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April 30, 2010
4/30/10 Goodin, The Register, Researchers spy on BitTorrent users in real-time
04/20/10 MarketWatch, 7 bank failures take bite out of FDIC deposit fund
4/30/10 Porter, IPS, Pentagon Map Shows Wide Taliban Zone in the South
4/30/10 Leovy, NYT, BP's containment problem is unprecedented
4/30/10 Stout, NYT, Antisocial Networking?
4/30/10 Cardinale, IPS, US States Consider Starting Their Own Banks
4/30/10 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Chemicals Meant To Break Up BP Oil Spill Present New Environmental Concerns
4/30/10 Goldstein, NPR, A Trillion A Year In Interest
4/30/10 Grant, FT, ICE snaps up Climate Exchange for £395m
4/30/10 Kaiser, While Global Adult Mortality Rates Drop, Gaps Between Countries Grow, Lancet Study Finds
4/30/10 Video: Exponential Growth Meets Reality (must see)
4/30/10 Jones, WSWS, Gulf oil spill threatens economic, environmental catastrophe
4/30/10 Burton, WSWS, US Supreme Court deals further blow to separation of church and state
4/30/10 Abbot, AP, Water dispute fuels India-Pakistan tensions
4/30/10 AP, Axelrod: No new drilling until answers on accident
4/30/10 Burdeau, WP, Pelicans, otters along La. shore in path of spill
4/30/10 Flood, Guardian, Philip K Dick's visionary journals to be published
4/30/10 CNN, Spain unemployment tops 20 percent
4/30/10 CNN, Gulf Coast fears 'disaster' as oil slick closes in
4/30/10 Black, BBC, Frog genome holds out conservation promise
4/30/10 BBc, Goldman Sachs 'facing criminal charges'
4/30/10 Shahzaf, AsiaTimes, How Iran and al-Qaeda made a deal
4/30/10 BBC, Greeks warned of austerity measures ahead
5/30/10 BBC, Oil spill sparks new drilling ban
4/30/10 Souzzi, IPS, Indigenous Forum Closes on Note of Hope, and Caution
5/30/10 Boone, Guardian, Afghan feminists fighting from under the burqa
4/30/10 Coward, Guardian, Can you hurt a chimp's feelings?
4/30/10 Ravitz, CNN, Anne Frank's tree, now dying, still inspires hope and new life
4/30/10 Taghavi, CSM, Why Iran's Ahmadinejad is pushing to cut popular government subsidies
4/30/10 Jowit, Guardian, International Failure to Meet Target to Reduce Biodiversity Decline
4/20/10 Russian Times, Outsourcing Security Greases Corporate Warmongering
4/30/10 Squatiglia, Wired, Making Oil in Minutes, Not Millennia
4/30/10 Drummond, Wired, Pentagon Scientists Inject Necks to 'Cure' PTSD
4/30/10 Singel, Wired, Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent
4/30/10 Grossman, Wired, Reverse-Engineering a Quantum Compass
April 29, 2010
4/29/10 Macan-Markar, IPS, Pressure Mounts on Energy Giant Chevron to Disclose Revenue
4/29/10 Martin, WSWS, Obama's blueprint for austerity
4/29/10 Goldman, NPR, Three Reasons The Euro Crisis Matters For The U.S.
4/29/10 Drummond, Wired, Military Wants To Super-Charge Troop Smarts
4/29/10 Al Jazeera, 'US seeks deal' in Guantanamo case
4/29/10 Al Jazeera, IMF fears debt crisis 'contagion'
4/29/10 Singletary, WP, Students trapped in private loans, with no bankruptcy protection
4/29/10 Reruters, Goldman set to settle SEC fraud case soon: report
4/29/10 Forero, WP, Oil-rich Venezuela gripped by economic crisis
4/29/10 AP, Exxon Profit Up 38% as Oil Prices Rise
4/29/10 Lee, LAT, Greece's fiscal woes threaten the U.S.
