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August 18, 2010
8/18/10 BBC, Iceland cuts interest rates to 7%
August 11, 2010
8/11/10 Perez-Roca, FPIF, Mining for El Salvador's Gold -- In Washington
August 1, 2010
8/01/10 Zirin, Progressive, What Owners Owe Us
July 27, 2010
7/27/10 Faizl-e-Haidr, AsiaTimes, BP on the run in Pakistan?
July 26, 2010
7/26/10 Lee, LAT, U.S. may face deflation, a problem Japan understands too well
7/26/10 BBC, BP oil spill a result of 'poor decision making' (video included)
July 25, 2010
7/25/10 Schwartz, NYT, Industries Find Surging Profits in Deeper Cuts
7/25/10 Blumenthal, McClatchy, U.S. farmers may face crackdown on pesticide use
7/25/10 BBC, UK interest rates to stay at record low 'until 2014'
July 24, 2010
7/24/10 Olmos, WSWS, Most oil industry lobbyists in US worked for government
7/24/10 AFP, US Senate Deals Blow to Global Climate Talks
7/24/10 Coleman, Reuters, BP stalls payments to oil spill victims: Feinberg
7/24/10 Reuters, Government won't target more Swiss banks on tax: U.S. diplomat
7/24/10 Johnson, McClatchy, Grisly mass graves in Mexico yield 50 casualties of drug war
July 23, 2010
7/23/10 BBC, Multinational Company Trafigura Found Guilty of Exporting Toxic Waste
7/23/10 Brown, NYT, Oil Rig's Siren Was Kept Silent, Technician Says
7/23/10 Zeller, NYT, E.P.A. Considers Risks of Gas Extraction
7/23/10 White, MoJo, Emmylou and the EPA Take on Big Coal
7/23/10 Davidson, WSWS, Massey shut off methane detectors at deadly mine
7/23/10 Chopra, CSM, $35 computer taps India's huge low-income market
7/23/10 Lee, WSWS, Fishermen on strike against BP
7/23/10 Black, Dandelion/Real News, New Finance Bill Will Not Prevent Another Crisis
7/23/10 Grey, CRG/WSWS, US jobless claims, housing data point to worsening economy
7/23/10 Olmos, CRG, BP Coverup and the Criminal Pursuit of Profit: Deepwater Horizon Workers knew of Problems before Explosion
July 22, 2010
7/22/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Banking Under the Dodd-Frank Act
7/22/10 PEER, EPA Employees Blow the Whistle on Flawed Climate Bills
7/22/10 Norris, NYT, She's a Candidate for a Job She Devised
7/22/10 Kroll, MoJo, "She Will Build That Agency In Her Image"
7/22/10 Parry, ITT, The Right's Power of Infrastructure
7/22/10 EDIE, 'Disappointment' as axe falls on sustainability watchdog
7/22/10 Spencer, WSWS, The social crisis in Appalachia
7/22/10 CRG/Washington's Blog, Unfolding Ecological Catastrophe: BP refuses to disclose Critical Data: BP Moves Goalpost for the Oil Well Integrity Test
July 21, 2010
7/21/10 Bolstad, McClatchy, BP's Oil Spill Caused by Fed's 'Dangerous Culture of Permissiveness'
7/21/10 WSWS, The Gulf oil disaster and capitalism
7/21/10 Tanji, Wired, How Congress Fueled the Rise of Private Spies
July 20, 2010
7/20/10 DemocracyNow, EPA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Covering Up Effects of Dispersant in BP Oil Spill Cleanup
7/20/10 CEPR, Pre-Recession Unemployment Rates May Not Be Reached for a Decade
July 19, 2010
7/19/10 Chavkin, ProPublica, New BP Data Shows Payments on Less Than a Third of Claims
7/19/10 Cantarow, MoJo, Big Oil Makes War on the Earth
July 18, 2010
7/18/10 Reuters, Seepage Detected Near Blown-Out BP Well
July 17, 2010
7/17/10 Cho, WP, Timothy Geithner's realm grows with passage of financial regulatory reform
7/17/10 Goldmacher, LAT, Judge rejects pay cuts for California state workers
7/17/10 BBC, Insurer AIG agrees to massive $725m fraud payout
July 16, 2010
7/16/0 Nasiripour, Huffington Post, Tim Geithner Opposes Nominating Elizabeth Warren to Lead New Consumer Agency
7/16/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Haiti earthquake aftermath: The "Shock Doctrine" in action
7/16/10 Morraff, ITT, Tax Dodgers, Inc.
7/16/10 Treanor, Guardian, Goldman Sachs handed record $550m fine over Abacus transaction
7/16/10 Gray, CNN, Release of Lockerbie bomber was a mistake, British government says
7/16/10 Parramore, MoJo, nterview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform
7/16/10 Ilg, IPS, Nigeria Suffers Acute Lead-Poisoning Outbreak
7/16/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Iraq War as template for destroying the welfare state???
7/16/10 BBC, US judge overturns Dole Nicaragua banana ruling
7/16/10 BBC, Bank of America profits rise as consumer loans improve
7/16/10 Chandrashekhar, CSM, As wealth rises in India, so do private towns
7/16/10 BBC, Alaska town slowly heals after 1989 Exxon Valdez spill
July 15, 2010
7/15/10 Wolff, ITT, Austerity: Why and for Whom?
July 14, 2010
7/14/10 Vidal, Guardian, Rich Countries to Pay Energy Giants to Build New Coal-Fired Power Plants
7/14/10 Food & Water Watch, Natural Gas No Quick Fix for U.S. Energy Woes
7/14/10 Snyder, IntelDaily, What To Do As The Economy Collapses
7/14/10 Jensen & Hedges, Dandelion Salad, Chris Hedges and Derrick Jensen on Totalitarianism and Resistance
7/14/10 Vestal CRG, Collapse in Living Standards in America: More Poverty By Any Measure
7/14/10 Wang, ProPublica, Other Well Co-owners Stand By Criticism of BP, Refuse to Pay Bills
7/14/10 Wasserman, SacBee, California plan to stem foreclosures has critics
7/14/10 BBC, Credit Suisse offices raided by tax officials
July 13, 2010
7/13/10 Jamail & Blumenfeld, Dahr Jamail's Dispatches, Toxic Dispersants Near Gulf Harm Humans and Wildlife
7/13/10 Kusnetz, ProPublica, For Gas-Drilling Data, There's a New Place to Dig
7/13/10 Goldstein, NPR, Obama's New Budget Guy: Former Banker
7/13/10 Kramer, NYT, Philip Morris Is Said to Benefit From Child Labor
7/13/10 AP, BP testing delayed on Gulf oil fix
7/13/10 Deen, IPS, Is Global Poverty Reduction a Political Myth?
7/13/10 CNN, Administration's fourth bill to BP totals $99.7 million
July 12, 2010
7/12/10 Smith, WSWS, Oil companies complicit in Sudan civil war, report alleges
July 10, 2010
7/10/10 Joling, AP, 1.8M Acres of Alaska Drilling Leases Go Up for Bid
7/10/10 Border Jumpers, Creating Food Sovereignty for Small-Scale Farmers
July 9, 2010
7/09/10 Lindorff, Public Record, Capitalism Is An Anti-Social Disease
7/01/10 McMaken, CSM, Fed owns nearly half of all foreclosed homes
7/08/10 Wang, ProPublica, 1970s BP-Branded Board Game Turned Offshore Drilling Into Child's Play
7/09/10 Wang, ProPublica, BP's New Illness and Injury Stats, Texas Tarballs, and More
7/09/10 Weise, ProPublica, Identifying Suspicious Short Selling, But Not Who's Behind the Trades
7/09/10 Wang, ProPublica, For BP, Multimillion-Dollar Fines Amount to a Day's Worth of Profit
7/09/10 Coutts, ProPublica, Investment Funds Stir Controversy Over Recruiting by For-Profit Colleges
7/09/10 Hays, Reuters, BP could start cap switch on Saturday: Coast Guard
7/08/10 Schoof, McClatchy, Scientists urge U.S. to move quickly to study Gulf oil spill
7/09/10 Lohan, YES, How a Tiny Town Sent an International Water Giant Packing
July 8, 2010
7/08/10 ANsel, PSL, Thousands of Greek workers strike against ruling-class cutbacks
7/08/10 Ivory, Huffington Post, Weighing Safety of Weed Killer in Drinking Water, EPA Relies Heavily on Industry-Backed Studies
July 7, 2010
7/07/10 Wray, Guardian, Abandoned Oil Wells Make Gulf of Mexico 'Environmental Minefield'
7/07/10 Ott, Huffington Post, The Big Lie: BP, Governments Downplay Public Health Risk From Oil and Dispersants
July 6, 2010
7/06/10 Funabiki, Bloomberg, Global Deflation Risk Rises as Fed, BOJ Extend Bond Policies: Chart of Day
7/06/10 Weise, ProPublica, Reporters Look Into PSI's Influence and Problems in Virginia
7/06/10 Lochhead, SF Chron, Dead Zone in Gulf Linked to Ethanol Production
7/06/10 Eley, WSWS, Censorship and cover-up in the Gulf oil disaster
7/06/10 Wolff, TruthOut, Austerity: Why and for Whom?
