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January 29, 2010

1/29/10 Reuters, U.N. trade body calls for write-off of Haiti's debt

1/29/10 Reuters, Bin Laden urges abandoning dollar: Al Jazeera tape

1/29/10 Adam, Guardian, Water vapour caused one-third of global warming in 1990s, study reveals

January 28, 2010

1/28/10 Barrett, McClatchy, Toxins in Camp Lejeune water 30 years ago still a problem

1/28/10 NPR, Top five greenest nations on the planet

1/28/10 Jones, ProPublica, Identity of Americans with Secret UBS Accounts May Remain Secret

1/28/10 Ross, PublicRecord, Howard Zinn: "Largest Lie" Was US War On Terrorism

1/28/10 Worthington, Deep Journal, UN Secret Detention Report Asks, "Where Are the CIA Ghost Prisoners?"

1/28/10 Hodge, Wired, Pentagon Master Plan: Super-Size My Drone Fleet

1/28/10 Shankman, ProPublica, Pennsylvania's Gas Wells Booming--But So Are Spills

1/28/10 Borger, Guardian, Revealed: UN in Secret Peace Talks with Taliban

1/28/10 CommonDreams, California Senate Passes Medicare for All Legislation

January 27, 2010

1/27/10 Elliott, Guardian, Soros warns of double-dip recession

1/27/10 Alcuna, IPS, ASIA: 'Post-Disaster Psychosocial Support a Must for Children

1/27/10 Ayala, IPS, EL SALVADOR: Activists Link Mining Co. to Murders

1/27/10 Hall & Gordon, McClatchy, Geithner, predecessor and Fed defend controversial AIG payments

1/27/10 Rosenthal, NYT, Iceland Leads Environmental Index as U.S. Falls

1/27/10 Walsh, NYT, Geithner Denies Role in Limiting A.I.G. Disclosures

1/27/10 Walsh & Chan, NYT, Geithner Says A.I.G. Rescue Prevented a Depression

1/26/10 Reuters, Afghanistan wins $1.6 billion in debt relief: IMF

1/27/10 Ghobari, Reuters, Yemen plans U.S.-funded militant rehab centre

1/27/10 Pierce, ProPublica, Colorado and New Hampshire's Unemployment Insurance Funds Go Bankrupt--And Start Borrowing

1/27/10 Van Auken, WSWS, US Marines in Haiti: Back to colonialism

1/27/10 UCS, CommonDreams, Scientists Warn Doing Nothing Will Likely Lock in Worst Consequences of Climate Change

1/27/10 Priest, WP, US Military Teams, Intelligence Deeply Involved in Aiding Yemen on Strikes

1/27/10 Al Jazeera, Plan Considered to Buy off Taliban

1/27/10 Bhala, AlterNet, Military Aid Puts Afghans' Lives at Risk - Report

1/27/10 Earthjustice, EPA Requests Feedback on Plan Analyzing Impact of Hazardous Waste on Disadvantaged Communities

1/27/10 Feeny, Boston Globe, Howard Zinn, Historian who Challenged Status Quo, Dies at 87

January 26, 2010

1/26/10 Schwartz, NYT, Courts as Battlefields in Climate Fights

1/26/10 Sontag, NYT, Haiti's Children Adrift in World of Chaos

1/26/10 Grey, WSWS, Fallout from Washington crisis rattles world markets

1/26/10 White, WSWS, Criticism mounts over US response to Haiti disaster

1/26/10 Salzman, WSWS, How big business financed a radical right-wing party in Austria

1/26/10 Van Auken, WSWS, "Reconstructing Haiti" on starvation wages

1/26/10 Mazelis, WSWS, Harper's Magazine exposes Guantanamo cover-up

1/26/10 Sanchez, Cato Institute, Fresh Surveillance Data Show Spike in Traffic Tracking

1/26/10 Shachtman, Wired, Pentagon Report Calls for Office of 'Strategic Deception'

1/26/10 McDougall, InformationWeek, Bill Gates Warns Of Dystopian Future

1/26/10 Shah & Landay, McClatchy, Pakistan's former spymaster: U.S. must talk to Mullah Omar

1/26/10 DeParle, NYT, Families Struggle to Afford Food, Survey Finds

1/26/10 Pidd, Guardian, Iraq war was illegal, top government lawyer tells Chilcot inquiry

1/26/10 Child, Guardian, Oliver Stone: bankers helped Hitler

1/26/10 EDIE, Invasive alien species measured for the first time

1/26/10 CNN, Numbers tell stories of horror, heroism in Haiti

1/26/10 BBC, Bomber strikes near military base in Kabul

1/26/10 Kurczy, BBC, Beijing boasts of 'leapfrog development' in Tibet

1/26/10 Olson, News Junkie, 1/3rd of Women in US Military Raped

1/26/10 Williams, Boston Globe, From Books to Boot Camp: College Grads Increasingly Joining Military

1/26/10 Jowit, Guardian, World's Glaciers Continue to Melt at Historic Rates

1/26/10 Spolar, Huffington Post, Flaws in Iraqi Police Contract Raise Questions About Afghan Effort

1/26/10 Strurgis, Facing South, Radioactive Racism at Tennessee Nuclear Waste Processing Company

January 25, 2010

1/25/10 Cho et al, WP, Stakes are high as government plans exit from mortgage markets

1/25/10 Andrews, ProPublica, Opportunities for Radiation Errors Increase With Technological Advances

1/25/10 WorldFocus, Iran tired of fighting and losing drug war 'on behalf of West'

1/25/10 NPR, Watch: 'Fear The Boom And Bust'

1/25/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Tim Geithner Says to Leave Your Money at Big Banks

1/25/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, Focus on Haiti: Washington's Militarized Takeover

1/25/10 Schmitt, NYT, U.S. Envoy's Cables Show Concerns on Afghan War Plans

1/25/10 CNN, 'Chemical Ali' executed, Iraqi government spokesman says

1/25/10 Courson, CNN, Group: Lawsuit could help thousands of veterans with PTSD

January 24, 2010

1/24/10 Richardson, Guardian, The last abortionist

1/24/10 Baseline Scenario, Is The "Volcker Rule" More Than A Marketing Slogan?

