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November 30, 2009
11/30/09 King & Perry, LAT, Added forces will be concentrated in southern Afghanistan
11/30/09 24/7 Wall St, The Vicious Competition For Peak Oil
11/30/09 Teather, Guardian, Billions wiped off markets as Dubai returns to work
11/30/09 BBC, US Treasury in foreclosure fines
11/30/09 Saltmarsh, NYT, U.A.E. Pledge Calms Markets, but Dubai Fears Remain
11/30/09 Schulman, MoJo, Karzai Said What?
11/30/09 EDIE, University to publish all climate data
11/30/09 CNN, Dubai shares plummet 7%
11/30/09 Walker, BBC, Save 'special' carnivores plea
11/30/09 Wade, NYT, We May Be Born With an Urge to Help
11/30/09 Timmons, NYT, Dubai Crisis Tests Laws of Islamic Financing
11/30/09 Williams, NYT, Oil Companies Look to the Future in Iraq
11/30/09 WSWS, America the hungry
November 29, 2009
11/29/09 Harris, Stars & Stripes, Construction booming at Vicenza
11/30/09 Linn, MSNBC, Black workers' crisis may linger after upturn
11/29/09 Whoriskey, WP, Monsanto's dominance draws antitrust inquiry
11/29/09 Eilperin, WP, Saving the riches of the sea
11/29/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Wall Street's a casino, so maybe state gambling laws apply
11/29/09 Pommereau, CSM, Swiss vote to ban minarets showcases new populism
11/29/09 Watts, BBC, Insuring against climate change
November 28, 2009
11/28/09 BBC, Energy price rules 'not being imposed'
11/28/09 MacLeod, Canada Citizen, US Navy Plots Arctic Push
11/28/09 Martin, WSWS, US imperialism, 9/11 and the Iraq war
11/28/09 Eley, WSWS, US food charities overwhelmed by demand
11/28/09 Stan, AlterNet, Shocking: High School Grads Twice As Likely To Be Jobless Than College Grads
11/28/09 Stringer, AP, US Was 'Hell Bent' on Iraq War, UK Envoy Says
11/28/09 Odulla, AP, 10,000 E. African albinos in hiding after killings
11/28/09 Cohen, TruthOut, Get Ready for the Obama/GOP Alliance
11/28/09 Al Jazeera, Pakistan corruption amnesty expires
11/28/09 Carvalho, Reuters, Abu Dhabi to aid Dubai on "case by case" basis
11/28/09 Cockerham, ADN, New fight develops over rights of fetuses
11/28/09 Harding, Guardian, Russia says terror attack most likely cause of train crash
11/28/09 Carmichael, IPS, POLITICS-CAMBODIA: Duch Defence Pushes Self-Destruct Button
11/28/09 Deep Journal, Pilots for 9/11 Truth: Pentagon aircraft hijack impossible
November 27, 2009
11/27/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, More on Goldman and AIG
11/27/09 Holland, AlterNet, Scahill and Olbermann on Blackwater: Murderous Crusaders for Christ
11/27/09 Kwahzoon, IPS, U.S. Military Unveils Huge New Prison in Afghanistan
11/27/09 Britt, Live Science, Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food
11/27/09 Lobe, IPS, Obama's State Department Backpedals on Landmine Treaty Stance
11/27/09 Macalsiter, guardian, Designs for New UK Nuclear Reactors are Unsafe, Claims Watchdog
11/27/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Expiring insurance subsidy imperils laid-off Americans
11/27/09 Kang, Wp, A new kind of company, a new challenge for feds
11/27/09 Kocher, Lexington Herald, Winchester woman unknowingly funded terrorist group, police say
11/27/09 OpenLeft, Cost Externalization and Regulations
11/27/09 BBC, Carbon offset schemes not working, says holiday firm
11/27/09 Reuters, Philippine clan members investigated after killings
11/27/09 Perrotin, The View from Britany, The Decline of the Wage System
11/27/09 Navarro, NYT, At Odds Over Land, Money and Gas
11/27/09 Stacansky, IPS, BALKANS: Apologising to Sterilised Roma Women - Slovakia's Turn
11/27/09 Guardian, Brazilian president says 'gringos' must pay to protect Amazon
11/27/09 BBC, Rwanda: African nations block genocide suspects hunt
11/27/09 EDIE, Government facing key decisions about plutonium stockpile
November 26, 2009
11/26/09 Reuters, Wal-Mart Price Pressure Hurts China Workers: Report
11/26/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Fannie Mae to tighten lending standards
11/26/09 Breitbart, Dubai debt move 'carefully planned': top official
11/26/09 Jacobs, NYT, A Rare Chinese Look at Secret Detentions
11/26/09 Wassner, NYT, Dollar at 14-Year Low Against Yen
11/26/09 Wald, NyT, U.S. Unlikely to Use the Ethanol Congress Ordered
11/26/09 Paez, IPS, PERU: IACHR Calls for Justice for Victims of Forced Sterilisation
11/26/09 Gutierrez & Boselli, IPS, MEDIA: The Untold Stories of Violence Against Women
11/26/09 Godoy, IPS, LABOUR-MEXICO: Manufacturing Poverty for Women
11/26/09 Farmer, Telegraph, German army chief quits over Afghan deaths 'cover-up'
11/26/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Shadow of food insecurity looms over richest nation in history this Thanksgiving Day
11/26/09 Beckett, Guardian, The dark side of the internet
11/26/09 Perkins, Guardian, The cost of adapting to climate change
11/26/09 Guardian, Thirsty camels face bullet after terrorising Australian town
11/26/09 Meikel & Sparrow, Guardian, Iraq war build-up 'left us scrabbling for smoking gun' says ex-UK ambassador
11/26/09 Sirota, ITT, Colbert Conservatism
11/26/09 Elliott & Stewart, Guardian, Fears of double-dip recession grow as Dubai crashes
11/25/09 Marquand, CSM, Thanksgiving Day: Pilgrims were a surprisingly worldly, tolerant lot
November 25, 2009
11/25/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Why Is the State Department Speaking for JSOC?