7/06/20 Vasagar, Guardian, Graduates warned of record 70 applicants for every job
7/06/10 Butler, Guardian, We're keeping a watch on cutbacks across the UK
July 5, 2010
7/05/10 Kaufman, NYT, Agency Agreed That Spill Risk to Wildlife Was 'Low'
7/05/10 Smith, WP, BP has Steady Sales at Defense Department Despite U.S. Scrutiny
7/05/10 Garofolo, Think Progress, BP Used Oil Industry Tax Break to Write Off Its Rent for Deepwater Rig
7/05/10 Wray, Guardian, BP asks oil spill partners to pay $400m
July 4, 2010
7/04/10 Schwartz, NYT, BP Wants Partners to Help Shoulder Spill Cost
7/04/10 Charlton, AP, France trims budget piecemeal to ward off protest
7/04/10 Blumenthall, McClatchy, It's not just BP's oil in the Gulf that threatens world's oceans
7/04/10 Vidal, Guardian, United Nations warned that corruption is undermining grants to stop logging
July 3, 2010
7/03/10 Chapman, CRG, The U.S. Economy is Falling. Towards another Credit Collapse?
7/03/10, Reuters, New oil drilling rules awaited from Washington
7/03/10 Kusnetz, ProPublica, A Fracking First in Pennsylvania: Cattle Quarantine
7/03/10 Kocieniewski, NYT, As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Subsidies
7/03/10 Petruno, LAT, Corporate earnings may be stock market's last hope
7/03/10 Sirota, ITT, A New Deregulatory Push In the Energy Heartland
7/03/10 CNN, EPA scientists discuss chemicals used to break up oil in Gulf
7/03/10 BBC, DR Congo oil tanker blaze 'kills 220'
July 2, 2010
7/02/10 Eley, WSWS, BP "claims czar": No compensation for most victims of oil spill
7/02/10 CEPR, U.S. Experiencing Worst Episode of Prolonged Unemployment Since Great Depression
7/02/10 Barlow, DemocracyNow, 'The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History'
7/02/10 Hays & Regan, Reuters, Total sees tougher rules as storm spreads Gulf slick
7/02/10 Stafford, KC Star, 'Fear factor' spooks hopes for economic rebound
7/02/10 Cooper, CNN, Breathing equipment being given to some oil spill workers
7/02/10 Lee, LAT, Unemployment rate dips as more workers leave labor force
7/02/10 Guardian, Families of dead soldiers hit out at pay freeze
7/02/10 Robins, Guardian, False economies in Ken Clarke's proposal to cut number of courts
7/02/10 Wearden, Guardian, Hungary to ask for 'precautionary' 10bn-20bn bailout from EU and IMF
July 1, 2010
7/01/10 Socialist Equality Party, WSWS, The World Economic Crisis, the Failure of Capitalism and the Case for Socialism
7/01/10 Moore, PublicRecord, BP's New Cover-Up Revealed
7/01/10 Linkins, Huffington, Oil Spill Media Access: Reporters Still Given the Runaround Even as Public Health Concerns Mount
7/01/10 Lichtblau, NYT, Lobbyist Says It's Not About Influence
7/01/10 Gordon, McClatchy, Self-fulfilling prophecy? Panel pushes Goldman on AIG collapse
7/01/10 Salazar, IPS, 'Don't Minimise' Impacts of Amazon Oil Spill
7/01/10 Wharton, ITT, BP: The Case for Public Ownership
7/01/10 Dowling, FPIF, How the World's Poorest Could Lose Out Again
7/01/10 Baldauf, CSM, South Africa takes fire for arms sales to blacklisted nations
June 30, 2010
6/30/10 Science News, Scientist: World must expect more spills
6/30/10 Wang, ProPublica, BP Fined $5.2 Million for False Reporting
6/30/10 Harkinson, MoJo, BP: Beyond Prosecution
June 29, 2010
6/29/10 Simon, Baseline Scenario, What Is Goldman Sachs Thinking?
6/29/10 Lowrey, Wa. Independent, As States Cut Public Workers, Congress Is Reluctant to Act
6/29/10 AP, BP meets deadline for oil spill payments to govt
6/29/10 Clark, Guardian, US Banks Off the Hook Until 2022
6/29/10 Al Jazeera, Entire Maldives cabinet resigns
6/29/10 CNN, Stocks slide on renewed fears of global slowdown
6/29/10 Treanor, Guardian, Drunk trader banned for buying 7m barrels of oil after binge
6/29/10 Kinzer, MoJo, BP in the Gulf--The Persian Gulf
June 28, 2010
6/28/10 Grey, Telegraph, Giant Salmon Will Be First GM Animal Available for Eating
6/28/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, BP 'Staked Future on Expanding Offshore Drilling'
6/28/10 Fountain, NYT, BP Discussing a Backup Strategy to Contain Oil
6/28/10 Harris, NYT, Antibiotics in Animals Need Limits, F.D.A. Says
6/28/10 White, LAT, Boycott BP? That's easier said than done
6/27/10 Booth, Guardian, G20 rioters disrupt Toronto protest
6/28/10 BBC, G20 summit backs UK Budget, says David Cameron
June 27, 2010
6/27/10 Chan & Calmes, NYT, At Summit, Banks Avoid New Global Regulations
6/27/10 Schwartz, NYT, BP Loses Trading-Floor Swagger in Energy Markets
6/27/10 Daley, NYT, Safety Net Frays in Spain, as Elsewhere in Europe
6/27/10 Lee & Baker, McClatchy, Mississippi officials slam Coast Guard as BP oil hits shores
6/27/0 Strobel et al, Feds won't charge Blackwater in Sudan sanctions case
6/26/10 Cart, LAT, Politics embroil gulf research grants
6/27/10 Parra, IPS, Honduran Caribbean on a Tightrope
6/27/10 Aly, CSM, G8 summit focuses on accountability, but where is it?
6/27/10 BBC, G20 summit protests in Toronto : Your pictures
6/27/10 BBC, US warns over recession risks as G20 meeting starts
June 26, 2010
6/26/10 Johnson, Baseline Senario, JP Morgan Responds To Financial Reform: The Poison Pill Strategy
6/26/10 Nelson, McClatchy, No skimmers in sight as oil floods into Mississippi waters
6/26/10 Mauer, McClatchy, BP played big role in Alaska blowout preventer probe
6/26/10 BBC, Romania plans big VAT rise to secure bail-out funds
June 25, 2010
6/21/10 Lowenstein, NYT, The Next Crisis: Public Pension Funds
6/25/10 Deen, IPS, U.N. Chief Warns Big Business to Play by Ethical Rules
6/25/10 Schneider et al, WP, Obama arrives in Canada for G-20 amid warnings on global financial crisis
6/25/10 Siddique, Guardian, Up to 75% of government websites face closure
6/25/10 BBC, Italians stage general strike against austerity
6/25/10 Durden, ZeroHedge, Finally The Farce That Is Fin Reg Reform Passes And Wall Street Can Resume Its Rapid March To Financial Armageddon
6/25/10 Dennis, Wp, House, Senate leaders finalize details of sweeping financial overhaul
6/25/10 Wyatt, NYT, House and Senate in Deal on Financial Overhaul
6/25/10 Puzzanghera, LAT, House, Senate lawmakers reach a deal on financial reform
6/24/10 Thompson, IPS, "Excluded Workers" Move from Shadows to Negotiating Table
6/25/10 Thompson, IPS, Connecting the Dots from Detroit to Dakar
6/25/10 Peck, ITT, Certifying 'Blood Chocolate'
6/25/10 Marquand, CSM, At G-20 summit, an economic clash of civilizations
6/25/10 Goldstein, Asia Times, Sudanese blood spills into Asia
6/25/10 Lee, WSWS, BP containment effort set back as government acknowledges undersea oil plumes
6/25/10 Goldenberg. Guardian, BP Accused of Killing Endangered Sea Turtles in Cleanup Operation
6/25/10 Bull & Heller, Reuters, Leaders play down austerity split on eve of G20
6/25/10 Story & Morgenson, NYT, Goldman Must Pay Some Bayou Losses
6/25/10 Zack, NYT, Paddling Against the Wind
6/25/10 Hall, McClatchy, How financial bill aims to prevent another meltdown
6/25/10 Hall, McClatchy, Big banks escape toughest limits in new regulation bill
6/25/10 Aly, CSM, G20 summit: less-developed nations still struggle to shape agenda
6/25/10 BBC, Campaigners dismiss Bhopal compensation as insufficient
6/25/10 BBC, US Congress agrees Volcker Rule on bank limits
June 24, 2010
6/24/10 Wang, ProPublica, Moratorium Won't Stop Unprecedented BP Project in the Arctic
6/24/10 Wang, ProPublica, NOAA Confirms Oil Plumes Are From BP's Well
6/24/10 Dowell, GlobalPost, Gulf oil spill? You ain't seen nothing yet
6/24/10 Jha, Guardian, Human Genome Project leader warns against attempts to patent genes
6/24/10 Wang, ProPublica, Read: BP's Plan For Controversial Arctic Drilling Project
6/24/10 Konrad, NYT, Insurance Pools for High-Risk Patients Start Soon
6/24/10 Maykuth, Phil Inquirer, 'Gasland' Documentary Fuels Debate over Natural Gas Extraction
6/24/10 Wang, ProPublica, Read: BP's Plan For Controversial Arctic Drilling Project
6/24/10 Single, Wired, You Don't Want ISPs to Innovate
6/24/10 Hilzenrath & Kindy, WP, Firms in gulf drilling are working to limit liability in spill
6/24/10 Bowers, OpenLeft, It is simply false to say the US fighting austerity
6/24/10 Kroll, MoJo, Wall Street Reform's Biggest Winners and Losers
6/24/10 Stein, WP, CIA hires Xe, formerly Blackwater, to guard facilities in Afghanistan, elsewhere
