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JANUARY 2009 TO JUNE 2009
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June 2009 - Financial
Goodbye, GM
(Information Clearing House, 6-1-09)
States' Budget
Woes Are Poised to Worsen (The Wall Street Journal, 6-3-09)
Could Cap and Trade
Cause Another Market Meltdown? (Common Dreams, 6-9-09)
Public debt: The biggest bill in history (The Economist, 6-11-09)
States' Budget
Gaps Are Another Test for Washington (Wall Street Journal, 6-15-09)
How Obama Will
Outspend Reagan on Defense: The Pentagon Spigot is Wide Open (Counter Punch,
6-17-09)
How Obama Will
Outspend Reagan on Defense(Information Clearing House, 6-19-09)
Does
Stock-Market Data Go Back 200 Years? (Wall Street Journal, 6-30-09)
June 2009 - Environmental
Slaughtering the Amazon (Greenpeace USA, 6-1-09)
Carbon Capture Can't Make Coal Clean (AlterNet, 6-1-09)
Slaughtering the Amazon (Greenpeace, 6-1-09)
Chemicals Doha' stresses need for global regulation (EurActiv, 6-2-09)
The Chesapeake: Beauty on the Brink (Washington Post, 6-7-09)
U.S. Foresees
a Thinner Cushion of Coal (Wall Street Journal, 6-8-09)
Pirate fishing causing eco disaster and killing communities, says report
(Guardian, 6-8-09)
The Amazon is Dying
(Common Dreams, 6-8-09)
Climate vows
insufficient to hold back climate change, expert says (DW-World, 6-8-09)
Large Mammal Migrations Disappearing (AOL News, 6-9-09)
The Amazon: The future of the forest (The Economist, 6-11-09)
Video:
Could tuna disappear from the sea? (BBC News, 6-12-09)
New Report Predicts Effects of Warming in Different U.S. Regions (The
Washington Post, 6-17-09)
Global emissions
talks lead to high-stakes power ploys (DW-World, 6-18-09)
'Worst
Case' Scenario: New Report Says World Is Warming Faster than Thought
(Spiegel, 6-18-09)
The
Anatomy of a Climate Crisis (TCK, 6-19-09)
Climate Bill Analysis Part 15: EPA Projects Coal Will Expand Under Waxman-Markey
(Breakthrough Institute, 6-22-09)
A Plea to President
Obama: End Mountaintop Coal Mining by James Hansen (Environment 360,
6-22-09)
A Plea To President
Obama: End Mountaintop Coal Mining (Common Dreams, 6-23-09)
Science: Lula signs land law on Amazon reform (IOL, 6-27-09)
It’s Time to Learn From Frogs (New York Times, 6-27-09)
Dust Speeds Snowmelt, Harms Plant Life (AOL, 6-30-09)
Obama’s cap and trade troubles (Financial Times, 6-2-09)
June 2009 - Miscellaneous
The
Deadly Toll of Abortion by Amateurs (New York Times, 6-1-09)
The traveling
circus of the European Parliament (DW-World, 6-1-09)
Banning bomb materials and bomb tests: Making a start (The Economist,
6-4-09)
Russia accuses Poland of starting Second World War (Telegraph, 6-4-09)
Time for a Global Perestroika (Washington Post, 6-7-09)
Under God: Gingrich's Move to the (Religious) Right (Washington Post,
6-9-09)
Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away (Liberty Voice, 6-9-09)
New Report Highlights Health Disparities (Washington Post, 6-10-09)
Lexington: The underworked American (The Economist, 6-11-09)
Russians
Outfox U.S. in Latest Great Game (Wall Street Journal, 6-11-09)
New US commander
in Afghanistan assembles team of assassins (Information
Clearing House, 6-12-09)
Op-Ed Contributor - Too Poor to Make the News (New York Times,
6-13-09)
