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February 28, 2010
2/28/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The myth that conservative welfare reform worked--Part 2
2/28/10 Wainwright, Guardian, Opposition mounts to 'factory farm' plans that will house 8,100 cows
2/28/10 Luhby, CNN, Extended jobless benefits start ending
2/28/10 CNN, Suspected CIA suicide bomber calls American team 'gift from God'
2/28/10 BBC, Chile quake affects two million, says Bachelet
2/28/10 Usbourne, Independent, Utah Women May Face Murder Charges After Miscarriages
2/28/10 Fischer, IPS, Senate Torture Probe Uncovers Missing Emails
2/28/10 Richburg, WP, In Afghanistan, U.S. seeks to fix a tattered system of justice
2/28/10 Jaffee, WP, Combat Generation: Drone operators climb on winds of change in the Air Force
2/28/10 Al Jazeera, Somalia's Shabab bans UN food aid
2/28/10 Sanger & Shanker, NYT, White House Is Rethinking Nuclear Policy
2/28/10 Bowers, OpenLeft, National Crisis Electoral Flowchart
February 27, 2010
2/27/10 Witte and Miller, CSM, Chile earthquake much stronger than Haiti's but far less damage. Why?
2/27/10 Sturcke, Guardian, Giant Antarctic Iceberg Could Affect Global Ocean Circulation
2/27/10 Chatterjee, IPS, DynCorp Oversight in Afghanistan Faulted
2/27/10 Londono & Fadel, WP, Ahmed Chalabi's renewed influence in Iraq concerns U.S.
February 26, 2010
2/26/10 BBC, Trail of Dubai hit squad suspects
2/26/10 Booth & Hirsch, Guardian, Torture Ruling Passages Critical of MI5 are Restored
2/26/10 Capdevilla, IPS, Death Penalty Phasing Out Worldwide
2/26/10 Umansky, ProPublica, DOJ Report on Waterboarding Memos in Our Document Viewer
2/26/10 WorldFocus, Indigenous communities struggle for global recognition
February 25, 2010
2/25/10 Thompson, ProPublica, Former New Orleans Detective Pleads Guilty in Katrina Shooting Cover-up
2/25/10 Nation, Ten Things You Can Do to Shrink Your Carbon Footprint
2/26/10 Goldstein, NPR, AIG: Still Losing Money!
2/25/10 Cole, Deep Journal, Blackwater: Senate Committee Says the Contractor Is Armed and Dangerous
2/28/10 Pavey, PSL, Vancouver Olympics increased homelessness
2/25/10 Benno, PSL, Migrant forest workers win $2.75 million in back wages
2/25/10 Lauer, Asia Times, 'Sledgehammer' blow for Turkey
February 24, 2010
2/24/10 Sharife, FPIF, Climate Change's Secret Weapon
2/24/10 Cooke, IntelDaily, The Drive to Eliminate Social Security in America
2/24/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Obama's Nuclear Vision Suffers Setback as Vermont Plant Faces Shutdown
2/24/10 Reuters, Bernanke says rates to stay low for long time
2/24/10 Hernandez, NYT, New-Home Sales at a Low in U.S.
