Uncommon Thought News: Corporate Hegemony Archives

4/29/08 Stein, WP, ,a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042801025.html">FDA Faulted for Approving Studies of Artificial Blood

4/29/08 WP, On the Margins in Mauritania

4/29/08 Morgan, WP, Emptying the Breadbasket

4/29/08 Malvern, Times Online, Authors take on Tesco 'tyrants' over Thai legal action

4/29/08 Foulkes, BBC, UN chiefs hold food crisis summit

4/29/08 Al Jazeera, Rising prices boost oil profits

4/29/08 Raja M, Asia TImes, India's inflation fans futures anger

4/29/08 ENS, UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis

April 28, 2008

4/28/08 AP, Iraqis Accuse Blackwater of Shredding Documents

4/28/08 Al Jazeera, US senate hosts Iraq fraud hearings

4/28/08 Dorfman, NT SUn, Gasoline May Soon Cost a Sawbuck

4/28/08 Faiola, WP, Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice

4/28/08 Ryan, ABC News, Global food crisis sparks US survivalist resurgence

4/28/08 Labaton, NYT, Loan Industry Fighting Rules on Mortgages

4/28/08 Samuelson, Newsweek, The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P

April 27, 2008

4/27/08 Faiola, WP, The New Economics of Hunger

4/27/08 McKie, Guardian, As the world begins to starve it's time to take GM seriously

4/27/08 Layton, WP, Studies on Chemical in Plastics Questioned

4/27/08 Lowenstein, NYT, Triple-A Failure - Home mortgage debacle

April 26, 2008

4/26/08 Resenthal, NYT, Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World

4/26/08 BBC, Oil firms in Nigeria cut output

4/26/08 Loyn, BBC, Punjab reaps a poisoned harvest

April 25, 2008

4/25/08 Eckholm, NYT, Cutoffs and Pleas for Aid Rise With Heat Costs

4/25/08 Basu, BBC, How to solve the global food crisis

4/25/08 Haughney, NYT, Pain of Foreclosures Spreads to the Affluent

April 24, 2008

4/24/08 Gralla, Reuters, Wall Street may lose 36,000 jobs

4/24/08 IPS, "Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe"

4/24/08 Waters, BBC, Stark warning for internet's future

4/24/08 McCrummen, WP, Across Congo, Freelance Miners Dig In Against Modern Industry

4/24/08 AP, House Panel Approves $15 Billion Foreclosure Bill

4/24/08 Clark et al, Guardian, Shops ration sales of rice as US buyers panic

4/24/08 Nakanishi, Reuters, GMO coupled with organic farms best for environment

April 23, 2008

4/23/08 Bimbaum & Cho, WP, Effort to Rein In Fannie, Freddie Gains Steam

4/23/08 Reuters, Republicans block pay discrimination bill

4/23/08 Salazar, IPS, ENVIRONMENT-PERU: US-Owned Smelter Fined for Pollution

4/23/08 Reuters, Ministers to discuss Arctic claims in Greenland

4/23/08 Ahmed, IPS, BANGLADESH: Hopes Pinned on Bumper Harvest

4/23/08 Jewell, AP, Liberty Mutual agrees to buy Safeco for $6.12 billion

4/23/08 ElBoughdhady, WP, Lenders Swamped by Delinquent Mortgages

4/23/08 Reuters, Balmer, Years of poor decisions created food crisis: FAO

4/23/08 Labaton, NYT, With Possible Newsday Deal, Murdoch Takes on F.C.C. Media Rule

4/23/08 Wallace, LAT, Rice price rise takes toll in Manila slum

4/23/08 Al Jazeera, UN: 300,000 may have died in Darfur

April 22, 2008

4/22/08 Monbiot, Guardian, The Most Potent Weapon Wielded by the Empires of Murdoch and China

4/22/08 Norrie, The Age, Japan's Hunger Becomes a Dire Warning for Other Nations

4/22/08 CNN, U.N. expert: Food crisis 'a silent tsunami'

4/22/08 Arend, WSJ, Load Up the Pantry

4/22/08 Brown, WP, Life Expectancy Drops for Some U.S. Women

4/22/08 Lipton, IHT, U.S. oil firms want Libya exempted from terrorism compensation law

4/22/08 Lovell, Reuters, Dearer food unleashes silent tsunami, U.N. says

4/22/08 Hiltzik, LAT, Lenders derail plan to let bankruptcy judges modify mortgages

4/22/08 Stratton, Guardian, Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN

4/22/08 BBC, Bush administration offers new fuel economy rules

4/22/08 CNN, Aid group to cut food ration to millions

4/22/08 BBC, Assessing the global food crisis

4/22/08 BBC, India rules out new farm debt aid

4/22/08 BBC, Nigerian oil sector to be probed

April 21, 2008

4/21/08 Lochhead, San Fran Chron., Farm Bill Complicates Plight of Honeybees

4/21/08 BBC, Africa plans biggest dam project

4/21/08 Wong, AP, Asian Development Bank: Biofuels making food more expensive

4/21/08 Quigley, Truthout, America's Role in Haiti's Hunger Riots

4/21/08 Gerstein, NY SUn, Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World

4/21/08 Cronin, IPS, EUROPE: Trade Policy Backs Western Firms

April 20, 2008

4/20/08 Reuters, Food price rises are "mass murder": U.N. envoy

4/20/08 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Will sale of copper producer affect pollution, asbestos claims?

4/20/08 Lean, Independent, Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth

4/20/08 Adelman, AP, Fertilizer Price Hikes Are Pinching Farmers

April 19, 2008

4/19/08 Kpodo, Reuters, Farm aid and fair trade key to food crisis: U.N.

