Uncommon Thought News: September 2009 Uncommon Thought News Monthly Archives

9/13/09 Ramesh, Guardian, ,a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/13/tamils-camps-sri-lanka">Harrassed Tamils languish in prison-like camps in Sri Lanka

9/13/09 BBC, Key gene 'controls disease fight'

9/13/09 Gray, New Statesman, Walking on Lava: Apocalypse and Uncivilization

9/13/09 Freeman, CommonDreams, Bush's Economic Performance: A Final Tally

9/13/09 Dangl, TruthOut, Throwing Bullets at Failed Policies: US Plans for New Bases in Colombia

9/09/09 Blumenthal, Nation, The Nightmare of Christianity

9/13/09 Heller, Reuters, Netanyahu says still gaps with U.S. on peace moves

9/12/09 Duhigg, NYT, Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Human Suffering

9/13/09 Barker, Idaho Statesman, Power lines planned from the plains to the Pacific, but not without resistance

9/13/09 BBC, Antibiotic resistance clue found

9/13/09 Stein, WP, Disaster Plans Being Revised For Swine Flu

9/13/09 BBC, US plans Afghan prisoner overhaul

9/13/09 BBC, TUC warns of four million jobless

9/13/09 Fordham, CSM, In Iraq's prisons, a culture of abuse

September 12, 2009

9/12/09 Klein, Guardian, Obama's Big Silence: The Race Question

9/12/09 Barr, CNN, Insiders sell like there's no tomorrow

9/12/09 Seeking Alpha, Oil Supply: As Russian Production Tops Out, World Supply Will Continue to Slip

9/12/09 Morgenson, NYT, But Who Is Watching Regulators?

9/12/09 Klein, Guardian, Obama's Big Silence: The Race Question

9/12/09 PublicRecord, Teabagger: 'We Want to Get Back to the Way Our Country Was 100 Years Ago'

9/12/09 Leys, TruthOut, Health Care vs. Warfare: The Future Costs of the Afghanistan War

9/12/09 Clinton, Progressive, White Whine

9/12/09 Vanden Heuvel, Nation, Resisting Foreclosures

9/12/09 Harrop, TruthOut, Health Reform and Illegal Immigration: The Truth

9/12/09 Luban & Lobe, IPS, Iran War Drums Begin Beating in Washington

9/12/09 Baran, MN PR, Police Arrest Seven Protesters at Foreclosed Home

9/12/09 Fathi, NYT, Iran Panel Says Prisoner Rape Charges Are False

9/12/09 AP, South African officials meet on Semenya case

9/12/09 Sirota, ITT, We've Seen This Trigger Before

9/12/09 Spellman, CNN, Tea party movement has anger, no dominant leaders

9/12/09 Reuters, Global economic crisis to continue: IMF chief

9/12/09 Johar, IPS, MINING-INDIA: Woman Leads Tribals Against World's Steel Maker

9/12/09 Chart, OpenLeft, In Bed With Big Business

9/12/09 CNN, Guatemalan army stole children for adoption, report says

9/11/09 BBC, Thatcher's fight against German unity

9/12/09 Evans, BBC, Nevada's battle of the presidents

9/12/09 Liberto, CNN, Obama: More uninsured than you think

9/12/09 BBC, SAS training Libya, paper claims

September 11, 2009

9/11/09 Singh, Telegraph, Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'

9/11/09 BBC, Putin warns against Iran attack

9/11/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Another Year, Another Decline in Employer-Based Coverage

9/11/09 Conaway, NPR, WSJ: Economists Say Recession Is Over, Unemployment To Keep Rising

9/11/09 Flavelle, ProPublica, Has the Stimulus Really Created or Saved One Million Jobs?

