Month of Category: March 2010 | Return to Uncommon Thought News

March 31, 2010
3/31/10 Scheer, Nation, Sarah Palin, Neocon Messiah
3/31/10 Williams, LAT, U.S. illegally wiretapped Islamic charity group, judge rules
3/31/10 Bellos, Guardian, The Amazonian tribe that can only count up to five
3/31/10 Heydarian, FPIF, Egypt's Impending Political Earthquake
3/31/10 Landau, CNN, $250 million for abstinence education not evidence-based, groups say
3/31/10 CNN, UK lawmakers take heat off 'Climategate' scientist
3/31/10 Nissenbaum, CSM, Afghanistan war: Battle for Kandahar as much political as military
3/31/10 Pommereau, CSM, What happens when you remove all traffic signs? A German town finds out.
March 30, 2010
3/30/10 Vaidyanathan, NYT, A Race to Introduce GM Corn Before Africa's Climate Worsens
3/30/10 Kroll, MoJo, JPMorgan's War on Nature
3/30/10 Savage & Faussett, LAT, Militia members indicted on conspiracy, weapons charges
3/30/10 Douglas, ITT, The Unanswered Question
3/30/10 McGreal, Guardian, Nine teenagers charged over bullying that led to girl's suicide
3/30/10 CNN, Hadron Collider breakthrough as beams collide
3/30/10 BBC, White Zimbabwe farmers in South Africa compensation bid
3/30/10 BBC, Wylfa in Anglesey could house next UK nuclear plant
3/30/10 Fazl-el-Haider, Asia Times, IMF holds back cash to Pakistan
March 29, 2010
3/29/10 AFP, Arctic States Meet Over Resources, Military Concerns
3/29/10 AP, Big Pharma Wins Big With Health Care Reform Bill
3/29/10 Hough, Telegraph, Junk food 'as addictive as heroin and smoking'
3/29/10 Pilon, WSJ, Data Theft Hits 3.3 Million Borrowers
3/29/10 AP, Treasury says it will begin selling Citi shares
3/29/10 Reuters, Israel to allow clothes, shoes into blockaded Gaza
3/29/10 Schwartz & Pollack, NYT, Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent
3/29/10 Walsh, NYT, State Debt Woes Grow Too Big to Camouflage
3/29/10 Ward, MoJo, Welcome to Glennbeckistan
3/29/10 ITT, Why Do They Want to Do Us Harm? [Part One]
3/29/10 Hickman, Guardian, James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change
3/29/10 Armstrong, CSM, China mining company causes unrest in Niger
3/29/10 BBC, Afghan offensive in Kandahar due in June, officials say
3/29/10 EDIE, India and Pakistan clash over water
3/29/10 CNN, Rebels kill, kidnap hundreds in remote Congo area
3/29/10 CNN, Prison for four Rio Tinto executives in China
3/29/10 BBC, Falkland Islands oil disappoints for Desire Petroleum
March 28, 2010
3/28/10 Roston, Nation, Banking on Chalabi
3/28/10 Clinton, Progressive, The White Party
3/28/10 Vanden Heuval, Nation, Modern Slavery
3/28/10 Dreyfuss, Nation, Tehran's Coup in Iraq?
3/28/10 Harris, NYT, Scientists Say F.D.A. Ignored Radiation Warnings
3/28/10 Pear, NYT, Coverage Now for Sick Children? Check Fine Print
3/28/10 Luo, NYT, Overqualified? Yes, but Happy to Have a Job
3/28/10 Hernandez, NYT, Stocks Soar, but Many Analysts Ask Why
3/28/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Gender Justice Is Good For Scientific & Technological Progress, New Report Finds.
