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March 15, 2010
3/15/10 Macalister, Guardian, Money Spent on Tar Sands Projects Could Decarbonise Western Economies
March 11, 2010
3/11/10 Zunes, FPIF, Obama and the Denial of Genocide
3/11/10 Damon, WSWS, US banks and corporations announce huge pay packages for 2009
3/11/10 Hilzenrath, WP, Employers plan to shift more health-care costs to workers, survey reports
3/11/10 Semuels, LAT, Unemployment tops 20% in eight California counties
3/11/10 AP, Mexico's Carlos Slim is world's richest person
3/11/10 Ortiz, IPS, ECUADOR: Native Leaders Call for Anti-Government Protests
3/11/10 CNN, Kansas City board OKs plan to close nearly half of schools
3/11/10 BBC, Nigerian survivors recall Jos massacre
March 10, 2010
3/10/10 GRAIN, Land Grabbing in Latin America
3/10/10 Saulny, NYT, With New Homes, Town Makes Amends for Its Bias
3/10/10 Redo, McClatchy, At emotional Capitol ceremony, WWII 'fly girls' finally honored
3/10/10 Roberts, Guardian, The debt that lies beneath
March 9, 2010
3/09/10 Hindery Jr., Deep Journal, Our Dirty Little Secret: Who's Really Poor in America?
3/09/10 Riccardi, LAT, Suicides complicate Native American artifact looting case
March 8, 2010
3/08/10 Alexander, MoJo, The New Jim Crow
March 7, 2010
3/07/10 Vidal, Guardian, How Food and Water Are Driving a 21st-Century African Land Grab
3/07/10 Vann, Guardian, The Aborigines who've walked for 40,000 years
3/07/10 Foulkes, BBC, Switzerland referendum on providing lawyers for animals
3/07/10 Richardson, BBC, Head teachers warn on Tory 'corner shop' schools plan
March 6, 2010
3/06/10 Philp, Times Online, Chagossians Fight for a Home in Paradise
3/06/10 CNN, Official: Armenian genocide resolution unlikely to get full House vote
March 5, 2010
3/05/10 Quinn, Telegraph, US Public 'Will Pay Obama's $90bn Bank Levy'
3/05/10 Mason, Progressive, One year after stimulus, blacks and Latinos still struggling
3/05/10 Rosen, IPS, RIGHTS: U.S. Criticised over Soaring Housing Costs
3/05/10 Tran, Guardian, Girl starved to death while parents raised virtual child in online game
3/05/10 BBC, US administration to block vote on Turkey 'genocide'
3/05/10 Hodai, ITT, The Rainmakers
3/05/10 Hickman, Guardian, The lawyer who defends animals
March 4, 2010
3/04/10 Wee, Deep Journal, "Real" Unemployment Could Surge to 25%, Portfolio Manager Says
3/04/10 Stanglin, USA Today, Louisiana Sheriff Trains Volunteers for 'Project Exodus' to Combat Terrorism
3/04/10 Schleifer, CSM, Turkey recalls ambassador after US resolution on 'Armenian genocide'
March 3, 2010
3/03/10 Kapner, FT, GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St
3/03/10 Buckley, Reuters, China parliament examines growth, living standards
3/03/10 BBC, South Africa black-owned farms 'failing'
3/03/10 Bristow, BBC, China villagers moved to quench the urban thirst
3/03/10 Mercer, BBC, Aborigines to discuss nuclear proposal on tribal land
March 2, 2010
3/02/10 Pringle, PublicRecord, Paxil Birth Defect Litigation - First Trial A Bust for Glaxo
3/02/10 Roberts, NYT, U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty
3/02/10 Sithole, BBC, Zimbabwe's forgotten children, struggling to survive
3/02/10 Francis, CSM, US grants German homeschoolers asylum. Will others follow?
3/02/10 Marquand, CSM, France arrests Rwandan President's widow, accused in Rwanda genocide
March 1, 2010
3/01/10 BBC, Cape Town's gangs: Martin's story
3/02/10 Basu, CNN, Indian women peacekeepers hailed in Liberia
3/01/10 Santos, IPS, PHILIPPINES: Green Measures Expose Bias Against Urban Poor
3/01/10 Davies, Guardian, Teen motherhood is not all bad, says Hilary Mantel
3/01/10 Kavuma, Guardian, The rights approach to development
3/01/10 BBC, UK banks see surge in bad debts
3/01/10 Foulkes, BBC, Big rise in Afghan child migrants
February 28, 2010
2/28/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The myth that conservative welfare reform worked--Part 2
2/28/10 Luhby, CNN, Extended jobless benefits start ending
2/28/10 Usbourne, Independent, Utah Women May Face Murder Charges After Miscarriages
2/28/10 Al Jazeera, Somalia's Shabab bans UN food aid
2/28/10 Bowers, OpenLeft, National Crisis Electoral Flowchart
February 26, 2010
2/26/10 WorldFocus, Indigenous communities struggle for global recognition
February 25, 2010
2/25/10 Thompson, ProPublica, Former New Orleans Detective Pleads Guilty in Katrina Shooting Cover-up
2/28/10 Pavey, PSL, Vancouver Olympics increased homelessness
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 Blume, LAT, L.A. teachers gain control of 22 campuses in reform effort
2/24/10 Ebrahim, IPS, PAKISTAN: Transgenders Make Their Presence Felt at the Workplace
2/24/10 Holt, BBC, Child migrant recalls his 'stolen life'
2/24/10 Tighe, BBC, 'Date-rape drugs' are on the rise, UN warns
2/24/10 BBC, French rail SNCF sorry for 'racist' alert on Romanians
February 23, 2010
2/23/10 Al Jazeera, Haiti's neglected orphans
2/23/10 Eder & Stempel, Reuters, Wall Street bonuses jumped 17 percent last year
2/23/10 Thompson, NYT, Questions Surface After Haitian Airlift
2/23/10 Bluegrass Politics, Report: Payday lending fees damage urban, rural areas
2/23/10 Branan, SacBee, Child homicides challenge Fresno Co. coroner
2/23/10 Jena, IPS, INDIA: Indigenous Groups Step Up Protests Over Mining Project
2/23/10 Sirota, OpenLeft, The Stunningly Persistent & Fact-Free Propaganda of Tom Friedman
February 22, 2010
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 Andrews, ProPublica, A Fuzzy Definition of 'Home' Proves Lucrative for Calif. Lawmakers
2/22/10 Vanden Huevel, Nation, Snipping at Immigrants' Safety Net
2/22/10 Martin & Lieber, NYT, Banks Pressure Customers to Keep Fees Rolling In
February 21, 2010
2/21/10 Burge, Boston Globe, Tracking a New Kind of Civil Disobedience
February 20, 2010
2/20/10 Al Jazeera, ICC outrage over Guinea massacre
February 19, 2010
2/19/10 Eckholm, NYT, A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods
2/19/10 Mason, Reuters, Obama unveils new fund to address housing woes
2/19/10 Doyle, McClatchy, Once again, quest for Armenian genocide resolution begins
2/19/10 Barrett, McClatchy, Navy agrees to study impact of Camp Lejeune's toxic water
2/19/10 Irving, Guardian, How fair trade can help tackle poverty and bring peace to conflict zones
February 18, 2010
2/18/10 Yousuf, CNN, Jobless claims rise unexpectedly
2/18/10 Pollin, Nation, 18 Million Jobs by 2012
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 Kaiser Foundation, Additional 4M People In Asia Could Fall To 'Extreme Poverty' Level This Year, Report Says
2/17/10 DeGraw, AlterNet, The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth -- What's It Going to Take to Get It Back?
2/17/10 Lewin, NYT, Study Finds Public Discontent With Colleges
February 16, 2010
2/16/10 Terrett, AL Jazeera, US Black Farmers Seek Compensation
2/16/10 Zavis & Gorman, LAT, Proposed cuts would end California assistance for most new legal immigrants
2/16/10 Puzzanghera & Lee, LAT, New wave of foreclosures by end of 2010 is feared
February 14, 2010
2/14/10 ElBoghdady & Merle, WP, Refinancing unavailable for many borrowers
February 13, 2010
2/13/10 Eley, WSWS, America, the land of inequality
2/13/10 Lacey & Urbina, NYT, Church Adviser May Face Warrant
February 12, 2010
2/12/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, Study shows working families choose between shelter, medical care and food
2/12/10 Hayes, Nation, The Breakdown: Stimulus Wins and Losses
2/12/10 Weir, CSM, 20 insurgents killed as Jihadist attacks rise in Russia's Caucasus
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
2/11/10 Klein, Nation, Haiti: A Creditor, Not a Debtor
February 10, 2010
2/10/10 Muwakkil, ITT, On Air With Black America
February 9, 2010
2/09/10 Costantini, IPS, Fighting Off Looters in the Ruins of Wall Street
2/09/10 Roberts, NYT, Congress and Country: Behold the Differences
2/09/10 Kroll, MoJo, Why Banks Love Foreclosure
2/09/10 Kroll, MoJo, Resources for Dealing With Mortgage Servicers
February 8, 2010
2/80/10 Chang, SacBee, GOP rivals in governor's race target welfare costs
2/08/10 Guardian, Connecticut power plant explosion aftermath
2/08/10 Fifield, FT, Melting ice alters way of life in Iqaluit
2/08/10 Blumberg, NPR, Business At The Very Bottom Of The Income Ladder
2/08/10 BBC, Africa malaria drugs 'low-grade'
February 7, 2010
2/07/10 Bowcott, Guardian, Thousands to lose jobs as universities prepare to cope with cuts
2/07/10 Project Vote, Living the Past in the Present: Voter Intimidation Tactics Still Thrive in America
February 5, 2010
2/05/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, Child Slavery in Haiti
2/05/10 Watts, Guardian, Ancient Tribal Language Becomes Extinct as Last Speaker Dies
February 1, 2010
2/01/10 Hodai, ITT, The Strange Fruit of Desperation
January 28, 2010
1/28/10 Barrett, McClatchy, Toxins in Camp Lejeune water 30 years ago still a problem
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 Pierce, ProPublica, Colorado and New Hampshire's Unemployment Insurance Funds Go Bankrupt--And Start Borrowing
1/27/10 Earthjustice, EPA Requests Feedback on Plan Analyzing Impact of Hazardous Waste on Disadvantaged Communities
January 26, 2010
1/26/10 Van Auken, WSWS, "Reconstructing Haiti" on starvation wages
1/26/10 DeParle, NYT, Families Struggle to Afford Food, Survey Finds
1/26/10 Olson, News Junkie, 1/3rd of Women in US Military Raped
1/26/10 Williams, Boston Globe, From Books to Boot Camp: College Grads Increasingly Joining Military
1/26/10 Strurgis, Facing South, Radioactive Racism at Tennessee Nuclear Waste Processing Company
January 25, 2010
1/25/10 Cho et al, WP, Stakes are high as government plans exit from mortgage markets
1/25/10 NPR, Watch: 'Fear The Boom And Bust'
January 24, 2010
1/24/10 Richardson, Guardian, The last abortionist
1/24/10 Kaye, Public record, Women Dying and Torture Run Amuck In Afghanistan
1/24/10 Ni, LAT, A Chinese American immigration secret emerges from the dark days of discrimination
1/24/10 BBC, New records of UK convicts sent to Australia go online
January 23, 2010
1/23/10 Wilson, AlterNet, Uganda's "Kill the Gays" Movement Organizing in Newark, NJ
1/23/10 CNN, Christian-Muslim violence in Nigeria warrants probe, rights group says
1/23/10 McKenzie, IPS, HAITI: 'Adoption Not the Best Choice for Quake Orphans'
1/23/10 LaFranchi, CSM, With plastic and cardboard, Haitians build communities
1/23/10 BBC, Nigeria religious riot bodies found in village wells
January 22, 2010
1/22/10 Shih, NYT, Chinese Christians Are the Focus of Same-Sex Marriage Case
1/22/10 Semuels, LAT, California's unemployment rate rises to 12.4%
1/22/10 Blanchflower, Business Week, Credit Crisis Creates Lost Generation
1/22/10 Ross, BBC, Satellite images help insure Kenya cattle
1/22/10 Maisano, ITT, States of Pain
1/22/10 Vidal, Guardian, One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show
1/22/10 Al Jazeera, Ice dance sparks Aboriginal anger
1/22/10 Morpurgo, Guardian, My third-class life
January 21, 2010
1/21/10 Higham & Ryan, BBC, Museum explores 'hidden history' of Muslim science
1/21/10 Wilkinson, LAT, Haiti's elite hold nation's future in their hands
1/21/10 Martin, WSWS, US: Democrats agree on commission to cut Social Security, Medicare
1/21/10 Topol, CSM, Egyptian female bodyguards mix hijabs with aikido
January 20, 2010
1/20/10 Kolata, NYT, I.O.C. Panel Calls for Treatment in Sex Ambiguity Cases
1/20/10 Zaldana, PSL, ICE raid terrorizes immigrant workers in Foxboro, Mass.
1/20/10 Costello, NPR, U.S. Mayors: Jobless Rate To Remain High For Years
1/20/10 Rubin, LAT, Young people spend 7 hours, 38 minutes a day on TV, video games, computer
January 19, 2010
1/19/10 Hsu, WP, Officials Try to Prevent Haitian Earthquake Refugees From Coming to US
1/19/10 Vicini, Reuters, U.S. court sends back Abu-Jamal death penalty case
1/19/10 Reuters, Fewer see Obama advancing racial ties
January 18, 2010
1/18/10 McKinley, NYT, Homeless Haitians Told Not to Flee to U.S.
1/18/10 Kudzai, Gender Masala, Women's bodies: A quick way to ascendancy?
1/18/10 PSL, Capitalism's unsolvable problems
1/18/10 Bender, Boston Globe, US Cloaks Case Files Involving Civil Rights
1/18/10 Booth, Guardian, Cruise Ships Still Find a Haitian Berth
1/18/10 Roberts, NYT, More Men Marrying Wealthier Wives
1/18/10 Roy, ITT, India's Trail of Tears
January 17, 2010
1/17/10 Hopkinson, The Root, When Are Haitians Looters and When Are They Just Hungry?
1/17/10 Billeaud, AP, Thousands protest sheriff's immigration efforts
1/17/10 Doward, Guardian, Eastern European immigration 'has hit low-paid Britons'
January 16, 2010
1/16/10 Virgo, IPS, RIGHTS: Italy Shows its Ugly Side
January 15, 2010
1/15/10 Cutter, PSL, Environmental refugees flooding cities in poorest nations
1/15/10 Arons, RH Reality Check, Senate, House Health Reform Bills Change Abortion Status Quo
1/15/10 Saint Louis, NYT, Creams Offering Lighter Skin May Bring Risks
1/15/10 Rizvi, IPS, UN Condemns Land Grabs in Native Territories
1/15/10 Osava, IPS, BRAZIL: 'Colonisation Made Us Poor,' Say Indigenous Peoples
1/15/10 Bindel, Guardian, Why men use prostitutes
January 14, 2010
1/14/10 AP, Foreclosures set a grim record in 2009
1/14/10 Leondis & Plungis, Bloomberg, Krawcheck Says 53% of Wealthy Fear Outliving Savings
1/14/10 Mullins, Herald Online, Book costs soar above $1,000 for average college student
1/14/10 Savage, LAT, Click here to find out more! Supreme Court cites 'irreparable harm' in blocking Prop. 8 trial footage
1/14/10 Park, LAT, A shelter for South Korea's foreign brides
1/14/10 Marquand, BBC, Pat Robertson Haiti comments: French view theory with disbelief
January 13, 2010
1/13/10 Filipovic, Feministe, George Tiller's Murderer May be Charged Only With "Voluntary Manslaughter:" What This Means for Reproductive Rights
1/13/10 Cowan, Wired, Supernova Wind Solves Galaxy Formation Mystery
January 12, 2010
1/12/10 WorldFocus, Nations on every continent struggle with racism
January 11, 2010
1/11/10 McGreal, Guardian, Obama's Indian problem
1/11/10 Al Jazeera, Black Iraqis claim discrimination
1/11/10 BBC, China faces growing gender imbalance
1/11/10 BBC, Gurkha veterans lose pensions test case battle with MoD
1/11/10 Simms, Guardian, Nine meals from anarchy
1/11/10 Evans-Prtichard, Telegraph, America Slides Deeper Into Depression as Wall Street Revels
January 10, 2010
1/10/10 Jordans, AP, Switzerland, other European nations are slapping rich drivers with massive traffic fines
1/10/10 Leopold, AP, For the Unemployed, New Job Often Means a Pay Cut
1/10/10 Connolly, Guardian, Anarchists in Berlin turn anger on new 'bourgeoisie'
1/10/10 Beaumont, Guardian, Violence, fear and confusion: welcome to the Horn of Africa
January 9, 2010
1/09/10 BBC, Migrants evacuated from southern Italian town
1/09/10 Eley, WSWS, US loses 85,000 jobs in December
1/09/10 Ames, AlterNet, Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions
1/09/10 Hooper. Guardian, Racial violence continues in Italy as four migrant workers wounded in shootings
1/09/10 Nichols, Nation, The 2010 Political Timebomb Is Unemployment
1/09/10 Bernstein, NYT, Documents Reveal Earlier Immigrant Deaths
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 Elliott, Guardian, US fears double-dip recession with rising job losses
1/08/10 Pavey, PSL, Grand jury justifies racist police killing in Rockford, Ill.
1/08/10 Smith, Sac Bee, Sacramento, Central Valley bankruptcy filings soar to all-time high
1/08/10 Perdomo, AlterNet, U.S. One of Two Countries Where Kids' Educational Attainment is Lower Than Their Parents'
January 7, 2010
1/07/10 Gorman, LAT, UCLA study says legalizing undocumented immigrants would help the economy
1/07/10 Whewell, BBC, Witch-doctors reveal extent of child sacrifice in Uganda
1/07/10 Philpott, Island Bucket, Agent Orange rule could cost VA billions
January 6, 2010
1/06/10 WorldFocus, Ethnicity still divides Bosnia, threatening its fragile peace
1/06/10 Lerner, CNN, Vandana Shiva: Farmer Suicides in India Linked to Debt, Globalization
1/06/10 Boseley, Guardian, Care homes forcing elderly to have feeding tubes fitted
1/06/10 Levya, Progressive, We should overhaul network of secret immigrant jails
1/06/10 Lazarus, LAT, Banks take revenge for new consumer rules
1/06/10 BBC, Anti-whaling activists accuse Japan fleet of attack
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 Eley, WSWS, New Year in America: A portrait of social misery
1/05/10 Danto, Progressive, "Avatar" falls into old trap
January 4, 2010
1/04/10 BBC, Obama effigy hanged in Jimmy Carter's home town
1/04/10 Vaughn, Guardian, Climate Change Scepticism Will Increase Hardship for World's Poor: IPCC Chief
1/04/10 BBC, Pension savings 'deteriorating'
1/04/10 BBC, US lifts HIV/Aids immigration ban
January 3, 2010
1/03/10 Kakissis, NYT, Environmental Refugees Unable to Return Home
January 2, 2010
1/02/10 DeParle, NYT, Living on Nothing but Food Stamps
1/02/10 Irwin, WP, Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers
January 1, 2010
1/01/10 Santos, NYT, In the Shadows, Day Laborers Left Homeless as Work Vanishes
1/01/10 Ricardi, LAT, Immigration law ignites fear in Arizona
1/01/10 Smith, Guardian, Married Malawian gay couple face test to prove they had sexual relations
December 31, 2009
12/31/09 Ansel, PSL, Indiana slashes education funding in middle of school year
12/31/09 Williams, KC Star, USDA cites KU Medical Center for violation of animal protection laws
12/31/09 Beam, The Slate, Racist graffiti in Columbia, S.C., as blacks seek mayor's post
December 30, 2009
12/30/09 Alden, New American Media, Obama Quietly Changes U.S. Immigration Policy
December 29, 2009
12/29/09 Harvey, BBC, Hmong arrive in Laos after forced repatriation
December 28, 2009
12/28/09 Hedges, TruthDig, One Day We'll All Be Terrorists
December 27, 2009
12/27/09 McCurry, Guardian, Japan's 'grass eaters' turn their backs on macho ways
12/27/09 Phillips & Huff, TruthOut, Inside the Military Media Industrial Complex: Impacts on Movement for Social Justice
December 26, 2009
12/26/09 Prentice, BBC, Armchair deputies enlisted to patrol US-Mexico border
December 25, 2009
12/25/09 Hall, McClatchy, The lingering Bush legacy: What to do about those tax cuts
12/25/09 BBC, Fears for Hmong soon to be deported by Thailand to Laos
December 24, 2009
12/24/09 Greene, CNN, Pope ends year as he began it -- with apology to Jews
12/24/09 Walker, BBC, Chimps use cleavers and anvils as tools to chop food
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 Fildes, BBC, OLPC unveils slimline tablet PC
12/23/09 Gettleman, MoJo, Journey into the Heart of Whiteness
12/23/09 Weir, CSM, Why nearly 60 percent of Russians 'deeply regret' the USSR's demise
December 21, 2009
12/21/09 Mercer, BBC, Nuclear test land returned to Australian Aborigines
December 20, 2009
12/20/09 Carrera, PSL, Undocumented workers face new repressive state tactics
12/20/09 Berry, Progressive, The Cost of Displacement
December 19, 2009
12/19/09 Bomkamp, AP, White-collar jobless join FedEx, UPS for holidays
12/19/09 Eckholm, NYT, Utility Bill Is One More Casualty of Recession
12/19/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Bankers COST the economy $7 for every $1 they're paid
12/19/09 Luhby, CNN, Senate OKs filing extension for jobless
12/19/09 Stevens, Nation, Immigration Police Are Keeping Secret Jails on U.S. Soil
December 18, 2009
12/18/09 Barnes, CSM, Religious freedom not the rule for majority of world: Pew report
12/18/09 Ghista, IntelDaily, How Long Casteism?
