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

June 30, 2009
6/30/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Amnesty Attacks Oil Industry for Decades of Damage in Niger Delta
6/30/09 Notte, Boston Herald, Crosby, Stills, and Nash have a lot to say to the next generation
6/30/09 Sutter, CNN, 'Last man standing' at wake for a toxic town
6/30/09 Barnes, WP, Justices to Review Campaign Finance Law Constraints
6/30/09 Gerstein, Politico, Bush Appointees Buck Barack Obama on Terror Policies
6/30/09 Merle, WP, Home Prices Fall at Slower Rate in April
6/30/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Iraq's "National Sovereignty Day" is U.S.-Style Hallmark Hype
6/30/09 Dreyfuss, Nation, Little to Celebrate in Iraq
6/30/09 Ito, Blog of Rights, Tortured to Death: New Details On Detainee Abuse Prove Bush Officials Are (Literally) Getting Away With Murder
6/30/09 Guerrera et al, Financial Times, Citi Raises Rates on Millions of Credit Cards: Report
6/30/09 Drew, NYT, Report Criticizes Israeli Drone Strikes
6/30/09 Brociner, ITT, Progressive Blind Spots
6/30/09 Seager, Guardian, UK economy shrinking at fastest rate in more than 50 years
6/30/09 Abelson, NYT, Insured, but Bankrupted by Health Crises
6/30/09 BBC, Oil companies reject Iraq's terms
6/30/09 BBC, Niger court dissolution 'is coup'
6/30/09 Walker, BBC, Huge declines in woodland birds
6/30/09 BBC, Most complete Earth map published
6/30/09 BBC, Challenges loom as Iraqis celebrate
6/30/09 Berrigan, FPIF, Weapons: Our #1 Export?
6/30/09 CNN, FDA advisers vote to take Vicodin, Percocet off market
6/30/09 Frykberg, CSM, How Israel's naval blockade denies Gazans food, aid
June 29, 2009
6/29/09 Fogerty, Reuters, Crops Face Toxic Timebomb in Warmer World: Study
6/29/09 Schmid, AP, Increasing dust speeds melting of mountain snow
6/29/09 Zetter, Wired, Deep-Packet Inspection in U.S. Scrutinized Following Iran Surveillance
6/29/09 Nichols, Nation, Honduras Coup Poses Challenges, Questions for Obama, Congress
6/29/09 NPR, What It's Costing Us
6/29/09 Yen, AP, Study finds widening generation gap in US
6/29/09 Casey, AP, Forgotten evolutionist lives in Darwin's shadow
6/29/09 Oppel, NYT, Afghan Security Guards Are Blamed in a Gun Battle That Killed a Police Chief
6/29/09 McFadden, NYT, 3 Men Die in Toxic Well in Queens
6/29/09 AFP, Israel Approves 50 New Settler Homes in West Bank
6/29/09 Hall, McClatchy, Scalia breaks ranks, slams Bush officials on bank regulation
6/29/09 Schoof, McClatchy, EPA list shows dangerous coal ash sites found in 10 states
6/29/09 Hudson, CRG, Debt Deflation in America: What the Jump in the U.S. Savings Rate Really Means
6/29/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Obama Vows to Prosecute Torture, But There's a Catch
6/29/09 Gerth & Dennis, ProPublica, How a Loophole Benefits GE in Bank Rescue
6/29/09 Arraf, CSM, US troops to exit Iraq's cities but new role still evolving
6/29/09 AP, Justices Rule for White Firefighters in Bias Case
6/29/09 IntelDaily, CIA Topples Honduran Presidnet to Protect Drugs Trade?
6/29/09 Minter & Volman, ITT, The Somalia Crossroads
6/29/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, Rising sea level to submerge Louisiana coastline by 2100, study warns
6/29/09 EDIE, New role for Spaans Babcock Archimedes screws generating electricity
6/29/09 EDIE, US to provide $750,000 for clean up of Commonwealth islands
6/29/09 Moore, CSM, Poverty tours travel a fine line
6/29/09 EDIE, 'Zero carbon hierarchy' for homes outlined
6/29/09 BBC, Gaza residents 'live in despair'
6/29/09 BBC, Afghan guards held after shootout
6/29/09 BBC, New Bangladesh textile protests
6/29/09 BBC, Chavez allies back ousted Zelaya
June 28, 2009
6/28/09 Hough, NY Post, Don't Get that College Degree
6/28/09 CNN, Iran still interfering in Iraq, top Army general says
6/28/09 Blake, CNN, 'Gayby boom': Children of gay couples speak out
6/28/09 Cohen, AP, Did Toxic Chemical in Iraq Sicken GIs?
6/28/09 Londono & Ibrahim, WP, Iraq Set to Seek Foreign Oil Bids
6/28/09 Lydersen, ITT, The Legacy Lives On
6/28/09 BBC, Argentine army in torture ruling
6/28/09 BBC, Sudanese 'suspect' back in Canada
6/28/09 Tandon, BBC, India heat wave sparks protests
6/28/09 BBC, Troops arrest Honduran president
6/28/09 Clark, Miami Herald, Keys ill-prepared for rising sea
6/28/09 Nelson, Telegraph, India joins 'neocolonial' rush for Africa's land and labour
June 27, 2009
6/27/09 Samuelson, CSM, How does cap-and-trade work?
6/27/09 Samuelson, CSM, What a national cap-and-trade program might look like
6/27/09 Hren, AlterNet, Save Money By Saving Rainwater
6/27/09 Linzer & Finn, WP, White House Weighs Order on Detention
6/27/09 Fletcher, TimesOnline, Leading demonstrators must be executed, Ayatollah Khatami demands
6/26/09 McKinnley, NYT, New Border Fear: Militia Violence
6/27/09 NYT, U.S. Announces New Afghan Drug Policy
6/27/09 Franklin, AP, Stonewall rebel reflects 40 years after NYC riots
6/27/09 Savage, NYT, Nixon: Holding Forth on Clout and How to Use It
6/27/09 Morris & Thomas, KC Star, Former Kansas City KKK leader indicted in 2004 mail bomb
6/27/09 Natarajan, BBC, Dark tales of Tamil ex-child soldiers
6/27/07 BBC, Court deal strips Madoff wealth
6/27/09 Doulkes, BBC, Red Cross marks battle anniversary
2/27/09 BBC, Iran militia raids 'target homes'
June 26, 2009
6/26/09 AP, After 19 years, Ulysses solar probe to go dark
6/26/09 Roig-Franzia, WP, The Political Enclave That Dare Not Speak Its Name
6/26/09 Nichols, Nation, House Passes "Weak" Climate Change Bill
6/26/09 RCFP, Ex-CIA employee accuses agency of interfering with columns
6/26/09 Kaye, IntelDaily, Five Decades of US Behavioral Scientists Implicated in Torture
6/26/09 Ross, IntelDaily, CIA's Panetta won't penalize torturers, okays renditions
6/26/09 Godoy, IPS, TECHNOLOGY: Rare Metals Could Trigger Next Trade War
6/26/09 EDIE, Britain on health alert as temperatures soar
6/26/09 Rooney, CNN, Bank failure list tops 45
6/26/09 Salash, CSM, US forces withdrawing from Iraqi cities will move instead to encircle them
6/26/09 Woodward, Boston Globe, Saudi, Libyan leaders top gift-givers to US
6/26/09 BBC, Emergency powers for Niger leader
6/26/09 Thill, ITT, Will the 'Dollar Wars' Kill What's Left of the American Dream?