6/24/10 Daniels, Reuters, Venezuela to nationalize U.S. firm's oil rigs
6/24/10 Al Jazeera, French strike over austerity plans
6/24/10 Bases, Reuters. WTO chief: Protectionist pressure tied to joblessness
6/24/10 Fountain, NYT, Advances in Oil Spill Cleanup Lag Since Valdez
6/24/10 Fiore, MoJo, Cartoon - Lifestyles of the Rich and Fossil Fueled
6/24/10 Simon, LAT, Spill-related measures advance in Congress
6/24/10 CNN, Key decision on deepwater drilling could come Thursday
6/24/10 BBC, In graphics: Eurozone in crisis
6/24/10 Bank of England warns of eurozone risk to UK banks
6/24/10 BBC, Welfare cuts put added health strain on population
June 23, 2010
6/23/10 Phillips, CNN, Oil soaks miles of Pensacola Beach
6/23/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Gulf oil spill: Gusher resumes full force after accident forces BP to remove cap
6/23/10 Chatterjee, Asia Times, Military contractors retreat, counter-attack
6/23/10 Wang, ProPublica, As BP Works Through Backlog, Cleanup Worker Illness Stats Triple Since Prior Report
6/23/10 Wang, ProPublica, EPA Response on Dispersant Reduction: 'BP Only Uses Lowest Volume of Dispersant Needed'
6/23/10 CRG, BP is Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive
6/23/10 Chapman, CRG, Central Banking in Crisis: Some Twenty Countries on the Verge of Insolvency
6/23/10 Cresswell, NYT, On Wall Street, So Much Cash, So Little Time
6/23/10 Hamburger, LAT, Coast Guard to investigate command structure on Deepwater Horizon
6/23/10 Williams, LAT, Judges' hands tied by oil industry interests
June 22, 2010
6/22/10 BBC, Europeans on the age of austerity
6/22/10 Hudson, Center for Public Integrity, Auto Dealers Maneuver for Exemption in Financial Reform Bill
6/22/10 Sheehan, DandelionSalad, Video - The MIC is the Number 1 User of Oil + Protest at Unified Response Command Center
6/22/10 Weise, ProPublica, Fracking Tales: Stories From the Frontlines of Gas Drilling
6/22/10 AP, Geithner Says Bailout Money Is Being Repaid
6/22/10 Taylor & Heller, Reuters, Europeans act alone on bank tax before G20
6/22/10 Farge & Lawler, Reuters, Oil drillers, users say world needs deepwater wells
6/22/10 Boseley, Guardian, Convenience food changes could save 'thousands of lives'
6/22/10 Wearden & Kollewe, Guardian, Oil spill: Protesters disrupt BP speech as Tony Hayward pulls out
6/22/10 CNN, Britain unveils 'unavoidable' austerity budget
6/22/10 BBC, Oil industry attacks US deep water drilling ban
June 21, 2010
6/21/10 Chavkin, ProPublica, Read the Internal Document that Contradicts BP's Claims on Oil Flow
6/21/10 Story, AP, S.E.C. Accuses Firm of Fraud in Mortgage Deals
6/21/10 Sack & Stolberg, NYT, As Law Takes Effect, Obama Gives Insurers a Warning
6/21/10 Youseff, McClatchy, Report finds U.S. tax money may be funding Taliban
6/21/10 Rothacker, LAT, Banks design new fees as overdraft rules approach
6/21/10 Appel, IPS, Six Million U.S. Homeowners Looking into the Abyss
6/21/10 Walker, BBC, How and when to cut deficits?
6/21/10 Arbuthnot, CRG, Plundering the Planet
6/21/10 Evans-Pritchard, CRG/Telegraph, Gold Reclaims Its Currency Status as the Global System Unravels
6/21/10 Costantini, IPS, Haitian Farmers Leery of Monsanto's Largesse
6/21/10 Miller, FPIF, Loose Oil Is a Way of Life in West Africa
6/21/10 BBC, Monsanto GM Seed Ban is Overturned by US Supreme Court
6/21/10 Tremblay, The New American Empire, The Bush-Cheney Gulf Coast Oil Spill of 2010
6/21/10 CRG, Systemic Crisis of the World Economy: Global Geopolitical Dislocation
6/21/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Dead On Arrival: Financial Reform Fails
6/21/10 Eilperin, WP, Obama, EPA to push for restoration of Superfund tax on oil, chemical companies
6/21/10 Eggen, WP, BP, Transocean tap a well of Washington lobbyists and consultants
6/21/10 Hodai, ITT, Ties That Bind: Arizona Politicians and the Private Prison Industry
6/21/10 Wearden, Guardian, Deepwater Horizon worker claims oil rig leaking weeks before explosion
6/21/10 CNN, End to deepwater drilling moratorium sought
6/21/10 BBC, BP 'estimated higher oil amount' from Gulf well leak
June 20, 2010
6/20/10 Scahill, Nation, Obama Administration Keeping Blackwater Armed and Dangerous in Afghanistan
6/20/10 AP, Documents: BP estimated 4.2M gallon in worst case
6/20/10 CNN, BP document: Worst-case scenario -- 4.2 million gallons daily in Gulf
6/20/10 Wachman & Stibbs, Guardian, Anger grows across the world at the real price of 'frontier oil'
6/20/10 Kennedy, Guardian, BP chief's weekend sailing trip stokes anger at oil company
June 19, 2010
6/19/10 Achenbach & Mufson, WP, Partner in damaged oil well slams BP for 'reckless' actions -- and inaction
6/19/10 AP, BP: Hayward relieved of day-to-day spill duties
6/19/10 Connelly, AP, Anadarko points finger at BP on Gulf oil spill
6/19/10 Turse, AsiaTimes, Kick ass - or buy gas
6/19/10 Lira, CRG, What do BP and the Banks Have In Common? The Era of Corporate Anarchy
6/19/20 Umansky, ProPublica, SEC is 'Focusing' on Magnetar Trades
6/18/10 IntelDaily, Video: 'Serious Market Problems' in the Fall--Gold to Hit $2500
6/19/10 Walsh, NYT, In Budget Crisis, States Take Aim at Pension Costs
6/19/10 Chossudovsky, Dandelion Salad, "The War is Worth Waging": Afghanistan's Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas
June 18, 2010
6/18/10 Bengali, McClatchy, Obama officials still approving flawed Gulf drilling plans
6/18/10 Markon, WP, Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder's vows to target financial fraud
6/18/10 Achenbach & Fahrenthold, WP, Experts see how-not-to book emerging from gulf oil spill cleanup
6/18/10 Spencer, BBC, Daily View: BP's day at Congress
6/18/10 Chossudovsky, CRG, The Economic Crisis: "Major Currencies Can Simply Collapse"
6/18/10 Rocheleau, CSM, How Halliburton Is Profiting From the Gulf Oil Spill
6/18/10 DeGraw, The Public Record, Global War Racket Exposed: Trillions in Resources & Funding Our Enemies
6/18/10 The Public Record, Did Bush Officials Hide Depth Of AIG Problems?
6/18/10 Trumbull, SM, Who is Bob Dudley? Five things to know about BP's new point man.
6/18/10 Head, WSWS, Evidence emerges of Australian oil spill coverup
6/18/10 Collins, IntelDaily, Big Oil - First Nigeria then the World
6/18/10 Chossudovsky, Dandelion Salad, Major currencies can simply collapse - VIDEO INTERVIEW
June 17, 2010
6/17/10 Blake & Kane, WP, GOP leaders forced Rep. Barton to retract apology to BP
6/17/10 Washington's Blog, Did BP Start Losing Containment of the Oil Well in February?
6/17/10 Wasgington's Blog, BP's Largest Shareholder says Oil Spill Good for the Economy
June 16, 2010
6/16/10 McClatchy, BP adds second vessel to Deepwater Horizon recovery efforts
6/16/10 Chaterjee, IPS, Do Armed Contractors Belong in War Zones?
6/16/10 Sutter, CNN, San Francisco to warn consumers about cell radiation levels
6/16/10 BBC, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac delisted from stock exchange
6/16/10 BBC, BP to fund $20bn Gulf of Mexico oil spill payout
6/16/10 Collins, IntelDaily, The Sovereign State of BP - Down for the Count?
June 15, 2010
6/15/10 Reuters, U.S. significantly increases flow estimate of BP spill 30,000 to 60,000 BPD
6/15/10 Zimmermann, WSWS, Fortunes mount for the wealthy in wake of the finance crisis
6/15/10 Bolstad, McClatchy, BP rivals struggle to explain why plans look so similar
6/15/10 Taylor, McClatchy, BP's records on ill workers tell only part of the story
6/15/10 Simon, LAT, Gulf oil spill: Oil execs scolded for 'cookie cutter' spill plans
6/15/10 Wang, ProPublica, Read: BP E-mails Show Decisions Pre-Blast to Save 'Lots of Time' and Money
6/15/10 Keim, Wired, BP's 'Nightmare' Well: Internal Documents Uncover Negligence
6/5/10 Werdigier, NYT, Once Quiet, BP Chairman Gets Moment in Spotlight
6/15/10 Galewitz & Carey, McClatchy, New health care rules for employers draw mixed reaction
6/15/10 Wearden, Guardian, BP credit rating slashed as oil spill costs mount
6/15/10 Guardian, BP oil spill hearings - live blog
6/15/10 Holland & Hays, Reuters, BP accused of repeated shortcuts
6/15/10 Roscoe & Baltimore, Reuters, BP faces grilling in Congress
6/15/10 Harkinson, MoJo, Did BP's Rig Pass A Key Safety Test--Or Not?
