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

August 31, 2009
8/31/09 Birnbaum, WP, Per-Student Spending Gaps Wider Than Known
8/31/09 Leopold, PublicRecord, How a Health Benefits Law Formed the Basis For the 'Torture Memo'
8/31/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Seven Points About Dick Cheney and Torture
8/31/09 Yardley, NYT, Wolves Are Set to Become Fair Game in the West
8/31/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Ex-Countrywide Execs' Firm Modifies Bad Loans for Taxpayer Cash
8/31/09 AP, Wind, current combined to raise E Coast sea level
8/31/09 Carroll et all, Guardian, Mexico and Argentina move towards decriminalising drugs
8/31/09 Gavin, Politico, Bill Moyers says Obama Must Fight, Not Finesse
8/31/09 Brown, AP, Wolf hunts to open, judge eyes injunction request
8/31/09 Jonnson, CSM, For More Hard-Pressed Americans, a Campsite is Home
8/31/09 Jamail, TruthOut, Resisting Homophobia in the Military
8/31/09 Fahrenthold, WP, Environmentalists Slow to Adjust in Climate Debate
8/31/09 Baker & Filkins, NYT, Groundwork Is Laid for New Troops in Afghanistan
8/31/09 Savage, NYT, Justice Dept. to Recharge Enforcement of Civil Rights
8/31/09 Reuters, Federal Reserve made $14 billion on turmoil loans: report
8/31/09 reuters, U.S. military ends journalist profiling contract
8/31/09 Horning, Bull is not Bull, Washington Capitulates: Peak Oil Is Real
8/31/09 Leahy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Early Warning Systems for the Coming Storm
8/31/09 Goodman, MoJo, War Games: The Army's Teen Arsenal
8/31/09 BBC, Africans 'under siege' in Moscow
8/31/09 Michael, IPS, UGANDA: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
8/31/09 BBC, Brazil unveils oil rules changes
August 30, 2009
8/30/09 Ross, PublicRecord, Mercenary Armies: A Worldwide Threat and a Menace to Peace
8/29/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Big Oil Gets in on Right-Wing Astroturf Game
8/30/09 timesOnline, A motor rickshaw is transported on a donkey-cart in Lahore, Pakistan.
8/30/09 Goldman & Hess, AP, Blackwater Tapped Foreigners on Secret CIA Program
8/30/09 Independent, Millions Facing Famine in Ethiopia as Rains Fail
8/30/09 Jagger & Baldwin, Times Online, Downing Street approved Lockerbie bomber deal
8/30/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The Real Estate / Labor Side Of The Economic Recovery Equation
8/30/09 Samuels, Guardian, Africa goes hardcore
8/30/09 BBC, Lesbians given equal birth rights
8/30/09 Hanley, AP, Climate trouble may be bubbling up in far north
8/30/09 LeBlanc, AP, Fortune helped fuel Kennedy family legacy, agenda
8/30/09 Collins, McClatchy, U.S. ignored evidence when it deported U.S. citizen to Mexico
8/30/09 Reuters, Cheney says cooperation with CIA probe "will depend"
8/30/09 Gellaty, Aiken Standard, Out of ammo: Shortage has many worried
8/30/09 Chanberlain, Guardian, India's Generation of Children Crippled by Uranium Waste
8/30/09 DW-World, Scientists say deadly mosquito detected in central Europe
8/30/09 Reuters, White House claims Pakistan modified U.S.-made missiles: report
8/30/09 Brulliard, WP, In Oil-Rich Niger Delta, the Sun Never Sets
8/30/09 DeYoung, NYT, U.S. Sets Metrics to Assess War Success
8/30/09 Engler, AP, UN meeting: help nations adapt to global warming
8/30/09 McGreal, Guardian, The Grapes of Wrath revisited: interactive guide
8/30/09 McGreal, Guardian, The Grapes of Wrath revisited: The plight of Native Americans
8/30/09 Ford, CSM, Japan's opposition crushes LDP in landmark victory
8/30/09 Kroll, MoJo, Fast Times at Recruitment High
8/30/09 Glover, SacBee, Federal 'cash for appliances' program should spur sales
8/30/09 Brown, NYT, Older Immigrants, Invisible and With 'Nobody to Talk To'
8/30/09 Healy, NYT, Some Analysts See an End to Market Rally
August 29, 2009
8/29/09 Simon, Baseline Scenario, More On The Two-Track Economy - From The WSJ And Others
8/29/09 Barry, NYT, Chechnya and Its Neighbors Suffer a Relapse
8/28/09 Heinrich, Reuters, IAEA extends probe of alleged secret Syria atom site
8/28/09 CNN, Katrina's Hidden Race War: Four Years Later
8/29/09 Finn et al, WP, How a Detainee Became An Asset
8/29/09 Markon, WP, Blackwater Founder Accused in Court of Intent to Kill
8/29/09 Lodono, WP, Embassy Costs to Rise in Baghdad
8/29/09 IntelDaily, Physicists Untangle Complicated Webs to Reveal that the World's Finances are Controlled by "Just a Few Mutual Funds, Banks, and Corporations"
8/29/09 Press TV, Venezuela warns against 'destabilization' efforts
8/29/09 Russia Today, US military firm acts "against the Constitution of the Philippines" (Blackwater/XE video)
8/29/07 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Pentagon Plans For Global Military Supremacy: U.S., NATO Could Deploy Mobile Missiles Launchers To Europe
8/29/09 Sterling, CNN, Analysis: Why are the U.S., allies still in Afghanistan?
8/29/09 Goodman, PublicRecord, Exposed: The WPost's One-Sided Account of Torture and Abuse
8/29/09 Keller, TheSpec, New browser red-flags disputed facts on the web
8/29/09 BBC, Growing marginalisation of Hungary's Roma
8/29/09 Dewan, NYT, Clash in Alabama Over Tennessee Coal Ash
8/29/09 Shane, NYT, A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents for Truth
8/29/09 Godoy, IPS, MEXICO: Biological Remedy for Sickened Soil
August 28, 2009
8/28/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, How Much Does the Financial Sector Cost?
