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December 31, 2009
12/31/09 DemocracyNow, Glenn Greenwald on the Five Wars US Is Fighting in Muslim Countries - 2009 in Perspective
12/31/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Fed Judge Gives Blackwater Huge New Year's Gift, Dismisses All Charges In Iraq Massacre
12/31/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Natural Gas Drilling: What We Don't Know
12/31/09 Ansel, PSL, Indiana slashes education funding in middle of school year
12/31/09 Neergaard, AP, Scientists Find Clue to Killer of Tasmanian Devils
12/31/09 Williams, KC Star, USDA cites KU Medical Center for violation of animal protection laws
12/31/09 Branan, Fresno Bee, Hmong leaders write to Obama
12/31/09 Beam, The Slate, Racist graffiti in Columbia, S.C., as blacks seek mayor's post
12/31/09 BBC, US judge dismisses charges in Blackwater Iraq killings
12/31/09 King, LAT, Afghan panel says U.S. strike killed 8 schoolboys
12/31/09 Wong, LAT, 'Augmented reality' poised to become an everyday reality for consumers
12/31/09 Carroll, Guardian, Gold giant faces Honduras inquiry into alleged heavy metal pollution
12/30/09 Reynolds, BBC, Security reforms on the way following 'jet bomber' case
12/31/09 BBC, CIA workers killed by 'Afghan soldier'
12/31/09 BBC, Iceland approves new Icesave deal
12/31/09 Sharp, BBC, Smuggling fuels Gaza's stalled economy
12/31/09 BBC, Pakistan army hits 'militants' in Waziristan hospital
12/31/09 BBC, China central bank chief Zhou says 2010 is key
12/31/09 Shiels, BBC, New visa proposal to help create the next big thing
December 30, 2009
12/30/09 Deen, IPS, US Arms Feed Yemen's Gun Culture
12/30/09 BBC, Iraq oil contract goes to Angola's Sonangol (Deciphering the Sino-Africa saga
12/30/09 Littlepage, TruthOut, Report Says ACORN Didn't Commit Voter Fraud or Misuse Federal Funding
12/30/09 England, FT, Social pressures help to spur jihad
12/30/09 Gorst, FT, Kazakh talks to secure stake in giant field
12/30/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, What's in Your Wallet?
12/30/09 Tisdall, Guardian, Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Under House Arrest
12/30/09 Alden, New American Media, Obama Quietly Changes U.S. Immigration Policy
12/30/09 AP, Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid
12/30/09 Al Jazeera, Dutch court to hear Shell case
12/30/09 Dennis, WP, E-mails inside AIG reveal executives struggling with growing crisis
12/30/09 Rubin & Winton, LAT, Federal court restricts Taser use by police
12/30/09 Leggett, Guardian, Investing in coal is dysfunctional
12/30/09 Shachtman, Wired, Danger Room's Top 10 Stories From a World Gone Nuts
12/30/09 Wright, Nation, The 2009 Balance Sheet of Change
12/30/09 Hansen, Nation, How to Solve the Climate Problem
12/30/09 Eder & Bansal, Reuters, AIG executive resigns over pay limits
12/30/09 Baker, NYT, Cheney Attacks; White House Hits Back
12/30/09 BBC, China floats idea of first overseas naval base
12/30/09 BBC, US aware 'Nigerian' prepared for terror attack
12/30/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Investors could only lose in Goldman's Caymans deals
12/30/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Details of one Goldman deal reveal lopsided conflicts
12/30/09 Gordon, McClatchy, How billions in complex Goldman deals escaped scrutiny
12/30/09 Dilanian et al, Military Times, Firm employs large number of Pentagon mentors
12/30/09 Copley, IntelDaily, Re-Thinking the Art of Military Planning
12/30/09 Tran, Guardian, Body scanners blocked by US 'could have prevented attempted plane attack'
12/30/09 McGreal et al, guardian, US plots retaliatory strikes against al-Qaida in Yemen over plane bomber
12/30/09 BBC, Copper price hits 16-month high
December 29, 2009
12/29/09 Bronner, NYT, Israeli Segregated Road Ruled Down
12/29/09 Solomon, NYT, Questions for John Yoo
12/29/09 Wines, NYT, China, Willing to Spend, Wins a Trove of Afghan Copper
12/29/09 WP, Five Controversial Business Deals of 2009
12/29/09 Leopold, TruthOut, AIG Executives Failed to Repay Majority of Bonuses
12/29/09 Al Jazeera, Putin warns US over missile defence
12/29/09 Ahmad, AFP, Escalated Afghan War Brings Escalated Civilian Death
12/29/09 Roth, TPM, Majority Of Tea Party Group's Spending Went To GOP Firm That Created It
12/29/09 Grim & Delaney, Huffington Post, The Cash Committee: How Wall Street Wins On The Hill
12/29/09 Feldman, Solve Climate, Solar Could Generate 15% of Power by 2020, If US Ends Fossil Fuel Subsidies
12/29/09 Sapien & Shankman, ProPublica, Drilling Wastewater Disposal Options in N.Y. Report Have Problems of Their Own
12/29/09 Andrews, ProPublica, TSA's Top Post Sits Vacant Because of Sen. DeMint's Union Beef
12/29/09 Nichols, Nation, Lieberman: How About Another War?