June 14, 2010
6/14/10 Fountain, NYT, Documents Show Risky Decisions Before BP Blowout
6/14/10 Barkin et al, Reuters, Special Report: After euro zone crisis, what next?
6/14/10 Mencimer, MoJo,Will the Cruise Ship Industry Do BP's Dirty Work?
6/14/10 Ghosh, BBC, Artificial life 'needs regulation' - public survey says
6/14/10 Bolstad, McClatchy, Congress blames BP cost-cutting for Gulf oil leak disaster
6/14/10 Hamburger & Geiger, LAT, Foreign flagging of offshore rigs skirts U.S. safety rules
6/14/10 CNN, TVA fined $11.5 million in sludge spill
June 13, 2010
6/13/10 Reuers, Obama to call for escrow fund for BP claims
6/13/10 Ewing, NYT, Debt Burden Falls Heavily on Germany and France
June 12, 2010
6/12/10 Durden, Deep Journal, $34 Billion Asset Manager Says Market Prices Are Manipulated
6/12/10 Ott, AlterNet, BP Is Destroying Evidence and Censoring Journalists
6/12/10 Yang, WP, Aftermath spawning profits for many contractors
6/12/10 Fallon, Guardian, Oil spill: BP 'may suspend dividend payout'
6/12/10 CNN, Global protest planned over BP's handling of oil disaster
6/12/10 Ott, AlterNet, BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence
6/12/10 Leopold, AlterNet, Is there a Global War between Financial Theocracy and Democracy?
6/12/10 Dickinson, Rolling Stone, The Spill, The Scandal and the President
6/12/10 Seibel, McClatchy, Coast Guard rejects BP oil leak plan as too little, too late
June 11, 2010
6/11/10 Thomma, McClatchy, Engineers say Interior changed oil report after they signed it
6/11/10 Thomma, McClatchy, Obama overlooked key points in giving OK to offshore drilling
June 10, 2010
6/10/10 Ansel, PSL, Colombian military backs BP against workers' struggle
6/10/10 Bronski, WSWS, Deep-water drilling proceeds without backup rigs
6/10/10 Eley, WSWS, Government scientists confirm massive oil plumes
6/10/10 Sheppard, MoJo, Dick Cheney's Last Laugh
6/10/10 Miller, Alternet, BP Bets the Planet--We Lose
6/10/10 Clark, Guardian, BP shares slump as US presses oil firm to pay laid off workers
6/10/10 BBC, Gulf oil spill: US sets action plan deadline for BP
6/10/10 BBC, AIG bail-out 'poisonous', says US congressional panel
June 9, 2010
6/09/20 Bronstein & Drash, CNN, Rig survivors: BP ordered shortcut on day of blast
6/09/10 Hall & Lightman, McClatchy, Senate Weakens Bid to Tax Wall Street Like Rest of Us
6/09/10 Wang & Chavkin, BP's Spill Plans Had Few Ways to Stop a Blowout
6/10/10 Terkel, AlterNet, Former Bush Official Josh Bolten Advising BP On How To "Defend Its Interests" And Restore Its Reputation
6/09/10 Al Jazeera, Finland falls back into recession
6/09/10 Eilperin & Mufson, Increase in inspectors hasn't kept pace with boom in offshore U.S. oil rigs and projects
6/09/10 Peters, NYT, Efforts to Limit the Flow of Spill News
6/09/10 WSWS, Public sector strike against austerity in Romania
6/09/10 Branfman, Alternet, A Warning From Noam Chomsky on the Threat Posed By Elites
6/09/10 Newsom, McClatchy, BP declines to attend Mississippi hearings on the Gulf oil leak
6/09/10 Pritchard et al, AP, BP Spill Response Plans Severely Flawed
6/09/10 Seidman, McClatchy, Cousteau: U.S. oil spill response reflects 'soul of this country'
6/09/10 Deen, IPS, Draft U.N. Treaty Targets Security Firms in War Zones
6/09/10 Mulder, IPS, Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes - Aid Agencies
6/09/10 Wearden, Guardian, Battle to bring BP to account for oil spill intensifies
6/09/10 BBC, Finland in double-dip recession
6/09/10 BBC, 'Reverse Robin Hood' banks accused of taking from poor
June 8, 2010
6/08/10 AFP, Austerity Anger Grows in Europe
6/08/10 Watson & Jones, WSWS, Report: DTE used spy planes to spot unauthorized hookups
6/08/10 Public Record, Cheney's Push Of Deregulators Led To BP Disaster
6/08/10 Wang, ProPublica, Read Documents Showing BP's Pattern of Neglecting Its Own Safety Policies
6/08/10 Wang, ProPublica, BP Refuses to Provide Oil Samples to Scientists Investigating Underwater Plumes
6/08/10 Ludwig, TruthOut, Dispersant Disaster: A Closer Look at BP's Toxic Solution
6/08/10 Hjalmarson, Kentucky.com, Massey goes on the offensive, criticizes MSHA in letter to governors
6/08/10 Reuters, Hungary government likely ditches pension fund move: report
6/08/10 Dash, NYT, Fed Finding Status Quo in Bank Pay
6/08/10 Bengali, McClatchy,
6/08/10 Mui, WP, As growth in U.S. slows, Wal-Mart puts more emphasis on foreign stores
6/08/10 Lustgarten & Knutson, WP, Reports at BP over years find history of problems
6/08/10 BBC, EU 'to respect national sovereignty on bail-outs'
June 7, 2010
6/07/10 MacDonald, AP, Surging Costs Hit Food Security in Poorer Nations
6/07/10 Illis, Charges of Whitewashing Cloud Mine Safety Investigations
6/07/10 Brennan, WSWS, Behind the Gulf oil crisis: Big Oil extends its political influence
6/07/10 Conant, AlterNet, Outrage as PG&E Plans to Spray Clouds With Toxic Chemical to Increase Rainfall
6/07/10 Wang, ProPublica, Gulf Judges' Oil Ties May Present Conflicts of Interest
6/07/10 Eggen, WP, New bonds to help cash-strapped states also benefiting Wall Street
6/07/10 Wyatt, NYT, Countrywide Settles Fee Complaint
6/07/10 McClatchy, What Congress was told Monday about the BP Gulf oil spill
6/07/10 Schoof & Bolstad, McClatchy, BP oil spill seems certain to surpass minimum estimates
6/07/10 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman Sachs gets subpoena for records on financial crash
6/07/10 BBC, Journey to centre of oil spill operation
6/07/10 BBC, German cabinet backs Merkel fiscal austerity plan
6/07/10 BBC, Nordea bank ditches BP stake over oil spill
6/07/10 BBC, The IMF has urged tough action on Europe's debt crisis
6/07/10 BBC, Bhopal gas leak convictions not enough, say campaigners
6/08/10 Dickinson, Rolling Stone, The Spill, The Scandal and the President
6/07/10 BBC, Hungary government clarifies Greek crisis comments
6/07/10 BBC, Banned GM maize sown in Germany
June 6, 2010
6/06/10 Friedman, BP Buys 'Oil' Search Terms to Redirect Users to Official Company Website
6/06/10 Doward, Observer, GM Lobby Helped Draw Up Crucial Report on Britain's Food Supplies
6/06/10 BBC, 'More pain' and job cuts for Scottish economy
June 5, 2010
6/05/10 Seitz-Wald, Think Progress, BP And Halliburton Build Legal Teams, Attempt To Buy Off Government Officials
6/05/10 Palast, Dandelion Salad, There's another BP oil spill (video)
June 4, 2010
6/04/10 Bolstad, McClatchy, BP Looks to Profit from Oil Salvaged from Gushing Well
6/04/10 Boone & Johnson, Baseline Scenario, French Connection: The Eurozone Crisis Worsens Sharply
6/04/10 Macalister, Guardian, BP hives off 'toxic' Gulf spill operation to dilute anti-British feeling in US
6/04/10 BBC, BP chairman says dividend decision will be in July
June 3, 2010
6/03/10 Sadowski, Catholic news Service, Monsanto's 475-ton Seed Donation Challenged by Haitian Peasants
6/03/10 Wang, ProPublica, BP, Prior to Gulf Accident, Said Measuring Oil
6/03/10 Mencimer, MoJo, BP Oil Spill: A Slippery Slope to FEMA Detention Camps?