2/24/10 Calvin, SacBee, Anthem Blue Cross executives grilled at state Capitol
2/24/10 Blume, LAT, L.A. teachers gain control of 22 campuses in reform effort
2/24/10 Ebrahim, IPS, PAKISTAN: Transgenders Make Their Presence Felt at the Workplace
2/24/10 BBC, Oil spill reaches Italy's River Po after 'sabotage'
2/24/10 Dickson et al, Guardian, Enron: how we made a drama out of a financial crisis
2/24/10 Bowers. Guardian, North Sea oil 'could last at least a decade'
2/24/10 ENS, Smart Centers Planned to Recycle Mountains of Toxic E-Waste
2/24/10 Pal, PSL, We Need to Save the Earth
2/24/10 Holt, BBC, Child migrant recalls his 'stolen life'
2/24/10 BBC, Google bosses convicted in Italy
2/24/10 Tighe, BBC, 'Date-rape drugs' are on the rise, UN warns
2/24/10 Black, BBC, A stark snapshot of nature loss
2/24/10 Gill, BBC, Plastic rubbish blights Atlantic Ocean
2/24/10 BBC, French rail SNCF sorry for 'racist' alert on Romanians
February 23, 2010
2/23/10 Al Jazeera, Haiti's neglected orphans
2/23/10 Al Jazeera, US vows probe into Afghan deaths
2/23/10 BBC, Argentina rallies regional support over Falklands
2/23/10 Casciani, BBC, Fresh legal challenge over MI5 torture guidance
2/23/10 Africa News, U.S troops to train Congo soldiers
2/23/10 Jones, ProPublica, Inside the Administration's Deal with the Pharmaceutical Lobby
2/23/10 Spolar, Huffington, Military Training of Afghan National Police Mired in Contract Dispute
2/23/10 Bryneart, Raw Story, Kucinich Challenges Gates on Civilians Killed in Afghanistan
2/23/10 McCarthy, Guardian, Rachel Corrie's Family Brings Civil Suit over Human Shield's Death in Gaza
2/23/10 Al Jazeera, Marjah residents receive food aid
2/23/10 Eder & Stempel, Reuters, Wall Street bonuses jumped 17 percent last year
2/23/10 Thompson, NYT, Questions Surface After Haitian Airlift
2/23/10 Schulman, MoJo, Blackwater's Gunrunners
2/23/10 Bluegrass Politics, Report: Payday lending fees damage urban, rural areas
2/23/10 Branan, SacBee, Child homicides challenge Fresno Co. coroner
2/23/10 Porter, IPS, AFGHANISTAN: Marja Offensive Aimed to Shape U.S. Opinion on War
2/23/10 Elliott, Guardian, Too soon to cut public spending, IMF warns
2/23/10 Vidal, Guardian, Air pollution 'may cause 35,000 premature deaths a year in Britain'
2/23/10 Jena, IPS, INDIA: Indigenous Groups Step Up Protests Over Mining Project
2/23/10 Sirota, OpenLeft, The Stunningly Persistent & Fact-Free Propaganda of Tom Friedman
2/23/10 Watts, Guardian, China's soil deterioration may become growing food crisis, adviser claims
2/23/10 BBC, China tightens internet controls
2/23/10 Feffer, FPIF, Our Taliban
2/23/10 Shah, CSM, Afghanistan war: Marjah offensive is trial run for Kandahar push
February 22, 2010
2/22/10 IntelDaily, Afghans hate US backed war lords
2/22/10 van Duynin, FT, Concern about FDIC's proposals
2/22/10 DeGraw, Public Record, Part IV: The Financial Coup d'Etat: The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the USA
2/22/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Big Banks Are More Expensive
2/22/10 Shankman, ProPublica, Gas Drillers Plead Guilty to Felony Dumping Violations
2/22/10 Andrews, ProPublica, A Fuzzy Definition of 'Home' Proves Lucrative for Calif. Lawmakers
2/22/10 Kapur, Raw Story, Group Wants Courts to Play 'Keep Away' from Torture Lawyers
2/22/10 AFP, US Lawmakers Push to Phase Out Wartime Contractors
2/22/10 Schmidt, AP - USA Today, Early, aggressive therapy eyed in blocking AIDS
2/22/10 Vanden Huevel, Nation, Snipping at Immigrants' Safety Net
2/22/10 Shane, NYT, Destroying C.I.A. Tapes Wasn't Opposed, Memos Say
2/22/10 Lichtblau, NYT, Lawmakers' Ties to Toyota Questioned at Start of Inquiries
2/22/10 Martin & Lieber, NYT, Banks Pressure Customers to Keep Fees Rolling In
2/22/10 Day, McClatchy, U.S. spending $600 million on Afghan police stations
2/22/10 Englehardt, MoJo, The Afghan Mask Slips
2/22/10 Rexrode, Charlotte Observer, Judge reluctantly allows Bank of America to settle with SEC
2/22/10 Fisher, IPS, U.S.: Gov't Sued Over Cell Phone Tracking
2/22/10 Leahy, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Tsunami of E-Waste Could Swamp Developing Countries
2/22/10 Johnson, Guardian, UN calls for action on growing electronic waste
2/22/10 Traynor, Guardian, Poland admits role in CIA rendition programme
2/22/10 Bowers, Guardian, Falkland Islands oil drilling begins
2/22/10 MacAskill, Guardian, Obama pushes healthcare reform plan to break deadlock
2/22/10 Huang, CSM, Dubai assassination: UAE demands justice but with what leverage?