4/29/10 Allen, ITT, The Global Volcanic Feedback Loop
4/29/10 Kaiser, U.S. Lawmakers Reach Trade Deal To Help Haiti; News Outlets Examine Health Care, Housing
4/29/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Update on ABACUS
4/29/10 Ames, AlterNet, 10 Ways the American Economy Is Built on Fraud
4/29/10 Wang, ProPublica, Banks Pressured Credit Agencies, Then Blamed Them
4/29/10 Wang, ProPublica, Gulf Oil Spill Puts Spotlight on Regulator With Mixed Record
4/29/10 Lustgarten, ProPublica, BP Had Other Problems in Years Leading to Gulf Spill
4/29/10 Rogers, Guardian, The McChrystal Afghanistan PowerPoint slide: can you do any better?
4/29/10 Drapkin, GlobalPost, Ten Animals Most at Risk From Gulf Oil Spill
4/29/10 Keim, WIred, What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care
4/29/10 Snyder, Wired, 1939's 'World of Tomorrow' Shaped Our Today
4/29/10 Dash, NYT, Puerto Rican Lenders Face Their Own Crisis
4/29/10 BBC, Gulf of Mexico oil slick said to be five times bigger
4/29/10 BBC, UN official calls DR Congo 'rape capital of the world'
4/29/10 BBC, Pakistan Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud 'still alive'
4/29/10 BBC, US military joins Gulf of Mexico oil spill effort
4/29/10 Hall, McClatchy, In another Wall Street misdeed, Morgan Stanley settles oil-trading flap
4/29/10 Pervez, FPIF, Coverups in Afghanistan
4/29/10 Nissenbaum, CSM, Afghanistan war: US night raid sparks protest over civilian deaths
4/29/10 Kroll, MoJo, Did Goldman's Ex-Mortgage Guru Lie Under Oath?
4/29/10 Blank, AsiaTimes, Russia-Ukraine pact leaves EU all at sea
4/29/10 Makan-Markar, IPS, Pressure Mounts on Energy Giant Chevron to Disclose Revenue
April 28, 2010
4/28/10 Ross, IntelDaily, 1996 Welfare "Reform" Act Backfires on Poor
4/28/10 Lindorff, PublicRecord, The Stupidity of Obama's Drill-Drill-Drill Offshore Oil Policy
4/28/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, ABACUS: A Synthetic, Synthetic CDO
4/28/10 ENS, Leaving 'Oil in the Soil': Ecuadoran President Confirms Deal to Leave Oil Under Yasuni Park
4/28/10 Lochead, SF Chron, Organic, Small Farmers Fret over FDA Regulation
4/28/10 Jowitt, Guardian, Economic and Corporate Powers Call for Hike in Global Water Price
4/28/10 Fisher, IPS, US to Face Litany of Complaints at UN Human Rights Council
4/28/10 Hodge, Wired, Drone Pilots Could Be Tried for 'War Crimes,' Law Prof Says
4/28/10 Pal, Progressive, Greece Shows Us the Ugly Face of Globalization
4/28/10 Felsenthal, Reuters, Obama to tap Yellen, others for Fed: sources
4/28/10 Rampell, NYT, Where the Bonuses Are Biggest
4/28/10 Lichtblau & Dash, NYT, Goldman and Its Lobbyists Spurned in Finance Fight
4/28/10 Rosenberg, McClatchy, Key issues unanswered by Guantanamo tribunals manual
4/28/10 Vogt, Money & Markets, A Clear Warning Sign: Global Liquidity Is Drying Up!
4/28/10 Loretsson, IPS, UN Sets Out Roadmap for Universal Electricity Access
4/28/10 Souzzi, IPS, Protesters Call Dam Project a "Disaster" for Brazil's Native Communities
4/28/10 BBC, US government approves first offshore wind farm
4/28/10 Pressly, BBC, Can free market economics boost Amazonian land rights?
