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

July 27, 2010
7/27/10 Faizl-e-Haidr, AsiaTimes, BP on the run in Pakistan?
July 26, 2010
7/26/10 Daysog, Sac Bee, Climate law adds jobs to state payroll
7/26/10 Lee, LAT, U.S. may face deflation, a problem Japan understands too well
7/26/10 Geoghegan, ITT, What We Can Learn
7/26/10 Wellen, FPIF, Will Wikileaker SPC. Bradley Manning Be Redeemeed?
7/26/10 Shubert, CNN, Afghanistan says it's 'shocked' by leaked U.S. documents
7/26/10 Chick, CSM, WikiLeaks report harms national security in Afghanistan, says White House
7/26/10 BBC, Indigenous groups occupy Brazil hydro-electric plant
7/26/10 BBC, Fog from peat fires blankets Moscow amid heat wave
7/26/10 BBC, BP oil spill a result of 'poor decision making' (video included)
July 25, 2010
7/25/10 Singletary, WP, Race isn't the problem -- economic inequality is
7/25/10 Sample, Guardian, Global disaster: is humanity prepared for the worst?
7/25/10 Chardy, Miami Herald, Families head to D.C. to protest deportations
7/25/10 Schwartz, NYT, Industries Find Surging Profits in Deeper Cuts
7/25/10 Blumenthal, McClatchy, U.S. farmers may face crackdown on pesticide use
7/25/10 Hufstutter, LAT, Raw-food raid highlights a hunger
7/25/10 Zucchino, LAT, Saving America's Mother Vine
7/25/10 Banales, IPS, Mentally Ill Adrift in U.S. Immigration System
7/25/10 CNN, Dean endorses a Gingrich candidacy
7/25/10 CNN, Chavez threatens to cut off oil to U.S.
7/25/10 Cohen, CNN, Geithner pushes plan to let tax cuts for wealthy expire
7/25/10 Kirk, CSM, North Korea's threats over US-South Korea war games: Another bluff?
7/25/10 BBC, Afghan villagers claim Nato attack killed civilians
7/25/10 BBC, UK interest rates to stay at record low 'until 2014'
July 24, 2010
7/24/10 Swanson, IntelDaily, Six Facts No War Supporter Knows
7/24/10 Olmos, WSWS, Most oil industry lobbyists in US worked for government
7/24/10 Cockburn, Independent, Toxic Legacy of US Assault on Fallujah 'Worse Than Hiroshima'
7/24/10 AFP, US Senate Deals Blow to Global Climate Talks
7/24/10 Neo, AFP, UN Rights Council Names Team to Probe Israel Flotilla Raid
7/24/10 Kennedy, McClatchy, Researchers Confirm Subsea Gulf Oil Plumes are from BP Well
7/24/10 Coleman, Reuters, BP stalls payments to oil spill victims: Feinberg
7/24/10 Reuters, Government won't target more Swiss banks on tax: U.S. diplomat
7/24/10 Wong, NYT, China's Money and Migrants Pour Into Tibet, Stirring Unease
7/24/10 Johnson, McClatchy, Grisly mass graves in Mexico yield 50 casualties of drug war
7/24/10 Frykberg, IPS, Anger Rises Over U.S. Tax Dollars for Settlements
7/24/10 CNN, Dam fails in eastern Iowa, causing massive flooding
7/24/10 CNN, Severe storms cause flooding, outages in Chicago
7/24/10 Collyns, BBC, Peru declares emergency over cold weather
July 23, 2010
7/23/10 BBC, How Britain said farewell to its Empire
7/23/10 BBC, Multinational Company Trafigura Found Guilty of Exporting Toxic Waste
7/23/10 Brown, NYT, Oil Rig's Siren Was Kept Silent, Technician Says
7/23/10 Frosch, NYT, V.A. Easing Rules for Users of Medical Marijuana
7/23/10 Zeller, NYT, E.P.A. Considers Risks of Gas Extraction
7/23/10 White, MoJo, Emmylou and the EPA Take on Big Coal
7/23/10 CNN, Defense officials investigated for child porn
7/23/10 Davidson, WSWS, Massey shut off methane detectors at deadly mine
7/23/10 Chopra, CSM, $35 computer taps India's huge low-income market
7/23/10 Lee, WSWS, Fishermen on strike against BP
7/23/10 Fisher, CSM, Oil-eating bacteria to the China oil spill rescue?
