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

October 31, 2009
10/31/09 Al Jazeera, Bangladesh workers riot over pay
10/31/09 Cave, NYT, After Combat, Anguish
10/31/09 Hoeksema, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Hunger and Conflict Go Hand in Hand
10/31/09 Gellman, WP, Cheney was hazy on role in CIA leak, FBI notes from '04 show
10/31/09 Mircovich & Chan, Reuters, Nine U.S. banks seized in largest one-day haul
10/31/09 Reuters, Typhoon cuts power, uproots trees in Philippines
10/31/09 Reuters, Secret operation resettles Yemeni Jews in U.S., report says
10/31/09 AP, Abdullah Will Quit Afghan Election, Sources Say
10/31/09 Paulden & Shen, Bloomberg, CIT Approaches Bankruptcy After Striking Icahn, Goldman Accords
10/31/09 Bloomberg, China Warns of World Slump If Stimulus Withdrawn
10/31/09 Devraj, IPS, RIGHTS: Rising China Poses Danger to Peace, Say Nobel Laureates
10/31/09 CNN, Brazilian Indians find plane survivors
10/31/09 CNN, Cheney told FBI he did not know who leaked Plame's identity
10/31/09 Guerin, BBC, Pakistan's hidden war
10/31/09 BBC, Indira Gandhi: The authoritarian patriot
10/31/09 Shapiro, AlterNet, Putting Farm Animal Protection on the Map, One Step at a Time
10/31/09 Yardley, NYT, Privacy Looms Over Gay Rights Vote
10/31/09 Worth, NYT, Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen
October 30, 2009
10/30/09 Savage, NYT, Deal in Senate on Protecting News Sources
10/30/09 Arsu & Kanter, NYT, Bridging the Generation Gap on Climate
10/30/09 Andrews, ProPublica, The Battle Over Tired Truckers: Obama Ditches Another Bush Rule
10/30/09 RIA, Sanity: Venezuela bans toy guns, violent video games
10/30/09 Soros, Bloomberg, Soros Says 'Bloodletting' Yet to Come for LBOs
10/30/09 Barisheff, IntelDaily, The Next Crisis: Spiralling Inflation
10/30/09 Greer, IntelDaily, Why Markets Fail. Or here
10/30/09 Cardinale, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Gay Bar Raids Draw Community Outrage
10/30/09 Fraysinet, IPS, BRAZIL: Drugs, Guns, Gangs and Police - a Violent Mix in the 'Favelas'
10/30/09 Valente, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Investment in Ecosystems Key to Adaptation
10/30/09 Ramesh, Guardian, India to investigate rising elephant death toll
10/30/09 Roy, Guardian, The heart of India is under attack or here
10/30/09 Baldauf, CSM, China, eager for oil, expands investment in Nigeria and Guinea
10/30/09 Marks, CSM, Rising tide of asylum-seekers: Will Australia let them in?
10/30/09 Brodzinsky, CSM, US and Colombia sign accord for US to access military bases
10/30/09 Peter, CSM, Iraq: US military contractor burns recyclables, violating contract
10/30/09 Clark, Guardian, US safety authorities to impose record £52m fine on BP for Texas City failings
10/30/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, "TARP on Steroids"
10/30/09 ACLU, President Signs Law Giving Defense Department Authority To Exempt Photos From Freedom Of Information Act
10/30/09 Spencer, WSWS, US: Lack of insurance linked to thousands of child deaths
10/30/09 AP, US rubber company disputes Liberia pollution study
10/30/09 Leonnig, WP, 7 on defense panel scrutinized
10/30/09 Nakashima & Kane, WP, Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry
10/30/09 Ghosh, Time, Who's Who on the CIA Payroll
10/30/09 Ciobanu, IPS, EASTERN EUROPE: Loans Make the Middle Class Poor
10/30/09 Godoy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Set That 110 Limit
10/30/09 Estremera, IPS, PHILIPPINES: Children Worst Hit by Economic Crisis
10/30/09 Bybee, ITT, The Pillage People
10/30/09 Williams, Guardian, Gender pay gap still as high as 50%, UK survey says
10/30/09 EDIE, Australia releases billions of litres of water to protect parched environment
10/30/09 Hare, CNN, Bea Arthur leaves $300K to gay youth
10/30/09 BBC, Africa backs Darfur crimes court
10/30/09 Sudworth, BBC, Web to be truly worldwide at last
10/30/09 Taibbi, True/Slant, Forget Galleon: What About Goldman's Ex-Boss?
10/30/09 Carlson, PSL, Credit card companies bled workers dry in 2009
October 29, 2009
10/29/09 Makino, IPS, JAPAN: Death from Overwork Persists Amid Economic Crunch
10/29/09 BBC, Cannabis evidence 'was distorted'
10/29/09 BBC, Iraq hearings 'must be in public'
10/29/09 Fleury, BBC, Struggling in a recovering economy
10/29/09 Romanian Times, CRG says USA to use Romanian bases to control Caspian Sea oil
10/29/09 ISN, Dirty Diamonds in Panama
10/29/09 Morning Star, Civilian massacre 'appropriate'
10/29/09 Howley, Bloomberg, U.S. Home Vacancies Rise to 18.8 Million on Defaults
10/29/09 Porter, IPS, AFGHANISTAN: U.S., NATO Forces Rely on Warlords for Security
10/29/09 Herszenhorn, NYT, Pelosi Unveils House Health Care Bill
10/29/09 Winterman, BBC, Why are fat people abused?
10/29/09 Triggle, BBC, 'Further rise' in swine flu cases
10/29/09 Kaiser Family Foundation, Natural Disasters In India, Philippines Affect Rice Supply, Could Have Global Implications
10/29/09 Guardian, National Geographic 2009 international photo competition
10/29/09 Basu, CNN, Friend of gang rape victim blasts school officials over safety
10/29/09 Moss, Baseline Scenario, Naming Systemically Dangerous Firms
10/29/09 Halland & Prins, AlterNet, Former Wall Street Player Reveals the Inside World Behind Shady Bailouts to Bankers
10/29/09 Erdman, CNN, Climate change: Can we even do it? Should we even try?