4/28/10 BBC, Greece's 'death spiral'
4/28/10 Christie, Reuters, Torture, rape was norm at illegal Iraq prison: report
4/28/10 Thomas, NYT, As Debt Fears Grow, Finance Ministers to Meet in Europe
4/28/10 Girion, LAT, WellPoint and Blue Shield of Calif. to stop dropping sick policyholders
4/28/10 CNN, Iraq PM denies secret prison torture
4/28/10 BBC, Royal Dutch Shell profits up 50% on oil price
4/28/10 BBC, Peru rebels ambush and kill coca plantation clearers
4/28/10 BBC, Niger - UN warning over total crop failure
4/28/10 BBC, US considers setting fire to Gulf of Mexico oil leak
April 27, 2010
4/27/10 Leopold, PublicRecord, CIA Also Used Digital Taping System At Black Site Prison, Intel Sources Claim
4/27/10 Stargis, Facing South, Details Emerge on Study of Cancer Near US Nuclear Plants
4/27/10 Pringle, Public Record, Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US
4/27/10 Kaiser, Canadian Government Says Canada's G8 Maternal, Child Health Plan Will Not Include Abortion
4/27/10 Harkinson, Wired, EPA Scientist Says East Coast Beaches Threatened by Sea Level, But Nobody's Listening
4/27/10 Graham, Reuters, S&P cuts Greek debt to junk, downgrades Portugal
4/27/10 Baltimore, Reuters, Gulf of Mexico spill may hit coast this weekend
4/27/10 McKinley, NYT, Strict Abortion Measures Enacted in Oklahoma
4/27/10 Mazzetti, NYT, U.S. Begins Inquiry on Spy Network in Pakistan
4/27/10 AP, Stocks pull back on Europe's deepening debt woes
4/27/10 Hennessy-Fiske, LAT, Free health clinic treats 1,200 patients on opening day
4/27/10 Kryt, ITT, Return of the Death Squads
4/27/10 Kleit, CNN, Coal, oil and the price we're willing to pay
4/27/10 Kurczy, CSM, Loch Ness monster is real: former Scottish police chief
4/27/10 Montgomery & Ryan, CSM, World's 18 most endangered spoken languages
4/27/10 BBC, Mexico warns citizens over new Arizona immigration law
4/27/10 BBC, Spending cuts to be deepest since 1970s, IFS says
4/27/10 Knight, BBC, Have Goldman Sachs charges opened floodgates?
April 26, 2010
4/26/10 Stein, WP, CIA chief promises spies 'new cover' for secret ops
4/26/10 Berger, IPS, Monsanto's GM Crops Go to US High Court, Environmental Laws on the Line
4/26/10 Saey, Wired, Mice Make Their Own Morphine
4/26/10 Lux, OpenLeft, Relying on the big banks to save the economy
4/26/10 Zelitzer, CNN, Washington has always helped set rules for Wall Street
4/26/10 Baldauf, CSM, Sudan 101: Could Sudan's oil resources solve its problems? ... Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
April 25, 2010
4/25/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, The Washington Post Makes A Major Factual Error
4/25/10 Al Jazeera, US oil rig spill 'very serious'
4/25/10 Pan, WP, In Kyrgyzstan, arrest of opposition leaders added fuel to violent uprising
4/25/10 Mostafavi, Reuters, Iran Guards test missiles, warn enemies
4/25/10 Sutton, Reuters, Guantanamo court to review Canadian's torture claim
4/25/10 Anthony, Guardian, Does humanitarian aid prolong wars?
4/25/10 Macalister, Guardian, Revealed: Goldman Sachs 'made fortune betting against clients'
4/25/10 Guardian, (UK) Rich list reveals record rise in wealth
4/25/10 CNN, Report: Close-range blast sank S. Korean ship
4/25/10 BBC, Mass rally in Japan against US base on Okinawa
April 24, 2010
4/24/10 Waas, Reuters, WellPoint Routinely Targets Breast Cancer Patients
4/24/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, The Sickening Abuse Of Power At The Heart of Wall Street
4/24/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, The Sickening Abuse Of Power At The Heart of Wall Street
4/24/10 Nossiter, NYT, After a Coup, Niger Resumes Business as Usual With China
4/24/10 Chan, NYT, Perils Remain Despite Recovery's Pace, I.M.F. Head Says
4/24/10 Dao & Frosch, NYT, In Army's Trauma Care Units, Feeling Warehoused
4/24/10 Robertson, NYT, Oil Leaking Underwater From Well in Rig Blast
4/24/10 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman executives: We made money betting against mortgage market
4/24/10 Tankersley, LAT, Climate bill abruptly put on hold
4/24/10 Shahzad, AsiaTimes, Confessions of a Pakistani spy
April 23, 2010
4/23/10 Chandrasekaran, WP, U.S. military, diplomats at odds over how to resolve Kandahar's electricity woes
4/23/10 IntelDaily, Economics in Crisis: What Do We Tell the Students?