March 27, 2010
3/27/10 Allam & Dulalmy, McClatchy, Maliki's forces move against winning Sunni candidates
3/27/10 Sirota, ITT, The Difference Between Liberalism and Progressivism
3/27/10 Roy, Guardian, Video: Arundhati Roy reads from her essay on Maoists in India
3/27/10 Bowes, BBC, US marine to face trial over Iraq killings
3/27/10 BBC, Thailand's red shirts confront army in Bangkok
March 26, 2010
3/26/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, The McCain-Lieberman Police State Act
3/26/10 Snyder, IntelDaily, The Silent Entitlements Monster: Social Security, Medicare And Interest On The Debt Will Gobble Up Every Single Tax Dollar By 2020
3/26/10 WSJ, The lapse of luxury: Jet and yacht repos
3/26/10 Benno, PSL, Study shows that standardized testing favors the rich
3/26/10 Rothschild, Progressive, This Is What Neofascism Looks Like
3/26/10 Pollitt, Nation, Q and A with Carole Joffe - sociology of abortion
3/26/10 Zibechi, FPIF, Earthquake and Tsunami in Chile: The Militarization of Natural Disasters
3/26/10 Woodall Et al, Toyota warned dealers of crash risk in 2007
3/26/10 AP, Nation's 4th-quarter GDP growth revised down to 5.6%
3/26/10 Chomsky, ITT, Globalization Marches On
3/26/10 CNN, Health reform's immediate impact: Your benefits
3/26/10 Kunichoff, TruthOut, Treasury Blacklists Mexican Drug Gangs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/26/pope-accused-priest-sex-abuse-germany">Pope implicated in allegations over sex abuse by second Catholic priest
March 25, 2010
3/25/10 CNN, Report: Central African gorillas may go extinct
3/25/10 CNN, Gates eases ban on gays in the military
3/25/10 Black, BBC, Big food push urged to avoid global hunger
3/25/10 Barnes, CSM, US healthcare reform is boon for India outsourcing companies
3/25/10 Weil, MoneyNews, Central Banks Stashing Away Gold at Brisk Pace
3/25/10 Stancil, Red&Black, Child slaves victims of Atlanta sex trade
3/25/10 Amerman, Goldseek, Futile Attempts To Reflate The Housing Bubble & The Deadly Cost
3/25/10 PublicRecord, Rep. Barney Frank Condemns GOP Complicity In Tea Party Insanity
2/25/10 Goldstein, NPR, A Bank Failure, One Year Later
3/25/10 Pierce, ProPublica, Business Owners and Insiders: Tell Us How the Unemployment Insurance System Really Works
3/25/10 Ritter, AP, New ancestor? Scientists ponder DNA from Siberia
3/25/10 Ivory, Huffington, Nation's Largest Private Water Utility Joins Lawsuit Against Herbicide Maker
3/25/10 Jarvis, Star-Telegram, Crowley newborn with heart defect is denied insurance coverage
3/25/10 Jamail, TruthOut, Soldier of Conscience Granted Clemency, Released
3/25/10 Keim, Wired, Female Chimpanzees Drive the Culture
3/25/10 Chan, NYT, Bernanke Hints at Timing of Exit Strategy
3/25/10 Weinstein, MoJo, KBR Bills $5 Million For Mechanics Who Work 43 Minutes a Month
3/25/10 Green, IPS, FINANCE: IMF Proposes 100-Billion-Dollar Climate Fund
3/25/10 Aziz, FPIF, Ghosts Threaten to Return to Haiti
3/25/10 CNN, Panel to study what to do with U.S. nuclear waste
3/25/10 Lahiri, CSM, Ayn Rand move over: In Pune, India, shantytown residents 'design by consensus.'
March 24, 2010
3/24/10 Arnoldy, CSM, Global warming as peacemaker? Disputed island disappears under rising sea.
3/24/10 Goldstein, NPR, Corporate America's $33 Billion Tax Refund
3/24/10 Terrett, Al Jazeera, Legality of US Drones Questioned
3/24/10 Drier, Nation, , The Right's Conspiracy Theory Attack on Frances Fox Piven
March 23, 2010
3/23/10 Burgis, FT, Mining money fails to usher in golden era for Ghana
3/23/10 Schneider, WP, Study: World Bank aid for water-deprived countries misses most afflicted
3/23/10 Chatterjee, MoJo, How Afghan Police Training Became a Train Wreck
3/23/10 Helfand & Petruno, LAT, Most major healthcare stocks rise modestly after House passes overhaul
3/23/10 Puzzunghera, LAT, Senate banking panel OKs sweeping financial overhaul bill
3/23/10 Feffer, FPIF, Velvet Imperialists
3/23/10 Adams, Connect Savannah, Peak phosporus worse than peak oil?
3/23/10 Bhadrakumar, AsiaTimes, A spy unsettles US-India ties
March 22, 2010
3/22/10 Subler, Reuters, Fed to keep pro-growth policies: Chicago Fed chief
3/22/10 Corporate Crime Reporter, Whole Foods, United Natural Foods Muscle Suppliers to Boycott Consumer Group
3/22/10 Wang, ProPublic, Was Bank of America In on Repo 105-style Accounting Tricks?>A?
