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SIGNS OF THE TIMES
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST
January
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June 2011 - Financial
The Next Financial Crisis Will Be Hellish, And It’s On Its Way (Forbes,
6-1-11)
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)
Louis Farrakhan: Obama Is A 'Murderer,' An 'Assassin' (Huffington Post,
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)
China's Terribly Successful Communist Party Turns 90 (Spiegel, 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)
48 Percent Of Americans Believe Another Great Depression Is Likely In The Next
12 Months - 19 Reasons Why They Are Not Completely Crazy (The Economic
Collapse, 6-18-11)
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)
19 Reasons Why Another Great Depression Is Likely in the Next 12 Months
(Investigating Answers, 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)
Warren Buffett And Bill Gates On Why The Wealthy Need To Pay More Taxes (MoveOn,
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)
Sanders, McDermott push for single-payer health care (Politico, 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)
14 signs
that the collapse of our modern world has already begun (Natural New,
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)
Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure (Popular
Mechanics, 4-9-11)
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)
Bernanke to Congress: We're Much Closer to Total Destruction Than You Think
(CNBC, 2-11-11)
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)
An interview with Mark Pauly, father of the individual mandate (Washington
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)
Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It Down (PC World, 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)
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