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March 15, 2010
3/15/10 Filkins & Mazzetti, NYT, Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants
3/15/10 Zapler, AP, U.S. officials to unveil sweeping proposal for broadband
3/12/10 Kroll, MoJo, Ponzi Nation
3/15/10 Folarin, FPIF, Sweatshops Won't Save Haiti
3/15/10 Cassidy, FT. Lessons from the collapse of Bear Stearns
March 12, 2010
3/1/10 Trumbull, CSM, Lehman Bros. Used Accounting Trick Amid Financial Crisis - and Earlier
March 11, 2010
3/11/10 Damon, WSWS, US banks and corporations announce huge pay packages for 2009
3/11/10 Nasiripour, Huffington, Senators Target Wall Street, With Goldman Sachs in Mind
3/11/10 Kane, WP, House bans earmarks to for-profit companies
3/11/10 Goldfarb, WP, Politics, shaky economy create no rush to restructure Fannie and Freddie
3/11/10 Hilzenrath, WP, Employers plan to shift more health-care costs to workers, survey reports
3/11/10 Drawbaugh, Reuters, Volcker rule gets lift in Senate amid reform talks
3/10/10 Chan, NYT, TARP Panel Finds Fault With GMAC Bailouts
3/11/10 White, LAT, Oil companies look at permanent refinery cutbacks
3/11/10 Pearce, Guardian, Noel Kempff project is 'saving the forest' by forcing destruction elsewhere
3/11/10 BBC, BP in $7bn deal to explore for oil in Brazil
3/11/10 Ward, BBC, Down on the farm with the robots
March 10, 2010
3/10/10 Lendman, Intel Daily, The Business of Water: Privatizing An Essential Resource
3/10/10 Lee, MoJo, How Corporations Hide Election Spending
3/10/10 Roberts, Guardian, The debt that lies beneath
March 8, 2010
3/08/10 Ivory, Huffington, Cities Sue Manufacturer of Weed-Killer Found in Tap Water
March 7, 2010
3/07/10 Smith, WP, Thin wall separates lobbyist contributions and earmarks
3/07/10 Macalister, Guardian, Government must take back control of North Sea oil and gas production
3/07/10 BBC, Iceland rejects plan to repay Icesave debts
3/07/10 Richardson, BBC, Head teachers warn on Tory 'corner shop' schools plan
March 5, 2010
3/05/10 Leonard & Vives, LAT, One sector that benefits from a bad economy: jail inmates
3/05/10 Naminpour, Deep Journal, Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist, Says Federal Reserve System 'Corrupt'
3/05/10 Goujon, AFP, Africa Aims to Regulate 'Mercenary' Industry
3/05/10 Quinn, Telegraph, US Public 'Will Pay Obama's $90bn Bank Levy'
3/05/10 Gruver, AP, Energy groups relieved sage grouse won't be listed
3/05/10 Hodai, ITT, The Rainmakers
2/25/10 Drake, FPIF 3/5/10, Ghana's 2010 oil 'boom': Ensuring public interest over private gain
3/05/10 BBC, Singapore boosts security over threat to oil tankers
March 4, 2010
3/04/10 AFP, Katrina Victims Seek to Sue Greenhouse Gas Emitters
March 3, 2010
3/03/10 Kapner, FT, GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St
3/03/10 Frank, AlterNet, EPA Drastically Underestimates Coal Waste Pollution's Threat to Human and Environmental Health
3/03/10 Kroll, MoJo, Chris Dodd's Wall Street Sellout
3/03/10 Zajac & Huffstutter, LAT, Cost of food-borne illnesses is deemed much higher than earlier estimates
3/03/10 BBC, South Africa black-owned farms 'failing'
March 2, 2010
3/02/10 Grim, Huffington, Dodd: Put CFPA Inside Federal Reserve
3/02/10 Hampson, USA Today, New Ghost Towns: Industrial Communities Teeter on the Edge
3/02/10 Pringle, PublicRecord, Paxil Birth Defect Litigation - First Trial A Bust for Glaxo
3/02/10 Berling, TruthOut, Supreme Court Takes Up Appeal by Enron's Skilling
3/02/10 Calvin, SacBee, Insurance rate hikes fan political firestorm
3/02/10 Crawley, Reuters, Brakes seen key fix; Toyota confronted with memo
3/02/10 Cramer, MoJo, A Five-Step Guide To Real Financial Reform
3/02/10 Manski &, Graves, ITT, Corporations are People Too
3/02/10 BBC, GM potato cleared for EU farming
March 1, 2010
3/01/10 Reuters, Goldman Board Rejects Shareholder Demands on Pay
3/01/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, US Senate's Top Climate Skeptic Accused of Waging 'McCarthyite Witch-Hunt'
3/01/10 Goldstein, NPR, Warren Buffett Explains The Genius Of The Float
3/01/10 Canadian Press, Syncrude Back in Court Over Duck Deaths
3/01/10 Vlasic et al, NYT, Data Shows Camrys Outside Recall Also Had Problems
3/01/10 Fahrenthold, WP, Manure becomes pollutant as its volume grows unmanageable
3/01/10 Barr, WP, UK's Prudential buys AIG's Asian unit for $35.5B
3/01/10 Al Jazeera, Firms face Zimbabwe ownership law
3/01/10 Ansari, CNN, Weed killer 'castrates' male frogs, study says
3/01/10 Marquand, CSM, Greek debt crisis: High stakes game of financial chicken
3/01/10 Sheppard, MoJo, The Chamber of Commerce vs. Climate Science
February 28, 2010
2/28/10 Wainwright, Guardian, Opposition mounts to 'factory farm' plans that will house 8,100 cows
February 27, 2010
2/27/10 Witte and Miller, CSM, Chile earthquake much stronger than Haiti's but far less damage. Why?
2/27/10 Chatterjee, IPS, DynCorp Oversight in Afghanistan Faulted
February 25, 2010
2/26/10 Goldstein, NPR, AIG: Still Losing Money!
2/25/10 Cole, Deep Journal, Blackwater: Senate Committee Says the Contractor Is Armed and Dangerous
2/25/10 Benno, PSL, Migrant forest workers win $2.75 million in back wages
February 24, 2010
2/24/10 Cooke, IntelDaily, The Drive to Eliminate Social Security in America
2/24/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Obama's Nuclear Vision Suffers Setback as Vermont Plant Faces Shutdown
2/24/10 Calvin, SacBee, Anthem Blue Cross executives grilled at state Capitol
2/24/10 Dickson et al, Guardian, Enron: how we made a drama out of a financial crisis
2/24/10 BBC, Google bosses convicted in Italy
February 23, 2010
2/23/10 Jones, ProPublica, Inside the Administration's Deal with the Pharmaceutical Lobby
2/23/10 Spolar, Huffington, Military Training of Afghan National Police Mired in Contract Dispute
2/23/10 Eder & Stempel, Reuters, Wall Street bonuses jumped 17 percent last year
2/23/10 Schulman, MoJo, Blackwater's Gunrunners
2/23/10 Bluegrass Politics, Report: Payday lending fees damage urban, rural areas
2/23/10 Elliott, Guardian, Too soon to cut public spending, IMF warns
2/23/10 Jena, IPS, INDIA: Indigenous Groups Step Up Protests Over Mining Project
February 22, 2010
2/22/10 van Duynin, FT, Concern about FDIC's proposals
2/22/10 DeGraw, Public Record, Part IV: The Financial Coup d'Etat: The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the USA
2/22/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Big Banks Are More Expensive
2/22/10 Shankman, ProPublica, Gas Drillers Plead Guilty to Felony Dumping Violations
2/22/10 Andrews, ProPublica, A Fuzzy Definition of 'Home' Proves Lucrative for Calif. Lawmakers
2/22/10 AFP, US Lawmakers Push to Phase Out Wartime Contractors
2/22/10 Lichtblau, NYT, Lawmakers' Ties to Toyota Questioned at Start of Inquiries
2/22/10 Martin & Lieber, NYT, Banks Pressure Customers to Keep Fees Rolling In
2/22/10 Rexrode, Charlotte Observer, Judge reluctantly allows Bank of America to settle with SEC
February 19, 2010
2/19/10 Jowitt, Guardian, World's Top Firms Cause $2.2 Trillion of Environmental Damage, Report Estimates
2/19/10 Bailey & Gorman, Reuters, Government was told of Toyota claims in 2004: insurer
2/19/10 Mason, Reuters, Obama unveils new fund to address housing woes
2/19/10 Guardian, After the Tsunami came a flood of developers
2/19/10 Irving, Guardian, How fair trade can help tackle poverty and bring peace to conflict zones
February 18, 2010
2/18/10 Gantz, ITT, Helping Haiti, for a Price
2/18/10 Guardian, The National Geographic archives: Agriculture in Ecuador Video
February 17, 2010
2/17/10 BBC, Oil deal 'damaging for Uganda environment'
2/17/10 Dillon, NYT, Plan Would Let Students Start College After 10th Grade
2/17/10 Rappeport, DeepJournal, Lone voice warns of debt threat to Fed
2/17/10 Houreld, AP, UN says US aid restrictions hurting hungry Somalis
2/17/10 Lewin, NYT, Study Finds Public Discontent With Colleges
2/17/10 Berrigan, MoJo, America's Global Weapons Monopoly
February 16, 2010
2/16/10 McNulty & Fifield, FT, BP deals blow to Obama fight on climate
2/16/10 Mason, Reuters, Obama ups nuclear investment for climate fight
2/16/10 Puzzanghera & Lee, LAT, New wave of foreclosures by end of 2010 is feared
February 15, 2010
2/15/10 Macalister, Guardian, Oil Giants Demand Open Market for World's Dirtiest Fuel
2/15/10 Godoy, IPS, Nuclear Does Not Make Economic Sense Say Studies
2/15/10 Nation, 'The Cleveland Model': Democracy, Community, and Economic Vision
February 14, 2010
2/14/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Goldman Goes Rogue - Special European Audit To Follow
2/14/10 Pensacola Beach Journal, Floridians Gather to Say 'No' to Offshore Drilling
2/14/10 Eggen, WP, Success of President Obama's crackdown on lobbying questioned
2/14/10 ElBoghdady & Merle, WP, Refinancing unavailable for many borrowers
February 13, 2010
2/13/10 Kirchgaessner & McNulty, FT, Obama offers nuclear plant loan guarantee
2/13/10 Story et al, NYT, Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe's Crisis
February 12, 2010
2/12/10 Botari, Bankster USA, Goldman Accused of Rigging 'Robin Hood Tax' Vote
2/12/10 Andrews, ProPublica, Former U.S. Regulators Helped Quash Toyota Investigations
2/12/10 Baumann, MoJo, Subprime Goes Hollywood
February 11, 2010
2/11/10 Kenney, NPR, Foreclosures Up 15 Percent From January 2009
2/11/10 Fekete, Asia Times, When money refuses to flow uphill
February 10, 2010
2/10/10 Winton, LAT, Former hospital executive will plead guilty to paying kickbacks
2/10/10 Vistesen, Guardian, Keeping the eurozone afloat
2/10/10 CNN, Greek workers strike as government tightens belt
February 9, 2010
2/09/10 Hickman, Independent, Palm Oil Deal 'A Threat to the Rainforest'
2/09/10 Nasiripour, Huffington, Elizabeth Warren: Time For Wall Street CEOs To 'Earn Back' America's Trust
2/09/10 Costantini, IPS, Fighting Off Looters in the Ruins of Wall Street
2/09/10 Baker, AlterNet, False Profits: We Will Be Suffering from Greenspan and Bernanke's Ineptitude for a Long Time
2/09/10 Kroll, MoJo, Why Banks Love Foreclosure
2/09/10 Kroll, MoJo, Resources for Dealing With Mortgage Servicers
2/09/10 BBC, India suspends first GM food crop on safety grounds
February 8, 2010
2/08/10 David Cronin interviews ISABELLA LÖVIN, IPS, Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
2/08/10 Gail, Oil Drum, Delusions of Finance: Where We are Headed
2/08/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Wall Street
2/08/10 Swanson, The Hill, Obama Starts New Push on 'Free Trade' Deals
2/08/10 UPI, More Blackwater Contractors Than Cops In Pakistan's Capitol
2/08/10 Singel, Wired, Google Making Gmail Into a Communications Hub
2/08/10 Brannigan & Charles, Miami Herald, U.S. firms want part in Haiti cleanup
2/08/10 Leahy, IPS, BIODIVERSITY: Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse
2/08/10 Burke, Guardian, India to rule on future of aubergine as country's first genetically modified food
2/08/10 BBC, Africa malaria drugs 'low-grade'
February 7, 2010
2/07/10 Elliott, Guardian, G7 close to accord on banks paying for global recession
1/30/10 Reilly, Bloomberg, Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows: Bloomberg
2/07/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Europe Risks Another Global Depression
2/07/10 Owen & Bignell, Independent, Think-Tanks Take Oil Money and Use it to Fund Climate Deniers
2/07/10 BBC, UK economy 'faces crisis' warns former IMF economist
February 6, 2010
2/06/10 Grey, WSWS, Sovereign debt fears signal new stage of global crisis
February 5, 2010
2/05/10 Capaccio, Business Week, Pentagon to Increase Stock of High-Altitude Drones
February 4, 2010
2/04/10 Komisar, IPS, US Banks, Lobbyists Abetting Corrupt Regimes, Probe Finds
2/04/10 Jacobson, Raw Story, How Corporations Secretly Move Millions to Fund Political Ads
2/04/10 Sheppard, MoJo, Obama's Nuclear Giveaway
February 2, 2010
2/02/10 Cole, ABC News, Same Blackwater, Different Names
2/02/10 de Souza, Montreal Gazette, Woodland Caribou Under Threat in Oilsands Area, Group Says
February 1, 2010
2/01/10 Corn et al, MoJo, Obama's Five Worst Nominees
2/01/10 McCandish, MoJo, Are Green Power Programs a Scam?
January 28, 2010
1/28/10 Jones, ProPublica, Identity of Americans with Secret UBS Accounts May Remain Secret
January 27, 2010
1/27/10 Ayala, IPS, EL SALVADOR: Activists Link Mining Co. to Murders
1/27/10 Hall & Gordon, McClatchy, Geithner, predecessor and Fed defend controversial AIG payments
1/27/10 Walsh, NYT, Geithner Denies Role in Limiting A.I.G. Disclosures
1/27/10 Walsh & Chan, NYT, Geithner Says A.I.G. Rescue Prevented a Depression
January 26, 2010
1/26/10 Schwartz, NYT, Courts as Battlefields in Climate Fights
1/26/10 Grey, WSWS, Fallout from Washington crisis rattles world markets
1/26/10 Salzman, WSWS, How big business financed a radical right-wing party in Austria
1/26/10 Van Auken, WSWS, "Reconstructing Haiti" on starvation wages
1/26/10 Spolar, Huffington Post, Flaws in Iraqi Police Contract Raise Questions About Afghan Effort
January 25, 2010
1/25/10 NPR, Watch: 'Fear The Boom And Bust'
1/25/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Tim Geithner Says to Leave Your Money at Big Banks
January 24, 2010
1/24/10 Pasternak, McClatchy, U.S. 'nuclear renaissance' had roots in Bush-Cheney
1/24/10 Pasternak, McClatchy, Lobbying, global warming portend U.S. nuclear renaissance
1/24/10 Jowitt, Guardia, Fears over use of chemicals to castrate pigs
1/24/10 CNN, Gunmen attack convoy near U.S. mining company in Indonesia
January 23, 2010
1/23/10 Urbina, NYT, 24 States' Laws Open to Attack After Campaign Finance Ruling
1/23/10 CNN, Biden: U.S. to appeal dismissal of Blackwater charges
1/23/10 White, LAT, Occidental Petroleum and partners to develop massive Iraqi oil field
1/23/10 Sirota, ITT, Democratic Corporatism Brings Reagan Back from the Grave
January 22, 2010
1/22/10 Collins, IntelDaily, It's the "New Haiti!"
1/22/10 Blanchflower, Business Week, Credit Crisis Creates Lost Generation
1/22/10 Donato, HLLN, Oil in Haiti
1/22/10 Ross, BBC, Satellite images help insure Kenya cattle
1/22/10 Hightower, AlterNet, Bernanke Wants Even More God-Like Powers for the Federal Reserve
1/22/10 Lammers, AP, Sunflower DNA Map Could Produce Plants for Fuel
1/22/10 Maisano, ITT, States of Pain
1/22/10 Eley & Grey, WSWS, Another toothless bank "reform" from Obama
1/22/10 NPR, Our Very Own Toxic Asset
1/22/10 WorldFocus, Money and politics at issue in countries around the world
1/22/10 Theimer, AP, CEOs to Hill: Quit calling us for campaign cash
January 21, 2010
1/21/10 Epstein & Heath, Huffington Post, FDIC Chief Got Bank of America Loans While Working on Its Rescue
1/21/10 Biggers, CommonDreams, Tree-Sitters Shut Down Infamous Mountaintop Removal Operation; TVA Cops Strike Again
1/21/10 Linzey, Yes, Whose Rights? Challenging Corporate Power
1/21/10 Pepitone, CNN, Air America going dark
1/21/10 Chan & Dash, NYT, Obama's Move to Limit 'Reckless Risks' Has Skeptics
1/21/10 NYT, How Corporate Money Will Reshape Politics
1/21/10 Jones, ProPublica, U.S. Private Security Firms Head to Haiti
1/21/10 Scahill, RebelReports, Defense Secretary Robert Gates Confirms Blackwater in Pakistan
1/21/10 Zetter, Wired, Microsoft Learned of IE Zero-Day Flaw Last September
1/21/10 AP, Goldman Sachs earns $4.79 billion in fourth quarter
1/21/10 BBC, Online music piracy 'destroys local music'
1/21/10 BBC, Goldman Sachs says profit in 2009 up sharply
January 20, 2010
1/20/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, Outsourcing War: The Rise of Private Military Contractors
1/20/10 BBC, Nigeria riot city under control, says army chief
January 19, 2010
1/19/10 Kiel, ProPublica, Logjam Continues for Loan Mods; Big Banks Fare Poorly, Data Show
1/18/10 Scahill, Rebel Reports, US Security Company Offers to Perform "High Threat Terminations" and to Confront "Worker Unrest" in Haiti
1/19/10 Helfand, LAT, California limits HMO wait times
1/19/10 Shachtman, Wired, CIA Contractor Now Flying Spy Drone Over Haiti (Updated Again)
January 18, 2010
1/18/10 Bluemink, ADN, Persistence of Exxon Valdez oil may be explained by study
January 17, 2010
1/17/10 Yost, AP, AP Exclusive: Tobacco's Plea - No Big US Payments
January 16, 2010
1/16/10 Chung & Guerrara, FT, SEC subpoenas big banks over CDOs
1/16/10 Protess, HuffingtonPost, The Financial 'Black Box': What's Still Hidden In AIG's Files?
January 15, 2010
1/15/10 Kaufman, Nation, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Turns Up the Heat
1/15/10 Kim, Nation,
1/15/10 Wagner, AP, Geithner Will Defend Secretive AIG Bailout Deals
1/15/10 Zajac, LAT, FDA scolds maker of Tylenol for foot-dragging in recall
1/15/10 Osava, IPS, BRAZIL: 'Colonisation Made Us Poor,' Say Indigenous Peoples
1/15/10 Reuters, Zoellick says crisis effects will last for years
1/15/10 Dash, NYT, JPMorgan Chase Earns $11.7 Billion in Year
1/15/10 BBC, JP Morgan Chase reports $3.3bn profits
January 14, 2010
1/14/10 AP, Foreclosures set a grim record in 2009
1/14/10 Devraj, IPS, India Holds Public Meetings on GM Food Crop
1/14/10 Williams, NYT, US Companies Join Race on Iraqi Oil Bonanza
1/14/10 Mullins, Herald Online, Book costs soar above $1,000 for average college student
January 13, 2010
1/13/10 BBC, Ford leads in MOT failures as figures are revealed
1/13/10 Hansen, SolveClimate, The People vs. Cap-and-Trade
January 12, 2010
1/12/10 Flavelle, ProPublica, U.S. Contractor Announces Plans to Train Pakistani NGOs, On Its Own Dime
1/12/10 Clark, Guardian, Wal-Mart, the US Retailer Taking Over the World by Stealth
January 11, 2010
1/11/10 Calmes, NYT, Obama Weighs Bank Fee to Help Cut the Federal Deficit
1/11/10 Hancock, Iowa Independent, Study: CAFOs a Threat to Public Health
1/11/10 Evans-Prtichard, Telegraph, America Slides Deeper Into Depression as Wall Street Revels
January 10, 2010
1/10/10 Rosenbaum, Firedoglake, Blackwater Wants $1 Billion to Train the New Afghan Police Force
1/10/10 Tucker, FT, Insurers rush to strike Asian deals
1/10/10 PublicRecord, AIG's Backdoor Bailout Revealed
1/10/10 Leopold, AP, For the Unemployed, New Job Often Means a Pay Cut
January 9, 2010
1/09/10 Ames, AlterNet, Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions
1/09/10 Lardner, AP, Xe Services Aiming for Afghan Police Training Deal
1/09/10 Nichols, Nation, The 2010 Political Timebomb Is Unemployment
1/09/10 al-Ansary, Reuters, Iraq confiscates arms in private security crackdown
1/09/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Bush-Obama DOJ runs protection racket for superwealthy tax cheats
January 8, 2010
1/08/10 Taylor, IntelDaily, Black America's economic freefall
1/08/10 Fahrenthold, WP, Scientists say mountaintop mining should be stopped
1/08/10 Frean, Times Online, Monsanto Officer Believes It Is 'on the Verge of a Technology Explosion"
1/08/10 Ananda, TruthOut, Three Approved GMO's Linked to Organ Damage
1/08/10 Progressive, An Interview with Elizabeth Warren
1/08/10 Smith, Sac Bee, Sacramento, Central Valley bankruptcy filings soar to all-time high
1/08/10 Scahill, Nation, Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?
1/08/10 Kirkpatrick, NYT, Courts Roll Back Limits on Spending in Election Law
1/07/10 CNN, Two security contractors charged in Afghanistan killings
1/08/10 Greenhouse, NYT, Unions Oppose Possible Health Insurance Tax
January 7, 2010
1/07/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Hoenig Talks Sense On Casino Banks
1/07/10 Eggen, WP, How interest groups behind health-care legislation are financed is often unclear
1/07/10 Silver, ITT, Comcast Launches 'TV Everywhere': Say Goodbye to Free Online Television
1/07/10 Philpott, Island Bucket, Agent Orange rule could cost VA billions
1/07/10 Haughney, NYT, Further Slide Seen in N.Y. Commercial Real Estate
1/07/10 Gordon, McClatchy, Fed delayed disclosure of controversial AIG payout
1/07/10 Barr, CNN, The AIG fiasco keeps getting worse
1/07/10 Klare, Asia Times, The blowback effect, 2020
January 6, 2010
1/06/10 Costello, NPR, Why The Bond Market Rules The World
1/06/10 Ridgeway, MoJo, Who's Getting Rich From the Naked Full-Body Scanner Boom?
1/06/10 Drawbaugh & Jones, Reuters, Global financial regulation overhaul seen in 2010
1/06/10 Lazarus, LAT, Banks take revenge for new consumer rules
January 5, 2010
1/05/10 Grey, WSWS, Three top Wall Street banks to award $49.5 billion in year-end bonuses
1/05/10 Hennigan & Hsu, LAT, Northrop Grumman moving headquarters to Washington, D.C., area
1/05/10 Kay, FT, The cause of our crises has not gone away
1/05/10 Clark, CSM, Environment: In Peru's Amazon, finding gold but leaving mercury
January 4, 2010
1/04/10 Freedman, Earth Island Journal, Swimming in Natural Gas: The Greenwashing of an Industry
1/04/10 Al Jazeera, Iraq to take Blackwater to court
1/04/10 Layton, WP, Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under law
1/04/10 Retuers, U.S. judge rejects leniency for UBS whistleblower
1/04/10 BBC, Pension savings 'deteriorating'
January 3, 2010
1/03/10 Macalsiter, Guardian, Manufacturing sector savages Darling claim that Labour supports green jobs
1/03/10 Rampell, NYT, Bernanke Blames Weak Regulation for Financial Crisis
1/03/10 Irwin, WP, Bernanke: Regulatory policy is best defense against housing bubbles
1/03/10 Macalister, Guardian, Shell accused of abandoning solar power buyers in the developing world
January 2, 2010
1/02/10 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman's Offshore Deals Deepened Global Financial Crisis
1/02/10 Lynn, Alternet, Mega Giant Corporations Are Very Bad for America
1/02/10 Blood, AP, Solar showdown in Calif. tortoises' desert home
1/02/10 Irwin, WP, Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers
January 1, 2010
1/01/10 Davies, SMH, US Aid Tied to Purchase of Arms
1/01/10 Garofalo, Think Progress, Wall Street Ready to Claim Billions in Tax Breaks on Bonus Payments
1/01/10 CNN, Iraq to sue ex-Blackwater guards
1/01/10 BBC, Iraq 'regrets' US decision to clear Blackwater guards
December 31, 2009
12/31/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Fed Judge Gives Blackwater Huge New Year's Gift, Dismisses All Charges In Iraq Massacre
12/31/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Natural Gas Drilling: What We Don't Know
12/31/09 BBC, US judge dismisses charges in Blackwater Iraq killings
12/31/09 Carroll, Guardian, Gold giant faces Honduras inquiry into alleged heavy metal pollution
December 30, 2009
12/30/09 Deen, IPS, US Arms Feed Yemen's Gun Culture
12/30/09 BBC, Iraq oil contract goes to Angola's Sonangol (Deciphering the Sino-Africa saga
12/30/09 England, FT, Social pressures help to spur jihad
12/30/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, What's in Your Wallet?