3/22/10 Press TV, IntelDaily, 900 million people lack clean water
3/22/10 Collins, IntelDaily, Chris Dodd's wife and derivatives trading - "all in the family"
3/22/10 Porter, IntelDaily, JSOC Interests Snag Plan to Free Afghan Detainees
3/22/10 Randall, WSWS, An attack on health care in the guise of reform
3/22/10 Braithwaite, FT, Geithner warns US could lose regulation initiative
3/22/10 Pressley, Bloomberg, MIT's Johnson Says Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Will Spark New Crisis
3/22/10 Melzer, Michigan Messenger, Supreme Court refuses second request to close locks
3/22/10 Lacey, NYT, Americas Development Bank Forgives Much of Haiti's Debt
3/22/10 Mason, Wired, Channeling Earth: Rivers Seen From Space
3/22/10 Nairn, NAtion, Washington's Indonesian Bully Boys
3/22/10 Reuters, NY to pay $33 million over illegal strip searches
3/22/10 Pelofsky, Reuters, U.S. judge orders release of Guantanamo detainee
3/22/10 Henley, Guardian, Heritage crafts at risk
3/22/10 EDIE, 'Shameful' UK air quality kills 50,000 a year
3/11/10 Mariam, FPIF, Ethiopia: Licensed to Steal
3/22/10 CNN, ACORN plans to shut down
3/22/10 Purefoy, CNN, 163 arrested in Nigerian massacre
3/22/10 Griffin & Kirkpatrock, CNN, Document: Toyota warned dealers of throttle surging in 2002
3/22/10 Cunningham, CSM, World Water Day: Thirsty Gaza residents battle salt, sewage
3/22/10 BBC, Pakistan seeks court backing to probe scientist AQ Khan
3/22/10 BBC, Indian state asks Coca-Cola to pay $47m compensation
3/22/10 BBC, Afghan insurgents Hezb-e-Islami hold talks in Kabul
3/22/10 BBC, Hong Kong's air pollution reaches record levels
3/22/10 BBC, Hillary Clinton warns Israel faces 'difficult' choices
March 21, 2010
3/21/10 Buncombe, Independent, How the West Poisoned Bangladesh
3/21/10 Hodai, ITT, Secrets of the Tea Party
3/19/10 Wutkowski, Reuters, FDIC Chief Sees 'Backdoor Bailouts' in Senate Bill
3/21/10 Al Jazeera, Civilians die in Afghan attacks
3/21/10 Yaqub, WP, The Washing: In the Muslim custom of bathing the dead, she found a deep sense of reward -- and shaved off 40 sins
3/21/10 Irwin, WP, Bernanke presses case for Federal Reserve oversight of small banks
3/21/10 Finn, Warrick, WP, Under Panetta, a more aggressive CIA
3/21/10 Shaver, WP, D.C. antiwar march draws thousands on seventh-anniversary of Iraq invasion
3/21/10 Chan & Bradsher, NYT, I.M.F. Warns Wealthiest Nations About Their Debt
3/21/10 Thompson, Guardian, Political activists call for inquiry after revelations about undercover police
3/21/10 BBC, Volcano erupts near Eyjafjallajoekull in south Iceland
March 20, 2010
3/20/10 Groves, eep Journal, Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret
3/20/10 Jones, WSWS, Detroit Medical Center to be sold to for-profit hospital chain
3/20/10 Sender, FT, Is the dollar rally about to come to a nasty end?
3/20/10 Greenwald, AlterNet, Seven Years and a $747 Billion in Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Iraq
3/20/10 Davenport, WP, In choosing its battle names, the military must know its target audience
3/20/10 Cho, WP, Key appointees at Treasury used as pawns in unrelated legislative battles
3/20/10 Nordland, U.S. Turns a Blind Eye to Opium in Afghan Town
3/20/10 Douglas, McClatchy, Tea party protesters scream 'nigger' at black congressman
3/20/10 Hanna, LAT, Monarch butterflies suffer population loss
3/20/10 BBC, Lethal landmine legacy from battle of El Alamein
March 19, 2010
3/19/10 Damon, ProPublica, 'Deem and Pass' Unlikely to Be Reversed in Courts, Experts Say
3/19/10 Wehrey et all, Rand Corporation, The Iraq Effect: The Middle East After the Iraq War
3/19/10 Jensen, Yes!, What White People Fear
3/19/10 Jensen, Yes!, What White People Fear
3/19/10 Al Jazeera, Deadly clashes erupt in Sudan
3/18/10 Gorman, Reuters, CNN veteran Christiane Amanpour moves to ABC News
3/19/10 Savinar, Life After the Crash, Blackrock, the Blackwater of the Financial System
3/19/10 Greer, IntelDaily, Energy Concentration Revisited: Basic assumptions of contemporary economic thought and of contemporary life are due to be thrown out the window
3/19/10 Rubin, NYT, Arrests of Top Taliban Figures Ended Talks, Ex-Envoy Says
3/19/10 Schulman & Corn, MoJo, The Pentagon's Stringers
3/19/10 Cookson, FT, Doctors use stem cells to rebuild boy's windpipe