4/23/10 Kaiser, U.S., Other Donors Commit $880M For New World Bank-Hosted Global Food Security Fund
4/23/10 Lustgarten, ProPublica, New York Puts Brakes on Drilling in NYC Watershed, Clears Way for Upstate Wells by Next Spring
4/23/10 Korosec, BNET, Peak Oil Era: Why the Cost and Risk of Oil Exploration Will Keep Rising
4/23/10 Benno, PSL, Army dismisses soldier for standing up against Pentagon
4/23/10 Schwarta, NYT, 'Liberal' Reputation Precedes Ninth Circuit Court
4/23/10 Moberg, ITT, Foreclosed Dreams
4/23/10 Snow, CNN, Haitians seek refuge, face uncertainty
4/23/10 Gatsiounis, CSM, Unlike other African nations, Uganda aims to dodge 'oil curse'
April 22, 2010
4/22/10 Wang, ProPublica, The Homeowners Whose Loss Was Paulson's $1 Billion in Gain
4/22/10 Scheer, TruthOut, Goldman Plays, We Pay
4/22/10 Leopold, Truthout, Former Bush Appointee to Plead Guilty to Contempt of Congress
4/22/10 Chen, Wired, Mr. Fixit Goes Open Source With DIY Repair Site
4/22/10 Bullock, Wired, Growing Solar Panels Is Cheap, Efficient and (Relatively) Easy
4/22/10 Witte & De Young, WP, Pakistan holding thousands in indefinite detention, officials say
4/22/10 Buckley, Reuters, China military paper spells out nuclear arms stance
4/22/10 Stewart, Reuters, Pentagon disinvites evangelist who scorned Islam
4/22/10 Reuters, Goldman underwrote, invested in Lloyds refinance: report
4/22/10 Nixon, NYT, U.S. Lists Companies Aiding Iran's Energy Projects
4/22/10 Robertson & Krauss, NYT, Oil Rig Sinks, Raising Fears of Major Spill
4/22/10 Sanger & Shanker, NYT, U.S. Faces Choice on New Weapons for Fast Strikes
4/22/10 Thomas, NYT, A Routine Deal Became an $840 Million Mistake
4/22/10 Kintish, MoJo, Rules for Planet Hackers
4/22/10 BND.com, Now, that's a river monster: Local angler needs 48 minutes to land 92-pound blue catfish
4/22/10 Clifton, IPS, Small Farmers to Get Nearly Billion-Dollar Boost
4/22/10 Gardner, CNN, Killer fungus seen in Pacific Northwest
4/22/10 Elliott, TPM, Rent-A-Front: New Group Wages Stealth Battle Against Wall Street Reform
4/22/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Chemical Industry Front Groups Look to Undermine EPA
4/22/10 Cutler, SocialBeat, Facebook steps up lobbying, deepens ties with intelligence agencies, FTC
4/22/10 Vine & Feffer, FPIF, Environmental Protection of Bases?