February 21, 2010
2/21/10 Landay, McClatchy, Probes Overlook McChrystal's Role in Costly Afghan Battles
2/21/10 AP, Israel Unveils New Drone Fleet that Can Reach Iran
2/21/10 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Asia-Produced Ozone Making its Way to U.S., Study Finds
2/21/10 Burge, Boston Globe, Tracking a New Kind of Civil Disobedience
2/21/10 Stroebel, McClatchy, War Game Shows How Attacking Iran Could Backfire
2/21/10 McKie, Guardian, Acidified Landscape Foretells Grim Future for Coral Reefs
2/21/10 Chaandrsekaran, WP, As Marja assault progresses, coalition considers challenges in rebuilding area
February 20, 2010
2/20/10 Lambert, Reuters, Bad Economies in States to Worsen: Governors
2/20/10 Fahrenthold, WP, Climate change's impact on forests being measured via expanding tree trunks
2/20/10 Al Jazeera, Darfur group 'ready for ceasefire'
2/20/10 Al Jazeera, ICC outrage over Guinea massacre
2/20/10 Haider, Reuters, Pakistan kills 30 militants in air strike
2/20/10 Batty, Guardian, Dutch government collapses after Labour withdrawal from coalition
2/20/10 Basu, CNN, Rare rhino pregnancy fuels hope for endangered species
2/20/10 CNN, Airstrikes kill 30 militants in Pakistan
2/20/10 McDermid, Asia Times, New force emerges in Kirkuk
2/20/10 BBC, US urges Cuba to release 'spy suspect' Alan Gross
February 19, 2010
2/19/10 Jowitt, Guardian, World's Top Firms Cause $2.2 Trillion of Environmental Damage, Report Estimates
2/19/10 McMurray, AP, Beleaguered US to Blow Up Its Chemical Weapons Stockpiles
2/19/10 Eckholm, NYT, A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods
2/19/10 Newman, RH Reality Check, ACLU Sues USAID: Are We Exporting US Taxpayer-Funded Religion?
2/19/10 Leopold, TruthOut, DOJ Report on Torture Memo: Yoo Said Bush Could Order Civilians "Exterminated"
2/19/10 Barry, Wired, Take That, Chevy Volt! Cal Poly Car Gets 2,752 MPG
2/19/10 Bailey & Gorman, Reuters, Government was told of Toyota claims in 2004: insurer
2/19/10 Mason, Reuters, Obama unveils new fund to address housing woes
2/19/10 Lichtblau & Shane, NYT, Report Faults 2 Authors of Bush Terror Memos
2/19/10 Doyle, McClatchy, Once again, quest for Armenian genocide resolution begins
2/19/10 Barrett, McClatchy, Navy agrees to study impact of Camp Lejeune's toxic water
2/19/10 Taylor, McClatchy, Justice Department clears Bush lawyers for 'torture memos'
2/19/10 Guardian, After the Tsunami came a flood of developers
2/19/10 Irving, Guardian, How fair trade can help tackle poverty and bring peace to conflict zones
2/19/10 Davies, Guardian, The great economics rift reopens
2/19/10 Prados, FPIF, CIA Accountability Hits New Lows
2/19/10 CNN, FBI concludes investigation into 2001 anthrax mailings
2/19/10 BBC, Niger's coup leaders lift curfew
February 18, 2010
2/18/10 Hebehay, Reuters, New seasonal flu vaccine to contain H1N1 strain
2/18/10 Schulman, MoJo, The War Criminal Next Door
2/18/10 Virgo, IPS, HAITI: Food Crisis Looms
2/18/10 Gantz, ITT, Helping Haiti, for a Price
2/18/10 Guardian, The National Geographic archives: Agriculture in Ecuador Video
2/18/10 CNN, Report: Officers lose 243 Homeland Security guns
2/18/10 Yousuf, CNN, Jobless claims rise unexpectedly
2/18/10 Pollin, Nation, 18 Million Jobs by 2012
2/18/10 Pierson, LAT, Young, educated and jobless in China
February 17, 2010
2/17/10 Deep Journal, Governments ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag Terror
2/17/10 Berger, IPS, POLITICS: Cluster Bomb Ban to Become Law - Without U.S.