6/03/10 Wearden, Guardian, Gulf oil spill: BP lacked the right tools to deal with crisis, chief executive admits
6/03/10 Macalister & Webb, Guardian, Gulf oil spill: BP to go ahead with $10bn shareholder payout
6/03/10 Nadal, FPIF, Gulf Oil Spill: America's Chernobyl
6/03/10 Kurczy, CSM, Top 10 military spending nations; oil countries post biggest jumps this decade
June 2, 2010
6/02/10 Hightower, AlterNet, Who the Hell's in Charge Here? BP Disaster Caused by a Nasty Mix of Government Impotence and Corporate Rule
6/02/10 Wang, ProPublica, Under Cheney's Influence, Wyoming's Oil Ties Flooded MMS
6/02/10 Gram, AP, Radioactive Fish Near Vt. Nuke Plant Deemed Common
6/02/10 Federman, Earth Island Journal, The Upper Delaware's Last Stand: Threat of Gas Drilling Earns River Most Endangered Status
6/02/10 Johnson, Progressive, BP oil spill again severely affects people of color
6/02/10 Crooks, FT, BP 'not prepared' for deep-water spill
6/022/10 Ghista, IntelDaily, Crushing Exploitation of the European People - But For How Long?
6/02/10 Carter, AlterNet, Rating Agencies, Warren Buffett and Corruption
6/02/10 Mufson & Vargas, WP, BP loses 15 percent of market value as U.S. launches criminal probe of spill
6/01/10 Pender, Biloxi Sun-Herald, Oil hits Petit Bois Island
6/02/20 Rudolph, NYT, Deep Underwater, Oil Threatens Reefs
6/02/10 Kenney, ITT, Weekend Warrior Bootcamp
6/02/10 CNN, As oil slick spreads to other states, BP works to put cap over well
6/02/10 BBC, Warren Buffett to face US Congress crisis inquiry
June 1, 2010
6/01/10 Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute, Deepwater Horizon and the Technology, Economics, and Environmental Impacts of Resource Depletion
6/01/10 WSWS, Public meetings in Australia discuss new stage of global crisis
6/01/10 Knutson & Wang, A Mystery: When Did Gov't Exempt Gulf Drilling from Detailed Enviro Reviews?
6/01/10 Reuters, U.S. fights Transocean's bid to limit liability
6/01/10 Bolstad & Clark, McClatchy, Gulf oil spill now a criminal investigation, Holder says
6/01/10 Mcgreal, Guardian, BP clashes with scientists over deep sea oil pollution
6/01/10 Pilkington, Guardian, Storm warning for Deepwater Horizon oil spill clean-up
5/31/10 CNN, Lawmaker disputes BP's claims about underwater oil
6/01/10 Harp, CNN, Spill response leader: 'Touch and go' through hurricane season
6/01/10 Madslien, BBC, World military spending soars in spite of recession
May 30, 2010
5/30/10 Morris, MoJo, Tuvalu v. ExxonMobil?
5/30/10 Sapien & Kessler, ProPublica, Tainted Chinese Drywall Concerns Went Unreported for Two Years
5/30/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Regulatory Capture Underground and At Sea
May 27, 2010
5/27/10 Scahill, Nation, DoD Investigating Nine Cases of "Terrorism-Related Acts" by US Military and Contractors?
5/27/10 Thill, AlterNet, Are Goldman Sachs and the Megabanks Able to Wipe out an Entire Economy with a Keystroke?
5/27/10 Perdomo, AlterNet, 10 Things You Need (But Don't Want) To Know About the BP Oil Spill
5/27/10 Al Jazeera, Indonesia declares logging halt
5/26/10 Powers & Simons, LAT, Rig mechanic says BP was in a rush despite problems
5/27/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, So Damn Little Money
5/27/10 Askari & Krichene, Asia Times, Central banks - crisis creators
5/27/10 BBC, Taiwan iPhone-maker Foxconn suffers another death
5/27/10 Mason, BBC, Will Europeans accept a generation of 'austerity'?
May 26, 2010
5/26/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, The Last Hold Out: Senator Blanche Lincoln Against 13 Bankers
5/26/10 Urbina, NYT, BP Used Riskier Method to Seal Well Before Blast
5/26/10 Wang, ProPublica, Read Congressional Memo That Confirms Warning Signs Before Rig Explosion
5/26/10 Fahrenthold, WP, Report shows close ties between rig inspectors, oil industry
5/25/10 Conniff, Progressive, EPA Should Ban BP
5/26/10 Reuters, Bernanke makes case for Fed independence
5/26/10 Cruz & Cart, LAT, Oil cleanup workers report illness
5/26/10 Simon & Leovy, LAT, BP reports warning signs before gulf oil rig explosion
5/26/10 Belsie, CSM, World debt crisis: eight reasons you should care
May 25, 2010
5/25/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Regulation vs. Structural Change
5/25/10 Scahill, Nation, Pentagon Seeks Private Contractor to Move Weapons Through Pakistan/Afghanistan
5/25/10 Mufson, WP, Pressure to save time, money may have contributed to oil disaster
5/25/10 Bolstad, McClatchy, Gulf well 'shouted' warnings for hours before BP rig explosion
5/25/10 Taylor & Shashank, McClatchy, Experts: Legal issues driving BP's oil spill stance
5/25/10 BBC, Gulf spill: BP reveals oil spill probe details
5/24/10 Juhasz, Guardian, How Far Should We Let Big Oil Go?
5/25/10 Eilperin, WP, U.S. oil drilling regulator ignored experts' red flags on environmental risks
5/25/10 Geiger & Hamburger, LAT, Oil companies have a rich history of U.S. subsidies
5/25/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Gulf oil spill: White House orders BP to cut use of dispersant by half
5/25/10 CNN, Patience runs thin as BP preps untested maneuver to cap oil leak
5/25/10 BBC, Global stock markets see sharp falls
May 24, 2010
5/24/10 BBC, In graphics: Eurozone in crisis
5/24/10 Farrell, FT, US Justice Department ends AIG probe
5/24/10 McNulty, FT, BP offers $500m for damage study
5/24/20 Stein, WP, FDA considers endorsement of drug that some call a Viagra for women
5/24/10 Reuters, U.S. declares fishery disaster in 3 Gulf states
5/24/10 Fountain, NYT, Expert Is Confident About Sealing Oil Well
5/24/10 CNN, Mixed messages as frustration mounts over Gulf oil spill
5/24/10 Kanter, NYT, New Plans Try to Revive Carbon Trading
5/24/10 Krauss & Zeller, NYT, A Behind-the-Scenes Firm in the Spotlight
5/24/10 Urbina, NYT, Inspector General's Inquiry Faults Regulators
5/24/10 Kansas.com, Wal-Mart employee foils a shoplifter -- and loses her job
5/24/10 McClelland, MoJo, "It's BP's Oil"
May 23, 2010
5/23/10 Reuters, U.S. Says Must Rely on BP to Stop Oil Spill in Gulf
5/23/10 Stephens, WP, Nature Conservancy faces potential backlash from ties with BP
5/23/10 McNulty, FT, Energy groups warned over accidents
5/23/10 Boone & Johnson, Baseline Scenario, The Road To Economic Serfdom
5/23/10 Urbina, NYT, Despite Obama's Moratorium, Drilling Projects Move Ahead
5/23/10 Dash & Schwartz, NYT, As Reform Takes Shape, Some Relief on Wall St. (Size and power left intact)
5/23/10 Bengali, McClatchy, Thad Allen: Only BP has expertise to stop oil spill
5/23/10 Levoy, LAT, Oil spill caused by 'a confluence of unfortunate events'
5/23/10 BBC, US warns it may 'push BP aside' on Gulf oil clean-up
May 22, 2010
5/22/10 CNN, BP won't change dispersant used in oil spill -- for now
May 21, 2010
5/21/10 Clark, Guardian, Barack Obama hails vote on tightening regulation of Wall Street's banks
5/21/10 Lustgarten, ProPublica, EPA Officials Weigh Sanctions Against BP's U.S. Operations
5/21/10 Wood, PSL, Documents show corporations plan to axe employee health care
5/21/10 Free, FPIF, Multinational Oil, The US and Nigeria: A Crude Contrast
5/21/10 BBC, Niger's hungry 'crossing into Nigeria'
5/21/10 Netto, IPS, Encroaching Forest, Oil Palm Plantations Alarm Villagers
5/21/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Chomsky's Nightmare: Is Fascism Coming to America?
May 20, 2010
5/20/10 Urbina, NYT, Conflict of Interest Worries Raised in Spill Tests
5/20/10 Taylor, McClatchy, Low estimate of oil spill's size could save BP millions in court
5/20/10 Muskal, LAT, Gulf oil spill: EPA orders BP to use less toxic dispersant
5/20/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Deepwater Horizon survivor describes horrors of blast and escape from rig
5/20/10 Curcio, FPIF, Plugging Africa's Leak
5/20/10 BBC, BP has fallen short in providing oil leak data, says US
5/20/10 AP, Stocks Extend a Steep Slide on Concern Over Europe
5/20/10 CNN, BP touts containment efforts; heavy oil reaches Louisiana wetlands
5/20/10 CNN, Hopes pinned on Sunday attempt to stop Gulf oil leak
5/20/10 Madsen, WMR, White House Covers Up Menacing Oil "Blob"
5/20/10 BBC, Bank reforms outlined by government
5/20/10 BBC, Dubai World agrees debt deal with key banks
May 19, 2010
5/19/10 Haven, AP, US and Cuba hold talks on oil spill
5/19/10 BBC, Thousands protest over Romania austerity measures
5/19/10 BBC, Gulf oil now in powerful Loop Current, scientists say
5/29/10 Schulte et al, The Other Foreclosure Menace Mortgage Paid Off, Woman Loses Home -- Over a Small Water Bill
5/19/10 Brock, Reuters, Africa's Oil Spills Are Far From U.S. Media Glare
5/19/10 Leopold, TruthOut, How Bush's DOJ Killed a Criminal Probe Into BP That Threatened to Net Top Officials
5/19/10 Cho, WP, Bank loophole for Wall Street remains in financial regulation bill
5/19/10 Al Jazeera, Markets hit by German measures
5/19/10 Goldfarb, WP, SEC proposes rules to prevent another 'flash crash'
5/19/10 Gillis, NYT, Scientists Fault Lack of Studies Over Gulf Oil Spill
5/19/10 Yardley, NYT, Arctic Drilling Proposal Advanced Amid Concern
5/19/10 Schoof, McClatchy, Gulf oil spill leak now pegged at 95,000 barrels a day
5/19/10 Schooff & French, Gulf oil spill may be 19 times bigger than originally thought
5/19/10 Sheppard, MoJo, Why Is the EPA Letting BP Use Dirty Dispersants?
