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May 31, 2009

5/31/09 AP, World's strongest laser unveiled at California lab

5/31/09 Soal & Cobain, Guardian, British agents would have had ministers' OK for collusion in torture - ex-MI6 chief

5/31/09 Fitzgerald, Boston Herald, Higher-education bubble could burst next

5/31/09 Smith, Boston Globe, Tracking the War on Women in Darfur

5/31/09 AP, SAfricans begin removing bodies of beached whales

5/31/09 Honan, Reuters, Informant's role questioned in U.S. security probes

5/31/09 Hicks, BBC, UN team meets Chad child soldiers

5/31/09 Gopal, CSM, The most deadly US foe in Afghanistan

5/31/09 Harris, Guardian, Gay mayor's illicit love shakes a Texas town

5/31/09 BBC, Israeli Arabs defiant on 'loyalty laws' plan

May 30, 2009

5/30/09 Peltz, AP, Hurricane barriers floated to keep sea out of NYC

5/30/09 Valiantos, AlterNet, From Watchdog to Lapdog: An Insider's History of the EPA

5/30/09 Byrne, Raw Story, US Violated Geneva Conventions, Bush Iraq Commander Says

5/30/09 McKinley, NYT, Heading to Texas, Hudson's Toxic Mud Stirs Town

5/30/09 Holland, AlterNet, The Results Are In: Americans Are Now More Closely Aligned With Progressive Ideas Than at Any Time in Memory

5/30/09 Al Jazeera, 'Fleeing' ex-Iraq minister arrested

5/30/09 Appelbaum & Irwin, WP, Congress's Afterthought, Wall Street's Trillion Dollars

5/30/09 Heller, OpenLeft, Ex-Interrogators Are Mad as Hell About Torture, and They're Not Gonna Take Cheney Anymore

5/30/09 Rothfeld & Bailey, LAT, Deeper budget cuts hit schools and California's neediest

5/30/09 Cardinale, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Local Currencies Really Can Buy Happiness

May 29, 2009

5/29/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Banks Want Government Subsidies to Buy Assets from Themselves

5/29/09 EDIE, Arctic provides litmus test for global climate change response

5/29/09 de Pommereau, CSM, Why Germans are starting to strike - like the French

5/29/09 St. Claire & Frank, AlterNet, How Much Has Changed? Obama Administration Deals Series of Anti-Environmental Blows

5/29/09 Reed, AlterNet, Seasteading: Libertarians Set to Launch a (Wet) Dream of 'Freedom' in International Waters

5/29/09 Burns, AlterNet, Why Does Two-Thirds of the World's Population Still Not Have Access to Safe Drinking Water?

5/29/09 Fink, AlterNet, Top Secret CIA Cables Reveal Daily 'Medical Updates' on Abu Zubaydah, Who Was Waterboarded 83 Times

5/29/09 Kiel, ProPublica, GM Belongs to Us

5/29/09 Cockburn, Independent, Iraq Faces the Mother of all Corruption Scandals

5/29/09 OneWorld, Uncle Sam Denying Soldiers Citizenship

5/29/09 Sanger & Shanker, NYT, Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace

5/29/09 Clark, Bloomberg, Arctic May Hold 30% of Undiscovered Gas, Strengthening Russia

5/29/09 Toppo, USA Today, Profound shift in kind of families who are home schooling their children

5/29/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Manipulation - How Markets Really Work

5/29/09 Spencer, WSWS, US: Army base ordered on stand-down after multiple suicides

5/29/09 Leahy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: More Subsidies for Fossil Fuels in Recovery Plans

5/29/09 Frayssinet, IPS, BRAZIL: 100,000 Hectares of Atlantic Forest Lost in Three Years

5/29/09 Berrigan, ITT, Defense Budget Shell Game

5/29/09 Hamby, CNN, Bush defends interrogation program in Michigan speech

5/29/09 Whiteman, CNN, Report: Climate change crisis 'catastrophic'

5/29/09 CNN, 'Crazy Turtle Woman' transforms graveyard into maternity ward

5/29/09 Epstein, ProPublica, Accounting Error Rolls Back Stimulus Spending Numbers

5/29/09 Mackenzie, FT, Peak oil professor challenges IEA figures

5/29/09 BBC, US to set out cyber security plan

5/29/09 BBC, African viewpoint: Nigeria's freedom

5/29/09 Buchan, Wired, Time-Lapse Videos of Massive Change on Earth

5/29/09 Reuters, Retired U.S. general said misquoted in rape photo flap

5/29/09 Norris, NYT, Troubled Bank Loans Hit a Record High

5/29/09 Kirkpatrick, NYT, Sotomayor's Focus on Race Issues May Be Hurdle

5/29/09 Mechanic, MoJo, What One Stimulus Buck Could Do

5/29/09 Fellowship For Reconciliation, Pentagon Plans Latin America-Wide Intervention Ability for New Military Base in Colombia

5/29/09 Pachuari, Guardian, This silent suffering poor and global warming

5/29/09 Dodd, Guardian, Foreign Office abandoned me to Iraqi jail torture, Briton says

5/29/09 Mears, CNN, Supreme Court asked to weigh in on detainee photos

5/29/09 Hamick, CNN, Levin: Memos don't show what Cheney says they do

5/29/09 Kovach, CNN, Buffalo Soldier gets Arlington burial after 100 years

May 28, 2009

5/28/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, After Gen. Taguba Alleges Existence of Prisoner Rape Photos, Robert Gibbs Attacks. . . British Media

5/28/09 Massey, AlterNet, Solving the Immigration Problem Means Addressing the Realities of Corporate Globalization

5/28/09 Moberg, ITT, Battling Over Employee Free Choice

5/28/09 Brociner, ITT, Israel and the Klein Doctrine

5/28/09 Greco, FPIF, Overhauling Global Finance

5/28/09 Ansari, CNN, Survey: Arctic may hold twice the oil previously found there

5/28/09 CNN, Petraeus says releasing detainee photos would be risky

5/28/09 BBC, Global crisis 'hits human rights'

5/28/09 Black, BBC, Ocean monster shows hidden depths

5/28/09 Allen, BBC, Rainbow nation's outsiders live in fear

5/28/09 Ghattas, BBC, High stakes for Obama-Abbas talks

5/28/09 BBC, Routine aspirin benefits queried

5/28/09 McGivering, BBC, Fears for new malaria drug resistance

5/28/09 Homig, GoldSeek, The Second Crash - On the Way and Unstoppable

May 27, 2009

5/27/09 WorldFocus, Religious beliefs guided both Bush and Blair on Iraq war

5/27/09 Fink, ProPublica, Has Consulting Firm For CIA Gone MIA?

