Month of Category: April 2009 | Return to Uncommon Thought News

April 30, 2009
4/30/09 Hodgkinson, Guardian, How Californians cope with a state of emergency
4/30/09 Gill, BBC, Invisibility cloak edges closer
4/30/09 Collins, News& Observer N.C., Feds Wrongly Deport Citizen Living in N.C.
4/30/09 Connor, Independent, Climate Chaos Predicted by CO2 Study
4/30/09 Rampell, NYT, Gendered Job Losses
4/30/09 Greenberg, MoJo, Human Rights in the Dust
April 29, 2009
4/29/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Will NorthCom take over in Swine Flu Outbreak?
4/29/09 Giordano, Narco News, How "The NAFTA Flu" Exploded
4/29/09 Pollitt, Nation, Better Living Through Torture
4/29/09 Nichols, Reuters, Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade
April 28, 2009
4/28/09 Bhadrakumar, Asia Times, US promotes Iran in energy market
4/28/09 Comley & Kamalakaran, Reuters, BofA, Citi urged to increase capital: report
4/28/09 Mead, Lexington Herald, Obama plans to enforce mining limits
4/28/09 Reiter, KC Star, Gay couples line up to wed in Iowa
4/28/09 Aronson, Religious dispatches, 40 Million Nonbelievers in America? The Secret Is Almost Out
April 27, 2009
4/27/09 Andrews, ProPublica, New Scandal: Pension Fund Pay to Play
4/27/09 Weiser, SacBee, Water Controversies Boil Over
4/27/09 Sirota, ITT, 'Reform' To Nowhere
4/27/09 Ghosh, BBC, Science cash 'to beat food riots'
April 26, 2009
4/26/09 Taylor, NYT, End the University as We Know It
4/26/09 Taylor, NYT, End the University as We Know It
4/26/09 Worthington, AlterNet, Who Ordered the Torture of Abu Zubaydah?
4/26/09 Coburn, Independent, Torture? It Probably Killed More Americans than 9/11Torture?
4/26/09 Chandler et al, WP, A Day of Vandalism, Violence
4/26/09 Warrick & Finn, WP, Effectiveness Of Harsh Questioning Is Unclear
April 25, 2009
4/25/09 La Riva, PSL, Firefighters and affirmative action
April 24, 2009
4/24/09 NPR, Shadow Banking
4/24/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Fed Releases Stress Test Guidelines
4/25/09 Sheridan et al, WP, Plan Would Deploy Guard Near Mexico
4/24/09 Trevelyan, BBC, UN racism event highlights divisions
April 23, 2009
4/23/09 Tady, ITT, Big Cable's Internet Rip-Off
4/23/09 Zhong, Asia Times, China unveils its new naval clout
4/23/09 Clarkson, ITT, The Psychologists of Torture
4/23/09 Patterson & Ragir, Bloomberg, Emerging-Market Short Sales Climb Most Since 2007
April 22, 2009
4/22/09 NPR, Why Banks Won't Lend
4/22/09 Al Jazeera, Darfur rebels sentenced to death
4/22/09 Scheer, Nation, Thievery Under TARP
4/22/09 Walberg, IntelDaily, NATO, SCO or PATO?
4/22/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The Missed Opportunity
4/22/09 Feffer, FPIF, Monsters vs. Aliens
4/22/09 Schifferes, BBC, 'Deeper' recession ahead says IMF
April 21, 2009
4/21/09 Schwartz, NYT, Civil Lawsuit Over Katrina Begins
4/21/09 Hambling, WIred, Army Tests Flying Robo-Sniper
April 20, 2009
4/20/09 Lindsay-Polland, FPIF, U.S.-Trained Human Rights Abusers
April 19, 2009
April 18, 2009
4/18/09 Warrick & Finn, NYT, Psychologists Helped Guide Interrogations
4/18/09 Chien & Chen, Reuters, China says key currency countries need watching
4/18/09 Hall, News&Observer, Bartering is a modern trade
4/18/09 Rosales, IPS, PERU: Water Isn't for Everyone
4/18/09 Mercer, BBC, Tasmania's wombat poo paper a hit
4/18/09 LaFranchi, CSM, US no longer towers over Latin America
4/18/09 Kinver, BBC, Key role of forests 'may be lost
4/18/09 Bhadrakumar, AsiaTimes, Cash-rich China courts the Caspian
April 17, 2009
4/17/09 Jamail, TruthOut, Human Body Parts
4/17/09 Hakim & Walsh, NYT, In State Pension Inquiry, a Scandal Snowballs
4/17/09 Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, IMF warns over parallels to Great Depression
4/17/09 Feffer, FPIF, Empire Foreclosed?
