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December 2010 - Financial
Pimco Led Among Borrowing by Funds (Wall Street Journal, 12-1-10)
Fed's 'Backdoor
Bailout' Provided $3.3 Trillion in Loans to Banks, Corporations (Common
Dreams, 12-2-10)
Mounting Debts by States Stoke Fears of Crisis (New York Times, 12-4-10)
A Frightening Look At The Labor Market Recovery (Huffington Post, 12-5-10)
Mark Cuban's
Tech Bets (CNBC, 12-6-10)
US housing doldrums 'to
last until 2013' (BBC News, 12-7-10)
Bangladesh joins microfinance backlash (Financial Times, 12-7-10)
The
EU Is Pushing Ireland to the Brink of Ruin (Spiegel Online, 12-8-10)
Quietly Ticking Time
Bomb in Fed Data (Common Dreams, 12-9-10)
The secret Wall Street bailout (Aljeezra, 12-9-10)
Quietly Ticking Time Bomb in Fed Data (Bankster, 12-9-10)
Economic Recovery? Really? (truthout, 12-13-10)
Anatomy of Mortgage Fraud, Part III: MERS'S Role in Facilitating the Mother of
All Frauds (Huffington Post, 12-16-10)
The Debt That Won't Go Away (CNBC,
12-20-10)
Ernst & Young sued over Lehman (Financial Times, 12-21-10)
Wave of Muni Defaults to Spur Layoffs,
Social Unrest: Whitney (CNBC, 12-21-10)
16 Shocking Facts About The Student Loan Debt Bubble And The Great College
Education Scam (The American Dream, 12-21-10)
Rush to foreclose by Fannie, Freddie helped feed problems with legal paperwork
(Washington Post, 12-23-10)
Suffer the Little Children (New York Times, 12-24-10)
Housing Market 2011: As Rough As 2010 (Aol, 12-24-10)
Barney Frank: Cut NATO Spending, It 'Serves No Strategic Purpose' (Huffington
Post, 12-27-10)
Non-US banks gain from Fed crisis fund (Financial Times, 12-27-10)
Another Bank of America Horror Story?
(CNBC, 12-29-10)
Gary Shilling: Housing prices may still have 20% to fall (Washington Post,
12-29-10)
FT.com / Media - WPP closes in on Blue State Digital purchase (Financial
Times, 12-29-10)
Home Prices Are Still Too High (Wall Street Journal, 12-30-10)
The New Voodoo (New York Times, 12-30-10)
December 2010 - Environment
Oceans failing the acid test, U.N. says (CNN, 12-2-10)
Weekly Mulch: If Cancun Climate Talks Falter, Blame the U.S. (The Media
Consortium, 12-3-10)
Birds Are Becoming Gay From Mercury Pollution, According To New Study On White
Ibis Breeding (Huffington Post, 12-3-10)
Trouble at the Top of the World (Aljazeera, 12-5-10)
PHOTOS: "Alarming" Amazon Drought—River Hits New Low (National Geographic,
12-6-10)
Africa's heritage sites under threat (CNN, 12-6-10)
Climate talks
inch closer to forest protection agreement (DW-World, 12-7-10)
Veron: The end is in sight for the world’s coral reefs (Climate Progress,
12-7-10)
Killer in the Attic: EPA Still Evades Zonolite Warnings (Aol, 12-7-10)
Nature Has Rights, Says Report Released During COP16 (Mother Earth Journal,
12-7-10)
Bolivia Ambassador to UN Pablo Solón Responds to Secret U.S. Manipulation of
Climate Talks Revealed in WikiLeaks Cable (Bolivia Rising, 12-7-10)
Leaked document shows EPA allowed bee-toxic pesticide despite own scientists’
red flags (Grist, 12-10-10)
Toxic Soil Shows Rigors of Nuclear Cleanup (Wall Street Journal, 12-10-10)
Morales warns of climate 'genocide' (Aljazeera, 12-10-10)
Failure to ban BPA leading to impotence in U.S. congressmen (probably)
(Grist, 12-10-10)
Super-toxic rat poisons mysteriously seep into our world (Investigate West,
12-11-10)
Invasive insects are growing threat to trees, forests (Washington Post,
12-12-10)
Deep ocean heat is rapidly melting Antarctic ice (Climate Progress,
12-15-10)
Probable carcinogen hexavalent chromium found in drinking water of 31 U.S.
cities (Washington Post, 12-19-10)
Forests size of Russia 'could be restored' (CNN, 12-21-10)
EIA projects climate catastrophe (Grist, 12-21-10)
Ińupiaq People Ask: “Will We Be the Victims of the Next Oil Spill Disaster?”
(Climate Story Tellers, 12-21-10)
A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning (New York Times, 12-21-10)
Revisiting
the Cadillac Desert (onearth, 12-21-10)
Risky Business: EPA Builds List of Potentially Dangerous Chemicals (Politics
Daily, 12-22-10)
December 2010 - Health
'In Libby, There Was No Maybe' About Dangers (Aol, 12-1-10)
Arizona Strikes Again (New York Times, 12-3-10)
Two books on the radiation dangers of cellphones (Washington Post, 12-3-10)
More Than Half of Americans Put Off Some Kind of Health Care Due to Money
Problems (Politics Daily, 12-14-10)
Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million (Huffington Post,
12-27-10)
December 2010 - Religion
Reflections and Hope for Religious Harmony Around the World (Huffington
Post, 12-7-10)
December 2010 - History
Robert Fisk: Survival of the neutral - Ireland's Second World War (The
Independent, 12-4-10)
History lives on in Berlin's underground bunkers (Washington Post, 12-17-10)
EU rejects eastern states' call to outlaw denial of crimes by communist regimes
(Guardian, 12-21-10)
December 2010 - Foreign
Hamas Would Honor
Referendum on Peace with Israel (Common Dreams, 12-1-10)
Haiti's sham election shames US (Guardian, 12-1-10)
The Non-Election for
the Non-Government of the Non-Sovereign State of Haiti (Common Dreams,
12-2-10)
How Iran Derailed a Health Crisis (New York Times, 12-3-10)
Indian Technology's Fourth Wave (Bloomberg, 12-8-10)
Bolivia's thirst for change (Aljazeera, 12-9-10)
In Siberia Race, Ruling Party Uses Clenched Fist (New York Times, 12-10-10)
NATO
Developed Secret Contingency Plans for Baltic States (Spiegel, 12-10-10)
Reconsidering Japan and Reconsidering Paul Krugman (truthout, 12-12-10)
Poll: 55%
back rabbis' anti-Arab ruling (ynet, 12-15-10)
Vladimir Putin Will Now Take Your Questions (truthdig, 12-16-10)
How the Afghan Counterinsurgency Threatens Pakistan (the Nation, 12-16-10)
'Resisting The Green Dragon': Religious Right Attacks Environmentalism As
'Deadly' And 'Destructive' In New DVD Series (Huffington Post, 12-17-10)
Democrats Push through
Yet Another Anti-Palestinian Resolution (Common Dreams, 12-19-10)
Chinese Society: Racing Forward, Not Cracking Up (Huffington Post, 12-22-10)
Mayhem in Sudan's Shilluk Kingdom (Aljazeera, 12-23-10)
African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power (New York Times,
12-24-10)