2/17/10 BBC, Oil deal 'damaging for Uganda environment'
2/17/10 Branigan, Guardian, hina sells $34.2bn of US treasury bonds
2/17/10 Dillon, NYT, Plan Would Let Students Start College After 10th Grade
2/17/10 Al Jazeera, French oil refineries hit by strike
2/17/10 Colson, Socialist Worker, Christian Right kidnappers
2/17/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, MK-ULTRA: The CIA's Mind Control Program
2/17/10 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Afghanistan: Charlie Wilson And America's 30-Year War
2/17/10 Kaiser Foundation, Additional 4M People In Asia Could Fall To 'Extreme Poverty' Level This Year, Report Says
2/17/10 Rappeport, DeepJournal, Lone voice warns of debt threat to Fed
2/17/10 Terkel, AlterNet, Glenn Beck Loses 103 Sponsors as His UK Broadcast Runs 5 Days With No Ads
2/17/10 DeGraw, AlterNet, The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth -- What's It Going to Take to Get It Back?
2/17/10 Laessing, Reuters, Yemen's Water Crisis Eclipses al Qaeda Threat
2/17/10 Tencer, Raw Story, Ruling Means Gitmo Detainees Have No Legal Protection: Rights Group
2/17/10 Houreld, AP, UN says US aid restrictions hurting hungry Somalis
2/17/10 Al Jazeera, Pakistan plot suspects 'tortured'
2/17/10 Carvaljo, Reuters, Group to reveal laundering, terror funding blacklist
2/17/10 Lewin, NYT, Study Finds Public Discontent With Colleges
2/17/10 Northland, NYT, U.N. Rejects 'Militarization' of Afghan Aid
2/17/10 Berrigan, MoJo, America's Global Weapons Monopoly
2/17/10 Drogan, LAT, In a doomsday cyber attack scenario, answers are unsettling
2/17/10 Demytrie, BBC, Tajikistan threatened by climate change, says Oxfam
2/17/10 BBC, Israel makes life very hard for Palestinians, says ICRC
2/17/10 BBC, Argentina toughens shipping rules in Falklands oil row
2/17/10 BBC, Philippine rebels reject power-sharing proposal
February 16, 2010
2/16/10 Costello, NPR, $1 Trillion State Pension Gap
2/16/10 McNulty & Fifield, FT, BP deals blow to Obama fight on climate
2/16/10 Terrett, AL Jazeera, US Black Farmers Seek Compensation
2/16/10 Gerstein, Politico, Lindsey Graham: White House Mulling Indefinite Detention
2/16/10 Drummond, Wired, Darpa Looks to Build Real-Life C3P0
2/16/10 Al Jazeera, Refugees flood Congo-Brazzaville
2/16/10 Mason, Reuters, Obama ups nuclear investment for climate fight
2/16/10 Englehardt, MoJo, Fear Inc.
2/16/10 Zavis & Gorman, LAT, Proposed cuts would end California assistance for most new legal immigrants
2/16/10 Puzzanghera & Lee, LAT, New wave of foreclosures by end of 2010 is feared
February 15, 2010
2/15/10 Macalister, Guardian, Oil Giants Demand Open Market for World's Dirtiest Fuel
2/15/10 Barrett, McClatchy, Marine Base's Ex-Residents, Many Ill, Only Now Learning of Toxic Water
2/15/10 Godoy, IPS, Nuclear Does Not Make Economic Sense Say Studies
2/15/10 Nation, 'The Cleveland Model': Democracy, Community, and Economic Vision
2/15/10 Fawthrop, Al Jazeera, Cuba's Aid to Haiti Ignored by the US Media?