1/24/10 Kaye, Public record, Women Dying and Torture Run Amuck In Afghanistan

1/24/10 Reuters, Obama turns to former campaign manager for help

1/24/10 Hornby, Reuters, China paper slams U.S. for cyber role in Iran unrest

1/23/10 Bogdanich, NYT, Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm

1/24/10 Pasternak, McClatchy, U.S. 'nuclear renaissance' had roots in Bush-Cheney

1/24/10 Pasternak, McClatchy, Lobbying, global warming portend U.S. nuclear renaissance

1/24/10 Ni, LAT, A Chinese American immigration secret emerges from the dark days of discrimination

1/24/10 Krotoski, Guardian, Democratic, but dangerous too: how the web changed our world

1/24/10 Jowitt, Guardia, Fears over use of chemicals to castrate pigs

1/24/10 CNN, Gunmen attack convoy near U.S. mining company in Indonesia

1/24/10 BBC, Tanker spills oil off Texas coast after collision

1/24/10 BBC, Afghanistan parliamentary election postponed

1/24/10 BBC, Venezuela TV channels taken off air

1/24/10 BBC, New records of UK convicts sent to Australia go online

January 23, 2010

1/23/10 Van Auken, WSWS, As US prepares long-term occupation, Haiti's quake victims still without aid

1/23/10 Wilson, AlterNet, Uganda's "Kill the Gays" Movement Organizing in Newark, NJ

1/23/10 Taylor, McClatchy, Obama Quietly Continues to Defend Bush's Terror Policies

1/23/10 Potter, Toronto Star, Climate Slips Off US Agenda

1/23/10 Tiron, The Hill, CBO: Troop Surge in Afghanistan to Cost $36 Billion Over the Next Three Years

1/23/10 Chulov, Guardian, Legacy of War: Iraq Littered With High Levels of Nuclear and Dioxin Contamination, Study Finds

1/23/10 Urbina, NYT, 24 States' Laws Open to Attack After Campaign Finance Ruling

1/23/10 Goodman, TruthOut, CIA and Intelligence Community Mythologies

1/23/10 Al Jazeera, UK halts 'bomb detector' exports

1/23/10 Estrada, IPS, CHILE: Water a Matter of National Security

1/23/10 CNN, Biden: U.S. to appeal dismissal of Blackwater charges

1/23/10 Stephens, WP, New documents show longtime friendship between J. Edgar Hoover and Paul Harvey

1/23/10 CNN, Christian-Muslim violence in Nigeria warrants probe, rights group says

1/23/10 White, LAT, Occidental Petroleum and partners to develop massive Iraqi oil field

1/23/10 McKenzie, IPS, HAITI: 'Adoption Not the Best Choice for Quake Orphans'

1/23/10 LaFranchi, CSM, With plastic and cardboard, Haitians build communities

1/23/10 Sirota, ITT, Democratic Corporatism Brings Reagan Back from the Grave

1/23/10 BBC, Indefinite Guantanamo detention plans condemned

1/23/10 McGrath, BBC, Rare warbler found in Afghanistan

1/23/10 BBC, Nigeria religious riot bodies found in village wells

1/23/10 BBC, Venezuela oil 'may double Saudi Arabia'

January 22, 2010

1/22/10 Applebaum & Cho, WP, Obama's 'Volcker Rule' shifts power away from Geithner

1/22/10 Finn, WP, Justice task force recommends about 50 Guantanamo detainees be held indefinitely

1/22/10 Shih, NYT, Chinese Christians Are the Focus of Same-Sex Marriage Case

1/22/10 Semuels, LAT, California's unemployment rate rises to 12.4%

1/22/10 Collins, IntelDaily, It's the "New Haiti!"

1/22/10 Blanchflower, Business Week, Credit Crisis Creates Lost Generation

1/22/10 Donato, HLLN, Oil in Haiti

1/22/10 Ross, BBC, Satellite images help insure Kenya cattle

1/22/10 Hightower, AlterNet, Bernanke Wants Even More God-Like Powers for the Federal Reserve

1/22/10 Lammers, AP, Sunflower DNA Map Could Produce Plants for Fuel

1/22/10 Yost, AP, Government posting wealth of data to Internet

1/22/10 Reuters, U.S. warns against having same airport security systems

1/22/10 Bumiller, NYT, Gates Says Taliban Must Take Legitimate Afghan Role

1/22/10 Hecht, SacBee, Court removes state limit on medical marijuana possession

1/22/10 Maisano, ITT, States of Pain

1/22/10 Vidal, Guardian, One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show

1/22/10 Weaver, Guardian, Haiti aid agencies accused of 'jostling for position'

1/22/10 Dash, CNN, Don't let Twitter, Facebook, Google be the only game in town

1/22/10 BBC, Power cuts in Venezuela lead to traffic gloom

1/22/10 Black, BBC, Reflections on a hugely changed climate

1/22/10 Morelle, BBC, Meet the creatures that live beyond the abyss

1/22/10 Talbot, WSWS, Oil, the Dutch Iraq inquiry on the Iraq war, and the missing letter

1/22/10 Eley & Grey, WSWS, Another toothless bank "reform" from Obama

1/22/10 Van Auken, WSWS, Haitians dying by the thousands as US escalates military intervention

1/22/10 Fisher, PublicRecord, Obama Administration Continues To Withhold Vital Information About Bagram Detainees