12/18/09 Drash, CNN, Online posting of women's abortion information challenged in Oklahoma
December 17, 2009
12/17/09 Watson, CNN, Rare gender identity defect hits Gaza families
December 16, 2009
12/16/09 Schulte, Socialist Worker, America's new homeless
12/16/09 Wilkinson, DetroitNews, Nearly half of Detroit's workers are unemployed
12/16/09 BBC, Genocide charges for two former Khmer Rouge leaders
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 CNN, 4 police officers among 6 people indicted in race-related beating
12/15/09 Confessore, NYT, Official Hopes Prison Crisis May Spur Change
12/15/09 Horton, CSM, Why southern Yemen is pushing for secession
12/15/09 Grant, BBC, Venezuela flood victims still live in ruins 10 years on
December 14, 2009
12/14/09 Bauer, KC Star, Hostage House, Part 3: Family link offers solace -- and peril
12/14/09 Bauer, KC Star, Sex slaves often victimized twice in U.S. trafficking war
December 13, 2009
12/13/09 McGraw & Bauer, KC Star, Despite US Laws, Thousands Still Virtual Slaves in America
12/13/09 Eckholm, NYT, Gang Violence Grows on an Indian Reservation
12/13/09 Kaufman, Nation, Yes, Regulators Can Stop Foreclosures
12/13/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, ACORN independent review says problems are opposite of what conservatives allege
12/13/09 CNN, Houston elects first openly gay mayor
December 12, 2009
12/11/09 Wilson, NYT, Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics
12/12/09 BBC, US federal agents arrest 286 'immigrant criminals'
12/12/09 Mottern, TruthOut, Less Than Citizens (Part One): People of Fort Drum
December 11, 2009
12/11/09 Kaiser Daily, Agricultural Alliance Releases Report Calling For Efforts To Prevent Climate Change From Affecting Global Food Security
12/11/09 BBC, EU climate cash pledge 'not enough' say small nations
12/11/09 Leon, TruthOut, The Power of White Privilege
12/11/09 Cardwell, NYT, The Homeless Are Wherever Jobs Vanish
12/11/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, Lingering joblessness puts new face on foreclosure crisis
12/11/09 Gorman, LAT, Young Latinos seem to face a tougher future
12/11/09 BBC, Every third Indian 'under poverty line'
December 10, 2009
12/10/09 Lantigua-Williams, Progressive, Being pregnant not so wonderful for many Latinas and blacks
12/10/09 Kaiser Daily, Global Food Prices Reach 14-Month High, FAO Report Says
December 8, 2009
12/08/09 PSL, Unemployment crisis reveals deep structural racism
12/08/09 Allen, ITT, Death by Privatization
December 7, 2009
12/07/09 Singletary, WP, An attempt to open banks' doors to all
12/07/09 Aizenman, WP, Struggles of the second generation
12/07/09 Boone, Guardian, Plight of Afghan Women May Worsen as War Effort is Stepped Up, Warns Report
December 6, 2009
12/06/09 Gowen, WP, Lack of computer access hampers some students
December 5, 2009
12/05/09 Fernandez, IPS, Panic Erupts in Wake of New Anti-Immigrant Law
12/05/09 BBC, Racist abuse against Balotelli feared at Inter-Juve tie
December 4, 2009
12/04/09 Todd, PSL, Peruvian government apology for racism leaves out slavery
12/04/09 McGreal, Guardian, Texas executes man at centre of mental disability row
12/04/09 Jansen, IPS, Women's Treaty a Powerful Force for Equality
12/04/09 Benno, PSL, Michigan restaurant workers protest wage theft
12/04/09 White, Human rights report exposes US abuse of immigrant detainees
December 2, 2009
12/02/09 Al Jazeera, Peru tribe threatened by hepatitis
12/02/09 Hart, LAT, District of Columbia Council passes gay marriage bill
December 1, 2009
12/01/09 Belluck, NYT, New Hopes on Health Care for American Indians
12/01/09 Layoff List, The "Real" unemployment rate in the US is now 22%
12/01/09 Kroll, MoJo, Housing Meltdown, Ground Zero
12/01/09 Harkinson, MoJo, Street Food Fight
12/01/09 WorldFocus, Calling the world's attention to the caste issue in India
12/01/09 Rameesh, Guardian, Sri Lanka announces limited freedom for detained Tamil refugees
November 30, 2009
11/30/09 BBC, US Treasury in foreclosure fines
11/30/09 WSWS, America the hungry
November 29, 2009
11/29/09 Pommereau, CSM, Swiss vote to ban minarets showcases new populism
November 28, 2009
11/28/09 Eley, WSWS, US food charities overwhelmed by demand
11/28/09 Stan, AlterNet, Shocking: High School Grads Twice As Likely To Be Jobless Than College Grads
11/28/09 Odulla, AP, 10,000 E. African albinos in hiding after killings
11/28/09 Cockerham, ADN, New fight develops over rights of fetuses
November 27, 2009
11/27/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Expiring insurance subsidy imperils laid-off Americans
11/27/09 Reuters, Philippine clan members investigated after killings
11/27/09 Perrotin, The View from Britany, The Decline of the Wage System
11/27/09 Stacansky, IPS, BALKANS: Apologising to Sterilised Roma Women - Slovakia's Turn
November 26, 2009
11/26/09 Paez, IPS, PERU: IACHR Calls for Justice for Victims of Forced Sterilisation
11/26/09 Gutierrez & Boselli, IPS, MEDIA: The Untold Stories of Violence Against Women
11/26/09 Godoy, IPS, LABOUR-MEXICO: Manufacturing Poverty for Women
11/26/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Shadow of food insecurity looms over richest nation in history this Thanksgiving Day
11/25/09 Marquand, CSM, Thanksgiving Day: Pilgrims were a surprisingly worldly, tolerant lot
November 25, 2009
11/25/09 Seeking Alpha, U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims: Why You Can't Trust Them
11/25/09 Mason, Progressive, We need a second stimulus package, especially for minorities
11/25/09 Bacon, East Bay Express, The Racial Diversity of Hunger
11/25/09 Drogin, LAT, Terrorism probe casts scrutiny on Minneapolis' Somali immigrant enclave
11/25/09 Pember, Progressive, As a Native-American, I'll have mixed feelings about Thanksgiving
November 24, 2009
11/24/09 Purcell, Herald Scotland, On Trial: System That Locks Children up for Life Without Hope of Freedom
11/24/09 CNN, Federal lawsuit filed against Atlanta police over raid at gay club
11/24/09 Kirk, CSM, Philippines massacre: State of emergency declared, but will Arroyo pursue justice?
11/24/09 Baldauf, CSM, Climate change: Are women the solution?
November 22, 2009
11/22/09 Al Jazeera, Unborn children for sale in S Korea
11/22/09 Harris, Guardian, Forced Labor and Rape, the New Face of Slavery in America
11/22/09 Ostendorf, Progressive, This Thanksgiving, let's give a thought to the people who process turkeys
11/22/09 BBC, Rate of facial wounds 'much higher among poorest Scots'
November 21, 2009
11/21/09 Story, NYT, Wall St. Finds Profits Again, Now by Reducing Mortgages
11/21/09 BBC, Childhood abuse 'speeds up body's ageing process'
November 20, 2009
11/20/09 Schoen, MSNBC, Long-term unemployed face dwindling options
11/20/09 BBC, Congo fishing rights clashes 'force thousands to flee'
11/20/09 Chitwood, Ledger-Enquirer, SOA Watch Marks 20th Anniversary of Assassinations
11/20/09 White, AP, AP IMPACT: Some lawmakers send few to academies
11/20/09 Boodhoo, Miami Herald, Study: Minority hotel workers face more risks on the job
11/20/09 Lydersen, ITT, Exhibits of Conscience
November 19, 2009
11/20/09 Jewitt & Rowe, ProPublica, Pharmaceutical Giant Paid $500,000 to Psychiatrist Who Used Chicago's Poor as Guinea Pigs
11/19/09 Veremans, PSL, A government of, by and for the rich
11/19/09 Huerta, Progressive, The right to a great public education
11/19/09 Barnard & White, NYT, Fire Reveals Illegal Homes Hide in Plain Sight
11/18/09 MCLaughlin, CNN, Expert: Child traffickers target runaways, 'throwaways'
11/19/09 Bristow, BBC, Beijing's poor visit illegal clinics
11/19/09 BBC, Russia enshrines ban on death penalty
November 18, 2009
11/18/09 Perdomo, AlterNet, Stupak Amendment Could End Abortion Coverage -- For Everyone
11/18/09 van der Westhuizen,, AlterNet, U.S. Christian Right Activists Pushing Death Penalty for Homosexuals in Poor African State
11/18/09 Benen, AlterNet, Yet More Mind-Bending Racism From the Right-Wing Media
11/18/09 Reich, TruthOut, The Great Disconnect Between Stocks and Jobs
11/18/09 Williams, LAT, Judge orders compensation for gay couple denied benefits
11/18/09 BBC, Poor women 'bear climate burden'
November 17, 2009
11/17/09 Traub, Nation, Getting Tough on Exploitation
11/17/09 Hamilton, LAT, Wall Street recovers quickly -- unlike the rest of the nation
11/17/09 Hartman, On the Issues, The "New" Population Control Craze: Retro, Racist, Wrong Way to Go
11/17/09 Kaplan, LAT, Uninsured trauma patients are much more likely to die
November 16, 2009
11/16/09 Aloisi & Flynn, Reuters, Climate deal key to fight "devastating" hunger: U.N.
11/16/09 Dewan, NYT, A Racial Divide Is Bridged by Recession
11/16/09 Muskal, LAT, More Americans feel economic pinch in their stomachs
11/16/09 Marks, CSM, Australia's Rudd apologizes to forced child migrants
November 14, 2009
11/14/09 Deen, IPS, US, Somalia Still Opt Out of Children's Treaty
11/14/09 Fredrix, AP, Rich buying again, but middle class still hurting
November 13, 2009
11/13/09 Benen, Wa. Monthly, Hypocrisy Watch: RNC Insurance Plan Has Covered Abortions for 18 Years
11/13/09 PressTV, World Bank warns of more unemployment in 2010
11/13/09 IRIN, World hunger increases despite growth in food production
11/13/09 Michael, IPS, UGANDA: "Mount Elgon Eviction Has Reduced Us to Beggars"*
11/13/09 Lal, IPS, RIGHTS: State of India's Children: An Unsettling Reality
11/13/09 Radford, Guardian, Race and intelligence: A sorry tale of shoddy science
11/13/09 BBC, Indian eunuchs given separate IDs
November 12, 2009
11/12/09 Bowcott, Guardian, Chemical restraints killing dementia patients
11/12/09 McGreal, Guardian, UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless
11/12/09 KFF, Almost 200M Undernourished Children Worldwide, Report Says
November 11, 2009
11/11/09 Thoma, CNN, Will There Be a 'New Normal' For Unemployment?
11/11/09 Segura, AlterNet, Ugly Truth: Most U.S. Kids Sentenced to Die In Prison Are Black
November 10, 2009
11/10/09 Ward, Progressive, Anti-immigrant hysteria blocks black access to health care
November 9, 2009
11/09/09 Rantzen, Guardian, Gender-blindness on child sexual abuse
11/09/09 Robbins, BBC, Free market flawed, says survey
11/09/09 Hungwe, BBC, Alarm at Zimbabwe's growing child sex abuse
11/09/09 Mardell, BBC, The hard fact of healthcare costs
11/09/09 Ethirajan, BBC, Australia tackles refugee source
November 8, 2009
11/08/09 Gill, BBC, Early life stress 'changes' genes
11/08/09 Rucker, WP, The lonely life of 'Number Nine'
11/08/09 bbc, US House backs healthcare reforms
November 7, 2009
11/07/09 Lovley, Politico, Report: 237 Millionaires in Congress
11/07/09 Robles, McClatchy, Coal Ash from U.S. Blamed for Dominican Town's Birth Defects
11/07/09 Sherman, AP, High court to look at life in prison for juveniles
11/07/09 AFP, Millions worldwide would like to switch countries: study
11/07/09 AP, Computers, records seized at ACORN offices in La.
11/07/09 Haynes & Hedgpeth, W{, Millions represent the face of 10.2 percent joblessness
11/07/09 Bash, CNN, Anti-abortion Democrats get chance to amend health care proposal
November 6, 2009
11/06/09 Woolhouse, Boston Globe, Credit Card Firms Hurry to Raise Rates
11/06/09 BBC, US jobless rate rises to over 10%
11/06/09 BBC, Two decades since the Berlin Wall came down, BBC Mundo looks at walls and barriers around the world which are still standing - or have been put up - since 1989.
11/06/09 Leonhardt, NYT, Broader Measure of U.S. Unemployment Stands at 17.5%
11/06/09 Shepherd, Guardian, Institutional racism keeps black teachers out of top posts - report finds
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 Benno, PSL, Dallas police ticket drivers for not speaking English
11/05/09 Nichols, Nation, Horror at Fort Hood Inspires Horribly Predictable Islamophobia
11/05/09 Calmes & Stout, NYT, U.S. Readies Jobless Aid and Help on Homes
11/05/09 BBC, Obama pledge to Native Americans
11/05/09 BBC, Amazonian tribe hit by swine flu
November 4, 2009
11/04/09 Vidal, Guardian, African Nations Make a Stand at UN Climate Talks
11/04/09 Grey, WSWS, Workers' wages to fall further, International Labour Organization warns
11/04/09 Reuters, Americans on food stamps tops 36 million, new record
November 3, 2009
11/03/09 Ervin, Progressive, Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows
11/03/09 Alexander & Ordonez, Charlotte Observer, Crux of immigration case: Did bosses know?
11/03/09 BBC, Global 'caring' portal to launch
November 2, 2009
11/02/09 Tanner, AP, Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says
11/02/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Do Smart, Hard-Working People Deserve to Make More Money?
11/02/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman takes on new role: taking away people's homes
11/02/09 Pratt, LV Sun, The New Faces of Day Labor
11/02/09 Redington, ITT, Can the Rich Really Save Us?
November 1, 2009
11/01/09 Barnes & Mufson, WP, Defining excessive pay
11/01/09 Duffy, BBC, University race quotas row in Brazil
October 31, 2009
10/31/09 Al Jazeera, Bangladesh workers riot over pay
10/31/09 Hoeksema, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Hunger and Conflict Go Hand in Hand
10/31/09 CNN, Brazilian Indians find plane survivors
10/31/09 Shapiro, AlterNet, Putting Farm Animal Protection on the Map, One Step at a Time
October 30, 2009
10/30/09 Andrews, ProPublica, The Battle Over Tired Truckers: Obama Ditches Another Bush Rule
10/30/09 Cardinale, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Gay Bar Raids Draw Community Outrage
10/30/09 Fraysinet, IPS, BRAZIL: Drugs, Guns, Gangs and Police - a Violent Mix in the 'Favelas'
10/30/09 Ramesh, Guardian, India to investigate rising elephant death toll
10/30/09 Spencer, WSWS, US: Lack of insurance linked to thousands of child deaths
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 Williams, Guardian, Gender pay gap still as high as 50%, UK survey says
10/30/09 Hare, CNN, Bea Arthur leaves $300K to gay youth
10/30/09 BBC, Africa backs Darfur crimes court
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 Makino, IPS, JAPAN: Death from Overwork Persists Amid Economic Crunch
10/29/09 Fleury, BBC, Struggling in a recovering economy
10/29/09 Howley, Bloomberg, U.S. Home Vacancies Rise to 18.8 Million on Defaults
10/29/09 Winterman, BBC, Why are fat people abused?
10/29/09 Basu, CNN, Friend of gang rape victim blasts school officials over safety
10/29/09 BBC, Kenya to launch homosexual census
10/29/09 Kirby, BBC, France migrant policy criticised
October 28, 2009
10/28/09 Spencer, WSWS, Child deaths from abuse and neglect rise in the US
10/28/09 Cogan, WSWS, Pakistani army offensive devastates tribal communities
10/28/09 Berger, IPS, ECUADOR: Oil Giant Is Gone, Legal and Environmental Mess Remains
10/28/09 Chen, CNN, Gang rape raises questions about bystanders' role
10/28/09 Gandossy, CNN, Census will report same-sex couples, gay groups see opportunity
10/28/09 CNN, Senate likely to extend homebuyers' tax credit
10/28/09 Fernandez, IPS, U.S.: Arizona Renews Push to Criminalise Immigrants
10/28/09 Lobe, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Scandinavia Leads World in Pro-Poor Policies
10/28/09 Novak, ITT, America's Real Death Panels
10/28/09 Robertson et al, Guardian, Kenya's drought crisis: Starving to death
10/28/09 Travis, Guardian, Innocent suspects' profiles still reaching DNA database
10/28/09 Oppman, CNN, Illegal immigrants struggle to receive back pay
October 27, 2009
10/27/09 Press, Nation, Assessing the Opt-Out - A Lesson from the Abortion Debate
10/27/09 AP, Worsening job picture fuels slide in confidence
10/27/09 Kryt, ITT, The Lonesome Death of Pedro Munoz
10/27/09 Allen ITT, Restless Vagina Syndrome
10/27/09 BcGreal, Guardian, 700 arrests across country as FBI rescues children from sex trade
October 26, 2009
10/26/09 Lydersen, ITT, Native American Uranium Miners Still Suffer, As Industry Eyes Rebirth
10/26/09 Kokutse, IPS, AFRICA: Broken Promises Litter the Aftermath of Global Crisis
10/26/09 Tedeschi, NYT, Homeowners Walking Away
10/26/09 Singh, Bloomberg, Caterpillar to Rehire 550 Workers, Dismiss 2,500
10/26/09 Levitt & Candiotti, CNN, Students: Chicago nightclub barred blacks
October 25, 2009
10/25/09 Trejos, WP, Loaded propositions - prepaid credit cards
10/25/09 Todd, PSL, Australia unleashes racism against Tamil refugees
October 24, 2009
10/24/09 Eley, WSWS, Michigan governor again takes axe to education
10/24/09 Geloo, IPS, ZAMBIA
: Fishing in Troubled Waters
10/24/09 Ames, AlterNet, After the Billionaires Plundered Alabama Town, Troops Were Called in ... Illegally
October 23, 2009
10/23/09 Latigua-Williams, Progressive, Latinos important in every sphere of American society
10/23/09 Hopkins, ADN, Feds seek to reshape hunting and fishing rules
10/23/09 VNS, Deputy PM says human trafficking is on the rise
9/23/09 NPR, Map: State Unemployment Rates
10/23/09 BBC, Rich Germans demand higher taxes
10/23/09 Littlepage, Newswire, Republicans Oppose Franken on Rape Legislation
10/23/09 Sidner, CNN, Farmers sell wives to pay debts in rural India
10/23/09 Prusher, CSM, Israel Supreme Court: Open 'apartheid' road to Palestinians
October 22, 2009
10/22/09 AFP, US new jobless claims up again
10/22/09 Luhby, CNN, 7,000 unemployed Americans lose their lifeline every day
10/22/09 Knapke, FPIF, Coup's Impact on Honduran Women
10/22/09 CNN, Taser makers say don't aim at chest
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
10/22/09 Bluemink, ADN, Changes planned for Native contracting program
October 20, 2009
10/20/09 Sullivan, Reuters, Congress agrees on moving Guantanamo inmates
10/20/09 Suri, IPS, HEALTH: EU Blocking Medicines for the Poor
10/20/09 BBC, US medical cannabis policy eased
10/20/09 Ravi, BBC, Village 'witches' beaten in India
10/20/09 Spencer, WSWS, Oregon: plagued by homelessness, unemployment, cuts in social services
10/20/09 Yen, AP, Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty
10/20/09 Sloan, WP, Uncle Sam's gift to the prudent saver: Less money
10/20/09 Morse, ITT, High-Tech vs. Humane Healthcare
October 19, 2009
10/19/09 Raum, AP, Higher unemployment might become the norm as result of recession
10/19/09 Levinson, Nation, Overturning DOMA
10/19/09 France, The Sun, Parents Sell Virgins at Ages 12 for Sex
10/19/09 Damon & Kishore, WSWS, The two Americas
October 18, 2009
10/18/09 McGreal, Guardian, Oklahoma abortion law to put patients' details online
10/18/09 Ayala, IPS, MIGRATION-EL SALVADOR: Broken Homes, Broken Families
October 17, 2009
10/17/09 Bannerman, TruthOut, Military Children in Crisis
10/17/09 Lerner, CNN, Rape a weapon of war in Congo, activists say
October 16, 2009
10/16/09 Fink, ProPublica, In Flu Pandemic, Florida's Hospitals May Exclude Certain Patients
10/16/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Funding Sweatshops Globally
10/16/09 CNN, Interracial couple in Louisiana denied marriage license
10/16/09 Douglas, Nation, Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment
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 Ahmed, CNN, Fast Internet access becomes a legal right in Finland
10/15/09 BBC, Uganda MP urges death for gay sex
10/15/09 DW-Worlde, Never have so many people suffered from hunger
October 14, 2009
10/14/09 Boseley, Guardian, Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year
10/14/09 Fihlani, BBC, Stolen youth of SA's child brides
10/14/09 Weisberg, Nation, ICE Program Under Fire
10/14/09 BBC, Global hunger worsening, warns UN
10/14/09 WSWS, The American way of debt: Turning a profit by preying on the poor
October 13, 2009
10/13/09 Mydans, NYT, Exiled From School, H.I.V.-Infected Orphans Learn a Bitter Lesson
10/13/09 Uchitele, NYT, Still on the Job, but Making Only Half as Much
10/13/09 Marquez, IPS, VENEZUELA: Land for Yukpa Indians, But No 'Territory'
10/13/09 Hare, CNN, Does your social class determine your online social network?