11/25/09 AP, UN report: Congo rebel network spans 25 countries
11/25/09 Levine, TruthOut, Elizabeth Warren Warns: Taxpayers Are "Involuntary Investors" in "Shaky" Banks, Risk-Taking Firms
11/25/09 Seeking Alpha, U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims: Why You Can't Trust Them
11/25/09 Mason, Wired, 3-D Solar Tsunami Video Shows the Extreme Waves Are Real
11/25/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, New Study Shows Ten States Face Fiscal Crisis
11/25/09 EDIE, Scale of food's footprint spelled out
11/25/09 Reuters, UPDATE 1-US Mint to suspend American Eagle gold 1-oz coins
11/25/09 Teather, Guardian, Dubai World seeks debt standstill
11/25/09 EDIE, Enviro Technology brings water-borne hydrocarbon fingerprinting to UK
11/25/09 Mason, Progressive, We need a second stimulus package, especially for minorities
11/25/09 Bacon, East Bay Express, The Racial Diversity of Hunger
11/25/09 Irvine, CNN, Massive icebergs floating towards coast of New Zealand
11/25/09 Alexander, Reuters, US Will Not Join Treaty Banning Landmines
11/25/09 Eilperin, WP, Fewer Americans believe in global warming, poll shows
11/25/09 Drogin, LAT, Terrorism probe casts scrutiny on Minneapolis' Somali immigrant enclave
11/25/09 Pember, Progressive, As a Native-American, I'll have mixed feelings about Thanksgiving
11/25/09 Smithers, Guardian, Big brands lagging on climate action, survey says
11/25/09 Guardian, 9/11 re-enacted: Wikileaks publishes September 11 pager messages
11/25/09 Miekel, Guardian, Iraq arms intelligence was patchy, Chilcot inquiry told
11/25/09 BBC, Toyota moves to cure pedal fault
November 24, 2009
11/24/09 Ross, Toronto Star, Oil Sands Threaten Our Survival, Al Gore Warns
11/24/09 AFP, Mankind Using Earth's Resources at Alarming Rate
11/24/09 Purcell, Herald Scotland, On Trial: System That Locks Children up for Life Without Hope of Freedom
11/24/09 Shachtman, Wired, CIA's Lost Magic Manual Resurfaces
11/24/09 Reuters, Global sovereign debt to hit $49.5 trln-Moody's
11/24/09 CNN, Pentagon preparing to send 34,000 troops to Afghanistan, official says
11/24/09 CNN, Federal lawsuit filed against Atlanta police over raid at gay club
11/24/09 McGeown, BBC, Rising sea levels: A tale of two cities
11/24/09 Kirk, CSM, Philippines massacre: State of emergency declared, but will Arroyo pursue justice?
11/24/09 Baldauf, CSM, Climate change: Are women the solution?
November 23, 2009
11/23/09 BBC, Morphine 'might spread cancer'
11/23/09 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
11/23/09 Oil Drum, World Oil Production Forecast - Update November 2009
November 22, 2009
11/22/09 Lopez, LAT, The emergency room bill is enough to make you sick
11/22/09 Al Jazeera, Unborn children for sale in S Korea
11/22/09 Acharya, IPS, INDIA: 'Glacier Man' Vows to Build More Artificial Glaciers
11/22/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, Barack Obama ready to offer target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions
11/22/09 Webb, Open Left, The Conspiracy to Kill the New Deal; Yes it's Real
11/22/09 Sample, Guardian, World's largest ice sheet melting faster than expected
11/22/09 Boone, Guardian, US pours millions into anti-Taliban militias in Afghanistan
11/22/09 Lewis, Guardian, Secret files show UK courts were misled over 9/11 suspect Lotfi Raissi
11/22/09 CNN, Three Mile Island radiation leak investigated
11/22/09 Black, BBC, East Antarctic ice sheet may be losing mass
11/22/09 Shah, CSM, Pakistan to US: Don't surge in Afghanistan, talk to Taliban
11/22/09 Delingpole, DeepJournal, Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science
11/22/09 Harris, Guardian, Forced Labor and Rape, the New Face of Slavery in America
11/22/09 Ostendorf, Progressive, This Thanksgiving, let's give a thought to the people who process turkeys
11/22/09 O'Shaughnessy, Independent, US Builds Up its Bases in Oil-Rich South America
11/22/09 BBC, Rate of facial wounds 'much higher among poorest Scots'
11/22/09 BBC, Bolivia election: Cocaine casts shadow on campaign
November 21, 2009
11/21/09 Atkins & van Duyn, FT, Germany warns US on market bubbles
11/21/09 Kaye, PublicRecord, Who Will Investigate CIA/RAND/APA Torture 'Workshop'?
11/21/09 De Graw, AlterNet, 15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams
11/21/09 Bird & McIntosh, Times Online, 'Rain like this happens once every 1,000 years'
11/21/09 Filkins, NYT, As Afghans Resist Taliban, U.S. Spurs Rise of Militias
11/21/09 Story, NYT, Wall St. Finds Profits Again, Now by Reducing Mortgages
11/18/09 Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, Société Générale tells clients how to prepare for potential 'global collapse'
11/21/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops
11/21/09 BBC, Acid oceans leave fish at more risk from predators
11/21/09 BBC, Childhood abuse 'speeds up body's ageing process'
11/21/09 Ramachadran, Asia Times, The elephant in India and Iran's room
November 20, 2009
11/20/09 Vogle, Politico, Tea Partyers Turn on Each Other
11/20/09 Fox, Reuters, Did U.S. make mistake in skipping vaccine additive?