1/22/10 NPR, Our Very Own Toxic Asset

1/22/10 WorldFocus, Money and politics at issue in countries around the world

1/22/10 Shachtman, Wired, Video: Laser Hummer Blasts 50 Bombs

1/22/10 Gupta, Wired, New Hi-Res Flyover of Haiti Will Aid Recovery and Research

1/22/10 Al Jazeera, Ice dance sparks Aboriginal anger

1/22/10 Theimer, AP, CEOs to Hill: Quit calling us for campaign cash

1/22/10 Morpurgo, Guardian, My third-class life

1/22/10 FPIF, Africa Policy Outlook 2010

1/22/10 Lavandera, CNN, Big city left with no bookstore

1/22/10 Ahmed, CSM, In Pakistan, high court investigates 'disappearances' in wake of 9/11

1/22/10 Kalrreich, CSM, Haiti earthquake diary: Haiti's leaders speak, finally

January 21, 2010

1/21/10 Epstein & Heath, Huffington Post, FDIC Chief Got Bank of America Loans While Working on Its Rescue

1/21/10 Biggers, CommonDreams, Tree-Sitters Shut Down Infamous Mountaintop Removal Operation; TVA Cops Strike Again

1/21/10 Linzey, Yes, Whose Rights? Challenging Corporate Power

1/21/10 Sutter, CNN, Blippy tells the world what you buy

1/21/10 Pepitone, CNN, Air America going dark

1/21/10 Reuters, U.S. to boost Afghanistan civilian presence

1/21/10 Chan & Dash, NYT, Obama's Move to Limit 'Reckless Risks' Has Skeptics

1/21/10 NYT, How Corporate Money Will Reshape Politics

1/21/10 Broder, NYT, Past Decade Warmest Ever, NASA Data Shows

1/21/10 Nasaw, Guardian, Arms maker to remove 'biblical' gunsight messages

1/21/10 PSL, A message from the U.S. military: Haitians not welcome

1/21/10 Jones, ProPublica, U.S. Private Security Firms Head to Haiti

1/21/10 Scahill, RebelReports, Defense Secretary Robert Gates Confirms Blackwater in Pakistan

1/21/10 Zetter, Wired, Microsoft Learned of IE Zero-Day Flaw Last September

1/21/10 BBC, Why Pakistan will not mount new attacks on militants

1/21/10 Higham & Ryan, BBC, Museum explores 'hidden history' of Muslim science

1/21/10 Wilkinson, LAT, Haiti's elite hold nation's future in their hands

1/21/10 Barnes, LAT, Gates vows closer ties, says Pakistan must fight extremists

1/21/10 AP, Goldman Sachs earns $4.79 billion in fourth quarter

1/21/10 BBC, Haiti to relocate 400,000 homeless outside capital

1/21/10 Van Auken, WSWS, Haiti's tragedy: A crime of US imperialism

1/21/10 Martin, WSWS, US: Democrats agree on commission to cut Social Security, Medicare

1/21/10 Lantier, WSWS, US military operations block relief efforts in Haiti

1/20/10 Press TV, Military Industrial Complex Deploys Pentagon Chief To India

1/20/10 BBC, Video game success may be in the mind, study finds

1/21/10 BBC, More people moved in China near Three Gorges dam

1/21/10 BBC, Refusing to eat shark's fin at a Chinese dinner party

1/21/10 BBC, Online music piracy 'destroys local music'

1/21/10 BBC, Goldman Sachs says profit in 2009 up sharply

1/21/10/ BBC, US to seek world cyber crackdown after Google China row

1/21/10 Palmer, BBC, Magnetic activity in brain 'diagnoses stress disorder'

1/21/10 Topol, CSM, Egyptian female bodyguards mix hijabs with aikido

January 20, 2010

1/20/10 ENS, Thirst for Oil Imperils South America's Most Biodiverse Wilderness

1/20/10 Kim, Nation, IMF Clarifies Terms of Haiti's Loan

1/20/10 Kolata, NYT, I.O.C. Panel Calls for Treatment in Sex Ambiguity Cases

1/20/10 Zaldana, PSL, ICE raid terrorizes immigrant workers in Foxboro, Mass.

1/20/10 Costello, NPR, U.S. Mayors: Jobless Rate To Remain High For Years

1/20/10 Miller, LAT, American ex-convicts suspected of link to Yemen militants

1/20/10 Rubin, LAT, Young people spend 7 hours, 38 minutes a day on TV, video games, computer

1/20/10 CNN, Gen. Honoré: Evacuate most vulnerable Haitians

1/20/10 CNN, Alternate supply routes could open Haiti aid bottleneck

1/20/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, Outsourcing War: The Rise of Private Military Contractors

1/20/10 Ross, IntelDaily, Panetta Turns a Blind Eye To CIA Crimes

1/20/10 BBC, Chinese lending fears hit bank shares

1/20/10 BBC, Nigeria riot city under control, says army chief

January 19, 2010

1/19/10 Eley, WSWS, US military to enforce state of emergency in Haiti

1/19/10 Hulse, NYT, Boehner Hires 'Contract' Architect to Promote G.O.P. Platform

1/19/10 Al Jazeera, UK probe tackles Iraq war legality

1/19/10 Kiel, ProPublica, Logjam Continues for Loan Mods; Big Banks Fare Poorly, Data Show

1/19/10 Spillius, Telegraph, Guantánamo 'Suicides' Were at Secret 'Black' Site

1/19/10 Hsu, WP, Officials Try to Prevent Haitian Earthquake Refugees From Coming to US

1/18/10 Scahill, Rebel Reports, US Security Company Offers to Perform "High Threat Terminations" and to Confront "Worker Unrest" in Haiti

1/19/10 Mason, Wired, Cryosphere: Earth's Icy Extremes Seen From Space

1/19/10 Vicini, Reuters, U.S. court sends back Abu-Jamal death penalty case

1/19/10 Fletcher, WP, Obama to seek $1.35 billion more for Race to the Top program

1/19/10 Reuters, FBI broke law in phone searches: report

1/19/10 Reuters, Fewer see Obama advancing racial ties

1/19/10 NYT, The Age of External Knowledge

1/19/10 Helfand, LAT, California limits HMO wait times

1/19/10 Schofield, BBC, Sarkozy quells Haiti rift with US

1/19/10 Bennis, FPIF, Haiti Again?

