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June_2011
July 2011 - Financial
In Their Own Words: Republicans Explain Why We Must Not Default (Think
Progress, 7-1-11)
How to get paid like a U.S. CEO (CNN, 7-5-11)
Our Debt Binge Is Ending — And The Middle Class Will Get Clobbered (Yahoo,
7-5-11)
GOP Tax Giveaway of the
Day: Big Oil Subsidies (Think Progress, 7-6-11)
The next, worse financial crisis (Market Watch, 7-6-11)
Budget Solution: Squeeze the Middle (Wall Street Journal, 7-13-11)
IMF Says US Budget Requires 35% Spending Cuts and 35% Tax Increases
(Huffington Post, 7-14-11)
Who raised the debt ceiling? (Washington Post, 7-14-11)
Ignorance Index III: The Revenue Problem (Campaign for America's Future,
7-14-11)
We’re All
Ears, Mr. President (Jared Bernstein, 7-15-11)
We’re Spent (New York Times, 7-16-11)
Why Did Congress Waste Six Months? (truthdig, 7-17-11)
ARPA-E budget boosted to $180 million,
falls fall short of need (America for Energy Leadership, 7-18-11)
Coburn proposes $9 trillion deficit cut measure (Yahoo, 7-18-11)
Special report: Banks continue robo-signing (NewsDaily, 7-18-11)
Can the Gang of Six’s plan pass? (Washington Post, 7-20-11)
July 2011 - Environmental
Over 12,000 Tons of Plastic Ingested by Fish (Care 2, 7-2-11)
EU Rejects Aggressive Cut in Carbon Emissions (Truthdig, 7-5-11)
The Coming Clean Tech Crash
(Breakthrough, 7-7-11)
The Gas Is
Greener (New York Times, 7-7-11)
The Market Is Lying: Why We Must Tax Carbon, Not Subsidize It (truthout,
7-8-11)
Republicans Seek to Slash Funding for Clean Energy, Democrats Want to Shift
Funds from Fossil Fuels to Renewables (Climate Progress, 7-12-11)
Decline of predatory species throws food chains out of whack, report says
(Washington Post, 7-14-11)
German and
Russian energy giants agree on strategic partnership (DW-World, 7-14-11)
Effects Of Warming Arctic Highlighted At London's Maritime Museum
(Huffington Post, 7-15-11)
Texas Drought Now Far, Far Worse Than When Gov. Rick Perry Issued Proclamation
Calling on All Texans to Pray for Rain (Think Progress, 7-15-11)
July 2011 - Health
Universal Health Care: Can We Afford Anything Less? (Truthout, 7-5-11)
Health body backs free birth control for women (Yahoo, 7-19-11)
July 2011 - Relegion
The
Jewish Ayatollahs (Israeli Peace Bloc, 7-2-11)
Why Rupert Murdoch Love$ God: World's Biggest Sleaze Mogul Also Getting Rich
from Christian Moralizers (AlterNet, 7-10-11)
Bolder Anti-Sex Arguments Coming From Religious Right (RH Reality Check,
7-17-11)
July 2011 - Foreign
The myth of Afghan democracy (Global Post, 7-1-11)
The Interests of U.S. Corporations and the Country ‘have diverged’ (Foreign
Policy Journal, 7-1-11)
Muammar Qaddafi Speech to Millions in Tripoli on 1st July 2011
(Counter-Information, 7-3-11)
The Greek rollover pact is like a toxic CDO (Financial Times, 7-3-11)
Portugal Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary of Decriminalizing Drugs (Huffington
Post, 7-7-11)
Democratization Can't Save Europe: The Need for a Centralization of Power
(Spiegel, 7-8-11)
Indigenous resistance is the new 'terrorism' (Aljazeera, 7-10-11)
The
Shelters That Clinton Built (the Nation, 7-11-11)
Putin says U.S. monetary policy "hooliganism" (Xinhuanet, 7-11-11)
Israel Bans Boycotts Against the State (New York Times, 7-11-11)
Why the US won't leave Afghanistan (Aljazeera, 7-12-11)
Rights Group
Exposes Libyan Rebel Abuses (Information Clearing House, 7-13-11)
China's
New Parochialism (Time, 7-14-11)
US standing plunges across the Arab world (Aljazeera, 7-14-11)
Aiding Insecurity: Four Years of Mexico's Drug War (truthout, 7-16-11)
NATO's Debacle
in Libya (truthout, 7-15-11)
CIA veteran: Israel to attack Iran in fall (Aljazeera, 7-17-11)
1 Million Dead in Iraq? 6 Reasons the Media Hide the True Human Toll of War --
And Why We Let Them (AlterNet, 7-19-11)
July 2011 - Miscellaneous
Unemployment Rate for New Veterans Jumps Again (CBS, 7-1-11)
Is Torture In America's Future As Well As In Our Country's Past? (Huffington
Post, 7-4-11)
The 60-Year Unemployment
Scandal (Counterpunch, 7-5-11)
WikiLeaks, Wimbledon and War (Truthdig, 7-5-11)
Bradley Manning, American Hero (The Nation, 7-7-11)
James Murdoch Could Face Criminal Charges In Phone Hacking Scandal
(Huffington Post, 7-9-11)
Tough Calculus as Technical Schools Face Deep Cuts (New York Times, 7-9-11)
As smartphones proliferate, some users are cutting the computer cord
(Washington Post, 7-11-11)
Obama's Secret Wars: How Our Shady Counter-Terrorism Policies Are More Dangerous
Than Terrorism (AlterNet, 7-11-11)
Mass psychosis in the US (Aljazeera, 7-12-11)
Latest White House Drug Strategy Report Affirms Our Government Has No Real
Interest In Actually Studying Marijuana (AlterNet, 7-12-11)
The new "Let them eat cake!" (Salon, 7-13-11)
United
States: Investigate Bush, Other Top Officials for Torture (Information
Clearing House, 7-14-11)
'The
US Is Holding the Whole World Hostage' (Spiegel, 7-15-11)
Don’t
Surrender Our Telescope Advantage (FrumForum, 7-17-11)
Sex In California (Michael Moore, 7-18-11)
America’s Disappeared (truthdig, 7-18-11)
June 2011 - Financial
9 Signs That We May Be Living Through Another Depression (AlterNet, 6-1-11)
US house price fall 'beats Great Depression slide' (The Independent, 6-1-11)
Deficit Reduction Requires Shared Sacrifice: Will the President Stand Tall? (Huffington
Post, 6-2-11)
A Call from Labor: Ban Big Bank Stock Options (Campaign for America's
Future, 6-5-11)
What Your Taxes Do (and Don’t) Buy for You (Economix, 6-7-11)
Why raising the federal gas tax is smart (Washington Post, 6-8-11)
Housing expert sees another price plunge (CNN, 6-9-11)
The Uncertainty Tax (New York Times, 6-11-11)
Death by Budget Cut: Why Conservatives and Some Dems Have Blood on Their Hands
(AlterNet, 6-13-11)
Can We Afford the Military Budget? (New York Times, 6-14-11)
World's Wealthiest
People Now Richer than Before the Credit Crunch (Common Dreams, 6-22-11)
Study: $1400 Tax Hike Needed to Fund
US Pensions (CNBC, 6-22-11)
Going East Guarantees
Growth (CNBC, 6-22-11)
Third World America: Drowning in Debt and Choking on Lies (Huffington
Post, 6-24-11)
GOP compromise on debt: Cut military spending? (Washington Post, 6-24-11)
Debt Hamstrings Recovery (Wall Street Journal, 6-27-11)
Overlapping Health Plans Are Double Trouble for Taxpayers (Wall Street
Journal, 6-27-11)
Bank Errors Continue to Cause Wrongful Foreclosures (truthout, 6-27-11)
Sen. Harry Reid: Republicans living in a fantasy world (Raw Story, 6-28-11)
U.S. War Costs Reach At Least $3.7 Trillion And Counting (Huffington Post,
6-29-11)
Smaller Businesses Seeking Loans Still Come Up Empty (Wall Street Journal,
6-30-11)
June 2011 - Environmental
Humans May Have
Loaded the Bases, but Nature Bats Last (Common Dreams, 6-1-11)
New NASA map shows how much carbon is stored in global forests: what is at risk
if we don't halt deforestation (Switchboard, 6-1-11)
Plan for China’s Water Crisis Spurs Concern (New York Times, 6-1-11)
Fall of the Wild (New York Times, 6-2-11)
Chemicals in Farm Runoff Rattle States on the Mississippi (New York Times,
6-2-11)
Renewables, Energy Efficiency Programs Lose Out to Coal, Nuclear, Weapons
(Open Congress, 6-2-11)
Three Gorges Dam Is Said to Hurt Areas Downstream (New York Times, 6-3-11)
Information is Beautiful: Plenty More Fish In The Sea? (Guardian, 6-3-11)
Greenhouse gas emissions hit record highs _ bad news for delegates at climate
accord talks (Washington Post, 6-6-11)
10 Million U.S. Roofs With Solar By 2020? (Earth Techling, 6-7-11)
Paul Ryan, deficit hawk or dove? (The Economist, 6-7-11)
The Gas Is Greener (New York Times, 6-7-11)
Monsanto’s Roundup Birth Causing Defects Hidden By Regulators (Earthly
Report, 6-8-11)
What Dow Chemical doesn’t want you to know about your water (Grist, 6-8-11)
Hey
Obama: Defend our public lands! (Grist, 6-8-11)
GM CEO Calls For $1 Gas Tax Hike: U.S. Falling Behind In Trillion-Dollar Clean
Energy Business (Climate Progress, 6-9-11)
Why do cities get so little respect from state and national governments?
(Grist, 6-10-11)
Analysis: Germany's Plan to Phase Out
Nuclear Jeopardizes Emissions Goals (Breakthrough, 6-13-11)
Record 'Dead Zone'
Predicted in Gulf of Mexico (Common Dreams, 6-15-11)
What the U.S. power industry thinks about the future of the U.S. power industry
(Grist, 6-16-11)
Video: Controlling Toxic Chemicals (Safer Chemicals, 6-17-11)
Can Life Prevail? A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis
(Counter-Currents, 6-17-11)
Arctic melts
faster than IPCC's forecasts (DW-World, 6-17-11)
World's oceans
in 'shocking' decline (BBC, 6-20-11)
EPA budget cuts put states in bind (Washington Post, 6-20-11)
Sea Levels Rising At Fastest Rate In 2,100 Years: Study (Huffington
Post, 6-20-11)
State Of The Ocean: 'Shocking' Report Warns Of Mass Extinction From Current Rate
Of Marine Distress (Huffington Post, 6-20-11)
Al Gore Blasts Obama On Climate Change For Failing To Take 'Bold Action'
(Huffington Post, 6-22-11)
Dirty Water: It's a State's Right! (Mother Jones, 6-22-11)
Has Obama lost environmental voters? (Grist, 6-23-11)
The Great Corn Con (New York Times, 6-24-11)
Roundup: Birth Defects Caused By World's Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say
(Huffington Post, 6-24-11)
For Sen. Lautenberg, Crusade to Reform Chemical Regulations Is Personal (New
York Times, 6-27-11)
Google: Delaying Clean Energy Transition “Only 5 Years Could Leave Trillions on
the Table” (Climate Progress, 6-28-11)
Thom Hartmann with Lester
Brown: Is the Global Civilization Failing? (Common Dreams, 6-28-11)
Report Shows Natural Gas Fracking Creates More Methane in Underground Water
(Clean Technica, 6-28-11)
Legislative Watch June 29, 2011 (Switchboard, 6-28-11)
Google says delaying clean energy will cost the U.S. trillions (Grist,
6-28-11)
Google: Energy Innovation Can Have A "Transformative Impact" On U.S.
(Breakthrough, 6-29-11)
June 2011 - Health
Hardly Working
(City Paper, 6-1-11)
Indiana Abortion Showdown Could Cost State $4.3 Billion (Huffington Post,
6-5-11)
The hard truth about health care (Washington Post, 6-6-11)
Study Sees Cuts to Health Plans (Wall Street Journal, 6-8-11)
Montana, Could Your Congressman's Actions Someday Make Your Child Sick?
(Huffington Post, 6-8-11)
Medicare Saves Money (New York Times, 6-12-11)
Toll of Caring for Elderly Increases (Wall Street Journal, 6-14-11)
Health Insurers Pump
Your Premiums Into a Financial Black Hole (Common Dreams, 6-14-11)
What a grand bargain on health care would look like (Washington Post,
6-14-11)
As Number of Medicaid Patients Goes Up, Their Benefits Are About to Drop
(New York Times, 6-15-11)
The Most Important Organization In Silicon Valley That No One Has Heard About
(Tech Crunch, 6-19-11)
Shame of America: Desperate Man Robs Store for One Dollar in Order to Go to Jail
to Get Health Coverage (AlterNet, 6-21-11)
Wisconsin Set To Defund Planned Parenthood, Slash Family Planning
(Huffington Post, 6-21-11)
Diabetes Cases Double to 347 Million (Wall Street Journal, 6-27-11)
White House Medicaid proposal would likely force states to cut aid (Daily
Kos, 6-27-11)
Proposed Budget Cuts To Medicaid Could Kill Jobs And Short-Change Seniors
(Huffington Post, 6-28-11)
Obesity/Diabetes
Epidemic: Rise of the Obesogens (Common Dreams, 6-29-11)
June 2011 - Religion
Pat Robertson: Muslims are the New Nazis (Mother Jones, 6-1-11)
The Christian-Right Whistleblower (The Daily Beast, 6-24-11)
June 2011 - History
China: Mao and the next generation (Financial Times, 6-2-11)
June 2011 - Foreign
Red Ghost Over China (Wall Street Journal, 6-1-11)
Afghanistan War: U.S. Trolling For Taliban To Open Talks (Huffington
Post, 6-1-11)
US Spying
Detects No Iranian Nukes (Information Clearing House, 6-2-11)
A
Former Spy Chief Questions the Judgment of Israeli Leaders (New York Times,
6-3-11)
Five myths about Pakistan (Washington Post, 6-3-11)
In
defense of Canada (Incidental Economist, 6-5-11)
Mood
in Northern Afghanistan Shifts against German Troops (Spiegel Online,
6-7-11)
Iraq's Chalabi, who sought invasion, now wants U.S. out (McClatchy, 6-7-11)
Under the cover of democracy (Aljazeera, 6-8-11)
Chinese Tech CEOs Pledge to Walk ‘Red’ Road (Wall Street Journal, 6-9-11)
Angry Pakistani army says it doesn't want U.S. aid (McClatchy, 6-9-11)
'Lasting Peace Only Possible with Hamas On Board' (Spiegel Online, 6-10-11)
With Egyptian Economy Slowing, Revolt Is Tested (truthout, 6-10-11)
NATO
Inflicted Libyan Deaths, Injuries Not ‘Propaganda’: Cynthia McKinney
(Information Clearing House, 6-10-11)
US activists prepare to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza (Electronic
Intifada, 6-10-11)
In a pure coincidence, Gaddafi impeded U.S. oil interests before the war
(Salon, 6-11-11)
U.S.
Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors (New York Times, 6-12-11)
Rep. Rohrabacker Asks Iraq to Pay US Back for Iraq War; Iraqi Spokesman Asks Him
to Leave (truthout, 6-12-11)
Ninety Percent of Petraeus' "Taliban" Captures Were Civilians (truthout,
6-13-11)
More NATO
“Humanitarian Intervention” (Information Clearing House, 6-14-11)
Yet another illegal war - now in Yemen (Salon, 6-14-11)
South African president blasts NATO actions in Libya (CNN, 6-14-11)
9 Countries That Do It Better: Why Does Europe Take Better Care of Its People
Than America? (AlterNet, 6-15-11)
Afghanistan 'most dangerous place for women' (Aljazeera, 6-15-11)
Hezbollah's rise
raises new concerns over regional stability (DW World, 6-15-11)
Russia, China warn West against Arab interference (France 24, 6-16-11)
Saudi Arabia women drive cars to protest ban (Global Post, 6-17-11)
Obama Overrides
Lawyers Who Warned War on Libya Amounted to "Hostilities" (Common Dreams,
6-17-11)
Afghanistan’s Last Locavores (New York Times, 6-19-11)
Medical Crisis Worsening in
Gaza (IPS, 6-19-11)
China Leaders Laud 'Red' Campaign (Wall Street Journal, 6-20-11)
Aid Agencies Slam Gaza
Blockade (IPS, 6-20-11)
NGOs in Cambodia:
Accommodation with the regime can be very profitable. (Slate, 6-20-11)
JFP Policy Director
to Board Gaza Flotilla, Available by Satellite Phone Common Dreams, 6-20-11)
Leaving Afghanistan
(Common Dreams, 6-20-11)
Setting Sail for Gaza, Armed with Love Letters and a Missive from Dr. King
(Michael Moore, 6-21-11)
High-Speed Rail Poised to Alter China (New York Times, 6-22-11)
The blockade IS illegal no matter what Israel claims (IMEU, 6-23-11)
The Luxury Frontier (Wall Street Journal, 6-23-11)
How
European Elites Lost a Generation (Spiegel, 6-23-11)
House Deals Obama Symbolic Blow With Libya Votes (New York Times, 6-24-11)
Amnesty Questions
Claim that Gaddafi Ordered Rape as Weapon of War (Common Dreams, 6-24-11)
Trucking in Technicolor on Pakistan’s Highways (New York Times, 6-24-11)
Haiti: Leaked Cables Expose U.S. Suppression of Min. Wage, Election Doubts and
Elite’s Private Army (Democracy Now, 6-24-11)
Alice Walker: Why I'm Joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza (AlterNet,
6-26-11)
Former Bush
Speechwriter: Shooting People On Gaza Flotilla "OK" Because Participants Are
Like Nazis (Political Correction, 6-27-11)
US government moves to criminalize Palestine solidarity (Electronic
Intifada, 6-27-11)
With continued threats to
Gaza flotilla, State Department warns participants, not Israel (Just Foreign
Policy, 6-28-11)
Iceland Shows Default Doesn’t Lead to a Deep Freeze (Yahoo, 6-29-11)
Imran Khan: from cricket hero to Pakistan leader? (Dawn, 6-29-11)
India: Is free speech on the way out? (Global Post, 6-29-11)
June 2011 - Miscellaneous
Promoting the Human Rights of Sex Workers During the Global Economic Crisis
(RH Reality Check, 6-1-11)
The Truth
About the American Economy (truthout, 6-1-11)
The
Future of Innovation: Can America Keep Pace? (Time, 6-2-11)
RIAA Wants To Put People In Jail For Sharing Their Music Subscription Login With
Friends (TechDirt, 6-2-11)
Why Rick Scott’s Drug Testing Scheme Violates The Constitution (Think
Progress, 6-2-11)
44% Of People On Social Security Say They Don't Get Government Benefits (MoveOn,
6-3-11)
House Rebukes Obama for Continuing Libyan Mission Without Its Consent (New
York Times, 6-3-11)
Republicans Demand Layoffs As Cure For Job Losses (Campaign for Americas
Future, 6-3-11)
Dr. Cornel West: Greetings From a 21st-Century Prophet (truthout. 6-5-11)
Industry Puts Heat on Schools to Teach Skills Employers Need (Wall Street
Journal, 6-6-11)
Until the Light Takes Us: Black Metal and the Revolt Against Modernity and
Liberalism (In Mala Fide, 6-6-11)
Ellsberg: All the crimes Nixon committed against me are now legal (Raw
Story, 6-9-11)
Top 10 Things Texas Gov. Rick Perry Doesn’t Want You To Know About Him
(Think Progress, 6-10-11)
Drug Bust (New York Times, 6-10-11)
Would you pay $1,250 per megabyte? (CNN, 6-10-11)
Ayn Rand's Poison: GOP Faces Backlash for Their Obsessive Worship of a Psycho
(AlterNet, 6-10-11)
Looking beyond Obama to 'The Golden Age' (Aljazeera, 6-13-11)
Did Mitt Romney Commit Voter Fraud? (Mother Jones, 6-13-11)
Pundit Under Protest (New York Times, 6-13-11)
Maddow questions whether Mitt Romney has committed ‘voter fraud’ (Raw Story,
6-14-11)
10 congressmen sue Obama over strikes in Libya (Yahoo, 6-15-11)
Six Wars and Counting
(Common Dreams, 6-15-11)
An Exit Strategy from America’s
Longest War -- 40 Years of Disastrous Drug Prohibition (AlterNet, 6-15-11)
On 40th Anniversary Of War On Drugs, Cops Decry Obama's Drug Policy (Huffington
Post, 6-15-11)
Obama Administration Caved On For-Profit College Regulations, Insiders Say (Huffington
Post, 6-16-11)
Sex with Neanderthals gave humans the strength we needed to conquer the planet
(io9, 6-16-11)
Rebuild American Infrastructure? Companies’ Offshore Profits Can Help
(Brookings, 6-16-11)
UN backs gay rights for first time ever (Yahoo, 6-17-11)
Fear and loathing surrounds decriminalisation (Aljazeera, 6-17-11)
House GOP Slashes Food Safety Funding Because ‘The Private Sector Self-Polices’
(Think Progress, 6-17-11)
Job Cremation Council (Wall Street Journal, 6-19-11)
How Robert Gates' Lies and Cover-Ups Earned Him a Long, Prestigious Career -- At
the Expense of the American People (AlterNet, 6-19-11)
The great jobs mismatch (Washington Post, 6-19-11)
Government Stays Glued to Mortgage Market (Wall Street Journal, 6-20-11)
Van Jones Stars In MoveOn Ad Challenging Glenn Beck To Debate (Huffington
Post, 6-20-11)
Sammie Spade, Former Clinton Intern, Now A Porn Star (Huffington Post,
6-20-11)
Keith Olbermann’s ‘Countdown’ returns: Special Comment (Raw Replay, 6-20-11)
Van Jones Considers Legal Action Against Fox News, Demands Glenn Beck Retraction
(Huffington Post, 6-20-11)
Why the Jobs Situation Is Worse Than It Looks (US News, 6-20-11)
Glenn Greenwald: Could Obama Be Impeached for Waging War in Libya Without
Approval of Congress? (Democracy Now, 6-21-11)
Senate Advances
Measure to Criminalize Common Internet Uses (Common Dreams, 6-21-11)
Apple's Pre-Emptive
Strike Against Free Speech (Common Dreams, 6-22-11)
The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme (Grist, 6-22-11)
Web censorship moves West (Aljazeera, 6-25-11)
Google Public Policy Blog: Google Ideas launches Summit Against Violent
Extremism (Google, 6-27-11)
Making the
World Safe for Hypocrisy (Information Clearing House, 6-28-11)
Woman Gang-Raped by 7 Halliburton Employees "Signed Away" Her Right to Sue? How
Justice Has Become the Privilege of Corporations (AlterNet, 6-29-11)
Homeless Man Shaun Fawster Charged With Crime For Charging Cellphone
(Huffington Post, 6-29-11)
May 2011 - Financial
Feds chase more student loan defaults (USA Today, 5-1-11)
U.S. tax burden at lowest level since '58 (USA Today, 5-6-11)
Poverty spikes to record
highs in US (Press TV, 5-7-11)
Housing market continues to tank as unemployment rises (The Washington
Independent, 5-9-11)
GOP Budget Would Leave Up To 44 Million More Low-Income Americans Uninsured:
Report (Huffington Post, 5-10-11)
'I Will Be Shorting US Bonds': Jim
Rogers (CNBC, 5-11-11)
Squeezed Cities Ask Nonprofits for More Money (New York Times, 5-11-11)
Donald Trump Remarks in
Nashua, NH (C-Span, 5-11-11)
The Quick
And Easy Way For Republicans To Achieve Nearly 75% Of Their Deficit Cuts
(Business Insider, 5-12-11)
Why are we in debt? Tax cuts, recessions, wars (Wall Street Journal,
5-16-11)
Confidential Federal Audits Accuse Five Biggest Mortgage Firms Of Defrauding
Taxpayers (Huffington Post, 5-16-11)
Why are we in debt? Tax cuts, recessions, wars (Wall Street Journal,
5-16-11)
Joint Strike Fighter's $100 Billion 30-Year Engine Contract Up For Grabs
(Time, 5-16-11)
How foreigners will buy the U.S. (CNN, 5-18-11)
The IRS Gets Political (Wall Street Journal, 5-18-11)
America's Student Loan Racket: Soaring Default Rates (OEN, 5-19-11)
As Lenders Hold Homes in Foreclosure, Sales Are Hurt (New York Times,
5-22-11)
'Reckless Endangerment': An Exclusive Excerpt From Gretchen Morgenson And Joshua
Rosner's New Book (Huffignton Post, 5-23-11)
Nearly Half of Americans Are ‘Financially Fragile’ (Wall Street Journal,
5-23-11)
Financial Benefits of a College Education Are Smaller Than You'd Think
(Daily Finance, 5-24-11)
REPORT: Across The Country, Conservatives Shift Taxpayer Dollars From Public to
Private Schools (Think Progress, 5-24-11)
Lagarde launches IMF candidacy (Financial Times, 5-24-11)
Public Schools Charge Kids for Basics, Frills (Wall Street Journal, 5-25-11)
US Default More Likely Than In Indonesia (Financial Times, 5-25-11)
Verdict Is in: Wall Street Gets Off Scot-Free (The Street, 5-25-11)
Kafka Couldn’t Have Built a Better System (New York Times, 5-25-11)
The 2011 Fiscal Summit: The Soulutions Initiative (PGPF, 5-25-11)
Lunch with the FT: Francis Fukuyama (Financial Times, 5-27-11)
Defaulting on US Debt Dangerous to Even Consider, Say Experts (truthout,
5-28-11)
Meet the
Millennial Budget (The Nation, 5-27-11)
Low Federal Tax Rate Means Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars Lost Annually,
Bartlett Says (Huffington Post, 5-31-11)
Mumbai’s Sky-High Property Prices Set
to Fall, Say Experts (CNBC, 5-31-11)
China to Clean Up Billions in Local
Government Debt (CNBC, 5-31-11)
100 Words That Can Change Your Credit History (Daily Finance, 5-31-11)
Real House Prices and Price-to-Rent: Back to 1999 (Calculated Risk, 5-31-11)
How Fraudulent Is the GOP Budget Plan? It Wouldn't Even Make a Dent In the
Deficit! (AlterNet, 5-31-11)
Federal proposal would toughen debt restrictions on mortgages (Washington
Post, 5-31-11)
May 2011 - Environmental
Do We Need Flame Retardants In Our Furniture and Electronics? (Tree Hugger,
5-2-11)
New report confirms Arctic melt accelerating (Yahoo, 5-3-11)
A New Climate Movement in Bolivia (ZCom, 5-3-11)
Warren Buffett doesn’t believe CO2 is a real risk for Berkshire Hathaway
(Grist, 5-4-11)
Watch Amtrak’s coverage shrink over time (Grist, 5-5-11)
The Xtremes: Subversive
Recipes for Catastrophic Times (Common Dreams, 5-5-11)
Energy Dept. Panel to Revise Standards for Gas Extraction (New York Times,
5-6-11)
Hitting the Bottle (New York Times, 5-8-11)
Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking (ProPublica,
5-9-11)
Chile approves huge dam project in wild Patagonia (Yahoo, 5-9-11)
UN study says
renewables can dominate energy supply (DW-World, 5-9-11)
Genocide by Other Means: U.S. Army Slaughtered Buffalo in Plains Indian Wars
(Indian Country, 5-9-11)
Pew: 71% of Americans say “This country should do whatever it takes to protect
the environment.” (Climate Progress, 5-9-11)
Bill Gates: Increase Federal Energy
R&D to Drive Innovation (Americans for Energy Leadership, 5-11-11)
Remember Climate Change? (Huffington Post, 5-9-11)
Natural Gas Revolution Is Overblown, Study Says (Huffington Post, 5-12-11)
No nukes, No problem. Germany is proving a rapid transition to renewable energy
is possible (Climate Progress, 5-16-11)
Loan guarantee program is on hold, creating uncertainty for clean energy
projects like Cape Wind (Climate Progress, 5-16-11)
World’s Top Weed Killer Linked To Infertility (Media Roots, 5-16-11)
Mercury? Arsenic? We’ll deal with those problems later, says EPA (Grist,
5-17-11)
The Push to Dam China’s Rivers (The Earth Institute, 5-19-11)
Arctic sea ice volume: The death spiral continues (Climate Progress,
5-20-11)
L.A. Times: Obama is throwing “the environment and public health under a bus” to
get reelected (Climate Progress, 5-20-11)
Risk From Spent Nuclear Reactor Fuel Is Greater in U.S. Than in Japan, Study
Says (New York Times, 5-24-11)
Anti-Logging Activist Murdered as Brazil Moves to Reduce Protection of the
Amazon Rainforest (Ecosystem Marketplace, 5-25-11)
Bombshell: High and rising price for carbon pollution emerges as credible
deficit reduction strategy (Climate Progress, 5-25-11)
Conservation, Farming Groups
Launch Lawsuit Seeking Emergency Action to Protect Bats From Deadly Disease
(ENN, 5-26-11)
A Turning-Point We Miss
at Our Peril (Common Dreams, 5-26-11)
Cancer is now the leading cause of death in China (Grist, 5-27-11)
Worst ever carbon emissions leave climate on the brink (Guardian. 5-29-11)
Worst Ever Carbon
Emissions Leave Climate on the Brink (Common Dreams, 5-30-11)
The Sky Really Is Falling (truthdig, 5-30-11)
Food safety advocates decry FDA cuts (Washington Post, 5-30-11)
'Climate on
the brink' (Aljazeera, 5-31-11)
The Changing (Communication) Climate (New York Times, 5-31-11)
May 2011 - Health
H.R. 3 would require IRS to audit abortions (Examiner, 5-3-11)
‘Forcible rape’ returns as House plans vote on GOP abortion bill ( The Raw
Story, 5-3-11)
Republicans Give Trillions to Health Insurance Companies (Healthcare For
America Now, 5-4-11)
Mothers We Could Save (New York Times, 5-7-11)
At Iraq’s hospitals, a man-made emergency (Washington Post, 5-9-11)
Single Payer Health:
It's Only Fair (Common Dreams, 5-10-11)
Obama Health Law
Unlikely to Stem Medical Bankruptcies (Common Dreams, 5-11-11)
Bleaker outlook for Social Security, Medicare (CBS, 5-13-11)
Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care (New York Times,
5-13-11)
Nursing Homes
Seek Exemptions From Health Law (New York Times, 5-13-11)
Rhode Island’s Medicaid Experiment Becomes a Talking Point for Budget Cutters
(New York Times, 5-15-11)
Unintended Pregnancies Cost Government $11 Billion a Year (Wall Street
Journal, 5-20-11)
Best Way to Save
Medicare, Offer it to Everyone (Common Dreams, 5-20-11)
Vermont Approves Universal Health Care (truthdig, 5-26-11)
GOP Salivates at
Prospect of Cutting Funds for World's Poorest Women (RH Reality Check,
5-27-11)
May 2011 - Religion
The DeVos Family: Meet the Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With the
Religious Right to Kill Public Education (AlterNet, 5-6-11)
Your Taxes
Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred (Information Clearing House, 5-9-11)
The 'Christian' Dogma Pushed by Religious Schools That Are Supported by Your Tax
Dollars (AlterNet, 5-23-11)
Crystal Cathedral, California's Famous Multimillion-Dollar Megachurch, Is Up For
Sale (Huffington Post, 5-27-11)
May 2011 - History
Myth-busting the Bangladesh war of 1971 (Aljazeera, 5-9-11)
‘Unprovoked’
Attacks, From 1812 to 9/11 (Independent Institute, 5-11-11)
The Hiroshima Files (New York Times, 5-22-11)
Chilling Echoes From Sept. 11 (New York Times, 5-22-11)
Paying with Life and Limb for the Crimes of Nazi Germany (Spiegel, 5-27-11)
May 2011 - Foreign
U.S. Aid Plan for Pakistan Is Foundering (New York Times, 5-1-11)
Iran Commander Warns Saudi Arabia Of Unrest (Huffinton Post, 5-1-11)
Muslim Brotherhood: U.S. troops should now quit Iraq, Afghan (Raw Story,
5-2-11)
Bin
Laden's Death Comes 10 Years Too Late (Spiegel Online, 5-3-11)
Support the Palestinian unity government (Washington Post, 5-3-11)
Robert Fisk: Was he betrayed? Of course. Pakistan knew Bin Laden's hiding place
all along (Independent, 5-3-11)
Martelly: Haiti's second great disaster (Aljazeera, 5-4-11)
Holdren's Response to Ban on China Science Partnerships Draws GOP Ire
(Science Insider, 5-4-11)
Pakistan Pays U.S. Lobbyists To Deny It Helped Osama Bin Laden (Huffington
Post, 5-5-11)
GlobalPost: Pakistan had "full knowledge" of bin Laden raid (CBS, 5-5-11)
China's Growing Interests in Siberia (Spiegel Online, 5-6-11)
Congress Bans Scientific Collaboration with China, Cites High Espionage Risks
(Forbes, 5-7-11)
While Bahrain Demolishes Mosques, US Stays Silent (truthout, 5-8-11)
Pakistani truckers' perilous journey (Aljazeera, 5-8-11)
Osama bin Laden mission agreed in secret 10 years ago by US and Pakistan
(Guardian, 5-9-11)
Why Greece Should Reject the Euro (New York Times, 5-9-11)
The Myth of 9 Billion (Foreign Policy, 5-9-11)
The hunger to
come in Egypt (Asia Times, 5-10-11)
US broke deal
with Osama hit (Asia Times, 5-12-11)
How bin
Laden emailed without being detected by US (Yahoo, 5-13-11)
Denying Links to Militants, Pakistan’s Spy Chief Denounces U.S. Before
Parliament (New York Times, 5-13-11)
Vast Mongolian shantytown now home to quarter of country's population
(Guardian, 5-15-11)
The U.S.: Where Europe comes to slum (Los Angeles Times, 5-15-11)
US Navy drones: Coming to a carrier near China? (Yahoo, 5-16-11)
A Conflict Without End (New York Times, 5-16-11)
Chris Hedges: ‘We Speak in the Language of Terrorism’ (truthdig, 5-16-11)
China's Ghost Cities: Could The Real Estate Bubble Burst? (Huffington Post,
5-17-11)
Is Israel at a Strategic Dead End as Palestinian "Arab Spring" Arrives?
(AlterNet, 5-17-11)
Historian writes of 'pleasure' at murder of pro-Palestinian activist
(Guardian, 5-18-11)
Obama speech greeted with wariness, apathy in Mideast (Washington Post,
5-19-11)
China piracy costs almost million jobs: US study (Physorg, 5-19-11)
Go back to law school (The
Economist, 5-19-11)
The illegal war in Libya (Salon, 5-19-11)
Under the War Powers Act, Obama's Authority to Act in Libya Expires Today
(AlterNet, 5-20-11)
Debunking the Top Seven Myths on Iran's Middle East Policies (truthout,
5-21-11)
Europe against the world (Aljazeera, 5-21-11)
Union's Hawkish Foreign Policy Agenda Hampers Defense of Teachers (truthout,
5-22-11)
Obama: would raid Pakistan again if militant found (Yahoo, 5-22-11)
Pakistan - Pakistan turns to China for naval base (Financial Times, 5-22-11)
Chomsky: When Did America Completely Jettison the Rule of Law? (AlterNet,
5-22-11)
GOP cut crucial weather satellites with fierce hurricane season looming
(Climate Progress, 5-23-11)
Lessons From Tahrir Sq. (New York Times, 5-24-11)
Thousands of Sadr supporters rally against U.S. in Baghdad (Washington Post,
5-25-11)
Lawmakers question whether Obama is adhering to War Powers Resolution in Libya
(Washington Post, 5-25-11)
In China, a long path of writing the Communist Party’s history (Washington
Post, 5-26-11)
The
Protest that Shook Romania (Spiegel, 5-26-11)
Boundlessly loyal to the great
monster (The Economist, 5-30-11)
India's Stingy Poverty Definition Irks Critics (Huffington Post, 5-27-11)
Do the China-Pakistan pipeline shuffle (Aljazeera, 5-27-11)
Democrats show they still haven't learned the lessons of Europe. (The Daily
Beast, 5-29-11)
Who Cares in the Middle
East What Obama Says? (Common Dreams, 5-30-11)
China: The New bin Laden (Euro-Synergies, 5-30-11)
Kucinich Calls the Question on Libya War Powers (Huffington Post, 5-31-11)
May 2011 - Miscellaneous
Grading the billionaires on education reform (iWatch, 5-2-11)
Julian Assange: Facebook is an 'Appalling Spying Machine' (PC World, 5-2-11)
U.N.