12/29/09 Carver, FT, Russia to curb speculative capital inflows
12/29/09 Dyer, FT, Pacific contest grows over rule of waves
12/29/09 Van Auken, WSWS, In wake of airline incident: Drumbeat for US war in Yemen
12/29/09 Savage, NYT, Obama Curbs Secrecy of Classified Documents
12/29/09 Teather, Guardian, From dotcom bust to banking meltdown: the decade in business
12/29/09 Mount, CNN, Former Gitmo detainees investigated in airline bombing plot
12/29/09 CNN, U.S. source: Afghan 'civilians' killed were in bomb-making ring
12/29/09 CNN, Iran's parliament speaker calls for 'harshest punishment'
12/29/09 Harvey, BBC, Hmong arrive in Laos after forced repatriation
12/29/09 BBC, Scientists discover how wild mushroom cancer drug works
12/29/09 Fildes, BBC, Secret mobile phone codes cracked
12/29/09 BBC, Western counter-terrorism help 'not enough for Yemen'
12/29/09 BBC, British anger at China execution
12/29/09 Hodge, Wired, New Spyplane Lands in Afghanistan, Ready to Snoop
December 28, 2009
12/28/09 Nation, Journalism in 10: Dan Rather on the Future of Media
12/28/09 Campbell, WP, Cowboy hats, secret files and more headed to Bush library
12/28/09 Schmidt & Worth, Times, US Widens Terror War to Yemen
12/28/09 AFP, 'Afghan Civilians Killed' in US/Nato Military Operations; School Children Among Dead
12/28/09 Porter, IPS, US Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged
12/28/09 Deep Journal, Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
12/28/09 Spence, IntelDaily, Ever Expanding Wars: An Appalling New Year Certainty
12/28/09 Hedges, TruthDig, One Day We'll All Be Terrorists
12/28/09 McGreal, Guardian, Barack Obama pledges to take fight to terrorists behind jet bomb plot
12/28/09 Peter Schwarz, WSWS, The massacre at Kunduz and the policy of targeted killings
12/28/09 Ovalle, Miami Herald, Confusion reigns over Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' law
12/28/09 Al Jazeera, Russia opens far east oil terminal
12/28/09 Atkins, FT, Big 'shadow' economies shore up countries in recession, report says
12/28/09 BBC, Dozens of whales die on New Zealand beaches
12/28/09 BBC, Disinfectants 'train' superbugs to resist antibiotics
12/28/09 BBC, Israel plans to build more homes in E Jerusalem
December 27, 2009
12/27/09 Haynes, NYT, Weak economy motivates Americans to save more
12/27/09 McCurry, Guardian, Japan's 'grass eaters' turn their backs on macho ways
12/27/09 Townsend, Guardian, 1,500 injured soldiers could face discharge
12/27/09 BBC, Study blames two genes for aggressive brain cancer
12/27/09 BBC, How Soviet troops stormed Kabul palace
12/27/09 BBC, Minute organs in the ear can alter brain blood flow
12/27/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, New Gas Wells Leave More Chemicals in Ground
12/27/09 Sallah & Barry, McClatchy, Feds probing many ties of banker Allen Stanford and U.S. Congress
12/27/09 BBC, Ban Ki-Moon: Gaza reconstruction not being addressed
12/27/09 McClatchy, Who got money from Stanford?
12/27/09 Fink, ProPublica, Louisiana Doctors Drafting Guidelines on Access to Critical Care During a Disaster
12/27/09 Lerer, Politico, Senate Democrats to W.H.: Drop Cap-and-Trade
12/27/09 Fabian, The Hill, Kucinich: Generals Who Spoke Publicly on Afghan Strategy Should Lose Jobs
12/27/09 Phillips & Huff, TruthOut, Inside the Military Media Industrial Complex: Impacts on Movement for Social Justice
12/27/09 Schmitt & Worth, NYT, U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion
12/27/09 Lightman, McClatchy, Federal spending rose 4 percent, despite Obama pledge
12/27/09 Preston, Guardian, Still a special relationship
December 26, 2009
12/26/09 Al Jazeera, 'US drone' hits Pakistan home
12/26/09 Al Jazeera, Asia marks tsunami anniversary
12/26/09 CNN, Sources: Terror suspect is son of bank executive, attended college
12/26/09 BBC, Anthrax fears over heroin batches
12/26/09 Kessel & Klonchendler, IPS, Israel Declares War on NGOs and Human Rights Groups
12/26/09 Gallagher, Free Press, Activist Sows Seeds for Farm Co-Op
12/26/09 Al Jazeera, Raids follow US plane bombing bid
12/26/09 Reuters, Taliban planned to use Americans in Pakistan attacks
12/26/09 Reuters, Iraqi and Iranian forces stand off in oil well row
12/26/09 Mwanangombe, IPS, SANITATION-ZAMBIA: Turning Urine Into Gold
12/26/09 Prentice, BBC, Armchair deputies enlisted to patrol US-Mexico border
12/26/09 CNN, Device was on fire in terror suspect's lap, plane passenger says
December 25, 2009
12/25/09 Goldfarb, WP, US Promises Unlimited Financial Assistance to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
12/25/09 Bradsher, NYT, Earth-Friendly Elements, Mined Destructively
12/25/09 Hall, McClatchy, The lingering Bush legacy: What to do about those tax cuts
12/25/09 Rostello, LAT, Jet passengers overpowered would-be bomber
12/25/09 Ross, IntelDaily, Pentagon now spending more for war than all 50 States combined spend to run the country
12/25/09 Greer, IntelDaily, The Political Ecology of Collapse, Part Three: The Bomb at the Heart of the System
12/25/09 IntelDaily, Italy convicts 23 CIA members, both the Italian Prime Minister and the Pope are attacked by "nutjobs"
12/25/09 CNN, U.S. military drops ban on soldiers getting pregnant
12/25/09 Antaleva, BBC, Lebanese city's mountain of rubbish
12/25/09 BBC, Fears for Hmong soon to be deported by Thailand to Laos
December 24, 2009
12/24/09 WorldFocus, Reflections on Yegor Gaidar: Russia's 'shock therapist'
12/24/09 Goldfarb, WP, Fannie, Freddie chiefs to get Wall Street-style compensation packages
12/24/09 Van Auken, WSWS, US ground attacks reported in Pakistan
12/24/09 Kellman, AP, Congress raises debt ceiling to $12.4 trillion
12/24/09 Brown, TruthOut, Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout for the Financial Sector?