Military strength eludes China, which looks overseas for arms (Washington
Post, 12-25-10)
Chinese 'Carrier Killer' Missile Challenges US Regional Power (Aol,
12-29-10)
Rights Groups Tie Pakistan to Militants’ Disappearances (New York Times,
12-29-10)
Irony Alert: US Expresses “Concern” Over Pakistan Holding Prisoners Without
Charges, Torture and Extrajudicial Killings (firedoglake, 12-30-10)
Could US Foreign Policy in the Middle East Be Worse? Yes (truthout,
12-31-10)
“Mining” Groundwater in India Reaches New Lows (National Geographic,
12-31-10)
December 2010 - Miscellaneous
Mike Huckabee Wants to Execute the Wiki-Leaker (truthdig, 12-1-10)
What if US influence goes into retreat? (Financial Times, 12-3-10)
Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group (firedoglake,
12-4-10)
Five myths about federal workers (Washington Post, 12-5-10)
The Shameful Attacks
on Julian Assange (Common Dreams, 12-5-10)
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (truthout, 12-5-10)
U.S. Should Join World In Supporting Indigenous Rights (The Understory,
12-6-10)
Anger over university for thesis calling Holocaust education racist (The JC,
12-7-10)
A Flood of Drone Strikes
(Common Dreams, 12-9-10)
Sarah Palin to Visit Haiti With Franklin Graham - Boosting Her Standing With
Evangelicals? (Politics Daily, 12-10-10)
An
Open Letter to the Left Establishment (truthout, 12-10-10)
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange 'Should Get Nobel Peace Prize,' Says Russia (Huffington
Post, 12-11-10)
WikiLeaks rival plans Monday launch after internal split, founders say (CNN,
12-12-10)
Sai v. Obama, et al: Hawaii's Legal Case Against the United States (truthout,
12-13-10)
John Boehner's Crying: Is He Drinking Too Much? (Aol, 12-15-10)
Police Arrest 131 Antiwar Protesters In Front Of White House (Huffington
Post, 12-16-10)
Leading Scientists Say Airport Full Body Scanners Easily Duped (Aol,
12-16-10)
‘Hope Is Action’: Hedges and Ellsberg Arrested at White House Protest (truthdig,
12-17-10)
News Black-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to Those Veterans Chained to the White
House Fence (truthout, 12-18-10)
Emperor waits
in wings with waterboard (Asia Times, 12-18-10)
Witness at the White House
Fence (Common Dreams, 12-21-10)
Hedges, Stone and Moore on Hollywood’s Love of War (truthdig, 12-21-10)
It only takes one bad Apple (Aljazeera, 12-22-10)
Top Ten Ways the Right Will Wreck the Recovery (truthout, 12-27-10)
2011: A Brave New
Dystopia (Common Dreams, 12-27-10)
Busy With Afghanistan, the U.S. Military Has No Time to Train for Big Wars
(Politics Daily, 12-28-10)
US Drone Attacks Are No
Laughing Matter, Mr. Obama (Common Dreams, 12-29-10)
November 2010 - Financial
Debt Collectors Face a Hazard:
Writer’s Cramp (CNBC, 11-1-10)
GM Could Be Free of Taxes for Years (Wall Street Journal, 11-3-10)
Fannie, Freddie Overhaul Could Cost $685 Billion (Wall Street Journal,
11-4-10)
Our Failed National Economy (Minyanville, 11-4-10)
ForeclosureGate Could Force Bank Nationalization (truthout, 11-5-10)
It Was the Banks
(Common Dreams, 11-5-10)
Number of the Week: $10.2 Trillion in Global Borrowing (Wall Street Journal,
11-6-10)
Wall Street Wins Again
(Common Dreams, 11-9-10)
Military, credit scores: Bailed-out banks should cut service members some slack
(Los Angeles Times, 11-12-10)
Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget (New York Times, 11-13-10)
16 Ways to Cut the Deficit (New York Times, 11-14-10)
Warren Buffett's Humbug (Minyanville, 11-17-10)
White House Says Warren Buffett To Get Presidential Medal Of Freedom -- On The
Same Day He Praises Bailouts In NYT (Huffington Post, 11-17-10)
Ritholtz: Dear Uncle Sucker
(CNBC, 11-18-10)
The Billionaires Want More, More, More (The Huffington Post, 11-19-10)
Woman who told Obama her financial fears has lost her job (Washington Post,
11-22-10)
Ritholtz: Too Bad Banks Missed Out On
the GM Treatment (CNBC, 11-22-10)
WASTE: $413 billion to be blown on Afghanistan War is needed at home
(Rethink Afganistan, 11-23-10)
Fail and Grow Rich on Wall Street (The Nation, 11-24-10)
Will Ireland Default? Ask Belgium (New York Times, 11-25-10)
Global poverty doubled since 1970s: UN (The Raw Story, 11-25-10)
How Are the Kids? Unemployed, Underwater, and Sinking (truthout, 11-26-10)
Ireland Bailout: European Union Agrees To $89 Billion Loan (Huffington Post,
11-28-10)
The Fed and Foreclosures (New York Times, 11-28-10)
November 2010 - Environment
Half of GOP caucus are climate zombies, four members admit science is real
(Grist, 11-3-10)
Staying the Course Toward Sustainable Fisheries (Switchboard, 11-4-10)
Toxic Chemicals Deep at BP Spill Site Raise Warning Flags (Aol, 11-4-10)
Time to End War Against
the Earth (Common Dreams, 11-7-10)
Cost of Green Power Makes Projects Tougher Sell (New York Times, 11-7-10)
If we save the tigers, we'll save the planet (Washington Post, 11-7-10)
Looting the Seas (iWatch News, 11-7-10)
Alarm Over Decline in
Mackerel Stocks (IPS News, 11-8-10)
“There are very strong indications that the current rate of species extinctions
far exceeds anything in the fossil record.” (Climate
Progress, 11-9-10)
EU calls for
trillion-euro energy plan for next decade (DW-World, 11-10-10)
Governments gave 6 times more to fossil fuels than renewables in 2009; Oil price
escalation coming due to inaction on climate (Climate Progress, 11-11-10)
Halliburton Bucks
EPA Request for Chemicals Used in Controversial Drilling Technique (Common
Dreams, 11-11-10)
As
Glaciers Melt, Science Seeks Data on Rising Seas (New York Times, 11-13-10)
Derrick Jensen: Consumer Culture Is Killing the Planet -- We Need to Build a
Culture of Resistance (AlterNet, 11-17-10)
Siberia's Climate Time Bomb: Thawing Permafrost Could Spell Disaster (Huffington
Post, 11-21-10)
Man-made CO2 emissions set to be highest in history; Marcellus Shale gas
fracking poses risks; Latinos, Asians more worried about environment
(Climate Progress, 11-22-10)
Retrained for green jobs, but still waiting on work (Washington Post,
11-22-10)
When Truth Is Scarier Than Fiction (Huffington Post, 11-22-10)
A Warning by Key Researcher (Environment 360, 11-24-10)
The Next Crash Will Be Ecological - and Nature Doesn't Do Bailouts (Huffington