Forecasts 10.1 Billion People by Century’s End (New York Times, 5-3-11)
Waterboarding
'Worked'?: Media Push Pro-Torture Message (Common Dreams, 5-4-11)
Novel rejected? There’s an e-book gold rush! (Washington Post, 5-6-11)
Reinstate torture methods in
US: Cheney (Press TV, 5-9-11)
The Missing Fifth (New York Times, 5-9-11)
What's Wrong With American Higher Education? (Huffington Post, 5-9-11)
Survey: 85% of New College Grads Moving Back in With Mom and Dad (Time,
5-10-11)
Employment rate for black men at record low (Yahoo, 5-10-11)
Today in Tech: Facebook's anti-Google smear campaign (Fortune, 5-12-11)
John McCain (R-AZ) gives impassioned speech against torture (MSNBC, 5-12-11)
What Holbrooke Knew (New York Times, 5-13-11)
In Prison Reform, Money Trumps Civil Rights (New York Times, 5-14-11)
Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder (New York Times, 5-14-11)
Skype-Style Calls Force Wireless Carriers to Adapt (New York Times, 5-15-11)
College Education
is a Scam Says New Documentary (NIA, 5-16-11)
Top 10 Thriving Industries (Wall Street Journal, 5-16-11)
Study: $2 trillion needed for U.S. infrastructure (Washington Post, 5-16-11)
Public procurement: Only the bare bones (Financial times 5-16-11)
Video viewing on Netflix accounts for up to 30 percent of online traffic
(Washington Post, 5-16-11)
Big spike recorded in older drug, alcohol addicts (Yahoo, 5-18-11)
Android smartphones face data breach threat (Financial Times, 5-18-11)
Bill Moyers: ‘We’re Almost Out of Time’ (truthdig, 5-18-11)
Five myths about America’s schools (Washington Post, 5-18-11)
Gene Simmons: “Make Me a Benevolent
Dictator” (CNBC, 5-20-11)
EFF Demands Answers About Secret
Surveillance Law Memo (EFF, 5-20-11)
High court to Calif: Cut prison inmates by 33,000 (Yahoo, 5-23-11)
Internet Freedom: A Foreign Policy
Imperative in the Digital Age (CNAS, 5-23-11)
National
Council of Elders Mayas, Xinca and Garifuna speak about 2012 and our future
(Indybay, 5-23-11)
The Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Citizens Has Been Drugged (truthout,
5-24-11)
Murdoch signals push into education (Financial Times, 5-24-11)
House Democrats introduce three medical marijuana reform bills (Raw Story,
5-24-11)
Durbin, Cohen and Others Introduce Legislation to Restore Fairness in Student
Lending (Durbin Senate, 5-26-11)
The changing face of America: Time-lapse map reveals how non-whites will become
the majority in U.S. within 30 years (Daily Mail. 5-27-11)
House Passes Bill Authorizing an Endless "Worldwide War" (Democracy Now,
5-27-11)
At I.M.F., a Strict Ethics Code Doesn’t Apply to Top Officials (New York
Times, 5-29-11)
Eric Cantor On 'Face The Nation': Disaster Relief For Joplin Tornado Victims
Must Be Offset (Huffington Post, 5-30-11)
Warrantless cell phone searches spread to more states (CNN, 5-30-11)
Congress clocks in to clock out (Washington Post, 5-31-11)
America's Creeping Police State (AlterNet, 5-31-11)
'Work for Peace': A Movement to Bring the Troops and Tax Dollars Home (The
Nation, 5-31-11)
April 2011 - Financial
Ireland taxpayers carry $34B bank bail-out, senior creditors avoid hit (CNN,
4-1-11)
Republican Study
Committee Bill Would Require Deepest Cuts in Programs For The Poor In U.S.
History (CBPP, 4-5-11)
How Soon Will You Go Bankrupt Under the New GOP Budget? (Huffington
Post, 4-6-11)
We Don't Need to Shut Down the Government: Tax the Wealthy and Deadbeat
Corporations to Close Budget Gaps (AlterNet, 4-7-11)
Wall Street and War
(Common Dreams, 4-7-11)
US lacks credibility on debt, says IMF (Financial Times, 4-12-11)
Budget Battles: The Price of Ill-Conceived Cuts (New York Times, 4-12-11)
How to Save a Trillion Dollars (New York Times, 4-13-11)
Budget Deal Cuts Innovation
Investments (Breakthrough, 4-13-11)
Public Defenders Stretched Thin by State Cuts (Wall Street Journal, 4-14-11)
In
Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures (New York Times, 4-14-11)
Taxpayer Tithes: House Speaker Uses Budget Deal To Fund Religious Schools With
Your Tax Dollars (Wall Of Separation, 4-14-11)
Losing the Future? (Breakthrough
Blog, 4-14-11)
IRS Watchdog Seeks Overhaul of Tax Code (Wall Street Journal, 4-15-11)
Budget Deals Deep Cuts to Obama Administration's Transparency Sites (truthout,
4-16-11)
The Real
Housewives of Wall Street: Look Who's Cashing In On the Bailout (Information
Clearing House, 4-13-11)
De-Mystifying the Budget Debate (Huffington Post, 4-18-11)
Throw Out the Money Changers (truthdig, 4-18-11)
Nouriel Roubini On The One Big Reason To Be OPTIMISTIC About The National Debt
(Business Insider, 4-20-11)
Paul Ryan already benefited from the Social Security fund he now wants to gut
(The Raw Story, 4-20-11)
24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America (The Economic Collapse, 4-22-11)
Largest Banks Likely Profited By Borrowing From Federal Reserve, Lending To
Federal Government (Huffington Post, 4-26-11)
From surplus to debt (Washington Post, 4-30-11)
April 2011 - Environmental
Environmentalists stand up to Obama, win big (Grist, 4-1-11)
Budget fight threatens to turn Farm Bill into Industrial Ag Bill (Grist,
4-4-11)
Foreign oil follies: Stop Obama if you think you’ve heard this one before
(Grist, 4-5-11)
Ozone depletion over Arctic 'unprecedented' this winter (CNN, 4-6-11)
Should some pesticides be banned to protect bees? A USDA scientist dances around
the question (Grist, 4-6-11)
New study warns on coral reef diversity (CNN, 4-6-11)
Ryan Budget: Big Cuts for Energy
Technology Investment (Americans for Energy Leadership, 4-7-11)
When polluters meet green advocates to talk shop, important lessons emerge
(CNN, 4-7-11)
Oil From BP Spill Found on Dead Dolphins in Gulf of Mexico (Aol, 4-8-11)
Study: Gas from ‘fracking’ worse than coal on climate (The Hill, 4-10-11)
Bolivia enshrines natural world's rights with equal status for Mother Earth
(Guardian, 4-10-11)
Antarctic
penguins losing to climate change through 80% krill decline (Mongabay,
4-11-11)
Susan Sarandon explains mountaintop-removal mining in 60 seconds (Grist,
4-11-11)
Penguin Numbers Plummeting - Whales Partly to Blame? (National Geographic,
4-11-11)
Studies Say Natural Gas Has Its Own Environmental Problems (New York Times.
4-11-11)
Bolivia to ‘make world history’ by granting rights to Mother Nature (The Raw
Story, 4-12-11)
Oil & gas industry spills happen "all the time" (CBS, 4-12-11)
UN Document Would
Give 'Mother Earth' Same Rights as Humans (Common Dreams, 4-13-11)
This is what mountaintop-removal mining looks like (Grist, 4-13-11)
Study Finds
Common Fungicide Deadly to Frogs (Beyond Pesticides, 4-14-11)
House Republicans attack life-saving mercury and air toxics standards
(Grist, 4-14-11)
Even Osama bin Laden thinks we need to do something about climate change
(Grist, 4-14-11)
TSCA reform 2.0, aka, Safe Chemicals Act of 2011: Tastes great, less filling
(Environmental Defense Fund, 4-14-11)
Staph seen in nearly half of U.S. meat (CNN, 4-15-11)
G.O.P. Push in States to Deregulate Environment (New York Times, 4-15-11)
Saying Goodbye to Nuclear - Merkel Takes First Steps toward a Future of
Renewables (Spiegel Online, 4-15-11)
Cost-Cutting at the Environment's Peril (truthout, 4-16-11)
'While They're Stuck On Stupid In DC, Your Generation Is Rising' (Huffington
Post, 4-16-11)
Nature to Get Legal Rights in Bolivia (Wired, 4-18-11)
U.N. Prepares to Debate Whether 'Mother Earth' Deserves Human Rights Status
(Fox News, 4-18-11)
Nil, Baby, Nil: Congress Fails To Pass A Single Oil Spill Law (Huffington
Post, 4-19-11)
BP's Iris Cross starred in two disaster PR campaigns (iwatch, 4-20-11)
“Safe Chemicals
Act of 2011″ Introduced in U.S. Senate (Beyond Pesticides, 4-20-11)
Bolivia
Celebrates Law Granting Rights to Mother Earth (ENS, 4-20-11)
Fred Hiatt back to running climate and energy disinformation from the likes of
Bjorn Lomborg (Climate Progress, 4-21-11)
Is the World Too Big to
Fail? (Common Dreams, 4-21-11)
Evo Morales' message to grassroots climate talks – planet or death
(Guardian, 4-21-11)
This will be the Arab world's next battle (Guardian, 4-22-11)
World Leaders
Urge You to Take Action for the Amazon! (Amazon Watch, 4-22-11)
Power Shift: How the Youth Climate Movement is Changing the Game (truthout,
4-23-11)
The Law Of Mother
Earth: Behind Bolivia’s Historic Bill (Counter Currents, 4-24-11)
Just what the doctor ordered: TSCA reform (Switchboard, 4-25-11)
The methane hydrate feedback revisited (Climate Progress, 4-25-11)
Pain at the
Pump? We Need More (New York Times, 4-27-11)
Outsourcing Greenhouse Gas
Emissions to the Developing World (ENN, 4-27-11)
April 2011 - Health
Cuts Leave Patients With Medicaid Cards, but No Specialist to See (New York
Times, 4-1-11)
Mr. President: Why
Medicare Isn’t the Problem, It’s the Solution (Common Dreams, 4-13-11)
Now the GOP Is Going After Sexual Health and the Pill - And the Battle Is Just
Beginning (AlterNet, 4-13-11)
So Much for That Ounce of Prevention (New York Times, 4-25-11)
Republican and
Democratic Plans for Medicare and Medicaid Misguided: Push for Privatization
Will Accelerate Costs and Deaths (Common Dreams, 4-27-11)
It’s a Ripoff! -or- Why America Spends So Much on Health Care (FDL, 4-28-11)
Daniels to sign bill defunding Planned Parenthood (Yahoo, 4-29-11)
Fact Checker: GOP Medicare plan ‘just like’ Congress’s coverage? (Washington
Post, 4-30-11)
April 2011 - Religion
Catholic group claims children raped by priests were ‘homosexual’ participants,
not victims (The Raw Story, 4-12-11)
April 2011 - History
Stalin’s horrors still throw Russia into turmoil (Financial Times, 4-26-11)
Why
Churchill Matters (truthout, 4-28-11)
April 2011 - Foreign
Louis Farrakhan defends Gadhafi as a ‘brother’ (Sun-Times, 4-1-11)
Trump: We should stay in Iraq and keep their oil (The Raw Story, 4-1-11)
Shiites in Iraq Support Bahrain’s Protesters (New York Times, 4-1-11)
It's 1989 but we are the Russians (Financial Times, 4-4-11)
Goldstone: An act of negligence (Aljazeera, 4-4-11)
Secret History of the Libyan Uprising (truthdig, 4-4-11)
Mobile telecoms in Africa:
Digital revolution (The Economist, 4-7-11)
Bahrain's
secret Mossad ties revealed? (ynet, 4-8-11)
Sadr calls for an end to 'US occupation' (Aljazeera, 4-9-11)
Recollections Of My Life - Mu'ummar Qaddafi (Information Clearing House,
4-9-11)
China Tells US to
Quit as Human Rights Judge (Common Dreams, 4-10-11)
China hits back with report on U.S. human rights record (News Xinhuanet,
4-10-11)
False pretense for war in Libya? (Boston, 4-14-11)
Leaders at BRICS Summit speak out against airstrikes in Libya (CNN, 4-15-11)
Gadhafi's Daughter Sends Defiant Message (Aol, 4-15-11)
China's Scary Housing Bubble (New York Times, 4-15-11)
Star of Egyptian revolt blasts world’s elites as “partners in crime” (The
Raw Story, 4-15-11)
Saudi Arabia and Iran Wage a New Cold War in the Middle East (Wall Street
Journal, 4-16-11)
Iceland’s Way (New York Times, 4-18-11)
Egypt archaeologist Zahi Hawass faces criticisms about his job, ties to Mubarak
(Washington Post, 4-18-11)
Special Relationship (Foreign Policy, 4-18-11)
Putin: U.S. Monetary Policy Is ‘Hooliganism’ (Wall Street Journal, 4-20-11)
Stop the presses, literally in Iraq (Aljazeera, 4-23-11)
U.S. authorities probe facts of author Mortenson's Pakistan story
(McClatchy, 4-24-11)
Talking Points on S. 186,
Boxer's Bill to Require End Date for Afghanistan War (Just Foreign Policy,
4-26-11)
"The United Nations Is Beyond Reform...It Has to Be Reinvented"–Fmr. UN General
Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto (Democracy Now, 4-26-11)
The African 'Star Wars' (Aljazeera, 4-26-11)
Uganda Anti-Gay Bill Could Move Ahead; Death Penalty May Be Dropped
(Huffington Post, 4-26-11)
Karzai Told to Dump U.S. (Wall Street Journal, 4-27-11)
Where
China Outpaces America (New York Times, 4-30-11)
A new Silk Road beckons from Central Asia, igniting dreams in Kazakhstan
(Washington Post, 4-30-11)
April 2011 - Miscellaneous
Unemployment for African-Americans Rises, Despite Job Growth (truthout,
4-1-11)
Excuses, Excuses, Excuses (New York Times, 4-1-11)
Obama reelection team looks familiar
(Washington Post, 4-3-11)
Where Are
They Now? (Youth for Western Civilization, 4-3-11)
Why has the State Department run into a firewall on Internet freedom?
(Washington Post, 4-4-11)
President Obama’s top 5 broken campaign promises (The Raw Story, 4-5-11)
Fool Us Twice? Can Obama
Get Reelected? (Common Dreams, 4-5-11)
The Peasants Need
Pitchforks (Common Dreams, 4-6-11)
Buffett needs to stop flying solo (Financial Times, 4-6-11)
An Attack Sheds Light on Internet Security Holes (New York Times, 4-6-11)
Cathie Black and the privatisation of education (Guardian, 4-7-11)
“Biblical Slavery” For Non-Christians? Yes, Suggests Website of Mike Huckabee’s
Favorite Historian David Barton (AlterNet, 4-7-11)
Federal
Budget: Don't Cut Funding for Homeless Veterans (Yahoo, 4-8-11)
Facts and Figures: U.S. human rights situation (Xinhuanet, 4-10-11)
The President Is Missing (New York Times, 4-10-11)
Reforming your way to riches: Stupak gets his big K St. payday (Washington
Examiner, 4-11-11)
Nearly 300 Legal Scholars Sign Letter Protesting Torture of Bradley Manning
(AlterNet, 4-11-11)
Niall Ferguson's New Presentation On THE DECLINE OF THE WEST (Business
Insider, 4-12-11)
U.S. Lagging in Using Technology, Study Shows (New York Times, 4-12-11)
Al Sharpton: Obama's Go-To Black Leader (The Daily Beast, 4-12-11)
Justice Department Asks Spain Not to Prosecute U.S. Torturers (War Is A
Crime, 4-13-11)
What Stanley McChrystal Did to Pat Tillman’s Family (truthdig, 4-13-11)
Pat Tillman's Mother: Stanley McChrystal Should Be Removed From White House Post
(Huffington Post, 4-14-11)
Limbaugh: Obama Base 'Savages,' 'Walking Human Debris' (VIDEO) (Huffington
Post, 4-14-11)
Internet Freedom Threatened By New Restrictions (Huffington Post, 4-18-11)
Ten sips from “Three Cups of Deceit” — starting in Seattle (Humanosphere,
4-19-11)
Obama Ran Against
Bush, But Now Governs Like Him (Common Dreams, 4-19-11)
Is education the next bubble? (The Week, 4-19-11)
Mobiles fall prey to
hack attacks (BBC, 4-20-11)
We're #1 -- Ten Depressing Ways America Is Exceptional (AlterNet, 4-20-11)
ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team (Associated Press, 4-22-11)
Number of the Week: Americans Buy More Stuff They Don’t Need (Wall Street
Journal, 4-23-11)
Obama administration says police should be able to use GPS to track suspects
without a warrant (Washington Independent, 4-25-11)
What in the World? The military's secret plan...to shrink (CNN, 4-25-11)
Olbermann's Current TV Show Called 'Countdown,' Launches June 20 (Huffington
Post, 4-26-11)
Chris Hedges: The Truth About War (truthdig, 4-26-11)
President Obama Makes a Fair Trial of Bradley Manning Impossible By Declaring
Him Guilty (truthout, 4-28-11)
Life in the slow lane (Economist, 4-28-11)
March 2011 - Financial
Feeling Budget Pinch, States Cut Insurance (New York Times, 3-1-11)
$1.2 Trillion: The Real U.S. National Security Budget No One Wants You to Know
About (AlterNet, 3-1-11)
VIDEO: America Is NOT Broke (Michael Moore, 3-5-11)
Texas-Size Woe for KKR, TPG (Wall Street Journal, 3-8-11)
China's Debt Burden Limits Policy Leeway (Wall Street Journal, 3-9-11)
Et tu, Jack Lew? (Washington Post, 3-10-11)
The crisis of microfinance (Aljazeera, 3-11-11)
Obama Administration Pushing For Banks To Modify Millions Of Mortgages To Settle
Foreclosure Claims (Huffington Post, 3-16-11)
States
Pass Budget Pain to Cities (New York Times, 3-23-11)
In Prison for Taking a Liar Loan (New York Times, 3-25-11)
Student loans not always wise (Washington Post, 3-26-11)
Should Homeowners Be Jailed For Taking Out Bad Loans? (Huffington Post,
3-28-11)
Where the Bailout Went Wrong (New York Times, 3-29-11)
Foreclosure Aid Fell Short, and Is Fading (New York Times, 3-29-11)
March 2011 - Environmental
Annual Letter from Bill Gates silent on climate change (Climate Progress,
3-1-11)
Climate Challenge Hinges on Fueling
China with Clean and Cheap Energy (Breakthrough Institute, 3-2-11)
Shrinking Lake Chad turning farmland into desert (CNN, 3-2-11)
On the brink: Sixth mass extinction 'that will eradicate 75% of life on Earth is
drawing closer' (Daily Mail, 3-3-11)
Politics Seen to
Limit E.P.A. in Regulation of Natural Gas (New York Times, 3-3-11)
Leaked EPA Documents
Expose Decades-Old Effort To Hide Dangers of Natural Gas Extraction (Common
Dreams, 3-4-11)
Desalination: Panacea for Our Water Crisis or Dangerous Boondoggle?
