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September 2011
October 2011
November 2011
December 2011
December 2011 - Financial
Why does college cost so much? (CNN, 12-2-11)
U.S. Postal Service Faces Bankruptcy, Plans Cuts To Slow Delivery Of First Class
Mail (Huffington Post, 12-4-11)
Movie executives see record profits, salaries despite piracy fear-mongering
(Raw Story, 12-13-11)
European Banks Stop Serving American Customers (Spiegel Online, 12-14-11)
Why Social Security Is Still Falling Apart (Daily Finance, 12-14-11)
CEO pay jumps 36.5% (CNN Money, 12-15-11)
U.S. Income Inequality Higher Than Roman Empire's Levels: Study (Huffington
Post, 12-19-11)
December 2011 - Environmental
Fisheries Obervers
Told to Turn Blind Eye to Violations (PEER, 12-1-11)
In need of climate justice (Aljazeera, 12-5-11)
China is surprise good guy at Durban climate conference (Global Post,
12-6-11)
U.S. Obstructionism Is Hurting Climate Talk (Huffington Post, 12-7-11)
Draft Climate Deal Dubbed a "Death Sentence for Africa" (Truthout, 11-9-11)
Methane discovery stokes new global warming fears Shock as retreat of Arctic
releases greenhouse gas (Independent, 12-13-11)
The 'Age of Thirst' in the American West (Aljazeera, 12-13-11)
Rapid rise in Arctic methane shocks scientists (Nzherald, 12-14-11)
Fracking found to be worse than coal or gas emissions (Irish Times,
12-15-11)
As Permafrost Thaws, Scientists Study the Risks (New York Times, 12-16-11)
Brazil’s forest policy could undermine its climate goals (Washington Post,
12-18-11)
Senior Republican Slams DHS For Misleading Congress on Chemical Security Office
(Fox News, 12-22-11)
Georgia River Reindeer Population Dramatically Dropping (Huffington Post,
12-25-11)
Solyndra: Politics infused Obama energy programs (Washington Post, 12-25-11)
December 2011 - Health
Safety Nets for Freelancers (New York Times, 12-6-11)
Alarm as Dutch lab creates highly contagious killer flu (The Independent,
12-20-11)
Study: Antidepressant drugs actually cause many people to have worse depression
(Natural News, 12-20-11)
Newt Gingrich’s health-care problem — and the Republican Party’s (Washington
Post, 12-27-11)
December 2011 - Foreign
China's Superior Economic Model (Wall Street Journal, 12-1-11)
Iran’s First Great Satan Was England (New York Times, 12-3-11)
108 Giant Chinese Infrastructure Projects That Are Reshaping The World
(Business Insider, 12-5-11)
Bye, bye England? SNP plans closer Scandinavian ties after independence (The
Independent, 12-5-11)
Europe Shudders at Germany's New-Found Power (Spiegel, 12-6-11)
Putin Says Clinton Encouraged Protesters (Wall Street Journal, 12-8-11)
Putin says U.S. stoked Russian protests (Reuters, 12-8-11)
Playing with fire: Obama's threat to China (Aljazeera, 12-10-11)
House bill could outlaw negotiations with Iran (Raw Story, 12-12-11)
'Hitler wasn't all bad': One in ten Austrian teens think Nazi leader did 'good
things', shock survey reveals (Daily Mail, 12-16-11)
China tops U.S, Japan to become top patent filer (Reuters, 12-21-11)
India Court Orders Facebook, Google to Remove "Unacceptable" Content (The
Next Web, 12-23-11)
Musharraf, Kayani knew Osama's whereabouts: Pak's ex-army chief (The Times
of India, 12-24-11)
Palestinians in a 'Jewish state' (Aljazeera, 12-27-11)
Hundreds of Iraqis cheer departure of US forces (Yahoo News, 12-30-11)
December 2011 - Religion
Jacob Zuma blames Christianity for South Africa's problems (The Telegraph,
12-21-11)
December 2011 - Miscellaneous
Thought crime in Washington (Aljazeera, 12-1-11)
Ending the Drug War: Top Stories of 2011 (Huffington Post, 12-1-11)
The New Digital Divide (New York Times, 12-3-11)
'The
People Want Souvenirs' (Spiegel, 12-7-11)
America can't afford to lose its grip on science (CNN, 12-8-11)
Probe of CIA Torture Program Concludes It Was "Far More Widespread and
Systematic Than We Thought" (Truthout, 12-8-11)
How I Became a Best-Selling Author (Wall Street Journal, 12-9-11)
Drone Program Attacked by Human-Rights Groups (Wall Street Journal, 12-9-11)
Near-term risk to peripheral states remains (Financial Times, 12-9-11)
ADL and AJC Suffer Big Drop in
Donations ((Forward, 12-9-11)
EU vows to help
online dissidents speak out (DW-World, 12-12-11)
Indefinite Military Detention Of U.S. Citizens Is A Win For Terrorists, Former
Admiral Says (Huffington Post, 12-12-11)
O.E.C.D. Calls on Members to Defend Internet Freedoms (New York Times,
12-13-11)
Sexual Violence, Stalking, and Intimate Partner Violence Widespread in the US
(CDC, 12-14-11)
How America is Strangling the State (Financial Times, 12-15-11)
8 Stories Buried By the Corporate Media That You Need to Know About
(AlterNet, 12-15-11)
Coming soon: Ubiquitous surveillance from Big Brother's wayback machine
(Network World, 12-15-11)
Reinstating The Federal Ban on Syringe Exchange Funding is Murderous
(AlterNet, 12-16-11)
Center For American Progress’ Anti-Semitism Exposed in Mainstream Media
(Front Page, 12-19-11)
Secrecy defines Obama’s drone war (Washington Post, 12-19-11)
The Defining Issue: Not Government's Size, But Who It's For (Huffington
Post, 12-19-11)
Death Claims
Carlos and Melida Arredondo's Second Son (Veterans for Peace, 12-20-11)
Internet circumvents anti-piracy bill before it even passes (Raw Story,
12-20-11)
M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All (Forbes, 12-21-11)
Over 40 Internet Companies Come Out Publicly Against SOPA (Including Us)
(Tech Crunch, 12-22-11)
LA could vote on mandatory condom use in adult films (CNN, 12-28-11)