4/19/08 Wallace, Wired, South Korean workers on edge of burnout

4/19/08 Loyn, BBc, WTO chief calls for aid rethink

April 18, 2008

4/18/08 Drawbaugh, Reuters, Congress moves to calm student loan turmoil

4/18/08 Crimmins, Reuters, Rice prices may calm but action still needed: expert

4/18/08 Landler, NYT, Iceland, a Tiny Dynamo, Loses Steam

4/18/08 Olsen, IPS, RIGHTS: Tanzanian Farmers Face Eviction

4/18/08 Osborne, Guardian, Mixed mortgage market 'set to worsen'

4/18/08 Ahn & GRAIN, FPIF, Food Safety on the Butcher's Block

4/18/08 Lacey, NYT, Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger

4/18/08 BBC, Citigroup sees second giant loss

4/18/08 Al Jazeera, Nigeria Shell pipeline 'sabotaged'

April 17, 2008

4/17/08 Murray, BusinessGreen, Stern Admits Report "Badly Underestimated" Climate Change Risks

4/17/08 Kinsbury, WSJ, Citi Unit Curbs Student Loans

4/17/08 Smith, CSM, Nigeria deploys troops in oil-rich Bayelsa

4/17/08 NY Times, Merrill Reports Big Loss, Plans 4,000 Layoffs

4/17/08 Treanor, Guardian, Merrill Lynch to cut 4,000 jobs

4/17/08 CNN, Immigration agents detain hundreds at poultry plants

4/17/08 BBC, US economic outlook 'worsening'

April 16, 2008

4/16/08 Anderson, NYT, Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays

4/16/08 Hawkes, Times, Merck relied on ghostwritten research on arthritis drug, Vioxx

4/16/08 Leland, NYT, Foreclosures Push States to Try a Mix of Solutions

4/16/08 Boseley, Guardian, Drug firm accused of death rate data failures

4/16/08 Douglas, McClatchy, Bush sets climate change goal; scientists say it's too little

4/16/08 Shear & Weisman, WP, McCain's Plan for Working Class Offers Plenty for Corporate World

4/16/08 EDIE, 'Chevron owes nothing' - company responds to court call for $16.5bn damages

4/16/08 IntelDaily, A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs' pursuit of wealth

4/16/08 Lehmann, Brattelboro Reformer, Official Says Fraud Loophole Was A 'Mistake'

4/16/08 Vidal, Guardian, Change In Farming Can Feed World - Report

4/16/08 Treanor & Weaver, Guardian, JP Morgan profits halve

4/16/08 BBC, Venezuela raises foreign oil tax

April 15, 2008

4/15/08 Hall, McClatchy, Treasury outlines toothless hedge-fund rules

4/15/08 Sotomayer, IPS, LATIN AMERICA: Food or Fuel - That Is the Burning Question

4/15/08 BBC, UN calls for farming revolution

4/15/08 Layton & Lee, WP, Collectors Cost IRS More Than They Raise

4/15/08 Martin, NYT, Fuel Choices, Food Crises and Finger-Pointing

4/15/08 Leahy, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture

4/15/08 Treanor, Guardian, US bank admits sub-prime emergency

April 14, 2008

4/14/08 Landler, NYT, Housing Woes in U.S. Spread Around Globe

4/14/08 Pilkington, Guardian, Big oil to big wind: Texas veteran sets up $10bn clean energy project

4/14/08 Press TV, 35 oil firms to bid for Iraq energy

4/14/08 Denning, Daily Reckoning, Food, Fuel and Finance: The Crisis of the Three F's

4/14/08 Demerjian, Wired, EU Tells US Airlines to Pay for Their Carbon Emissions or Lose Flights to Europe

4/14/08 Reuters, Iraq to seek parliamentary approval for long-term U.S. pact

4/14/08 Browning, NYT, I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Plummets, Study Says

4/14/08 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Senator: Probe of rising gasoline prices needed

4/14/08 Christie, CNN, The incredible shrinking city

4/14/08 BBC, Profits at Bear Stearns down 79%

April 13, 2008

4/13/08 AFP, World Bank to Meet as Rising Food Prices Spark Unrest

4/13/08 Reuters, Paulson says food price controls won't work

4/13/08 Moore, NYT, Secret Iraqi Deal Shows Problems in Arms Orders

4/13/08 Morgenson, IHT, US Lenders Freeze Home Equity Credit Lines

4/13/08 Mathiason, Guardian, Shell's future in Nigeria in doubt

4/13/08 Bridges et al, Miami Herald, Grocery bills spark deadly riots, trigger inflation

April 12, 2008

4/12/08 Reuters, Clinton offers steps to help defense industry

April 11, 2008

4/11/08 Montgomery, WP, Senate Approves Housing Package

4/11/08 Ridgeway, MoJo, Cops and Former Secret Service Agents Ran Black Ops on Green Groups

4/11/08 AFP, Scientists: Warmer Seas, Over-Fishing Spell Disaster for Oceans

4/11/08 Al Jazeera, The recipe for food rights

April 10, 2008

4/10/08 Rennie, Canadian Press, Logging Boreal Forest Could Detonate Massive 'Carbon Bomb,' Says Report

4/10/08 Fletcher, WP, Can't Get Ahead, Hard To Keep Up

April 9, 2008

4/09/08 Neill, Bradenton Herald, Study: Brokers overcharged clients

4/09/08 Lichtblau, NYT, In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials

April 8, 2008

4/08/08 Dash, NYT, Washington Mutual Raises $7 Billion

4/08/08 White, LAT, Pump prices set records again

4/08/08 Treanor, Guardian, Toxic shock: how the banking industry created a global crisis

4/08/08 BBC, What is the meaning of 'green'?

April 7, 2008

4/07/08 AFP, Blackwater Contract Renewal Not Approved by Iraq: Maliki

4/07/08 Goodman, NYT, 2 Outcomes When Foreigners Buy Factories

4/07/08 Dash, NYT, $5 Billion Said to Be Near for WaMu

4/07/08 Weinberger, Wired, Blackwater Bulks Up Air Power Using Little-Known Company

April 6, 2008

4/06/08 Deutch, NYT, A Brighter Spotlight, Yet the Pay Rises - interactive CEO compensation

April 5, 2008

4/05/08 Malkin, NYT, Problems for Microfinancing in Mexico

4/05/08 McClatchy, Will new fishing grounds be global warming benefit?