6/26/09 WorldFocus, Cuba provides free health care without the worry
6/26/09 Morris, MoJo, Mission Impossible
6/26/09 Rizvi, IPS, ECONOMY: "Patching Up Bretton Woods Makes No Sense"
6/26/09 Tomkins, ITT, Small Towns vs. Nestle
6/26/09 Monbiot, Guardian, Why do we allow the US to act like a failed state on climate change?
6/26/09 Tait, Guardian, Jailed Iran reformists 'tortured to confess foreign plot'
6/26/09 CNN, Holder pushes for hate-crimes law; GOP unpersuaded
6/26/09 Bright, CSM, US sends weapons to Somali government
June 25, 2009
6/25/09 Econ Policy Journal, New Fed Data Points to a New Decline in the Stock Market and Economy
6/25/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Paramilitary Thug With Long History With Top U.S. Democrats Arrested for 'War Crimes'
6/25/09 Baseline Scenario, Conventional Wisdom About Credit Default Swaps
6/25/09 Ward, Charleston Gazette, Mountaintop Removal Damage 'Irreversible,' Senate Hears
6/26/09 AFP, Author Naomi Klein Calls for Boycott of Israel
6/25/09 Salaheddin, AP, Big Oil poised for return to Iraq
6/25/09 Johnson, WSJ, Big Health Firms Underpay Claims
6/25/09 Chevez, Lexington Herald-Leader, Report: Coal industry costs state government
6/25/09 Goyette & Daniel, Miami Herald, South Floridians sneak Iranians past Web censors
6/25/09 Schulman, MoJo, Guess Who's Selling Wall Street's Bull?
6/25/09 Morris, MoJo, The Axis of Pork (Part I: The Hidden Defense Budget; Part II: Operation Overrun; Part III: Where's My Flying Tank?)
6/25/09 Murphy, CSM, Iran arrests 70 professors who met with Mousavi
6/25/09 BBC, 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'
June 24, 2009
6/24/09 Stiglitz, Nation, A Global Recovery for a Global Recession
6/24/09 Fisher, PSL, An important victory for the Indigenous of Peru
6/24/09 Cillizza, NYT, Sanford: From Bad to Worse
6/24/09 Scheer, Nation, Foreclosure Fiasco
6/24/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Bailed-Out Bank Execs Will Get to Keep Golden Parachutes
6/24/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Brent Scowcroft: US Has Spies On the Ground in Iran
6/25/09 Al Jazeera, US 'has agents working inside Iran'
6/24/09 Hindery & Girard, Nation, Our Jobless Recovery
6/24/09 Jones & Shah, Guardian, US missile strike kills 60 at funeral in Pakistan
6/24/09 Keim, Wired, Hidden Whale Culture Could Be Critical to Species Survival
6/24/09 Pannell, BBC, Ex-detainees allege Bagram abuse
6/24/09 Lewis, Detroit News, Michigan Study: African-American Students Disciplined Disproportionately
6/24/09 Rothacker, Charlotte Observer, Documents: Fed sought to keep other regulators in dark on BofA
6/24/09 Walker, BBC, Where giant plants dare to grow
6/24/09 BBC, Civilians 'train as Iraq guards'
6/24/09 Leaver & Atzmon, FPIF, A Withdrawal in Name Only
6/24/09 CNN, Health care battle intensifies for Obama, Congress
6/24/09 Frieden, CNN, Doctors, health care executives accused of Medicare fraud
6/24/09 BBC, World drugs in graphics
June 23, 2009
6/23/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Uighur Prisoners Fear for Their Safety in Palau
6/23/09 BBC, Civilians 'Bear the Brunt of War'
6/23/09 Leopold, TruthOut, Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Plame's Lawsuit Against Cheney, Rove
6/23/09 Shachtman, Wired, Afghan Airstrike Video Goes Down the Memory Hole
6/23/09 Morris, MoJo, Operation Overrun Defense budget
6/23/09 TruthOut, Student Loan Debts Are Sinking American Dreams
6/23/09 Thomas, ITT, All-American Squatters
6/23/09 Dash, NYT, Citigroup Has a Plan to Fatten Salaries
6/23/09 Lichtblau, NYT, Documents Back Saudi Link to Extremist
6/23/09 Bernstein, MoJo, Madoff Twist: The Big Winner You've Never Heard of
6/23/09 Katwala, Guardian, When is inequality unfair?