7/23/10 Black, Dandelion/Real News, New Finance Bill Will Not Prevent Another Crisis
7/23/10 Grey, CRG/WSWS, US jobless claims, housing data point to worsening economy
7/23/10 Arnoldy, CSM, India's strategy of suppression in Kashmir could backfire
7/23/10 Eley, CRG, US War Crimes: Cancer rate in Fallujah worse than Hiroshima
7/23/10 Olmos, CRG, BP Coverup and the Criminal Pursuit of Profit: Deepwater Horizon Workers knew of Problems before Explosion
July 22, 2010
7/22/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Banking Under the Dodd-Frank Act
7/22/10 Lau, NPR, When Cities Go Bankrupt
7/22/10 Bolton, The Hill, Democrats May Stop Bush-Era Tax Cuts for Wealthy From Expiring
7/22/10 PEER, EPA Employees Blow the Whistle on Flawed Climate Bills
7/22/10 Norris, NYT, She's a Candidate for a Job She Devised
7/22/10 Kroll, MoJo, "She Will Build That Agency In Her Image"
7/22/10 Parry, ITT, The Right's Power of Infrastructure
7/22/10 EDIE, 'Disappointment' as axe falls on sustainability watchdog
7/22/10 Spencer, WSWS, The social crisis in Appalachia
7/22/10 Kurczy, CSM, Stonehenge twin - 'Timberhenge' - discovered with radar imaging
7/22/10 Peterson, CSM, As Iraq war winds down, US military cleans up hazardous waste
7/22/10 Finn, WP, Retired CIA veteran will return to head clandestine service
7/22/10 TechSpreadIt, False Flag Cyber Attack
7/22/10 EFF, Real ID Online? New Federal Online Identity Plan Raises Privacy and Free Speech Concerns
7/22/10 Auken IntelDaily/WSWS, Afghan conference endorses indefinite occupation
7/22/10 Rall, Dandelion Salad, Protofascism Comes to America: The Rise of the Tea Party
7/22/10 Al Jazeera, China battles Yellow Sea oil spill
7/22/10 Gundun, CRG, America's Undeclared War on Pakistan
7/22/10 CRG/Washington's Blog, Unfolding Ecological Catastrophe: BP refuses to disclose Critical Data: BP Moves Goalpost for the Oil Well Integrity Test
July 21, 2010
7/21/10 Bolstad, McClatchy, BP's Oil Spill Caused by Fed's 'Dangerous Culture of Permissiveness'
7/21/10 Chen, ITT, Slavery in Our Time
7/21/10 Dubro, FPIF, Armed Sprawl
7/21/10 WSWS, The Gulf oil disaster and capitalism
7/21/10 Tanji, Wired, How Congress Fueled the Rise of Private Spies
July 20, 2010
7/20/10 DemocracyNow, EPA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Covering Up Effects of Dispersant in BP Oil Spill Cleanup
7/20/10 CEPR, Pre-Recession Unemployment Rates May Not Be Reached for a Decade
7/20/10 Ross, CRG, The Transformation of American Warfare: Fighting Wars with Robots
July 19, 2010
7/19/10 Chavkin, ProPublica, New BP Data Shows Payments on Less Than a Third of Claims
7/19/10 Vidal, Guardian, Kabul Faces Severe Water Crisis
7/19/10 Cantarow, MoJo, Big Oil Makes War on the Earth
7/19/10 Arkin, Dandelion Salad, "Top Secret America" + Tim Shorrock: Why did it take them 7 years to do this story?