9/11/09 Deen, IPS, No Slowdown for Weapons Industry

9/11/09 Borenstein, AP, When someone is raised female and the genes say XY

9/11/09 Leggett, Wired, Universal 'Death Stench' Repels Bugs of All Types

9/11/09 Vicini, Reuters, Court dismisses Iraqi contractor torture case

9/11/09 Buchwalter, MoJo, Israel Timeline: The Long Way Home

9/11/09 Schoof, McClatchy, EPA delays 79 permits for Appalachian surface mines

9/11/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, EXCLUSIVE: UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She Begins Backing Off Pub Option

9/11/09 CNN, UN criticizes rocket attack on Israel

9/11/09 CNN, Police: Shooting suspect offended by anti-abortion material

9/11/09 Alexander, Reuters, US Says 16 Guards Removed in Afghan Embassy Scandal

9/11/09 Rowlands, CNN, Blogging begins turnaround for homeless woman

9/11/09 Ritter, AP, Greenland's melt mystery unfolds, at glacial pace

9/11/09 Mojumdar, CSM, Eight years after 9/11, Taliban roils 80 percent of Afghanistan

9/11/09 BBC, World's oldest person dies at 115

9/11/09 Stocking, AP, Survey: Dioxin levels high in Vietnam near US base

9/11/09 Pearlstein, WP, Wall Street's Mania for Short-Term Results Hurts Economy

9/11/09 Marcus, BBC, US 'risks Afghan Soviet failure'

9/11/09 Berry, progressive, Inverting the Economic Order

9/11/09 Reuters, Prisoners riot at Iraq's Abu Ghraib

9/10/09 Osava, IPS, BRAZIL: Artistic Energy as Antidote to Exclusion

9/11/09 Gonzalez, IPS, CENTRAL AMERICA: Crisis Chews Women Up, Spits Them Out

9/11/09 Hardiang, guardian, Russia has huge political and economic problems, says Dmitry Medvedev

9/11/09 Cuevas-Nazario, CNN, Texas school district turns away students from Mexico

9/11/09 CNN, Top Democrats in Congress soften on public option

9/11/09 BBC, US rejects Iran nuclear proposals

9/11/09 BBC, Iran leader vows 'harsh response'

September 10, 2009

9/10/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Americans Are Getting Poorer, and It's Going to Get Worse

9/10/09 Chovanex, AsiaTimes, Obama in showdown over Chinese tires

9/10/09 Rodda, PublicRecord, Army Officer Who Said Blacks Were Better Off as Slaves Promoted With Obama's Blessing

9/10/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Lessons Learned and Soon Forgotten

9/10/09 Conaway, NPR, More Americans Poor, Fewer Insured: Census Bureau

9/10/09 Linzer, ProPublica, Exclusive: Read Iran's New Proposal for Nuclear Talks

9/10/09 AFP, Oil Majors Propping up Myanmar Regime: Rights Group

9/10/09 Rizvi, IPS, Speculators Undermining Recovery, Report Says

9/10/09 Boswell, Canada.com, Environmental Groups Sue to Protect Grand Canyon From Mining

9/10/09 AP, Walruses congregate on Alaska shore as ice melts

9/10/09 Pal, Progressive, What's Wrong with Economists?

9/10/09 Kelland, Reuters, Violence, accidents are killing world's youth: study

9/10/09 Kramer & Revkin, NYT, Arctic Shortcut Beckons Shippers as Ice Thaws

9/10/09 Fisher, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Some Guantanamo Prisoners Fight Release

9/10/09 Hallinan, FPIF, Afghanistan: What Are These People Thinking?

9/10/09 Schifferes, BBC, Crisis 'cost us $10,000 each'

September 9, 2009

9/09/09 Kaye, PublicRecord, CIA/Military Research on SERE Torture and Charges of Human Experimentation

9/09/09 Santora, NYT, Big US Bases Are Part of Iraq, but a World Apart

9/09/09 Gnipati, Wired, Study Reveals How Much Cellphone Radiation You're Getting

9/09/09 Times Online, North Sea cod 'doomed by climate change'

9/08/09 Reich, Nation, Robert Reich Explains the Public Option - video

9/09/09 VOA, Rights Group Says Majority of Gaza War Dead Were Palestinian Civilians

9/09/09 PressTV, Abducting Algerian Children: New Jewish Organ Theft Gang Busted

9/09/09 Younge, Nation, A Method to Their Madness - the right

9/09/09 Chomsky, ITT, Militarizing Latin America

9/09/09 EDIE, Emissions from aviation industry must be cut ahead of Copenhagen

9/09/09 Adams, CSM, Israel pushes ahead with East Jerusalem building

9/09/09 BBC, SA mutineer: 'I live in poverty'

9/09/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Another Wave of Foreclosures Looms