3/19/10 Swanson, PublicRecord, John Yoo: A President Can Nuke the United States
3/19/10 Kravets, Wired, Rich Get Richer in 'Hot News' Stock-Tip Fight
3/19/10 Parsons, LAT, U.S. to buy Illinois prison even if it won't hold terror suspects, official says
3/19/10 Gorman, LAT, Senators announce framework for bipartisan immigration bill
3/19/10 Reuters, ACORN on verge of bankruptcy: report
3/19/10 Fisher, IPS, U.S.: Families Sue Over Guantanamo Deaths
3/19/10 Amos, BBC, Esa's Cryosat ice mission given launch date
March 18, 2010
3/18/10 Ray, The Register, FCC shows off spectrum map
3/18/10 Lindorff, PublicRecord, Laughable: Top Military Official Who Oversaw Detainee Torture Now In Charge Of Reducing Afghanistan Civilian Casualties
3/18/10 Wang, ProPublica, Greenspan: Not My Fault
3/18/10 Schoof, McClatchy, Most Power Plants Still Spewing Toxic Mercury, Report Says
3/18/10 Cronin, IPS, EU Selling Torture Equipment
3/18/10 Brown, Yes!, The Growing Movement for Publicly Owned Banks
3/18/10 Doggett, Reuters, EPA begins study on shale gas drilling
3/18/10 Lichtblau, NYT, F.B.I. Faces New Setback in Computer Overhaul
3/18/10 Harris, NYT, Tobacco Rule Proposed in '95 to Go Into Effect
3/18/10 Cockerham, ADN, Collared wolves killed during predator control
3/18/10 Astore, MoJo, The Pentagon Church Militant and Us
3/18/10 Thomma, McClatchy, Insurance-rate regulation dropped from latest health bill
3/18/10 Schoof, McClatchy, New protections denied for polar bears, bluefin tuna
3/18/10 Diamond, FPIF, Do the Military and Development Mix?
3/18/10 CNN, Retired general links gays in military, Bosnian massacre
3/18/10 CNN, Sudan signs cease-fire agreement with Darfur rebels
3/18/10 Giardet, CSM, Afghanistan war: lessons from the Soviet war
3/18/10 Solomon, CommonDreams, Zero Public Option + One Mandate = Disaster
3/18/10 Gill, BBC, Invisibility cloak created in 3-D
3/18/10 Dangl, Progressive, U.S. Bases in Colombia Rattle the Region
3/18/10 Kim, Reuters, North Korea executes official for blunder
3/18/10 Corn, MoJo, Why Won't Obama Get Tough on JPMorgan?
3/18/10 Lam, IPS, VIETNAM: Salinisation, Drought Bring Worries to Mekong Delta
3/18/10 Chazan, BBC, Row over 'torture' on French TV (w/vid)
March 17, 2010
3/17/10 Drummond, Wired, Darpa Wants Self-Guiding, Storytelling Cameras
3/17/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, America's Secret Prisons
3/17/10 Goodman, TruthOut, The Lies of Karl Rove
3/17/10 Steinberg, NYT, Barriers Found to College Degrees for Hispanics
3/17/10 Black, Guardian, Jerusalem issue 'a red line', says Jordan's king
3/17/10 Watkins, CNN, Aging issues can be tougher on gays
3/17/10 Llana, CSM, Haiti says it needs $11.5 billion to rebuild after earthquake
March 16, 2010
3/16/10 Byrne, DeepJournal, Obama agencies invoking secrecy provision more often than under Bush
3/16/10 Zieminski, Reuters, Recession Left 'Walking Wounded' Workers
3/16/10 Black, BBC, Climate 'Fix' Could Poison Sea Life
3/16/10 Frank, TruthOut, Toxic Hanford: A Trip to the B Reactor
3/16/10 AL Jazeera, Somalia signs deal with militia
3/16/10 Al Jazeera, US drone attack kills Pakistanis
3/16/10 Larris & Mummolo, WP, Montgomery, Prince George's slash budgets
3/16/10 Graff, Reuters, Afghanistan confirms blanket pardon for war crimes
3/16/10 Herzenhorn, NYT, Passing Health Care Legislation, Tucked in a Rule
3/16/10 Chu, LAT, In debt-plagued Greece, immigrants feel the heat
3/16/10 Williams, ITT, Jim Crow Redux
3/16/10 BBC, Petrol prices set for record high, says AA
3/16/10 BBC, European Court says Croatia violated Roma rights
3/16/10 Shiels, BBC, US plans to give high-speed broadband to every American
3/16/10 Hoffmann, Deep Links, Documents Detail Law Enforcement Collection of Data From Social Media Sites
3/16/10 Grim, Huffington, House Has Long History of Political Cowardice, Prolific Use of 'Deeming Resolutions'
3/16/10 Cumming, Telegraph, The Biggest Dump in the World
3/16/10 Martin, WSWS, US military created private spy and murder squad in Afghanistan
3/16/10 Worthington, PublicRecord, Republican Witch-Hunters Embrace Dictatorship
March 15, 2010
3/15/10 Monika Bauerlein and Clara JefferyMoJo, Patriot Games and Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason by Justine Sharrock.