Is the fabric of industrialized society starting to unravel? Highly complex
civilizations are more vulnerable to collapse (Natural News, 12-29-11)
Capitalism and Loneliness: Why Pornography Is a Multibillion-Dollar Industry
(Truthout, 12-29-11)
November 2011 - Financial
House Republicans make cross-party pitch to embolden debt ‘supercommittee’
(Washington Post, 11-2-11)
Europe's Greece Ultimatum (Wall Street Journal, 11-3-11)
European Debt Crisis Threatens U.S. Money Market Funds (Huffington Post,
11-20-11)
As Layoffs Rise, Stock Buybacks Consume Cash (New York Times, 11-21-11)
Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion (Bloomberg, 11-27-11)
November 2011 - Environmental
U.S. readings challenge China's smog claims (CNN, 11-2-11)
Incredible shrinking farmland (Grist, 11-7-11)
Energy Agency Warns Governments to Take Action Against Global Warming (Wall
Street Journal, 11-10-11)
Amphibians Facing
'Terrifying' Rate of Extinction (Common Dreams, 11-18-11)
Critics hunt for
devil in the detail of forest negotiations (DW-World, 11-21-11)
Congress Skips Durban Climate Talks: Is That a Good Thing? (Climate
Progress, 11-23-11)
Google Earth Shows How Dams Could Worsen Climate Change (National
Geographic, 11-28-11)
November 2011 - Religion
Netanyahu Government Suggests Israelis Avoid Marrying American Jews (The
Atlantic, 11-30-11)
November 2011 - Health
Americans’ Prescription-Pill Use Skyrockets, Medco Report Finds (Daily
Beast, 11-16-11)
One in four American women take medication for a mental disorder (Daily
Mail, 11-17-11)
Privatization Nightmare: 5 Public Services That Should Never Be Handed Over to
Greedy Corporations (AlterNet, 11-17-11)
Democrats lobby against any broader exceptions to contraceptive coverage
(Washington Post, 11-22-11)
Waiting to die: Cervical cancer in America (Aljazeera, 11-22-11)
November 2011 - Foreign
European markets plunge on proposed Greek bailout vote (Washington Post,
11-1-11)
Self-immolations on the rise in Tibet (Aljazeera, 11-4-11)
Modern Greece’s real problem? Ancient Greece. (Washington Post, 11-74-11)
China IT chiefs agree to tighten web clamp (CNN, 11-7-11)
Dalai Lama: A Role for Nuclear Power in Development Process (Wall Street
Journal, 11-7-11)
China mocks U.S. political model (Washington Times, 11-9-11)
Israel Moves To Limit Foreign Funding Of 'Liberal' NGOs (Huffington Post,
11-13-11)
Why
Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not (Truthout, 11-15-11)
China's Great Firewall Tests Mysterious Scans On Encrypted Connections
(Forbes, 11-17-11)
Why Silicon Valley should fear India (Washington Post, 11-23-11)
'Bugsplat': The ugly US drone war in Pakistan (Aljazeera, 11-29-11)
Iceland becomes first Western European country to recognize Palestinian state
(Haaretz, 11-29-11)
November 2011 - Miscellaneous
buse of painkillers
reaches 'epidemic' levels in US (BBC, 11-1-11)
How The CIA Uses Social Media to Track How People Feel (The Atlantic,
11-4-11)
Jack Abramoff: ‘The whole system’ is corrupt (Raw Story, 11-6-11)
New privacy fears as police could track your GPS without a warrant (Daily
Mail, 11-9-11)
The Environment under the Democratic/Republican Uni-Party (NPA, 11-8-11)
The torture party (Washington Post, 11-13-11)
Booklet: Why you should care about
ACTA (EDR, 11-14-11)
Web giants at odds with Chamber of Commerce over piracy bill (Washington
Post, 11-15-11)
The 99%’s Deficit Proposal: How to create jobs, reduce the wealth divide and
control spending (October 2011, 11-17-11)
Modernising liberalism (Aljazeera, 11-17-11)
US State Department not for internet freedom (Aljazeera, 11-18-11)
The world needs more toilets (CNN, 11-19-11)
The 10 Fastest-Growing Keywords In Job Postings: Indeed (Huffington Post,
11-20-11)
The Dwindling Power of a College Degree (New York Times, 11-23-11)
The
Race To Collapse (Sublime Oblivion, 11-25-11)
Help Wanted: In Unexpected Twist, Some Skilled Jobs Go Begging (Wall
Street Journal, 11-26-11)
Kuala Lumpur tribunal: Bush and Blair guilty (Aljazeera, 11-28-11)
'Anthrax isn't scary at all compared to this': Man-made flu virus with potential
to wipe out many millions if it ever escaped is created in research lab
(Daily Mail, 11-28-11)
American deceptionalism (Aljazeera, 11-29-11)
October 2011 - Financial
Cozy relationships and ‘peer benchmarking’ send CEOs’ pay soaring
(Washington Post, 10-3-11)
Foreclosure Crisis Lessons Not Yet Learned (Huffington Post, 10-5-11)
The Case for Making Harvard Pay Taxes (The Fiscal Times, 10-7-11)
Pandit: Happy to Talk With Wall Street Protesters (Bloomberg, 10-12-11)
‘Gargantuan large’ investment in infrastructure needed, experts say
(Washington Post, 10-14-11)
Millions of homes lurk on bank inventories, casting doubts of rebound
(McClatchy , 10-16-11)
Not with a Bang, but a
Whimper: Bank of America’s Death Rattle (Common Dreams, 10-19-11)
Millionaires Control Nearly 40 Percent Of Global Wealth (Huffington Post,
10-19-11)
FDIC To Cover Losses On $75 Trillion Bank of America Derivative Bets
(Problem Bank List, 10-20-11)
Overseas Allies Reluctant to Try U.S. Debt Diet (Wall Street Journal,
10-21-11)
Carlos Slim, The World's Richest Man, Attacks Wall Street Bailouts
(Huffington Post, 10-25-11)
The Path Not Taken (New York Times, 10-27-11)
Schauble calls for EU lead on Tobin tax (Financial Times, 10-30-11)
Corzine Crashes Like It’s 2008 (New York Times, 10-31-11)
October 2011 - Environmental
With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Key Climate Protectors (New York Times,
10-1-11)
Study shows unprecedented loss of ozone above Arctic (CNN, 10-3-11)