11/20/09 Schoen, MSNBC, Long-term unemployed face dwindling options
11/20/09 Damon, WSWS, US home foreclosures at record high as jobs crisis deepens
11/20/09 Greer, IntelDaily, How Relocalization Worked
11/20/09 Gregg, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk
11/20/09 Hickman & Randerson, Guardian, Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists
11/20/09 Randerson, Guardian, Biodiversity loss is Earth's 'immense and hidden' tragedy, Darwin's 'natural heir' warns
11/20/09 Arab News, Kingdom, US sign pact
11/20/09 Walsh, BBC, Possible spread of Tamiflu resistant swine flu probed
11/20/09 BBC, Congo fishing rights clashes 'force thousands to flee'
11/20/09 McCurry, Guardian, Deflation returns to Japan's economy
11/20/09 de sousa, Canada.com, Report Says Nuclear Plants Are Poisoning Our Water
11/20/09 Drummond, Wired, Marines Use Brain Scans to Spot PTSD Before the War
11/20/09 Chitwood, Ledger-Enquirer, SOA Watch Marks 20th Anniversary of Assassinations
11/20/09 Norton-Taylor, Court Rejects David Miliband Bid to Suppress CIA Evidence
11/20/09 White, AP, AP IMPACT: Some lawmakers send few to academies
11/20/09 Boodhoo, Miami Herald, Study: Minority hotel workers face more risks on the job
11/20/09 Sirota, Open Left, How Proud Know-Nothingism Created the American Idiocracy and Intelligentsia against intelligence
11/20/09 Lydersen, ITT, Exhibits of Conscience
11/19/09 Sharife, FPIF, The Battle for Angola's Oil
11/20/09 Shahzad, Asia TImes, Nuclear fallout rocks Pakistan
November 19, 2009
11/19/09 Seppa, Wired, Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Treatment
11/19/09 Johnson, Baseline, Written Testimony Submitted To The Congressional Oversight Panel
11/19/09 Damon, WSWS, Goldman's mea culpa
11/19/09 Prakash, WSWS, Rising Indian influence in Afghanistan worries US and Pakistan
11/18/09 Ward, Charleston Gazette, Report Details 'Coal's Assault on Human Health'
11/19/09 CBC, All Afghan Detainees Likely Tortured: Diplomat
11/19/09 DeGraw, PublicRecord, The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society
11/19/09 AP, Computer glitch delays flights nationwide
11/20/09 Jewitt & Rowe, ProPublica, Pharmaceutical Giant Paid $500,000 to Psychiatrist Who Used Chicago's Poor as Guinea Pigs
11/19/09 IntelDaily, Its better than having live rounds fired at you: Demo of Ray Gun
11/18/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Senate health care bill covers 94%, costs $849B, reduces deficit by $127B, all over 10 years
11/19/09 Veremans, PSL, A government of, by and for the rich
11/19/09 Gray-Block, Reuters, US Makes Debut Attendance at Hague War Crimes Court
11/19/09 Huerta, Progressive, The right to a great public education
11/19/09 Barnard & White, NYT, Fire Reveals Illegal Homes Hide in Plain Sight
11/19/09 Treanor, Guardian, Blue-blooded City broker Cazenove bought by US bank in £1bn deal
11/19/09 Pearce, Guardian, New Zealand's 'Kyoto forests' sow the seeds for a massive emissions surge
11/18/09 MCLaughlin, CNN, Expert: Child traffickers target runaways, 'throwaways'
11/19/09 Bristow, BBC, Beijing's poor visit illegal clinics
11/19/09 BBC, Reid unveils Senate health bill
11/19/09 BBC, US Army blamed for Katrina floods
11/19/09 BBC, Russia enshrines ban on death penalty
November 18, 2009
11/18/09 Partlow, WP, Afghan minister accused of taking bribe
11/18/09 O'Neill, times Online, Radical change needed to beat terrorism and organised crime, says Sir Hugh Orde
11/18/09 BBC, EU seeks Russian energy boost
11/18/09 BBC, Afghans 'blame poverty for war'
11/18/09 Perdomo, AlterNet, Stupak Amendment Could End Abortion Coverage -- For Everyone
11/18/09 van der Westhuizen,, AlterNet, U.S. Christian Right Activists Pushing Death Penalty for Homosexuals in Poor African State
11/18/09 Benen, AlterNet, Yet More Mind-Bending Racism From the Right-Wing Media
11/18/09 Reuters, Senate Democrats plan to unveil healthcare bill
11/18/09 World Focus, Saudi Arabia and Iran fighting proxy war in northern Yemen
11/18/09 Gray, Telegraph, Rising CO2 Will Cause Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Finds Antarctic Study
11/18/09 Mercimer, MoJo, The Tea Party's Favorite Doctors
11/18/09 Reich, TruthOut, The Great Disconnect Between Stocks and Jobs
11/18/09 Williams, LAT, Judge orders compensation for gay couple denied benefits
11/18/09 Lee, IntelDaily, Single mother arrested for refusing deployment to Afghanistan
11/18/09 Moberg, ITT, Out of Control
11/18/09 BBC, FDLR Inc: Congo's multinational rebels
11/18/09 Cohen, CNN, White House reports billions of improper payments in 2009
11/18/09 BBC, Poor women 'bear climate burden'
11/18/09 Van Auken, WSWS, US-occupied Iraq, Afghanistan among world's most corrupt countries
11/18/09 BBC, 'Too big to fail' US banking law
November 17, 2009
11/17/09 Chaffin, FT, Deal nears to end 'banana wars'
11/17/09 Public Record, Nearly 15,000 Enter Into Settlement With IRS Over Foreign Accounts