April 21, 2010
4/21/10 Snyder, IntelDaily, America's Crumbling Infrastructure
4/21/10 Higgs, IntelDaily, Defense Spending Is Much Greater than You Think: 1 Trillion Dollars
4/21/10 Scahill, RebelReports, Firm Run by Ex-Israeli Special Forces Soldier Wants US Security Contracts in Jerusalem, Iraq, Afghanistan
4/21/10 Dennis & Kane, WP, Senate committee approves derivatives oversight bill
4/21/10 La Duke, Progressive, On Earth Day, we need to rethink our way of life
4/21/10 Roston, Nation, Fueling the Afghan War
4/21/10 Martin, Conservative Examiner, Massive government corruption hidden by focus on Goldman-Sachs
April 19, 2010
4/19/10 North, WSWS, A significant contribution to an understanding of Permanent Revolution
4/19/10 Talley, AP, Oklahoma City marks 15 years since bombing
4/19/10 Rucker, Wp, North Carolina Democrats' votes against health care push labor to form party
4/19/10 Gerhart, WP, Militia movement will be packing heat at gun rally on the Potomac
4/19/10 Fahrenthold et al, WP, Mine blast means new realities for West Virginia Democrats in Congress
4/19/10 Reuters, Majority of Americans distrust the government
4/19/10 Haider, Reuters, Pakistan sidelines some officials after Bhutto report
4/19/10 EDIE, ICE fears global water crisis will hit UK
4/19/10 Calvan & Reese, SacBee, California's higher hospital costs add to health insurance hikes
4/19/10 Dash, NYT, After 2 Years of Losses, Citi Reports Profit of $4.4 Billion
4/19/10 Thompson, MoJo, Betting on Change
4/19/10 Parker, LAT, Secret prison revealed in Baghdad
4/19/10 Agazzi, IPS, Foreign Investors Safeguarded From Obligations to Locals
4/19/10 Treanor, Guardian, City watchdog launches Goldman Sachs investigation
4/19/10 Lehrer, Wired, Breaking Things Down to Particles Blinds Scientists to Big Picture
April 18, 2010
4/18/10 Lakhani, Independent, Gore Takes Cash for Water Campaign from Chemical Firm
4/18/10 Wagner, AP, Goldman Case Is Likely Tip of the Legal Iceberg
4/18/110 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Goldman Sachs: Too Big To Obey The Law
4/18/10 RebelReports, Dennis Kucinich: White House Assassination Policy Is Extrajudicial
4/18/10 PublicRecord, Taibbi Discusses SEC Suit Against 'Great Vampire Squid' Known As Goldman Sachs
4/28/20 Stone & Vance, NYT, Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing
4/18/10 Story, NYT, Top Leaders at Goldman Had a Role in Mortgage Unit
4/18/10 Starr, CNN, U.S. military plans against Iran being updated
April 17, 2010
4/17/10 Williams, Guardian, Too Much, too Young? Retailers Still Selling Over-Sexualized Clothing to Kids
4/17/10 Mazetti & Risen, DeepJournal, U.S. Indicts 5 Blackwater Ex-Officials
April 16, 2010
4/16/10 Connor, AlterNet, How Bubble Barons Protected Their Influence While the Economy Tanked
4/16/10 Wright, Nation, Regulators Who Ignored WaMu's Predatory Lending
4/16/10 Kravets, Wired, Bush's Illegal Wiretapping Tab: $612,000
4/16/10 Hewad, AsiaTimes, Taliban defiant following Marjah operation
4/16/10 Shahzad, Asiatimes, All change in Pakistan
April 15, 2010
4/14/10 Claiborne et all, ABC News, Report Says Contaminated Meat Is in Supermarkets
4/15/10 Whitwell, Times, Obama's Efforts to Foster Harmony on Wall St Reform Erupts into Warfare
4/15/10 Bowers, OpenLeft, Federal taxes at historic lows
4/15/10 Irwin & Mui, WP, Bernanke, new economic data predict a long road to full recovery
4/15/10 Hsu, WP, Former NSA executive charged with leaking information to newspaper