Post, 11-25-10)
A Climate Whodunit (Newsweek, 11-27-10)
Big Polluters Freed From Environmental Oversight by Stimulus (truthout,
11-28-10)
Study says climate change could make a billion homeless (Grist, 11-29-10)
Current emissions risk 'devastating' temperature rise, scientists warn (CNN,
11-29-10)
U.S. Must Triple Investment in Energy
Technology: President's Science Advisors (Breakthrough Institute, 11-30-10)
Pulp
plantations destroying Sumatra's rainforests (Mongabay, 11-30-10)
November 2010 - Health
Obama Again Admits His Health Care Law Is Republican, Not Progressive (Firedoglake,
11-8-10)
Unsafe Abortion: The Costs to National Health Systems (RH Reality Check,
11-11-10)
New Health Care Law
Fails to Make the Grade (Common Dreams, 11-22-10)
Half of Americans Facing Diabetes by
2020: Report (CNBC, 11-23-10)
Doctors say Medicare cuts force painful decision about elderly patients
(Washington Post, 11-26-10)
November 2010 - History
The Worst of the Madness (NY Books,11-11-10)
November 2010 - Foreign
'Beyond Madness': Obama's War on Terror Setting Nuclear-Armed Pakistan on Fire
(AlterNet, 11-3-10)
Ireland's Fate Tied to Doomed Banks (Wall Street Journal, 11-10-10)
The Betrayal of Gaza
(Common Dreams, 11-10-10)
Schroeder: Bush 'Not Telling Truth' in Memoir (Aol, 11-11-10)
Obama Spotlights Failure Of U.N. Reform (Huffington Post, 12-2-10)
US Influence Weakens in Iraq, Iran Gains (The Nation, 11-12-10)
Aid Spawns Backlash in Haiti (Wall Street Journal, 11-12-10)
Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance (Salon, 11-13-10)
Israel's Shabbos Goy (Slate,
11-15-10)
Twenty-First Century Blowback? As Prospects Dim in Iraq, the Pentagon Digs in
Deeper Around the Middle East (Huffington Post, 11-16-10)
"Put The
Palestinians On A Diet" (Information Clearing House, 11-17-10)
France says
Afghanistan is a trap (cnews, 11-17-10)
Why a forlorn Karzai is breaking with the west (Financial Times, 11-18-10)
The deadly lie of
democracy in Iraq (The Electronic Intifada, 11-18-10)
What if NATO is Defeted in Afghanistan? (ericmargolis, 11-19-10)
Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor (New York Times, 11-22-10)
Resolution Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran Introduced by House
Republicans (Huffington Post, 11-23-10)
Fake Taliban Leader, Fake Elections, Fake Deadline, Real Trouble (Huffington
Post, 11-23-10)
Worse Than Vietnam (New York Times, 11-23-10)
Memo to
Ireland: "Tell the EU and the IMF to 'Shove It'" (Information Clearing
House, 11-24-10)
Why the west should not demonise China (Financial Times, 11-25-10)
Putin
Envisions a Russia-EU Free Trade Zone (Spiegel Online, 11-25-10)
Five Reasons to Care
about Haiti’s Sham Elections (Common Dreams, 11-26-10)
Economic Boom Worsened
De-industrialisation of LDCs (11-26-10)
Aid groups decry blockade on Gaza (Aljazeera, 11-30-10)
November 2010 - Miscellaneous
The Gates Foundation's Delusional Techno-Messianism (The New Republic,
11-1-10)
Study: Alcohol 'most harmful drug,' followed by crack and heroin (CNN,
11-1-10)
An Exhausted Christine O'Donnell Sleeps After Halloween (truthout, 11-1-10)
The Gates Foundation's Delusional Techno-Messianism (the New Republic,
11-1-10)
Is the
American Dream Over? (Spiegel, 11-1-10)
The Real Story Of The Midterm Elections: Underemployment (Huffington Post,
11-2-10)
Payback at the Polls
(Common Dreams, 11-3-10)
In new memoir, Bush makes clear he approved use of waterboarding (Washington
Post, 11-3-10)
Bill Moyers: "Welcome to the Plutocracy!" (truthout, 11-3-10)
Money for Scientific Research May Be Scarce With a Republican-Led House (New
York Times, 11-3-10)
The Crisis in Public Housing (New York Times, 11-4-10)
Keep Keith!
(Weekly Standard, 11-5-10)
MSNBC's Disgrace (Huffington Post, 11-5-10)
The Definition
of Insanity (truthout, 11-7-10)
Obama
Should Create Jobs by Executive Order (truthout, 11-8-10)
A
Recipe for Fascism (truthdig, 11-8-10)
In memoir, Bush defends waterboarding, admits mistakes (CNN, 11-9-10)
Obama officials moving away from 2011 Afghan date (McClatchy, 11-9-10)
How Republicans and Their Big Business Allies Duped Tens of Millions of
Evangelicals into Voting for a Corporate Agenda (AlterNet, 11-10-10)
George W. Bush: Torturer-in-Chief (The Nation, 11-10-10)
As the Country Falls Apart, It's Time for Our Revolution (AlterNet,
11-10-10)
Photographers vie for $100,000 prize (CNN, 11-11-10)
Schroeder: Bush 'Not Telling Truth' in Memoir (Aol, 11-11-10)
Why George W. Bush
Should Still Worry (Common Dreams, 11-11-10)
Before Clinton meeting, Cantor's one-on-one with Bibi (Politico, 11-11-10)
Bill Clinton Praises George Bush's Book (Huffington Post, 11-12-10)
ADL Leader Praises Beck's Support of Israel - Last Month (The Blaze,
11-12-10)
UN
Torture Rapporteur: ‘Couldn’t Be More Clear’ That Waterboarding Is Torture,
‘Immoral and Illegal’ (Think Progress, 11-13-10)
In the Grip of the New Monopolists (Wall Street Journal, 11-13-10)
Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget (New York Times, 11-13-10)
AIPAC Bares All to Quash Lawsuit (Anti War, 11-15-10)
The Cowardice of America at War (truthdig, 11-15-10)
Cantor Recants
(Political Correction, 11-15-10)
UN Expert Urges Full
US Torture Investigation (Common Dreams, 11-16-10)
Viewers pull plug on US cable television (Financial Times, 11-17-10)
Goodbye to Compassionate Conservatism? (truthout, 11-18-10)
Why U.S. IT jobs aren't coming back (InfoWorld, 11-18-10)
How Low Can We Go if We
Shop Till We Drop? (Common Dreams, 11-19-10)
AIPAC: Fighting for survival (Aljazeera, 11-20-10)
The Two Most Essential, Abhorrent, Intolerable Lies Of George W. Bush's Memoir
(Huffington Post, 11-22-10)
As Chinese workers build the Martin Luther King memorial, a union investigates
(Washington Post, 11-23-10)
Obama
Administration Weighs Indefinite Detention (Information Clearing House,
11-26-10)
October 2010 - Financial
Payday Lenders: How Wall Street's "Undercover Brothers" Exploit Minorities
(Huffington Post, 10-1-10)
US Suburbs Bearing Brunt of Poverty Amid Downturn (Aol News, 10-7-10)
The Paralysis of the State (New York Times, 10-12-10)
Did Robo-Signing Lawyers Knowingly Commit Fraud in the Foreclosure Fiasco?