8/28/09 O'Connor, AlterNet, New Journalism Clubs Are "Members Only"
8/28/09 Cho, WP, Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger
8/28/09 McGreal, Guardian, Same Road, Same Grim Story, Same Sense of Optimism
8/28/09 Leopold, TruthOut, US Interrogators Back Torture Probe
8/28/09 Ridgeway, MoJo, The Secret History of Hurricane Katrina
8/28/09 Conaway, NPR, The New Secrecy At The FDIC
8/28/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Health Insurance Exec Admits Her Industry Rations Care: "We Believe In Controlling Utilization"
8/28/09 Guardian, The week in wildlife
8/28/09 EDIE, Global standards agreed for water stewardship
8/28/09 Drash, CNN, Protests to focus on doctor who performed 60,000 abortions
8/28/09 Gwozdziowski, PSL, Ex-IDF officer admits to systemic brutality of Palestinian children
8/28/09 Tejpar, CNN, Can Bill Gates stop hurricanes? Scientists doubt it
8/26/09 BBC, Fake Dutch 'moon rock' revealed
8/28/09 Ganly, AP, Horse dies, France faces reality of toxic beaches
8/28/09 McCullagh, CNET, Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
8/28/09 Nassaw, Guardian, Mullen blasts US 'strategic communication' efforts in Afghanistan
8/28/09 Feffer, FPIF, Revolution in Japan
8/28/09 Ravitz, CNN, From KKK, Mideast to church, film explores hate and hope
8/28/09 CNN, Charting New Orleans' progress since Katrina
August 27, 2009
8/27/09 Doyle, McClatchy, Judge challenges executive branch's control of secret acess
8/27/09 McGreal, Guardian, From dust to bust, America's poor take on a new type of monster
8/27/09 Berenson, NYT, Study Finds Radiation Risk for Patients
8/27/09 Page, Times/UK, Mohammed Jawad: 'I was 12 When I Was Arrested and Sent to Guantanamo'
8/27/09 Stein, WP, Lab Produces Monkeys With 2 Mothers
8/27/09 Leopold, TruthOut, New Documents Describe in Extraordinary Detail Process of "Rendition," Torture
8/27/09 Johnson, WP, Sources Say Richardson Probe Winding Down, Unlikely to Lead to Charges
8/27/09 Reuters, Prisons, colleges top states' budget cuts: Pew
8/27/09 Steenhuysen, Reuters, In Chicago, swine flu hit children hardest
8/27/09 Johnson, LAT, Astrophysicists puzzle over planet that's too close to its sun
8/27/09 Spence, IntelDaily, The Widening Gap In America's Two Tiered Society
8/27/09 Arsenault, ISP, ENERGY: Pipeline Sabotage Blows Image of Stable Canada
8/27/09 Guardian, Drought hits southern Iraq
8/27/09 Adam, Guardian, No joke: Scientists call for stricter controls on emissions of laughing gas
8/27/09 BBC, Kennedy death leaves no clear heir
8/27/09 Erich, CNBC, 1,000 Banks to Fail In Next Two Years: Bank CEO
8/27/09 Schenkman, Inside Science, Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few
8/27/09 Automatic Earth, How to Grow Your GDP while Killing Your Economy
8/27/09 UPI, U.S. to relocate missile defense system
August 26, 2009
8/26/09 Devraj, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: 'Water Recklessness Worsening Drought'
8/26/09 Al Jazeera, US stops issuing visas in Honduras
8/26/09 PublicRecord, Glenn Beck: 'I Was A Dirtbag Man, I Have Tried My Hardest to Not Be A Dirtbag Anymore'
8/26/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Subprime Companies Line Up for Gov't Mortgage Plan
8/26/09 Ward, Charleston, Protesters in Trees at Massey Mine Site
8/26/09 Singel, Wired, Hollywood, Big Software and Coal Miners Pros at Timely Political Donations
8/26/09 Vergano, USA Today, Report: Future US Heat Waves Will Be Worse
8/26/09 Wong, AP, Most China Organ Transplants Come From Death Row
8/26/09 Scheer, Nation, Remembering the Real Deal - Kennedy
8/26/09 Reuters, CIA memo details procedures for breaking detainees
8/26/09 Lightman, McClatchy, Ted Kennedy, last of the legendary brothers, dies
8/26/09 Walker, BBC, Axolotl verges on wild extinction
8/26/09 Grant, BBC, Smugglers thrive as row hits trade
8/26/09 Williams, Nation, Reverse Nazism and the War on Universal Healthcare
August 25, 2009
8/25/09 CNN, Michigan courts given leeway to force veil removal
8/25/09 Leopold, PublicRecord, Revealed: Docs Describe in Extraordinary Detail Process of 'Rendition,' Torture
8/25/09 Coutts, ProPublica, UBS and the Taxpayers' Hidden Billions
8/25/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Fed Loses Suit Over Lending Programs' Transparency
8/25/09 Benno, PSL, Puerto Rico's unemployment reaches 16.5 percent
8/25/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, EPA: Chemicals Found in Wyo. Drinking Water Might Be From Fracking
8/25/09 Scahill, RebelReports, U.S. Increasing Use of Private Contractors in War Zone
8/25/09 Hess & Apuzzo, AP, Inside the CIA's Haphazard Interrogation Program
8/25/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Bernie Sanders Denounces Bernanke Reappointment
8/25/09 Dejevsky, Independent, A Mean Streak in the US Mainstream
8/25/09 Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Army judge: 9/11 lawyers can't see CIA 'black sites'
8/25/09 Blume & Song, LAT, School board approves plan to open up schools to outsiders
8/25/09 Cross, Guardian, CCTV: the worst of all possible worlds
8/25/09 Ambrose, FPIF, Multilateral Money
8/25/09 Landrau, CNN, Freaky news about your brain may change your mind
8/25/09 BBC, Averting a perfect storm of shortages
8/25/09 Andrews, NYT, U.S. Raises Estimate for 10-Year Deficit to $9 Trillion
8/25/09 EDIE, Household cleaner used on nuclear waste
8/25/09 Meyer & Miller, LAT, Holder opens investigation into CIA interrogations
8/24/09 MacAskill, Guardian, CIA threats to detainees' families exposed
8/24/09 James, FPIF, Postcard From...Damascus
8/25/09 Shorrock, Guardian, The CIA's post-torture profits
8/25/09 Roberts, BBC, The lost children of Franco-era Spain
8/25/09 Ridge, CSM, India's farmers struggle without crucial monsoon rains
8/25/09 Askari, Asia Times, IMF adopts irrigation plan during a flood
August 24, 2009
8/24/09 ACLU, ACLU Obtains Detailed Official Record Of CIA Torture Program (Document Links)
8/24/09 Cole et al, ABC News, Tensions Lead to CIA Director's "Screaming Match" at the White House
8/24/09 Gabriel, Natural News Network, PepsiCo Chooses to Continue Using GE Ingredients Despite Evidence of Harm
8/24/09 Phillips, Guardian, Blocked Rivers Threaten Livelihood of Brazilian Tribes
8/24/09 McNally, AlterNet, There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History
8/24/09 Hamburger & Geiger, LAT, Healthcare insurers get upper hand
8/24/09 Ott, IntelDaily, The Engineering of 'Pandemics': Vaccine-Induced Disease Epidemic Outbreaks
8/24/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Codex Alimentarius Threatens Human Health
8/24/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, AFRICOM: Pentagon's First Direct Military Intervention In Africa
8/24/09 Cooke, BBC, A storm brews over food, water & power
8/24/09 EDIE, Climate talks must consider water, not just carbon
8/24/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Fun with Derivatives
8/24/09 Conaway, NPR, To Save The World, Help Women. Plus: $10 Billion Boost For Union Health Plans
8/24/09 Johnston, NYT, Justice Dept. Report Advises Pursuing CIA Abuse Cases
8/24/09 Hall, Windsor Star, Activists Assail Tar Sands
8/24/09 Joling, AP, Research finds higher acidity in Alaska waters
8/24/09 Apuzzo, AP, Remember me? Wall Street repackages debt for sale
8/24/09 Winslow & Sprey, MoJo, The Defense Industry's Secret Weapon
8/24/09 LAT, Obama backs setting up new interrogation unit
8/24/09 Smith, Guardian, Malawi's child tobacco pickers 'being poisoned by nicotine'
8/24/09 Guardian, 'Dramatic' breakthrough in MS research
8/24/09 EDIE, Roscommon communities tackle environmental impact
8/24/09 Pawlowski, CNN, What's a planet? Debate over Pluto rages on
8/24/09 BBC, Media build up to World War II
8/24/09 BBC, Toyota recalls 690,000 China cars
8/24/09 Doyle, BBC, Why is the African continent poor?