12/24/09 Raghavan, WP, Yemeni air strike kills 30, targets home of cleric linked to Ft. Hood attack
12/24/09 Al Jazeera, Russia to modernise nuclear arsenal
12/24/09 Obama, Official Transcript, Here's what Obama said about Senate health care vote
12/24/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Permanent Militarism: When Bioweapons & Land Mines Aren't Even Mentioned
12/24/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, 60+ House Democrats Say "Any" Health Bill With No Public Option Is "Unacceptable"
12/24/09 Greene, CNN, Pope ends year as he began it -- with apology to Jews
12/24/09 BBC, Molecules and synapses cement memories, say scientists
12/24/09 Walker, BBC, Chimps use cleavers and anvils as tools to chop food
12/24/09 BBC, Obama curbs trade benefits for several African nations
December 23, 2009
12/23/09 Fiore & Hook, LAT, Sick, without a safety net
12/23/09 Guardian, Who killed cock robin? The hungry Cypriots did in annual slaughter
12/23/09 BBC, Flood waters drench city of Venice
12/23/09 Damon, WSWS, US home foreclosures top one million mark
12/23/09 BBC, Ban on sales of Microsoft Word upheld
12/23/09 BBC, Vietnam secures $500m loan from World Bank
12/23/09 BBC, Niger anger over Ecowas snub of President Tandja
12/23/09 BBC, Amazon's Kindle has copyright protection hacked
12/23/09 Fildes, BBC, OLPC unveils slimline tablet PC
12/23/09 Costello, NPR, New Homes Sales Fall A Surprising 11 Percent
12/23/09 Dennis, WP, AIG Executives' Promises to Return Bonuses Have Gone Largely Unfulfilled
12/23/09 Fuss, CBS News, How Filibusters Are Strangling the Senate
12/23/09 BBC, India visa move brings complaints
12/23/09 BBC, Nestle shuts Zimbabwe milk plant citing harassment
12/23/09 BBC, US new home sales plunge in November
12/23/09 BBC, Eritrea hit with UN sanctions for 'aiding insurgents'
12/23/09 Mouawad, NYT, Chilly Climate for Oil Refiners
12/23/09 Gettleman, MoJo, Journey into the Heart of Whiteness
12/23/09 PressTV, Israel threatens another large-scale Gaza war
12/23/09 VOANews, US Economic 'Recovery' Not as Strong as Previous Estimates
12/23/09 de Leon, IntelDaily, China Secures Gas Supply From Turkmenistan: Who's the True Winner?
12/23/09 Walberg, IntelDaily, What Really Happened This Decade
12/23/09 Adam, Guardian, Plants and animals race for survival as climate change creeps across the globe
12/23/09 Weir, CSM, Why nearly 60 percent of Russians 'deeply regret' the USSR's demise
12/23/09 Peterson, CSM, Osama bin Laden's family in Iran: new strain on Saudi-Iran ties
12/23/09 BBC, Obama says disappointment over Copenhagen is valid
December 22, 2009
12/22/09 BBC, Why did Copenhagen fail to deliver a climate deal?
12/22/09 BBC, US woman held after 'threat to kill' Michelle Obama
12/22/09 Lindorff, Public Record, A Longer, Deeper Recession May be Ahead, Financial Executives Warn
12/22/09 Roston, Nation, Afghan Lobby Scam
December 21, 2009
12/21/09 Stack, CSM, Saudi air strike kills Yemen rebels as US drawn into fight
12/21/09 BBC, Nigeria herders and farmers clash in central Nasarawa.
12/21/09 Ley, BBC, Greek finances face 'credibility gap'
12/21/09 Martin, Wired, Uranium Is So Last Century -- Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke
12/21/09 House Committe on Financial Services, H.R. 2609, Federal Insurance Office Act of 2009; Committee Print (October 29, 2009) of the Financial Stability Improvement Act of 2009 (to be reported as H.R. 3996)
12/21/09 Reuters, Sanofi-Aventis Buys Chattem for $1.9 Billion
12/21/09 Black, Guardian, Israel Admits Harvesting Palestinian Organs
12/21/09 Al Jazeera, Saudi air raids 'hit Yemen town'
12/21/09 Appelbaum & Cho, WP, Fed's approach to regulation left banks exposed to crisis
12/21/09 Zajac, LAT, Familiar faces among health industry lobbyists
12/21/09 Mercer, BBC, Nuclear test land returned to Australian Aborigines
12/21/09 BBC, Pakistan politicians to appeal over amnesty
December 20, 2009
12/20/09 Carrera, PSL, Undocumented workers face new repressive state tactics
12/19/09 Cruikshank, Firedog Lake, How the White House Misjudged the Political Landscape
12/20/09 Dietch, AP, Israel Threatens to Use Force Against Settlers
12/20/09 Recio, McClatchy, Plight of contractor raped in Iraq spurs push in Congress
12/20/09 WW4 Report, Taliban for sale: Are American taxpayers are indirectly funding the insurgency that has killed more than 900 American soldiers so far?
12/20/09 Press TV, IntelDaily, The Organ Trade: Israel stripped body organs off Palestinians -- Israeli Knesset member
12/20/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Light bulb time: 'The NRA is a money laundering operation for arms dealers'
12/20/09 Guardian, US general in Iraq imposes pregnancy ban
12/20/09 Baumick, BBC, India's wettest place 'lacks water'
12/20/09 BBC, US repatriates 12 Guantanamo men, including 6 Yemenis
12/20/09 BBC, Climate summit most chaotic show on earth - Miliband
12/20/09 Berry, Progressive, The Cost of Displacement
12/20/09 Blas, FT, Record year for top five crude traders
12/20/09 AFP, Global Warming Hike May Be Steeper: Research
12/20/09 Al Jazeera, Colombia 'facing foreign threat'
12/20/09 Wong, NYT, China's Export of Labor Faces Scorn
12/20/09 Landler, NYT, Civilians Train in 'Afghan City' in the Midwest
12/20/09 Pear, NYT, Deep in Health Bill, Very Specific Beneficiaries
12/20/09 Dillon & Thomas, KC Star, Cleaning up Lake of the Ozarks a vast challenge
12/20/09 Peter, CSM, Afghanistan's Karzai shrugs off criticism of his cabinet picks
December 19, 2009
12/19/09 Protess, Huffington Post, Barney Frank vs. the Credit Raters
12/20/09 Madrigal, ABC News, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Radioactive Longer Than Expected
12/19/09 Smith, AP, Fear of violence grows in mountaintop mining fight
12/19/09 Bomkamp, AP, White-collar jobless join FedEx, UPS for holidays
12/19/09 Pear, NYT, Negotiating to 60 Votes, Compromise by Compromise
12/19/09 Eckholm, NYT, Utility Bill Is One More Casualty of Recession
12/19/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Bankers COST the economy $7 for every $1 they're paid
12/19/09 Vidal et al, Guardian, Copenhagen special: Climate change talks end in failure
12/19/09 Luhby, CNN, Senate OKs filing extension for jobless
12/19/09 VOA, US Signs Nuclear Deal with UAE (where Royals are accussed of torturing locals [video included])
12/19/09 Stevens, Nation, Immigration Police Are Keeping Secret Jails on U.S. Soil
12/18/09 WorldFocus, Climate change refugees flee from Bangladeshi island
12/19/09 USA Today, Senate Unveils Health Care Compromise
12/19/09 Witt & Warrick, WP, Insurgents forced out of Pakistan's tribal havens form smaller cells in heart of nation
12/19/09 Reuters, Congress must resist health insurance lobby: Obama
12/19/09 Reuters, U.S. helped Yemen with hardware, intelligence: report
12/19/09 Hulse & Pear, NYT, Democrats Say They Clinch Deal on Health Care Overhaul
12/19/09 Carter, Guardian, Gaza must be rebuilt now
12/19/09 BBC, Afghanistan leader Karzai presents cabinet nominees
12/19/09 Liebovtch & Barrett, NYT, The Buzzwords of 2009
12/19/09 Dupre, Human Rights Examiner, What are effects of electromagnetic weapons? Human Rights info 101
December 18, 2009
12/18/09 Barnes, CSM, Religious freedom not the rule for majority of world: Pew report
12/18/09 Swanson, IntelDaily, Look Who Just Funded the Escalation
12/18/09 Ghista, IntelDaily, How Long Casteism?