10/13/09 BBC, Bans 'do not cut abortion rate'
10/13/09 Rogers, Miami Herald, Costa Rica draws sex trade
October 12, 2009
10/12/09 Montgomery, Star-Telegram, Tim Cole panel begins yearlong look at judicial safeguards
October 11, 2009
10/11/09 Vidal, Guardian, Millions Will Starve as Rich Nations Cut Food Aid Funding, Warns UN
10/11/09 Templeton, Times Online, Doctors say EU working week is killing patients
10/11/09 Fadel, McClatchy, Muslims in U.S. feel unfairly implicated in the war on terror
10/11/09 BBC, Obama to end military gay policy
October 10, 2009
10/10/09 Zezima, NYT, Indigent Burials Are on the Rise
10/10/09 Saul, NYT, The Gift of Life, and Its Price
October 9, 2009
10/09/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Sweatshop Conditions in US Cities
10/09/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Desperate Scene in Detroit as Stimulus Comes to Crossroads
10/09/09 Ansel, PSL, U.N. reports massive population drop in Russia
10/09/09 Alingod, AHN, House Gives Final Approval To Hate Crimes Bill
10/09/09 PA, EU in call to US on death penalty
10/09/09 Eligon & Weiser, NYT, Weighing Prison When the Convict Is Over 80
10/09/09 Yellin, CNN, Some credit card companies rush to act before new law
10/09/09 Levine, CNN, More women than men dismissed from military for being gay
October 8, 2009
10/08/09 Conaway, NPR, New Job-Loss Claims Fall. Chronic Unemployment Grows.
10/08/09 MacDonald, Irish Times, G8 States Could Face Class Actions on Climate Change
10/08/09 KuhnHenn & Zibel, AP, Watchdog doubts goals of Obama loan relief plan
10/08/09 Downs, Lexington Courier Journal, 10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs
10/08/09 Long, AP, Police stop more than 1 million people on street
October 7, 2009
10/07/09 Stratford, Al Jazeera, Gulf labour laws fail to halt abuse
10/07/09 CNN, Cabinet officials, Chicagoans discuss ways to end teen violence
10/07/09 Rosen, KC Star, Bank revenue from overdraft fees reached $24 billion last year, study shows
10/07/09 Beale, Miller-McCune, Racially Exclusive Suburbs Across U.S. Dubbed the New 'Whitopia'
10/07/09 DW World, Secretary loses job of 34 years over meatball snack
10/07/09 Leinward, USA Today, Reported rapes hit 20-year low
10/07/09 BBC, 'Living wage' identified for Asia
October 6, 2009
10/06/09 Mansur, KC Star, Foreclosure crisis creates thousands more vacant buildings in KC
10/06/09 Watanabe, LAT, Verification of illegal immigrants is scrutinized amid healthcare debate
10/06/09 Jimenez, CNN, Commentary: Mexican-Americans have deep U.S. ties
10/06/09 Haviland, BBC, Sri Lanka refugees plead for freedom
10/06/09 Kennedy, BBC, Citizen patrols hit Italy streets
10/06/09 BBC, US 'to cut immigrant detention'
October 5, 2009
10/05/09 Manak, IPS, HEALTH-AFRICA: If Men Were Dying En Masse...
10/05/09 Jilani, ThinkProgress, Georgia Republican Cites "Ghetto Grandmothers" to Promote Proof-of-Ctizenship Legislation
10/05/09 Collins, AlterNet, Victory: Taxing Wealth Dynasties Will Continue
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 Hoekema, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Migrants Give More than They Take, Says U.N.
October 4, 2009
10/04/09 Chimtom, IPS, CAMEROON: 'Our Lives Are Defined By This Forest'
10/04/09 Richter, Progressive, Lack of universal health care is a mass killer
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
10/04/09 Schifferes, BBC, Pledge for more IMF help for poor
10/04/09 BBC, Men wanted to test contraceptive
October 3, 2009
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 Emmott, Reuters, A Costly US-Mexico Border Wall, in Both Dollars and Deaths
10/02/09 DiNovella, Progressive, Senate Finance Committee Votes to Restore Abstinence-Only Education
10/02/09 Drago, IPS, POLITICS: Marching Round the World for Peace
10/02/09 EDIE, One dead and dozens injured in water protests
10/02/09 Castillo, CNN, U.S. immigrant population flat, Census numbers show
October 1, 2009
10/01/09 Levey, LAT, Abortion language heats up healthcare battle
10/01/09 Randall, WSWS, US Census Bureau report: 40 million living in poverty
10/01/09 Devraj, IPS, DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars
10/01/09 Ritchie, ITT, Rural America Needs You
10/01/09 Doyle, BBC, Violence traps indigenous Colombians
September 30, 2009
9/30/09 Pierri, IPS, LATIN AMERICA: Black Population - Still Largely Invisible
9/20/09 BBC, Richest Americans hit by downturn
9/20/09 Park, CNN, Undocumented patients wary of offers to return to home countries
9/30/09 Wiles, MoJo, Navajo Yellowcake Woes Continue
9/30/09 Conaway, NPR, Tight Credit Threatens Recovery. Plus: ADP Says 254,000 More Jobs Gone
9/30/09 IRIN, Recovery: ASIA: Global recession boosts child prostitution and trafficking in Asia
9/30/09 Sykes, BBC, Iraqi widows yearn for new lives
9/30/09 Linthicum & Correll, LAT, Census data show falling income
9/30/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, By 2050, 25m more children will go hungry as climate change leads to food crisis
September 29, 2009
9/29/09 Rodrigues, PSL, Wealthy Brazilian farmer burns down homes of Indigenous villagers
9/29/09 Aloisi, Reuters, 'Modern Slave' Migrants Toil in Italy's Tomato Fields
9/29/09 Preston, NYT, Immigration Crackdown With Firings, Not Raids
9/29/09 Oppman, CNN, Homeless find temporary haven in tent camps
9/29/09 Barnes, Guardian, Draconian drug tests
September 28, 2009
9/28/09 Hawkins, AP, Video shows teens beating Chicago student to death
9/28/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Police State Raids Against Immigrants
9/28/09 Mpaka, IPS, MALAWI: Surplus Crop, But We Are Starving - Farmers
September 27, 2009
9/27/09 AP, Feds Reviewing Humpback Whale Endangered Status
09/27/09 Templeton, Times Online, Cash-strapped sell their kidneys to pay off debts
September 26, 2009
9/26/09 Goodman, NYT, U.S. Job Seekers Exceed Openings by Record Ratio
September 25, 2009
9/25/09 Ngozo, IPS, AFRICA: Malawi non-voters denied farm subsidies
9/25/09 Sterns, CNN,
September 24, 2009
9/24/09 Topping, Guardian, Calais immigrants move out of the 'jungle' into the wasteland
9/24/09 PSL, Humanity: Mathematician who broke Nazi ciphers was chemically castrated for being gay and committed suicide
September 23, 2009
9/23/09 Jason, Merced Sun-Star, Merced County census figures paint a picture of poverty
9/23/09 Baran, McClatchy, White supremacists may rally Saturday in Belleville; Counter-rally planned
9/23/09 Shen, Bloomberg, Housing Crash to Resume on 7 Million Foreclosures, Amherst Says
September 22, 2009
9/22/09 BBC, Calais migrants set to lose camp
September 21, 2009
9/21/09 Yen, AP, Census: Recession had sweeping effect on US life
9/21/09 Bridges, McClatchy, Latin America Pioneers an Anti-Poverty Program That Works
9/21/09 Koramda, Wichita Eagle, Fund's decline delaying trials
9/21/09 Shaik, ITT, Chronically Displaced in NOLA
September 20, 2009
9/20/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Bernanke: Recession's "Likely Over". Stiglitz: In 2012
9/20/09 Stewart, CNN, Obama: Economy probably won't produce enough jobs until 2010
9/20/09 BBC, Precious film takes Toronto prize
September 19, 2009
9/19/09 Howden, Independent, Titus the Gorilla King is Dead
9/19/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Racial Attitudes And Social Spending--Part 1
9/19/09 Maniappa, AP, Indian runner knows about gender-test backlash
9/19/09 Hamilton & Devlin, TimesOnline, Paying poor foreign women for eggs is 'a kind of prostitution' says fertility expert
9/19/09 D'Novella, Progressive, "Personhood" Legislation Chips Away at Women's Rights
9/19/09 Sirota, ITT, Selective Deficit Disorder
9/19/09 Cartner-Morley, Guardian, Twiggy at 60: 'It's amazing I didn't go stark raving bonkers'
9/19/09 CNN, South African official lied about Semenya gender tests
9/19/09 BBC, UK 'should help' Calais migrants
9/19/09 BBC, Serbian gay parade is called off
September 18, 2009
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 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
9/18/09 Barlow, ITT, Gay Boys in Oil City
September 17, 2009
9/17/09 Page, TimesOnline, India's damned generation: young go hungry despite economic boom
9/17/09 Krauskoph, Reuters, U.S. employers will defray health reform costs: study
9/17/09 Hoy, AlterNet, New Report Sheds Harsh Light on Immigrant Detention System
9/17/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Romell Broom and the Barbarism of the Death Penalty
9/17/09 Montgomery, Star Telegram, Some local leaders along border question Perry's deployment of 'Ranger Recon' teams
9/17/09 Hiltzik, LAT, U.S. Census Bureau data on the medically uninsured simply can't be denied
September 16, 2009
9/16/09 Shin, WP, World Bank: Poor Face Long Recovery
9/16/09 Al Jazeera, Carter: Obama a target for racism
9/16/09 Lovato, AlterNet, Latinos to CNN: Dump Lou Dobbs Now!
9/16/09 Bluemink, ADN, Native leaders urge developers to consult in villages
September 15, 2009
9/15/09 Kane, WP, 'You Lie!' Shout Brings Vote on Sanction
9/15/09 Faiola, WP, World's Wealthy Pay a Price In Crisis
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 Lendman, IntelDaily, US Census Bureau Confirms Rising Poverty, Falling Incomes, and Growing Numbers of Uninsured
9/14/09 McCurry, Guardian, Dolphin slaughter turns sea red as Japan hunting season returns
9/14/09 CNN, New Orleans hospital deaths back in spotlight
9/14/09 BBC, Migrants risk lives for Europe
9/14/09 BBC, Eyewitness: Guatemala food crisis
9/14/09 Finch & Bowers, Guardian, Executive pay keeps rising, Guardian survey finds
9/14/09 Plaut, BBC, WFP to shut Somalia food centres
September 13, 2009
9/13/09 Abate, SF Chron, Unemployment Rate Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
9/13/09 Singletary, WP, Jobless, and Fighting Hopelessness
9/13/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, New Census Data--Same Old Bad Bush Economy--Only Moreso
9/13/09 Ramesh, Guardian, ,a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/13/tamils-camps-sri-lanka">Harrassed Tamils languish in prison-like camps in Sri Lanka
9/09/09 Blumenthal, Nation, The Nightmare of Christianity
September 12, 2009
9/12/09 Klein, Guardian, Obama's Big Silence: The Race Question
9/12/09 Klein, Guardian, Obama's Big Silence: The Race Question
9/12/09 PublicRecord, Teabagger: 'We Want to Get Back to the Way Our Country Was 100 Years Ago'
9/12/09 Clinton, Progressive, White Whine
9/12/09 Harrop, TruthOut, Health Reform and Illegal Immigration: The Truth
9/12/09 Baran, MN PR, Police Arrest Seven Protesters at Foreclosed Home
9/12/09 AP, South African officials meet on Semenya case
9/12/09 Liberto, CNN, Obama: More uninsured than you think
September 11, 2009
9/11/09 Conaway, NPR, WSJ: Economists Say Recession Is Over, Unemployment To Keep Rising
9/11/09 Borenstein, AP, When someone is raised female and the genes say XY
9/11/09 Buchwalter, MoJo, Israel Timeline: The Long Way Home
9/11/09 Rowlands, CNN, Blogging begins turnaround for homeless woman
9/11/09 BBC, World's oldest person dies at 115
9/11/09 Berry, progressive, Inverting the Economic Order
9/10/09 Osava, IPS, BRAZIL: Artistic Energy as Antidote to Exclusion
9/11/09 Gonzalez, IPS, CENTRAL AMERICA: Crisis Chews Women Up, Spits Them Out
9/11/09 Cuevas-Nazario, CNN, Texas school district turns away students from Mexico
September 10, 2009
9/10/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Americans Are Getting Poorer, and It's Going to Get Worse
9/10/09 Chovanex, AsiaTimes, Obama in showdown over Chinese tires
9/10/09 Conaway, NPR, More Americans Poor, Fewer Insured: Census Bureau
9/10/09 Kelland, Reuters, Violence, accidents are killing world's youth: study
9/10/09 Schifferes, BBC, Crisis 'cost us $10,000 each'
September 9, 2009
9/08/09 Reich, Nation, Robert Reich Explains the Public Option - video
9/09/09 PressTV, Abducting Algerian Children: New Jewish Organ Theft Gang Busted
9/09/09 BBC, SA mutineer: 'I live in poverty'
9/09/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Another Wave of Foreclosures Looms
September 8, 2009
9/08/09 Cohen, NYT, Killing Wolves for Fun
9/08/09 Benno, PSL, U.S. rates of infant mortality and child poverty soar above other capitalist countries
9/08/09 Walker, BBC, Recession moves migration patterns
9/08/09 BBC, Makeover for SA gender-row runner
September 7, 2009
9/07/09 Wessler, Itt, Foreclosure Crisis Built on Racial Injustice
9/07/09 Sandronsky, ITT, In and Out of the Working Class
September 6, 2009
9/06/09 Corcoran, Irish Times, S Africa Backs Action in US on Firms Linked to Apartheid
September 5, 2009
9/05/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Racism by Another Name
9/05/09 Eckholm, NYT, Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools
9/05/09 Mbodj & Robertson, Guardian, Child's Eye: Congo's children, back from the dead
September 4, 2009
9/04/09 Berhardt et al, Nation, Working Without Laws
9/04/09 Watts, Guardian, Current Economic Growth Model Is 'Immoral', Says Prescott
9/04/09 Brookes, BBC, Economic crash in Oregon boomtown
September 3, 2009
9/03/09 Levine, AlterNet, Young Workers in Free Fall: 1/3 Under 35 Live with Parents
9/03/09 Agazzi, IPS, NGOs: 'Mini-Ministerial Meeting Should Change WTO Tack on Food,' Promote Food Sovereignty
9/03/09 Dean, Examiner, 1.3 million unemployment benefits nearing the end
9/03/09 Reuters, Food stamp list soars past 35 million: USDA
9/03/09 Chung, Asia Times, Rent soars for Hong Kong cage dwellers
September 2, 2009
9/02/09 Conniff, Progressive, Saving Girls' Self Esteem
9/02/09 Hopkins, Guardian, The double-edged sword of falling debt
9/02/09 Keller, AP, US Fares Poorly in Child Welfare Survey
9/02/09 Conaway, NPR, Productivity Makes Biggest Leap Since 2003. (Yes, You're Working Harder.)
9/02/09 BBC, Online politics reserved for rich
September 1, 2009
9/01/09 Apel-Muller, TruthOut, Really Sick Work
9/01/09 Westhead, Toronto Star, Farmer Suicides Blight India
9/01/09 Greenhouse, NYT, Low-Wage Workers Are Often Cheated, Study Says
9/01/09 Pugh, McClatchy, For the long-term unemployed, recovery talk rings hollow
9/01/09 Straits Times, Child trafficking on the rise
9/01/09 McGreal & Anderson, Guardian, The Grapes of Wrath revisited: Migrants past & present
9/01/09 Griffin & Fitzpatrick, Donor says he got thousands for his kidney
August 31, 2009
8/31/09 Birnbaum, WP, Per-Student Spending Gaps Wider Than Known
8/31/09 Yardley, NYT, Wolves Are Set to Become Fair Game in the West
8/31/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Ex-Countrywide Execs' Firm Modifies Bad Loans for Taxpayer Cash
8/31/09 Brown, AP, Wolf hunts to open, judge eyes injunction request
8/31/09 Jonnson, CSM, For More Hard-Pressed Americans, a Campsite is Home
8/31/09 Jamail, TruthOut, Resisting Homophobia in the Military
8/31/09 Savage, NYT, Justice Dept. to Recharge Enforcement of Civil Rights
8/31/09 Goodman, MoJo, War Games: The Army's Teen Arsenal
8/31/09 BBC, Africans 'under siege' in Moscow
8/31/09 Michael, IPS, UGANDA: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
August 30, 2009
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 BBC, Lesbians given equal birth rights
8/30/09 LeBlanc, AP, Fortune helped fuel Kennedy family legacy, agenda
8/30/09 Collins, McClatchy, U.S. ignored evidence when it deported U.S. citizen to Mexico
8/30/09 Brulliard, WP, In Oil-Rich Niger Delta, the Sun Never Sets
8/30/09 McGreal, Guardian, The Grapes of Wrath revisited: interactive guide
8/30/09 McGreal, Guardian, The Grapes of Wrath revisited: The plight of Native Americans
8/30/09 Brown, NYT, Older Immigrants, Invisible and With 'Nobody to Talk To'
August 29, 2009
8/29/09 Barry, NYT, Chechnya and Its Neighbors Suffer a Relapse
8/28/09 CNN, Katrina's Hidden Race War: Four Years Later
8/29/09 BBC, Growing marginalisation of Hungary's Roma
August 28, 2009
8/28/09 McGreal, Guardian, Same Road, Same Grim Story, Same Sense of Optimism
8/28/09 Ridgeway, MoJo, The Secret History of Hurricane Katrina
8/28/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Health Insurance Exec Admits Her Industry Rations Care: "We Believe In Controlling Utilization"
8/28/09 Drash, CNN, Protests to focus on doctor who performed 60,000 abortions
8/28/09 Ravitz, CNN, From KKK, Mideast to church, film explores hate and hope
August 27, 2009
8/27/09 McGreal, Guardian, From dust to bust, America's poor take on a new type of monster
8/27/09 Reuters, Prisons, colleges top states' budget cuts: Pew
8/27/09 Spence, IntelDaily, The Widening Gap In America's Two Tiered Society
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 Wong, AP, Most China Organ Transplants Come From Death Row
August 25, 2009
8/25/09 CNN, Michigan courts given leeway to force veil removal
8/25/09 Dejevsky, Independent, A Mean Streak in the US Mainstream
8/25/09 Roberts, BBC, The lost children of Franco-era Spain
August 24, 2009
8/24/09 Phillips, Guardian, Blocked Rivers Threaten Livelihood of Brazilian Tribes
8/24/09 McNally, AlterNet, There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History
8/24/09 Conaway, NPR, To Save The World, Help Women. Plus: $10 Billion Boost For Union Health Plans
8/24/09 Smith, Guardian, Malawi's child tobacco pickers 'being poisoned by nicotine'
8/24/09 Doyle, BBC, Why is the African continent poor?