8/24/09 Mulvey, BBC, Will there be a 'perfect storm' in 2030?
August 23, 2009
8/23/09 Garcez, BBC, Obama island's Brazilian 'engine'
8/23/09 Knowlton, NYT, Mullen Pessimistic on Afghanistan
8/23/09 Ohlemacher, AP, Millions face shrinking Social Security payments
8/23/09 Warrick & Smith, WP, CIA Officer Disciplined for Alleged Gun Use in Interrogation
8/23/09 Mason, Reuters, New deficit projections pose risks to Obama's agenda
8/23/09 Spears & Ward, Lexington Herald, Prison damage extensive
8/23/09 Hoby, Guardian, Women - and men - still need feminism
8/23/09 Hinsliff, Guardian, Gordon Brown in new storm over freed Lockerbie bomber
8/23/09 Hinsliff, Guardian, Carbon targets may be too tough, says John Prescott
8/23/09 Reuters, Roubini warns of double-dip recession: report
8/23/09 BBC, US 'names secret terror suspects'
8/23/09 Cooper. NYT, U.S. Military Says Its Force in Afghanistan Is Insufficient
8/23/09 Wright, NYT, Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts
8/23/09 Gibson, Examiner, Was the release of the Lockerbie bomber part of a deal for Libya's oil?
August 22, 2009
8/22/09 Smith & Warrick, WP, Blackwater Disclosure Adds to CIA Worries
8/22/09 Boone, Guardian, Taliban 'cut off fingers of two Afghan voters'
8/22/09 Beaumont, Guardian, Bombshell report on CIA interrogations is leaked
8/22/09 BBC, Authorities quell inmate riot at Kentucky prison
8/22/09 Hiaasen et al, Miami Herald, From snitch to cyberthief of the century
8/22/09 Watanabe, LAT, White House moves to placate immigration reform advocates
8/22/09 BBC, Chemist warning on drug shortages
8/22/09 BBC, The vegetable gardeners of Havana
August 21, 2009
8/21/09 Hosenball & Isikoff, Newsweek, Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions
8/21/09 Leopold, PublicRecord, Feinstein: CIA Assassination Program Went 'Beyond the Simple Planning Stage'
8/21/09 Lee, ProPublica, More at Stake in Gitmo Court Orders Than Detainees' Fates
8/21/09 Kravets, Wired, Feds Urge Dismissal of High-Profile Spy Case
8/21/09 Rothschild, Progressive, More Military Intrusion Into Law Enforcement
8/21/09 Press, Nation, America's Super-Rich
8/21/09 Hattersley, Guardian, Rehabilitate the state
8/21/09 BBC, Oil price touches high for 2009
8/21/09 BBC, India to import food amid drought
8/21/09 BBC, Pace of HBOS decline 'unexpected'
8/21/09 AP, Tom Ridge says he was pushed to raise terror alert level
7/21/09 BBC, Ancient dial solves time riddle
August 20, 2009
8/20/09 O'Neill, AlterNet, Are Fish from U.S. Streams and Rivers Safe to Eat? New Reports Finds Widespread Mercury
8/20/09 Gleick, AlterNet, The U.S. Is Years Behind the Rest of the World on Water Issues
8/20/09 Dando, Nature, Biologists napping while work militarized
8/20/09 Pritchard, AP, Wastewater from Food Plants Getting into Wells
8/20/09 Clifton, IPS, 'Vulture Funds' Prey on Poor Debtor Nations
8/20/09 Macalister, Guardian, BP and Shell Warned to Halt Campaign Against US Climate Change Bill
8/20/09 Cole, ABC News, Officials: Lithuania Hosted Secret CIA Prison To Get "Our Ear"
8/20/09 Schouten, USA Today, Following the Money from Defense Lobby
8/20/09 Abel Wired, Open Source Textbook Company Now BMOC at 400 Colleges
8/20/09 Bacon, WP, Ailing Kennedy Asks for Speedy Replacement Process
8/20/09 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater: CIA Assassins?
8/20/09 Reuters, U.S. jobless claims unexpectedly rise
8/20/09 Shanker, NYT, Counterinsurgency Unit to Stay in Philippines
8/20/09 Bernstein, NYT, Deaths Show Hurdles to Detention Reform
8/20/09 Zavis, LAT, Compton pastor accused of embezzling $800,000 in church funds
8/20/09 Lin & Geiger, LAT, Officials may recommend 3 flu shots
8/20/09 Zinnerman, LAT, Mortgage defaults rise to record 13%
8/20/09 USA Today, Biologists urged to watch for neurological weapons
8/20/09 Xinhua, India, hub of human trafficking in South Asia: report
8/20/09 Tencer, IntelDaily, Concentration of wealth in hands of rich greatest on record
8/20/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Global Depression and Regional Wars - Part II
8/20/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Showdown with Russia and China: U.S. Advances First Strike Global Missile Shield System
8/20/09 Fisher, IPS, POLITICS-US: Court Reins in Terror Finance Policy
8/20/09 Klare, FPIF, Iran Gas Ban: Step toward War with Iran?