AP IMPACT: Weak security enables credit card hacks (Washington Post,
6-14-09)
Op-Ed Contributor - A Threat in Every Port (New York Times, 6-14-09)
PROMISES, PROMISES: Indian health care needs unmet (Washington Post,
6-14-09)
Federal
Intervention Pits 'Gets' vs. 'Get-Nots' (Wall Street Journal, 6-15-09)
CBO: Healthcare bill exceeds $1 trillion (The Hill, 6-15-09)
Crises boost numbers
of displaced (BBC News, 6-16-09)
"I Hate Arabs More Than Anybody": Desperate Army Recruits Neo-Nazis (AlterNet,
6-17-09)
Obama a Very Smooth Liar
(Common Dreams, 6-17-09)
Outsourcing Unrest (Monbiot, 6-17-09)
German parliament passes internet censorship bill (The Inquirer,
6-19-09)
Klaus and Cameron Threaten Lisbon
Treaty (Financial Times, 6-19-09)
1.02
Billion People Hungry: One Sixth Of Humanity Undernourished, More Than Ever
Before (Science Daily, 6-20-10)
Pakistan conflict
map (BBC News, 6-22-09)
China's Other Genocide: the 'Mother of the Uyghurs' Speaks Out (World Uyghur
Congress, 6-24-09)
How the Internet helps Iran
silence activists (Slate, 6-25-09)
The genocide Britain hushed up: A new film tells the terrible story of Stalin's
own Final Solution - and Churchill's shameful complicity (Mail Online,
6-25-09)
African elites
ignore poverty exacerbating the continent's problems (DW-World,
6-27-09)
May 2009 - Financial
Will the Phone Industry Need a Bailout, Too? (New York Times, 5-8-09)
Obama's defense budget plan reflects shift of focus (China View,
5-8-09)
Pentagon Budget Devotes More To Afghanistan War Than to Iraq (Washington
Post, 5-8-09)
The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More (Washington Post, 5-18-09)
Bailout Costs vs Big Historical Events (RGE, 5-18-09)
Patients May
Be Billed for Free Exams (Wall Street Journal, 5-21-09)
U.S. Unemployment Rate May Soon Pass Europe’s (New York Times, 5-22-09)
State of Paralysis (New York Times, 5-24-09)
Exploding debt threatens America (Financial Times, 5-26-09)
Germany's Martin Schulz on the EU's Democratic Deficit: 'Europe Has Become an
Over-Intellectualized Affair for Specialists' (Spiegel, 5-26-09)
California: A failing state (Financial Times, 5-29-09)
May 2009 - Environmental
Mission to Break up
Pacific Island of Rubbish Twice the Size of Texas (Common Dreams, 5-2-09)
EPA Moves to Regulate Contaminated Runoff From Power Plants (Washington
Post, 5-3-09)
Methodology and Sources (Global Footprint Network, 5-7-09)
Tck tck tck – the
clock is ticking down to Copenhagen (Cool Planet, 5-7-09)
Another one bites the dust, literally: Bolvia's 18,000 year-old Chacaltaya
glacier is gone (Vlimate Progress, 5-8-09)
Darker Times
for Solar-Power Industry (Wall Street Journal, 5-11-09)
The Century of The
Rights of Mother Earth (Common Dreams, 5-12-09)
Key coral
reefs 'could disappear' (BBC News, 5-13-09)
FROM WEAK TO WORSE: TIME FOR A
“DO OVER” ON U.S. ENERGY AND CLIMATE LEGISLATION (iLoveMountains, 5-13-09)
North Pole
poised to be largely ice-free by 2020: "It's like the Artic is covered with an
egg shell and the egg shell is now just cracking completely" (Climate
Progresse, 5-13-10)
American Clean Energy
and Security Act of 2009 (Open Congress, 5-15-09)
New
Mountaintop Removal Mining a Leap in Wrong Direction (Sierra Club, 5-15-09)
America's climate-change bill is weaker and worse than expected (Economist,
5-21-09)
H.R.
