, NYT, A Face of the Economic Meltdown
3/12/09 Adam, Guardian, Severe global warming will render half of world's inhabited areas unliveable, expert warns
3/12/09 World Focus, Authorities: Madoff used London office to launder money
3/12/09 AP, Climate change effects seen in Antarctic winds
3/12/09 BBC, Monkeys 'teach infants to floss'
3/12/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Bailed Out Bank Had Friends in High Places
3/12/09 Kay, SF Chron, Ocean Expected to Rise 5 Feet Along Coastlines
3/12/09 Alonso-Zaldivar, AP, Report: US on short end of health care 'value gap'
3/12/09 Al Jazeera, Rome 'CIA rendition' case suspended
3/12/09 Knudson, SacBee, Dire scenarios presented on global warming
3/12/09 Cho & Faiola, WP, Treasury Seeks Billions More to Aid Ailing Nations
3/12/09 Reuters, U.S. House to explore financial crisis prosecutions
3/12/09 Jolly & Pollack, NYT, Roche Agrees to Buy Genentech for $46.8 Billion
3/12/09 Crutsinger, AP, Household net worth plunges by record amount
3/12/09 Valente, IPS, ARGENTINA: Bold New Law on Violence Against Women
3/12/09 AP, Initial Jobless Claims Increase Again
3/12/09 Manalsuren, IPS, POPULATION: Unchecked Fertility Could Lead to 9 Billion by 2050
3/12/09 Seliger, ITT, From Russia With Mercy
3/12/09 Lewis, ITT, Closing America's Torture Chambers
3/12/09 Monbiot, Guardian, Time to change 'climate change'
3/12/09 McGrath, BBC, Climate scenarios 'being realised'
3/12/09 Adam, Guardian, Europe 'will be hit by severe drought' without urgent action on emissions
3/12/09 Doak, FPIF, Afghanistan Policy Outlook: 2009
3/12/09 Doak, FPIF, Iraq Policy Outlook: 2009
3/12/09 Montlake, CSM, Did 'Israel lobby' block Obama's pick for intelligence czar?
3/12/09 Gibbs, BBC, Mexican 'drug lord' on rich list
3/12/09 Savan, Nation, Stewart Asks Cramer: "Where's the D'Oh!"
3/12/09 BBC, South African expats vote upheld
March 11, 2009
3/11/09 Baker, Bloomberg, Taleb's `Black Swan' Investors Post Gains as Markets Take Dive (Originally published 10/14/2008)
3/11/09 Wintour et al, Guardian,G20 deal at risk as US-Europe rift grows
3/11/09 Freeman, Guardian, This shoe ain't made for walking
3/11/09 Campbell, Guardian, Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report
3/11/09 Penny, Guardian, An aching hunger
3/11/09 O'Hara, Guardian, Inequality is bad for your health
3/11/09 BBC, US Congress eases curbs on Cuba
3/11/09 Harribin, BBC, Threats from ocean acidification
3/11/09 Baseline Scenario, Financial Crisis Macroeconomics for Beginners
3/11/09 Ward, Charleston Gazette, Forest Service Ignored Concerns About Drilling
3/11/09 Alleyne, Telegraph, Obama Faces 'Revolution' If He Imposes Tough Carbon Targets, Warns IPCC
3/11/09 Sazbo & Appleby, USA Today, 21% of Americans Scramble to Pay Medical, Drug Bills
3/11/09 Borenstein, AP, Early 'Peking Man' was older, colder, study says
3/11/09 Beamish, AP, INSIDE WASHINGTON: Probe finds health risks missed
3/11/09 Applebaum, WP, Citi's Long History of Overreach, Then Rescue
3/11/09 Goldfarb & AHrens, WP, SEC Chairman Says Agency Faces Cuts Without Additional Funding
3/11/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Your Taxpayer Dollars at Work: TARP Subsidizing Banks' Overseas Deals
3/11/09 Reuters, Greenspan says Fed didn't cause the housing bubble
3/11/09 Wroughton, Reuters, IMF chief says bank cleanup too slow
3/11/09 Bunkley, NYT, U.A.W. Deal Cuts Hourly Rate to $55
3/11/09 Stein, MoJo, Obama's Progressive Treasury Pick
3/11/09 Parsons, LAT, Obama outlines his goals for earmark reform
3/11/09 Rosenberg, IntelDaily, Forest Labs and AstraZeneca Sleazy Science Revealed
3/11/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Former Accused Iraqi Agent Susan Lindauer, Secret Charges and The Patriot Act in Action
3/11/09 Burkeman, Guardian, US diplomat resigns from intelligence post over Israel criticism
3/11/09 BBC, Obama calls for G20 joint action
3/11/09 Eyal, Nation, The Perfect Storm
3/11/09 Grieder, Nation, Fixing the Fed
3/11/09 Cha, WP, Plummeting Chinese Exports Shock Economists
3/11/09 Byrne, IntelDaily, Pentagon knowingly exposed troops to cancer-causing chemicals, document shows
3/11/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Third Bank Says It Will Return Bailout Funds...But 487 Banks Keep Theirs
3/11/09 Sirota, Road Tripping Through Whitopia
3/11/09 Perkins, Guardian, Time for explosive action
3/11/09 Douzinas, Guardian, Are rights universal?