10/29/09 CNN, Blame genetics for bad driving, study finds
10/29/09 BBC, Kenya to launch homosexual census
10/29/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Cluster Bomb Trade Funded by World's Biggest Banks
10/29/09 BBC, US economy is growing once again
10/29/09 Rolbein, BU Today, The Return of Howard Zinn, and Company
10/29/09 Haviland, BBC, Sri Lanka outcry over police brutality
10/29/09 Kirby, BBC, France migrant policy criticised
10/29/09 Etim, All Africa, Group Challenges Oil Firms On Land Encroachment in Africa
10/29/09 Rodriguez, KC Star, Vote in Congress offers hope for buyout of Treece, Kan
10/29/09 Labaton, NYT, F.D.I.C. Chief Criticizes Reform Plan
10/29/09 Shahzad, Asia Times, Taliban take over Afghan province
10/29/09 Farrel, NYT, Plan to Drill on Colorado Plateau Meets Resistance
10/29/09 Kirsh, NYT, Capitalist With a $
10/29/09 Perez-Rocha, FPIF, More Than Backpedaling on NAFTA
10/29/09 Drash & Hannah, CNN, Engineers: Bay Bridge woes show need for critical action
10/29/09 CNN, Canadian folk singer killed by coyotes, park official says
October 28, 2009
10/28/09 The Public record, New Details About CIA Secret Prisons And the Systematic Torture Of Prisoners
10/28/09 Spencer, WSWS, Child deaths from abuse and neglect rise in the US
10/28/09 Cogan, WSWS, Pakistani army offensive devastates tribal communities
10/28/09 AFP, US Drone Strikes May Break International Law: UN
10/28/09 Jenkins, It's Getting Hot In Here, Blasting Begins on Coal River Mountain
10/28/09 Kein, Wired, Climate Change Caused Radical North Sea Shift
10/28/09 Dreyfus, Nation, J Street, Obama, and Israel
10/28/09 Bunkley, NYT, F.B.I. Raid Kills Islamic Group Leader in Michigan
10/28/09 Shankman, MoJo, Grading the Public Options That Already Exist
10/28/09 Al Jazeera, Karzai brother 'on CIA payroll'
10/28/09 WW4 Report, US denies Blackwater arms stockpiling in Pakistan
10/28/09 The Public Record, Ex-State Dept Aide Under Bush Sr., Reagan, Clinton Indicted For Violating Sudan Sanctions
10/28/09 Chavez, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE-BOLIVIA: Climbing a 'Dead' Glacier
10/28/09 Berger, IPS, ECUADOR: Oil Giant Is Gone, Legal and Environmental Mess Remains
10/28/09 Vidal, Guardian, Climate change will devastate Africa, top UK scientist warns
10/28/09 Milne, Guardian, Spying on us doesn't protect democracy. It undermines it
10/28/09 Palitto, FPIF, Obama and State Secrets
10/28/09 Chen, CNN, Gang rape raises questions about bystanders' role
10/28/09 Hornick, CNN, U.S. set to pay Taliban members to switch sides
10/28/09 Gandossy, CNN, Census will report same-sex couples, gay groups see opportunity
10/28/09 CNN, Senate likely to extend homebuyers' tax credit
10/28/09 Marquand, CSM, The new US point man on war crimes: Stephen Rapp
10/28/09 Forestier-Walker, CSM, As US seeks closer ties with Turkmenistan, government cracks down on students
10/28/09 Bell, BBC, a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8329612.stm">The methane makers
10/28/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Car Dealers Protected From New Consumer Protection Agency
10/28/09 Cho, WP, N.Y. Fed pushed AIG on contracts
10/28/09 Zibel, AP, New home sales fall a surprising 3.6 percent
10/28/09 Puzzangherra, LAT, Plan would end taxpayer bailouts for financial firms deemed 'too big to fail'
10/28/09 IntelDaily, CIA prevented prisoner deaths to prolong torture
10/28/09 Press TV, US to pay Taliban to change sides
10/28/09 Brittain, IntelDaily, US Strategic Interests in Latin America: The Militarization of Colombia
10/28/09 Fernandez, IPS, U.S.: Arizona Renews Push to Criminalise Immigrants
10/28/09 Valente, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Forests Much More Than Carbon Storage
10/28/09 Phakathi, IPS, SWAZILAND: More Boreholes, No Water
10/28/09 Lobe, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Scandinavia Leads World in Pro-Poor Policies
10/28/09 Novak, ITT, America's Real Death Panels
10/28/09 Robertson et al, Guardian, Kenya's drought crisis: Starving to death
10/28/09 Travis, Guardian, Innocent suspects' profiles still reaching DNA database
10/28/09 Smith et al, Guardian, 'These people just want to be left alone'
10/28/09 Suny, Nation, Empire Falls: The Revolutions of 1989
10/28/09 Oppman, CNN, Illegal immigrants struggle to receive back pay
10/28/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: Ethiopia's water traps
10/28/09 BBC, US warned on deadly drone attacks
10/28/09 BBC, Ivory Coast's old foes 'rearming'
October 27, 2009
10/27/09 Cogan, WSWS, The reality behind the US "success" in Iraq
10/27/09 Clark, Guardian, Wall Street Firms Should Not Be Called Banks, US Official says
10/27/09 BBC, Report: Palestinians Denied Water
10/27/09 Roth, TPM, Intel Panel: CIA Misled Lawmakers On Torture, Other Issues
10/27/09 Mouawad & Krauss, NYT, Gas Company Won't Drill in New York Watershed
10/27/09 Labaton, NYT, Bill Seeks to Shift Rescue Costs to Big Banks
10/27/09 de la Merced & Dash, Big Lender GMAC Asks for More U.S. Aid
10/27/09 Press, Nation, Assessing the Opt-Out - A Lesson from the Abortion Debate
10/27/09 Thomas, KC Star, EBay refuses benefit auction for Roeder
10/27/09 AP, Worsening job picture fuels slide in confidence
10/27/09 Klare, Nation, Welcome to 2025: American Pre-eminence Ends Fifteen Years Early
10/27/09 Kryt, ITT, The Lonesome Death of Pedro Munoz
10/27/09 Noland, Asia Times, Mortgage madness
10/27/09 Allen ITT, Restless Vagina Syndrome
10/27/09 Feffer, FPIF, Lords of Misrule
10/27/09 Campos, FPIF, The Struggle Against Free Trade Continues
10/27/09 BcGreal, Guardian, 700 arrests across country as FBI rescues children from sex trade
October 26, 2009
10/26/09 Lindorff, The Public Record, Pentagon Dirty Bombers: Depleted Uranium in the USA
10/26/09 Lydersen, ITT, Native American Uranium Miners Still Suffer, As Industry Eyes Rebirth
10/26/09 AFP, New Bill to Make Seizure of US Companies Easier: Report
10/26/09 Johnson, Telegraph, Peaceful Protesters Included on Police Database of 'Domestic Extremists'
10/26/09 Marks, Independent, Illegal Logging Responsible for Loss of 10 Million Hectares in Indonesia
10/26/09 NYT, Bush's Cover-Up of Abuse Turning into Obama's Cover-Up
10/26/09 MacGillis, WP, If you build a coverage mandate, will they come?
10/26/09 Fox, Reuters, Healthcare system wastes up to $800 billion a year
10/26/09 Barrionuevo, NYT, Ex-Guerrilla Ahead in Uruguay Vote
10/26/09 Fletcher, Reuters, Fidel Castro's sister: "I worked with CIA in Cuba"
10/26/09 Kokutse, IPS, AFRICA: Broken Promises Litter the Aftermath of Global Crisis
10/26/09 Tedeschi, NYT, Homeowners Walking Away
10/26/09 Singh, Bloomberg, Caterpillar to Rehire 550 Workers, Dismiss 2,500
10/26/09 IntelDaily, Ex-CIA agent confirms US ties with Jundullah
10/26/09 Nieuwoudt, IPS, TRADE: What Will China's Legacy in Africa be by 2049?
