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JUNE 2009 TO DECEMBER 2009
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December 2009 - Financial
'Black Swan' Shuns Public Life
Because of Bernanke (CNBC, 12-2-09)
Housing Market Meltdown Not Over:
Zandi (CNBC, 12-2-09)
Jobs Summit Features Execs Who Have Cut Many Jobs (Sphere, 12-3-09)
Unemployment and Insurgency
(Global Guerrillas, 12-7-09)
Debt Raters Avoid Overhaul After
Crisis (New York Times, 12-8-09)
China: A blast from the past (FT, 12-14-09)
Detroit's unemployment rate nears 50% (MSN, 12-17-09)
Fed's approach to regulation left banks exposed to crisis (Washington
Post, 12-21-09)
Rich-country debt: Playing Ponzi (The Economist, 12-21-09)
Banks That Bundled Bad Debt Also Bet Against It (New York Times,12-23-09)
Look back at stock market predictions for the past decade (MSN, 12-28-09)
Betting Against All of Us (New York Times, 12-28-09)
China v Japan - Bubble trouble? (The Economist, 12-30-09)
Firedoglake: The New Robber Barons (Facebook, 12-30-09)
December 2009 - Environment
Smoke over the Amazon (Al Jazeera, 12-2-09)
Kumi Naidoo: Frontline activist ready to take on the world (CNN, 12-3-09)
Op-Ed Columnist - Cancer From the Kitchen? (New York Times, 12-5-09)
Corporate Farmer Calls Upon Sen. Feinstein to Influence Environmental Dispute
(Truthdig, 12-6-09)
Millions in U.S. Drink Contaminated Water, Records Show (New York Times,
12-7-09)
Climate SOS - China's creeping sands (Al Jazeera, 12-9-09)
Underused Drilling Practices Could Avoid Pollution (ProPublica, 12-14-09)
The Ungreening of America (New Republic, 12-14-09)
Choking in China's polluted city (CNN, 12-16-09)
Millions Drink Tap Water That Is Legal, but Maybe Not Healthy (New York
Times, 12-16-09)
Greenpeace USA Blog: Greenwashing
(12-16-09)
New Delhi's filth continues to choke once-sacred Yamuna River (Washington
Post, 12-17-09)
5 Environmental Crises You Should Care About that Aren't Global Warming
(Planet Green, 12-17-09)
Stealing Water from the Future: California's Massive Groundwater Overdraft Newly
Revealed (AlterNet, 12-18-09)
NASA Report Highlights Need to Retire Drainage Impaired Land in California
(AlterNet, 12-18-09)
Clear-Cutting the Truth About Trees (New York Times, 12-19-09)
Protection of Desert Land Faces Off With New Energy Sources (New York Times,
12-21-09)
The United Nations approved the resolution “Harmony with Nature” proposed by
Bolivia (Mother Earth, 12-22-09)
Earth-Friendly Elements Are Mined Destructively (New York Times, 12-23-09)
Right wing bullies Build-A-Bear into removing videos about manmade climate
change Comments Feed (Climate Progress, 12-25-09)
The Toilet That Can Help Solve Our Water and Energy Problems (AlterNet,
12-28-09)
Disinfectants 'train'
superbugs to resist antibiotics (BBC, 12-28-09)
Drilling Wastewater
Disposal Options in New York Report Have Problems of Their Own (ProPublica,
12-29-09)
December 2009 - Climate
Senate Democrats to
W.H.: Drop Cap-and-Trade (Common Dreams, 12-27-09)
Himalayan Glaciers Melting (CNN, 12-1-09)
EPA Petitioned to
Cap Carbon Dioxide Pollution at 350 Parts Per Million Under the Clean Air Act
(Common Dreams, 12-2-09)
An animated journey through the Earth's climate history (BBC News, 12-3-09)
Glacier threat
to Bolivia capital (BBC, 12-4-09)