12/30/09 Al Jazeera, Dutch court to hear Shell case
12/30/09 Dennis, WP, E-mails inside AIG reveal executives struggling with growing crisis
12/30/09 Wright, Nation, The 2009 Balance Sheet of Change
12/30/09 Eder & Bansal, Reuters, AIG executive resigns over pay limits
12/30/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Investors could only lose in Goldman's Caymans deals
12/30/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Details of one Goldman deal reveal lopsided conflicts
12/30/09 Gordon, McClatchy, How billions in complex Goldman deals escaped scrutiny
12/30/09 Dilanian et al, Military Times, Firm employs large number of Pentagon mentors
December 29, 2009
12/29/09 WP, Five Controversial Business Deals of 2009
12/29/09 Leopold, TruthOut, AIG Executives Failed to Repay Majority of Bonuses
12/29/09 Grim & Delaney, Huffington Post, The Cash Committee: How Wall Street Wins On The Hill
12/29/09 Carver, FT, Russia to curb speculative capital inflows
12/29/09 Teather, Guardian, From dotcom bust to banking meltdown: the decade in business
December 28, 2009
12/28/09 Atkins, FT, Big 'shadow' economies shore up countries in recession, report says
December 27, 2009
12/27/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, New Gas Wells Leave More Chemicals in Ground
12/27/09 Lerer, Politico, Senate Democrats to W.H.: Drop Cap-and-Trade
12/27/09 Phillips & Huff, TruthOut, Inside the Military Media Industrial Complex: Impacts on Movement for Social Justice
December 25, 2009
12/25/09 Greer, IntelDaily, The Political Ecology of Collapse, Part Three: The Bomb at the Heart of the System
December 24, 2009
12/24/09 WorldFocus, Reflections on Yegor Gaidar: Russia's 'shock therapist'
12/24/09 Goldfarb, WP, Fannie, Freddie chiefs to get Wall Street-style compensation packages
12/24/09 Brown, TruthOut, Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout for the Financial Sector?
December 23, 2009
12/23/09 Fiore & Hook, LAT, Sick, without a safety net
12/23/09 Damon, WSWS, US home foreclosures top one million mark
12/23/09 BBC, Ban on sales of Microsoft Word upheld
12/23/09 Dennis, WP, AIG Executives' Promises to Return Bonuses Have Gone Largely Unfulfilled
12/23/09 BBC, Nestle shuts Zimbabwe milk plant citing harassment
12/23/09 Weir, CSM, Why nearly 60 percent of Russians 'deeply regret' the USSR's demise
December 22, 2009
12/22/09 Roston, Nation, Afghan Lobby Scam
December 21, 2009
12/21/09 Reuters, Sanofi-Aventis Buys Chattem for $1.9 Billion
12/21/09 Appelbaum & Cho, WP, Fed's approach to regulation left banks exposed to crisis
12/21/09 Zajac, LAT, Familiar faces among health industry lobbyists
December 20, 2009
12/20/09 Recio, McClatchy, Plight of contractor raped in Iraq spurs push in Congress
12/20/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Light bulb time: 'The NRA is a money laundering operation for arms dealers'
12/20/09 Blas, FT, Record year for top five crude traders
12/20/09 Landler, NYT, Civilians Train in 'Afghan City' in the Midwest
December 19, 2009
12/19/09 Protess, Huffington Post, Barney Frank vs. the Credit Raters
12/19/09 Pear, NYT, Negotiating to 60 Votes, Compromise by Compromise
12/19/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Bankers COST the economy $7 for every $1 they're paid
12/19/09 USA Today, Senate Unveils Health Care Compromise
12/19/09 Reuters, Congress must resist health insurance lobby: Obama
12/19/09 Hulse & Pear, NYT, Democrats Say They Clinch Deal on Health Care Overhaul
December 18, 2009
12/18/09 Applebaum, WP, Kucinich panel to investigate Citigroup tax ruling
12/18/09 Rooney, CNN, Bank failure tally reaches 140
December 17, 2009
12/17/09 Hiltzik, LAT, Biotech bonanza lurks in healthcare reform bills
12/17/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Chemicals Sneak Past Law Regulating Tap Water
12/17/09 Miller, ProPublica, For AIG's Man in Jordan, War Becomes a Business Opportunity
12/17/09 CNN, Congress to probe private military contractors in Afghanistan
12/17/09 BBC, Citigroup shares fall as the Treasury pulls out of sale
December 16, 2009
12/16/09 Eisinger & Bernstein, ProPublica, SEC Just Now Seeking Key Information On Meltdown
12/16/09 BBC, Microsoft admits code theft for Chinese blog Juku
12/16/09 BBC, Intel being sued for using size to keep out rivals
December 15, 2009
12/15/09 Jacobson, Raw Story, 135,000 Uninsured Americans Will Die Before Health Reform Takes Effect, Analysis Finds
12/15/09 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, "Wake Up, Gentlemen"
12/15/09 EDIE, REDD the victim of stalled COP15
December 14, 2009
12/14/09 Hawk, IntelDaily, The Real Story Behind, Blackwater, JSOC and the CIA's Private Army of Elite Assassins
12/14/09 Beckel, OpenSecrets, Campaign Cash From Wall Street Favored Representatives Who Opposed Finance Reform Bill
12/14/09 Leonard, AP, Monsanto Stomps Down Budding Seed Competitors
12/14/09 Walker, Firedog Lake, Insurance Stocks Soar on News of Lieberman's Obstructionism
12/14/09 Grey, WSWS, US House passes pro-Wall Street banking bill
12/14/09 BBC, Cadbury fights back against Kraft bid
December 13, 2009
12/13/09 Nichols, Nation, Financial 'Reform' Preserves Too Big Banks, Too Much Speculation
12/13/09 Kaufman, Nation, Yes, Regulators Can Stop Foreclosures
12/13/09 Grow & Goldfarb, CPI, Ginnie Mae's Troubling Endorsements
12/13/09 Syal, Guardian, Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor
December 12, 2009
12/12/09 Hawk, Global Strike Force: The Real Story Behind, Blackwater, JSOC and the CIA's Private Army of Elite Assassins
12/12/09 McCrea, OpenLeft, The Legal Fiction All Progressives Should Know About
12/12/09 BBC, CIA cancels Blackwater drone missile-loading contract
December 11, 2009
12/11/09 Bassett, Huffington, Networks Still Hosting Military Analysts Without Identifying Massive Conflicts Of Interest
12/11/09 Walsh & MacAskill, Guardian, Blackwater operating at CIA Pakistan base, ex-official says
12/11/09 BBC, US extends executive pay limits at bailed-out companies
12/11/09 Carlsen, PSL, Bailed-out AIG 'acquires' small town water supplies, hikes rates 50 percent
12/11/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, Lingering joblessness puts new face on foreclosure crisis
12/11/09 AP, Blackwater guards linked to secret CIA raids
12/11/09 Johnson, Guardian, Google backs world's fastest internet cable
12/11/09 BBC, Iraq oil development rights contracts awarded
12/11/09 BBC. Greek government bonds have biggest drop in 11 years
December 10, 2009
12/10/09 Roth, TPM, Former Bailout Czar Signs On With Firm That Helped Run Bailout
12/10/09 Kaiser Daily, ARTs Safe Without Routine Lab Tests, Lancet Study Finds
12/10/09 Scahill, Nation, Contractors Watching Contractors
12/10/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Insurance companies owe 44 Senators who would filibuster public option $91,363,636 each
December 9, 2009
12/09/09 WorldFocus, The legacy of the 'Chicago Boys' lives on in Chile
December 8, 2009
12/08/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Hearing on Pa. Judges Who Took Kickbacks From Private Prison
12/08/09 Allen, ITT, Death by Privatization
December 7, 2009
12/07/09 from 2/05/09 ABCNews, Investigation: U.S. Banks Funnel 'Dirty' Money
12/07/09 Reuters, Study Finds Weed Killer Affects Frogs Sexually
12/07/09 Bolstad, McClatchy, Drill, Baby, Drill: Obama Administration OKs Oil Drilling in Arctic off Alaska
December 6, 2009
12/06/09 England, FT, Kuwait fund sells $4bn Citi stake
December 5, 2009
12/05/09 Simon, Baseline Scenario, Measuring The Fiscal Costs Of Not Fixing The Financial System
December 4, 2009
12/04/09 DeGraw, DeepJournal, Af-Pak War Racket: The Obama Illusion Comes Crashing Down
12/04/09 Hass, NYT, Scholarly Investments
12/04/09 Thomasch & Adegoke, Retuers, Comcast lands NBC in deal that reshapes media
12/04/09 Schaill, RebelReports, Erik Prince and CIA/JSOC assassinations and drone bombings - video
12/04/09 Kunichoff, TruthOut, Blackwater Founder Tells of Extensive Government-Contracted Assassinations
December 3, 2009
12/03/09 Pal, Progressive, 25 years after the world's worst industrial disaster, the suffering continues
12/03/09 WorldFocus, 25 years after Bhopal tragedy, pain and uncertainty linger
12/03/09 Fisher, The Atlantic, How Close Are Blackwater and JSOC?
December 2, 2009
12/02/09 Jennings, ComputerWorld, Did Sprint violate customer privacy 8 million times?
12/02/09 Fildes, BBC, Web giants unite against Digital Britain copyright bill
12/02/09 Durden, Zero Hedge, Charting The Great World Trade Collapse
December 1, 2009
12/01/09 Bello, FPIF, Climate and Capitalism in Copenhagen
12/01/09 Ramesh, Guardian, Bhopal water still toxic 25 years after deadly gas leak, study finds
12/01/09 Kroll, MoJo, Housing Meltdown, Ground Zero
12/01/09 Harkinson, MoJo, Street Food Fight
12/01/09 Berry, American Mediacal News, Aetna Prepares for Loss of 600,000 Members as it Raises 2010 Prices
12/01/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Out-of-Control Security Guards Hamper Afghanistan Efforts
12/01/09 Rappeport, FT, US commercial mortgage default rate hits 3.4%
12/01/09 Johnson, Guardian, Twitter news service taken over by MSNBC
November 30, 2009
11/30/09 BBC, US Treasury in foreclosure fines
11/30/09 Schulman, MoJo, Karzai Said What?
11/30/09 Williams, NYT, Oil Companies Look to the Future in Iraq
November 29, 2009
11/29/09 Whoriskey, WP, Monsanto's dominance draws antitrust inquiry
11/29/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Wall Street's a casino, so maybe state gambling laws apply
11/29/09 Watts, BBC, Insuring against climate change
November 28, 2009
11/28/09 BBC, Energy price rules 'not being imposed'
November 27, 2009
11/27/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, More on Goldman and AIG
11/27/09 Holland, AlterNet, Scahill and Olbermann on Blackwater: Murderous Crusaders for Christ
11/27/09 Kang, Wp, A new kind of company, a new challenge for feds
11/27/09 OpenLeft, Cost Externalization and Regulations
11/27/09 Perrotin, The View from Britany, The Decline of the Wage System
11/27/09 Navarro, NYT, At Odds Over Land, Money and Gas
11/27/09 Guardian, Brazilian president says 'gringos' must pay to protect Amazon
November 26, 2009
11/26/09 Reuters, Wal-Mart Price Pressure Hurts China Workers: Report
11/26/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Fannie Mae to tighten lending standards
11/26/09 Godoy, IPS, LABOUR-MEXICO: Manufacturing Poverty for Women
November 25, 2009
11/25/09 Levine, TruthOut, Elizabeth Warren Warns: Taxpayers Are "Involuntary Investors" in "Shaky" Banks, Risk-Taking Firms
11/25/09 Eilperin, WP, Fewer Americans believe in global warming, poll shows
11/25/09 Smithers, Guardian, Big brands lagging on climate action, survey says
November 24, 2009
11/24/09 Reuters, Global sovereign debt to hit $49.5 trln-Moody's
November 23, 2009
11/23/09 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
November 22, 2009
11/22/09 Lopez, LAT, The emergency room bill is enough to make you sick
11/22/09 Webb, Open Left, The Conspiracy to Kill the New Deal; Yes it's Real
11/22/09 Delingpole, DeepJournal, Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science
11/22/09 Ostendorf, Progressive, This Thanksgiving, let's give a thought to the people who process turkeys
November 21, 2009
11/21/09 Story, NYT, Wall St. Finds Profits Again, Now by Reducing Mortgages
November 20, 2009
11/20/09 Fox, Reuters, Did U.S. make mistake in skipping vaccine additive?
11/20/09 de sousa, Canada.com, Report Says Nuclear Plants Are Poisoning Our Water
11/19/09 Sharife, FPIF, The Battle for Angola's Oil
November 19, 2009
11/19/09 Johnson, Baseline, Written Testimony Submitted To The Congressional Oversight Panel
11/19/09 Damon, WSWS, Goldman's mea culpa
11/18/09 Ward, Charleston Gazette, Report Details 'Coal's Assault on Human Health'
11/20/09 Jewitt & Rowe, ProPublica, Pharmaceutical Giant Paid $500,000 to Psychiatrist Who Used Chicago's Poor as Guinea Pigs
11/19/09 Treanor, Guardian, Blue-blooded City broker Cazenove bought by US bank in £1bn deal
November 18, 2009
11/18/09 Mercimer, MoJo, The Tea Party's Favorite Doctors
11/18/09 Reich, TruthOut, The Great Disconnect Between Stocks and Jobs
11/18/09 Moberg, ITT, Out of Control
11/18/09 Cohen, CNN, White House reports billions of improper payments in 2009
11/18/09 BBC, 'Too big to fail' US banking law
November 17, 2009
11/17/09 Gillam, Reuters, Biotech Crops Cause Big Jump in Pesticide Use: Report
11/17/09 Wilson, NYT, Medical Schools Quizzed on Ghostwriting
11/17/09 Greenhouse, NYT, Labor Fight Ends in Win for Students
11/17/09 Hamilton, LAT, Wall Street recovers quickly -- unlike the rest of the nation
11/17/09 bbc, NY Fed 'paid AIG banks too much'
11/17/09 Whoriskey, WP, Revamped GM loses $1.2 billion
11/17/09 Hilzenrath, WP, IRS unveils criteria for Swiss bank account disclosures
11/17/09 Kaplan, LAT, Uninsured trauma patients are much more likely to die
11/17/09 Smith, Guardian, Goldminers sue for lung disease payout
November 16, 2009
11/16/09 Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, Privatizing Water System Could Be a Risky Move for Chicago
11/16/09 Walsh, NYT, Audit Faults New York Fed in A.I.G. Bailout
11/16/09 GRAIN, Worlwide Corporate Control of Agriculture: The New Farm Owners
November 14, 2009
11/14/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Regulators Seize Another Recipient of TARP 'Healthy Bank' Bailout
11/14/09 BBC, Private 'police' provoke concern
November 13, 2009
11/13/09 Volsky, Think Progress, Goldman Sachs Report: Watered-Down Senate Health Bill a Windfall for Big Insurance
11/13/09 Hilzenrath, WP, Health insurers could bypass some key reforms
11/13/09 NYT, A Turning Point for Eminent Domain?
11/13/09 Kaiser Health News, Eastern Kentucky town shows what health legislation can't fix
11/13/09 Michael, IPS, UGANDA: "Mount Elgon Eviction Has Reduced Us to Beggars"*
11/13/09 Collinson, Guardian, House price drop indicates 'double-dip' for property market
11/13/09 Mackenzie, FT, Soaring oil price
11/13/09 Reckard, LAT, Fed Reserve bans most bank overdraft fees
November 12, 2009
11/12/09 AP, Intel settles AMD claims but isn't off the hook
11/12/09 Guardian, British Gas expects profits to rise 43% as winter gas prices are hiked
11/12/09 BBC, Oil rise 'could derail recovery'
11/12/09 Reuters, Justice Dept warns drug companies on corruption
11/12/09 Examiner, CIA fails in attempt to link Ft. Hood shooter to al Qaeda, Iran exhales
11/12/09 Welsh, OpenLeft, Rebooting the financial casino
11/12/09 Helmer, Asia Times, JP Morgan's US$80 million bill spills into court
November 11, 2009
11/11/09 Shankman, ProPublica, Streamlining the Broadband Grant Payout
11/11/09 AFP, Lack of Health Care Killed 2,266 US Veterans Last Year: Study
11/11/09 Jewett, ProPublica, Drugmaker Paid Psychiatrist Nearly $500,000 to Promote Antipsychotic, Despite Doubts About Research
11/11/09 Stein, Huffington Post, Pharma Deal With White House on Course to Net Industry Billions
11/11/09 Flanders, Nation, Unequal Power, Unequal Access
11/11/09 Tran, Guardian, Blackwater bosses approved bribes after guards killed Iraqis, paper claims
November 10, 2009
11/10/09 BBC, 'Banks on steroids' worry France
11/10/09 Braithwait & O'Connor, FT, US banks bill seeks to strip Fed of powers
11/10/09 Macalister, Guardian, Key Oil Figures Were Distorted by US Pressure, Says Whistleblower
November 9, 2009
11/09/09 Robbins, BBC, Free market flawed, says survey
11/09/09 Mardell, BBC, The hard fact of healthcare costs
11/09/09 Robbins, BBC, Global Poll: Widespread Dissatisfaction with Free-Market Capitalism
November 8, 2009
11/08/09 Madslien, BBC, All change as gas reserves soar
November 7, 2009
11/07/09 Williams, NYT, Marooned on Sea of Iraqi Oil, but Unable to Tap Its Wealth
11/07/09 Willis, BBC, The US health system 'headache'
November 6, 2009
11/06/09 Woolhouse, Boston Globe, Credit Card Firms Hurry to Raise Rates
11/06/09 Pai, Progressive, Crunch Time for Planet Earth
11/06/09 Stein, Huffington Post, Bernie Sanders Tackles Too Big to Fail in Two Pages
11/06/09 Zeiter, Wired, National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate
11/06/09 Moya, Guardian, Mandelson: EU must not stifle investment
11/06/09 BBC, AIG posts second quarterly profit
November 5, 2009
11/05/09 Kaiser, Wall Street Journal Examines Big Pharma's 'Growing Interest' In Emerging-Market Vaccine Development, Production
11/05/09 Cobb, AlterNet,
11/05/09 Seager, Guardian, Friends of the Earth Attacks Carbon Trading
11/05/09 Grim, Huffington Post, Pelosi: Single-Payer Amendment Breaks Obama's Health Care Promise
11/05/09 McCool, Reuters, Sparring over evidence at Wall Streeters trial
11/05/09 Henderson, Charlotte Observer, Cliffside expansion reaffirmed
11/05/09 BBC, Iraq in third overseas oil deal
November 4, 2009
11/04/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Free Markets and H1N1
11/04/09 Bluemink, ADN, Lawsuits have Shell debating Arctic drilling
11/04/09 Grey, WSWS, Workers' wages to fall further, International Labour Organization warns
November 3, 2009
11/03/09 Kransich, Boston Globe, In Fight Over Credit Rules, Elizabeth Warren Wields a Plan
11/03/09 Alexander & Ordonez, Charlotte Observer, Crux of immigration case: Did bosses know?
11/03/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman left foreign investors holding the subprime bag
11/03/09 Lifsher, LAT, He earned $53 million opening doors to CalPERS money
November 2, 2009
11/02/09 Barrington, AlterNet, Who's Really Behind Organic Food Brands Like Amy's and Odwalla?
11/02/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman takes on new role: taking away people's homes
11/02/09 BBC, South Sudan awaits oil bonanza
11/02/09 BBC, Zimbabwe diamond sales ban urged
11/02/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Taxpayers Lose $2.3 Billion with CIT Bankruptcy
November 1, 2009
11/01/09 Phillips, MoJo, Big Ag's Growing Influence
11/01/09 Barnes & Mufson, WP, Defining excessive pay
11/01/09 Gordon, McClatchy, How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
11/01/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, CEO Statements That Should Make You Worry
11/01/09 Dizzard, FT, Shale gas numbers may not add up or here
11/01/09 CNN, CIT files for 5th largest U.S. bankruptcy
October 31, 2009
10/31/09 Mircovich & Chan, Reuters, Nine U.S. banks seized in largest one-day haul
10/31/09 Paulden & Shen, Bloomberg, CIT Approaches Bankruptcy After Striking Icahn, Goldman Accords
10/31/09 Bloomberg, China Warns of World Slump If Stimulus Withdrawn
October 30, 2009
10/30/09 Soros, Bloomberg, Soros Says 'Bloodletting' Yet to Come for LBOs
10/30/09 Greer, IntelDaily, Why Markets Fail. Or here
10/30/09 Roy, Guardian, The heart of India is under attack or here
10/30/09 Peter, CSM, Iraq: US military contractor burns recyclables, violating contract
10/30/09 Clark, Guardian, US safety authorities to impose record £52m fine on BP for Texas City failings
10/30/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, "TARP on Steroids"
10/30/09 Spencer, WSWS, US: Lack of insurance linked to thousands of child deaths
10/30/09 AP, US rubber company disputes Liberia pollution study
10/30/09 Leonnig, WP, 7 on defense panel scrutinized
10/30/09 Ciobanu, IPS, EASTERN EUROPE: Loans Make the Middle Class Poor
10/30/09 Estremera, IPS, PHILIPPINES: Children Worst Hit by Economic Crisis
10/30/09 Bybee, ITT, The Pillage People
10/30/09 Taibbi, True/Slant, Forget Galleon: What About Goldman's Ex-Boss?