7/19/10 Mazza, Dandelion Salad, Jews and Arabs work together to save Hevron's olive trees
July 18, 2010
7/18/10 Reuters, Seepage Detected Near Blown-Out BP Well
July 17, 2010
7/17/0 Hanover, IntelDaily/WSWS, Imprisoned for debt in America
7/17/10 Greer, IntelDaily, The Ways of the Force
7/17/10 Al Jazeera, Hundreds killed in Darfur fighting
7/17/10 Cho, WP, Timothy Geithner's realm grows with passage of financial regulatory reform
7/17/10 Reuters, U.S. government told to review terrorist list decision
7/17/10 Goldmacher, LAT, Judge rejects pay cuts for California state workers
7/17/10 Ho, CNN, Scientists baffled by unusual upper atmosphere shrinkage
7/17/10 BBC, China oil pipelines burn for 15 hours after explosion
7/17/10 BBC, Insurer AIG agrees to massive $725m fraud payout
July 16, 2010
7/16/10 Dilanian, McClatchy, CIA Exceeded Interrogation Limits, Former Justice Dept. Official Says
7/16/0 Nasiripour, Huffington Post, Tim Geithner Opposes Nominating Elizabeth Warren to Lead New Consumer Agency
7/15/10 Miller & Erdbrink, WP, U.S. paid Iranian nuclear scientist $5 million for aid to CIA, officials say
7/16/10 Retuers, Doctors, nurses joined Medicare scam, U.S. says
7/16/10 Rich, NYT, The Rich Catch Everyone Else's Cutback Fever
7/16/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Haiti earthquake aftermath: The "Shock Doctrine" in action
7/16/10 Cobain, Guardian, British army's alleged torture of Iraqis goes to judicial review
7/16/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Maddow: Afghanistan War a "moral outrage...we have a responsibility... to stop."
7/16/10 Morraff, ITT, Tax Dodgers, Inc.
7/16/10 Treanor, Guardian, Goldman Sachs handed record $550m fine over Abacus transaction
7/16/10 Vidal, Guardian, Last month was the hottest June recorded worldwide, figures show
7/16/10 Guardian, Department of Energy and Climate Change reveals 34m cuts to low-carbon tech programme
7/16/10 Gray, CNN, Release of Lockerbie bomber was a mistake, British government says
7/16/10 BBC, US consumer prices fall for third month in June
7/16/10 Reuters, World simmers in hottest year so far
7/16/10 Parramore, MoJo, nterview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform
7/26/20 Gorman, LAT, Arizona's immigration law isn't the only one
7/16/10 Boxall, LAT, Gulf oil spill: BP increases monitoring of sea floor after sealing well
7/16/10 Mascaro, LAT, Heirs of the wealthy escape estate tax
7/16/10 Schiewe, LAT, Sea-level increases may be worse for some areas than others
7/16/10 Ilg, IPS, Nigeria Suffers Acute Lead-Poisoning Outbreak
7/16/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Iraq War as template for destroying the welfare state???
7/16/10 CNN, Pressure rising in cap at BP's undersea well, a positive sign
7/16/10 Shoichet, CNN, 3.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Maryland
7/16/10 BBC, Shahram Amiri spied for the US in Iran, reports say
7/16/10 Yusuf, CSM, Tehran blames US, UK for deadly Iran mosque bombing
7/16/10 Walker, BBC, 'Lost' large-billed reed warbler breeding site found
7/16/10 BBC, US judge overturns Dole Nicaragua banana ruling
7/16/10 BBC, Bank of America profits rise as consumer loans improve
7/16/10 BBC, Malaria-proof mosquito engineered
7/16/10 Youngers, FPIF, Finally, a Forum for Victims of the "Wars on Drugs"
7/16/10 Chandrashekhar, CSM, As wealth rises in India, so do private towns
7/16/10 Weir, CSM, In ruling on artistic expression, some Russians see signs of broader crackdown
7/16/10 BBC, Honey bee larva disease found in West Lothian
7/16/10 BBC, Alaska town slowly heals after 1989 Exxon Valdez spill
July 15, 2010
7/15/10 Keim, Wired, A Mud-Loving, Iron-Lunged, Jelly-Eating Ecosystem Savior
7/15/10 Drummond, Wired, Human Trials Next for Darpa's Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm
7/15/10 AP, Homes lost to foreclosure on track for 1M in 2010
7/15/10 Hopkins, ADN, Suicides, attempts spike again in Western Alaska villages
7/15/10 Fox, Reuters, U.S. groups target 20 possible causes of cancer
7/15/10 Savage & Shane, NYT, Bush Aide Says Some C.I.A. Methods Unauthorized
7/15/10 Deen, IPS, Water as Human Right Threatens to Split World Body
7/15/10 Wolff, ITT, Austerity: Why and for Whom?