6/23/09 Drago, IPS, RIGHTS-SPAIN: 'Universal Justice' Threatened
6/23/09 Oppman, CNN, Rogue Minutemen leader held in fatal home invasion
6/23/09 Hennessey & Berg, BBC, Rehearsing the end of the world
6/23/09 Bristow, BBC, China and US hold military talks
6/23/09 Duffy, BBC, Amazon bill controversy in Brazil
6/23/09 BBC, UK 'missed opportunity in Iraq'
June 22, 2009
6/22/09 NPR, Bankers Still Raking It In
6/22/09 Beacham, PSL, Chicago Mayor's parking meter swindle sold out people to Morgan Stanley
6/22/09 Dloughy, SF Chron., Critics Fault Climate-Change Legislation
6/22/09 Fletcher, WP, Recovery's Missing Ingredient: New Jobs
6/22/09 Fletcher, Times Online, Iran admits 50 cities had more votes than voters
6/22/09 Reuters, Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report
6/22/09 Fontaine, News Tribune, Networked eyes on the battlefield
6/22/09 Harkinson, MoJo, Waxman-Markey: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
6/22/09 Morris, MoJo, Shock and Audit
6/22/09 AP, High court rules narrowly in voting rights case
6/22/09 Fox, Reuters, Americans struggle to pay for healthcare: study
6/22/09 BBC, US seeks to stop Geronimo lawsuit
6/22/09 Wilson, Bloomberg, Dairy-Cow Kill to Double Milk Price on Biggest Slump Since 1980
6/22/09 Brown, ITT, SEIU Fights Banks Over Bonuses
6/22/09 Brown, ITT, SEIU Fights Banks Over Bonuses
6/22/09 Seager, Guardian, World Bank calls on west to help relieve trillion dollar drain on world's poor
6/22/09 Guardian, How the west built Iran's 'lawful intercept functionality'
6/22/09 Parfitt, Guardian, Trouble in the north Caucasus
6/22/09 Fusche, Guardian, Rapid growth in European cod farming prompts fears from green groups
6/22/09 EDIE, Government comes under fire on clean coal
6/22/09 CNN, Wolfowitz: U.S. should reach out to Moussavi
6/22/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Obama's Undeclared War Against Pakistan Continues, Despite His Attempt to Downplay It
6/22/09 BBC, West 'seeks Iran disintegration'
6/22/09 Northam, BBC, Missing for 50 years - US nuclear bomb
6/22/09 Fisher, IPS, Obama's Right Turn
6/22/09 Lammers, AP, Work begins on world's deepest underground lab
6/22/09 Cellan-Jones, BBC, Hi-tech helps Iranian monitoring
6/22/09 Emery, BBC, The rise of Hate 2.0
6/22/09 BBC, Refinery sackings spark walkouts
6/22/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, NATO's War Plans For The High North
6/22/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order
6/22/09 Smith, Guardian, African women with HIV 'coerced into sterilisation'
6/22/09 CNN, Likely fallout from cookie-dough illnesses: more than 200 layoffs
6/22/09 Goldstein, CSM, Banking, the Swedish model
June 21, 2009
6/21/09 NY Daily News, Obama spies new way to train intelligence agents
6/21/09 Silva, IPS, NICARAGUA: Women Bear the Brunt of the Crisis
6/12/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Why Afghanistan might gain a CEO
6/21/09 Doward et al, Gourdain, Confidential Memo Reveals US Plan to Provoke an Invasion of Iraq
6/21/09 Mitnik, CSM, Why Iran's Ahmadinejad is preferred in Israel
6/21/09 BBC, MRSA risk from dog and cat bites
6/21/09 Sang-Hun, NYT, U.S. Destroyer Shadows N. Korean Ship
6/21/09 Nawaz, Guardian, A chilling return to the land where once I sowed hate
6/21/09 Doward, Guardian, Antidepressant use soars as the recession bites
6/21/09 CNN, Rift grows among Iranian leaders
6/21/09 BBC, Miliband denies Iran 'meddling'
6/21/09 BBC, Europe bank chief warns on debt
June 20, 2009
6/20/09 Jamail, Truthout, Destroying Indigenous Populations
6/20/09 Baseline, Shadow Banking for Beginners
6/20/09 Salatin, AlterNet, Taking Down the Corporate Food System Is Simple
6/20/09 Miller, ProPublica, Foreign Workers for US Are Casualties Twice Over
6/20/09 Bacon, TruthOut, Criminals Because We Worked
6/19/09 Fox, Reuters, CDC sees "something different" with new flu
6/20/09 Leonard, NYT. Treasury's Got Bill Gross on Speed Dial
6/20/09 Cooper, NYT, In Missouri, a Fight Over a Highway Adoption
6/20/09 Meserve & Taylor, CNN, Passenger says TSA agents harassed him
6/20/09 BBC, Thousands march for Tamil rights
June 19, 2009
6/19/09 Baseline, TARP for Regulators!
6/19/09 Baseline, TARP for Rating Agencies
6/19/09 ProPublica, In Their Shoes: Foreign Contractors in Iraq
6/19/09 Fernandez, IPS, Humanitarian Aid Criminalized at the Border
6/19/09 Leopold, Truthout, Senate Overwhelmingly Passes Measure Banning Release of Detainee Abuse Photos
6/19/09 Grieder, Nation, Obama's False Financial Reform
6/19/09 Youssef, McClatchy, U.S. admits Afghan airstrike may have killed 86 civilians
6/19/09 Boscov-Ellen, Council of Hemispheric Affairs, Water for Sale; Thirst for Profit: Corporate Control of Water in Latin America
6/19/09 Doyle, McClatchy, In stark legal turnaround, Obama now resembles Bush
6/19/09 IntelDaily, CIA has Distributed 400 Million Dollars Inside Iran to Evoke a Revolution
6/19/09 WSWS. Iraq: oil industry protests private service contracts
6/19/09 Eley, IntelDaily, NSA monitors millions of American e-mails
6/19/09 Greco, FPIF, Racial Discrimination at the World Bank
6/19/09 CNN, Sotomayor resigns from women's club
6/19/09 CNN, Probe into Afghan civilian deaths: Airstrikes 'appropriate'
6/14/09 LaFranchi, CSM, Obama's new tune on trade
6/19/09 BBC, World hunger 'hits one billion'
6/19/09 BBC, Switzerland agrees to US tax deal
June 18, 2009
6/18/09 Scahill, RebelReports, "The Responsible Left:" Funding Obama's Expanding Wars $100 Billion a Vote
6/18/09 Grossman, AlterNet, A Chemical Found in Most Consumer Products May Cause Heart Disease in Women
6/18/09 Miller, ProPublica, AIG, KBR and CNA Face New Questions About Insurance for Injured Civilian Contractors
6/18/09 Collins, News&Observer, La Raza drawn into debate
6/18/09 Morrison, AP, Attacks continue on Romanians in Northern Ireland
6/18/09 Johnson, WP, Report on Bush Policy May Come In 'Weeks'
6/17/09 Baumann, MoJo, Is Obama Blowing It on Derivatives Reform?