10/26/09 Macan-Markar, IPS, TRADE-SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Rice Tariffs Snarl ASEAN Single Market
10/26/09 EDIE, Unlicensed water sellers blamed as cholera claims lives in Kenyan capital
10/26/09 Jha & Duckworth, Guardian, Science Weekly: Uranium wars
10/26/09 Levitt & Candiotti, CNN, Students: Chicago nightclub barred blacks
10/26/09 CNN, Death toll rises to 160 in Baghdad bombings
10/26/09 CNN, Meteorite-like object falls in Latvia
October 25, 2009
10/25/09 Deep Journal, Mike Ruppert is back from the wilderness with documentary CoLLapse
10/25/09 Herbert, AP, Nuclear energy becomes pivotal in climate debate
10/25/09 Trejos, WP, Loaded propositions - prepaid credit cards
10/25/09 Mufson & Eilperin, WP, Senate's climate bill a bit more ambitious
10/25/09 Brown, WP, Back where virus started, new scrutiny of pig farming
10/25/09 Taylor, McClatchy, Costs for U.S. project in Afghanistan balloon, benefit hyped
10/25/09 Hook, LAT, Obama declares swine flu a national emergency
10/25/09 Hamburger & Hart, LAT, White House confronts the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
10/25/09 Mahdy, IPS, MIDEAST: 'France, U.S. Pushing Arabs Into Nuclear Race'
10/25/09 Doward, Guardian, Colombia's endangered species at the mercy of jungle drug cartels
10/25/09 Hutton, Guardian, Mervyn King is right - the time has come to break up the megabanks
10/25/09 McGrath, BBC, 'Freezer plan' bid to save coral
10/25/09 Green, FT, Institutions 'haven't learnt' from the turmoil or here
10/25/09 Oakley, FT, Big shift benefits emerging markets or here
10/25/09 Johnson, FT, Private equity's love affair with leverage or here
10/25/09 FT. Unbelievable returns, thanks to government or here
10/25/09 Rousseau, FT, Absolute return funds need risk benchmarks or here
10/25/09 Uhifelder, FT, Hedge funds scramble to install damage limitation or here
10/25/09 Todd, PSL, Australia unleashes racism against Tamil refugees
10/25/09 Triana, FT, Blame toxic lethality not complexity or here
10/25/09 FT, Vanguard speeds up DC launch plans
10/25/09 Labaton, NYT, Trying to Rein in 'Too Big to Fail' Institutions
10/25/09 AP, Police: Madoff associate Jeffry Picower dies at 67
10/25/09 Defense Update, DARPA's Foliage-Penetrating Radar Tested on the A160T Hummingbird
10/25/09 Stelzer, TimesOnline, Global economy has no substitute for falling dollar
October 24, 2009
10/24/09 WSWS, US bankers cash in despite phony pay restraint
10/24/09 Eley, WSWS, Michigan governor again takes axe to education
10/24/09 Fox-Penner, Baseline Scenario, Patchwork Fixes, Conflicting Motives, And Other Things To Avoid: Some Lessons From the Regulated Non-Financial Sectors
10/24/09 Fink, ProPublica, Preparing for a Pandemic, State Health Departments Struggle With Rationing Decisions
10/24/09 CNN, International Day of Demonstrations on Climate Change
10/24/09 Henry, TimesOnline, Thousands protest over war in Afghanistan
10/24/09 Lyall, NYT, Ever-Present Surveillance Rankles the British Public
10/24/09 Filkins, NYT, The Great American Arm-Twist in Afghanistan
10/24/09 Geloo, IPS, ZAMBIA
: Fishing in Troubled Waters
10/24/09 Harris, Guardian, Obama declares national emergency as US swine flu deaths hit 1,000
10/24/09 CNN, China only trails U.S. in billionaires
10/24/09 Singel, CNN, Twitter anarchist raided under 'riot' laws
10/24/09 Mackenzie and Wallia, FT, Ghana in oil stake talks as Exxon bid runs into trouble
10/24/09 Stan, AlterNet, 8 Reasons Fox Is Not a News Organization
10/24/09 Ames, AlterNet, After the Billionaires Plundered Alabama Town, Troops Were Called in ... Illegally
10/24/09 BBC, Israel debates response to Gaza report
10/24/09 BBC, Evacuation from Puerto Rico fire
October 23, 2009
10/23/09 Latigua-Williams, Progressive, Latinos important in every sphere of American society
10/23/09 Hentoff, Deep Journal, Cato Institute: Obama Every Bit as Bad as Bush/Cheney on Patriot Act
10/23/09 Hopkins, ADN, Feds seek to reshape hunting and fishing rules
10/23/09 VNS, Deputy PM says human trafficking is on the rise
10/23/09 Jones, WSWS, Washington pushes Pakistan to the brink
9/23/09 NPR, Map: State Unemployment Rates
10/23/09 Melcher, AlterNet, More and More Boys Born With Deformed Genitals -- What's to Blame?
10/23/09 Schaill, Nation, Judge Refuses to Dismiss War Crimes Case Against Blackwater
10/23/09 Grist, Groups Use 350's Big Day to Fight Cap-and-Trade
10/23/09 Cappiello, AP, Poll: US Belief in Global Warming is Cooling
10/23/09 Stein & Laris, WP, Scramble to parcel out H1N1 vaccine
10/23/09 Nation, Afghanistan in Crisis
10/23/09 Machado, IPS, MOZAMBIQUE: Watching the Water Flow Away
10/23/09 Marquez, IPS, VENEZUELA: El Niño Dries Up Water, Power, Food Supply
10/23/09 BBC, 'Huge damage' in Australia spill
10/23/09 BBC, A tale of small numbers
10/23/09 BBC, Oil price rises above $81 level
10/23/09 BBC, Rich Germans demand higher taxes
10/23/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Iraq Embassy Scandal Expands: Contractor May Have to Repay $130 Million
10/23/09 Littlepage, Newswire, Republicans Oppose Franken on Rape Legislation
10/23/09 Murakami & Dennis, WP, Top employees leave financial firms ahead of pay cuts
10/23/09 Rothschild, Progressive, House Dems Warp Financial Oversight Board
10/23/09 Canon, KC Star, Bunker buster carries goal of deterring Iran
10/23/09 Nicholas P. Oath Keepers and the BNP
10/23/09 Rizoff, IntelDaily, AFRICOM Year Two: Taking The Helm Of The Entire World
10/23/09 Collins, IntelDaily, A Censored Headline and why it Matters: German High Court Outlaws Electronic Voting
10/23/09 Porter, IPS, POLITICS: NIE Reveals Qom Facility Followed 2007 Bush Threats
10/23/09 Kryt, ITT, Casualties of the 'Bloodless' Coup
10/23/09 Campbell, Guardian, Scientists study possible health benefits of LSD and ecstacy
10/23/09 Sidner, CNN, Farmers sell wives to pay debts in rural India
10/23/09 Prusher, CSM, Israel Supreme Court: Open 'apartheid' road to Palestinians
10/23/09 Schliefer, CSM, Turkey's talks with Armenia test ties with gas-supplier Azerbaijan
10/23/09 Lubold, CSM, NATO backs McChrystal's Afghanistan strategy
October 22, 2009
10/22/09 Hoyos, FT, Total warns of energy insecurity
10/22/09 McConnell, TimesOnline, Four-Year Drought Pushes 23 Million Africans to Brink of Starvation
10/22/09 Allen, OneWorld, Stop Texting, to Save Lives in Africa
10/22/09 Yi, AFP, Orangutans Struggle to Survive as Palm Oil Booms
10/22/09 Tse & Dennis, WP, U.S. to cut pay for bailed-out bosses
10/22/09 AFP, US new jobless claims up again
10/22/09 Nasirpour, HuffingtonPost, Derivatives Bill Amended To Let Big Banks Keep Some Contracts Secret
10/22/09 Luhby, CNN, 7,000 unemployed Americans lose their lifeline every day
10/22/09 Knapke, FPIF, Coup's Impact on Honduran Women
10/22/09 Carlsen, FPIF, Mexico's Union Bust Reveals Flaws in NAFTA
10/22/09 CNN, Taser makers say don't aim at chest
10/22/09 Black, BBC, Secrets of frog killer laid bare
10/22/09 BBC, Low dose radiation 'harms heart'
10/22/09 Kaiser, U.N. Report Documents How Opium Contributes To Spread of Disease, Deaths
10/22/09 Moore, MichaelMoore, Michael Moore's Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now
October 21, 2009
10/21/09 Quinn & Hall, Times/UK, Goldman Sachs vice-chairman says: 'Learn to tolerate inequality'
10/21/09 Binham, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs's Griffiths Says Inequality Helps All
10/21/09 de Vise & Anderson, WP, College costs still rising
10/21/09 Seager & Treanor, Guardian, Mervyn King: banking fallout will last generation
10/21/09 BBC, 'Giant' orb web spider discovered
10/22/09 Bluemink, ADN, Changes planned for Native contracting program
10/21/09 Margasak, AP, House Bill Would Make Changes in Patriot Act
10/21/09 Jacobson, Rwa Story, Pentagon Used Psychological Operation on US Public, Documents Show
10/21/09 Bhadrakumar, Asia Times, Saudi-Iranian hostility hits boiling point
October 20, 2009
10/20/09 BBC, 'Extremists hijack' military name
10/20/09 Wheatley, FT, Brazil imposes tax on foreign investments
10/20/09 Meyer, FT, Setback for US crackdown on oil speculation
10/20/09 Lamont, FT, Asian tensions on water supply risk spilling over
10/20/09 Fangmann, WSWS, US soldier commits suicide in Indiana movie theater
10/20/09 Arsenault, IPS, Govt Threatens Tar Sands Activists with Anti-Terror Laws
10/20/09 Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Admiral: I can empty Guantánamo camps in 10 days
10/20/09 Reporters Without Borders, Press Freedom Index 2009
10/20/09 Sullivan, Reuters, Congress agrees on moving Guantanamo inmates
10/20/09 Nichols, Reuters, U.S. press freedom improves; Israel, Iran worse: survey
10/20/09 Baumann, MoJo, Did Hank Paulson Break the Law?