8/20/09 Bright, CSM, Reports: CIA hired Blackwater to help assassinate terrorists
8/20/09 Gill, BBC, A step closer to 'synthetic life'
8/20/09 BBC, Nigeria oil rights grab 'illegal'
8/20/09 Liu, AsiaTimes, Money and Commodity Markets, Part 1 Integrity deficit has its price
8/20/09 Friedman, AsiaTimes, Washington ponders its endgame
August 19, 2009
8/19/09 LeFleur, ProPublica, One Foreign Actor We Didn't Expect To Discover
8/19/09 Lerer, Politico, Coal Lobbyists Sent 13 Fake Letters to Hill
8/19/09 Porter, IPS, Karzai and Warlords Mount Massive Vote Fraud Scheme
8/19/09 Leggett, WIred, Toxic Soup: Plastics Could Be Leaching Chemicals Into Ocean
8/19/09 Brown & Allen, Politico, Democratic Investigators Target Health Insurers
8/19/09 Evans, ABCNews, ,a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=8364838">Arms Expert Warns New Mind Drugs Eyed by Military
8/19/09 DMI, OpenLeft, Forget The Squeeze: The Middle Class Is In A Choke Hold
8/19/09 Pepitone, CNN, Why oil won't return to triple digits
8/19/09 Ferriss, SacBee, Central Valley continues marathon fight for clean drinking water
8/19/09 Rose, TimesOnline, MRSA and Clostridium difficile kill 30,000 over five years
8/19/09 AFP, Access to Water Key for World's Poor: Experts
8/19/09 Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Judge orders release of Yemeni from Guantanamo
8/19/09 Ohlemacher & Barrett, Miami Herald, UBS to divulge 4,450 account names
8/19/08 Hari, Independent, Republicans, Religion and the Triumph of Unreason
8/19/09 Berrigan, ITT, Aiding and Abetting War Crimes
8/19/09 Boseley, Guardian, Stop prescribing killer diabetes drug, scientists warn
8/19/09 Travis, Guardian, Government to stem flow of migrant workers to protect British jobs
August 18, 2009
8/18/09 Kohl, Corn & Soybean Digest, FDIC Sees Ag Banks As The Next Big Crisis
8/18/09 Rugaber, AP, Meltdown 101: Foreign Investments in US Debt
8/18/09 Landrau, CNN, Ultra-tiny 'bees' target tumors
8/18/09 Merle, WP, Unemployment Spike Compounds Foreclosure Crisis
8/18/09 AP, Ex-informant charged with even bigger data theft this time
8/18/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Obama Administration Revives Bush-Era Quarantine Regulations for H1N1 Flu Virus
8/18/09 Eoss, IntelDaily, Winners and Losers in the American Warfare State
8/18/09 Pilkington, Guardian, US hacker charged with stealing 130m credit card IDs
8/18/09 Baseline Scenario, United States Inequality in the Recovery Period
8/18/09 Narayanswamy et al, ProPublica, Opening the Window on Foreign Lobbying
8/18/09 Narayanswamy et al, ProPublica, Adding it up: The Top Players in Foreign Agent Lobbying
8/18/09 August, Times Online, US Troops to Return to Iraq Despite Barack Obama's Withdrawal Plan
8/18/09 Goodstein, NYT, Believers Invest in the Gospel of Getting Rich
8/18/09 Kohl, Progressive, Education Secretary Arne Duncan misread my book
8/18/09 PressTV, DNA evidence can be fabricated, scientists say
8/18/09 Nolan, Guardian, Where's your headache at?
8/18/09 Berman, Nation, Baucus & Grassley Hijack Obama's Agenda
8/18/09 Zizek, Guardian, Quiet slicing of the West Bank makes abstract prayers for peace obscene
8/18/09 Kingsnorth & Monbiot, Guardian, Is there any point in fighting to stave off industrial apocalypse?
8/18/09 Schmitt, NYT, F.B.I. Agents' Role Is Transformed by Terror Fight
8/18/09 Singer, NYT, Senator Moves to Block Medical Ghostwriting
8/18/09 Krauss & Mouawad, NYT, Oil Industry Backs Protests of Emissions Bill
8/18/09 Swanson, IntelDaily, Top 50 US War Criminals Who Need to be Prosecuted
8/18/09 Valladares, IPS, RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: One Arrest in Gender-Killing Epidemic
8/18/09 Feffer, FPIF, Global Spin Doctors
8/18/09 Erdman, CNN, Study: Global warming sparked by ancient farming methods
8/18/09 Painter, BBC, Bolivians look to ancient farming
8/18/09 BBC, Methane seeps from Arctic sea bed
August 17, 2009
8/17/09 Chomsky, FPIF, Kosovo, East Timor, R2P, and Ian Williams
8/17/09 Park, CNN, 90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine
8/17/09 Fisher, PublicRecord, Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, Dobbs: The Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse
8/17/09 Leopold, PublicRecord, Rove and Miers to Testify Publicly Before Congress About Attorney Firings
8/17/09 CNN, Who's behind health care reform ad wars?
8/17/09 Bartosiewicz, MoJo, A Thousand Little Gitmos
8/17/09 Reuters, Government says busts largest-ever identity theft scheme
8/17/09 Gordon, AP, Fed survey: bank lending tight through mid-2010
8/17/09 Mui & Merle, WP, U.S. Stocks Plummet, Following Overseas Markets
8/17/09 Ash, TruthOut, Fight for the Public Option
8/17/09 Blumenfeld, WP, For Security Trainees, a Threat Theater
8/17/09 Lillis, Wa. Independent, GOP Embraces Medicare to Kill Health Care Reform
8/17/09 Haughney, NYT, For City's Poor, Banks Are Still a Matter of Distrust
8/17/09 Pear, NYT, Lack of Medicare Appointee Puzzles Congress
8/17/09 EDIE, Water focus of top level talks
8/17/09 EDIE, Biofuels 'disastrous' and fuelling climate change
8/17/09 CNN, Gay men attacked, executed in Iraq, rights group says
8/17/09 Schweiger, AlterNet, Our Last Chance to Preserve Life On Earth Is Slipping Away
8/17/09 Martenson, The FDIC Is Broke - Now What?
8/17/09 Carey, NYT, Mental Stress Training Is Planned for U.S. Soldiers
8/17/09 EDIE, Chemical leak killed 1000s of fish and released mile long poisonous cloud
8/18/09 EDIE, Improved efficiency could cut world's energy bill by 60%
8/17/09 BBC, Water reform is 'needed in Asia'
August 16, 2009
8/16/09 Nichols, Nation, If Obama Discards Public Option, What's Left of Reform?
8/16/09 Barnard, AP, Tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor
8/16/09 AP, Sebelius: Public insurance option not essential
8/16/09 Slevin, WP, Blogger's Case Could Test the Limits of Political Speech
8/16/09 Singletary, WP, With Plastic, Beware and Be Informed
8/16/09 Lynn, Reuters, UBS to name 5,000 accounts under U.S. deal: report
8/16/09 Doule, McClatchy, June's record ocean warmth worries fishermen, environmentalists
8/16/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, New data: Mega-quake could strike near Seattle
8/16/09 Hall, McClatchy, Homeowners tell how banks failed to modify mortgages
8/16/09 BBC, Israeli wins Fatah top body seat
August 15, 2009
8/15/09 PublicRecord, GOP Flack Tied To Group Calling For Obama's Death
8/15/09 Friedman, ABCNews, Health Care Stirs Up Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, Customers Boycott Organic Grocery Store
8/15/09 Independent, The Brutal Truth About America's Healthcare
9/15/09 Kutzelben, IPS, US Withholds Information About Bagram Detainees
8.15.09 Dewan, NYT, River Basin Fight Pits Atlanta Against Neighbors
8/15/09 Reuters, CitiGroup says two exempt from pay review: report
8/15/09 Baker & Zeleny, NYT, Emanuel Wields Power Freely, and Faces the Risks
8/15/09 Landay, McClatchy, How did a suicide bomber get to Kabul's NATO headquarters?