Op-Ed Contributor - Cap and Fade (New York Times, 12-6-09)
The key effects
of climate change (BBC News, 12-8-09)
U.S. Negotiator Dismisses Reparations for Climate (New York Times,
12-9-09)
Banking on Coal (Foreign Policy, 12-9-09)
Leaders of the Rich World
Are Enacting a Giant Fraud (CommonDreams, 12-11-09)
'Acidifying
oceans' threaten food supply, UK warns (BBC News, 12-14-09)
The Copenhagen Process Is Out Of Control, US Politicians Should Stay Home, Mass
Arrests May Occur (Huffington Post, 12-15-09)
Procedural disputes block climate accord (FT, 12-16-09)
"Shameful" for West to Spend Trillions on War and Only $10 Billion for Climate
Change (Democracy Now, 12-16-09)
Evo Morales: Trillions for
war, peanuts to save the planet (12-16-09)
ALBA and G77 Denounce
Copenhagen Sham : Climate and Capitalism (Climate and Capitalism, 12-19-10)
The
World from Berlin: 'Copenhagen Was an All-Out Failure' (Spiegel, 12-21-09)
Climate change alliance crumbling (Financial Times, 12-22-09)
Copenhagen has given us the chance to face climate change with honesty
(Observer, 12-27-09)
A New Outside-the-Beltway Climate Bill Deserves Support; Why Won't Enviros Get
Behind It? (AlterNet, 12-27-09)
Interview with German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen: 'China Doesn't Want
to Lead, and the US Cannot (Spiegel, 12-29-09)
Solar Could Generate
15% of Power by 2020, If US Ends Fossil Fuel Subsidies (Common Dreams,
12-29-09)
Greenhouse Gases: Who's Cheating? (Business Week, 12-30-09)
December 2009 - Health
135,000 Uninsured
Americans Will Die Before Health Reform Takes Effect, Analysis Finds (Common
Dreams, 12-15-09)
Special Comment: Not Health, Not Care, Not Reform (Daily Kos, 12-16-09)
Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment:
Not Health, Not Care, Not Reform - TV (beta) (Daily Kos, 12-17-09)
December 2009 - Religion
If Uganda Executes Gays, Will American Christians be Complicit? (Politics
Daily, 12-2-09)
December 2009 - Foreign
The "Torture Memos" and the Increasingly Indefensible DOJ (Huffington Post,
12-7-09)
Our Murderers in the Sky (Truthdig, 12-10-09)
Networks Still
Hosting Military Analysts Without Identifying Massive Conflicts Of Interest
(12-11-09)
Wall on
Gaza Violates International Law (ICH, 12-13-09)
Stunning Statistics
About the War Every American Should Know (Common Dreams, 12-18-09)
US Attack
Kills 120 In Yemen(Information Clearing House, 12-18-09)
Afghan
Killing Bares a Karzai Family Feud (New York Times, 12-19-09)
Ahmadinejad to seek UN compensation for WWII (Press TV, 12-19-09)
Mr. 10%: Our
Man in Islamabad (Information Clearing House, 12-24-09)
US Press Ignores
Egyptian Suppression of Gaza Freedom March (Common Dreams, 12-29-09)
Who Won the Decade? The
Terrorists (Common Dreams, 12-30-09)
December 2009 - Miscellaneous
13 states dictate principles
for toxics reform (Safer States, 12-2-09)
Afghans
unimpressed by Obama's troops surge (Reuters, 12-2-09)
Op-Ed Columnist - Johnson, Gorbachev, Obama (NY Times, 12-2-09)
ON WAR #324: O = W
(LIND, 12-4-09)
Liberals Are Useless
(Common Dreams, 12-7-09)
Walkouts? We're locked out (Al Jazeera, 12-14-09)
Black Lung
on Rise in Mines, Reversing Trend (WSJ, 12-15-09)
Study finds
right-wing violence in Germany on the rise (DW-World, 12-17-09)