10/30/09 Carlson, PSL, Credit card companies bled workers dry in 2009
October 29, 2009
10/29/09 ISN, Dirty Diamonds in Panama
10/29/09 Howley, Bloomberg, U.S. Home Vacancies Rise to 18.8 Million on Defaults
10/29/09 Moss, Baseline Scenario, Naming Systemically Dangerous Firms
10/29/09 Halland & Prins, AlterNet, Former Wall Street Player Reveals the Inside World Behind Shady Bailouts to Bankers
10/29/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Cluster Bomb Trade Funded by World's Biggest Banks
10/29/09 BBC, US economy is growing once again
10/29/09 Etim, All Africa, Group Challenges Oil Firms On Land Encroachment in Africa
10/29/09 Labaton, NYT, F.D.I.C. Chief Criticizes Reform Plan
10/29/09 Kirsh, NYT, Capitalist With a $
October 28, 2009
10/28/09 Jenkins, It's Getting Hot In Here, Blasting Begins on Coal River Mountain
10/28/09 WW4 Report, US denies Blackwater arms stockpiling in Pakistan
10/28/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Car Dealers Protected From New Consumer Protection Agency
10/28/09 Cho, WP, N.Y. Fed pushed AIG on contracts
10/28/09 Puzzangherra, LAT, Plan would end taxpayer bailouts for financial firms deemed 'too big to fail'
10/28/09 Suny, Nation, Empire Falls: The Revolutions of 1989
10/28/09 Oppman, CNN, Illegal immigrants struggle to receive back pay
October 27, 2009
10/27/09 Clark, Guardian, Wall Street Firms Should Not Be Called Banks, US Official says
10/27/09 Labaton, NYT, Bill Seeks to Shift Rescue Costs to Big Banks
10/27/09 de la Merced & Dash, Big Lender GMAC Asks for More U.S. Aid
10/27/09 Press, Nation, Assessing the Opt-Out - A Lesson from the Abortion Debate
10/27/09 Noland, Asia Times, Mortgage madness
10/27/09 Feffer, FPIF, Lords of Misrule
October 26, 2009
10/26/09 Lydersen, ITT, Native American Uranium Miners Still Suffer, As Industry Eyes Rebirth
10/26/09 Marks, Independent, Illegal Logging Responsible for Loss of 10 Million Hectares in Indonesia
10/26/09 Tedeschi, NYT, Homeowners Walking Away
10/26/09 Singh, Bloomberg, Caterpillar to Rehire 550 Workers, Dismiss 2,500
October 25, 2009
10/25/09 Deep Journal, Mike Ruppert is back from the wilderness with documentary CoLLapse
10/25/09 Herbert, AP, Nuclear energy becomes pivotal in climate debate
10/25/09 Trejos, WP, Loaded propositions - prepaid credit cards
10/25/09 Mufson & Eilperin, WP, Senate's climate bill a bit more ambitious
10/25/09 Brown, WP, Back where virus started, new scrutiny of pig farming
10/25/09 Hamburger & Hart, LAT, White House confronts the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
10/25/09 Hutton, Guardian, Mervyn King is right - the time has come to break up the megabanks
10/25/09 Green, FT, Institutions 'haven't learnt' from the turmoil or here
10/25/09 Oakley, FT, Big shift benefits emerging markets or here
10/25/09 Johnson, FT, Private equity's love affair with leverage or here
10/25/09 FT. Unbelievable returns, thanks to government or here
10/25/09 Rousseau, FT, Absolute return funds need risk benchmarks or here
10/25/09 Uhifelder, FT, Hedge funds scramble to install damage limitation or here
10/25/09 Triana, FT, Blame toxic lethality not complexity or here
10/25/09 FT, Vanguard speeds up DC launch plans
10/25/09 Labaton, NYT, Trying to Rein in 'Too Big to Fail' Institutions
October 24, 2009
10/24/09 WSWS, US bankers cash in despite phony pay restraint
10/24/09 Fox-Penner, Baseline Scenario, Patchwork Fixes, Conflicting Motives, And Other Things To Avoid: Some Lessons From the Regulated Non-Financial Sectors
10/24/09 Mackenzie and Wallia, FT, Ghana in oil stake talks as Exxon bid runs into trouble
10/24/09 Ames, AlterNet, After the Billionaires Plundered Alabama Town, Troops Were Called in ... Illegally
October 23, 2009
10/23/09 Schaill, Nation, Judge Refuses to Dismiss War Crimes Case Against Blackwater
10/23/09 Cappiello, AP, Poll: US Belief in Global Warming is Cooling
10/23/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Iraq Embassy Scandal Expands: Contractor May Have to Repay $130 Million
10/23/09 Littlepage, Newswire, Republicans Oppose Franken on Rape Legislation
10/23/09 Murakami & Dennis, WP, Top employees leave financial firms ahead of pay cuts
10/23/09 Rothschild, Progressive, House Dems Warp Financial Oversight Board
October 22, 2009
10/22/09 Tse & Dennis, WP, U.S. to cut pay for bailed-out bosses
10/22/09 Nasirpour, HuffingtonPost, Derivatives Bill Amended To Let Big Banks Keep Some Contracts Secret
October 21, 2009
10/21/09 Quinn & Hall, Times/UK, Goldman Sachs vice-chairman says: 'Learn to tolerate inequality'
10/21/09 Binham, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs's Griffiths Says Inequality Helps All
10/21/09 Seager & Treanor, Guardian, Mervyn King: banking fallout will last generation
October 20, 2009
10/20/09 Baumann, MoJo, Did Hank Paulson Break the Law?
10/20/09 BBC, UK bank bonuses 'to rise by 50%'
10/20/09 Sloan, WP, Uncle Sam's gift to the prudent saver: Less money
10/20/09 Sorokin, NYT, The Race to Save Lehman Brothers
10/20/09 Reuters, Pfizer Profits Rise After Cost Cutting
10/20/09 Rothacker & Rexrode, Charlotte Observer, Internal documents, e-mails shed light on Merrill deal
10/20/09 Sheppard, MoJo, Obama's Radioactive Regulator
10/20/09 Morse, ITT, High-Tech vs. Humane Healthcare
10/20/09 Pilkington. Guardian, US gives Shell green light for offshore oil drilling in the Arctic
October 19, 2009
10/19/09 Raum, AP, Higher unemployment might become the norm as result of recession
10/19/09 DeGraw, Public record, The Wall Street Economic Death Squad
10/19/09 Dawber, Independnent, BP Set for Iraqi Oil License as Cabinet Approves Deal
10/19/09 Reuters, U.S. poised to bring more insider trading cases
10/19/09 Telegraph, Claims police tortured Peruvian protesters outside British-owned mine
10/19/09 BBC, Nigeria 'to give 10% of oil cash'
10/19/09 Damon & Kishore, WSWS, The two Americas
10/19/09 Toynbee, Guardian, Beware the zealots selling miracle cures of privatisation
October 18, 2009
10/18/09 Reuters, UBS registered mail warns U.S. clients on tax: report
10/18/09 Hall, McClatchy, How Moody's sold its ratings -- and sold out investors
October 17, 2009
10/17/09 Nugent, TimesOnline, Food giants cut back on product size but prices remain the same
10/17/09 BBC, 'Toxic waste' report gag lifted
October 16, 2009
10/16/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Funding Sweatshops Globally
10/16/09 Page, Regsister, DARPA, Microsoft, Lockheed team up to reinvent TCP/IP
10/16/09 Scahill, Rebelreports, Cindy McCain Bankrolled Conference That Called for Ban on Mercenaries
10/16/09 Bower, Guardian, Held over a barrel
October 15, 2009
10/15/09 Clark, Guardian, Latest Goldman Sachs profits swell billion-dollar bonus pool
10/15/09 McGreal, Guardian, US defence firms face penalty over block on assault claims
10/15/09 McKee & Lanman, Bloomberg, Greenspan Says U.S. Should Consider Breaking Up Large Banks
October 14, 2009
10/14/09 Connolly, WP, Health Insurers Emerge as Obama's Top Foe in Reform Effort
10/14/09 Clark, Guardian, Bear Stearns duo lied 'over and over again', court hears
10/14/09 Wilber, WP, Judge Blocks Public From Blackwater Hearings
10/14/09 Galbraith, NYT, Farm Bureau Aims to Kill Climate Bill
10/14/09 Hall, McClatchy, House panel ready to pass sweeping reform of exotic finance
10/14/09 WSWS, The American way of debt: Turning a profit by preying on the poor
10/14/09 Guardian, Plight of the honeybee stung by funding from the chemical industry
October 13, 2009
10/13/09 Merchant, AlterNet, US Coal Plants Dump Thousands of Gallons of Waste Into Drinking Water Supplies a Day
10/13/09 Story & Dash, NYT, E-Mail Shows Concerns Over Merrill Deal
10/13/09 Timiraos, WSJ, Foreclosures Grow in Housing Market's Top Tiers
10/13/09 McGreal, Guardian, War breaks out between Fox News and the Obama administration
10/13/09 DOAK, FPIF, The Secret About Jobs Military Contractors Don't Want You to Know
10/13/09 Baker, Business Week, IBM to Apply Analytics to War on Terror
10/13/09 Hamilton, LAT, Trial to begin for two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers
October 12, 2009
10/12/09 EDIE, CRC under the spotlight
October 9, 2009
10/09/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Sweatshop Conditions in US Cities
10/08/09 NPR, Doctor: Health Insurance Companies Determine Our Fees
10/09/09 Miller, ProPublica, Civilian Contractor Toll in Iraq and Afghanistan Ignored by Defense Dept.
10/09/09 Lefler, Wichita Eagle, Lead levels higher in Treece residents
10/09/09 Henderson, Charlotte Observer, Lobbying pays off for Duke
10/09/09 Romero & Krauss, NYT, Ecuador Oil Pollution Case Only Grows Murkier
10/09/09 Yellin, CNN, Some credit card companies rush to act before new law
10/09/09 Furry, Consortium News, Health Insurers Threaten Rate Hikes
October 8, 2009
10/08/09 Bivens, Asia Times, Follow the money
October 7, 2009
10/07/09 Rosen, KC Star, Bank revenue from overdraft fees reached $24 billion last year, study shows
10/07/09 Billington, Guardian, The Power of Yes
October 6, 2009
10/06/09 Miller, ProPublica, Contractors in Iraq Are Hidden Casualties of War
10/06/09 Anderson, NYT, Debt-Market Paralysis Deepens Credit Drought
10/06/09 Mansur, KC Star, Foreclosure crisis creates thousands more vacant buildings in KC
October 5, 2009
10/05/09 Frayssinet, IPS, BRAZIL: Agribusiness Driving Land Concentration
10/05/09 Singe & Alexander, Charlotte Observer, Crackdown aims at firms hiding injuries
10/05/09 Conaway, NPR, Bonds Are Back, And Roubini Says Duck
10/05/09 Bonner, Daily Reckoning, New Default Wave Hits Mortgage Industry
10/05/09 My Budget 360, Economy Losing 11,000 Jobs per day since December of 2007. 824,000 Jobs Lost in Statistical Revision: 8 Million Jobs Lost Since Start of Recession. Nationwide Unemployment Rate at 17 Percent.
10/05/09 Hopkins, Guardian, IMF policies deepened financial crisis, says CEPR
October 4, 2009
10/04/09 Nichols, Nation, Bernie Sanders Applies "ACORN Standard" to Defense Contractors
10/04/09 Richter, Progressive, Lack of universal health care is a mass killer
10/04/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, US climate bill not likely this year, says Obama adviser
10/04/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Domestic violence as pre-existing condition? 8 states still allow it
10/04/09 Adams, McClatchy, Firms are getting billions, but homeowners still in trouble
October 3, 2009
10/03/09 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, A Short Question For Senior Officials Of The New York Fed
10/03/09 Lux, OpenLeft, Bankers and Workers
October 2, 2009
10/02/09 Leahy, IPS, Food Supply Hangs in the Balance
10/02/09 McGreal, Guardian, Revealed: Millions Spent by Lobby Firms Fighting Obama Health Reforms
10/02/09 Roth, TPM, Montana AG Probing American Police Force Deal
10/02/09 Kennedy & Brown, Bloomberg, G-7 May Break With Currency Tradition as Status Fades
10/02/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Thousand Deadly Threats: Third Millennium NATO, Western Businesses Collude On New Global Doctrine
October 1, 2009
10/01/09 Schulman, MoJo, Dr. Evil's Payday
10/01/09 Devraj, IPS, DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars
10/01/09 Gibson, MoJo, Joe Berlinger: Welcome to the Jungle
September 30, 2009
9/30/09 Engler, FPIF, Casino Capitalism as Usual
9/30/09 Wiles, MoJo, Navajo Yellowcake Woes Continue
9/30/09 AP, GM to shut down Saturn after Penske walks away
9/30/09 Flint, LAT, Comcast is in talks with NBC Universal
9/30/09 Conaway, NPR, Tight Credit Threatens Recovery. Plus: ADP Says 254,000 More Jobs Gone
September 29, 2009
9/29/09 Taibbi, True Slant, An Inside Look at How Goldman Lobbies the Senate
9/29/09 Hall, McClatchy, U.S. economic crisis was long time in the making
September 28, 2009
9/28/09 Martenson, Federal Reserve Buys More Than 100% of Mortgages Issued in 2009
9/28/09 BBC, Negative subliminal messages work
September 27, 2009
9/27/09 Herzenhorn, NYT, Premiums, Penalties and Political Costs
9/27/09 Kranish & Wirzbicki, Boston Globe, Bailed-Out Banks Lobby Hard to Stave Off Limits
9/27/09 Sparrow, Guardian, Brown: Our bank bonus regulation will be toughest in the world
9/27/09 BBC, Nestle milk link to Grace Mugabe
September 26, 2009
2009 Redig, Health Affairs 28:5, Adventures In (Health-Insurance-Claim) Wonderland
9/26/09 Wintoru & Clark, Guardian, G20 leaders map out new economic order at Pittsburgh summit
9/26/09 Walker, BBC, Will tough new G20 measures work?
September 25, 2009
9/25/09 Moberg, ITT, The Retail Devolution
9/25/09 Hall, McClatchy, Banks Fight to Kill Proposed Consumer Protection Agency
9/25/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Pennsylvania Orders Cabot Oil and Gas to Stop Fracturing in Troubled County
9/25/09 Sterns, CNN,
September 24, 2009
9/24/09 Levey & Oliphant, LAT, Mandate minus price controls may increase healthcare costs
September 23, 2009
9/23/09 PublicRecord, WellPoint CEO Lies About Amount Spent on Healthcare
9/23/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Bank of America $4 Billion, Taxpayers $425 Million
9/23/09 Egelko, SF Chron, Court Rejects Genetically Modified Sugar Beets
9/23/09 Mukhopadhyay and Chakrabarty, Reuters, Taser Company Uses Facebook, Blogs to Improve Image Amidst Lawsuits
9/23/09 Labaton, NYT, White House Pares Its Financial Reform Plan
9/23/09 BBC, EU unveils new 'super-regulators'
9/23/09 Conniff, Progressive, Banks Take Over the G20, and Their Own Bailout
9/23/09 Prins & Hayes, Nation, Meet the Hazzards
9/23/09 Shen, Bloomberg, Housing Crash to Resume on 7 Million Foreclosures, Amherst Says
9/23/09 Klein, Nation, Naomi Klein in Conversation With Michael Moore
September 22, 2009
9/22/09 Schiff, AsiaTimes, Autopsies miss Lehman lesson
September 21, 2009
9/21/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Frack Fluid Spill in Dimock Contaminates Stream, Killing Fish
9/21/09 Alonzo-Zaldivar, AP, Gov't Investigates Health Insurance Company Mailer
9/21/09 Bohan, Reuters, Obama lashes out at U.S. banks over student loans
9/21/09 Labaton, NYT, F.D.I.C. May Borrow Funds From Bank
September 20, 2009
9/20/09 Klein, WP, You Have No Idea What Health Costs
9/20/09 Dearen, AP, Vacated Mercury Mines Taint Calif. Waters
9/20/09 Tiron, The Hill, Missile Defense Shift Redirects Billions in Government Contracts
9/20/09 Al Jazeera, Oil firm 'settles' toxic waste case
9/19/09 Martin, NYT, So Much Food. So Much Hunger.
9/20/09 North, BBC, Left behind by Iraq's oil rush
September 19, 2009
9/19/09 BBC, US embassy security firm raided
9/19/09 Duhigg, NYT, Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells
9/19/09 Kranish, Boston Globe, Business Takes Aim at Proposed New Rules
9/19/09 Wilber & Eggen, WP, Federal Appeals Court Voids Campaign Finance Reform Rules
9/19/09 Hilzenrath, WP, Acne, Pregnancy Among Disqualifying Conditions
9/19/09 Eilperin, WP, Down on the Farm, More and More Fish Aquaculture Reshapes Economy, Environment
September 18, 2009
9/18/09 Baseline Scenario, Regulatory Arbitrage 2.0
9/18/09 Cooney, Boston Globe, Study Finds Lack of Insurance Can Be Lethal
9/18/09 Brewington, Baltimore Sun, Cost of Racial Disparities in Health Care Put at $229 Billion Between 2003, 2006
9/18/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Housing Agency's Cash Reserves Will Drop Below Requirement
9/18/09 Guardian, Starbucks to rebrand by debranding
9/18/09 DemocracyNow, New Study Finds 45,000 Uninsured Die Every Year - interview with researcher
9/18/09 Park, CNN, 45,000 American deaths associated with lack of insurance
9/18/09Willoughby, IntelDaily, The World Seed Conference: Good for Farmers?
9/18/09 BBC, US gets tough on ratings agencies
September 17, 2009
9/17/09 Gibbs, TimesOnleine, Trafigura offers deal to 31,000 Africans over dumped waste
9/17/09 Tse, WP, Cuomo Subpoenas Bank of America Directors
9/17/09 CREW, The 15 Most Corrupt Members of Congress
9/17/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, The Zakaria-Friedman Complex: How & Why the Establishment Media Whitewashes China
9/17/09 Davis, AP, New health proposal is industry's favorite so far
9/17/09 Corn & Shulman, MoJo, Trading Places: From Ex-Lobbyist to Market Watchdog
September 16, 2009
9/16/09 Tankersley, LAT, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to end royalty program that erupted in scandal
9/16/09 Leigh, Guardian, How UK Oil Company Trafigura Tried to Cover up African Pollution Disaster
9/16/09 Kawak, BaselineScenario, Voodoo Cost Savings
9/16/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Blackwater Offers Training to 'Faith Based Organizations'
9/16/09 Bluemink, ADN, Native leaders urge developers to consult in villages
September 15, 2009
9/15/09 Reuters, Shell Halts Mining as Activists Protest Oil Sands
9/15/09 Andrews & Witt, ProPublica, The Secret Test That Ensures Lenders Win on Loan Mods
9/15/09 Langer, ABCNews, POLL: Deep Damage From Economic Crash One Year On - 1/2 of families impacted
September 14, 2009
9/14/09 Reuters, Obama tries to reinvigorate Wall Street reform
9/14/09 Rothschild, Progressive, An Interview with Wendell Potter
9/14/09 Deen & Tweed, Bloomberg, Stiglitz Says Bank Problems Bigger Than Pre-Lehman
9/15/09 Chakrabortty, Guardian, Brain food: The theory that destroyed the banks
9/14/09 Guardian, Lehmans - one year on: have we learned the lessons?
9/14/09 Simone, CNN, Community swamped by coal sludge to get $40 million
9/14/09 BBC, Obama issues warning to bankers
9/14/09 Finch & Bowers, Guardian, Executive pay keeps rising, Guardian survey finds
9/14/09 Plaut, BBC, WFP to shut Somalia food centres
9/14/09 Economic Times, Risk-taking is back for banks 1 year after crisis
September 13, 2009
9/13/09 Andrews & Sanger, NYT, U.S. Is Finding Its Role in Business Hard to Unwind
9/13/09 Saulny, NYT, Welcome to Our Town. Wish We Weren't Here.
9/13/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Britain 'may be forced to bail out tax havens'
9/13/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: Lehmans' last day
9/12/09 Duhigg, NYT, Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Human Suffering
September 12, 2009
9/12/09 Barr, CNN, Insiders sell like there's no tomorrow
9/12/09 Morgenson, NYT, But Who Is Watching Regulators?
9/12/09 Leys, TruthOut, Health Care vs. Warfare: The Future Costs of the Afghanistan War
9/12/09 Vanden Heuvel, Nation, Resisting Foreclosures
9/12/09 Baran, MN PR, Police Arrest Seven Protesters at Foreclosed Home
9/12/09 Sirota, ITT, We've Seen This Trigger Before
9/12/09 Johar, IPS, MINING-INDIA: Woman Leads Tribals Against World's Steel Maker
9/12/09 Chart, OpenLeft, In Bed With Big Business
September 11, 2009
9/11/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Another Year, Another Decline in Employer-Based Coverage
9/11/09 Deen, IPS, No Slowdown for Weapons Industry
9/11/09 Schoof, McClatchy, EPA delays 79 permits for Appalachian surface mines
9/11/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, EXCLUSIVE: UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She Begins Backing Off Pub Option
9/11/09 Alexander, Reuters, US Says 16 Guards Removed in Afghan Embassy Scandal
9/11/09 Pearlstein, WP, Wall Street's Mania for Short-Term Results Hurts Economy
9/11/09 Gonzalez, IPS, CENTRAL AMERICA: Crisis Chews Women Up, Spits Them Out
9/11/09 CNN, Top Democrats in Congress soften on public option
September 10, 2009
9/10/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Lessons Learned and Soon Forgotten
9/10/09 AFP, Oil Majors Propping up Myanmar Regime: Rights Group
9/10/09 Rizvi, IPS, Speculators Undermining Recovery, Report Says
9/10/09 Boswell, Canada.com, Environmental Groups Sue to Protect Grand Canyon From Mining
9/10/09 Kramer & Revkin, NYT, Arctic Shortcut Beckons Shippers as Ice Thaws
9/10/09 Schifferes, BBC, Crisis 'cost us $10,000 each'
September 9, 2009
9/09/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Another Wave of Foreclosures Looms
September 8, 2009
9/08/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Federal Prosecutors Say Blackwater 'Specifically Intended to Kill' Civilians
9/08/09 Levine, AlterNet, Dr Pepper's Wet Dream: Water, Government Subsidies and Transfer of Wealth in the Middle of the Desert
9/08/09 Benno, PSL, U.S. rates of infant mortality and child poverty soar above other capitalist countries
9/07/09 PressTV, Arab states world's top arms buyers
9/08/09 Mitchell, AlterNet, How the World's Biggest Corporations, From Starbucks to Wal-Mart to Barnes & Noble, Claim to Be 'Local'
9/08/09 Harkinson, MoJo, What's Really Behind the Van Jones Attack
9/08/09 Schoof, McClatchy, Climate bill needed for U.S. security, ex-officials insist
September 7, 2009
9/07/09 Press TV, US leads world in weapons sales
9/07/09 Burghardt, Intel Daily, Capitalizing Security: "Non-Lethal" Weapons and the Market
9/07/09 Wessler, Itt, Foreclosure Crisis Built on Racial Injustice
September 6, 2009
9/06/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Rep. Mike Pence, Who Led Witch Hunt Against Van Jones, Took $1000s From Extremist Erik Prince
9/06/09 Corcoran, Irish Times, S Africa Backs Action in US on Firms Linked to Apartheid
9/06/09 Moya, Guardian, Lehman assets considerably reduced, say receivers
9/06/09 BBC, Economy 'to bounce back by 2010'
September 5, 2009
9/05/09 Holland, AlterNet, 'American Casino': How Our Nation's Financial Sector Became a Massive and Unregulated Gambling Operation
9/05/09 Ivory, Huffington, EPA's Failure to Publicize Drinking Water Data Prompts Rethinking in Agency, Congress
9/05/09 Appel, IPS, ECONOMY-US: Activists Demand Real Change as Foreclosures Mount
9/05/09 Andersen, NYT, Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance
9/05/09 PublicRecord, BP Heavily Involved In Deal to Release Lockerbie Bomber
September 4, 2009
9/04/09 Berhardt et al, Nation, Working Without Laws
9/04/09 Kestenbaum, NPR, The Derivatives They Call "I-Kill-You-Later"
9/04/09 Watts, Guardian, Current Economic Growth Model Is 'Immoral', Says Prescott
9/04/09 Nicholas & Perkins, LAT, Democrats consider setting 'trigger' for government healthcare
9/04/09 Rapier, Oil Drum, Renewable Fuel Pretenders
9/04/09 Kendall, IntelDaily, Health Care and the Free Market
September 3, 2009
9/03/09 Love, Reuters, Global recession ending: OECD
9/03/09 Tresaugue, Houston Chron., Feds Allow Large Gulf Fish Farms by Taking No Action
9/03/09 BBC, Joint call for bank bonus rules
9/03/09 BBC, The year that shook the world ... G20: Economic summit snapshot
September 2, 2009
9/02/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Why Doesn't Hillary Clinton Fire Blackwater?
9/02/09 Klas, Miami Herald, Campaign to drill off Florida's coast has cash, confidence
9/02/09 Hopkins, Guardian, The double-edged sword of falling debt
9/02/09 Conaway, NPR, BP Makes 'Giant' Oil Discovery. Plus: 'Health Care Rationing Is Good'
9/02/09 Conaway, NPR, Productivity Makes Biggest Leap Since 2003. (Yes, You're Working Harder.)
9/02/09 Anderson & Pizzigati, AlterNet, There's a Bubble That Still Threatens the Entire American Economy ... and Few Are Talking About It
9/02/09 Liberto, CNN, Is Health Care the Next 'Bonusgate'?
9/02/09 Pearlstein, WP, So You Just Squandered Billions . . . Take Another Whack at It
9/02/09 CNN, 'Deviant hazing' alleged at U.S. Embassy in Kabul
September 1, 2009
9/01/09 Smith, MoJo, Looks Great, Less Nutritious?
9/01/09 Moyers & Mahar, AlterNet, Bill Moyers: Money-Driven Medicine - The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much
9/01/09 Judd, Independnet, Steroids, Drink and Paranoia: The Murky World of the Private Security Contractor
9/01/09 Harris, NYT, Document Details Plan to Promote Costly Drug
9/01/09 Glanz, NYT, Contractors Outnumber U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
August 31, 2009
8/31/09 Birnbaum, WP, Per-Student Spending Gaps Wider Than Known
8/31/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Ex-Countrywide Execs' Firm Modifies Bad Loans for Taxpayer Cash
8/31/09 Fahrenthold, WP, Environmentalists Slow to Adjust in Climate Debate
8/31/09 Reuters, Federal Reserve made $14 billion on turmoil loans: report
August 30, 2009
8/30/09 Ross, PublicRecord, Mercenary Armies: A Worldwide Threat and a Menace to Peace
8/29/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Big Oil Gets in on Right-Wing Astroturf Game
8/30/09 Goldman & Hess, AP, Blackwater Tapped Foreigners on Secret CIA Program
8/30/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The Real Estate / Labor Side Of The Economic Recovery Equation
8/30/09 Samuels, Guardian, Africa goes hardcore
8/30/09 Brulliard, WP, In Oil-Rich Niger Delta, the Sun Never Sets
August 29, 2009
8/29/09 Simon, Baseline Scenario, More On The Two-Track Economy - From The WSJ And Others
8/29/09 Markon, WP, Blackwater Founder Accused in Court of Intent to Kill
8/29/09 IntelDaily, Physicists Untangle Complicated Webs to Reveal that the World's Finances are Controlled by "Just a Few Mutual Funds, Banks, and Corporations"
8/29/09 Russia Today, US military firm acts "against the Constitution of the Philippines" (Blackwater/XE video)
8/29/09 Dewan, NYT, Clash in Alabama Over Tennessee Coal Ash
August 28, 2009
8/28/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, How Much Does the Financial Sector Cost?
