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May 31, 2010

5/31/10 Brown, AP, Scientists warn of unseen deepwater oil disaster

5/31/10 Gabbatt, Guardian, Israel attacks Gaza flotilla - live coverage

5/31/10 Hill, Guardian, Why teenagers can't concentrate: too much grey matter

May 30, 2010

5/30/10 Morris, MoJo, Tuvalu v. ExxonMobil?

5/30/10 Sapien & Kessler, ProPublica, Tainted Chinese Drywall Concerns Went Unreported for Two Years

5/30/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Regulatory Capture Underground and At Sea

5/30/10 Kraus, FPIF, The Court of Last Resort

May 29, 2010

5/29/10 Corbett, DeepJournal, Bilderberg 2010 Agenda Leaked

May 28, 2010

5/28/10 Rozoff, IntelDaily, U.S. Cyber Command: Waging War In World's Fifth Battlespace

5/28/10 Kestenbaum, NPR, India's Poor Aren't Getting Richer. Here's Why.

5/28/10 Gambrell, AP, Millions face hunger in arid belt of Africa

5/28/10 Cutler, Asia Times, Tectonic shift under way in Turkmen gas

5/28/10 Bauman, MoJo, Soldier in Iraq Loses Home Over $800 Debt

May 27, 2010

5/27/10 Scahill, Nation, DoD Investigating Nine Cases of "Terrorism-Related Acts" by US Military and Contractors?

5/27/10 Thill, AlterNet, Are Goldman Sachs and the Megabanks Able to Wipe out an Entire Economy with a Keystroke?

5/27/10 Perdomo, AlterNet, 10 Things You Need (But Don't Want) To Know About the BP Oil Spill

5/27/10 AlterNet, In Memory of Dr. Tiller: Reflections on the Death of An American Hero One Year Later

5/27/10 Biggers, AlterNet, Oil Spills, Coal Disasters, Immigration Hysteria: Unlearned Lessons from 1924

5/27/10 Al Jazeera, North Korea scraps peace accord

5/27/10 Al Jazeera, Indonesia declares logging halt

5/27/10 Sanger & Baker, NYT, New Security Strategy Focuses on Managing Threats

5/27/10 Khimm, MoJo, Obama's Immigration Policy: "Bush on Steroids"?

5/26/10 Powers & Simons, LAT, Rig mechanic says BP was in a rush despite problems

5/27/10 Murphy & Tankersley, LAT, U.S. to suspend new exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic

5/27/10 Bizzio, CNN, Alliance of Civilisations "Bridging Cultures" for Peace

5/27/10 Zippori, CNN, Convoy of ships heads to Gaza in attempt to break blockade

5/27/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, So Damn Little Money

5/27/10 Lobe, Asia Times, US Congress slows on Iran

5/27/10 Askari & Krichene, Asia Times, Central banks - crisis creators

5/27/10 BBC, Taiwan iPhone-maker Foxconn suffers another death

5/27/10 BBC, US President Barack Obama 'to extend oil drilling ban'

5/27/10 Mason, BBC, Will Europeans accept a generation of 'austerity'?

5/27/10 BBC, Peru indigenous leader detained on return from exile

5/27/10 BBC, US economic growth revised down to 3%

May 26, 2010

5/26/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, The Last Hold Out: Senator Blanche Lincoln Against 13 Bankers

5/26/10 NPR, Who Gave $1.5 Million To Pay Down The National Debt?

5/26/10 Wang, ProPublica, More Reports of Illness Emerge Among Gulf Cleanup Workers

5/26/10 Kirka & Lederer, AP, UK gov't discloses size of its nuclear stockpile

5/26/10 Tumulty, WP, Five questions for Obama on the oil spill

5/26/10 Urbina, NYT, BP Used Riskier Method to Seal Well Before Blast

5/26/10 Aristo, CNN, Gulf oil spill could foul Cuban waters

5/26/10 Wang, ProPublica, Read Congressional Memo That Confirms Warning Signs Before Rig Explosion

5/26/10 Fahrenthold, WP, Report shows close ties between rig inspectors, oil industry

5/25/10 Conniff, Progressive, EPA Should Ban BP

5/26/10 Reuters, Bernanke makes case for Fed independence

5/26/10 Cruz & Cart, LAT, Oil cleanup workers report illness

5/26/10 Simon & Leovy, LAT, BP reports warning signs before gulf oil rig explosion

5/25/10 Dadigan, CSM, How a native American tribe got their salmon back, by way of New Zealand

5/26/10 Belsie, CSM, World debt crisis: eight reasons you should care

5/26/10 Walsh, CSM, Ireland: the hard path to austerity

5/26/10 BBC, Pakistan Taliban 'attack eastern Afghan district'

5/26/10 Roher, BBC, What is a 'top kill'?

5/26/10 Watson, DeepJournal, Top Construction Firm: Twin Towers Destroyed By Controlled Demolition

5/26/10 Kurczy, CSM, Don't ask, don't tell: How do other countries treat gay soldiers?

5/26/10 Doucet, BBC, Inside Afghanistan's most notorious prison

May 25, 2010

5/25/10 Kaye, PublicRecord, Obama Interrogation Official Linked to U.S. Mind Control Research

5/25/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Regulation vs. Structural Change

5/25/10 Scahill, Nation, Pentagon Seeks Private Contractor to Move Weapons Through Pakistan/Afghanistan

5/25/10 Becker, PSL, A government in the service of the rich

5/26/10 Yen, AP, Interracial marriage still rising, but not as fast

5/25/10 Shachtman, Wired, Marjah's 'Government in a Box' Flops as McChrystal Fumes

5/25/10 Mufson, WP, Pressure to save time, money may have contributed to oil disaster

5/25/10 Southall, NYT, Bias Payments Come Too Late for Some Farmers

5/25/10 Wines, NYT, Chinese Economy Treads Risky Path. (Ask Japan.)

5/25/10 Bolstad, McClatchy, Gulf well 'shouted' warnings for hours before BP rig explosion

5/25/10 Taylor & Shashank, McClatchy, Experts: Legal issues driving BP's oil spill stance

5/25/10 Lobe, IPS, NGOs Call on Obama to Move Swiftly Against LRA

5/25/10 CNN, Obama to send more troops to Southwest border region

5/25/10 Tompson, Guardian, Despair and mayhem in downtown slums of Kingston

5/25/10 Adams, CSM, South Korea markets plunge on news North Korea is preparing for war

5/25/10 Murphy, CSM, Jamaica attacks: a legacy of ties between politicians and gangs

5/25/10 BBC, Gulf spill: BP reveals oil spill probe details

5/25/10 BBC, Georgia teacher suspended after pupils don Klan robes

5/25/10 Gill, BBC, Swarming 'swells' locusts' brains

5/25/10 Cabral, BBC, Brazil's booming agriculture sector eyes global markets

5/25/10 Mardell, BBC, Should America lead the world?