August 23, 2009
8/23/09 Garcez, BBC, Obama island's Brazilian 'engine'
8/23/09 Ohlemacher, AP, Millions face shrinking Social Security payments
8/23/09 Spears & Ward, Lexington Herald, Prison damage extensive
8/23/09 Hoby, Guardian, Women - and men - still need feminism
August 22, 2009
8/22/09 BBC, Authorities quell inmate riot at Kentucky prison
8/22/09 Watanabe, LAT, White House moves to placate immigration reform advocates
August 21, 2009
8/21/09 Press, Nation, America's Super-Rich
August 20, 2009
8/20/09 Clifton, IPS, 'Vulture Funds' Prey on Poor Debtor Nations
8/20/09 Bernstein, NYT, Deaths Show Hurdles to Detention Reform
8/20/09 Xinhua, India, hub of human trafficking in South Asia: report
8/20/09 Tencer, IntelDaily, Concentration of wealth in hands of rich greatest on record
August 19, 2009
8/19/09 DMI, OpenLeft, Forget The Squeeze: The Middle Class Is In A Choke Hold
8/19/09 AFP, Access to Water Key for World's Poor: Experts
8/19/09 Travis, Guardian, Government to stem flow of migrant workers to protect British jobs
August 18, 2009
8/18/09 Baseline Scenario, United States Inequality in the Recovery Period
8/18/09 Kohl, Progressive, Education Secretary Arne Duncan misread my book
8/18/09 Valladares, IPS, RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: One Arrest in Gender-Killing Epidemic
8/18/09 Painter, BBC, Bolivians look to ancient farming
August 17, 2009
8/17/09 Haughney, NYT, For City's Poor, Banks Are Still a Matter of Distrust
8/17/09 CNN, Gay men attacked, executed in Iraq, rights group says
August 16, 2009
8/16/09 Nichols, Nation, If Obama Discards Public Option, What's Left of Reform?
8/16/09 Barnard, AP, Tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor
8/16/09 Slevin, WP, Blogger's Case Could Test the Limits of Political Speech
8/16/09 Hall, McClatchy, Homeowners tell how banks failed to modify mortgages
August 15, 2009
8/15/09 Independent, The Brutal Truth About America's Healthcare
August 14, 2009
8/14/09 Capdevila, IPS, Indigenous People Troubled by US Military Presence
8/14/09 Boone, Guardian, Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights
8/14/09 King, CNN, Life is bare bones on the Lakota reservation
8/14/09 WW$ Report, "Swine flu" hits indigenous peoples in Peruvian Amazon
8/14/09 BBC, India 'regrets' US body's censure
8/14/09 Bright, CSM, Report: militia activity on the rise in US
August 13, 2009
8/13/09 Lux, OpenLeft, The Big Banks: How Low Will They Go?
8/13/09 Gandrossy, CNN, Man sentenced after leaving water bottles for immigrants
8/135/09 Fern, Project Vote, Restoration of Voting Rights Gains Support across the Nation
August 12, 2009
8/12/09 Blake, CNN, Muslim women uncover myths about the hijab
8/12/09 Shin, WP, 'A Recovery Only a Statistician Can Love'
8/12/09 Wright, Charlotte Observer, N.C. takes aim at bias in death penalty
8/12/09 Blanchflower, Guardian, This lays bare the human crisis. What a terrible time to be young and jobless
8/12/09 Williams, LAT, $500-million settlement reached in suspension of Social Security benefits
8/12/09 Pool & Yoshino, LAT, Super-clinic finds super-need in L.A. region
8/12/09 Valenda, CNN, Pipe-wielding inmates wrecked prison, footage shows
8/12/09 Cratty, CNN, Feds to tour Michigan prison where Gitmo detainees could go
August 11, 2009
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 Conaway, NPR, Layoffs Lead To Soaring Productivity. Hours Worked In Record-Low Range
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 Elliott, Guardian, If we're back to business as usual it's curtains for Labour
8/11/09 BBC, 'Shock' over stroke death rates
August 10, 2009
8/10/09 Dillon, NYT, Disabled Students Are Spanked More
8/10/09 Calvin, SacBee, Don't forget us, underinsured say
8/10/09 Ismail, WSWS, US cities criminalize homelessness
8/10/09 CNN, Feds search NOPD in post-Katrina shooting investigation
8/10/09 Vallely, Independent, Wish You Weren't Here: The Devastating Effects of the New Colonialists
8/10/09 Folbre, NYT, The Citizenship of the Uninsured
8/10/09 Roberts, NYT, In Desegregation Pact, Westchester Agrees to Add Affordable Housing
August 9, 2009
8/09/09 Scholtes & Guerrara, Financial Times, Banks Make $38 Billion From Overdraft Fees
8/09/09 Savage, LAT, Sonia Sotomayor sworn in as Supreme Court justice
8/09/09 Thomas, KC Star, FBI's investigation of Tiller killing looks at Roeder's jail visitors
8/09/09 Moore, NYT, Hundreds Hurt in 11-Hour California Prison Riot
8/09/09 Moore, NYT, Mentally Ill Offenders Strain Juvenile System
August 8, 2009
8/08/09 Sebert & Spolar, Huffington Post, At Appalachian Fairgrounds, Charity Tries to Fill Gaps in Health Care
8/08/09 Christenson, Charlotte News&observer, Hundreds picket over health-care plan
8/08/09 Story, NYT, For Private Equity, a Very Public Disaster
8/08/09 Gross, CNN, Your family dog may be smarter than your toddler
August 7, 2009
8/07/09 Hsu, WP, Agency Plans to Improve Oversight of Immigrant Detention
8/07/09 Lichtblau, NYT, Attacks on Homeless Bring Push on Hate Crime Laws
8/07/09 Martenson, ChrisMartenson.com, Unemployment Report Distortions
8/07/09 Ford, Black Agenda Report, Black Jobs Disappearing at Depression-Era Rates
August 6, 2009
8/06/09 Leggett, Wired, Clever Crows Prove Aesop's Fable Is More Than Fiction
8/06/09 CNN, Eunuchs begin fight for Pakistan rights
August 5, 2009
8/05/09 Belton, PSL, Gay man assaulted in Akron, Ohio, for defending women's rights
8/05/09 Miami Herald, Standardize immigrant detention centers
8/05/09 Malinga et al, Guardian, The cost of living in Katine
8/05/09 Stan, AlterNet, Why Are People So Afraid of Bisexuals?
8/05/09 CNN, Programs to change gays to straights don't work, report says
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 Clifford, CNN, Consumer bankruptcies jump 34%
8/04/09 Ehrenreich & Muhammad, The Destruction of the Black Middle Class
August 2, 2009
8/02/09 Reuters, Housing could take another turn downward: Greenspan
8/02/09 Eckholm, NYT, Prolonged Aid to Unemployed Is Running Out
8/02/09 McDougall, Times Online, African dream turns sour for orphan army
7/31/09 Hauser, CNN, Latinos say they also face racial profiling by police
August 1, 2009
8/01/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Exposing Colorblind Racism Right Here At Open Left.
8/01/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare Tyranny
8/01/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare Tyranny
July 31, 2009
7/31/09 Klonsky, ITT, We're Public ... No, We're Private
7/31/09 BBC, 'Dire shortage' at UN food agency
July 30, 2009
7/30/09 Conaway, NPR, Why You Can't Rework Your Mortgage: Banks Love The Late Fees
7/30/09 Rachel Maddow Show, Right-Wing Racism Reaches New Heights
7/30/09 Adler, Reuters, Unemployment spreads distress in U.S. home loans
7/30/09 Kessler, CNN, 'Jungle monkey' e-mail jeopardizes Boston officer's job
July 29, 2009
7/29/09 Conoway, NPR, Unemployment Rises In Every U.S. Met
7/29/09 Nichols, Nation, Squeeze Insurance Profiteers, Not Medicare
7/29/09 dreaminonempty, OpenLeft, The Real Economy
7/29/09 Zezima, NYT, Caller in Gates Case Speaks Out
7/29/09 Vieira, IPS, COLOMBIA: Killings of Indians Continued During UN Rapporteur's Visit
7/29/09 BBC, IMF boosts lending to poor states
7/29/09 Coulter, Burlington Mass., Can the Buck Stop Here?: Supporting the Local Economy
7/29/09 Cooper, NYT, Stimulus Law Bolsters Food Bank Offerings
7/29/09 Weaver, NYT, New York gives homeless people a one-way ticket to leave city
7/29/09 McCurry, Guardian, 10,000 Uighurs disappeared during unrest in China, exiled leader claims
7/29/09 EDIE, Bio-jet fuel plan takes off
7/29/09 BBC, Gender pay gap 'not being closed'
7/29/09 Jacks, BBC, Tackling South Africa's rape epidemic
7/29/09 BBC, Alarm over Somalia's child soldiers
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 Reuters, Migrants to Italy Face 'A Kind of Slavery': OIM
July 27, 2009
7/27/09 DaveJ, OpenLeft, Slavemaster Mentality Or Work Ethic?
7/27/09 Hendricks, SF Chron, US Citizens Wrongly Detained, Deported by ICE
7/27/09 Berkes, NPR, Rural Medical Camp Tackles Health Care Gaps
7/27/09 Dujisin, IPS, CZECH REPUBLIC: Roma Exodus Provokes Diplomatic Conflict
7/27/09 Renton, Guardian, Hunger bites back
7/27/09 Ansari, CNN, Is the ocean Florida's untapped energy source?
July 26, 2009
7/26/09 Taylor, McClatchy, Why are U.S.-allied refugees still branded as 'terrorists?'
7/26/09 Williams, Guardian, Having Barack Obama as president doesn't make America colour-blind
7/26/09 Harris, Guardian, Whistleblower tells of America's hidden nightmare for its sick poor
7/26/09 Benanav, CSM, Is there room for India's nomads?
7/26/09 Miami Herald, Record number of `lifers' in U.S. prisons, study finds
7/26/09 Frosch, NYT, Uranium Contamination Haunts Navajo Country
7/26/09 Pear, NYT, Reach of Subsidies Is Critical Issue for Health Plan
7/26/09 LaFraniere, NYT, Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future
7/26/09 Thomas, KC Star, Tiller's accused killer asserts links to Operation Rescue
7/26/09 Martell, BBC, The women who clear Sudan's minefields
July 25, 2009
7/25/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Obfuscating Inequality
7/25/09 di Giovani, Guardian, Afghanistan Women Outraged at Proposed Family Planning Law
7/25/09 Sirota, ITT, The Attack of the 1-Percenters
7/25/09 Alibhai-Brown, BBC, Unveiling Zanzibar's unhealed wounds
July 24, 2009
7/24/09 Conaway, NPR, Minimum Wage Hike Doubles Portion Of Workers At The Bottom
7/24/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Fed Unveils New Rules on Mortgage Lending
7/24/09 Nation, Republicans Cling to Racism Strategy
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 Gamboni, PSL, Goldman Sachs announces $11.4 billion in exec bonuses
7/24/09 Rosenthal, NYT, An Amazon Culture Withers as Food Dries Up
7/24/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Minimum wage for tipped workers unchanged since '91
7/24/09 Appel, IPS, ECONOMY-US: Trillions to Banks as Taxpayers Left in the Dark
7/24/09 Deveson, BBC, Harvard row highlights US tensions
7/24/09 Bengali, McClatchy, African workers find harsh conditions in Chinese-run plants
July 23, 2009
7/23/09 Goodman, Progressive, Health care debate must include us farmers
7/23/09 NorteSur, AlterNet, More Mexicans Are Sending Money to Help Out Relatives in the U.S.
7/23/09 Prusher, CSM, Catastrophe? Israel bans 'nakba' from Arab textbook.
7/23/09 NPR, New Jobless Claims Rise Again -- Formula Still Skewed
7/23/09 Wagner, ITT, Home Sweet Skid Row
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 Hanna, CNN, Library fight riles up city, leads to book-burning demand
7/22/09 Fisher, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Byzantine World of Immigration Detention
7/22/09 Wyss, McClatchy, Who had hope under Zelaya? Neglected black Hondurans
7/22/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Wall Street Welfare Queen Average Bonuses $1.0 Million Per Employee
7/22/09 Pilkington, Guardian, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates outraged at arrest at his home
July 21, 2009
7/21/09 MacInnis, Reuters, U.N. reports record humanitarian aid shortfall
7/21/09 Wasik, HuffingtonPost, The American Dream is Leaving the Station
7/21/09 KC Star, The trickle down: Grandparents generously opening their wallets
7/21/09 Hennessy-Fiske, LAT, More bodies go unclaimed as families can't afford funeral costs
7/21/09 BBC, 'Glass ceiling' blocking top jobs
7/21/09 BBC, River blindness 'can be beaten'
July 20, 2009
7/20/09 Sullivan, PNHP, Bait and Switch: How the "Public Option" Was Sold
7/20/09 McWhorter, CNN, Commentary: Where the jobs really are
July 19, 2009
7/19/09 Sherine, Guardian, Rage against the machines
7/19/09 Hinsliff, Guardian, Revealed: the hidden benefits of a private-school education
July 18, 2009
7/18/09 Kennedy, Newsweek, 'The Cause of My Life.' Inside the fight for universal health care.
7/18/09 OpenLeft, Americans' Perceptions of Opportunity - Findings from the 2009 Pew Research Center's Values Survey
July 17, 2009
7/17/09 Rooney, CNN, Michigan unemployment tops 15%
7/17/09 Kessler, CNN, Black Philadelphia police sue over message board, say it's racist
7/17/09 First Post, Pat Buchanan: 'white people deserve more'
July 16, 2009
7/16/09 Neves, KGW.com, No. 1 Homelessness ranking frustrates city leaders
7/16/09 Ireland, ITT, Queer Prehistory
7/16/09 Christie, CNN, 1.5 million homes in foreclosure in '09
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 Carey & Appleby, Kaiser Health News, Health legislation might bar some from public insurance
July 14, 2009
7/14/09 Leonhardt, NYT, Part-Time Workers Mask Unemployment Woes
7/14/09 BBC, US fugitive is arrested in Israel
July 13, 2009
7/13/09 WorldFocus, Burmese refugees rounded up and sold in Malaysia
7/13/09 de Tarczynski, IPS, 'The Killing of Women Is Like Killing a Bird Today in Afghanistan'
7/13/09 Yamaguchi, SeattlePI, Japan lifts ban on children donating organs
7/11/09 Gowen, WP, American Children in Poverty on the Rise
7/13/09 Rothaker & Melnick, Charlotte Observer, Minority Loan Gap Widens
7/13/09 Shih, NYT, Stocks Climb on Optimism Over Bank Earnings
7/13/09 Richburg, WP, States Seek Less Costly Substitutes For Prison
7/13/07 Watanabe, LAT, Activists push ballot initiative to end state benefits for illegal immigrants and their U.S.-born children
7/13/09 Gregory, BBC, Higher food costs still a concern
July 12, 2009
7/12/09 Mostrous, WP, More Families Are Becoming Homeless
7/12/09 Starcansky, IPS, EUROPE: Bringing Up a 'Lost Generation'
7/12/09 Desai & Roberts, AlterNet, Young People of Color Are Rising Up Against Military Recruiters
July 11, 2009
7/11/09 Kucinich, Progressive, The Banks' Massive Theft
7/11/09 Blitstein, Miller-McCune, The Hidden Health Toll of Race
7/11/09 Lindelof, SacBee, CSU system says it won't accept spring enrollment applications
July 10, 2009
7/10/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Big Bankers Mounting Sneak Attack on Consumers
7/10/09 Starkey, Independent. Law Will Let Afghan Husbands Starve Wives Who Withhold Sex
7/10/09 NPR, Hear: What Keeps Countries Poor?
7/10/09 Thompson, ProPublica, New Evidence Surfaces in Post-Katrina Crimes
7/10/09 Taylor & Jalonik, AP, Committee Votes to Reverse Global Gag Rule
7/10/09 SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center Urges Congress to Investigate Extremism in the Military
7/10/09 BBC, SA miners hold bosses underground
July 9, 2009
7/09/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Growing numbers of poor people swamp legal aid offices
7/09/09 Mistillis, FPIF, Niger Delta Standoff
7/09/09 BBC, China's ethnic tinderbox
July 8, 2009
7/08/09 Agazzi, IPS, WORLD: Trade Cannot Be Relied Upon to Reduce Poverty
7/08/09 Mittlal, FPIF, G8 Summit: Feed the Hungry or Fuel Hunger?
7/08/09 Bello, FPIF, Keynes: A Man for this Season?
7/08/09 Rice-Oxley, CSM, Where rich countries are buying farmland
7/08/09 BBC, Sink immigrants' boats - Griffin
7/08/09 Leyva, Progressive, Recent attacks on immigrants tell us who we are
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 Miller, PSL, Federal judge allows 'first of its kind' lawsuit against Wells Fargo bank to proceed
7/07/09 Stempel, Reuters, U.S. consumers fall behind on loans at record pace
7/07/09 Engstrom, FT, Copyright laws threaten our online freedom
7/07/09 Zabrenko, Reuters, New Climate Strategy: Track the World's Wealthiest
7/07/09 McKim, Boston Globe, Study: Lenders Avoid Aiding Distressed Due to Lack of Profit
7/07/09 BBC, Pope calls for ethical dimension to global capitalism
July 6, 2009
7/06/09 NPR, Hours Worked Hits Historic Low: You Saw It Coming
7/06/09 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, Binyam Mohamed Launches Legal Fight to Stop US Destroying Torture Images
7/06/09 Leahy, IPS, AGRICULTURE: A Stormy Time for Indigenous Wisdom
7/06/09 Fox, ITT, Budgets by the People
7/06/09 Lee, Chicago Tribune, Home foreclosures expected to surge in coming months
7/06/09 Mirhaydari, MSN Money, True unemployment rate already at 20%
7/06/09 Rivers, CNN, Thailand cracks down on elephant begging
July 5, 2009
7/05/009 BBC, WTO backs trade in poorer nations
July 3, 2009
7/03/09 Bernstein, ProPublica, Bank Failure Friday Comes Early
7/03/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
July 2, 2009
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 BBC, China babies 'sold for adoption'
7/02/09 Doyle, BBC, Developing world faces age crisis
7/02/09 Clemons, Washington Note, America's Effective Unemployment Rate at 18.7%?
7/02/09 Mears, CNN, New Sotomayor documents detail work of Puerto Rican rights group
7/02/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Senate Already Passed A Budget That Can Pay For A Public Option
7/02/09 Timmons & Kumar, NYT, Indian Court Overturns Gay Sex Ban
7/02/09 Lee, LAT, Hiring might not rebound in an economic recovery
7/02/09 Steinhauser, CNN, Poll: Few Americans say recovery under way
7/02/09 Bryant, BBC, Gap dividing Aborigines growing
7/02/09 BBC, US job losses worse than expected
7/02/09 BBC, Nigaz name sparks racism debate
July 1, 2009
7/01/09 Goldstein, NYT, Nuns in the U.S. Are Facing Scrutiny by the Vatican
7/01/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier is Up for Parole This Month
7/01/09 Fernandez, AlterNet, Why is the Government Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid at the U.S.-Mexico Border?
7/01/09 Hall, McClatchy, Obama expands program to aid borrowers who're 'underwater'
7/01/09 Chadbourn, Bloomberg, Delinquencies Double on Least-Risky Loans, U.S. Says
7/01/09 Rappeport, FT, US private sector sheds 473,000 jobs
7/01/09 Randall, WSWS, US state budget crises fuel massive spending cuts: Deadlines threaten government shutdowns
7/01/09 Lalanne, IPS, ECONOMY: Migrant Miseries Will Trickle Down Worldwide, U.N. Warns
7/01/09 Rizvi, IPS, RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling
7/01/09 Nasaw, Guardian, US military panel recommends discharge for gay soldier
7/01/09 Quinn, CSM, Brave new world of British workers: floating 'labor hostels'
7/01/09 Benno, PSL, New Orleans housing 'unaffordable'
7/01/09 Barnes, WP, Term Saw High Court Move to The Right
7/01/09 Stracansky, IPS, AUSTRIA: Racism on a Sharp Rise
7/01/09 Starr, CNN, Defense chief giving 'don't ask, don't tell' a closer look
June 30, 2009
6/30/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Amnesty Attacks Oil Industry for Decades of Damage in Niger Delta
6/30/09 Guerrera et al, Financial Times, Citi Raises Rates on Millions of Credit Cards: Report
6/30/09 Abelson, NYT, Insured, but Bankrupted by Health Crises
6/30/09 BBC, Niger court dissolution 'is coup'
June 29, 2009
6/29/09 NPR, What It's Costing Us
6/29/09 Yen, AP, Study finds widening generation gap in US
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 AP, Justices Rule for White Firefighters in Bias Case
6/29/09 Minter & Volman, ITT, The Somalia Crossroads
6/29/09 EDIE, US to provide $750,000 for clean up of Commonwealth islands
6/29/09 Moore, CSM, Poverty tours travel a fine line
June 28, 2009
6/28/09 Hough, NY Post, Don't Get that College Degree
6/28/09 Blake, CNN, 'Gayby boom': Children of gay couples speak out
6/28/09 BBC, Argentine army in torture ruling
June 27, 2009
6/26/09 McKinnley, NYT, New Border Fear: Militia Violence
6/27/09 Franklin, AP, Stonewall rebel reflects 40 years after NYC riots
6/27/09 Morris & Thomas, KC Star, Former Kansas City KKK leader indicted in 2004 mail bomb
6/27/09 Natarajan, BBC, Dark tales of Tamil ex-child soldiers
6/27/07 BBC, Court deal strips Madoff wealth
June 26, 2009
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 CNN, Holder pushes for hate-crimes law; GOP unpersuaded
June 25, 2009
6/25/09 Johnson, WSJ, Big Health Firms Underpay Claims
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 Hindery & Girard, Nation, Our Jobless Recovery
6/24/09 Keim, Wired, Hidden Whale Culture Could Be Critical to Species Survival
6/24/09 Lewis, Detroit News, Michigan Study: African-American Students Disciplined Disproportionately
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 BBC, Civilians 'Bear the Brunt of War'
6/23/09 TruthOut, Student Loan Debts Are Sinking American Dreams
6/23/09 Thomas, ITT, All-American Squatters
6/23/09 Dash, NYT, Citigroup Has a Plan to Fatten Salaries
6/23/09 Katwala, Guardian, When is inequality unfair?
