Uncommon Thought News: July 2009 Uncommon Thought News Monthly Archives

7/23/09 Kiel, ProPublica, ,a href="http://www.propublica.org/ion/bailout/item/wall-street-on-pace-to-pay-far-above-2008-levels#11675">Wall Street on Pace to Pay Far Above 2008 Levels

7/23/09 Scheyder, AP, Chemical Makers Go on the Offensive in Agriculture

7/23/09 Morgan, Miami Herald, Heat may have killed fish in Florida Bay

7/23/09 Hodge, Wired, Danger Room in Afghanistan: Rebuilding Bamiyan

7/23/09 Englehardt, MoJo, Don't Turn the Page on History

7/23/09 NYT, Clinton Outlines Terms for N. Korea

7/23/09 Goldstein, McClatchy, Study: Abortion doctors, clinics 'routinely targeted'

7/23/09 LAT, White House releases list of health executive visitors

7/23/09 Wagner, ITT, Home Sweet Skid Row

7/23/09 Guardian, National swine flu help service to be launched

7/23/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: Chandra's first decade

7/23/09 BBC, In pictures: Bears of Ussuriysk

7/23/09 Manichi Daily News, 52 percent of US soldiers wounded in Iraq, Afghanistan diagnosed with TBI

7/23/09 Zetter, Wired, FBI Processes 600 Billion Fingerprint Sets a Day -- Update: No It Doesn't

7/23/09 Lal, Asia Times, Jihadi confession rocks India, Pakistan

July 22, 2009

7/22/09 McGreal, Guardian, Christian Right Aims to Change History Lessons in Texas Schools

7/22/09 NPR, Revenue's Down, Profit's Up. How's That Work?

7/22/09 Charlton, AP, Workers lock up execs in new French 'bossnappings'

7/22/09 Cook, CounterCurrents, Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda

7/22/09 Hanna, CNN, Library fight riles up city, leads to book-burning demand

7/22/09 Guardian, Scientists find HIV's 'missing link' in sick chimps

7/22/09 Encho, OpEdNews, Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government (Pt. 4b)

7/22/09 Fisher, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Byzantine World of Immigration Detention

7/22/09 Wyss, McClatchy, Who had hope under Zelaya? Neglected black Hondurans

7/22/09 Puryear, PSL, Obama denies any U.S. blame for imperialist aggression in Africa

7/22/09 Wilson, The Hill, Pentagon Didn't Break Rules, Says GAO

7/22/09 Zito, SF Chron, Farmers Told How to Save Huge Amounts of Water

7/22/09 Benjamin, Salon.com, Did US Forces Watch Afghan Massacre?

7/22/09 Gerstein, Politico, Justice Department Argues Against Releasing Cheney Interview

7/22/09 Steffe, Progressive, Why Obama's Public Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer.

7/22/09 Dudley, AlterNet, 'Moon': New Sci-Fi Movie Indicts Our Culture of Exploitation

7/22/09 Strobel, McClatchy, U.S. Embassy in Baghdad overstaffed, watchdog reports

7/22/09 Lee, LAT, Bernanke says the U.S. economy has 'a very long haul' ahead

7/22/09 Nichols, LAT, White House declines to disclose visits by health industry executives

7/22/09 Kwak, Baseline, S&P Revises Expectations for the Economy Downward

7/22/09 Lee, ProPublica, Their Own Private Guantanamo

7/22/09 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater Seeks Gag Order

7/22/09 Galbraith, NYT, Slow, Costly and Often Dangerous Road to Wind Power

7/22/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Obama's DOJ Wants to Protect Cheney From Political Embarrassment

7/22/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Wall Street Welfare Queen Average Bonuses $1.0 Million Per Employee

7/22/09 Frykberg, IPS, MIDEAST: Rampaging Settlers Shatter Fragile Calm

7/22/09 Pilkington, Guardian, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates outraged at arrest at his home

7/22/09 Elliott, Guardian, British industry faces a long slog out of the recession, CBI says

7/22/09 Borger, Guardian, US will take 'crippling action' if Iran becomes nuclear, says Clinton

7/22/09 BBC, Sudan tense for oil border ruling

July 21, 2009

7/21/09 Brush, The Hill, Autos, Banks Spend $20 Million Lobbying

7/21/09 Martins, CounterPunch, Wall Street's Private Judicial System Exposed as a Fraud

7/21/09 Singel, Wired, Group Plans Lawsuit To Unveil the CIA's 'Pentagon Papers'

7/21/09 MacInnis, Reuters, U.N. reports record humanitarian aid shortfall

7/21/09 Welsh, OpenLeft, State Revenues Took Biggest Hit On Record During First Quarter

7/21/09 Draper, NYT, The Ultimate Obama Insider

7/21/09 AP, Bernanke tells Congress that Fed has exit strategy

7/21/09 Meek & Defrank, NY Daily News, President Barack Obama authorizes extended Secret Service guard for former VP Dick Cheney