5/25/10 Watson, DeepJournal, Former CIA Officials Admit To Faking Bin Laden Video

5/24/10 Juhasz, Guardian, How Far Should We Let Big Oil Go?

5/24/10 Drummond, Wired, Pentagon to Troop-Killing Superbugs: Resistance Is Futile

5/25/10 Al Jazeera, US and S Korea to hold war games

5/25/10 Eilperin, WP, U.S. oil drilling regulator ignored experts' red flags on environmental risks

5/25/10 Geiger & Hamburger, LAT, Oil companies have a rich history of U.S. subsidies

5/25/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Gulf oil spill: White House orders BP to cut use of dispersant by half

5/25/10 CNN, Patience runs thin as BP preps untested maneuver to cap oil leak

5/25/10 BBC, Oil leaks from tanker collision off Singapore

5/25/10 BBC, Global stock markets see sharp falls

5/25/10 Walker, BBC, Polar bears face 'tipping point' due to climate change

5/25/10 Duffy, BBC, Family friendly: Brazil's scheme to tackle poverty

May 24, 2010

5/24/10 BBC, In graphics: Eurozone in crisis

5/24/10 Farrell, FT, US Justice Department ends AIG probe

5/24/10 McNulty, FT, BP offers $500m for damage study

5/24/10 Spillius, Telegraph, Gulf Oil Spill: Similar Disaster Could Occur in Arctic Later This Year

5/24/10 Dayee, Scotland Herald, Forces of Fear: US as Bad as Taliban, Refugees Claim

5/24/20 Stein, WP, FDA considers endorsement of drug that some call a Viagra for women

5/24/10 Mason, Reuters, Obama tells military: prepare for North Korea aggression

5/24/10 Mason, Reuters, Obama Tells Military: Prepare for North Korea Aggression

5/24/10 Weaver, Wired, Testosterone Makes People Suspicious of One Another

5/24/10 Reuters, U.S. declares fishery disaster in 3 Gulf states

5/24/10 Reuters, Covert U.S. operations authorized in secret order

5/24/10 Frykberg, IPS, US Funds Apartheid Roads on West Bank

5/24/10 Fountain, NYT, Expert Is Confident About Sealing Oil Well

5/24/10 CNN, Mixed messages as frustration mounts over Gulf oil spill

5/24/10 Kanter, NYT, New Plans Try to Revive Carbon Trading

5/24/10 Krauss & Zeller, NYT, A Behind-the-Scenes Firm in the Spotlight

5/24/10 Mazzetti, NYT, U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Military Acts in Mideast Region

5/24/10 Urbina, NYT, Inspector General's Inquiry Faults Regulators

5/24/10 BBC, Seven atom transistor sets the pace for future PCs

5/24/10 Kansas.com, Wal-Mart employee foils a shoplifter -- and loses her job

5/24/10 Lightman & Douglas, McClatchy, Another jobless benefits fight looms in Congress

5/24/10 McClelland, MoJo, "It's BP's Oil"

5/24/10 Leahy, IPS, U.N. Body Urges Caution on Synthetic Bacteria, Geoengineering

5/24/10 Chavez, IPS, Morales Caught Between Gas Revenues and Indigenous Demands

5/24/10 Bink, OpenLeft, Breaking: White House agrees to set end date/delayed implementation plan on Don't Ask, Don't Tell

5/24/10 Watts, Guardian, Chinese engineers propose world's biggest hydro-electric project in Tibet

5/24/10 Mills, CNN, Google rolls out encrypted Web search option

5/24/10 Chick, CSM, How bad is Gulf oil spill? A global Q&A on offshore oil spills

5/24/10 Kurczy, CSM, Top 10 countries with most improved child mortality rates

5/24/10 Bryant, CSM, Did Israel offer to sell South Africa nuclear weapons?

5/24/10 BBC, US troops in Afghanistan outnumber those in Iraq

5/24/10 Head, BBC, Young, Kurdish, and jailed in Turkey

May 23, 2010

5/23/10 Reuters, U.S. Says Must Rely on BP to Stop Oil Spill in Gulf

5/23/10 Stephens, WP, Nature Conservancy faces potential backlash from ties with BP

5/23/10 Beaumont, Guardian, US appoints first cyber warfare general

5/21/10 Courson, CNN, Experts testify on grim ecological fallout from Gulf oil spill

5/23/10 Nissenbaum, CSM, Afghanstan war: Convoy security deal to benefit Karzai's brother?

5/23/10 McNulty, FT, Energy groups warned over accidents

5/23/10 Boone & Johnson, Baseline Scenario, The Road To Economic Serfdom

5/23/10 Hellenbeck, Burlington Free Press, Strontium-90 Discovered in Soil Surrounding Vermont Yankee Leak

5/23/10 Urbina, NYT, Despite Obama's Moratorium, Drilling Projects Move Ahead

5/23/10 Goodman, NYT, Cuts to Child Care Subsidy Thwart More Job Seekers

5/23/10 Dash & Schwartz, NYT, As Reform Takes Shape, Some Relief on Wall St. (Size and power left intact)

5/23/10 Bengali, McClatchy, Thad Allen: Only BP has expertise to stop oil spill

5/23/10 Levoy, LAT, Oil spill caused by 'a confluence of unfortunate events'

5/23/10 BBC, US warns it may 'push BP aside' on Gulf oil clean-up

May 22, 2010

5/22/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Virginia AG Goes After Climate Scientist; 800 Virginia Professors Protest

5/22/10 CNN, BP won't change dispersant used in oil spill -- for now

5/22/10 Tan, SF Chron, Wealth Gap Nearly Quadrupled for Whites, Blacks

May 21, 2010

5/21/10 Nicholas, LAT, Democrats point the finger at Obama's chief of staff for immigration reform's poor progress

5/21/10 Clark, Guardian, Barack Obama hails vote on tightening regulation of Wall Street's banks

5/21/10 Broad, Times, Surveillance Suspected as Spacecraft's Main Role

5/21/10 Drummond, Wired, Darpa's Self-Learning Software Knows Who You Are

5/21/10 Lustgarten, ProPublica, EPA Officials Weigh Sanctions Against BP's U.S. Operations

5/21/10 Wood, PSL, Documents show corporations plan to axe employee health care

5/21/10 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, British troops in Helmand placed under US command

5/21/10 Jowitt, Guardian, UN says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change'

5/21/10 Free, FPIF, Multinational Oil, The US and Nigeria: A Crude Contrast

5/21/10 BBC, Niger's hungry 'crossing into Nigeria'

5/21/10 Chen, CNN, Pressure for female genital cutting lingers in the U.S.