8/28/09 Cho, WP, Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger
8/28/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Health Insurance Exec Admits Her Industry Rations Care: "We Believe In Controlling Utilization"
August 27, 2009
8/27/09 Erich, CNBC, 1,000 Banks to Fail In Next Two Years: Bank CEO
8/27/09 Schenkman, Inside Science, Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few
8/27/09 Automatic Earth, How to Grow Your GDP while Killing Your Economy
August 26, 2009
8/26/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Subprime Companies Line Up for Gov't Mortgage Plan
8/26/09 Singel, Wired, Hollywood, Big Software and Coal Miners Pros at Timely Political Donations
8/26/09 Williams, Nation, Reverse Nazism and the War on Universal Healthcare
August 25, 2009
8/25/09 Coutts, ProPublica, UBS and the Taxpayers' Hidden Billions
8/25/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, EPA: Chemicals Found in Wyo. Drinking Water Might Be From Fracking
8/25/09 Blume & Song, LAT, School board approves plan to open up schools to outsiders
August 24, 2009
8/24/09 Gabriel, Natural News Network, PepsiCo Chooses to Continue Using GE Ingredients Despite Evidence of Harm
8/24/09 Hamburger & Geiger, LAT, Healthcare insurers get upper hand
8/24/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Codex Alimentarius Threatens Human Health
8/24/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Fun with Derivatives
8/24/09 Apuzzo, AP, Remember me? Wall Street repackages debt for sale
8/24/09 Smith, Guardian, Malawi's child tobacco pickers 'being poisoned by nicotine'
August 22, 2009
8/22/09 Smith & Warrick, WP, Blackwater Disclosure Adds to CIA Worries
8/22/09 BBC, Chemist warning on drug shortages
August 21, 2009
8/21/09 BBC, Pace of HBOS decline 'unexpected'
August 20, 2009
8/20/09 Macalister, Guardian, BP and Shell Warned to Halt Campaign Against US Climate Change Bill
8/20/09 Schouten, USA Today, Following the Money from Defense Lobby
8/20/09 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater: CIA Assassins?
8/20/09 Zinnerman, LAT, Mortgage defaults rise to record 13%
8/20/09 Tencer, IntelDaily, Concentration of wealth in hands of rich greatest on record
8/20/09 Bright, CSM, Reports: CIA hired Blackwater to help assassinate terrorists
August 19, 2009
8/19/09 Lerer, Politico, Coal Lobbyists Sent 13 Fake Letters to Hill
8/19/09 Brown & Allen, Politico, Democratic Investigators Target Health Insurers
8/19/09 Ohlemacher & Barrett, Miami Herald, UBS to divulge 4,450 account names
August 18, 2009
8/18/09 Eoss, IntelDaily, Winners and Losers in the American Warfare State
8/18/09 Singer, NYT, Senator Moves to Block Medical Ghostwriting
8/18/09 Krauss & Mouawad, NYT, Oil Industry Backs Protests of Emissions Bill
8/18/09 Feffer, FPIF, Global Spin Doctors
August 17, 2009
8/17/09 Fisher, PublicRecord, Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, Dobbs: The Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse
8/17/09 CNN, Who's behind health care reform ad wars?
8/17/09 Ash, TruthOut, Fight for the Public Option
8/17/09 EDIE, Chemical leak killed 1000s of fish and released mile long poisonous cloud
August 16, 2009
8/16/09 Nichols, Nation, If Obama Discards Public Option, What's Left of Reform?
8/16/09 AP, Sebelius: Public insurance option not essential
8/16/09 Singletary, WP, With Plastic, Beware and Be Informed
8/16/09 Lynn, Reuters, UBS to name 5,000 accounts under U.S. deal: report
8/16/09 Hall, McClatchy, Homeowners tell how banks failed to modify mortgages
August 15, 2009
8/15/09 PublicRecord, GOP Flack Tied To Group Calling For Obama's Death
8/15/09 Friedman, ABCNews, Health Care Stirs Up Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, Customers Boycott Organic Grocery Store
8/15/09 Independent, The Brutal Truth About America's Healthcare
8/15/09 Reuters, CitiGroup says two exempt from pay review: report
8/15/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare's 13 Tyrants
August 14, 2009
8/14/09 Roth, TPM, "Sensitive" Oil Industry Memo Lays Out Plan For Astroturf Rallies Against Climate Change Bill
8/14/09 Judd, Independent, The Human Timebomb: Why Was He Given Iraq Job?
8/14/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, Oil Lobby to Fund Campaign Against Obama's Climate Change Strategy
8/14/09 Stempel, Reuters, U.S. says ex-Credit Suisse broker in bait-and-switch
8/14/09 Talev, McClatchy, Who's behind the attacks on a health care overhaul?
8/14/09 Levy, Bloomberg, Toxic Loans Topping 5% May Push 150 Banks to Point of No Return
8/14/09 BBC, Deadly game of Kenya's gem trade
8/14/09 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater Still Armed in Iraq
8/14/09 BBC, Biggest US bank failure this year
August 13, 2009
8/13/09 Rutenberg & Calmes, NYT, False 'Death Panel' Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots
8/13/09 Lux, OpenLeft, The Big Banks: How Low Will They Go?
8/13/09 Irwin, WP, Fed Starts Rollback Of Rescue Efforts
8/13/09 BBC, US sugar supplies 'running out'
8/13/09 Tremayne, OpenLeft, Why a Whole Foods Boycott Might Actually Work to Spur Real Health Care Reform
8/13/09 Lydersen, AlterNet, In Illinois, Another Workers' Rebellion Flares Up Against 'Banksters' Greed
8/13/09 Robinson, AlterNet, 7 Ways We Can Fight Back Against the Rising Fascist Threat
8/13/09 BBC, More banks told 'reveal accounts'
August 12, 2009
8/12/09 Gilbert, Mid-North Monitor, More Concern Over Monsanto's Penchant for Chemical Spraying
8/12/09 Al Jazeera, Russian economy in record decline
8/12/09 Browning, NYT, UBS and U.S. Report a Deal on Tax Inquiry
8/12/09 Blanchflower, Guardian, This lays bare the human crisis. What a terrible time to be young and jobless
8/12/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Hightower: Starbucks' Bizarre Branding Strategy -- Hide Its Name, Pretend to Be 'Authentic' Local Coffee Shop
8/12/09 Hornick & Quajano, CNN, Whistle-blower: Health care industry engaging in PR tactics
8/12/09 BBC, Judge bans Microsoft Word sales
August 11, 2009
8/11/09 Beale, BBC, Are US healthcare protests genuine?
8/11/09 Weise, ProPublica, Bankruptcy Judges, Justice Dept. Rip Mortgage Companies
8/11/09 Dorschner, Miami Herald, Fear, uncertainty haunt elderly as healthcare critics speak out
8/11/09 video, Sanders Unfiltered: America's Class Crisis
8/11/09 Houreld, AP, Oil is no gift for Africa's poor
8/11/09 Conaway, NPR, Wall Street Watching The Fed, And Big Coal Betting On Carbon Capture
8/11/09 Santore, Media Matters, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs Enflame Scary Right-Wing Rage
8/11/09 Thill. AlterNet, Why Corporations, Emerging Powers and Petro-States Are Snapping Up Huge Chunks of Farmland in the Developing World
8/11/09 Drum Major Inst., OpenLeft, "Don't let the government get its hands on Medicare!"
August 10, 2009
8/10/09 Fram, AP, Top insurance lobbyist: August key in health drive
8/10/09 Murphy, Extra, Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates
8/10/09 Story, NYT, Judge Attacks Merrill Pre-Merger Bonuses
8/10/09 Edwards, BNet, Pfizer Defends Ex-CIA Agent Who "Terrified" Neurontin Witness
8/10/09 Stan, AlterNet, Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work
8/10/09 Vallely, Independent, Wish You Weren't Here: The Devastating Effects of the New Colonialists
8/10/09 Silva, LAT, Pelosi, Hoyer call disruptions 'un-American'
8/10/09 Chart, OpenLeft, No Cure For Stupid Liars
August 9, 2009
8/09/09 Scholtes & Guerrara, Financial Times, Banks Make $38 Billion From Overdraft Fees
8/09/09 Public Record, Fight Back Against the Health Insurance Industry's Lies
8/09/09 Adams, McClatchy, Where did that bank bailout go? Watchdogs aren't entirely sure
8/09/09 Jones & Chulov, Guardian, Contractor held for murder of fellow Briton and Australian in Baghdad
8/09/09 Sinderbrand, CNN, Health care protests 'clearly being orchestrated,' senator says
August 8, 2009
8/08/09 Morgenson & Natta, NYT, Paulson's Calls to Goldman Tested Ethics
8/08/09 Story, NYT, For Private Equity, a Very Public Disaster
August 7, 2009
8/07/09 Reuters, House Democrat received Countrywide loans: report
8/07/09 Kirkpatrick, NYT, Obama Reverses Stand on Drug Industry Deal
8/07/09 CNN, Army: 'Insufficient evidence' of crime in soldier's electrocution
August 6, 2009
8/06/09 Kirkpatrick, NYT, White House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost
8/06/09 Chart, OpenLeft, Fix Derivatives, Save The World?
8/06/09 Murray & Montgomery, WP, Senators Closer To Health Package
8/06/09 Goldfarb & Cho, WP, U.S. Considers Remaking Mortgage Giants
8/06/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Hightower: Think Your Food's Organic? Think Again
August 5, 2009
8/05/09 Appelbaum, WP, Bank Balances Shift With Rule Changes
8/05/09 Glouderman, MoJo, Sugar vs. Corn Syrup
8/05/09 Lux, OpenLeft, The Birthers and the Insurance Industry: the Latest in a Long Line of Conservative Coalitions
8/05/09 Sargent, The Plum Line, CNN Refusing to Run Health Care Ad Critical of Insurance Industry
8/05/09 Hari, Independent, The Hidden Truth Behind Drug Company Profits
8/05/09 Favilla, Les Echoes, The Scorpion Syndrome
8/05/09 Kwak, BaselineScenario, You Do Not Have Health Insurance
August 4, 2009
8/04/09 Weise & Andrews, ProPublica, Treasury's Loan Mod Progress Report: Read the Fine Print
8/04/09 Carrington & Phillips, Guardian, Crackdown Against 'Environmental Criminals' Follows Greenpeace Report
8/04/09 Mittelstaedt, Globe&Mail, Modified Corn Seeds Sow Doubts
8/04/09 Bajaj, NYT, India Gets Caught Short as Sugar Prices Soar
8/04/09 Duhigg, NYT, S.E.C. Starts Crackdown on 'Flash' Trading
8/04/09 McCullagh, CBS, Why Home Prices Will Continue To Fall
8/04/09 Scahill, AlterNet, Explosive Allegations: Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
8/04/09 Ehrenreich & Muhammad, The Destruction of the Black Middle Class
August 3, 2009
8/03/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, MSNBC To Continue Allowing a Corporate Spokesman On Air as a "Political Analyst"
August 2, 2009
8/02/09 Connolly, WP, Obama Trims Sails On Health Reform
8/02/09 Mshelizza, Reuters, More than 700 killed in Nigeria clashes: Red Cross
August 1, 2009
8/01/09 Hightower, Progressive, The New Oil Cheats
8/01/09 Lewis, Vanity Fair, The Man Who Crashed the World
8/01/09 Smith, Toronto Star, Big Money Fuels Health Care Battle
8/01/09 Bageant, AlterNet, Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings
8/01/09 Winship, TruthOut, Pay to Play Is Washington's Sport of Kings
8/01/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare Tyranny
8/01/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare Tyranny
July 31, 2009
7/31/09 Browne, Asia Times, Dead banks walking
7/31/09 McCartan, Asia Times, Farmers forgotten in oil-for-food deals
7/31/09 Eggen, WP, Blue Dogs Receive More Health Industry Backing Than Other Democrats
7/31/09 AFP, Pfizer, Nigeria Sign $75 Mln Settlement in Drug Suit: Official
7/31/09 Bourdreau & Bronstein, CNN, Take back KBR bonuses, senators urge Pentagon
July 30, 2009
7/30/09 Leonnig, WP, Earmarks of Committee Members Probing Murtha Questioned
7/30/09 Conaway, NPR, Why You Can't Rework Your Mortgage: Banks Love The Late Fees
7/30/09 Katz, NPR, Senate Subpoenas Banks Over Subprime Mortgages
7/30/09 Hayes, Nation, Democrats Go to Bat for Big Pharma
July 29, 2009
7/29/09 Nichols, Nation, Squeeze Insurance Profiteers, Not Medicare
7/29/09 Doyle, McClatchy, Food safety bill comes up short in House vote
7/29/09 Leahy, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Monsanto, Dow Stacking the Deck, Critics Say
7/29/09 Holland, AlterNet, How Corporate Media, Sellouts in Congress and Industry Bigs Have Hijacked the Health Care Debate
7/29/09 Deep Journal, Monsanto lobyists to be placed in charge of food safety
7/29/09 Wearden, Guardian, Bernard Madoff amazed he got away with $65bn fraud for so long
July 28, 2009
7/28/09 Merle, WP, Foreclosures Are Often In Lenders' Best Interest
7/28/09 Dennis, WP, Small Banks at Center of Overhaul Debate
7/28/09 Prins, MoJo, How You Finance Goldman Sachs' Profits
7/28/09 Lightman & Douglas, McClatchy, Democrats may drop public option from health bill
July 27, 2009
7/27/09 Swanson, PublicRecord, The Healthcare Option the Media Doesn't Want to Talk About
7/27/09 Espo, AP, Sources: Bipartisan Group Omitting Dem Health Goals
7/27/09 repub from 3/6/07 Berman, Nation, K Street's Favorite Democrat- Baucus
7/27/09 DaveJ, OpenLeft, Slavemaster Mentality Or Work Ethic?
7/27/09 Hernandez, NYT, As Special Interests Aid Dodd, He Distances Himself
7/27/09 Clark, McClatchy, Senators push to bring oil drilling closer to Florida's coast
4/27/09 BBC, US rules on abusive short selling
7/27/09 Moyers & Winship, AlterNet, Dangerous Alliance of Health Industry and Right-Wingers Will Stop at Nothing to Derail Progressive Reforms
7/27/09 Lee, LAT, Ben Bernanke says Fed didn't act quickly enough to stop reckless mortgage lending
7/27/09 Renton, Guardian, Hunger bites back
7/27/09 Woods, BBC, US manufacturing jobs go to China
7/27/09 BBC, Bernanke defends bail-out package
July 26, 2009
7/26/09 Mitchell, IslandPacket, Where will Beaufort County get its water over the next 50 years?
7/26/09 Goldenberg & Carrington, Guardian, Revealed: The Secret Evidence of Global Warming Bush Tried to Hide
7/26/09 Pincus, WP, Military Weighs Private Security on Front Lines
7/26/09 Harris, Guardian, Whistleblower tells of America's hidden nightmare for its sick poor
7/26/09 Davis, KC Star, Bernanke opens up at Kansas City town hall event
7/26/09 Frosch, NYT, Uranium Contamination Haunts Navajo Country
7/26/09 Pear, NYT, Reach of Subsidies Is Critical Issue for Health Plan
July 24, 2009
7/24/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Fed Unveils New Rules on Mortgage Lending
7/24/09 Welsh, OpenLeft, How insurance works and why private insurance costs more than universal government insurance
7/24/09 Grey, IntelDaily, As jobless claims rise, Wall Street celebrates corporate profit reports
7/24/09 Asia Times, Fiction upon fiction
7/24/09 Gamboni, PSL, Goldman Sachs announces $11.4 billion in exec bonuses
7/24/09 Hall, McClatchy, Bank regulators resist Obama's encroachment on their turf
7/24/09 Appel, IPS, ECONOMY-US: Trillions to Banks as Taxpayers Left in the Dark
July 23, 2009
7/23/09 Goodman, Progressive, Health care debate must include us farmers
7/23/09 Kiel, ProPublica, ,a href="http://www.propublica.org/ion/bailout/item/wall-street-on-pace-to-pay-far-above-2008-levels#11675">Wall Street on Pace to Pay Far Above 2008 Levels
7/23/09 Scheyder, AP, Chemical Makers Go on the Offensive in Agriculture
July 22, 2009
7/22/09 NPR, Revenue's Down, Profit's Up. How's That Work?
7/22/09 Charlton, AP, Workers lock up execs in new French 'bossnappings'
7/22/09 Steffe, Progressive, Why Obama's Public Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer.
7/22/09 Nichols, LAT, White House declines to disclose visits by health industry executives
7/22/09 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater Seeks Gag Order
7/22/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Wall Street Welfare Queen Average Bonuses $1.0 Million Per Employee
July 21, 2009
7/21/09 Brush, The Hill, Autos, Banks Spend $20 Million Lobbying
7/21/09 Martins, CounterPunch, Wall Street's Private Judicial System Exposed as a Fraud
7/21/09 Wasik, HuffingtonPost, The American Dream is Leaving the Station
7/21/09 Richtel, NYT, US Withheld Data on Risks of Distracted Driving
7/21/09 Eggen, WP, Industry Cash Flowed To Drafters of Reform
7/21/09 BBC, Mineral firms 'fuel Congo unrest'
July 20, 2009
7/20/09 Sullivan, PNHP, Bait and Switch: How the "Public Option" Was Sold
7/20/09 Weise, ProPublica, How Banks Are Using Bailout Money
7/20/09 Goodman, NYT, Subprime Brokers Resurface as Dubious Loan Fixers
7/20/09 Tankersley, LAT, House climate bill was flooded with last-minute changes
7/20/09 BBC, US 'exposure to crisis $23.7tn'
July 19, 2009
7/19/09 Kwak, Baseline, Jamie Dimon v. Larry Summers
7/19/09 Warrick & Finn, WP, Interviews Offer More Nuanced Look At Roles of CIA Contractors, Concerns Of Officials During Interrogations
7/19/09 Wachman, Observer, Ex-Lehman Traders to Get Huge Bonuses
July 17, 2009
7/17/09 Keim, Wired, Potential Neurotoxin Could Be in Our Food
7/17/09 Cobban, IPS, MIDEAST: Turkey Gets Boost from Pipeline Politics
7/17/09 Appelbaum, WP, Lawmakers Blast Paulson For His Response to Crisis
7/17/09 Stobbe, AP, Legal immunity set for swine flu vaccine makers
7/17/09 Appelbaum, NYT, Bank of America, Citigroup Report Large Second-Quarter Profits
7/17/09 Tankersley, LAT, Offshore oil leases to be auctioned despite legal uncertainty
7/17/09 Acosta, CNN, Real battle over health care reform about to begin
July 16, 2009
7/16/09 Grim, HuffingtonPost, Leaked: More Than Fifty House Progressives Privately Commit to Oppose Weak Health Care Bill ... CPC's Whip Count on Public Option
7/17/09 Bowley, NYT, Two Giants Emerge From Wall Street Ruins
7/16/09 BBC, JPMorgan Chase profits soar 36%
7/16/09 Busch, FPIF, El Salvador's Gold Fight
July 15, 2009
7/15/09 Rucker, Reuters, Obama mulls rental option for homeowners: sources
7/15/09 Grieder, Nation, Dismantling the Temple
7/15/09 Cubby, The Age, Uranium Mine Linked to US Arms Dealer
July 14, 2009
7/14/09 Shiels, BBC, Microsoft Office takes to the web
7/14/09 Tron, The Hill, Obama's Veto Threat Over F-22 Divides Democrats
7/14/09 Klare, MoJo, Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump?
7/14/09 Reuters, Goldman Sachs executives sell $700 million in stock: report
July 13, 2009
7/13/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Wall Street Journal Loves Obama's Drone War Vs. Pakistan: "Unmanned Bombs Away"
7/13/09 Cocks & Mamhoud, Reuters, Disputed Iraqi City Fears Oil Will Only Fuel Woes
7/13/09 Rothaker & Melnick, Charlotte Observer, Minority Loan Gap Widens
7/13/09 Kane, Wa. Independent, Only Forceful Action Can Change Foreclosure Crisis Tide
7/13/09 Harris, NYT, Bill Seeks to End Antibiotic Use to Spur Animal Growth
7/13/09 Shih, NYT, Stocks Climb on Optimism Over Bank Earnings
7/13/09 Stout & de la Merced, NYT, Obama's Chief Auto Adviser Steps Down
7/13/09 Smith, CNN, Months after ash spill, Tennessee town still choking
7/13/09 Atkinson, BBC, Controversy to surround Goldman success
7/13/09 Gregory, BBC, Higher food costs still a concern
July 12, 2009
7/12/09 Liepold, Army Times, Army lodging heads for upgrades by Actus Lend Lease, InterContinental Hotels Group
7/12/09 McCown, TriCities, Demolishing Appalachia
7/12/09 Mostrous, WP, More Families Are Becoming Homeless
7/12/09 Bowley & Anderson, NYT, For Goldman, a Swift Return to Lofty Profits
July 11, 2009
7/11/09 Kucinich, Progressive, The Banks' Massive Theft
7/11/09 Spence, IntelDaily, The Continued Fleecing Of America And Its Citizens By The Financial Elites
July 10, 2009
7/10/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Notorious Human Rights Abuser Chevron Given "Richard C. Holbrooke Award for Business Excellence"
7/10/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Big Bankers Mounting Sneak Attack on Consumers
7/10/09 NPR, Hear: What Keeps Countries Poor?
7/10/09 Dash, NYT, A.I.G. Seeks U.S. Support for Bonuses
7/10/09 AP, General Motors emerges from bankruptcy
7/10/09 Bybee, ITT, Sewer Socialism Down the Drain?
7/01/09 BBC, Firm admits overseas corruption
7/10/09 BBC, SA miners hold bosses underground
7/10/09 BBC, Call for limits on web snooping
July 9, 2009
7/09/09 NPR, Treasury Seeks 'Plan C'
7/09/09 Mistillis, FPIF, Niger Delta Standoff
July 8, 2009
7/08/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data ... Chart: Where States Fall on Oil and Gas Regulation
7/08/09 Jucca, Reuters, Swiss to Stop UBS Handing over Data in US Tax Row
7/08/09 AFP, Major Polluters Water Down Climate Warming Ambitions
7/08/09 Baker, NYT, G-8 Nations Fail to Agree on Climate Change Plan
7/08/09 Vanden Heuval, Nation, Real Health, Real Reform
7/08/09 Fisher, IntelDaily, Blackwater Charged With Murder, Tax Evasion, Shredding of Evidence in Baghdad Massacre Case
7/08/09 Stulman, Asia Times, Indebted nations fight off vulture funds
7/08/09 Asia Times, Laotian farmers feel rubber squeeze
July 7, 2009
7/07/09 Coutts & Kile, ProPublica, How Big is AIG's Bailout ... Really?
7/07/09 Miller, PSL, Federal judge allows 'first of its kind' lawsuit against Wells Fargo bank to proceed
7/07/09 Harrabin, BBC, 'Time to ditch climate policies'
7/07/09 Hall, McClatchy, What happened to those bad bank assets? So far, nothing
7/07/09 Engstrom, FT, Copyright laws threaten our online freedom
7/07/09 McKim, Boston Globe, Study: Lenders Avoid Aiding Distressed Due to Lack of Profit
7/07/09 Jalonick, AP, Government tightening food safety standards
7/07/09 Connolly & Shear, WP, Hospitals Reach Deal With Administration
7/07/09 Hall, McClatchy, Regulators aim to curb speculators' influence on oil prices
7/07/09 Klomegah, IPS, TRADE: Crisis Pushing Emerging Markets to Move Beyond the Dollar
7/07/09 BBC, Pope calls for ethical dimension to global capitalism
July 6, 2009
7/06/09 Leahy, IPS, AGRICULTURE: A Stormy Time for Indigenous Wisdom
7/06/09 Stulman, FPIF, Time to Clamp Down on Vulture Funds
7/06/09 Tercer, AlterNet, Taibbi: New Secrecy Rule Lets Goldman Sachs Control Stock Prices Unmolested by Public Scrutiny
7/06/09 Kuhnhenn, AP, Obama plan could trim back financial powerhouses
7/06/09 Lee, Chicago Tribune, Home foreclosures expected to surge in coming months
7/06/09 Abdullah, McClatchy, Mine safety advocates praise Obama's choice to lead agency
July 5, 2009
7/05/09 Johnson, Mercury News, Big Push Under Way for Generic Biotech Drugs
7/05/09 Shaw, AP, Zimbabwe vows to pull troops out of diamond fields
7/05/009 BBC, WTO backs trade in poorer nations
7/05/09 Schifferes, BBC, G8 set to tackle hunger in Africa
July 3, 2009
7/03/09 Kindley & Layton, WP, Purity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned
7/03/09 Bernstein, ProPublica, Bank Failure Friday Comes Early
7/03/09 Leopold, Truthout, Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion
7/03/09 Russia Today, Video: US sent Afghan mercenaries into Iraq (U.S. creates and controls all of its "enemies")
July 2, 2009
7/02/09 Scahill, RebelReports, For $25-250K, Washington Post Offered Lobbyists Access to Obama Officials, Congress and Reporters
7/02/09 Reeves, AP, EPA Allows TVA to Dump Spilled Coal Ash in Ala.