10/20/09 Godoy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon Capture Effort Collects Critics
10/20/09 Berger, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Pipeline Renews Debate on Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons
10/20/09 Suri, IPS, HEALTH: EU Blocking Medicines for the Poor
10/20/09 Porritt, Guardian, Our nuclear tragedy
10/20/09 Ghattas, BBC, Obama opts for compromise on Sudan
10/20/09 BBC, US medical cannabis policy eased
10/20/09 Ford, CSM, Rivals China, India in escalating war of words
10/20/09 Ravi, BBC, Village 'witches' beaten in India
10/20/09 Prusher, CSM, US scientist Stewart Nozette charged with trying to sell secrets to Israel
10/20/09 Khan, BBC, What are the Waziristan war aims?
10/20/09 BBC, UK bank bonuses 'to rise by 50%'
10/20/09 Spencer, WSWS, Oregon: plagued by homelessness, unemployment, cuts in social services
10/20/09 Conaway, NPR, Wholesale Prices Fall. Plus: The Hidden Costs Of Fossil Fuels
10/20/09 Yen, AP, Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty
10/20/09 Sloan, WP, Uncle Sam's gift to the prudent saver: Less money
10/20/09 Haider, Reuters, Battle intensifies as Taliban retake Pakistani town
10/20/09 Sorokin, NYT, The Race to Save Lehman Brothers
10/20/09 Reuters, Pfizer Profits Rise After Cost Cutting
10/20/09 Rothacker & Rexrode, Charlotte Observer, Internal documents, e-mails shed light on Merrill deal
10/20/09 Sheppard, MoJo, Obama's Radioactive Regulator
10/20/09 Crook, IPS, EAST TIMOR: Seasonal Changes Cause for Alarm
10/20/09 Morse, ITT, High-Tech vs. Humane Healthcare
10/20/09 Pilkington. Guardian, US gives Shell green light for offshore oil drilling in the Arctic
10/20/09 Rodgers, BBC, At the centre of time
October 19, 2009
10/19/09 Raum, AP, Higher unemployment might become the norm as result of recession
10/19/09 Raimundo, Deep Journal, Rethinking World War III
10/19/09 Deep Journal, U.S. Attacks Iran Via CIA-Funded Jundullah Terror Group
10/19/09 Lindorff, Public Record, Depleted Uranium: Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke
10/19/09 DeGraw, Public record, The Wall Street Economic Death Squad
10/19/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Hillary Clinton Gives "Shameless Pitch" for Crooked Corporation in Russia
10/19/09 Malandain, AFP, Screams, Flames Among Horrors of Botched US Executions
10/19/09 Dawber, Independnent, BP Set for Iraqi Oil License as Cabinet Approves Deal
10/19/09 Hourheld, AP, Destruction of Kenya's forest feeds deadly drought
10/19/09 Borenstein, AP, Europeans find 32 new planets outside solar system
10/19/09 Al Jazeera, US treasury faces bonds lawsuit
10/19/09 Whitlock, WP, Flow of terrorist recruits increasing
10/19/09 Levinson, Nation, Overturning DOMA
10/19/09 Reuters, U.S. poised to bring more insider trading cases
10/19/09 Press TV, Report: US upgrading military bases in Afghanistan
10/19/09 France, The Sun, Parents Sell Virgins at Ages 12 for Sex
10/19/09 Telegraph, Claims police tortured Peruvian protesters outside British-owned mine
10/19/09 Ross, Wired, Obama Steps Up Killer Drone Raids Despite Deaths of Civilians
10/19/09 Alden, Guardian, What is China doing in Guinea?
10/19/09 Walsh & Khan, Guardian, Refugee flood reveals human cost of South Waziristan's invisible war
10/19/09 Gribbin, Guardian, A very lucky universe
10/19/09 Seager, Guardian, Oil prices hit high but report warns of supply crunch
10/19/09 Tukhbatullin, CSM, Turkmenistan: Still Waiting for the Second Step
10/19/09 Ahmed, CSM, US, Pakistan agree to disagree on Waziristan offensive
10/19/09 BBC, Nigeria 'to give 10% of oil cash'
10/19/09 BBC, US scientist charged with spying
10/19/09 Damon & Kishore, WSWS, The two Americas
10/19/09 Schoof, Miami Herald, Report looks at hidden health costs of energy production
10/19/09 Englehardt, Nation, Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World
10/19/09 Shachtman, Wired, Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
10/19/09 BBC, Israel spying devices found by UN
10/19/09 Toynbee, Guardian, Beware the zealots selling miracle cures of privatisation
October 18, 2009
10/18/09 Dreyfuss, Nation, Who Is the "Taliban"?
10/18/09 McGreal, Guardian, Oklahoma abortion law to put patients' details online
10/18/09 Ayala, IPS, MIGRATION-EL SALVADOR: Broken Homes, Broken Families
10/18/09 Maynard, NYT, A Lifeline Not Made in the U.S.A.
10/18/09 Reuters, UBS registered mail warns U.S. clients on tax: report
10/18/09 Henderson, Politico, Teachers' Unions Uneasy with President Barack Obama
10/18/09 Al Jazeera, Philippines braces for new typhoon
10/18/09 Pincus, WP, Military Seeks $1.3 Billion For Projects in Afghanistan
10/18/09 Slackman, NYT, Iran Guard Commanders Are Killed in Bombings
10/18/09 Hall, McClatchy, How Moody's sold its ratings -- and sold out investors
October 17, 2009
10/17/09 Bumiller, NYT, Remembering Afghanistan's Golden Age
10/17/09 Swanson, Public Record, Presidential Power Grows: Will You Love Every Future President?