4/15/10 Carney, MoJo, Inside India's Rent-A-Womb Business
4/15/10 Holmes, NYT, Benjamin L. Hooks, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 85
4/15/10 Gray-Garcia, TruthOut, Budget Genocide Sweeps Across the Nation
4/15/10 Mazetti, DeepJournal, C.I.A. Document Details Destruction of Tapes
4/07/10 Litan, Brookings, The Derivatives Dealers' Club and Derivatives Markets Reform: A Guide for Policy Makers, Citizens and Other Interested Parties
4/15/10 Al Jazeera, Rapes 'surge' in DR Congo
4/15/10 Ford, Guardian, Sir Gordon Conway: The challenges of achieving a green revolution in Africa
4/15/10 EDIE, Why water is the next carbon
4/15/10 CNN, Feds slam Texas factory over discrimination claims
4/15/10 CNN, Travel chaos as ash closes air space
4/15/10 Sutton, CNN, Jobless claims in another surprise surge
4/15/10 Arnoldy, CSM, In India, religious violence leaves long trail of refugee camps
4/15/10 Landreth, CSM, Rescuers battle roadblocks, high altitude to reach survivors in China earthquake
4/15/10 Andersson, BBC, Afghans 'abused at secret prison' at Bagram airbase
4/15/10 Harrison, BBC, 'More state school pupils' at Oxbridge
4/15/10 BBC, Russia closes last weapons-grade plutonium plant
4/15/10 Calefati, MoJo, Steal This Country - Congo and Coltan
4/15/10 Gardner, Wired, Joos Orange Solar Charger
April 14, 2010
4/14/10 Worthington, PublicRecord, Wilkerson Demolishes Bush, Cheney, And Rumsfeld's Lies About Guantanamo
4/14/10 McFarquhar, NYT, Big Banks Draw Profits From Microloans to Poor
4/14/10 Keim, Wired, 3-Parent Embryos Could Prevent Disease, But Raise Ethical Issues
4/14/10 Clark, Guardian, JP Morgan makes $2.4bn on Wall St but heavy losses at retail banks
4/14/10 Pilkington, Guardian, Sarah Palin contract demands 'Lear 60 jet' and 'bendable straws'
4/14/10 Carroll, Guardian, Coca Colla: the new 'real thing' in Bolivia
4/14/10 Borger, Guardian, China sells petrol to Iran while talking at UN about sanctions
4/14/10 Adams, Guardian, All your Twitter belongs to the Library of Congress
4/14/10 Miller, FPIF, Review: 'Bridging Partition'
4/14/10 Guru, Asia Times, Black gold, yellow gold
4/14/10 Ibrahimi, Asia Times, Afghan anger at US casualty payments
April 13, 2010
4/13/10 Conniff, Progressive, The Big Lie About Bank Reform
4/13/10 Corn, MoJo, Obama's Nuclear Summit: The Big Truth That's Missing
4/13/10 Hoyos, FT, Shell defends Athabasca plan
4/13/10 Feffer, FPIF, The Really Really Long War
4/13/10 BBC, Protests erupt over Pakistan NWFP name change
4/13/10 BBC, Barack Obama warns of increased nuclear terror threat
April 12, 2010
4/12/10 Sullivan, Daily Dish, Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld Knew They Were Innocent
4/12/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America
4/12/10 Snyder, IntelDaily, Whistle Blower Comes Forward With Solid Proof The Price Of Gold And Silver Is Being Manipulated By Major Financial Institutions
4/12/10 Oppel, NYT, U.S. Troops Fire on Bus in Afghanistan, Killing Civilians
4/12/10 Godoy, IPS, ENVIRONMENT-NIGER: French State-Owned Company "Poisoning" Poor
4/12/10 BBC, China bank lending falls sharply
4/12/10 Vidal, Guardian, Confidential Document Reveals Obama's Hardline US Climate Talk Strategy
4/12/10 Hess, Haaretz, IDF Order Will Enable Mass Deportation from West Bank
4/12/10 Rizoff, IntelDaily, Prompt Global Strike: World Military Superiority Without Nuclear Weapons
4/12/10 Spence, IntelDaily, After Peak Oil, Are We Heading Towards Social Collapse?