3/15/10 Filkins & Mazzetti, NYT, Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants
3/15/10 Macalister, Guardian, Money Spent on Tar Sands Projects Could Decarbonise Western Economies
3/15/10 Jackson, BBC, Meet USCybercom: Why the US Is Fielding a Cyber Army
3/15/10 Zapler, AP, U.S. officials to unveil sweeping proposal for broadband
3/12/10 Kroll, MoJo, Ponzi Nation
3/15/10 Folarin, FPIF, Sweatshops Won't Save Haiti
3/15/10 PressTV, US DoD official run spy ring in Afghanistan, Pakistan
3/15/10 Cassidy, FT. Lessons from the collapse of Bear Stearns
3/15/10 Gutmann, CSM, Afghanistan war: How Taliban tactics are evolving
3/15/10 World Focus, Mongolia faces climate-driven humanitarian crisis
3/15/10 Ohlemacher, AP, Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam's IOUs
3/15/10 Hodge, Wired, Off-the-Books 'Jason Bournes' in Afghanistan?
3/15/10 Schwartz, NYT, Corporate Debt Coming Due May Squeeze Credit
3/15/10 Davies, Guardian, Genetic discovery promises healing without scars
3/15/10 Garanich, Reuters, Ukrainian vs. Russian language: two tongues divide former Soviet republic
March 14, 2010
3/14/10 DeepJournal, CIA's European Secrets: Black Site Prisons Investigated
March 13, 2010
3/13/10 Al Jazeera, Israel Seals off West Bank
March 12, 2010
3/1/10 Trumbull, CSM, Lehman Bros. Used Accounting Trick Amid Financial Crisis - and Earlier
3/12/10 PSL, Study shows that U.S. women continue to earn far less than men
3/12/10 Gordon, IntelDaily, Welcome to the Permanent Recession - Food and Transportation Prices Rising
3/12/10 Bello, Asia Times, China lassoes its neighbors
March 11, 2010
3/11/10 Zunes, FPIF, Obama and the Denial of Genocide
3/11/10 BBC, HSBC admits huge Swiss bank data theft
3/11/10 Damon, WSWS, US banks and corporations announce huge pay packages for 2009
3/10/10 McKinley, NYT, Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on Texts
3/11/10 Nasiripour, Huffington, Senators Target Wall Street, With Goldman Sachs in Mind
3/11/10 Stutz, Dallas Morning News, Texas State Board of Education Continues Debate Over Standards for Social Studies
3/11/10 Stein, Huffington, Sanders: Obama Has Tragically Lost the Youth, Antagonized Unions
3/11/10 AFP, Private Firms Line Up as Haiti Opens for Business
3/11/10 Vergano, USA Today, Texas Earthquakes May Be Linked to Wells for Gas Mining
3/11/10 Kane, WP, House bans earmarks to for-profit companies
3/11/10 Goldfarb, WP, Politics, shaky economy create no rush to restructure Fannie and Freddie
3/11/10 Hilzenrath, WP, Employers plan to shift more health-care costs to workers, survey reports
3/11/10 Drawbaugh, Reuters, Volcker rule gets lift in Senate amid reform talks
3/10/10 Chan, NYT, TARP Panel Finds Fault With GMAC Bailouts
3/11/10 Jubak, MSN, Is China actually bankrupt?