5/27/09 Tech Radar, US cops and military to get laser guns

5/27/09 Shah et al, Miami Herald, U.S. undertakes Iraq-scale embassy project in Pakistan

5/27/09 Bloomberg, World Economy Is Yet to Bottom, People's Bank Says

5/27/09 Chinni, CSM, The persisting foreclosure crisis

5/27/09 Worthington, Guardian, Outsourcing torture to foreign climes

5/27/09 Nichols, Nation, Judge Sotomayor's Diabetes: Not a Weakness But a Strength

5/27/09 Mount, CNN, Contractors in fatal shooting say they're scapegoats

5/27/09 BBC, Number of problem US banks soars

5/27/09 BBC, Slumdog child star gets new home

5/27/09 BBC, Siberian child 'raised by dogs'

5/27/09 Liu, Asia Times, Liquidity drowns meaning of 'inflation'

5/27/09 Keesecker, AlterNet, Milwaukee, Don't Give the Public's Water Away to a Private Company

5/27/09 Johnson, Boston Globe, Genetics-Based Products Stir Concerns

5/27/09 McLeod, On The Issues, Equal Rights Amendment Still Brings Out Ranters

5/27/09 Voss, BBC, Cuba announces new austerity plan

May 26, 2009

5/26/09 Husseinni, Rebel Reports, Colin Powell Confronted Over Torture That Fueled His Fraudulent UN Testimony Selling Iraq War

5/26/09 Scahill, If Iran Freed Roxanna Saberi, Why Won't the US Release Journalist Ibrahim Jassam?

5/26/09 Chen, AlterNet, Foreclosure Crisis Hits Poor Renters Hard: Evicted Families Have to Fight to Live Together

5/26/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Natural Gas Politics

5/26/09 AP, Russia to sign new uranium contract with US

5/26/09 Boyle, TimesOnline, Shell in court over death of Nigerian activist

5/26/09 Streitfeld, NYT, Home Prices Decline Again in March

5/26/09 Veal, IPS, ENERGY: Geothermal Is Not So Clean

6/26/09 Sample, Guardian, Rooks rival chimpanzees in their ability to use tools

5/26/09 BBC, Brazil floods displace thousands

5/26/09 BBC, China farmers raid police station

5/26/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Murtha's Middlemen and Telemarketing's Tricks of the Trade

5/26/09 Kravets, Wired, Showdown in NSA Wiretap Case: Judge Threatens Sanctions Against Justice Department

5/26/09 Nalman, TruthOut, IraqTortureGate: Powell Denies Knowing He Used Tortured Evidence for UN Case

5/26/09 Rothschild, Progressive, FBI Infiltrates Iowa City Protest Group

5/26/09 Vanden Heuvel, Nation, The Front Lines of the Economic (and Democracy) Crisis

5/26/09 Stout, NYT, Justices Ease Rules on Questioning

5/26/09 Hallinan, FPIF, Shadow Wars

5/26/09 Feffer, FPIF, Nightmare on Cheney Street

5/26/09 CNN, Former NYPD commissioner Kerik indicted

May 25, 2009

5/25/09 Baker, Truthout, Blue Cross Millionaires Are Scared to Compete With a Public Plan

5/25/09 Anderson, CounterPunch, Bush's Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to "Erase" Mid-East Enemies "Before a New Age Begins"

5/25/09 Burridge, Independent, Record rate of decline in economic growth

5/25/09 Edmonds, Two Sides of the Same Coin: Heads-Heads

5/25/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, CIA Backtracks On Reasons For Withholding Docs in Torture Tapes Case

5/25/09 BBC, Singer Boyle reaches Talent final

5/25/09 BBC, Outrage over N Korea nuclear test

5/25/09 BBC, Anger over Palestinian Nakba ban proposal

5/25/09 BBC, Deadly skin cancer cases rising

5/25/09 BBC, Nigeria rebels destroy pipeline

May 24, 2009

5/24/09 Whitlock, WP, Spain's Judges Cross Borders in Rights Cases

5/24/09 Al Jazeera, Pakistanis protest Swat offensive

5/24/09 Kratovac, AP, Gender issues worsen Iraq's medical woes

5/24/09 Firdaus, AP, Komodo dragon attacks terrorize Indonesia villages

5/24/09 Raum, AP, Fix is hard for Medicare, Social Security finances

5/24/09 LAT, Three families' stories put a face on the pain of California budget cuts

5/24/09 Sly, LAT, U.S. holds journalist without charges in Iraq

5/24/09 Chamberlain, Guardian, UN chief flies into Sri Lanka as Tamils' tales of terror emerge

5/24/09 Dorning, LAT, Early retirement claims increase dramatically

5/24/09 BBC, Agony in Sri Lanka's refugee camp

5/24/09 BBC, US Kuwait troops suffer swine flu

5/24/09 BBC, World Bank warns of social unrest

5/25/09 Macalister, Guardian, Climate Change Summit Hijacked by Biggest Polluters, Critics Claim

5/24/09 Bakri, WP, For Displaced Iraqis, 'No Life'

5/24/09 Rothschild, Progressive, So Philip Gourevitch Can See the Torture Photos, But We Can't?

5/24/09 Kessler, WP, State Dept. Plan Would Extend Benefits to Same Sex Partners

5/24/09 Thalman, Deseret News, Professor at USU says U.S. society may collapse

5/24/09 Blas, FT, Africa almost giving land away, says UN

5/24/09 Grant, CNN, Ex-Taliban claims abuse at Gitmo, Bagram: 'They were beating me'

5/24/09 CNN, U.N. seeks full access to Sri Lankan refugee camps

5/24/09 Rivers, CNN, Refugees survive on food 'cows won't eat'

5/24/09 Moyers, AlterNet, Bill Moyers: How Can We Expect an Industry That Profits from Disease and Sickness to Police Itself?

May 23, 2009

5/23/09 Sapien, ProPublica, EPA Administrator Forecasts Potential Shift on Bush-Era Drilling LoopholeEPA Administrator Forecasts Potential Shift on Bush-Era Drilling Loophole

5/23/09 Haaretz, 'Israel Won't Yield to US Demands, Won't Halt Settlement Construction'

5/23/09 Haggman, Miami Herald, Real estate bust turns South Dade suburbs into modern ghost towns

5/23/09 Dougherty, NYT, Latvia Races to Cut Deficit to Keep to Its Bailout Deal

5/23/09 Coomarasamy, BBC, Bernard Madoff's hidden victims

5/23/09 The Local, Red Bull Cola banned for containing cocaine

5/23/09 Jordan, WSJ, Job Fight: Immigrants vs. Locals

5/23/09 Painter, BBC, Chile faces climate change challenge

May 22, 2009

5/22/09 Feingold, Progressive, Feingold to Obama: Preventing Detention "Likely Unconstitutional."