(AlterNet, 3-4-11)
Shifting spring: Arctic plankton blooming up to 50 days earlier now
(Washington Post, 3-6-11)
This Time We’re Taking
the Whole Planet With Us (Common Dreams, 3-7-11)
China's Big Dam Problem (Foreign Policy, 3-8-11)
Gulf spill sickness wrecking lives (Aljazeera, 3-9-11)
UN: Eco-Farming Feeds
the World (Common Dreams, 3-9-11)
Decline of Honey
Bees Now a Global Phenomenon, says United Nations (Common Dreams, 3-10-11)
Honeybee End? (ENN,
3-11-11)
NASA Study Says Ice Caps Melting at a Much Faster Rate (Aol, 3-12-11)
The hangover from
the over-fishing party (Climate Progress, 3-13-11)
We need a new industrial revolution, “but a pretty minor investment” considering
the “massive risk reduction” (Climate Progress, 3-15-11)
Stern calls CBO analysis of climate threat ‘ludicrous’ (Climate Progress,
3-16-11)
Canada's Forests Key
to Earth’s Water: Report (Common Dreams, 3-17-11)
If President Obama calls it safe, watch out (Grist, 3-17-11)
Washington vs. the Merciless (New York Times, 3-19-11)
Lester Brown: The Planet's Scarcest Resource Is Time (The Nation, 3-22-11)
Obama administration announces massive coal mining expansion (Grist,
3-23-11)
Time for Plan B: Our Civilization Is on the Edge of a Systemic Breakdown
(AlterNet, 3-26-11)
Why are Obama and Salazar pushing a massive expansion of coal production?
(Climate Progress, 3-26-11)
Report: A Carbon Price Won't Get You
Breakthrough Innovation (Breakthrough Institute, 3-28-11)
Google Earth reveals stark contrast between Sarawak's damaged forests and those
in neighboring Borneo states (Mongabay, 3-28-11)
Green bundler with
the golden touch (Public Integrity, 3-30-11)
Clean energy companies call on Congress to save loan guarantee program
(Climate Progress, 3-31-11)
March 2011 - Health
Living the Good Life in Europe: Ex-Pats Enjoy Better Health, Schools
(AlterNet, 3-1-11)
Scott Walker's Budget Defunds Planned Parenthood, Targets Contraception Access
(Huffington Post, 3-4-11)
Five Budget Cuts That Could Be Harmful to Your Health (Aol, 3-4-11)
Will health care law raise states' Medicaid costs? (McClatchy, 3-8-11)
First Anniversary: The
Incredible Shrinking Obama Health Care Law (Common Dreams, 3-22-11)
March 2011 - Religion
Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's sole Christian minister, is assassinated in Islamabad
(Washington Post, 3-2-11)
Drawing
U.S. Crowds With Anti-Islam Message (New York Times, 3-7-11)
Army Of Clones: Religious Right Leader Colson Commissions ‘Centurions’ For The
Culture War (Wall of Separation, 3-22-11)
3/4ths of Senate GOP Doesn't Believe in Science -- When Did Republicans Go
Completely Off the Deep End? (AlterNet, 3-22-11)
Did Missionaries Trigger the Witch-Hunts? (The Wild Hunt, 3-24-11)
Muslims in America: O’Brien Reports on Religious Tension in the Bible Belt
(CNN, 3-14-11)
Evangelical Christianity: Devils in high places (DNA, 3-27-11)
House Passes DC Vouchers, Bypasses DC Rights and Church-State Separation (PFAW,
3-30-11)
March 2011 - Foreign
China plans to track cellphone users, sparking human rights concerns
(Washington Post, 3-3-11)
Wen Jiabao Sees Billionaires When Communists Convene as Wealth Gap Widens
(Bloomberg, 3-4-11)
India’s Supreme Court allows ‘passive euthanasia’ (The Raw Story, 3-7-11)
Iraq's Revolt: Is Maliki Mubarak? (The Nation, 3-7-11)
Fear of intolerance grows in Iraq (Aljazeera, 3-9-11)
U.S. Federal Funds Still Underwriting Proselytizing in Haiti (The awl,
3-10-11)
The Islamic Republic of Chechnya (Foreign Policy, 3-15-11)
Pakistan army
chief Kayani in US drone outburst (BBC News, 3-17-11)
Pakistan: Calls
for revenge after US drones kill 40 (BBC, 3-18-11)
Liberal Democrats
in uproar over Libya action (Politico, 3-19-11)
Arab League condemns broad Western bombing campaign in Libya (Washington
Post, 3-20-11)
Strikes on Libya
set to slow, stalemate feared (Yahoo, 3-21-11)
Congress
Must Debate the Libya War (truthout, 3-21-11)
A Libyan Fight for Democracy, or a Civil War? (New York Times, 3-21-11)
Dennis Kucinich: Libya Air Strikes Could Be 'Impeachable Offense' (Huffington
Post, 3-21-11)
Congress Must Debate the
Libya War (Just Foreign Policy, 3-21-11)
The globalisation of revolution (Aljazeera, 3-21-11)
UN Secretary General forced to take refuge after being jostled by pro-Gaddafi
protesters in Cairo (Daily Mail, 3-21-11)
The Libyan war: Unconstitutional and illegitimate (Salon, 3-21-11)
World class 'hypocrisy' in Libyan attacks (The Final Call, 3-22-11)
What
Intervention in Libya Tells us About the Neocon-liberal Alliance
(Information Clearing House, 3-22-11)
The Libyan
War: Unconstitutional and Illegitimate (Information Clearing House, 3-22-11)
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox tells Four Arts audience he favors
legalizing drug use (Palm Beach Daily News, 3-22-11)
Bolivia: Does
Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize?! (Alarabiya, 3-22-11)
Transition to nowhere: The limits of "Afghanization" (Foreign Policy,
3-22-11)
Toxic Intervention: Are NATO Forces Poisoning Libya With Depleted Uranium as
They "Protect" Civilians? (truthout, 3-23-11)
Intervening in Libya
(Counter Punch, 3-23-11)
100,000 Libyan Casualties? (New York Times, 3-24-11)
North Korea Suggests Libya Should Have Kept Nuclear Program (New York Times,
3-24-11)
A Radical Kind of Reactor (New York Times, 3-24-11)
Gingrich Attacks Obama For Bombing Libya After First Demanding That Obama Bomb
Libya (MoveOn, 3-24-11)
Afghanistan: The Risks of Rising
Anti-American Feelings in Kabul (Eurasianet, 3-24-11)
Libya: The Humanitarian Emergency We See and the One We Don’t (Brookings,
3-25-11)
Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links (The
Telegraph, 3-25-11)
The Collapse of Globalization (truthdig, 3-27-11)
Greens force
historic change of power in German state elections (DW-World, 3-28-11)
The Real Cost Of U.S. In Libya? Two Billion Dollars Per Day. (Forbes,
3-28-11)
Russia must prepare
for new “Times of Troubles” says military analyst (RT, 3-28-11)
Pillage of a Continent (Kontext,
3-28-11)
Only Thing Clear About
Obama's Afghan Policy: It's a Disaster (Common Dreams, 3-29-11)
On Libya, where you stand depends on where you sit (Washington Post,
3-29-11)
China set to outstrip US in science research output (The Raw Story, 3-29-11)
VIDEO: A Stunning Look At China's Ghost Cities (Business Insider, 3-29-11)
Republican bill would halt ‘unauthorized’ U.S. strikes in Libya (The Raw
Story, 3-29-11)
Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already Established A New Central Bank Of
Libya (The Economic Collapse, 3-29-11)
Arming Libya rebels not allowed by UN resolutions, legal experts warn US
(Guardian, 3-30-11)
Exclusive: Obama authorizes secret help for Libya rebels (Reuters, 3-30-11)
Nicaragua cozies up to Libya (McClatchy, 3-30-11)
Brazil stares down the US on Libya (Aljazeera, 3-30-11)
Cairo Revolution Finds New Target: Free Market (Wall Street Journal,
3-31-11)
March 2011 - History
Lincoln urged free blacks to resettle abroad (CBS, 3-4-11)
Among the Hagiographers (Wall Street Journal, 3-26-11)
Mahatma Gandhi Reportedly Depicted As Bisexual, Racist In New Biography (Huffington
Post, 3-28-11)
The war against Libya in historical perspective (Answer Coalition, 3-30-11)
Otto von Bismarck, Master Statesman (New York Times, 3-31-11)
March 2011 - Miscellaneous
How Rumsfeld misleads and ducks responsibility in his new book (Foreign
Policy, 3-1-11)
Corporate 'Education
Reform': A Moment of National Insanity (Common Dreams, 3-1-11)
Wife’s Charity Offers Corporate Tie to a Governor (New York Times, 3-2-11)
Scientific Research Vital to Economic Growth (National Geographic, 3-2-11)
Fighting Over Crumbs Left from Military Spending (AlterNet, 3-3-11)
Exclusive: Legalization activists slam Obama’s renewed commitment to drug war
(The Raw Story, 3-4-11)
College Degrees Won't Shield Blacks From Unemployment (The Root, 3-5-11)
Degrees and Dollars (New York Times, 3-6-11)
The Curse of Involuntary Entrepreneurship (The Fiscal Times, 3-8-11)
Gingrich: U.S. Military Should Go To War With Libya ‘This Evening,’ NATO ‘Won’t
Bring Much To The Fight’ (Think Progress, 3-8-11)
92-year-old US Nuremberg prosecutor: US wars same as Nazi wars (Examiner,
3-8-11)
Duncan: 82 Percent Of US Schools May Be Labeled 'Failing' Under No Child Left
Behind Policies (Huffington Post, 3-9-11)
Exclusive: 2 million mentally ill people missing from national gun check system
(The Raw Story, 3-10-11)
The incredible shrinking US broadband plan (Financial Times, 3-10-11)
Van Jones: A Ladder To Climb (Our Future, 3-11-11)
The Globalists' Worst Nightmare (Black Listed News, 3-11-10)
The Pentagon’s Biggest Boondoggles (New York Times, 3-12-11)
Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants (Greg Palast, 3-14-11)
Our Time of
Universal Deceit Needs An Orwell (Information Clearing House, 3-14-11)
Bypassing the big guys to get broadband (Washington Post, 3-14-11)
For Housing Rebound, Once Again It's
Wait Until Next Year (CNBC, 3-14-11)
When A College Education Doesn't Help You Find A Job (Huffington Post,
3-16-11)
US building slump points to housing weakness (Financial Times, 3-16-11)
Student Loan Debt, Reframed (Inside Higher Ed, 3-16-11)
EDITORIAL: Obama’s illegal war (Washington Times, 3-18-11)
Nearly 20% of Florida homes are vacant (Yahoo, 3-18-11)
Obama Attacks Libya, and Where's Congress? (American Thinker, 3-20-11)
Educated, Unemployed and Frustrated (New York Times, 3-20-11)
U.S. may strengthen identity verification system for workers (Washington
Post, 3-21-11)
Glenn Greenwald: How the US Government Strikes Fear in Its Own Citizens and
People Around the World (AlterNet, 3-21-11)
We’re
Number One! (Yes Magazine, 3-22-11)
Haunting Images Of Detroit's Decline (Huffington Post, 3-23-11)
A Digital Library Better Than Google’s (New York Times, 3-23-11)
Say hello to Google's online magazine (CNN, 3-24-11)
Obama's Unconstitutional War (Foreign Policy, 3-24-11)
The Politicization of Child Hunger (Huffington Post, 3-25-11)
Nonprofits Must Stand Up and Fight for Themselves, or Perish (Huffington
Post, 3-25-11)
Palestine comes to Hollywood (Aljazeera, 3-25-11)
Top Bush-era GITMO and
Abu Ghraib Psychologist is White House's Newest Appointment (Common Dreams,
3-26-11)
We're all living in the future as seen by Philip K Dick (Guardian, 3-26-11)
The cost of small class size (Washington Post, 3-27-11)
Progressives Cry Out: "Obama, Come Home" (Huffington Post, 3-28-11)
‘No Real Hope In Sight’ As Case-Shiller Shows Housing Recession Still Here
(Forbes, 3-29-11)
Censorship: Made in the USA (Huffington Post, 3-30-11)
How to waste money and lives: the American prison system (Michael Moore,
3-30-11)
By the Time You Read This: Why the Mortgage Crisis Dwarfs Almost Everything
(Our Future, 3-31-11)
More Black Men Now in Prison System than Were Enslaved (AlterNet, 3-31-11)
February 2011 - Financial
Iceland Shows Ireland Did ‘Wrong Things’ Saving Banks (Bloomberg, 2-1-11)
The Paradox of Corporate Taxes (New York Times, 2-1-11)
CBO’s Latest Budget Projections: A Deteriorating Fiscal Outlook (From Peter
G Peterson Foundation, 2-1-11)
Governor Laser Beam (truthdig, 2-2-11)
The Ruinous Fiscal Impact of Big Banks (New York Times, 2-3-11)
Bad News: New Book Probes Role of Press in Financial Crisis (Huffington
Post, 2-5-11)
Taxes
(As A Percentage Of Economy) Drop To Lowest Level In 60 Years (Huffington
Post, 2-7-11)
Parrying the Big Cuts (New York Times, 2-7-11)
Fannie's Scandalized, Freddie's Dead - and the Next Financial Meltdown May Have
Already Started (Huffington Post, 2-9-11)
GOP leaders propose billions in cuts to Obama's budget request (Washington
Post, 2-9-11)
How the middle class became the underclass (CNN Money, 2-16-11)
Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? (Rolling Stone, 2-16-11)
House GOP Budget Proposal Slashes Energy Innovation Investments
(Breakthrough Institute, 2-18-11)
Biggest Fish Face Little Risk of Being Caught (New York Times, 2-25-11)
Democrats Deny Social Security’s Red Ink (Fact Check, 2-25-11)
REPORT:
You Have More Money In Your Wallet Than Bank Of America Pays In Federal Taxes
(Think Progress, 2-26-11)
A U.S. recovery that is built on low-paying jobs (Bloomberg, 2-27-11)
Mitch Daniels: Don't Focus On My Time As Bush's Budget Director (Huffington
Post, 2-27-11)
February 2011 - Environmental
Roundup: EPA concerned about chemical risks (USA Today, 2-1-11)
A Republican Leader Takes Aim at Ocean Protection (Huffington Post, 2-1-11)
Amazon drought
'severe' in 2010, raising warming fears (BBC News, 2-3-11)
China: the year in environment - in pictures (Guardian, 2-3-11)
India resists efforts to ban pesticide (Washington Post, 2-7-11)
Enduring TSCA myths: Absence of evidence of harm = evidence of absence of harm
(Environmental Defense Fund, 2-7-11)
Chu’s Department of Energy seeks to cut solar costs 75% by 2020 in its “Sun
Shot” program (Climate Progress, 2-7-11)
Second ‘100-year’ Amazon drought in 5 years caused huge CO2 emissions. If this
pattern continues, the forest would become a warming source. (Climate
Progress, 2-8-11)
The Range Fuels Fiasco (Wall Street Journal, 2-10-11)
E.U. Climate Chief Has Work Cut Out for Her (New York Times, 2-13-11)
Let’s stripmine life’s birthplace on Earth because we suck at recycling!