6/23/09 Oppman, CNN, Rogue Minutemen leader held in fatal home invasion
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 Fletcher, WP, Recovery's Missing Ingredient: New Jobs
6/22/09 Reuters, Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report
6/22/09 AP, High court rules narrowly in voting rights case
6/22/09 Fox, Reuters, Americans struggle to pay for healthcare: study
6/22/09 BBC, US seeks to stop Geronimo lawsuit
6/22/09 Wilson, Bloomberg, Dairy-Cow Kill to Double Milk Price on Biggest Slump Since 1980
6/22/09 Seager, Guardian, World Bank calls on west to help relieve trillion dollar drain on world's poor
6/22/09 Emery, BBC, The rise of Hate 2.0
6/22/09 BBC, Refinery sackings spark walkouts
6/22/09 Smith, Guardian, African women with HIV 'coerced into sterilisation'
6/22/09 Goldstein, CSM, Banking, the Swedish model
June 21, 2009
6/21/09 Silva, IPS, NICARAGUA: Women Bear the Brunt of the Crisis
6/21/09 Doward, Guardian, Antidepressant use soars as the recession bites
June 20, 2009
6/20/09 Jamail, Truthout, Destroying Indigenous Populations
6/20/09 Bacon, TruthOut, Criminals Because We Worked
6/20/09 Cooper, NYT, In Missouri, a Fight Over a Highway Adoption
6/20/09 BBC, Thousands march for Tamil rights
June 19, 2009
6/19/09 ProPublica, In Their Shoes: Foreign Contractors in Iraq
6/19/09 Fernandez, IPS, Humanitarian Aid Criminalized at the Border
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 Greco, FPIF, Racial Discrimination at the World Bank
6/19/09 CNN, Sotomayor resigns from women's club
6/14/09 LaFranchi, CSM, Obama's new tune on trade
6/19/09 BBC, World hunger 'hits one billion'
June 18, 2009
6/18/09 Collins, News&Observer, La Raza drawn into debate
6/18/09 Morrison, AP, Attacks continue on Romanians in Northern Ireland
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 BBC, Laos tackles transgender taboos
6/18/09 Hall, McClatchy, Worse than subprime? Other mortgages imploding slowly
6/18/09 Carlsen, FPIF, Trade Agreement Kills Amazon Indians
6/18/09 Spieldoch, FPIF, Global Land Grab
June 17, 2009
6/17/09 Dixon, Black Agenda Report, Teachers File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama Administration's School "Turnaround" Plan
6/17/09 CNN, Asbestos cleanup 'emergency' declared in Montana town
6/17/09 Kennard, AlterNet, "I Hate Arabs More Than Anybody": Desperate Army Recruits Neo-Nazis
6/17/09 Times Online, Racist attacks force over 100 Romanians to take shelter in church
6/17/09 Ottenberg, ITT, Their Island, Our Shame
6/17/09 BBC, Peru moves to ease Amazon crisis
June 16, 2009
6/16/09 AP, Obama to Extend Benefits to Federal Gay Workers
6/16/09 Girion, LAT, Blue Cross praised employees who dropped sick policyholders, lawmaker says
6/16/09 BBC, Racist e-mail aimed at Obama raises hackles in Tennessee
6/16/09 Rizvi, IPS, Activists Urge Obama to Use Trade Pact as Leverage
6/16/09 Geller, Reuters, Water Risks Ripple Through the Beverage Industry
6/16/09 BBC, Crises boost numbers of displaced
6/16/09 BBC, BA asks staff to work for nothing
6/16/09 Labott, CNN, Recession boosts global human trafficking, report says
June 15, 2009
6/15/09 Johnson, MSNBC, Pro-English Measures Being Revived Across US
6/15/09 Apuzzo, AP, STIMULUS WATCH: $25 check may cost you food stamps
6/15/09 Cohn, Truthout, Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
6/15/09 Wren, The State, Bank fees charged to families in state debit program (JP Morgan)
6/15/09 Brice, CNN, Anger boils in Mexico over 46 deaths at day care center
6/15/09 Vandiver, Stars & Stripes, AFRICOM building research center
6/15/09 Cintron, WWLB, Police departments with heavy artillery
6/15/09 BBC, Human rights laws 'being abused'
June 14, 2009
6/14/09 Therot, LAT, As L.A. County spun its wheels, children died
6/14/09 Gillam, Reuters, Threats, violence seen eroding U.S. abortion rights
6/14/09 Rowell, Independent, Secret Papers 'Show How Shell Targeted Nigeria Oil Protests'
6/14/09 BBC, Sudan tribesmen attack UN barges
6/14/09 Warren, News from the Y, Human trafficking underground in Utah communities
6/14/09 Costantini, IPS, Unions and Migrant Workers Coalesce from Coast to Coast
6/14/09 Roberts, NYT, U.S. Births Hint at Bias for Boys in Some Asians
June 13, 2009
6/13/09 Vidal, Guardian, Indigenous Peoples: 'We Are Fighting for Our Lives and Our Dignity'
6/13/09 Estrada, IPS, CHILE: Mixed Reception for Indigenous Protection Code
6/13/09 Goldacre, Guardian, Cocaine study that got up the nose of the US
June 12, 2009
6/12/09 Drogin, LAT, Taking the pulse of extremist groups
6/12/09 Irwin, WP, Spike in Interest Rates Could Choke Recovery
6/12/09 Mulvhill, NYT, Where Navajo Tales, and Rugs, Are Woven
6/12/09 Khanna, Foreign Policy, The Next Big Thing: Neomedievalism
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 Barnes & Hook, LAT, U.S. increasingly unlikely to take any Guantanamo detainees
6/12/09 Thomson, BBC, Zimbabwe girls trade sex for food
6/12/09 Kachere, IPS, ENVIRONMENT-ZIMBABWE: Farmers Go to War Against Lantana Camara
6/12/09 Hanna, CNN, Hate groups riled up, researchers say
6/12/09 Stiglitz, Guardian, America's socialism for the rich
6/12/09 Toy, NYT, Penetrating the Maze of Mortgage Relief
6/12/09 Landrau, CNN, Born in male body, Jenny knew early that she was a girl
June 11, 2009
6/11/09 McDonnell, LAT, Computer 'raid' in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated
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 BBC, Burma's Karen unable to return home
6/11/09 Nutting, MarketWatch, Household wealth drops for 7th straight quarter
June 10, 2009
6/10/09 Featherstone, Nation, Out of Reach - Education
6/10/09 In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. CARE. May 2009. research copy (36pgs)
6/10/09 VanEgeren, CapitolTimes, Prison Is Revolving Door for Mentally Ill, Who Don't Get Needed Meds
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 Watts, Guardian, Palau to resettle 17 Guantanamo detainees
6/10/09 Montero, CSM, Thousands of refugees flee fighting in Somalia
6/10/09 Head, BBC, Thai army reinforces Burma border
6/10/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: Zimbabwe's children
June 9, 2009
6/09/09 BBC, Peru protest leader takes refuge
6/09/09 Moss & Crace, Guardian, Is fascism on the march 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 Rogers, CSM, US may punish Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega with $64 million aid cut
6/09/09 Wayne, Congressional Quarterly, House Democrats Unveil Health Care Overhaul
6/09/09 Guardian, Nick Griffin abandons BNP press conference under hail of eggs
6/09/09 BBC, Ten US banks to pay back bail-out
June 8, 2009
6/08/09 Blood, AP, FBI director defends use of informants in mosques
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 Turl, Socialist Worker, How the other 0.00000003 percent lives
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 Campbell, Guardian, Andrew Brons: the genteel face of neo-fascism
6/08/08 Abramsky, Guardian, Solving America's hunger crisis
6/08/09 BBC, Shell settles Nigeria deaths case
6/08/09 Mears, CNN, High court rejects lawsuit over gays in military law
6/08/09 Drash, CNN, Slave soldiers honored, called 'national treasures'
6/08/09 Walker, BBC, Chimps mentally map fruit trees
6/08/09 Silva, LAT, Obama's summer jobs plan: work for 600,000 people
6/08/09 Constantini, IPS, LABOUR-US: Unions Embrace Street Corner Solidarity
6/08/09 CNN, 10 immigrants killed in SUV crash in Arizona
6/08/09 BBC, Albino trials begin in Tanzania
June 7, 2009
6/07/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Child Well-Being Index Foretells Hard Time For Kids
6/07/09 AP, Temp work covers up depth of unemployment
6/07/09 Girion, LAT, Private insurance companies push for 'individual mandate'
6/07/09 Wood, Guardian, Why does the US hate my Mexican heritage?
June 6, 2009
6/06/09 Baute, Toronto Star, How Did 100,000,000 Women Disappear?
6/06/09 Ridgeway, AlterNet, A Brief History of the Radical, Violent Right: How Racist Hate Groups Joined up With Abortion Terrorists
6/06/09 Allen, OneWorld, Ethnic Media Reaching Record Numbers in U.S.
6/06/09 Lajake, BBC, Horror of South African miners' deaths
June 5, 2009
6/05/09 Labaton, NYT, Millions Face Blank Screens in TV Switch
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 Lendman, IntelDaily, Obama Administration Targets Environmental and Animal Rights Activists As Eco-Terrorists
6/05/09 PSL, Black farmers fight for funds from 1999 civil-rights lawsuit
6/05/09 Traynor, Guardian, Anti-immigrant right win 15% of Dutch vote in European elections
June 4, 2009
6/04/09 Al Jazeera, The Power of Microfinance
6/04/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Homeowners Seeking Gov't Loan Mods Are Fed Up
6/04/09 Knoll, LAT, Racial hatred runs African American family out of dream home
6/04/09 Al Jazeera, Thousands protest in Indian Kashmir
6/04/09 Eggen, WP, Groups on the Left Are Suddenly on Top
6/04/09 Fox, Reuters, Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies
6/04/09 Ridgeway & Cassela, ITT, Life on Permanent Lockdown
6/04/09 Lydersen, ITT, Coal Mountain Elementary
June 3, 2009
6/03/09 Love, AP, Gay marriage bill signed into law in New Hampshire
6/03/09 Schwartz, NYT, Bush Rule Bolstering Deportations Is Withdrawn
6/03/09 Donahue, Bloomberg, Global Corruption Poll Shows Public View of Private Sector Dims
6/03/09 Litvinsky, IPS, ECONOMY-US: One in Five Children Sinking Into Poverty
June 2, 2009
6/02/09 Benno, PSL, Study exposes lies that blame immigrants for unemployment
6/02/09 Wilkinson, LAT, Remittances to Mexico down sharply
6/02/09 Steinbauer, CNN, Poll: Few Americans have good view of Muslim world
6/02/09 BBC, More bodies in South Africa mine
June 1, 2009
6/01/09 Kim, Sac Bee, Lincoln resident thought he was a U.S. citizen: Now he has to prove it
6/01/09 Homon, Bloomberg, Zoellick Warns Stimulus 'Sugar High' Won't Stem Unemployment
6/01/09 CNN, Nevada legalizing domestic partnerships
6/01/09 CNN, Man charged in slaying of Kansas abortion doctor
6/01/09 Triggle, BBC, Anti-abortion and violence in the US
6/01/09 Llana, CSM, Mexico considers 'ban' on street children
May 31, 2009
5/31/09 Smith, Boston Globe, Tracking the War on Women in Darfur
5/31/09 Honan, Reuters, Informant's role questioned in U.S. security probes
5/31/09 Hicks, BBC, UN team meets Chad child soldiers
5/31/09 Harris, Guardian, Gay mayor's illicit love shakes a Texas town
May 30, 2009
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 Burns, AlterNet, Why Does Two-Thirds of the World's Population Still Not Have Access to Safe Drinking Water?
5/29/09 OneWorld, Uncle Sam Denying Soldiers Citizenship
5/29/09 Toppo, USA Today, Profound shift in kind of families who are home schooling their children
5/29/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Manipulation - How Markets Really Work
5/29/09 BBC, African viewpoint: Nigeria's freedom
5/29/09 Norris, NYT, Troubled Bank Loans Hit a Record High
5/29/09 Kirkpatrick, NYT, Sotomayor's Focus on Race Issues May Be Hurdle
5/29/09 Mechanic, MoJo, What One Stimulus Buck Could Do
5/29/09 Pachuari, Guardian, This silent suffering poor and global warming
5/29/09 Kovach, CNN, Buffalo Soldier gets Arlington burial after 100 years
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 BBC, Global crisis 'hits human rights'
5/28/09 Allen, BBC, Rainbow nation's outsiders live in fear
May 27, 2009
5/27/09 Chinni, CSM, The persisting foreclosure crisis
5/27/09 Nichols, Nation, Judge Sotomayor's Diabetes: Not a Weakness But a Strength
5/27/09 BBC, Number of problem US banks soars
5/27/09 BBC, Slumdog child star gets new home
5/27/09 BBC, Siberian child 'raised by dogs'
5/27/09 Liu, Asia Times, Liquidity drowns meaning of 'inflation'
5/27/09 McLeod, On The Issues, Equal Rights Amendment Still Brings Out Ranters
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 Streitfeld, NYT, Home Prices Decline Again in March
6/26/09 Sample, Guardian, Rooks rival chimpanzees in their ability to use tools
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 BBC, Nigeria rebels destroy pipeline
May 24, 2009
5/24/09 Kratovac, AP, Gender issues worsen Iraq's medical woes
5/24/09 Raum, AP, Fix is hard for Medicare, Social Security finances
5/24/09 LAT, Three families' stories put a face on the pain of California budget cuts
5/24/09 Chamberlain, Guardian, UN chief flies into Sri Lanka as Tamils' tales of terror emerge
5/24/09 Dorning, LAT, Early retirement claims increase dramatically
5/24/09 BBC, Agony in Sri Lanka's refugee camp
5/24/09 BBC, World Bank warns of social unrest
5/24/09 Bakri, WP, For Displaced Iraqis, 'No Life'
5/24/09 Kessler, WP, State Dept. Plan Would Extend Benefits to Same Sex Partners
5/24/09 Blas, FT, Africa almost giving land away, says UN
5/24/09 CNN, U.N. seeks full access to Sri Lankan refugee camps
5/24/09 Rivers, CNN, Refugees survive on food 'cows won't eat'
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 Coomarasamy, BBC, Bernard Madoff's hidden victims
5/23/09 Jordan, WSJ, Job Fight: Immigrants vs. Locals
May 22, 2009
5/22/09 Kelly, Wired, The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
5/22/09 Tran, Guardian, UN Poised to Close Gender Gap and Create Women's Agency
5/22/09 AP, Tobacco Companies Lose Appeal
5/22/09 Gorman, LAT, Deportations carried out in the middle of immigration cases
5/22/09 Stracansky, IPS, EUROPE: Trafficking Rises as Incomes Fall
5/22/09 Stracansky, IPS, EUROPE: Trafficking Rises as Incomes Fall
5/22/09 Caleb, CNN, Whites become minority in Kansas county
5/22/09 Head, BBC, Thailand 'gets tough' with Hmong
May 21, 2009
5/21/09 Al Jazeera, US men charged over synagogue plot
5/21/09 BBC, Somali 'pirate' pleads not guilty
5/21/09 Mouawad, NYT, Oil Industry Braces for Trial on Rights Abuses
5/21/09 Gillian, Guardian, Gurkhas granted right to settle in the UK
5/21/09 Edwards & Wilayto, TruthOut, Anti-Racist Struggle Continues in Powhatan, Virginia
5/21/09 Ashby & Hawking, ITT, Prairie Fire
5/21/09 Douzinas, Guardian, Does the left still care about liberty?
5/21/09 Drutman, Miller-McCune, How the Poorest Americans Dropped Out of Politics
5/21/09 Corbet, NYT, A Prom Divided
May 20, 2009
5/20/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, First Buy High; Then Sell Low
5/20/09 Lyall, NYT, Report Details Abuses in Irish Reformatories
5/20/09 Lipton, NYT, U.S. Insurer of Pensions Sees Flood of Red Ink
5/20/09 Lohan, Alternet, Corporate Agriculture Is to Blame for the Hundreds of Thousands of Farmer Suicides in India
May 19, 2009
5/19/09 Hsu, WP, U.S. to Expand Immigration Checks to All Local Jails
5/19/09 Boudreau & Turnham, CNN, GAO report: Special-needs kids abused in schools
5/19/09 Bow, Progressive, Asian-Americans are not "post-racial": Reflections on Asian Pacific-American Heritage
5/19/09 Greve, McClatchy, America's poor are its most generous givers
5/19/09 Feffer, FPIF, Quaker Utopias
5/19/09 Majidi, PSL, Who are the real pirates in Africa?
5/19/09 Koswanage & Ahmad, Reuters, Anti-piracy body backs off on international maritime force
May 18, 2009
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 Alonso et al, Progressive, Brown v. Board of Education at 55: segregation in the 21st century
5/18/09 Litvinsky, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Lifting the 'Resource Curse'
5/18/09 Williams, FPIF, 'The Slave Next Door'
5/18/09 Falconer, MoJo, Uncle Sam's Human Lab Rats
5/18/09 Guardian, Congo army rapes, robs and kills civilians, UN told
5/18/09 Kaimi, CNN, Abuse of child 'witches' on rise, aid group says
5/18/09 Jones, CNN, Is it the end of an era for black universities?
5/18/09 Bluemink, ADN, Native contracts get a hard look in US Senate
May 17, 2009
5/17/09 Murphy, AP, UN: Growth of slums boosting natural disaster risk
5/17/09 Wiegand, SacBee,
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 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Blackwater Accused of Racism on Its Anti-Piracy Ship
5/14/09 Munnell, CNN, Social Security healthier than your 401(k)
5/14/09 Sharma, Huffington Post, Afghan Women's Situation a Test Case for Obama Administration's Foreign Assistance Policy
5/14/09 BBC, Why XX must think like XY to earn more K
May 13, 2009
5/13/09 Lazo, WP, Immigrant Homeownership Proves Resilient in the Face of Slowdown
5/13/09 Nation, Ten Things You Can Do to Fight World Hunger
5/13/09 Landsberg, LAT, L.A. high school dropout rate climbs to 34.9%
5/13/09 Engler, FPIF, Science Fiction From Below
5/13/09 Landau, CNN, How human genes become patented
5/13/09 Sanz, AP, RealtyTrac: April foreclosures rise 32 percent
5/13/09 Renner, TruthOut, Actual Bailout May Exceed $10 Trillion
5/13/09 Adler, Reuters, U.S. foreclosures jump to record high
May 12, 2009
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 AP, Afghan schoolgirls collapse in suspected poison gas attack
5/12/09 CNN, How it feels to be judged on looks
5/12/09 Goldstein, CSM, Diplomatic memos reveal Chinese effort to block Guantanamo prisoner's asylum bid
5/12/09 BBC, US elected to UN rights council
May 11, 2009
5/11/09 Schmid, AP, Mexican genomes show wide diversity
5/11/09 Segal, NYT, We're Dull, Small Banks Say, but Have Profits
5/11/09 Apuzzo & Blackledge, AP, STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest
May 10, 2009
5/10/09 BBC, Immigrants hurt in Greek violence
5/10/09 Squires, CSM, Italy to stem a human tide of immigrants
5/10/09 Anqvi, AP, Yet another Gandhi rises in Indian politics
May 9, 2009
5/09/09 Finn, WP, Obama Set to Revive Military Commissions
5/09/09 Hayes, TimesOnline, Thousands join Army to escape recession
5/09/09 Ley, BBC, Malta struggles with desperate refugees
May 8, 2009
5/08/09 Bacon, TruthOut, US Courts - Enemies of Education?