7/15/10 Syal, Guardian, Homophobia still rife in public life, says outed BP chief
7/15/10 Biloxi Sun Herald, Oil Spill Coverage
7/15/10 CNN, Rash of drownings as Russians attempt to escape heat
7/15/10 Mount, CNN, June was worst month for Army suicides, statistics show
7/15/10 Flanz, CSM, In Kenya slums, women risk rape daily to get to a bathroom
July 14, 2010
7/14/10 Vidal, Guardian, Rich Countries to Pay Energy Giants to Build New Coal-Fired Power Plants
7/14/10 Food & Water Watch, Natural Gas No Quick Fix for U.S. Energy Woes
7/14/10 Singel, Wired, Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High
7/14/10 BBC, US bars Iroquois lacrosse team from flight to the UK
7/13/10 Luscombe, Guardian, BP Tests Oil Well Cap, but Says Success Is Not Assured
7/14/10 Snyder, IntelDaily, What To Do As The Economy Collapses
7/14/10 Jensen & Hedges, Dandelion Salad, Chris Hedges and Derrick Jensen on Totalitarianism and Resistance
7/14/10 Vestal CRG, Collapse in Living Standards in America: More Poverty By Any Measure
7/14/10 Scott, CRG, Kyrgyzstan, America and the Global Drug Trade: Deep Forces, Coups d'Etat, Narcotics and Terror
7/14/10 Wang, ProPublica, Other Well Co-owners Stand By Criticism of BP, Refuse to Pay Bills
7/14/10 Goldstein, NPR, This Year's Deficit Just Topped $1 Trillion
7/14/10 Brown & Plushnick-Masti, AP, Scientists say Gulf spill altering food web
7/14/10 Censer, WP, Emergent set to announce anthrax vaccine contract
7/14/10 Thompson, WP, As NAACP aims to stay in national debate, charge of tea party racism draws fire
7/14/10 Miller & Erdbrink, WP, Iranian nuclear scientist heads homeward in anger
7/14/10 Carey, Reuters, Fears grow as millions lose jobless benefits
7/14/10 Wasserman, SacBee, California plan to stem foreclosures has critics
7/14/10 Bloomberg, Microsoft says it employed Russian deported in connection with spy ring
7/14/10 McGrath, IPS, Oil, Water and Tourism Don't Mix
7/14/10 Bello, FPIF, Greece: Same Tragedy, Different Scripts
7/14/10 Murphy, CSM, The other, powerful Karzai boss in Afghanistan
7/14/10 Greste, BBC, Biological bonanza in Kenya's threatened forest
7/14/10 Morelle, BBC, Gorillas 'play games of tag like humans'
7/14/10 BBC, Storm rips through Haiti tent city for homeless
7/14/10 Sui, BBC, Taiwan seeks to save indigenous languages
7/14/10 BBC, Credit Suisse offices raided by tax officials
7/14/10 Gill, BBC, Plants 'can think and remember'
July 13, 2010
7/13/10 Jamail & Blumenfeld, Dahr Jamail's Dispatches, Toxic Dispersants Near Gulf Harm Humans and Wildlife
7/13/10 Kusnetz, ProPublica, For Gas-Drilling Data, There's a New Place to Dig
7/13/10 Goldstein, NPR, Obama's New Budget Guy: Former Banker
7/13/10 DeepJournal, ACLU: The Torture Report (w/ video)
7/13/10 Kakuchi, Gender Masala, Women and War
7/13/10 Keim, Wired, Salmon Killer Disease Mystery Solved
7/13/10 Kramer, NYT, Philip Morris Is Said to Benefit From Child Labor
7/13/10 Barrett, McClatchy, Victims of toxic Camp Lejeune water are holding meet-ups
7/13/10 Schoof, McClatchy, Here's some hope for Gulf: Spill-eating microbes spike
7/13/10 AP, BP testing delayed on Gulf oil fix
7/13/10 Deen, IPS, Is Global Poverty Reduction a Political Myth?