2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 PDF
EPA greenlights the 'Appalachian Apocalypse' (Mother Nature Network,
5-27-09)
Department of
Agriculture to Halt Road Building, Logging in America's Forests (NRDC,
5-28-09)
Report: Climate change crisis 'catastrophic' (CNN, 5-29-09)
May 2009 - Miscellaneous
On Faith Panelists Blog: Why the Faithful Approve of Torture (Washington
Post, 5-1-09)
New UN Report Shows the
US Combo of Torture and Impunity Thrives in Iraqi Prisons |(Common Dreams,
5-1-09)
Opinion: Torturing for America (Spiegel, 5-1-09)
King of the Hate Business : Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
(Chronicles, 5-1-09)
Russia to Build
Floating Arctic Nuclear Stations (Common Dreams, 5-3-09)
Buying
Brand Obama (Truthdig, 5-3-09)
'Witness for Jesus' in Afghanistan (Aljazeera, 5-4-09)
Campaigning in the Crisis: German Politicians Compete with Empty Election
Promises (Spiegel, 5-5-09)
2009 European party manifestos at a glance (EurActiv, 5-6-09)
The Religious Dimensions of the
Torture Debate (Pew Forum, 5-7-09)
Smart Power in
Pakistan/Afghanistan? (Common Dreams, 5-8-09)
Report Warns of Insolvency for Social Security, Medicare (Washington Post,
5-13-09)
Mohamed ElBaradei warns of new nuclear age (Guardian, 5-14-09)
The Worst Ways to Die: Torture Practices of the Ancient World (Spiegel,
5-15-09)
Pakistan Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, U.S. Says (New York Times, 5-17-09)
Russia threatens to bar Europeans who deny Red Army 'liberated' them
(Telegraph, 5-19-09)
US burns Bibles in Afghanistan row (Aljazeera, 5-22-09)
US Army Prepared to
Stay in Iraq for a Decade (Common Dreams, 5-27-09)
Disruption of Congress
or Corruption of Congress? (Common Dreams, 5-27-09)
Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape' (Telegraph, 5-28-09)
Family Minister vs. Freedom of Speech: Anti-Child Pornography Law Flounders
(Spiegel, 5-29-09)
District, M.d. Hospitals Often Divert Ambulances (Washington Post,5-31-09)
April 2009 - Financial
Madoff Was A Piker -- America's Big Banks Are a Far Larger Fraudulent Ponzi
Scheme (AlterNet, 4-6-09)
Americans Feel 15.6% Unemployment As Unemployment Surges (Bloomberg, 4-6-09)
Stalled Economy Will Take Years to Regain Speed (New York Times, 4-6-09)
Diplomatic Memo - Parsing the G-20’s $1 Trillion Pledge (New York Times,
4-6-09)
IMF puts financial losses at $4,100bn (Financial Times, 4-21-09)
IMF: Global
recession will cost $4 trillion (DW-World, 4-21-09)
Firms Infused With Rescue Cash Find Money to Fund Lobbying (Washington Post,
4-22-09)
Pandemic equals economic pain (CNN, 4-28-09)
April 2009 - Environmental
Flame Retardant Chemicals Taint All U.S. Coastal Waters (KMTR, 4-1-09)
Heat and Acidity
Ganging Up On Coral (ENN, 4-2-09)
Clean-Energy Industry in the Doldrums (The Wall Street Journal, 4-3-09)
Frogs: The Thin Green Line (PBS, 4-5-09)
Depletion of Prey Fish
May Be Starving the Oceans (ENN, 4-7-09)
India Rejects Calls For Emission Cuts (Washington Post, 4-13-09)
Religious Groups' Views on Global
Warming (Pew Forum, 4-16-09)
Forests At Risk Of Being Lost Entirely (IUFRO, 4-17-09)
Key role of
forests 'may be lost' (BBC News 4-18-09)
Tons of released drugs taint US water (Yahoo, 4-19-09)
Palestinian
water crisis deepens (BBC News, 4-20-09)
Speech of President Morales before the UN General Assembly on April 22nd,
International Mother Earth Day (Bolivia UN, 4-24-09)
Waxman-Markey Strips EPA of Clean Air Act Authority to Fight Global Warming (Friends
of The Earth, 4-24-09)
Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling (ProPublica,
4-26-09)
Selling the Green Economy (Washington Post, 4-27-09)
Charles Lane - Electric Cars -- Not Ready to Roll (Washington Post, 4-29-09)
Antarctic Ice Shelf Falling Apart (AOL, 4-29-09)
Over half in U.S. live with dangerous air pollution (Reuters, 4-29-09)
April 2009 - Miscellaneous
Public Interest Groups Decry Obama's Strict Lobbying Rules (Washington Post,
4-1-09)
New Israeli Foreign Minister Dismisses U.S. Peace Efforts (New York
Times, 4-1-09)
G20:
Global bailout enough to end world poverty for 50 years (Oxfam, 4-1-09)