1/19/10 Shachtman, Wired, CIA Contractor Now Flying Spy Drone Over Haiti (Updated Again)

1/19/10 Moore & Gardham, Telegraph, Ministry of Defence orders 'Bible guns' for soldiers in Afghanistan

1/19/10 Secrecy News, DoD "Clarifies" Doctrine on Psychological Operations

1/19/10 Guardian, Demining in rural Afghanistan

1/19/10 Plummer, BBC, Venezuela's economy in further slide

1/19/10 BBC, Nano technology tackles heart disease

2/19/10 BBC, UN Afghanistan survey points to huge scale of bribery

1/19/10 BBC, Nigeria imposes 24-hour curfew after clashes in Jos

January 18, 2010

1/18/10 McKinley, NYT, Homeless Haitians Told Not to Flee to U.S.

1/18/10 Kudzai, Gender Masala, Women's bodies: A quick way to ascendancy?

1/18/10 Galambos, DeepJournal, Israeli attack on Iran could be disaster -- for U.S. economy

1/18/10 Swanson, PublicRecord, What Bush Did to Haiti

1/18/10 WorldFocus, Haiti situation devolves into disaster of 'epic proportions'

1/18/10 WorldFocus, Relief spreads to damaged areas beyond Haiti's capital

1/18/10 PSL, Capitalism's unsolvable problems

1/18/10 Bender, Boston Globe, US Cloaks Case Files Involving Civil Rights

1/18/10 Booth, Guardian, Cruise Ships Still Find a Haitian Berth

1/18/10 Bluemink, ADN, Persistence of Exxon Valdez oil may be explained by study

1/18/10 Soto & Gardner, Reuters, Chile shifts right as billionaire wins presidency

1/18/10 Roberts, NYT, More Men Marrying Wealthier Wives

1/18/10 Roy, ITT, India's Trail of Tears

1/18/10 EDIE, Radon killing 20,000 Americans per year

1/18/10 Drash, CNN, Beyond survival, health crisis looms

January 17, 2010

1/17/10 IntelDaily, US Army to 'protect' Pakistan's nuclear sites

1/17/10 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Obama Executive Order Seeks to "Synchronize and Integrate" State and Federal Military Forces

1/17/10 Palast, Huffington Post, History of a Haitian Holocaust

1/17/10 o'Shaughnessey, Independent, US Waves White Flag in Disastrous 'War on Drugs'

1/17/10 Dawn/Pakistan, Activists Protest Outside CIA Offices Against Drone Strikes

1/17/10 Smith, Times Online, Revealed: Jack Straw's Secret Warning to Tony Blair on Iraq

1/17/10 Hopkinson, The Root, When Are Haitians Looters and When Are They Just Hungry?

1/17/10 Hite & Kornbluh, Nation, Chile's Turning Point

1/17/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Re-Whiting History Just In Time For MLK Day

1/17/10 Chick, CSM, China balks at Iran sanctions

1/17/10 Yost, AP, AP Exclusive: Tobacco's Plea - No Big US Payments

1/17/10 Billeaud, AP, Thousands protest sheriff's immigration efforts

1/17/10 McKenzie, IPS, FRANCE: Time to Pay Back Haiti

1/17/10 Doward, Guardian, Eastern European immigration 'has hit low-paid Britons'

1/17/10 AP, 'Chemical Ali' sentenced to death over Halabja poison gas attack

1/17/10 BBC, Senegal offers land to Haitians

1/17/10 Guardian, Haiti earthquake devastation

January 16, 2010

1/16/10 Chung & Guerrara, FT, SEC subpoenas big banks over CDOs

1/16/10 Finn & Warrick, WP, In Afghanistan attack, CIA fell victim to series of miscalculations about informant

1/16/10 Virgo, IPS, RIGHTS: Italy Shows its Ugly Side

1/16/10 Van Auken, WSWS, Haiti: US troops deployed as popular anger mounts

1/16/10 Grimm, FiredogLake, CIA Cable 'Granting Permission' to Destroy Torture Videotapes Surfaces

1/16/10 Grimm, HuffingtonPost, Civilian Casualties Soar; Key Afghan Metric Headed In Wrong Direction

1/16/10 Protess, HuffingtonPost, The Financial 'Black Box': What's Still Hidden In AIG's Files?

1/16/10 BBC, US releases names of prisoners at Bagram, Afghanistan

1/16/10 BBC, New strategies may cut screening errors, says US study

1/16/10 Reuters, Haitians in Mass Exodus from Shattered Port-au-Prince

1/16/10 AP, Spanish lawmaker's photo used for bin Laden poster

1/16/10 Nossiter, NYT, Lonely Trek to Radicalism for Terror Suspect

January 15, 2010

1/15/10 Moran, Digital Journal, Poll: Majority of Americans would give up liberty for security

1/15/10 Greer, IntelDaily, The Costs of Community

1/15/10 Cutter, PSL, Environmental refugees flooding cities in poorest nations

1/15/10 Adam, Guardian, Arctic Permafrost Leaking Methane at Record Levels, Figures Show

1/15/10 Arons, RH Reality Check, Senate, House Health Reform Bills Change Abortion Status Quo

1/15/10 Whitfield, TruthOut, Global Auction of Public Assets

1/15/10 Kaufman, Nation, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Turns Up the Heat

1/15/10 Kim, Nation,

1/15/10 Fox, Reuters, Up to 80 million Americans infected with H1N1: CDC

1/15/10 Henderson, Charlotte Observer, Sea level on N.C. coast continues to rise, but how much?