3/11/09 Smith, Times Online, 85 Per Cent of Amazonian Rainforest at Risk of Destruction, Researchers Warn
3/11/09 EDIE, Master Classes: Landfill Gas, Lechate & Groundwater
3/11/09 Black, Minn Post, Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh Describes "Executive Assassination Ring"
3/11/09 Litvinsky, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: World's Poor Offer Lessons in Bank Study
3/11/09 Appel, IPS, CORRUPTION-US: Homeowner Rip-Offs Spark Scores of Lawsuits
3/11/09 Brimacombe, BBC, Zambia's agri-business powerhouse
3/11/09 BBC, Youngest billionaires lose money
3/11/09 Birnbaum, Nation, The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills
March 10, 2009
3/10/09 AFP, UN Experts to Probe Secret CIA Detention Centers
3/10/09 Giannone, Reuters, Hedge funds to cut 20,000 jobs in 2009
3/10/09 Eckholm, NYT, Living in Motels, the Hidden Homeless
3/10/09 Labaton, WP, Some Banks, Citing Strings, Want to Return Aid
3/10/09 Witt, LAT, Driving through Tenaha, Texas, doesn't pay for some
3/10/09 Adam, Guardian, Greenland ice tipping point 'further off than thought'
3/10/09 Carlsen, FIPF, Drug War Doublespeak
3/10/09 Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi , FPIF, Poem: From an Iranian Mother to an American Mother
3/10/09 Erdman, CNN, City floating on the sea could be just 3 years away
3/10/09 CNN, China says U.S. ship violated international law
3/10/09 Sabo, CNN, 'Fight club' set up at school for mentally disabled, police say
3/10/09 Byron, CNN, U.N. report: Forestry can create 10 million jobs
3/10/09 BBC, Russia now 'top heroin consumer'
3/10/09 BBC, Nano-treatment to torpedo cancer
3/10/09 Abdelhadi, BBC, Egypt army cadets attack police
3/10/09 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index
3/10/09 Page, USA today, 24 million go from 'thriving' to 'struggling'
3/10/09 Sell, McClatchy, UN Report Says US Rendition Policy Broke International Law
3/10/09 BBC, Elephants reveal new trunk tricks
3/10/09 Secrecy News, Germs, Viruses, and Secrets
3/10/09 Brewster, FT, US companies pull out of retirement contributions
3/10/09 Hanley, Canada.com, Have we reached peak water?
3/10/09 Gupta, Huffington Post, The Change We Need I: A Bank for America
3/10/09 Becker, PSL, Capitalism: a system of mass destruction
3/10/09 AP, Activists Set to Defy Ban on WVa Mining Protests
3/10/09 Zapotosky, WP, Muslim Woman Asked to Leave Line at Bank Over Head Scarf
3/10/09 Faiola, WP, U.S. to Toughen Its Stance On Trade
3/10/09 Nebehay, Reuters, U.S. allies told to review role in secret renditions
3/10/09 Hansell, NYT, The Broadband Gap: Why Is Theirs Faster?