(Daily Finance, 10-13-10)
The Bank of America Mortgage Settlement Fiasco (the Nation, 10-13-10)
The Commission to Balance the Federal Budget: The Results (Esquire,
10-13-10)
Why Is the White House Against Freezing Foreclosures in the Face of Rampant
Fraud? (truthout, 10-14-10)
Why Is the White House Against Freezing Foreclosures in the Face of Rampant
Fraud? (AlterNet, 10-14-10)
Top 400 Charities See Billions Less In Donations, Biggest Percentage Drop Ever
Recorded (Huffington Post, 10-17-10)
U.S. Infrastructure Spending: No Time to Get Cheap (Buisinessweek, 10-17-10)
Rupert Cornwell: Crumbling America has a $2.2 trillion repair bill
(Independent, 10-17-10)
'Foreclosure Mill' Employees Got Gifts For Altering Documents, Witness Says
(Huffington Post, 10-18-10)
Overhaul the G20 for the sake of the G172 (Financial Times, 10-21-10)
Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 1: Put Bank of America in
Receivership (Huffington Post, 10-22-10)
Angelides: ‘Very, Very Little Consequence’ for Wall Street (Wall Street
Journal, 10-24-10)
Federal Auditor Says Obama's Anti-Foreclosure Effort Risks 'Generating Public
Anger And Mistrust' (Huffington Post, 10-25-10)
How Much Does Killing a Taliban Soldier Cost? (Aol, 10-27-10)
Bill Gross: Fed Policy Is A 'Brazen' 'Ponzi Scheme' (Huffington Post,
10-27-10)
U.S. Intelligence Budget Surpasses $80 Billion (Wall Street Journal,
10-28-10)
Job-Creation Idea No. 13: No Better Time Than Now To Build The Future (Huffington
Post, 10-28-10)
How Wall Street's Inside Job Sank the Economy (The Fiscal Times, 10-28-10)
Debt trap leads to despair for rural poor (Financial Times, 10-29-10)
Attn. all flag-wavers. You want a war? Pay for it. (Eric Margolis, 10-29-10)
Rich nations face increased debt burden (CNN, 10-31-10)
October 2010 - Environmental
$5,000,000,000,000:
The Cost Each Year of Vanishing Rainforest (Common Dreams, 10-3-10)
Evidence Refutes BP's and Fed's Deceptions (truthout, 10-4-10)
Paddy fields in Parliament Square? (CNN, 10-5-10)
What a Scientist
Didn't Tell the New York Times About His Study on Bee Deaths (Common Dreams,
10-10-10)
Public health advocates to the chemical industry: Stop hobbling EPA (EDF,
10-12-10)
Build ’Em and They’ll Come (New York Times, 10-12-10)
Reform of Toxic Chemicals Law Collapses as Industry Flexes Its Muscles
(Politics Daily, 10-14-10)
Glenn Beck Brings ExxonMobil-Linked Religious Front Group to Tell Christians Not
to Believe in Climate Change (truthout, 10-15-10)
Brown
China (Weekly Standard, 10-16-10)
UN Conference
Confronts Dramatic Loss Of Biodiversity (Common Dreams, 10-18-10)
'Natural' Gas Industry Shills Use the Media to Mislead the Public - Here's How
to Spot Them (AlterNet, 10-19-10)
Why Monsanto is paying farmers to spray its rivals’ herbicides (grist,
10-20-10)
Are We Losing Louisiana? The View from 500 Feet (on earth, 10-22-10)
Film Shows Dilemma Faced by Gulf Residents (Aol, 10-25-10)
Everyday chemicals may be harming kids, panel told (CNN, 10-26-10)
Study: A fifth of the world's vertebrates at risk of extinction (CNN,
10-27-10)
Global extinction crisis looms, new study says (Washington Post, 10-27-10)
Norway
calls for other nations to step up in fight against deforestation in Indonesia
(Mongabay, 10-27-10)
BP dispersants 'causing sickness' (Aljazeera, 10-28-10)
Indonesia
is the 3rd largest GHG emitter but reducing deforestation offers big
opportunity, says government (Mongabay, 10-27-10)
Biodiversity loss seen as greater financial risk than terrorism, says UN
(Guardian, 10-27-10)
Hitting 'em where it hurts: BPA reduces sperm quantity and quality in male
workers (Environmental Defense Fund, 10-28-10)
The Great Chemical Unknown: A Graphical View of Limited Lab Testing
(Scientific American, 10-29-10)
The Ten Biggest American Cities That Are Running Out Of Water (24/7 Wall St,
10-29-10)
October 2010 - Health
U.S. Life Expectancy Continues to Lag Behind Other Nations (Aol, 10-8-10)
Cancer caused by modern man as it was virtually non-existent in ancient world
(Telegraph, 10-14-10)
The Financial Time Bomb of Longer Lives (New York Times, 10-16-10)
October 2010 - Religion
Buddhists at War (truthdig, 10-8-10)
Test Your Savvy on Religion (New York Times, 10-9-10)
What Is Driving Christians Out of the Middle East? (Aol, 10-13-10)
October 2010 - History
Berlin Researchers Crack the Ptolemy Code (Spiegel Online, 10-1-10)
4000-year-old Aryan city discovered in Russia (NDTV, 10-4-10)
Christopher Columbus & His Crimes Against Humanity (Daily Kos, 10-5-10)
The place where Europe began: Spiral cities built on remote Russian plains by
swastika-painting Aryans (Daily Mail, 10-8-10)
Surprise -- The Very Dark Side of U.S. History (AlterNet, 10-8-10)
Exposing the GOP's Shameful Historical Role in the Native American Genocide
(AlterNet, 10-11-10)
Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years' (The Independent,
10-17-10)
The Monster (the New
Republic, 10-27-10)
Not his finest hour: The dark side of Winston Churchill (The Independent,
10-28-10)
Revealed after 75 years: The British Legion’s shameful visit to Hitler (Mail
Online, 10-31-10)
October 2010 - Foreign
Goodluck Jonathan: The Facebook president (CNN, 10-1-10)
The Spine-Chilling Emptiness of Afghanistan's Voting Booths (The New
Republic, 10-1-10)
Iraq: The Age
of Darkness (truthout, 10-2-10)
Germany Plays Down Threat of Terror Attack (Wall Street Journal, 10-4-10)
New US Demands for Information Angers European Parliament (Spiegel Online,
10-4-10)
The Long Road to the Hague: Prosecuting Blair (truthout, 10-6-10)
PM to
introduce amendment to Citizenship Act (ynet news, 10-7-10)
Closing the Case on the Cole (New York Times, 10-11-10)
Germany launches
2.0 fight against Nazis (DW-World, 10-11-10)
China's Pipelineistan 'War' (the Nation, 10-12-10)
Why Germany Has It So Good -- and Why America Is Going Down the Drain
(AlterNet, 10-14-10)
Six Reasons Why Americans Should Care About What is Happening in Uganda
(Talk to Action, 10-14-10)
Postcard
From Palestine (the Nation, 10-14-10)
Solving Africa's hunger (Aljazeera, 10-17-10)
Jimmy Carter
says Palestinians live in a 'cage' (Information Clearing House, 10-19-10)
US: The dishonest broker (Aljazeera, 10-21-10)
Man in the News: The people’s princeling (Financial Times, 10-22-10)
Ugandan Paper Stirs Gay Witch Hunt (truthdig, 10-23-10)
Iran Cash Trail Highlights Battle for Kabul Sway (Wall Street Journal,
10-25-10)
China Bullet Train Becomes World's Fastest (VIDEO) (Huffington Post,
10-26-10)
German Unemployment Dips to 18-Year
Low in October (CNBC, 10-28-10)
China's rise prompts Vietnam to strengthen ties to other nations (Washington
Post, 10-30-10)
Russia's heroin problem and ongoing battles over Afghan poppy fields
(Washington Post, 10-30-10)
October 2010 - Miscellaneous
Rise of the Online Autocrats (Wall Street Journal, 10-2-10)
Famed
Reporter Carries Water for the Pentagon (Information Clearing House,
10-2-10)
Rail
Service Expansion Imperiled at State Level (New York Times, 10-4-10)
America's deepening moral crisis (Guardian, 10-4-10)
Call of Duty: Black Ops Censored in Germany (the escapist, 10-4-10)
Onward Christian Moguls (New York Times, 10-5-10)
Food Stamp Recipients at Record 41.8 Million Americans in July, U.S. Says
(Bloomberg, 10-5-10)
Barack Obama Accused
of Exaggerating Terror Threat for Political Gain (Common Dreams, 10-7-10)
How the Phone Companies Are Screwing America: The $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off
(AlterNet, 10-7-10)
Study suggests US should decriminalise cannabis (Financial Times, 10-8-10)
An X-Ray of Dysfunction (New York Times, 10-9-10)
Hey, Small Spender (New York Times, 10-10-10)
Joe Manchin 'Hicky' Ad Hammers GOP Opponent (Huffington Post, 10-11-10)
Paladino Rented To Gay Clubs, Son William Paladino Operated One (Huffington
Post, 10-13-10)
The Roots of the Enthusiasm Gap Go Back to 1992 (Huffington Post, 10-13-10)
A New Era of “Post-Partisan Power”?