7/21/09 Wasik, HuffingtonPost, The American Dream is Leaving the Station

7/21/09 Lindsay-Poland, FPIF, Revamping Plan Colombia

7/21/09 Hayes, Nation, Fact Checking Obama on Transparency

7/21/09 Richtel, NYT, US Withheld Data on Risks of Distracted Driving

7/21/09 Aucoin, Boston Globe, Not So Fast: The Argument for Slowing Down in Virtually Every Aspect of Life

7/21/09 Eggen, WP, Industry Cash Flowed To Drafters of Reform

7/21/09 KC Star, The trickle down: Grandparents generously opening their wallets

7/21/09 Reuters, Obama says healthcare bills need more work

7/21/09 Hennessy-Fiske, LAT, More bodies go unclaimed as families can't afford funeral costs

O;Laughlin, Guardian, Amateur astronomer spots Earth-size scar on Jupiter

7/21/09 Meikel et al, Guardian, Pregnant women may be advised to stay at home in the autumn, says Donaldson

7/20/09 Prados, FPIF, The Intelligence Oversight Mess

7/21/09 Kavuma & Ford, Guardian, Fears of food crisis in Katine as famine hits Uganda

7/21/09 Feehery, CNN, Commentary: Obama enters 'The Matrix'

7/21/09 BBC, Mineral firms 'fuel Congo unrest'

7/21/09 BBC, US terror policy report delayed

7/21/09 BBC, 'Glass ceiling' blocking top jobs

7/21/09 Fildes, BBC, Thinkers meet to plot the future

7/21/09 BBC, River blindness 'can be beaten'

7/21/09 BBC, Rock divides East African neighbours

7/21/09 BBC, Venezuela 'fuelling drugs trade'

July 20, 2009

7/20/09 IntelDaily, Dr. Leonard Horowitz Video: Swine Flu engineered in a lab

7/20/09 Nimmo, PrisonPlanet, Walter Cronkite: Most Trusted Asset of Operation Mockingbird

7/20/09 Perrotin, IntelDaily, Why Science won't save us

7/20/09 Lopez, DailyKos, President Carter: Many Children Were Tortured Under Bush

7/20/09 Hammond, IntelDaily, Clinton Outlines Continuation of Bush Policies Under Obama at CFR

7/20/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Was Dr. David Kelly a Target of Dick Cheney's "Executive Assassination Ring"?

7/20/09 Tang, ITT, Your Crap, Our Compost

7/20/09 Jha, Guardian, Nasa's vision for the future

7/20/09 Smithers, Guardian, Food products should carry 'water footprint' information, says report

7/20/09 Doyle, McClatchy, Judge Accuses CIA Officials of Fraud, Unseals Secret Files

7/20/09 Carrington, Guardian, IPCC chief: Benefits of tackling climate change will balance cost of action

7/20/09 BBC, Tuvalu vows to go carbon neutral

7/20/09 Sullivan, PNHP, Bait and Switch: How the "Public Option" Was Sold

7/20/09 Weise, ProPublica, How Banks Are Using Bailout Money

7/20/09 Vozella, Baltimore Sun, City Farming Becomes a Social Cause

7/20/09 Goodman, NYT, Subprime Brokers Resurface as Dubious Loan Fixers

7/20/09 AP, Clinton says 9/11 ringleaders are in Pakistan

7/20/09 Fahrenthold, WP, Chemicals That Eased One Woe Worsen Another

7/20/09 Haughney, NYT, Stores Go Dark Where Buyers Once Roamed

7/20/09 Tankersley, LAT, House climate bill was flooded with last-minute changes

7/20/09 McGreal, Guardian, Teen pregnancy and disease rates rose sharply during Bush years, agency finds

7/20/09 Borger, Guardian, Ali Khamenei warns of 'collapse' after Iran referendum calls

7/20/09 Guardian, Googling on the moon

7/20/09 McWhorter, CNN, Commentary: Where the jobs really are

7/20/09 BBC, US to add 22,000 troops to army

7/20/09 Bowes, BBC, Mapping America's giant trees

7/20/09 BBC, US 'exposure to crisis $23.7tn'

7/20/09 BBC, Medieval battle records go online

July 19, 2009

7/19/09 Sherine, Guardian, Rage against the machines

7/19/09 Kwak, Baseline, Jamie Dimon v. Larry Summers

7/19/09 BBC, Cloned sniffer dogs begin duties

7/19/09 Williams, Public record, US Role in Massive Aerial Herbicide Spraying Revealed

7/19/09 Warrick & Finn, WP, Interviews Offer More Nuanced Look At Roles of CIA Contractors, Concerns Of Officials During Interrogations

7/19/09 Balz, WP, At Governors' Meeting, Budget Problems Are Inescapable

7/19/09 Wachman, Observer, Ex-Lehman Traders to Get Huge Bonuses

7/19/09 Harris, Guardian, Bush's key men face grilling on torture and death squads

7/19/09 Hinsliff, Guardian, Revealed: the hidden benefits of a private-school education

7/19/09 BBC, Climate tops Clinton India talks

July 18, 2009

7/18/09 Al Jazeera, UK toxic waste found in Brazil

7/18/09 Branigan, Guardian, Chinese security forces admit shooting dead 12 Uighur rioters

7/18/09 Yellin, CNN, New consumer protection agency meets resistance

7/18/09 BBC, Chechnya's dissenting voice silenced

7/18/09 Kennedy, Newsweek, 'The Cause of My Life.' Inside the fight for universal health care.