5/19/10 Bybee, ITT, Regulate or Capitulate
5/19/10 Boehm & Sahagun, LAT, BP oil spill poses PR dilemma for nonprofits
5/18/10 EDIE, Nestlé makes palm oil sustainability pledge
5/19/10 BBC, Chipmakers fined by EU for price-fixing
May 18, 2010
5/18/10 Goldstein, NPR, Private Equity Titans Look To Beat New Tax Rule
5/18/10 Wang, ProPublica, In Gulf Spill, BP Using Dispersants Banned in U.K.
5/18/10 Kiel, ProPublica, Chase Leaves Thousands Stuck in Loan Mod Limbo
5/18/10 Burkart, MNN, Coast Guard and BP threaten journalists with arrest for documenting oil spill
5/18/10 Schulte, Huffington, Investors Made Millions from People Facing Eviction
5/18/10 Al Jazeera, US commission to probe oil spill
5/18/10 Gorman, Reuters, Oil spill threatens way of life on Louisiana bayou
5/18/10 Yang, WP, GE and other manufacturers back exemption in financial regulation bill
5/18/10 Yardley, NYT, Shell Offers Reassurances on Drilling
5/18/10 Chang, Miami Herald, Tar balls found along shore in Key West
5/18/10 Zimonjic, IPS, 'How Did We Become So Poor?'
5/18/10 Chakraboty, Guardian, Are the markets our new religion?
5/18/10 BBC, Australia's Macarthur Coal snubs Peabody takeover bid
5/18/10 Spencer, BBC, Daily View: Thailand protests
5/18/10 McClatchy, BP withholds oil spill facts -- and government lets it
5/18/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Atlantic coast now under threat as current spreads Gulf oil slick
May 17, 2010
5/17/10 Wang, ProPublica, BP Turns Down Offers to Better Measure Gulf Disaster
5/17/10 Thill, AlterNet, Brace Yourself: This Is the Tip of the Iceberg for Oil-Induced Enviro Catastrophes
5/17/10 Pilkington, Guardian, Submerged Oil Plumes Suggest Gulf Spill Is Worse Than BP Claims
5/17/10 Smallheer, Rutland, Tritium Leak Poses Question for Integrity of NRC
5/17/10 CNN, Oil spill response to be assessed on Capitol Hill
May 16, 2010
5/15/10 DeGraw, PublicRecord, The Financial Oligarchy Reigns: Democracy's Death Spiral From Greece to the United States
5/16/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The Cost of "Multitasking"
5/16/10 Knudson, McClatchy, Quest for oil leaves trail of damage across the globe
May 15, 2010
5/15/10 Goddard, Telegraph, BP Accused of Using Gulf of Mexico as 'Toxic Testing-Ground'
5/15/10 Schneider, WP, European countries feel the pain as cuts keep coming
May 14, 2010
5/14/10 Wang, ProPublica, Gulf Oil Spill Update: Way Worse Than They Told Us
5/14/10 Cardinale, IPS, Ecosystem in Peril after Gulf Oil Spill
5/14/10 White, WSWS, US media demands Greek-style austerity for American workers
5/14/10 Eley, WSWS, What caused the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon?
5/14/10 Thompson-Burns, PSL, Microloans: Charity or exploitation?
5/14/10 Eilperin, WP, MMS ignores environmental permits
May 13, 2010
5/13/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Senator Kaufman Was Right - Our Financial System Has Become Dangerous
5/13/10 Carter, AlterNet, America's Ten Most Corrupt Capitalists
5/13/10 Dennis, WP, Senate votes to keep small banks under Federal Reserve's oversight
5/13/10 Mui, WP, Wal-Mart pledges $2 billion in food and grants to fight hunger
5/13/10 Eilperin, WP, White House, BP unprepared for relationship in wake of oil spill
5/13/10 Goncalves, Reuters, Portugal agrees on new austerity measures
5/13/10 Reuters, Senate votes to boost regulation of credit agencies
5/13/10 Weaver, Guardian, Obama to force BP to pay more cleanup costs for Deepwater disaster
5/13/10 Kollewe, Guardian, Wall Street banks investigated over misleading mortgage securities
5/13/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Oil Firms Ignored Warning Signs Before Blast, Inquiry Hears
5/13/10 Mufson, WP, Owner of gulf oil drilling rig tries to limit liability for spill
5/13/10 Urbina, NYT, U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits
5/13/10 Bluemink, ADN, Shell tweaks Arctic oil spill safeguards
5/13/10 Becerra, LAT, Homeboy Industries lays off most employees as financial woes worsen
5/13/10 Hall, McClatchy, Senate takes steps to put limits on credit-rating agencies
5/13/10 BBC, Eight banks face US investigation
May 12, 2010
5/12/10 Eley, WSWS, US Senate begins oil spill cover-up
5/12/10 Shachtman, Wired, Unlimited Talk, Only $679 Million: Inside the No-Bid Deal for Afghan Interpreters
5/12/10 Cornwell, Reuters, U.S. gave contracts to 7 firms involved in Iran energy
5/12/10 Reccio et al, McClatchy, Oil spill: BP had wrong diagram to close blowout preventer
May 11, 2010
5/11/10 Wang, ProPublica, After Spill, More Gulf Drilling Plans Got Environmental Exemptions
5/11/10 Goldfarb, WP, Last week's market dive largely caused by major Wall St. firms, SEC chief says
5/11/10 Wang, ProPublica, Despite Known Instances of Equipment Failure, BP Says Spill 'Seemed Inconceivable'
5/11/10 Bolstad, McClatchy, Agency that oversees offshore drilling to be split by Obama administration
5/11/10 BBC, Oil firms 'set to clash in US Senate' over rig disaster
May 10, 2010
5/10/10 Wang, ProPublica, Regulators Let Industry Drill Deeper, Despite Safety Concerns and Unproven Fixes
5/10/10 Kishore, WSWS, Obama administration blocked efforts to stop BP oil drilling before explosion
5/10/10 Wardell, AP, BP says oil spill cost $350 million so far
5/10/10 Bolstad, McClatchy, BP, Transocean, Halliburton will blame one another for spill
5/10/10 Reuters, Fannie Mae says long-term financial sustainability uncertain
5/10/10 Kroll, MoJo, BP: From Oil Spilling to Financial Reform Killing
5/10/10 Gardner, CNN, Are too many people taking heartburn drugs?
May 9, 2010
5/09/10 Bowley & Wyatt, NYT, Computer Trades Are Focus in Wall Street Plunge
May 8, 2010
5/08/10 Taylor, McClatchy, Since Spill, Feds Have Given 27 Waivers to Oil Companies in Gulf
5/08/10 Rothacker, Charlotte Observer, Bank of America executive gets attention for e-mails
5/08/10 Mouawad, NYT, For BP, a History of Spills and Safety Lapses
May 7, 2010
5/07/10 Wang, ProPublica, Offshore Drilling Regulators Had Concerns, but Let Industry Self-Police
5/07/10 BBC, AIG returns to profit thanks to investment arm
5/07/10 Celente, IntelDaily, The Crash of 2010: The Bailout Bubble is Bursting
5/07/10 Al Jazeera, Ecuador water law sparks protests
5/07/10 Saslow & Fahrenthold, WP, Oil riggers on ship that exploded in Gulf of Mexico describe fateful night
5/07/10 Kroll, MoJo, Why Didn't Obama Back Busting Up Big Banks?
May 6, 2010
5/06/10 Wang, ProPublica, Gulf Oil Spill FAQ: What Happened, What May Have Caused it, and Who's Responsible
5/06/10 Kunzleman & Pienciak, AP, Feds Let BP Avoid Filing Blowout Plan for Gulf Rig
5/06/10 Fox, Reuters, Report: Environmentally Induced Cancer Grossly Underestimated
5/06/10 Simon & Martin, CNN, Alaska fishermen still struggling 21 years after Exxon spill
5/06/10 Drawbaugh, Reuters, Senate backs plan attacking "too big to fail"
5/06/10 Hargreaves, CNN, Oil spill costs: What will BP really pay?