3/11/10 White, LAT, Oil companies look at permanent refinery cutbacks
3/11/10 Semuels, LAT, Unemployment tops 20% in eight California counties
3/11/10 AP, Mexico's Carlos Slim is world's richest person
3/11/10 Ortiz, IPS, ECUADOR: Native Leaders Call for Anti-Government Protests
3/11/10 Guardian, In Pictures: England's lost wildlife
3/11/10 Pearce, Guardian, Noel Kempff project is 'saving the forest' by forcing destruction elsewhere
3/11/10 EDIE, Green skills shortage highlighted by report
3/11/10 Mears, CNN, Chief justice chides State of the Union as 'political pep rally'
3/11/10 Shaughnessy, CNN, Pentagon trains workers to hack Defense computers
3/11/10 CNN, Kansas City board OKs plan to close nearly half of schools
3/11/10 BBC, Chinese inflation hits 16-month high
3/11/10 BBC, BP in $7bn deal to explore for oil in Brazil
3/11/10 BBC, Nigerian survivors recall Jos massacre
3/11/10 Ward, BBC, Down on the farm with the robots
3/11/10 BBC, Afghanistan does not want 'proxy wars', says Karzai
3/11/10 BBC, Cyprus conflict closes leaders' eyes to water shortage
March 10, 2010
3/10/10 Lendman, Intel Daily, The Business of Water: Privatizing An Essential Resource
3/10/10 Walberg, IntelDaily, Russia, Azerbaijan/Armenia: All roads lead to the Caucasus
3/10/10 Farrell, Deep Journal, Collapse of the American Empire: swift, silent, certain
3/10/10 GRAIN, Land Grabbing in Latin America
3/10/10 Grim, Huffington Post, Patrick Kennedy: Press Corps Is 'Despicable' for Not Covering Afghanistan War Resolution
3/10/10 Saulny, NYT, With New Homes, Town Makes Amends for Its Bias
3/10/10 Lee, MoJo, How Corporations Hide Election Spending
3/10/10 Redo, McClatchy, At emotional Capitol ceremony, WWII 'fly girls' finally honored
3/10/10 Boxall, LAT, U.S. moves to list loggerhead turtles as endangered
3/10/10 Sample, Guardian, Genomes of an entire family sequenced in world first
3/10/10 Roberts, Guardian, The debt that lies beneath
March 9, 2010
3/09/10 Hindery Jr., Deep Journal, Our Dirty Little Secret: Who's Really Poor in America?
3/09/10 BBC, Brazil Slaps Trade Sanctions on US Over Cotton Dispute
3/09/10 Riccardi, LAT, Suicides complicate Native American artifact looting case
March 8, 2010
3/08/10 Jowitt, Guardian, Humans Driving Extinction Faster Than Species Can Evolve, Say Experts
3/08/10 Sturgis, Facing South, Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Renewable Energy's Limits
3/08/10 Porter, IPS, Fiction of Marja as City Was US Information War
3/08/10 Ivory, Huffington, Cities Sue Manufacturer of Weed-Killer Found in Tap Water
3/08/10 Nichols, Nation, Kucinich's Health Reform Dissents Merit Consideration
3/08/10 Alexander, MoJo, The New Jim Crow
March 7, 2010
3/07/10 Smith, WP, Thin wall separates lobbyist contributions and earmarks
3/07/10 Vidal, Guardian, How Food and Water Are Driving a 21st-Century African Land Grab
3/07/10 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists (includes video)
3/07/10 Savage, LAT, Torture memos resemble Clarence Thomas' way of thinking
3/07/10 Rubin, LAT, What happens to Haiti when 'the good doctors' leave?
3/07/10 Vann, Guardian, The Aborigines who've walked for 40,000 years
3/07/10 Chulov, CNN, Explosions rock Baghdad as Iraqis go to polls
3/07/10 Macalister, Guardian, Government must take back control of North Sea oil and gas production
3/07/10 BBC, Iceland rejects plan to repay Icesave debts
3/07/10 BBC, Azerbaijan's long lifers 'a dying breed'
3/07/10 Foulkes, BBC, Switzerland referendum on providing lawyers for animals
3/07/10 BBC, Taliban clashes with rival Afghan militants kill 60
3/07/10 BBC, 'Dozens killed' in Nigeria clashes
3/07/10 Richardson, BBC, Head teachers warn on Tory 'corner shop' schools plan
March 6, 2010
3/06/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Alaskan Peace Activists Decry Pentagon Spying
3/06/10 Philp, Times Online, Chagossians Fight for a Home in Paradise
3/06/10 Sayah, CNN, Taliban leader in Swat Valley killed in airstrike
3/06/10 CNN, Official: Armenian genocide resolution unlikely to get full House vote
March 5, 2010
3/05/10 Leonard & Vives, LAT, One sector that benefits from a bad economy: jail inmates
3/05/10 Snyder, IntelDaily, The 2009 Financial Report Of The U.S. Government Is Out - America's Economic Goose Is Cooked
3/05/10 O'Connell, IntelDaily, Teachers brought down by RICO amidst a public education system in crisis
3/05/10 Naminpour, Deep Journal, Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist, Says Federal Reserve System 'Corrupt'
3/05/10 von Radovitz, Herald Scotland, Fresh Evidence Global Warming Is Man-Made
3/05/10 AFP, Huge Methane Leak in Arctic Ocean: Study
3/05/10 Goujon, AFP, Africa Aims to Regulate 'Mercenary' Industry
3/05/10 AP, France's crumbling sea walls no match for ocean
3/05/10 Quinn, Telegraph, US Public 'Will Pay Obama's $90bn Bank Levy'
3/05/10 Gruver, AP, Energy groups relieved sage grouse won't be listed
