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

May 31, 2010
May 30, 2010
5/30/10 Morris, MoJo, Tuvalu v. ExxonMobil?
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 Cutler, Asia Times, Tectonic shift under way in Turkmen gas
May 27, 2010
5/27/10 Al Jazeera, North Korea scraps peace accord
5/27/10 Al Jazeera, Indonesia declares logging halt
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
May 26, 2010
5/25/10 Conniff, Progressive, EPA Should Ban BP
5/26/10 Cruz & Cart, LAT, Oil cleanup workers report illness
5/26/10 Roher, BBC, What is a 'top kill'?
May 25, 2010
5/25/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Regulation vs. Structural Change
5/25/10 Taylor & Shashank, McClatchy, Experts: Legal issues driving BP's oil spill stance
5/25/10 Mardell, BBC, Should America lead the world?
5/24/10 Juhasz, Guardian, How Far Should We Let Big Oil Go?
5/25/10 Al Jazeera, US and S Korea to hold war games
5/25/10 Geiger & Hamburger, LAT, Oil companies have a rich history of U.S. subsidies
May 24, 2010
5/24/10 McNulty, FT, BP offers $500m for damage study
5/24/10 Frykberg, IPS, US Funds Apartheid Roads on West Bank
5/24/10 Krauss & Zeller, NYT, A Behind-the-Scenes Firm in the Spotlight
5/24/10 Lightman & Douglas, McClatchy, Another jobless benefits fight looms in Congress
5/24/10 McClelland, MoJo, "It's BP's Oil"
May 23, 2010
5/23/10 Beaumont, Guardian, US appoints first cyber warfare general
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 Dash & Schwartz, NYT, As Reform Takes Shape, Some Relief on Wall St. (Size and power left intact)
May 22, 2010
May 21, 2010
5/21/10 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, British troops in Helmand placed under US command
5/21/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Chomsky's Nightmare: Is Fascism Coming to America?
5/21/10 Austin American Statesman, Border Officials Seek to Expand Texas Drone's Range
May 20, 2010
5/20/10 Nagourney & Hulse, NYT, Tea Party Pick Causes Uproar on Civil Rights
5/20/10 ample, Guardian, Craig Venter creates synthetic life form
5/20/10 Curcio, FPIF, Plugging Africa's Leak
5/20/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Beware Rand Paul and Sarah Palin
5/20/10 Ehrenreich, AlterNet, Why Forced Positive Thinking Is a Total Crock
5/20/10 Afrasiabi, Asia Times, US strikes back at Tehran
May 19, 2010
5/19/10 AlterNet, An America for Whites Only?
5/19/10 Al Jazeera, Markets hit by German measures
5/19/10 Fahrenthold & Achenbach, WP, Florida Keys tar balls unrelated to BP spill
5/19/10 Bybee, ITT, Regulate or Capitulate
5/19/10 Boehm & Sahagun, LAT, BP oil spill poses PR dilemma for nonprofits
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 Knutson, ProPublica, Justice Department Opens Probe of NOPD
5/18/10 Al Jazeera, US commission to probe oil spill
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 Spencer, BBC, Daily View: Thailand protests
5/18/10 Feffer, FPIF, The Breakup
May 17, 2010
5/17/10 Feiner, On The Issues, How to Think Like A Feminist Economist
May 16, 2010
5/16/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The Cost of "Multitasking"
5/16/10 Nordland & Wafa, NYT, Sign of Afghan Addiction May Also Be Its Remedy
May 15, 2010
5/15/10 Viney, Guardian, How to thatch a roof
May 14, 2010
5/14/10 Scahill, DeepJournal, Who Runs The Secret 'Black Jail' at Bagram?
5/14/10 Cardinale, IPS, Ecosystem in Peril after Gulf Oil Spill
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 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
5/14/10 Tremlett et al, Guardian, Fears over Greek bailout send shares and euro tumbling
May 13, 2010
5/13/10 Carter, AlterNet, America's Ten Most Corrupt Capitalists
5/13/10 Wired - Wiki, Trigger Green Traffic Lights
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 Briggs, BBC, DNA clue to life at high altitude
May 12, 2010
5/12/10 Grey, Progressive, Never forget John Brown
5/12/10 Robles, Miami Herald, Haiti's neighbors pull back welcome mat
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 Madrigal, Wired, The Crystals at the Center of the Earth
5/12/10 Saey, Wired, Life on Earth Arose Just Once
5/11/10 Swanson, MoJo, Afghan Escalation Funding
5/11/10 Perlez & Shah, NYT, Drone Strikes Pound West Pakistan
May 10, 2010
5/10/10 Al Jazeera, Stocks rally on EU rescue package
May 9, 2010
May 8, 2010
5/08/10 Rothacker, Charlotte Observer, Bank of America executive gets attention for e-mails
5/08/10 Sirota, ITT, The Motto of Mad Men
5/08/10 Fontanella-Khan, CSM, Busting India's myths about skin color
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 Diara, IPS, Farmers Restore Forests
5/07/10 Al Jazeera, Ecuador water law sparks protests
5/07/10 Boxall & Leovy, LAT, Oil slick reaches Louisiana's barrier islands
5/07/10 Anderson, ITT, Springsteen's Salvation
May 6, 2010
5/06/10 Kunzleman & Pienciak, AP, Feds Let BP Avoid Filing Blowout Plan for Gulf Rig
5/06/10 Smith, AsiaTimes, OBAMA'S WAR MACHINE, Part 2 ... Part 1
5/06/10 Drawbaugh, Reuters, Senate backs plan attacking "too big to fail"
May 5, 2010
5/05/10 Ananda,IntelDaily, GM Biofuels: Another Planned Disaster
5/05/10 Lovley, Politico, Obama Biggest Recipient of BP Cash
5/05/10 Sheppard, MoJo, There Will Be Blood
5/05/10 CNN, Tracking the oil spill
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 Feffer, FPIF, The Israeli Exception
5/04/10 Kotsev, AsiaTimes, US military's robotic shuttle spooks Iran
5/04/10 Heath, CommonDreams, Too Big to Jail?
5/04/10 Chomsky, ITT, Rustbelt Rage
May 3, 2010
5/03/10 Pleven, WSJ, Pentagon in Race for Raw Materials
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 O'Connor, Global Post, The Ten Worst Man-Made Environmental Disasters
5/03/10 Grossman, Wired, Making Rain Clouds With Lasers
5/03/10 Wray, Guardian, Goodbye petabytes, hello zettabytes
May 2, 2010
5/02/10 McKee, Guardian, Why genius isn't in the genes
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
May 1, 2010
5/01/10 Hamberger, Tribune, Prosecutors investigating coal company
5/01/10 Burdreau & Mohr, AP, Document: BP didn't plan for major oil spill
5/01/10 Robertson & Lipton, NYT, U.S. Missed Chances to Act on Oil Spill
5/01/10 Kavanaugh, CNN, Machines and microbes will clean up oil