4/05/08 Burkeman, Guardian, A very cold war indeed

4/05/08 Reuters, Colombia ends contract after flap with Clinton aide

4/05/08 BBC, Brown warns on global cash crisis

4/05/08 BBC, Microsoft gives Yahoo three weeks

April 4, 2008

4/04/08 NYT, "Undue Influence" at Crandall Canyon?

4/04/08 AP, Child Workers in Egypt a Growing Problem

4/04/08 Rizvi, IPS, Somalia Called 'World's Most Neglected Crisis'

4/04/08 Doyle, Independent, American Songbirds Are Being Wiped Out by Banned Pesticides

4/04/08 Baker, SF Chron., Chevron Could Pay Billions In Ecuador Suit

4/04/08 CNN, Skybus becomes third airline this week to close

4/04/08 Ewert, ITT, Adbusters' Ads Busted

4/04/08 Al Jazeera, US renews Blackwater's Iraq licence

April 3, 2008

4/03/08 Ahn, Reuters, The commercialization of child-rearing

4/03/08 Montgomery, WP, Housing Accord Puts Builders First

4/03/08 Hedgpeth, WP, Contracts for Body Armor Filled Without Initial Tests

4/03/08 Hall, McClatchy, Bankers blame feds for forcing Bear Stearns fire-sale price

4/03/08 Coile, SF Chron., Oil Politics Alleged in Polar Bear Decision

4/03/08 Houppert, Nation, Another KBR Rape Case

April 2, 2008

4/02/08 Black, BBC, GM seeds can 'last for 10 years'

April 1, 2008

4/01/08 Herszenhorn & Bajaj, NYT, Senate Readies Bipartisan Bill to Deal With Housing Slump

4/01/08 Kim, PSL, Wal-Mart goes after brain-injured mother of fallen soldier

4/01/08 Alexander & Zagaroli, McClatchy, Senators hear of poor work conditions in poultry plants

4/01/08 Bolstad, McClatchy, Oil execs: We're not to blame for high gasoline prices

March 31, 2008

3/31/08 Greco, FPIF, World Bank Climate Profiteering

March 30, 2008

3/30/08 Morgenson & Glater, NYT, Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes

3/30/08 Berenson, NYT, Journal Issues Warning on Two Cholesterol Drugs

3/30/08 Hall, McClatchy, Paulson's regulation plan won't fix current economic crisis

3/30/08 Cho et al, WP, Long Fight Ahead for Treasury Blueprint

3/30/08 Fainru, WP, For Missing Guards' Kin, An Agonizing Conclusion

3/30/08 Hinsliff, Guardian, Power firms forced to help the poor

3/30/08 Gray, Guardian, Those who control oil and water will control the world

March 29, 2008

3/29/08 Hall, McClatchy, Struggling homeowners find little hope in federal program

3/29/08 Crutsinger, AP, Fed Offers $100 Billion More to Banks

3/29/08 Reynolds, LAT, Overhaul of U.S. financial regulatory system proposed

March 28, 2008

3/28/08 Irwin, WP, Fed Leaders Ponder an Expanded Mission

3/28/08 AP, School Districts That Got Recalled Beef Are Listed - List

3/28/08 Fisher, IPS, Governments Ever More Draconian, Group Says

3/28/08 Lydersen, WP, As Uranium Firms Eye New Mexico, Navajos Are Wary

3/28/08 CNN, Starbucks to fight tip-sharing ruling

March 27, 2008

3/27/08 BBC, Argentine farm tax crisis worsens

3/27/08 al-Fadhily & Jamail, IPS, Fever Named After Blackwater

3/27/08 BBC, Bear Stearns protects client list

March 26, 2008

3/26/08 Rosen, Reuters, Land Deal Could Open Alaska Wildlife Refuge To Oil

3/26/08 Reuters, Ice Shrink In Arctic Sea May Attract Oil Firms

3/26/08 Belson, NYT, Court Strikes Down State Law Protecting Fliers

3/26/08 Macalister, Guardian, BP faces Kremlin tax investigation

3/26/08 Noland, Asia Times, Nationalization and dislocation

March 25, 2008

3/25/08 Danner, MoJo, Bush's Pax Americana

3/25/08 Savage, LAT, Supreme Court allows retiree benefit cuts

3/25/08 White, CSM, Germans sour on capitalism amid corporate scandals

3/25/08 BBC, Mining forces out thousands in SA

March 24, 2008

3/24/08 Krugman, NYT, Taming the Beast

3/24/08 Lee, WSWS, US steps in to prevent collapse of gas pipeline project: Nabucco pipeline bypasses Russia

3/24/08 O'Neall, Intel Daily, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see Virtually the full documentary is on YouTube from Neospeaker in 10 parts.

3/24/08 Mason, Reuters, Clinton proposes Greenspan lead foreclosure group

3/24/08 Reuters, Regulators let Home Loan Banks lift MBS holdings

3/24/08 Collyns, BBC, Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution

3/24/08 Macaskill, Guardian, US Authority Failing to List Endangered Species

3/24/08 BBC, JP Morgan raises Bear Stearns bid

3/24/08 Gralla, Reuters, Wall Street may cut 20,000 jobs over 2 years: report

3/24/08 Rizvi, OneWorld, Watchdog Group Names Top Corporate Abusers

March 23, 2008

3/23/08 Schwartz & Creswell, NYT, What Created This Monster?