7/02/09 Chart, OpenLeft, Hamstringing Environmental Protection for Coal
7/02/09 Thompson & Elliot, Times Online, Credit card companies face a ban on 'exploiting' debtors
7/02/09 Preston, NYT, U.S. Shifts Strategy on Illicit Work by Immigrants
7/02/09 Taibi, Rolling Stone, The Great American Bubble Machine
7/02/09 Delasantellis, Asia Times, Cheating still beats real work
7/02/09 Lee, LAT, Hiring might not rebound in an economic recovery
July 1, 2009
7/01/09 Samuelrich, AlterNet, David v. Goliath: Help Michigan Citizens Protect Their Water from Nestle's Bottling Operations
7/01/09 Ridgeway, MoJo, Congress's $1.2 Million a Day Drug Habit--and Pharma's Phony "Gift" to Health Care Reform
7/01/09 Hall, McClatchy, Obama expands program to aid borrowers who're 'underwater'
7/01/09 Grim, Huffington Post, NAFTA And The Drug Cartels: "A Deal Made In Narco Heaven" -- Exclusive Excerpt
7/01/09 Chadbourn, Bloomberg, Delinquencies Double on Least-Risky Loans, U.S. Says
7/01/09 Lalanne, IPS, ECONOMY: Migrant Miseries Will Trickle Down Worldwide, U.N. Warns
7/01/09 Adam, Guardian, ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate skeptic groups, records show
7/01/09 Diaz, IPS, PARAGUAY: President and Congress Face Off Over Agrochemicals
7/01/09 Benno, PSL, New Orleans housing 'unaffordable'
7/01/09 Roa, AlterNet, The Military Invades U.S. Schools: How Military Academies Are Being Used to Destroy Public Education
7/01/09 Gilson, MoJo, Black and White and Dead All Over
June 30, 2009
6/30/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Amnesty Attacks Oil Industry for Decades of Damage in Niger Delta
6/30/09 Sutter, CNN, 'Last man standing' at wake for a toxic town
6/30/09 Merle, WP, Home Prices Fall at Slower Rate in April
6/30/09 Guerrera et al, Financial Times, Citi Raises Rates on Millions of Credit Cards: Report
6/30/09 Seager, Guardian, UK economy shrinking at fastest rate in more than 50 years
6/30/09 Abelson, NYT, Insured, but Bankrupted by Health Crises
6/30/09 BBC, Oil companies reject Iraq's terms
6/30/09 BBC, Niger court dissolution 'is coup'
6/30/09 Berrigan, FPIF, Weapons: Our #1 Export?
6/30/09 CNN, FDA advisers vote to take Vicodin, Percocet off market
June 29, 2009
6/29/09 NPR, What It's Costing Us
6/29/09 Hall, McClatchy, Scalia breaks ranks, slams Bush officials on bank regulation
6/29/09 Schoof, McClatchy, EPA list shows dangerous coal ash sites found in 10 states
6/29/09 Hudson, CRG, Debt Deflation in America: What the Jump in the U.S. Savings Rate Really Means
6/29/09 Gerth & Dennis, ProPublica, How a Loophole Benefits GE in Bank Rescue
6/29/09 BBC, New Bangladesh textile protests
June 28, 2009
6/28/09 Londono & Ibrahim, WP, Iraq Set to Seek Foreign Oil Bids
6/28/09 Lydersen, ITT, The Legacy Lives On
June 27, 2009
6/27/07 BBC, Court deal strips Madoff wealth
June 26, 2009
6/26/09 Godoy, IPS, TECHNOLOGY: Rare Metals Could Trigger Next Trade War
6/26/09 Rooney, CNN, Bank failure list tops 45
6/26/09 BBC, Emergency powers for Niger leader
6/26/09 WorldFocus, Cuba provides free health care without the worry
6/26/09 Rizvi, IPS, ECONOMY: "Patching Up Bretton Woods Makes No Sense"
6/26/09 Tomkins, ITT, Small Towns vs. Nestle
6/26/09 Bright, CSM, US sends weapons to Somali government
June 25, 2009
6/25/09 Econ Policy Journal, New Fed Data Points to a New Decline in the Stock Market and Economy
6/25/09 Baseline Scenario, Conventional Wisdom About Credit Default Swaps
6/25/09 Ward, Charleston Gazette, Mountaintop Removal Damage 'Irreversible,' Senate Hears
6/25/09 Salaheddin, AP, Big Oil poised for return to Iraq
6/25/09 Johnson, WSJ, Big Health Firms Underpay Claims
6/25/09 Chevez, Lexington Herald-Leader, Report: Coal industry costs state government
6/25/09 Schulman, MoJo, Guess Who's Selling Wall Street's Bull?
6/25/09 Morris, MoJo, The Axis of Pork (Part I: The Hidden Defense Budget; Part II: Operation Overrun; Part III: Where's My Flying Tank?)
June 24, 2009
6/24/09 Stiglitz, Nation, A Global Recovery for a Global Recession
6/24/09 Fisher, PSL, An important victory for the Indigenous of Peru
6/24/09 Scheer, Nation, Foreclosure Fiasco
6/24/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Bailed-Out Bank Execs Will Get to Keep Golden Parachutes
6/24/09 Rothacker, Charlotte Observer, Documents: Fed sought to keep other regulators in dark on BofA
6/24/09 BBC, Civilians 'train as Iraq guards'
6/24/09 CNN, Health care battle intensifies for Obama, Congress
6/24/09 Frieden, CNN, Doctors, health care executives accused of Medicare fraud
June 23, 2009
6/23/09 Dash, NYT, Citigroup Has a Plan to Fatten Salaries
6/23/09 Bernstein, MoJo, Madoff Twist: The Big Winner You've Never Heard of
6/23/09 Duffy, BBC, Amazon bill controversy in Brazil
June 22, 2009
6/22/09 NPR, Bankers Still Raking It In
6/22/09 Beacham, PSL, Chicago Mayor's parking meter swindle sold out people to Morgan Stanley
6/22/09 Dloughy, SF Chron., Critics Fault Climate-Change Legislation
6/22/09 Fletcher, WP, Recovery's Missing Ingredient: New Jobs
6/22/09 Reuters, Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report
6/22/09 Fox, Reuters, Americans struggle to pay for healthcare: study
6/22/09 Brown, ITT, SEIU Fights Banks Over Bonuses
6/22/09 Brown, ITT, SEIU Fights Banks Over Bonuses
6/22/09 Seager, Guardian, World Bank calls on west to help relieve trillion dollar drain on world's poor
6/22/09 Guardian, How the west built Iran's 'lawful intercept functionality'
6/22/09 Fusche, Guardian, Rapid growth in European cod farming prompts fears from green groups
6/22/09 EDIE, Government comes under fire on clean coal
6/22/09 BBC, Refinery sackings spark walkouts
6/22/09 CNN, Likely fallout from cookie-dough illnesses: more than 200 layoffs
June 21, 2009
6/21/09 Silva, IPS, NICARAGUA: Women Bear the Brunt of the Crisis
6/12/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Why Afghanistan might gain a CEO
6/21/09 BBC, Europe bank chief warns on debt
June 20, 2009
6/20/09 Baseline, Shadow Banking for Beginners
6/20/09 Salatin, AlterNet, Taking Down the Corporate Food System Is Simple
6/20/09 Miller, ProPublica, Foreign Workers for US Are Casualties Twice Over
6/20/09 Leonard, NYT. Treasury's Got Bill Gross on Speed Dial
June 19, 2009
6/19/09 Baseline, TARP for Regulators!
6/19/09 Baseline, TARP for Rating Agencies
6/19/09 ProPublica, In Their Shoes: Foreign Contractors in Iraq
6/19/09 Grieder, Nation, Obama's False Financial Reform
6/19/09 Boscov-Ellen, Council of Hemispheric Affairs, Water for Sale; Thirst for Profit: Corporate Control of Water in Latin America
6/19/09 WSWS. Iraq: oil industry protests private service contracts
6/14/09 LaFranchi, CSM, Obama's new tune on trade
June 18, 2009
6/18/09 Scahill, RebelReports, "The Responsible Left:" Funding Obama's Expanding Wars $100 Billion a Vote
6/18/09 Miller, ProPublica, AIG, KBR and CNA Face New Questions About Insurance for Injured Civilian Contractors
6/17/09 Baumann, MoJo, Is Obama Blowing It on Derivatives Reform?
6/18/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Ratings Agencies Largely Escape Regulatory Overhaul
6/18/09 AFP, World Powers Push for Financial Sector Reform
6/18/09 Rao, CNN, Undocumented workers awarded $3.85 million in accidents
6/18/09 Rugaber, AP, Jobless Benefit Rolls Post First Dip Since January
6/18/09 Turse, MoJo, Bush Officials Cash In as More Americans Lose Out
6/18/09 Hall, McClatchy, Worse than subprime? Other mortgages imploding slowly
6/18/09 Katamaya, Reuters, CIA seeks laid-off bankers in N.Y. recruitment drive
6/18/09 Carlsen, FPIF, Trade Agreement Kills Amazon Indians
6/18/09 Spieldoch, FPIF, Global Land Grab
June 17, 2009
6/17/09 GEAB, Global systemic crisis in summer 2009: The cumulative impact of three rogue waves
6/17/09 Dixon, Black Agenda Report, Teachers File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama Administration's School "Turnaround" Plan
6/17/09 Prins, MoJo, Obamanomics: The Good, the Bad, the Weak
6/17/09 Clark, Guardian, Obama launches overhaul of US financial regulation
6/17/09 CNN, Asbestos cleanup 'emergency' declared in Montana town
6/17/09 Scheer, Nation, Obama's Money Men Finally Get It
June 16, 2009
6/16/09 Bowley, NYT, Foreign Banks See Opportunity in Turmoil
6/16/09 Hall & Pugh, McClatchy, In huge change, Obama to strip Fed of credit card oversight
6/16/09 Girion, LAT, Blue Cross praised employees who dropped sick policyholders, lawmaker says
6/16/09 Dreazen, WSJ, Audit Finds That US Overpaid Blackwater by Tens of Millions of Dollars
6/16/09 Geller, Reuters, Water Risks Ripple Through the Beverage Industry
6/16/09 Zeese, Truthout, Congress to Transfer Hundreds of Billions in Tax Dollars to the Insurance Industry
6/16/09 Williams, LAT, Exxon must pay $480 million in interest over Valdez oil tanker spill
6/16/09 Renner, TruthOut, Bank Plan Leaves Out Prosecution and Compensation
6/16/09 BBC, BA asks staff to work for nothing
June 15, 2009
6/15/09 Hurdle, Reuters, Pennsylvania Town Fights Big Coal on Mining Rights
6/15/09 Pincus, WP, CIA Fired Firms Aiding Questioning
6/15/09 McDonald, Irish Times, World Bank Loan Withdrawn From Brazilian Cattle Corporation
6/15/09 Stolberg & Pear, NYT, Obama Open to Reining in Medical Suits
6/15/09 Prins, MoJo, The Big Bank Bailout Payback Bamboozle
6/15/09 Wren, The State, Bank fees charged to families in state debit program (JP Morgan)
6/15/09 Newsom, SunHerald, Taylor against fish farms
6/15/09 Howell, BBC, Trouble in the Middle East's banking centre
June 14, 2009
6/14/09 Rowell, Independent, Secret Papers 'Show How Shell Targeted Nigeria Oil Protests'
6/14/09 ENS, Public Not Allowed to Know Location of Hazardous Coal Ash Sites
6/14/09 Costantini, IPS, Unions and Migrant Workers Coalesce from Coast to Coast
6/14/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Northwest utilities turn to nuclear, 25 years after industry collapsed
June 13, 2009
6/30/09 Kane, WP, Lawmakers Reveal Health-Care Investments
6/13/09 Fimrite, SanFran Chron. Superfund Money to Clean 'Mouth of the Beast'
6/13/09 Vidal, Guardian, Indigenous Peoples: 'We Are Fighting for Our Lives and Our Dignity'
6/13/09 Berger, IPS, U.S.: Crisis Must Reshape Economists' Thinking, Krugman Says
June 12, 2009
6/12/09 Guardian, US giant BlackRock buys arm of Barclays bank
6/12/09 Irwin, WP, Spike in Interest Rates Could Choke Recovery
6/12/09 Khanna, Foreign Policy, The Next Big Thing: Neomedievalism
6/12/09 Scahill, RebelReports, "A Perfect Storm for Disaster" Brewing With Washington's "Unprecedented" Shadow Army
6/12/09 Weise, ProPublica, Bailout Player BlackRock Becomes Biggest Money Manager
6/12/09 Palast, TruthOut, Oil and Indians Don't Mix
6/12/09 Edmonds, IntelDaily, Major DEA Scandal & Time Magazine: Implicated agents have been protected by "watchdog" agencies within the Justice Department
6/12/09 Kachere, IPS, ENVIRONMENT-ZIMBABWE: Farmers Go to War Against Lantana Camara
6/12/09 Stiglitz, Guardian, America's socialism for the rich
6/12/09 Toy, NYT, Penetrating the Maze of Mortgage Relief
June 11, 2009
6/11/09 Carter, Yes!, Are Small Banks America's Next Cash Crop?
6/11/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: Native Protesters Search for Their Dead
6/11/09 Christie, CNN, Investors bet on Detroit housing market
6/11/09 Llana, CSM, To quell protests, Peru suspends Amazon investment laws
6/11/09 Black, BBC, 'Boom and bust' of deforestation
6/11/09 BBC, World Bank sees even worse slump
6/11/09 BBC, US role in bank takeover examined
6/11/09 Ourdon, le Monde, Mercenaries Set Off for Afghanistan
6/11/09 Nutting, MarketWatch, Household wealth drops for 7th straight quarter
6/10/09 CNBC, Fed Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited, Expert Says
6/11/09 Dedman, MSNBC, Most banks still getting weaker, analysis shows
June 10, 2009
6/10/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Blackwater Still Working in Iraq for the International Republican Institute, According to New Lawsuit
6/10/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, US Green Agenda Delivered Blow as Ban on Drilling off Florida Overturned
6/10/09 Scahill, RebelReports, U.S. War Privatization Results in Billions Lost in Fraud, Waste and Abuse--Report
6/10/09 Cho et al, WP, Goals Shift For Reform Of Financial Regulation
6/09/09 Goodwyn, NPR, Halliburton Rape Case Highlights Arbitration Debate
6/10/09 Hong, LAT, Median home prices drop below 1989 levels in some parts of Southland
6/10/09 Hardikar, IPS, INDIA: Farm Suicides Turn Children Into Farmers
6/10/09 BBC, US to unveil corporate pay rules
6/10/09 Montero, CSM, Thousands of refugees flee fighting in Somalia
June 9, 2009
6/09/09 BBC, Peru protest leader takes refuge
6/09/09 Scahill, RebelReports, The Curious Case of 5 US Contractors Arrested by Iraq for "Murder"
6/09/9 Goodman, DemocracyNow, Bernie Sanders and Nurses Tell Obama: Embrace Single-Payer Health Care
6/09/09 NPR: Warren: Stress Test Banks Again
6/09/09 WorldFocus, Police clash with indigenous protesters in Peru
6/09/09 Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, Illinois Town Sued, Accused of Lying About Carcinogen-Filled Town Water
6/09/09 Rexrode, McClatchy, House to subpoena Fed documents on BofA-Merrill deal
6/09/09 Vidal, Guardian, Shell settlement with Ogoni people stops short of full justice
6/09/09 Wayne, Congressional Quarterly, House Democrats Unveil Health Care Overhaul
6/09/09 BBC, Brazil's economy enters recession
6/09/09 BBC, Ten US banks to pay back bail-out
June 8, 2009
6/08/09 Pear, NYT, Health Care Spending Disparities Stir a Fight
6/08/09 Auken, WSWS, Peruvian massacre aimed at opening Amazon to transnationals
6/08/09 Nijman, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Thousands March as Food Crisis Deepens
6/08/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: 'Police Are Throwing Bodies in the River,' Say Native Protesters
6/08/09 BBC, Shell settles Nigeria deaths case
6/08/09 Constantini, IPS, LABOUR-US: Unions Embrace Street Corner Solidarity
6/08/09 Guardian, Icelandic banks complete takeover of West Ham
6/08/09 Kwak, Baseline, "There Were Ratings That We Saw That Made No Sense To Us."
June 7, 2009
6/07/09 AP, Temp work covers up depth of unemployment
6/07/09 Lightman & Barrett, McClatchy, Senate poised to vote on sweeping FDA tobacco rules
6/07/09 Girion, LAT, Private insurance companies push for 'individual mandate'
June 6, 2009
6/06/09 Lajake, BBC, Horror of South African miners' deaths
6/06/09 Winship, TruthOut, The Privatization of "Obama's War"
6/06/09 CNN, Five U.S. contractors held in slaying of another in Iraq
June 5, 2009
6/05/09 Stark, Bellingham Herald, Economist: Housing bubble caused Great Depression, too
6/05/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Industry Defends Federal Loophole for Drilling Before Packed Congressional Hearing
6/05/09 Werner, AP, Kennedy Bill Would Make Employers Provide Care
6/05/09 Chart, OpenLeft, Reckless Grocery Invasion
6/05/09 Labaton, NYT, Millions Face Blank Screens in TV Switch
6/05/09 Meier & Wilson, NYT, Discredited Research Study Stuns an Ex-Army Doctor's Colleagues
6/05/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Obama's Cybersecurity Plan: Bring in the Contractors
6/05/09 Appel, OPS, U.S.: GM Gets Billions, Says No Money for Crash Victims
6/05/09 BBC, Deadly clashes in Peru's Amazon
6/05/09 Contreras, San Antonio, Texans Sue KBR, Halliburton Over War-Zone Burn Pits
June 4, 2009
6/04/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Homeowners Seeking Gov't Loan Mods Are Fed Up
6/04/09 Lindsay, AP, NOAA head requests review of fishery enforcement
6/04/09 Fox, Reuters, Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies
6/04/09 Clark, Guardian, Former US mortgage chief executive charged with fraud
6/04/09 Lydersen, ITT, Coal Mountain Elementary
6/04/09 CNN, U.N. envoy calls for probe into U.S. drone attacks
June 3, 2009
6/03/09 Lichtblau, NYT, Telecoms Win Dismissal of Wiretap Suits
6/03/09 Donahue, Bloomberg, Global Corruption Poll Shows Public View of Private Sector Dims
June 2, 2009
6/02/09 Hamburger & Wallsten, Chicago Trib , Controversial Coal Mining Method Gets Obama's OK
6/02/09 Rosenwald, WP, MedImmune Wins Key Contract To Develop Swine Flu Vaccine
6/02/09 Noland, Asia Times, US core no longer the magnet
6/02/09 Wilkinson, LAT, Remittances to Mexico down sharply
6/02/09 BBC, Global house prices drop further
June 1, 2009
6/01/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Obama Has 250,000 'Contractors' in Iraq and Afghan Wars, Increases Number of Mercenaries
6/01/09 BBC, GM enters bankruptcy protection
May 30, 2009
5/30/09 Valiantos, AlterNet, From Watchdog to Lapdog: An Insider's History of the EPA
5/30/09 Appelbaum & Irwin, WP, Congress's Afterthought, Wall Street's Trillion Dollars
5/30/09 Rothfeld & Bailey, LAT, Deeper budget cuts hit schools and California's neediest
May 29, 2009
5/29/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Banks Want Government Subsidies to Buy Assets from Themselves
5/29/09 de Pommereau, CSM, Why Germans are starting to strike - like the French
5/29/09 St. Claire & Frank, AlterNet, How Much Has Changed? Obama Administration Deals Series of Anti-Environmental Blows
5/29/09 Burns, AlterNet, Why Does Two-Thirds of the World's Population Still Not Have Access to Safe Drinking Water?
5/29/09 Kiel, ProPublica, GM Belongs to Us
5/29/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Manipulation - How Markets Really Work
5/29/09 Leahy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: More Subsidies for Fossil Fuels in Recovery Plans
5/29/09 Frayssinet, IPS, BRAZIL: 100,000 Hectares of Atlantic Forest Lost in Three Years
5/29/09 Epstein, ProPublica, Accounting Error Rolls Back Stimulus Spending Numbers
5/29/09 BBC, African viewpoint: Nigeria's freedom
5/29/09 Norris, NYT, Troubled Bank Loans Hit a Record High
May 28, 2009
5/28/09 Massey, AlterNet, Solving the Immigration Problem Means Addressing the Realities of Corporate Globalization
5/28/09 Moberg, ITT, Battling Over Employee Free Choice
5/28/09 Greco, FPIF, Overhauling Global Finance
5/28/09 Ansari, CNN, Survey: Arctic may hold twice the oil previously found there
5/28/09 BBC, Global crisis 'hits human rights'
5/28/09 Homig, GoldSeek, The Second Crash - On the Way and Unstoppable
May 27, 2009
5/27/09 Fink, ProPublica, Has Consulting Firm For CIA Gone MIA?
5/27/09 Bloomberg, World Economy Is Yet to Bottom, People's Bank Says
5/27/09 Chinni, CSM, The persisting foreclosure crisis
5/27/09 Mount, CNN, Contractors in fatal shooting say they're scapegoats
5/27/09 BBC, Number of problem US banks soars
5/27/09 Liu, Asia Times, Liquidity drowns meaning of 'inflation'
5/27/09 Keesecker, AlterNet, Milwaukee, Don't Give the Public's Water Away to a Private Company
5/27/09 Voss, BBC, Cuba announces new austerity plan
May 26, 2009
5/26/09 Chen, AlterNet, Foreclosure Crisis Hits Poor Renters Hard: Evicted Families Have to Fight to Live Together
5/26/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Natural Gas Politics
5/26/09 Boyle, TimesOnline, Shell in court over death of Nigerian activist
5/26/09 Streitfeld, NYT, Home Prices Decline Again in March
5/26/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Murtha's Middlemen and Telemarketing's Tricks of the Trade
5/26/09 Vanden Heuvel, Nation, The Front Lines of the Economic (and Democracy) Crisis
May 25, 2009
5/25/09 Baker, Truthout, Blue Cross Millionaires Are Scared to Compete With a Public Plan
5/25/09 Burridge, Independent, Record rate of decline in economic growth
5/25/09 BBC, Nigeria rebels destroy pipeline
May 24, 2009
5/24/09 BBC, World Bank warns of social unrest
5/24/09 Blas, FT, Africa almost giving land away, says UN
5/24/09 Moyers, AlterNet, Bill Moyers: How Can We Expect an Industry That Profits from Disease and Sickness to Police Itself?
May 23, 2009
5/23/09 Haggman, Miami Herald, Real estate bust turns South Dade suburbs into modern ghost towns
5/23/09 Dougherty, NYT, Latvia Races to Cut Deficit to Keep to Its Bailout Deal
5/23/09 Coomarasamy, BBC, Bernard Madoff's hidden victims
5/23/09 Jordan, WSJ, Job Fight: Immigrants vs. Locals
May 22, 2009
5/22/09 AP, Tobacco Companies Lose Appeal
5/22/09 Damon, IntelDaily, World economy in freefall
5/22/09 BBC, Morales in 'new liberation' plea
May 21, 2009
5/21/09 Bhadrakumar, Asia Times, A neo-con Yankee in Karzai's court
5/21/09 BBC, Somali 'pirate' pleads not guilty
5/21/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Geithner Plan vs. Paulson Plan
5/21/09 Michel & Grabel, ProPublica, How to Run a Background Check on Companies Awarded Stimulus Contracts
5/21/09 Litvinsky, IPS, Lobbyist Ranks Swell With Advent of Climate Bill
5/21/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Foxes Confirm Fellow Fox As Guardian of the American Henhouse
5/21/09 Mouawad, NYT, Oil Industry Braces for Trial on Rights Abuses
5/21/09 Desai & Weir, Reuters, UK risks losing AAA rating
5/21/09 Ashby & Hawking, ITT, Prairie Fire
5/21/09 Andrews, NYT, Treasury Is Said to Plan Second Bailout for GMAC
5/21/09 BBC, Markets fall as growth hopes fade
5/21/09 BBC, In search of Europe: Latvia
May 20, 2009
5/20/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, First Buy High; Then Sell Low
5/20/09 NPR, A Global Shortage Of What?