9/06/09 Rochman, Time, Samurai Mind Training for Modern American Warriors

9/09/09 Walberg, IntelDaily, Militarising space: The Fallujah fallacy

9/09/09 Ford, CSM, US brushes off North Korea's overtures

September 8, 2009

9/08/09 Cohen, NYT, Killing Wolves for Fun

9/08/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Federal Prosecutors Say Blackwater 'Specifically Intended to Kill' Civilians

9/08/09 Levine, AlterNet, Dr Pepper's Wet Dream: Water, Government Subsidies and Transfer of Wealth in the Middle of the Desert

9/08/09 Hanley, AP, In Tiny 'Tuk,' They Man Climate's Front Line

9/08/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Health Care Reform Primer: How Might the Changes Affect You

9/08/09 Benno, PSL, U.S. rates of infant mortality and child poverty soar above other capitalist countries

9/08/09 Smith, NYT, U.S. Tried to Soften Treaty on Detainees

9/07/09 PressTV, Arab states world's top arms buyers

9/08/09 Leahy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Survival Means Anticipating and Adapting

9/08/09 Mitchell, AlterNet, How the World's Biggest Corporations, From Starbucks to Wal-Mart to Barnes & Noble, Claim to Be 'Local'

9/08/09 Harkinson, MoJo, What's Really Behind the Van Jones Attack

9/08/09 Englehardt, MoJo, Afghanistan by the Numbers

9/08/09 Schoof, McClatchy, Climate bill needed for U.S. security, ex-officials insist

9/08/09 AP, US economy loses top spot in poll to Swiss

9/08/09 Hall, McClatchy, A year after financial crisis, the consumer economy is dead

9/08/09 CNN, Consumer credit dives by 10%

9/08/09 BBC, Virus linked to prostate tumours

9/08/09 Walker, BBC, Recession moves migration patterns

9/08/09 BBC, Underwater laser pops in navy ops

9/08/09 BBC, Arctic Sea Iran arms link denied

9/08/09 Black, BBC, Climate deal is 'in the balance'

9/08/09 BBC, Makeover for SA gender-row runner

September 7, 2009

9/07/09 Press TV, US leads world in weapons sales

9/07/09 Burghardt, Intel Daily, Capitalizing Security: "Non-Lethal" Weapons and the Market

9/07/09 Wessler, Itt, Foreclosure Crisis Built on Racial Injustice

9/07/09 Sandronsky, ITT, In and Out of the Working Class

9/07/09 BBC, US recovery prospect 'very weak'

September 6, 2009

9/06/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Rep. Mike Pence, Who Led Witch Hunt Against Van Jones, Took $1000s From Extremist Erik Prince

9/06/09 Jamail, TruthOut, Art as Resistance

9/06/09 Nichols, Nation, Van Jones Exit Isn't Right-Wing Win, It's an Obama Surrender

9/06/09 Corcoran, Irish Times, S Africa Backs Action in US on Firms Linked to Apartheid

9/06/09 McKie, Guardian, Climate change: melting ice will trigger wave of natural disasters

9/06/09 Moya, Guardian, Lehman assets considerably reduced, say receivers

9/06/09 CNN, U.S. general sure Afghan civilians wounded in airstrike

9/06/09 CNN, White House adviser resigns amid 9/11 controversy

9/06/09 BBC, Economy 'to bounce back by 2010'

9/06/09 Krugman, NYT, How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

September 5, 2009

9/05/09 Holland, AlterNet, 'American Casino': How Our Nation's Financial Sector Became a Massive and Unregulated Gambling Operation

9/05/09 Ivory, Huffington, EPA's Failure to Publicize Drinking Water Data Prompts Rethinking in Agency, Congress

9/05/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Racism by Another Name

9/05/09 Appel, IPS, ECONOMY-US: Activists Demand Real Change as Foreclosures Mount

9/05/09 Williams, NYT, China Oil Deal Is New Source of Strife Among Iraqis

9/05/09 Andersen, NYT, Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance

9/05/09 Eckholm, NYT, Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools

9/05/09 PublicRecord, BP Heavily Involved In Deal to Release Lockerbie Bomber

9/05/09 BBC, Hope and rusty guns in Niger Delta

9/05/09 Andrews, NYT, Obama Announces Initiatives to Increase Savings

9/04/09 Allam, McClatchy, Chalabi aide: I went from White House to secret U.S. prisoner