5/22/09 Byrne, AlterNet, Right-Wing Radio Host Gets Waterboarded, and Lasts Six Seconds Before Saying It's Torture

5/22/09 WorldFocus, West should buy, not eradicate, Afghanistan's poppy crops

5/22/09 Kelly, Wired, The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online

5/22/09 Landay & Strobel, McClatchy, Cheney's Speech Ignored Some Inconvenient Truths

5/22/09 Wardop, Telegraph, Drinking from Plastic Bottles 'Increases Exposure to Gender-Bending Chemical'

5/22/09 Leahy, IPS, Alien Species Eroding Ecosystems and Livelihoods

5/22/09 Tran, Guardian, UN Poised to Close Gender Gap and Create Women's Agency

5/22/09 McGuirk, AP, Tasmanian devils listed as endangered in Australia

5/22/09 Brown, WP, Study Detects Flu Immunity in Older People

5/22/09 Leopold, TruthOut, Cheney Intervened in CIA Inspector General's Torture Probe

5/22/09 Dreyfus, Nation, Yet Another Bogus 'Terror' Plot

5/22/09 AP, Tobacco Companies Lose Appeal

5/22/09 Rashbaum & Fahim, NYT, Informer's Role in Bombing Plot

5/22/09 Gorman, LAT, Deportations carried out in the middle of immigration cases

5/22/09 Stracansky, IPS, EUROPE: Trafficking Rises as Incomes Fall

5/22/09 Damon, IntelDaily, World economy in freefall

5/22/09 Gard, ITT, The Aspiration of Global Zero

5/22/09 CNN, U.N.: $450M needed to help uprooted Pakistanis

5/22/09 Caleb, CNN, Whites become minority in Kansas county

5/22/09 Arraf, CSM, Iraqi Army: almost one-quarter lacks minimum qualifications

5/22/09 BBC, Morales in 'new liberation' plea

5/22/09 Head, BBC, Thailand 'gets tough' with Hmong

May 21, 2009

5/21/09 Al Jazeera, US burns Bibles in Afghanistan row

5/21/09 Al Jazeera, US men charged over synagogue plot

5/21/09 Chomsky, Torture memos and historical amnesia

5/21/09 Bhadrakumar, Asia Times, A neo-con Yankee in Karzai's court

5/21/09 BBC, Somali 'pirate' pleads not guilty

5/21/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Geithner Plan vs. Paulson Plan

5/21/09 Michel & Grabel, ProPublica, How to Run a Background Check on Companies Awarded Stimulus Contracts

5/21/09 Litvinsky, IPS, Lobbyist Ranks Swell With Advent of Climate Bill

5/21/09 Conery, Wa. Times, Administration Opposes Plame Appeal

5/21/09 AFP, Israel Dismantles West Bank Settlement Outpost

5/21/09 Bowers, OPenLeft, Real Differences Erode, Abstract Conceptualization of Differences Increase

5/21/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Foxes Confirm Fellow Fox As Guardian of the American Henhouse

5/21/09 Mouawad, NYT, Oil Industry Braces for Trial on Rights Abuses

5/21/09 Talev & Landay, McClatchy, Obama outlines plans for Guantanamo detainees

5/21/09 Gillian, Guardian, Gurkhas granted right to settle in the UK

5/21/09 Edwards, FPIF, World Bank Corruption

5/21/09 Madsen, Online Journal, The history of the synthetic H1N1 flu virus and a not-so-rosy future

5/21/09 Desai & Weir, Reuters, UK risks losing AAA rating

5/21/09 Casey, AP, UN study advises caution over dams

5/21/09 Mason & Olson, AP, Scientists investigate Mexican town's flu mystery

5/21/09 Edwards & Wilayto, TruthOut, Anti-Racist Struggle Continues in Powhatan, Virginia

5/21/09 Ashby & Hawking, ITT, Prairie Fire

5/21/09 Andrews, NYT, Treasury Is Said to Plan Second Bailout for GMAC

5/21/09 Wysham, ITT, What's Wrong With the New Climate Bill

5/21/09 Douzinas, Guardian, Does the left still care about liberty?

5/21/09 MacAskill, Guardian, Obama and Cheney clash over Guantanamo torture

5/21/09 BBC, Markets fall as growth hopes fade

5/21/09 BBC, In search of Europe: Latvia

5/21/09 BBC, Wind farm 'kills Taiwanese goats'

5/21/09 Drutman, Miller-McCune, How the Poorest Americans Dropped Out of Politics

5/21/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Obama Whitewashes U.S. History at National Archives

5/21/09 Corbet, NYT, A Prom Divided

5/21/09 Labott, CNN, Torture video threatens U.S.-UAE nuclear deal

May 20, 2009

5/20/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, First Buy High; Then Sell Low

5/20/09 NPR, A Global Shortage Of What?

5/20/09 Lakoff, Alternet, How We Talk About the Environment Has Everything to Do with Whether We'll Save It

5/20/09 LeFleur, ProPublica, White House Office Not Covered by FOIA

5/20/09 Al Jazeera, UAE abandons monetary union plans

5/20/09 Scahill, Nation, KBR Got Bonuses for Work that Killed Soldiers

5/20/09 Lyall, NYT, Report Details Abuses in Irish Reformatories

5/20/09 Lipton, NYT, U.S. Insurer of Pensions Sees Flood of Red Ink

5/20/09 Bumiller, NYT, 1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Finds

5/20/09 Hall, McClatchy, Are Wall Street speculators driving up gasoline prices?

5/20/09 Landay, McClatchy, Photos are fresh evidence of growing Pakistani nuclear program

5/20/09 Oil Drum, Peak Oil: World Oil Production Forecast - Update May 2009

5/20/09 IntelDaily, White House announces national vehicle emissions policy

5/20/09 Chan, IntelDaily, Unemployed graduates in China to reach 3 million (out of 7.8 mil.) in 2009

5/20/09 Salzman, IntelDaily, Four More Years: The Obamavore's Dilemma

5/20/09 Fraser, AlterNet, Glaciers Go, Leaving Drought, Conflict and Tension in Andes

5/20/09 Lohan, Alternet, Corporate Agriculture Is to Blame for the Hundreds of Thousands of Farmer Suicides in India

5/20/09 Watts, Guardian, "We Have Taken Every Measure We Can Think of to Stop the Desert Moving Closer and Submerging Our Crops and Villages"

5/20/09 Telegra[h, World's first battery fuelled by air

5/20/09 WIllis, Wa. Independent, EPA Mining Decisions Favor Coal Industry

May 19, 2009

5/19/09 Pincus, WP, Amid Queries, CIA Worries About Future

5/19/09 Hsu, WP, U.S. to Expand Immigration Checks to All Local Jails

5/19/09 Boudreau & Turnham, CNN, GAO report: Special-needs kids abused in schools

5/19/09 BBC, Bill Clinton to be UN Haiti envoy

5/19/09 Bow, Progressive, Asian-Americans are not "post-racial": Reflections on Asian Pacific-American Heritage

5/19/09 Chivers, NYT, Arms Sent by U.S. May Be Falling Into Taliban Hands

5/19/09 Hedgpeth, WP, Army to Restructure Weapons Program, Expand It to All Combat Brigades

5/19/09 Greve, McClatchy, America's poor are its most generous givers

5/19/09 Feffer, FPIF, Quaker Utopias

5/19/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Blackwater Operating in Afghanistan on Subcontract with Raytheon

5/19/09 Biggers, AlterNet, Dear Mr. President: Declare August 3rd as Armistice Day in the Appalachian Coalfields

5/19/09 Grabel, ProPublica, Some Stimulus Reports Come In

5/19/09 Majidi, PSL, Who are the real pirates in Africa?