February 14, 2010
2/14/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Goldman Goes Rogue - Special European Audit To Follow
2/14/10 Pensacola Beach Journal, Floridians Gather to Say 'No' to Offshore Drilling
2/14/10 AP, NATO: Troops miss target, kill 12 Afghan civilians during offensive in south Afghanistan
2/14/10 Eggen, WP, Success of President Obama's crackdown on lobbying questioned
2/14/10 ElBoghdady & Merle, WP, Refinancing unavailable for many borrowers
2/14/10 Reuters, U.S. drone kills five in northwest Pakistan
2/14/10 McKie, Guardian, Push to ban trade in endangered bluefin tuna
2/14/10 Abawi, CNN, Troops, Taliban battle for second day in Afghan offensive
2/14/10 Fantz, CNN, ConocoPhillips Alaska president killed in avalanche
2/14/10 CNN, Spectators hurt by waves at US surfing contest
February 13, 2010
2/13/10 Eley, WSWS, America, the land of inequality
2/13/10 Hari, Independent, Obama's Secret Prisons in Afghanistan Endanger Us All
2/13/10 Kirchgaessner & McNulty, FT, Obama offers nuclear plant loan guarantee
2/13/10 Pincus, WP, Under plan, intelligence agencies would be consulted before reading of rights
2/13/10 Doherty, Reuters, Obama names U.S. envoy to Muslim world body
2/13/10 Lacey & Urbina, NYT, Church Adviser May Face Warrant
2/13/10 Story et al, NYT, Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe's Crisis
2/13/10 Porter, How the Taliban pressed bin Laden
February 12, 2010
2/12/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, Study shows working families choose between shelter, medical care and food
2/12/10 Worthington, PublicRecord, Torture in Afghanistan and Guantanamo: Shaker Aamer's Lawyers Speak
2/12/10 Kaye, Public Record, Release the 42 CIA Documents on Binyam Mohamed's Brutal Torture
2/12/10 McGeogh, SMH, America's Deadly Robots Rewrite the Rules of War
2/12/10 Botari, Bankster USA, Goldman Accused of Rigging 'Robin Hood Tax' Vote
2/12/10 Greenwald, Salon, Then and Now: Rule of Law, Mukasey, and Obama's DOJ
2/12/10 Andrews, ProPublica, Former U.S. Regulators Helped Quash Toyota Investigations
2/12/10 Hayes, Nation, The Breakdown: Stimulus Wins and Losses
2/12/10 Baumann, MoJo, Subprime Goes Hollywood
2/12/10 Sirota, ITT, Beyond Budget Brainwashing
2/12/10 Campos, FPIF, 'Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field'
2/12/10 Weir, CSM, 20 insurgents killed as Jihadist attacks rise in Russia's Caucasus
February 11, 2010
2/11/10 Ross, PublicRecord, The Government's Secret Hit List
2/11/10 Kenney, NPR, Foreclosures Up 15 Percent From January 2009
2/11/10 Daniel, TruthOut Bagram, Obama's Secret Penal Colony
2/11/10 AP, Feds pass on surest solution to Asian carp advance
2/11/10 Socor, Asia TImes, Shtokman gas project postponed
2/11/10 Fekete, Asia Times, When money refuses to flow uphill
2/11/10 Klein, Nation, Haiti: A Creditor, Not a Debtor
February 10, 2010
2/11/10 Reisinger, Cnet,
2/10/10 Potter, Toronto Star, 2 US Firms Wash Hands of Tar Sands
2/10/10 Sukhdev, Guardian, Putting a Value on Nature Could Set Scene for True Green Economy
2/10/10 McCArthy, Independent, Man vs Marine in the Chagos Islands
2/10/10 Winton, LAT, Former hospital executive will plead guilty to paying kickbacks
2/10/10 ChicagoBreaking News, Mild earthquake rattles Chicago area
2/10/10 Muwakkil, ITT, On Air With Black America
2/10/10 Leggett, Guardian, Society ignores the oil crunch at its peril
2/10/10 Vistesen, Guardian, Keeping the eurozone afloat
2/10/10 CNN, Greek workers strike as government tightens belt
2/10/10 BBC, US trade deficit widens as imports outpace exports
2/10/10 Ahn & Kirk, FPIF, Democracy Thwarts U.S. Base Plans
February 9, 2010