5/20/09 Lakoff, Alternet, How We Talk About the Environment Has Everything to Do with Whether We'll Save It
5/20/09 Scahill, Nation, KBR Got Bonuses for Work that Killed Soldiers
5/20/09 Lipton, NYT, U.S. Insurer of Pensions Sees Flood of Red Ink
5/20/09 Hall, McClatchy, Are Wall Street speculators driving up gasoline prices?
5/20/09 Chan, IntelDaily, Unemployed graduates in China to reach 3 million (out of 7.8 mil.) in 2009
5/20/09 Lohan, Alternet, Corporate Agriculture Is to Blame for the Hundreds of Thousands of Farmer Suicides in India
5/20/09 WIllis, Wa. Independent, EPA Mining Decisions Favor Coal Industry
May 19, 2009
5/19/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Blackwater Operating in Afghanistan on Subcontract with Raytheon
5/19/09 Grabel, ProPublica, Some Stimulus Reports Come In
5/19/09 Majidi, PSL, Who are the real pirates in Africa?
5/19/09 Vogt, AP, US mil: Afghan contractors violated gun policy
5/19/09 Naiman, TruthOut, Can Treasury Sneak IMF Money Through the Supplemental?
5/19/09 Eder, Reuters, Big banks apply to repay TARP: sources
5/19/09 Koswanage & Ahmad, Reuters, Anti-piracy body backs off on international maritime force
5/19/09 Skelton, Guardian, Our man at Bilderberg: Let's salt the slug in 2010
May 18, 2009
5/18/09 Cole, WSJ, Killed Civilians Bring More Controversy for Blackwater
5/18/09 Carroll, Guardian, Peru Army Moves Into Amazon After Tribes Blockade Rivers and Roads
5/18/09 Kuhnhenn, AP, Geithner: No plans to cap executive pay
5/18/09 Reuters, U.S. to propose most aggressive auto fuel standards
5/18/09 Litvinsky, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Lifting the 'Resource Curse'
5/18/09 Kunstler, IntelDaily, Bad Collateral: A campaign to sustain the unsustainable
May 17, 2009
5/17/09 Earth Times, US commander: Iraqi navy to run offshore oil platform by year's end
May 16, 2009
5/16/09 O'Harrow, WP, The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
May 15, 2009
5/15/09 Romero & Krauss, NYT, In Ecuador, Resentment of an Oil Company Oozes
5/15/09 Revkin, NYT, Dredging of Pollutants Begins in Hudson
5/15/09 Powell & Roberts, Minorities Affected Most as New York Foreclosures Rise
5/15/09 Kiel, MoJo, Two Insurers Join the TARP, More to Come
5/15/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare's Enigma-In-Chief
5/15/09 Lillis, Wa. Independent, Coal, Electric Industries Big Winners in Climate Bill Deal
5/15/09 Marson, CSM, Ukraine's economic straits raise worries about radicalism
May 14, 2009
5/14/09 Karoub & Williams, Seattle Times, The city of $10,000 homes: Outside buyers drawn to Detroit's foreclosures
5/14/09 Cho & Goldfarb, WP, U.S. Pushes Ahead With Derivatives Regulation
5/14/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Blackwater Accused of Racism on Its Anti-Piracy Ship
5/14/09 BBC, Chrysler to close 1 in 4 dealers
5/14/09 Puzanghera, LAT, Intel fined $1.45 billion by European antitrust regulators
5/14/09 Reckard & Heisel, LAT, SEC staff recommends civil fraud charges against Mozilo of Countrywide
May 13, 2009
5/13/09 Landau, CNN, How human genes become patented
5/13/09 Sanz, AP, RealtyTrac: April foreclosures rise 32 percent
5/13/09 Cho & Dennis, WP, Officials Knew of AIG Bonuses Months Before Firestorm
5/13/09 Renner, TruthOut, Actual Bailout May Exceed $10 Trillion
5/13/09 Fresco, TimesOnline, Crime lords 'running empires from jail using PlayStations'
5/13/09 Adler, Reuters, U.S. foreclosures jump to record high
5/13/09 Story & Dash, NYT, U.S. Considers Financial Pay Rules
5/13/09 Baumann, MoJo, Next Up: The Battle Over Wall Street Reform
5/13/09 Gale & Bennett, Bloomberg, Swine Flu May Be Human Error; WHO Investigates Claim
5/13/09 Gregory, BBC, Intel faces huge competition fine
May 12, 2009
5/12/09 CNN, ACLU sues over patents on breast cancer genes
5/12/09 World Focus, Bolivian land reform comes under fire from landowners
5/12/09 Verghese. The Retriever Weekly, Banks Gather Their Forces to Fight Back Against Obama's Higher Education Plan
5/11/09 Reuters, High health costs hit women hardest
5/12/09 Leland, NYT, Minority Home Ownership Gains Fall
5/12/09 Bradsher, NYT, Ships Tread Water, Waiting for Cargo
5/12/09 Escobar, MoJo, Pipelineistan Goes Af-Pak
5/12/09 Deen, IPS, POLITICS: Same Firms Shipping Aid and Arms, Report Says
5/12/09 BBC, Oil above $60 on economy hopes
May 11, 2009
5/11/09 Hightower, Alternet, Democrats Give Wall Street a Big, Wet Kiss
5/11/09 Schmid, AP, Mexican genomes show wide diversity
5/11/09 Krolicki & Kim, Reuters, GM says open to moving HQ from Detroit
5/11/09 Segal, NYT, We're Dull, Small Banks Say, but Have Profits
5/11/09 Labaton, NYT, Administration Takes Tougher Antitrust Line
5/11/09 Mears, CNN, Former Enron CEO files high court appeal
5/11/09 Brant, BBC, Is Islamic finance the answer?
5/11/09 Al Jazeera, IMF slashes Gulf growth forecast
May 9, 2009
5/09/09 Baseline Scenario, Stress Tests: What Was the Point Again?
5/09/09 Alonso-Zaldivar, AP, Sources: Senators weigh 3 government health plans
5/09/09 Comlay & Wilchins, Reuters, U.S. banks rush to raise capital
May 8, 2009
6/08/09 Johnson, NYT, Chemical Company Is Acquitted in Asbestos Case
5/08/09 King, CNN, Bad economy puts more families on the streets
5/08/09 CNN, Banks unveil cash-raising plans
5/08/09 Kiel, ProPublica, $19 Billion More to Fannie Mae, and More to Come
5/08/09 Drawbaugh & Younglai, Reuters, Admin wants Fed to oversee "systemic risk": sources
5/08/09 Healy, NYT, U.S. Jobless Rate Hits 8.9%, but Pace of Losses Eases
5/08/09 Seager, Guardian, Bank of England braced for third wave of financial crisis
5/08/09 Christie, CNN, Mortgage modifications are happening. Get yours
5/08/09 BBC, Ten US banks fail 'stress tests'
May 7, 2009
5/07/09 Miller, ProPublica, Military Fails to Collect From AIG for Care to Injured Contractors
5/07/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Banks That Received Federal Cash Enabled Subprime Lenders, Report Finds
5/07/09 sTEIN, mOjO, Meet K Street's Worst Nightmare
5/07/09 Howell, ITT, Bonuses Make a Comeback
5/07/09 CNN, Blackwater era ending in Iraq
5/07/09 Ward, Charleston Gazzette, Bush EPA Hid Data on Coal-Ash Risks, Study Shows
5/07/09 Nation, Stressing Over the Bank Stress Tests
5/07/09 Pfierfer, LAT, SEC cracks down on investment fraud
5/07/09 Chen & Lin, Bloomberg, Global Crisis 'Vastly Worse' Than 1930s, Taleb Says
May 6, 2009
5/06/09 Christie, CNN, 20% of homeowners 'underwater'
5/06/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, AIG Bonuses Nearly Four Times Larger Than Originally Disclosed
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4360/salt_of_the_earth/">Salt of the Earth
May 5, 2009
5/05/09 Doyle, McClatchy, Supreme Court lets Shell off the hook in pollution cleanup
5/05/09 Baseline Scenario, Pollution, Race, and Poverty
5/05/09 NPR, Bernanke To Congress: Jobless Recovery Looms
5/05/09 Story & Dash, NYT, U.S. Says Bank of America Needs Cushion of $33.9 Billion
5/05/09 Feffer, FPIF, Capitalist Pigs
May 4, 2009
5/04/09 Smithers, Guardian, Some baby foods less nutritious than a cheeseburger, says report
5/04/09 Baseline Scenario, The Need for New Antitrust Laws
5/04/09 Folbre, NYT, Including Home Production, G.D.P. Might Not Look So Bad
5/04/09 Benjamin & Miller, Bloomberg, 'Great Recession' Will Redefine Full Employment as Jobs Vanish
5/04/09 PressTV, Pentagon rapped over KBR huge corruption case
5/04/09 Veal, IPS, ICELAND: Living With Ghost Towns
5/04/09 Baseline Scenario, Stress Tests for Beginners
5/04/09 BBC, European economy 'will shrink 4%'
5/04/09 Talev, McClatchy, Obama calls for crackdown on offshore tax havens
May 3, 2009
5/03/09 Leland, Charlotte Observer, The new homeless
5/03/09 Eilperin, WP, EPA Seeks Rules for Utilities' Runoff
5/03/09 Shin, WP, U.S. Workers' Wages Stagnate As Firms Rush to Slash Costs
5/02/09 BBC, Mining a mint in eastern DR Congo
May 2, 2009
5/02/09 Nichols, Nation, Bankrupt Bailout Spends Billions to Shut Factories
5/02/09 Al Jazeera, Tsvangirai: Zimbabwe is broke
5/02/09 Al Jazeera, Morales nationalises fuel supplier
5/02/09 Boyles & Bremmer, Times Online, Riot police working overtime as unions and anarchists link arms for May Day
5/02/09 Mason, Reuters, Obama says financial sector to shrink
5/02/09 Leonard, NYT, How Lehman Brothers Got Its Real Estate Fix
5/02/09 CNN, Freedom of the media declines worldwide, report says
May 1, 2009
5/01/09 Johnson, Atlantic, Netanyahu and the 'Future of the Peace Process'
5/01/09 Butler, MoJo, Earth to IKEA
5/01/09 Gettelman, MoJo, Conspiracy Watch: Operation Couch Potato
5/01/09 Sandronsky, TruthOut, The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy
5/01/09 Saltmarsh, NYT, Anger and Fear Fuel May Day Europe Protests
5/01/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Torture Flight Lawsuit Against Boeing Subsidiary Reinstated by U.S. Appeals Court
5/01/09 BBC, US factory output continues fall
5/01/09 BBC, Bankers made 'astonishing mess'
5/01/09 BBC, Swiss bank refuses US tax request
5/30/09 Kinver, BBC, Fertilisers 'reducing diversity'
April 30, 2009
4/30/09 Pearce, Guardian, Greenwash: Fujitsu's green laptop costs the earth
4/30/09 AFP, China has 'canceled US credit card': lawmaker
4/30/09 Johnson, WP, Report: Justice Dept. Official Violated Ethics Rules in Grant-Making
4/30/09 Poirier, Reuters, U.S. House acts to protect credit card users
4/30/09 Rampell, NYT, Gendered Job Losses
April 29, 2009
4/29/09 Grim, TurthOut, Bank Lobby on Course to Gut Bankruptcy Bill
4/29/09 Goodman, DemocracyNow, Locked in a Private Immigration Prison, One Man Speaks Out
4/29/09 Stack, CSM, US court allows rendition lawsuit against CIA contractor
4/29/09 Giordano, Narco News, How "The NAFTA Flu" Exploded
April 28, 2009
4/28/09 Clark, Guardian, US government may take controlling share of General Motors
4/28/09 Segura, AlterNet, Foreclosure Pets: Soaring Rate of Abandoned Animals Are the Latest Sign of a Deep Economic Crisis
4/28/09 Ayres, Times, Mexico outbreak traced to 'manure lagoons' at pig farm
4/28/09 Comley & Kamalakaran, Reuters, BofA, Citi urged to increase capital: report
4/28/09 Reuters, Treasury has new mortgage incentives: official
4/28/09 Mead, Lexington Herald, Obama plans to enforce mining limits
April 27, 2009
4/27/09 Andrews, ProPublica, New Scandal: Pension Fund Pay to Play
4/27/09 Scahill, RebelReport, Activists Serve Blackwater With 'Statement of Foreclosure for Moral Bankruptcy'
4/27/09 Rascoe, Reuters, US Seeks to End Bush Mountaintop Coal Mining Rule
4/27/09 Leahy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Burden Lies with Rich Polluters, Native People Say
April 26, 2009
4/26/09 Faiola, WP, Finance Chiefs Back a Bolder IMF, Bigger Role for Emerging Nations
4/26/09 Purvis, Guardian, No tuna, no salmon. No oysters, no skate. No cod and chips
4/26/09 Elliott & Stewart, Guardian, Britain urges World Bank to spend $4bn now to protect poorest countries
April 25, 2009
4/25/09 D'Emilio, AP, Italy's Mafia thrives in global financial meltdown
4/25/09 Broder, NYT, Without Superfund Tax, Stimulus Aids Cleanups
4/25/09 Story, NYT, After an Off Year, Wall Street Pay Is Bouncing Back
April 24, 2009
4/24/09 Reckel & Heisel, LAT, BofA chief reveals threats from feds on Merrill Lynch deal
4/24/09 NPR, Shadow Banking
4/24/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Fed Releases Stress Test Guidelines
4/24/09 Revkin, NYT, Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate
4/24/09 Chadborn & Levy, Bloomberg, Regulators Shut Banks in Georgia, Michigan, California, Idaho
4/24/09 BBC, Gray whales granted rare reprieve
April 23, 2009
4/23/09 Tady, ITT, Big Cable's Internet Rip-Off
4/23/09 Patterson & Ragir, Bloomberg, Emerging-Market Short Sales Climb Most Since 2007
4/23/09 Alves, Bloomberg, Mexico Corporate Debt Default to Surge, JPMorgan Says
April 22, 2009
4/22/09 NPR, Why Banks Won't Lend
4/22/09 Miller, ProPublica, AIG Faces Inquiry Over Medical Care for U.S. Contractors
4/22/09 Scheer, Nation, Thievery Under TARP
4/22/09 WSJ, Cash-Strapped Cities Try Private Guards Over Police
4/22/09 Pilkington & Booth, Guardian, Somali boy pirate leapt aboard and shot at captain, US prosecutors say
4/22/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The Missed Opportunity
4/22/09 Feffer, FPIF, Monsters vs. Aliens
4/22/09 BBC, Morgan Stanley hit by big losses
4/22/09 Schifferes, BBC, 'Deeper' recession ahead says IMF
April 21, 2009
4/21/09 Reuters, Treasury asset plan vulnerable to abuse: watchdog
April 20, 2009
4/20/09 Weiss, Money & Markets, Big bank profits are bogus! Massive public deception!
4/20/09 Ruder, IntelDaily, Guilty of being poor: Debtors' prisons making a comeback
4/20/09 Godoy, IPS, The Second Scramble for Africa Starts
April 19, 2009
4/18/09 Murray, PSL, Who are the real 'pirates' in Africa?
4/19/09 Blas, FT, US urges food output boost to avert unrest
April 18, 2009
4/18/09 IRIN, GHANA: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide
4/18/09 Rosales, IPS, PERU: Water Isn't for Everyone
4/18/09 Toynbee, Guardian, Wall Street wounded Ghana. IMF tonic could hurt it more
4/18/09 Kinver, BBC, Key role of forests 'may be lost
April 17, 2009
4/17/09 Reuters, U.S. closed banks match total for all of 2008
4/17/09 Rampell, NYT, Does 'Financial Innovation' Hurt or Help the Poor?
4/17/09 Hakim & Walsh, NYT, In State Pension Inquiry, a Scandal Snowballs
4/17/09 Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, IMF warns over parallels to Great Depression
4/17/09 Collinson & Levine, Guardian, Building societies face awful truth about boom-time spending spree
4/17/09 Feffer, FPIF, Empire Foreclosed?
4/17/09 Greco, FPIF, Global Food Security Act
4/17/09 Hilzenrath, WP, Area Mall Owner's Crisis Signals Wave of Distress
4/17/09 Reuters, U.S. business worried China stimulus favors locals
4/17/09 Kollewe, Guardian, Citigroup's first profit since 2007 makes it three in a row for US banks
April 16, 2009
4/16/09 Al Jazeera, Lula attacks rich nations on crisis
4/16/09 Eilperin, WP, EPA Will Mandate Tests On Pesticide Chemicals
4/16/09 Applebaum, WP, J.P. Morgan Chase Reports Strong 1Q Earnings
4/16/09 NPR, IMF Sees Long Recession
4/16/09 Gutierrez & Drash, CNN, Folks losing homes dial 1-800; no one answers
4/16/09 Miller, ProPublica, Injured War Zone Contractors Fight to Get Care From AIG and Other Insurers...'Forgotten Warriors': Russell Skoug's Story ... Forgotten Warriors': Explanation of Analysis... 'Forgotten Warriors': Tim Newman's Story
4/16/09 Bengali, McClatchy, What's It Like to Be a Pirate? In Dirt-Poor Somalia, Pretty Good
4/16/09 Jonas & Chasan, Reuters, General Growth files largest U.S. real estate bankruptcy
4/16/09 Lipton, NYT, After the Bank Failure Comes the Debt Collector
4/16/09 Stein & Schulman, MoJo, Chris Dodd's Personal Bailout
April 15, 2009
4/15/09 WSJ, Banks Ramp Up Foreclosures
4/15/09 Keen, USA Today, Economic survivalists take root
4/15/09 Independent, 1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India
4/15/09 SI, Xinhua, Strikes spread worldwide amid global economic downturn
4/15/09 Kunstler, IntelDaily, The coming siege of Austerity
4/15/09 Kroll, TruthOut, The Corporatization of Public Education
4/15/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Enabling Acts for an Era of Greed: The Money Party at Work
4/15/09 Clark, Guardian, Lehman Brothers Sitting on a Stockpile of Uranium 'Yellowcake'
4/15/09 BBC, Blockades halt channel crossings
April 14, 2009
4/14/09 Reuters, Overfishing to Wipe out Bluefin Tuna in 3 Years: WWF
4/14/09 Feffer, FPIF, Pirate Bankers, Shadow Economies
4/14/09 BBC, Germany Bans Monsanto's GM Maize
4/14/09 Stevenson, AP, Mexico slams Burger King for 'whopper' of insult
4/14/09 Carter, MoJo, Is Geithner's Hedge-Fund Bailout Illegal?
4/14/09 BBC, Poland to seek $20bn IMF credit
4/14/09 Atalli, L'Express, The Geithner Bubble
April 13, 2009
4/13/09 Reuters, U.S. institute names 99 top ethical companies
4/13/09 Snyder, Wired, Amazon 'Glitch' Delists Gay-Themed Books, Interwebs Cry Foul
4/13/09 CNN, GM recalling 1.5 million cars over fire fears
4/13/09 Whitney, AlterNet, Is Geithner's Game Up? Damning Report Calls BS on His Smoke-and-Mirrors Bank Rescue Plan
4/13/09 Rich, NYT, We've Got to Leave This Bankrupt Culture Behind
4/13/09 Kozy, IntelDaily, The Economic Crisis: No, this will not be a Normal Cyclical Recovery
April 12, 2009
4/10/09 Hirsch, Newsweek, Wall Street Digs In
4/12/09 Herzenhorn, NYT, Plan to Change Student Lending Sets Up a Fight
4/12/09 Doran, Guardian, Goldman Sachs plans $6bn rights issue to repay Treasury loan
4/12/09 BaselineScenario, Why Bail Out Life Insurers?
4/12/09 Heisel, LAT, HUD's Dollar Homes falls short of mission
April 11, 2009
4/11/09 Helling KC Star, KU Professors Found Companies Realized Big Tax Savings by Spending for Lobbyists
4/11/09 Uygur, AlterNet, How the Toxic Asset Plan Will Magically Make Your Money Disappear
4/11/09 Alonso-Zaldivar, AP, No strength in numbers for America's uninsured
April 10, 2009
4/10/09 Baseline Scenario, Does The US Still Face An Emerging Market-Type Crisis?
4/10/09 IntelDaily, Local US currency strengthens community
4/10/09 Viera, IPS, RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Fact-Finding Mission "Shocked"
4/10/09 Bright, CSM, Critics say US should attack Somali pirates' land bases
4/10/09 BBC, Georgians plan mass disobedience
4/10/09 BBC, Nigeria oil unrest 'kills 1,000'
April 9, 2009
4/09/09 Schulman & Stein, MoJo, Revolving Door, Bailout Edition
4/09/09 Benson, CNN, CIA bars contractors from doing interrogations
4/09/09 Westhead, Toronto Star, Poor Pay Price of Progress in India
4/09/09 Irwin, WP, How Bernanke Staged a Revolution
4/09/09 Sarno, LAT, FCC seeks comments on national broadband plan
4/09/09 Pilkington, Guardian, Reality TV's latest wheeze: make US workers compete to keep jobs
4/09/09 BBC, Swiss hold '$150m Nigeria bribes'
April 8, 2009
4/08/09 AP, SEC advancing options on short-selling rules
4/08/09 McGregor, Ottawa Citizen, Former Oilsands Exec Named Head of Climate Working Group
4/08/09 Reuters, Treasury says some insurers qualify for TARP
4/08/09 Gimein, MSN, Why home prices may never recover
4/08/09 Boley & de la Merced, NYT, U.S. May Enlist Small Investors in Bank Bailout
4/08/09 Padmore, BBC, Fish farms to fight back with EU help
April 7, 2009
4/07/09 Shalal-Esa, Reuters, Gates plan raises questions for firms, military
4/07/09 Mencimer, MoJo, Obama Sides With Banks Accused of Racism
4/07/09 Reuters, AIG's asset management division gets bidders: report
4/07/09 Reuters, CEO confidence falls to record low
4/07/09 Douglas, ITT, Let's Expose the Poster Boys of Greed
4/07/09 Healy, NYT, Bank Worries Return to Wall Street
April 6, 2009
4/06/09 Klare, Nation, Global Crime Wave?
4/06/09 Rugaber, AP, Government cracking down on mortgage scams
4/06/09 Chiacu, Reuters, Geithner denies White House sidestepping CEO pay limits
4/06/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, The Myth of "Objectivity": NYT Editorializes Against Unions While Moving Against Its Own Unions
4/06/09 Eley, IntelDaily, Behind the surge on Wall Street
4/06/09 Wasserman, AlterNet, People Died Because of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident, Why Won't Corporate Media Admit It?