7/13/10 Paez, IPS, Haiti's Tent Camps Likely to Remain for Years
7/13/10 CNN, Indictments announced against officers in New Orleans bridge deaths
7/13/10 CNN, Administration's fourth bill to BP totals $99.7 million
7/13/10 Arnoldy, CSM, Kashmir intifada? New view of India, Pakistan territory dispute.
7/13/10 Kurczy, CSM, Why one Guatemalan newspaper now refuses to cover the giant sinkhole
July 12, 2010
7/12/10 Smith, WSWS, Oil companies complicit in Sudan civil war, report alleges
7/12/10 Shachtman, Wired, Darpa Plots Death From Above, On-Demand
7/12/10 Keim, Wired, Human Evolution Recapped in Kids' Brain Growth
July 11, 2010
7/11/10 Harris, Guardian, Native American Tribe Reclaims Slice of the Hamptons after Court Victory
July 10, 2010
7/10/10 BBC, BP to make new attempt to plug Gulf of Mexico oil leak
7/10/10 Chan, WSWS, Bogus wage rises fuel anger among Chinese workers
7/10/10 ENS, Academics, Politicians: Pending Global Treaty Threatens Free Internet, Fundamental Rights
7/10/10 ENS, Climate Change Means More Heatwaves, Premature Deaths, Scientists Warn
7/10/10 Joling, AP, 1.8M Acres of Alaska Drilling Leases Go Up for Bid
7/10/10 Holland, TruthOut, How Easy Is It For Peaceful People to Violate the Patriot Act?
7/09/10 Kaminer, NYT, Cool Air, if You Can Get to It
7/10/10 Batty, Guardian, UK heatwave may have caused hundreds of deaths
7/10/10 BBC, China sees surge in trade surplus
7/10/10 Benno, PSL, Documents prove U.S. government involvement in 1971 Bolivia coup
7/10/10 Border Jumpers, Creating Food Sovereignty for Small-Scale Farmers
July 9, 2010
7/09/10 GRTV, Daniel Estulin Exclusive: Bilderberg are Terrified
7/09/10 Dandelion Salad, BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Videos
7/09/10 Lindorff, Public Record, Capitalism Is An Anti-Social Disease
7/09/10 Whitcomb & Mason, BP set to install bigger cap on leaking Gulf well
7/09/10 Preston, NYT, Illegal Workers Swept From Jobs in 'Silent Raids'
7/09/10 Lightman, McClatchy, Retire at age 70? Young people may have to under plan
7/09/10 Segal, CNN, Saving nature's unborn from the Gulf oil disaster
7/01/10 McMaken, CSM, Fed owns nearly half of all foreclosed homes
7/08/10 Wang, ProPublica, 1970s BP-Branded Board Game Turned Offshore Drilling Into Child's Play
7/09/10 Wang, ProPublica, BP's New Illness and Injury Stats, Texas Tarballs, and More
7/09/10 Weise, ProPublica, Identifying Suspicious Short Selling, But Not Who's Behind the Trades
7/09/10 Wang, ProPublica, For BP, Multimillion-Dollar Fines Amount to a Day's Worth of Profit
7/09/10 Coutts, ProPublica, Investment Funds Stir Controversy Over Recruiting by For-Profit Colleges
7/09/10 Appel, IPS, Wealthy Reap Rewards While Those Who Work Lose
7/09/10 Stewart, Independent, Millions Face Starvation as Niger Prays in Vain for Rain
7/09/10 Hays, Reuters, BP could start cap switch on Saturday: Coast Guard
7/09/10 Kim, NYT, Extending Broadband Service to the Disconnected
7/09/10 Charles, Miami Herald, Human-trafficking battle is promoted
7/08/10 Corn, MoJo, Liz Cheney's Coalition of the Unwilling
7/08/10 Schoof, McClatchy, Scientists urge U.S. to move quickly to study Gulf oil spill
7/09/10 Muskal, LAT, Obama calls for $5 billion in clean-energy tax credits
7/09/10 Carey & Villegas, KHN, Coming health care changes you may not know about
7/09/10 Jowitt, Guardian, Paradise found: Water and life return to Iraq's 'Garden of Eden'
7/09/10 CNN, Military scrambles jets after Obama air space violated, NORAD says