7/18/09 OpenLeft, Americans' Perceptions of Opportunity - Findings from the 2009 Pew Research Center's Values Survey

July 17, 2009

7/17/09 Scahill, RebelReports, House Intelligence Committee Announces Official Investigation Into Assassination Program

7/17/09 Keim, Wired, Potential Neurotoxin Could Be in Our Food

7/17/09 Nichols, Nation, A Real Win for Single-Payer Advocates

7/17/09 Stone, NYT, Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle

7/17/09 Hopkins, ADN, Big, mysterious blob floating off Alaska coast? It's algae

7/17/09 Muskal, LAT, Bush-era intelligence issues trip up Obama

7/17/09 Maugh, LAT, Swine flu spreading easily through U.S.

7/17/09 Cobban, IPS, MIDEAST: Turkey Gets Boost from Pipeline Politics

7/17/09 Rooney, CNN, Michigan unemployment tops 15%

7/17/09 Levine, CNN, Defense Department paid millions in wages to invalid accounts

7/17/09 Kessler, CNN, Black Philadelphia police sue over message board, say it's racist

7/17/09 Appelbaum, WP, Lawmakers Blast Paulson For His Response to Crisis

7/17/09 Kane, WP, House Will Investigate CIA's Handling of Canceled Program

7/17/09 Stobbe, AP, Legal immunity set for swine flu vaccine makers

7/17/09 First Post, Pat Buchanan: 'white people deserve more'

7/17/09 Appelbaum, NYT, Bank of America, Citigroup Report Large Second-Quarter Profits

7/16/09 Reuters, H1N1 pandemic spreading too fast to count: WHO

7/17/09 Zabrenko, Reuters, U.S. releases unclassified spy images of Arctic ice

7/17/09 Tankersley, LAT, Offshore oil leases to be auctioned despite legal uncertainty

7/17/09 Huffington Post, CIA Supervisor Claimed He Used Fire Ants On Detainee

7/17/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Bush May Have Continued to Secretly Operate John Poindexter's TIA (Total Information Awareness) Program

7/17/09 Aron, Guardian, Radar beams could protect bats from wind turbines

7/17/09 Acosta, CNN, Real battle over health care reform about to begin

7/17/09 CNN, Police say Jakarta hotel bombers were guests

7/17/09 Walker, BBC, Tiny lizard falls like a feather

7/17/09 Public Record, Pentagon Reclassifying Documents Already in the Public Domain

July 16, 2009

7/16/09 Neves, KGW.com, No. 1 Homelessness ranking frustrates city leaders

7/16/09 Wright, AlterNet, Why the "New Atheists" Are Right-Wing on Foreign Policy

7/16/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Senior Obama Official Backs Cheney and C.I.A., Says Concealment of Assassin Program Legal

7/16/09 AP, Army: Violence by GIs at Home Tied to Combat

7/16/09 AFP, US Considers Expanding Army: Pentagon

7/16/09 Grim, HuffingtonPost, Leaked: More Than Fifty House Progressives Privately Commit to Oppose Weak Health Care Bill ... CPC's Whip Count on Public Option

7/16/09 Telegraph, George Tenet 'Suspended Secret CIA Hit-Squad'

7/16/09 Murray, WP, Obama Eyes The Purse Strings for Medicare

7/16/09 Ireland, ITT, Queer Prehistory

7/16/09 Edemariam, Guardian, Swine flu will be biggest pandemic ever, warns world health chief

7/17/09 Bowley, NYT, Two Giants Emerge From Wall Street Ruins

7/16/09 Christie, CNN, 1.5 million homes in foreclosure in '09

7/16/09 BBC, JPMorgan Chase profits soar 36%

7/16/09 Chung, McClatchy, Uighur detainees: U.S. helped Chinese interrogate us

7/16/09 Hirsch, Guardian, Secret evidence imperils the core values of British justice

7/16/09 Busch, FPIF, El Salvador's Gold Fight

July 15, 2009

7/15/09 Webster, Times Online, Low-carbon energy will cost every household £249 a year

7/15/09 Rucker, Reuters, Obama mulls rental option for homeowners: sources

7/15/09 Carey & Appleby, Kaiser Health News, Health legislation might bar some from public insurance

7/15/09 Madsen, Russia Today, Wayne Madsen: 'CIA suspect in Bhutto's assassination'

7/15/09 Hallinan, FPIF, Blood and Oil in Central Asia

7/15/09 Grieder, Nation, Dismantling the Temple

7/15/09 Meeropol, AlterNet, The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: The Most Dangerous Domestic Terror Law You've Never Heard Of

7/15/09 Cubby, The Age, Uranium Mine Linked to US Arms Dealer

7/15/09 Keim, Wired, Obama's Computerized Hospital Vision May Have Blind Spot

7/15/09 Pickler, AP, Justice Agrees to Exclude Detainee's Confession

7/15/09 Bhadrakumar, Asia Times, Pipeline deal is sweet music for Iran

July 14, 2009

7/14/09 Warring & Pershing, WP, CIA Had Program to Kill Al-Qaeda Leaders

7/14/09 Shiels, BBC, Microsoft Office takes to the web

7/14/09 Hersh, Daily Beast, The Man Who Knew Cheney's Secret

7/14/09 Tron, The Hill, Obama's Veto Threat Over F-22 Divides Democrats

7/14/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Dick Cheney, Rogue Meister

7/14/09 Leonhardt, NYT, Part-Time Workers Mask Unemployment Woes

7/14/09 Klare, MoJo, Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump?