3/23/08 Jowitt, Guardian, Krill fishing threatens the Antarctic

March 22, 2008

3/22/08 Kramer, NYT, BP Faces Environment Inquiry in Russia

March 21, 2008

3/21/08 Sirota, ITT, New Housing Crisis, Old Isms

3/21/08 Broache, Cnet, Larry Lessig: Time To Reject Corporate Influence on Washington

Cevallos, IPS, New Rules In Mexico Pave the Way for Transgenic Crops

March 20, 2008

3/20/08 SFalconer & Schulman, MoJo, Blackwater's World of Warcraft

3/20/08 Silva, IPS, NICARAGUA: Fighting Over Society's Scraps

3/20/08 Hartley, Globe&Mail, Grain Farmer Claims Moral Victory in Seed Battle Against Monsanto

3/20/08 Paige, Boston Globe, 2 Towns Weigh Privatizing Libraries

3/20/08 CNN, Panel probes troops' electrocution deaths in Iraq

3/20/08 Fleck, Albuquerque Journal, Energy, Water In "Catch-22"

March 19, 2008

3/19/08 Hall, McClatchy, Feds take new steps to ease home-loan crisis

3/19/08 Moreci, ITT, Beyond Propaganda

3/19/08 Irwin, WP, Fed Slashes Key Interest Rate, and Stocks Soar

3/19/08 BBC, Oil debate stirs Mexico passions

3/19/08 Al Jazeera, ExxonMobil loses Venezuela case

March 18, 2008

3/18/08 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign

3/18/08 Prins, MoJo, Ode to Bear Stearns

March 17, 2008

3/17/08 Grant, Reuters, Wall St sinks as Bear shakes faith in banking

3/17/08 Andrews, NYT, Fed Acts to Rescue Financial Markets

3/17/08 Maeda, Reuters, US Farmers Up The Ante on Japan's Struggle Against Modified Corn

3/17/08 Al Jazeera, JPMorgan to buy crisis-hit US bank

3/17/08 AL Jazeera, Credit crunch fears hit US stocks

3/17/08 Allen, ITT, Pig Intestines, Downer Cows

March 16, 2008

3/16/08 Sorkin & Thomas, NYT, JPMorgan Acts to Buy Ailing Bear Stearns at Huge Discount

3/16/08 Morrison, Reuters, Housing Group Challenges Fed's Bear Stearns Deal

March 15, 2008

3/14/08 Herbert, AP, White House Played Role in Smog Rule

3/15/08 Thomas, NYT, Run on Big Wall St. Bank Spurs Rescue Backed by U.S.

3/15/08 Petruno, LAT, This big rescue may be just the beginning

3/15/08 Milmo, Guardian, US told to go green on carbon emissions or lose EU flights

3/15/08 Ferraro, Reuters, US House Passes Spy Bill, Rejects Phone Immunity

March 14, 2008

3/14/08 Krugman, NYT, Betting the Bank

3/14/08 BBC, Bear Stearns gets emergency funds

March 13, 2008

3/13/08 Pupovac, ITT, Big Oil Imperils Polar Bears

3/13/08 Heath, NYT, Carlyle Fund's Assets Seized

March 12, 2008

3/12/08 Gillam, Reuters, US Organic Food Industry Fears GMO Contamination

March 11, 2008

3/11/08 Baskin, WSJ, Crude-Oil Futures Soar To Another High, $107.90

3/11/08 BBC, Oil sets fresh record above $109

March 10, 2008

3/10/08 Rogers, Intel Daily, How Low Can The Dollar Go? Zero Value

3/10/08 Al Jazeera, Activists block Brazil railway

3/10/08 AP, Drug Traces Common in Tap Water

3/10/08 AP, KBR Named In Report On Soldier Illnesses

March 9, 2008

3/09/08 BBC, Mugabe approves new ownership law

3/09/08 Doward, Guardian, DNA register 'labels children as criminals'

3/09/08 Vuliamy, Guardian, How a tiny West African country became the world's first narco state

March 8, 2008

3/07/08 Rooney, CNN, 3 CEOs made $460 million - House panel

3/08/08 Hernandez, NYT, Countrywide Said to Be Subject of Federal Criminal Inquiry

3/08/08 Hebert, AP, Delay in Bush Administration Polar Bear Policy Stirs Probe

March 7, 2008

3/07/08 Mencimer, MoJo, Daniel Troy's Poison Pill (Corporate Immunity from Consumer Lawsuits)

3/07/08 CNN, Vaccine settlement complex, may not be first

3/07/08 BBC, Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages

3/07/08 BBC, Carlyle unit shares are suspended

3/07/08 Lobe, IPS, Foreign Policy Increasingly Flows Through Pentagon

3/07/08 DiNovella, The Progressive, Retroactive Immunity Should Be Off the Table

March 6, 2008

3/06/08 AFP, World Can 'Afford' To Solve Its Environmental Woes: OECD

3/06/08 Hawkes & Webster, Times Online, Energy 'tax' on the poor

3/06/08 AP, Foreclosures Hit Record, Group Says

3/06/08 Batty et al, Guardian, Drug companies must reveal more data after Seroxat results withheld

3/06/08 Tiplett, Variety, Media Ownership Rules Back Into Play

3/06/08 BBC, Credit crunch hits Carlyle unit

March 4, 2008

3/04/08 Gogoi, Business Week, States Move to Label Cloned Food

3/04/08 AP, Fed Chief Urges More Homeowner Aid

3/04/08 Wired, Long Workweeks Keeping Americans Up Late

March 3, 2008

3/03/08 Tse, WP, Banking Fees Are Rising And Often Undisclosed

3/03/08 Shah, World Military Spending

March 2, 2008

3/02/08 Whitney, McClatchy, Oil exploration sought in Calif. national monument

3/02/08 Kane, WP, Presidential Run Done, Kucinich Is Fighting to Keep Seat in House

3/02/08 Chang, McClatchy, Argentines battle pulp mill they say is poisoning them

3/02/08 Hill & McKie, Guardian, The clones are coming - to a supermarket near you

March 1, 2008

3/01/08 Woodall, InsideBayArea, New Documentary 'King Corn' is a Lot More than Filler Fare

3/01/08 Schor, Guardian, White House Blocks Inquiry into Construction of $736m Embassy in Iraq

3/01/08 BBC, Air tanker deal provokes US row

3/01/08 Al Jazeera, EADS wins $35bn US defence deal

February 29, 2008

2/29/08 Keim, Wired, Sex-Changing Chemicals Make Male Starlings Sing Sweet Songs

2/29/08 Strobel, McClatchy, At new U.S. Embassy in Iraq, even kitchens are fire hazards

February 27, 2008

2/27/08 Bluemink, Anchorage Daily News, Flooded Village Files Suit, Citing Corporate Link to Climate Change