4/06/09 Gupta, AlterNet, Shocking Scenarios: Rapid Economic Contraction May Lead to New Wars and Radicalized Politics
4/06/09 Grabel, ProPublica, OMB Issues New Stimulus Guidance
April 5, 2009
4/05/09 Lazarus, LAT, Hooked on free Web services? Prepare to pay
April 4, 2009
4/04/09 Pizzagati, AlterNet, Down But Not Out at $464 Million a Year
April 3, 2009
4/03/09 Holland, AlterNet, Proof that Geithner's Bank Plan Is a Massive Giveaway to the Bastards Who Started This Mess
4/03/09 Bernstein, ProPublica, Chronicle of a Bank Failure Foretold
4/03/09 Dowie, MoJo, The Bechtel File
4/03/09 Damon, WSWS, Wall Street celebrates accounting rule changes designed to hide losses
4/03/09 Suri, IPS, G20: Where Is the Money, and Who Is the Moneylender
4/03/09 Engdahl, Asia Times, Geithner's dirty little secret
4/03/09 Murray, PSL, Economic crisis fuels anti-immigrant demonization in Europe
4/03/09 Giroux, TruthOut, Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis
4/03/09 IntelDaily, Civil Unrest, Ghost Malls, and Another American Revolution
4/03/09 Simon, WSJ Sharp Cuts in Monthly Payments Reduce Redefault Rate, Study Finds
4/03/09 BBC, OECD names and shames tax havens
April 2, 2009
4/02/09 Dixon, Reuters, Greenberg spars with lawmakers over AIG mess
4/02/09 Felsenthal, Reuters, Senate OKs measure calling on Fed to name firms
4/02/09 BBC, Voices: Inside Japan's recession
4/02/09 Scahill, AlterNet, Obama's Blackwater? Chicago Mercenary Firm Gets Millions for Private "Security" in Israel and Iraq
4/02/09 Litvinsky, IPS, Electronics Firms Urged to Boycott 'Blood Minerals'
4/02/09 Naughton, TimesOnline, G20 leaders begin talks to bury 'free' markets
4/02/09 TimesOnline, G20 could give $1 trillion stimulus to boost world economy
4/02/09 AP, New Accounting Rules for Mortgage-Backed Securities
4/02/09 Guru, Asia Times, We still owe the rich
4/02/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The Mark-to-Market Myth
April 1, 2009
4/01/09 Sulivan, AP, Boeing Co. Given $20 Million Contract to Beef up Surveillance on US/Canadian Border
4/01/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The New Masters of the Universe
4/01/09 Bernstein & Thompson, ProPublica, Audit Checks Uncover Weakness in Lender Loss Reserves
4/01/09 Reuters, IMF sees world economy shrinking up to 1 percent in 2009
4/01/09 Willis, Bloomberg, ADP Says U.S. Companies Reduced Payrolls by 742,000
4/01/09 Hall, McClatchy, Rule change intended to ease bank crisis could make it worse
4/01/09 CNN, Affidavit: Madoff associates knew of scheme, joined anyway
March 31, 2009
3/31/09 Kleinfeld, NYT, Exams of Injured Workers Fuel Mutual Mistrust
3/31/09 Vanderklippe, Globe & Mail, Syncrude Triples Number of Dead Ducks From Oil Sands
3/31/09 Desai & Wroughton, Reuters, France threatens G20 walkout
3/31/09 Hindery & Riegle, MoJo, An End to False Globalization
3/31/09 Adams, McClatchy, Watchdogs: Treasury won't disclose bank bailout details
3/31/09 Seager & Kollewe, Guardian, G20 leaders get OECD warning that global trade is in freefall
3/31/09 Johnson, CNN, Homeowner who shot herself amid eviction dies
3/31/09 Dolan, WSJ, Blame Is Put on Management, but More Pain Looms for Hourly Workers, Retirees
3/31/09 Grieder, AlterNet, A Scary Corporate Coup Is Under Way -- We've Got to Stop It
3/31/09 Cotter, PSL, Oil companies hoarding water rights in Colorado
3/31/09 Wasserman, SacBee, Yuba County tops nation in 'underwater' loans
3/31/09 Remmer, TruthOut, Merrill Lynch Bonus Payments Dwarf A.I.G.
3/31/09 Kollewe, Guardian, UK has run out of money to pump into economy, OECD warns
3/31/09 BBC, US house prices 'see record fall'
March 30, 2009
3/30/09 Kleinfeld & Greenhouse, NYT, For Injured Workers, a Costly Legal Swamp
3/30/09 Scahill, AlterNet, 283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops, and an Army of Mercenaries: The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq
3/30/09 Wasserman, AlterNet, Coal Industry Reacts to EPA Crackdown on Mountaintop Removal Mining with Lies about Job Losses
3/30/09 Vartabedian & Hamburger , LAT, AIG crisis could be the tip of an insurance iceberg>A?
3/26/09 Johnson, Reuters, Financier sees oil shock from credit crunch
3/30/09 Ford, CSM, Ahead of G-20, China questions US's financial dominance
March 29, 2009
3/29/09 Kole, AP, Bosnia's jobless rate at 43 percent and rising
3/29/09 Razzi, WP, Overhaul Targets Money Market
3/29/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Money For Nothing
3/29/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Tax havens batten down as the hurricane looms
3/29/09 McVeigh & Lewis, Guardian, The 'revolution' starts here as 35,000 pack the G20 march
March 28, 2009
3/28/09 CNN, AIG director named to Obama tax task force
3/28/09 Dorschner, Miami Herald, Insurers Shun Those Taking Certain Meds
3/28/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Obama to Bring More Mercenaries to Afghanistan -- Sound Familiar?
3/28/09 Grieder, Nation, Trust Your Guts
3/28/09 Werner, AP, Senate takes on out-of-network insurance issue
3/28/09 Bourne, TimesOnline, G20 protests begin with wet march through London
March 27, 2009
3/27/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Role reversal: Some Americans seeking jobs head to India
3/27/09 AP, Top bank regulator placed on leave pending review
3/27/09 Goldfarb, WP, Freddie Mac's Duel With Regulator: Does It Report Government's Role in Its Losses?
3/27/09 BBC, Slowdown blights DR Congo economy
3/27/09 Fox, Guardian, How not to look like a banker
3/27/09 Krugman, NYT, The Market Wizards Were Exposed as Frauds -- Too Bad Obama's Team Still Believes in Their Magic
3/27/09 Wheatley, FT, Brazil's leader blames white people for crisis
3/27/09 Fram, AP, The Influence Game: Obama limits stimulus lobbying
3/27/09 Treanor, Guardian, Lloyds and Halifax City branches set to shut during G20 protests
March 26, 2009
3/26/09 Baseline Scenario, What the IMF Would Tell the United States, If It Could
3/26/09 NPR, U.K. Can't Sell Its Debt
3/26/09 Prtoess, ProPublica, Stop the Clock: Treasury Releases Bailout Contract
3/26/09 Schmitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, US Infrastructure Is Deplored
3/26/09 AP, Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania
3/26/09 Fiore, MoJo, Leverage Me Tender
3/26/09 Bourdreau & Bronstein, CNN, Shoddy wiring 'everywhere' on Iraq bases, Army inspector says
3/26/09 BBC, US plans to rein in Wall Street
3/26/09 Taibbi, AlterNet, AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We're Supposed to Pity Him? Yeah, Right
3/26/09 NPR, Blaming Glass-Steagall
3/26/09 Sherman, Times Online, 'Negligent' councils broke rules to invest in Icelandic banks
3/26/09 Andrews & Story, NYT, Geithner Calls for Major Overhaul of Financial Rules
3/26/09 GritTV, Geithner Should Go: Matt Taibbi, Robert Johnson, and Jane Hamsher
3/26/09 Reuters, U.S. workers on jobless benefits hit record
3/26/09 Sirota, Open Left, "Their Stated Goal Is to Protect Business Interests"
3/26/09 Kollewe, Guardian, Dollar regains ground after Timothy Geithner qualifies global currency remarks
3/26/09 Pearce, Guardian, Greenwash: Shell betrays 'new energy future' promises
3/26/09 BBC, US economy sees quicker decline
3/26/09 Mock & McLaughlin, Independent, Fears of unrest in eastern Europe grow as Czech government collapses
March 25, 2009
3/25/09 Coutts, ProPublica, How Hard the Fed Looked for AIG's Potential Losses
3/25/09 Dreyfus, Nation, The Real Economic Crisis
3/25/09 Trueman, OpenLeft, Fedco Seeds: The David To Monsanto's Goliath
3/25/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Freddie Mac Loan Contractor Has Spotty Record
3/25/09 Scheer, Nation, Obama's Toxic Advisers
3/25/09 Hall, McClatchy, Geithner outlines regulatory changes for financial system
3/25/09 Mead, Kentucky.com, EPA signals mining crackdown
3/25/09 McClatchy, $410,000 in 2006, $112,00 now: When will prices hit bottom?
3/25/09 Knell, BBC, Nubia: Lost civilisation of Egypt
March 24, 2009
3/24/09 Miller, PSL, Hundreds protest commercialization of water
3/24/09 Haynes, WP, Senate to Consider Relief for Credit Card Holders
3/24/09 Reuters, Bernanke: AIG shows urgent need for new regulations
3/24/09 Englehardt, MoJo, Economic Dirty Bomb Goes Off in New York
3/24/09 Hamilton, LAT, U.S. workers at AIG return $50 million in bonuses
3/24/09 Grieder, Nation, Obama's New Monopoly Set
3/24/09 Pear, NYT, Insurers Ease Stance on Pre-Existing Conditions
3/24/09 Andrews & Dash, NYT, U.S. Seeks Expanded Power in Seizing Firms
3/24/09 Steffan & Feyerick, CNN, Tenant evicted even though she pays rent on time
March 23, 2009
3/23/09 Binyamin & Cho, NYT, White House to Seek Power to Seize Non-Bank Financial Companies
3/23/09 Reuters, AIG rivals met Bernanke to complain: report
March 22, 2009
3/22/09 Stewart & Elliott, Observer, World Bank: G20 Warned Unrest Will Sweep Globe
3/22/09 Cho, WP, Treasury Presses Ahead With Plan For Toxic Assets
3/22/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, As credit markets froze, banks loaned millions to insiders
3/22/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Krugman Cuts To The Chase
March 21, 2009
3/21/09 AFP, Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud
3/21/09 Caruso, AP, Details emerge of money to refund Madoff victims
3/21/09 Fernandez, NYT, For A.I.G. Executives, Here Comes the Tour Bus
3/21/09 CNN, Connecticut attorney general says AIG understated bonuses
3/21/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Embedded In Wall Street
3/21/09 BBC, AIG bonuses 'higher than thought'
3/21/09 Baseline Scenario, This Time I'm Not the One Calling It a Subsidy
3/21/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, BofA's insider loans zoomed in 2008, but no one will say why
3/21/09 CNN, Zoellick slams 'sugar high' stimulus plans
3/21/09 BBC, US banking losses revised upward
March 20, 2009
3/21/09 Hilzenrath, WP, AIG Suing To Recover Taxes in IRS Dispute
3/18/09 Adam, Guardian, Leading Climate Scientist: "Democratic Process Isn't Working"
3/20/09 Brush, The Hill, Frank Asks Fannie, Freddie to Halt Bonuses
3/20/09 Gordon & Hall, AIG still a major threat to global economy, top official says
3/20/09 Minow, CNN, Commentary: Boards are real culprits in AIG mess
3/20/09 CNN, Dodd defends actions as an AIG exec returns $6 million bonus
3/20/09 Baseline Scenario, Parallel Bankers
3/20/09 NPR, How Many Toxic Assets Are There?
3/20/09 Ling, NYT, NRC Decision on Depleted Uranium Draws Rebuke on Hill
3/20/09 BBC, U.S. SEC probes subprime, builders, hedge funds
3/20/09 Story, NYT, $2.5 Billion in Merrill Bonuses Would Not Be Covered by Tax
3/20/09 Healy, NYT, Fed Chief Calls for Scrutiny of Pay at Financial Firms
3/20/09 Corn & Stein, MoJo, Top Geithner Aide Fought CEO Pay Reform
3/20/09 Toy, NYT, Up in Smoke: The Deposit Vanishes
3/20/09 Kavanagh, CNN, Turning toxic coal ash into bridges, buildings
March 19, 2009
3/19/09 Coutts, ProPublica, Which Hedge Funds Are Collecting Under the AIG Bailout?
3/19/09 Coutts, ProPublica, Conflicting Accounts About Geithner's Involvement With AIG Bonuses
3/19/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Banks Lied to the Government While Getting Taxpayers to Hand Over Billions
3/19/09 Barron & Buettner, NYT, Scorn Trails A.I.G. Executives, Even in Their Driveways
3/19/09 Poirier, Reuters, U.S. systemic risk watchdog not panacea: regulators
3/19/09 Saltmarsh & Jolly, NYT, Workers Protest Across France
3/19/09 Hamburger & Hook, LAT, In AIG flap, it's not just about bonuses anymore
3/19/09 McKenzie, FRANCE: Young Face a Jobless Future
3/19/09 Sender, FT, Banks warned on commercial property 'black hole'
3/19/09 CNN, Dodd: Administration pushed for language protecting bonuses
3/19/09 CNN, Four Fannie Mae execs to get big bonuses
3/19/09 CNN, Watch AIG's payouts, not the bonuses, Spitzer says
3/19/09 BBC, Iceland interest rates cut to 17%
March 18, 2009
3/18/09 NPR, He Blames Greenspan
3/18/09 Kellman, AP, Analysis: AIG bonuses new cloud over Treasury boss
3/18/09 Faiola, WP, Trade Barriers Could Threaten Global Economy
3/18/09 Vedantam, WP, A Silenced Drug Study Creates An Uproar
3/18/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Lying Or Incompetent - Either Way, Geithner Needs to Be Fired
3/18/09 CNN, New indictment filed against NY lawyer in fraud case
3/18/09 BBC, US to force AIG to repay bonuses
3/18/09 BBC, (UK) Unemployment passes two million
3/18/09 Coniff, Progressive, Forget AIG Bonuses--The Next Bailout is Here
3/18/09 Klare, FPIF, The Second Shockwave
3/18/09 BBC, Fed pumps $1.2tn into US economy
3/18/09 Stoupe, Asia Times, China inoculates itself against dollar collapse (Part 3)... Part 1, Part 2
3/18/09 Delasantellis, Asia Times, Justice on Comedy Central
March 17, 2009
3/17/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Contracting Fraud: A Glossary
3/17/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Accounting Standards Eased Today!
3/17/09 McCullagh, CBS, Report Says 163 Banks Could Be At Risk
3/17/09 Dedman, MSNBC, U.S. banks suffer 149 percent rise in bad loans
3/17/09 Webb, Guardian, Shell dumps wind, solar and hydro power in favour of biofuels
3/17/09 Bender, Boston Globe, Gates Readies Big Cuts in Weapons
3/17/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Mortgage Fraud Up As Credit Tightens
3/17/09 DeYoung, WP, U.S. Moves to Replace Contractors in Iraq
3/17/09 Walker, BBC, The day oil was discovered in Nigeria
March 16, 2009
3/16/09 Baseline Scenario, Much Worse Than You Think: International Economic Diplomacy
3/16/09 Coutts, ProPublica, Another $8 Billion Or So on the Line for AIG
3/16/09 Cevallos, IPS, MEXICO: Cradle of Maize Rocked by Transgenics
3/16/09 Lans, WP, Pension Check Guarantees Mean More Budget Woes
3/16/09 Annan, Guardian, A message from Africa
3/16/09 CNN, AIG names recipients of its bailout money
3/16/09 BBC, Crisis 'will cost Africa $49bn'
3/16/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, AIG Bonuses Raise More Questions About Geithner and Summers
3/16/09 Brown, CNN, AIG 'recklessness and greed'
March 15, 2009
3/15/09 Davis, KC Star, Lenexa-based credit union's woes will cost the entire industry
3/15/09 Carroll, Guardian, Now Coca-Cola feels force of Chavez' colourful revolution
3/15/09 BBC, Bolivia leader redistributes land
March 14, 2009
3/14/09 Welz, MoJo, Ethanol's African Landgrab
3/14/09 Lister, TimesOnline, Downturn Could Kill 400,000 Children, Warns Margaret Chan
3/14/09 Boxun, 4000 billion is only 1/3 of its plan, yet still a secret
3/14/09 Hubert, SacBee, Some feel burned as media spotlight falls on capital's homeless camp
3/14/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism--A Roadmap For Current Debates
3/14/09 Holland, NYT, Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?
3/15/09 Hutton, Guardian, Look no further than inequality for the source of all our ills
March 13, 2009
3/13/09 Desai, Reuters, G20 rift deepens ahead of crisis response talks
3/13/09 Reuters, BofA seeks more jumbo mortgages: report
3/13/09 Baumann, MoJo, What Economic Crisis?
3/13/09 CNN, Stewart slings barbs face-to-face with Cramer
3/13/09 Guru, Asia Times, Dodging the black hole
3/13/09 Norris, NYT, In This Recession, More Men Are Losing Jobs
3/13/09 Bash & Walsh, Congresswoman defends advocacy for minority banks
3/13/09 Sanchez, KC Star, Commentary: It's time for America to think straight about class
March 12, 2009
3/12/09 Lipton & Rutenberg, NYT, Congresswoman With Ties to Bank Helped Seek Funds
3/12/09 Zuckoff, NYT, A Face of the Economic Meltdown
3/12/09 World Focus, Authorities: Madoff used London office to launder money
3/12/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Bailed Out Bank Had Friends in High Places
3/12/09 Alonso-Zaldivar, AP, Report: US on short end of health care 'value gap'
3/12/09 Cho & Faiola, WP, Treasury Seeks Billions More to Aid Ailing Nations
3/12/09 Reuters, U.S. House to explore financial crisis prosecutions
3/12/09 Jolly & Pollack, NYT, Roche Agrees to Buy Genentech for $46.8 Billion
3/12/09 Crutsinger, AP, Household net worth plunges by record amount
3/12/09 Seliger, ITT, From Russia With Mercy
3/12/09 Savan, Nation, Stewart Asks Cramer: "Where's the D'Oh!"
March 11, 2009
3/11/09 Wintour et al, Guardian,G20 deal at risk as US-Europe rift grows
3/11/09 Ward, Charleston Gazette, Forest Service Ignored Concerns About Drilling
3/11/09 Alleyne, Telegraph, Obama Faces 'Revolution' If He Imposes Tough Carbon Targets, Warns IPCC
3/11/09 Sazbo & Appleby, USA Today, 21% of Americans Scramble to Pay Medical, Drug Bills
3/11/09 Beamish, AP, INSIDE WASHINGTON: Probe finds health risks missed
3/11/09 Applebaum, WP, Citi's Long History of Overreach, Then Rescue
3/11/09 Goldfarb & AHrens, WP, SEC Chairman Says Agency Faces Cuts Without Additional Funding
3/11/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Your Taxpayer Dollars at Work: TARP Subsidizing Banks' Overseas Deals
3/11/09 Reuters, Greenspan says Fed didn't cause the housing bubble
3/11/09 Bunkley, NYT, U.A.W. Deal Cuts Hourly Rate to $55
3/11/09 Rosenberg, IntelDaily, Forest Labs and AstraZeneca Sleazy Science Revealed
3/11/09 BBC, Obama calls for G20 joint action
3/11/09 Grieder, Nation, Fixing the Fed
3/11/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Third Bank Says It Will Return Bailout Funds...But 487 Banks Keep Theirs
3/11/09 Litvinsky, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: World's Poor Offer Lessons in Bank Study
3/11/09 Appel, IPS, CORRUPTION-US: Homeowner Rip-Offs Spark Scores of Lawsuits
March 10, 2009
3/10/09 Giannone, Reuters, Hedge funds to cut 20,000 jobs in 2009
3/10/09 Labaton, WP, Some Banks, Citing Strings, Want to Return Aid
3/10/09 Brewster, FT, US companies pull out of retirement contributions
3/10/09 Gupta, Huffington Post, The Change We Need I: A Bank for America
3/10/09 Becker, PSL, Capitalism: a system of mass destruction
3/10/09 AP, Activists Set to Defy Ban on WVa Mining Protests
3/10/09 Hansell, NYT, The Broadband Gap: Why Is Theirs Faster?
3/10/09 Healy, NYT, Bernanke Says Financial Rules Need an Overhaul
3/10/09 Kachingwe, IPS, ZAMBIA: Food Vouchers Not Enough to Fight Hunger
3/10/09 McDonnell, Guardian, Time for a new People's Charter
3/10/09 BBC, Worst crisis since 1930s says Fed
March 9, 2009
3/09/09 Fitts, Scoop, Brother, Can You Spare a Trillion?
3/09/09 Evans & Sharrock, Times Online, Security guards stood by as gunmen killed Northern Ireland soldiers
3/09/09 Baseline, President Obama's Implied Future For Derivatives
3/09/09 Turse, MoJo, Younger and Hungrier in America
3/04/09 Ali, Nation, Capitalism's Deadly Logic
3/09/09 Strupcaewski, Reuters, EU finmins to back doubling of IMF funds at G20
3/09/09 Kunsler, IntelDaily, Forget About "Recovery"
3/09/09 Reuters, AIG warned of global turmoil before rescue: report
3/09/09 Stempel, Reuters, Buffett says economy fell off cliff
3/09/09 Puzzanghera, LAT, Why the world's biggest insurance company is still getting taxpayer funds
3/09/09 BBC, Drug firms in $41bn giant merger
March 8, 2009
3/08/09 Reuters, Protesters target U.S. foreclosed-homes auctioneer
3/08/09 Goodman, NYT, Appeal of the Dollar Adds to the Pain of Ailing Nations
3/08/09 Rosenwald, WP, House Trap - Upside-Down Owners Missed by Rescue Long to Exhale
3/08/09 Reinhold, Reuters, Who got AIG's bailout billions?
3/08/09 Moberg, ITT, A Spectre is Haunting America
3/08/09 Sheffield, CNN, Not even renters safe from foreclosure storm
March 7, 2009
3/07/09 Friedman, NYT, The Inflection Is Near?
3/07/09 Olemacher, AP, IRS dumps private debt collectors, shifts pendulum
3/07/09 Hirsch, LAT, Whole Foods, FTC agree on Wild Oats settlement
3/07/09 Powell, NYT, Mortgage Fraud Case Poses Federal Quandary
3/07/08 Kramer, NYT, The Last Days of the Oligarchs?
3/07/09 BBC, Treasury takes 65% Lloyds stake
March 6, 2009
3/06/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Follow the Stimulus Money
3/06/09 Palletta, WSJ, Bill Seeks to Let FDIC Borrow up to $500 Billion
3/06/09 McDonald, NYT, Wall Street Opens Higher on U.S. Jobs Report
3/06/09 Everly, Kansas City, Backers want to put more ethanol in your fuel
3/06/09 Loht, NYT, Piecemeal Layoffs Avoid Warning Laws
3/06/09 Delaney, CSM, Why 10,000 Ugandans are eagerly serving in Iraq
March 5, 2009
3/05/09 Kiel, ProPublica, GMAC, MetLife Among Banks Undergoing Stress Tests
3/04/09 Miller & Reeve, Times Online, 10 Things We Didn't Know About Food
3/05/09 Ross et al, ABC, Scandal at Treasury: Official Quits Amidst Fraud Scandal
3/05/09 Reuters, Former Merrill execs invested in Madoff funds: report
3/05/09 Singel, Wired, Amex Demands Right to Call and SMS Any Phone You Call Them From
3/05/09 WorldFocus, Financial crisis upsets global economic order
3/05/09 Vekshin, Bloomberg, Bair Says Insurance Fund Could Be Insolvent This Year (Update1)
3/05/09 Moss & Martin, NYT, Food Problems Elude Private Inspectors
3/05/09 BBC, 'Substantial doubt' for GM future
March 4, 2009
3/04/09 Jewitt, ProPublica, Report: Cons, Convicts and Government Contractors
3/04/09 Moyers, Nation, Economist Robert Johnson on 'Zombie' Banks
3/04/09 Kotlowitz, NYT, All Boarded Up
3/04/09 Drawbaugh & Daly, Reuters, UBS refuses to give U.S. names, replaces chairman
3/04/09 Bartelme, Post&Courrier, EPA Urged to Toughen Coal Ash Rules
3/04/09 Scheer, Nation, AIG: Billions Dished Out in the Dark
3/04/09 Ehrenreich & Fletcher, Nation, Reimagining Socialism
3/04/09 Simanowitz, ITT, Blue People, Yellowcake
3/04/09 CNN, Chavez orders nationalization of Cargill
3/04/09 CNN, Target to open 27 new stores
3/04/09 Stiglitz, Nation, A Bank Bailout That Works
3/04/09 Boudreau & Bronstein, CNN, Poor wiring endangers troops in Afghanistan, contractors say
3/04/09 Walberg, IntelDaily, Europe: Prison of nations
March 3, 2009
3/03/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Diagnosing the New Health Czar's Industry Ties
3/03/09 Wintour & Sparrow, Guardian, Global Recession Emerged From US, Brown to Tell Congress
3/03/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, What "Establishment Media" Really Means
3/03/09 Lipton, NYT, Ex-Leaders at Countrywide Start Firm to Buy Bad Loans
3/03/09 Drawbaugh, Reuters, Foreign tax havens targeted in U.S. bills
3/03/09 Love, Reuters, Downturn to be considerably deeper than IMF forecast: OECD
3/03/09 Falconer & Schulman , MoJo, Blackwater's New Frontier: Their Own Private Africa
March 2, 2009
3/02/09 Kiel, ProPublica, AIG: The Tally Mounts (And Gets Murkier)
3/02/09 Kay, SF Chron, 'We're Like a Katrina Without the Flood': Residents Fight Toxic Legacy
3/02/09 Wilson, NYT, Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary
March 1, 2009
3/01/09 Sayer, Mother earth News, The Hidden Link Between Factory Farms and Human Illness
3/01/09 Bowers, Guardian, Hedge fund thinks bank slide is over
3/01/09 Eddelmont, BBC, Azerbaijan's pipe dream for Europe
3/01/09 BBC, America's trillion dollar question
February 28, 2009
2/28/09 Babington, AP, Obama Tells Powerful Lobbies: Bring It On
2/28/09 Gyuse, IPS, MINING-WEST AFRICA: Ending the Race to the Bottom
2/28/09 AP, Berkshire Reports 62% Drop in 2008 Profit
2/28/09 BBC, Fears of anarchy in Madagascar
2/28/09 BBC, Malaysian plan to oust foreign workers
February 27, 2009
2/27/09 Applebaum, WP, Bank Failures Take Toll on Insurance Fund
2/27/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Mortgage Bankruptcy Reform Update
2/27/09 IntelDaily, Hedge Funds Pulling Most of Their Money Out of Market at the End of Each Day
2/27/09 BBC, US increases stake in Citigroup
February 26, 2009
2/26/08 BBC, Global marketplaces feel the downturn
2/26/09 Read, AP, Source: Citi-gov't aid deal may come this week
2/26/09 Pearce, Guardian, Greenwash: Why 'clean coal' is the ultimate climate change oxymoron
February 25, 2009
2/25/09 Reuters, AIG may abandon asset sales plan: report
2/25/09 Hall, McClatchy, Now, the details: Treasury to give banks unlimited refills
2/25/09 Nishikawa, Reuters, WTO urges G20 to uphold pledge to fight protectionism
2/25/09 Avery & Volmer, FDA ignored debris in syringes
February 24, 2009
2/24/09 Renner, Truthout, Financiers Used "Hotline" to SEC Examiners
2/24/09 Loy, ADN, State slams BP for 2008 explosion
2/24/09 Reuters, Stanford reportedly had links to fund run by Bidens
2/24/09 Avery, Charlotte Observer, Tainted syringes killed five people
2/24/09 Facing South, Is the Army covering up KBR's poisoning of U.S. soldiers?