(Grist, 2-14-11)
House Republican budget cuts would strangle innovation (Grist, 2-14-11)
Coal's hidden costs top $345 billion in U.S.: study (Reuters, 2-16-11)
What
is coal’s true cost? (Grist, 2-16-11)
The Recovery Act: the most important energy bill in American history (Grist,
2-16-11)
NSIDC bombshell: Thawing permafrost feedback will turn Arctic from carbon sink
to source in the 2020s, releasing 100 billion tons of carbon by 2100 (TP,
2-17-11)
Scientist Finds Gulf Bottom Still Oily, Dead (Aol, 2-19-11)
The
Dirty Energy Party (New York Times, 2-21-11)
The UN Green Economy report – at a glance (Business Green, 2-21-11)
Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers (truth out, 2-21-11)
Senate Democrats' Aim to Invest in
Clean Energy, Innovation, Infrastructure (Breakthrough, 2-22-11)
Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years (National
Geographic, 2-22-11)
Global boost to genetically modified crops (CNN, 2-23-11)
Making Migration Impossible? (Defenders of Wildlife, 2-23-11)
Global warming rate could be halved by controlling 2 pollutants, U.N. study says
(Washington Post, 2-23-11)
Keeping Our Air and Water Clean Saves Money; GOP Plan to Handcuff the EPA Is
Costly (Switchboard, 2-24-11)
The
Corn Ultimatum: How long can Americans keep burning one sixth the world’s corn
supply in our cars? (Climate Progress, 2-24-11)
A special report on feeding the
world: No easy fix (The Economist, 2-24-11)
Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra lose 9% of forest cover in 8 years (Mongabay,
2-25-11)
No-till agriculture (The Economist, 2-25-11)
Could A Small Nuclear War Reverse Global Warming? (Huffington Post, 2-26-11)
Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers (New York Times,
2-26-11)
Profit Pathology and
Disposable Planet (Common Dreams, 2-27-11)
A Window Into the Nuclear Future (Wall Street Journal, 2-28-11)
February 2011 - Health
Awaiting Health Law’s Prognosis (New York Times, 2-1-11)
Officials Consider Requiring Insurers to Offer Free Contraceptives (New York
Times, 2-2-11)
Super Bowl Commercial
for the Dead Patients (Common Dreams, 2-5-11)
Care about population? About women? Then you should care that GOP is taking aim
at family planning (Grist, 2-10-11)
As They Seek to Ban Abortion, GOP Also Moves to Eliminate Title X Family
Planning Program (AlterNet, 2-10-11)
Ineffective and Unfair (Center for American Progress, 2-10-11)
Yes, oral sex is sex, and it can boost cancer risk (CNN, 2-20-11)
Republican governor suggests health care rationing (Raw Story, 2-27-11)
Governors Scramble to Rein In Medicaid (Wall Street Journal, 2-28-11)
February 2011 - History
Publisher defends book on Polish plunder of Jews (Washington Post, 2-9-11)
Mao's famine" -- because imperialism never starved anyone to death (Marxist
Update Blog, 2-25-11)
Can the Arab world leave anti-Semitism behind? (Washington Post, 2-28-11)
February 2011 - Foreign
Report: Torture in Egypt rampant amid impunity for security forces (CNN,
2-1-11)
No
Quick Fix for Arab Youth's Economic Woes (Spiegel Online, 2-3-11)
Bonfire of American Vanities (New York Times, 2-3-11)
After Mubarak (National Journal, 2-3-11)
Digital revolutionaries change Arab region (CNN, 2-4-11)
US principles clash with its interests (Financial Times, 2-4-11)
In Venezuela, an American Has the President’s Ear (New York Times, 2-4-11)
Wallflowers at
the Revolution (New York Times, 2-5-11)
The death of Israeli democracy (Aljazeera, 2-6-11)
‘Signs of Change’ Says
Bolivia’s Morales as World Social Forum Open (IPS, 2-6-11)
U.S. Pakistan Aid Makes Little Progress (Wall Street Journal, 2-8-11)
WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices
(Guardian, 2-8-11)
Rumsfeld's flight of fancy on Iraq (Washington Post, 2-9-11)
Afghan Rights Groups Shift Focus to Taliban (New York Times, 2-9-11)
Saudis Tell Obama: Don't Humiliate Mubarak (Aol, 2-10-11)
Lack of Materials Bogs Down Gaza Reconstruction (Aol, 2-12-11)
Erekat quits over Palestine Papers (Aljazeera, 2-13-11)
Israel Rebuffs United Nations Inquiries on Desecration of Ancient Jerusalem
Cemetery (CCR, 2-17-11)
Why
Germany Must End its Deployment in Afghanistan (Spiegel Online, 2-18-11)
In aftermath of shooting, rising skepticism about American presence in Pakistan
(Washington Post, 2-22-11)
If Not Now, When? (New York Times, 2-22-11)
No
Other Way Out (truthdig, 2-28-11)
February 2011 - Miscellaneous
WAR: Apple Blocks Sony E-Reader App, Kindle Might Be Next (Business Insider,
2-1-11)
What's Behind The Drive To Redefine Rape In New And Insane Ways? (Huffington
Post, 2-1-11)
The
Death of American Exceptionalism (The Nation, 2-2-11)
The Youth Unemployment Bomb (Bloomberg, 2-2-11)
Congress calls out Facebook (CNN, 2-4-11)
The Siege of Planned Parenthood (New York Times, 2-4-11)
Internet is easy prey for governments (CNN, 2-5-11)
The last thing our hungry world needs is more food (Daily Mail, 2-6-11)
Live Webcast: The Net Delusion - The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (Open
Society Foundation, 2-7-11)
Devoutly To Be Wished
(Common Dreams, 2-7-11)
Torturing Democracy
(truthout, 2-8-11)
House Republicans to Fight Obama's Passenger-Rail Plans (Wall Street
Journal, 2-9-11)
Payday Lenders Join With Indian Tribes (Wall Street Journal, 2-10-11)
Where are the workers? (The
Economist, 2-10-11)
Exclusive: 2 million mentally ill people missing from national gun check system
(Raw Story, 2-10-11)
When Democracy Weakens (New York Times, 2-11-11)
Abraham Lincoln 'wanted to deport slaves' to new colonies (The Telegraph,
2-11-11)
Simply the Worst (New York Times, 2-12-11)
Allen West CPAC Speech Closes Conservative Conference (Huffington Post,
2-12-11)
‘They want Davis, we want Aafia’ (The Nation, 2-14-11)
AFL-CIO and Chamber Ask For a Gas Tax Increase, Senators Agree (DC Streets,
2-16-11)
Data Seen Overwhelming Cell Networks (New York Times, 2-16-11)
New Hacking Tools Pose Bigger Threats to Wi-Fi Users (New York Times,
2-16-11)
Former CIA analyst accosted during Clinton speech about tolerating free
expression (The Raw Story, 2-17-11)
Digital
Age Is Slow to Arrive in Rural America (New York Times, 2-17-11)
Raymond Davis, Held in Pakistan Shootings, Worked With C.I.A. (New York
Times, 2-19-11)
The Indictment for Torture Filed Against George W. Bush (Part One: The Facts)
(Andy Worthington, 2-19-11)
A CIA spy, a hail of bullets, three killed and a US-Pakistan diplomatic row
(Guardian, 2-20-11)
Opinion: Was George Washington a Christian? (Aol, 2-22-11)
Two-Thirds of Wisconsin Public-School 8th Graders Can’t Read Proficiently -
Despite Highest Per Pupil Spending in Midwest (CNS News, 2-22-11)
Super-stealth sub powered by fuel cell (CNN, 2-22-11)
Newt Gingrich Challenged by Ivy Leaguer on Extramarital Affair (Politics
Daily, 2-23-11)
Trapped: The Fed Has Painted Itself Into a Corner (Daily Finance, 2-23-11)
US: Lack of Paid Leave Harms Workers, Children (Human Rights Watch, 2-23-11)
Hilarious Koch Prank May Reveal Serious Ethics Violations By Wisconsin Governor
Scott Walker (AlterNet, 2-24-11)
All-American Decline in a New World (truthout, 2-24-11)
Obama’s F-35 sales push (Global Post, 2-24-11)
The Governor Who Cut His State Down to Size (Wall Street Journal, 2-26-11)
Facebook To Share Users' Home Addresses, Phone Numbers With External Sites (Huffington
Post, 2-28-11)
January 2011 - Financial
Is Fannie bailing out the banks? (CNN, 1-3-11)
New governors could drown in red ink (CNN, 1-5-11)
Census: Number of
Poor May Be Millions Higher (Common Dreams, 1-5-11)
Hard-Hit Cities May Not Fully Heal for Years (Wall Street Journal, 1-6-11)
New York's Spending on the Afghanistan War Is Larger Than Its Budget Hole (Huffington
Post, 1-7-11)
Evidence of an American Plutocracy: the Larry Summers Story (truthout,
1-10-11)
Exclusive: America has ‘reached the point of no return,’ Reagan budget director
warns (Raw Story, 1-10-11)
Downturn's Ugly Trademark: Steep, Lasting Drop in Wages (Wall Street
Journal, 1-11-10)
The Tax Deal's Biggest Losers: 40 Million Low-Wage Workers Who Will See Their
Taxes Go Up This Year (truthout, 1-11-11)
A Primer on the The
Student Loan Debt Bubble (Common Dreams, 1-11-11)
The Fed Has Spoken: No Bailout for Main Street (truthout, 1-14-11)
Big Bank Bailout Redux (truthout, 1-14-11)
China’s lending hits new heights (Financial Times, 1-17-11)
US public pensions face $2,500bn shortfall (Financial Times, 1-17-11)
What’s Good for G.M. Is Good For Homeowners (New York Times, 1-19-11)
America must brace itself for turbulence (Financial Times, 1-20-11)
A Path Is Sought for States to Escape Their Debt Burdens (New York Times,
1-20-11)
America: An uncertain outlook (Financial Times, 1-21-11)
Churches Find End Is Nigh (Wall Street Journal, 1-25-11)
Financial Meltdown Was ‘Avoidable,’
Inquiry Concludes (CNBC, 1-25-11)
Why You Can't Trust the Inflation Numbers (Wall Street Journal, 1-26-11)
Corporate Tax Code Proves Hard to Change (New York Times, 1-27-11)
How Obama's speech muddied the budget debate (Washington Post, 1-27-11)
AAA Rating Is Tough to Defend as U.S. Debt Soars: Kevin Hassett (Washington
Post, 1-30-11)
January 2011 - Environment
China declares nuclear breakthrough (Aljazeera, 1-3-11)
More bee species dying off (Grist, 1-4-11)
Tax on Carbon: The
Only Way to Save Our Planet? (Common Dreams, 1-4-11)
More bee species dying off (Grist, 1-4-11)
Tap Water &
Chemicals: Debating Worries (On Point, 1-5-11)
Public Resistance Grows to New 'Monster' Power Masts (Spiegel Online,
1-5-10)
A near-sisyphusian task: EPA soldiers on to require more testing under TSCA
(Environmental Defense Fund, 1-5-11)
Two Million Dead Fish Appear in Chesapeake Bay (CBS, 1-5-11)
Endocrine Disruptors Linked To Genital Changes and Sexual Preference (Living
on Earth, 1-7-11)
China’s Galloping Wind Market (New York Times, 1-11-11)
Floods threaten Great Barrier Reef, La Niña to blame (CNN, 1-12-11)
The Tragic State of the Gulf of Mexico: Sampling Reveals Oil and Dispersants on
Mississippi Coast (truthout, 1-12-11)
Brazil's
environment chief resigns over controversial Amazon dam (Mongabay, 1-14-11)
Amount of carbon absorbed
by ecosystems each year is grossly overstated, says new study (ENN, 1-17-11)
Memo to Hu and Obama: Water and Energy Choke Points Merit Time at the China-U.S.
Summit (onearth, 1-18-11)
Apple faces pollution storm in China (Financial Times, 1-19-11)
Presidents Obama, Hu: Declare Global Climate Emergency, say Green Business
Leaders, NGOs (Sustainable Business, 1-20-11)
How Genghis Khan
cooled the planet (Mongabay, 1-20-11)
GM food needed to avert global crisis, says Government adviser (Telegraph,
1-24-11)
Genghis Khan the GREEN: Invader killed so many people that carbon levels
plummeted (Mail Online, 1-25-11)
Republican rep halts House composting program to make room for all-new garbage
(Grist, 1-26-11)
We need trains to ‘win the future’—so get over that deficit hysteria (Grist,
1-26-11)
Obama rejects post-partisan power: You can’t create clean energy jobs with R&D
alone (Climate Progress, 1-27-11)
New melt record for
Greenland ice sheet (Environmental News Network, 1-27-11)
Dirty Business Film Investigates “Clean Coal” Technology (Ryse, 1-27-11)
Obama and GOP Should Cut Red Tape Blocking Tribe's Green Energy (Huffington
Post, 1-31-11)
The Carbon Tax Miracle Cure (Wall Street Journal, 1-31-11)
January 2011 - Health
Health Spending Eats Up Record Chunk of GDP (Wall Street Journal, 1-6-11)
Pollutants' Passage
From Mother To Child (C&EN, 1-5-11)
The Antibiotics Crisis (Huffington Post, 1-12-11)
With House debate set, up to half of people under 65 have preexisting conditions
(Washington Post, 1-18-11)
Healthcare
finally crosses the great European divide (DW-World, 1-20-11)
January 2011 - Religion
New Alabama Governor Says Non-Christians 'Not My Brother, Not My Sister'
(Politics Daily, 1-19-11)
Franklin Graham Says Tucson Memorial Service 'Scoffed' at Jesus (Politics
Daily, 1-20-11)
Our Government-Funded Mission to Make Haiti Christian: Your Tax Dollars, Billy
Graham's Son, Monsanto and Sarah Palin (The Awl, 1-20-11)
January 2011- Foreign
Why China's missiles should be our focus (Washington Post, 1-2-11)
Party pulls out of Pakistan's ruling coalition, threatening government
(Washington Post, 1-3-11)
$55 Billion Down The Drain? U.S. can't account for aid dollars in Afghanistan
(Rethink Afghanistan, 1-3-11)
A Real December Review
for Afghanistan (Common Dreams, 1-3-11)
Child scavenges for family's survival in Afghanistan (CNN, 1-4-11)
Pakistan Assassin Had Revealed Plans (Wall Street Journal, 1-5-11)
Letter From Karachi
(Foreign Affairs, 1-6-11)
Haiti Earthquake Anniversary: Little Progress, Broken Promises (Huffington
Post, 1-7-11)
Iceland protests over US probe of lawmaker (Financial Times, 1-8-11)
A
Pakistani Assassin’s Long Reach (New York Times, 1-8-11)
Thousands demonstrate in support of Pakistan's blasphemy law (CNN, 1-10-11)
Why Mexico is such a mess (Grist, 1-10-11)
Pakistan Faces a Divide of Age on Muslim Law (New York Times, 1-10-11)
Few Foreclosures, No Bank Failures: Canada Offers Lessons (truthout,
1-11-11)
Israel's Assault on Human Rights (The Nation, 1-12-11)
WikiLeaks Exposes the Danger of Pakistan’s Nukes (truthdig, 1-13-11)
Egypt is Not
Tunisia, But... (truthout, 1-15-11)
Israeli troops seize 10 year old from the
streets of Silwan (Silwan, 1-21-11)
Tony Blair Redux
(The Nation, 1-21-11)
Relatives of Pakistani Drone Victims to Sue CIA (Spiegel Online, 1-21-11)
Setbacks Plague U.S. Aid to Pakistan (Wall Street Journal, 1-21-11)
Israel: The ugly truth (Aljazeera, 1-22-11)
Israeli intolerance shows up on Internet, in Knesset, on the street (Los
Angeles Times, 1-23-11)
Haiti and the Aid
Racket (Counter Punch, 1-24-11)
NGOs in
Haiti: "The Handmaidens of Imperial Domination" (Information Clearing House,
1-26-11)
The Taliban in Pakistan: We've got a bigger problem now (CNN, 1-27-11)
Fear Extreme Islamists in the Arab World? Blame Washington (truthout,
1-29-11)
What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt (truthdig, 1-30-11)
New estimates put Pakistan's nuclear arsenal at more than 100 (The
Washington Post, 1-31-11)
Pakistani Nuclear Arms Pose Challenge to U.S. Policy (New York Times,
1-31-11)
January 2011 - Miscellaneous
WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us
(AlterNet, 1-3-11)
The State of Native
America: Very Unemployed and Mostly Ignored (Common Dreams, 1-4-11)
The Shameful Attack on Public Employees (Huffington Post, 1-5-11)
Needed: A 12-Step Program for the Warmongers - The Pentagon Has Been Hooked on
Empire for 30 Years (AlterNet, 1-5-11)
Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy (truthout,
1-6-11)
9 Essential Questions About Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks (AlterNet, 1-8-11)
Teens say: Please give us decent sex ed! (Grist, 1-8-11)
Spinning
Unemployment in a Collapsing Empire (Information Clearing House, 1-10-11)
Kerry Warns of “New Sputnik Moment,”
Calls for Bipartisan Investment Strategy (Americans for Energy Leadership,
1-11-11)
If you read only one John Kerry speech today ... (Washington Post, 1-11-11)
NGOs, an Extension of
US Foreign Policy (Common Dreams, 1-13-11)
Why WikiLeaks Matters
(Common Dreams, 1-14-11)
Is Fascism Lurking?