8/15/09 BBC, Prosperity promise of Bolivia's salt flats
8/15/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare's 13 Tyrants
8/15/09 Yu, Asia Times, China's NGOs fear for the worst
8/15/09 Bhadrakumar, Asia Times, Afghan race becomes Karzai's cliffhanger
August 14, 2009
8/14/09 Roth, TPM, "Sensitive" Oil Industry Memo Lays Out Plan For Astroturf Rallies Against Climate Change Bill
8/14/09 Judd, Independent, The Human Timebomb: Why Was He Given Iraq Job?
8/14/09 Capdevila, IPS, Indigenous People Troubled by US Military Presence
8/14/09 Neergaard, AP, Scientists find rare gene behind short sleepers
8/14/09 Ahrens, NYT, Consumer Prices Down 2.1 Percent Over 2008
8/14/09 ABN, Eva Golinger: U.S. Privatizes Colombian War with its Transnational Mercenaries
8/14/09 Boone, Guardian, Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights
8/14/09 EDIE, Half of Indian land 'degraded'
8/14/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, Oil Lobby to Fund Campaign Against Obama's Climate Change Strategy
8/14/09 Singel, Wired, Firefox Plug-In Frees Court Records, Threatens Judiciary Profits
8/14/09 Stempel, Reuters, U.S. says ex-Credit Suisse broker in bait-and-switch
8/14/09 King, CNN, Life is bare bones on the Lakota reservation
8/14/09 Talev, McClatchy, Who's behind the attacks on a health care overhaul?
8/14/09 Levy, Bloomberg, Toxic Loans Topping 5% May Push 150 Banks to Point of No Return
8/14/09 WW$ Report, "Swine flu" hits indigenous peoples in Peruvian Amazon
8/14/09 Warren, IntelDaily, Toxic Assets: Elizabeth Warren "We Have A Real Problem Coming" (video)
8/14/09 BBC, India 'regrets' US body's censure
8/14/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Global Depression and Regional Wars - Part I
8/14/09 BBC, Facial expressions 'not global'
8/14/09 Heinberg, IntelDaily, Video -- Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
8/14/09 BBC, Drug 'attacks cancer stem cells'
8/14/09 BBC, Deadly game of Kenya's gem trade
8/14/09 Bright, CSM, Report: militia activity on the rise in US
8/14/09 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater Still Armed in Iraq
8/14/09 BBC, Biggest US bank failure this year
8/14/09 BBC, Pakistan to reform tribal areas
8/14/09 Reid, BBC, Italian bloggers' silent protest
8/14/09 BBC, Healthcare around the world
August 13, 2009
8/13/09 Ratliff, Wired, Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear?
8/13/09 Leopold, PublicRecord, Palin Backed End-of-Life Counseling As Alaska Governor
8/13/09 Conaway, NPR, Falling Retail, Rising Job Loss Leads To Record Treasury Auction
8/13/09 WorldFocus, Cambodian monks save remote forests, tree by tree
8/13/09 Flavelle, ProPublica, Obama Administration Redacts Contract Details for Recovery.gov
8/13/09 AFP, Conflicts to Get More 'Pernicious': ICRC Chief
8/13/09 Vanden Heuvel, Nation, Let's Get Real about Obama
8/13/09 Rutenberg & Calmes, NYT, False 'Death Panel' Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots
8/13/09 Lux, OpenLeft, The Big Banks: How Low Will They Go?
8/13/09 Taylor, Guardian, China drops Green Dam web filtering system
8/13/09 Tran, Guardian, Memoirs to reveal Dick Cheney thought Bush had gone soft on war on terror
8/13/09 EDIE, Australia prepares for future with less water
8/13/09 EDIE, Satellites track Indian water loss
8/13/09 Gandrossy, CNN, Man sentenced after leaving water bottles for immigrants
8/13/09 Gellman, WP, Cheney Uncloaks His Frustration With Bush
8/13/09 Reyes, Miami Herald, U.S. says it might operate from -- but not run -- Colombian military bases
8/13/09 Prusher, CSM, Israel killed Palestinians waving white flags, report says
8/13/09 Khan, BBC, Election buzz in remotest Afghanistan
8/13/09 Irwin, WP, Fed Starts Rollback Of Rescue Efforts
8/13/09 BBC, US sugar supplies 'running out'
8/13/09 Reuters, U.S. retail sales fall, new jobless claims up
8/135/09 Fern, Project Vote, Restoration of Voting Rights Gains Support across the Nation
8/13/09 Tremayne, OpenLeft, Why a Whole Foods Boycott Might Actually Work to Spur Real Health Care Reform
8/13/09 Lydersen, AlterNet, In Illinois, Another Workers' Rebellion Flares Up Against 'Banksters' Greed
8/13/09 Robinson, AlterNet, 7 Ways We Can Fight Back Against the Rising Fascist Threat
8/13/09 Cobban, Asia Times, Saudi Arabia wavers on Obama's plan
8/13/09 Black, BBC, India's water use 'unsustainable'
8/13/09 BBC, 'Dirty war' general found guilty
8/13/09 BBC, More banks told 'reveal accounts'
8/13/09 Black, BBC, ,a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8197191.stm">'Many hurricanes' in modern times
8/13/09 BBC, Mystery deepens over missing ship
August 12, 2009
8/12/09 Gilbert, Mid-North Monitor, More Concern Over Monsanto's Penchant for Chemical Spraying
8/12/09 Blake, CNN, Muslim women uncover myths about the hijab
8/12/09 Coleman, AlterNet, The Tragedy of Our 'Disappeared' Veterans
8/12/09 Hambling, Wired, Killer Drones to Get Sound System
8/12/09 Cogland, Independent, President Karzai's Supporters 'Buy' Votes for Afghanistan Election
8/12/09 Ohlemacher, AP, Testimony puts Rove at center of Justice firings
8/12/09 Rothschild, Progressive, The Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S.
8/12/09 Al Jazeera, Russian economy in record decline
8/12/09 Shin, WP, 'A Recovery Only a Statistician Can Love'
8/12/09 Shanker, NYT, New Army Handbook Teaches Afghanistan Lessons
8/12/09 Johnston & Mazzetti, NYT, A Window Into C.I.A.'s Embrace of Secret Jails
8/12/09 Press TV, US launches offensives ahead of Afghan polls
8/12/09 Whitney, IntelDaily, It's Not a Recession. It's a planned demolition
8/12/09 Helling & Kraske, KC Star, Papers show Bond played role in 2006 dismissal of U.S. attorney
8/12/09 Wright, Charlotte Observer, N.C. takes aim at bias in death penalty
8/12/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Obama Promises Senators He Will Help Pass Bill Banning Torture Photos
8/12/09 Wassener, NYT, Stocks Retreat in Asia
8/12/09 Hammond, IntelDaily, Ex-ISI Chief Says Purpose of New Afghan Intelligence Agency RAMA Is 'to destabilize Pakistan'
8/12/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Sign of the Apocalypse: Mike "Heckuva Job Brownie" Now Hosting Radio As a Political/Gov't Expert
8/12/09 Savin, Nation, Lou Dobbs: Secret Single-Payer Socialist?