1/15/10 BBC, Most Indian plastic toys are 'toxic'

1/15/10 Bumiller & Shane, NYT, Pentagon Report on Fort Hood Details Failures

1/15/10 Grady, NYT, F.D.A. Concerned About Substance in Food Packaging

1/15/10 Oliker et al, Rand, The Impact of U.S. Military Drawdown in Iraq on Displaced and Other Vulnerable Populations

1/15/10 Wagner, AP, Geithner Will Defend Secretive AIG Bailout Deals

1/15/10 Saint Louis, NYT, Creams Offering Lighter Skin May Bring Risks

1/15/10 Allam, McClatchy, Rarely used flying bomb strikes new targets in Iraq

1/15/10 Rizvi, IPS, UN Condemns Land Grabs in Native Territories

1/15/10 Zajac, LAT, FDA scolds maker of Tylenol for foot-dragging in recall

1/15/10 Osava, IPS, BRAZIL: 'Colonisation Made Us Poor,' Say Indigenous Peoples

1/15/10 Lawrence et al, Haiti aid efforts hindered in critical hours

1/15/10 Wired, Access Blocked Sites

1/15/10 Reuters, Zoellick says crisis effects will last for years

1/15/10 McClatchy, Haiti begins burying earthquake dead in mass graves

1/15/10 Dash, NYT, JPMorgan Chase Earns $11.7 Billion in Year

1/15/10 Roan, LAT, In Haiti, aid workers face a dual challenge

1/15/10 Bindel, Guardian, Why men use prostitutes

1/15/10 Johnstone, Guardian, How climate change is shrinking the river Nile

1/15/10 BBC, JP Morgan Chase reports $3.3bn profits

1/15/10 BBC, Oesophageal cancer cell errors threaten research

January 14, 2010

1/14/10 AP, Foreclosures set a grim record in 2009

1/14/10 Leondis & Plungis, Bloomberg, Krawcheck Says 53% of Wealthy Fear Outliving Savings

1/14/10 Devraj, IPS, India Holds Public Meetings on GM Food Crop

1/14/10 Williams, NYT, US Companies Join Race on Iraqi Oil Bonanza

1/14/10 Mullins, Herald Online, Book costs soar above $1,000 for average college student

1/14/10 Gregory, Reuters, U.S. war on militancy hits Pakistan economy: Zardari

1/14/10 LAT, Click here to find out more! Haiti: Resources and how to help

1/14/10 Savage, LAT, Click here to find out more! Supreme Court cites 'irreparable harm' in blocking Prop. 8 trial footage

1/14/10 Park, LAT, A shelter for South Korea's foreign brides

1/14/10 Henley, Guardian, Haiti: a long descent to hell

1/14/10 Marquand, BBC, Pat Robertson Haiti comments: French view theory with disbelief

January 13, 2010

1/13/10 Filipovic, Feministe, George Tiller's Murderer May be Charged Only With "Voluntary Manslaughter:" What This Means for Reproductive Rights

1/13/10 Al Jazeera, Deadliest year for Afghan civilians

1/13/10 Reuters, Obama to ask for $33 billion for Afghan troop buildup

1/13/10 King, LAT, 2 drone strikes kill 16 suspected insurgents in Afghanistan

1/13/10 CNN, Haitian envoy: Quake levels most of capital

1/13/10 BBC, Ford leads in MOT failures as figures are revealed

1/13/10 BBC, Green tea 'may block lung can

1/13/10 Hansen, SolveClimate, The People vs. Cap-and-Trade

1/13/10 Cowan, Wired, Supernova Wind Solves Galaxy Formation Mystery

January 12, 2010

1/12/10 Guardian, Woman who rescued Anne Frank diary dies aged 100

1/12/10 Prysner, PSL, CIA's changing role in U.S. imperialism's expanding war

1/12/10 WorldFocus, Nations on every continent struggle with racism

1/12/10 BBC, Federal Reserve makes record $52.1bn profit

1/12/10 BBC, US trade gap widens sharply as imports grow

1/12/10 Flavelle, ProPublica, U.S. Contractor Announces Plans to Train Pakistani NGOs, On Its Own Dime

1/12/10 AFP, Iraq Invasion in 2003 Was Illegitimate: Dutch Probe

1/12/10 Jones, SF Chron, Stronger Controls Urged on Chemicals in Water

1/12/10 Clark, Guardian, Wal-Mart, the US Retailer Taking Over the World by Stealth

1/12/10 Partlow, WP, Despite Warnings, Military's Use of Drones on the Rise in Afghanistan

1/12/10 CNN, World saw declines in freedom in 2009, think tank finds

January 11, 2010

1/11/10 McGreal, Guardian, Obama's Indian problem

1/11/10 Roberts, Guardian, Russian energy group with the power to plunge Europe into darkness

1/11/10 Black, BBC, Biodiversity loss is 'wake-up call', warns UN

1/11/10 Worthington, AlterNet, Guantanamo: The Definitive Prisoner List

1/11/10 AFP, CIA Planned to 'Rendition' Suspects in Germany: Report

1/11/10 Milius, WIred, Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant

1/11/10 Calmes, NYT, Obama Weighs Bank Fee to Help Cut the Federal Deficit

1/11/10 Al Jazeera, Black Iraqis claim discrimination

1/11/10 Estep, Kentucky.com, Thousands of jobs could be created in renewable-fuels industry

1/11/10 Mufson, WP, In China, fear of a real estate bubble

1/11/10 NYT, In Hasan Case, Superiors Ignored Their Own Worries

1/11/10 Guardian, Walk yourself fit

1/11/10 Webb, Guardian, UK gas reserves down to six hours as imports fail to arrive

1/11/10 BBC, China faces growing gender imbalance

1/11/10 BBC, Egypt tombs suggest free men built pyramids, not slaves

1/11/10 BBC, Gurkha veterans lose pensions test case battle with MoD

1/11/10 Adam, Guardian, Leading climate scientist challenges Mail on Sunday's use of his research

1/11/10 Simms, Guardian, Nine meals from anarchy

1/11/10 Erdman, CNN, NASA moves forward with Mars exploration plan

1/11/10 BBC, Jurassic tree survives big chill in trust garden

1/11/10 Hareal, Ha'aretz, U.S. to store $800m in military gear in Israel

1/11/10 Pilger, IntelDaily, Welcome to Orwell's world

1/11/10 Hancock, Iowa Independent, Study: CAFOs a Threat to Public Health

1/11/10 Evans-Prtichard, Telegraph, America Slides Deeper Into Depression as Wall Street Revels