10/17/09 AFP, LatAm Leftists Tackle Dollar with New Currency
10/17/09 Bannerman, TruthOut, Military Children in Crisis
10/17/09 Nugent, TimesOnline, Food giants cut back on product size but prices remain the same
10/17/09 Cornwell, Reuters, U.S. said to be planning deeper engagement with Sudan
10/17/09 Oliphant, LAT, Lessons from the Massachusetts healthcare experiment
10/17/09 Swanson, IntelDaily, Army Experience Center's Bad Experience: Turns out Training Kids to Kill Not Popular with Public
10/17/09 Lerner, CNN, Rape a weapon of war in Congo, activists say
10/17/09 Sayah, CNN, Pakistani forces drive into Taliban stronghold
10/17/09 BBC, US swine flu vaccines 'delayed'
10/17/09 Colls, BBC, The death of language?
10/17/09 BBC, 'Toxic waste' report gag lifted
October 16, 2009
10/16/09 Fink, ProPublica, In Flu Pandemic, Florida's Hospitals May Exclude Certain Patients
10/16/09 Shachtman, Wired, Military Looks to Upgrade Its Super Spy Blimps
10/16/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Funding Sweatshops Globally
10/16/09 Page, Regsister, DARPA, Microsoft, Lockheed team up to reinvent TCP/IP
10/16/09 Bowcott & Owen, Guardian, Iraqi army confronted UK deportation officials on Baghdad plane
10/16/09 Cohen, IntelDaily, How The US Military Shapes Foreign Policy
10/16/09 BBC, Pakistan civilian-military ties hit new low
10/16/09 CNN, Interracial couple in Louisiana denied marriage license
10/16/09 Flood, Asia Times, The 'other' Kurdistan seethes with rage
10/16/09 Pilger, Deep Journal, War is peace. Ignorance is strength - Pilger on Obama
10/16/09 AFP, Carbon Emissions Must Peak by 2015: UN Climate Scientist
10/16/09 Scahill, Rebelreports, Cindy McCain Bankrolled Conference That Called for Ban on Mercenaries
10/16/09 AFP, US judge upholds censoring CIA prisoner testimony
10/16/09 Douglas, Nation, Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment
10/16/09 Reuters, U.S. bank failure tally hits 99 for 2009
10/16/09 Bower, Guardian, Held over a barrel
October 15, 2009
10/15/09 Shahzad, Asia Times, Al-Qaeda's guerrilla chief lays out strategy
10/15/09 Nelson, Telegraph, Pakistan's ISI still supporting the Taliban, say Afghans
10/15/09 Pak Tribune, US embassy found involved in importing weapons to Pakistan
10/15/09 Griffiths, Reuters, Arctic to be ice-free in summer in 20 years: scientist
10/15/09 Chart, OpenLeft, This Is Why We Torture
10/15/09 Clark, Guardian, Latest Goldman Sachs profits swell billion-dollar bonus pool
10/15/09 McGreal, Guardian, US defence firms face penalty over block on assault claims
10/15/09 Corcoran * Leaver, FPIF, Strategic Dialogue: Afghanistan
10/15/09 Ahmed, CNN, Fast Internet access becomes a legal right in Finland
10/15/09 Ahmed, CSM, Fresh Pakistan attacks underscore reach of Taliban
10/15/09 BBC, 'US drone' kills four in Pakistan
10/15/09 BBC, Uganda MP urges death for gay sex
10/15/09 McKee & Lanman, Bloomberg, Greenspan Says U.S. Should Consider Breaking Up Large Banks
10/15/09 DW-Worlde, Never have so many people suffered from hunger
October 14, 2009
10/14/09 Al Jazeera, US seeks to calm Pakistan aid fears
10/14/09 Tyson, WP, A Historic Success In Military Recruiting
10/14/09 Connolly, WP, Health Insurers Emerge as Obama's Top Foe in Reform Effort
10/14/09 Boseley, Guardian, Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year
10/14/09 Mercer, BBC, Australia fails to plug oil leak
10/14/09 Fihlani, BBC, Stolen youth of SA's child brides
10/14/09 Lester, Climate Progress, How to Mobilize to Save Civilization
10/14/09 Patience, AP, Explorers: North Pole summers ice free in 10 years
10/14/09 Landay & Bernton, McClatchy, Taliban strength in Afghanistan nears military proportion
10/14/09 Godoy, IPS, MEXICO: Human Rights Defenders Under Attack, UN Warns
10/14/09 LaFranchi, CSM, Barbs fly at UN Security Council over Gaza report
10/14/09 Clark, Guardian, Bear Stearns duo lied 'over and over again', court hears
10/14/09 Wilber, WP, Judge Blocks Public From Blackwater Hearings
10/14/09 Worthington, Judge Confirms Detainee Tortured to Make False Confessions
10/14/09 Weisberg, Nation, ICE Program Under Fire
10/14/09 Galbraith, NYT, Farm Bureau Aims to Kill Climate Bill
10/14/09 Hall, McClatchy, House panel ready to pass sweeping reform of exotic finance
10/14/09 Douglas & Shah, McClatchy, To smooth Pakistan's feathers, Kerry issues clarification on aid bill
10/14/09 Gearan, Scotsman, Pentagon's new bomb targets hidden weapons bunkers
10/14/09 BBC, Global hunger worsening, warns UN
10/14/09 WSWS, The American way of debt: Turning a profit by preying on the poor
10/14/09 Guardian, Plight of the honeybee stung by funding from the chemical industry
10/14/09 BBC, US retail in sharpest 2009 fall
10/14/09 BBC, Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes
10/14/09 BBC, Iraq says 85,000 violently killed
10/14/09 BBC, 'Magnetic electricity' discovered
October 13, 2009
10/13/09 Collins, Boulder Daily Camera, A Look at Fracking: Documentary Explores Environmental Consequences of Gas Extraction Method
10/13/09 Merchant, AlterNet, US Coal Plants Dump Thousands of Gallons of Waste Into Drinking Water Supplies a Day
10/13/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Chomsky Banned in Guantanamo
10/13/09 Mydans, NYT, Exiled From School, H.I.V.-Infected Orphans Learn a Bitter Lesson
10/13/09 Story & Dash, NYT, E-Mail Shows Concerns Over Merrill Deal
10/13/09 Uchitele, NYT, Still on the Job, but Making Only Half as Much
10/13/09 Mouawad & Revkim, NYT, Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues
10/13/09 Tankersley & Hart, LAT, Bush-era EPA document on climate change released
10/13/09 Colberg, NewsOK, Some software can turn mobile devices into tools of espionage, harassment
10/13/09 Timiraos, WSJ, Foreclosures Grow in Housing Market's Top Tiers
10/13/09 Leahy, IPS, BIODIVERSITY: Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
10/13/09 Marquez, IPS, VENEZUELA: Land for Yukpa Indians, But No 'Territory'
10/13/09 McGreal, Guardian, War breaks out between Fox News and the Obama administration
10/13/09 CNN, 'Whole face of the mountain' fell into valley, resident says
10/13/09 DOAK, FPIF, The Secret About Jobs Military Contractors Don't Want You to Know
10/13/09 Hare, CNN, Does your social class determine your online social network?
10/13/09 Mann, CNN, Young people are at risk for H1N1 complications, studies say
10/13/09 Spotts, CSM, CERN physicist accused of terror links. What access did he have?