Op-Ed Columnist - A Less Than Honest Policy (New York Times, 12-28-09)
The Lost Decade: What the World Can Learn from 10 Years of Excesses
(Spiegel, 12-28-09)
November 2009 - Financial
Recession Upends Germany’s Zeal for Fiscal Prudence (New York Times,
11-10-09)
Ten most troubled states in the U.S. (
Eye Opener: How the stimulus will hurt states (Washington Post, 11-12-09)
Ten most troubled states in the U.S. (CNN, 11-11-09)
Global Crisis Makes US More Dependent on China than Ever (Spiegel, 11-11-09)
Fed criticized for not negotiating harder with AIG creditors (Washington
Post, 11-17-09)
Geithner Singled
Out in TARP Watchdog Neil Barofsky's Scathing Report on AIG Bailout (Common
Dreams, 11-17-09)
Still Doing God’s Work on Wall Street (truthdig, 11-25-09)
After Dubai, Wondering Where the Next Debt Bombs Lurk (NY Times, 11-30-09)
November 2009 - Environmental
Project Kaisei: voyage to clean up the plastic vortex (CNN, 11-2-09)
One in Five Mammals
Threatened With Extinction (Common Dreams, 11-3-09)
Species'
extinction threat grows (BBC, 11-3-09)
Inspector General to Probe EPA Marketing of Coal Ash (Humanitarian News,
11-4-09)
Burning issue of Spain's wetlands (Al Jazeera, 11-5-09)
Farmers Skirt Rules on BT Corn, Report Says (New York Times, 11-5-09)
Vanishing glaciers jolt smokestack China (Times Online, 11-8-09)
Would We Listen to
Nature if Our Lives Depended on It? (Common Dreams, 11-6-09)
Potomac Conservancy blames chemical runoff for intersex fish (Washington
Post, 11-12-09)
Pervasive
Plastics: Why the U.S. Needs New and Tighter Controls by John Warg (Yale
Environment 360, 11-12-09)
Big profit
from nature protection (BBC, 11-13-09)
Invest in Nature
Now, Save Trillions Later (Common Dreams, 11-13-09)
California's Water Crisis Is Just the Beginning for Water Woes in the U.S.
(AlterNet, 11-13-09)
The Illusive Dream of Modern American Rail (TheCityFix, 11-19-09)
Biodiversity Loss Is
Earth's 'Immense and Hidden' Tragedy, Darwin's 'Natural Heir' Warns (Common
Dreams, 11-20-09)
Documenting the Planet's Demise - One Striking Photograph at a Time (ABC
News, 11-20-09)
A Growing Disaster (NY Times, 11-28-09)
Thinking globally to save riches of the sea (Washington Post, 11-29-09)
November 2009 - Climate
Friends of the Earth
Attacks Carbon Trading (Common Dreams, 11-5-09)
EPA tells workers to tone down YouTube clip about climate bill (Washington
Post, 11-11-09)
Greenland ice
loss 'accelerating' (BBC, 11-12-09)
Report: The Carbon
the World Forgot (Boreal Songbird Initiative, 11-12-09)
A
Warming Arctic: Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Faster than Ever (Spiegel,
11-13-09)
Fossil fuel CO2 emissions up by 29 per cent since 2000 (BAS, 11-17-09)
Rising CO2 could cause catastrophic sea level rise finds Antarctic study
(Telegraph, 11-18-09)
Deforestation: Indonesia’s burning issue (FT, 11-18-09)
The Coal Industry's $47
Million PR Spending Spree (Common Dreams, 11-20-09)
Sea level rise could cost port cities $28 trillion (CNN, 11-23-09)
Op-Ed Contributor - A Treaty on Ice (NY Times, 11-30-09)
November 2009 - Health
Op-Ed
Columnist - Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies (New York Times, 11-7-09)
Study: Uninsured Trauma Victims Face Sky-High Death Rate (Sphere, 11-16-09)
Health Deform (Common
Dreams, 11-16-09)