1/11/10 Kapralos, GlobalPost, Non-Christians Need Not Apply

January 10, 2010

1/10/10 Englehardt & Turse, Tom Dispatch, The Shadow War

1/10/10 Ames & Norton-Taylor, Guardian, Alastair Campbell had Iraq dossier changed to fit US claims

1/10/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, A social science approach to global warming denialism--Part 3

1/10/10 Drew, NYT, Military Is Deluged in Intelligence From Drones

1/10/10 Jordans, AP, Switzerland, other European nations are slapping rich drivers with massive traffic fines

1/10/10 Rosenbaum, Firedoglake, Blackwater Wants $1 Billion to Train the New Afghan Police Force

1/10/10 Tucker, FT, Insurers rush to strike Asian deals

1/10/10 PublicRecord, AIG's Backdoor Bailout Revealed

1/10/10 Krieger, Deep Journal, US preparing military for possible Iran conflict

1/10/10 Leopold, AP, For the Unemployed, New Job Often Means a Pay Cut

1/10/10 Al Jazeera, China becomes biggest exporter

1/10/10 Aizenman, WP, Immigrants invest in U.S. businesses in exchange for visas

1/10/10 Miles, Reuters, China's commodity imports soar in December

1/10/10 Heller, Reuters, U.S. suggestion of sanctions causes stir in Israel

1/10/10 Connolly, Guardian, Anarchists in Berlin turn anger on new 'bourgeoisie'

1/10/10 Beaumont, Guardian, Violence, fear and confusion: welcome to the Horn of Africa

January 9, 2010

1/09/10 Issenberg, Boston Globe, Sanders a Growing Force on the Far, Far Left

1/09/10 BBC, Migrants evacuated from southern Italian town

1/09/10 Eley, WSWS, US loses 85,000 jobs in December

1/09/10 Ames, AlterNet, Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions

1/09/10 AP, Where did SF Bay's sea lions go? Try Oregon Coast

1/09/10 Lardner, AP, Xe Services Aiming for Afghan Police Training Deal

1/09/10 Rothchild, Progressive, A Horrendous Decision on Habeas Corpus

1/09/10 Kryt, ITT, SLIDESHOW: Inside the World's Newest Police State

1/09/10 Hooper. Guardian, Racial violence continues in Italy as four migrant workers wounded in shootings

1/09/10 Batty, Guardian, Killer of CIA agents in Afghanistan calls for revenge

1/09/10 Nichols, Nation, The 2010 Political Timebomb Is Unemployment

1/09/10 BBC, Schwarzenegger unveils California budget cuts

1/09/10 al-Ansary, Reuters, Iraq confiscates arms in private security crackdown

1/09/10 Ghattas, BBC, Hillary Clinton sets out US plan for Middle East peace

1/09/10 Graff, Reuters, Afghans agree to take over U.S. prison at Bagram

1/09/10 Rudin, BBC, UK 'paid Afghan warlord $2m to find Osama Bin Laden'

1/09/10 BBC, US warns of attacks on Uganda-Sudan planes

1/09/10 Bernstein, NYT, Documents Reveal Earlier Immigrant Deaths

1/09/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, A social science approach to global warming denialism--Part 1

1/09/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Bush-Obama DOJ runs protection racket for superwealthy tax cheats

1/09/10 Harris, Guardian, CIA bomber's 'martyrdom' video urges more US attacks

1/09/10 Dawar, CNN, 4 killed in suspected drone strike in Pakistan

January 8, 2010

1/08/10 Taylor, IntelDaily, Black America's economic freefall

1/08/10 Kaye, Public Record, Under Auspices of the Army Field Manual, Ongoing Torture Interrogations Continue at Guantanamo

1/08/10 Elliott, Guardian, US fears double-dip recession with rising job losses

1/08/10 AFP, US Wary Over Granting Bagram Inmates' Rights

1/08/10 Partlow, WP, U.S. military investigates allegations of detainee abuse in Afghanistan

1/08/10 Fahrenthold, WP, Scientists say mountaintop mining should be stopped

1/08/10 Ahrens & Musgrove, WP, Rising gas prices could be a drag on economic recovery

1/08/10 Pavey, PSL, Grand jury justifies racist police killing in Rockford, Ill.

1/08/10 Frean, Times Online, Monsanto Officer Believes It Is 'on the Verge of a Technology Explosion"

1/08/10 Edwards & Byrne, Raw Stroty, Giuliani: 'We Had No Domestic Attacks Under Bush'

1/08/10 Ananda, TruthOut, Three Approved GMO's Linked to Organ Damage

1/08/10 Progressive, An Interview with Elizabeth Warren

1/08/10 Madrigal, Wired, Bee Colony Collapse May Have Several Causes

1/08/10 Smith, Sac Bee, Sacramento, Central Valley bankruptcy filings soar to all-time high

1/08/10 Perdomo, AlterNet, U.S. One of Two Countries Where Kids' Educational Attainment is Lower Than Their Parents'

1/08/10 Bhadrakumar, Asia Times, Russia, China, Iran redraw energy map

1/08/10 Sharip, Asia Times, China tightens grip on Kazakh gas

1/08/10 Tankersley & Roosevelt, LAT, EPA proposes nation's strictest smog limits ever

1/08/10 Scahill, Nation, Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?

1/08/10 Kirkpatrick, NYT, Courts Roll Back Limits on Spending in Election Law

1/08/10 Landler, NYT, U.S. Has Few Resources to Face Threats in Yemen

1/08/10 Saturen, ITT, Losing Liberal Arts

1/08/10 Savage, NYT, Obama Takes New Route to Opposing Parts of Laws

1/08/10 McCurry, Guardian, Anti-whaling boat Ady Gil sinks off Antarctica

1/07/10 CNN, Two security contractors charged in Afghanistan killings

1/08/10 Greenhouse, NYT, Unions Oppose Possible Health Insurance Tax

1/08/10 Labott & Dougherty, CNN, State Department failed to confirm terror suspect's visa

1/08/10 Hawkley, BBC, International nuclear bank - helping world peace?