3/05/10 Povey, AP, Disposal of spilled coal ash a long, winding trip
3/05/10 Lindorff, TruthOut, Afghanistan's My Lai Massacre
3/05/10 Mason, Wired, Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From Space
3/05/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Hillary Clinton's Honduran Disgrace
3/05/10 Mason, Progressive, One year after stimulus, blacks and Latinos still struggling
3/05/10 Rosen, IPS, RIGHTS: U.S. Criticised over Soaring Housing Costs
3/05/10 Fisher, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Senate Debates Indefinite Detentions
3/05/10 Tran, Guardian, Girl starved to death while parents raised virtual child in online game
3/05/10 Bowers, OpenLeft, Yes, Congressional Progressives won major public option concessions in the health reform bill
3/05/10 BBC, US administration to block vote on Turkey 'genocide'
3/05/10 Murphy, CSM, Ahmed Chalabi emerges as key player in Iraq election after falling-out with US
3/05/10 Hodai, ITT, The Rainmakers
3/05/10 Hickman, Guardian, The lawyer who defends animals
2/25/10 Drake, FPIF 3/5/10, Ghana's 2010 oil 'boom': Ensuring public interest over private gain
3/05/10 CNN, Ferries freed from ice off Swedish coast ... Passenger ships stuck in ice off Sweden
3/05/10 Malveaux, CNN, White House considers military trial for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
3/05/10 Loncraine, BBC, Can rats help clear Africa's landmines?
3/05/10 BBC, Singapore boosts security over threat to oil tankers
3/05/10 BBC, Anti-Afghan War Awol soldier Joe Glenton jailed
3/05/10 Vogel & Smith, Politico, Republican National Committee official behind 'fear' pitch under fire for fees
3/05/10 Gettleman, NYT, U.S. Aiding Somalia in Its Plan to Retake Its Capital
3/05/10 Calmes. NYT, Why the Rainmaker Is Now the Gatekeeper
March 4, 2010
3/04/10 Page, Register, US 'Anubis' stealth assassin robo-missile nearly ready
3/04/10 Wee, Deep Journal, "Real" Unemployment Could Surge to 25%, Portfolio Manager Says
3/04/10 AFP, Katrina Victims Seek to Sue Greenhouse Gas Emitters
3/04/10 Simpson, BBC, The Cost of War: Disturbing Story of Fallujah's Birth Defects
3/04/10 Stanglin, USA Today, Louisiana Sheriff Trains Volunteers for 'Project Exodus' to Combat Terrorism
3/04/10 CNN, Investigation under way after waves kill cruise passengers
3/04/10 Hunter, CNN, U.S. travel promotion bill signed into law
3/04/10 Schleifer, CSM, Turkey recalls ambassador after US resolution on 'Armenian genocide'
3/04/10 Brown, Asia Times, China all at sea over Japan island row
March 3, 2010
3/03/10 Watch, SouthBay, U.S. Navy Conceals Nuclear Weapons Production in California
3/03/10 Kapner, FT, GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St
3/03/10 Hogshire, AlterNet, How the DEA Scrubbed Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Poppy Garden from Public Memory
3/03/10 Frank, AlterNet, EPA Drastically Underestimates Coal Waste Pollution's Threat to Human and Environmental Health
3/03/10 Fisher, TruthOut, DoD Releases Records of Illegal Surveillance
3/03/10 Buckley, Reuters, China parliament examines growth, living standards
3/03/10 Kroll, MoJo, Chris Dodd's Wall Street Sellout
3/03/10 Zajac & Huffstutter, LAT, Cost of food-borne illnesses is deemed much higher than earlier estimates
3/03/10 BBC, South Africa black-owned farms 'failing'
3/03/10 Bristow, BBC, China villagers moved to quench the urban thirst
3/03/10 Mercer, BBC, Aborigines to discuss nuclear proposal on tribal land
March 2, 2010
3/02/10 Grim, Huffington, Dodd: Put CFPA Inside Federal Reserve
3/02/10 Hampson, USA Today, New Ghost Towns: Industrial Communities Teeter on the Edge
3/02/10 Pringle, PublicRecord, Paxil Birth Defect Litigation - First Trial A Bust for Glaxo
3/02/10 Berling, TruthOut, Supreme Court Takes Up Appeal by Enron's Skilling
3/02/10 Calvin, SacBee, Insurance rate hikes fan political firestorm
3/02/10 Crawley, Reuters, Brakes seen key fix; Toyota confronted with memo
3/02/10 Roberts, NYT, Study Finds Cohabiting Doesn't Make a Union Last
3/02/10 Roberts, NYT, U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty
3/02/10 Cramer, MoJo, A Five-Step Guide To Real Financial Reform
3/02/10 Wong, NYT, Officials in China at Odds Over Food Scandal
3/02/10 Manski &, Graves, ITT, Corporations are People Too
3/02/10 Siddique, Guardian, Child cocaine treatment rises by more than 65%
3/02/10 Collins, NYT, When the Line for Dinner Is a Mile Long
3/02/10 Tran, Guardian, Radovan Karadzic claims Bosnian Muslims 'killed own people' in Sarajevo
3/02/10 Tanner, Guardian, Karadzic's 'holy war'
3/02/10 Gabbatt, Guardian, British winter was the coldest for 31 years
3/02/10 Kirk, FPIF, The Other Nuclear Survivors
3/02/10 BBC, GM potato cleared for EU farming
3/02/10 Sithole, BBC, Zimbabwe's forgotten children, struggling to survive
3/02/10 Francis, CSM, US grants German homeschoolers asylum. Will others follow?