10/13/09 BBC, Bans 'do not cut abortion rate'
10/13/09 Baker, Business Week, IBM to Apply Analytics to War on Terror
10/13/09 Rogers, Miami Herald, Costa Rica draws sex trade
10/13/09 Hamilton, LAT, Trial to begin for two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers
10/13/09 Guardian, From extraction to consumption: Oil, an exhibition by Edward Burtynsky
10/13/09 Morris, Guardian, Locks with you? Michael Jackson's hair goes up for auction
10/13/09 BBC, Lack of Mid-East peace deepens water crisis
10/13/09 BBC, Congo and Angola 'end expulsions'
10/13/09 BBC, Guinea confirms huge China deal
10/13/09 Walker, BBC, Lizards filmed 'walking on water'
10/13/09 BBC, UN Philippines fund 'falls short'
October 12, 2009
10/12/09 Deep Journal, Robert Fisk on his 'demise of the dollar' article
10/12/09 Moore, Telegraph, China builds 'Pentagon' shopping centre in Shanghai
10/12/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Battening Down the Hatches: Secret State Monitors Protest, Represses Dissent
10/12/09 WW4 Report, Honduras "importing" Colombian paras as mercenaries?
10/12/09 Montgomery, Star-Telegram, Tim Cole panel begins yearlong look at judicial safeguards
10/12/09 EDIE, CRC under the spotlight
October 11, 2009
10/11/09 Deep Journal, US facing massive economic 'power shift' with dollar's downward spiral
10/11/09 Vidal, Guardian, Millions Will Starve as Rich Nations Cut Food Aid Funding, Warns UN
10/11/09 Deep Journal, Scientific proof of explosives in WTC on 9/11 - Prof. Niels Harrit interviewed by Daan de Wit
10/11/09 Lardner, AP, Weapons failed US troops during Afghan firefight
10/11/09 Templeton, Times Online, Doctors say EU working week is killing patients
10/11/09 Fadel, McClatchy, Muslims in U.S. feel unfairly implicated in the war on terror
10/11/09 Ireland, ITT, The Barney Frank Story
10/11/09 McKie, Guardian, Shark fin ban ends cruel slaughter
10/11/09 BBC, Obama to end military gay policy
10/11/09 Ross, BBC, Drought: Kenya's own banking crisis
10/11/09 BBC, Clinton warns on Pakistan threat
10/11/09 BBC, Deadly bombings in central Iraq
10/11/09 BBC, Russia economy 'to shrink 7.5%'
October 10, 2009
10/09/09 Lambert, Reuters, U.S. states suffer "unbelievable" revenue shortages
10/10/09 Reuters, U.S. Q3 growth seen strongest in 2 years
10/10/09 Leighton, BBC, Guinea strike call over killings
10/10/09 Black, BBC, 'Scary' climate message from past
10/10/09 Wilson, AlterNet, Barbara Ehrenreich: The Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
10/10/09 Stein, WP, H1N1 Deaths Among Youths Rise as Epidemic Spreads
10/10/09 Reuters, Iran needs up to 300kg of nuclear fuel: report
10/10/09 Zezima, NYT, Indigent Burials Are on the Rise
10/10/09 Saul, NYT, The Gift of Life, and Its Price
10/10/09 Nelson, OpenLeft, The New Climate Change Denialism
10/10/09 BBC, Jaw bone created from stem cells
October 9, 2009
10/09/09 Spiegel & Dreazen, WSJ, Top Troop Request Exceeds 60,000
10/09/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Sweatshop Conditions in US Cities
10/08/09 NPR, Doctor: Health Insurance Companies Determine Our Fees
10/09/09 Hullalbaloo, AlterNet, War, What Is it Good for? Iraq to Deal Oil in Euros
10/09/09 Stan, AlterNet, Limbaugh, Bolton and Other Right-Wingers Respond to Obama's Nobel Prize: Proof that He's the Anti-Christ, and Other Wing-Nut Theories
10/09/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Desperate Scene in Detroit as Stimulus Comes to Crossroads
10/09/09 Ansel, PSL, U.N. reports massive population drop in Russia
10/09/09 Miller, ProPublica, Civilian Contractor Toll in Iraq and Afghanistan Ignored by Defense Dept.
10/09/09 Alingod, AHN, House Gives Final Approval To Hate Crimes Bill
10/09/09 WHDH Boston, Mass. House Approves Bill Allowing Quarantines
10/09/09 PA, EU in call to US on death penalty
10/09/09 Reuters, Iran to "blow up heart" of Israel if attacked: official
10/09/09 Lefler, Wichita Eagle, Lead levels higher in Treece residents
10/09/09 Henderson, Charlotte Observer, Lobbying pays off for Duke
10/09/09 Thomma, McClatchy, President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
10/09/09 Krauss, NYT, New Way to Tap Gas May Expand Global Supplies
10/09/09 Eligon & Weiser, NYT, Weighing Prison When the Convict Is Over 80
10/09/09 Romero & Krauss, NYT, Ecuador Oil Pollution Case Only Grows Murkier
10/08/09 Guardian, Peak oil could hit soon, report says
10/09/09 Leahy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Four Degrees of Devastation
10/09/09 Pollack, NYT, Regular Flu Vaccine Supplies Run Short in Places
10/09/09 Yellin, CNN, Some credit card companies rush to act before new law
10/09/09 CNN, Pentagon hacker 'suicidal' following U.S. 'bullying'
10/09/09 Demytrie, BBC, Afghans seek refuge in Tajikistan
10/09/09 Press TV, US completing 'bunker buster' bomb
10/09/09 EDIE, New rules for cleaning up 'meths' contamination
10/09/09 Levine, CNN, More women than men dismissed from military for being gay
10/09/09 BBC, ME virus discovery raises hopes
10/09/09 BBC, UN climate talks split on treaty
10/09/09 BBC, US spacecraft crash into the Moon
10/09/09 BBC, Superfast broadband extends reach
10/09/09 Furry, Consortium News, Health Insurers Threaten Rate Hikes
October 8, 2009
10/08/09 Mukherjee, BBC, Warning over global oil 'decline'
10/08/09 Chandraskeran, WP, Civilian, Military Officials at Odds Over Resources Needed for Afghan Mission
10/08/09 Landau, BBC, 'Moonies' mull future without founder
10/08/09 Conaway, NPR, New Job-Loss Claims Fall. Chronic Unemployment Grows.