9/05/09 Maugh II, LAT, The Arctic's geological record indicates warming is human-caused

9/05/09 Mbodj & Robertson, Guardian, Child's Eye: Congo's children, back from the dead

9/05/09 CNN, White House ready to draft own health care bill, sources say

9/05/09 BBC, Straw admits Lockerbie trade link

9/05/09 BBC, New Afghan 'poll frauds' emerge

September 4, 2009

9/04/09 Gorman, WSJ, How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade

9/04/09 Fundingsland, Minot Daily News, B-52 bomber squadron activated at Minot Air Force Base

9/04/09 Adams, Natural News, "Mock-up" pandemic vaccines bypass genuine safety testing, turning population into guinea pigs

9/04/09 Berhardt et al, Nation, Working Without Laws

9/04/09 Kestenbaum, NPR, The Derivatives They Call "I-Kill-You-Later"

9/04/09 Watts, Guardian, Current Economic Growth Model Is 'Immoral', Says Prescott

9/04/09 Maugh II, LAT, Swine flu more deadly to adolescents than to younger children, officials say

9/04/09 Nicholas & Perkins, LAT, Democrats consider setting 'trigger' for government healthcare

9/04/09 AP, Unemployment rate hits 9.7%

9/04/09 Rapier, Oil Drum, Renewable Fuel Pretenders

9/04/09 Kendall, IntelDaily, Health Care and the Free Market

9/04/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, U.S. Marines In The Caucasus As West Widens Afghan War

9/04/09 Smith, Guardian, IMF provides $510m loan for Zimbabwe amid worries that Mugabe party will grab funds

9/04/09 CNN, Ashcroft subject to lawsuit by man who cites Justice policies

9/04/09 Lah, CNN, Plan would pay Japanese families to have kids

9/04/09 Brookes, BBC, Economic crash in Oregon boomtown

September 3, 2009

9/03/09 Conaway, NPR. New Job-Loss Claims Fall, Rise At Same Time. The Big Number Comes Tomorrow.

9/03/09 Levine, AlterNet, Young Workers in Free Fall: 1/3 Under 35 Live with Parents

9/03/09 Agazzi, IPS, NGOs: 'Mini-Ministerial Meeting Should Change WTO Tack on Food,' Promote Food Sovereignty

9/03/09 AP, 'We Are Heading Towards an Abyss'

9/03/09 Erlanger, NYT, UN Guide for Sex Ed Generates Opposition

9/03/09 AP, China tries to calm unease over rare earths curbs

9/03/09 Love, Reuters, Global recession ending: OECD

9/03/09 Quraishi, IntelDaily, US Hummers Enter Pakistan, Undercover American Soldiers In Islamabad

9/03/09 IntelDaily, Breaking News: Tom Petrie of Bank of America Merrill Lynch says we are at Peak Oil (Video)

9/03/09 Tresaugue, Houston Chron., Feds Allow Large Gulf Fish Farms by Taking No Action

9/03/09 AP, Diebold Selling US Voting Machine Unit

9/03/09 Stone, guardian, Oliver Stone: 'The truth about Hugo Chavez'

9/03/09 BBC, Joint call for bank bonus rules

9/03/09 BBC, The year that shook the world ... G20: Economic summit snapshot

9/03/09 Tapper, ABC News blog, Controversial Obama Administration Official Denies Being Part of 9/11 "Truther" Movement, Apologizes for Past Comments*

9/03/09 Dean, Examiner, 1.3 million unemployment benefits nearing the end

9/03/09 Reuters, Food stamp list soars past 35 million: USDA

9/03/09 Bello, FPIF, The Virtues of Deglobalization

9/03/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Farmers take to streets as Doha trade talks start in India

9/03/09 Chung, Asia Times, Rent soars for Hong Kong cage dwellers

September 2, 2009

9/02/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Why Doesn't Hillary Clinton Fire Blackwater?

9/02/09 Reuters, Iran Nuclear 'Threat' Hyped: IAEA's ElBaradei

9/02/09 Conniff, Progressive, Saving Girls' Self Esteem

9/02/09 Cary, Tri-City Herald, Study: Hanford construction workers were at risk of certain cancers

9/02/09 Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Bin Laden aide's Guantanamo conviction appealed

9/02/09 Kerber & Stempel, Reuters, Blistering report faults SEC for Madoff misses

9/02/09 Murphy, NYT, One Man's Trash ...