4/17/09 Greco, FPIF, Global Food Security Act
4/17/09 England, BBC, HK students debate Tiananmen legacy
4/17/09 Miller & Meyer, LAT, Memos reveal harsh CIA interrogation methods
4/17/09 Chipani, BBC, Hidden kingdom of the Afro-Bolivians
April 16, 2009
4/16/09 Romero & Barrionuevo, NYT, Deals Help China Expand Sway in Latin America
4/16/09 Gutierrez & Drash, CNN, Folks losing homes dial 1-800; no one answers
4/16/09 Zetter, Wired, NSA Broke New Eavesdropping Law
4/16/09 Lovitt & Barrett, AP, Obama: No Charges for Harsh CIA Investigation
4/16/09 Hartocollis & Davidson, NYT, A Cheap, Fast and Possibly Deadly Route to Beauty
4/16/09 Stein & Schulman, MoJo, Chris Dodd's Personal Bailout
4/16/09 Gopal. CSM, Briefing: Who are the Taliban?
April 15, 2009
4/15/09 Keen, USA Today, Economic survivalists take root
4/15/09 Kunstler, IntelDaily, The coming siege of Austerity
4/15/09 Kroll, TruthOut, The Corporatization of Public Education
4/15/09 Lichtblau & Risen, NYT, Officials Say US Wiretaps Exceeded Law
April 14, 2009
4/14/09 Horton, Daily Beast, The Bush Six to Be Indicted
4/14/09 Feffer, FPIF, Pirate Bankers, Shadow Economies
4/14/09 Murawski, News& Observer, For needy, cell phones can be free
4/14/09 Atalli, L'Express, The Geithner Bubble
April 13, 2009
4/13/09 Hari, Independent, We're Being Lied to About Pirates
4/13/09 PSL, Socialism 101
4/13/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, CIA Interrogation Tapes Predated Torture Memo
April 12, 2009
4/10/09 Hirsch, Newsweek, Wall Street Digs In
4/12/09 Valliantos, TruthOut, Honeybees in Danger
4/12/09 Hawksley, BBC, City air pollution 'shortens life'
4/12/09 Dreyfus, Nation, Is Iran "Demonic"? Ask Dennis Ross
4/12/09 BaselineScenario, Why Bail Out Life Insurers?