2/09/10 Drummond, Wired, With Darpa's 'Transparent Earth,' Underground Doesn't Mean Out of Sight
2/09/10 Salih, IPS, Language of Iran Sanctions Leads to Familiar 'Regime Change' Threats
2/09/10 Hickman, Independent, Palm Oil Deal 'A Threat to the Rainforest'
2/09/10 Slevin, WO, Haiti earthquake relief efforts are still falling short
2/09/10 Frykberg, IPS, MIDEAST: Gaza Energy Crisis Averted - For Now
2/09/10 Watts, Guardian, Chinese farms cause more pollution than factories, says official survey
2/09/10 Nasiripour, Huffington, Elizabeth Warren: Time For Wall Street CEOs To 'Earn Back' America's Trust
2/09/10 Smalheer, Rutland Herald, Tritium Hot Zone Expands Around Vermont Nuclear Plant
2/09/10 Costantini, IPS, Fighting Off Looters in the Ruins of Wall Street
2/09/10 Flanders, GritTV, The F Word: Lifting the Veil on US Troops in Pakistan
2/09/09 Quiggley, TruthOut, Haiti Numbers - 27 Days After the Quake
2/09/10 Roberts, NYT, Congress and Country: Behold the Differences
2/09/10 Turse, MoJo, America's Shadowy Base World
2/09/10 Demer, ADN, Alaska debates ethics rules raised during Palin's tenure
2/09/10 Moubayed, Asia Times, Israeli case for war with Syria - and Lebanon
2/09/10 Shahzad, Asia Times, Pakistan's military sets Afghan terms
2/09/10 Baker, AlterNet, False Profits: We Will Be Suffering from Greenspan and Bernanke's Ineptitude for a Long Time
2/09/10 Eilperin, WP, U.S. proposes new climate service
2/09/10 Graff, Reuters, NATO to Afghan assault villagers: keep heads down
2/09/10 Kroll, MoJo, Why Banks Love Foreclosure
2/09/10 Kroll, MoJo, Resources for Dealing With Mortgage Servicers
2/09/10 Maugh, LAT, Study links mother's age to child's risk of autism
2/09/10 Siddique, Guardian, Iran begins enriching higher grade uranium, says state TV
2/09/10 BBC, India suspends first GM food crop on safety grounds
2/09/10 BBC, Chavez puts Venezuela under 'electricity emergency'
February 8, 2010
2/80/10 Chang, SacBee, GOP rivals in governor's race target welfare costs
2/80/10 Dahl, Reuters, Iran plans major nuclear expansion over next year
2/08/10 David Cronin interviews ISABELLA LÖVIN, IPS, Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
2/08/10 Guardian, Connecticut power plant explosion aftermath
2/08/10 Bowlby, BBC, Can battlefield robots take the place of soldiers?
2/08/10 BBC, Nigeria Anambra state election 'gravely flawed'
2/08/10 Christie, Bloomberg, Geithner Says U.S. Will 'Never' Lose Aaa Debt Rating
2/08/10 Gail, Oil Drum, Delusions of Finance: Where We are Headed
2/08/10 Fifield, FT, Melting ice alters way of life in Iqaluit
2/08/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Wall Street
2/08/10 Blumberg, NPR, Business At The Very Bottom Of The Income Ladder
2/08/10 Swanson, The Hill, Obama Starts New Push on 'Free Trade' Deals
2/08/10 Ford, CNN, Incentives to Going 'Off Grid' Bring Power to the People
2/08/10 UPI, More Blackwater Contractors Than Cops In Pakistan's Capitol
2/08/10 Singel, Wired, Google Making Gmail Into a Communications Hub
2/08/10 Galst, NYT, Making Solar Power Portable
2/08/10 Brannigan & Charles, Miami Herald, U.S. firms want part in Haiti cleanup
2/08/10 Chatterjee, MoJo, Destabilizing Pakistan
2/08/10 Shah, McClatchy, Afghan drug capital is U.S. target in coming offensive
2/08/10 Leahy, IPS, BIODIVERSITY: Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse
2/08/10 Bowers, OpenLeft, Actual Senate supermajority requirements: 72 Democrats, 54 Republicans
2/08/10 Burke, Guardian, India to rule on future of aubergine as country's first genetically modified food
2/08/10 BBC, Africa malaria drugs 'low-grade'
February 7, 2010