April 11, 2010
4/11/10 Kaye, PublicRecord, Former DOJ Official Ignored Damage That Resulted From Waterboarding
4/11/10 Reuters, Defense chief backs troops on Apache attack video
4/11/10 Bengali, McClatchy, In Mississippi Delta, recession is a way of life
4/11/10 BBC, Nato forces gather for Exercise Joint Warrior
4/11/10 McClatchy, Officials hope dams' removal will bring the big salmon back
4/11/10 Guardian, MoD rejecting Gulf war syndrome pension claims, say veterans
4/11/10 Chick, CSM, Thailand protests: 'Red shirt' protesters rule out talks with government
4/11/10 Black, BBC, 'Slim' prospects for climate deal this year
April 10, 2010
4/10/10 Grey, WSWS, Miners doomed by collusion between regulators and coal companies
4/10/10 DeepJournal, 33 states out of money to fund jobless benefits
4/10/10 Miller, NYT, U.S. officials say Pakistani spy agency released Afghan Taliban insurgents
4/10/10 Harding, Guardian, Polish president among 96 killed in plane crash
4/10/10 Bliman, CNN, NY police: 4 face hate crime charges in beating of Mexican man
4/10/10 South Fl. Bus. Jrnl, Study: Cost-Savings of Private Prisons Doubted
4/10/10 Barrionuevo, NYT, Tribes of Amazon Find an Ally Out of 'Avatar'
4/10/10 WSWS, Miners speak on safety violations at Upper Big Branch Mine
4/10/10 Lobe, IPS, U.S.: Kissinger Rescinded Warning Against Condor Assassinations
4/10/10 Allen, BBC, Why colour still defines everything in South Africa
4/10/10 Hogg, BBC, China reports rare trade deficit
April 9, 2010
4/09/10 Lindorff, PublicRecord, Massey Energy Purchased Workers Comp Ins. Shortly Before Mine Explosion
4/09/10 Wang, ProPublica, Fannie Execs Blame Failure on Company's 'Impossible' Dual Purpose
4/09/10 Eisinger & Bernstein, ProPublica, The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going
4/09/10 Martin, NYT, As a Hiring Filter, Credit Checks Draw Questions
4/09/10 Jamjoom, CNN, Yemeni child bride dies of internal bleeding
4/09/10 Hayes, Nation, The Breakdown: What Will Student Loan Reform Do?
4/09/10 Grimm & Delaney, Huffington, Power Struggle: Inside The Battle For The Soul Of The Democratic Party
4/09/10 Reuters, Major US Banks Masked Risk Levels: Report
4/09/40 Lendman, IntelDaily, Imprisoning Palestinian Children
4/09/10 Greer, IntelDaily, The Twilight of the Machine
April 8, 2010
4/08/10 Sahoo, IPS, Lucrative KBR Contracts Unaffected by Troop Drawdown
4/08/10 Elliott, TPM, New Orleans Cop Explains How Police Gunned Down Unarmed Civilians In Post-Katrina Incident
4/08/10 Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, Sovereign debt crisis at 'boiling point', warns Bank for International Settlements
4/08/10 cAVENDISH, csm, US military offers sheep in apology for Afghanistan deaths
4/08/10 Ewing, Asia Times, China faces its biggest foe
April 7, 2010
4/07/10 Klare, FPIF, China's Global Shopping Spree
4/07/10 Dawber, Independent, Total charged with corruption over Iraqi oil-for-food project
4/07/10 BBC, Yemenis urged to probe alleged breaches of laws of war
4/07/10 Black, BBC, Flowers bloom earlier as UK warms
4/07/10 Pressly, BBC, Mongolia on verge of mineral boom
4/07/10 Walker, BBC, Giant lizard species discovered in the Philippines
4/07/10 BBC, US 'approves killing' US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki
4/07/10 BBC, US military 'trying to retrieve' Iraq killings video
April 6, 2010
4/06/10 Allen, ITT, Offshoring Human Drug Trials
4/06/10 EDIE, UN wades into water row
4/06/10 CNN, Wilma Mankiller, first woman to lead Cherokee, dies at 64
4/06/10 BBC, Australia PM brands Barrier Reef grounding 'outrageous'
4/06/10 BBC, Scores of Indian soldiers killed in Maoist ambushes
4/06/10 BBC, Profile: Who are WikiLeaks?