6/18/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Ratings Agencies Largely Escape Regulatory Overhaul
6/18/09 AFP, World Powers Push for Financial Sector Reform
6/18/09 Bartlett, IPS, MIDEAST: Attack on Water Brings Sanitation Crisis
6/18/09 Adam, Guardian, Floods, droughts and soaring temperatures: Met Office predicts how climate change will affect UK
6/18/09 Rao, CNN, Undocumented workers awarded $3.85 million in accidents
6/18/09 Frieden, CNN, Senate OKs block of alleged abuse photos
6/18/09 Rugaber, AP, Jobless Benefit Rolls Post First Dip Since January
6/18/09 BBC, Laos tackles transgender taboos
6/18/09 Black, BBC, UK maps climate change forecasts
6/18/09 BBC, Iran investigates 646 poll complaints
6/18/09 Turse, MoJo, Bush Officials Cash In as More Americans Lose Out
6/18/09 Hernandez, WP, Inventory Uncovers 9,200 More Pathogens
6/18/09 Hall, McClatchy, Worse than subprime? Other mortgages imploding slowly
6/18/09 Katamaya, Reuters, CIA seeks laid-off bankers in N.Y. recruitment drive
6/18/09 Carlsen, FPIF, Trade Agreement Kills Amazon Indians
6/18/09 Spieldoch, FPIF, Global Land Grab
6/18/09 Harris, NYT, F.D.A. Warns Against Use of Popular Cold Remedy
June 17, 2009
6/17/09 GEAB, Global systemic crisis in summer 2009: The cumulative impact of three rogue waves
6/17/09 Dixon, Black Agenda Report, Teachers File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama Administration's School "Turnaround" Plan
6/17/09 Prins, MoJo, Obamanomics: The Good, the Bad, the Weak
6/17/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Rendition Memo Drafted to Justify Zubaydah's Torture at Secret CIA Prison
6/17/09 Clark, Guardian, Obama launches overhaul of US financial regulation
6/17/09 CNN, Asbestos cleanup 'emergency' declared in Montana town
6/17/09 Smith & Warrick, W{, CIA Fights Full Release Of Detainee Report
6/17/09 Momigliano, BBC, Why Italy is taking Gitmo prisoners
6/17/09 Kennard, AlterNet, "I Hate Arabs More Than Anybody": Desperate Army Recruits Neo-Nazis
6/17/09 Smith & Warrick, WP, CIA Fights Full Release Of Detainee Report
6/17/09 Times Online, Racist attacks force over 100 Romanians to take shelter in church
6/17/09 Scheer, Nation, Obama's Money Men Finally Get It
6/17/09 The Register, Gay animals going at it like rabbits
6/17/09 Ottenberg, ITT, Their Island, Our Shame
6/17/09 McCurry, Guardian, In Japan, it's raining tadpoles ...
6/17/09 BBC, Peru moves to ease Amazon crisis
June 16, 2009
6/16/09 Gorby, Wired, Microbes May Be More Networked Than You Are
6/16/09 Finn & Tate, WP, CIA Mistaken on 'High-Value' Detainee, Document Shows
6/16/09 AP, White House says no to California budget help
6/16/09 Rampell, NYT, The Economic Impact of Climate Change
6/16/09 AP, Obama to Extend Benefits to Federal Gay Workers
6/16/09 Bowley, NYT, Foreign Banks See Opportunity in Turmoil
6/16/09 Risen & Lichtblau, NYT, Extent of E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress
6/16/09 Hall & Pugh, McClatchy, In huge change, Obama to strip Fed of credit card oversight
6/16/09 Girion, LAT, Blue Cross praised employees who dropped sick policyholders, lawmaker says
6/16/09 Mattern, IPS, SCIENCE: Hybrid Chestnut Trees Hold Promise as Carbon Sponges
6/16/09 BBC, Racist e-mail aimed at Obama raises hackles in Tennessee
6/16/09 Palmer, BBC, Hydrogen car to be 'open source'
6/16/09 BBC, US senator admits having affair
6/16/09 Rizvi, IPS, Activists Urge Obama to Use Trade Pact as Leverage
6/16/09 Valencia & Slack, Boston Globe, State suspends weapons program
6/16/09 Dreazen, WSJ, Audit Finds That US Overpaid Blackwater by Tens of Millions of Dollars
6/16/09 Al Jazeera, Carter: Grief and despair for Gaza
6/16/09 Geller, Reuters, Water Risks Ripple Through the Beverage Industry
6/16/09 Zeese, Truthout, Congress to Transfer Hundreds of Billions in Tax Dollars to the Insurance Industry
6/16/09 Williams, LAT, Exxon must pay $480 million in interest over Valdez oil tanker spill
6/16/09 Barnes & Miller, LAT, Detainee says he lied to CIA in harsh interrogations
6/16/09 Muwakkil, ITT, Government-Assisted Terrorists
6/16/09 Renner, TruthOut, Bank Plan Leaves Out Prosecution and Compensation
6/16/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, Obama targets US public with call for climate action
6/16/09 Guardian, Honeybees create a buzz at Kew year after they were wiped out by disease
6/16/09 BBC, Crises boost numbers of displaced
6/16/09 CNN, Iran to recount disputed election votes
6/16/09 BBC, Anger over 'secret Iraq inquiry'
6/16/09 BBC, Indian and Pakistani leaders meet
6/16/09 BBC, BA asks staff to work for nothing
6/16/09 Bland, SF Weekly, Report says peak oil could cause food shortages in S.F.
6/16/09 Bleisch, BBC, China 'unfairly seen as eco-villain'
6/16/09 Dedman, MSNBC, Obama blocks list of visitors to White House
6/16/09 Labott, CNN, Recession boosts global human trafficking, report says
June 15, 2009
6/15/09 Hurdle, Reuters, Pennsylvania Town Fights Big Coal on Mining Rights
6/15/09 Johnson, MSNBC, Pro-English Measures Being Revived Across US
6/15/09 Pincus, WP, CIA Fired Firms Aiding Questioning
6/15/09 McDonald, Irish Times, World Bank Loan Withdrawn From Brazilian Cattle Corporation
6/15/09 Apuzzo, AP, STIMULUS WATCH: $25 check may cost you food stamps
6/15/09 Cohn, Truthout, Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
6/15/09 Stolberg & Pear, NYT, Obama Open to Reining in Medical Suits
6/15/09 Prins, MoJo, The Big Bank Bailout Payback Bamboozle
6/15/09 Wren, The State, Bank fees charged to families in state debit program (JP Morgan)
6/15/09 McClatchy, Pentagon wavers on release of report on Afghan attack
6/15/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Gonzales Memo Advised Bush How to Avoid War Crimes Charges
6/15/09 Newsom, SunHerald, Taylor against fish farms
6/15/09 Hurd, Guardian, The immoral incompetents - Nation States
6/15/09 Brice, CNN, Anger boils in Mexico over 46 deaths at day care center
6/15/09 LAT, Iran's supreme leader orders probe of vote fraud
6/15/09 AP, Chinese sub, US sonar collision accidental: report
6/15/09 Vandiver, Stars & Stripes, AFRICOM building research center
6/15/09 Criscione, CSM, The next 'moon landing?' Norway plans deep-sea CO2 storage.