5/06/10 BBC, Greece crisis: 'Contagion risk' for UK & Europe banks
May 5, 2010
5/05/10 Keim, Wired, Toxic Oil Dispersant Used in Gulf Despite Better Alternative
5/05/10 Singel, Wired, FCC Prepares to Re-Regulate Broadband Providers
5/05/10 Snyder, IntelDaily, Te Coming Economic Collapse Of Japan - And Why You Should Be Extremely Concerned About It
5/05/10 Ananda,IntelDaily, GM Biofuels: Another Planned Disaster
5/05/10 Messenger, WSWS, Global labour figures point to rising tide of joblessness
5/05/10 Kumar, WSWS, Indian coal workers to strike against privatisation
5/05/10 Lovley, Politico, Obama Biggest Recipient of BP Cash
5/05/10 Al Jazeera, Greek demonstrations turn deadly
5/05/10 Conniff, Progressive, Time to Prosecute Corporate Criminals at Massey, BP
5/05/10 Welton, OpEd News, Globalization Is the Contagion: On the Idiocy of Interdependency
5/05/10 Guardian, Shell reports record oil spillages in Nigeria
May 4, 2010
5/04/10 Mackenzie, FT, Derivatives boost NYSE profit
5/04/10 Grim HuffingtonPost, Fed Privately Lobbying Against Audit, Documents Show
5/04/10 Wang, ProPublica, Oil Companies Pay a Pittance in Penalties to Offshore Drilling Regulator
5/04/10 Hausner, NYT, Shares Slide and Euro Hits Low Over Debt Crisis
5/04/10 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Were US Special Forces Involved in the Arrest of Faisal Shahzad?
5/04/10 Wang, ProPublica, Nonprofit Conservation Group Has Ties to Oil Interests, Gulf Oil Spill
5/04/10 Kiel, ProPublica, Disorganization at Banks Causing Mistaken Foreclosures
5/04/10 Scahill, Nation, Secret Erik Prince/Blackwater Tape Exposed
5/04/10 Heath, CommonDreams, Too Big to Jail?
5/04/10 Eilperin, WP, Oil spill concerns turn to compensation
5/04/10 Chomsky, ITT, Rustbelt Rage
May 3, 2010
5/03/10 Reich, TruthOut, Why Public Education Is More Important Than Wall Street, and What We Must Do
5/03/10 Smith, Star-Telegram, Energy experts disagree on whether gulf oil spill will lead to higher gas prices
5/03/10 Todd, CNN, BP to try unprecedented engineering feat to stop oil spill
May 2, 2010
5/02/10 Pilkington, Guardian, Barack Obama flies in to meet BP chief over Deepwater Horizon oil spill
5/02/10 BBC, Greece must make 'great sacrifices' for bail-out deal
5/02/10 AP, Continental and United to combine to form world's largest carrier, sources say
5/02/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Gulf oil spill growing exponentially? A tiny taste of what's to come for planet.
May 1, 2010
5/01/10 Hamberger, Tribune, Prosecutors investigating coal company
5/01/10 Mason, Reuters, Obama calls for limits on corporate campaign money
5/01/10 Burdreau & Mohr, AP, Document: BP didn't plan for major oil spill
5/01/10 BBC, Pressure mounts on British oil giant to tackle slick
5/01/10 de la Merced, NYT, Buffett Offers Support of Goldman at Meeting
5/01/10 DeGroot, OpenLeft, Is it time to set limits on "limited liability" for corporations?
5/01/10 Lieber, Star-Telegram, Texas is the 'Wild West' of life settlement industry
April 30, 2010
04/20/10 MarketWatch, 7 bank failures take bite out of FDIC deposit fund
4/30/10 Grant, FT, ICE snaps up Climate Exchange for £395m
4/30/10 Video: Exponential Growth Meets Reality (must see)
4/30/10 BBc, Goldman Sachs 'facing criminal charges'
4/20/10 Russian Times, Outsourcing Security Greases Corporate Warmongering
April 29, 2010
4/29/10 Macan-Markar, IPS, Pressure Mounts on Energy Giant Chevron to Disclose Revenue
4/29/10 Al Jazeera, IMF fears debt crisis 'contagion'
4/29/10 Singletary, WP, Students trapped in private loans, with no bankruptcy protection
4/29/10 Reruters, Goldman set to settle SEC fraud case soon: report
4/29/10 AP, Exxon Profit Up 38% as Oil Prices Rise
4/29/10 Lee, LAT, Greece's fiscal woes threaten the U.S.
4/29/10 Kaiser, U.S. Lawmakers Reach Trade Deal To Help Haiti; News Outlets Examine Health Care, Housing
4/29/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Update on ABACUS
4/29/10 Ames, AlterNet, 10 Ways the American Economy Is Built on Fraud
4/29/10 Wang, ProPublica, Banks Pressured Credit Agencies, Then Blamed Them
4/29/10 Wang, ProPublica, Gulf Oil Spill Puts Spotlight on Regulator With Mixed Record
4/29/10 Lustgarten, ProPublica, BP Had Other Problems in Years Leading to Gulf Spill
4/29/10 Dash, NYT, Puerto Rican Lenders Face Their Own Crisis
4/29/10 Hall, McClatchy, In another Wall Street misdeed, Morgan Stanley settles oil-trading flap
4/29/10 Kroll, MoJo, Did Goldman's Ex-Mortgage Guru Lie Under Oath?
4/29/10 Makan-Markar, IPS, Pressure Mounts on Energy Giant Chevron to Disclose Revenue
April 28, 2010
4/28/10 Lindorff, PublicRecord, The Stupidity of Obama's Drill-Drill-Drill Offshore Oil Policy
4/28/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, ABACUS: A Synthetic, Synthetic CDO
4/28/10 Pal, Progressive, Greece Shows Us the Ugly Face of Globalization
4/28/10 Rampell, NYT, Where the Bonuses Are Biggest
4/28/10 Lichtblau & Dash, NYT, Goldman and Its Lobbyists Spurned in Finance Fight
4/28/10 Vogt, Money & Markets, A Clear Warning Sign: Global Liquidity Is Drying Up!
4/28/10 Souzzi, IPS, Protesters Call Dam Project a "Disaster" for Brazil's Native Communities
4/28/10 Pressly, BBC, Can free market economics boost Amazonian land rights?
4/28/10 BBC, Greece's 'death spiral'
4/28/10 Thomas, NYT, As Debt Fears Grow, Finance Ministers to Meet in Europe
4/28/10 Girion, LAT, WellPoint and Blue Shield of Calif. to stop dropping sick policyholders
4/28/10 BBC, Royal Dutch Shell profits up 50% on oil price
April 27, 2010
4/27/10 Graham, Reuters, S&P cuts Greek debt to junk, downgrades Portugal
4/27/10 AP, Stocks pull back on Europe's deepening debt woes
4/27/10 Kryt, ITT, Return of the Death Squads
4/27/10 Kleit, CNN, Coal, oil and the price we're willing to pay
4/27/10 BBC, Spending cuts to be deepest since 1970s, IFS says
4/27/10 Knight, BBC, Have Goldman Sachs charges opened floodgates?
April 26, 2010
4/26/10 Berger, IPS, Monsanto's GM Crops Go to US High Court, Environmental Laws on the Line
4/26/10 Lux, OpenLeft, Relying on the big banks to save the economy
4/26/10 Zelitzer, CNN, Washington has always helped set rules for Wall Street
4/26/10 Baldauf, CSM, Sudan 101: Could Sudan's oil resources solve its problems? ... Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
April 25, 2010
4/25/10 Anthony, Guardian, Does humanitarian aid prolong wars?