3/10/09 Healy, NYT, Bernanke Says Financial Rules Need an Overhaul
3/10/09 Tarcyzniski, IPS, Gitmo Uighurs Highlight a Complex Ethnic Problem
3/10/09 Samath, IPS, ECONOMY-SRI LANKA: Return of the IMF
3/10/09 Kachingwe, IPS, ZAMBIA: Food Vouchers Not Enough to Fight Hunger
3/10/09 McDonnell, Guardian, Time for a new People's Charter
3/10/09 CNN, Report: 1 in 50 U.S. children face homelessness
3/10/09 Peter, CSM, Violence is down, but many Iraqis still can't go home
3/10/09 Adams, CSM, More Filipinos question birth-control taboo
3/10/09 BBC, US job prospects hit 27-year low
3/10/09 BBC, Worst crisis since 1930s says Fed
3/10/09 BBC, Tanzania 'witch-naming' under way
March 9, 2009
3/09/09 Fitts, Scoop, Brother, Can You Spare a Trillion?
3/09/09 BBC, In pictures: Mindanao conflict
3/09/09 Evans & Sharrock, Times Online, Security guards stood by as gunmen killed Northern Ireland soldiers
3/09/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Morning Cup of Stimulus: Illegal Immigrants?
3/09/09 Dorschner, Miami Herald, Consumers Curb Medical Treatment to Save Money
3/09/09 Baseline, President Obama's Implied Future For Derivatives
3/09/09 Turse, MoJo, Younger and Hungrier in America
3/09/09 McCarthy, Independent, Carbon Cuts 'Only Give 50/50 Chance of Saving Planet'
3/04/09 Ali, Nation, Capitalism's Deadly Logic
3/09/09 Fox, Reuters, Engineered cell engine is step to artificial life
3/09/09 Strupcaewski, Reuters, EU finmins to back doubling of IMF funds at G20
3/09/09 Kunsler, IntelDaily, Forget About "Recovery"
3/09/09 Reuters, AIG warned of global turmoil before rescue: report
3/09/09 Stempel, Reuters, Buffett says economy fell off cliff
3/09/09 Murphy, LAT, Oregon schools face last resort: a shorter year
3/09/09 Pemberton, FPIF, Battle Over Bases
3/09/09 Puzzanghera, LAT, Why the world's biggest insurance company is still getting taxpayer funds
3/09/09 Lopez, LAT, Illegal dumping continues in South L.A.
3/09/09 Meyer, LAT, Pakistan sets roadblocks in U.S. hunt for extremists, officials say
3/09/09 Google, More Americans say they have no religion
3/09/09 Miller, Bloomberg, Depression Dynamic Ensues as Markets Revisit 1930s
3/09/09 Enders, ITT, A Nation Divided
3/09/09 BBC, Kurdish 'grave site' digs begin
3/09/09 BBC, Drug firms in $41bn giant merger
March 8, 2009
3/08/09 Deeb, AP, Sudan's president warns foreigners in Darfur
3/08/09 Wired, Open Up Government Data
3/08/09 Reuters, Protesters target U.S. foreclosed-homes auctioneer
3/08/09 Andrews, NYT, World Bank Says Global Economy Will Shrink in '09
3/08/09 Goodman, NYT, Appeal of the Dollar Adds to the Pain of Ailing Nations
3/08/09 Goldstein, McClatchy, High tech tool has members of Congress all a-Twitter
3/08/09 BBC, N Korea warning to US and S Korea
3/08/09 McKie, Guardian, Scientists to Issue Stark Warning Over Dramatic New Sea Level Figures
3/08/09 Weingarten, WP, Fatal Distraction
3/08/09 Rosenwald, WP, House Trap - Upside-Down Owners Missed by Rescue Long to Exhale
3/08/09 Reinhold, Reuters, Who got AIG's bailout billions?