(Americans for Energy Leadership, 10-13-10)
Obama's Escalating Robot War in Pakistan Is Making a Terror Attack More Likely
(Huffington Post, 10-14-10)
Looney, and That’s No Debate (truthout, 10-15-10)
Injustice in the age of Obama (Aljazeera, 10-16-10)
Report Shows Drones Strikes Based on Scant Evidence (truthout, 10-18-10)
U.S.
Pushes to Ease Technical Obstacles to Wiretapping (New York Times, 10-18-10)
Obama Hires a Hustler (truthdig, 10-19-10)
Abraham Foxman and Rupert Murdoch (The New Republic, 10-21-10)
Such a Parcel o’ Rogues in a Nation (AntiWar, 10-21-10)
What Happened to Change We Can Believe In? (New York Times, 10-23-10)
Robert Fisk: The shaming of America (The Independant, 10-24-10)
Can’t Keep a Bad Idea Down (New York Times, 10-26-10)
Anti-Defamation League Demagoguery and Islamophobia (SteveLendmanBlog,
10-26-11)
End the War on Pot (New York Times, 10-27-10)
Senators in bid to lower filibuster hurdle (Financial Times, 10-28-10)
Tea Party Leader: Rep. Keith Ellison Should Be Dumped Because He Is Muslim
(Politics Daily, 10-28-10)
YouTube Chief Hurley to Step Down (New York Times, 10-29-10)
The threat of politicized intelligence (Washington Post, 10-29-10)
"Free Trade Doesn’t Work: What Should Replace It and Why" (truthout,
10-31-10)
Broder: ‘As We
Accelerate Preparations For War [With Iran], The Economy Will Improve’
(Think Progress, 10-31-10)
September 2010 - Financial
2008 Financial Crisis
and Systemic Risk, Lehman Brothers (C-SPAN, 9-1-10)
Economist Christina Romer serves up dismal news at her farewell luncheon (Washinton
Post, 9-1-10)
Irish Worries For The Global Economy (Baseline Scenario, 9-2-10)
China lifts forex reserves veil - a little (Financial Times, 9-3-10)
Iraq Posting Massive Surplus Thanks To U.S. Taxpayers (Huffington Post,
9-13-10)
Home Prices Could Drop For The Next Three Years: Report (Huffington Post,
9-15-10)
About 44 million in U.S. lived below poverty line in 2009, census data show
(Washington Post, 9-16-10)
One in Three Americans Lacked the Income Needed to "Make Ends Meet" in 2009
(truthout, 9-16-10)
Capitol Hill reaction to poverty figures sidetracked by political concerns
(Washington Post, 9-17-10)
Wall Street's Greatest
Heist: The TARP (Common Dreams, 9-21-10)
Making sense of poverty numbers (McClatchy, 9-21-10)
Greenberg: Can an ETF Collapse?
(CNBC, 9-22-10)
Miliband declares New Labour dead (Financial Times, 9-26-10)
Raters Ignored Proof of Unsafe Loans, Panel Is Told (New York Times,
9-26-10)
Welfare-To-Work Program's Demise 'Really Demoralizing' (Huffington Post,
9-27-10)
D.C., suburbs show disturbing increases in childhood poverty (Washington
Post, 9-29-10)
September 2010 - Environmental
Brazil dam project prompts animated response from director Cameron (CNN,
9-3-10)
Report: Ocean 'Dead Zones' Increasing in US (Aol News, 9-6-10)
Philippe Cousteau: “Time is running out for ourselves and future generations."
(Climate Progress, 9-7-10)
You Are
Being Lied to About Dams (truthout, 9-8-10)
NYT Pushes Confrontation
with Iran (Common Dreams, 9-11-10)
The Global Warming Nightmare Scenario Is Happening Right Now (Business
Insider, 9-11-10)
Cambodia's declining fish stocks (Aljazeera, 9-13-10)
Whistleblower Group Sues To Find Out Why Administration Lowballed BP Oil Spill
Estimates (Huffington Post, 9-16-10)
Massive Fish Kill in Gulf Caused by "Dead Zone," Oil? (National Geographic,
9-16-10)
Notes on the Enthusiasm Gap (Huffington Post, 9-16-10)
Passenger Trains: Our
Hope for a More Sustainable Future (Common Dreams, 9-19-10)
Extreme Heat Bleaches Coral, and Threat Is Seen (New York Times, 9-20-10)
Climate change enlightenment was fun while it lasted. But now it's dead
(Guardian, 9-20-10)
Arctic Ice in Death
Spiral (Common Dreams, 9-20-10)
GE Chief Slams U.S. on Energy
(Wall Street Journal, 9-24-10)
National and International Inaction Boost Natural Gas Companies (truthout,
9-24-10)
United States joins alliance to promote clean cooking in developing countries
(Climate Progress, 9-23-10)
Colossal
coral bleaching kills up to 95 percent of corals in the Philippines (Mongabay,
9-23-10)
Saving Our Oceans (Time, 9-23-10)
Is Brazil’s Sustainable Development Really Sustainable? (Mongabay, 9-26-10)
The other debt crisis: Climate debt (Aljazeera, 9-26-11)
Groundwater Depletion Raises Likelihood of Global Food Crises (National
Geographic, 9-27-10)
New wolf bills: bad science, bad policy, and bad legislation (Switchboard,
9-28-10)
Human Impact on
World's Rivers 'Threatens Water Security of 5 Billion' (Common Dreams,
9-29-10)
Scientists Sound Alarm on State of the World’s Rivers (International Rivers,
9-29-10)
A High-Risk Energy Boom Sweeps Across North America (environment 360,
9-30-10)
Plant species in peril, report warns (CNN, 9-30-10)
September 2010 - Health
Child’s Ordeal
Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young (New York Times, 9-1-10)
California regulators seek up to $9.9 billion in fines from PacifiCare (LA
Times, 9-7-10)
Health Care Wastefulness Is Detailed
in Studies (CNBC, 9-7-10)
Gingrich Accuses Sec. Sebelius Of ‘Soviet Tyranny,’ Says GOP Congress Should
Defund Her Office (Wonk Room, 9-18-10)
The Half-Empty Glass: Connecticut Insurance Rates Soar to Pay For Health Care
Bill Provisions (Firedoglake, 9-20-10)
9/11 Responders' Health Problems Worsen as Legislation Languishes (truthout,
9-28-10)
Study: vets' health costs could top $900 billion (Washington Post, 9-29-10)
September 2010 - Religion
Jewish Groups Denounce ‘Museum of Tolerance’ Builder Simon Wiesenthal Center for
Support of Islamophobia (The Indypendent, 9-17-10)
Junkets for Jesus (Mother Jones, 9-27-10)
Basic Religion Test Stumps Many Americans (New York Times, 9-28-10)
September 2010 - History
Mayor of Dresden to ask Boris Johnson: 'Please, don't build memorial to Bomber
Command crews' (Mail Online, 9-7-10)
Winston Churchill blamed for 1m deaths in India famine (Telegraph, 9-9-10)
Why I believe the king of the Nazi hunters, Simon Wiesenthal, was a fraud
(Mail Online, 9-10-10)
Has US Empire Benefited
the World? (Common Dreams, 9-15-10)
Examining the Legacy of the Nazi Hunter (Spiegel, 9-16-10)
September 2010 - Foreign
Another False Ending: Contracting Out the Iraq Occupation (truthout, 9-1-10)
A Speech for Endless
War (Common Dreams, 9-1-10)
Abbas Flies Home to Violent Opposition (Aol News, 9-3-10)
AP Issues Standards Memo: 'Combat In Iraq Is Not Over' (Huffington Post,