The escalation of BP's liability (Aljazeera, 10-3-11)
Local solar could power the Mountain West right now, all of America in 2026
(Grist, 10-9-11)
Fish Swims Into Water Fight (Wall Street Journal, 10-14-11)
Significant Ozone Hole Remains Over Antarctica (Science Daily, 10-20-11)
'Risk Atlas' assesses climate vulnerability (CNN, 10-25-11)
Solar power is beginning to go mainstream (USA Today, 10-27-11)
Top StoriesHide me (Washington Post, 10-30-11)
Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real (Yahoo, 10-31-11)
How
to feed 7 billion of us without ruining the planet (Grist, 10-31-11)
October 2011 - Religion
Herman Cain: Jesus Was Killed By A 'Liberal Court' (Huffington Post,
10-18-11)
News Corp takes a bet on Christian literature (Financial Times, 10-31-11)
October 2011 - Foreign
Israel’s Window to
Bomb Iran (Common Dreams, 10-3-11)
The Man Behind Pakistani Spy Agency's Plot to Influence Washington (The
Atlantic, 10-3-11)
Russia’s Putin promotes ‘Eurasian Union’ in rare article (RawStory, 10-4-11)
Erdogan brands Israel a regional 'threat' (Aljazeera, 10-5-11)
Pakistani Doctor Accused of Treason (The Daily Beast, 10-6-11)
Changes to UK law didn't protect Tzipi Livni (Aljazeera, 10-10-11)
Rivers of ice:
Vanishing glaciers (BBC, 10-10-11)
Several German
states admit to use of controversial spy software (DW-World, 10-11-11)
Some analysts skeptical of alleged Iranian plot (CNN, 10-13-11)
Europe’s right rises again: 13 percent of Germans want a ‘Fuhrer’ (RawStory,
10-17-11)
East Jerusalem Settlement Plan Clears Hurdle, Threatens Peace Process
(Huffington Post, 10-17-11)
Mexico’s drug war is giving growers a break (Washington Post, 10-21-11)
Karzai Comment Jolts West (Wall Street Journal , 10-24-11)
October 2011 - History
Soldier of Monarchy: Kanji Ishiwara (Mad Monarchist, 10-4-11)
October 2011 - Miscellaneous
Romney Says Individual Mandate Is A ‘Conservative Idea,’ Thanks Gingrich
(Addicting Info, 10-1-11)
The University of Wherever (New York Times, 10-2-11)
Fannie Mae Knew About Allegations Of Improper Foreclosures In 2003: Government
Report (Huffington Post, 10-3-11)
Will Copyright Stifle Hollywood? (New York Times, 10-4-11)
Study: A fifth of war veterans have mental health issues (McClatchy,
10-4-11)
Federal authorities target 'marijuana industry' in California (CNN, 10-8-11)
Mobile phone: Weapon against global poverty (CNN, 10-9-11)
Secret Orders Target Email (Wall Street Journal, 10-10-11)
Michelle Alexander: More Black Men Are In Prison Today Than Were Enslaved In
1850 (Huffington Post, 10-12-11)
An open letter to Peter Thiel (Washington Post, 10-14-11)
America's child death
shame (BBC, 10-17-11)
Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, 'You're Headed For A One-Term
Presidency' (Huffington Post, 10-20-11)
CDC: Antidepressant use skyrockets 400% in past 20 years (USA Today,
10-20-11)
Santorum Touts Support For Criminalizing Sodomy (Think Progress, 10-25-11)
America’s Exploding Pipe Dream (New York Times, 10-28-11)
Romney's indiscreet adviser (Aljazeera, 10-28-11)
Another Bipartisan Letter Calls for a Big Approach (CRFB, 10-28-11)
U.S. government also a villain in piracy act story (CNet, 10-31-11)
September 2011 - Financial
Report: Buffett's Berkshire Owes $1 Billion In Back Taxes (Newsmax, 9-1-11)
Debt after death: Banks chase down mourners (CNN, 9-2-11)
Federal government sues major banks over Fannie and Freddie losses
(Washington Post, 9-2-11)
Nurses Protest in 60
Cities, Demanding Tax on Wall Street (Common Dreams, 9-3-11)
The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond (Washington Post,
9-5-11)
Accumulation of
Microplastic on Shorelines Woldwide (ACS Publications, 9-6-11)
8 Things You Should Know About the New Lawsuit Against the Banks That Torpedoed
the Economy (AlterNet, 9-6-11)
Chris
Whalen—Stop Firing People And Just Declare Bankruptcy Now (It's Our Economy,
9-9-11)
Pelosi backs Obama’s tax-cut plan despite strong opposition in her caucus
(The Hill. 9-9-11)
Conservatives join liberals in opposing Obama's payroll tax cut extension
(The Hill, 9-11-11)
Jamie Dimon, CEO Of JPMorgan Chase, Calls International Bank Rules
'Anti-American' (Huffington Post, 9-11-11)
Analysis: Expect jobs deal 'yes' on tax cuts (USA Today, 9-12-11)
Massive default is best way to fix the economy (Market Watch, 9-12-11)
Government Pays More in Contracts, Study Finds (New York Times, 9-12-11)
Social Security Tax Increase For Rich Proposed By House Liberals, Democrats
(Huffington Post, 9-14-11)
Bank Of America Violated Whistleblower Provisions, Dept. Of Labor Says
(Huffington Post, 9-14-11)
Study: patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars (ARS,
9-19-11)
US states seek to privatise prisons (Financial Time, 9-19-11)
Four
Trillion-Dollar Tax Cuts = Four Trillion-Dollar Budget Cuts (Truthout,
9-20-11)
The men who crashed the world (Aljazeera, 9-21-11)
Countrywide protected fraudsters by silencing whistleblowers, say former
employees (iWatch, 9-22-11)
BRICS plan to revive the global economy (Aljazeera, 9-23-11)
Bill Gates to support 'Robin Hood' tax (Aljazeera, 9-24-11)
Freddie Mac Loan Deal Defective:
Report (CNBC, 9-27-11)
America’s $320 Billion Shadow Government (The Fiscal Times, 9-28-11)
FACT CHECK: Obamas' tax rate not lower than the average teacher's (iWatch
News, 9-29-11)
Russell Simmons Speaks Out On ‘Tax Fairness’ And Occupy Wall Street
(Addicting Info, 9-30-11)
September 2011 - Environmental
The return of the BP disaster? (Aljazeera, 9-1-11)
Petermann Glacier Picture: Before And After Images Show Extent Of 2010 Greenland