2/24/09 Alonso-Zalvidar, AP, Health care costs to top $8,000 per person
2/24/09 Murphy, LAT, 'Secret' was deadly for Montana town saturated in asbestos, prosecutors say
2/24/09 Huffington, Huffington Post, The Credit Card Debt Crisis: The Next Economic Domino
February 23, 2009
2/23/09 NYT, A.I.G. to Seek More Government Aid
2/23/09 Turse, MoJo, Closing Down Main Street
2/23/09 Applebaum, WP, Government Moves to Shore Up Banking System
2/23/09 Reuters, UAW and Ford reach deal over retiree health care
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/23/network-coal-burning-protest-washington">Why I'll get arrested to stop the burning of coal
2/23/09 Becker, IntelDaily, Food industry 'self-regulation' behind salmonella epidemic
2/23/09 Salmon, Wired, Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
February 22, 2009
2/22/09 Falloon, Reuters, Europe says all markets must be regulated
2/22/09 Hrizi, PSL, Stimulus package aimed at salvaging capitalism
2/22/09 Lawder, Reuters, U.S. bank stress tests to show capital needs: source
2/22/09 Reuters, EU leaders back oversight, tax haven sanctions
February 21, 2009
2/21/09 de Costa & Lagorio, Reuters, Soros Sees No Bottom for World Financial "Collapse"
2/21/09 BBC, Huge protest over Irish economy
2/21/09 Ferguson & Johnson, Nation, Nationalize Failing Banks? GOP and Single-Payer 2.0
2/21/09 Heller, OpenLeft, Forcing Burger King to Backtrack on Employee Free Choice
2/21/09 Morgenson, NYT, After Losses, a Move to Reclaim Executives' Pay
February 20, 2009
2/20/09 Sirota, Open Left, Market Populism vs. Grassroots Populism - Which Side Are You On?
2/20/09 Leonard, AP, Jobless hit with bank fees on benefits
2/20/09 Talvi, ITT, Our Town vs. Exxon
2/20/09 CNN, Bank of America's CEO is subpoenaed
February 19, 2009
2/19/09 Weaver & Brannigan, Miami Herald, Swiss bank USB to pay U.S. in tax havens scheme
2/19/09 Allen, ITT, All-Consuming Poverty
2/19/09 Candiotti, CNN, Man who froze had history of late utility payments
February 18, 2009
2/18/09 Al Jazeera, GM and Chrysler to shed 50,000 jobs
2/18/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Geithner: I Make A Bad Treasury Secretary
2/18/09 Healy, NYT, Obama Plans $75 Billion Outlay to Fight Foreclosures
2/18/09 Guha & Lucer, Financial Times, Greenspan backs nationalisation (or here)
2/18/09 BBC, Germany drafts bank takeover law
February 17, 2009
2/17/09 The Economist, Doubling Up. Why the IMF is scrambling to raise extra capital.
2/17/09 Sonner, AP, Call for End to USDA's Wildlife Killing Agency
2/17/09 Heller, OpenLeft, Burger King Bailout Shocker
2/17/09 Leonnig, WP, Father Sues D.C. Water Utility Over Lead Warnings
2/17/09 Santos, NYT, Resisting Home Evictions Becomes a Group Effort
2/17/09 Girion, LAT, Insurers exceed state-issued rates for last-resort health coverage
2/17/09 AP, Largest banks that received aid cut lending
2/17/09 Mandel, Business Week, Stock Decline Hits Depression Levels
2/17/09 AP, Asian stock markets slump amid financial fears
2/17/09 Al Jazeera, Jobless Chinese stranded in Romania
February 16, 2009
2/16/09 Hedges, Truthdig, Bad News From America's Top Spy
February 15, 2009
2/15/09 Gray, NYT, Experts: Nationalization Is Only Way Out
2/15/09 Layton & Miroff, WP, The Rise And Fall of A Peanut Empire
2/15/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Despite trillions for economy, next job might mean less pay
February 14, 2009
2/14/09 Schwartz, NYT, Job Losses Pose a Threat to Stability Worldwide
2/14/09 Reuters, Citi, Morgan Stanley May Pay $3 Billion "Retention Awards"
2/14/09 Revkin, NYT, Coal Industry Wins a Round on Mining
2/14/09 Heller, Reuters, G7 commits to firm crisis response and free trade
February 13, 2009
2/13/09 Martin, NYT, Peanut Corporation of America to Liquidate
2/13/09 Andrews & Dash, NYT, Stimulus Plan Places New Limits on Wall St. Bonuses
2/13/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, Three major banks suspending foreclosures for several weeks
2/13/09 Guardian/AP, US security firm mired in Iraq controversy changes its name
2/13/09 Ruder, IntelDaily, Revolt is in the air: Countries across Europe in turmoil
2/13/09 BBC, US judges admit taking kickbacks
February 12, 2009
2/12/09 Whoriskey, WP, Employers Fighting Unemployment Benefits
2/12/09 Reuters, Global economy crisis top security threat: U.S.
2/12/09 ANdrews, ProPublica, New Scandal: House of Murtha
2/12/09 Hanna, AP, Kansas House Panel Endorses Bill on Coal Plants
2/12/09 Stengle, WP, TX officials order Peanut Corp. to recall products
2/12/09 CNN, Dead rodents, excrement in peanut processor lead to recall
February 11, 2009
2/11/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Nationalize the Banks
2/11/09 Lasseter, McClatchy, A Ukraine mystery: Who benefited from Russian gas sales?
2/11/09 CNN, Peanut company officials spurn Congress' questions
2/11/09 Pearlstein, WP, Big Lessons in Finance From a Little Bank You've Never Heard Of
February 10, 2009
2/10/09 Borenstein & Blackledge, AP, US relies on states for food safety inspections
2/10/09 Cronin, IPS, RIGHTS: Violations Privatised Away
2/10/09 Dossani, FPIF, Chomsky: Understanding the Crisis -- Markets, the State and Hypocrisy
2/10/09 Barr, CNN. Geithner unveils new bank rescue plan
February 9, 2009
2/09/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, "What He's Missing Is Financial People"
2/09/09 NYT, Madoff Won't Contest S.E.C. Civil Claims
2/09/09 CNN, Commentary: Free trade has sold out the American worker
2/09/09 Baltmore, Reuters, Fed's Fisher says Fed independence must be ensured
2/09/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, New Bailout Strategy: Corporatist Victory
2/09/09 Cooke, Financial Sense, The End of Wealth Creation
2/09/09 Reid, Global Monitor, Support for Private Medicine Wanes in U.S.
2/09/09 Woodward, AP, Cracking the case of the poison processed peanuts
2/09/07 Lah, CNN, Nissan to cut 20,000 jobs
February 8, 2009
2/08/09 Solnit, TomDispatch, The Icelandic Volcano Erupts
2/04/08 Steenhuysen, Reuters, Doctors: Under the Drug Industry's Influence?
2/08/09 Rucker,Reuters, Fannie, Freddie to channel mortgage rescue: sources
2/08/09 Moss, NYT, Peanut Case Shows Holes in Safety Net
2/08/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, 1,000 Words From Speaker Pelosi About Why This Recession Is Different
2/08/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Collins-Nelson Ax 600,000 Jobs! "In Your Face Caterpillar, Microsoft, Boeing, US Steel, Motorola!"
2/08/09 Towers & Fausset, LAT, States' only option now is budget pain
February 7, 2009
2/07/09 BBC, Latin America poverty 'may soar'
2/07/09 Hopkins, ADN, Debate persists about long-term effects of Exxon Valdez oil spill
2/07/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Purified Kleptocracy: New Bank Bailout Plan Aims to Enrich Private Investors
February 6, 2009
2/06/09 Protess, ProPublica, Details on $20 Million TARP Contract Still Secret
2/06/09 Stiglitz, Deutche Welle, Joseph Stiglitz: Nationalized Banks Are "Only Answer"
2/06/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, "More to Promote Outsourcing Than Nearly Anyone Else In America"
2/06/09 Bagli, NYT, Sam Zell's Empire, Underwater in a Big Way
2/06/09 Macan-Markar, IPS, CAMBODIA: Chevron Silent on Bribery Allegations
2/06/09 Sanders, ITT, The Failed Prophet
2/06/09 CNN, FDA: Peanut plant knew product was tainted with salmonella
2/06/09 CNN, KBR charged with bribing Nigerian officials for contracts
2/06/09 BBC, Alternative views of the economic crisis
2/06/09 Partlow, Wp, A Protected Forest's Fast Decline
2/06/09 Weir, CSM, Global downturn hammers Ukraine's economy
February 5, 2009
2/05/09 Brittain-Catlin, Guardian, How offshore capitalism ate our economies - and itself
2/05/09 Puzanghera et al, LAT, Wall Street finds ways around executive pay caps
2/05/09 CNN, FEMA food kits may contain tainted peanut butter
February 4, 2009
2/04/09 Klein, Nation, All of Them Must Go
2/04/09 Naughton, TimesOnline, Gordon Brown suggests world heading for a 'depression'
2/04/09 Younglai & Wutkowski, Reuters, Madoff whistleblower blasts SEC's shortcomings
2/04/09 Scoop, Option ARMs and Recast Shock Syndrome: Toxic Financial Products are Imploding on Schedule. Examining the Impact on California.
2/04/09 Zeller, NYT, A Tough Week for Coal
2/04/09 Kasler, Sac Bee, Million-dollar home sales plummet in California
2/04/09 WorldFocus, Iceland in upheaval as banks and government implode
2/04/09 Gordon, McClatchy, For bank execs, $500,000 a year is a big comedown
February 3, 2009
2/03/09 Reuters, Obama sets salary cap for bailout companies: U.S. official
2/03/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Banks Getting TARP Money Lending Less Than Other Banks
2/03/09 Keely, TimesOnline, Madoff victims could reach 3m, say lawyers
2/03/09 Johnson, MoJo, Economic Death Spiral at the Pentagon
2/03/09 Feffer, FPIF, Our Pirates and Theirs
2/03/09 Rosenberg, AlterNet, Big Pharma Gone Wild
February 2, 2009
2/02/09 Hedges, TruthDig, It's Not Going to Be OK
2/02/09 Hartmann, CommonDreams, Citigroup's Football Madness
2/02/09 Garvin, Miami Herald, Tired humor, big-name dropouts make ads a Super Bore ... Super Bowl 2009 Ads at MySpace
2/02/09 BBC, France unveils stimulus package
2/02/09 BBC, Chinese spending creates deficit
2/02/09 Miller, ProPublica, Commission on Wartime Contractors Discovers...Afghanistan
2/02/09 Hogg, BBC, Chinese migrant job losses mount
February 1, 2009
2/01/09 Faiola, WP, Out of Gaps In Treaties, First Salvos Of Trade War
2/01/09 Doward, Guardian, Britain 'must revive farms' to avoid grave food crisis
2/01/09 Fisher, PSL, More than two million protest anti-worker policies in France
2/01/09 Adams, McClatchy, Late Move on Drugs by Bush FDA Could Be Dangerous
2/01/09 Grudgings, Reuters, Leftist Forum Ends in Amazon; Capitalism Seen Dying
2/01/09 Bajaj & Labaton, NYT, Risks Are Vast in Revaluation of Assets
2/01/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Why are the Feds Bailing Out the Highway Privatization Industry?
2/01/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Bailout Cash Subsidizing Outsourcing
2/01/09 Bash & Beamish, AP, AP Investigation: Banks sought foreign workers
2/01/09 Gustavo Capdevila interviews academic ALAIN BIHR, IPS, Q&A: Crisis Could Lead to 'Revolutionary Change'
2/01/09 BBC, Glaxo 'to cut thousands of jobs'
January 31, 2009
1/31/09 Rowe, Wired, Amazing Chemicals Invented by Nature, Rebuilt in Lab
1/31/09 Kraske & Helling, KC Star, Missouri senator calls for $400,000 limit on exec pay
1/31/09 BBC, US to run peanut salmonella probe
1/31/09 BBC, Nigerians can sue US drugs firm
January 30, 2009
1/30/09 Freeland, Financial Times, The Credit Crunch According to Soros
1/30/09 AP, FDA panel recommends ban on the painkiller Darvon
1/30/09 Palast, TruthOut, Obama Is a Two-Faced Liar. Aw-RIGHT!
1/30/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Bernie Sanders Demands Investigation of Banks
1/30/09 The Creek, Wall Street Bailout Exceeds Cost of All US Wars Combined: And you can throw in the New Deal, Marshall Plan and Moon Shots as well
1/30/09 Hargreaves, CNN, Exxon posts annual profit record
1/30/09 Eley, WSWS, After freezing death of 93-year-old, Michigan city suspends electricity shutoffs
1/30/09 BBC, Financial rules 'worsened crisis'
January 29, 2009
1/29/09 Insley, Guardian. Capital One card holders braced for interest rate rises
1/29/09 CNN, How a 'perfect storm' led to the economic crisis
1/29/09 Kiel, ProPublica, How Much of the Bailout Is Going to Small Banks?
1/29/09 Seward, AP, Nationwide French strike shuts trains, subways
1/29/09 Reuters,
1/29/09 Dougherty & Bennhold, IHT, Russia and China blame capitalists for crisis
1/29/09 CNN, Iraq denies Blackwater an operating license
1/29/09 Turse, MoJo, Desperate Times and Desperate Measures
1/29/09 Cooper, Reuters, Seed Bank for the World Threatened by Financial Crisis
1/29/09 Wutkowski, Reuters, U.S. to unveil menu of bank fixes next week: source
1/29/09 Harris & Belluck, NYT, New Look at Food Safety After Peanut Tainting
1/29/09 Bluemink, ADN, Subsistence harvest near Red Dog mine declines
1/29/09 Blegon, FPIF, Somali Piracy and the International Response
1/29/09 Mount, CNN, Army recalls 16,000 body armor sets amid testing dispute
1/29/09 CNN, Electric shocks came often at U.S. bases in Iraq, report finds
January 28, 2009
1/28/09 Ward, Charleston Gazette, Coal Wins Big in Senate Stimulus Package
1/28/09 AP, Pentagon Nominee May Make $500,000 on Raytheon Stock
1/28/09 Reuters, Plant Shipped Tainted Products, F.D.A. Says
1/28/09 Devarakonda, IPS, ECONOMY: 'Privatise Profits, Socialise Losses'
1/28/09 Coutts, ProPublica, How Serious Are Treasury's New TARP Lobbying Limits?
1/28/09 Gatti & Henriques, NYT, JPMorgan Exited Madoff-Linked Funds Last Fall
1/28/09 Nesbitt & Yusuf, FPIF, Strategic Dialogue: Somalia
January 27, 2009
1/27/09 Pepitone, CNN, More than 11,500 job cuts announced Tuesday
1/27/09 Eley, WSWS, Bloody Monday: 74,000 layoffs announced in one day
1/27/09 Blomfield, Telegraph, Russian stability threatened by anger over economy
1/27/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Halliburton Settles Cheney-Era Bribery Probe With U.S Government
1/27/09 Stiglitz, CNN, Commentary: How to rescue the bank bailout
1/27/09 Schliefer, CSM, Gas dispute with Russia boosts European interest in alternative pipeline
1/27/09 Lieber, Village Voice, What Cooked the World's Economy?
January 26, 2009
1/26/09 Irwin & Applebaum, WP, Fed May Gain More Financial Oversight
1/26/09 Hong & reynolds, LAT, U.S. weighs strategies to stem home foreclosures
1/26/09 Loyn, BBC, UN debates global food cost rise
1/26/09 Finch et al, Guardian, Twenty-five people at the heart of the meltdown ...
1/26/09 Zetter, Wired, NSA Whistleblower: Grill the CEOs on Illegal Spying
1/26/09 Reuters, Caterpillar Moves to Cut 20,000 Jobs
1/26/09 Reuters, Sprint Nextel to cut up to 8,000 jobs
1/26/09 Sinharoy, ITT, Blackwater to Battle Pirates
1/26/09 BBC, Caterpillar reveals huge job cuts
1/26/09 BBC, Pfizer acquires Wyeth for $68bn
1/26/09 BBC, Crisis claims Icelandic cabinet
January 25, 2009
1/25/09 Sanger, NYT, Nationalization Gets a New, Serious Look
1/25/09 McDonald & Hanley, AP, China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon
1/25/09 Mason, AP, World's highest drug levels entering India stream
1/25/09 Schwartz, NYT, At Davos, Crisis Culls the Guest List
1/25/09 CNN, Protests, resignation pressure Iceland's government
1/25/09 Macan-Markar, IPS, SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Businesses Cold to Climate Change Says Study
January 24, 2009
1/24/09 Goldman, Asia Times, Fixing the bank crisis is the easy part
1/24/09 IHT, Iceland's political scene melting
1/24/09 Graybow, Reuters, Jews struggle to come to grips with Madoff
January 23, 2009
1/23/09 Cutter, PSL, Commercial logging behind severe floods in Washington State
1/23/09 Hall & Lightman, McClatchy, Senate panel rolls out pro-business tax breaks for stimulus
January 22, 2009
1/22/09 Reuters, Report cites FDA's weaknesses over drugs, devices
1/22/09 Ehrenreich, Nation, Foreclosure Fightback
1/22/09 Applebaum, WP, By Switching Their Charters, Banks Skirt Supervision
1/22/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Nationalization of Banks? Citi, Gov't Agreement Already Provides for Partial Takeover
1/22/09 Hefling, AP, Army: Negligence Caused GI's Death
1/22/09 Ehrenreich, Nation, Foreclosure Fightback
1/22/09 Nye, BBC, Citi wants further help for banks
January 21, 2009
1/21/09 Hart, WP, Technical Difficulties: Digital Switch
1/21/09 Reuters, Geithner calls for TARP reform: report
January 20, 2009
1/20/09 Roberts, Guardian, The nuclear options (economy)
January 19, 2009
1/19/09 Beech, St. Catherine's Standard, Scientist Issues Genetic Food Warning
1/19/09 Eilperin & Hsu, WP, White House Directive Guides Policy on Arctic
1/19/09 Klein, ITT, Which Way to Universal Healthcare?
January 17, 2009
1/17/09 Story, NYT, Hedge Funds, Unhinged
1/17/09 Ahmann, Reuters, Obama team weighs government bank to ease crisis
1/17/09 Kay, SF Chron, US Tells Plan to drill off California coast
1/17/09 Ohlemacher, AP, Stimulus plan repeals big tax break for banks
1/17/09 Leonnig, WP, Bailed-Out Firms Have Tax Havens, GAO Finds
1/17/09 ElBoghdady & Cohen, WP, The Growing Foreclosure Crisis
1/17/09 Drawbaugh, Reuters, Battered Wall St tops Obama inaugural donors: study
January 16, 2009
1/16/09 McKibben, Grist, Fiddling While the Coal Burns
1/16/09 Kiel, ProPublica, BofA and Gov't's Secret Deal
1/16/09 Gilmore, Times Online, Bank shares gyrate as short-selling ban ends
1/16/09 Rothaker & Rexrode, McClatchy, Bank of America loses $2.39 billion in 4th quarter
1/16/09 Michael, IPS, EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable
1/16/09 Moberg, ITT, Making the Feds Model Employers
1/16/09 Goldman et al, CNN, BofA: $20B bailout, huge Merrill loss
1/16/09 McLaughlin, CNN, Students, communities pay when schools cut busing
1/16/09 BBC, Zimbabwe rolls out Z$100tr note
1/16/09 BBC, Citigroup to split as losses grow
1/16/09 Clark, Guardian, US banks reveal further heavy losses
January 15, 2009
1/15/09 Rothacker & Rexrode, Charlotte Observer, BofA may get billions in U.S. aid to finish Merrill deal
1/15/09 Comley, Reuters, JPMorgan profit slumps on writedowns
1/15/09 Andrews, NYT, Rescue of Banks Hints at Nationalization
1/15/09 MoJo, Saving Private Industry :Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years.
1/15/09 Prins, MoJo, $3.43 Trillion & Counting
January 14, 2009
1/14/09 Gerth, ProPublica, How Citigroup Unraveled Under Geithner's Watch
1/14/09 ANdrews, ProPublica, Quick Picks: Bank Hoards Bailout Bucks
1/14/09 Reuters, Worries over Citigroup mount
January 13, 2009
1/13/09 Daly, AP, Gold Mine Wants Court to OK Dumping Waste in Lake
1/13/09 Guerrera, Financial Times, Citigroup moves towards break-up
1/13/09 Desai, Reuters, More steps needed to stabilize banks: Bernanke
1/13/09 REuters, Treasury sees need for TARP contingency funds
January 12, 2009
1/12/09 Margolies, KC Star, U.S. mortgage meltdown linked to 2005 bankruptcy law
1/12/09 Bryan, IntelDaily, Worst coal ash spill in US history ruins huge area in Tennessee
January 11, 2009
1/11/09 Gosselin, LAT, Audacity itself as economic experiment
1/11/09 Labaton, NYT, S.E.C. Choice Is Sued Over a Merger of Regulators
January 10, 2009
1/10/09 ENS, Waste Spills From a Second TVA Coal-Fired Power Plant
1/10/09 Cho & Montgomery, WP, Bush Prepares Request for Rest Of Bailout Funds
1/10/09 CNN, Zimbabwe introduces new $50 billion note
January 9, 2009
1/09/09 Merle & Montgomery, WP, Citigroup Reaches Deal With Lawmakers on Home Loans
1/09/09 Bice, CNN, Government fights slave labor in Brazil
January 8, 2009
1/08/09 Smith, Rocky Mountain News, Shell Stakes Claim on Yampa River
1/08/09 Sterling, CNN, Navy creates force devoted to fighting piracy
1/08/09 Alonzo-Zaldivar, AP, FDA Scientists Complain to Obama of "Corruption"
1/08/09 Al Jazeera, 'Indian Enron' rocks business world
January 7, 2009
2/01/09 Gerttleman, MoJo, Conspiracy Watch: The Wisest Guys in the Room
1/07/09 Wood, BBC, Did Bush cause the financial crisis?
January 6, 2009
1/06/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Outsourcing Health Care in Texas
1/06/09 Schoof, McClatchy, Coal ash spill reveals risks, lapses in waste regulation
1/06/09 Goldman, CNN, The $8 trillion bailout
January 5, 2009
1/05/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: Open-Pit Mine Continues to Swallow City
January 4, 2009
1/04/09 Stewart, Guardian, Credit squeeze will hit poor nations
January 3, 2009
1/03/09 Lewis & Einhorn, NYT, The End of the Financial World as We Know It
1/03/09 BBC, The curse of Nigerian oil
January 2, 2009
1/02/09 Al Jazeera, Data points to further Asian woes
1/02/09 Walton, CNN, Countries in tug-of-war over Arctic resources
1/02/09 Selna, SF Chron, Power Plant Has No Plans to Stop Killing Fish
1/02/09 Frierson, Reuters, Factories mired in worst slump in 28 years
1/02/09 Stempel. Reuters, GM, GMAC loosen finance pact after lender bailout
1/02/09 Henderson, Charlotte Observer, Coal ash scrutiny returns
1/02/09 Berrigan, ITT, We Arm the World
1/02/09 Kavanaugh, AP, Tennessee sludge contains elevated levels of arsenic
January 1, 2009
1/01/09 Merle, WP, Wall Street's Final '08 Toll: $6.9 Trillion Wiped Out
1/01/09 McAlister, Guardian, Green revolution stalls on cheap oil