2/07/10 IntelDaily, Video: Waking Up in the Universe; Growing Up in the Universe
2/07/10 Canfield, AP, Even If You're Careful, Drugs Can End up in Water
2/07/10 Bowcott, Guardian, Thousands to lose jobs as universities prepare to cope with cuts
2/07/10 Elliott, Guardian, G7 close to accord on banks paying for global recession
1/30/10 Reilly, Bloomberg, Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows: Bloomberg
2/07/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Europe Risks Another Global Depression
2/07/10 Owen & Bignell, Independent, Think-Tanks Take Oil Money and Use it to Fund Climate Deniers
2/07/10 Al Jazeera, G7 pledges to wipe out Haiti debt
2/07/10 Al Jazeera, US denies 'direct Taliban contact'
2/07/10 Dahl, Reuters, Iran says arrests people hired by CIA
2/07/10 Malek, Reuters, Taliban, NATO prepare for big Helmand offensive
2/07/10 BBC, UK economy 'faces crisis' warns former IMF economist
2/07/10 Project Vote, Living the Past in the Present: Voter Intimidation Tactics Still Thrive in America
2/07/10 Godoy, IPS, CLIMATE-GERMANY: Planting the Forest of the Future
2/07/10 Naughton, Guardian, Two futures of the internet: next cold war or up in the clouds
2/07/10 Adams, Guardian, Sarah Palin: queen tea party
2/07/10 Evans & Norton-Taylor, Guardian, RAF 'relying' on drones in Afghanistan
2/07/10 Bumiller, NYT, A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person
February 6, 2010
2/06/10 Grey, WSWS, Sovereign debt fears signal new stage of global crisis
2/06/10 Ford, PSL, Venezuelan government writes off Haiti's debt
2/06/10 Boone, Guardian, Thousands of Civilians Flee Afghan Region as Nato Plans Onslaught
2/06/10 Faiola, NYT, Debt crisis unsettles European economy
February 5, 2010
2/05/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, Child Slavery in Haiti
2/05/10 Kim, Deep Journal, U.S. Uses Iran to Globalize Its Defenses, Russia Says
2/05/10 Scahill, RebelReports, Pentagon Releases Names of Soldiers Killed in Pakistan
2/05/10 Capaccio, Business Week, Pentagon to Increase Stock of High-Altitude Drones
2/05/10 Watts, Guardian, Ancient Tribal Language Becomes Extinct as Last Speaker Dies
2/05/10 Scahill, Nation, The Expanding US War in Pakistan
2/05/10 Fisher, IPS, Legal Experts Slam 'Targeted Killings' of US Citizens
2/05/10 Hayes, Nation, The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget
2/05/10 Landay & Shah, McClatchy, Why are U.S., allies telling Taliban about coming offensive?
2/05/10 Shamoo, FPIF, Iraq Policy: D
2/05/10 Chick, CSM, Romania agrees to host US missile interceptors
2/05/10 Marquand, CSM, Transatlantic, meet Pacific: China's bold stance at Munich security conference
February 4, 2010
2/04/10 Komisar, IPS, US Banks, Lobbyists Abetting Corrupt Regimes, Probe Finds
2/04/10 Jacobson, Raw Story, How Corporations Secretly Move Millions to Fund Political Ads
2/04/10 Sheppard, MoJo, Obama's Nuclear Giveaway
2/04/10 Day, CSSM, Afghanistan war: US tries to undercut Taliban at tribal level
February 3, 2010
2/03/10 Walsh, Guardian, Obama's Silent War Shocks Pakistan
February 2, 2010
2/02/10 Cole, ABC News, Same Blackwater, Different Names
2/02/10 Connor, Guardian, Global Warming Makes Trees Grow at Fastest Rate for 200 Years
2/02/10 de Souza, Montreal Gazette, Woodland Caribou Under Threat in Oilsands Area, Group Says
2/02/10 Porter, IPS, US, Karzai Clash on Unconditional Talks with Taliban
2/02/10 Vanden Heuval, Nation, No Defense for This Budget
February 1, 2010
2/01/10 Hodai, ITT, The Strange Fruit of Desperation
2/01/10 Corn et al, MoJo, Obama's Five Worst Nominees
2/01/10 Baumann, MoJo, Alan Grayson's Filibluster
2/01/10 McCandish, MoJo, Are Green Power Programs a Scam?