5/21/10 EDIE, Watch the oil spill live on BP's website

5/21/10 Netto, IPS, Encroaching Forest, Oil Palm Plantations Alarm Villagers

5/21/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Chomsky's Nightmare: Is Fascism Coming to America?

5/21/10 CBS News, US Rifles Not Suited To Warfare In Afghan Hills

5/21/10 Austin American Statesman, Border Officials Seek to Expand Texas Drone's Range

5/21/10 White, WSWS, Facing record loss of revenue, US states gutting essential services

5/21/10 Froomkin, Huffington, Gulf Oil Spill: Vast Majority of Pollution Could Lurk Below Surface for Months or Years

May 20, 2010

5/20/10 Nagourney & Hulse, NYT, Tea Party Pick Causes Uproar on Civil Rights

5/20/10 Urbina, NYT, Conflict of Interest Worries Raised in Spill Tests

5/20/10 Taylor, McClatchy, Low estimate of oil spill's size could save BP millions in court

5/20/10 Muskal, LAT, Gulf oil spill: EPA orders BP to use less toxic dispersant

5/20/10 AP, Discrimination high against Latinos, poll finds

5/20/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Deepwater Horizon survivor describes horrors of blast and escape from rig

5/20/10 ample, Guardian, Craig Venter creates synthetic life form

5/20/10 Wintour et al, Guardian, Torture claims investigation ordered by William Hague

5/20/10 Curcio, FPIF, Plugging Africa's Leak

5/20/10 CNN, Obama's top intelligence adviser resigns

5/20/10 Kayira, CSM, Malawi gives gay couple 14 years in jail; public cheers

5/20/10 BBC, US investigates Afghanistan civilian deaths

5/20/10 BBC, Google launches smart TV service

5/20/10 BBC, 'Unintended' statin side-effect risks uncovered

5/20/10 BBC, BP has fallen short in providing oil leak data, says US

5/20/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Beware Rand Paul and Sarah Palin

5/20/10 Chin, Progressive, Arizona's law reminds us of past anti-immigrant legislation

5/20/10 AP, Stocks Extend a Steep Slide on Concern Over Europe

5/20/10 LAT, Torpedo accusation raises Korean security stakes

5/20/10 Rotella & Linzer, ProPublica, Times Square Bombing Investigation Focuses on Suspected Role of Pakistani Army Major

5/20/10 Weis, AlterNet, What U.S. History Would Look Like If It Were Written By Texas and Arizona

5/20/10 Ehrenreich, AlterNet, Why Forced Positive Thinking Is a Total Crock

5/20/10 Sassoon, Guardian, Did Deepwater methane hydrates cause the BP Gulf explosion?

5/20/10 CNN, BP touts containment efforts; heavy oil reaches Louisiana wetlands

5/20/10 CNN, Report questions TSA's program for spotting terrorists

5/20/10 CNN, Hopes pinned on Sunday attempt to stop Gulf oil leak

5/20/10 CNN, Photos: Oil hits wetlands

5/20/10 Rozoff, IntelDaily, U.S. And NATO Accelerate Military Build-Up In Black Sea Region

5/20/10 Madsen, WMR, White House Covers Up Menacing Oil "Blob"

5/20/10 BBC, Bank reforms outlined by government

5/20/10 BBC, Dubai World agrees debt deal with key banks

5/20/10 Afrasiabi, Asia Times, US strikes back at Tehran

5/20/10 Durden, DeepJournal, US Begins Massive Military Build Up Around Iran, Sending Up To 4 New Carrier Groups In Region

May 19, 2010

5/19/10 AlterNet, An America for Whites Only?

5/19/10 Haven, AP, US and Cuba hold talks on oil spill

5/19/10 Buskirk, Wired, Sneak Peek: Obama Administration's Redesigned Data.gov

5/19/10 BBC, Texas schoolbook fight heats up

5/19/10 Calore, WebMonkey, Major Browser Vendors Launch WebM Free Open Video Project

5/19/10 EDIE, 2010 sees hottest temperatures since record began

5/19/10 BBC, Thousands protest over Romania austerity measures

5/19/10 BBC, Gulf oil now in powerful Loop Current, scientists say

5/19/10 IntelDaily, Web Browsers Leave 'Fingerprints' Behind as You Surf the Net

5/19/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, Israel's Exclusion and Restriction of Goods to Gaza

5/19/10 Knox, AlterNet, A Victim of Abstinence-Only Responds to Sex Scandal of Ab-Only Politician Mark Souder

5/29/10 Schulte et al, The Other Foreclosure Menace Mortgage Paid Off, Woman Loses Home -- Over a Small Water Bill

5/19/10 Brock, Reuters, Africa's Oil Spills Are Far From U.S. Media Glare

5/19/10 Zibel, AP, Mortgage Delinquencies, Foreclosures Break Records

5/19/10 AP, Workers asked to return bonuses after 16 years

5/19/10 Leopold, TruthOut, How Bush's DOJ Killed a Criminal Probe Into BP That Threatened to Net Top Officials

5/19/10 Cho, WP, Bank loophole for Wall Street remains in financial regulation bill

5/19/10 Al Jazeera, Markets hit by German measures

5/19/10 Goldfarb, WP, SEC proposes rules to prevent another 'flash crash'

5/19/10 Fahrenthold & Achenbach, WP, Florida Keys tar balls unrelated to BP spill

5/19/10 Katz, Reuters, U.S. jury decides $250 million damages against Novartis

5/19/10 Gillis, NYT, Scientists Fault Lack of Studies Over Gulf Oil Spill

5/19/10 Yardley, NYT, Arctic Drilling Proposal Advanced Amid Concern

5/19/10 Schoof, McClatchy, Gulf oil spill leak now pegged at 95,000 barrels a day

5/19/10 Schooff & French, Gulf oil spill may be 19 times bigger than originally thought

5/19/10 Weir, CSM, Moscow furious, says US not pushing drug war in Afghanistan

5/19/10 Heap, BBC, Why China holds 'rare' cards in the race to go green

5/19/110 AP, U.S. Inflation at 44-Year Low as Retail Prices Fall

5/19/10 Sheppard, MoJo, Why Is the EPA Letting BP Use Dirty Dispersants?