6/15/09 Frykberg, IPS, MIDEAST: Netanyahu Offer a 'Big Zero'
6/15/09 Ireland, ITT, The Real History of a Radical
6/15/09 Guardian, Binyamin Netanyahu backs independent Palestinian state
6/15/09 CNN, Media group asks nations not to recognize Iran results
6/15/09 CNN. Hatred, chaos and savage beatings in Tehran
6/15/09 Cintron, WWLB, Police departments with heavy artillery
6/15/09 BBC, Human rights laws 'being abused'
6/15/09 Howell, BBC, Trouble in the Middle East's banking centre
6/15/09 BBC, Dollar's reserve status 'is safe'
June 14, 2009
6/14/09 Therot, LAT, As L.A. County spun its wheels, children died
6/14/09 Gillam, Reuters, Threats, violence seen eroding U.S. abortion rights
6/14/09 Swain, Times Online, Afghan Villagers Slain as They Took Cover
6/14/09 Rowell, Independent, Secret Papers 'Show How Shell Targeted Nigeria Oil Protests'
6/14/09 ENS, Public Not Allowed to Know Location of Hazardous Coal Ash Sites
6/14/09 Smiley, Miami Herald, Knight Foundation sets aside $15 million for investigative reporting
6/14/09 BBC, Who goes to a creationist museum?
6/14/09 BBC, Sudan tribesmen attack UN barges
6/14/09 Warren, News from the Y, Human trafficking underground in Utah communities
6/14/09 Costantini, IPS, Unions and Migrant Workers Coalesce from Coast to Coast
6/15/09 Peacock, Reuters, IMF says worst not over
6/14/09 Roberts, NYT, U.S. Births Hint at Bias for Boys in Some Asians
6/14/09 Lightman, McClatchy, Congress will pass war spending, but not without fight over photos
6/14/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Northwest utilities turn to nuclear, 25 years after industry collapsed
6/14/09 Reuters, CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants US attacked
June 13, 2009
6/30/09 Kane, WP, Lawmakers Reveal Health-Care Investments
6/13/09 Egelko, SF Chron, Judge: Ex-Bush Lawyer Can be Sued Over Torture
6/13/09 Fimrite, SanFran Chron. Superfund Money to Clean 'Mouth of the Beast'
6/13/09 Vidal, Guardian, Indigenous Peoples: 'We Are Fighting for Our Lives and Our Dignity'
6/13/09 Carlton, AP, Drilling might be culprit behind Texas earthquakes
6/13/09 Al Jazeera, US transfers Guantanamo detainees
6/13/09 Graff, Reuters, U.N. seeks review of special forces in Afghanistan
6/13/09 Wydra, OpenLeft, Roberts Ignores Precedent. Scalia Ignores the Constitution.
6/13/09 Lam, IPS, VIETNAM: Saltwater Intrusion Adds to Water Woes
6/13/09 Estrada, IPS, CHILE: Mixed Reception for Indigenous Protection Code
6/13/09 Goldacre, Guardian, Cocaine study that got up the nose of the US
6/13/09 Black, Guardian, Ahmadinejad wins surprise Iran landslide victory
6/13/09 Thompson, AP, US, Canada to update Great Lakes water agreement
6/13/09 Hamill, NYT, Religious Freedom vs. Sanitation Rules
6/12/09 BBC, US 'kept Guantanamo deal from UK'
6/13/09 Berger, IPS, U.S.: Crisis Must Reshape Economists' Thinking, Krugman Says
6/13/09 BBC, Microsoft to give away anti-virus
6/13/09 BBC, Swine flu: Country by country
6/13/09 Harwood, NYT, Republicans Rethinking the Reagan Mystique
6/13/09 Feingold, Progressive, Feingold Expresses "Concern" that Obama May Now Endorse Warrantless Wiretapping
June 12, 2009
6/12/09 Drogin, LAT, Taking the pulse of extremist groups
6/12/09 Guardian, US giant BlackRock buys arm of Barclays bank
6/12/09 Al Jazeera, US court drops abuse images order
6/12/09 Irwin, WP, Spike in Interest Rates Could Choke Recovery
6/12/09 Mulvhill, NYT, Where Navajo Tales, and Rugs, Are Woven
6/12/09 Khanna, Foreign Policy, The Next Big Thing: Neomedievalism
6/12/09 Morris, Guardian, Farm gives hope to UK flora and fauna
6/12/09 Scahill, RebelReports, "A Perfect Storm for Disaster" Brewing With Washington's "Unprecedented" Shadow Army
6/12/09 Weise, ProPublica, Bailout Player BlackRock Becomes Biggest Money Manager
6/12/09 Palast, TruthOut, Oil and Indians Don't Mix
6/12/09 Barnes & Hook, LAT, U.S. increasingly unlikely to take any Guantanamo detainees
6/12/09 Thomson, BBC, Zimbabwe girls trade sex for food
6/12/09 Van Auken, IntelDaily, New US commander in Afghanistan assembles team of assassins
6/12/09 Edmonds, IntelDaily, Major DEA Scandal & Time Magazine: Implicated agents have been protected by "watchdog" agencies within the Justice Department
6/12/09 Ria Novosti, Gulf of Aden, World's major oil gateway, under NATO control
6/12/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, CIA and Pentagon Deploy RFID "Death Chips." Coming Soon to a Product Near You!
6/12/09 Kachere, IPS, ENVIRONMENT-ZIMBABWE: Farmers Go to War Against Lantana Camara
6/12/09 Porter, IPS, US-PAKISTAN: CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses
6/12/09 Adam & Goldenberg, Guardian, US says it will not demand binding carbon cuts from China
6/12/09 Hanna, CNN, Hate groups riled up, researchers say
6/12/09 Tejpar, CNN, Recycled homes, one box at a time
6/12/09 BBC, Environment fears halt China dams
6/12/09 BBC, UN toughens North Korea sanctions
6/12/09 Stiglitz, Guardian, America's socialism for the rich
6/12/09 Toy, NYT, Penetrating the Maze of Mortgage Relief
6/12/09 Landrau, CNN, Born in male body, Jenny knew early that she was a girl
6/12/09 CNN, State Department sponsors TED conference
June 11, 2009
6/11/09 McDonnell, LAT, Computer 'raid' in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated
6/11/09 Carter, Yes!, Are Small Banks America's Next Cash Crop?