Even if health bill passes soon, wait for reforms could be long (Washington
Post, 11-30-09)
An Open Letter to
President Obama from Michael Moore (Common Dreams, 11-30-09)
November 2009 - Religion
Conservative Christian leaders tell followers not to comply with laws
(Washington Post, 11-21-09)
November 2009 - History
Emmanuel Faye’s Book Questions Status of Heidegger (New York Times, 11-8-09)
November 2009 - Foreign
John Krakauer: McChrystal's Explanation For Pat Tillman Cover-up Is
"Preposterous" (Huffington Post, 11-1-09)
Moderate Arab
Islamists struggle to steer a democratic course (DW-World, 11-15-09)
The Conventional Arms
Control Challenge (Common Dreams, 11-19-09)
Leaked documents reveal No 10 cover-up over Iraq invasion (Guardian,
11-22-09)
Blackwater's Secret
War in Pakistan (Common Dreams, 11-23-09)
The Pentagon Garrisons
the Gulf (Common Dreams, 11-24-09)
UK diplomat questions post of Jews on Iraq panel (JPost, 11-25-09)
Iran restructuring its naval forces (Washington Post, 11-30-09)
November 2009 - Miscellaneous
Half of US kids will get food
stamps, study says (WTOP, 11-2-09)
Marooned Atop Sea of Oil in Iraq, Residents of Basra Are Unable to Tap Its
Wealth (New York Times, 11-7-09)
The New State Solution (Common
Dreams, 11-16-09)
Stupak Amendment Could End Abortion Coverage (AlterNet, 11-18-09)
Press Kit - Manhattan Declaration Newsroom (DeMossNews, 11-20-09)
Postcard from
Europe: Romanian countryside transformed by EU subsidies (DW-World,
11-22-09)
October 2009 - Financial
Inspector’s Report on Bailouts Says Treasury Misled Public (New York
Times, 10-5-09)
They Lied: Watchdog
Says Treasury and Fed Knew Bailed-Out Banks Were Not 'Healthy' (Common
Dreams, 10-5-09)
Steep Losses Pose Crisis for Pensions (Washington Post, 10-11-09)
The
U.S. Economic Crisis: Root Causes and the Road to Recovery (Journal of
Accountancy, October 2009)
October 2009 - Environmental
EPA shifts into action mode (EDF, 10-1-09)
The Inconvenient
Truth: The Crisis in Global Land Use (Environment 360, 10-5-09)
Betting Big on a Boom in Natural Gas (Business Week, 10-8-09)
Pacific Ocean 'dead zone' in Northwest may be irreversible (Los Angeles
Times, 10-9-09)
New fears for
species extinctions (BBC News, 10-11-09)
Biomonitoring
Study Detects Toxic Chemicals in Health Care Professionals
(Beyond Pesticides, 10-13-09)
Fossil Fuels’ Hidden Cost Is in Billions, Study Says (New York Times,
10-19-09)
Interactions with Aerosols Boost Warming Potential of Some Gases (NASA,
10-29-09)
Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel - Democrats' climate bill failure
(Washington Post, 10-31-09)
October 2009 - Climate
White
House lukewarm on climate change? - War Room (Salon, 10-1-09)
The high stakes of melting Himalayan glaciers (CNN, 10-5-09)
Study Asks $10 Trillion for Climate (Wall Street Journal, 10-6-09)
'Scary'
climate message from past (BBC News, 10-10-09)
Some Coal Plants Cleanse the Air at the Expense of Waterways (New York
Times, 10-12-09)
Carbon Scam: Greenpeace
report exposes how coal and oil companies are trying to use forest offset
projects to cheat the climate (Greenpeace, 10-15-09)
As Time Runs Short for Global Climate Treaty, Nations May Settle for Interim
Steps (New York Times, 10-20-09)
Freakonomics Guys Flunk Science of Climate Change (Bloomberg, 10-20-09)