5/19/09 Cooper, NYT, Ex-US Envoy May Take Key Role in Afghan Government

5/19/09 Vogt, AP, US mil: Afghan contractors violated gun policy

5/19/09 Raum, AP, Analysis: Obama moving to center on some issues

5/19/09 Al Jazeera, Many dead in Philippines landslide

5/19/09 Naiman, TruthOut, Can Treasury Sneak IMF Money Through the Supplemental?

5/19/09 Eder, Reuters, Big banks apply to repay TARP: sources

5/19/09 Koswanage & Ahmad, Reuters, Anti-piracy body backs off on international maritime force

5/19/09 Skelton, Guardian, Our man at Bilderberg: Let's salt the slug in 2010

5/19/09 Surendiran, Guardian, Sri Lanka's untold story

5/19/09 BBC, Obama to curb vehicle emissions

May 18, 2009

5/18/09 Doyle, Telegraph, Gen McChrystal, America's New Army Chief in Afghanistan, Under Fire Over Rough Tactics and 'Prisoner Abuse'

5/18/09 Cole, WSJ, Killed Civilians Bring More Controversy for Blackwater

5/18/09 Carroll, Guardian, Peru Army Moves Into Amazon After Tribes Blockade Rivers and Roads

5/18/09 Kuhnhenn, AP, Geithner: No plans to cap executive pay

5/18/09 Mujahid, TruthOut, Why Do Afghans Have a Life Expectancy of Only 44 Years?

5/18/09 DiNovella, Progressive, Prima Facie Refugees

5/18/09 Alonso et al, Progressive, Brown v. Board of Education at 55: segregation in the 21st century

5/18/09 Reuters, U.S. to propose most aggressive auto fuel standards

5/18/09 IntelDaily, Broad Coalition Of Groups Files Disciplinary Complaints Against Twelve Bush Administration Lawyers Who Advocated Torture Of Detainees

5/18/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, FBI "Going Dark." Budget Request for High-Tech Surveillance Capabilities Soar

5/18/09 Litvinsky, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Lifting the 'Resource Curse'

5/18/09 Williams, FPIF, 'The Slave Next Door'

5/18/09 Huq, FPIF, Bridging the Climate Change Gap

5/18/09 BBC, Rumsfeld 'Bible texts' criticised

5/18/09 Draper, GQ, And He Shall Be Judged: Rumsfeld ... Report covers slideshow

5/18/09 Davidson, New Yorker, Fantasies About the Vice-President

5/18/09 Reuters, Top U.S. officials can't be sued for post-9/11 abuse

5/18/09 Falconer, MoJo, Uncle Sam's Human Lab Rats

5/18/09 Spillius, Telegraph, Donald Rumsfeld covered Iraq briefing papers with Biblical texts

5/18/09 Kunstler, IntelDaily, Bad Collateral: A campaign to sustain the unsustainable

5/18/09 Guardian, Congo army rapes, robs and kills civilians, UN told

5/18/09 EDIE, Australia to build World's largest solar power station

5/18/09 EDIE, Utah allowed to process foreign nuclear waste

5/18/09 Kaimi, CNN, Abuse of child 'witches' on rise, aid group says

5/18/09 Jones, CNN, Is it the end of an era for black universities?

5/18/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Obama and the Right Wing vs. the ACLU and Human Rights Groups (Again)

5/18/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Spanish Investigation Reveals 'An Approved Systematic Plan of Torture' Under Bush

5/18/09 Bluemink, ADN, Native contracts get a hard look in US Senate

May 17, 2009

5/17/09 Murphy, AP, UN: Growth of slums boosting natural disaster risk

5/17/09 Petroski, Des Moine Register, FBI Infiltrated Iowa Anti-War Group Before GOP Convention

5/17/09 Wiegand, SacBee,

5/17/09 Bengali, CSM, Islamist offensive ruins the West's plan for Somalia

May 16, 2009

5/16/09 O'Harrow, WP, The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform

5/16/09 PressTV, McChrystal was Cheney's Chief Assassin

5/16/09 McGreal, Guardian, Horror and Stresses of Iraq Duty led US Sergeant to Kill Comrades

5/16/09 Bryan, AP, Study looks at early Navajo use of smoke signals

5/16/09 Reid, AP, Army fights stigma of mental care

5/16/09 Jamail, TruthOut, Engineering "Trust of the Indigenous Population": How Some Anthropologists Have Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving the Army

5/16/09 Shalizi & Graff, Reuters, U.S. strikes killed 140 villagers: Afghan probe

5/16/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Obama Nominates Leading Peace Activist To Top Pentagon Post

5/16/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Documents Describe Prisoner Abuse Photos Obama is Withholding

May 15, 2009

5/15/09 NPR, The Cost Of Race

5/15/09 AFP, IAEA Chief Warns of New 'Virtual' Nuclear Powers

5/15/09 Spillus, Telegraph, New 'Prisoner Abuse' Photographs Emerge Despite US Bid to Block Publication

5/15/09 Romero & Krauss, NYT, In Ecuador, Resentment of an Oil Company Oozes

5/15/09 AP, Bizarre bird gets private beach in Indonesia

5/15/09 Scahill, TruthOut, Torture Continues at Guantanamo Bay

5/15/09 Leopold, TruthOut, Ex-CIA Official: Agency Brass Lied to Congress About Interrogations

5/15/09 Revkin, NYT, Dredging of Pollutants Begins in Hudson

5/15/09 Powell & Roberts, Minorities Affected Most as New York Foreclosures Rise

5/15/09 Kiel, MoJo, Two Insurers Join the TARP, More to Come

5/15/09 Hook, LAT, Obama's extra war funding wins House approval

5/15/09 P2PNet, US in Police State Top 10

5/15/09 de Westhuizen, IPS, WORLD-ECONOMY: IMF Using Global Crisis to "Re-Launch" Itself

5/15/09 Marquez, IPS, Shootings of Unionists Continue Unabated

5/15/09 Leahy, IPS, Deep CO2 Cuts May Be Last Hope for Acid Oceans

5/15/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare's Enigma-In-Chief

5/15/09 Morris, Guardian, Scientists warn of new 'super rats'

5/15/09 Watts, Guardian, Young animal activists challenge Chinese culture

5/15/09 Annan, Guardian, A green deal for Africa

5/15/09 CNN, Rove questioned about U.S. attorney firings

5/15/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Could Taliban get keys to Pakistan's A-bomb?

5/15/09 Lillis, Wa. Independent, Coal, Electric Industries Big Winners in Climate Bill Deal

5/15/09 Simons, CNN, Army hopes interactive videos make smarter soldiers

5/15/09 Bright, CSM, Obama to relaunch military tribunals for terror suspects

5/15/09 Smink, BBC, A tunnel to unite old rivals?