11/17/09 Johnson, AP, Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes
11/17/09 Gillam, Reuters, Biotech Crops Cause Big Jump in Pesticide Use: Report
11/17/09 Zetter, Wired, Senate Panel: 80 Percent of Cyber Attacks Preventable
11/17/09 Traub, Nation, Getting Tough on Exploitation
11/17/09 Wilson, NYT, Medical Schools Quizzed on Ghostwriting
11/17/09 Rosenthal, NYT, Paying More for Flights Eases Guilt, Not Emissions
11/17/09 Greenhouse, NYT, Labor Fight Ends in Win for Students
11/17/09 Chattjee, MoJo, How to Pay Off Afghan Warlords
11/17/09 Rosen, McClatchy, Obama Web site claims stimulus jobs in non-existent places
11/17/09 Sahagun, LAT, Toxins found in wetlands threaten to quash land swap
11/17/09 Hamilton, LAT, Wall Street recovers quickly -- unlike the rest of the nation
11/17/09 Leahy, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Save Half the Planet, or Lose It All
11/17/09 Deen, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Small Islands Fear Going the Way of Atlantis
11/17/09 Frykberg, IPS, MIDEAST: Palestinians Threaten Unilateral Independent State
11/17/09 Kennedy, Guardian, The wrong arm of the law
11/17/09 Feffer, FPIF, Europe's Wild East
11/17/09 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, Last message of TA soldier shot in Afghanistan: 'Still waiting for new body armour'
11/17/09 Todd, CNN, Imam: Fort Hood suspect asked help finding wife
11/17/09 Mount, CNN, Army suicides set another yearly record
11/17/09 Arraf, CSM, Abu Ghraib attack raises fears of resurgent Al Qaeda in Iraq
11/17/09 MIT Technology Review, The Coming Nuclear Crisis
11/17/09 bbc, NY Fed 'paid AIG banks too much'
11/17/09 Black, BBC, Earth 'heading for 6C' of warming
11/17/09 Whoriskey, WP, Revamped GM loses $1.2 billion
11/17/09 Irwin & Mui, WP, Bernanke offers grim job outlook, help for dollar
11/17/09 Hilzenrath, WP, IRS unveils criteria for Swiss bank account disclosures
11/17/09 Reuters, U.S. labor group unveils plan to tackle joblessness
11/17/09 Hartman, On the Issues, The "New" Population Control Craze: Retro, Racist, Wrong Way to Go
11/17/09 Kaplan, LAT, Uninsured trauma patients are much more likely to die
11/17/09 Miller, LAT, National intelligence director to evaluate CIA missions
11/17/09 Porter, Guardian, From Prague to Berlin, liberty will always owe youth
11/17/09 Smith, Guardian, Goldminers sue for lung disease payout
11/17/09 Bristow, BBC, Obama's message censored in China
11/17/09 BBC, Tackling climate change with technology
11/17/09 Shachtman, Wired, Army Eyes Missiles Filled With Flying Spy Bots
11/17/09 EDIE, Coal ash crackdown
11/17/09 EDIE, US anti-oil spill measures changed
November 16, 2009
11/16/09 Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, Privatizing Water System Could Be a Risky Move for Chicago
11/16/09 Al Jazeera, US Unveils Extended Bagram Prison
11/16/09 Costello, NPR, CO2 Emissions Keep Rising, Despite Global Economy
11/16/09 Richburg, WP, For U.S., China, uneasiness about economic co-dependency
11/16/09 Aloisi & Flynn, Reuters, Climate deal key to fight "devastating" hunger: U.N.
11/16/09 DeParle, NYT, Hunger in U.S. at a 14-Year High
11/16/09 Dewan, NYT, A Racial Divide Is Bridged by Recession
11/16/09 Walsh, NYT, Audit Faults New York Fed in A.I.G. Bailout
11/16/09 Muskal, LAT, More Americans feel economic pinch in their stomachs
11/16/09 Marks, CSM, Australia's Rudd apologizes to forced child migrants
11/16/09 Times of India, CIA paid millions of dollars to ISI since 9/11: Report
11/16/09 GRAIN, Worlwide Corporate Control of Agriculture: The New Farm Owners
November 15, 2009
11/15/09 Bernton, CSM, Taliban make gains in Afghanistan's forgotten north
November 14, 2009
11/14/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Regulators Seize Another Recipient of TARP 'Healthy Bank' Bailout
11/14/09 Klein, Rolling Stone, Climate Rage
11/14/09 Estep, Kentucky.com, Washington Co. deputies charged with drug trafficking
11/14/09 Deen, IPS, US, Somalia Still Opt Out of Children's Treaty
11/14/09 Fredrix, AP, Rich buying again, but middle class still hurting
11/14/09 Al Jazeera, Palestinians denied access to water with video
11/14/09 BBC, Private 'police' provoke concern
November 13, 2009
11/13/09 Benen, Wa. Monthly, Hypocrisy Watch: RNC Insurance Plan Has Covered Abortions for 18 Years
11/13/09 Kravets, Wired, Court Silences CIA Operative Despite Yellowcake Scandal
11/13/09 Cook, Reuters, First U.S. marijuana cafe opens in Portland
11/13/09 Healy, LAT, Food-borne pathogens carry devastating long-term effects
11/13/09 MSNBC, Paying Off the Taliban - Scahill video
11/13/09 Pomfret, WP, In Wisconsin, looking east to Chinese buyers
11/13/09 Fisher, PublicRecord, Lawsuit: FBI Threatened to Torture U.S. Citizen Kidnapped By Agency
11/13/09 Volsky, Think Progress, Goldman Sachs Report: Watered-Down Senate Health Bill a Windfall for Big Insurance
11/13/09 Viatteau, AFP, Canada's Tar Sands Are the Future of Oil Production: Oil Exec.