7/14/09 scahill, RebelReports, Leading Constitutional and Military Law Expert Says Special Prosecutor Would Investigate Senior Bush Officials

7/14/09 Flavelle, ProPublica, Disappearance of Privacy Board From White House Web Site Raises Questions

7/14/09 Weisler, SacBee, Sacramento area is Delta's top pesticide source, study finds

7/14/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Is Obama Continuing the Bush/Cheney Assassination Program?

7/14/09 Al Jazeera, US invites Gulf Arab investment

7/14/09 Johnson & Thompson, WP, Holder Faces Avalanche Of Work, and Scrutiny

7/14/09 Reuters, Goldman Sachs executives sell $700 million in stock: report

7/14/09 Sturcke, Guardian, Swine flu: health experts 'surprised' by spread of virus in the UK

7/14/09 BBC, US fugitive is arrested in Israel

July 13, 2009

7/13/09 Tinsley, Star-Telegram, First shipment of toxic sludge from Hudson River being unloaded in West Texas

7/13/09 Miller, LAT, CIA's secret program: paramilitary teams to strike Al Qaeda

7/13/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Wall Street Journal Loves Obama's Drone War Vs. Pakistan: "Unmanned Bombs Away"

7/13/09 WorldFocus, Burmese refugees rounded up and sold in Malaysia

7/13/09 de Tarczynski, IPS, 'The Killing of Women Is Like Killing a Bird Today in Afghanistan'

7/13/09 Cocks & Mamhoud, Reuters, Disputed Iraqi City Fears Oil Will Only Fuel Woes

7/13/09 Yamaguchi, SeattlePI, Japan lifts ban on children donating organs

7/11/09 Gowen, WP, American Children in Poverty on the Rise

7/13/09 Rothaker & Melnick, Charlotte Observer, Minority Loan Gap Widens

7/13/09 Kane, Wa. Independent, Only Forceful Action Can Change Foreclosure Crisis Tide

7/13/09 Reuters, Two indicted in Minnesota on Somali terror charges

7/13/09 Weiser, SacBee, Feds document shrinking San Joaquin Valley aquifer

7/13/09 Harris, NYT, Bill Seeks to End Antibiotic Use to Spur Animal Growth

7/13/09 Shih, NYT, Stocks Climb on Optimism Over Bank Earnings

7/13/09 Stout & de la Merced, NYT, Obama's Chief Auto Adviser Steps Down

7/13/09 Jha, Guardian, In search of time

7/13/09 McGreal, Guardian, Dick Cheney 'hid plans to kill al-Qaida operatives abroad'

7/13/09 Woods, FPIF, Obama Visits Africa's 'Oil Gulf'

7/13/09 Smith, CNN, Months after ash spill, Tennessee town still choking

7/13/09 Marquand, CSM, Will Nabucco pipeline deal free Europe from Russian gas?

7/13/09 Andersson, BBC, Did America break its torture law?

7/13/09 BBC, US budget deficit at $1 trillion

7/13/09 Atkinson, BBC, Controversy to surround Goldman success

7/13/09 Robertson, NYT, Iraq Suffers as the Euphrates River Dwindles

7/13/09 Bradsher, NYT, China Builds High Wall to Guard Energy Industry

7/13/09 Cornwell, Independent, Cheney 'Set Up Illegal Secret Spy Project'

7/13/09 Richburg, WP, States Seek Less Costly Substitutes For Prison

7/13/09 Giroux, TruthOut, Obama's Tortured Democracy: The Power of Images and the Politics of State Secrecy

7/13/09 Laessing & Somerville, Reuters, Geithner to reassure Gulf allies on dollar assets

7/13/07 Watanabe, LAT, Activists push ballot initiative to end state benefits for illegal immigrants and their U.S.-born children

7/13/09 Gregory, BBC, Higher food costs still a concern

7/13/09 BBC, Snooping through the power socket

July 12, 2009

7/12/09 Duncon, Macon.com, Report predicts even hotter Southeast in decades to come

7/12/09 Liepold, Army Times, Army lodging heads for upgrades by Actus Lend Lease, InterContinental Hotels Group

7/12/09 McCown, TriCities, Demolishing Appalachia

7/12/09 Kane & Warrick, WP, Democrats May Investigate Secret Program

7/12/09 Mostrous, WP, More Families Are Becoming Homeless

7/12/09 Johnson, WP, Probe of Alleged Torture Weighed

7/12/09 Miller, LAT, Cheney Linked to Secrecy of CIA Program

7/11/09 Shane, NYT, Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project

7/12/09 Starcansky, IPS, EUROPE: Bringing Up a 'Lost Generation'