China-India deal to resist carbon caps (FT, 10-21-09)
EU leaders agree climate aid deal (CNN, 10-30-09)
October 2009 - Health
Lack of Universal
Health Care Is a Mass Killer (Common Dreams, 10-5-09)
Rape Victim's Choice: Risk AIDS or Health Insurance? (Huffington Post,
10-21-09)
Grayson Launches Site To Honor, Name Those Dead From Lack Of Health Care (Huffington
Post, 10-21-09)
Small Business Faces Sharp Rise in Costs of Health Care (New York Times,
10-24-09)
October 2009 - Foreign
EU
Investigators Debunk Saakashvili's Lies (Spiegel, 10-1-09)
EXCLUSIVE: Obama agrees to keep Israel's nukes secret (Washington Times, 10-2-09)
US 'silent on Israeli nuclear arms' (Al Jazeera, 10-3-09)
EU election
observer says the entire Afghan election process was flawed (DW-World,
10-8-09)
Why Obama Has No Business Trying War in the Nuclear-Armed Powder Keg of Pakistan
(AlterNet, 10-9-09)
Nearly 1 in 4 people worldwide is Muslim, report says (CNN, 10-12-09)
Afghanistan: A War of Lies (Eric Margolis, 10-12-09)
Iraqi cancer figures soar
(Al Jazeera, 10-13-09)
Karzai's Brother On C.I.A. Payroll (Huffington Post, 10-27-09)
Middle East - Israel 'cutting Palestinian water' (Al Jazeera, 10-27-09)
Maoist Rebels Widen Deadly Reach Across India (New York Times, 10-31-09)
October 2009 - Miscellaneous
A Columbus Day
Meditation - As Nobel Laureate Obama Decides Whether to 'Conquer' Afghanistan...
(Common Dreams, 10-13-09)
Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years (Telegraph, 10-22-09)
Conservatives Laugh Off Gingrich Presidential Dreams (Washington
Independent, 10-27-09)
Robert Scheer: Lieberman Twists the Knife (Huffington Post, 10-28-09)
September 2009 - Financial
$23.7 Trillion At
Risk From U.S. Bailout Frenzy (Global Economic Crisis, 9-4-09)
Major U.S. Role in Mortgages Shaping Entire Market (Washington Post, 9-7-09)
Whose Economic Recovery?
Has The US Economy Really Been Pulled Back From The Brink? (Common
Dreams, 9-10-09)
Follow the money
(BBC News, 9-10-09)
As Jobs Are
Lost in Recession, So Is The Middle Class (New York Times, 9-12-09)
Brussels fears deficits will exceed forecasts (Financial Times, 9-14-09)
Chrysler's
Press in Debt Squeeze (Wall Street Journal, 9-21-09)
Wall Street Lies Blame Victims to Avoid Responsibility for Financial Meltdown
(Wall Street Journal, 9-29-09)
September 2009- Environmental
'Millions at
risk' as deltas sink (BBC News, 9-21-09)
Life, Death and DDT (Far Eastern Economic Review, 9-22-09)
EPA Wants More
Oversight on Chemicals (Common Dreams, 9-30-09)
September 2009 - Climate
China’s high price for emission cuts (Financial Times, 9-1-09)
AFP: Poor nations need 'wartime' support against climate change: UN (Google,
9-1-09)
Arctic ice is
melting into a sea of environmental disasters, says WWF (DW-World, 9-2-09)
Great Barrier
Reef Facing 'Catastrophic Damage' From Climate Change (Common Dreams,
9-2-09)
UN
secretary-general warns of an approaching "climate abyss" (DW-World, 9-3-09)
United Nations (UN) Shames Rich Nations for Climate Change Funding — Needs to Be
About $500-600 Billion Higher (Eco-Worldly, 9-3-09)
Study Links Humans to Reversal of 2,000-Year Arctic Cooling Trend (Washington
Post, 9-4-09)
Warmest Arctic temperatures for 2,000 years, says new study (CNN, 9-4-09)
Brussels to