5/19/10 Bybee, ITT, Regulate or Capitulate

5/19/10 Boehm & Sahagun, LAT, BP oil spill poses PR dilemma for nonprofits

5/18/10 EDIE, Nestlé makes palm oil sustainability pledge

5/19/10 Stack, CSM, 5/19/10 BBC, Chipmakers fined by EU for price-fixing

May 18, 2010

5/18/10 Schmidt, ProPublica, BP Gulf Oil Spill Slideshow

5/18/10 NDTV, Unique ID for every Indian above 5 years of age

5/18/10 Walsh, DeepJournal, US military's private spy and murder ring continues to operate in Afghanistan, Pakistan

5/18/10 Goldstein, NPR, Private Equity Titans Look To Beat New Tax Rule

5/18/10 Knutson, ProPublica, Justice Department Opens Probe of NOPD

5/18/10 Wang, ProPublica, In Gulf Spill, BP Using Dispersants Banned in U.K.

5/18/10 McGreal, Guardian, Texas Schools Board Rewrites US History With Lessons Promoting God and Guns

5/18/10 Kiel, ProPublica, Chase Leaves Thousands Stuck in Loan Mod Limbo

5/18/10 Brown, Times Online, Chilcot Iraq War Inquiry Team Quizzes US Officials in Secret

5/18/10 Entous, Reuters, Special Report: How the White House learned to love the drone

5/18/10 Entous, Reuters, Obama starts deploying interrogation teams

5/18/10 Burkart, MNN, Coast Guard and BP threaten journalists with arrest for documenting oil spill

5/18/10 Tudora, WSWS, IMF dictates shock program to Romania

5/18/10 Schulte, Huffington, Investors Made Millions from People Facing Eviction

5/18/10 AP, Warmest April on record, climate agency reports

5/18/10 Al Jazeera, US commission to probe oil spill

5/18/10 Gorman, Reuters, Oil spill threatens way of life on Louisiana bayou

5/18/10 Yang, WP, GE and other manufacturers back exemption in financial regulation bill

5/18/10 NYT, U.S. to Promote Press Freedom

5/18/10 Yardley, NYT, Shell Offers Reassurances on Drilling

5/18/10 Chang, Miami Herald, Tar balls found along shore in Key West

5/18/10 Zimonjic, IPS, 'How Did We Become So Poor?'

5/18/10 Chakraboty, Guardian, Are the markets our new religion?

5/18/10 Topping & Smith, Guardian, Malawi gay couple found guilty of 'unnatural acts'

5/18/10 Knight, CNN, Scientists discover frog with inflating nose

5/18/10 BBC, Australia's Macarthur Coal snubs Peabody takeover bid

5/18/10 Spencer, BBC, Daily View: Thailand protests

5/18/10 Klare, MoJo, The Relentless Pursuit of Extreme Energy

5/18/10 McClatchy, BP withholds oil spill facts -- and government lets it

5/18/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Atlantic coast now under threat as current spreads Gulf oil slick

5/18/10 Feffer, FPIF, The Breakup

May 17, 2010

5/17/10 Feiner, On The Issues, How to Think Like A Feminist Economist

5/17/10 Kaye, Public Record, APA Scrubs Web Pages Linking Organization to CIA Torture Workshops

5/17/10 Peterson, CSM, Iran nuclear fuel swap deal: What it involves, and how it will affect US push for sanctions

5/17/10 Wang, ProPublica, BP Turns Down Offers to Better Measure Gulf Disaster

5/17/10 Peptone, CNN, Doctors' Medicare payouts to be cut 21% June 1

5/17/10 Wang, ProPublica, Check Out President Obama and VP Biden's Financial Disclosure Forms

5/17/10 Thill, AlterNet, Brace Yourself: This Is the Tip of the Iceberg for Oil-Induced Enviro Catastrophes

5/17/10 Knutson, ProPublica, Despite Legislation, Misleading RNC 'Census' Mailers Continue

5/17/10 Morse, WP, Immigrant checks could hush witnesses, Montgomery police chief says

5/17/10 AP, Justices Bar Life Terms for Youths Who Haven't Killed

5/17/10 Pilkington, Guardian, Submerged Oil Plumes Suggest Gulf Spill Is Worse Than BP Claims

5/17/10 Nissenbaum, McClatchy, Afghan report links president's brother to illegal land grabs

5/17/10 Smallheer, Rutland, Tritium Leak Poses Question for Integrity of NRC

5/17/10 AP, NATO unveils draft of new mission statement

5/17/10 Cliftin, IPS, Bill for Afghan War Could Run into the Trillions

5/17/10 Berger, IPS, Oil Sands Riskier than Gulf Spill, Say Investor Groups

5/17/10 Evans, CSM, White South Africans use Facebook in campaign to return to Holland

5/17/10 Avril, IPS, Africa Has Less Say After Changes in World Bank Voting

5/17/10 Bryant, BBC, Residents' fears over Australian mines

5/17/10 CNN, Oil spill response to be assessed on Capitol Hill

5/17/10 Klein, CNN, Study: ADHD linked to pesticide exposure

5/17/10 BBC, Hack attacks mounted on car control systems

5/17/10 BBC, Saudi editor Jamal Khashoggi resigns from of al-Watan

5/17/10 BBC, Smallpox demise linked to spread of HIV infection

May 16, 2010

5/16/10 Durden, ZeroHedge, Reindexing The Unemployment Rate By America's Population Growth Yields Some Ugly Results

5/15/10 DeGraw, PublicRecord, The Financial Oligarchy Reigns: Democracy's Death Spiral From Greece to the United States

5/16/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The Cost of "Multitasking"

5/16/10 PSL, The cultural side of apartheid in Arizona

5/16/10 Collins, AP, Huge Underwater Oil Plumes Found in Gulf of Mexico

5/16/10 Cocking, Miami Herald, Non-native swamphens infiltrating Florida's ecosystem

5/16/10 Dahren, AP, Models indicate Gulf spill may be in major current

5/16/10 Achenbach, WP, Oil spill imperils an unseen world at the bottom of the gulf

5/16/10 Nordland & Wafa, NYT, Sign of Afghan Addiction May Also Be Its Remedy

5/16/10 Knudson, McClatchy, Quest for oil leaves trail of damage across the globe

5/16/10 Lee, LAT, Consumer spending trend is a shaky foundation for economic recovery

5/16/10 Pilkington, Guardian, Noam Chomsky barred by Israelis from lecturing in Palestinian West Bank

May 15, 2010

5/15/10 Merchant, Treehugger, Already-Vanishing Oyster Reefs Under Threat from Oil Spill (Video)

5/15/10 Goddard, Telegraph, BP Accused of Using Gulf of Mexico as 'Toxic Testing-Ground'

5/15/10 CNN, What are oil dispersants?