3/08/09 Rosenberg, WP, Second-Class Citizens in Virginia
3/08/08 Magagnini, Sac Bee, Asian American gambling addicts face cultural gap in getting help
3/08/09 Therloff, LAT, How computers call the shots for L.A. County children in peril
3/08/09 Moberg, ITT, A Spectre is Haunting America
3/08/09 McVeigh, Guardian, Sex attacks blight lives of Haitian girls
3/08/09 Sergeant, BBC, The shame of Iraq's pariah widows
3/08/09 Landay, McClatchy, China's thirst for copper could hold key to Afghanistan's future
3/08/09 Savage & Shane, NYT, Terror-War Fallout Lingers Over Bush Lawyers
3/08/09 Sheffield, CNN, Not even renters safe from foreclosure storm
March 7, 2009
3/07/09 Rovira, PSL, Suicides spread as economic crisis deepens
3/07/09 Friedman, NYT, The Inflection Is Near?
3/07/09 Zibel et al, AP, When economy bottoms out, how will we know?
3/07/09 Joseph, PSL, Federal government to deport thousands of Haitian workers
3/07/09 Olemacher, AP, IRS dumps private debt collectors, shifts pendulum
3/07/09 Abdullah, McClatchy, For ex-offenders, older workers, uneducated, jobs even harder to find
3/07/09 Hirsch, LAT, Whole Foods, FTC agree on Wild Oats settlement
3/07/09 Faul, AP, Traumatized child soldiers return home in Congo
3/07/09 Powell, NYT, Mortgage Fraud Case Poses Federal Quandary
3/07/08 Kramer, NYT, The Last Days of the Oligarchs?
3/07/09 CNN, Israel launches airstrikes into Gaza
3/07/09 Goodman, CNN, Woman dies from mad cow disease in Spain
3/07/09 BBC, Adapting to climate change in Archangel
3/07/09 BBC, Treasury takes 65% Lloyds stake
3/07/09 BBC, Old sensitivities resurface in Sudan
3/08/09 BBC, Karzai agrees to delay elections
3/07/09 BBC, Police break up Malaysia protest
March 6, 2009
3/06/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Follow the Stimulus Money
3/06/09 Evitar, Wa. Independent, CIA Confirms 12 Destroyed Videotapes Depicted "Enhanced Interrogation Methods"
3/06/09 Grey, Reuters, U.S.-led troops not protecting civilians enough: study
3/06/09 Liptak, NYT, Justices Erase Ruling That Allowed Detention
3/06/09 Palletta, WSJ, Bill Seeks to Let FDIC Borrow up to $500 Billion
3/06/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Modern Slavery in America
3/06/09 Shaughnessy & Starr, CNN, Generals share their experience with PTSD
3/06/09 Park, CNN, Why we're sleeping less
3/06/09 Ghouri, BBC, Medical waste scandal scars Gujarat
3/06/09 McDonald, NYT, Wall Street Opens Higher on U.S. Jobs Report
3/06/09 Everly, Kansas City, Backers want to put more ethanol in your fuel
3/06/09 AP, Octopus gets inside lunchbox at Boston aquarium
3/06/09 Al Jazeera, Arctic ice 'could melt by 2013'
3/06/09 Loht, NYT, Piecemeal Layoffs Avoid Warning Laws
3/06/09 Healy, NYT, 651,000 Jobs Reported Lost in February
3/06/09 Ordonoz, Charlotte, Observer, Bill aims to keep aid from illegal immigrants
3/06/09 Kaplan, LAT, Cancer threat removed from stem cells, scientists say
3/06/09 Al Jazeera, Mexico condemns US 'corruption'
3/06/09 Delaney, CSM, Why 10,000 Ugandans are eagerly serving in Iraq
3/06/09 Messina, CMS, Icelanders knit crafty response to global crisis
3/06/09 BBC, Horses tamed earlier than thought
3/06/09 BBC, Asian shares slide as fears grow
3/06/09 BBC, US officer 'stole Iraq aid funds'
3/06/09 BBC, Gaza homes destruction 'wanton'
3/06/09 BBC, US jobless rate rises to hit 8.1%
March 5, 2009
3/05/09 Hambling, Guardian, Nanotechnology goes to war
3/05/09 Lorinc, NYT, Do C.F.L.s Increase Greenhouse Gases?