pump billions of euros into helping poorer nations fight global warming
(DW-World, 9-10-09)
The Injustice of
Carbon Offsets (Common Dreams, 9-18-09)
No Climate Change Leader as Nations Meet (New York Times, 9-19-09)
Real Men Tax Gas (New York Times, 9-19-09)
US-EU rift clouds climate summit (9-21-09)
Copenhagen Climate Conference (Financial Times, 9-22-09)
Climate Financing Vital to G20 Meeting Success, But Increasingly Pushed Aside
(Solve Climate, 9-24-09)
The
World from Berlin: Chances of Climate Success in Copenhagen 'Headed Toward Zero'
(Spiegel, 9-28-09)
Supply Glut Will Put the Heat on Solar Stocks - Interview with Gordon L. Johnson
II (Barron's, 9-28-09)
September 2009 - Health
The Claim -
Lack of Sleep Increases the Risk of Catching a Cold. (New York Times,
9-21-09)
The Numbers and Health Care Reform (New York Times, 9-22-09)
September 2009 - History
Ear to the Ground - Meet
Josef Stalin, ‘Competent Manager’ (Truthdig, 9-16-09)
German secret
services want more powers after election (DW-World, 9-25-09)
Did Lancaster bombers that killed 600,000 in German cities deliberately target
civilians? A new book says YES... (Mail, 9-29-09)
September 2009 - Foreign
Fake Afghan Poll Sites Favored Karzai, Officials Assert (New York Times,
9-6-09)
Rights group: Israeli offensive killed mostly civilians (CNN, 9-9-09)
Hamas and Its Discontents (Foreign Affairs, 9-9-09)
Everyone Seems to Be
Agreeing with Bin Laden These Days (Common Dreams, 9-19-09)
Is the Afghan Army a
Figment of Washington's Imagination? (Common Dreams, 9-21-09)
Anti-U.S. Wave Imperiling Efforts in Pakistan, Officials Say (Washington
Post, 9-25-09)
September 2009 - Miscellaneous
US Fares Poorly
in Child Welfare Survey | CommonDreams.org (Common Dreams, 9-2-09)
Revenge on Ethnic Germans: Czech Town Divided over How to Commemorate 1945
Massacre (Spiegel, 9-4-09)
The Body Count
at Home (The New York Times, 9-12-09)
Germany's Election and the Digital Dark Ages (Washington Post, 9-20-09)
France passes tough anti-piracy measure (CNN, 9-23-09)
More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation (Washington Post, 9-28-09)
Chávez and Gaddafi urge redefining of ‘terrorism’ (Financial Times, 9-29-09)
August 2009 - Financial
White House Adds $2 Trillion to Deficit Forecasts (Washington Post, 8-22-09)
The world
needs a breather from the US. And they'll get it sooner than many think
(Information Clearing House, 8-14-09)
Cap-and-Trade's Unlikely Critics: Its Creators (Wall Street Journal,
8-13-09)
US economic myths bite the dust (Guardian, 8-13-09)
The
Spend-And-Borrow Economy (Information Clearing House, 8-28-09)
Soaring Population
May Swamp Anti-Poverty Goals (Common Dreams, 8-17-09)
Social Security crunch coming fast (MSN Money, 8-17-09)
August 2009 - Environmental
Nepal's Natural Beauty Faces Risk of Fading (Washington Post, 8-1-09)
Scientists study 'garbage patch' in Pacific Ocean (CNN, 8-5-09)
Beetles, wildfire: Double threat in warming world (The Associated Press, 8-6-09)
New Delhi warned on water shortages (Financial Times, 8-12-09)
Radioactive waste
hidden in oil and gas production (DW-World, 8-12-09)
Beijing sets date for emissions cut (Financial Times, 8-14-09)
Methane seeps
from Arctic sea-bed (BBC News, 8-18-09)
Scientists
Uncover New Ocean Threat from Plastics (Common Dreams, 8-20-09)