7/09/10 AP, Pakistan motorbike bomber kills dozens
7/09/10 Moskvitch, BBC, Russian sub 'could stop oil leak'
7/09/10 BBC, Kashmir newspapers suspend production to protest curbs
7/09/10 BBC, Audio slideshow: Living in the rubble
7/09/10 BBC, Italian journalists strike over Berlusconi wiretap bill
7/09/10 Lohan, YES, How a Tiny Town Sent an International Water Giant Packing
7/09/10 Cooper, NYT, The Adviser at the Heart of National Security
7/09/10 BBC, Delhi survey suggests women 'unsafe' in city
7/09/10 BBC, Over 5 billion mobile phone connections worldwide
7/09/10 Gill, BBC, Liquid armour 'can stop bullets'
July 8, 2010
7/08/10 Streitfield, NYT, Biggest Defaulters on Mortgages Are the Rich
7/08/10 Monawar, PublicRecord, Tossing The 'COIN,' In Afghanistan
7/08/10 ANsel, PSL, Thousands of Greek workers strike against ruling-class cutbacks
7/08/10 Ivory, Huffington Post, Weighing Safety of Weed Killer in Drinking Water, EPA Relies Heavily on Industry-Backed Studies
7/08/10 Berigan, FPIF, A Way Forward: Reexamining the Pentagon's spending habits
July 7, 2010
7/07/10 Wray, Guardian, Abandoned Oil Wells Make Gulf of Mexico 'Environmental Minefield'
7/07/10 Satter, AP, 'Climategate' Inquiry Mostly Vindicates Scientists
7/07/10 Ott, Huffington Post, The Big Lie: BP, Governments Downplay Public Health Risk From Oil and Dispersants
7/07/10 Wellen, FPIF, It's Not an "Anthropology of Afghanistan" We Need, But of Us
7/09/10 CNN, Crowds storm streets after verdict in killing of unarmed black man
7/07/10 Chick, CSM, Indian Army deployed to quell deadly Kashmir protests
7/07/10 Samanth, Asia Times, US piles pressure on Sri Lanka
July 6, 2010
7/06/10 Funabiki, Bloomberg, Global Deflation Risk Rises as Fed, BOJ Extend Bond Policies: Chart of Day
7/06/10 Weise, ProPublica, Reporters Look Into PSI's Influence and Problems in Virginia
7/06/10 Lochhead, SF Chron, Dead Zone in Gulf Linked to Ethanol Production
7/06/10 Salisbury, MoJo, Stage-Managing the War on Terror
7/06/10 Eley, WSWS, Censorship and cover-up in the Gulf oil disaster
7/06/10 Jowitt & Ottery, Guardian, Global Emissions Targets Will Lead to 4C Temperature Rise, Say Studies
7/06/10 Wolff, TruthOut, Austerity: Why and for Whom?
7/06/10 Drummond, Wired, Holy Acronym, Darpa! 'Batman & Robin' to Master Biology, Outdo Evolution
7/06/10 Bolden-Monifa, Progressive, Study reveals same-sex parenting good for kids
7/06/10 Zucchino, LAT, War zone drone crashes add up
7/06/10 Sitthirath, IPS, Water Flows from Villagers' Own Toil
7/06/20 Vasagar, Guardian, Graduates warned of record 70 applicants for every job
7/06/10 Butler, Guardian, We're keeping a watch on cutbacks across the UK
7/05/10 CNN, Police kill 64 people in Afghan drug bust
7/06/10 CNN, Northeastern states bracing for scorching temperatures
7/06/10 CNN, Blimp expected to arrive to help track oil slick
7/06/10 BBC, Gulf oil spill reaches Texas as tar balls wash ashore
7/06/10 BBC, China to build $8bn oil refinery in Nigeria
July 5, 2010
7/05/10 Kaufman, NYT, Agency Agreed That Spill Risk to Wildlife Was 'Low'
7/05/10 Bigg, Reuters, Tests on Gulf oil "superskimmer" inconclusive
7/05/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Republicans Incite Class Warfare--Within the Middle Class
7/05/10 Chalala, Globalist, Paying a Heavy Price for the Afghan War
7/05/10 Fitzpatrick, CRG, Dramatic increase in leakage of methane gas from the Arctic seabed.