5/15/09 BBC, Sudan accuses Chad of air attack

5/15/09 Marson, CSM, Ukraine's economic straits raise worries about radicalism

5/15/09 BBC, Russia to sign gas pipeline deal

May 14, 2009

5/14/09 Karoub & Williams, Seattle Times, The city of $10,000 homes: Outside buyers drawn to Detroit's foreclosures

5/14/09 Cho & Goldfarb, WP, U.S. Pushes Ahead With Derivatives Regulation

5/14/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Blackwater Accused of Racism on Its Anti-Piracy Ship

5/14/09 Windram, Daily Beast, Cheney's Role Deepens

5/14/09 Worthington, CommonDreams, Judge Condemns 'Mosaic' of Guantanamo Intelligence and Unreliable Witnesses

5/14/09 Smith, Guardian, Without truth about torture, no reconciliation

5/14/09 Munnell, CNN, Social Security healthier than your 401(k)

5/14/09 BBC, Obama defends abuse photos U-turn

5/14/09 BBC, Oil falls as demand 'set to drop'

5/14/09 Gelzer, TruthOut, Lt. Ehren Watada Wins Victory; Legal Limbo Continues

5/14/09 Sharma, Huffington Post, Afghan Women's Situation a Test Case for Obama Administration's Foreign Assistance Policy

5/14/09 BBC, Why XX must think like XY to earn more K

5/14/09 BBC, Chrysler to close 1 in 4 dealers

5/14/09 Puzanghera, LAT, Intel fined $1.45 billion by European antitrust regulators

5/14/09 Reckard & Heisel, LAT, SEC staff recommends civil fraud charges against Mozilo of Countrywide

5/14/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia

5/14/09 Cheney, CNN, CIA denies Cheney request on interrogations

5/14/09 Smith, CNN, Powell aide says torture helped build Iraq war case

May 13, 2009

5/13/09 BBC, Key coral reefs 'could disappear'

5/13/09 Lazo, WP, Immigrant Homeownership Proves Resilient in the Face of Slowdown

5/13/09 Halsey, WP, Obama Orders EPA to Take the Lead in Bay Cleanup

5/13/09 Nation, Ten Things You Can Do to Fight World Hunger

5/13/09 Landsberg, LAT, L.A. high school dropout rate climbs to 34.9%

5/13/09 Boseley, Guardian, Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say

5/13/09 Engler, FPIF, Science Fiction From Below

5/13/09 Landau, CNN, How human genes become patented

5/13/09 Faux, Nation, The More Things Change

5/13/09 Johnson, WP, Former Official: Treatment of Terror Suspects a 'Collective Failure'

5/13/09 Sachetti, Boston Globe, US Implored to Stop Deporting Haitians

5/13/09 Sanz, AP, RealtyTrac: April foreclosures rise 32 percent

5/13/09 Cho & Dennis, WP, Officials Knew of AIG Bonuses Months Before Firestorm

5/13/09 Renner, TruthOut, Actual Bailout May Exceed $10 Trillion

5/13/09 Fresco, TimesOnline, Crime lords 'running empires from jail using PlayStations'

5/13/09 Adler, Reuters, U.S. foreclosures jump to record high

5/13/09 Fieser, Miami Herald, Posthumous murder accusation shocks Guatemala

5/13/09 Story & Dash, NYT, U.S. Considers Financial Pay Rules

5/13/09 Healy, NYT, U.S. Retail Sales Fall for a Second Month

5/13/09 Baumann, MoJo, Next Up: The Battle Over Wall Street Reform

5/13/09 Bigwood, ITT, Reinventing Demons

5/13/09 Feyerick, CNN, Defense: Military missed soldier's symptoms before rape, killings

5/13/09 Skelton, Guardian, Our man at Bilderberg: in pursuit of the world's most powerful cabal

5/13/09 Gale & Bennett, Bloomberg, Swine Flu May Be Human Error; WHO Investigates Claim

5/13/09 Watson, CNN, Taliban: All local leaders must quit

5/13/09 Shiels, BBC, Google unveils 'smarter search'

5/13/09 BBC, Japanese trade indicator halves

5/13/09 Gregory, BBC, Intel faces huge competition fine

5/13/09 BBC, Pakistan's 'displaced deluge'

5/13/09 BBC, Pakistan conflict map

May 12, 2009

5/12/09 CNN, Carter pushes energy reform plan to Congress

5/12/09 CNN, ACLU sues over patents on breast cancer genes

5/12/09 Nebehay, Reuters, Health authorities ready to limit flu drug use

5/12/09 Reuters, U.S. credit rating at risk: former agency chief

5/12/09 World Focus, Bolivian land reform comes under fire from landowners

5/12/09 Zongker, AP, Project launched to fight frog-killing fungus

5/12/09 Jakes, AP, Tillman's parents want general's record reviewed

5/12/09 Drummond, Wired, Physicist's Fool-Proof War Formula (Just Add Media Accounts)

5/12/09 Leonnig, WP, Nephew Mentioned Rep. Murtha in Dealings as Contractor

5/12/09 Ackerman, Washington Independent, FBI Agent's Account of Interrogations Conflicts With Report

5/12/09 Verghese. The Retriever Weekly, Banks Gather Their Forces to Fight Back Against Obama's Higher Education Plan

5/12/09 Rogalski, KHOU, Some US Soldiers Forced to Steal Water in Iraq

5/11/09 Reuters, High health costs hit women hardest

5/12/09 Nebehay, Reuters, New virus could still mutate, spark pandemic: WHO

5/12/09 Doyle, Reuters, World seabed disputes face U.N. deadline

5/12/09 Leland, NYT, Minority Home Ownership Gains Fall

5/12/09 Bradsher, NYT, Ships Tread Water, Waiting for Cargo

5/12/09 Rabin, NYT, Formaldehyde Linked to Cancer Death

5/12/09 Escobar, MoJo, Pipelineistan Goes Af-Pak

5/12/09 Deen, IPS, POLITICS: Same Firms Shipping Aid and Arms, Report Says

5/12/09 Appel, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Scientists Shepherd Dwindling Right Whales

5/12/09 AP, Afghan schoolgirls collapse in suspected poison gas attack

5/12/09 Feffer, FPIF, Cities Can Save the Earth

5/12/09 CNN, How it feels to be judged on looks

5/12/09 Goldstein, CSM, Diplomatic memos reveal Chinese effort to block Guantanamo prisoner's asylum bid

5/12/09 McGrath, BBC, Going bananas for energy in Africa

5/12/09 BBC, Rare island species 'undervalued'

5/12/09 BBC, US elected to UN rights council

5/12/09 Urban. BBC, When generals become unstuck

5/12/09 Defense Update, DARPA to Seek Underground Targets with Laser, Gravity Sensors