9-3-10)
Carnage in
Quetta (Aljazeera, 9-4-10)
Onama's Approach in Afghanistan "Failing." New report urges significant troop
reduction. (Rethink Afghanistan, 9-8-10)
Dhaka: fastest growing megacity in the world (Global Post, 9-8-10)
Second Soldier Alleges Former Tillman Commander Ordered "360 Rotational Fire" in
Iraq (truthout, 9-12-10)
Iraqi forces struggling, forcing U.S. troops to fight (McClatchy, 9-17-10)
Linda Polman on "Afghaniscam":
Is US "Aid" Making Things Worse? (Common Dreams, 9-21-10)
Torture in Iraq Continues, Unabated (truthdig, 9-21-10)
Obama and Iraq: ‘Through a Glass, Darkly’ (truthdig, 9-21-10)
Germany's
Westerwelle pushes for seat on Security Council (DW-World, 9-25-10)
UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis "Executed" US Citizen Furkan Dogan (truthout,
9-27-10)
Robert Gates: 'We're Not Ever Leaving' Afghanistan (Huffington Post,
9-29-10)
September 2010 - Miscellaneous
Outsourcers warn US producing too few engineers (Financial Times, 9-1-10)
Veterans Group Calls for Removal of Alan Simpson (firedoglake, 9-2-10)
It's
Better Over There (The Nation, 9-2-10)
Fewer Young Voters See Themselves as Democrats (New York Times, 9-2-10)
This house believes
that prostitution should be legal (The Economist, 9-7-10)
America in the Caboose While the World Barrels Ahead on High Speed Rail (Huffington
Post, 9-8-10)
Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. means more jobs overseas
(Washington Post, 9-8-10)
Ted Koppel: Nine years after 9/11, let's stop playing into bin Laden's hands
(Washington Post, 9-12-10)
Meg Whitman Uses Bill Clinton Sound Bite to Attack Jerry Brown (Politics
Daily, 9-13-10)
Wall Street's Mercenaries Ride Donkeys (Lets Try Democracy, 9-13-10)
Bill Clinton involved in California race -- an older Clinton (USA Today,
9-13-10)
What Obama's Presidency Needs: A Big Reset (The Nation, 9-13-10)
Forbes’ Shameful Piece on Obama as the “Other” (Columbia Journalism Review,
9-13-10)
Who’s the Con Man? (New York Times, 9-14-10)
Bombshell
from London (Information Clearing House, 9-14-10)
CDC: One-third of sex ed omits birth control (Washington Post, 9-15-10)
IMF Fears 'Social
Explosion' From World Jobs Crisis (Common Dreams, 9-16-10)
Exporting Jobs, Importing Workers (truthout, 9-16-10)
Never Forget: Bad Wars
Aren't Possible Unless Good People Back Them (Common Dreams, 9-16-10)
Christine O'Donnell Cited Endorsement From Non-Existent Catholic Group (Huffington
Post, 9-17-10)
Christine O'Donnell on 'Politically Incorrect': 'I Dabbled Into Witchcraft'
(Politics Daily, 9-18-10)
Obama edges to the dark side (Aljazeera, 9-20-10)
Why We
Need a New Green Revolution to Stop Hunger (Spiegel Online, 9-20-10)
High-Speed Rail Stalls (Wall Street Journal, 9-21-10)
The Problem
With Peretz (the Nation, 9-23-10)
Clinton missing the big picture (Aljazeera, 9-24-10)
Christine O'Donnell Will Stop America From Sexing Each Other (Huffington
Post, 9-24-10)
How ed reformers push the wrong theory of learning -- Brady (Washington
Post, 9-24-10)
Their Moon Shot and Ours (New York Times, 9-25-10)
What will future generations condemn us for? (Washington Post, 9-26-10)
What’s Eating David Axelrod? (The New Republic, 9-27-10)
U.S. Tries
to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet (New York Times, 9-27-10)
Obama’s Panopticon (firedoglake, 9-27-10)
Obama's
Forgotten Base (the Nation, 9-27-10)
Obama's Blame Game: It's Not About Turning Out Voters, It's About Protecting
Himself (Huffington Post, 9-28-10)
Small-Scale Farmers and Development: Assume a Different Economic Model (truthout,
9-28-10)
Obama Declares Wrong
Emergency (Common Dreams, 9-29-10)
August 2010 - Financial
Obama must break his tax promise (Financial Times, 8-1-10)
Reagan insider: 'GOP destroyed U.S. economy' (Wall Street Journal, 8-10-10)
Voters Back Tough Steps to Reduce Budget Deficit (Wall Street Journal,
8-16-10)
Global Deficits Will Create $4.5
Trillion in New Debt: Hedge Fund Manager (CNBC, 8-17-10)
The Erosion of America's Middle Class (Spiegel Online, 8-19-10)
Obama Appointed Deficit Commission Co-Chair Alan Simpson: Social Security Is
Like “A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits” (Firedoglake, 8-24-10)
August 2010 - Environmental
Feds Dramatically Increase Oil Spill Estimate, Making BP's The Worst Oil
Accident In History (Hufington Post, 8-2-10)
Message from the Eemian: too late to
stop significant sea level rise (CEJournal, 8-3-10)
Brazil: World Leader
in Recycling Aluminum Cans (Common Dreams, 8-4-10)
We're Hot As Hell and We're Not Going to Take It Any More (The Nation,
8-4-10)
Disease 'killed
one million bats' (BBC News, 8-5-10)
A Destructive Epidemic (New York Times, 8-9-10)
Despite Extreme Weather, US and Other Developed Countries Failing to Make
Serious Pledges to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Democracy Now, 8-10-10)
Greenland Ice Sheet
Faces 'Tipping Point in 10 Years' (Common Dreams, 8-11-10)
Drowning Today, Parched Tomorrow (New York Times, 8-15-10)
Study warns of health effects from oil spill (Financial Times, 8-16-10)
U.S. CO2 emissions to increase 3.4% this year; Powered by China, clean
energy investment holds steady in Q2 (Climate Progress, 8-18-10)
Satellites show mangrove forest loss even worse than estimated (Mongabay,
8-19-10)
NOAA Claims Scientists Reviewed Controversial Report; The Scientists Say
Otherwise (Huffington Post 8-20-10)
Study measures
Atlantic plastic accumulation (BBC News, 8-20-10)
Was Rosy Gulf Oil
Report A White House PR Move? (Common Dreams, 8-20-10)
Imported Seafood May Be Riskier Than Gulf Fare (Aol News, 8-25-10)
Indonesia's forest conservation plan may not sufficiently reduce emissions (Mongabay,
8-25-10)
Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia’s fires and
Pakistan’s floods are making a bad situation worse. (Climate Progress,
8-27-10)
Arctic sea ice volume heads toward record low as Northwest Passage melts free
fourth year in a row (Climate Progress, 8-28-10)
Pakistan: A Land
Left to Drown by the ‘Timber Mafia (Common Dreams, 8-29-10)
9 Of The Most Polluted Places In The World (Huffington Post, 8-31-10)
August 2010 - Religion
Defending Religious Tolerance: Remarks on the Mosque Near Ground Zero (Huffington
Post, 8-3-10)
Nadler: Attacks on mosque "shameful and divisive" (Salon, 8-5-10)
Congregations Gone Wild (New York Times, 8-5-10)