3/05/09 Kiel, ProPublica, GMAC, MetLife Among Banks Undergoing Stress Tests
3/04/09 Miller & Reeve, Times Online, 10 Things We Didn't Know About Food
3/05/09 Ross et al, ABC, Scandal at Treasury: Official Quits Amidst Fraud Scandal
3/05/09 Luben & Lobe, IPS, Intel Council Head Draws Ire of Israel Lobby
3/05/09 Adler, Reuters, One in 8 U.S. households late paying or in foreclosure
3/05/09 Adams, CSM, Sudan's President Bashir defies warrant, expels aid groups
3/05/09 Ordonez & Zagarolli, Charlotte Observer, Deportation program nets minor offenders
3/05/09 BBC, SA shuts Zimbabwe refugees' camp
3/05/09 Reuters, Former Merrill execs invested in Madoff funds: report
3/05/09 Singel, Wired, Amex Demands Right to Call and SMS Any Phone You Call Them From
3/05/09 WorldFocus, Financial crisis upsets global economic order
3/05/09 AP, Senate clears way to reverse polar bear rule
3/05/09 Barry, Wired, Swedish Solar Car Runs on Fool's Gold
3/05/09 Greenberg, TomDispatch, Obama's Guantanamo?: Bush's Living Legacy at Bagram Prison
3/05/09 Vekshin, Bloomberg, Bair Says Insurance Fund Could Be Insolvent This Year (Update1)
3/05/09 Atkinson, ITT, Always Look on the Bright Side of Genocide
3/05/09 Osborne, Guardian, UK employees can still be forced to retire at 65, EU court rules
3/05/09 Mackinnon, Guardian, World's most endangered mammal, Javan rhino, captured on camera
3/05/09 Moss & Martin, NYT, Food Problems Elude Private Inspectors
3/05/09 McGrath, BBC, 'No proof' of bee killer theory
3/05/09 BBC, 'Substantial doubt' for GM future
3/05/09 Hall, McClatchy, It may be a decade before Dow's back to 12,000, oracle says
3/05/09 Naylor, Army Times, Plan would have SOCOM, CIA share personnel
3/05/09 Levine, CNN, Army reports another month of high suspected suicides
March 4, 2009
3/04/09 Nakashima, NYT, New Post Proposed at Pentagon
3/04/09 Nasir, CSM, Pakistani vigilantes take on Taliban
3/04/09 BBC, Poor being hit by crisis says IMF
3/04/09 Mirchandani, BBC, OC's rich rush to cash in on gold
3/04/09 BBC, China to boost military spending
3/04/09 Jewitt, ProPublica, Report: Cons, Convicts and Government Contractors
3/04/09 Moyers, Nation, Economist Robert Johnson on 'Zombie' Banks
3/04/09 Rothberg, Nation, Foodies Address the Slavery Issue
3/04/09 Kotlowitz, NYT, All Boarded Up
3/04/09 Loy, ADN, Hazelwood offers 'heartfelt apology' for oil spill
3/04/09 Fox, Reuters, Common ingredient offers AIDS protection
3/04/09 Drawbaugh & Daly, Reuters, UBS refuses to give U.S. names, replaces chairman
3/04/09 Dunham, Reuters, In past 2 years, 87 million in U.S. went uninsured
3/02/09 Huus, MSNBC, 'Tidal wave' of homeless students hits schools
3/04/09 BBC, Live text: Brown faces Congress
3/04/09 AP, Details of Home Loan Plan Are Released
3/04/09 Fink, ProPublica, Study Links Poorer Hospital Care to Racial Segregation
3/04/09 Bartelme, Post&Courrier, EPA Urged to Toughen Coal Ash Rules
3/04/09 Eckel, Post & Courrier, Russian scholar says US will collapse _ next year
3/04/09 Scheer, Nation, AIG: Billions Dished Out in the Dark
3/04/09 Stempel, Reuters, One in five U.S. mortgage borrowers are underwater
3/04/09 Maze, Army Times, 16,000 Unopened Claims Letters Hidden at VA Offices
3/04/09 Ehrenreich & Fletcher, Nation, Reimagining Socialism
3/04/09 Becker & McDonnell, LAT, Mexico's drug war creates new class of refugees
3/04/09 Simanowitz, ITT, Blue People, Yellowcake
3/04/09 CNN, Chavez orders nationalization of Cargill
3/04/09 CNN, Target to open 27 new stores
3/04/09 Stiglitz, Nation, A Bank Bailout That Works
3/04/09 Boudreau & Bronstein, CNN, Poor wiring endangers troops in Afghanistan, contractors say
3/04/09 Natural News, Morgellons: Terrifying New Disease Reaching Pandemic Status
3/04/09 Randall, WSWS, 7.3 million in the US prison system
3/04/09 Walberg, IntelDaily, Europe: Prison of nations
3/04/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, John Yoo: UC Berkeley is a 'Magnet for Hippies, Protesters, and Left Wing Activists'
3/04/09 Sutter, CNN, Should hunters switch to 'green' bullets?