10/08/09 MacDonald, Irish Times, G8 States Could Face Class Actions on Climate Change
10/08/09 KuhnHenn & Zibel, AP, Watchdog doubts goals of Obama loan relief plan
10/08/09 Horowitz, WP, Cheney's Daughter Starts Firm Of Her Own
10/08/09 Downs, Lexington Courier Journal, 10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs
10/08/09 King, Redress, Europe is under imminent threat - US military bases in Europe - an occupation in all but name
10/08/09 Long, AP, Police stop more than 1 million people on street
10/08/09 Aftergood, Secrecy News, DoD Suppressed Critique of Military Research
10/08/09 Courson, CNN, Dog handler appeals conviction in Abu Ghraib case
10/08/09 LaFranchi, CSM, US to give Pakistan $1.5 billion a year - with strings attached
10/08/09 Bivens, Asia Times, Follow the money
October 7, 2009
10/07/09 Rebel reports, Return of the Warlords
10/07/09 Avery, News & Observer, Chemical Linked to Aggression in Girls
10/07/09 Tran, Guardian, Activism Works. Kingsnorth Coal Plant Shelved
10/07/09 AP, Study: Endangered AK beluga whale group declining
10/07/09 Borenstein, AP, You can watch NASA give the moon a one-two punch
10/07/09 Pemberton, AP, Feds give sea otters habitat protection in Alaska
10/07/09 Dareini, & Keath, Disappearance of Iranian scientist creates mystery
10/07/09 Stratford, Al Jazeera, Gulf labour laws fail to halt abuse
10/07/09 Salahuddin, Reuters, Afghan Taliban say they pose no threat to the West
10/07/09 Wayne, NYT, Thousands of U.S. Homeowners Cite Drywall for Ills
10/07/09 Lightman, McClatchy, Americans cutting back on health care to save money
10/07/09 Page, The Register, US to export riot-roasting raygun
10/07/09 Nicholas, IntelDaily, Militarism, War, and Dictatorship
10/07/09 Lux, OpenLeft, Mapping the Gravest Recession - BLS Unemployment Map
10/07/09 Zunes, FPIF, The Goldstone Report: Killing the Messenger
10/07/09 Borger, Republicans don't really want to work with Obama
10/07/09 BBC, In pictures: Monuments under threat
10/07/09 CNN, Cabinet officials, Chicagoans discuss ways to end teen violence
10/07/09 BBC, US deficit 'hits record $1.4tn'
10/07/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Gas Drilling Vs. Drinking Water: New York City Consultant's Report Sets Stage for Fight With Albany
10/07/09 Gibson, ITT, The Politics of Enchantment
10/07/09 Rosen, KC Star, Bank revenue from overdraft fees reached $24 billion last year, study shows
10/07/09 Beale, Miller-McCune, Racially Exclusive Suburbs Across U.S. Dubbed the New 'Whitopia'
10/07/09 Billington, Guardian, The Power of Yes
10/06/09 EDIE, Undersea contaminated land capping announced
10/07/09 EDIE, Greenland ice sheet at 'tipping point'
10/07/09 Starr & Levine, CNN, Afghan insurgents pushed into U.S. base, official says
10/07/09 Russell, CNN, Recycling facts that may surprise you
10/07/09 Henry & Borger, Sources: Administration considering safety net measures
10/07/09 BBC, MI5's would-be spies
10/07/09 Elfrink, Miami New Times, New CIA Files Show Miami's Most Infamous Cuban Terrorist Was a Snitch
10/07/09 DW World, Secretary loses job of 34 years over meatball snack
10/07/09 Leinward, USA Today, Reported rapes hit 20-year low
10/07/09 BBC, 'Living wage' identified for Asia
10/07/09 BBC, Palestinian U-turn on Gaza report
October 6, 2009
10/06/09 Leggett, Wired, Bird Cam Captures Albatross, Killer Whale Rendezvous
10/06/09 Shiels, BBC, New rules to end 'blogger payola'
10/06/09 Miller, ProPublica, Contractors in Iraq Are Hidden Casualties of War
10/06/09 Weismann, TruthOut, 500,000 Troops for Pashtunistan?
10/06/09 Reuters, Saudi central bank: report on replacing dollar is wrong
10/06/09 Reuters, Gulf region to stay with dollar for oil: UAE central bank source
10/06/09 Anderson, NYT, Debt-Market Paralysis Deepens Credit Drought
10/06/09 Baker, NYT, Surgical Strikes Shape Afghanistan Debate
10/06/09 Appel, IPS, FINANCE: IMF Loan Policies Worsening Crisis, NGOs Say
10/06/09 Mansur, KC Star, Foreclosure crisis creates thousands more vacant buildings in KC
10/06/09 Watanabe, LAT, Verification of illegal immigrants is scrutinized amid healthcare debate
10/06/09 Caldwell, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Resource Crunch Signals Larger Ecological Crisis
10/06/09 Chomsky, ITT, Barack Obama and the 'Unipolar Moment'
10/06/09 Jimenez, CNN, Commentary: Mexican-Americans have deep U.S. ties
10/06/09 Chick, CSM, Geithner: Be vigiliant of terror financing risk from Iran banks
10/06/09 Ridge, CSM, India prepares new assault on its 'biggest threat'
10/06/09 Haviland, BBC, Sri Lanka refugees plead for freedom
10/06/09 LaFranchi, CSM, Fallout from Honduras's presidential crisis - in Washington
10/06/09 Kennedy, BBC, Citizen patrols hit Italy streets
10/06/09 BBC, US 'to cut immigrant detention'
10/06/09 BBC, Jordan faces up to water crisis
October 5, 2009
10/05/09 Srivastava, BBC, Dynastic politics takes hold of India
10/05/09 Frayssinet, IPS, BRAZIL: Agribusiness Driving Land Concentration
10/05/09 Manak, IPS, HEALTH-AFRICA: If Men Were Dying En Masse...
10/05/09 Lobe, IPS, US-PAKISTAN: Congress Approves Big Increase in Aid
10/05/09 Perlez, NYT, U.S. Push to Expand in Pakistan Meets Resistance
10/05/09 Fisk, Independent, The Demise of the Dollar
10/05/09 Jilani, ThinkProgress, Georgia Republican Cites "Ghetto Grandmothers" to Promote Proof-of-Ctizenship Legislation
10/05/09 Singe & Alexander, Charlotte Observer, Crackdown aims at firms hiding injuries
10/05/09 Conaway, NPR, Bonds Are Back, And Roubini Says Duck
10/05/09 Collins, AlterNet, Victory: Taxing Wealth Dynasties Will Continue
10/05/09 Jacobson, First Post, CBS erases Letterman affair from history
10/05/09 Spetalnick, Reuters, U.S. Afghan pullout not an option, White House says
10/05/09 Shala=Esa, Reuters, U.S. Army eyes more agile modernization approach
10/05/09 Doyle, McClatchy, Sotomayor shows she's no Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court opens
10/05/09 Bonner, Daily Reckoning, New Default Wave Hits Mortgage Industry
10/05/09 My Budget 360, Economy Losing 11,000 Jobs per day since December of 2007. 824,000 Jobs Lost in Statistical Revision: 8 Million Jobs Lost Since Start of Recession. Nationwide Unemployment Rate at 17 Percent.
10/05/09 Howard, PowerSwitch, Dark world of declining oil supplies expected by peak oil community
10/05/09 Hoekema, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Migrants Give More than They Take, Says U.N.
10/05/09 Hopkins, Guardian, IMF policies deepened financial crisis, says CEPR
10/05/09 CNN, Study: More cases of autism in U.S. kids than previously realized
10/05/09 BBC, Key cancer spread gene found
10/05/09 Prusher, CSM, Palestinians outraged over Abbas bowing to Israel, US
10/05/09 Singel, Wired, FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court Records
10/05/09 Dugger, NYT, Contention Over Rankings of African Nations
10/05/09 Sulzberger, NYT, A Towering Landmark, Reduced to Sawdust
October 4, 2009
10/04/09 McKie, Guardian, Arctic seas turn to acid, putting vital food chain at risk
10/04/09 Harris, Guardian, Will California become America's first failed state?