January 7, 2010

1/07/10 BBC, Hormones 'govern ability to breastfeed'

1/07/10 BBC, Aid groups warn of Sudan civil war risk

1/07/10 CNN, White House denies new details on suspect emerged during flight

1/07/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Hoenig Talks Sense On Casino Banks

1/07/10 O'Donnell, AFP, Afghan War Kills 3 Children a Day: Report

1/07/10 Eggen, WP, How interest groups behind health-care legislation are financed is often unclear

1/07/10 Bumiller, NYT, Many Ex-Detainees Said to Be Engaged in Terror

1/07/10 Mencimer, MoJo, Is the Secret Service Targeting the Birthers?

1/07/10 Gorman, LAT, UCLA study says legalizing undocumented immigrants would help the economy

1/07/10 Silver, ITT, Comcast Launches 'TV Everywhere': Say Goodbye to Free Online Television

1/07/10 Macalister, Guardian, 1970s-style rationing as National Grid cuts off gas to factories

1/07/10 Whewell, BBC, Witch-doctors reveal extent of child sacrifice in Uganda

1/07/10 BBC, US approves Taiwan missile sales

1/07/10 Philpott, Island Bucket, Agent Orange rule could cost VA billions

1/07/10 Reuters, Former Bush lawyer charged with attempted murder

1/07/10 Haughney, NYT, Further Slide Seen in N.Y. Commercial Real Estate

1/07/10 Gordon, McClatchy, Fed delayed disclosure of controversial AIG payout

1/07/10 Barr, CNN, The AIG fiasco keeps getting worse

1/07/10 McClean, BBC, Philippines massacre: Commission to take on 100 private armies

1/07/10 Klare, Asia Times, The blowback effect, 2020

January 6, 2010

1/06/10 MacNamara, FT, Chinese stake in African Minerals

1/06/10 Costello, NPR, Why The Bond Market Rules The World

1/06/10 WorldFocus, U.S. military official accuses CIA of lacking key knowledge

1/06/10 WorldFocus, Ethnicity still divides Bosnia, threatening its fragile peace

1/06/10 Shankman, ProPublica, Stricter Rules for Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Land

1/06/10 Lerner, CNN, Vandana Shiva: Farmer Suicides in India Linked to Debt, Globalization

1/06/10 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress?

1/06/10 Reuters, U.S. contractor worked for "secret services": Cuba

1/06/10 Rotella, LAT, U.S. learned intelligence on airline bomb suspect while he was en route

1/06/10 Branigan, Guardian, New toxic milk case in China kept secret for a year, reports say

1/06/10 CNN, Sources: Suspected drone strikes kill militants in Pakistan

1/06/10 BBC, Turkmenistan opens new Iran gas pipeline

1/06/10 Fitzpatrick, BBC, Methane release 'looks stronger'

1/06/10 BBC, Dark matter 'beach ball' unveiled

1/06/10 Boseley, Guardian, Care homes forcing elderly to have feeding tubes fitted

1/06/10 Brown, Asia Times, China's space program poised to surge

1/06/10 Levya, Progressive, We should overhaul network of secret immigrant jails

1/06/10 Spence, IntelDaily, Wars "R" Us: Making the World Safe for American Domination

1/06/10 Ridgeway, MoJo, Who's Getting Rich From the Naked Full-Body Scanner Boom?

1/06/10 Drawbaugh & Jones, Reuters, Global financial regulation overhaul seen in 2010

1/06/10 Tabuchi, NYT, Survivor of 2 Atomic Bombs Dies at 93

1/06/10 Lazarus, LAT, Banks take revenge for new consumer rules

1/06/10 CNN, Sen. Dodd to retire, sources tell CNN

1/06/10 BBC, Anti-whaling activists accuse Japan fleet of attack

January 5, 2010

1/05/10 Grey, WSWS, Three top Wall Street banks to award $49.5 billion in year-end bonuses

1/05/10 Eley, WSWS, New Year in America: A portrait of social misery

1/05/10 Kaiser Foundation, Clinton Foundation Releases Donor List

1/05/10 MacAskill et al, Guardian, CIA Agents in Afghanistan Are 'Menace to Themselves,' Former Operatives Claim

1/05/10 Hambling, Wired, Air Force Completes Killer Micro-Drone Project

1/05/10 Al Jazeera, China river oil spill 'serious'

1/05/10 Brulliard, WP, Pakistan worried U.S. buildup in Afghanistan will send militants across border

1/05/10 Danto, Progressive, "Avatar" falls into old trap

1/05/10 Reuters, Study turns up 10 autism clusters in California

1/05/10 Hussein, NYT, The Surge Is Over. The Americans Are Going. I'm Leaving Iraq.

1/05/10 AP, Giant Tuna Fetches $177, 000 at Japanese Auction

1/05/10 Schmitt, NYT, Slow Start for Military Corps in Afghanistan

1/05/10 Leonhardt, NYT, If Fed Missed This Bubble, Will It See a New One?