5/12/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents to ACLU

5/12/09 BBC, Swine flu could hit one in three

5/12/09 BBC, Oil above $60 on economy hopes

5/12/09 BBC, Eyewitness: Trapped in Mingora

5/12/09 Sutter, CNN, New search engines aspire to supplement Google

May 11, 2009

5/11/09 Hightower, Alternet, Democrats Give Wall Street a Big, Wet Kiss

5/11/09 Schmid, AP, Mexican genomes show wide diversity

5/11/09 Singel, Wired, NYTimes Reader Shows Graceful Future of Online News

5/11/09 AFP, Global Ocean Talks Underway in Indonesia

5/11/09 Eidelson, Cognitive Policy Works, How Americans Think About Torture - and Why

5/11/09 Krolicki & Kim, Reuters, GM says open to moving HQ from Detroit

5/11/09 Kulish, NYT, Man Accused of Crimes at a Nazi Camp Is Deported

5/11/09 Segal, NYT, We're Dull, Small Banks Say, but Have Profits

5/11/09 Hanin, Star Telegram, Parasitic flies turn fire ants into zombies

5/12/09 Downing, Sac Bee, Economic, environmental hurdles block critical California water transfers

5/11/09 Levine, MoJo, There's No Ammo on the Shelves

5/11/09 AP, Pentagon official: US soldier kills troops

5/11/09 Labaton, NYT, Administration Takes Tougher Antitrust Line

5/11/09 Gilson, MoJo, Books: Blood and Politics

5/11/09 Weiss, Money & Markets, Five Economic Storms Raging NOW!

5/11/09 Mears, CNN, Former Enron CEO files high court appeal

5/11/09 Brant, BBC, Is Islamic finance the answer?

5/11/09 Fisher, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Lawmakers Try to Block New Abuse Photos

5/11/09 Cadman & Caroline, AlterNet, 9 Weight Loss Secrets the Diet Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

5/11/09 Sibaja, AP, Floods ease in Brazil, but 300,000-plus homeless

5/11/09 Apuzzo & Blackledge, AP, STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest

5/11/09 Al Jazeera, IMF slashes Gulf growth forecast

5/11/09 Leopold, TruthOut, CIA Headquarters Micromanaged Torture

5/11/09 BBC, Swine flu found on China mainland

5/11/09 BBC, Living with Baghdad's concrete barriers

May 10, 2009

5/10/09 Lassiter, McClatchy, West looked the other way as Afghan drug trade exploded

5/10/09 BBC, Immigrants hurt in Greek violence

5/10/09 Squires, CSM, Italy to stem a human tide of immigrants

5/10/09 Anqvi, AP, Yet another Gandhi rises in Indian politics

5/10/09 Boone, Guardian, Doctors Raise Phosphorus Concerns After US Strikes in Afghanistan

5/10/09 Kaufman, NYT, A Cautionary Video About America's 'Stuff'

5/10/09 CNN, Aid worker: Shelling kills 378 civilians in 'no-fire' zone

May 9, 2009

5/09/09 Baseline Scenario, Stress Tests: What Was the Point Again?

5/09/09 Alonso-Zaldivar, AP, Sources: Senators weigh 3 government health plans

5/09/09 Finn, WP, Obama Set to Revive Military Commissions

5/09/09 Hayes, TimesOnline, Thousands join Army to escape recession

5/09/09 Comlay & Wilchins, Reuters, U.S. banks rush to raise capital

5/09/09 Ley, BBC, Malta struggles with desperate refugees

5/09/09, Escobar, Asia Times, Balochistan is the ultimate prize ... Part 1: Obama does his Bush impression

May 8, 2009

5/08/09 Schmid, AP, Warning: Sunspot cycle beginning to rise

5/08/09 Bacon, TruthOut, US Courts - Enemies of Education?

6/08/09 Johnson, NYT, Chemical Company Is Acquitted in Asbestos Case

5/08/09 Enders, McClatchy, Glacier in Bolivia _ gone

5/08/09 Bhandari, IPS, AUSTRALIA: Climate Change - Further Threat to Aboriginals

5/08/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, US denies polar bears protection from climate change

5/08/09 EDIE, Copenhagen 'the world's last chance' - Dimas

5/08/09 King, CNN, Bad economy puts more families on the streets

5/08/09 Mattingly, CNN, Minority youngsters dying weekly on Chicago's streets

5/08/09 CNN, Banks unveil cash-raising plans

5/08/09 Al-Rubai, AlterNet, Angry Farmers Sabotage Chinese Oil Equipment in Southern Iraq

5/08/09 Fisher, PSL, Thousands of Roma protest racist attacks and discrimination

5/08/09 Stockman, Boston Globe, Psychologists' E-Mails Stir Interrogation Issue

5/08/09 Herbert, AP, Gov't faces weekend deadline on polar bear rule

5/08/09 Kiel, ProPublica, $19 Billion More to Fannie Mae, and More to Come

5/08/09 Mason, AP, Top flu expert warns of a swine flu-bird flu mix

5/08/09 Drawbaugh & Younglai, Reuters, Admin wants Fed to oversee "systemic risk": sources

5/08/09 Healy, NYT, U.S. Jobless Rate Hits 8.9%, but Pace of Losses Eases

5/08/09 Seager, Guardian, Bank of England braced for third wave of financial crisis

5/08/09 Beatty, Guardian, British scientists crack swine flu code as world tally rises to 2,384

5/08/09 CNN, Thousands flee as wildfire rages

5/08/09 CNN, Ex-soldier could face death over Iraq murders, rape

5/08/09 Segal & Zarrella, CNN, Native Americans see unity as path to prosperity

5/08/09 Christie, CNN, Mortgage modifications are happening. Get yours

5/08/09 BBC, Ten US banks fail 'stress tests'

5/08/09 BBC, Chavez extends state oil industry

May 7, 2009

5/07/09 Demick, LAT, China says 5,355 students died in last year's quake

5/07/09 Brown, Muslim attitudes survey: a closer look

5/07/09 Cohen, CNN, Swine flu, part II: What's in store in the months to come

5/07/09 Miller, ProPublica, Military Fails to Collect From AIG for Care to Injured Contractors

5/07/09 Scahill, RebelReports, After US Strikes, Afghans Describe 'Tractor Trailers Full of Pieces of Human Bodies;' Meanwhile, Obama Readies 21,000 More Troop

5/07/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Banks That Received Federal Cash Enabled Subprime Lenders, Report Finds

5/07/09 sTEIN, mOjO, Meet K Street's Worst Nightmare

5/07/09 LAT, FBI terrorist watch list errors pose security risk, Justice Dept. report says

5/07/09 Howell, ITT, Bonuses Make a Comeback

5/07/09 Bolton, Guardian, Spain's illegitimate torture prosecution

5/07/09 CNN, Blackwater era ending in Iraq

5/07/09 Chen, CNN, Growing up is even harder when mom is in prison

5/07/09 Montlake, CSM, Sri Lankan 'detention' camps swell with Tamils

5/07/09 Morelle, BBC, Meet the brains of the animal world

5/07/09 BBC, Afghan anger at deadly US strikes

5/07/09 BBC, 'Dumped' dogs turn to cannibalism

5/07/09 Hayes, Mercury News, Harvesting the Rain: An Old Idea Takes on New Life

5/07/09 Shachtman, Wired, Pentagon's Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion (Updated)