10/04/09 Nichols, Nation, Bernie Sanders Applies "ACORN Standard" to Defense Contractors
10/04/09 Chimtom, IPS, CAMEROON: 'Our Lives Are Defined By This Forest'
10/04/09 Elliott, Guardian, G7 elite group makes way for G20 and emerging nations
10/04/09 Boone & Pilkington, Guardian, Fired UN envoy claims third of Hamid Karzai votes fraudulent
10/04/09 Burghardt, Deep Journal, FBI Data-Mining Programs Resurrect "Total Information Awareness"
10/04/09 Gannon, AP, Billions in US aid never reached Pakistan army
10/04/09 Richter, Progressive, Lack of universal health care is a mass killer
10/04/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, US climate bill not likely this year, says Obama adviser
10/04/09 Edwards, Herald Scotland, Beekeepers Tell Pesticide Firm to Buzz Off
10/03/09 Sapien, ProPublica, With Natural Gas Drilling Boom, Pennsylvania Faces an Onslaught of Wastewater
10/04/09 Majidi, PSL, Iran's nuclear program not in violation of any treaty
10/04/09 AFP, UN Warns of 70 Percent Desertification by 2025
10/04/09 Torchia, BusinessWeek, IMF pledges voting reform
10/04/09 Al Jazeera, Clashes as Israel shuts off al-Aqsa
10/04/09 Al Jazeera, Flood death toll rises in India
10/04/09 Vicini, Reuters, U.S. court term has major gun rights, business cases
10/04/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Domestic violence as pre-existing condition? 8 states still allow it
10/04/09 Adams, McClatchy, Firms are getting billions, but homeowners still in trouble
10/04/09 Jagan, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Nations Urged to Share Low Carbon Development Costs
10/04/09 Howells, ITT, Don't Frack with Our Water!
10/04/09 Schifferes, BBC, Pledge for more IMF help for poor
10/04/09 BBC, Men wanted to test contraceptive
10/04/09 BBC, US economic power 'is declining'
10/04/09 Arnoldy, SM, Pakistan's Pashtuns, looking for statehood, may look to Taliban
October 3, 2009
10/03/09 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, A Short Question For Senior Officials Of The New York Fed
10/03/09 Lohan, AlterNet, What If Being Fat Is Not Your Fault? America's Obesity Epidemic May Be Fueled by Chemicals in Everyday Products
10/03/09 Walker, South Bend Tribune, Report: Great Lakes Water Levels Dropping
10/03/09 Harvey, TimesOnline, Avenger of the Skies: New Wave of Drones Takes Off
10/03/09 Thomas, NYT, Offshore Haven Is Forced to Consider a Heresy, Collecting Taxes
10/03/09 Lux, OpenLeft, Bankers and Workers
10/03/09 McDermid & Magnier, LAT, Landslides buried at least 3 Indonesian villages, authorities say
10/03/09 Sahadi, CNN, 47% will pay no federal income tax
10/03/09 BBC, Technique can pinpoint tinnitus
10/03/09 Fong, Toronto Star, Greenhouse Emissions From Oil Sands Underestimated: Report
10/03/09 Al Jazeera, US 'silent on Israeli nuclear arms'
10/03/09 Torchia, Reuters, G7 considering its future, may form smaller group
10/03/09 Mahe, IPS, SOUTHERN AFRICA: Too Much Water and Not Enough to Drink
10/03/09 Vidal, Guardian. Tilting at windmills
10/03/09 CNN, Typhoon Parma slams into Philippines
10/03/09 CNN, Nuclear watchdog chief to visit Iran
10/03/09 BBC, Sumatra quake 'levelled villages'
October 2, 2009
10/02/09 Savan, Nation, Media Push False Equivalency Between Left and Right Rage
10/02/09 AFP, US Navy creates command to maintain cyber supremacy
10/02/09 Public Record, Glenn Beck Exposed: Crying On Cue Using Vicks Under His Eyes
10/02/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Gas Execs Call for Disclosure of Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing
10/02/09 Leahy, IPS, Food Supply Hangs in the Balance
10/02/09 McGreal, Guardian, Revealed: Millions Spent by Lobby Firms Fighting Obama Health Reforms
10/02/09 Emmott, Reuters, A Costly US-Mexico Border Wall, in Both Dollars and Deaths
10/02/09 Roth, TPM, Montana AG Probing American Police Force Deal
10/02/09 DiNovella, Progressive, Senate Finance Committee Votes to Restore Abstinence-Only Education
10/02/09 Shanker, NYT, U.S. Review of Battle Disaster Sways Strategy on Afghanistan
10/02/09 Baumann, MoJo, Chris Dodd's Extreme Makeover
10/02/09 Willis, Bloomberg, U.S. Economy: September Job Losses Exceed Forecast
10/02/09 PressTV, Japan questions covert military treaties with US
10/02/09 Kennedy & Brown, Bloomberg, G-7 May Break With Currency Tradition as Status Fades
10/02/09 IntelDaily, Video: Africom or Africon? Parts 1, 2, 3, 4
10/02/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Reviewing Project Censored's Latest Top 25 Censored Stories
10/02/09 Worthington, IntelDaily, A Truly Shocking Guantanamo Story: Judge Confirms That An Innocent Man Was Tortured To Make False Confessions
10/02/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Thousand Deadly Threats: Third Millennium NATO, Western Businesses Collude On New Global Doctrine
10/02/09 Drago, IPS, POLITICS: Marching Round the World for Peace
10/02/09 EDIE, One dead and dozens injured in water protests
10/02/09 EDIE, Funding to find missing bees
10/02/09 Castillo, CNN, U.S. immigrant population flat, Census numbers show
10/02/09 Bright, CSM, Palestinians drop endorsement of Goldstone report on Gaza war
10/02/09 Llana, CSM, South America: Will defense spending trigger an arms race?
October 1, 2009
10/01/09 Khaleeli, Guardian, Life before birth: stunning images of unborn children
10/01/09 Wilford, NYT, Fossil Skeleton From Africa Predates Lucy
10/01/09 Maganinni, SF Chron, Refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan seek new lives in California
10/01/09 Tankersley, LAT, EPA proposes curbs on industrial greenhouse gases
10/01/09 Levey, LAT, Abortion language heats up healthcare battle
10/01/09 Schulman, MoJo, Dr. Evil's Payday
10/01/09 Morgan, Ann Arbor Chron. How to Sustain a Local Economy: From PB&J to Regional Currencies
10/01/09 Hurdle, Reuters, Water Worries Threaten US Push for Natural Gas
10/01/09 Wilber, WP, Justice Dept. Ordered to Release Cheney Statements in Plame Case
10/01/09 Randall, WSWS, US Census Bureau report: 40 million living in poverty
10/01/09 Blum, IntelDaily, Ridding the world of the sickness of pacifism
10/01/09 Devraj, IPS, DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars
10/01/09 DC Crowe, OpenLeft, Is this what "shielding Afghans from violence" looks like?
10/01/09 Ritchie, ITT, Rural America Needs You
10/01/09 CNN, Storm-ravaged Philippines braced for 'super typhoon' Parma
10/01/09 Borger, Guardian, Nuclear talks lead to rare meeting between US and Iran
10/01/09 Cohen, CNN, What to know about getting H1N1 vaccine
10/01/09 BBC, Maliki launches pan-Iraqi bloc
10/01/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: Stephen Hawking Stepping Down
10/01/09 Doyle, BBC, Violence traps indigenous Colombians
10/01/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Bizarro World: Karl Rove Blasts Obama for 'Outsourcing Afghanistan'
10/01/09 Cole, Deep Journal, Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True
10/01/09 Gibson, MoJo, Joe Berlinger: Welcome to the Jungle
10/01/09 Smith, Asia Times, A Manufactured Crisis Part 2 ... Part 1 Iran