8/12/09 Browning, NYT, UBS and U.S. Report a Deal on Tax Inquiry
8/12/09 Blanchflower, Guardian, This lays bare the human crisis. What a terrible time to be young and jobless
8/12/09 Williams, LAT, $500-million settlement reached in suspension of Social Security benefits
8/12/09 Pool & Yoshino, LAT, Super-clinic finds super-need in L.A. region
8/12/09 Atzmon, FPIF, The Bully in Baghdad
8/12/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Hightower: Starbucks' Bizarre Branding Strategy -- Hide Its Name, Pretend to Be 'Authentic' Local Coffee Shop
8/12/09 Kiam, IPS, TRADE: Carpets - Made in Afghanistan for Pakistan's Profit
8/12/09 BBC, In pictures: Taiwan rescue effort
8/12/09 Erdman, CNN, Study ranks states' vulnerability to oil prices
8/12/09 Valenda, CNN, Pipe-wielding inmates wrecked prison, footage shows
8/12/09 Keck, CNN, Fears fuel emotional health care protests
8/12/09 BBC, World population projected to reach 7 billion in 2011
8/12/09 CNN, Obama presents 16 with Presidential Medal of Freedom
8/12/09 Cooper, CNN, Geneva Conventions 'still relevant but better compliance needed'
8/12/09 BBC, Downturn 'to trigger abuse rise'
8/12/09 Cratty, CNN, Feds to tour Michigan prison where Gitmo detainees could go
8/12/09 Hornick & Quajano, CNN, Whistle-blower: Health care industry engaging in PR tactics
8/12/09 BBC, Judge bans Microsoft Word sales
8/12/09 BBC, FBI man testifies in Mumbai trial
8/12/09 BBC, Bloggers debate British healthcare
August 11, 2009
8/11/09 Hickman, Guardian, Do we really need to ban plastic bags?
8/11/09 BBC, 'Hundreds lost' in Taiwan typhoon
8/11/09 BBC, Afghan farmers recall poppy riches
8/11/09 Beale, BBC, Are US healthcare protests genuine?
8/11/09 Weise, ProPublica, Bankruptcy Judges, Justice Dept. Rip Mortgage Companies
8/11/09 Clark, Guardian, 'Evil and Orwellian' - America's Right Turns Its Fire on NHS
8/11/09 Hsu & Kang, WP, Users of government sites will be tracked according to plan
8/11/09 Dorschner, Miami Herald, Fear, uncertainty haunt elderly as healthcare critics speak out
8/11/09 Demer, ADN, Murkowski: Don't tell lies about the health-care reform bill
8/11/09 video, Sanders Unfiltered: America's Class Crisis
8/11/09 Drew, NYT, A Soldier's Eye in the Sky
8/11/09 BBC, Oil rises following Chinese data
8/11/09 Johnson & Krisher, AP, GM says new Volt to get 230 mpg in city driving
8/11/09 Houreld, AP, Oil is no gift for Africa's poor
8/11/09 Pincus, WP, Air Force Training More Pilots for Drones Than for Manned Planes
8/11/09 Conaway, NPR, Wall Street Watching The Fed, And Big Coal Betting On Carbon Capture
8/11/09 Conaway, NPR, Layoffs Lead To Soaring Productivity. Hours Worked In Record-Low Range
8/11/09 Santore, Media Matters, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs Enflame Scary Right-Wing Rage
8/11/09 Thill. AlterNet, Why Corporations, Emerging Powers and Petro-States Are Snapping Up Huge Chunks of Farmland in the Developing World
8/11/09 Restrepo, IPS, COLOMBIA: Half Century of US Military Presence
8/11/09 Drum Major Inst., OpenLeft, "Don't let the government get its hands on Medicare!"
8/11/09 Elliott, Guardian, If we're back to business as usual it's curtains for Labour
8/11/09 Sehgal, FPIF, Postcard From...Dharamsala
8/11/09 BBC, UK denies Iran revolution plans
8/11/09 BBC, 'Shock' over stroke death rates
August 10, 2009
8/10/09 Singel, Wired, You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
8/10/09 Conoway, NPR, Chart: The Collapse In Global Trade
8/10/09 Rodda, PublicRecord, Exposed: 'C Street' and The Military
8/10/09 Fram, AP, Top insurance lobbyist: August key in health drive
8/10/09 Murphy, Extra, Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates
8/10/09 Egelko, SF Chron, US Battling CIA Rendition Case in Three Courts
8/10/09 Stoddard, Reuters, U.S. religious left wades into healthcare fight
8/10/09 Dillon, NYT, Disabled Students Are Spanked More
8/10/09 Story, NYT, Judge Attacks Merrill Pre-Merger Bonuses
8/10/09 Rutenberg * Calmes, NYT, White House Adapts to New Playbook in Health Care Debate
8/10/09 Calvin, SacBee, Don't forget us, underinsured say
8/10/09 Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Judge: CIA interrogations not relevant to 9/11 accused's sanity
8/10/09 Lefler, Wichita Eagle, Kansas eliminates state funding for abortion alternatives
8/10/09 Ismail, WSWS, US cities criminalize homelessness
8/10/09 Edwards, BNet, Pfizer Defends Ex-CIA Agent Who "Terrified" Neurontin Witness
8/10/09 Jamail & Lazare, TomDispatch, Echo Platoon: Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland
8/10/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, No Letup in Political Witch-Hunts Under Obama
8/10/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Biological Warfare and the National Security State: A Chronology
8/10/09 Deen, IPS, RIGHTS: Big Powers Faulted for Abuse of Geneva Conventions
8/10/09 De Groot, OpenLeft, Oops, Freedomworks Forgot To Censor Its Comments
8/10/09 Sturke, Guardian, Don't give swine flu drugs to under-12s, says study
8/10/09 CNN, Feds search NOPD in post-Katrina shooting investigation
8/10/09 Shukman, BBC, Time 'runs short' on climate deal
8/10/098 Amos, BBC, 'Crisis satellite' returns images
8/10/09 Didziulis , Miami Herald, Fate of Florida corals uncertain as water warms
8/10/09 Stan, AlterNet, Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work
8/10/09 Volman, IPS, Clinton Sprinkles US Military Aid Across Africa
8/10/09 Vallely, Independent, Wish You Weren't Here: The Devastating Effects of the New Colonialists
8/10/09 Caruso, AP, Immune system cancer found in young 9/11 officers
8/10/09 Folbre, NYT, The Citizenship of the Uninsured
8/10/09 Roberts, NYT, In Desegregation Pact, Westchester Agrees to Add Affordable Housing