4/12/09 Skoloff, & Burdeau, AP, Chinese drywall poses potential risks
April 11, 2009
4/11/09 Kunzelman & Foster, AP, Black man's killing by police shakes La. town
4/11/09 Alonso-Zaldivar, AP, No strength in numbers for America's uninsured
4/11/09 Jaffe & de Young, WP, Obama Team Mulls Aims Of Somali Extremists
April 10, 2009
4/10/09 Dike, FPIF, Global Discussion on Racism
4/10/09 McDermott, BBC, Colombian Indians seek security
4/10/09 Jones, BBC, Raising cane toad
April 9, 2009
4/09/09 Schulman & Stein, MoJo, Revolving Door, Bailout Edition
4/09/09 Westhead, Toronto Star, Poor Pay Price of Progress in India
4/09/09 Brooks, USA Today, Military Used Pigs in Blasts to Test Armor
4/09/09 Johnson, WP, Holder Begins Justice Revamp
4/09/09 Becker & McDonnell, LAT, U.S. citizens caught up in immigration sweeps
4/09/09 Parry, ITT, Another Bush Intelligence Failure
4/09/09 Black, BBC, Prize for 'Sun in the box' cooker
4/09/09 Fessy & Doyle, BBC, From rebel-held Congo to beer can
April 8, 2009
4/08/09 Gimein, MSN, Why home prices may never recover
4/08/09 Lawder & Somerville, Reuters, Fed sees economy sliding further
4/08/09 Boley & de la Merced, NYT, U.S. May Enlist Small Investors in Bank Bailout
4/08/09 Woods & Grecco, FPIF, G20 and Global Poverty
4/08/09 Wong, CNN, The bionic body 2.0
4/08/09 Painter, BBC, Americas on alert for sea level rise
April 7, 2009
4/07/09 Corbin, Internet News, Groups Warn New Cybersecurity Bill Oversteps
4/07/09 Warrick & Tate, WP, Report Calls CIA Detainee Treatment 'Inhuman'
4/07/09 Nation, Meltdown 101
4/07/09 Buchanan, BBC, Irish downturn hits man and beast
April 6, 2009
4/06/09 Klare, Nation, Global Crime Wave?
4/06/09 Nelson, TimesOnline, India to cut off 30 million mobile phones
4/06/09 Eley, IntelDaily, Behind the surge on Wall Street
4/06/09 Harris, ITT, No Sugar-Coating Immigration
4/06/09 Thomson, BBC, Paris liberation made 'whites only'
4/06/09 Grabel, ProPublica, OMB Issues New Stimulus Guidance
4/06/09 Uchitelle, NYT, Economy Falling Years Behind Full Speed
4/06/09 Herman, FPIF, Serb Demonization as Propaganda Coup
April 5, 2009
4/05/09 Kattakin & Lamb, Sunday Times, Thousands Flee Bomb Attacks by US Drones
April 4, 2009
4/04/09 Pizzagati, AlterNet, Down But Not Out at $464 Million a Year
April 3, 2009
4/03/09 Pannell, BBC, Aid agencies issue Afghan warning
4/03/09 Harrabin, BBC, US to be 'pragmatic on climate'
4/03/09 Bernstein, ProPublica, Chronicle of a Bank Failure Foretold
4/03/09 Reich, TruthOut, It's a Depression
4/03/09 Dowie, MoJo, The Bechtel File
4/03/09 Pupovac, ITT, Same-Sex Marriage in the Heartland
4/03/09 Engdahl, Asia Times, Geithner's dirty little secret
4/03/09 Shahzad, Asia Times, US strikes at Taliban's nerve center
4/03/09 Seiple, CSM, 10 Terms Not to Use with Muslims
4/03/09 Giroux, TruthOut, Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis
4/03/09 Sanders, ITT, Do-It-Yourself Governance
April 2, 2009
4/02/09 Naughton, TimesOnline, G20 leaders begin talks to bury 'free' markets
4/02/09 Guru, Asia Times, We still owe the rich
4/02/09 Shahzad, Asia Times, The rise and rise of the neo-Taliban
4/02/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The Mark-to-Market Myth
April 1, 2009
4/01/09 van Gelder, Yes!, 8 Ways to Join the Local Food Movement
4/01/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The New Masters of the Universe
4/01/09 Haider, Reuters, US Expands Pakistani Drone-Strike Zone
4/01/09 Bernstein & Thompson, ProPublica, Audit Checks Uncover Weakness in Lender Loss Reserves
4/01/09 Seeyle, NYT, Jury Gets Case of Fired Professor
4/01/09 Halpin & Bluemink, ADN, Redoubt settles a bit but is building dome
4/01/09 Lydersen, ITT, Global Warming Accelerates
4/01/09 Douzinas, Guardian, Who counts as 'human'?
4/01/09 Perez-Rocha, FPIF, Empire and Latin America in the Obama Era