6/11/09 Dininny, AP, Radioactive wasps bug out nuclear cleanup workers
6/11/09 Keim, Wired, Scientists Create a Form of Pre-Life
6/11/09 Parr, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Death Row Case Embodies Systemic Flaws, Critics Say
6/11/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: Native Protesters Search for Their Dead
6/11/09 Hellerman, CNN, Swine flu 'not stoppable,' World Health Organization says
6/11/09 Mount, CNN, Army: Suicide rate among soldiers continues on record pace
6/11/09 Christie, CNN, Investors bet on Detroit housing market
6/11/09 Llana, CSM, To quell protests, Peru suspends Amazon investment laws
6/11/09 Black, BBC, 'Boom and bust' of deforestation
6/11/09 BBC, World Bank sees even worse slump
6/11/09 BBC, US role in bank takeover examined
6/11/09 BBC, Iraq releases three of five US contractors
6/11/09 BBC, Burma's Karen unable to return home
6/11/09 Ourdon, le Monde, Mercenaries Set Off for Afghanistan
6/11/09 Nutting, MarketWatch, Household wealth drops for 7th straight quarter
6/10/09 CNBC, Fed Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited, Expert Says
6/11/09 Dedman, MSNBC, Most banks still getting weaker, analysis shows
June 10, 2009
6/10/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Blackwater Still Working in Iraq for the International Republican Institute, According to New Lawsuit
6/10/09 Featherstone, Nation, Out of Reach - Education
6/10/09 Shaoul, WSWS, Israel to expand its settlements
6/10/09 Energy Bulletin, CERA official acknowledges "peak oil is here"
6/10/09 The Public Record, Declassified Docs Offer New Revelations of Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program
6/10/09 Edwards, IntelDaily, The Current Battle against State Secrets Privilege -- 'Sanitization' is not the answer
6/10/09 Space.com, Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified
6/10/09 In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. CARE. May 2009. research copy (36pgs)
6/10/09 AFP, Water Stress, Ocean Levels to Unleash 'Climate Exodus'
6/10/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, US Green Agenda Delivered Blow as Ban on Drilling off Florida Overturned
6/10/09 Scahill, RebelReports, U.S. War Privatization Results in Billions Lost in Fraud, Waste and Abuse--Report
6/10/09 VanEgeren, CapitolTimes, Prison Is Revolving Door for Mentally Ill, Who Don't Get Needed Meds
6/10/09 Borenstein, AP, Not so windy: Research suggests winds dying down
6/10/09 Cho et al, WP, Goals Shift For Reform Of Financial Regulation
6/09/09 Goodwyn, NPR, Halliburton Rape Case Highlights Arbitration Debate
6/10/09 Assadi, Reuters, Obama envoy says Palestinian statehood only option
6/10/09 Corn, MoJo, Will Senate Torture Probe Target Cheney?
6/10/09 Graham & Kwiatkwoski, Bloomberg, World Oil Reserves Fell for First Time in 10 Years, BP Says
6/10/09 Hong, LAT, Median home prices drop below 1989 levels in some parts of Southland
6/10/09 Hardikar, IPS, INDIA: Farm Suicides Turn Children Into Farmers
6/10/09 Watts, Guardian, Palau to resettle 17 Guantanamo detainees
6/10/09 Basu, CNN, Climate change may displace up to 200 million
6/10/09 BBC, US to unveil corporate pay rules
6/10/09 Montero, CSM, Thousands of refugees flee fighting in Somalia
6/10/09 BBC, Hummingbirds 'faster than jets'
6/10/09 Head, BBC, Thai army reinforces Burma border
6/10/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: Zimbabwe's children
6/10/09 Oakland Trib, Defense Department sees protests as terrorism
June 9, 2009
6/09/09 BBC, Peru protest leader takes refuge
6/09/09 Moss & Crace, Guardian, Is fascism on the march again?
6/09/09 Scahill, RebelReports, The Curious Case of 5 US Contractors Arrested by Iraq for "Murder"
6/09/9 Goodman, DemocracyNow, Bernie Sanders and Nurses Tell Obama: Embrace Single-Payer Health Care
6/09/09 ESSA Report, June Oversight Report: Stress Testing and Shoring Up Bank Capital (168 pgs. pdf)
6/09/09 NPR: Warren: Stress Test Banks Again
6/09/09 WorldFocus, Police clash with indigenous protesters in Peru
6/09/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, FRAC Act--Congress Introduces Twin Bills to Control Drilling and Protect Drinking Watera
6/09/09 Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, Illinois Town Sued, Accused of Lying About Carcinogen-Filled Town Water
6/09/09 Watts, Guardian, China Alone Could Bring World to Brink of Climate Calamity, Claims US Official
6/09/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Rahm Emanuel Is the Definition of Unprincipled
6/09/09 Nebehay, Reuters, WHO on verge of declaring H1N1 flu pandemic
6/09/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Scientists: Global warming has already changed oceans
6/09/09 Rexrode, McClatchy, House to subpoena Fed documents on BofA-Merrill deal
6/09/09 Vidal, Guardian, Shell settlement with Ogoni people stops short of full justice
6/09/09 Borger & Watts, Guardian, China launches green power revolution to catch up on west
6/09/09 Rogers, CSM, US may punish Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega with $64 million aid cut
6/09/09 Wayne, Congressional Quarterly, House Democrats Unveil Health Care Overhaul
6/09/09 Heller, EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Air Raid Victim Tells Obama to Leave Afghanistan
6/09/09 Javers, Politico, Obama Invokes Jesus More Than Bush
6/09/09 Reuters, Russia source says North Korea readying launches: report
6/09/09 Gilmore et al, Guardian, Gaza: The destitute and the forgotten
6/09/09 Tran, Guardian, Arnold Schwarzenegger to scrap school textbooks in favour of ebooks