7/05/10 Smith, WP, BP has Steady Sales at Defense Department Despite U.S. Scrutiny
7/05/10 Garofolo, Think Progress, BP Used Oil Industry Tax Break to Write Off Its Rent for Deepwater Rig
7/05/10 Wray, Guardian, BP asks oil spill partners to pay $400m
7/05/10 Adams, CSM, Turkey ups the ante on Israel over Gaza flotilla incident
7/05/10 CNN, Strikes over high gas prices spread across India
7/05/10 Godoy, IPS, Autonomous Triqui Community Wary of New State Government
7/05/10 CNN, Power outage hits Toronto, 200,000 customers affected
July 4, 2010
7/04/10 Schwartz, NYT, BP Wants Partners to Help Shoulder Spill Cost
7/04/10 Fisher, IPS, Death By Drone: CIA's Hitlist is Murder
7/04/10 Charlton, AP, France trims budget piecemeal to ward off protest
7/04/10 Henderson, WP, This Is War: How USAID workers are trained for work and danger in Afghanistan
7/04/10 Pitts, McClatcjy, Commentary: The friendly skies where freedom dies
7/04/10 Blumenthall, McClatchy, It's not just BP's oil in the Gulf that threatens world's oceans
7/04/10 Vidal, Guardian, United Nations warned that corruption is undermining grants to stop logging
7/04/10 Vernon, Guardian, Grindr: a new sexual revolution?
7/04/10 CNN, Large-scale skimmer continues testing in Gulf
7/04/10 Hanes, CSM, Locked out: The 12 million people without a country, and their need to become a citizen
7/04/10 BBC, Giant skimmer 'A Whale' tested at BP oil spill site
July 3, 2010
7/03/10 Greenwald, Salon.com, Bill Keller's self-defense on "torture"
7/03/10 Chapman, CRG, The U.S. Economy is Falling. Towards another Credit Collapse?
7/03/10 Arbuthnot, CRG, Overwhelmed by Oil and Toxic Pollutants: The Destruction of an Entire Coastline
7/03/10, Reuters, New oil drilling rules awaited from Washington
7/03/10 Arenson, Dandelion Salad, BP Oil Disaster Worst Case Scenario with Kindra Arnesen, BP Community Liaison
7/03/10 Klein, Dandelion Salad, There has been a very powerful attack on freedom of expression in this country
7/03/10 Kusnetz, ProPublica, A Fracking First in Pennsylvania: Cattle Quarantine
7/03/10 AP, New US satellite to monitor debris in Earth orbit
7/03/10 Reuters, Spill panel to hold public meeting July 12-13
7/03/10 Kocieniewski, NYT, As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Subsidies
7/03/10 Squires, CSM, Voracious tree-eating beetles invade Italy
7/02/10 Clark, McClatchy, Pentagon ban on Guantanamo reporters is illegal, group says
7/03/10 Petruno, LAT, Corporate earnings may be stock market's last hope
7/03/10 Sirota, ITT, A New Deregulatory Push In the Energy Heartland
7/03/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Sylvia Earle: Swimming with sharks and oil
7/03/10 CNN, EPA scientists discuss chemicals used to break up oil in Gulf
7/03/10 BBC, DR Congo oil tanker blaze 'kills 220'
7/03/10 BBC, US defense chief Gates tightens military's media rules
July 2, 2010
7/02/10 Eley, WSWS, BP "claims czar": No compensation for most victims of oil spill
7/02/10 O'Keefe, WP, White House discloses wide-ranging staff salaries
7/02/10 CEPR, U.S. Experiencing Worst Episode of Prolonged Unemployment Since Great Depression
7/02/10 Barlow, DemocracyNow, 'The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History'
7/02/10 AFP, Oil Spills Boost Arsenic Levels in Ocean: Study
7/02/10 Telegraph, US Approves $33bn for Afghanistan Troop Increase
7/02/10 McCarthy, Independent, Deep-Sea Mining Adds to Fears of Marine Pollution
7/02/10 Lee, Biloxi Sun, Is BP rejecting skimmers to save money on Gulf oil cleanup?