9/02/09 AFP, UN chief visits 'doomsday' seed vault in Arctic

9/02/09 Johnson, Guardian, A school for changing the world

9/02/09 Baker, Idaho Statesman, At least two hunters fill their tags on the first day of Idaho's first wolf season

9/02/09 Chand, BBC, We are all mutants say scientists

9/02/09 Klas, Miami Herald, Campaign to drill off Florida's coast has cash, confidence

9/02/09 Hopkins, Guardian, The double-edged sword of falling debt

9/02/09 Keller, AP, US Fares Poorly in Child Welfare Survey

9/02/09 Conaway, NPR, BP Makes 'Giant' Oil Discovery. Plus: 'Health Care Rationing Is Good'

9/02/09 Conaway, NPR, Productivity Makes Biggest Leap Since 2003. (Yes, You're Working Harder.)

9/02/09 Anderson & Pizzigati, AlterNet, There's a Bubble That Still Threatens the Entire American Economy ... and Few Are Talking About It

9/02/09 Stan, AlterNet, The Wing-Nut Code: What Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are Really Saying to Their Followers

9/02/09 Liberto, CNN, Is Health Care the Next 'Bonusgate'?

9/02/09 Pearlstein, WP, So You Just Squandered Billions . . . Take Another Whack at It

9/02/09 Herskowvitz, WP, U.S. Journalists Describe Time in North Korea

9/02/09 Christie, Reuters, A year on, Reuters cameraman still held by U.S. army

9/02/09 Barnes, LAT, U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan

9/02/09 PHR, IntelDaily, CIA Health Professionals' Role in Torture Worse Than Previously Known

9/02/09 Leahy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Earth's Fridge Defrosting, With Dire Results

9/02/09 Smith, ITT, COIN Toss

9/02/09 BBC, Online politics reserved for rich

9/02/09 CNN, 'Deviant hazing' alleged at U.S. Embassy in Kabul

9/02/09 Perromat, BBC, Graffiti comes of age in New York

September 1, 2009

9/01/09 Smith, MoJo, Looks Great, Less Nutritious?

9/01/09 Apel-Muller, TruthOut, Really Sick Work

9/01/09 Fisher, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Group Charges Complicity by CIA Medics in Torture

9/01/09 Kaye, PublicRecord, Torture Cover-Up: The Real Reason for the Psychological Evaluation of Abu Zubaydah

9/01/09 Moyers & Mahar, AlterNet, Bill Moyers: Money-Driven Medicine - The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much

9/01/09 Judd, Independnet, Steroids, Drink and Paranoia: The Murky World of the Private Security Contractor

9/01/09 Westhead, Toronto Star, Farmer Suicides Blight India

9/01/09 Dlouhy, SF Chron, EPA to Declare CO2 a Dangerous Pollutant

9/01/09 Allen, Politico, White House Fears Liberal War Pressure

9/01/09 Barkham, Guardian, The Sermilik fjord in Greenland: a chilling view of a warming world

9/01/09 Steenhuysen, Reuters, H1N1 unlikely to mutate into 'superbug': U.S. study

9/01/09 Harris, NYT, Document Details Plan to Promote Costly Drug

9/01/09 Guardian, 10:10 Campaign

9/01/09 Katz, Guardian, The beauty of 10:10 is that it's both achievable and meaningful

9/01/09 Glanz, NYT, Contractors Outnumber U.S. Troops in Afghanistan

9/01/09 Greenhouse, NYT, Low-Wage Workers Are Often Cheated, Study Says

9/01/09 Pugh, McClatchy, For the long-term unemployed, recovery talk rings hollow

9/01/09 Straits Times, Child trafficking on the rise

9/01/09 McGreal & Anderson, Guardian, The Grapes of Wrath revisited: Migrants past & present

9/01/09 BBC, EU bans old-fashioned light bulbs

9/01/09 BBC, In pictures: Icy jellies

9/01/09 Ghosh, BBC, Engineering Earth 'is feasible'

9/01/09 Chomsky, FPIF, Chomsky - Response to Williams re: Serbian

9/01/09 Feffer, FPIF, The Other Democratic Party (Japan)

9/01/09 Griffin & Fitzpatrick, Donor says he got thousands for his kidney