11/13/09 Woodward, AP, FACT CHECK: Palin's book goes rogue on some facts
11/13/09 Drummond, Wired, Darpa: Freeze Soldiers to Save Injured Brains
11/13/09 Bonner, Charlotte Observer, Principal retiring in wake of cash-for-grades fundraiser
11/13/09 Hilzenrath, WP, Health insurers could bypass some key reforms
11/13/09 NYT, A Turning Point for Eminent Domain?
11/13/09 Kaiser Health News, Eastern Kentucky town shows what health legislation can't fix
11/13/09 Money Web, The coming economic collapse and oil at $200
11/13/09 Benton, McClatchy, Taliban gain foothold in once-stable Afghan north
11/13/09 PressTV, World Bank warns of more unemployment in 2010
11/13/09 IRIN, World hunger increases despite growth in food production
11/13/09 Holland, IntelDaily, Why Switzerland Is Still Free and America Is Not
11/16/09 Greer, IntelDaily, A Gesture from the Invisible Hand
11/13/09 Michael, IPS, UGANDA: "Mount Elgon Eviction Has Reduced Us to Beggars"*
11/13/09 Jamail, IPS, U.S.: Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan
11/13/09 Collinson, Guardian, House price drop indicates 'double-dip' for property market
11/13/09 Guardian, Music site for unsigned bands Ooizit finally goes live
11/13/09 Chulov, Guardian, Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja
11/13/09 CNN, Evangelist Alamo sentenced to 175 years on sex charges
11/13/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Big test for Afghanistan education
11/13/09 Amos, BBC, 'Large amounts' of water on Moon
11/13/09 Saber, Asia Times, US air supply drop turns deadly
11/13/09 Hoof, AFP, Invest in Nature Now, Save Trillions Later: Study
11/13/09 Mackenzie, FT, Soaring oil price
11/13/09 Roston, AlterNet, How the U.S. Funds the Taliban
11/13/09 Raum & Taylor, AP,
11/13/09 Nation, Slide Show: Enemies of Health Reform
11/13/09 Rosenthal, NYT, Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica
11/13/09 Randerson, Guardian, World leaders 'must not use recession to delay action on climate change'
11/13/09 Leopold, TruthOut, Court Rules CIA Did Not Violate Valerie Plame's First Amendment Rights
11/13/09 Reckard, LAT, Fed Reserve bans most bank overdraft fees
11/13/09 Vartabedian, LAT, Nuclear scars: Tainted water runs beneath Nevada desert
11/13/09 Ackbarally, IPS, WATER-AFRICA: Civil Society Demands Action, Not Words
11/13/09 Lal, IPS, RIGHTS: State of India's Children: An Unsettling Reality
11/13/09 Macaskill, Guardian, US mosques and New York skyscraper seized over alleged Iran links
11/13/09 Pilkington, Guardian, McCain aides kept me bottled up, says Sarah Palin in new book
11/13/09 Radford, Guardian, Race and intelligence: A sorry tale of shoddy science
11/13/09 Butt, Guardian, Migration is spreading creationism across Europe, claims academic
11/13/09 BBC, US trade gap widens unexpectedly
11/13/09 BBC, California adopts 'comprehensive' new water strategy
11/13/09 CNN, Official: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, others to face trial in New York
11/13/09 BBC, Indian eunuchs given separate IDs
11/13/09 BBC, UK climate targets 'unachievable' "
November 12, 2009
11/12/09 Richter, LAT, U.S. ambassador warns against Afghanistan troop buildup
11/12/09 AP, Intel settles AMD claims but isn't off the hook
11/12/09 Ebrahim, IPS, PAKISTAN: Military Vs Militancy Does Not Equal Peace
11/12/09 Guardian, British Gas expects profits to rise 43% as winter gas prices are hiked
11/12/09 Bowcott, Guardian, Chemical restraints killing dementia patients
11/12/09 McGreal, Guardian, UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless
11/12/09 BBC, Oil rise 'could derail recovery'
11/12/09 Martin, WSWS, Ten US states face budget disaster
11/12/09 KFF, Almost 200M Undernourished Children Worldwide, Report Says
11/12/09 AP, MIA dog found in Afghanistan after 14 months
11/12/09 Reuters, Justice Dept warns drug companies on corruption
11/12/09 Fox, Reuters, H1N1 has killed 3,900 Americans: CDC
11/12/09 Fox, Reuters, H1N1 has killed 3,900 Americans: CDC
11/12/09 Red Bull Infantry, A Soldier's perspective on PSYOP: slow, indirect, subtle
11/12/09 Examiner, CIA fails in attempt to link Ft. Hood shooter to al Qaeda, Iran exhales
11/12/09 Welsh, OpenLeft, Rebooting the financial casino
11/12/09 Helmer, Asia Times, JP Morgan's US$80 million bill spills into court
11/12/09 Sahak, Asia Times, Afghans reap bumper harvest
11/12/09 Arnoldy, CSM, US ambassador to Afghanistan's criticism adds urgency to curbing Karzai
11/12/09 BBC, US presses Karzai on corruption
11/12/09 Black, BBC, Greenland ice loss 'accelerating'
November 11, 2009
11/11/09 Maddow, VIDEO: Maddow and Seymour Hersh on Pakistan's Nukes and Afghanistan
11/11/09 Shankman, ProPublica, Streamlining the Broadband Grant Payout
11/11/09 Thoma, CNN, Will There Be a 'New Normal' For Unemployment?