2/27/08 Laurence, Independent, Drug Giants Warned: Tell The Truth on Medicines

February 26, 2008

2/26/08 Williamson, WP, (Factory) Farms May Be Exempted From Emission Rules

2/26/08 Rose, TimesOnline, Depression drugs don't work, finds data review

2/26/08 Tizon, LAT, Exxon Valdez spill still an issue in Alaska

2/26/08 Cevallos, IPS, ENERGY-MEXICO: PEMEX in Death Throes Amid Political Squabbling

2/26/08 Barlow, FPIF, The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

2/26/08 Reuters, Arctic Oil Bonanza Worries Alaska Natives

2/26/08 Williamson, WP, Farms May Be Exempted From Emission Rules

2/26/08 AFP, US Defense Chief in India to Push Arms Sales, Military Ties

2/26/08 Llana, CSM, Mexico's oil output falls, Pemex needs cash infusion

2/26/08 Trumbull, CSM, Housing slump causes U.S. to weigh another big bailout

2/26/08 BBC, US foreclosures up 57% in January

2/26/08 AP, Memos Show Pressure on EPA Chief

February 25, 2008

2/25/08 Collins, Myrtle Beach, Black Owners Lose Grasp on Family Farms

2/25/08 Mannack, IPS, TRADE-AFRICA: ''EPAs Are Not About Partnership''

2/25/08 CNN, More signs of home sales weakness

2/25/08 BBC, UBS sued on sub-prime mis-selling

2/25/08 BBC, Visa for sale at record price-tag

February 24, 2008

2/24/08 Barnes, WP, Justices Further Resist Finding Right to Sue

2/24/08 Barnes, WP, Exxon Oil Spill Case May Get Closure

2/24/08 Harmon, NYT, Fear of Insurance Trouble Leads Many to Shun or Hide DNA Tests

2/24/08 Smith, Guardian, Oil giants are poised to move into Basra

February 23, 2008

2/23/08 Krolicki, Reuters, GM Exec Stands by Calling Global Warming a "Total Crock of Shit"

2/23/08 McCool & Lam, Reuters, US "Agent Orange" Ruling Disappoints Vietnamese; Pleases Monsanto, Dow Chemical

February 22, 2008

2/22/08 CNN, When credit cards put you in jeopardy

2/22/08 Reuters, As South American Rivers Dry Up, Miners Tap Ocean

2/22/08 MoJo, Blackwater's Greystone Promotional Video

February 21, 2008

2/21/08 Jackson & Grotto, Chicago Tribune, Inside the World of War Profiteers

2/21/08 Appuzzo & Jordan, AP, Blackwater Inquiry Turns to Baghdad

2/21/08 BBC, Venezuela settles with oil firms

2/21/08 Al Jazeera, Bhopal survivors march on New Delhi

February 20, 2008

2/20/08 Mencimer, MoJo, Meet Bush's Prison Nominee

2/20/08 Elias, Wired, Web Site 'Wikileaks' Shuttered Over Post

2/20/08 Bello, FPIF, Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood

2/20/08 AP, Justices Limit Suits Over Medical Devices

2/20/08 Lifsher, LAT, Treating death as a commodity

2/20/08 Kim, LAT, Cattle inspections thwarted

February 19, 2008

2/19/08 Skrzycki, WP, Leave Rules May Tighten

2/19/08 Roberts, Nation, Mountaintop Removal Mining: Like a Third-World Autocracy

2/19/08 Wolf, FT, America's economy risks mother of all meltdowns

2/19/08 Anderson, NYT, Wall St. Banks Confront a String of Write-Downs

2/19/08 Scherer, CSM, Credit squeeze's potential ripple effects

February 18, 2008

2/18/08 Tett, Financial Times, US banks borrow $50bn via new Fed facility or here for permalink

2/18/08 Reuters, Banks "quietly" borrow $50 billion from Fed: report

2/18/08 Fleming, Telegraph, Shark Species Face Extinction, Says Research

2/18/08 BBC, Nigeria phone privatisation off

2/18/08 Lydersen, WP, Delay Of Report Is Blamed On Politics

2/18/08 Randerson, Guardian, Consequences of GM crop contamination 'are set to worsen'

2/18/08 BBC, Intervene in Nigeria, Bush urged

2/18/08 Al Jazeera, Dozens of firms vie for Iraqi oil

February 17, 2008

2/17/08 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Did politics trump law in case of polluting Canadian smelter?

2/14/08 Sanchez, SanFran Chron, Venezuela Halts Crude Oil Sales to Exxon Mobil

2/17/08 Madrigal, Wired, Liveblog on The Future of the Global Food System

February 16, 2008

2/16/08 Frayssinet, IPS, BRAZIL: GM Maize "Worst Tragedy" of Lula Administration - NGOs

2/16/08 Sample, Guardian, GM Crop Trial Locations May Be Hidden From Public

2/16/08 Cowley, CNN, EBay seller boycott set to start Monday

February 15, 2008

2/15/08 CNN, Eruption of tainted water could swamp Colorado town

2/15/08 Trumbull, CSM, Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy

February 13, 2008

2/13/08 Osterman, Reuters, Eviction can come suddenly for renters in U.S.

2/13/08 Girion, LAT, Major health insurers accused of rigging rates

2/13/08 CNN, GM to recall 180,000+ Chevy HHRs

2/13/08 Treanor, Guardian, Buffett's $800bn monoline lifeline boosts global stockmarkets

2/13/08 BBC, Bush signs economic plan into law

2/13/08 Carey, Reuters, Groups try school to stem foreclosures

2/13/08 Scheer, Nation, Big Oil's Banner Year

2/13/08 Grynbaum, NYT, Plan to Aid Borrowers Is Greeted by Criticism

2/13/08 Lazarus, LAT, Shadow victims of the mortgage crisis: renters

2/13/08 BBC, Detroit 'has most repossessions'