Gingrich, Bolton, Breitbart Team Up With Far-Right Muslim-Basher Geert Wilders
for 9/11 Rally (truthout, 8-15-10)
'Ground Zero Mosque' Imam Helped FBI With Counterterrorism Efforts (Huffington
Post, 8-18-10)
Greg Palast on THE Mosque
for BuzzFlash: Why Not Ban All Churches From Oklahoma Because McVeigh Was
Christian? (Buzzflash, 8-18-10)
U.S. Soldiers Punished for Not Attending Christian Concert (Huffington Post,
8-19-10)
Real Americans, Please Stand Up (New York Times, 8-20-10)
In Israel, Settling for Less (New York Times, 8-29-10)
Abbas, Palestinians should die: Israeli rabbi (Yahoo News, 8-29-10)
August 2010 - History
The Two Churchills (New York Times, 8-12-10)
The cyclic view of history (Amerika, 8-31-10)
German Gulag Prisoners Recall Their Postwar Ordeal (Spiegel, 8-31-10)
August 2010 - Foreign
Russian wildfires leave 28 dead, thousands homeless (CNN, 8-1-10)
Kenya's churches unite against draft constitution (CNN, 8-4-10)
Zardari's Katrina (Foreign Policy, 8-4-10)
Paul Kagame and Rwanda's Faux Democracy (The New Republic, 8-5-10)
The Ministry of Oil Defense (Foreign Policy, 8-5-10)
Obama’s popularity falls in Arab world (Financial Times, 8-6-10)
Whose Hands? Whose
Blood?: Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq (Common Dreams, 8-6-10)
Arab majority backs nuclear Iran (Washington Times, 8-6-10)
How Many Iraqis Did We "Liberate" From Life on Earth? (truthout, 8-7-10)
How Many Iraqis Did We
"Liberate" from Life on Earth? (Common Dreams, 8-9-10)
The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears (truthdig, 8-9-10)
Former Mexican president favors legalizing drugs (CNN, 8-10-10)
Naomi Campbell and the 'Blood Diamond' Hoax (Wall Street Journal, 8-10-10)
A
New Look at Germany's Postwar Reconstruction (Spiegel Online, 8-10-10)
Europe right-wingers at controversial Japan shrine (USA Today, 8-14-10)
Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents (New York Times,
8-14-10)
"Down with Obama!":
Afghan Villagers Protest Night Raids (Common Dreams, 8-18-10)
An Estimated 20 Million Pakistanis in Desperate Need: Why So Little Media
Attention? (Relief Web, 8-18-10)
Israel and the anti-Muslim blow-up (Aljazeera, 8-19-10)
Despite 'all that money,' more than 1 million Haitians remain displaced by
January earthquake (Washington Post 8-22-10)
U.S. Leaves Iraq Much Worse Off (truthdig, 8-23-10)
Mexico sacks
10% of police force in corruption probe (BBC News, 8-30-10)
August 2010 - Miscellaneous
Why Do Red States Have the Worst "Family Values"? (AlterNet, 8-2-10)
Wikigate (ericmargolis, 8-2-10)
How NGOs Became Pawns in the War on Terrorism (The New Republic, 8-3-10)
6 Charts That Suggest The Unemployment Crisis Is WORSE Than It Looks (Huffington
Post, 8-6-10)
How the Shadow Elite Is Shorting 'Third World America' (Huffington Post,
8-9-10)
Post-Anti-Americanism (Newsweek, 8-9-10)
Creating Jobs -- Two Better Ways To Do It (Huffington Post, 8-10-10)
Gains in Bioscience Cause Terror Fears (Wall Street Journal, 8-11-10)
Youth unemployment hits record high (Guardian, 8-11-10)
Opinion: Why Obama Should Take on Prison Reform (Aol News, 8-16-10)
A Nation That Spends More
Money on War Than Life is Approaching Spiritual Death (The Buzzflash Blog,
8-16-10)
Young will have to change names to escape 'cyber past' warns Google's Eric
Schmidt (Telegraph, 8-18-10)
Civilian Control? Surely, You Jest. (The New Republic, 8-18-10)
Ground
Zero for Tolerance (The Nation, 8-18-10)
Is David Petraeus a
'Lying Liar' About the Drawdown? (Common Dreams, 8-19-10)
Going Mad in Herds (New York Times, 8-21-10)
Why Gen. Petraeus’ Assassination Inc. Threatens Us All (truthdig, 8-24-10)
Google Is Offering Phone Calls via Gmail (New York Times, 8-25-10)
Former G.O.P. Leader Says He Is Gay (New York Times, 8-25-10)
Civil Rights Groups Challenge Obama’s Assassination List (Jonathan Turley,
8-31-10)
July 2010 - Financial
After the Recession, Belt-Tightening (Truthdig, 7-4-10)
World economic recovery driven by global imbalances (Washington Post,
7-9-10)
Three years and new fault lines threaten (Financial Times, 7-13-10)
Trapped: Is It Too
Little, Too Late for Real Financial Reform? (Common Dreams, 7-14-10)
Guest
Post: “The G20 Plan for Prosperity – Rubber Bullets and Shredded Social Safety
Net” (naked capitalism, 7-14-10)
America's new debtor prison: Jail time being given to those who owe (Wallet
Pop, 7-15-10)
Millions of Americans Will Lose Access
to Banks: Bove (CNBC, 7-15-10)
The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove
it (Yahoo Finance, 7-15-10)
Sow the Seeds of Long-Term Growth (Huffington Post, 7-22-10)
An A.I.G. Failure Would Have Cost Goldman Sachs, Documents Show (New York
Times, 7-23-10)
The rich are different from you
and me (The Economist, 7-29-10)
Old Debts That Won’t Die (New York Times, 7-30-10)
Four Deformations of the Apocalypse (New York Times, 7-31-10)
July 2010 - Environmental
US Could Learn Plenty
from European Energy Policy (Common Dreams, 7-2-10)
OSHA: Most Recovery Workers Don’t Need Respirators; Dispersants Not a Big
Problem (Firedoglake, 7-2-10)
Why Is the Gulf Cleanup So Slow? (Wall Street Journal, 7-2-10)
Agency
Agreed Wildlife Risk From Oil Was ‘Low’ (New York Times, 7-5-10)
Report: Oceans'
deteriorating health nearing 'irreversible' (Physorg, 7-5-10)
Dennis Bushnell (NASA's Chief Scientist) on Conquering Climate Change
(Britannica, 7-5-10)
Gulf Awash In 27,000 Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells (Huffington Post, 7-7-10)
BP, Governments Downplay Public Health Risk From Oil and Dispersants (Huffington
Post, 7-7-10)
A truly toxic issue (Guardian.co.uk, 7-10-10)
Pollution means China's thirst can't be quenched – no matter what is spent (Guardian.co.uk,
7-10-10)
Crusader risks prison to save Chinese lake (CNN, 7-14-10)
Economists call for accounting rules on environmental impact (DW-World,
7-14-10)
Rich Countries to
Pay Energy Giants to Build New Coal-Fired Power Plants (Common Dreams,
7-14-10)
The Big Green Buy
(The Nation, 7-15-10)
Mangroves disappearing faster than land-based forests (CNN, 7-16-10)
The World’s Ongoing Ecological Disasters (Foreign Policy, 7-16-10)
Scientists baffled by unusual upper atmosphere shrinkage (CNN, 7-17-10)
Pandora’s Box in the Gulf:
Does Hope Remain? (Common Dreams, 7-18-10)
"Can the Amazon Thrive in the 21st Century?" (Visionshare, 7-18-10)
Calling All Future-Eaters (Truthdig, 7-19-10)