7/12/09 Chamberlain, Guardian, India prays for rain as water wars break out

7/12/09 Guardian, Dick Cheney kept Congress in dark over CIA counterterrorism action

7/12/09 Benson, CNN, Cheney kept CIA program from Congress, source says

7/12/09 Desai & Roberts, AlterNet, Young People of Color Are Rising Up Against Military Recruiters

7/12/09 Hanrahan, BBC, Czechoslovak dissidents' mental resistance

7/12/09 Bowley & Anderson, NYT, For Goldman, a Swift Return to Lofty Profits

7/12/09 CNN, Bush-era wiretap program had limited results, report finds

July 11, 2009

7/11/09 Kucinich, Progressive, The Banks' Massive Theft

7/11/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Empowering A Progressive Movement-A Web-Based Tool For Bottom-Up Self-Organizing

7/11/09 Blitstein, Miller-McCune, The Hidden Health Toll of Race

7/11/09 Hess, Reuters, Bush Surveillance Program Was Massive

7/11/09 Wilson, AlterNet, Ensign's 'C Street House' Owned By Group Touting Plans For Christian World Control

7/11/09 Lindelof, SacBee, CSU system says it won't accept spring enrollment applications

7/11/09 BBC, Cheney 'ordered CIA to hide plan'

7/11/09 Spence, IntelDaily, The Continued Fleecing Of America And Its Citizens By The Financial Elites

7/11/09 BBC, Iran to offer West 'new package'

July 10, 2009

7/10/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Notorious Human Rights Abuser Chevron Given "Richard C. Holbrooke Award for Business Excellence"

7/10/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Big Bankers Mounting Sneak Attack on Consumers

7/10/09 Starkey, Independent. Law Will Let Afghan Husbands Starve Wives Who Withhold Sex

7/10/09 AFP, US Demand Fuels Spike in Small Arms Trade: UN Survey

7/10/09 AFP, Suicides in US Army Rise in First Half of 2009

7/10/09 Pease, Consortium News, CIA's History of Lying to Congress

7/10/09 NPR, Hear: What Keeps Countries Poor?

7/10/09 Dash, NYT, A.I.G. Seeks U.S. Support for Bonuses

7/10/09 AP, General Motors emerges from bankruptcy

7/10/09 Bybee, ITT, Sewer Socialism Down the Drain?

7/10/09 Elliott & Wintour, Guardian, G8 leaders under pressure to honour promises as Africa takes centre stage

7/10/09 Thompson, ProPublica, New Evidence Surfaces in Post-Katrina Crimes

7/10/09 Taylor & Jalonik, AP, Committee Votes to Reverse Global Gag Rule

7/10/09 SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center Urges Congress to Investigate Extremism in the Military

7/10/09 BBC, Further deflation woes for Japan

7/01/09 BBC, Firm admits overseas corruption

7/10/09 BBC, SA miners hold bosses underground

7/10/09 Nichols, Nation, CIA's Panetta Owes Pelosi an Admission and an Apology

7/10/09 Benson & Frieden, CNN, Report: Domestic surveillance program relied on flawed analysis

7/10/09 Hinshaw, CSM, Obama in Africa: Can US rival China's new clout?

7/10/09 BBC, Nairobi water 'stolen for farms'

7/10/09 BBC, Call for limits on web snooping

July 9, 2009

7/09/09 Kraemer, CleanTechnica, Russians to Drill Melting Arctic with Nukes

7/09/09 Cave, NYT, Roadside Camp for Miami Sex Offenders Leads to Lawsuit

7/09/09 NPR, Treasury Seeks 'Plan C'

7/09/09 AP, Ebola found in Philippine pigs for first time

7/09/09 Campbell, Star-Telegram, 'Once-in-a-century' drought sending campers indoors and stunting crops

7/09/09 Kane, WP, House Intelligence Chairman Reyes Says CIA Lied to Committee

7/09/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Growing numbers of poor people swamp legal aid offices

7/09/09 Cobain, Guardian, Further evidence that Pakistan tortured suspects for Britain

7/09/09 Mistillis, FPIF, Niger Delta Standoff

7/09/09 Guardian, Iran protests: 'They have covered up the deaths'

7/09/09 Landreau, CNN, Study: Night owls may benefit from evening strength

7/09/09 BBC, China's ethnic tinderbox

7/09/09 BBC, Pakistan displaced 'can go home'

7/09/09 BBC, US 'frees' five Iranians in Iraq

July 8, 2009

7/08/09 Boyd, McClatchy, New wonder material, one-atom thick, has scientists abuzz

7/08/09 Bridges, McClatchy, China replacing U.S. as top trade partner in Latin America

7/08/09 Agazzi, IPS, WORLD: Trade Cannot Be Relied Upon to Reduce Poverty

7/08/09 Davies, Guardian, Murdoch papers paid 1m to gag phone-hacking victims

7/08/09 Mittlal, FPIF, G8 Summit: Feed the Hungry or Fuel Hunger?