Ice Break (Huffington Post, 9-1-11)
President Obama Backs Down On Ozone Standards (Climate Progress, 9-2-11)
Concerns about
methane plague Brazil's Belo Monte dam (DW-World, 9-6-11)
High Price Of Blowing The Whistle On EPA (NPR, 9-6-11)
Memo to EPA chief Lisa Jackson: Defy Obama or resign (Grist, 9-7-11)
Canada will ship oilsands exports elsewhere if U.S. turns down pipeline,
minister says (Edmonton Sun, 9-9-11)
Arctic ice levels hit historic low, researchers say (CNN, 9-12-11)
Memo to Right-Wing Anti-EPA Job-Killers: Sick and Dead People Aren’t Very
Productive (Climate Progress, 9-12-11)
Bacteria Spreading In Warming Oceans, Scientists Find In New Report
(Huffington Post, 9-13-11)
Business Industry Titans Call for
Major Federal Investments in Energy Innovation (Breakthrough Institute,
9-14-11)
Subversive Environmental History (Truthout, 9-14-11)
Al Gore's New Climate Campaign Faces Uphill Battle (Huffington Post,
9-15-11)
German 'Energy Revolution' Depends on Nuclear Imports (Spiegel, 9-15-11)
Old-growth forests are irreplaceable for sustaining biodiversity (Mongabay,
9-15-11)
USDA, FDA get an F on livestock antibiotics (Grist, 9-16-11)
Barack Obama Allows Whale Hunting To Go On With No Consequences (Irregular
Times, 9-16-11)
Obama $8 Billion Solar ‘Betamax’ Undercut as China Backs Rival Technology
(Bloomberg, 9-20-11)
Genghis Khan the GREEN: Invader killed so many people that carbon levels
plummeted (Mail Online, 9-25-11)
What Free Market? Subsidies Have Always Been a Big Part of Energy Industry, New
Report Shows (Climate Progress, 9-26-11)
The Not-So-Green Mountains (New York Times, 9-28-11)
Dan Rather Explores the Bee Collapse/Pesticide Connection (Mother Jones,
9-28-11)
Canadian ice shelves halve in six years (Physorg, 9-29-11)
September 2011 - Health
Rick Perry Endorses Janet Porter's Radical 'Heartbeat Bill' (Right Wing
Watch, 9-6-11)
Lower-income Northern Virginians struggle to get dental care, report finds
(Washington Post, 9-8-11)
GOP Tea Party Debate: Audience Cheers, Says Society Should Let Uninsured Patient
Die (Huffington Post, 9-12-11)
Number of Uninsured
Climbs to Highest Figure Since Passage of Medicare, Medicaid (Common Dreams,
9-13-11)
Health care and the Ron Paul redux (Aljazeera, 9-27-11)
September 2011 - Foreign
Scanning 2.4 Billion Eyes, India Tries to Connect Poor to Growth (New York
Times, 9-1-11)
Critics decry "whitewashed" U.N. report on Gaza flotilla, blockade (IMEU,
9-2-11)
Europe Needs to Wake Up' (Spiegel, 9-5-11)
Robert Gates Says Israel Is an Ungrateful Ally: Jeffrey Goldberg (Bloomberg,
9-5-11)
America to the World: We Want Everything -- If You Stand in the Way We'll Kill
You (AlterNet, 9-5-11)
Colombian High Court Re-Legalizes Drug Possession (Stop the Drug War,
9-6-11)
German Solar Firms Eclipsed by Chinese Rivals (Spiegel, 9-7-11)
Bulletin: Children’s pictures from Gaza are banned in Bay Area (Mondoweiss,
9-9-11)
In Pictures: Israeli embassy attacked (Aljazeera, 9-10-11)
US vows to veto Palestinian statehood bid (IMEU, 9-10-11)
Veto a State, Lose an Ally (New York Times, 9-11-11)
Shooting ourselves in the foot at the UN (Aljazeera, 9-12-11)
What Happened at Bari Alai, September 13 (HD Net, 9-12-11)
Leading EU countries support Palestinian statehood bid in UN, poll says (Haaretz,
9-12-11)
Latin America's left at the crossroads (Aljazeera, 9-14-11)
Time for people power to open Rafah crossing (EI, 9-15-11)
Netanyahu’s Partners, Democracy’s Enemies (New York Times, 9-16-11)
Reporting from the Far West (Al Jazeera Blogs, 9-16-11)
Afghanistan – the
global narcotics train (RT, 9-21-11)
Is the Near-Trillion-Dollar Student Loan Bubble About to Pop? (AlterNet,
9-21-11)
Germany bans neo-Nazi
group aiding far-right prisoners (BBC, 9-21-11)
Islamic nations demand Israel open its nuke program to IAEA viewing
(Washington Post, 9-23-11)
U.S. not "standing idly by" in Bahrain (Salon, 9-23-11)
On Israel and Palestine, Obama is Rick Perry (Aljazeera, 9-24-11)
The Irvine 11: Islamophobia is alive and well (Aljazeera, 9-24-11)
Israel faces 'regional tsunami' set off by Arab Spring (CNN, 9-26-11)
U.S. To Hand Over Iraq Bases, Equipment Worth Billions (Huffington Post,
9-26-11)
Behind the scenes with Israel's campus lobby (Aljazeera, 9-26-11)
Did the Rabbani hit really kill peace talks? (Aljazeera, 9-26-11)
As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around Globe (Washington Post,
9-27-11)
South Africa should support boycott of Israel (Aljazeera, 9-27-11)
Fresh protests in Bolivia road row (Aljazeera, 9-28-11)
Inside the World's Largest Embassy (Mother Jones, 9-28-11)
Pakistani leaders discuss Haqqani allegations (Aljazeera, 9-29-11)
Now online: Half a billion Chinese (CNN, 9-30-11)
Pakistan rejects US demand to attack Haqqanis (Aljazeera, 9-30-11)
After Anwar Al-Awlaki Hit, U.S. Full Of New Praise For Yemen's Embattled
Government (Huffington Post, 9-30-11)
September 2011 - Miscellaneous
The Growth Of Social Media (INFOGRAPHIC) (Huffington Post, 9-1-11)
Private Sector Job Growth Offset by Slashed Public Sector Jobs (AlterNet,
9-2-11)
‘Top Secret America’: A look at the military’s Joint Special Operations Command
(Washington Post, 9-2-11)
Chomsky: U.S. has ‘extreme contempt for democracy’ (RawStory, 9-2-11)
America's self-inflicted decline (Aljazeera, 9-4-11)
Confessions of a GOP Operative Who Left "the Cult": 3 Things Everyone Must Know
About the Lunatic-Filled Republican Party (AlterNet, 9-5-11)
Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin Calls for Cheney’s Memoir to be Moved to Crime