Oil Spill: Gulf Water Sample Explodes When Chemist Tests For Toxicity (Huffington
Post, 7-19-10)
China May Spend $738 Billion on Clean Energy Projects (Bloomberg, 7-20-10)
Jordan River Too Polluted for Baptisms (Discovery News, 7-21-10)
E.P.A. Considers Risks of Gas Extraction (New York Times, 7-23-10)
Researchers confirm subsea Gulf oil plumes are from BP well (McClatchy,
7-23-10)
Deep
Underground, Miles of Hidden Wildfires Rage (Time, 7-23-10)
Four Ways to Kill a Climate Bill (New York Times, 7-25-10)
That repulsive unflushed toilet? Better to swim in it than in the Chesapeake Bay
(Washington Post, 7-27-10)
US renewable energy no longer a priority (Financial Times, 7-28-10)
Senate Climate Bill Dies—Does the Environment Win? (The Nation, 7-28-10)
GOP Opposes Federal Fracking Regs Regardless of Whether EPA Finds Poisoning
(Huffington Post, 7-29-10)
Fires rage on as
Moscow suffers 'hottest day ever' (BBC News, 7-29-10)
Time Teams With BP and
Government in Concerted Effort to Disperse Concerns About Gulf Pollution (Firedoglake,
7-30-10)
A blueprint for blue planet protection (CNN, 7-30-10)
July 2010 - Health
Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick (truthdig, 7-12-10)
Medicaid Stalemate Tests Cash-Strapped States (Wall Street Journal, 7-13-10)
Obama Hires Former
Wellpoint Exec to Implement Health Care Law (Common Dreams, 7-14-10)
Is Obama’s Health Care
‘Reform’ Plan Destined For Massachusetts’ Results? (firedoglake, 7-19-10)
Medical device problems hurt 70,000+ kids annually (Washington Post,
7-26-10)
Americans Cut Back on Visits to Doctor (Wall Street Journal, 7-29-10)
July 2010 - Religion
Religious intolerance now driving persecution of minorities across the world
(Minority Rights, 7-1-10)
How American Right-Wing Christians Are Waging 'Spiritual Warfare' in Northern
Iraq (AlterNet, 7-12-10)
The Diaspora Need Not Apply (New York Times, 7-15-10)
July 2010 - Foreign
Burrowing Through a Blockade (New York Times, 7-2-10)
Obama’s
New Iran Sanctions: An Act of War (Information Clearing House, 7-4-10)
Corruption in
Afghanistan has doubled: study (DW-World, 7-8-10)
Exposed:
The Truth About Israel's Land Grab In The West Bank (Information Clearing
House, 7-9-10)
Where Is Haiti's
Bailout? (Common Dreams, 7-13-10)
Five Reasons China Will Rule Tech (Forbes, 7-13-10)
German Foreign Minister Supports Abandoning Conscription (Spiegel Online,
7-14-10)
Another Republican
expressing skepticism about Afghanistan: Newt Gingrich (firedoglake,
7-14-10)
Most countries fail to deliver on Haiti aid pledges (CNN, 7-15-10)
The End
of Palestinian Democracy? (Weekly Standard, 7-15-10)
China’s Instant Cities (New York Times, 7-16-10)
US military build-up in Kandahar will bolster Taliban, warns security monitor
(Guardian.co.uk, 7-18-10)
Security chief exposes Blair’s gamble on Iraq (Financial Times, 7-20-10)
'Hezbollah-Land': Terrorist Theme Park Opens In Lebanon (Huffington Post,
7-20-10)
State Dept. planning to field a small army in Iraq (McClatchy, 7-21-10)
A sweltering Afghan summer
(McClatchy, 7-23-10)
Vietnam's Forgotten
War Victims (Common Dreams, 7-23-10)
India unveils $35 computer for students (CNN, 7-23-10)
Resolution Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran Introduced by House
Republicans (Huffington Post, 7-23-10)
Toxic Legacy of US
Assault on Fallujah 'Worse Than Hiroshima' (Common Dreams, 7-24-10)
Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Reports Assert (New York Times,
7-25-10)
WikiLeaks Founder On Afghan War Diary: Evidence Of War Crimes In Leaked
Documents (Huffington Post, 7-26-10)
Newt Gingrich Suggests Attacking Rest Of 'Axis Of Evil' (Huffington Post,
7-30-10)
July 2010 - History
Hiroshima’s Consecrated
Legends (Common Dreams, 7-26-10)
The Do-Gooder (The
New Republic, 7-26-10)
Oliver Stone: Hitler Treated Unfairly by Jewish-Controlled Media (The
Atlantic, 7-26-10)
July 2010 - Miscellaneous
Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs (Bloomberg Businessweek, 7-1-10)
New York Times Let Bush White House Dictate Their Definitions of Torture
(AlterNet, 7-1-10)
The Failure of American Higher Education (Huffington Post, 7-1-10)
Michael Steele Rewrites History; Calls Afghanistan Obama’s ‘War of Choice’
(AlterNet, 7-2-10)
Freedom in the Grace of
the World (Common Dreams, 7-5-10)
Tax-Exempt Funds Aid Settlements in West Bank (New York Times, 7-5-10)
CNN’s Octavia Nasr Leaving Network After Controversial Hezbollah Tweet (Mediaite,
7-7-10)
Alcohol Gets More Dangerous as You Get Older (Aol News, 7-10-10)
Should Businesses Be Run Like the Post Office? (The New Republic, 7-11-10)
Chris Hedges and Derrick Jensen on Totalitarianism and Resistance (truthdig,
7-12-10)
Fox's Chief Legal Analyst: Bush and Cheney Should Have Been Indicted for
"Torturing, for Spying, for Arresting Without Warrant" (AlterNet, 7-12-10)
Where Is the 2008 Barack Obama Now on Jobs and Trade? (Huffington Post,
7-13-10)
Arnold: The Final Indignity (Washington Examiner, 7-14-10)
Obama's 'battery story' has yet to put a charge in the American public
(Washington Post, 7-14-10)
The Clinton administration, brought to you by Barack Obama (Washington Post,
7-15-10)
Home foreclosures
expected to top 2009 levels (Dailybreeze, 7-15-10)
The
Maiden frontier (Aljazeera, 7-18-10)
Corporate Media Discover
Private Spies. In Other News, No WMD in Iraq (Common Dreams, 7-21-10)
Lobbyists push use of deadly asbestos in developing nations (McClatchy,
7-21-10)
Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam & Outsourcing American Power (Huffington
Post, 7-22-10)
Report: US Vulnerable to Nuclear Attack (Aol News, 7-22-10)
Thrown to the Wolves (New York Times, 7-23-10)
Unsafe at
Any Meal (New York Times, 7-24-10)
Neel Kashkari, TARP Guru, Supports Cutting Entitlements, Citing 'Me-First'
Attitude Of Beneficiaries (Huffington Post, 7-26-10)
How to end the filibuster with 51 votes (Washington Post, 7-27-10)
The Victimhood of
the Powerful: White Jews, Zionism and the Racism of Hegemonic Holocaust
Education (T-Space, 7-27-10)
Rheehire the Teachers,
Rheetire the Chancellor (Common Dreams, 7-28-10)
1 Soldier or 20 Schools? (New York Times, 7-28-10)
US
school reform report awaits grades (Financial Times, 7-28-10)
Anti-Defamation League Opposes Ground Zero Mosque (Weekly Standard, 7-30-10)
War Games Lure Recruits For 'Real Thing' (npr, 7-31-10)
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