Legalized Oppression of Women: Western Outrage over Discriminatory Afghan Law
(Spiegel, 4-3-09)
Estimate of
TARP's Cost to Taxpayers Increases (The Wall Street Jounral, 4-4-09)
Internet records to be stored for a year (Telegraph, 4-5-09)
Diplomatic Barbs: EU Sharpens Tone Against New Israeli Government (Spiegel,
4-6-09)
Rwanda: Why
the international community looked away (DW-World, 4-7-09)
Op-Ed Columnist - Show Us the Ball (New York Times, 4-7-09)
The dark side of Dubai (The Independent, 4-7-09)
Photo
Gallery: Battle for the Parliament in Moldova (Spiegel, 4-8-09)
Revive Lincoln’s
Monetary Policy: an Open Letter to President Obama (Common Dreams, 4-9-09)
Health-Care
Plan Could Bridge Divide (Wall Street Journal, 4-10-09)
Yankee Bombs Go Home: Foreign Minister Wants US Nukes out of Germany
(Spiegel, 4-10-09)
A System From Hell: My
Personal Health Care Nightmare (Common Dreams, 4-10-09)
States Slashing Social Programs for Vulnerable (New York Times, 4-11-09)
Memo to the GOP: Go Gay (The Daily Beast, 4-13-09)
Palin's New Disaster (The Daily Beast, 4-13-09)
You Are Being Lied to
About Pirates (Common Dreams, 4-13-09)
Media Executives Plan Online Service to Charge for Content (New York Times,
4-14-09)
Debate Sharpens over Ward Churchill Verdict (Dissident Voice, 4-17-09)
Barack
Obama: Crime Boss (Dissident Voice, 4-18-09)
Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Discussing Aid for AIPAC Defendants (CQ
Politics, 4-19-09)
US urges food output boost to avert unrest (Financial Times, 4-19-09)
Sources: Wiretap
Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC (Common Dreams,
4-20-09)
Where’s Rev. Wright
When You Need Him? (Common Dreams, 4-20-09)
Wider Drug War Threatens Colombian Indians (New York Times, 4-21-09)
Genetic Modification: Is Demonizing Monsanto Blocking Real Progress?
(Spiegel, 4-22-09)
Nobel Laureate
Accuses Israel of 'Ethnic Cleansing' (Common Dreams, 4-22-09)
German
Government forces ISPs to put web filters (EDRI, 4-22-09)
Harsh Methods Approved as Early as Summer 2002 (Washington Post, 4-23-09)
Bolivia UN Atom Feed
(Bolivia UN, 4-24-09)
Europe's 'Special Interrogations': New Evidence of Torture Prison in Poland
(Spiegel, 4-27-09)
How ABC Interview Shaped a Torture Debate (New York Times, 4-27-09)
YouTube - Empire - Obama and Afghanistan - 29 Apr 09 - Part 2Related Videos
Life in the Gaza Strip | Not nearly back to normal | (The Economist,
4-30-09)
March 2009 - Financial
Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller? (New York Times, 3-1-09)
Morning Cup of Stimulus: Bitter
Aftertaste (Propublica, 3-6-09)
U.S. to Invite The Wealthy To Invest in The Bailout (Washington Post,
3-6-09)
Not even renters safe from foreclosure storm (CNN, 3-8-09)
Plunging assets cost $50,000bn (Financial Times, 3-8-09)
Is the global economy a Ponzi scheme? (Climate Progress, 3-8-09)
VIDEO- Developing world
to suffer most from economic crisis (Youtube, 3-9-09)
The Next Hit: Quick Defaults (Washington Post, 3-9-09)
$5 Billion in Lobbying for 12 Corrupt Deals Caused the Multi-Trillion Dollar
Financial Meltdown (AlterNet, 3-9-09)
Some Banks, Citing Strings, Want to Return Aid (New York Times, 3-10-09)
Is the Economic Mess Going to Kill 100,000 Non-Profits? (AlterNet, 3-13-09)
Bailout King AIG to Pay Millions in Bonuses (Washington Post, 3-15-09)
The Second Shockwave
(Common Dreams, 3-18-09)
U.S. Budget Deficit to Balloon, CBO Says (Washington Post, 3-21-09)
Projected Deficit (Washington Post, 3-21-09)
Obama’s bank plan could rob the taxpayer (Financial Times, 3-25-09)
How to Conjure Up $500 Billion (New York Times, 3-26-09)
Financial Rescue Nears GDP as Pledges Top $12.8 Trillion (Update1)
(Bloomberg, 3-31-09)
$12.8 trillion (90 percent of GDP!) to bail out bad bets (Daily Finance,
3-31-09)
March 2009 - Environmental
Chemicals Policy Reform
(Environmental Defense Fund, 3-6-09)
Grim New Report: China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Threaten to Double
(Spiegel, 3-6-09)
Scientists to
Issue Stark Warning Over Dramatic New Sea Level Figures (Common Dreams,
3-8-09)
Can the problems of the developing world be solved by ignoring global warming?