2/13/08 Hutchinson, Asia TImes, Financial models head for scrap heap

February 12, 2008

2/12/08 Sauer, ABC, Gang-Rape Victim Says She and Others Silenced by Halliburton

2/12/08 Ferraro, Reuters, Senate passes spy bill and phone immunity

2/12/08 Nizza, NYT, Starbucks and Scalia Add More Buzz Torture Debate

2/12/08 Peterson, LAT, Lenders offer help to avoid foreclosure (Project Lifeline)

2/12/08 Al Jazeera, Venezuela suspends Exxon oil sales

2/12/08 Herbst-Bayliss, Reuters, Predatory Lenders Still Seen Targeting Minorities

2/12/08 BBC, EU regulator raids Intel offices

2/12/08 Bajaj & Story, Mortgage Crisis Spreads Past Subprime Loans

2/12/08 Girion, LAT, Doctors balk at request for data

2/12/08 Spoerry, CNN, Feds, lenders to offer broader plan to help with foreclosures

February 11, 2008

2/11/08 McCurry, Guardian, G7 is told worldwide losses from sub-prime crisis could be $400bn

February 10, 2008

2/10/08 Lazarus, LAT, What rate cuts? Use of plastic gets pricier

2/10/08 AFP, French GM Ban Infuriates Farmers, Delights Environmentalists

2/10/06 Al Jazeera, Chavez threatens to cut off US oil

2/10/08 Al Jazeera, Exxon 'seeking to damage' Venezuela

February 9, 2008

2/09/08 Boyd, McClatchy, Despite doubts, nuclear energy making comeback

2/09/08 Al Jazeera, Banks urged to disclose losses

February 8, 2008

2/08/08 Rothschild, Progressive, Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business

2/08/08 Singel, Wired, House Leaders Oppose Immunity, Reid Prepares For Extended Negotiations

2/08/08 Faiq & Ross, ABC, Blackwater's Blood Money; How Much for a Dead Son?

2/08/08 Gorman, WSJ, CIA Likely Let Contractors Perform Waterboarding

2/08/08 Johnson, OneWorld, Toxic Government Report Uncovered

2/08/08 BBC, Exxon in Venezuela asset freeze

2/08/08 Al Jazeera, Venezuela denounces Exxon court bid

2/08/08 Collyns, BBC, Draft law sparks protests in Peru

2/08/08 BBC, Oil firms ordered to Niger Delta

February 7, 2008

2/07/08 Johnson, NYT, Merck to Pay $650M in Rebate Settlement

2/07/08 Holzer, The Hill, helby Says Paulson Broke Word on Mortgage Limits

2/07/08 Arsenhalt, IPS, Controversy Dogs Coal Operations in Colombia

2/05/08 Salazar, IPS, ENVIRONMENT-PERU: "For Sale" Signs in Amazon Jungle

2/07/08 Mencimer, MoJo, Courting Disaster

2/07/08 Rothschild, The Progressive, The FBI Deputizes Business

2/07/08 BBC, More gloom for US housing market

February 6, 2008

2/06/08 Jensen, NYT, Public Broadcasters Prepare to Fight Federal Budget Cuts

February 5, 2008

2/05/08 BBC, BP to cut jobs after profits fall

2/05/08 Leahy, IPS, Record Financing For Biofuels, Not Food

February 4, 2008

2/04/08 Astore, MoJo, The Tenacity of American Militarism

2/04/08 Pagnamenta, TimesOnline, Oil producers limit the options of multinationals

2/04/08 Press TV, Iran Oil Bourse to deal blow to dollar

February 3, 2008

2/03/08 Reuters, Eleven dead in gun battle at Nigerian pipeline

2/03/08 Kim, LAT, Schools scramble to find questionable meat

February 1, 2008

2/01/08 AP, Exxon Posts Record U.S. Profit

2/01/08 Gordon, McClatchy, Wall Street donates millions to top presidential candidates

2/01/08 BBC, China takes a stake in Rio Tinto

2/01/08 BBC, Exxon Mobil reports record profit

January 31, 2008

1/31/08 Klare, MoJo, Barreling into Recession

1/31/08 Ross et all, ABC, Clinton Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions

1/31/08 Levine, WP, District Lacking In Access To Care

1/31/08 Becker & Natta, After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton Charity

1/31/08 BBC, Shell sets new UK profits record

January 30, 2008

1/30/08 Saul, NYT, Doctor Accused of Leak to Drug Maker

1/30/08 Al Jazeera, FBI investigates high risk lenders

January 29, 2008

1/29/08 Lengel, WP, New-Home Sales Fell Record 26% Last Year

1/29/08 Foley, Independent, Chicago lines up $11bn takeover of New York's Mercantile Exchange

1/29/08 Monbiot, Guardian, Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich

1/29/08 Monbiot, Guardian, Population growth is a threat. But it pales against the greed of the rich

1/29/08 Noland, Asia Times, More than 20 years in the making

1/29/08 Glanz, NYT, An American Builder’s Failures in Iraq Are Found to Have Been More Widespread

1/29/08 Mushtaq, IPS, Kenya’s Problem Goes Beyond Ethnicity and Elections

January 28, 2008

1/28/08 Feffer, FPIF, Arming the Middle East

1/28/08 Crawley, Reuters, Auto Companies Press States on California Emissions

1/28/08 McDonnell, LAT, Iraq contractors tap Latin America's needy

1/28/08 CNN/AP, McDonald's dishes up diplomas to go

January 25, 2008

1/25/08 Otto, WP, A Growing Desperation

1/25/08 Myers & Shanker, NYT, U.S. Asking Iraq for Wide Rights on War

1/25/08 Arenson, NYT, Senate Looking at Endowments as Tuition Rises

1/25/08 Miller, LAT, Senate Spy Bill Still Shields Telecoms

January 24, 2008

1/24/08 Egelko, SF Chron. Who Decides Who'll Be Allowed on TV Debates?