3/04/09 Luhby, CNN, Obama foreclosure fix open for business
3/04/09 BBC, Mexico troops enter drug war city
3/04/09 BBC, Warrant issued for Sudan's leader
March 3, 2009
3/03/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Diagnosing the New Health Czar's Industry Ties
3/03/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Stimulus Watchdog
3/03/09 Wintour & Sparrow, Guardian, Global Recession Emerged From US, Brown to Tell Congress
3/03/09 von Hoffman, Nation, The Second Great Depression
3/03/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, What "Establishment Media" Really Means
3/03/09 Perry, LAT, Jet crash caused by poor maintenance, errors, Marine investigation concludes
3/03/09 Deen, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Financial Crisis Threatens Women's Meagre Gains
3/03/09 CNN, Obama overturns Bush endangered species rule
3/03/09 CNN, Scientists discover new species in ocean's depths
3/03/09 BBC, Fed's Bernanke fears stagnation
3/03/09 BBC, US Afghan supplies cross Russia
3/03/09 Lipton, NYT, Ex-Leaders at Countrywide Start Firm to Buy Bad Loans
3/03/09 Leonhardt, NYT, Job Losses Show Breadth of a Recession
3/03/09 Lee, NYT, Study Questions Whether Cameras Cut Crime
3/03/09 Weaver, ProPublica, Chart: Obama Tracks Bush on National Security Cases
3/03/09 Smith, Times/UK, Human Factor Suspected in Mass Beaching of Whales in Australia
3/03/09 Irwin, WP, Government Finalizes New $200B Lending Program
3/03/09 Reuters, Obama considers funds to buy bad assets: report
3/03/09 Drawbaugh, Reuters, Foreign tax havens targeted in U.S. bills
3/03/09 Mikkelsen, Reuters, Bush-era memos saw rights limits in U.S. terror war
3/03/09 Love, Reuters, Downturn to be considerably deeper than IMF forecast: OECD
3/03/09 Englehardt, MoJo, The Dictionary of American Empire-Speak
3/03/09 Falconer & Schulman , MoJo, Blackwater's New Frontier: Their Own Private Africa
3/03/09 Schemper, MoJo, 36 Years of Solitude
3/03/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Former Accused Iraqi Agent Reveals Facts about 9/11 Warning
3/03/09 Macaskill, Guardian, Obama offers to drop missile project if Russian helps deal with Iran
3/03/09 BBC, TV linked to asthma risk doubling
3/03/09 BBC, Spanish jobless total rises again
3/03/09 BBC, Canada inquiry told of Taser use
3/03/09 Taub, NYT, Lighting Up the Darkness in Rural Africa
3/03/09 Rampell, NYT, Tax Fallacies: Explaining Marginal Tax Rates
3/03/09 Rampell, NYT, Tax Fallacies: Explaining Marginal Tax Rates
3/03/09 Greenberg, MoJo, The Missing Prison
3/03/09 Stein, MoJo, Congressional Data Mining: Coming Soon?