7/08/09 Bello, FPIF, Keynes: A Man for this Season?

7/08/09 Rice-Oxley, CSM, Where rich countries are buying farmland

7/08/09 BBC, Sink immigrants' boats - Griffin

7/08/09 BBC, In pictures: Mumbai's water woes

7/08/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data ... Chart: Where States Fall on Oil and Gas Regulation

7/08/09 Jucca, Reuters, Swiss to Stop UBS Handing over Data in US Tax Row

7/08/09 AFP, Major Polluters Water Down Climate Warming Ambitions

7/08/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Obama Slides Further Down Bush's Hill on Indefinite Detention

7/08/09 Harden et al, WP, North Korea Suspected in Cyberattack

7/08/09 Leyva, Progressive, Recent attacks on immigrants tell us who we are

7/08/09 Baker, NYT, G-8 Nations Fail to Agree on Climate Change Plan

7/08/09 Vanden Heuval, Nation, Real Health, Real Reform

7/08/09 DailyKos, UK Weapons Inspector was Writing Biowarfare Bombshell Prior to Suspicious Death

7/08/09 Fisher, IntelDaily, Blackwater Charged With Murder, Tax Evasion, Shredding of Evidence in Baghdad Massacre Case

7/08/09 Stack, CSM, Fresh drone attacks in Pakistan reignite debate

7/08/09 Shiels, BBC, Google to launch operating system

7/08/09 Wintour & Elliott, Guardian, G8 agrees to climate targets despite differences with developing nations

7/08/09 Stulman, Asia Times, Indebted nations fight off vulture funds

7/08/09 Asia Times, Laotian farmers feel rubber squeeze

July 7, 2009

7/07/09 Coutts & Kile, ProPublica, How Big is AIG's Bailout ... Really?

7/07/09 Miller, PSL, Federal judge allows 'first of its kind' lawsuit against Wells Fargo bank to proceed

7/07/09 Borenstein, AP, Satellite shows big thinning of old Arctic sea ice

7/07/09 Stiglitz & Bilmes, Capital Times, Adding Up the True Costs of Two Wars

7/07/09 Stempel, Reuters, U.S. consumers fall behind on loans at record pace

7/07/09 Youseff, McClatchy, Where's Pentagon 'terrorism suspect'? Talking to Karzai

7/07/09 Harrabin, BBC, 'Time to ditch climate policies'

7/07/09 BBC, Scientists claim sperm 'first'

7/07/09 Smith, Progressive, Michael Jackson's death should raise awareness about his skin disease

7/07/09 Hall, McClatchy, What happened to those bad bank assets? So far, nothing

7/07/09 Engstrom, FT, Copyright laws threaten our online freedom

7/07/09 Zaitchik, AlterNet, The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive

7/07/09 Costello, AlterNet, Hunter Thompson Knew It Well: Robert McNamara's Vision for America Was Imperial and Elitist

7/07/09 Zabrenko, Reuters, New Climate Strategy: Track the World's Wealthiest

7/07/09 McKim, Boston Globe, Study: Lenders Avoid Aiding Distressed Due to Lack of Profit

7/07/09 Jalonick, AP, Government tightening food safety standards

7/07/09 Connolly & Shear, WP, Hospitals Reach Deal With Administration

7/07/09 Hall, McClatchy, Regulators aim to curb speculators' influence on oil prices

7/07/09 Klomegah, IPS, TRADE: Crisis Pushing Emerging Markets to Move Beyond the Dollar

7/07/09 IPS, ENVIRONMENT-SOUTH AFRICA: How Friendly is Biodegradable Plastic?

7/07/09 BBC, Pope calls for ethical dimension to global capitalism

7/07/09 Walker, BBC, Aquatic deer and ancient whales

July 6, 2009

7/06/09 NPR, Hours Worked Hits Historic Low: You Saw It Coming

7/06/09 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, Binyam Mohamed Launches Legal Fight to Stop US Destroying Torture Images

7/06/09 AP, Taliban confirms capture of US soldier

7/06/09 Leahy, IPS, AGRICULTURE: A Stormy Time for Indigenous Wisdom

7/06/09 Fox, ITT, Budgets by the People

7/06/09 Stulman, FPIF, Time to Clamp Down on Vulture Funds

7/06/09 LeMelle, FPIF, Straight Talk: Revealing the Real U.S. Africa-Policy

7/06/09 Quinn CSM, One president for 27 nations: Can Tony Blair lead Europe?