(Common Dreams, 1-14-11)
Where News Is Power, a Fight to Be Well-Armed (New York Times, 1-17-11)
US democracy has little to teach China (Financial Times, 1-17-11)
45% Of Students Don't Learn Much In College (Huffington Post, 1-18-11)
Security Systems Are Vulnerable Says
Government Expert (CNBC, 1-19-11)
Technology: A dip in the Valley (Financial Times, 1-19-11)
Boeing's Dreamliner Delays: Outsourcing Goes Too Far (Daily Finance,
1-21-11)
Final Countdown: Keith Olbermann And MSNBC Announce They Are Parting Ways (Huffington
Post, 1-21-11)
Across Country, Lawmakers Push Abortion Curbs (New York Times, 1-21-11)
"Greatest Nation" Rhetoric Roars Back (truthout, 1-23-11)
Is America Too Corrupt to Keep Up? (truthdig, 1-21-11)
27 Signs That America’s Poverty Class Is Rapidly Becoming Larger Than America’s
Middle Class (The American Dream, 1-25-11)
Wall Street Partying in Davos as Crisis Angst Fades (Bloomberg, 1-25-11)
It's time for Obama to say Kefaya! (Aljazeera, 1-25-11)
Remarks by the President in State of Union Address (The White House,
1-25-11)
Obama Irks Community Organizers (Wall Street Journal, 1-26-11)
The Top 10 Things to Do to Compete with China (Science Progress, 1-26-11)
Single Payer, Arabs,
Vietnam Vets, and the Internet (Common Dreams, 1-27-11)
China dims prospects for Silicon Valley jobs (Financial Times, 1-28-11)
Inequality
In America Is Worse Than In Egypt, Tunisia Or Yemen (Information Clearing
House, 1-29-11)
Obama, Incorporated (Huffington Post, 1-29-11)
Foresight’s Global Food & Farming Futures report pushes GM crops (Food
Freedom, 1-29-11)
Where's the Protest at Home? (Huffington Post, 1-30-11)
Nearly 11 Percent of US Houses Empty
(CNBC, 1-31-11)
Bush’s Daughter, in a Break, Endorses Gay Marriage (New York Times, 1-31-11)
Low-wage jobs dominated hiring so far in job market recovery (CNN, 1-31-11)
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)
Iñupiaq 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)
June 2010 - Financial
The Case Against Keynes (With Some Questions for Krugman, Too) (The New
Republic, 6-1-10)
Wealth Gap
Yawns--and So Do Media (Common Dreams, 6-2-10)
With $1.4 Billion in Cannabis Tax Revenue, California Could Help Millions (Firedoglake,
6-3-10)
Financial Crisis Has 'Only Entered
Act II:' Soros (CNBC, 6-10-10)
Fannie-Freddie Fix at $160 Billion With $1 Trillion Worst Case (Bloomberg,
6-13-10)
Lenders go after money lost in foreclosures (Washington Post, 6-16-10)
Outlook for Home Prices Grows Darker (Wall Street Journal, 6-23-10)
UK's new budget is a house of horrors (MSN Money, 6-23-10)
World debt (Economist, 6-24-10)
Derivatives laws could cost companies
$1 trillion: ISDA (CNBC, 6-29-10)
Fannie-Freddie Bailout Could Cost
Taxpayers $1 Trillion (CNBC, 6-30-10)
US Showed Extra Forgiveness for Big
Banks in AIG Bailout (New York Times, 6-30-10)
Why The Greater Depression Still Lies Ahead (Forbes, 6-30-10)
June 2010 - Environmental
Indonesia Takes Concrete Steps to Address Deforestation as a Part of Agreement
with Norway (Switchboard, 6-1-10)
BP Clashes with
Scientists over Deep Sea Oil Pollution (Common Dreams, 6-1-10)
BP oil disaster is Cheney’s Katrina (Climate Progress, 6-2-10)
Industry Claims of 'Proven' Technology Went Unchallenged at MMS (New York
Times, 6-2-10)
Gulf Oil Spill: Latest Federal Government Estimate Still Understates Oil Flow
(Huffington Post, 6-3-10)
The Next
Drilling Disaster? (The Nation, 6-3-10)
Chinese coal-mining city is world's most polluted (VBS.TV, 6-3-10)
The Next
Drilling Disaster? (The Nation, 6-3-10)
Superweed Outbreak Triggers Arms Race (Wall Street Journal, 6-4-10)
The Next Great Coal
Spill? Massey's Billion Gallon Disaster in Waiting (Common Dreams, 6-4-10)
Greenwashing Corn:
Industrial Ag Tries to Bolster Its Tarnished Image (Common Dreams, 6-4-10)
In gulf oil spill's long reach, ecological damage could last decades
(Washington Post, 6-6-10)
Looking for Liability in BP’s Gulf Oil Spill (New York Times, 6-7-10)
Indian court finds chemical execs guilty in Bhopal disaster (CNN, 6-7-10)
White House
chief tied to BP adviser (World Net Daily, 6-7-10)
Massive flow of BS continues to gush from BP (Climate Progress, 6-7-10)
German Expert Says "Kill, Don't Clean" Oil Spill Birds (HULIQ, 6-7-10)
Reports at BP over years find history of problems (Washington Post, 6-8-10)
Norway bans deepwater oil drilling (Financial Times, 6-8-10)
Irony-gate: Signs at BP stations tell customers they are “responsible for any
spills.” (Climate Progress, 6-8-10)
Cheney’s culture of deregulation and corruption (Climate Progress, 6-8-10)
Gulf Oil Spill: Cleaning Animals Largely Futile, Scientists Says (Huffington
Post, 6-10-10)
BP’s Mess, and Wall Street’s (New York Times, 6-10-10)
Scientists offer varied estimates, all high, on size of BP oil leak
(Washington Post, 6-11-10)
Thad Allen Under Fire For Oil Spill Response (Huffington Post, 6-11-10)
Vital
River Is Withering, and Iraq Has No Answer (New York Times, 6-12-10)
Sierra Club and Gang Green: Oil Spill Cleanup “Just Fine” (Firedoglake,
6-14-10)
BP Storm: Tulane Prof Oliver Houck Warned for Decades of Peril of Lax Energy
Regulation (Politics Daily, 6-14-10)
Did BP's Rig Pass A Key Safety Test—Or Not? (Mother Jones, 6-15-10)
Gulf Oil Spill:
What Obama Is Overlooking (Common Dreams, 6-15-10)
Oil Spill Reality Check: New
Oil Rigs or New Fuels (Global Renewable Fuels Alliance, 6-15-10)
BP Oil Spill May Not
Be Capped Until Christmas, Expert Warns (Common Dreams, 6-16-10)
Obama Oil Spill Speech Fact Check (Huffington Post, 6-16-10)
Oil Crud in Worker’s Lungs.
EPA’s Failure. (Firedoglake, 6-17-10)
Studies suggest MMS knew blowout preventers had 'critical' flaws (Christian
Science Monitor, 6-17-10)
BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by
Coast Guard (ABC News, 6-18-10)
Overlooked Danger in Gulf Oil Spill: Methane (Aol News, 6-19-10)
The oily operators behind the religious climate change disinformation front
group, Cornwall Alliance (Climate Progress, 6-19-10)
Study: Millions in Bangladesh exposed to arsenic in drinking water (CNN,
6-20-10)
Regulators Failed
to Address Risks in Oil Rig Fail-Safe Device (New York Times, 6-20-10)
Details Emerge on Weakness in Well Design (Dot Earth, 6-21-10)
A Grim Outlook for
Emissions As Climate Talks Limp Forward (environment 360, 6-21-10)
Four Possible BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come (AlterNet, 6-22-10)
A New Generation of Natural Gas Drilling Is Endangering Communities From the
Rockies to New York (AlterNet, 6-22-10)
The permanent oil slick no one is talking about (France 24, 6-23-10)
BP Relied on Faulty U.S. Data (Wall Street Journal, 6-24-10)
Report: Toxins
Found in Whales Bode Ill for Humans (Common Dreams, 6-25-10)
Giant oil skimmer makes stop in Norfolk on way to Gulf oil cleanup (Daily
Press, 6-25-10)
Little Spent on Oil
Spill Cleanup Technology (Common Dreams, 6-26-10)
Coal plant dousing faster than expected (Financial Times, 6-27-10)
Making biofuels a national industry by moving beyond conventional corn ethanol.
(Switchboard, 6-28-10)
Study links bee decline to cell phones (CNN. 6-30-10)
Kucinich to introduce bill for cell phone radiation research, warning label
(Washington Post, 6-30-10)
Banned
Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster (New York Times, 6-30-10)
MacDonald: Damage from Gulf Disaster
Will Last Lifetime (CNBC, 6-30-10)
June 2010 - Health
ObamaCare's Ever-Rising Price Tag (Wall Street Journal, 6-3-10)
The
Doctor Payment Follies (New York Times, 6-4-10)
Cobra payment aid appears likely to end (Mearket Watch, 6-6-10)
Retirements by baby-boomer doctors, nurses could strain overhaul (Washington
Post, 6-14-10)
5 painful health-care lessons from Massachusetts (Fortune, 6-15-10)
Low Medicare pay for doctors puts health reform at risk (Washington Post,
6-19-10)
100,000 Americans Die Each Year from Prescription Drugs, While Pharma Companies
Get Rich (AlterNet, 6-25-10)
June 2010 - Religion
Afghans Protests Agains Christian Aid Groups (6-10-10)
Familiar Jesus statue destroyed by act of God (Clarionledger, 6-15-10)
Ohio's Jesus statue is latest religious statue to be struck by lightning
(Washington Post, 6-16-10)
Baby Dies After Mother Chokes Her With Bible Pages (Jezebel, 6-17-10)
June 2010 - Foreign
Mossad chief: Israel gradually becoming burden on U.S. (Haaretz, 6-1-10)
US Media Pulls Punches on Flotilla Assault (The Nation, 6-1-10)
Our
Leaders Are Responsible for Europe's Crisis (Spiegel Online, 6-2-10)
Karzai
Is Said to Doubt West Can Defeat Taliban (New York Times, 6-11-10)
Israel Agonistes
(The Nation, 6-2-10)
Cameron Warns Britons of ‘Decades’ of Austerity (New York Times, 6-7-10)
India's Welfare Gamble: Add 100 Million to the Rolls (Wall Street Journal,
6-8-10)
The Real
Threat Aboard the Freedom Flotilla (Information Clearing House, 6-8-10)
Pakistani agents
'funding and training Afghan Taliban' (BBC News, 6-13-10)
Saudis act aggressively to denounce terrorism (Washington Post, 6-13-10)
Children Carry Guns for a U.S. Ally, Somalia (New York Times, 6-13-10)
Iraq's new parliament convenes but defers on appointing leaders (Washington
Post, 6-15-10)
Lessons From Somalia’s Young Soldiers (New York Times, 6-15-10)
A
chat with Chávez (Financial Times, 6-18-10)
Can
Democracy Work in Central Asia? (Spiegel Online, 6-21-10)
5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced -- Think That Bothers War
Boosters Like Christopher Hitchens? (AlterNet, 6-21-10)
Pakistan conflicted over targeting rising extremists in its heartland
(Washington Post, 6-22-10)
Lack of electricity and water puts Iraqis on edge during heat of summer
(Washington Post, 6-23-10)
It
is time to rethink the west’s Afghan strategy (Financial Times, 6-24-10)
Petraeus' Link to Troubling Suicide in Iraq: The Ted Westhusing Story (The
Nation, 6-25-10)
Hitler film exposes India's interest in dictator (Yahoo News, 6-25-10)
We Spend $1 Billion/Year Fighting Each al Qaeda Member in Afghanistan (emptywheel,
6-27-10)
China pushing the envelope on science, and sometimes ethics (Washinton Post,
6-28-10)
The Two Sides of a Barbed-Wire Fence (New York Times, 6-30-10)
June 2010 - History
Newly
Discovered Film Shows Post-War Executions (Spiegel Online, 6-2-10)
The Holocaust in Lithuania: One man's crusade to bring justice (CNN, 6-3-10)
June 2010 - Miscellaneous
A
Storyteller Loses the Story Line (New York Times, 6-1-10)
U.N.
Report Highly Critical of U.S. Drone Attacks (New York Times, 6-2-10)
'Vanity' Press Goes Digital (Wall Street Journal, 6-2-10)
U.N. Report Highly Critical of U.S. Drone Attacks (New York Times, 6-2-10)
Along Came "Jones": Why My Generation Isn't Saving the World (Huffington
Post, 6-7-10)
China: The new Silicon Valley? (CNN, 6-10-10)
In China, unrest spreads as more workers rally (Washington Post, 6-11-10)
Obama
Takes a Hard Line Against Leaks to Press (New York Times, 6-11-10)
The Separation of Politics and State (New York Times, 6-11-10)
Long Road to Adulthood Is Growing Even Longer (New York Times, 6-11-10)
Reagan Revolution Home To Roost -- In Charts (Our Future, 6-15-10)
Record Number of US Kids Facing Summer of Hunger (Aol News, 6-16-10)
UN Report Documents Secret
Detention Practices by U.S., Other Countries (Firedoglake, 6-16-10)
UN
warns of gangs’ global muscle (Financial Times, 6-17-10)
National Enquirer says it decided not to pay for Gore sex story interview
(Washington Post, 6-25-10)
Obama 'Internet kill switch' plan approved by US Senate panel (Techworld,
6-25-10)
May 2010 - Financial
The trillion-dollar fraud (Salon, 5-1-10)
Albany charter cash cow: Big banks making a bundle on new construction as
schools bear the cost (5-7-10)
Washington's $1 Trillion Opportunity (Wall Street Journal, 5-25-10)
Senate Approves $60 Billion For War, While House Cuts $24 Billion For Unemployed
Workers And State Aid (Huffington Post, 5-27-10)
Will Wall Street Go Free? (New York Times, 5-27-10)
Placing the Blame as Students Are Buried in Debt (New York Times, 5-28-10)
May 2010 - Environmental
Is BP the Goldman Sachs of Big Oil? CEO Hayward says to fellow executives: “What
the hell did we do to deserve this?” (Climate Progress, 5-2-10)
Limbaugh, Scientists Square Off on Oil Spill Cleanup (ABC News, 5-3-10)
The
effects of 118 years of industrial fishing on UK bottom trawl fisheries
(Nature Communications, 5-4-10)
U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
(Washington Post, 5-5-10)
Speaking at trade association supported by BP, Gov. Perry claims rig disaster is
an ‘act of God’ (Climate Progress, 5-5-10)
BP Oil Spill, NYC Terror Plot: Limbaugh & Co. Go Nuts (Politics Daily,
5-5-10)
UK Fish Stocks Down 94% From a Century Ago - Amount of Fish Caught Peaked Before
World War Two (Treehugger, 5-5-10)
New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer (New York Times, 5-5-10)
Groundhog Day for Oil (New York Times, 5-5-10)
There
Will Be Blood (Mother Jones, 5-5-10)
U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
(Washington Post, 5-5-10)
Graham says climate bill cannot pass Senate (Post Politics, 5-7-10)
Regulator
Deferred to Oil Industry on Rig Safety (New York Times, 5-7-10)
AP: Oil Blowout Preventers Known to Fail (CBS News, 5-8-10)
Nature
loss 'to damage economies' (BBC News, 5-10-10)
Report: Biodiversity
Loss Puts Essentials of Life Under Threat (Common Dreams, 5-10-10)
UN fears ‘irreversible’ damage to natural environment (The Raw Story,
5-10-10)
New Jersey-sized dead zone envelops Gulf Coast (Climate Progress, 5-11-10)
Seafloor Fish Nearly Wiped Out off U.K. (National Geographic, 5-12-10)
BP Waives Responsibility -- Health Effects of Oil Cleanup Could Be Deadly (Huffington
Post, 5-13-10)
The Secret, 700-Million-Gallon Oil Fix That Worked — and Might Save the Gulf
(Esquire, 5-13-10)
Where's The Oil? Your Government Doesn't Really Know (Huffington Post,
5-14-10)
BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’ (truthdig, 5-17-10)
Oil spill imperils an unseen world at the bottom of the gulf (Washington
Post, 5-16-10)
China on the Path towards Putting a Price on Carbon (Switchboard, 5-16-10)
Disaster Hot Spots on a Crowding Planet (New York Times, 5-17-10)
EPA SCIENCE DIVORCED
FROM NEEDS AND DISCOMBOBULATED (Peer, 5-18-10)
Thirst
of the cities drives the giant drills to water China's parched north (Guardian.co.uk,
5-18-10)
U.S. doubts global emission targets in climate deal (Grist, 5-19-10)
U.S. National Academy of Sciences labels as “settled facts” that “the Earth
system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human
activities” (Climate Progress, 5-19-10)
Africa's Oil Spills
Are Far From U.S. Media Glare (Common Dreams, 5-19-10)
CDC misled District residents about lead levels in water, House probe finds
(Washington Post, 5-20-10)
Fox
in the Hen House: BP Exec at MMS (Mother Jones, 5-24-10)
Why Were BP Executives Hired For MMS? Fox, Meet Henhouse. (Crooks and Liars,
5-25-10)
DID ANYONE ACTUALLY
READ BP’S OIL SPILL RESPONSE PLAN? (PEER, 5-25-10)
More Reports of Illness Emerge Among Gulf Cleanup Workers (ProPublica,
5-26-10)
Beeline to Extinction
(Common Dreams, 5-26-10)
James Carville To Obama On Oil Spill (Huffington Post, 5-26-10)
Deforestation
conference in Norway looks to developed world for cash (DW-World, 5-27-10)
Time for Salazar to
Go? (The Nation, 5-27-10)
22-Mile Oil Plume Under Gulf Nears Rich Waters (Huffington Post, 5-28-10)
Our
Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill (New York Times, 5-28-10)
Gulf Oil Spill: Meet the Blow Out Preventer (Huffington Post, 5-28-10)
Phillippe Cousteau To Bill Maher: Even Before Oil Spill, The Oceans Couldn't
Take Any More (Video) (Huffington Post, 5-29-10)
Gulf of
Mexico oil leak 'worst US environment disaster' (BBC News, 5-30-10)
After Fix Fail, a Dispiriting Summer of Oil, Anger (Aol News, 5-30-10)
Nigeria's Agony
Dwarfs the Gulf Oil Spill. The US and Europe Ignore It (Common Dreams,
5-30-10)
UN climate talks
resume but no deal on the horizon (DW-World, 5-31-10)
What could possibly go wrong? (Climate Progress, 5-31-10)
Top Hat and Tails; BP Has Yet Another “Solution” (Firedoglake, 5-31-10)
BP CEO: Sickened Cleanup Workers Probably Have Food Poisoning (Firedoglake,
5-31-10)
Agriculture Takes Over The World (Treehugger, 5-31-10)
A Spill Afar: Should It Matter? (New York Times, 5-31-10)
Gulf Oil Spill: Massive Underwater Plumes Spell Disaster, Scientists Say (Huffington
Post, 5-31-10)
Spillonomics: Underestimating Risk (New York Times, 5-31-10)
BP To Gov't Last Year: We Can Handle A 300,000 Barrels-Per-Day Spill Just Fine
(TPM, 5-31-10)
May 2010 - Health
Icelanders Enjoy Top Spot on Wellness Chart (Aol News, 5-1-10)
Cancer Panel Warning: Babies Born Pre-Polluted (Simple Steps, 5-8-10)
Disabled Face Hard Choices as States Slash Medicaid (Wall Street Journal,
5-20-10)
New Threats to U.S. Blood Supply (Wall Street Journal, 5-24-10)
5
toxics that are everywhere: Protect yourself (CNN, 5-31-10)
May 2010 - Religion
Christian ‘Doctrine’
Fueled Dehumanization: UNPFII Report (Common Dreams, 5-3-10)
The Franklin Graham Crusade (Washington Post, 5-4-10)
Obliterating' Iraq's Christians (5-14-10)
May 2010 - Foreign
China's Cut-Throat Railway Revolution (Spiegel Online, 5-3-10)
Settlers intend to vandalize mosques, defense officials learn (Haaretz,
5-5-10)
On
Israel, Jews and Leaders Often Disagree (New York Times, 5-5-10)
US to expand Pakistan drone strikes (Aljazeera, 5-6-10)
At Front
Lines, AIDS War Is Falling Apart (New York Times, 5-9-10)
Israeli religious forces on the march (Aljazeera, 5-10-10)
Telecom Firms Thrive in Somalia Despite War, Shattered Economy (Wall Street
Journal, 5-11-10)
In
Bangkok, Gunfire Outside a Reporter’s Window (New York Times, 5-14-10)
Somalia, the Perfect Failed State (Spiegel Online, 5-18-10)
Bill for Afghan War
Could Run Into the Trillions (Common Dreams, 5-18-10)
Rich-poor divide underpins Thai crisis (CNN, 5-19-10)
European Court Ruling Forces Release of Rapists and Murderers (Spiegel
Online, 5-19-10)
Turkish fury over Israeli interception: “We'll all be on the next ship to Gaza"
(France 24, 5-31-10)
The
Greeks Get It (truthdig, 5-24-10)
McChrystal calls Marjah a 'bleeding ulcer' in Afghan campaign (McClatchy,
5-24-10)
Merkel 'Botched' Her Duties in Euro Crisis, Says Joschka Fischer (Spiegel
Online, 5-24-10)
U.S. Is a Top Villain in Pakistan’s Conspiracy Talk (New York Times,
5-25-10)
Peter Beinart vs. the ADL (NYR, 5-28-10)
German public and
politicians stunned by president's resignation (DW-World, 5-31-10)
Al-Jazeera presenters quit over 'modesty' dress comments (Telegraph,
5-31-10)
May 2010 - Miscellaneous
Small-time, low-cost lobbying firm goes after the little guys (Washington
Post, 5-1-10)
Six Things You Need to Know About Facebook Connections (Electronic Frontier
Foundation, 5-4-10)
Root Canal Politics (New York Times, 5-8-10)
AP INVESTIGATION: Blowout preventers known to fail (Washington Post, 5-8-10)
Noam Chomsky: The U.S. Continues to Be a Terrorist State (AlterNet, 5-12-10)
The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment (New York Review of Books,
5-12-10)
The World's Most Bizarre Man-Made Disasters (Huffington Post, 5-13-10)
Shadow Elite: Think BP's The Bad Guy? Think Bigger, Way Bigger (Huffington
Post, 5-13-10)
What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers? (Nation, 5-13-10)
So You Want to Be an American: 5 Circles of Immigration Hell (Cracked,
5-15-10)
At YouTube, Adolescence Begins at 5 (New York Times, 5-16-10)
GM’s
Shell Game (ZSpace, 5-17-10)
Clients
Worried About Goldman’s Dueling Goals (New York Times, 5-18-10)
Rep. Souder And Mistress Recorded Video Praising Abstinence (TPM. 5-18-10)
Scandals in the House Republican Class of 1994 (Washington Post, 5-19-10)
Charles Taylor's Long
Goodbye (Slate, 5-19-10)
Mortgage Paid Off,
Woman Loses Home Over a Small Water Bill (Common Dreams, 5-19-10)
Mortgage
Delinquencies, Foreclosures Break Records (Common Dreams, 5-19-10)
Bush's Chief Domestic Policy Adviser: "I Am Never Going To Hire Another Woman
Because They Just Get Pregnant and Leave." (Mother Jones, 5-22-10)
Do Video Games Equal Less Crime? (New York Times, 5-24-10)
Study
Finds Supplements Contain Contaminants (New York Times, 5-25-10)
Easy Money, Hard Truths (New York Times, 5-26-10)
Sacrificing Women to the
Budget Gods (Common Dreams, 5-27-10)
GOP Group Takes Off Gloves With Ad (Wall Street Journal, 5-27-10)
Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Obama's Flip-Flop Leadership Style (Tom Dispatch,
5-27-10)
An Unnatural Disaster (New York Times, 5-28-10)
I Can’t Wait for Barack
Obama to Become President (Common Dreams, 5-30-10)
Harman Uses Bush/Cheney Fear Tactics on Winograd & Voters (AlterNet,
5-30-10)
Bottom Kill of Teacher Jobs, Health Care for the Poor (Firedoglake, 5-31-10)
Teacher of the Year Accused of Sex Tryst With Student (Aol, 5-31-10)
Will the US Ever Get
Latin America? (Common Dreams, 6-26-10)
April 2010 - Financial
New Tally Focuses
on Expansive Role of Federal Reserve in Wall Street Bailout (Common Dreams,
4-1-10)
California ire over Borat bonds (Financial Times, 4-2-10)
Summary of the 2009 Financial Report of the U.S. (Peter G. Peterson
Foundation, 4-11-10)
St.