11/11/09 WW$ Report, Colombia: court rules against US bases plan as more details revealed
11/11/09 McGovern, IntelDaily, Why the Blase Attitude To Torture
11/11/09 EDIE, Trillions of dollars needed to cut climate change
11/11/09 Price, CSM, Want to buy US military wares in Afghanistan? Go to Obama Market.
11/11/09 Fazl-e-Haider, Asia Times, Afghan cash starts going to China
11/11/09 Pilkington, Guardian, 9/11's Delayed Legacy: Cancer for Many of the Rescue Workers
11/11/09 AFP, Lack of Health Care Killed 2,266 US Veterans Last Year: Study
11/11/09 Segura, AlterNet, Ugly Truth: Most U.S. Kids Sentenced to Die In Prison Are Black
11/11/09 Jewett, ProPublica, Drugmaker Paid Psychiatrist Nearly $500,000 to Promote Antipsychotic, Despite Doubts About Research
11/11/09 Glantz, New America Media, Vets Battle Unemployment and War Injuries
11/11/09 Stein, Huffington Post, Pharma Deal With White House on Course to Net Industry Billions
11/11/09 Seliger, ITT, Jews on J Street
11/11/09 Madrigal, Wired, New Milky Way Image Shows Best of All Spectra
11/11/09 Flanders, Nation, Unequal Power, Unequal Access
11/11/09 Tran, Guardian, Blackwater bosses approved bribes after guards killed Iraqis, paper claims
11/11/09 BBC, The night the lights went out - Brazil, video
November 10, 2009
11/10/09 Kaye, Deep Journal, 'Behavior detection' officers covertly watch travelers' conduct
11/10/09 Blogging Stocks, Dr. Doom Nouriel Roubini believes the bubble is about to burst
11/10/09 Edwards, Telegrap[h, State to 'spy' on every phone call, email and web search
11/10/09 BBC, 'Banks on steroids' worry France
11/10/09 BBC, 'Toxic' US ship banned in India
11/10/09 Talbert & Possingham, BBC, Koalas 'could face extinction'
11/1/009 BBC, Drones scour the sea for pirates
11/10/09 Ward, Progressive, Anti-immigrant hysteria blocks black access to health care
11/10/09 Braithwait & O'Connor, FT, US banks bill seeks to strip Fed of powers
11/10/09 Macalister, Guardian, Key Oil Figures Were Distorted by US Pressure, Says Whistleblower
11/10/09 Toronto Star, Video Shows Taliban With US Weapons
11/10/09 Uehlein, Truthout, What the CBO Isn't Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of Jobs
11/10/09 Minter & Wheeler, FPIF, Climate Change and Africa's Natural Resources
11/10/09 EDIE, New rules for pesticide crop spraying
11/10/09 CNN, Dam failure triggers huge blackout in Brazil
November 9, 2009
11/09/09 Teather, Guardian, Ed Miliband to deliver nuclear site assessment reports
11/09/09 Rantzen, Guardian, Gender-blindness on child sexual abuse
11/09/09 Fraser, BBC, China's chequebook draws African nations
11/09/09 Robbins, BBC, Free market flawed, says survey
11/09/09 BBC, Chavez steps up Colombia war talk
11/09/09 Hungwe, BBC, Alarm at Zimbabwe's growing child sex abuse
11/09/09 Mardell, BBC, The hard fact of healthcare costs
11/09/09 BBC, Corruption costs $1.6tn, UN says
11/09/09 Ethirajan, BBC, Australia tackles refugee source
11/09/09 Schipani, BBC, La Paz celebrates Day of the Skulls
11/09/09 Reese, Wired, Climate Change Is Inevitable -- It's Time to Adapt
11/09/09 Robbins, BBC, Global Poll: Widespread Dissatisfaction with Free-Market Capitalism
11/09/09 Condon, CBS, Abortion Rights Groups Now Oppose House Health Care Bill
November 8, 2009
11/08/09 Gill, BBC, Early life stress 'changes' genes
11/08/09 Madslien, BBC, All change as gas reserves soar
11/08/09 Rucker, WP, The lonely life of 'Number Nine'
11/08/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, As oceans fall ill, Washington bureaucrats squabble
11/08/09 bbc, US House backs healthcare reforms
November 7, 2009
11/07/09 Lovley, Politico, Report: 237 Millionaires in Congress
11/07/09 Robles, McClatchy, Coal Ash from U.S. Blamed for Dominican Town's Birth Defects
11/07/09 Milne, Guardian, Noam Chomsky: 'US Foreign Policy is Straight Out of the Mafia'
11/07/09 Sherman, AP, High court to look at life in prison for juveniles
11/07/09 AFP, Millions worldwide would like to switch countries: study
11/07/09 Williams, NYT, Marooned on Sea of Iraqi Oil, but Unable to Tap Its Wealth
11/07/09 Lekic, AP, US: More foreign troops certain in new Afghan plan
11/07/09 AP, Computers, records seized at ACORN offices in La.
11/07/09 Mariches, AP, Venezuelans struggling with water shortages
11/07/09 Haynes & Hedgpeth, W{, Millions represent the face of 10.2 percent joblessness
11/07/09 Reuters, 7 Afghans killed during missing U.S. troops search
11/07/09 Kaplan, LAT, Babies are found to cry in their mother tongue
11/07/09 Sirota, ITT, We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It
11/07/09 Smith et al, Guardian, 'I will kill 10 of these people for each IED we find' - video
11/07/09 Herzenhorn & Calms, NYT, Abortion Was at Heart of Wrangling
11/07/09 Pear, NYT, Labels and Gay Benefits in Health Bill
11/07/09 Green, OpenLeft, Dems who voted for the Stupak amendment to restrict women's rights.