12/18/09 Levine, CNN, Military: Burn pits could cause long-term damage to troops
12/18/09 Drash, CNN, Online posting of women's abortion information challenged in Oklahoma
12/18/09 BBC, President Obama warns leaders over climate summit deal
12/18/09 CNN, Iraqis say Iran seizes oil well in southern Iraq
12/18/09 Rowland, Boston Globe, Not Much Done on Agenda of Change
12/18/09 Applebaum, WP, Kucinich panel to investigate Citigroup tax ruling
12/18/09 Shanker & Landler, NYT, U.S. Aids Yemeni Raids on Al Qaeda, Officials Say
12/18/09 Corn & Shepard, MoJo, Obama's Copenhagen Deal
12/18/09 Patterson, CNN, NASA reveals first-ever photo of liquid on another world
12/18/09 Rooney, CNN, Bank failure tally reaches 140
12/18/09 Spotts, CSM, Sticking points for a Copenhagen global warming pact
12/18/09 Brummett, AP, Tensions mount among Pakistan leaders as anticorruption drive revives
12/18/09 BBC, China ends brand subsidies behind WTO dispute with US
12/18/09 Page, The Register, Special Ops robots now do psychological warfare
12/18/09 Arnoldy, CSM, How NATO hopes to undercut the Afghan Taliban
12/18/09 BBC, CJD victim 'had different gene'
12/18/09 BBC, Anthrax found in Glasgow heroin users
December 17, 2009
12/17/09 Economic Policy Journal, The Panic Over the Soaring Monetary Base Was a Bernanke Bluff
12/17/09 Hiltzik, LAT, Biotech bonanza lurks in healthcare reform bills
12/17/09 Scahill, ReberlReports, Stunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know
12/17/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Chemicals Sneak Past Law Regulating Tap Water
12/17/09 Miller, ProPublica, For AIG's Man in Jordan, War Becomes a Business Opportunity
12/17/09 Glanz & Oppel, NYT, UN Officials Say American Aide Plotted to Replace Karzai
12/17/09 Munro, Canada.com, Two-Degree Temperature Rise Could Flood Wide Areas of Planet, Study Says
12/17/09 Porter, Asia Times, US silent on Taliban's al-Qaeda offer
12/17/09 Murphy, CSM, Predator drone download by Iraqi insurgents wasn't 'hacking'
12/17/09 MacAskill, CNN, US drones hacked by Iraqi insurgents
12/17/09 Cobain, Guardian, CIA working with Palestinian security agents
12/17/09 Watson, CNN, Rare gender identity defect hits Gaza families
12/17/09 CNN, Congress to probe private military contractors in Afghanistan
12/17/09 Chick, CSM, US to stage simulated Iran missile attack after Sajjil-2 test
12/17/09 BBC, Citigroup shares fall as the Treasury pulls out of sale
December 16, 2009
12/16/09 Telegraph/UK, Geologist stands trial for triggering earthquakes in Switzerland
12/16/09 Mollencamp & Bray, WSJ, Credit Suisse to Pay U.S. $536 Million in Iran Probe
12/16/09 Socialist Worker, Greece's crisis is a warning to the world
12/16/09 WW$ Report, NAFTA failed Mexico: Carnegie think tank
12/16/09 Schulte, Socialist Worker, America's new homeless
12/16/09 Sheikh, IntelDaily, Major Powers Follow Different Paths to Same Energy Security End Game
12/16/09 Wilkinson, DetroitNews, Nearly half of Detroit's workers are unemployed
12/16/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Yemen: Pentagon's War On The Arabian Peninsula
12/16/09 Savage & Shane, NYT, Intelligence Improperly Collected on U.S. Citizens
12/16/09 Springston, IPS, U.S.: Aging Coal Plants Still a Fixture in South
12/16/09 Gabbatt, Guardian, Barack Obama sends letter to Kim Jong-il
12/16/09 EDIE, People kicked out of COP15 as new president takes over
12/16/09 DeepJournal, House passes Iran gasoline sanctions bill
12/16/09 CNN, Iran tests upgraded long-range missile
12/16/09 Ostalski, BBC, Yegor Gaidar: The price to pay
12/16/09 Eisinger & Bernstein, ProPublica, SEC Just Now Seeking Key Information On Meltdown
12/16/09 BBC, Microsoft admits code theft for Chinese blog Juku
12/16/09 BBC, Genocide charges for two former Khmer Rouge leaders
12/17/09 Burton, BBC, Scotland's deer are changing shape due to hybridisation
12/16/09 BBC, Intel being sued for using size to keep out rivals
12/16/09 Pannier, Asia Times, China ends Russia's grip on Turkmen gas
12/16/09 Escobar, Asia Times, Iraq's oil auction hits the jackpot
12/16/09 Mercille, Asia times, Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed
12/16/09 Flood, FT, Roubini warns of correction to 'bullion bubble'
12/16/09 Sutter, CNN, Scientists spot nearby 'super-Earth'
12/16/09 Yusuf, CSM, India: Was Mumbai suspect a double agent for US?