Section (The Fight Back , 9-5-11)
Obama’s base grows disenchanted (Washington Post, 9-7-11)
'Tea Party Zombies Must Die' Video Game Lets Players Kill Off Conservatives
(Huffington Post, 9-7-11)
It is time for Bill Daley to resign (Daily Kos, 9-7-11)
Teen Joblessness Was Worst Ever in US
This Summer (CNBC, 9-7-11)
National Archive keeps bulk of 9/11 Commission report sealed (Raw Story,
9-8-11)
Plan’s Focus on Social Security Taxes Reflects Its Modest Ambitions (New
York Time, 9-8-11)
Does America Have a Future? (New York Times, 9-8-11)
Post-September
11, NSA ‘enemies’ include us (Politico, 9-8-11)
Marc Faber: Obama's Job Package 'a
Complete Joke' (CNBC, 9-9-11)
In Rick Perry's Texas, Firefighters Forced To Pay For Gear, Engine Fuel
(Huffington Post, 9-9-11)
Nine Government Investments that Made Us an Industrial Economic Leader (Truthout,
9-9-11)
We Won’t See Mass Prosperity Until We Rebuild Manufacturing (Truthout,
9-9-11)
The jobless young: Left behind (The Economist, 9-10-11)
A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe (TruthDig, 9-10-11)
Job-creation plan largely ignores housing woes (LA Times, 9-11-11)
KRS-One Video Depicting The United States As ‘Terrorists’ Banned From YouTube
(Your Black World, 9-11-11)
Tomgram: Fraser and Freeman, Taps for the Unemployed (Tom Dispatch, 9-11-11)
Oct. 6, Freedom Plaza May Feel a Bit Like Tahrir Square (David Swanson,
9-12-11)
Is Poverty a Death Sentence? (Bernie Sanders, 9-12-11)
Poverty continues to rise in U.S., now 15.1% (CBS News, 9-13-11)
Tomgram: Mike Davis, How Obama Became the Curator of the Bush Legacy (Tom
Dispatch, 9-13-11)
Census: US poverty rate swells to nearly 1 in 6 (Yahoo, 9-13-11)
Facebook learns from Google+, improves Friend Lists (MSNBC, 9-13-11)
A Huge Housing Bargain — but Not for You (It's Our Economy, 9-13-11)
How Obama Became the
Curator of the Bush Legacy (Common Dreams, 9-13-11)
Want better wireless service in America? Socialize it. (Washington Post,
9-14-11)
As Obama pitches jobs bill, voters aren't pressing Congress (McClatchy,
9-14-11)
How Fearmongering Over Terrorism Is Endangering American Communities
(AlterNet, 9-14-11)
Should Faking a Name on Facebook Be a Felony? (Wall Street Journal, 9-14-11)
Guess What? It Is Cheaper to Use Federal Government Employees Than Contractor
Employees (Truthout, 9-14-11)
Gertrude Stein
and the Nazis (Talk to Action, 9-14-11)
Carville Advises Obama To 'Panic,' Fire People And Make A Bunch Of Politically
Motivated Indictments To Win In 2012 (Huffington Post, 9-15-11)
What should the White House do? Panic! (CNN, 9-15-11)
House Republicans Outline Common Ground on Jobs (New York Times, 9-16-11)
Obama
Co-Opts the Labor Movement (Truthout, 9-17-11)
Call It Your Online Driver’s License (New York Time, 9-17-11)
How to Revive
U.S. Trade Policy (CFR, 9-19-11)
The end of the Al Jazeera decade? (Foreign Policy, 9-20-11)
I am a job creator who creates no jobs (Washington Post, 9-20-11)
Obama's perfect storm (Aljazeera, 9-20-11)
Home Forecast Calls for Pain (Wall Street Journal, 9-21-11)
'Stingray' Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash (Wall Street Journal,
9-22-11)
With FEMA funding in limbo, what’s being held up? (Washington Post, 9-22-11)
Study: Single-sex education may do more harm than good (Washington Post,
9-22-11)
World now has 'more people dying from obesity than malnutrition' (Metro,
9-22-11)
Nine Policies Conservatives Were for Long Before They Were Against Them (Truthout,
9-23-11)
Police pen up and mace female ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters (RawReplay,
9-23-11)
Americans Express Historic Negativity Toward U.S. Government (Gallup,
9-26-11)
Share Traders More Reckless Than Psychopaths, Study Shows (Spiegel, 9-26-11)
The Decline and Fall of
Just About Everyone (Common Dreams, 9-26-11)
D.C. area is No. 1 nationwide in traffic congestion, study says (Washington
Post, 9-27-11)
For David Plouffe, a top Obama adviser, a new strategy and old doubts
(Washington Post, 9-27-11)
Elections, Lobbying, Traditional Democratic Tools No Longer Work in the U.S. and
Around the World (October 2011, 9-28-11)
HUD cuts to devastate mortgage counseling agencies across nation (iWatch
News, 9-28-11)
Tea Party Racism and the Philosophy of David Hume (berryblog, 9-28-11)
The
Best Among Us (TruthDig, 9-29-11)
In Senate vote, a win for the middle class and a rebuke to China (Washington
Post, 9-29-11)
Obama: A disaster for civil liberties (LA Times, 9-29-11)
Is the world too big to fail? (Aljazeera, 9-30-11)
US media blackout of protest is shameful (China Daily, 9-30-11)
August 2011 - Financial
Al Gore on Why Washington Is Broken (Current, 8-1-11)
Debt deal darkens fragile US economic outlook (Financial Times, 8-3-11)
The welfare state wins this budget war (The Washington Post, 8-7-11)
Dave Camp, Ways and Means chair, would cut "out of control" spending (iwatch,
8-9-11)
Crystal Cathedral bankruptcy sale sparks bidding war (Yahoo, 8-10-11)
U.S. Trade Deficit Widens To $53.1 Billion, Highest Level Since 2008
(Huffington Post, 8-11-11)
Big Business Has Been Very Good to Mitt Romney (truthout, 8-14-11)
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich (New York Times, 8-14-11)
Student Loan Debt Climbs (Wall Street Journal, 8-15-11)
Tomgram: Chris Hellman, The Pentagon's Spending Spree (Tom Dispatch,
8-15-11)
A war tax? It’s still not a bad idea (Washington Post, 8-15-11)
Government dollars fuel wealth: D.C. enclaves reap rewards of contracting boom
(Washington Post, 8-15-11)