6/09/09 Guardian, Nick Griffin abandons BNP press conference under hail of eggs
6/09/09 BBC, Brazil's economy enters recession
6/09/09 BBC, Ten US banks to pay back bail-out
6/09/09 BBC, CIA warns over terror documents
June 8, 2009
6/08/09 AP, Forecasters say El Nino may be developing
6/08/09 Blood, AP, FBI director defends use of informants in mosques
6/08/09 Pelofsky, Reuters, U.S. war funding bill brims with unrelated extras
6/08/09 Mazzetti, NYT, Turf Battles on Intelligence Pose Test for Spy Chiefs
6/08/09 Pear, NYT, Health Care Spending Disparities Stir a Fight
6/08/09 Youseff, McClatchy, Yet another review ordered of Afghan policy -- fifth this year
6/08/09 Chung, McClatchy, U.N. environment chief urges global ban on plastic bags
6/08/09 AP, 7,000 U.S. Marines patrolling southern Afghan desert
6/08/09 Auken, WSWS, Peruvian massacre aimed at opening Amazon to transnationals
6/08/09 Turl, Socialist Worker, How the other 0.00000003 percent lives
6/08/09 Ross, IntelDaily, Two "School of Americas" Generals Charged In Crimes In Colombia
6/08/09 Stanton, IntelDaily, US Army's Human Terrain System Like Swine Flu: Get Near it and You're Infected
6/08/09 Nijman, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Thousands March as Food Crisis Deepens
6/08/09 Litvinsky, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Oceans Fast Becoming a Garbage Dump
6/08/09 Estrada, IPS, CHILE: Prisons "Inhuman, Degrading and Cruel" - Supreme Court Report
6/08/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: 'Police Are Throwing Bodies in the River,' Say Native Protesters
6/08/09 Campbell, Guardian, Andrew Brons: the genteel face of neo-fascism
6/08/08 Abramsky, Guardian, Solving America's hunger crisis
6/08/09 BBC, Shell settles Nigeria deaths case
6/08/09 Mears, CNN, High court rejects lawsuit over gays in military law
6/08/09 Drash, CNN, Slave soldiers honored, called 'national treasures'
6/08/09 Walker, BBC, Chimps mentally map fruit trees
6/08/09 Silva, LAT, Obama's summer jobs plan: work for 600,000 people
6/08/09 LAT, Bernard Barker dies at 92; Watergate burglar was a CIA operative
6/08/09 Constantini, IPS, LABOUR-US: Unions Embrace Street Corner Solidarity
6/08/09 Bauman, ITT, At the End of the Day, It's the End of the World
6/08/09 Bauman, ITT, At the End of the Day, It's the End of the World
6/08/09 Guardian, Icelandic banks complete takeover of West Ham
6/08/09 CNN, 10 immigrants killed in SUV crash in Arizona
6/08/09 BBC, Lebanon's Hariri-led bloc claims election
6/08/09 Madslien, BBC, Military spending sets new record
6/08/09 BBC, Albino trials begin in Tanzania
6/08/09 Kwak, Baseline, "There Were Ratings That We Saw That Made No Sense To Us."
June 7, 2009
6/07/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Child Well-Being Index Foretells Hard Time For Kids
6/07/09 AP, Temp work covers up depth of unemployment
6/07/09 Cancio, Cuba Herald, Cuba could supply oil to U.S. in post-embargo era
6/07/09 Lightman & Barrett, McClatchy, Senate poised to vote on sweeping FDA tobacco rules
6/07/09 CNN, Frantic parents rammed cars into burning day care
6/07/09 CArpenter, BBC, Early rocks to reveal their ages
6/07/09 Davidson, WP, Beauty of the Chesapeake recovery
6/07/09 Girion, LAT, Private insurance companies push for 'individual mandate'
6/07/09 Wood, Guardian, Why does the US hate my Mexican heritage?
6/07/09 Beaumont, Guardian, Tunnel fraud leaves Gazans on verge of financial ruin
June 6, 2009
6/06/09 Baute, Toronto Star, How Did 100,000,000 Women Disappear?
6/06/09 Ridgeway, AlterNet, A Brief History of the Radical, Violent Right: How Racist Hate Groups Joined up With Abortion Terrorists
6/06/09 Allen, OneWorld, Ethnic Media Reaching Record Numbers in U.S.
6/06/09 BBC, US intelligence nominee withdraws
6/06/09 Lajake, BBC, Horror of South African miners' deaths
6/06/09 Winship, TruthOut, The Privatization of "Obama's War"
6/06/09 CNN, Five U.S. contractors held in slaying of another in Iraq
June 5, 2009
6/05/09 Stark, Bellingham Herald, Economist: Housing bubble caused Great Depression, too
6/05/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Industry Defends Federal Loophole for Drilling Before Packed Congressional Hearing
6/05/09 Werner, AP, Kennedy Bill Would Make Employers Provide Care
6/05/09 Chart, OpenLeft, Reckless Grocery Invasion
6/05/09 Reuters, White House mulls Guantanamo guilty pleas: report
6/05/09 Labaton, NYT, Millions Face Blank Screens in TV Switch
6/05/09 Meier & Wilson, NYT, Discredited Research Study Stuns an Ex-Army Doctor's Colleagues
6/05/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Obama's Cybersecurity Plan: Bring in the Contractors
6/05/09 Scahill, IntelDaily, UN Human Rights Council Blasts US for Killing Civilians, Drone Attacks and Using Mercenaries
6/05/09 Appel, OPS, U.S.: GM Gets Billions, Says No Money for Crash Victims
6/05/09 Ahlers, CNN, Aerial images online endanger national security, critics say
6/05/09 Cevallos, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Bolster Natural Carbon Absorption, Says UN
6/05/09 BBC, US cuts off 'criminal' net firm
6/05/09 BBC, Deadly clashes in Peru's Amazon
6/05/09 Gill, BBC, Rainforest is worth more standing
6/05/09 Whipple, Falss Church, The Peak Oil Crisis: Watching a Mega-Crisis
6/05/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Obama Administration Targets Environmental and Animal Rights Activists As Eco-Terrorists
6/05/09 PSL, Black farmers fight for funds from 1999 civil-rights lawsuit
6/05/09 Contreras, San Antonio, Texans Sue KBR, Halliburton Over War-Zone Burn Pits
6/05/09 Madrigal, Wired, Can We Count on Native Bees to Replace Honeybees?