5/15/10 Fahrenthold & Eilperin, WP, Challenge of cleaning up Gulf of Mexico oil spill 'unprecedented' at such depths

5/15/10 Schneider, WP, European countries feel the pain as cuts keep coming

5/15/10 Sirota, ITT, The Predictable and Inevitable Blowback

5/15/10 Viney, Guardian, How to thatch a roof

5/15/10 BBC, Diet of mud and despair in Indian village

5/15/10 CNN, Feds approve use of underwater dispersants for oil spill

May 14, 2010

5/14/10 Scahill, DeepJournal, Who Runs The Secret 'Black Jail' at Bagram?

5/14/10 Wang, ProPublica, Gulf Oil Spill Update: Way Worse Than They Told Us

5/14/10 Shachtman, Wired, Report: Secret Space Plane Likely an Orbiting Spy

5/14/10 Cardinale, IPS, Ecosystem in Peril after Gulf Oil Spill

5/14/10 Wainwright, Guardian, Neo-Nazi Ian Davidson jailed for 10 years for making chemical weapon

5/14/10 White, WSWS, US media demands Greek-style austerity for American workers

5/14/10 Eley, WSWS, What caused the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon?

5/14/10 Van Auken, WSWS, Drastic social cutbacks unveiled throughout Europe

5/14/10 Beattie, FT, IMF warns rich countries on debt

5/14/10 Becker, FT, The powerful few

5/14/10 Thompson-Burns, PSL, Microloans: Charity or exploitation?

5/14/10 Miller, PSL, Supreme Court gives OK to cruel treatment of immigrant detainees

5/14/10 Mack, PSL, Water crisis in Boston area hits poor and working people hardest

5/14/10 Robinson, TruthOut, Outlawing Latinos' Heritage

5/14/10 Al Jazeera, Disputed Nile agreement signed

5/14/10 Eilperin, WP, MMS ignores environmental permits

5/14/10 Nordland, NYT, Afghans Protest Deadly U.S. Raid

5/13/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Marine scientists study ocean-floor film of Deepwater oil leak

5/14/10 Tremlett et al, Guardian, Fears over Greek bailout send shares and euro tumbling

5/14/10 CNN, Congressman to launch inquiry on how much oil is gushing into Gulf

5/13/10 topol, CSM, Yemen: Never mind Anwar al-Awlaki, the economy is a bigger threat

5/14/10 Barnes, CSM, Brazil visit to Iran: 'last chance' before new round of sanctions?

5/12/10 BBC Ukraine president resists Russian gas takeover

5/14/10 Walker, BBC, Folk medicine poses global threat to wild dog species

5/12/10 BBC, Nigeria and China sign $23bn deal for three refineries

5/14/10 Paez, IPS, Gas Exports Will Cause Local Shortages, Governors Protest

5/14/10 Adams, Guardian, Arizona law threatens ethnic studies courses tailored to immigrants' children

May 13, 2010

5/13/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Senator Kaufman Was Right - Our Financial System Has Become Dangerous

5/13/10 Carter, AlterNet, America's Ten Most Corrupt Capitalists

5/13/10 Wired - Wiki, Trigger Green Traffic Lights

5/13/10 Dennis, WP, Senate votes to keep small banks under Federal Reserve's oversight

5/13/10 Mui, WP, Wal-Mart pledges $2 billion in food and grants to fight hunger

5/13/10 Roig-Franzia, WP, Hemp fans look toward Lyster Dewey's past, and the Pentagon, for higher ground

5/13/10 Eilperin, WP, White House, BP unprepared for relationship in wake of oil spill

5/13/10 Goncalves, Reuters, Portugal agrees on new austerity measures

5/13/10 Daniel & Parraga, Reuters, Venezuelan gas rig sinks in Caribbean, no leaks

5/13/10 Reuters, Senate votes to boost regulation of credit agencies

5/13/10 Weaver, Guardian, Obama to force BP to pay more cleanup costs for Deepwater disaster

5/13/10 Kollewe, Guardian, Wall Street banks investigated over misleading mortgage securities

5/13/10 Vaughan, Guardian, Arctic explorers take first-ever water samples at north pole

5/13/10 Schmid, AP, Rising global temperatures cooking lots of lizards

5/13/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Oil Firms Ignored Warning Signs Before Blast, Inquiry Hears

5/13/10 Mufson, WP, Owner of gulf oil drilling rig tries to limit liability for spill

5/13/10 Shane, NYT, U.S. Decision to Approve Killing of Cleric Causes Unease

5/13/10 Broder, NYT, Western Senators Propose Ban on Pacific Drilling

5/13/10 Urbina, NYT, U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits

5/13/10 Minder, NYT, Portugal Follows Spain on Austerity Cuts

5/13/10 Bluemink, ADN, Shell tweaks Arctic oil spill safeguards

5/13/10 Becerra, LAT, Homeboy Industries lays off most employees as financial woes worsen

5/13/10 Hall, McClatchy, Senate takes steps to put limits on credit-rating agencies

5/13/10 Wellem, FPIF, A Final Survey of Nuclear Posture Perspectives

5/13/10 BBC, Eight banks face US investigation

5/13/10 Briggs, BBC, DNA clue to life at high altitude

May 12, 2010

5/12/10 Eley, WSWS, US Senate begins oil spill cover-up

5/12/10 Edwards, DeepJournal, US troops executing prisoners in Afghanistan, journalist says

5/12/10 Shachtman, Wired, Unlimited Talk, Only $679 Million: Inside the No-Bid Deal for Afghan Interpreters

5/12/10 Grey, Progressive, Never forget John Brown

5/12/10 Reuters, U.S. to press China on indigenous innovation: Locke

5/12/10 Cornwell, Reuters, U.S. gave contracts to 7 firms involved in Iran energy

5/12/10 Robles, Miami Herald, Haiti's neighbors pull back welcome mat

5/12/10 Reccio et al, McClatchy, Oil spill: BP had wrong diagram to close blowout preventer

5/12/10 Sample,uardian, Marrying a younger man increases a woman's mortality rate