8/10/09 Silva, LAT, Pelosi, Hoyer call disruptions 'un-American'
8/10/09 Slack, Uk Mail, March of the state spies: One in 78 adults came under state-sanctioned surveillance last year
8/10/09 Defense Link, Air Force Global Strike Command activated
8/10/09 Chart, OpenLeft, No Cure For Stupid Liars
8/10/09 Benn, Guardian, Environment secretary calls for 'radical rethink' of UK food production
8/10/09 Stiglitz, Guardian, Stimulus or bust
8/10/09 Ghosh, BBC, UK food research 'needs a boost'
8/10/09 BBC, Flu drugs 'unhelpful' in children
8/10/09 Valdivieso, AP, S. America concerned about US military in Colombia
August 9, 2009
8/09/09 Scholtes & Guerrara, Financial Times, Banks Make $38 Billion From Overdraft Fees
8/09/09 Pay, Al Jazeera, US 'biggest' threat say Pakistanis
8/09/09 AFP, Holder to Name Prosecutor to Probe CIA Abuses: Report
8/09/09 Leopold, PublicRecord, Nadler Warns Holder Not to Limit Torture Probe to CIA Interrogators
8/09/09 Public Record, Fight Back Against the Health Insurance Industry's Lies
8/09/09 Adams, McClatchy, Where did that bank bailout go? Watchdogs aren't entirely sure
8/09/09 Hanley, AP, Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat
8/09/09 Savage, LAT, Sonia Sotomayor sworn in as Supreme Court justice
8/09/09 Cohen, Guardian, Don't be fooled - the recession is far from over
8/09/09 Burke, Guardian, Taliban commander denies the death of Baitullah Mehsud
8/09/09 Davies, Guardian, Ruptured oil pipe floods acres of French nature reserve
8/09/09 Thomas, KC Star, FBI's investigation of Tiller killing looks at Roeder's jail visitors
8/09/09 Moore, NYT, Hundreds Hurt in 11-Hour California Prison Riot
8/09/09 Moore, NYT, Mentally Ill Offenders Strain Juvenile System
8/09/09 Tisdal, Guardian, Iran admits election demonstrators were tortured
8/09/09 BBC, UK to head food revolution - Benn
8/09/09 Jones & Chulov, Guardian, Contractor held for murder of fellow Briton and Australian in Baghdad
8/09/09 CNN, Report: Iranian prison chief dismissed, arrested
8/09/09 Sinderbrand, CNN, Health care protests 'clearly being orchestrated,' senator says
August 8, 2009
8/08/09 Worthington, Public Record, Attorney: Military Commissions "A Catastrophic Failure"
8/08/09 Sebert & Spolar, Huffington Post, At Appalachian Fairgrounds, Charity Tries to Fill Gaps in Health Care
8/08/09 Christenson, Charlotte News&observer, Hundreds picket over health-care plan
8/08/09 Morgenson & Natta, NYT, Paulson's Calls to Goldman Tested Ethics
8/08/09 Bernstein, ProPublica, Oregon, Florida Banks Fail Friday
8/08/09 Broder, NYT, Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security
8/08/09 Savage, NYT, Obama's Embrace of a Bush Tactic Riles Congress
8/08/09 Story, NYT, For Private Equity, a Very Public Disaster
8/08/09 AFP, Climate Change to Challenge US Military: Report
8/08/09 Cholia, AlterNet, The Shocking Benefits of Legalizing Pot
8/08/09 Stratton, Guardian, Afghanistan could take 40 years, says new army chief
8/08/09 Goldacre, Guardian, Hit and myth: curse of the ghostwriters
8/08/09 Gross, CNN, Your family dog may be smarter than your toddler
August 7, 2009
8/07/09 Fisher, IPS, Rights Groups Appeal For UN Investigation of Rendition
8/07/09 Hsu, WP, Agency Plans to Improve Oversight of Immigrant Detention
8/07/09 Reuters, House Democrat received Countrywide loans: report
8/07/09 Pawlaczk & Hundsdorfer, BND, Hundreds call governor's office concerning conditions at Tamms prison
8/07/09 Examiner, John P. Holdren, Obama's Science Czar, advocates De-development
8/07/09 Rhodes, ITT, Power of the People
8/07/09 AP, Job losses slow to 247,000; jobless rate dips
8/07/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd
8/07/09 Rhodes, ITT, Power of the People
8/07/09 Guardian, Internet attacks 'targeted Georgian blogger'
8/07/09 Rhodes, ITT, Power of the People
8/07/09 Guardian, nternet attacks 'targeted Georgian blogger'
8/07/09 PublicRecord, Obama Admin. Asks High Court to Hear Torture Photo Case
8/07/09 WorldFocus, Indonesian sulfur miners toil in smouldering volcanoes
8/07/09 Lee, ProPublica, Tracking Obama's Struggles to Defend Gitmo Detentions
8/07/09 Starkey, Independent, Secret Deal to Keep Karzai in Power
8/07/09 Porter, IPS, Shi'a Unity Deal Explodes US Proxy War Myth
8/07/09 Navarro, NYT, New Battle on Vieques, Over Navy's Cleanup of Munitions
8/07/09 Lawder, Reuters, Geithner asks Congress for higher U.S. debt limit
8/07/09 Lichtblau, NYT, Attacks on Homeless Bring Push on Hate Crime Laws
8/07/09 Kirkpatrick, NYT, Obama Reverses Stand on Drug Industry Deal
8/07/09 BBC, Uribe and Lula discuss US bases
8/07/09 BBC, Massive win for Niger president
8/07/09 Martenson, ChrisMartenson.com, Unemployment Report Distortions
8/07/09 Ford, Black Agenda Report, Black Jobs Disappearing at Depression-Era Rates
8/07/09 goldstein, AsiaTimes, China's fishing fleet sets challenge to US
8/07/09 Heinberg, Oil Drum, Temporary Recession or the End of Growth?
8/07/09 CNN, Army: 'Insufficient evidence' of crime in soldier's electrocution
8/07/09 Downie, CSM, Brazil oil giant, Petrobras, in corruption spotlight
8/07/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Killing of Pakistan Taliban chief could touch off power struggle
8/07/09 Burns, BBC, Climate fixes 'pose drought risk'
8/07/09 BBC, Extinction hits 'whole families'
August 6, 2009
8/06/09 Porter, Asia Times, US shrugs off Pakistan-Taliban links
8/06/09 Leggett, Wired, Clever Crows Prove Aesop's Fable Is More Than Fiction
8/06/09 Mazzetti & Schmitt, NYT, C.I.A. Missile Strike May Have Killed Pakistan's Taliban Leader, Officials Say
8/06/09 Cappacio, Bloomberg, U.S. Intelligence Head Says Afghan Army Must Grow to 325,000
8/06/09 Kirkpatrick, NYT, White House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost
8/06/09 Chart, OpenLeft, Fix Derivatives, Save The World?