7/06/09 Tercer, AlterNet, Taibbi: New Secrecy Rule Lets Goldman Sachs Control Stock Prices Unmolested by Public Scrutiny

7/06/09 Wardrop, Telegraph, Unmanned Drones Could Be Banned, Says Senior Judge

7/06/09 Kuhnhenn, AP, Obama plan could trim back financial powerhouses

7/06/09 Lee, Chicago Tribune, Home foreclosures expected to surge in coming months

7/06/09 Secrecy News, Pentagon Intel Ops "Often" Evade Oversight

7/06/09 Mirhaydari, MSN Money, True unemployment rate already at 20%

7/06/09 Wikileaks, US Special Forces briefing to Congressman Miller exposes involvement in 19 Latin American countries during 2009 including Honduras, 17 May 2009

7/06/09 CNN, U.S., Russia ready to set new nuclear arms limits

7/06/09 Rivers, CNN, Thailand cracks down on elephant begging

7/06/09 Fackler, NYT, With Wounded Pride, Unemployed Koreans Quietly Turn to Manual Labor

7/06/09 Sack, NYT, Health Co-op Offers Model for Overhaul

7/06/09 Abdullah, McClatchy, Mine safety advocates praise Obama's choice to lead agency

July 5, 2009

7/05/09 Barker, Idaho Statesman, Rep. Walt Minnick's climate change vote may cost him

7/05/09 Johnson, Mercury News, Big Push Under Way for Generic Biotech Drugs

7/05/09 Pannell, Sunday Herald, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib... Bagram?

7/05/09 Seager, Observer, Costa Rica is World's Greenest, Happiest Country

7/05/09 Simpson, Reuters, Italians Protest US Base Expansion, G8

7/05/09 Shaw, AP, Zimbabwe vows to pull troops out of diamond fields

7/05/09 Hendawi, AP, Iraqis skeptical about significance of US pullback

7/05/09 China View, U.S. pledges increased military support to Somalia

7/05/009 BBC, WTO backs trade in poorer nations

7/05/09 BBC, Coffee 'may reverse Alzheimer's'

7/05/09 Schifferes, BBC, G8 set to tackle hunger in Africa

7/05/09 Kapila & Prentice, CSM, Kyrgyzstan weighs opium as industry

July 4, 2009

7/04/09 Examiner, CIA behavior modification: Project Bluebird

July 3, 2009

7/03/09 Kindley & Layton, WP, Purity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned

7/03/09 BBC, New dinosaurs found in Australia

7/03/09 Moran, Times Online, Footage of last ever Michael Jackson rehearsal released

7/03/09 Hess & Pickler, AP, Documents Describe Chaos of Gitmo's Early Months

7/03/09 Woodall, Reuters, Los Angeles Will End Use of Coal-Fired Power

7/03/09 Loney, Reuters, Loss of World's Seagrass Beds Seen Accelerating

7/03/09 Bernstein, ProPublica, Bank Failure Friday Comes Early

7/03/09 Ramer, AP, Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard

7/03/09 Leopold, Truthout, Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion

7/03/09 Thompson & Costello, Times online, Rogue trader sends oil to year-high on $10m gamble

7/03/09 Zinn, Progressive, Untold Truths About the American Revolution

7/03/09 Russia Today, Video: US sent Afghan mercenaries into Iraq (U.S. creates and controls all of its "enemies")

7/03/09 McAfee, IntelDaily, Questioning The Ethical Legitimacy of Drone Attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan

7/03/09 Duffy, BBC, Brazil's huge wetland under threat

7/03/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: Petroleum Sullies the Amazon

7/03/09 Fazal-e-Haider, Asia times, Miners bank $3bn on Baloch project

July 2, 2009

7/02/09 Scahill, RebelReports, For $25-250K, Washington Post Offered Lobbyists Access to Obama Officials, Congress and Reporters

7/02/09 NPR, IMF Bonds (!!!!)

7/02/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Many States Leave Federal Unemployment Money Unclaimed

7/02/09 Linzer, ProPublica, Obama Seems to Rule Out Executive Order on Indefinite Detentions

7/02/09 Reeves, AP, EPA Allows TVA to Dump Spilled Coal Ash in Ala.

7/02/09 Chart, OpenLeft, Hamstringing Environmental Protection for Coal

7/02/09 Kessler, WP, Hussein Pointed to Iranian Threat

7/02/09 Thompson & Elliot, Times Online, Credit card companies face a ban on 'exploiting' debtors

7/02/09 Preston, NYT, U.S. Shifts Strategy on Illicit Work by Immigrants

7/02/09 Weiser & Shane, NYT, U.S. Says It Will Preserve C.I.A. Secret Jails for Terrorism Case

7/02/09 Johnson, MoJo, How to Deal with America's Empire of Bases

7/02/09 Porter, IPS, POLITICS: U.S. Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran

7/02/09 BBC, China babies 'sold for adoption'

7/02/09 BBC, Saddam interview tapes released

7/02/09 Gill, BBC, Climate change is shrinking sheep

7/02/09 Doyle, BBC, Developing world faces age crisis

7/02/09 BBC, Moon probe returns first images

7/02/09 Taibi, Rolling Stone, The Great American Bubble Machine

7/02/09 Clemons, Washington Note, America's Effective Unemployment Rate at 18.7%?

7/02/09 Mears, CNN, New Sotomayor documents detail work of Puerto Rican rights group

7/02/09 Delasantellis, Asia Times, Cheating still beats real work

7/02/09 Buzzell, AlterNet, Slow Down: How Our Fast-Paced World Is Making Us Sick

7/02/09 Klapper, AP, Extinction Looms, Study Says

7/02/09 Reuters, SEC lawyer raised alarm about Madoff: report

7/02/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Senate Already Passed A Budget That Can Pay For A Public Option

7/02/09 Timmons & Kumar, NYT, Indian Court Overturns Gay Sex Ban

7/02/09 Hecht, SacBee, In S.F., thou shalt compost: It's the law

7/02/09 Lee, LAT, Hiring might not rebound in an economic recovery

7/02/09 Agazi, IPS, TRADE: Who's Harming Fish Stocks? Trawlers or Artisanal Fishers?