(Climate Progress, 3-9-09)
Sea Levels Are Rising Twice As Fast As Had Been Thought (Economist, 3-11-09)
85 Per Cent of
Amazonian Rainforest at Risk of Destruction, Researchers Warn (Common
Dreams, 3-11-09)
World faces 'irreversible' climate change, researchers warn (CNN, 3-12-09)
Climate Change? Try,
Climate Breakdown (Common Dreams, 3-13-09)
The Problem With Sewage (PRI,
3-15-09)
Why Clean Coal Is Years Away (U.S. News, 3-17-09)
Leading Climate
Scientist: 'Democratic Process Isn't Working' (Common Dreams, 3-18-09)
Scientists Warn
of 'Irreversible' Changes (AOL, 3-20-09)
Data on Safety of Injecting Coal Slurry Underground Found to Be Lacking
(Washington Post, 3-22-09)
Living Planet Report (Global Footprint Network, 3-26-09)
Mother Nature’s Dow (New York Times, 3-28-09)
‘Stem rust’ fungus
threatens global wheat harvest (Optimum Population, 3-28-09)
Liquid War: Postcard
from Pipelineistan (Common Dreams, 3-30-09)
Chairmen Waxman, Markey Release Discussion Draft of New Clean Energy Legislation
(Committee On Energy And Commerce, 3-31-09)
March 2009 - Miscellaneous
Audio slideshow:
Homeless in Gaza (BBC News, 3-6-09)
Study: Media
Blackout on Single-Payer Healthcare (Common Dreams, 3-6-09)
Op-Ed Columnist - Middle East Reality Check (New York Times, 3-8-09)
Saudis order 40 lashes for elderly woman for mingling (CNN, 3-9-09)
Trinity College Program on Public Values Survey Finds Drop in Percentage of
Americans Identifying as Christian (Washington Post, 3-9-09)
America becoming less Christian, survey finds (CNN, 3-9-09)
Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health (New York Times, 3-11-09)
Ten Wasted Years:
UN Drug Strategy a Failure, Reveals Damning Report (Common Dreams, 3-11-09)
Report: US Health
Care System Is a Liability (Common Dreams, 3-12-09)
Who is America to
Judge? (Common Dreams, 3-12-09)
Obama
Administration Declares Proposed IP Treaty a ‘National Security’ Secret
(Wired, 3-12-09)
Let Me Chew
My Coca Leaves (New York Times, 3-13-09)
At Least 3 Percent of D.C. Residents Have HIV or AIDS, City Study Finds; Rate Up
22% From 2006 (Washington Post, 3-15-09)
Pope
Benedict Rejects Condoms as Solution to Africa's AIDS Crisis (Wall Street
Journal, 3-17-09)
Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Unknown Afghanistan (TomDispatch, 3-17-09)
Naked Short Sales Hint Fraud in Bringing Down Lehman (Update1) (Bloomberg,
3-19-09)
Soldiers’ Accounts of Gaza Killings Raise Furor in Israel (New York Times,
3-19-09)
Rapid Declines in Manufacturing Spread Global Anxiety (New York Times,
3-19-09)
China and the world | A time for muscle-flexing (The Economist, 3-19-09)
Bill
Moyers Journal (PBS, 3-20-09)
Global crisis 'to
strike by 2030' (BBC News, 3-20-09)
Israeli soldiers say
army rabbis framed Gaza as religious war (McClatchy, 3-20-09)
AP IMPACT: Mentally ill a threat in nursing homes (Washington Post, 3-22-09)
Sunni
Militiamen Say Iraq Didn’t Keep Promises of Jobs (New York Times, 3-23-09)
How Some Military
Rabbis Are Trying To Radicalize Israeli Soldiers (Slate, 3-23-09)
The Reagan Revolution For Dummies: This Graph Shows Just When The Class War
Started, And How Many Prisoners It’s Taken (The Exiled, 3-23-09)
February 2009 - Financial