8/06/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, Climate change melting US glaciers at faster rate, study finds
8/06/09 Greenberg, FPIF, African Union Declaration Against the ICC Not What it Seems
8/06/09 Hallinan, FPIF, Honduran Coup: The U.S. Connection
8/06/09 BBC, Iran bans Mecca visits over flu
8/06/09 BBC, Putin seeks new Turkey gas deal
8/06/09 Keck, CNN, Ron Paul's son following in father's footsteps
8/06/09 CNN, Eunuchs begin fight for Pakistan rights
8/06/09 LaFranchi, CSM, Chavez rages at US plan to boost antidrug ops in Colombia
8/06/09 Hsu & Warrick, WP, Obama's Battle Against Terrorism To Go Beyond Bombs and Bullets
8/06/09 Murray & Montgomery, WP, Senators Closer To Health Package
8/06/09 Goldfarb & Cho, WP, U.S. Considers Remaking Mortgage Giants
8/06/09 Al Jazeera, China executes pair over fraud
8/06/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Hightower: Think Your Food's Organic? Think Again
August 5, 2009
8/05/09 Belton, PSL, Gay man assaulted in Akron, Ohio, for defending women's rights
8/05/09 Schmidt, Vancouver Sun, Toxic Chemical Still Found in 'BPA-Free' Bottles
8/05/09 Appelbaum, WP, Bank Balances Shift With Rule Changes
8/05/09 Glouderman, MoJo, Sugar vs. Corn Syrup
8/05/09 Miami Herald, Standardize immigrant detention centers
8/05/09 Ross, IntelDaily, Panetta Seeks to Whitewash CIA Crimes
8/05/09 Lux, OpenLeft, The Birthers and the Insurance Industry: the Latest in a Long Line of Conservative Coalitions
8/05/09 Malinga et al, Guardian, The cost of living in Katine
8/05/09 Stan, AlterNet, Why Are People So Afraid of Bisexuals?
8/05/09 Gupta, AlterNet, How We Became a Society of Gluttonous Junk Food Addicts
8/05/09 Sargent, The Plum Line, CNN Refusing to Run Health Care Ad Critical of Insurance Industry
8/05/09 Hambling, Wired, 'Pain Ray' First Commercial Sale Looms
8/05/09 CNN, Programs to change gays to straights don't work, report says
8/05/09 Hari, Independent, The Hidden Truth Behind Drug Company Profits
8/05/09 Favilla, Les Echoes, The Scorpion Syndrome
8/05/09 Gies, Wired, Your Mom's Facebook Status: I'm Crunching Climate Data!
8/05/09 AFP, Obama Pentagon Plans Speeding Up 'Bunker Buster' Bomb
8/05/09 Umansky, ProPublica, New Feature: Tracking Stimulus Spending--Made Easy!
8/05/09 Kwak, BaselineScenario, You Do Not Have Health Insurance
August 4, 2009
8/04/09 Weise & Andrews, ProPublica, Treasury's Loan Mod Progress Report: Read the Fine Print
8/04/09 Lee, ProPublica, New Gitmo Decision Offers Unusual Insight Into Weakness of Government Evidence
8/04/09 Liptak, NYT, Obama Administration Weighs in on State Secrets, Raising Concern on the Left
8/04/09 Carrington & Phillips, Guardian, Crackdown Against 'Environmental Criminals' Follows Greenpeace Report
8/04/09 Mittelstaedt, Globe&Mail, Modified Corn Seeds Sow Doubts
8/04/09 Reuters, California told to prepare massive prisoner release
8/04/09 Bajaj, NYT, India Gets Caught Short as Sugar Prices Soar
8/04/09 Duhigg, NYT, S.E.C. Starts Crackdown on 'Flash' Trading
8/03/09 Drummond, Wired, Military Aims for Instant Repair of Wartime Wounds
8/04/09 Clifford, CNN, Consumer bankruptcies jump 34%
8/04/09 McCullagh, CBS, Why Home Prices Will Continue To Fall
8/04/09 Feffer, FPIF, The Geopolitics of Facebook
8/04/09 Shachtman, CNN, Marines ban Twitter, Facebook, other sites
8/04/09 EDIE, Oil sand extraction a 'toxic' investment
8/04/09 Chang, CNN, In China, DNA tests on kids ID genetic gifts, careers
8/04/09 Erdman, CNN, Scientists study 'garbage patch' in Pacific Ocean
8/04/09 Scahill, AlterNet, Explosive Allegations: Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
8/04/09 Ehrenreich & Muhammad, The Destruction of the Black Middle Class
August 3, 2009
8/03/09 Dougherty, Canada.com, Carbon Credits: 'Cure Worse Than the Disease'
8/03/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, MSNBC To Continue Allowing a Corporate Spokesman On Air as a "Political Analyst"
August 2, 2009
8/02/09 Edwards, Sunday Herald/UK, Half of All the Fruit & Veg You Buy is Contaminated
8/02/09 BBC, Palestinians evicted in Jerusalem
8/02/09 Reuters, Housing could take another turn downward: Greenspan
8/02/09 Pagano, Independent, Are Wind farms a Health Risk? US Scientist Identifies 'Wind Turbine Syndrome'
8/02/09 Eckholm, NYT, Prolonged Aid to Unemployed Is Running Out
8/02/09 Neary & Schneider, AP, Slice of central US safe from recession shrinking
8/02/09 Babington, AP, FACT CHECK: Distortions rife in health care debate
8/02/09 Connolly, WP, Obama Trims Sails On Health Reform
8/02/09 McDougall, Times Online, African dream turns sour for orphan army
8/02/09 Hafezi, Reuters, Iran tries 100 reformists over election unrest
8/02/09 Mshelizza, Reuters, More than 700 killed in Nigeria clashes: Red Cross
8/02/09 Hauser, NYT, Malaysia Cracks Down on Protests
7/31/09 Hauser, CNN, Latinos say they also face racial profiling by police
August 1, 2009
8/01/09 Sharrock, MoJo, First, Do Harm Detainees
8/01/09 Falconer, MoJo, Conspiracy Watch: The CIA's Bad Flashback
8/01/09 Hightower, Progressive, The New Oil Cheats
8/01/09 Lewis, Vanity Fair, The Man Who Crashed the World
8/01/09 Bihari, PSL, The role of U.S. imperialism in Iran's political crisis
8/01/09 Smith, Toronto Star, Big Money Fuels Health Care Battle
8/01/09 Finz, SF Chron, Bill Would Restrict Antibiotics in Food Animals
8/01/09 Robertson, AP, Hackers expose weakness in visiting trusted sites
8/01/09 Bageant, AlterNet, Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings
8/01/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Exposing Colorblind Racism Right Here At Open Left.
8/01/09 Winship, TruthOut, Pay to Play Is Washington's Sport of Kings
8/01/09 Markoff & Shanker, CNN, Halted '03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk
8/01/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare Tyranny
8/01/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare Tyranny
8/01/09 Pandey, BBC, Jharkhand farmers despair at drought