11/07/09 Bash, CNN, Anti-abortion Democrats get chance to amend health care proposal
11/07/09 Willis, BBC, The US health system 'headache'
November 6, 2009
11/06/09 Tyson, WP, Fort Hood has felt the strain of repeated deployments
11/06/09 Flaherty et al, WP, Suspect, devout Muslim from Va., wanted Army discharge, aunt said
11/06/09 Tankersley, LAT, Senate panel OKs sweeping climate bill
11/06/09 Leithead, BBC, Thailand's shadowy southern insurgency
11/06/09 BBC, Why Ugandans want to work in Iraq
11/06/09 Tarpley, Deep Journal, Webster Tarpley on the CIA convictions in Italy
11/06/09 Woolhouse, Boston Globe, Credit Card Firms Hurry to Raise Rates
11/06/09 Stein, WP, Study: Options are key in sex education curriculum
11/06/09 Pai, Progressive, Crunch Time for Planet Earth
11/06/09 Hornby, Reuters, China blasts U.S. duties ahead of Obama visit
11/06/09 McFadden, NYT, Suspect Was to Be Sent to Afghanistan
11/06/09 Monbiot, Guardian, We cannot change the world by changing our buying habits
11/06/09 Guardian, Week in Wildlife - Photos
11/06/09 BBC, US jobless rate rises to over 10%
11/06/09 BBC, Two decades since the Berlin Wall came down, BBC Mundo looks at walls and barriers around the world which are still standing - or have been put up - since 1989.
11/06/09 Stein, Huffington Post, Bernie Sanders Tackles Too Big to Fail in Two Pages
11/06/09 Zeiter, Wired, National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate
11/06/09 Leonhardt, NYT, Broader Measure of U.S. Unemployment Stands at 17.5%
11/06/09 DeepJournal, The Real Intelligence Failure
11/06/09 Shepherd, Guardian, Institutional racism keeps black teachers out of top posts - report finds
11/06/09 Moya, Guardian, Mandelson: EU must not stifle investment
11/06/09 Burkeman, Guardian, Civil unrest has a role in stopping climate change, says Gore
11/06/09 Campos, FPIF, Underlying Causes of Insecurity in Afghanistan
11/06/09 Llana, CSM, Zelaya: US-brokered Honduras deal 'dead'
11/06/09 BBC, AIG posts second quarterly profit
11/06/09 BBC, Niger-Nigeria 'blockade' mystery
11/06/09 BBC, DR Congo army 'used aid as bait'
November 5, 2009
11/05/09 Kaiser, Wall Street Journal Examines Big Pharma's 'Growing Interest' In Emerging-Market Vaccine Development, Production
11/05/09 Cox, ALterNet, Why Natural Gas Is Not a Clean Energy Panacea
11/05/09 Cobb, AlterNet,
11/05/09 Benno, PSL, Dallas police ticket drivers for not speaking English
11/05/09 Seager, Guardian, Friends of the Earth Attacks Carbon Trading
11/05/09 Reuters, Afghans Protest Against US After Missile Strike
11/05/09 Grim, Huffington Post, Pelosi: Single-Payer Amendment Breaks Obama's Health Care Promise
11/05/09 Margil, Yes, Spokane Considers Community Bill of Rights
11/05/09 Keim, Wired, Gene Therapy Halts Fatal Brain Disease
11/05/09 Nichols, Nation, Horror at Fort Hood Inspires Horribly Predictable Islamophobia
11/05/09 McCool, Reuters, Sparring over evidence at Wall Streeters trial
11/05/09 Goldstein & Stempel, Reuters, Insider trading probe ensnares 14 more
11/05/09 Calmes & Stout, NYT, U.S. Readies Jobless Aid and Help on Homes
11/05/09 McFadden, NYT, Army Doctor Held in Fort Hood Rampage
11/05/09 Urbina & Maag, NYT, After Gruesome Find, Anger at Cleveland Police
11/05/09 Barker, Idaho Statesman, Idaho reservoirs have lots of water now, but will it last?