1/24/08 Raphael, OneWorld, At Auto Show, Calls to Mainstream 100-MPG Car

1/24/08 Lardner, AP, Company Paid Twice for War Support Work

1/24/08 Gaunt, Reuters, Insurance bailout hopes spur equity rebound

1/24/08 Barbaro, NYT, Wal-Mart Chief Offers a Social Manifesto

1/24/08 Goodnough, NYT, 2 Big Dig Companies to Pay $407 Million

1/24/08 Al Jazeera, French bank uncovers $7bn fraud

January 23, 2008

1/23/08 Fildes, Independent, New watchdog will monitor hedge funds

1/23/08 Gillam, Reuters, Biotech Critics Challenging Monsanto GMO Sugar Beet

1/23/08 Leonhardt, NYT, Worries That the Good Times Were Mostly a Mirage

1/23/08 VEal, IPS, ICELAND: Resistance Rises Against GM Imports

1/23/08 Al Jazeera, Davos opens amid economic turmoil

January 22, 2008

1/22/08 Johnson, MoJo, Going Bankrupt

1/22/08 Pugh, McClatchy, Answers to consumers' questions on the economy

1/22/08 Hong, LAT, State posts record 31,676 foreclosures

1/22/08 Pearlstein, WP, More Room to Fall

1/22/08 Cooke, Reuters, Wall Street joins global equity plunge

1/22/08 Douglas, LAT, High fuel prices are puzzling

January 21, 2008

1/21/08 Udell, ITT, Selling Out Grandma

January 20, 2008

1/20/08 Merle, WP, Region's Home Prices Continue To Fall; Some Pockets Thrive

1/20/08 Lakhani, Independent, Drug firms 'bury' poor trial results

1/20/08 Webb, Guardian, Fury as fuel poverty soars close to a 10-year record

1/20/08 Doran, Guardian, Wall Street shaken by bond insurance fears

1/20/08 Connors & Sunderland, Guardian, Savers hit by new property fund plunge

1/20/08 Weiss, WP, Labels Weighed for Food From Clones

January 19, 2008

1/19/08 Thompson, NYT, From Texas to Iraq, and Center of Blackwater Case

January 18, 2008

1/18/08 Shorrick, IPS, POLITICS-US: Pentagon and Contractors One Happy Family?

January 17, 2008

1/17/08 Irwin, WP, An Economy's Mixed Message on Suffering

1/17/08 CArey, NYT, Antidepressant Studies Unpublished

1/17/08 Foley, Independent, Enron investors set for final payout

1/17/08 Foley Independent, JP Morgan warns of credit card woe as it loses $1.3bn

January 16, 2008

1/16/08 Barnes & Johnson, Corporate Fraud Lawsuits Restricted

1/16/08 Itano, CSM, Tuna's spawning grounds under threat

1/16/08 Abdulah, McClatchy, House ignores veto threat, passes tougher mine safety rules

1/16/08 Hall, McClatchy, New inflation data explain middle-class squeeze

1/16/08 Isenberg, Asia Times, Smart bombs, dangerous ideas

1/16/08 Wallace, ITT, First Came Katrina, Then Came HUD

January 15, 2008

1/15/08 Leland, NYT, Baltimore Finds Subprime Crisis Snags Women

1/15/08 Nizza, NYT, Cloned Animals Safe to Eat, F.D.A. Concludes

1/15/08 AP, Citigroup gets $12.5 billion in cash, cuts dividend

1/15/08 Hickman, Independent, Energy suppliers 'are profiteering from poor people'

January 14, 2008

1/14/08 Fildes, Independent, Profit warnings surged to 107 in final quarter of 2007

1/14/08 Foley, Independent, American banks set for further big write-downs

January 13, 2008

1/13/08 Apuzzo & Jordan, AP, FBI Finds Blackwater Trucks Patched

1/13/08 Swinford, TimesOnline, Energy rip-off exposed

January 12, 2008

1/12/08 Kessler, WP, Baghdad Embassy Is Called a Fire Risk

1/12/08 Dash & SOrokin, NYT, Escalating Losses Force Citigroup to Seek More Foreign Investment

1/12/08 Foley, Independent, Super Bowl commercials going for £1.4m for 30-second slot

January 11, 2008

1/11/08 Drawbaugh, Reuters, US Corporate Elite Fear Candidate Edwards

1/11/08 Werdigier & Anderson, NYT, Giant Write-Down Is Seen for Merrill

1/11/08 BBC, Bank of America buys Countrywide

January 10, 2008

1/10/08 Risen, NYT, 2005 Use of Gas by Blackwater Leaves Questions

1/10/08 Trumbull, CSM, How a credit crunch may hurt the world economy

1/10/08 Al Jazeera, Blair joins JP Morgan

January 9, 2008

1/09/08 Hutchinson, Asia Times, Eroding Western living standards

1/09/08 Keinon & Katz, Jerusalem Post, Bush expedites Saudi smart bomb deal

1/09/08 Pagnamenta, TimesOnline, Shell and Total Square Up Over Gasfield in Iraq's Sunni Heartland

1/09/08 Svesson, AP, FCC to Probe Comcast Data Discrimination

1/09/08 Edgerton, Broadcast&Cable, House Launches FCC Investigation; Warns Against Destroying Documents

1/09/08 Stone, NYT, AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter

1/09/08 AP, Blackwater USA Steps Up Lobbying Efforts

January 8, 2008

1/08/08 Rood, ABC, Pentagon Won't Probe KBR Rape Charges

1/08/08 Kay, SF Chron, Groups Cite Oil Leases in US Delay on Rating Polar Bear's Status

1/08/08 BBC, Mortgage giant denies bankruptcy

1/08/08 Cronin, IPS, Call to Keep Water Clean of Privatisation

January 7, 2008

1/07/08 Aslam, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: U.S. Groups Sue Shell Over Refinery Pollution

1/07/08 Hotakainen, McCltachy, As bankruptcies surge, Congress ponders change in law

January 4, 2008

1/04/08 CSM, As oil passes $100, the question: will it stop?