12/16/09 Prusher, CSM, Why the PLO extended Abbas's term
12/16/09 BBC, Pakistan court voids amnesty shielding Zardari allies
December 15, 2009
12/15/09 Andrews, ProPublica, In Wisc., Drug Dealers Use Taxpayer-Funded Day Care as Cover
12/15/09 Jacobson, Raw Story, 135,000 Uninsured Americans Will Die Before Health Reform Takes Effect, Analysis Finds
12/15/09 Reuters, Contractor arrest may ruffle Obama's Cuba overture
12/15/09 Georgy, Reuters, Pakistan military not seeking takeover: U.S. general
12/15/09 Maugh II, LAT, Overuse of CT scans will lead to new cancer deaths, a study shows
12/15/09 CNN, 4 police officers among 6 people indicted in race-related beating
12/15/09 Confessore, NYT, Official Hopes Prison Crisis May Spur Change
12/15/09 Prakash, WSWS, India: Soaring food prices place tens of millions at risk
12/15/09 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, "Wake Up, Gentlemen"
12/15/09 Baku, TrendNews, Reliability of secret documents on Iran causes doubt: experts
12/15/09 Costello, NPR, Inflation Rises Unexpectedly
12/15/09 Thomson-Burns, PSL, Obama administration defends John Yoo
12/15/09 BBC, Biogas must play bigger role in meeting energy needs
12/15/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Colorado Towns Take Extra Measures to Protect Their Water From Gas Drilling
12/15/09 Horton, CSM, Why southern Yemen is pushing for secession
12/15/09 Sparrow, Guardian, Sir Jeremy Greenstock at the Iraq war inquiry - live
12/15/09 EDIE, REDD the victim of stalled COP15
12/15/09 CNN, Residents flee as Philippines volcano threatens to erupt
12/15/09 BBC, Iran denies Times newspaper 'nuclear trigger' report
12/15/09 Grant, BBC, Venezuela flood victims still live in ruins 10 years on
12/15/09 BBC, Australia introduces web filters
12/15/09 BBC, EU cuts import tariffs in a bid to end 'banana wars'
12/15/09 Bennett-Jones, BBC, Crises multiply for divided Yemen
12/15/09 Chosun Ilbo, China Builds Underground 'Great Wall' Against Nuke Attack
December 14, 2009
12/14/09 Bonner, Daily Reckoning, Feds Say Don't Worry About Depression
12/14/09 Weisenthal, The Money Game, 10 American Industries That Will Be Destroyed In The Next Decade
12/14/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Guantanamo Detainee Deaths
12/14/09 Orlov, IntelDaily, Predictions (economic)
12/14/09 Hawk, IntelDaily, The Real Story Behind, Blackwater, JSOC and the CIA's Private Army of Elite Assassins
12/14/09 Bjerga et al, Deep Journal, Fastest Food Inflation Since Riots Means Milk Up 39%
12/14/09 Beckel, OpenSecrets, Campaign Cash From Wall Street Favored Representatives Who Opposed Finance Reform Bill
12/14/09 Leonard, AP, Monsanto Stomps Down Budding Seed Competitors
12/14/09 Bryner, Space.com, Don't Worry, Scientists Suggest, New Earth Just 'Few Years Away'
12/14/09 Walker, Firedog Lake, Insurance Stocks Soar on News of Lieberman's Obstructionism
12/14/09 Perlez, NYT, Pakistan Rebuffs US on Taliban Crackdown
12/14/09 Barnes, LAT, Obama May Launch Drone Attacks on Major Pakistani City
12/14/09 Hanley, AP, Gore: Polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years
12/14/09 Mason, Wired, Video: Black Carbon Travels the Globe
12/14/09 Bauer, KC Star, Hostage House, Part 3: Family link offers solace -- and peril
12/14/09 Savage, NYT, U.S. Said to Pick Illinois Prison to House Detainees
12/14/09 CNN, Millions of Bush administration e-mails recovered
12/14/09 CNN, Source: 'Alarming' secret document details Iran's nuclear goals
12/14/09 Vicini, Reuters, Supreme Court rejects Guantanamo torture case
12/14/09 Grey, WSWS, US House passes pro-Wall Street banking bill
12/14/09 PublicRecord, Tony Blair to Testify Publicly About Bogus Intel Used to Justify Iraq Invasion
12/14/09 Bauer, KC Star, Sex slaves often victimized twice in U.S. trafficking war
12/14/09 Tankersley, LAT, Climate negotiators eye the 'forgotten 50%' of greenhouse gas pollutants
12/14/09 LAT, Drone attacks may be expanded in Pakistan
12/14/09 Lee, LAT, Job market worsens for recent college graduates
12/14/09 Press TV, 'US fighter jets attack Yemeni fighters'
12/14/09 Wearden, Guardian, Dubai receives a $10bn bailout from Abu Dhabi
12/14/09 Meikle, Guardian, Metal thieves suspected in rail delays
12/14/09 BBC, Cadbury fights back against Kraft bid
12/14/09 Black, BBC, Copenhagen climate summit negotiations 'suspended'
12/14/09 BBC, Sudan police tear-gas opposition protesters
December 13, 2009
12/13/09 McGraw & Bauer, KC Star, Despite US Laws, Thousands Still Virtual Slaves in America
12/13/09 Pilger, New Statesman, Iraq: The Crime of the Century
12/13/09 Nichols, Nation, Financial 'Reform' Preserves Too Big Banks, Too Much Speculation
12/13/09 Eckholm, NYT, Gang Violence Grows on an Indian Reservation
12/13/09 Valente, IPS, ARGENTINA: Solar Villages Light Up the Andes
12/13/09 Public Record, Honduran Elections Exposed As Fraud
12/13/09 Borenstein et al, AP, Science of Global Warming Not Faked, Inquiry Decides
12/13/09 Kaufman, Nation, Yes, Regulators Can Stop Foreclosures
12/13/09 Daley, Boston Globe, Under the Icy North Lurks a 'Carbon Bomb'