7/02/09 Hamilton, Guardian, How to create a drought-friendly garden

7/02/09 CNN, Amnesty: Israel killed hundreds of Gaza civilians

7/02/09 Steinhauser, CNN, Poll: Few Americans say recovery under way

7/02/09 Bryant, BBC, Gap dividing Aborigines growing

7/02/09 BBC, California in 'fiscal emergency'

7/02/09 BBC, Swine flu 'cannot be contained'

7/02/09 Walker, BBC, Amur tigers on 'genetic brink'

7/02/09 BBC, US job losses worse than expected

7/02/09 BBC, Nigaz name sparks racism debate

July 1, 2009

7/01/09 Goldstein, NYT, Nuns in the U.S. Are Facing Scrutiny by the Vatican

7/01/09 Landau, CNN, CDC: U.S. may need 600 million swine flu vaccine doses

7/01/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier is Up for Parole This Month

7/01/09 Fernandez, AlterNet, Why is the Government Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid at the U.S.-Mexico Border?

7/01/09 Samuelrich, AlterNet, David v. Goliath: Help Michigan Citizens Protect Their Water from Nestle's Bottling Operations

7/01/09 Kromm, Facing South, Honduran Coup Shines Spotlight on Controversial U.S. Military Training School

7/01/09 Ridgeway, MoJo, Congress's $1.2 Million a Day Drug Habit--and Pharma's Phony "Gift" to Health Care Reform

7/01/09 Klapper, AP, Group: World failing to halt biodiversity decline

7/01/09 Clark, Miami Herald, U.S. money going for reefs

7/01/09 Hambling, Wired, Darpa's Smart, Flat Camera Is Packed With Beady Eyes

7/01/09 Keim, Wired, Salamander Discovery Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration

7/01/09 Leopold, TruthOut, John Yoo, Donald Rumsfeld and the Systematic Torture of Prisoners

7/01/09 Hall, McClatchy, Obama expands program to aid borrowers who're 'underwater'

7/01/09 Thomma et al, McClatchy, Jones: No more U.S. troops to Afghanistan this year

7/01/09 AP, Rep. Henry Waxman hospitalized in Los Angeles

7/01/09 Johnson, Guardian, The library that never closes

7/01/09 Grim, Huffington Post, NAFTA And The Drug Cartels: "A Deal Made In Narco Heaven" -- Exclusive Excerpt

7/01/09 Chadbourn, Bloomberg, Delinquencies Double on Least-Risky Loans, U.S. Says

7/01/09 Rappeport, FT, US private sector sheds 473,000 jobs

7/01/09 Randall, WSWS, US state budget crises fuel massive spending cuts: Deadlines threaten government shutdowns

7/01/09 Lalanne, IPS, ECONOMY: Migrant Miseries Will Trickle Down Worldwide, U.N. Warns

7/01/09 Rizvi, IPS, RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling

7/01/09 BBC, UK Afghan civilian death payments

7/01/09 BBC, Amnesty details Gaza 'war crimes'

7/01/09 Nasaw, Guardian, US military panel recommends discharge for gay soldier

7/01/09 Adam, Guardian, ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate skeptic groups, records show

7/01/09 Young, CNN, Two anti-smoking drugs to carry mental-health warnings

7/01/09 Quinn, CSM, Brave new world of British workers: floating 'labor hostels'

7/01/09 BBC, US opens 'major Afghan offensive'

7/01/09 Diaz, IPS, PARAGUAY: President and Congress Face Off Over Agrochemicals

7/01/09 Frykberg, IPS, Nobel Laureate 'Abducted' by Israeli Navy

7/01/09 Benno, PSL, New Orleans housing 'unaffordable'

7/01/09 Roa, AlterNet, The Military Invades U.S. Schools: How Military Academies Are Being Used to Destroy Public Education

7/01/09 Gilson, MoJo, Black and White and Dead All Over

7/01/09 Reuters, Permafrost Melting a Growing Climate Threat: Study

7/01/09 Barnes, WP, Term Saw High Court Move to The Right

7/01/09 Hiaasen, Miami Herald, Prescription drug overdose deaths soar in Florida

7/01/09 Swanson, IntelDaily, Cheney's Top Torture Lawyers Now Work for Obama

7/01/09 Rothberg, Nation, Defining Patriotism

7/01/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Cyber Command Launched. U.S. Strategic Command to Oversee Offensive Military Operations

7/01/09 Stracansky, IPS, AUSTRIA: Racism on a Sharp Rise

7/01/09 Starr, CNN, Defense chief giving 'don't ask, don't tell' a closer look

7/01/09 Montero, CSM, Obama could send 1,500 National Guard troops to Mexican border

7/01/09 Walker, BBC, Ant mega-colony takes over world