5/12/10 Black, Guardian, Barack Obama serves notice on Egypt: I meant what I said about human rights

5/12/10 CNN, Anti-gay rights activist resigns after trip with male escort

5/12/10 Peterson, CSM, Russia deal puts Turkey on path to become nuclear energy nation

5/12/10 CNN, FBI looks at possible hate crime charge against Seattle officers

5/12/10 Norrell, FPIF, Bolivia Climate Conference: Indigenous Peoples Design Roadmap to New World

5/12/10 Becker, Asia Times, To Congo, with trouble

5/12/10 Porter, AsiaTimes, Doubts grow on McChrystal's war plan

May 11, 2010

5/11/10 Wang, ProPublica, After Spill, More Gulf Drilling Plans Got Environmental Exemptions

5/11/10 Madrigal, Wired, The Crystals at the Center of the Earth

5/12/10 Saey, Wired, Life on Earth Arose Just Once

5/11/10 Goldfarb, WP, Last week's market dive largely caused by major Wall St. firms, SEC chief says

5/11/10 Swanson, MoJo, Afghan Escalation Funding

5/11/10 Mencimer, MoJo, Why Do So Many People Think Elena Kagan Is Gay?

5/11/10 Wang, ProPublica, Despite Known Instances of Equipment Failure, BP Says Spill 'Seemed Inconceivable'

5/11/10 Andersson, BBC, Red Cross Confirms 'Second Jail' at Bagram, Afghanistan

5/11/10 Eaton, Austin American, Predator Drones to Fly Over Texas-Mexico Border by Fall

5/11/10 Perlez & Shah, NYT, Drone Strikes Pound West Pakistan

5/11/10 Schulman, MoJo, What Did the FBI Know About Faisal Shahzad?

5/11/10 Bolstad, McClatchy, Agency that oversees offshore drilling to be split by Obama administration

5/11/10 AP, World stocks fall as rally over European debt plan fizzles

5/11/10 BBC, Oil firms 'set to clash in US Senate' over rig disaster

May 10, 2010

5/10/10 Wang, ProPublica, Regulators Let Industry Drill Deeper, Despite Safety Concerns and Unproven Fixes

5/10/10 Wang, ProPublica, EPA Approves BP's Use of Questionable Chemicals to Break Up Oil

5/10/10 Kishore, WSWS, Obama administration blocked efforts to stop BP oil drilling before explosion

5/10/10 Welsh, Wired, Mice Show Pain on Their Faces Just Like Humans

5/10/10 Wardell, AP, BP says oil spill cost $350 million so far

5/10/10 Montgomery, Star-Telegram, Texas officials bracing for a 'tar ball event' as oil spill drifts west

5/10/10 Lawrence, Reuters, World Governments Fail to Halt Biodiversity Loss

5/10/10 Al Jazeera, Stocks rally on EU rescue package

5/10/10 Bolstad, McClatchy, BP, Transocean, Halliburton will blame one another for spill

5/10/10 Clifton & Berger, IPS, Changing Face of U.S. Cities a Harbinger of the Future

5/10/10 Leahy, IPS, We Can Live Without Oil, But Not Without Flora and Fauna

5/10/10 Seba, Reuters, Oil spill solutions uncertain, slick spreads west

5/10/10 Reuters, Fannie Mae says long-term financial sustainability uncertain

5/10/10 Kroll, MoJo, BP: From Oil Spilling to Financial Reform Killing

5/10/10 Kurczewski, NYT, Another Low-Cost Car Coming to Indian Auto Market

5/10/10 Meikle, Guardian, Barack Obama to nominate Elena Kagan for supreme court

5/10/10 CNN, Dozens dead, scores wounded in Iraqi violence

5/10/10 BBC, BP 'may stem oil with golf balls and tyres'

5/10/10 Knight, CNN, U.N. report: Eco-systems at 'tipping point'

5/10/10 Gardner, CNN, Are too many people taking heartburn drugs?

5/10/10 Ahmed, CSM, Educated and radical: Why Pakistan produces Faisal Shahzads

5/10/10 BBC, Meeting Millenium Development Goals

May 9, 2010

5/09/10 Reuters, U.S. says Pakistani Taliban behind bomb attempt

5/09/10 Shapiro, CSM, Mothers in Congo get help in raising children of rape

5/09/10 Wilson, Guardian, Billions pour in for India's insulated superclass

5/09/10 Carroll, Guardian, Cuba suffers exodus of the best and the brightest as economy remains in the doldrums

5/09/10 Guardian, Gulf oil spill: quick fix dashed as BP tower fails to contain oil

5/09/10 Bowley & Wyatt, NYT, Computer Trades Are Focus in Wall Street Plunge

5/09/10 BBC, Gates to slash Pentagon bureaucracy costs

5/09/10 BBC, 'Pakistan Taliban' behind Times Square bomb plot

May 8, 2010

5/08/10 Eley, WSWS, The BP oil spill and American capitalism

5/08/10 Kriesler, DeepJournal, Chalmers Johnson on The Downward Slope of Empire

5/08/10 Taylor, McClatchy, Since Spill, Feds Have Given 27 Waivers to Oil Companies in Gulf

5/08/10 Rothacker, Charlotte Observer, Bank of America executive gets attention for e-mails

5/08/10 Mouawad, NYT, For BP, a History of Spills and Safety Lapses

5/08/10 Sirota, ITT, The Motto of Mad Men

5/08/10 Batty, Guardian, Deepwater Horizon blast triggered by methane bubble, report shows

5/08/10 Fontanella-Khan, CSM, Busting India's myths about skin color

5/08/10 BBC, Problems with containment box halt US Gulf oil leak fix

5/08/10 Cutler, Asia Times, ,a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Asian_Economy/LE08Dk01.html">Asia stumbles and falls

May 7, 2010

5/07/10 Wang, ProPublica, Offshore Drilling Regulators Had Concerns, but Let Industry Self-Police

5/07/10 Haas, Ha'aretz, Why Won't Israel Allow Gazans to Import Coriander?