12/13/09 Gannon, AP, Peshawar on front line of Pakistan's militant war
12/13/09 Grow & Goldfarb, CPI, Ginnie Mae's Troubling Endorsements
12/13/09 Fainaru & Booth, WP, Mexico's drug cartels siphon liquid gold
12/13/09 Ciobano, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Scientists Turn to Inuit for Clues
12/13/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, ACORN independent review says problems are opposite of what conservatives allege
12/13/09 Pleming, Reuters, Pakistan aid package set to focus on water, power
12/13/09 BBC, Body clock link to heart disease
12/13/09 Bengali, McClatchy, Africa's population boom traps children in poverty
12/13/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Sick of swine flu? Toxic algae could be the next big threat
12/13/09 Doward, Guardian, Briton Mohammed Ezzouek was held in Somalia as an al-Qaida suspect: his interrogators were British
12/13/09 Syal, Guardian, Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor
12/13/09 CNN, Houston elects first openly gay mayor
12/13/09 Lazareva, BBC, Russia-France arms deal raises concerns for neighbours
12/23/09 BBC, Islamists flee Philippines prison after militants' raid
12/13/09 BBC, Climate activists condemn Copenhagen police tactics
12/13/09 BBC, Sudan leaders agree deal over referendum for South
12/23/09 BBC, Blair's Iraq war comments 'surprised' defence secretary
12/13/09 BBC, Tribesmen free Philippines hostages in Mindanao
December 12, 2009
12/12/09 Hawk, Global Strike Force: The Real Story Behind, Blackwater, JSOC and the CIA's Private Army of Elite Assassins
12/12/09 Greenwald, Salon, Major Victory for ACORN and the Constitution
12/12/09 Al Jazeera, US 'militarising' Afghanistan aid
12/12/09 Al Jazeera, US Iraq jail an 'al-Qaeda school'
12/12/09 Leopold, TruthOut, Blistering Indictment Leveled Against Obama Over His Handling of Bush-Era War Crimes
12/11/09 Wilson, NYT, Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics
12/12/09 McCrea, OpenLeft, The Legal Fiction All Progressives Should Know About
12/12/09 Rosenberg, Uganda 'kill the gays' story underscores--bearing false witness lies at 'Religious Right's' core
12/12/09 Goldacre, Guardian, Climate change? Well, we'll be dead by then
12/12/09 Tait, Guardian, Turkey bans main Kurdish party over alleged terror links
12/12/09 BBC, Removing Saddam was right, even without WMD - Blair
12/12/09 BBC, US federal agents arrest 286 'immigrant criminals'
12/12/09 BBC, US and Japan agree on open skies deal
12/12/09 BBC, CIA cancels Blackwater drone missile-loading contract
12/12/09 BBC, Pakistan anti-Taliban offensive in S Waziristan 'over'
12/12/09 BBC, Fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan
12/12/09 BBC, Iran's Mottaki defiant on UN nuclear sanctions threat
12/12/09 Mottern, TruthOut, Less Than Citizens (Part One): People of Fort Drum
12/12/09 BBC, Iranian men don hijabs in protest at student's arrest
December 11, 2009
12/11/09 Kaiser Daily, Agricultural Alliance Releases Report Calling For Efforts To Prevent Climate Change From Affecting Global Food Security
12/11/09 Bassett, Huffington, Networks Still Hosting Military Analysts Without Identifying Massive Conflicts Of Interest
12/11/09 Glanz, NYT, Geothermal Project in California Is Shut Down
12/11/09 Baumann, MoJo, White House Emails Case Nearing Settlement
12/11/09 McKibben, MoJo, Tuvalu's Army
12/11/09 Walsh & MacAskill, Guardian, Blackwater operating at CIA Pakistan base, ex-official says
12/11/09 Harding, BBC, Mali villagers fight back against Sahara
12/11/09 BBC, EU climate cash pledge 'not enough' say small nations
12/11/09 Bowes, BBC, The language of Avatar revealed
12/11/09 BBC, Hillary Clinton warns Latin America off close Iran ties
12/11/09 BBC, US extends executive pay limits at bailed-out companies
12/11/09 Leahy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Coastal Carbon Sinks in Dire Need of Protection
12/11/09 Davis, The Age, Joyce's Armageddon warning
12/11/09 Greer, IntelDaily, The Human Ecology of Collapse
12/11/09 Carlsen, PSL, Bailed-out AIG 'acquires' small town water supplies, hikes rates 50 percent
12/11/09 Duncan, AlterNet, Damning New Evidence Raises Concerns About Threats to New York's Water from Gas Drilling
12/11/09 Carpentier, AlterNet, Why Do Airstrikes in Afghanistan Keep Killing Exactly 30 People?
12/11/09 Leon, TruthOut, The Power of White Privilege
12/11/09 Cardwell, NYT, The Homeless Are Wherever Jobs Vanish
12/11/09 Wired, Find Your Phone's IMEI Number
12/11/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, Lingering joblessness puts new face on foreclosure crisis
12/11/09 Reuters, World should at least halve CO2 by 2050: draft text
12/11/09 Gorman, LAT, Young Latinos seem to face a tougher future
12/11/09 AP, Blackwater guards linked to secret CIA raids
12/11/09 Johnson, Guardian, Google backs world's fastest internet cable
12/11/09 Allen, Guardian, Science forgotten in climate emails fuss
12/11/09 BBC, Iraq oil development rights contracts awarded
12/11/09 McDermott, BBC, 'US backed' Colombian attack on Ecuador camp
12/11/09 BBC, Who is counting the bodies in Iraq?