More Student Loans Are Past Due (Wall Street Journal, 8-16-11)
Panetta: Bigger defense cuts would be devastating (Washington Times,
8-16-11)
Tripped up by globalisation
(Financial Times, 8-18-11)
Balance the Budget on the Backs of Billionaires (Michael Moore, 8-20-11)
Law Firms' Profits Called Inflated (Wall Street Journal, 8-22-11)
Morgan Stanley at Brink Got $107B From Fed (Bloomberg, 8-22-11)
Obama administration tries to stop prosecution of banks (It's Our Economy,
8-23-11)
Student loans skyrocket, grants decline as college tuition spikes (Raw
Story, 8-23-11)
Markets Remain Unkind to BofA (Wall Street Journal, 8-24-11)
Foreclosure Sales Six Times Higher Than In Healthy Housing Market
(Huffington Post, 8-25-11)
Relief for Student Debtors (New York Times, 8-26-11)
Is Barack buddy Buffett betting on bank bailout? (Campaign 2012, 8-28-11)
The Dope
Gap (Financial Armageddon, 8-30-11)
August 2011 - Environmental
Energy programs
prepare for debt deal pain (Politico, 8-1-11)
Report Rips Chemical Testing Program (Wall Street Journal, 8-4-11)
Bombshell: Warming May Shrink Russian Permafrost 30% by 2050 (Climate
Progress, 8-5-11)
Have We Crossed the 9 Planetary Boundaries? (State of the Planet, 8-5-11)
Concentrated solar power plants are all wet (Grist, 8-7-11)
Bachmann pledges to have the EPA’s ‘doors locked and lights turned off’
(Grist, 8-8-11)
Sewer Overflows: Heavy Rain, Old Pipes, More People Make A 'Perfect Storm'
(Huffington Post, 8-8-11)
China’s Nuclear Power Plans (e360, 8-8-11)
How Power Plants Kill Fish & Damage Our Waterways (Compass, 8-9-11)
National Journal: Surviving the Coming
Clean Tech Crash (Breakthrough Institute, 8-17-11)
Engineering Food for All (New York Times, 8-18-11)
Van Jones slams misleading quotes in NYT green-jobs story (Grist, 8-24-11)
Hurricane models prepare New Yorkers for worst-case storm scenarios (CNN
8-26-11)
Hurricane Irene: Most Insurance Policies Don't Cover Home Flooding
(Huffington Post, 8-29-11)
Steven Chu: Canadian oil is better choice for U.S. (Fuel Fix, 8-31-11)
Second giant ice island set to break off Greenland glacier (MSNBC, 8-31-11)
August 2011 - Health
Hannity blasts free birth control, defends free erection pills (Raw Story,
8-5-11)
Democrats Challenging Administration on Medicaid (New York Times, 8-8-11)
CHART: On 15th Anniversary Of ‘Welfare Reform,’ Aid Is Not Getting To Those Who
Need It Most (Think Porgress, 8-22-11)
More Infants Die Early in US than in 40 Countries, Including Cuba: WHO Study
(IB Times, 8-31-11)
August 2011 - Religion
PROFILE: The Outlandish Beliefs Of Rick Perry’s Prayer Rally Endorsers
(Think Progress, 8-3-11)
Rick
Perry's Army of God (Texas Observer, 8-3-11)
Oklahoma Drought Now Far Worse Than When Gov. Mary Falin Asked All Oklahomans to
Pray for Rain (Think Progress, 8- 4-11)
Who Would
Jesus Nuke? : US Air Force Pulls 'Jesus Loves Nukes' Training (Information
Clearing House, 8-5-11)
The Biggest Religious Movement You Never Heard of: Nine Things You Need to Know
About Rick Perry's Prayer Event (AlterNet, 8-6-11)
After Praying for Rain, Texas Governor Rick Perry Prays for the EPA to Stop
Environmental Regulations (Think Progress, 8-9-11)
Whole Foods Abandons Ramadan Marketing Campaign (Huffington Post, 8-9-11)
Jewish "extremists" enter Al-Aqsa with police support (MEM, 8-9-11)
Rachel Maddow: Rick Perry’s 2012 Run Is Power Grab For Christian Conspiracy
Group (Mediaite, 8-9-11)
Rick Perry’s Unanswered Prayers (8-11-11)
Meet the Christian Dominionist 'Prayer Warriors' Who Have Chosen Rick Perry as
Their Vehicle to Power (AlterNet, 8-15-11)
Frank Schaeffer: Bachmann wants to replace American democracy with Christian
theocracy (RawStory, 8-17-11)
Who funds Muslim-baiting in the US? (Aljazeera, 8-27-11)
August 2011 - Foreign
Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister, Calls U.S. Parasite On The Global
Economy (Huffington Post, 8-1-11)
India’s new Internet rules criticized (Washington Post, 8-1-11)
How the World Failed Haiti (Rolling Stone, 8-4-11)
In Libya -- as always in war -- civilians pay highest price (CNN, 8-5-11)
In Pakistan, top media group wields clout amid controversy (Washington Post,
8-5-11)
In valley where SEALs died, U.S. raids boost Taliban support (McClatchy,
8-7-11)
German minister
urges end to web anonymity after Norway attacks (DW-World, 8-8-11)
Israel approves
1,600 settler homes in East Jerusalem (BBC, 8-11-11)
C.I.A. Is Disputed on Civilian Toll in Drone Strikes (Ne York Times,
8-11-11)
German
Example Shows Way Out of Debt Crisis (Spiegel, 8-12-11)
Nurit Peled-Elhanan's new book, exposing the racism of Israel' s education
system (Jewish Peace News, 8-12-11)
Bin Laden raid:
China 'viewed US helicopter wreckage' (BBC, 8-15-11)
How Europe lost its military might (GlobalPost, 8-17-11)
Tradition Trumps the Treaty: Bolivia Repeals its Ban on Coca (Truthout,
8-17-11)
Peru suspends coca eradication programme (Aljazeera, 8-18-11)
Internet opens doors for
developing world workers (BBC, 8-18-11)
In Gaza, poverty forces children to choose between survival and school (IMEU,
8-19-11)
To live within our means, let's leave Iraq (Aljazeera, 8-19-11)
Egypt protests to Israel over troops killings (Aljazeera, 8-19-11)
US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024 (The Telegraph, 8-19-11)
Baidus shares fall after attacks by CCTV (Financial Times, 8-19-11)
EU
Remains Silent as Hungary Veers Off Course (Spiegel, 8-19-11)
Rebuilding Haiti: How Not to Do it (Forbes, 8-21-11)
GE ‘all in’ on aviation deal with China (Washington Post, 8-22-11)