7/02/10 Gupta, Think Forward, Environmental Justice, Science Leaders Urge Action Linking Climate and Public Health
7/02/10 Pender, McClatchy, On Day 74 of spill, Mississippi is still unprepared for oil
7/02/10 Hays & Regan, Reuters, Total sees tougher rules as storm spreads Gulf slick
7/02/10 AP, Aid Group Attacked in Afghanistan
7/02/10 Jones, MoJo, Counterinsurgency Down for the Count in Afghanistan...
7/02/10 Stafford, KC Star, 'Fear factor' spooks hopes for economic rebound
7/02/10 Wellen, FPIF, The Red Mosque Was Pakistan's Waco
7/02/10 Cooper, CNN, Breathing equipment being given to some oil spill workers
7/02/10 Keck, CNN, Blame game could 'boomerang' on Obama, strategist says
7/02/10 Lee, LAT, Unemployment rate dips as more workers leave labor force
7/02/10 Stracansky, IPS, 'This Is Worse Than Guantanamo'
7/02/10 Guardian, Families of dead soldiers hit out at pay freeze
7/02/10 Robins, Guardian, False economies in Ken Clarke's proposal to cut number of courts
7/02/10 Wearden, Guardian, Hungary to ask for 'precautionary' 10bn-20bn bailout from EU and IMF
7/02/10 BBC, Life expectancy gap 'is widening'
7/02/10 Ferrie, CSM, Laos turns to hydropower to be 'Asia's battery'
7/02/10 BBC, Schwarzenegger cuts wages for California state workers
7/02/10 BBC, Bank of China to raise up to $8.9bn in share issue
7/02/10 BBC, Top Rwanda genocide suspect Uwinkindi seized in Uganda
July 1, 2010
7/01/10 Rogers & Damon, WSWS, The Gulf oil spill - the social impact
7/01/10 Socialist Equality Party, WSWS, The World Economic Crisis, the Failure of Capitalism and the Case for Socialism
7/01/10 Ross, IntelDaily, The cowardice of CIA and Pentagon torturers
7/01/10 Moore, PublicRecord, BP's New Cover-Up Revealed
7/01/10 Wang, Govt's Banned Trailers, Unsafe for Housing, Reappear in Gulf
7/01/10 Linkins, Huffington, Oil Spill Media Access: Reporters Still Given the Runaround Even as Public Health Concerns Mount
7/01/10 Sanders, Wired, Stem Cells From Human Blood Can Be Reprogrammed
7/01/10 Montgomery, WP, CBO tells Obama deficit panel that forecast remains bleak
7/01/10 Lichtblau, NYT, Lobbyist Says It's Not About Influence
7/01/10 Rich, NYT, Factory Jobs Return, but Employers Find Skills Shortage
7/01/10 Pender, Biloxi Sun, Oil found in Gulf crabs raises new food chain fears
7/01/10 Gordon, McClatchy, Self-fulfilling prophecy? Panel pushes Goldman on AIG collapse
7/01/10 Nelson, Biloxi Sun, Oil spill cleanup waste might be heading to local landfills
7/01/10 Salazar, IPS, 'Don't Minimise' Impacts of Amazon Oil Spill
7/01/10 Wharton, ITT, BP: The Case for Public Ownership
7/01/10 Ahn, FPIF, Move the Money, Starve the Empire
7/01/10 Wellen, FPIF, Here We Go With the Pallets of Cash Again (Remember Paul Bremer?)
7/01/10 Dowling, FPIF, How the World's Poorest Could Lose Out Again
7/01/10 CNN, Obama says new U.S. sanctions show international resolve in Iran issue
7/01/10 Murphy, CSM, US withholds $4 billion in Afghanistan war aid. Can Gen. Petraeus cope?
7/01/10 Baldauf, CSM, South Africa takes fire for arms sales to blacklisted nations