12/11/09 BBC, Every third Indian 'under poverty line'
12/11/09 Gill, BBC, UK's Vista telescope takes stunning images of space
12/11/09 BBC. Greek government bonds have biggest drop in 11 years
December 10, 2009
12/10/09 Perkins, Wired, Earth's Atmosphere May Have Alien Origin
12/10/09 Lantigua-Williams, Progressive, Being pregnant not so wonderful for many Latinas and blacks
12/10/09 Feller, AP, Obama Nobel Speech: 'War Is Peace'
12/10/09 Roth, TPM, Former Bailout Czar Signs On With Firm That Helped Run Bailout
12/10/09 UPI, US Negotiator Rejects Climate Reparation
12/10/09 Kaiser Daily, Global Food Prices Reach 14-Month High, FAO Report Says
12/10/09 Kaiser Daily, ARTs Safe Without Routine Lab Tests, Lancet Study Finds
12/10/09 Shachtman, Wired, U.S. Military Joins CIA's Drone War in Pakistan
12/10/09 Scahill, Nation, Contractors Watching Contractors
12/10/09 Sullivan, Reuters, House passes $447 billion spending bill
12/10/09 Rampell, NYT, Many See the VAT Option as a Cure for Deficits
12/10/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Insurance companies owe 44 Senators who would filibuster public option $91,363,636 each
12/10/09 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, US did not involve Britain in crucial Iraq decisions, Chilcot inquiry told
12/10/09 Sidiqi, FPIF, Obama's Surge and Pakistan
December 9, 2009
12/08/09 Duhigg, NYT, Millions in US Drink Dirty Water, Records Show
12/09/09 Revkin & Kanter, NYT, No Slowdown of Global Warming, Agency Says
12/09/09 WorldFocus, The legacy of the 'Chicago Boys' lives on in Chile
December 8, 2009
12/08/09 PSL, Unemployment crisis reveals deep structural racism
12/08/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Hearing on Pa. Judges Who Took Kickbacks From Private Prison
12/08/09 Allen, ITT, Death by Privatization
December 7, 2009
12/07/09 from 2/05/09 ABCNews, Investigation: U.S. Banks Funnel 'Dirty' Money
12/07/09 Mercer, BBC, Emergency water trucked into Australia's Queensland
12/07/09 Singletary, WP, An attempt to open banks' doors to all
12/07/09 Lodroño, WP, Millions' worth of gear left in Iraq
12/07/09 Aizenman, WP, Struggles of the second generation
12/07/09 Perry, LAT, $10 million is smuggled out of Afghanistan daily, official says
12/07/09 Boone, Guardian, Plight of Afghan Women May Worsen as War Effort is Stepped Up, Warns Report
12/07/09 Reuters, Study Finds Weed Killer Affects Frogs Sexually
12/07/09 Walker, Independent, Was Russian Secret Service Behind Leak of Climate-Change Emails?
12/07/09 Pinto, TPM, Bush Climate Team Still Impacting The Debate, Report Finds
12/07/09 Bolstad, McClatchy, Drill, Baby, Drill: Obama Administration OKs Oil Drilling in Arctic off Alaska
12/07/09 Woods, FPIF, Africa and the Economic Crisis
December 6, 2009
12/06/09 CNN, FDA: Texas oysters linked to virus
12/06/09 Holland, AlterNet, Defense Contractor Makes Up Wild Islamic Terrorism Fantasy; Right-Wingers Act Like it's 9/11 All Over Again
12/06/09 Independent, New Website Helps Shoppers Avoid GMO Foods
12/06/09 Al Jazeera, India-Pakistan in Afghan spat
12/06/09 Lydersen & Slevin, WP, Fish kill called necessary to save the Great Lakes
12/06/09 Romero, NYT, Venezuela Takes Greater Control of Banks
12/06/09 Miller, NYT, Local Governments Offer Data to Miners
12/06/09 Guardian, The papers that will carry the Copenhagen editorial
12/06/09 Davies, Guardian, France mourns an ageing lothario as tortoise dies, aged 146
12/06/09 Vidal, Guardian, From glaciers to the sea - following the effects of climate change
12/06/09 Carroll, Guardian, Evo Morales routs rivals to win second term in Bolivian elections
12/06/09 CNN, Iraq amends election law after months of dispute
12/06/09 BBC, Obesity gene discovery 'may cut cases blamed on abuse'
12/06/09 CNN, Karzai: U.S. must have patience if Afghanistan not ready
12/06/09 Montero, CSM, Will US drones start attacking Mullah Omar in Pakistan?
12/06/09 England, FT, Kuwait fund sells $4bn Citi stake
12/06/09 Slevin & Finn, WP, Illinois prison likely to house detainees
12/06/09 Gowen, WP, Lack of computer access hampers some students
12/06/09 Kornblut et al, WP, Obama pressed for faster surge
12/06/09 AP, Gates Expects 2-4 Years of Big Afghan Role for U.S.