E.U. Elites Keep Power From the People (New York Times, 8-22-11)
NATO nations set to reap spoils of Libya war (Aljazzera, 8-25-11)
Germany Dims Nuclear Plants, but Hopes to Keep Lights On (New York Times,
8-29-11)
Why is
“Confucian Culture” so wildly successful? (IEET, 8-29-11)
Manipulating social networks (Aljazeera, 8-31-11)
August 2011 - Miscellaneous
The Tent City of New Jersey: Desperate victims of the economic slump forced to
live in makeshift homes in forest (Daily Mail, 8-2-11)
The Man Who Wants To Kill More Than 560,000 American Jobs (Think Progress,
8-3-11)
How to Beat the High Costs of Dialing Abroad (New York Times, 8-3-11)
Once
Upon a Time in the West (Spiegel, 8-4-11)
Faber: Brace
for a Global 'Reboot' and a War (Information Clearing House, 8-5-11)
Michele Bachmann Supports View That Slavery Wasn’t So Bad After All
(Addicting Info, 8-8-11)
BAF Educational Fund Releases Infrastructure Report: Falling Apart and Falling
Behind (BAF, 8-8-11)
Obama's Weakness Is a Problem for the Global Economy (Spiegel, 8-9-11)
The Day Our Leaders Got Unstuck (New York Times, 8-9-11)
Obama Slipping: Black America Waking Up - To the Nightmare (Black Agenda
Report, 8-10-11)
Postal Service proposes cutting 120,000 jobs, pulling out of health-care plan
(Washington Post, 8-11-11)
Evicting people in Vegas (CBS, 8-11-11)
Maddening: "Job Creators'" Widespread Refusal to Hire the Unemployed
(AlterNet, 8-12-11)
Ari Berman: The Not-So-Super Committee (The Nation, 8-12-11)
Repressing the Internet, Western-Style (Wall Street Journal, 8-12-11)
Low Labor Force Participation Means Jobs Crisis Is Worse Than It Seems
(Huffington Post, 8-12-11)
Consumer sentiment at 30-year low in US (Financial Times, 8-12-11)
The manufacturing imperative (Aljazeera, 8-13-11)
Can Jeremy Grantham Profit From Ecological Mayhem? (New York Times, 8-11-11)
Michele Bachmann corn dog photo goes viral (GlobalPost, 8-15-11)
Obama's Jobs Agenda For Congress: Does It Actually Create Jobs? (Huffington
Post, 8-15-11)
Bringing solar light bulbs to the world (CNN, 8-15-11)
Rick Perry's Texas Hometown Feels Abandoned By Presidential Hopeful
(Huffington Post, 8-16-11)
Architectures of violence: Famine and profits (Aljazeera, 8-16-11)
Perry reveals plan for total anarchy: ‘a moratorium on regulations’ (Grist,
8-16-11)
Bravo, Rick Perry, for bringing the Fed into the conversation (CNN, 8-17-11)
Rick Perry's 'Texas Miracle' consisted of 125,000 new government jobs (Daily
KOS, 8-17-11)
New Low of 26% Approve of Obama on the Economy (Gallup, 8-17-11)
Drones Direct Hit Upon Rule Of Law (Huffington Post, 8-17-11)
Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? (Rolling Stones, 8-17-11)
9/11’s White Elephant (New York Times, 8-19-11)
Corporations pushing for job-creation tax breaks shield U.S.-vs.-abroad hiring
data (Washington Post, 8-21-11)
The Kids Are Not All Right (New York Times, 8-21-11)
Surprise: Kucinich appears in Seattle to rally marijuana activists (RawStory,
8-22-11)
Obama Wants NY AG
Schneiderman to Back Off Banks: NYT Reports (Common Dreams. 8-22-11)
Homebuyers Hunker Down as Housing’s Drag on Economy May Worsen (Bloomberg,
8-22-11)
We’re
Number One! (Yes!, 8-22-11)
Welfare Reform Leaving More In Poverty (Huffington Post, 8-23-11)
Do We Spend Too Much on Education? (New York Times, 8-23-11)
AFL-CIO president: Obama is aligned with tea party, not fixing jobs (Raw
Story, 8-25-11)
Steve Jobs' Commencement Speech: Apple Founder Speaks To Stanford Graduates
(Huffington Post, 8-25-11)
GOP Planning to Use Disaster Aid as a Bargaining Chip (People For the
American Way, 8-25-11)
Failing Forward (New York Times, 8-26-11)
Third World America: One Year Later (Huffington Post, 8-28-11)
Windfalls of war: Pentagon's no-bid contracts triple in 10 years of war (iWatch
News, 8-29-11)
9/11: Ten
Years Later, Americans Still Stupid and Vulnerable (Information Clearing
House, 8-29-11)
New Record: 51% of Americans Age 16-24 Are Unemployed – Leading Indicator for
Civil Unrest (David DeGraw, 8-29-11)
The Election March of the Trolls (RSN, 8-29-11)
Fischer: Make Homosexuality "A Criminal Offense" (Right Wing Watch, 8-30-11)
30 Signs That America Has Become A Horrible Place For Children (The American
Dream, 8-30-11)
Barack's Betrayals Offer Lessons We Can't Deny (RSN, 8-30-11)
Shame on You, Dick Cheney (Huffington Post, 8-31-11)
Corporations Have Hijacked Copyright Law, Too (Truthdig, 8-31-11)
Springfield’s Jaxx rock club sues Gunnar Nelson, alleging slander
(Washington Post, 8-31-11)
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)
Frank Rich Blasts Obama For Letting Wall Street Off the Hook (Rolling Stone,
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)
How a $13 Trillion Cover Story was Written (Michael Hudson, 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)
Dr. Coburn Releases $9 Trillion Deficit Reduction Plan (Tom Coburn, 7-18-11)
CEO Steve Wynn 1) Scores $200M Quarterly Profit. 2) Accuses Obama Of
Anti-Business Socialism. 3) Praises China. (Campaign for America's Future,
7-19-11)
Can the Gang of Six’s plan pass? (Washington Post, 7-20-11)
How to Save $2 Trillion (Huffington Post, 7-20-11)
The Fed Audit (Bernie Sanders, 7-21-11)
Federal Reserve System:
Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Policies and Processes for Managing Emergency
Assistance (U.S. GAO, 7-21-11)
Put 15
Million Back to Work Fixing $2.2 Trillion in Infrastructure: the Works Progress
Administration (truthout, 7-23-11)
Budgetary Deceit and America's Decline (Huffington Post, 7-23-11)
Republicans Float Short-Term Debt Ceiling Deal As Democrats Insist On Long-Term