4/25/10 Macalister, Guardian, Revealed: Goldman Sachs 'made fortune betting against clients'
April 24, 2010
4/24/10 Waas, Reuters, WellPoint Routinely Targets Breast Cancer Patients
4/24/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, The Sickening Abuse Of Power At The Heart of Wall Street
4/24/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, The Sickening Abuse Of Power At The Heart of Wall Street
4/24/10 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman executives: We made money betting against mortgage market
April 23, 2010
4/23/10 Moberg, ITT, Foreclosed Dreams
4/23/10 Gatsiounis, CSM, Unlike other African nations, Uganda aims to dodge 'oil curse'
April 22, 2010
4/22/10 Wang, ProPublica, The Homeowners Whose Loss Was Paulson's $1 Billion in Gain
4/22/10 Scheer, TruthOut, Goldman Plays, We Pay
4/22/10 Reuters, Goldman underwrote, invested in Lloyds refinance: report
4/22/10 Nixon, NYT, U.S. Lists Companies Aiding Iran's Energy Projects
4/22/10 Thomas, NYT, A Routine Deal Became an $840 Million Mistake
4/22/10 Elliott, TPM, Rent-A-Front: New Group Wages Stealth Battle Against Wall Street Reform
4/22/10 Goldenberg, Guardian, Chemical Industry Front Groups Look to Undermine EPA
April 21, 2010
4/21/10 Scahill, RebelReports, Firm Run by Ex-Israeli Special Forces Soldier Wants US Security Contracts in Jerusalem, Iraq, Afghanistan
4/21/10 Dennis & Kane, WP, Senate committee approves derivatives oversight bill
4/21/10 Martin, Conservative Examiner, Massive government corruption hidden by focus on Goldman-Sachs
April 19, 2010
4/19/10 Fahrenthold et al, WP, Mine blast means new realities for West Virginia Democrats in Congress
4/19/10 Calvan & Reese, SacBee, California's higher hospital costs add to health insurance hikes
4/19/10 Dash, NYT, After 2 Years of Losses, Citi Reports Profit of $4.4 Billion
4/19/10 Thompson, MoJo, Betting on Change
4/19/10 Treanor, Guardian, City watchdog launches Goldman Sachs investigation
April 18, 2010
4/18/10 Lakhani, Independent, Gore Takes Cash for Water Campaign from Chemical Firm
4/18/10 Wagner, AP, Goldman Case Is Likely Tip of the Legal Iceberg
4/18/110 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Goldman Sachs: Too Big To Obey The Law
4/18/10 PublicRecord, Taibbi Discusses SEC Suit Against 'Great Vampire Squid' Known As Goldman Sachs
4/18/10 Story, NYT, Top Leaders at Goldman Had a Role in Mortgage Unit
April 17, 2010
4/17/10 Williams, Guardian, Too Much, too Young? Retailers Still Selling Over-Sexualized Clothing to Kids
4/17/10 Mazetti & Risen, DeepJournal, U.S. Indicts 5 Blackwater Ex-Officials
April 16, 2010
4/16/10 Connor, AlterNet, How Bubble Barons Protected Their Influence While the Economy Tanked
4/16/10 Wright, Nation, Regulators Who Ignored WaMu's Predatory Lending
April 15, 2010
4/14/10 Claiborne et all, ABC News, Report Says Contaminated Meat Is in Supermarkets
4/15/10 Whitwell, Times, Obama's Efforts to Foster Harmony on Wall St Reform Erupts into Warfare
4/07/10 Litan, Brookings, The Derivatives Dealers' Club and Derivatives Markets Reform: A Guide for Policy Makers, Citizens and Other Interested Parties
4/15/10 Calefati, MoJo, Steal This Country - Congo and Coltan
April 14, 2010
4/14/10 McFarquhar, NYT, Big Banks Draw Profits From Microloans to Poor
4/14/10 Clark, Guardian, JP Morgan makes $2.4bn on Wall St but heavy losses at retail banks
4/14/10 Carroll, Guardian, Coca Colla: the new 'real thing' in Bolivia
April 13, 2010
4/13/10 Conniff, Progressive, The Big Lie About Bank Reform
4/13/10 Hoyos, FT, Shell defends Athabasca plan
April 12, 2010
4/12/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America
4/12/10 Snyder, IntelDaily, Whistle Blower Comes Forward With Solid Proof The Price Of Gold And Silver Is Being Manipulated By Major Financial Institutions
April 10, 2010
4/10/10 Grey, WSWS, Miners doomed by collusion between regulators and coal companies
4/10/10 South Fl. Bus. Jrnl, Study: Cost-Savings of Private Prisons Doubted
4/10/10 Barrionuevo, NYT, Tribes of Amazon Find an Ally Out of 'Avatar'
4/10/10 WSWS, Miners speak on safety violations at Upper Big Branch Mine
April 9, 2010
4/09/10 Lindorff, PublicRecord, Massey Energy Purchased Workers Comp Ins. Shortly Before Mine Explosion
4/09/10 Wang, ProPublica, Fannie Execs Blame Failure on Company's 'Impossible' Dual Purpose
4/09/10 Eisinger & Bernstein, ProPublica, The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going
4/09/10 Martin, NYT, As a Hiring Filter, Credit Checks Draw Questions
4/09/10 Reuters, Major US Banks Masked Risk Levels: Report
April 8, 2010
4/08/10 Sahoo, IPS, Lucrative KBR Contracts Unaffected by Troop Drawdown
4/08/10 Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, Sovereign debt crisis at 'boiling point', warns Bank for International Settlements
April 7, 2010
4/07/10 Dawber, Independent, Total charged with corruption over Iraqi oil-for-food project
April 6, 2010
4/06/10 Allen, ITT, Offshoring Human Drug Trials
4/06/10 Black, BBC, Turtles killed 'in millions' by fishing gear
April 4, 2010
4/04/10 Johnson, Huffington, Jamie Dimon: The Most Dangerous Man In America
4/04/10 Reich, RobertReich.com, Greenspan, Summers, and Why the Economy Is So Out of Whack
April 2, 2010
4/02/10 Nasipour, Huffington, Top Fed Official Wants To Break Up Megabanks, Stop The Fed From Guaranteeing Wall Street's Profits
4/02/10 Hall, McClatchy, What's Driving Up Oil Prices Again? Wall Street, Of Course
April 1, 2010
4/01/10 CNN, Obama energy plan would open Atlantic and Gulf drilling
4/01/10 WMUR, New Contamination Found At Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant
4/01/10 Bottari, Bankster.com, New Tally Focuses on Expansive Role of Federal Reserve in Wall Street Bailout
March 30, 2010
3/30/10 Vaidyanathan, NYT, A Race to Introduce GM Corn Before Africa's Climate Worsens
3/30/10 Kroll, MoJo, JPMorgan's War on Nature
March 29, 2010
3/29/10 AP, Big Pharma Wins Big With Health Care Reform Bill
3/29/10 AP, Treasury says it will begin selling Citi shares
3/29/10 Schwartz & Pollack, NYT, Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent
3/29/10 Ward, MoJo, Welcome to Glennbeckistan
March 28, 2010
3/28/10 Harris, NYT, Scientists Say F.D.A. Ignored Radiation Warnings
3/28/10 Pear, NYT, Coverage Now for Sick Children? Check Fine Print
3/28/10 Hernandez, NYT, Stocks Soar, but Many Analysts Ask Why
March 26, 2010
3/26/10 Woodall Et al, Toyota warned dealers of crash risk in 2007
3/26/10 Kunichoff, TruthOut, Treasury Blacklists Mexican Drug Gangs
March 25, 2010
3/25/10 Barnes, CSM, US healthcare reform is boon for India outsourcing companies
3/25/10 Ivory, Huffington, Nation's Largest Private Water Utility Joins Lawsuit Against Herbicide Maker
3/25/10 Jarvis, Star-Telegram, Crowley newborn with heart defect is denied insurance coverage
3/25/10 Weinstein, MoJo, KBR Bills $5 Million For Mechanics Who Work 43 Minutes a Month
3/25/10 Aziz, FPIF, Ghosts Threaten to Return to Haiti
March 24, 2010
3/24/10 Goldstein, NPR, Corporate America's $33 Billion Tax Refund
March 23, 2010
3/23/10 Burgis, FT, Mining money fails to usher in golden era for Ghana
3/23/10 Chatterjee, MoJo, How Afghan Police Training Became a Train Wreck
3/23/10 Helfand & Petruno, LAT, Most major healthcare stocks rise modestly after House passes overhaul
March 22, 2010
3/22/10 Subler, Reuters, Fed to keep pro-growth policies: Chicago Fed chief
3/22/10 Corporate Crime Reporter, Whole Foods, United Natural Foods Muscle Suppliers to Boycott Consumer Group
3/22/10 Wang, ProPublic, Was Bank of America In on Repo 105-style Accounting Tricks?>A?
3/22/10 Collins, IntelDaily, Chris Dodd's wife and derivatives trading - "all in the family"
3/22/10 Randall, WSWS, An attack on health care in the guise of reform
3/22/10 Braithwaite, FT, Geithner warns US could lose regulation initiative
3/22/10 Pressley, Bloomberg, MIT's Johnson Says Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Will Spark New Crisis
3/22/10 Melzer, Michigan Messenger, Supreme Court refuses second request to close locks
3/22/10 Griffin & Kirkpatrock, CNN, Document: Toyota warned dealers of throttle surging in 2002
3/22/10 BBC, Indian state asks Coca-Cola to pay $47m compensation
March 21, 2010
3/19/10 Wutkowski, Reuters, FDIC Chief Sees 'Backdoor Bailouts' in Senate Bill
3/21/10 Irwin, WP, Bernanke presses case for Federal Reserve oversight of small banks
March 20, 2010
3/20/10 Groves, eep Journal, Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret
3/20/10 Jones, WSWS, Detroit Medical Center to be sold to for-profit hospital chain
3/20/10 Greenwald, AlterNet, Seven Years and a $747 Billion in Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Iraq
March 19, 2010
3/18/10 Gorman, Reuters, CNN veteran Christiane Amanpour moves to ABC News
3/19/10 Savinar, Life After the Crash, Blackrock, the Blackwater of the Financial System
March 18, 2010
3/18/10 Ray, The Register, FCC shows off spectrum map
3/18/10 Wang, ProPublica, Greenspan: Not My Fault
3/18/10 Schoof, McClatchy, Most Power Plants Still Spewing Toxic Mercury, Report Says
3/18/10 Brown, Yes!, The Growing Movement for Publicly Owned Banks
3/18/10 Harris, NYT, Tobacco Rule Proposed in '95 to Go Into Effect
3/18/10 Thomma, McClatchy, Insurance-rate regulation dropped from latest health bill
3/18/10 Solomon, CommonDreams, Zero Public Option + One Mandate = Disaster
3/18/10 Corn, MoJo, Why Won't Obama Get Tough on JPMorgan?
March 16, 2010
3/16/10 Zieminski, Reuters, Recession Left 'Walking Wounded' Workers
3/16/10 Martin, WSWS, US military created private spy and murder squad in Afghanistan
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
3/15/10 Hodge, Wired, Off-the-Books 'Jason Bournes' in Afghanistan?
3/15/10 Schwartz, NYT, Corporate Debt Coming Due May Squeeze Credit
March 14, 2010
3/14/10 DeepJournal, CIA's European Secrets: Black Site Prisons Investigated
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 AFP, Private Firms Line Up as Haiti Opens for Business
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 C