March 2, 2009
3/02/09 Waggoner, AP, Some nonprofits can't touch their money
3/02/09 Norton, Wired, Rewiring the Brain: Inside the New Science of Neuroengineering
3/02/09 Cho, WP, On Economy, Two United Voices Steer Obama Agenda
3/02/09 Charter, Times Online, New 'Iron Curtain' will split EU's rich and poor
3/02/09 Prusher, CSM, Israeli limits stymie Gaza rebuilding
3/02/09 Gopal, CSM, Karzai draws criticism for early election call
3/02/09 Lewis, NYT, Memos Reveal Scope of Power Bush Sought in Fighting Terror
3/02/09 Faiez, AP, Afghan Civilians Could Bear Brunt of Increased War
3/02/09 Reuters, U.S. government calls "waterboarding" torture
3/02/09 Kiel, ProPublica, AIG: The Tally Mounts (And Gets Murkier)
3/02/09 Guardian, The Making of The Age of Stupid
3/02/09 Burkeman, Guardian, CIA Admits to Destroying More Interrogation Videos
3/02/09 Kay, SF Chron, 'We're Like a Katrina Without the Flood': Residents Fight Toxic Legacy
3/02/09 Estabrook, Gourmet, The Price of Tomatoes: Keeping Slavery Alive in Florida
3/02/09 AP, No Justice for Victims of Agent Orange
3/02/09 Wilson, NYT, Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary
3/02/09 Kunsler, IntelDaily, What Next? The collapse of complex systems...
3/02/09 Pallitro, FPIF, Prosecuting the Bush Team?
3/02/09 Simon, CNN, Working professionals head to food bank
3/02/09 CNN, U.S. offers $900 million to Palestinians
3/02/09 Lee, Indypendent, Thousands of Youth Demand New Climate Change Policy
3/02/09 Lopatka & Dokoupil, Reuters, EU says crisis worst in memory, helping new EU states
Originally published 2/14/09 Dmitry Orlov, Cluborlov, Social Collapse Best Practices
3/02/09 Torgonvick, CNN, When women bring home the bacon
3/02/09 Zabrenko, AP, Gates: Iran "Not Close" to Nuclear Weapon
3/02/09 van den Bosch, IPS, WATER-NAMIBIA: Policy to Create a Water Scarcity?
3/02/09 Bezlova, IPS, ENERGY-CHINA: On Oil Shopping Spree
3/02/09 Haoson, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Few Safety Nets for Women of Colour
3/02/09 EDIE, Google Earth map to boost US renewable energy production
3/02/09 BBC, Israel 'plans settlement growth'
3/02/09 Rincon, BBC, US nuclear relic found in bottle
March 1, 2009
3/01/09 Gaynor, Reuters, Activists Protest Immigration Raids in Phoenix
3/01/09 Lyon, Salt Lake Tribune, Iraqi Refugees Returning to Danger Zone to Escape Poverty in Utah
3/01/09 Chavez, Dallas Morning News, Number of Homeless Students Rising in Dallas-Area Districts
3/01/09 Robinson, Charleston Gazette, Veterans' Families Question Cause of Deaths
3/01/09 Feffer, FIPF, The Imperial Unconscious
3/01/09 Sayer, Mother earth News, The Hidden Link Between Factory Farms and Human Illness
3/01/09 Wallace, MoJo, Consumer Retorts: Fair Trade Coffee
3/01/09 Luo, Seattle Times, Laid-off professionals turn to "survival jobs"
3/01/09 Holland, Modesto Bee, Jump-starting job creation: What works?
3/01/09 Trujillo, BBC, The Amazon's most ardent protector
3/01/09 Weiss, AP, Mom: Deployment leaves no one to care for kids
3/01/09 Brand, AP, Merkel rejects bailout plan for eastern EU nations
3/01/09 Al Jazeera, African migrants drown off Yemen
3/01/09 Al Jazeera, Swat cleric sets sharia deadline
3/01/09 Reuters, Iran has enough nuclear material to make bomb: U.S.
3/01/09 Sack, NYT, Outside Atlanta, a Utopia Rises
3/01/09 Bowers, Guardian, Hedge fund thinks bank slide is over
3/01/09 Smith, Guardian, Girls being force-fed for marriage as junta revives fattening farms
3/01/09 BBC, Chavez sends army to rice plants
3/01/09 Rogers, MoJo, Why Biofuels Are the Rainforest's Worst Enemy
3/01/09 BBC, US 'cell assault' video released
3/01/09 Sample, Guardian, Scientists' Stem Cell Breakthrough Could End Ethical Dilemma
3/01/09 Eddelmont, BBC, Azerbaijan's pipe dream for Europe
3/01/09 BBC, US resists Karzai poll date call
3/01/09 BBC, Violence flares over race movie
3/01/09 BBC, America's trillion dollar question
3/01/09 BBC, Missiles 'kill seven' in Pakistan