5/07/09 Ward, Charleston Gazzette, Bush EPA Hid Data on Coal-Ash Risks, Study Shows

5/07/09 Lee, ProPublica, Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Guantanamo Cases

5/07/09 Cohn, Nation, Stanford Antiwar Alumni, Students Call for Condi War Crimes Probe

5/07/09 Nation, Stressing Over the Bank Stress Tests

5/07/09 Pfierfer, LAT, SEC cracks down on investment fraud

5/07/09 Chen & Lin, Bloomberg, Global Crisis 'Vastly Worse' Than 1930s, Taleb Says

5/07/09 Fisher, IPS, POLITICS-US: Unwieldy Terror Watchlist Hits a Million

5/07/09 Sturcke & Hirsch, Guardian, DNA pioneer condemns plan to keep details on database for 12 years

5/07/09 Sahadi, CNN, Weeding the budget of $17 billion

5/07/09 Mears, CNN, High court denies deportation stay for accused Nazi guard

5/07/09 Bengali, CSM, Somali insurgency driving thousands of refugees to Kenya

5/07/09 Hagengruber, CSM, A victory for cheese eaters? US-EU trade spat defused.

May 6, 2009

5/06/09 Scahill, RebelReports, A Response to Those Who Say Don't Prosecute Bush's Torture Lawyers

5/06/09 WorldFocus, Africans more genetically diverse than rest of world

5/06/09 Silva, LAT, White House calls for $17 billion in budget savings

5/06/09 Vine & Pemberton, FPIF, Marine Protection as Empire Expansion

5/06/09 KC TV, Weapon of Choice: Depleted Uranium

5/06/09 Christie, CNN, 20% of homeowners 'underwater'

5/06/09 Federman, AlterNet, The Newest Gold Rush: The Frenzy for Natural Gas Threatens New York's Water

5/06/09 Barstow, NYT, Inspector at Pentagon Says Report Was Flawed

5/06/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, AIG Bonuses Nearly Four Times Larger Than Originally Disclosed

5/06/09 Chin, NYT, Climate Change in Pictures

5/06/09 Baumanm & Corn, MoJo, A Cheney Cover-Up?

5/06/09 King, LAT, Red Cross backs reports of Afghan civilian deaths

5/06/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Top CIA Officials Were Given Daily Torture Updates of Zubaydah

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4360/salt_of_the_earth/">Salt of the Earth

5/06/09 MacAskill & Tran, Guardian, US air strikes kill dozens of Afghan civilians

5/06/09 Tuchman & Wojtecki, CNN, Texas police shake down drivers, lawsuit claims

5/06/09 Shiels, BBC, Zombie computers 'on the rise'

5/06/09 BBC, EU and US reach deal in beef row

May 5, 2009

5/05/09 McCarthy, Guardian, Palestinian Patients 'Interrogated Before Leaving Gaza for Treatment'

5/05/09 Brand, AP, EU takes aim at Canada, bans seal products

5/05/09 Wired, Get Your Copy of Windows 7 RC

5/05/09 Chopra, SF Chron., The Toxic Residue of Torture

5/05/09 Batheja, Star-Telegram, Motives of American Muslims debated at Republican meeting in Fort Worth

5/05/09 Doyle, McClatchy, Supreme Court lets Shell off the hook in pollution cleanup

5/05/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Al Jazeera Strikes Back at Pentagon, Releases Unedited Footage of US Soldiers' 'Bible Study' in Afghanistan

5/05/09 Baseline Scenario, Pollution, Race, and Poverty

5/05/09 NPR, Bernanke To Congress: Jobless Recovery Looms

5/05/09 WorldFocus, OUTBREAK: A Worldfocus special report on the H1N1 flu

5/05/09 Shah, McClatchy, Pakistan advises Swat inhabitants to evacuate as Taliban takes Mingora

5/05/09 McGrath, IPS, EGYPT: Viral Time Bomb Set to Explode

5/05/09 Mertus, ITT, The Past and Future of Human Rights

5/05/09 Mulholland, Guardian, Home Office 'names and shames' 16 people banned from UK

5/05/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, US climate change denier James Inhofe joins Al Gore in fight against soot

5/05/09 Story & Dash, NYT, U.S. Says Bank of America Needs Cushion of $33.9 Billion

5/05/09 Brown, WP, Swine Flu Has Existed Since Sept., Analysis Suggests

5/05/09 Feffer, FPIF, Capitalist Pigs

5/05/09 Marson, CSM, Ukraine: opening of secret archives shines light on famine, repression

5/05/09 Yusuf, CSM, Georgia accuses Russia of backing attempted coup

5/05/09 BBC, US needs 'digital warfare force'

5/05/09 Guardian, Should we care about animals?

May 4, 2009

5/04/09 Rasheed & Sly, LAT, Iraqi police arrest high-ranking member of U.S.-allied movement

5/04/09 Smithers, Guardian, Some baby foods less nutritious than a cheeseburger, says report

5/04/09 Scahill, RebelReports, US Soldiers in Afghanistan Told to "hunt people for Jesus... so we get them into the kingdom"

5/04/09 Baseline Scenario, The Need for New Antitrust Laws

5/04/09 Jamail, TruthOut, Combat Operations in Fallujah

5/04/09 Himes, Times Online, Government to close lifeline for Iraqi interpreters in two weeks

5/04/09 Gradd, Reuters, U.S. denies letting troops convert Afghans

5/04/09 Folbre, NYT, Including Home Production, G.D.P. Might Not Look So Bad

5/04/09 Benjamin & Miller, Bloomberg, 'Great Recession' Will Redefine Full Employment as Jobs Vanish

5/04/09 Auken, IntelDaily, Obama administration seeks extraordinary military powers in Pakistan

5/04/09 PressTV, Pentagon rapped over KBR huge corruption case

5/04/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, How a Health Benefits Law Formed the Basis For the 'Torture Memo'

5/04/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, The FBI's Department of Precrime

5/04/09 Veal, IPS, ICELAND: Living With Ghost Towns

5/04/09 Cunningham, IPS, MIDEAST: Environment Emerges as a Major Casualty

5/04/09 Fisher, IPS, RIGHTS-IRAQ: U.N. Report Paints Grim Picture

5/04/09 Baseline Scenario, Stress Tests for Beginners

5/04/09 Asma, ITT, Happy Serf Liberation Day

5/04/09 Guardian, Evening Standard launches ad campaign to say sorry to Londoners

5/04/09 CNN, Rice: Bush wouldn't approve illegal interrogations

5/04/09 BBC, European economy 'will shrink 4%'

5/04/09 BBC, Afghanistan attacks leave 25 dead

5/04/09 Talev, McClatchy, Obama calls for crackdown on offshore tax havens

5/04/09 Litvinsky, IPS, HAITI: Battered and Unready for Looming Storm Season

May 3, 2009

5/03/09 Mazzetti, & Shane, NYT, Interrogation Debate Sharply Divided Bush White House