3/02/10 Klarreich, CSM, As world watches Chile earthquake, deadly floods hit quake-rocked Haiti
3/02/10 Marquand, CSM, France arrests Rwandan President's widow, accused in Rwanda genocide
March 1, 2010
3/01/10 BBC, Cape Town's gangs: Martin's story
3/01/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, America's Permanent War Agenda
3/01/10 O'Connell, IntelDaily, Pentagon's "Full-Spectrum Dominance" Facing Headwinds
3/01/10 Webster, Times Online, Green Fuels Cause More Harm Than Fossil Fuels, According to Report
3/01/10 Guardian, Live blog: Parliamentary climate emails inquiry
3/01/10 Graham-Harrison, Reuters, China Stepping Up for Arctic Influence: Report
3/01/10 Reuters, Goldman Board Rejects Shareholder Demands on Pay
3/01/10 Duhigg & Roberts, NYT, Rulings Restrict Clean Water Act, Foiling E.P.A.
3/01/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, US Senate's Top Climate Skeptic Accused of Waging 'McCarthyite Witch-Hunt'
3/01/10 Goldstein, NPR, Warren Buffett Explains The Genius Of The Float
2/26/10 Kaufmann, Nation, Profiting from the Inside? Friedmanism at the Fed
3/01/10 Madrigal, Wired, Backpack Hydroelectric Plant Gives You 500 Watts on the Move
3/01/10 Jacobs, Wired, Microfinance Project Could Be New Kiva For Haiti's Diaspora
3/01/10 Canadian Press, Syncrude Back in Court Over Duck Deaths
3/01/10 Ghose, Wired, Millions of Tons of Water Ice Found at Moon's North Pole
3/01/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Military, Homeland Security, Spies on Planned Parenthood, Other Domestic Groups
3/01/10 ProPublica, Justice Department Report on Waterboarding Memos
3/01/10 Wade, NYT, Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force
3/01/10 Vlasic et al, NYT, Data Shows Camrys Outside Recall Also Had Problems
3/01/10 Markoff, NYT, U.S. to Reveal Rules on Internet Security
3/01/10 Wendlandt, Reuters, Storms rip through Europe, kill up to 50 in France
3/01/10 Fahrenthold, WP, Manure becomes pollutant as its volume grows unmanageable
3/01/10 Barr, WP, UK's Prudential buys AIG's Asian unit for $35.5B
3/01/10 Al Jazeera, Firms face Zimbabwe ownership law
3/01/10 Ansari, CNN, Weed killer 'castrates' male frogs, study says
3/02/10 Basu, CNN, Indian women peacekeepers hailed in Liberia
3/01/10 Marquand, CSM, Greek debt crisis: High stakes game of financial chicken
3/01/10 Sheppard, MoJo, The Chamber of Commerce vs. Climate Science
3/01/10 Ellingwood, LAT, Haiti confronts a monumental disposal problem
3/01/10 Santos, IPS, PHILIPPINES: Green Measures Expose Bias Against Urban Poor
3/01/10 Davies, Guardian, Teen motherhood is not all bad, says Hilary Mantel
3/01/10 Kavuma, Guardian, The rights approach to development
3/01/10 EDIE, World-wide floods leave many dead
3/01/10 EDIE, European laws could cause deforestation
3/01/10 Barnes, CSM, Saudi Arabia and India address terrorism in a rare meeting
3/01/10 BBC, Online 'more popular than newspapers' in US
3/01/10 BBC, Chile quake sends copper prices higher
3/01/10 BBC, UK banks see surge in bad debts
3/01/10 BBC, Venezuela 'helped Eta and Farc plot against Uribe'
3/01/10 Foulkes, BBC, Big rise in Afghan child migrants