1/05/10 Broad, NYT, Iran Shielding Its Nuclear Efforts in Maze of Tunnels

1/05/10 Deen, IPS, Russia, China Sustain Military Toehold in Yemen

1/05/10 Robinson, CNN, Family's 'Angel' dog saves boy from cougar attack

1/05/10 Faraj, CNN, Jordanian doctor called double agent behind CIA attack

1/05/10 Labott, CNN, U.S. lowers threshold for inclusion on no-fly lists

1/05/10 BBC, Giving up smoking 'raises diabetes risk'

1/05/10 BBC, Airport body scanners to get code of conduct

1/05/10 Bourton, BBC, Two killer whale types found in UK waters

1/05/10 BBC, Benn unveils plan to boost UK food and 'grow your own'

1/05/10 BBC, Cocaine cargo hidden in bananas reaches shops in Spain

1/05/10 Gardner, BBC, Afghanistan CIA killings a major blow to US and Jordan

1/05/10 Black, BBC, Arctic roots of 'upside-down' weather

1/05/10 Hennigan & Hsu, LAT, Northrop Grumman moving headquarters to Washington, D.C., area

1/05/10 Kay, FT, The cause of our crises has not gone away

1/05/10 Clark, CSM, Environment: In Peru's Amazon, finding gold but leaving mercury

January 4, 2010

1/04/10 Lindorff, Public Record, Are U.S. Forces Executing Kids in Afghanistan? Americans Don't Even Know to Ask

1/04/10 Goodnough, NYT, For Cape Cod Wind Farm, New Hurdle Is Spiritual

1/04/10 Berger, IPS, Invasive Species Multiply in U.S. Waterways

1/04/10 Silverlieb, CNN, Report: Threats against federal judges, prosecutors rise sharply

1/04/10 Ford, CSM, Beijing battles heaviest snowfall in decades with shovels and bamboo

1/04/10 AP, Tsunami hits Solomon Islands village

1/04/10 Bezlova, IPS, POLITICS: Backlash against Rogue Chinese Investors Alarms Beijing

1/04/10 BBC, Obama effigy hanged in Jimmy Carter's home town

1/04/10 BBC, 'One in six' children have difficulty learning to talk

1/04/10 Freedman, Earth Island Journal, Swimming in Natural Gas: The Greenwashing of an Industry

1/04/10 Vaughn, Guardian, Climate Change Scepticism Will Increase Hardship for World's Poor: IPCC Chief

1/04/10 Grossman, Wired, Age of Solar System Needs to Be Recalculated

1/04/10 Al Jazeera, Iraq to take Blackwater to court

1/04/10 Al Jazeera, Belarus report pushes up oil price

1/04/10 Layton, WP, Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under law

1/04/10 Grieder, Nation, Looting Social Security, Part 2

1/04/10 Retuers, U.S. judge rejects leniency for UBS whistleblower

1/04/10 Revkin, NYT, Cold Arctic Pressure Pattern Nearly Off Chart

1/04/10 Broad, NYT, C.I.A. Data Sharing With Environmental Scientists Is Revived

1/04/10 Travis, Guardian, New scanners break child porn laws

1/04/10 BBC, CIA bomber was a 'Jordanian informant', US media say

1/04/10 BBC, Pension savings 'deteriorating'

1/04/10 BBC, US lifts HIV/Aids immigration ban

1/04/10 BBC, Singapore economy sees contraction

1/04/10 Amos, BBC, Nasa's Kepler planet-hunter detects five worlds

1/04/10 Walker, BBC, The giant Amazon arapaima fish is 'under threat'

January 3, 2010

1/03/10 Barboza, NYT, Large Oil Spill Reported in China

1/03/10 Kakissis, NYT, Environmental Refugees Unable to Return Home

1/03/10 Macalsiter, Guardian, Manufacturing sector savages Darling claim that Labour supports green jobs

1/03/10 BBC, Brazil landslides 'may close nuclear plants'

1/03/10 CNN, Quake leaves 20,000 homeless in Tajikistan

1/03/10 Rampell, NYT, Bernanke Blames Weak Regulation for Financial Crisis

1/03/10 Hodgson, TruthOut, Escape from Pottersville: Strengthening Banking in the Public Interest

1/03/10 Al Jazeera, Leak threatens China's Yellow River

1/03/10 Irwin, WP, Bernanke: Regulatory policy is best defense against housing bubbles

1/03/10 Syal & Townsend, Guardian, How a radical student joined the global terror network

1/03/10 Macalister, Guardian, Shell accused of abandoning solar power buyers in the developing world

1/03/10 Smith Guardian, Jacob Zuma to wed Tobeka Madiba, South Africa's third first lady

1/03/10 CNN, U.S., Britain close embassies in Yemen

1/03/10 BBC, Hundreds flee Australia flooding

January 2, 2010

1/02/10 Deep Journal, Over 700 killed in 44 drone strikes in 2009

1/02/10 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman's Offshore Deals Deepened Global Financial Crisis

1/02/10 Fisher, PSL, U.S. intelligence: Time is running out in Afghanistan

1/02/10 DeParle, NYT, Living on Nothing but Food Stamps

1/02/10 Lynn, Alternet, Mega Giant Corporations Are Very Bad for America

1/02/10 Milmo, Independent, Concern as China Clamps Down on Rare Earth Exports

1/02/10 Blood, AP, Solar showdown in Calif. tortoises' desert home

1/02/10 Irwin, WP, Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers

1/02/10 AP, Karzai Choices for Afghan Cabinet Mostly Rejected

1/02/10 BBC, Saudi Arabia asks Iran to free Bin Laden daughter

1/02/10 BBC, Sweden culls its resurgent wolves

January 1, 2010

1/01/10 Davies, SMH, US Aid Tied to Purchase of Arms

1/01/10 Santos, NYT, In the Shadows, Day Laborers Left Homeless as Work Vanishes

1/01/10 Ricardi, LAT, Immigration law ignites fear in Arizona

1/01/10 Smith, Guardian, Married Malawian gay couple face test to prove they had sexual relations

1/01/10 Garofalo, Think Progress, Wall Street Ready to Claim Billions in Tax Breaks on Bonus Payments

1/01/10 CNN, Pope's peace message focuses on environment

1/01/10 CNN, Iraq to sue ex-Blackwater guards

1/01/10 Ahlers, CNN, TSA withdraws subpoenas of travel bloggers

1/01/10 BBC, Iraq 'regrets' US decision to clear Blackwater guards

1/01/10 BBC, Afghan CIA bomber 'was courted as potential informant'

1/01/10 CNN, Mountain falls onto Brazil resort; 22 killed