5/03/09 IPS, SRI LANKA: In Honour of Slain Editor, They Keep Writing

5/03/09 Tisdall, Guardian, Pakistan nuclear projects raise US fears

5/03/09 Buner, Guardian, Refugees on a wild frontier between army and Taliban

5/03/09 Leland, Charlotte Observer, The new homeless

5/03/09 Locke, Charlotte News Observer, Feds are looking at Edwards' campaign

5/03/09 Barker, Idaho Statesman, All we do now to save salmon could mean nothing

5/03/09 Asia News Intl, Advisor: 'US Needs to Call off Drone Strikes in Pak'

5/03/09 Herbert, AP, Ethanol test for Obama on climate change, science

5/03/09 Partlow & Booth, WP, In Mexico, an Unusual Flu Season Was a Sign of Something Ominous

5/03/09 Johnson, Guardian, Web providers must limit internet's carbon footprint, say experts

5/03/09 Buchen, Wired, Culture May Be Encoded in DNA

5/03/09 Cockerham, ADN, Governor supports abortion initiative

5/03/09 Independent, An Invention That Could Change the Internet Forever

5/03/09 Llana, CSM, Why Panama tilts right in presidential vote

5/03/09 Arraf, CSM, My Iraq: a reporter's 20-year retrospective

5/02/09 Pope, Times, Mission to Break up Pacific Island of Rubbish Twice the Size of Texas

5/03/09 Eilperin, WP, EPA Seeks Rules for Utilities' Runoff

5/03/09 Shin, WP, U.S. Workers' Wages Stagnate As Firms Rush to Slash Costs

5/03/09 Vidal, Guardian, Russia to build floating Arctic nuclear stations

5/03/09 Beaumont, Guardian, Bosnia lurches into a new crisis

5/03/09 Doward, Guardian, Fears of rat plague in UK grow

5/02/09 BBC, Mining a mint in eastern DR Congo

5/03/09 BBC, Change expected as Panama votes

5/03/09 BBC, Asia 'must cut export dependency'

May 2, 2009

5/02/09 Rossiter, NYT, In a Senegalese Slum, a Building Material Both Primitive and Perilous

5/02/09 RebelReports, Rice defends torture - video

5/02/09 Nichols, Nation, Bankrupt Bailout Spends Billions to Shut Factories

5/02/09 Reid, Times, Abu Ghraib Prison Guards: We Were Scapegoats for the Bush Administration

5/02/09 Wides-Munoz, AP, Immigrants push for reforms at rallies nationwide

5/02/09 Al Jazeera, Tsvangirai: Zimbabwe is broke

5/02/09 Al Jazeera, Morales nationalises fuel supplier

5/02/09 Boyles & Bremmer, Times Online, Riot police working overtime as unions and anarchists link arms for May Day

5/02/09 Glaberson, NYT, US May Revive Guantanamo Military Courts

5/02/09 al-Mughrabi, Reuters, Israel launches second day of air strikes in Gaza

5/02/09 Mason, Reuters, Obama says financial sector to shrink

5/02/09 Leonard, NYT, How Lehman Brothers Got Its Real Estate Fix

5/02/09 Taylor, McClatchy, U.S. allies losing asylum bids over definition of 'terrorist'

5/02/09 CNN, Freedom of the media declines worldwide, report says

5/02/09 Rokus, CNN, No murder conviction in Mexican immigrant's beating death

5/02/09 Head, BBC, UN warning over Burma cyclone aid

5/02/09 BBC, Iran execution provokes outrage

May 1, 2009

5/01/09 Johnson, Atlantic, Netanyahu and the 'Future of the Peace Process'

5/01/09 Butler, MoJo, Earth to IKEA

5/01/09 Gettelman, MoJo, Conspiracy Watch: Operation Couch Potato

5/01/09 Whitney, MoJo, Gone: Mass Extinction and the Hazards of Earth's Vanishing Biodiversity

5/01/09 Lewis, Rebel Reports, Architect of CIA Rendition Program: If torture prosecutions go ahead, indict Clinton too

5/02/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Did the US Reroute an AirFrance Plane to Keep a Leftist Journalist Onboard Out of US Airspace?

5/01/09 Boyer, ProPublica, ChangeTracker Update: Big Changes to WhiteHouse.gov on Obama's 100th Day

5/01/09 Hickman, Independent, How Britons Fuel Destruction of the Rainforest

5/01/09 Rosenberg, alterNet, What's Behind the Epidemic of Family-Killings? Could it Be Anti-Depressants?

5/01/09 Cole, ABC News, Psychologists Told CIA Waterboarding Was Safe

5/01/09 Barakat, AP, Feds drop charges against pro-Israel lobbyists

5/01/09 OneWorld,

5/01/09 Kropko, AP, Alleged Nazi Demjanjuk cleared for deportation

5/01/09 Farkas, AP, Forest Service closes caves to stop bat fungus

5/01/09 White, WP, Abu Ghraib Guards Say Memos Show They Were Scapegoats

5/01/09 Sandronsky, TruthOut, The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy

5/01/09 Gilliam, Reuters, Farmers fear pigs may get "swine" flu from people

5/01/09 Reuters, U.S. says troops will not face trial over Iraq raid

5/01/09 Rothberg, Nation, Pete Seeger at 90

5/01/09 Saltmarsh, NYT, Anger and Fear Fuel May Day Europe Protests

5/01/09 Barrett, McClatchy, Scientists trace ancestry of swine flu virus to 1998 outbreak

5/01/09 Arrieta, ITT, An Inconvenient Woman

5/01/09 Pilkington, Guardian, Obama guard on Mexico trip 'has swine flu'

5/01/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Torture Flight Lawsuit Against Boeing Subsidiary Reinstated by U.S. Appeals Court

5/01/09 Carroll & Tuckmann, Guardian, WHO confirms 331 cases of swine flu around world as Mexico shuts down

5/01/09 McCarthy, Guardian, End Palestinian demolitions in Jerusalem, UN tells Israel

5/01/09 Cronin, IPS, MIDEAST: 60,000 Palestinians at Risk in Jerusalem, UN Warns

5/01/09 Storey, Guardian, Air traffic control: Radar helps birds navigate windfarm flight path

5/01/09 Grayling, Guardian, Knowledge and genius

5/01/09 Taylor, Guardian, Campaigners monitored by civil servants

5/01/09 CNN, Stop using Hydroxycut products, FDA says

5/01/09 BBC, US factory output continues fall

5/01/09 CNN, April deadliest month this year for U.S. troops in Iraq

5/01/09 BBC, Bankers made 'astonishing mess'

5/01/09 BBC, Swiss bank refuses US tax request

5/01/09 BBC, US Supreme Court judge 'retiring'

5/01/09 BBC, China database to track children

5/01/09 BBC, First female Poet Laureate named

5/01/09 Gill. BBC, Africa's genetic secrets unlocked

5/30/09 Kinver, BBC, Fertilisers 'reducing diversity'