Reports - It’s Not Going to Be OK (Truthdig, 2-2-09)
Adding Up the Government’s Total Bailout Tab - Interactive Graphic (New York
Times, 2-4-09)
In depth - Banking chiefs’ prepared testimony (Financial Times, 2-11-09)
Financial Crisis Called Top Security Threat to U.S. (Washington Post,
2-13-09)
It’s Time to Work for
Budget Process Solutions (Ecovote, 2-19-09)
Government Cutbacks Leave Faith-Based Services Hurting (Washington Post,
2-20-09)
Soros
sees no bottom for world financial collapse (Reuters, 2-21-09)
CIA Adds Economy To Threat Updates (Washington Post, 2-26-09)
February 2009 - Environmental
Iraq Reconstruction Auditor Warns of Waste, Fraud in Afghanistan (Washington
Post, 2-2-09)
Water - another
global 'crisis'? (BBC News, 2-2-09)
Mapping future
water stress (BBC News, 2-2-09)
Dark Days for Green Energy (New York Times, 2-3-09)
Bhopal: the
slow poisoning after the catastrophe (DW-World, 2-12-09)
Cumulative CO2 emissions by country (Time For Change, 2-12-09)
Green
burials: A dying wish to be 'home for fish' (CNN, 2-17-09)
The Death of Night: Astronomers and Environmentalists Fight to Save Dark Skies
(Spiegel, 2-18-09)
U-turn for
nuclear opponents (WNN, 2-23-09)
Contaminated food, water causes 700,000 deaths in Africa annually. (World
News, 2-24-09)
Letter to Washington Post
| Friends of the Earth (Friends of the Earth, 2-24-09)
Revisiting the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976 (Environmental Defense
Fund, 2-26-09)
Amazon Teetering
on the Edge (Common Dreams, 2-26-09)
Chemical Industry Calls For Tougher Regulations (Journal Sentinel, 2-26-09)
Black is the new green (Financial Times, 2-27-09)
Green Jobs for the Middle Class 284345-1 (Video Library) (C-SPAN, 2-27-09)
February 2009 - Miscellaneous
Op-Ed Columnist - Don’t Try This at Home (New York Times, 2-3-09)
Rider Paradox:
Surge in Mass, Drop in Transit (Common Dreams, 2-4-09)
Hawks Urge Boosting
Military Spending (Common Dreams, 2-5-09)
Arts and Culture - David Rieff on ‘Africa’s World War’ (Truthdig, 2-6-09)
Bush Faithful Rewarded With Jobs (Washington Post, 2-10-09)
Ex-presidents of Latin America urge legal marijuana (CNN, 2-11-09)
Op-Ed
Contributor - The Maggots in Your Mushrooms (New York Times, 2-12-09)
Reading Khamenei in Tehran (New York Times, 2-18-09)
From Poverty to Power
(Oxfam, 2-18-09)
Global
Economic Downturn Will Have Drastic Consequences For People in Developing World
(Science Daily, 2-19-10)
Who are Sudan's Darfur rebels? (BBC News, 2-24-09)
Muslim Publics Oppose Al Qaeda's Terrorism, But Agree With Its Goal of Driving
US Forces Out (World Public Opinion, 2-24-09)
German Ban on
Headscarves Violates Rights, Says Watchdog (DW-World, 2-26-09)
January 2009 - Financial
A $2 Trillion Increase? The U.S. Debt Is Expected To Rise This Year
(Washington Post, 1-3-09)
Ballooning Deficit Could Temper Support for Obama's Spending Plans
(Washington Post, 1-8-09)
New
Report Identifies Hard Landing For China, Collapse In asset Prices, Gaps In
Global Governance and Climate Change as Key Risks Ahead (World Economic
Forum, 1-13-09)
Gaza rebuild 'to
cost billions' (BBC News, 1-20-09)
Democrats Among Stimulus Skeptics (Washington Post, 1-28-09)
DOT Adviser