6/08/09 Johnson, NYT, Chemical Company Is Acquitted in Asbestos Case
5/08/09 Bhandari, IPS, AUSTRALIA: Climate Change - Further Threat to Aboriginals
5/08/09 King, CNN, Bad economy puts more families on the streets
5/08/09 Mattingly, CNN, Minority youngsters dying weekly on Chicago's streets
5/08/09 Fisher, PSL, Thousands of Roma protest racist attacks and discrimination
5/08/09 Healy, NYT, U.S. Jobless Rate Hits 8.9%, but Pace of Losses Eases
5/08/09 CNN, Ex-soldier could face death over Iraq murders, rape
5/08/09 Segal & Zarrella, CNN, Native Americans see unity as path to prosperity
5/08/09 Christie, CNN, Mortgage modifications are happening. Get yours
May 7, 2009
5/07/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Banks That Received Federal Cash Enabled Subprime Lenders, Report Finds
5/07/09 Howell, ITT, Bonuses Make a Comeback
5/07/09 Chen, CNN, Growing up is even harder when mom is in prison
5/07/09 Montlake, CSM, Sri Lankan 'detention' camps swell with Tamils
5/07/09 Morelle, BBC, Meet the brains of the animal world
5/07/09 BBC, 'Dumped' dogs turn to cannibalism
5/07/09 Sturcke & Hirsch, Guardian, DNA pioneer condemns plan to keep details on database for 12 years
5/07/09 Bengali, CSM, Somali insurgency driving thousands of refugees to Kenya
May 6, 2009
5/06/09 WorldFocus, Africans more genetically diverse than rest of world
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
5/06/09 Tuchman & Wojtecki, CNN, Texas police shake down drivers, lawsuit claims
May 5, 2009
5/05/09 McCarthy, Guardian, Palestinian Patients 'Interrogated Before Leaving Gaza for Treatment'
5/05/09 Brand, AP, EU takes aim at Canada, bans seal products
5/05/09 Batheja, Star-Telegram, Motives of American Muslims debated at Republican meeting in Fort Worth
5/05/09 Baseline Scenario, Pollution, Race, and Poverty
5/05/09 NPR, Bernanke To Congress: Jobless Recovery Looms
5/05/09 Mertus, ITT, The Past and Future of Human Rights
5/05/09 Mulholland, Guardian, Home Office 'names and shames' 16 people banned from UK
5/05/09 Feffer, FPIF, Capitalist Pigs
5/05/09 Marson, CSM, Ukraine: opening of secret archives shines light on famine, repression
5/05/09 Guardian, Should we care about animals?
May 4, 2009
5/04/09 Himes, Times Online, Government to close lifeline for Iraqi interpreters in two weeks
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 Cunningham, IPS, MIDEAST: Environment Emerges as a Major Casualty
5/04/09 Asma, ITT, Happy Serf Liberation Day
5/04/09 Talev, McClatchy, Obama calls for crackdown on offshore tax havens
5/04/09 Litvinsky, IPS, HAITI: Battered and Unready for Looming Storm Season
May 3, 2009
5/03/09 Leland, Charlotte Observer, The new homeless
5/03/09 Cockerham, ADN, Governor supports abortion initiative
5/03/09 Shin, WP, U.S. Workers' Wages Stagnate As Firms Rush to Slash Costs
5/03/09 Beaumont, Guardian, Bosnia lurches into a new crisis
5/02/09 BBC, Mining a mint in eastern DR Congo
May 2, 2009
5/02/09 Rossiter, NYT, In a Senegalese Slum, a Building Material Both Primitive and Perilous
5/02/09 Nichols, Nation, Bankrupt Bailout Spends Billions to Shut Factories
5/02/09 Reid, Times, Abu Ghraib Prison Guards: We Were Scapegoats for the Bush Administration
5/02/09 Wides-Munoz, AP, Immigrants push for reforms at rallies nationwide
5/02/09 Leonard, NYT, How Lehman Brothers Got Its Real Estate Fix
5/02/09 Taylor, McClatchy, U.S. allies losing asylum bids over definition of 'terrorist'
5/02/09 Rokus, CNN, No murder conviction in Mexican immigrant's beating death
5/02/09 Head, BBC, UN warning over Burma cyclone aid
5/02/09 BBC, Iran execution provokes outrage
May 1, 2009
5/01/09 OneWorld,
5/01/09 Arrieta, ITT, An Inconvenient Woman
5/01/09 Grayling, Guardian, Knowledge and genius
5/01/09 BBC, US factory output continues fall
5/01/09 BBC, China database to track children
5/01/09 BBC, First female Poet Laureate named
April 30, 2009
4/30/09 Travis, Guardian, Black and Asian people targeted in stop and search surge
4/30/09 Karimi, CNN, Kenyan women ban sex over political reform
4/30/09 BBC, Murder raises ethnic tension higher
4/30/09 Collins, News& Observer N.C., Feds Wrongly Deport Citizen Living in N.C.
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 Goodman, DemocracyNow, Locked in a Private Immigration Prison, One Man Speaks Out
4/29/09 Nichols, Reuters, Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade
4/29/09 BBC, Birds show off their dance moves
April 28, 2009
4/28/09 Dillon, NYT, Test Results Show Persistent Gap in School Achievement
4/28/09 Leahy, IPS, RIGHTS: Indigenous Wisdom Against Climate Change
4/28/09 Samuels, AlterNet, Equal Pay Day! Women Catch Up With Men on 2008 Wages
4/28/09 Segura, AlterNet, Foreclosure Pets: Soaring Rate of Abandoned Animals Are the Latest Sign of a Deep Economic Crisis
4/28/09 Reiter, KC Star, Gay couples line up to wed in Iowa
4/28/09 AP, Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai vows to change law on sex
April 27, 2009
4/27/09 Andrews, ProPublica, New Scandal: Pension Fund Pay to Play
4/27/09 Leahy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Burden Lies with Rich Polluters, Native People Say
4/27/09 Ghosh, BBC, Science cash 'to beat food riots'
4/27/09 Ao et al, Progressive, Supreme Court should uphold anti-discrimination safeguards at the polls
April 26, 2009
4/26/09 Chandler et al, WP, A Day of Vandalism, Violence
4/26/09 Richburg, WP, Before Census, a Debate Over Prisoners
April 25, 2009
4/25/09 Chamberlain, Guardian, Sri Lanka rebels forcing children to fight, UN says
4/24/09 Goldstein, CSM, Freed from Guantanamo, a Uighur clings to asylum dreams in Sweden
4/25/09 La Riva, PSL, Firefighters and affirmative action
4/25/09 Story, NYT, After an Off Year, Wall Street Pay Is Bouncing Back
April 24, 2009
4/24/09 Gentleman, Guardian, Companies to be forced to reveal gender pay gap
4/24/09 Foderaro, NYT, Anonymous Donor Gives Millions to Colleges
4/24/09 Trevelyan, BBC, UN racism event highlights divisions
April 23, 2009
4/23/09 Davis, KC Star, A second wave of home foreclosures is ahead, Fed economist says
April 22, 2009
4/22/09 Pilkington & Booth, Guardian, Somali boy pirate leapt aboard and shot at captain, US prosecutors say
April 21, 2009
4/21/09 Schwartz, NYT, Civil Lawsuit Over Katrina Begins
4/21/09 Bluemink, ADN, Climate Concern Unites Natives at UN Conference in Anchorage
April 20, 2009
4/20/09 WorldFocus, Ecological refugees flee China's expanding desert
4/20/09 Lillis, Wa. Independent. As Multiple-Death Shootings Surge, Congress Looks Away
4/20/09 Ruder, IntelDaily, Guilty of being poor: Debtors' prisons making a comeback
April 19, 2009
4/18/09 Murray, PSL, Who are the real 'pirates' in Africa?
4/19/09 Barnes, WP, High Court Poised To Closely Weigh Civil Rights Laws
4/19/09 McInnis, Reuters, Australia, Netherlands join U.N. race meeting boycott
4/19/09 Lopez, LAT, A better way of dealing with society's neediest
4/19/09 Jordan, CSM, Why the US will boycott global racism conference
April 18, 2009
4/18/09 Hall, News&Observer, Bartering is a modern trade
4/18/09 Abate, SF Chron, State unemployment rate highest since 1941
4/18/09 IRIN, GHANA: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide
4/18/09 Rosales, IPS, PERU: Water Isn't for Everyone
4/18/09 DeParle, NYT, Struggling to Rise in Suburbs Where Failing Means Fitting In
4/18/09 Muir, BBC, Iraqi gay men face 'lives of hell'
4/18/09 BBC, US boycotts UN racism conference
4/18/09 Allen, BBC, Somali chaos spills from land to sea
April 17, 2009
4/17/09 Rampell, NYT, Does 'Financial Innovation' Hurt or Help the Poor?
4/17/09 AFP, US Mulls Asylum for Haitian Immigrants: Clinton
4/17/09 Oppman, CNN, Illegal immigrants detained, then freed to work
4/17/09 Greco, FPIF, Global Food Security Act
4/17/09 Miller, PSL, US demands silence on Palestine, slavery, Islamophobia at racism conference
4/17/09 England, BBC, HK students debate Tiananmen legacy
4/17/09 CNN, Maya nut changes lives while aiding the rain forest
4/17/09 Chipani, BBC, Hidden kingdom of the Afro-Bolivians
April 16, 2009
4/16/09 Al Jazeera, Lula attacks rich nations on crisis
4/16/09 Gutierrez & Drash, CNN, Folks losing homes dial 1-800; no one answers
4/16/09 Bengali, McClatchy, What's It Like to Be a Pirate? In Dirt-Poor Somalia, Pretty Good
4/16/09 Hartocollis & Davidson, NYT, A Cheap, Fast and Possibly Deadly Route to Beauty
4/16/09 Lipton, NYT, After the Bank Failure Comes the Debt Collector
April 15, 2009
4/15/09 WSJ, Banks Ramp Up Foreclosures
4/15/09 Keen, USA Today, Economic survivalists take root
4/15/09 Independent, 1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India
4/15/09 Voa News, US Army Recruits Immigrants, Rewards Them With Citizenship
4/15/09 Kollewe, Guardian, US economy goes back to 1955 as deflation returns
4/15/09 Kroll, TruthOut, The Corporatization of Public Education
4/15/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Enabling Acts for an Era of Greed: The Money Party at Work
4/15/09 CNN, Study: More whites, fewer blacks going to prison for drugs
4/15/09 BBC, Pirates attack second US vessel
4/15/09 BBC, Saudis 'to regulate' child brides
April 14, 2009
4/14/09 AFP, US to detain former Nazi guard for extradition
4/14/09 Stevenson, AP, Mexico slams Burger King for 'whopper' of insult
4/14/09 Wiley, Progressive, Race needs to be taken into account on economy
4/14/09 Gamboa, AP, Immigration legal system does not protect rights
4/14/09 Drash, CNN, Study: 4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens
4/14/09 Yates, CNN, Glass beads found off Georgia shed light on Spanish empire
4/14/09 Alcala, SacBee, Being a stay-at-home dad is just fine ... except for that feeling of isolation
4/14/09 CNN, Right-wing extremism may be on rise, report says
4/14/09 Murawski, News& Observer, For needy, cell phones can be free
April 13, 2009
4/13/09 BBC, US captain rescued from pirates
4/13/09 NBC, Female Vets Struggling to Get Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
4/13/09 Fisher, IPS, Local Police Increasingly Target Migrant Communities
4/13/09 Snyder, Wired, Amazon 'Glitch' Delists Gay-Themed Books, Interwebs Cry Foul
4/13/09 Rich, NYT, We've Got to Leave This Bankrupt Culture Behind
4/13/09 PSL, Socialism 101
4/13/09 Leeder, Globe & Mail, Targeted Killing of Women's Rights Activist Shocks Afghans
4/13/09 McKenzie, IPS, FRANCE: Under the Eiffel Tower, a Desperate Game Plays Out
April 12, 2009
4/12/09 Muhumed & Nor, AP, Somali pirates vow retaliation after captain freed
4/12/09 Gamboa, AP, Citizens held as illegal immigrants
4/12/09 Herzenhorn, NYT, Plan to Change Student Lending Sets Up a Fight
4/12/09 Bagchi, BBC, Punjab suicides cast shadow on polls
4/12/09 Heisel, LAT, HUD's Dollar Homes falls short of mission
April 11, 2009
4/11/09 Uygur, AlterNet, How the Toxic Asset Plan Will Magically Make Your Money Disappear
4/11/09 Kunzelman & Foster, AP, Black man's killing by police shakes La. town
4/11/09 Alonso-Zaldivar, AP, No strength in numbers for America's uninsured
4/11/09 Tighe, BBC, American cultures mix in New Mexico
April 10, 2009
4/10/09 Olesen, AP, China's birth limits create dangerous gender gap
4/10/09 IntelDaily, Local US currency strengthens community
4/10/09 Dike, FPIF, Global Discussion on Racism
4/10/09 Bright, CSM, Critics say US should attack Somali pirates' land bases
4/10/09 McDermott, BBC, Colombian Indians seek security
4/10/09 Long, BBC, Chile police 'victimise Mapuche'
4/10/09 Fox, Time, Social Security's Surplus Disappearing Fast in Downturn
April 9, 2009
4/09/09 Westhead, Toronto Star, Poor Pay Price of Progress in India
4/09/09 Brooks, USA Today, Military Used Pigs in Blasts to Test Armor
4/09/09 DiMassa & Winton, LAT, College Hospital to pay $1.6 million in homeless dumping settlement
4/09/09 Becker & McDonnell, LAT, U.S. citizens caught up in immigration sweeps
4/09/09 Pilkington, Guardian, Reality TV's latest wheeze: make US workers compete to keep jobs
April 8, 2009
4/08/09 Smith, Times Online, Military Sonar Blamed for Mass Dolphin Strandings
4/08/09 Zeidler, Reuters, Some job seekers invest in plastic surgery to compete
4/08/09 Gimein, MSN, Why home prices may never recover
4/08/09 Chen, CNN, Teens locked up for life without a second chance
4/08/09 Woods & Grecco, FPIF, G20 and Global Poverty
April 7, 2009
4/07/09 Mencimer, MoJo, Obama Sides With Banks Accused of Racism
4/07/09 Stein, AlterNet, Locavore to the Max: How to Forage for Low-Impact, Recession-Proof Food
4/07/09 Fagan, SF Chron, Ranks of Homeless Swell as Middle Class Teeters
4/07/09 Kantrowitz, NYT, Guidance Office: Answers About Financial Aid, Part 2
4/07/09 Walker, BBC, The story of Nigeria's 'untouchables'
April 6, 2009
4/06/09 Rugaber, AP, Government cracking down on mortgage scams
4/06/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, The Myth of "Objectivity": NYT Editorializes Against Unions While Moving Against Its Own Unions
4/06/09 Thomson, BBC, Paris liberation made 'whites only'
April 5, 2009
4/05/09 NPR, What 8.5 Percent Looks Like
4/05/09 Lazarus, LAT, Hooked on free Web services? Prepare to pay
4/05/09 CNN, Karzai: Afghanistan to review criticized sharia law
4/05/09 Tawfeek, CNN, Six gay men shot to death in Iraq by tribe members
April 4, 2009
4/04/09 Pizzagati, AlterNet, Down But Not Out at $464 Million a Year
4/04/09 BBC, Roman police find sewer children
April 3, 2009
4/03/09 Reich, TruthOut, It's a Depression
4/03/09 Pupovac, ITT, Same-Sex Marriage in the Heartland
4/03/09 Seiple, CSM, 10 Terms Not to Use with Muslims
4/03/09 Kroll, Alternet, A Crisis of Affordability: How Our Public Colleges Are Turning into Gated Communities for the Wealthy
4/03/09 Murray, PSL, Economic crisis fuels anti-immigrant demonization in Europe
4/03/09 Miller, PSL, Thousands take to streets of Sydney to support Tamil struggle
4/03/09 AP, Just published photos show MLK killing aftermath ... pictures from Life magazine
4/03/09 Giroux, TruthOut, Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis
4/03/09 IntelDaily, Civil Unrest, Ghost Malls, and Another American Revolution
4/03/09 Simon, WSJ Sharp Cuts in Monthly Payments Reduce Redefault Rate, Study Finds
4/03/09 CNN, Men tell Oprah why they beat the women they love
4/03/09 BBC, Australia backs indigenous rights
4/03/09 BBC, Gene defect clue to male pill
4/03/09 BBC, Further jump in US unemployment
April 2, 2009
4/02/09 Reuters, One in 10 Americans gets help to buy food
4/02/09 Bernstein, NYT, Immigrant Detainee Dies, and a Life Is Buried, Too
4/02/09 Kroll, MoJo, Shut Out:How the Cost of Higher Education Is Dividing Our Country
4/02/09 BBC, Foreign detainees 'have US right'
4/02/09 Litvinsky, IPS, Electronics Firms Urged to Boycott 'Blood Minerals'
4/02/09 Clark, Globe & Mail, Law in Afghanistan Legalizing Rape in Marriage Prompts Outcry
4/02/09 BBC, Sweden allows same-sex marriage
4/02/09 Guru, Asia Times, We still owe the rich
April 1, 2009
4/01/09 Barnes, WP, High Court to Weigh Relevance Of Voting Law in Obama Era
4/01/09 BBC, US reverses rights council stance
4/01/09 Willis, Bloomberg, ADP Says U.S. Companies Reduced Payrolls by 742,000
4/01/09 Douzinas, Guardian, Who counts as 'human'?
March 31, 2009
3/31/09 WorldFocus, One woman fights for members of India's lowest caste
3/31/09 Dsane, FirstPost, Panoramic Emotions - Globalization
3/31/09 Hindery & Riegle, MoJo, An End to False Globalization
3/31/09 Johnson, CNN, Homeowner who shot herself amid eviction dies
3/31/09 Dolan, WSJ, Blame Is Put on Management, but More Pain Looms for Hourly Workers, Retirees
3/31/09 AFP, Nazi war crimes suspect loses extradition appeal
3/31/09 Jones, Tom Dispatch, Death on the Home Front: Women in the Crosshairs
3/31/09 Starkey, AlterNet, Afghan President Signs Law "Legalizing Rape"
3/31/09 Benno, PSL, Heart failure among Black adults 20 times more prevalent
3/31/09 Wasserman, SacBee, Yuba County tops nation in 'underwater' loans
3/31/09 Remmer, TruthOut, Merrill Lynch Bonus Payments Dwarf A.I.G.
3/31/09 BBC, US house prices 'see record fall'
March 30, 2009
3/30/09 Kleinfeld & Greenhouse, NYT, For Injured Workers, a Costly Legal Swamp
3/30/09 WorldFocus, India's "untouchables" trudge through sewers
3/30/09 Keim, Wired, Poverty Goes Straight to the Brain
3/30/09 Daly, Reuters, U.S. lawmakers press Fed for minority access to bailout
3/30/09 Nichols, Nation, Sanders Puts Single-Payer On the Agenda
3/30/09 Collins, Fresno Times, Life in Mendota, Calif., where the jobless rate is 41 percent
3/30/09 Richards, MoJo, Out of Mind, Out of Sight
3/30/09 Grey, WSWS, US: Unemployment hits double digits in seven states
3/30/09 Grogg, IPS, RIGHTS: Cuba Launches Anti-Homophobia Campaign
3/30/09 BBC, Migrants drown off Libyan coast
3/30/09 Gawavde, New Yorker, Hellhole: The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?
March 29, 2009
3/29/09 Kole, AP, Bosnia's jobless rate at 43 percent and rising
3/29/09 Wells, BBC, New York's school for immigrants
March 28, 2009
3/28/09 BBC, Bloody clash in south Philippines
3/28/09 Dorschner, Miami Herald, Insurers Shun Those Taking Certain Meds
3/28/09 Thompson, ProPublica, FBI Opens Inquiry Into Death of Henry Glover
3/28/09 Pitts, CNN, Commentary: 'Post-racial' America isn't here yet
3/28/09 Heilperin, AP, For Congo's uprooted, fear trumps hopes for peace
March 27, 2009
3/27/09 Blas, Financial Times, Number of Chronically Hungry Tops 1 Billion
3/27/09 AP, Jury finds Kansas doctor not guilty in abortion case
3/27/09 EDIE, Elastoplast solution to African water crisis not working
3/27/09 Wheatley, FT, Brazil's leader blames white people for crisis
3/27/09 Wilemon, Memphis Daily News, Farmers Worry About Proposed Legislation
3/27/09 BBC, Crabs 'sense and remember pain'
March 26, 2009
3/26/09 Partlow, RH Reality Check, Egg-as-Person Laws Deprive Pregnant Women of Their Personhood
3/26/09 Gorman & Hurt, Reuters, Hidden Homeless Emerge as US Economy Worsens
3/26/09 BBC, EU warns Spain over development
3/26/09 Browning, NYT, I.R.S. to Ease Penalties for Some Offshore Tax Evaders
3/26/09 AP, Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania
3/26/09 Goodnough, NYT, New Hampshire Names 27 Clerics in Abuse Cases
3/26/09 Breen, AP, States consider drug tests for welfare recipients
3/26/09 Reuters, U.S. workers on jobless benefits hit record
3/26/09 Moore, KC Star, Missouri System Treats Juvenile Offenders With Lighter Hand
March 25, 2009
3/25/09 McKinley, NYT, Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns
3/25/09 Hagey, News Tribune, Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow
3/25/09 Hopkins, ADN, Villages will get free Citgo heating fuel again
3/25/09 McClatchy, $410,000 in 2006, $112,00 now: When will prices hit bottom?