1/04/08 Pear, NYT, U.S. Curtailing Bids to Expand Medicaid Rolls

1/04/08 Farrell, Independent, Firms' profitability hits a record high

1/04/08 Farrell, Independent, Consumers face further pain as banks rein in credit

January 3, 2008

1/03/08 Reuters, FDA to clear cloned livestock for consumers: report

January 2, 2008

1/02/08 Poulter, Daily Mail, Alert Over The March of The 'Grey Goo' in Nanotechnology Frankenfoods

1/02/08 Gough, Reuters, Former "Dateline" Reporter Blasts NBC

December 31, 2007

12/31/07 AP, Drug firms probed in Iraq scandal

December 30, 2007

12/30/07 Doran & Wachman, Guardian, Merrill seeks more funds to avoid crisis

12/30/07 NYT, The Free Market: A False Idol After All?

December 28, 2007

12/28/07 Truthout, Klein Interview - Shock Doctrine video

12/28/07 Norris, NYT, Credit Crisis? Just Wait for a Replay

12/28/07 Yesmen.org, ITT, Inside the Beast:Lifelines, Lifetimes and Timelines: Hoisting Ourselves up the Fossil Chain

December 27, 2007

12/27/07 Johnson, WP, Mortgage Probes Face Big Hurdles

12/27/07 Barnes & Spiegel, LAT, New Armored Vehicles Drive Heated Debate

12/27/07 CommonDreams, The Solvency Crisis

December 26, 2007

12/26/07 Donnelly, Boston Globe, Coal's Ascent Is Re-Igniting Familiar Debate

12/26/07 Bajaj, NYT, Rapidly, Buffett Secures a Deal for $4.5 Billion

December 25, 2007

12/25/07 Vick, WP, Alaskans Weigh the Cost of Gold

12/25/07 Dash, NYT, Merrill Lynch Sells Stake to Singapore Firm

December 24, 2007

12/24/07 DemocracyNow, The FCC's Christmas Gift to Big Media

12/24/07 Glaister, Guardian, Cheney Accused of Blocking Californian Bid to Cut Car Fumes

12/24/07 Fainaru, WP, Warnings Unheeded On Guards In Iraq

12/24/07 Goodman, NYT, This Is the Sound of a Bubble Bursting

12/24/07 Glossenger, ITT, Acid-Mining Michigan

12/24/07 BBC, Pfizer arrests sought in Nigeria

December 23, 2007

12/23/07 CNN, Credit card defaults alarmingly high

12/23/07 BBC, US asset rescue scheme abandoned

12/21/07 Wired, Gadgets Affected by Analog Shutdown

12/23/07 Morse, WP, 'Huge Step' for Calvert Nuclear Power Plant

12/23/07 Greenhouse, NYT, Ruling Lets Firms Bar Union E-mail

December 22, 2007

12/22/07 Spencer, WSWS, Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population

12/22/07 Broder & Maynard, NYT, Denial of State Emissions Plan Was Foreshadowed

12/22/07 Dash, NYT, Big Fund to Prop Up Securities Is Scrapped

12/22/07 Story & Barboza, NYT, The Recalls' Aftershocks

December 21, 2007

12/21/07 Hoge, NYT, U.N. Body Plans to End Investigation of Contracts

12/21/07 Mencimer, MoJo, Cheney: No Justice for Jamie Jones

12/21/07 Wilson, LA Times, EPA Chief Is Said to Have Ignored Staff

December 20, 2007

12/20/07 Madrigal, Wired, Cloning Companies Promise to Track Their Animals

12/20/07 Jarar & Holland, AlterNet, Bush, Maliki Break Iraqi Law to Renew UN Mandate for Occupation

12/20/07 BBC, Further relief for US homeowners

12/20/07 BBC, BP $50m blast fine 'not enough'

December 19, 2007

12/19/07 Madrigal, Wired, New Energy Law In, Renewable Energy Left Out

12/19/07 Mosedale, MoJo, Oil Spills are Forever

12/19/07 Cho, WP, Fed Takes Aim at Deceptive Home Lending Practices

12/19/07 Dempsey, Boston Globe, Climate Sanctions Sought Against US

12/19/07 BBC, Morgan Stanley takes $9.4bn hit

December 18, 2007

12/18/07 Weisman & Kane, Telecom Immunity Issue Derails Spy Law Overhaul

12/18/07 Foley, Independent, Millions at stake as credit crisis gets legal

12/18/07 Sapenfeld, CSM, India's superrich get even richer

12/18/07 BBC, Tech giants form tiny chip group

12/18/07 BBC, Treasury extends Rock guarantees

12/18/07 Douglass, ITT, Beware the Credit-Industrial Complex

December 17, 2007

12/17/07 Bogdanich, NYT, Counterfeit Drugs' Path Eased by Free Trade Zones

12/17/07 Lydersen, ITT, No New Year Resolutions? SEC proposes curbing shareholder power

December 16, 2007

12/16/07 Lichtblau, Et al, NYT, Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry

12/16/07 BBC, US sets terms for climate talks

December 15, 2007

12/15/07 Gardner, WP, Businesses Will Fight Immigration Legislation

12/15/07 BBC, Climate deal sealed by US U-turn

December 14, 2007

12/14/07 Pugh, McClatchy, Deception hits mortgage market once again

12/14/07 Acharya, IPS, India: Prime Destination for Unethical Clinical Trials

12/14/07 Wheeler, ITT, Corporate Potluck

December 13, 2007

12/13/07 Pollock, IPS, LABOUR-US: Under Siege, Unions Seek Int'l Support

12/13/07 Aslam, IPS, FINANCE: US Senate Targets Asian, European Firms in Sudan

December 12, 2007

12/12/07 Mouawad, NYT, Wary of Protests, Exxon Plans Natural Gas Terminal in the Atlantic

12/12/07 Fortson, Independent, Shell starts algae biodiesel research site in Hawaii

12/12/07 Dunn, Guardian, Homeowners are doomed to fail, says Citizens Advice

December 11, 2007

12/11/07 Macalister, Guardian, Big Oil Lets Sun Set on Renewables

December 8, 2007

12/08/07 Mufson & Weisman, WP, Senate To Rework Ambitious Energy Bill

12/08/07 Estrada, IPS, RIGHTS-CHILE: Workers' Massacre More Relevant Than Ever 100 Years On

12/08/07 Fortson, Independent, Oil industry applauds decision to extend North Sea tax breaks