11/05/09 Henderson, Charlotte Observer, Cliffside expansion reaffirmed
11/05/09 Rosen, McClatchy, Senate rejects effort to block civilian trials for 9/11 suspects
11/05/09 Tinsley, McClatchy, Fort Hood no stranger to violent outbursts
11/05/09 LaFranchi, CSM, Goldstone report: UN votes for probe into Gaza war crimes
11/05/09 Kasinof, CSM, At heart of Yemen's conflicts: water crisis
11/05/09 BBC, Obama pledge to Native Americans
11/05/09 BBC, Amazonian tribe hit by swine flu
11/05/09 Black, BBC, Climate deal 'unlikely' this year
11/05/09 Palmer, BBC, Tiny tech sparks cell signal find
11/05/09 AP, Swine flu detected in commercial pigs in Indiana
11/05/09 BBC, Saudi jets 'attack Yemen rebels'
11/05/09 BBC, Iraq in third overseas oil deal
November 4, 2009
11/05/09 Kaiser, Climate Change Is Biggest Global Health Threat To Children, Report Says
11/04/09 Shachtman, Deep Journal, U.S. Needs Hit Squads, 'Manhunting Agency': Spec Ops Report
11/04/09 Public Record, Ex-British Ambassador: CIA Brought Prisoners To Uzbekistan To Be 'Raped With Broken Bottles'
11/04/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Free Markets and H1N1
11/04/09 Vidal, Guardian, African Nations Make a Stand at UN Climate Talks
11/04/09 Bluemink, ADN, Lawsuits have Shell debating Arctic drilling
11/04/09 Maugh II, LAT, Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100; French philosopher's ideas transformed anthropology
11/04/09 Shachtman, Wired, 75% of Potential Recruits Too Fat, Too Sickly, Too Dumb to Serve
11/04/09 Grey, WSWS, Workers' wages to fall further, International Labour Organization warns
11/04/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Twenty Years After End Of The Cold War: Pentagon's Buildup In Latin America
11/04/09 Reuters, Americans on food stamps tops 36 million, new record
11/04/09 Starr, AsiaTimes, Refugees turn their backs on Iraq
November 3, 2009
11/03/09 Deep Journal, 'Swine Flu -- One of the Most Massive Cover-ups in American History': Dr. Blaylock
11/03/09 Ervin, Progressive, Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows
11/03/09 AFP, Beijing gives frosty reception to man-made snowstorm
11/03/09 Zetter, Wired, Mossad Hacked Syrian Official's Computer Before Bombing Mysterious Facility
11/03/09 Mian, FPIF, United States, Pakistan: The Decade Ahead
11/03/09 Kransich, Boston Globe, In Fight Over Credit Rules, Elizabeth Warren Wields a Plan
11/03/09 Alexander & Ordonez, Charlotte Observer, Crux of immigration case: Did bosses know?
11/03/09 Al Jazeera, US blocks 'Syria torture' lawsuit
11/03/09 Al Jazeera, Species face extinction threat
11/03/09 Al Jazeera, Timor oil rig fire extinguished
11/03/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman left foreign investors holding the subprime bag
11/03/09 Lifsher, LAT, He earned $53 million opening doors to CalPERS money
11/03/09 Zajac, LAT, Consumer group finds elevated BPA levels in range of foods
11/03/09 BBC, Global 'caring' portal to launch
11/03/09 BBC, Aspirin 'only for heart patients'
11/03/09 McNulty, FT, Coal-rich US puts faith in CO2 storage
November 2, 2009
11/02/09 Tanner, AP, Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says
11/02/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Do Smart, Hard-Working People Deserve to Make More Money?
11/02/09 Barrington, AlterNet, Who's Really Behind Organic Food Brands Like Amy's and Odwalla?
11/02/09 Page & Starkey, TimesOnline, UN chief flies in to broker power-sharing deal in Afghanistan
11/02/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman takes on new role: taking away people's homes
11/02/09 Kamen, WP, All those Afghans, give or take a few million
11/02/09 ChinaView, China's annual military recruitment favors college graduates
11/02/09 Bluemink, ADN, Competing gas pipeline projects prepare their pitches
11/02/09 AFP, China chief says space arms inevitable: state media
11/02/09 Bhandari, IPS, ENVIRONMENT-AUSTRALIA: Toxic Contaminants: The Other Scourge
11/02/09 Watts, Guardian, Philippines flooding hits refugee camps in the Rizal province
11/02/09 BBC, Depression link to processed food
11/02/09 BBC, Scientists bring snow to Beijing
11/02/09 BBC, South Sudan awaits oil bonanza
11/02/09 BBC, Zimbabwe diamond sales ban urged
11/02/09 BBC, UN drops Congo army over killings
11/02/09/ BBC, Karzai declared elected president
11/02/09 Fisher, PublicRecord, Controversial Patriot Act Provisions Appears Set For Reauthorization
11/02/09 Pratt, LV Sun, The New Faces of Day Labor
11/02/09 Hanhoo, NYT, Mt. Kilimanjaro Ice Cap Continues Rapid Retreat
11/02/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Taxpayers Lose $2.3 Billion with CIT Bankruptcy
11/02/09 Nazemroaya, CRG, Destabilizing Baluchistan, Fracturing Pakistan
11/02/09 Kwenda, IPS, ZIMBABWE: Far From the City's Money, Villagers Barter Again
11/02/09 Redington, ITT, Can the Rich Really Save Us?
11/02/09 Kagame, Guardian, Why Africa welcomes the Chinese
November 1, 2009
11/01/09 Morris, MoJo, Agents of Climate Change
11/01/09 Phillips, MoJo, Big Ag's Growing Influence
11/01/09 Bodeen, AP, China to map out Africa strategy at forum in Egypt
11/01/09 Barnes & Mufson, WP, Defining excessive pay
11/01/09 Gordon, McClatchy, How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
11/01/09 Webb, Guardian, Winter crisis could see UK 'run out of gas in hours'
11/01/09 Boone, Guardian, Afghanistan election challenger Abdullah Abdullah pulls out of runoff
11/01/09 BBC, Karzai challenger quits Afghan runoff
11/01/09 Duffy, BBC, University race quotas row in Brazil
11/01/09 BBC, Australia oil well catches fire
11/01/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, CEO Statements That Should Make You Worry
11/01/09 Brown, Herald Scotland, Chomsky: Far-Right Threat Is No Joke
11/01/09 Hennessey, Independent, What Lies Beneath the Rainforest
11/01/09 Nichols, Nation, "Tea Party Activists Are the New GOP"
11/01/09 Tamayo, Miami Herald, In Latin America, weapons buying spreads mistrust
11/01/09 Dizzard, FT, Shale gas numbers may not add up or here
11/01/09 BBC, South Sudan leader urges split
11/01/09 CNN, CIT files for 5th largest U.S. bankruptcy
11/01/09 BBC, Gulf monetary council 'on track'