Vincent’s Files for Bankruptcy (New York Times, 4-14-10)
BRIC leaders: IMF, World Bank has 'legitimacy deficits' (CNN, 4-16-10)
When Wall Street Deals Resemble Casino Wagers (New York Times, 4-19-10)
VAT's benefits outweighed by politics, experts say (Washington Post,
4-21-10)
10 Ways the American Economy Is Built on Fraud (AlterNet, 4-29-10)
April 2010 - Environmental
‘Green Gone Wrong’: Can Capitalism Save the Planet? (New York Times, 4-2-10)
Bringing the
Heat (The New Republic, 4-5-10)
Japan Buying a Lot of Hot Air (International Rivers, 4-6-10)
Energy Industry Fights Chemical Disclosure (Climate Progress, 4-8-10)
US Denies Climate
Aid to Countries Opposing Copenhagen Accord (Common Dreams, 4-9-10)
Bolivia’s alternative climate conference to kick off next week (Grist,
4-12-10)
The trouble with Brazil’s much-celebrated ethanol ‘miracle’ (Grist, 4-13-10)
Great Barrier Reef May Bear Ship's Scar for 20 Years (Aol News, 4-14-10)
"Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution with a National Institutes of Energy"
Report Overview (Breakthrough, 4-15-10)
Earth's five mass extinction events (Skeptical Sciencce, 4-15-10)
Court approves disputed Amazon dam (Aljazeera, 4-17-10)
Bolivia Climate
Change Talks to Give Poor a Voice (Common Dreams, 4-19-10)
Bolivia hosts talks on
rights of Mother Earth (BBC News, 4-19-10)
Bolivian villagers
want compensation as glaciers melt (BBC News, 4-19-10)
Mainstream Green Groups
Cave In on Climate (Common Dreams, 4-20-10)
Let's Rename Earth Day (Climate Progress, 4-21-10)
Earth Day at the Climate
Justice Frontier (Color Lines, 4-21-10)
"Planet or Death!" - Bolivian President Evo Morales' Courageous Speech at World
People's Conference on Climate Change (AlterNet, 4-22-10)
A New
Climate Movement in Bolivia (The Nation, 4-22-10)
"Planet or Death!" - Bolivian President Evo (Alter Net, 4-22-10)
Is There Enough Space For Carbon Sequestration? (The New Republic, 4-27-10)
Nine Scenarios for Environmental Apocalypse (The New Republic, 4-28-10)
World's 2010 nature target 'will not be met' (BBC News, 4-29-10)
EPA Staffers Were Forced to Ignore Science, Investigation Finds (Politics
Daily, 4-29-10)
Hot Planet, Cold Facts (New York Times, 4-29-10)
BP Didn't Plan for Major Oil Spill (CBS News, 4-30-10)
Department of Commerce Releases Data on Emissions, "Green Economy"
(Washington Post, 4-30-10)
The Progressive Movement is Officially Dead (Firedoglake, 4-30-10)
April 2010 - Religion
Pope letter
delayed action against pedophile priest (DW-World, 4-10-10)
Graham Booted From Pentagon Prayer Event (Aol News, 4-23-10)
Christian
‘doctrine’ fueled dehumanization: UNPFII report (Indian Country Today,
4-29-10)
April 2010 - Health
Obama's Second Chance on the Predominant Moral Issue of This Century (Huffington
Post, 4-5-10)
Fix
10 Health Care Loopholes and Repel Insurer Attempts to Undermine New Consumer
Protections (Consumer Watchdog,4-8-10)
Healthcare Overhaul Won't Stop Premium Hikes (Consumer Watchdog, 4-12-10)
Hospital Cuts Hit Health-Care Workers (Wall Street Journal, 4-29-10)
April 2010 - Foreign
Former
IAEA Chief: Iraq War Killed “A Million Innocent Civilians” (Information
Clearing House, 4-3-10)
Israeli Rights Groups View Themselves as Under Siege (New York Times,
4-5-10)
White House troubled by Afghan leader's remarks (Washington Post, 4-5-10)
Obama weighs new peace plan for the Middle East (Washington Post, 4-7-10)
The Perplexed Puppet
Jerks on His Strings: Karzai Calls US Troops Invaders (Common Dreams,
4-9-10)
US Puppet Cuts His
Strings (Common Dreams. 4-11-10)
Afghan President,
Hamid Karzai, Threatens to Block Nato Offensive (Common Dreams, 4-11-10)
Israeli hypocrisy this Holocaust Remembrance Day (Aljazeera, 4-12-10)
Taliban's
Supreme Leader Signals Willingness To Talk Peace (Information Clearing
House, 4-18-10)
Russia publishes Katyn
massacre archives (BBC News, 4-28-10)
Iraq Prison Torture (Huffington Post, 4-28-10)
Rwanda Pursues Dissenters and the Homeless (New York Times, 4-30-10)
April 2010 - Miscellaneous
Debate: Keep the IRS Away From the Pulpit (Aol News, 4-6-10)
Massey’s mine in Montcoal has been cited for over 3,000 violations, over $2.2
million in fines (Grist, 4-6-10)
Obama Administration Missed Chance To Get Tougher On Unsafe Mines (Huffington
Post, 4-9-10)
C Street House Used Interns As Servants (Huffington Post, 4-9-10)
Nine Myths about Socialism
in the US (Common Dreams, 4-10-10)
Trained to Fail
(Color Lines, 4-13-10)
Slimming our federal leadership (Washington Post, 4-15-10)
Massey Stock Upgraded to “Buy” as Mine Disaster “Immaterial” to Profit (Firedoglake,
4-16-10)
Defense Spending Is Much
Greater than You Think (Independent Institute, 4-17-10)
Cassandra, the Ignored Prophet of Doom, Is a Woman for Our Times (New York
Times, 4-18-10)
Noam Chomsky Has ‘Never
Seen Anything Like This’ (Common Dreams, 4-19-10)
Spirit of Reagan, Thatcher Doomed:
HSBC Economist (CNBC, 4-20-10)
Germany No. 2 in Google 'Censorship' Rankings (Spiegel Online, 4-22-10)
Democrats at the Edge of the Cliff (Wall Street Journal, 4-22-10)
Stephen Ambrose's Work Faces New Scrutiny (Aol News, 4-27-10)
March 2010 - Financial
Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist, Says Federal Reserve System 'Corrupt'
(Huffington Post, 3-3-10)
The Government Is Risking a Double Dip (Seeking Alpha, 3-8-10)
Finance Superstars Talk About the Massive Fraud in Our Economic System
(AlterNet, 3-8-10)
What do the new data tell
us? (Vox, 3-8-10)
Great
Britain Stars in Its Own Greek Tragedy (Spiegel Online, 3-17-10)
Will the U.S. Become the Next Ireland? (New York Times, 3-18-10)
Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret: Former PM's deals are revealed as his
earnings since 2007 reach £20million (Mail Online, 3-19-10)
Opinion: The Student Loan 'Fix' Is No Fix at All (Aol News, 3-29-10)
The runaway costs of college (The Economist, 3-31-10)
March 2010 - Environmental
Study: Weedkiller in waterways can change frogs' sex traits (Washington
Post, 3-2-10)
100
Percent of Fish in U.S. Streams Found Contaminated with Mercury (Organic
Consumers, 3-3-10)
The Wrong Kind of Green
(The Nation, 3-4-10)
EU
climate chief delivers treaty blow (Financial Times, 3-8-10)
The Story of Stuff: Externalized Costs and the $4.99 Radio (Huffington Post,
3-9-10)
Noel Kempff project is 'saving the forest' by forcing destruction elsewhere
(Guardian, 3-11-10)
8 Of The World's Most Popular High-Speed Trains (Huffingtonpost, 3-11-10)
Time-Lapse Shows Mountaintop Mining Depleting Forests Over 25-Year Period (Huffingtonpost,
3-12-10)
Methane Emissions from a Temperate Reservoir (International Rivers, 3-13-10)
The Great Forest Die-Off
(Common Dreams, 3-16-10)
Environmental Concerns at 20-Year Low in US (Aol News, 3-18-10)
EPA Launches
National Study of Hydraulic Fracturing (Common Dreams, 3-19-10)
Huge sandstorm covers Beijing, turns sky orange (Washington Post, 3-20-10)
Where Have All the Monarch Butterflies Gone? (Aol News, 3-21-10)
Intense pollution fouls Hong Kong air (CNN, 3-22-10)
Clean Water and Dirty
Coal Don't Mix (Common Dreams, 3-23-10)
New study of Greenland under "more realistic forcings" concludes "collapse of
the ice-sheet was found to occur between 400 and 560 ppm" of CO2 (Climate
Progress, 3-23-10)
Tiger populations have dropped by 90 percent since 1980. (DLC, 3-24-10)
Amid Nanotech's Dazzling Promise, Health Risks Grow (Aol News, 3-25-10)
China overtakes U.S. in green investment, study finds (Grist, 3-25-10)
Sutnner: Nature review of 20 years of field studies finds soil emitting more CO2
as planet warms (Climate Progress, 3-25-10)
‘Cap and Trade’ Loses Its Standing as Energy Policy of Choice (New York
Times, 3-26-10)
China steams
ahead on clean energy (BBC News, 3-26-10)
BP closing Maryland solar manufacturing plant (Washington Post, 3-27-10)
Humans Are Too
Stupid to Prevent Climate Change (Common Dreams, 3-29-10)
Lindsey ‘Green Economy’ Graham Bashes The Clean Air Act (The Wonk Room,
3-30-10)
March 2010 - Climate
The Moral Imperative
to Drop Carbon Trading: An Open Letter to Al Gore (Common Dreams, 3-1-10)
Huge Methane Leak
in Arctic Ocean: Study (Common Dreams, 3-5-10)
Can we restore U.S. leadership in solar manufacturing? (Climate Progress,
3-6-10)
EU Warns Climate
Loopholes Could Lead to CO2 Rise (Common Dreams, 3-9-10)
Climate Goal Is Supported by China and India (New York Times, 3-9-10)
Governments spend $500 billion a year to subsidize fossil fuels; U.S. cleantech
outpaced by China (Climate Progress, 3-9-10)
Safety Issues Linger as Nuclear Reactors Shrink in Size (New York Times,
3-18-10)
World policymakers have underestimated climate change impacts, says Cornell
expert (Cornell University Press, 3-18-10)
"It is clear... that the precipitous decline in September sea ice extent in
recent years is mainly due to the cumulative loss of multiyear ice."
(Climate Progress, 3-22-10)
March 2010 - Health
Ditched by your doctor - blame Medicare (CNN Money, 3-2-10)
As Medicaid Payments Shrink, Patients Are Abandoned (New York Times,
3-15-10)
Insurance Industry
Already Finding Ways to Game New System (Common Dreams, 3-31-10)
March 2010 - Religion
Anti-Homosexual Bill In Uganda Causes Global Uproar (ABC, 3-10-10)
German archbishop
says Church covered up sex abuse for decades (DW Worlde, 3-21-10)
Catholic League head: Abuse not pedophilia because boys were ‘post-pubescent’
(The Raw Story, 3-31-10)
March 2010 - History
Hitler letter hoping for 'cordial relationship' with Britain for sale
(Telegraph, 3-2-10)
Germans Cringe at Hitler's Popularity in Pakistan (Spiegel Online, 3-17-10)
March 2010 - Foreign
Collapse of
the American Empire: Swift, Silent, Certain (Information Clearing House,
3-9-10)
Israeli Prime Minister Embraces Same Radical American Cleric That John McCain
Denounced (Firedoglake, 3-10-10)
Why The US
Occupation Makes Iraqi Women Miss Saddam (Common Dreams, 3-12-10)
Clinton rebukes Israel over East Jerusalem plans, cites damage to bilateral ties
(Washington Post, 3-13-10)
Thousands pay tribute to Latvia's fallen Nazi troops (The Independent,
3-17-10)
This Time We Really Mean It (New York Times, 3-30-10)
Mohamed ElBaradei hits out at west's support for repressive regimes
(Guardian, 3-31-10)
March 2010 - Miscellaneous
Wise Bets on a Smarter Grid (Wall Street Journal, 3-1-10)
Ralph Nader Was Right
About Barack Obama (Common Dreams, 3-1-10)
China, Iran Creating 'No-Go' Zones to Thwart U.S. Military Power (Politics
Daily, 3-1-10)
Criminals Steal Account Numbers Using One-Cent Transfers (Spiegel, 3-1-10)
Obama administration plans to close International Labor Comparisons office
(Washington Post, 3-3-10)
A
DIY Guide to Going Nuclear (Spiegel, 3-3-10)
Austrian far-right icon eyes presidency (Yahoo News, 3-3-10)
Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” (Tech Crunch, 3-6-10)
Time for a U.S.