5/07/10 EDIE, Morocco pledges billions to tackle climate change

5/07/10 BBC, AIG returns to profit thanks to investment arm

5/07/10 Celente, IntelDaily, The Crash of 2010: The Bailout Bubble is Bursting

5/07/10 Jenkins, Rand, Would-Be Warriors: Incidents of Jihadist Terrorist Radicalization in the United States Since September 11, 2001

5/07/10 Preston, NYT, Immigration Status of Army Spouses Often Leads to Snags

5/07/10 Savage, NYT, New Justice to Confront Evolution in Powers

5/07/10 Diara, IPS, Farmers Restore Forests

5/07/10 Flesher, AP, Oil spill may endanger human health, officials say

5/07/10 GRAIN, The World Bank in the Hot Seat Over Land Grabbing

5/07/10 Lynfield, Independent, General 'Tried to Cover Up Truth About Death of Rachel Corrie'

5/07/10 Branigan, Guardian, Chinese workers link sickness to n-hexane and Apple iPhone screens

5/07/10 Al Jazeera, Ecuador water law sparks protests

5/07/10 Saslow & Fahrenthold, WP, Oil riggers on ship that exploded in Gulf of Mexico describe fateful night

5/07/10 Bigg, Reuters, Huge chamber being positioned over Gulf oil leak

5/07/10 Williams, Reuters, Israel won't move on U.N. call for nuclear-free zone

5/07/10 Kroll, MoJo, Why Didn't Obama Back Busting Up Big Banks?

5/07/10 Boxall & Leovy, LAT, Oil slick reaches Louisiana's barrier islands

5/07/10 BBC, The tree that shaped Britain

5/07/10 Anderson, ITT, Springsteen's Salvation

5/07/10 Shiels, BBC, US regulators maps 'third way' for net access for all

5/07/10 BBC, Leaders eyeing reform in eurozone

May 6, 2010

5/06/10 Greer, IntelDaily, Our societies have become even more unmanageable: Reduce the amount of complexity

5/06/10 Rozoff, IntelDaily, New Colonialism: Pentagon Carves Africa Into Military Zones

5/06/10 Kaiser, WHO Publishes Comprehensive Report On H1N1

5/06/10 Wang, ProPublica, Gulf Oil Spill FAQ: What Happened, What May Have Caused it, and Who's Responsible

5/06/10 Kunzleman & Pienciak, AP, Feds Let BP Avoid Filing Blowout Plan for Gulf Rig

5/06/10 Fox, Reuters, Report: Environmentally Induced Cancer Grossly Underestimated

5/06/10 White, LAT, Oil spill's economic damage could be permanent

5/06/10 Simon & Martin, CNN, Alaska fishermen still struggling 21 years after Exxon spill

5/06/10 Smith, AsiaTimes, OBAMA'S WAR MACHINE, Part 2 ... Part 1

5/06/10 Shoichet, CNN, New Orleans mayor asks feds to review city police force

5/06/10 BBC, Africa's grandmothers debate HIV/Aids

5/06/10 Drawbaugh, Reuters, Senate backs plan attacking "too big to fail"

5/06/10 EDIE, Finnish researchers consider causes of water wars

5/06/10 Hargreaves, CNN, Oil spill costs: What will BP really pay?

5/06/10 BBC, Syphilis cases rise sharply in China

5/06/10 BBC, Greece crisis: 'Contagion risk' for UK & Europe banks

May 5, 2010

5/05/10 Keim, Wired, Toxic Oil Dispersant Used in Gulf Despite Better Alternative

5/05/10 Singel, Wired, FCC Prepares to Re-Regulate Broadband Providers

5/05/10 NPR, Where Your Tax Dollars Will Go - Projected 2020

5/05/10 Snyder, IntelDaily, Te Coming Economic Collapse Of Japan - And Why You Should Be Extremely Concerned About It

5/05/10 Ananda,IntelDaily, GM Biofuels: Another Planned Disaster

5/05/10 Messenger, WSWS, Global labour figures point to rising tide of joblessness

5/05/10 Kumar, WSWS, Indian coal workers to strike against privatisation

5/05/10 AlterNet, Joe Lieberman Wants to Introduce Bill That Would Strip Americans of Citizenship

5/05/10 Borenstein, AP, Oil's hidden costs visible, but will it matter?

5/05/10 Lovley, Politico, Obama Biggest Recipient of BP Cash

5/05/10 Al Jazeera, Water debate sparks Ecuador clashes

5/05/10 Al Jazeera, Greek demonstrations turn deadly

5/05/10 Conniff, Progressive, Time to Prosecute Corporate Criminals at Massey, BP

5/05/10 AP, French Court Refuses Extradition of Iranian to U.S.

5/05/10 Sheppard, MoJo, There Will Be Blood

5/05/10 Welton, OpEd News, Globalization Is the Contagion: On the Idiocy of Interdependency

5/05/10 Faussett & Levoy, LAT, BP gives Congress gloomy outlook on gulf oil spill

5/05/10 Guardian, Shell reports record oil spillages in Nigeria

5/05/10 CNN, Tracking the oil spill

5/05/10 CNN, Smallest leak on damaged oil well capped, BP exec says

5/05/10 Volman, FPIF, Obama and U.S. Military Engagement in Africa

5/05/10 Rosenthal, NYT, In Gulf of Mexico, Chemicals Under Scrutiny

5/05/10 Youssef, McClatchy, GAO reports casts new doubt on Afghanistan policy

5/05/10 Cloud, LAT, CIA drones have broader list of targets

5/05/10 Pervez, Asia Times, West's cover-ups belie its Afghan strategy

5/05/10 Smith, Asia Times, The Pentagon's game plan

May 4, 2010

5/04/10 Mackenzie, FT, Derivatives boost NYSE profit

5/03/10 Lindorff, PublicRecord, Uh-Oh: Hurricane Season and the BP Oil Rig Disaster

5/04/10 Daniels, AlterNet, Cyber Racism on College Campuses

5/04/10 Grim HuffingtonPost, Fed Privately Lobbying Against Audit, Documents Show

5/04/10 Wang, ProPublica, Oil Companies Pay a Pittance in Penalties to Offshore Drilling Regulator

5/04/10 Hausner, NYT, Shares Slide and Euro Hits Low Over Debt Crisis

5/04/10 Feffer, FPIF, The Israeli Exception

5/04/10 Montlake, CSM, The fuel behind Thailand red-shirt protesters' fire

5/04/10 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Were US Special Forces Involved in the Arrest of Faisal Shahzad?

5/04/10 Wang, ProPublica, Nonprofit Conservation Group Has Ties to Oil Interests, Gulf Oil Spill

5/04/10 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Congressmen Raised Concerns About BP Safety in Months Before Gulf Spill

5/04/10 Kiel, ProPublica, Disorganization at Banks Causing Mistaken Foreclosures

5/04/10 Kravets, Wired, Groups Call 'Privacy' Legislation Orwellian

5/04/10 Davies, Guardian, Study suggests decline in UK fish stocks more severe than thought

5/04/10 Starr, CNN, Pakistan drone strategy originated with Bush, official says

5/04/10 Trahant, Kaiser, Measuring the progress in native health - life expectancy for Native Americans

5/04/10 Scahill, Nation, Secret Erik Prince/Blackwater Tape Exposed

5/04/10 Kotsev, AsiaTimes, US military's robotic shuttle spooks Iran

5/04/10 Heath, CommonDreams, Too Big to Jail?