Plan (Huffington Post, 7-24-11)
Are the Bush Tax Cuts the Root of Our Fiscal Problem? (New York Times,
7-26-11)
Debt ceiling
talks stay private (Politico, 7-26-11)
The Debt Ceiling Debacle (Our Future, 7-26-11)
The nonsense battle over the debt ceiling (Aljazeera, 7-27-11)
Obama urged to
invoke 14th Amendment as debt ceiling deadline nears (Politico, 7-27-11)
Deteriorating Transportation Infrastructure Could Cost America $3.1 Trillion
(Huffington Post, 7-27-11)
Decaying infrastructure costs U.S. billions each year, report says
(Washington Post, 7-27-11)
Why are we in this debt fix? It’s the elderly, stupid. (Washington Post,
7-28-11)
Charting the American Debt Crisis (New York Times, 7-28-11)
Jobs Deficit, Investment Deficit, Fiscal Deficit (New York Times, 7-29-11)
The President Surrenders (New York Times, 7-31-11)
Obama Gives It All Away (The Daily Beast, 7-31-11)
July 2011 - Environmental
California’s Next Nightmare (New York Times, 7-1-11)
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)
New Weedkiller May be Causing Mass Tree Deaths in U.S. (TreeHugger, 7-11-11)
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)
Monsanto's Roundup Causing Evolution of "Super-Weeds" That Grow 3 Inches a Day
(TreeHugger, 7-21-11)
Debt of a Salesman: Obama, Democrats Poised to Embrace Deal that May Slash
Energy, Enviro Spending for Many, Many Years (Climate Progress, 7-28-11)
Biodiversity On Earth Plummets, Despite Growth in Protected Habitats
(Huffington Post, 7-30-11)
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)
Why Obama's Public
Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer (Common Dreams, 8-22-11)
Why Medicare Is the
Solution — Not the Problem (Common Dreams, 7-23-11)
Hepatitis C: A Viral Time Bomb (OSF, 7-26-11)
9/11 Workers with Cancers Enter Kafkaesque Nightmare (FDL, 7-27-11)
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)
Tom Minnery’s lies are commonplace in religious right data (AlterNet,
7-21-11)
Christian Jihad? Why We Should Worry About Right-Wing Terror Attacks Like
Norway's in the US (AlterNet, 7-23-11)
When Christianity becomes lethal (Washington Post, 7-25-11)
Fundamentalism Kills (truthdig, 7-26-11)
Maher: Norway shooter is a ‘Christian terrorist’ (RawStory, 7-31-11)
July 2011 - History
For debt crisis lessons, look back 225 years (CNN, 7-24-11)
Hitler and Wagner (The Telegraph, 7-25-11)
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)
Obama Fumbles His Opportunity with the Arab World (The National Interest,
7-18-11)
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)
The New Power Alliance: Russia, Germany and France (The National Interest,
7-21-11)
Freedom of expression subverted in Israel, US (Aljazeera, 7-21-11)
Islamist student group said to terrorize Pakistan campuses (Los Angels
Times, 7-22-11)
How a clueless "terrorism expert" set media suspicion on Muslims after Oslo
horror (The Electronic Intifada, 7-23-11)
German neo-Nazis
increasingly target young people online (DW-World, 7-22-11)
When Wealth Breeds Rage (New York Times, 7-23-11)
Why Norway Could Happen Here (Daily Beast, 7-24-11)
Extra bright, I want you all to see this (Dawn, 7-25-11)
Norway shooting: Glenn Beck compares dead teenagers to Hitler youth (The
Telegraph, 7-25-11)
Tribal
Rivalries Complicate Libyan War (Spiegel, 7-26-11)
More online
surveillance needed, officials in Europe say (DW-World, 7-26-11)
Chinese riot after killing of fruit vendor (Financial Times, 7-27-11)
GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama’s Jobs Council, Is Moving Jobs And
Economic Infrastructure To China At A Blistering Pace (It's Our Economy,
7-28-11)
Rebel military
commander reported killed in Libya (DW-World, 7-29-11)
The allure of Afghanistan (Aljazeera, 7-29-11)
Iranian exiles pay US figures as advocates (Financial Times, 7-29-11)
Europe's Right-Wing Populists Find Allies in Israel (Spiegel, 7-29-11)
Genocidal politics and the Somali famine (Aljazeera, 7-30-11)
Crash club: when sputtering economies collide (Aljazeera, 7-31-11)
Israel struggles with free-speech rights (Los Angeles Times, 7-31-11)
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)
Why U.S. Leaders Deceive Their Own People (The National Interest, 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)
Drugs and money: Obama puts myth over science (Aljazeera, 7-20-11)
Court: Appeal to assassinate Obama is protected speech (Raw Story, 7-20-11)
Mitch McConnell for President! Or, No Wonder Ed Schultz Is Confused (FDL,
7-20-11)
21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor21st-Century Slaves:
How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor (AlterNet, 7-21-11)
From Budget Cuts to Dirty Bombs (New York Times, 7-22-11)
A Vision for Economic Renewal - An American Jobs Agenda (Huffington Post,
7-25-11)
Black Economy Disintegrates As Obama Welcomes Return to the Eisenhower Era
(Black Agenda Report, 7-26-11)
NAACP adopts resolution to end the ‘War on Drugs’ (Daily Caller, 7-27-11)
Former Mexican president urges legalizing drugs (CNN, 7-27-11)
15 Years in Prison For Taping the Cops? How Eavesdropping Laws Are Taking Away
Our Best Defense Against Police Brutality (AlterNet, 7-27-11)
Jesse Jackson:
Obama should have been tougher (Politico, 7-29-11)
When Shilling on the Web, Think Small (New York Times, 7-29-11)
Maher debuts GOP’s frightening new motivational message (RawStory, 7-29-11)
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
(AlterNet, 7-31-11)
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