Revolution – Fifteen Reasons (Common Dreams, 3-7-10)
No Place Like Home:
The U.N. on America’s Housing System (Common Dreams, 3-8-10)
Internet access
is 'a fundamental right' (BBC News, 3-8-10)
It's Time to Invite Russia to Join NATO (Spiegel, 3-8-10)
Calling All Rebels (Truthdig, 3-8-10)
Fiction of Marja
as City Was US Information War (Common Dreams, 3-8-10)
Google’s Computing Power Refines Translation Tool (New York Times, 3-8-10)
Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care (Huffington Post, 3-8-10)
What Do You Do With Detroit? Bulldoze
It (CNBC, 3-9-10)
Publishing: The Revolutionary
Future (NY Books, 3-11-10)
The Rogue
Nation (Information Clearing House, 3-11-10)
Money for Nothing
(The Nation, 3-11-10)
Texas Approves
Curriculum Revised by Conservatives (Common Dreams, 3-12-10)
Full text: US Human Rights Record in 2009 (China Daily, 3-12-10)
Texas Textbook MASSACRE: 'Ultraconservatives' Approve Radical Changes To State
Education Curriculum (Huffington Post, 3-13-10)
1,000 Days have passed ... but it's tomorrow that counts (Aljazeera,
3-14-10)
China To Connect Its High Speed Rail All The Way To Europe (Inhabitat,
3-15-10)
10 Things Obama Won't Tell Us (Happy Sunshine Week!) (Huffington Post,
3-19-10)
My Congressman, Bart Stupak, Has Neither a Uterus Nor a Brain (Huffington
Post, 3-19-10)
Health Reform Passes,
But I Still Don't Feel So Good (Common Dreams, 3-23-10)
'Spiritual castle home' of infamous SS opens to public with £8m exhibition
(Mail Online, 3-23-10)
Religion, politics and
Africa's homophobia (BBC News, 3-23-10)
Vatican
Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Boys New York Times, 3-24-10)
Data traffic outstrips mobile voice calls (Financial Times, 3-24-10)
Diary of a Wimpy Health
Care Bill (Common Dreams, 3-25-10)
AEI, David Frum: Ex-Bush Speechwriter Will Lose Health Benefits (Huffington
Post, 3-25-10)
Health Reform: A Year-by-Year List of What Happens and When (Politics Daily,
3-26-10)
For Years, Deaf Boys Tried to Tell of Priest’s Abuse (New York Times,
3-26-10)
Sex virus blamed
for rise in head and neck cancers (Reuters, 3-26-10)
Secrets of the Tea Party: The Troubling History of Tea Party Leader Dick Armey
(Trouthout, 3-26-10
Republicans Were For Obama's Health Insurance Rule Before They Were Against It
(Huffington Post, 3-29-10)
Celebrating
(Mourning) a Culture of Lies (Common Dreams, 3-28-10)
Coverage Now for Sick Children? Check Fine Print (New York Times, 3-28-10)
A Bomber Jacket Doesn't
Cover the Blood (Common Dreams, 3-29-10)
Is America ‘Yearning for Fascism’? (Truthdig, 3-29-10)
When It Comes to Innovation, Is America Becoming a Third World Country? (Huffington
Post, 3-29-10)
The Imperative Need for America to Become an Innovation Nation (Huffington
Post, 3-31-10)
Open Letter to Berkeley Students on Their Historic Israeli Divestment Bill (Huffinton
Post, 3-31-10)
A Conscious Pariah: On
Raul Hilberg (The Nation, 3-31-10)
February 2010 - Financial
Next in line for a bailout: Social Security (CNN Money, 2-2-10)
No Help in
Sight, More Homeowners Walk Away (New York Times, 2-2-10)
Poof: Another 800,000 jobs disappear (CNN Money, 2-4-10)
Watch What They Spend, Not What
They Say (Slate, 2-4-10)
Trillions to Burn?
(Commonwealth Institute, 2-5-10)
A Greek crisis is coming to America (Financial Times, 2-10-10)
Analysis: Greek financial crisis coming to America? (CNN, 2-12-10)
Marc Faber :
Collapse of Capitalistic System (Information Clearing House, 2-16-10)
States Sink in Benefits Hole (Wall Street Journal, 2-18-10)
States short $1 trillion to fund retiree benefits (CNN Money, 2-20-10)
Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs (NY Times, 2-20-10)
'Death of
American Capitalism:' The 10 final scenes (Information Clearing House,
2-23-10)
Fannie and Freddie: The Last SIVs (Wall Street Journal, 2-23-10)
Secret AIG Document Shows Goldman Sachs Minted Most Toxic CDOs (BusinessWeek,
2-23-10)
February 2010 - Environmental
Money woes could threaten high-speed rail's future (Washington Post, 2-1-10)
Anacostia River shows decades-long failure to improve water quality, ecosystem
(Washington Post, 2-2-10)
Wolves good for U.S. parks, report says (CNN, 2-2-10)
Rainforest
expert agrees with IPCC: warns of 'tipping point' for Amazon (Mongabay,
2-3-10)
The
dark side of nitrogen (Grist, 2-4-10)
Chemical Safety
(Environmental Defense Fund, 2-9-10)
Governor Says Carp Plan Isn't Tough Enough (AOL News, 2-10-10)
China's water pollution level higher than estimated in 2007 (Washington
Post, 2-10-10)
Thirty-Eight Percent of World's Surface in Danger of Desertification
(Science Daily 2-10-10)
Walden Pond; or, How Global Warming and Invasive Species Can Change Everything
(Switchbord, 2-10-10)
Oil and gas drilling's threat to our drinking water is local, national debate
(Cleveland, 2-14-10)
Overpopulation and Climate Change (New York Times, 2-17-10)
Study Finds
Residential and Agricultural Pesticides in Household Dust (Beyond
Pesticides, 2-17-10)
The Price of
Environmental Destruction? There Is None (Common Dreams, 2-18-10)
Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a
mass extinction of marine species occurred (Climate Progress, 2-18-10)
Green Revolution in India Wilts as Subsidies Backfire (Wall Street Journal,
2-22-10)
UN warns of 'e-waste' threat (Aljazeera, 2-22-10)
February 2010 - Climate
Poor response to climate deadline (Aljazeera, 2-1-10)
China’s Labor Edge Overpowers Obama’s ‘Green’ Jobs Initiatives (Bloomberg,
2-4-10)
EPA biofuels guidelines could spur production of ethanol from corn
(Washington Post, 2-4-10)
Skeptics Find Fault With U.N. Climate Panel (New York Times, 2-8-10)
High-speed rail: Skipping your town (CNN Money, 2-10-10)
Is the Copenhagen Accord already dead? (Grist, 2-16-10)
An illustrated guide to the latest climate science (Climate Progress,
2-17-10)
So much for geoengineering 2 ocean dead zones to expand remain for thousands of
years (Climate Progress, 2-17-10)
America’s Wind Energy Potential Triples in New Estimate (Wired, 2-19-10)
General Atomics Proposes a Plant That Runs on Nuclear Waste (Wall Street
Journal, 2-22-10)
China has "No intention"
of capping emissions (ENN, 2-25-10)
Iceberg breaks loose in Antarctica (Aljazeera, 2-27-10)
February 2010 - Health
If Terror Is the
Measure, It’s Healthcare War (Common Dreams, 2-2-10)
February 2010 - Religion
Study Links Religious Groups and Racial Bias (USC News, 2-10-10)
February 2010 - History
Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years' (The Independent,
6-1-11)
Genetic inferiority
threatens mankind, professor says (nrc handelsbald, 2-22-10)
February 2010 Foreign
Afghanistan War Shapes Engorged Defense Budget While Domestic Programs Freeze
(rethink Afghanistan, 2-1-10)
US, Karzai Clash on
Unconditional Talks with Taliban (Common Dreams, 2-2-10)
Just A Little Assassination Of American Citizens Among Friends (FDL, 2-4-10)
On Afghan Road, Scenes of Beauty and Death (New York Times, 2-7-10)
The Terror-Industrial
Complex (Common Dreams, 2-8-10)
Who Wants to Bomb Iran? (Foreign Policy, 2-8-10)
Obama's Commitment to
Detainee Abuse (FDL, 2-9-10)
The
Failed War on Drugs in Latin America (Spiegel Online, 2-10-10)
"My Country
Has Been Hijacked" (Information Clearing House, 2-10-10)
President Has So Much Power He Can Order Civilians “Massacred” (Facebook:
Firedoglake, 2-21-10
Allied Bid for Obama
to Remove US European Nuclear Stockpile (Common Dreams, 2-22-10)
Explain Something to Me
Fixing What's Wrong in Washington... in Afghanistan (Common Dreams, 2-22-10)
Is Harvard Prof Advocating Palestinian Genocide? (Huffington Post, 2-22-10)
Karzai Takes Over Election Agency (Wall Street Journal, 2-23-10)
Afghan president takes over election watchdog appointments (Washington Post,
2-24-10)
Afghan
Senators Demand Execution of Foreign Troops (Information Clearing House,
2-25-10)
Obama Continues Bush-Era "Drug War" Hypocrisy (Huffington Post, 2-26-10)
America, the Fragile
Empire (Common Dreams, 2-28-10)
February 2010 - Miscellaneous
Too Big To Fail?
(Slate, 2-1-10)
When is Rahm Going to Apologize to MoveOn? (FDL, 2-3-10)
Music's lost decade: Sales cut in half (CNN Money, 2-3-10)
LA Won't Force Condom Use in Porn Films (AOL News, 2-4-10)
Former
Chinese official sees 'dark clouds' (CNN, 2-5-10)
FFEL: $80 Billion Wasted on Crony Capitalism (FDL, 2-5-10)
The World Capital of Killing (New York Times, 2-6-10)
'A
prescription for civil war' (Aljazeera, 2-8-10)
The Worst of the Pain (New York Times, 2-8-10)
The "Shock
Doctrine" for Haiti (Information Clearing House, 2-8-10)
Challenging the
Western media hegemony (RT, 2-9-10)
Moving On Up and Hitting a Wall: Social Mobility in the U.S. and Europe
(Race Wire, 2-10-10)
Moving On Up and Hitting
a Wall: Social Mobility in the U.S. and Europe (Common Dreams, 2-11-10)
Wi-Fi Turns
Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall (New York Times, 2-11-10)
The Treason of the
Nobels (Counterpunch, 2-14-10)
The revenger’s tragedy (New Statesman, 2-17-10)
Sat-nav systems
under growing threat from 'jammers' (BBC News, 2-23-10)
January 2010 - Financial
3 reasons home prices are heading lower (CNN Money, 1-1-10)
The States and the Stimulus (Wall Street Journal, 1-2-10)
Servicers, White House Point Fingers as Foreclosure Plan Fails (Washington
Independent, 1-4-10)
How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market (New York Times, 1-4-10)
U.S.
Budget Deficit May Exceed $1 Trillion for Years, Kos Says (Bloomberg,
1-5-10)
Board pay: Unchecked and out of hand (CNN Money, 1-5-10)
Americans' Job Dissatisfaction Hits 22-Year High (Daily Finance, 1-5-10)
IRS expects to answer only 71% of phone calls this tax season (Washington
Post, 1-7-10)
Gross warns on risks of US deficit (Financial Times, 1-7-10)
Explain This to IRS: Tax Agency Is $32 Billion Short (Sphere, 1-7-10)
The Disposable Worker (Business Week, 1-7-10)
N.Y. Fed Told A.I.G. Not to Disclose Swap Details (New York Times, 1-7-10)
Federal Reserve Seeks to Protect U.S. Bailout Secrets (Bloomberg, 1-11-10)
The People vs.
Cap-and-Trade (Common Dreams, 1-13-10)
Record 3 million households hit with foreclosure in 2009 (CNN Money,
1-14-10)
How
Retirees Saved the Banks (New York Times, 1-17-10)
US Does Not Have Capitalism Now:
Stiglitz (CNBC, 1-19-10)
The Global Debt Bomb (Forbes, 1-21-10)
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Should Be Eliminated, Frank Says (Wall Street
Journal, 1-22-10)
Huge NYC real estate deal goes sour (msnbc, 1-25-10)
At Davos, the globalizers are gone (Washington Post, 1-30-10)
US economy bail-out
goals 'not met' (BBC News, 1-31-10)
January 2010 - Environmental
Yummy! Ammonia-Treated Pink Slime Now in Most U.S. Ground Beef (AlterNet,
1-1-10)
Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under law (Washington Post,
1-4-10)
America is losing the free world (Financial Times, 1-4-10)
Pesticides loom large in animal die-offs (Grist, 1-7-10)
Science confirms that blowing up mountains harms mountains (Grist, 1-7-10)
Behind Mass
Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit (Environment 360, 1-7-10)
Gates Foundation throws its lot with agribusiness (Grist, 1-8-10)
Scientists say mountaintop mining should be stopped (Washington Post,
1-8-10)
Carbon Trading Nonsense
(Common Dreams, 1-11-10)
Report: Consumerism must be halted to save the planet (CNN, 1-13-10)
EPA Establishes a Chemicals of
Concern List (Safer States, 1-14-10)
Reversing itself, FDA expresses concerns over health risks from BPA
(Washington Post, 1-16-10)
REDD Realities
(Global Justice Ecology, 1-19-10)
Bee decline
linked to falling biodiversity (BBC News, 1-20-10)
Expanding Use of Wind Power Feasible, but May Be Costly (New York Times,
1-20-10)
Another Made in China Import: Smog (CBS News, 1-20-10)
The Question Geithner Can’t Escape: Why Pay Off AIG’s Partners? (Washington
Independent, 1-22-10)
Can
the Rainforests Be Saved Without a Plan? (Spiegel Online, 1-26-10)
Fire retardants may affect female reproduction (The Economist, 1-28-10)
Revealed: the racy novel written by the world's most powerful climate scientist
(Telegraph, 1-30-10)
Tough choices follow in wake of invasive species (Washington Post, 1-31-10)
January 2010 - Climate
Arctic permafrost leaking methane at record levels, figures show (Guardian,
1-14-10)
Europe: Massive carbon
trading fraud (Green Left, 1-15-10)
Memo to IPCC: Please reanalyze ALL of your conclusions about melting ice and sea
level rise (Climate Progress, 1-18-10)
UN abandons climate change deadline (Financial Times, 1-20-10)
UN climate chief's research institute won grants after flawed predictions on
glaciers (Telegraph, 1-25-10)
January 2010 - Religion
U.S. Evangelicals’ Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push (New York Times,
1-3-10)
Pat Robertson says Haiti paying for 'pact to the devil' (CNN, 1-13-10)
Death and Afterlife in Germanic Mythology (Celto-Germanic Blogspot, 1-30-11)
January 2010 - Foreign
Brennan: More al-Qaeda Operatives in Yemen Than Afghanistan (Washington
Independent, 1-3-10)
Down Mexico Way: Oil and Politics South of the Border (Seeking Alpha,
1-5-10)
Cancer – The Deadly
Legacy of the Invasion of Iraq (Common Dreams, 1-6-10)
China's lobbying efforts yield new influence, openness on Capitol Hill
(Washington Post, 1-9-10)
China's lobbying efforts yield new influence, openness on Capitol Hill
(Washington Post, 1-9-10)
Defense Spending: $700 Billion a Year and We're Still Not Safe (Politics
Daily, 1-13-10)
Pakistan's drug problem (Aljazeera, 1-13-10)
Haitian Earthquake:
Made in the USA (Common Dreams, 1-14-10)
Poor schooling slows anti-terrorism effort in Pakistan (Washington Post,
1-17-10)
Why the US Owes Haiti
Billions – The Briefest History (Common Dreams, 1-17-10)
Haitian President Préval largely absent in quake's aftermath (Washington
Post, 1-18-10)
IMF to Haiti: Freeze
Public Wages (Common Dreams, 1-18-10)
U.N. officials reject
criticism of Haiti relief efforts (Foreign Policy, 1-21-10)
Pakistan snubs US
over new Taliban offensive (BBC News, 1-21-10)
Obama to Indefinitely
Imprison Detainees without Charges (Common Dreams, 1-22-10)
US congressmen urge end to Gaza siege (Aljazeera, 1-27-10)
Success Can Only Come in Afghanistan If We Talk to the Radicals (Spiegel
Online, 1-28-10)
January 2010 - Miscellaneous
The Real Top Ten
Stories of the Past Decade (Common Dreams, 1-1-10)
Christianity - Nature - Nordic Religion (Asatru.de, 1-4-10)
An Uneasy Feeling (New York Times, 1-4-10)
C-SPAN's Lamb to
Congress: Open Health Care Debate (Common Dreams, 1-5-10)
Mexico's
Subcomandante Marcos makes a rare appearance (Los Angeles Times, 1-5-10)
Tomgram: Orville Schell, What Doesn't Work in America (Tom Dispatch, 1-6-10)
McCain Gets It, Obama
Doesn’t (Common Dreams, 1-6-10)
John Michael Farren, Ex-Bush Lawyer, Tried To Kill Wife: Connecticut Police
(Huffington Post, 1-7-10)
A Very Special Christmas in Baghdad (AlterNet, 1-8-10)
Learning From Europe (New York Times, 1-10-10)
Oliver Stone: Hitler An 'Easy Scapegoat' (Huffington Post, 1-11-10)
Leno Slams NBC: A Complete Disaster" Video (Huffington Post, 1-12-10)
Avatar and the Genocides
We Will Not See (Common Dreams, 1-12-10)
Facebook Joins With McAfee to Clean Spam From Site (New York Times, 1-13-10)
YouTube Helps Vevo Overtake MySpace Music In The U.S. (Tech Crunch, 1-13-10)
Obama’s
Alternate Universe (Information Clearing House, 1-13-10)
The Sad End of the Orange Revolution (Spiegel Online, 1-14-10)
Selling the Obama Plan: Mistakes, Misunderstandings, and Other Misdemeanors
(PNHP, 1-14-10)
Misleading claims about Safeway wellness incentives shape health-care bill
(Washington Post. 1-17-10)
Witness
to a nightmare (Socialist Worker, 1-18-10)
No Less Lobbying, But Less Disclosure In Obama's First Year (Huffington
Post, 1-19-10)
Tea Party Money-Bomb
Elects Scott Brown, Blows-Up Obamacare (Common Dreams, 1-20-10)
Aid Urged for Groups Fighting Internet Censors (New York Times, 1-20-10)
The Lady and the Arlen (New York Times, 1-22-10)
How to Squander the
Presidency in One Year (Common Dreams, 1-22-10)
Obama’s Credibility Gap (New York Times, 1-25-10)
Stern Lashes Out At Senate Dems, Calls Some Legislative 'Terrorists' (Huffington
Post, 1-26-10)
Is It Possible the NY Fed Lied? (Seeking Alpha, 1-28-10)
Did Obama Move Health Care Forward? (New York Times, 1-28-10)
Clinton urges China to overlook oil needs in sanctioning Iran (Washington
Post, 1-29-10)
Gates to Donate $10B for Vaccines, But Will It Help? (AOL News, 1-29-10)
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