5/04/10 Eilperin, WP, Oil spill concerns turn to compensation

5/04/10 Gergely, Reuters, Ash closes Irish, UK airports; summer chaos feared

5/04/10 Chomsky, ITT, Rustbelt Rage

5/04/10 Guardian, Government cannot use secret evidence in Guantanamo torture case, court rules

5/04/10 CNN, Bomb plot suspect arrested trying to catch flight to Dubai

5/04/10 BBC, Barack Obama renews US-Syria sanctions

5/04/10 Lewis, BBC, Looking behind the Catholic sex abuse scandal

May 3, 2010

5/03/10 Pleven, WSJ, Pentagon in Race for Raw Materials

5/03/10 Ross, IntelDaily, National Institutes of Health Giving Priority to Bioweapons Research

5/03/10 Hedges, TruthDig, Why the Enlightened Liberal Class Is Complicit in the Country's Downward Spiral

5/03/10 Reich, TruthOut, Why Public Education Is More Important Than Wall Street, and What We Must Do

5/03/10 Holstein, Progressive, I lost my son 40 years ago at Kent State

5/03/10 Wheeler, ITT, The Poisoning of Puerto Rico

5/03/10 Epstein, ProPublica, Chapter 4: Beryllium Whistleblowers at Hanford

5/03/10 Skoloff, AP, Scientist Doesn't See a Way for Preventing Oil From Reaching Florida Keys, Eastern Seaboard

5/03/10 Sutter, CNN, 'Smart dust' aims to monitor everything

5/03/10 BBC, US starts anti-al-Qaeda military exercise in Sahara

5/03/10 Smith, Star-Telegram, Energy experts disagree on whether gulf oil spill will lead to higher gas prices

5/03/10 O'Connor, Global Post, The Ten Worst Man-Made Environmental Disasters

5/03/10 Grossman, Wired, Making Rain Clouds With Lasers

5/03/10 Loller & Hall, AP, Death toll rises as river crests, floods Nashville

5/03/10 Savage, LAT, Court says family can't sue federal doctors over detainee's death

5/03/10 Wray, Guardian, Goodbye petabytes, hello zettabytes

5/03/10 Mount CNN, U.S. reveals it has 5,113 nuclear warheads

5/03/10 Todd, CNN, BP to try unprecedented engineering feat to stop oil spill

4/03/10 BBC, Uganda's highest ice cap splits on Mt Margherita

5/03/10 Bruillard, WP, In Pakistan, ex-spy Khalid Khawaja's killing is surrounded by mystery

5/03/10 Gall, NYT, Video Shows U.S. Attack Did Not Kill Top Militant

5/03/10 Standaert, IPS, E-waste Processing Poisons Health, Environment

5/03/10 Plett, BBC, Ahmadinejad to attend UN nuclear talks in New York

May 2, 2010

5/02/10 AP, BP chief: failed equipment caused explosion, spill

5/02/10 Abbot, AP, US Army captain becomes 'king' in Afghanistan

5/02/10 Stein, WP, Group to censure physicians who play role in lethal injections

5/02/10 Pilkington, Guardian, Barack Obama flies in to meet BP chief over Deepwater Horizon oil spill

5/02/10 McKee, Guardian, Why genius isn't in the genes

5/02/10 Benjamin, Guardian, Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe

5/02/10 BBC, Greece must make 'great sacrifices' for bail-out deal

5/02/10 Fessy, BBC, Top UN man investigates massacre claims in DR Congo

5/02/10 de Wit, Deep Journal, CIA Seeks to Influence Opinion on Wars - 3

5/02/10 Devilstower, DailyKos, It's Worse Than You Think

5/02/10 AP, Continental and United to combine to form world's largest carrier, sources say

5/02/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Gulf oil spill growing exponentially? A tiny taste of what's to come for planet.

5/02/10 Carrell & Edwards, Guardian, Nuclear submarines went to sea with potentially disastrous defect

5/02/10 Traynor, Guardian, EU debt crisis: Greece granted €110bn aid to avert meltdown

5/02/10 Clark, CSM, Islamists seize main port used by Somali pirates

May 1, 2010

5/01/10 Hamberger, Tribune, Prosecutors investigating coal company

5/01/10 Riccardi, LAT, Racial profiling in Arizona? That's nothing new, critics say

5/01/10 Mason, Reuters, Obama calls for limits on corporate campaign money

5/01/10 Damon, WSWS, The victims of the Deepwater Horizon explosion

5/01/10 Burdreau & Mohr, AP, Document: BP didn't plan for major oil spill

5/01/10 CNN, Children's cold, allergy medicine recalled

5/01/10 BBC, Pressure mounts on British oil giant to tackle slick

5/01/10 BBC, US embassy warns of terror attack threat in Delhi

5/01/10 BBC, Kurd rebels 'attack army outpost'

5/01/10 Gambrell, AP, Nigeria: Senator allegedly marries girl, age 13

5/01/10 Jha, Guardian, Deepwater Horizon: Conservationists Warn of 'True Catastrophe' for Wildlife

5/01/10 Quigley, Truthout, Not Just Arizona: Immigration Enforcement Out of Control on Federal Level

5/01/10 Davenport, WP, Ariz. gov signs bill revising new immigration law

5/01/10 Robertson & Lipton, NYT, U.S. Missed Chances to Act on Oil Spill

5/01/10 de la Merced, NYT, Buffett Offers Support of Goldman at Meeting

5/01/10 Kaufman, NYT, New Technique Holds Hope for Oil Spill Cleanup

5/01/10 Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Changes to key Guantanamo evidence innocent, officer says

5/01/10 LAT, L.A.'s May Day immigration rally is nation's largest

5/01/10 DeGroot, OpenLeft, Is it time to set limits on "limited liability" for corporations?

5/01/10 Kavanaugh, CNN, Machines and microbes will clean up oil

5/01/10 LaFranchi, CSM, UN conference on nuclear proliferation a big test for Obama

5/01/10 BBC, Protests across US over Arizona immigration law

5/01/10 Lieber, Star-Telegram, Texas is the 'Wild West' of life settlement industry