4/06/10 Black, BBC, Turtles killed 'in millions' by fishing gear
4/06/10 Fihlani, BBC, Race hate lives on in 'rainbow nation'
April 5, 2010
4/05/10 Richardson, Altenet, What You're Eating Could Make or Break Our Planet -- 7 Principles of a Climate-Friendly Diet
4/05/10 Becker, PSL, Colonial master disciplines client
4/05/10 Oppel, NYT, U.S. Admits Role in Killing of Afghan Women
4/05/10 EDIE, Plastic-eating bugs could be answer for sea waste
4/05/10 Keilar, CNN, Unemployment benefits expire for thousands
4/05/10 Zunes, FPIF, U.S. Lawmakers Support Illegal Annexation
4/05/10 BBC, Renewed search for 9/11 remains in New York
4/05/10 BBC, Attack on US consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan
April 4, 2010
4/04/10 Carey, Miami Herald, Bartering helps small companies survive when cash is tight
4/04/10 Johnson, Huffington, Jamie Dimon: The Most Dangerous Man In America
4/04/10 Reich, RobertReich.com, Greenspan, Summers, and Why the Economy Is So Out of Whack
4/04/10 Green, OpenLeft, "Theory of Change" -- what most institutions in DC don't understand
4/04/10 Hammoudi, CSM, Suicide bombings target Baghdad embassies, killing more than 30
4/04/10 Hilzenrath, WP, Charities boosted profits of Erickson retirement communities
4/04/10 Asthana eta al, Guardian, Black pupils 'are routinely marked down by teachers
4/04/10 CNN, U.S. delays report on alleged China currency manipulation
4/04/10 BBC, Australia alert over oil leak on Great Barrier Reef
4/04/10 AP, 4/04/10 BBC, Terreblanche death brings Zuma appeal for calm
April 3, 2010
4/03/10 Martin, WSWS, Former IAEA chief: Iraq war killed "a million innocent civilians
4/03/10 Thill, DeepJournal, Intelligence Agencies Allegedly Going to Extremes to Suppress Video Confirming Pentagon Massacre Cover-up
4/03/10 Glanz, New America Media, Flat Unemployment Rate Masks the Race Gap
4/03/10 Baker & Schweber, NYT, Six Arrested After Girl, 7, Is Gang-Raped in New Jersey
4/02/10 Shalal-Esa, Reuters, Pentagon boosting Afghanistan "eyes in the sky"
4/03/10 CNN, Afghan soldiers killed in friendly fire
4/03/10 Stourton, BBC, Richness of Iraq's minority religions revealed
April 2, 2010
4/02/10 Lendman, Targeting Academic and Speech Freedoms: The Case of Canadian Professor Denis Rancourt
4/02/10 Bhadrakumar, Asia Times, The alienation of Hamid Karzai
4/02/10 AFP, US 'to Begin Profiling Air Passengers'
4/02/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, New Regulations Will Put an End to Mountaintop Mining
4/02/10 Nasipour, Huffington, Top Fed Official Wants To Break Up Megabanks, Stop The Fed From Guaranteeing Wall Street's Profits
4/02/10 Hall, McClatchy, What's Driving Up Oil Prices Again? Wall Street, Of Course
4/02/10 Zueras, IPS, Native Peoples Reject Market Mechanisms
4/02/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Turning the Police Into Intelligence Agents
4/02/10 Nichols, Nation, Court: Feingold's Right On Wiretaps, Censure, Bush -- and Obama
4/02/10 Lobe, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Legality of Drone Strikes Still in Question
4/02/10 Senegal, CSM, Africa looks to nuclear power
April 1, 2010
4/01/10 Al Jazeera, US denies missile test report
4/01/10 CNN, Obama energy plan would open Atlantic and Gulf drilling
4/01/10 BBC. Peace talks: Palestinian views
4/01/10 McCoy, Asia Times, The opium wars in Afghanistan
4/01/10 Shanker, Guardian, Mohamed ElBaradei Hits Out at West's Support for Repressive Regimes
4/01/10 WMUR, New Contamination Found At Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant
4/01/10 Bottari, Bankster.com, New Tally Focuses on Expansive Role of Federal Reserve in Wall Street Bailout
4/01/10 Hawkins, MoJo, Another Gulf War Syndrome?
4/01/10 Klare, MoJo, China's Global Shopping Spree
4/01/10 Ahn & Sengupta, FPIF, The State of the World's Women