3/25/09 Meyer, LAT, White House unveils plan to fight drug cartels at border
3/25/09 Charles. Reuters, U.S. immigrant detentions violate human rights: report
3/25/09 Knell, BBC, Nubia: Lost civilisation of Egypt
3/25/09 McClements, BBC, Secrets of mass grave revealed
March 24, 2009
3/24/09 Schiller, Houston Chron, Plans to Kill Plants Along US/Mexico Border Reminiscent of Agent Orange Use
3/24/09 Barnett & Sullivan, AP, White House unveils anti-cartel effort for border
3/24/09 Haynes, WP, Senate to Consider Relief for Credit Card Holders
3/24/09 Hamilton, LAT, U.S. workers at AIG return $50 million in bonuses
3/24/09 Steffan & Feyerick, CNN, Tenant evicted even though she pays rent on time
3/24/09 Chopra, CSM, Debt weighs on Indian middle class
March 23, 2009
3/23/09 Abcarian, LAT, Abortion provider's trial opens in Kansas
3/23/09 Abedin, CNN, Study: Blacks suffer heart failure at alarmingly high rates
3/23/09 Baltic Times, Human trafficking from Lithuania increases
3/23/09 Topolski, Guardian, The monster impulse
March 22, 2009
3/22/09 Stewart & Elliott, Observer, World Bank: G20 Warned Unrest Will Sweep Globe
3/22/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, As credit markets froze, banks loaned millions to insiders
3/22/09 BBC, Tibetan monks 'held after riot'
3/22/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The Nature Of Ideology And Mental Freedom
March 21, 2009
3/21/09 AFP, Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud
3/21/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Coloring Opportunity: The Regional Geography of Structural Racism in The NYC Region
3/21/09 Preston, NYT, A Slippery Place in the U.S. Work Force
3/21/09 Torros, IPS, Women's Special Water Needs Find Voice
3/21/09 White & Lifsher, LAT, Blacks lose ground in job slump
3/21/09 Baseline Scenario, This Time I'm Not the One Calling It a Subsidy
3/21/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, BofA's insider loans zoomed in 2008, but no one will say why
March 20, 2009
3/20/09 WorldFocus, Obama to sign United Nations gay rights declaration
3/20/09 Healy, NYT, Fed Chief Calls for Scrutiny of Pay at Financial Firms
3/20/09 Asia One, 60,000 children in S-E Asian sex trade
3/20/09 BBC, US high school 'held cage fights'
3/20/09 Toy, NYT, Up in Smoke: The Deposit Vanishes
3/20/09 Frayssinet, IPS, BRAZIL: Landmark Ruling Confirms Indian Reservation
3/20/09 BBC, Nazi trial letters open to public
3/20/09 Gram, AP, Vermont Senate Panel Approves Gay Marriage Bill
March 19, 2009
3/19/09 Barron & Buettner, NYT, Scorn Trails A.I.G. Executives, Even in Their Driveways
3/19/09 Mutikani, Reuters, U.S. workers on jobless benefits hit record high
3/19/09 McKenzie, FRANCE: Young Face a Jobless Future
3/19/09 Tady, ITT, Building A Broadband Bridge that Holds Weight
3/19/09 Feffer, FPIF, Sex Trafficking: The Abolitionist Fallacy
3/19/09 CNN, Four Fannie Mae execs to get big bonuses
March 18, 2009
3/18/09 Koeppel, ConsortiumNews, Indentured Servants, Circa 2009
3/18/09 Lee, AP, Sources: US to Sign UN Gay Rights Declaration
3/18/09 IntelDaily, US detains record number of immigrants: report
3/18/09 BBC, Clinton's warning to Sudan leader
3/18/09 BBC, Rape reports rise in US military
3/18/09 Case, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Ill Migrants Left to Languish Behind Bars
3/18/09 Klare, FPIF, The Second Shockwave
3/18/09 CNN, New Mexico governor repeals death penalty in state
March 17, 2009
3/17/09 Katine, Guardian, Remittances: Time for payback
3/17/09 Watt, NYT, No Smooth Ride on TV Networks' Road to Diversity
3/17/09 BBC, Failing hospital 'caused deaths'
3/17/09 Brown, AP, Texas jail was an Animal House, authorities say
3/17/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Mortgage Fraud Up As Credit Tightens
3/17/09 Gibbs, BBC, El Salvador rebels in from the cold
March 16, 2009
3/16/09 Lans, WP, Pension Check Guarantees Mean More Budget Woes
3/16/09 Annan, Guardian, A message from Africa
3/16/09 BBC, Sudan to 'expel all aid groups'
3/16/09 Vivian, CNN, Commentary: Time for dialogue on race is now
March 15, 2009
3/15/09 Roberts, AP, Immigrants Face Detentions, Few Rights
3/15/09 Faul, AP, Women in Congo Speak Out about Rape Despite Taboo
3/15/09 Davis, KC Star, Lenexa-based credit union's woes will cost the entire industry
3/15/09 BBC, Bolivia leader redistributes land
March 14, 2009
3/14/09 Lister, TimesOnline, Downturn Could Kill 400,000 Children, Warns Margaret Chan
3/14/09 Hubert, SacBee, Some feel burned as media spotlight falls on capital's homeless camp
3/14/09 Greenhouse, NYT, Labor Secretary Proposes Suspending Farm Rules
3/14/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism--A Roadmap For Current Debates
3/15/09 Hutton, Guardian, Look no further than inequality for the source of all our ills
March 13, 2009
3/13/09 Baumann, MoJo, What Economic Crisis?
3/13/09 Talvi, ITT, De-escalating the Drug War
3/13/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Road Tripping Through Whitopia
3/13/09 Norris, NYT, In This Recession, More Men Are Losing Jobs
3/13/09 Zagaroli, McClatchy, Here's another earmark: More privacy for red wolves to breed
3/13/09 Bash & Walsh, Congresswoman defends advocacy for minority banks
3/13/09 Harvey, BBC, Papua's struggle for independence
3/13/09 Sanchez, KC Star, Commentary: It's time for America to think straight about class
March 12, 2009
3/12/09 BBC, Monkeys 'teach infants to floss'
3/12/09 Alonso-Zaldivar, AP, Report: US on short end of health care 'value gap'
3/12/09 Crutsinger, AP, Household net worth plunges by record amount
3/12/09 Valente, IPS, ARGENTINA: Bold New Law on Violence Against Women
3/12/09 AP, Initial Jobless Claims Increase Again
3/12/09 Seliger, ITT, From Russia With Mercy
3/12/09 Gibbs, BBC, Mexican 'drug lord' on rich list
3/12/09 Savan, Nation, Stewart Asks Cramer: "Where's the D'Oh!"
March 11, 2009
3/11/09 Freeman, Guardian, This shoe ain't made for walking
3/11/09 Penny, Guardian, An aching hunger
3/11/09 O'Hara, Guardian, Inequality is bad for your health
3/11/09 Bunkley, NYT, U.A.W. Deal Cuts Hourly Rate to $55
3/11/09 Eyal, Nation, The Perfect Storm
3/11/09 Sirota, Road Tripping Through Whitopia
3/11/09 Perkins, Guardian, Time for explosive action
3/11/09 Litvinsky, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: World's Poor Offer Lessons in Bank Study
3/11/09 Appel, IPS, CORRUPTION-US: Homeowner Rip-Offs Spark Scores of Lawsuits
3/11/09 BBC, Youngest billionaires lose money
March 10, 2009
3/10/09 Eckholm, NYT, Living in Motels, the Hidden Homeless
3/10/09 Witt, LAT, Driving through Tenaha, Texas, doesn't pay for some
3/10/09 Sabo, CNN, 'Fight club' set up at school for mentally disabled, police say
3/10/09 Byron, CNN, U.N. report: Forestry can create 10 million jobs
3/10/09 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index
3/10/09 Page, USA today, 24 million go from 'thriving' to 'struggling'
3/10/09 BBC, Elephants reveal new trunk tricks
3/10/09 Brewster, FT, US companies pull out of retirement contributions
3/10/09 Becker, PSL, Capitalism: a system of mass destruction
3/10/09 Zapotosky, WP, Muslim Woman Asked to Leave Line at Bank Over Head Scarf
3/10/09 Nebehay, Reuters, U.S. allies told to review role in secret renditions
3/10/09 Kachingwe, IPS, ZAMBIA: Food Vouchers Not Enough to Fight Hunger
3/10/09 CNN, Report: 1 in 50 U.S. children face homelessness
3/10/09 Adams, CSM, More Filipinos question birth-control taboo
3/10/09 BBC, US job prospects hit 27-year low
3/10/09 BBC, Tanzania 'witch-naming' under way
March 9, 2009
3/09/09 BBC, In pictures: Mindanao conflict
3/09/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Morning Cup of Stimulus: Illegal Immigrants?
3/09/09 Dorschner, Miami Herald, Consumers Curb Medical Treatment to Save Money
3/09/09 Turse, MoJo, Younger and Hungrier in America
3/04/09 Ali, Nation, Capitalism's Deadly Logic
3/09/09 Murphy, LAT, Oregon schools face last resort: a shorter year
3/09/09 Lopez, LAT, Illegal dumping continues in South L.A.
March 8, 2009
3/08/09 Reuters, Protesters target U.S. foreclosed-homes auctioneer
3/08/09 Rosenwald, WP, House Trap - Upside-Down Owners Missed by Rescue Long to Exhale
3/08/09 Rosenberg, WP, Second-Class Citizens in Virginia
3/08/08 Magagnini, Sac Bee, Asian American gambling addicts face cultural gap in getting help
3/08/09 Therloff, LAT, How computers call the shots for L.A. County children in peril
3/08/09 McVeigh, Guardian, Sex attacks blight lives of Haitian girls
3/08/09 Sergeant, BBC, The shame of Iraq's pariah widows
3/08/09 Sheffield, CNN, Not even renters safe from foreclosure storm
March 7, 2009
3/07/09 Rovira, PSL, Suicides spread as economic crisis deepens
3/07/09 Joseph, PSL, Federal government to deport thousands of Haitian workers
3/07/09 Abdullah, McClatchy, For ex-offenders, older workers, uneducated, jobs even harder to find
3/07/09 Faul, AP, Traumatized child soldiers return home in Congo
3/07/09 Powell, NYT, Mortgage Fraud Case Poses Federal Quandary
March 6, 2009
3/06/09 Liptak, NYT, Justices Erase Ruling That Allowed Detention
3/06/09 Palletta, WSJ, Bill Seeks to Let FDIC Borrow up to $500 Billion
3/06/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Modern Slavery in America
3/06/09 Ghouri, BBC, Medical waste scandal scars Gujarat
3/06/09 McDonald, NYT, Wall Street Opens Higher on U.S. Jobs Report
3/06/09 Loht, NYT, Piecemeal Layoffs Avoid Warning Laws
3/06/09 Healy, NYT, 651,000 Jobs Reported Lost in February
3/06/09 Ordonoz, Charlotte, Observer, Bill aims to keep aid from illegal immigrants
3/06/09 BBC, US jobless rate rises to hit 8.1%
March 5, 2009
3/05/09 Adler, Reuters, One in 8 U.S. households late paying or in foreclosure
3/05/09 Ordonez & Zagarolli, Charlotte Observer, Deportation program nets minor offenders
3/05/09 BBC, SA shuts Zimbabwe refugees' camp
3/05/09 Atkinson, ITT, Always Look on the Bright Side of Genocide
3/05/09 Osborne, Guardian, UK employees can still be forced to retire at 65, EU court rules
March 4, 2009
3/04/09 BBC, Poor being hit by crisis says IMF
3/04/09 Mirchandani, BBC, OC's rich rush to cash in on gold
3/04/09 Rothberg, Nation, Foodies Address the Slavery Issue
3/04/09 Kotlowitz, NYT, All Boarded Up
3/04/09 Dunham, Reuters, In past 2 years, 87 million in U.S. went uninsured
3/02/09 Huus, MSNBC, 'Tidal wave' of homeless students hits schools
3/04/09 AP, Details of Home Loan Plan Are Released
3/04/09 Fink, ProPublica, Study Links Poorer Hospital Care to Racial Segregation
3/04/09 Stempel, Reuters, One in five U.S. mortgage borrowers are underwater
3/04/09 Becker & McDonnell, LAT, Mexico's drug war creates new class of refugees
3/04/09 Simanowitz, ITT, Blue People, Yellowcake
3/04/09 CNN, Target to open 27 new stores
3/04/09 Randall, WSWS, 7.3 million in the US prison system
3/04/09 Walberg, IntelDaily, Europe: Prison of nations
March 3, 2009
3/03/09 Deen, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Financial Crisis Threatens Women's Meagre Gains
3/03/09 Leonhardt, NYT, Job Losses Show Breadth of a Recession
3/03/09 Irwin, WP, Government Finalizes New $200B Lending Program
3/03/09 Schemper, MoJo, 36 Years of Solitude
3/03/09 Rampell, NYT, Tax Fallacies: Explaining Marginal Tax Rates
March 2, 2009
3/02/09 Charter, Times Online, New 'Iron Curtain' will split EU's rich and poor
3/02/09 Kay, SF Chron, 'We're Like a Katrina Without the Flood': Residents Fight Toxic Legacy
3/02/09 Estabrook, Gourmet, The Price of Tomatoes: Keeping Slavery Alive in Florida
3/02/09 AP, No Justice for Victims of Agent Orange
3/02/09 Simon, CNN, Working professionals head to food bank
3/02/09 Torgonvick, CNN, When women bring home the bacon
3/02/09 Haoson, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Few Safety Nets for Women of Colour
March 1, 2009
3/01/09 Gaynor, Reuters, Activists Protest Immigration Raids in Phoenix
3/01/09 Lyon, Salt Lake Tribune, Iraqi Refugees Returning to Danger Zone to Escape Poverty in Utah
3/01/09 Chavez, Dallas Morning News, Number of Homeless Students Rising in Dallas-Area Districts
3/01/09 Sayer, Mother earth News, The Hidden Link Between Factory Farms and Human Illness
3/01/09 Wallace, MoJo, Consumer Retorts: Fair Trade Coffee
3/01/09 Luo, Seattle Times, Laid-off professionals turn to "survival jobs"
3/01/09 Al Jazeera, African migrants drown off Yemen
3/01/09 Smith, Guardian, Girls being force-fed for marriage as junta revives fattening farms
3/01/09 BBC, Violence flares over race movie
February 28, 2009
2/28/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The Federal Public Policy Crime Wave Since 1980
2/28/09 Thompson, WP, Top Officials Expand The Dialogue on Race
2/28/09 BBC, Fears of anarchy in Madagascar
2/28/09 Denvir, ITT, Resource Wars in Ecuador
2/28/09 Glennie, Guardian, It starts with a council estate
2/28/09 Pifer-Bixler, CNN, No job, no insurance -- Now what?
2/28/09 BBC, US may boycott racism conference
2/28/09 Alieva, Asia Times, Tajik cotton farms picked clean
February 27, 2009
2/27/09 Foster, AP, Guard to Pull Out of New Orleans After 3 1/2 Years
2/27/09 Applebaum, WP, Bank Failures Take Toll on Insurance Fund
2/27/09 Sheridan & Harris, WP, D.C. Voting Measure Clears The Senate
2/27/09 Nichols & Moore, Reuters, In hard times, more U.S. women try to sell their eggs
2/27/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Mortgage Bankruptcy Reform Update
2/27/09 Young, CNN, White House set to reverse health care conscience clause
February 26, 2009
2/26/09 Read, AP, Source: Citi-gov't aid deal may come this week
2/26/09 McGee, Star-Telegram, Bill offers leeway on deportations
2/26/09 LAT, 667K new jobless claims; continuing claims top 5M
2/26/09 Moscrip, CNN, Jobless claims spike to 26-year high
February 25, 2009
2/25/09 WorldFocus, Immigrants in South Africa deal with hostility, xenophobia
2/25/09 Cutter, PSL, European toxic waste dumped in Africa
2/25/09 PSL, Latinos now account for 40 percent of all federal prisoners
2/25/09 AP, Border guards launch mutiny in Bangladesh capital
2/25/09 BBC, Slumdog children to be rehoused
2/25/09 BBC, Long hours link to dementia risk
2/25/09 Chacon, Progressive, Increase in Latino federal prison population reveals flaws in immigration policy
February 24, 2009
2/24/09 BBC, US recession 'may last into 2010'
2/24/09 Alonso-Zalvidar, AP, Health care costs to top $8,000 per person
2/24/09 Schmid, AP, Beauty and the brain, women use more than men
2/24/09 Vargas, WP, Gay Bloggers' Voices Rise in Chorus of Growing Political Influence
2/24/09 CNN, Rupert Murdoch apologizes for chimp cartoon
2/24/09 Deen & Young-Gon, IPS, Sanitation Crisis Runs Deep in Africa, Asia
2/24/09 CNN, Indian woman accused of selling baby for $130
February 23, 2009
2/23/09 WorldFocus, Class divisions widen in racially free South Africa
2/23/09 Naiman, Truthout, Guadeloupe Strikes: A Warning to Obama?
2/23/09 Reuters, Financial job losses accelerating: U.N. agency
2/23/09 Rodriguez, CNN, In tough economy, working 7 days becomes norm for some
2/23/09 BBC, Child prostitutes rescued in US
2/23/09 Katz & Coto, AP, Unrest in Caribbean has roots in slavery past
2/23/09 Vedantam, WP, Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe
2/23/09 Reuters, UAW and Ford reach deal over retiree health care
2/23/09 Stone, IntelDaily, FBI Arrests Four Animal Rights Activists, Claims "Terrorism"
2/23/09 Lamb, Guardian, Fairtrade Week: smallholders farm a route out of poverty
2/23/09 CNN, U.S. to pay 'forgotten' Filipino World War II veterans
2/23/09 BBC, Child abuse 'alters stress gene'
February 22, 2009
2/22/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Let's Stop Monkeying Around With Colorblind Racism
2/22/09 Therolf, LAT, 20% in Los Angeles County receive public aid
2/22/09 Travis, Guardian, Foreign workers could be barred from entering UK
February 21, 2009
2/21/09 Etzler & FlorCruz, CNN, Road to riches ends for 20 million Chinese poor
2/21/09 Heller, OpenLeft, Forcing Burger King to Backtrack on Employee Free Choice
2/21/09 Frosch, NYT, In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock
2/21/09 Morgenson, NYT, After Losses, a Move to Reclaim Executives' Pay
2/21/09 Burnett, IPS, Fighting for the Right to Fish
February 20, 2009
2/20/09 Redman, FPIF, Postcard From...Belém
2/20/09 Leonard, AP, Jobless hit with bank fees on benefits
2/20/09 White, WSWS, Nearly five million on jobless benefits in US
2/20/09 Kaunda, IPS, ZAMBIA: Corruption in Water Sector Makes Clean Water A Pipedream
2/20/09 Steff, Texas Observer, Access Denied
February 19, 2009
2/19/09 Weaver & Brannigan, Miami Herald, Swiss bank USB to pay U.S. in tax havens scheme
2/19/09 Ordonez, Charlotte Observer, Stimulus dollars may end up helping illegal workers
2/19/09 Allen, ITT, All-Consuming Poverty
2/19/09 Frieden, CNN, Holder: U.S. a 'nation of cowards' on race discussions
2/19/09 Candiotti, CNN, Man who froze had history of late utility payments
2/19/09 CNN, Who's eligible for mortgage assistance?
2/19/09 BBC, 'Racist' US cartoon causes stir
2/19/09 Landeau, CNN, Men see bikini-clad women as objects, psychologists say
2/19/09 BBC, China lets it snow to end drought
February 18, 2009
2/18/09 Milmo, Independent, Dumped in Africa: Britain's Toxic Waste
2/18/09 Al Jazeera, GM and Chrysler to shed 50,000 jobs
2/18/09 AL Jazeera, Violent protests hit French island
2/18/09 Healy, NYT, Obama Plans $75 Billion Outlay to Fight Foreclosures
2/18/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Watchdog: Bush FDA decision put patients in danger
2/18/09 BBC, Obama's housing plan to help 9m
February 17, 2009
2/17/09 Sonner, AP, Call for End to USDA's Wildlife Killing Agency
2/17/09 Heller, OpenLeft, Burger King Bailout Shocker
2/17/09 Santos, NYT, Resisting Home Evictions Becomes a Group Effort
2/17/09 Goodman, Truthdig, Jailing Kids for Cash
2/17/09 Malvaeux, Progressive, Time to fix the safety net
2/17/09 Zavis, LAT, Wealthy cities discovering they're not recession-proof
2/17/09 Girion, LAT, Insurers exceed state-issued rates for last-resort health coverage
2/17/09 AP, Largest banks that received aid cut lending
2/17/09 Mandel, Business Week, Stock Decline Hits Depression Levels
2/17/09 Goldsmith, News&Observer, Recession tougher on older people
2/17/09 Al Jazeera, Jobless Chinese stranded in Romania
February 16, 2009
2/16/09 Chen, ITT, Unequal Education
2/16/09 BBC, Rome to dismantle illegal camps
2/16/09 Sahagun, LAT, Culture of seclusion among homeless hampers homicide investigation
February 15, 2009
2/15/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Despite trillions for economy, next job might mean less pay
2/15/09 BBC, US army 'wants more immigrants'
2/15/09 Xinhua, Over 200,000 Nepali girls being trafficked to Indian red light areas
February 14, 2009
2/14/09 Schwartz, NYT, Job Losses Pose a Threat to Stability Worldwide
2/14/09 Bilefsky, NYT, In Romania, Children Left Behind Suffer the Strains of Migration
2/14/09 Reuters, Citi, Morgan Stanley May Pay $3 Billion "Retention Awards"
2/14/09 Xanthaki, IPS, Human Slavery Thriving in the Shadows
February 13, 2009
2/13/09 Lef & Dobnick, AP, Gay Couples Protest at Marriage Bureaus Across US
2/13/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, Three major banks suspending foreclosures for several weeks
2/13/09 Sloan, Lexington Herald, Toyota cutting costs with lower pay, buyout programs, more
2/13/09 Ruder, IntelDaily, Revolt is in the air: Countries across Europe in turmoil
2/13/09 Macan-Markar, IPS, CAMBODIA: Justice In Sight for Khmer Rouge Victims
February 12, 2009
2/12/09 Whoriskey, WP, Employers Fighting Unemployment Benefits
2/12/09 Connolly, Guardian, Maoris win battle to control All Blacks' haka ritual
2/12/09 WorldFocus, Gypsies are at home in Hungary, but still don't fit in
2/12/09 Hagey, Tacoma Tribune, Over 800 applicants take test for one job in Tacoma
2/12/09 Thompson, ProPublica, Justice Department Sat on Youth Suicide Study
2/12/09 ENS, Just Breathing in Katrina-Flooded Homes Poses Health Risks
2/12/09 Allen, ITT, Forget Marriage--Civil Unions For All
2/12/09 Perkins, Guardian, Say water pumps, think livelihoods
2/12/09 Schmid, AP, Researchers say animals plan for the future
2/12/09 AP, Jail considers making inmates pay for toilet paper
2/12/09 Jimenez, TAP, The Real Economics of Immigration Reform
2/12/09 BBC, 'More tribe killings' in Colombia
February 11, 2009
2/11/09 WorldFocus, Indigenous languages revive and thrive in Mexico
2/11/09 IntelDaily, Nearly 1 billion starving in world
2/11/09 Goodman, Miami Herald, Fewer women winning jobs in executive suites
2/11/09 Freking, AP, Ranks of uninsured to grow
2/11/09 Wheeler, ITT, GI Skinhead
February 10, 2009
2/10/09 Halperin, CSM, Inuit sled dog controversy brings troubled past to light
2/10/09 WorldFocus, Immigrants stream across Mexico's southern border
2/10/09 WW4 Report, Eco-militant gets 21 years; violent racists half that
2/10/09 Muwakkil, ITT, Justice for Jon Burge's Victims?