6/05/09 DiNovella, Progressive, Fighting Militarism's Toxic Legacy
6/05/09 Traynor, Guardian, Anti-immigrant right win 15% of Dutch vote in European elections
6/05/09 Senate Judiciary Committee, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court - Sonia Sotomayor - Questionnaire
June 4, 2009
6/04/09 Benen, Wa. Monthly, Wake Up America, the Media Treat Far-Right Views as Mainstream
6/04/09 Al Jazeera, The Power of Microfinance
6/04/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Homeowners Seeking Gov't Loan Mods Are Fed Up
6/04/09 Knoll, LAT, Racial hatred runs African American family out of dream home
6/04/09 Lindsay, AP, NOAA head requests review of fishery enforcement
6/04/09 Al Jazeera, Thousands protest in Indian Kashmir
6/04/09 Eggen, WP, Groups on the Left Are Suddenly on Top
6/04/09 Fox, Reuters, Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies
6/04/09 Ridgeway & Cassela, ITT, Life on Permanent Lockdown
6/04/09 Heller, OpenLeft, Female Afghan MP Warns Congress of Dire Situation After US Airstrikes
6/04/09 AFP, Obama admits US involvement in 1953 Iran coup
6/04/09 Clark, Guardian, Former US mortgage chief executive charged with fraud
6/04/09 Lydersen, ITT, Coal Mountain Elementary
6/04/09 CNN, U.N. envoy calls for probe into U.S. drone attacks
June 3, 2009
6/03/09 Bauer, Nation, Iraq's New Death Squad
6/03/09 McFadden, AP, Military: Detainee who died not on hunger strike
6/03/09 Love, AP, Gay marriage bill signed into law in New Hampshire
6/03/09 Kane & Warrick, WP, Cheney Led Briefings of Lawmakers To Defend Interrogation Techniques
6/03/09 Reuters, U.S. finds mistakes in deadly Afghan air strikes
6/03/09 Schwartz, NYT, Bush Rule Bolstering Deportations Is Withdrawn
6/03/09 Lichtblau, NYT, Telecoms Win Dismissal of Wiretap Suits
6/03/09 Ross, IntelDaily, Bush Told Houston Journalist in 1999 if Elected: 'I'm going to invade Iraq'
6/03/09 Donahue, Bloomberg, Global Corruption Poll Shows Public View of Private Sector Dims
6/03/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, General Taguba Said He Saw Video of Male Soldier Sodomizing Female Detainee
6/03/09 Porter, IPS, POLITICS-US: Report Ties Dubious Iran Nuclear Docs to Israel
6/03/09 Litvinsky, IPS, ECONOMY-US: One in Five Children Sinking Into Poverty
6/03/09 Moss, FPIF, Managing World Water
June 2, 2009
6/02/09 Cocks, Reuters, U.S. combat troops to leave all Iraqi cities
6/02/09 Benno, PSL, Study exposes lies that blame immigrants for unemployment
6/02/09 AFP, US Must Release Guantanamo Evidence: Judge
6/02/09 Hamburger & Wallsten, Chicago Trib , Controversial Coal Mining Method Gets Obama's OK
6/02/09 Rosenwald, WP, MedImmune Wins Key Contract To Develop Swine Flu Vaccine
6/02/09 Carey, Nation, The Rape of Gaza
6/02/09 Noland, Asia Times, US core no longer the magnet
6/02/09 Helmer, Asia Times, Manganese skirmish takes on global hue
6/02/09 Smith, Telegraph, Swine flu pandemic nearer: WHO
6/02/09 Wilkinson, LAT, Remittances to Mexico down sharply
6/02/09 Leahy, IPS, BIODIVERSITY: Scientists Build a Macroscope of Life on Earth
6/02/09 Steinbauer, CNN, Poll: Few Americans have good view of Muslim world
6/02/09 Alexander, BBC, Beekeepers stung by hive rustlers
6/02/09 BBC, More bodies in South Africa mine
6/02/09 BBC, Global house prices drop further
June 1, 2009
6/01/09 MoJo, Pakistan's Pashtun Reservation
6/01/09 EEO, China's Hidden Bankruptcy
6/01/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Cheney Calls Osama bin Laden "Obama"
6/01/09 Epstein, ProPublica, Another Tiny ($2.3 Billion) Accounting Mistake
6/01/09 Hanna, Star-Tlegram, As fungus kills bats elsewhere in the U.S., Texas considers closing its caves
6/01/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Obama Has 250,000 'Contractors' in Iraq and Afghan Wars, Increases Number of Mercenaries
6/01/09 Ward, Wa. Independent, Cheney: Death Only Option for Some Detainees if Gitmo Closed
6/01/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Jimmy Carter Charges Obama 'Doesn't Want to Punish Those Who are Guilty' of Crimes
6/01/09 Taylor, AP, Tentative Deal Struck for Funding War
6/01/09 Gilson, MoJo, Afghanistan's Tipping Point
6/01/09 Mencimer, MoJo, Is NuvaRing Dangerous?
6/01/09 Kim, Sac Bee, Lincoln resident thought he was a U.S. citizen: Now he has to prove it
6/01/09 Adam, Guardian, Amazon Rainforests Pay the Price as Demand for Beef Soars
6/01/09 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, Identity of Men on CIA Rendition Flights to British Island Revealed
6/01/09 Homon, Bloomberg, Zoellick Warns Stimulus 'Sugar High' Won't Stem Unemployment
6/01/09 Aresnault, IPS, ENERGY: Oil Economy Driving Growth of Controversial Tar Sands
6/01/09 CNN, Nevada legalizing domestic partnerships
6/01/09 CNN, Man charged in slaying of Kansas abortion doctor
6/01/09 CNN, Exhausted Boyle 'checks into clinic'
6/01/09 Peter & Prusher, CSM, Israeli proposal: Make Jordan the official Palestinian homeland
6/01/09 BBC, Geithner assures China investors
6/01/09 BBC, GM enters bankruptcy protection
6/01/09 Triggle, BBC, Anti-abortion and violence in the US
6/01/09 Trend Capital, USA stands ready to assist Azerbaijan in delivering hydrocarbons: U.S. special envoy
6/01/09 Fisher, IPS, POLITICS-US: Eavesdropping Case Tests Obama Vows on Secrecy
6/01/09 CNN, Cheney: No link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11
6/01/09 Starr, CNN, Navy investigating missing money after pirate rescue
6/01/09 Cunningham, CSM, UN: Israeli buffer zone eats up 30 percent of Gaza's arable land
6/01/09 Llana, CSM, Mexico considers 'ban' on street children