Praises House for Passing Nadler Amendment to Hike Transit Funding by 33
Percent in Stimulus Bill (Environmental Defense Fund, 1-28-09)
CNBC
Exclusive: George Soros (CNBC, 1-28-09)
Toll on 401(k) Savings Adds Years More of Toll (Washington Post, 1-29-09)
New Bank Bailout Could Cost $2 Trillion (The Wall Street Journal, 1-29-09)
The credit crunch according to Soros (Financial Times, 1-30-09)
Iceland on the Thames: Can Countries Really Go Bankrupt? (Spiegel, 1-30-09)
January 2009 - Environmental
Ethanol’s Federal Subsidy Grab
Leaves Little For Solar, Wind And Geothermal Energy (Environmental Working
Group, January 2009)
President Bush Designates Nine Sites In Three Areas Of The Central Pacific As
Marine National Monuments (CNN, 1-5-09)
Coal Ash Spill
Reveals Risks, Lapses in Waste Regulation (Common Dreams, 1-7-09)
Building a better electric grid: A $2 Trillion Bet on Powering America
(CNN Money, 1-8-09)
Tons of Coal Ash Piling Up Across U.S., Analysis Says (Washington Post,
1-10-09)
Economic Challenges For
Climate Change Policy (Council on Foreign Relations, 1-15-09)
Recent Spill of Coal Ash Prompts Legislation for Better Controls (Washington
Post, 1-16-09)
Death Rates of Trees in Western U.S. Forests on Rise, Study Finds
(Washington Post, 1-23-09)
EPA a failure on chemicals, audit
finds (Environmental Working Group, 1-26-09)
Dramatic
Expansion Of Dead Zones In Oceans Likely With Unchecked Global Warming
(Science Daily, 1-26-09)
Long Droughts, Rising Seas Predicted Despite Future CO2 Curbs (Washington
Post, 1-27-09)
Acid oceans
'need urgent action' (BBC News, 1-30-09)
January 2009 - Miscellaneous
A Marked Failure
For The UN: The President Of The United Nations General Assembly Calls The
Invasion In Gaza A Monstrosity (Common Dreams, 1-4-09)
VIDEO:
An Uncensored Video From Dr. Mads Gilbert Explains The Number Of People Killed
In Gaza Proves That Israel Is Deliberately Attacking The Population
(Information Clearing House, 1-6-09)
Rick Warren's Africa Problem (The Daily Beast, 1-7-09)
Services in
Gaza Collapse as Fighting Drags On (DW-World, 1-8-09)
Panel Urges Keeping U.S. Nuclear Arms In Europe (Washington Post, 1-9-09)
Israel: Boycott,
Divest, Sanction (Common Dreams, 1-9-09)
The Language of Death (Truthdig, 1-12-09)
Pro-Israel Rally Attended by Big-Time NY Dems Descends into Calls for 'Wiping
Out' Palestinians (AlterNet, 1-13-09)
Where Sweatshops Are a Dream (New York Times, 1-14-09)
'A
Dangerous Luxury': The International Criminal Court's Dream of Global Justice
(Spiegel, 1-14-09)
Lost in Transition -- The In Crowd: Obama's Appointments and Nominations
(National Journal, 1-16-09)
Obama's $100,000-Plus Donors Were Able to Give to Several Entities
(Washington Post, 1-18-09)
Video - Doctor's Loss Shakes Viewers (CNN, 1-20-09)
Americans Believe Obama Will Deliver (AOL, 1-20-09)
Bush Should
Face Prosecution, Says UN Representative (DW-World, 1-21-09)
Photo
Gallery: Gaza's Beit Lahia in Ruins (Speigel, 1-23-09)
VIDEO: Inside the Salaheddin Brigades
(CNN, 1-25-09)
Gaza War Pushes Arabs to the Brink (The Nation, 1-25-09)
Berlin's City
Palace Controversy Refuses to Die (DW-World, 1-26-09)
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