2/10/09 Ravitz, CNN, Muslim in America: a 'voyage of discovery'
2/10/09 Smith, CNN, Military recruitment surges as jobs disappear
2/10/09 Isodore, CNN, GM cutting 10,000 jobs
February 9, 2009
2/09/09 CNN, Commentary: Free trade has sold out the American worker
2/09/09 BBC, Countries face new UK visa rules
2/09/09 Weber, ITT, Green Jobs for Whom?
2/09/07 Lah, CNN, Nissan to cut 20,000 jobs
2/09/09 Simon, CNN, In rural Alaska villages, families struggle to survive
February 8, 2009
2/08/09 Bajak, AP, US rancher at center stage in Bolivia land dispute
2/08/09 Glod, WP, Schools Face Sharp Rise In Homeless Students
2/08/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, 1,000 Words From Speaker Pelosi About Why This Recession Is Different
2/08/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Collins-Nelson Ax 600,000 Jobs! "In Your Face Caterpillar, Microsoft, Boeing, US Steel, Motorola!"
2/08/09 Towers & Fausset, LAT, States' only option now is budget pain
2/08/09 BBC, Woman scores Atlantic swim first
February 7, 2009
2/07/09 BBC, Latin America poverty 'may soar'
2/07/09 Figueroa, Miami Herald, Gay woman fights over hospital visitation rights in Miami court
2/07/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Purified Kleptocracy: New Bank Bailout Plan Aims to Enrich Private Investors
2/07/09 Stoker, LAT, To the Streets
2/07/09 BBC, 'My life cleaning Delhi's sewers'
2/07/09 CNN, 23 killed at Madagascar protest
2/07/09 BBC, New Bolivia constitution in force
February 6, 2009
2/06/09 Miller, PSL, Indian man set ablaze in anti-immigrant assault in Italy
2/06/09 Stiglitz, Deutche Welle, Joseph Stiglitz: Nationalized Banks Are "Only Answer"
2/06/09 Halpin, ADN, Man faces 64 counts of child sexual abuse
2/06/09 Estrada, IPS, CHILE: Biofuels Head to the Forests
2/06/09 CNN, Medicine man says he can cure AIDS
2/06/09 CNN, Texan who died in prison cleared of rape conviction
2/06/09 Reynolds, LAT, U.S. unemployment rate at 7.6%; jobs disappearing at faster pace
February 5, 2009
2/05/09 Mooney, CNN, Controversy surrounds Obama's faith office
2/05/09 Susskind, FPIF, Un-Gagging Women's Human Rights
2/05/09 CNN, Court may exonerate man, years after his death, for rape
2/05/09 Aversa, AP, Rising unemployment hits 98 percent of metro areas
2/05/09 Al Jazeera, Elite 'selling Cambodia's future'
2/05/09 Schneider, WP, New Jobless Claims Surge to 626,000
2/05/09 Reuters, U.S. jobless claims surge to 26-year high
2/05/09 Helms, Charlotte Observer, Poverty level in CMS rises past 50%
2/05/09 Levey, LAT, Obama signs expansion of children's health insurance
2/05/09 CNN, FEMA food kits may contain tainted peanut butter
2/05/09 BBC, Ten killed in Brazilian slum raid
2/05/09 Martin, Utne Reader, The People's Professor: Community Education Goes Ivy League
February 4, 2009
2/04/09 BBC, Deal hope in foreign workers row
2/04/09 Scoop, Option ARMs and Recast Shock Syndrome: Toxic Financial Products are Imploding on Schedule. Examining the Impact on California.
2/04/09 Donadio, NYT, Vatican Demands Holocaust Denier Publicly Recant
2/04/09 AP, Panasonic to cut 15,000 jobs, shut plants
2/04/09 Fox, ITT, This Land Is Their Land
2/04/09 Porter, Guardian, The horror of the ID card system
2/04/09 BBC, Indonesian divorce rate surges
2/04/09 BBC, Italy torn by racial strains
2/04/09 Leyva, Progressive, Unaccompanied immigrant children deserve protection
2/04/09 Gordon, McClatchy, For bank execs, $500,000 a year is a big comedown
2/04/09 Telegraph, World's youngest sex-change operation
2/04/09 Duffy, BBC, Brazil's battle for shanty town residents
February 3, 2009
2/03/09 Bernstein, NYT, Despite Vow, Target of Immigrant Raids Shifted
2/03/09 Case, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Racist Ideology Permeates Anti-Immigrant Lobby
2/03/09 BBC, Riot police occupy Sao Paulo slum
2/03/09 Tisdall, Guardian, No way out for nearly 3 million trapped in cycle of despair in Darfur's camps
2/03/09 Feffer, FPIF, Our Pirates and Theirs
2/03/09 CNN, Habitat for Humanity founder dies
2/03/08 Ash, BBC, Kansas rethinks its prison policies
2/03/09 Sturcke, Guardian, Anti-foreign labour strikes bed in as talks continue
February 2, 2009
2/02/09 Hedges, TruthDig, It's Not Going to Be OK
2/02/09 Goldmacher, McClatchy, Mormons admit larger role in California's Prop. 8 campaign
2/02/09 Eley, IntelDaily, For top 400 Americans, combined income of $105 billion in 2006
2/02/09 BBC, Chinese spending creates deficit
2/02/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Wall Streeters "Can't Live on $150,000 to $180,000 a Year"
2/02/09 Kirk, IPS, WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Resolution and a Plan of Action
2/02/09 Hogg, BBC, Chinese migrant job losses mount
February 1, 2009
2/01/09 Doward et al, Guardian, Unions: Labour was warned about jobs for foreigners
2/01/09 BBC, Synagogue desecrated in Venezuela
2/01/09 Henley, BBC, French government fears rise of left
2/01/09 Fisher, PSL, More than two million protest anti-worker policies in France
2/01/09 Garcia, PSL, School segregation at highest level in decades
2/01/09 Yamaguchi, AP, In Japan, you are what your blood type is
2/01/09 Deparle, NYT, Welfare System Failing to Grow as Economy Lags
2/01/09 BBC, Synagogue desecrated in Venezuela
2/01/09 BBC, EU rules 'not protecting workers'
2/01/09 CNN, Inmates riot for second time at Texas prison
January 31, 2009
1/31/09 BBC, Crisis may 'spark social unrest'
1/31/09 La Duke, Progressive, Obama's green plan must include Native Americans
1/31/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Racial Profiling? No, It's WORSE Than That
1/31/09 Kraske & Helling, KC Star, Missouri senator calls for $400,000 limit on exec pay
1/31/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: Discovering a 'lost forest'
1/31/09 BBC, Nigerians can sue US drugs firm
1/31/09 BBC, Thousands protest in Russian east
January 30, 2009
1/30/09 Smith, CNN, Job cuts exceed 100,000 for the week
1/30/09 Barr, AP,
1/30/09 Johnson, USA, FBI: Burgeoning gangs behind up to 80% of U.S. crime
1/30/09 Eley, WSWS, After freezing death of 93-year-old, Michigan city suspends electricity shutoffs
January 29, 2009
1/29/09 Insley, Guardian. Capital One card holders braced for interest rate rises
1/29/09 CNN, Day of vindication for grandma as pay law signed
1/29/09 Kiel, ProPublica, How Much of the Bailout Is Going to Small Banks?
1/29/09 Applebaum, WP, U.S. Aid Goes to Credit Unions
1/28/09 Nation, Jobless in America
1/29/09 Mutikani, Reuters, Jobless rolls hit record peak, orders plummet
1/29/09 Turse, MoJo, Desperate Times and Desperate Measures
1/29/09 Huus, MSNBC, Homelessness Surges as Funding Falters
1/29/09 McGreal, Guardian, Zimbabwe's Starving Millions Face Halving of Rations as UN Cash Dries Up
1/29/09 Mulrine, US News, The Pentagon Takes Aim at Sexual Assaults
January 28, 2009
1/28/09 Huang, CSM, Migrant workers struggle as China's factories slow
1/28/09 Llana, CSM, Mexican workers send less cash home from the US
1/28/09 Aversa, AP, Fed moves to help distressed homeowners
1/28/09 Stein, MoJo, Is Obama's Regulatory Czar a "Radical Animal Rights Activist"?
1/28/09 Dolan, LAT, School can expel lesbian students, court rules
1/28/09 Devarakonda, IPS, ECONOMY: 'Privatise Profits, Socialise Losses'
1/28/09 Demytrie, BBC, Tajik women who buy and sell babies
1/28/09 Stringer, AP, Iceland to appoint gay woman minister to PM post
1/28/09 BBC, Global job losses 'could hit 51m'
January 27, 2009
1/27/09 Pepitone, CNN, More than 11,500 job cuts announced Tuesday
1/27/09 CNN, House passes act to make pay-discrimination suits easier
1/27/09 Bernstein, NYT, Another Jail Death, and Mounting Questions
1/27/09 Haviv, Reuters, Home prices plunge record 18.2 percent in November
1/27/09 Eley, WSWS, Bloody Monday: 74,000 layoffs announced in one day
1/27/09 Llana, CSM, Bolivia sets new global high mark for indigenous rights
January 26, 2009
1/26/09 Hong & reynolds, LAT, U.S. weighs strategies to stem home foreclosures
1/26/09 Adams, CSM, Filipina activist boosts overseas workers
1/26/09 Loyn, BBC, UN debates global food cost rise
1/26/09 BBC, Tanzania witchdoctors flout ban
1/26/09 Reuters, Caterpillar Moves to Cut 20,000 Jobs
1/26/09 Reuters, Sprint Nextel to cut up to 8,000 jobs
1/26/09 Finoli, IntelDaily, Brazil: Occupying Slum
1/26/09 Lah, CNN, Workers urged: Go home and multiply
1/26/09 BBC, Caterpillar reveals huge job cuts
January 25, 2009
1/25/09 La Riva, PSL, Take action: Political prisoner Leonard Peltier at risk!
1/25/09 Mason, AP, World's highest drug levels entering India stream
1/25/09 CNN, Eight inmates sent to Florida hospitals after prison fight
1/25/09 Keane, AP, Bolivia constitution would empower Indian majority
1/25/09 Oakeshoft, Times Online, Women losing jobs twice as fast as men
1/25/09 Hill, Guardian, Men become richer after divorce
1/25/09 BBC, Bolivians vote on Indian rights
January 24, 2009
1/24/09 Greenwell, WP, Activists Seek New ways to Get Food to 35 Million
1/24/09 Dys, Herald, Hate. Remorse. Forgiveness
1/24/09 BBC, Migrants escape on Italian island
1/24/09 O'Malley, McClatchy, Flight for life: Young mom tries to find her place
January 23, 2009
1/23/09 Christie, CNN, Flood of Foreclosures: It's Worse Than You Think
1/23/08 Dolmage, Des Moines Reporters, Poverty Simulation Program in West Des Moines Helps Teachers
1/23/09 Harden, WP, Japan Works Hard to Help Immigrants Find Jobs
1/23/09 Reuters, Obama removes restrictions on abortion funding
1/23/09 Glover, Sacramento Bee, Jobless situation even worse than numbers show, experts say
1/23/09 Duffy, BBC, Changing times for Brazil's landless
1/23/09 Bridges, McClatchy, Bolivia's native peoples poised to win new rights
1/23/09 Nebehay, Reuters, Red Cross: Zimbabwe Cholera Epidemic Could Top 60,000
January 22, 2009
1/22/09 Landau, CNN, What is virginity worth today?
1/22/09 Ehrenreich, Nation, Foreclosure Fightback
1/22/09 Wulfhorst, Reuters, Job losses hitting men harder than women
1/22/09 Goldsmith, McClatchy, FTC urges Wachovia customers to cash checks
1/22/09 Abrams, AP, Senate Passes Wage Discrimination Bill
1/22/09 Ehrenreich, Nation, Foreclosure Fightback
January 21, 2009
1/21/09 Zavis, LAT, Federal regulators identify new problems at UCI hospital
1/21/09 Ahmed, BBC, Slumdog actors show Mumbai's rags and riches
January 20, 2009
1/20/09 Johnson, NYT, Trials for Parents Who Chose Faith Over Medicine
January 19, 2009
1/19/09 Alvarez, NYT, More Joining US Military as Jobs Dwindle
1/19/09 Vedantam, WP, Why the Ideological Melting Pot Is Getting So Lumpy
1/120/09 Frean, Times Online, Home education 'can be cover for abuse and forced marriage'
1/19/09 Malveaux, CNN, Sources: Obama may quickly reverse abortion policy
1/19/09 BBC, Ex-rebels lead El Salvador poll
1/19/09 Walker, MoJo, Dreams From My Father
1/19/09 Klein, ITT, Which Way to Universal Healthcare?
January 18, 2009
1/18/0-9 Hennessey-Fisk, LAT, Tuskegee Airmen ready to take part in history -- again
1/18/09 Asthana & Smith, Guardian, Revealed: the rise of mixed-race Britain
1/18/09 Cook, ITT, Contemplating King's Legacy
1/18/09 Rayner, Guardian, Top stores call them 'budget food lines'. I say they are a disgrace
January 17, 2009
1/17/09 BBC, Downturn hits Romania's tinkers
1/17/09 Nsingo, IPS, ZIMBABWE: Now a 'Factory for Poverty'
1/17/09 CNN, Top Saudi cleric: OK to wed young girls
January 16, 2009
1/16/09 Kiel, ProPublica, BofA and Gov't's Secret Deal
1/16/09 Shear, WP, Obama Pledges Entitlement Reform
1/16/09 Gilmore, Times Online, Bank shares gyrate as short-selling ban ends
1/16/09 Rothaker & Rexrode, McClatchy, Bank of America loses $2.39 billion in 4th quarter
1/16/09 Michael, IPS, EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable
1/16/09 Keim, Wired, Clever Critters: 8 Best Non-Human Tool Users
1/16/09 McLaughlin, CNN, Students, communities pay when schools cut busing
1/16/09 BBC, Zimbabwe rolls out Z$100tr note
1/16/09 Head, BBC, Thais hold more migrants amid row
January 15, 2009
1/15/09 Moon, ITT, Lines Drawn in the Sandinistas
1/15/09 Sidner, CNN, India razes slums, leaves poor homeless
January 14, 2009
1/14/09 Collins, AP, Ex-Cop Charged With Murder in California Shooting
1/14/09 Aizenman, WP, Despite Economy, Illegal Immigrants Unlikely to Leave U.S.
1/14/09 Savage, LAT, Bush appointee saw Justice lawyers as 'commies,' 'crazy libs,' report says
1/14/09 Arthur, IPS, HAITI: New Peasant Alliance Demands Action on Food Crisis
January 13, 2009
1/13/09 ENS, Navy Allowed to Kill Whales in Hawaii During Sonar Training
1/13/09 Dunham, Reuters, Sexually transmitted disease rates soar: CDC
1/13/09 Wired, South of the Future
1/13/09 Boodman, WP, The Rising Costs of Care And a Failing Economy Drive More Americans Into Medical Debt
1/13/09 Giago, McClatchy, Commentary: 'Cultural Genocide' in the Land of the Free
January 12, 2009
1/12/09 Segal & Zarella, CNN, Little Rock Nine set foundation for Obama, students say
1/12/09 Zandi, Progressive, How to Stimulate the Economy
1/12/09 Margolies, KC Star, U.S. mortgage meltdown linked to 2005 bankruptcy law
January 11, 2009
1/11/09 Kraul, LAT, Colombia Indians face down violence
January 10, 2009
1/10/09 IntelDaily, Riots rock Oakland after police slay youth
1/10/09 AP, Gap in what we say vs. what we do about racism
1/10/09 Henderson & Lister, Times Online, Genetic tests for all - the new approach to preventive medicine
1/10/09 Hinsliff, Guardian, Labour's new blog courts best of the left on the web
1/10/09 BBC, NY eatery frees ancient lobster
January 9, 2009
1/09/09 Taxin, AP, Immigrant Advocates Decry New Rules on Courts, DNA
1/09/09 Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, Merrill Lynch says rich turning to gold bars for safety
1/09/09 Merle & Montgomery, WP, Citigroup Reaches Deal With Lawmakers on Home Loans
1/09/09 Yochelson, NYT, Emily's Bridge - Emily Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge
1/09/09 Bice, CNN, Government fights slave labor in Brazil
1/09/09 BBC, US job losses hit record in 2008
January 8, 2009
1/08/09 Cronin, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Africa May Face 'Centuries' of Poverty
1/08/09 Reich, Truthout, The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers
1/08/09 Legal Times, Mukasey: Aliens Have No Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel
1/08/09 Cevallos, IPS, MEXICO: Films on Indigenous People - But Who Will See Them?
1/08/09 Steele, ITT, Jim Crow in the North
January 7, 2009
1/07/09 Bridges, McClatchy, Venezuela reinstates free home heating oil for poor in U.S
1/07/09 Hilzenrath, WP, Stock Losses Leave Pensions Underfunded by $400 Billion
1/07/09 Bennard, BBC, Afghan foetus 'aborted by razor'
1/07/09 Guardian, The Rural Media Company's documentary, Show & Tell, exposes the serious problem of rural poverty.
1/07/09 Grogg, IPS, CUBA: Racism - "Taboo, Complicated and Thorny" Issue
January 6, 2009
1/06/09 Klas et al, Miami Herald, Budget crisis getting worse, Florida lawmakers are told
Wealth of U.S. millionaires down 30 percent: survey
1/06/09 Phillips, Guardian, Rio Slum Barrier Plans Spark Outcry
1/06/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Outsourcing Health Care in Texas
1/06/09 Liecester, AP, Gaza conflict spreads to Europe with Jews attacked
1/06/09 Giago, McClatchy, Commentary: Indian country looks to Daschle for help
1/05/09 Sanders, Star-Telegram, Commentary: A real race discussion is necessary
January 5, 2009
1/05/09 Bridges, McClatchy, Friend of America's poor? Chavez shuts off free oil
January 4, 2009
1/04/09 Gibbs, Women's ENews, After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal
1/04/09 Shiri, WP, College Degree No Shield As More Jobs Are Slashed
1/04/09 Marosi, LAT, U.S. smooths away an illegal border crossing wrinkle
1/04/09 Stewart, Guardian, Credit squeeze will hit poor nations
January 3, 2009
1/03/09 BBC, The curse of Nigerian oil
1/03/09 Phillips, Guardian, Brazilian taskforce frees more than 4,500 slaves after record number of raids on remote farms
January 2, 2009
1/02/09 Rice, Guardian, Three million customers and still counting: the bank getting rich by helping the poor
1/02/09 Harlow, CSM, Adoptive parents visit Guatemala to give back
1/02/09 Ahlers, CNN, 'Safest' seat remarks get Muslim family kicked off plane
January 1, 2009
1/01/09 Chopra, Truthout, Nine Steps to Peace for Obama in the New Year
1/01/09 Merle, WP, Wall Street's Final '08 Toll: $6.9 Trillion Wiped Out
1/01/09 Wilber, WP, New Sentencing Guidelines For Crack, New Challenges
1/01/09 BBC, Anti-apartheid icon Suzman dies