12/06/09 Purvis, Guardian, Wake up and smell the biodynamic coffee
12/06/09 Rosenburg, OpenLeft, Behind the Lies About ACORN
12/06/09 EDIE, Thousands march against climate change
12/06/09 San Pedro, BBC, US agency's balloon hunt tests internet accuracy
12/06/09 BBC, Likely cause of drug-resistant epilepsy revealed
12/06/09 BBC, In pictures: Philippines martial law
12/06/09 BBC, No Bin Laden information in years, says Gates
December 5, 2009
12/05/09 Tavernise, NYT, The Demons That Haunt the Pakistanis
12/05/09 Eley, WSWS, US prepares Fallujah-style offensive in Afghanistan
12/05/09 Simon, Baseline Scenario, Measuring The Fiscal Costs Of Not Fixing The Financial System
12/05/09 Littlepage, TruthOut, Watchdog Group Calls For Senate Ethics Committee to Review "Secret Holds"
12/05/09 Fernandez, IPS, Panic Erupts in Wake of New Anti-Immigrant Law
12/05/09 Piepert, WP, Aide: Baucus nominated girlfriend for US attorney
12/05/09 BBC, Climate change protests ahead of Copenhagen summit
12/05/09 Elliott, BBC, Giving old eyes a new lease of life
12/05/09 BBC, Racist abuse against Balotelli feared at Inter-Juve tie
12/05/09 Shahzad, Asia Times, US takes hunt for al-Qaeda to Pakistan
12/05/09 Black, BBC, Copenhagen Countdown: 2 days
December 4, 2009
12/04/09 Todd, PSL, Peruvian government apology for racism leaves out slavery
12/04/09 DeGraw, DeepJournal, Af-Pak War Racket: The Obama Illusion Comes Crashing Down
12/04/09 Hass, NYT, Scholarly Investments
12/04/09 Thomasch & Adegoke, Retuers, Comcast lands NBC in deal that reshapes media
12/04/09 Lee, LAT, Unemployment rate eases in November
12/04/09 Gonzalez, Uruguay shuffles left
12/04/09 McGreal, Guardian, Texas executes man at centre of mental disability row
12/04/09 Jansen, IPS, Women's Treaty a Powerful Force for Equality
12/04/09 BBC, Grid computing tunes tiny transistors for future chips
12/04/09 Shukman, BBC, Glacier threat to Bolivia capital
12/04/09 BBC, BBC obtains Pakistan's charges against Mumbai accused
12/04/09 BBC, UFO investigations unit closed by Ministry of Defence
12/04/09 Schmidle, NYT, The Hostage Business
12/04/09 Schaill, RebelReports, Erik Prince and CIA/JSOC assassinations and drone bombings - video
12/04/09 Andrews, ProPublica, U.S. Turns a Blind Eye to Agent Orange
12/04/09 Benno, PSL, Michigan restaurant workers protest wage theft
12/04/09 Borenstein, AP, Global warming may require higher dams, stilts
12/04/09 Mickleburgh, Globe & Mail, Amy Goodman's Border Woes Have Americans in a Tizzy
12/04/09 Kunichoff, TruthOut, Blackwater Founder Tells of Extensive Government-Contracted Assassinations
12/04/09 IntelDaily, Peak Oil: Adapting for Big Changes Ahead (video)
12/04/09 Christina, ALterNet, Hey Religious Believers, Where's Your Evidence?
12/04/09 White, Human rights report exposes US abuse of immigrant detainees
12/04/09 Murray, Guardian, We can afford to be choosy - Fanaticism
12/04/09 Benson, CNN, White House OKs expanding CIA drone program in Pakistan
12/04/09 Singh, CNN, New Delhi launches no peeing in public campaign
12/04/09 Cunningham, CSM, Israel closes sole oil and gas terminal on Gaza border
12/04/09 Bristow, BBC, North Korea currency change sparks panic
December 3, 2009
12/03/09 Musfon, WP, An energy answer in the shale below?
12/03/09 Pal, Progressive, 25 years after the world's worst industrial disaster, the suffering continues
12/03/09 Shane, NYT, C.I.A. to Expand Use of Drones in Pakistan
12/03/09 Guardian, Video - Preserving the forests of Indonesia's Aceh province
12/03/09 Alexander, Guardian, Intelligent design is not science
12/03/09 EDIE, London emissions are double what was thought
12/03/09 BBC, An animated journey through the Earth's climate history
12/03/09 Harding, BBC, Timbuktu's ancient salt caravans under threat
12/03/09 WorldFocus, The view from Afghanistan: corruption, illiteracy and loss
12/03/09 WorldFocus, 25 years after Bhopal tragedy, pain and uncertainty linger
12/03/09 Fisher, The Atlantic, How Close Are Blackwater and JSOC?
December 2, 2009
12/02/09 Al Jazeera, Australia climate bill defeated
12/02/09 Al Jazeera, Peru tribe threatened by hepatitis
12/02/09 Al Jazeera, India targets carbon dioxide cuts
12/02/09 Hart, LAT, District of Columbia Council passes gay marriage bill
12/02/09 Jennings, ComputerWorld, Did Sprint violate customer privacy 8 million times?
12/02/09 Mackenzie, FT, Mexican oil production: from bad to worse
12/02/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Obama's Afghanistan speech: How it sounded to Afghans
12/02/09 Bowes, BBC, California faces up to year-round forest fires
12/02/09 Fildes, BBC, Web giants unite against Digital Britain copyright bill
12/02/09 BBC, Taliban vow to fight US troop surge in Afghanistan
12/02/09 Gerth, ProPublica, Feds May Tighten Rules on Omniscan, a GE MRI Drug
12/02/09 Keim, Wired, Blue Whale Song Mystery Baffles Scientists
12/02/09 Durden, Zero Hedge, Charting The Great World Trade Collapse
December 1, 2009
12/01/09 Black, BBC, Major sea level rise likely as Antarctic ice melts
12/01/09 MSNBC, Will Cheney Really Run for President? - Chris Hedges video
12/01/09 Zetter, Wired, Feds 'Pinged' Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year
12/01/09 Belluck, NYT, New Hopes on Health Care for American Indians
12/01/09 Fisher, Atlantic, The Special Ops Command That's Displacing The CIA
12/01/09 Layoff List, The "Real" unemployment rate in the US is now 22%
12/01/09 Feffer, FPIF, Why Dubai?
12/01/09 Bello, FPIF, Climate and Capitalism in Copenhagen
12/01/09 Hiar, MoJo, Climate Change: Desperate Measures
12/01/09 Butler, MoJo, Climate Change: Survival Kit
12/01/09 Ramesh, Guardian, Bhopal water still toxic 25 years after deadly gas leak, study finds
12/01/09 Jena, IPS, INDIA: Climate Change Fuels Rural Out-Migration, Rising Farm Debt
12/01/09 Kroll, MoJo, Housing Meltdown, Ground Zero
12/01/09 Harkinson, MoJo, Street Food Fight
12/01/09 Berry, American Mediacal News, Aetna Prepares for Loss of 600,000 Members as it Raises 2010 Prices
12/01/09 Demopopulos, FT, Majority stake in Indonesia's Berau Coal sold for $1.5bn
12/01/09 WorldFocus, Calling the world's attention to the caste issue in India
12/01/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Out-of-Control Security Guards Hamper Afghanistan Efforts
12/01/09 Rappeport, FT, US commercial mortgage default rate hits 3.4%
12/01/09 Dennis, Guardian, Guardian Daily: US lobbies for new high representative in Kabul
12/01/09 Johnson, Guardian, Twitter news service taken over by MSNBC
12/01/09 Grant et al, Guardian, Bangladesh: Down and out in Dhaka
12/01/09 Rameesh, Guardian, Sri Lanka announces limited freedom for detained Tamil refugees