Climate change will cost the world more than £300 billion, say scientists
(Telegraph, 8-27-09)
Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility (PEER, 8-31-09)
August 2009 - Miscellaneous
Leadership Vacancy Raises Fears About USAID's Future (Washington Post,
8-5-09)
The Terror America Wrought (Truthdig, 8-5-09)
Hamas 2.0: The Islamic Resistance Movement Grows Up (Foreign Affairs,
8-5-09)
The Great
Hiroshima Cover-Up (Information Clearing House, 8-6-09)
During Crisis, Paulson’s Calls to Goldman Posed Ethics Test (New York
Times, 8-9-09)
Fascist America: Are We
There Yet? (Common Dreams, 8-9-09)
US 'Biggest' Threat
Say Pakistanis (Common Dreams, 8-9-09)
Cap-and-Trade's Unlikely Critics: Its Creators (Wall Street Journal,
8-13-09)
Pakistanis see US as biggest threat (Al Jazeera, 8-13-09)
Why
We Need Health Care Reform (New York Times, 8-15-09)
Afghanistan’s Tyranny of the Minority (New York Times, 8-16-09)
Health Care’s Generation Gap (New York Times, 8-16-09)
Insurance
System for Injured War Contractors Is Broken (Washington Post,
8-16-09)
Dear President Obama: A
Modest Medicare Proposal (Common Dreams, 8-17-09)
Fake Elections Won't Bring Peace To Afgahnistan (Eric Margolis, 8-17-09)
Northern Warlord Returns From Exile to Aid Karzai (Spiegel, 8-18-09)
The Afghan Pipe Dream
(Common Dreams, 8-19-09)
Americans: Serfs Ruled by Oligarchs (Chronicles, 8-19-09)
Karzai and
Warlords Mount Massive Vote Fraud Scheme (Common Dreams, 8-19-09)
Parties Shun Truth in German Election Race (Spiegel, 8-21-09)
Wochenzeitung aus Berlin: Bayerns Innenminister für Sperrung rechtsextremer
Internetseiten (Junge Freiheit, 8-21-09)
his Isn’t Reform, It’s
Robbery (Common Dreams, 8-24-09)
Now hiring: Obama still needs to fill top jobs (CNN, 8-25-09)
YouTube to share ad money with more video makers (Washington Post, 8-25-09)
Afghanistan's
future stands at a crucial crossroad (DW-World, 8-27-09)
Growing Accounts of Fraud Cloud Afghan Election (New York Times, 8-30-09)
Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility (PEER, 8-31-09)
July 2009 - Financial
US lurching
towards 'debt explosion' with long-term interest rates on course to double
(Information Clearing House, 7-6-09)
The
Man Nobody Wanted to Hear: Global Banking Economist Warned of Coming Crisis
(Spiegel, 7-8-09)
A
pugnacious pundit Wall Street can’t ignore (Financial Times, 7-17-09)
July 2009 - Environmental
The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a Scam,
and Only the Few Will Survive (AlterNet, 7-6-09)
Bay Is a Threat To Humans, Too: Report Cites Pollutants in Chesapeake
(Washington Post, 7-7-09)
Great Barrier
Reef will be gone in 20 years, says Charlie Veron (Times Online, 7-7-09)
Pickens Calls Off Plans For Vast Texas Wind Farm (Washington Post,
7-8-09)
G-8
Failure Reflects U.S. Failure on Climate Change (Huffington Post, 7-9-09)
Franklin Park Zoo may shut its doors (Boston Globe, 7-11-09)
India resists hard limits on emissions during Clinton visit (CNN, 7-19-09)
How to end America’s deadly coal addiction (Financial Times, 7-19-09)
Forget Shorter Showers:
Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (Common Dreams, 7-23-09)
July 2009 - Miscellaneous
Amnesty details
Gaza 'war crimes' (BBC News, 7-2-09)
Afghan-Pakistani Hostility Impedes U.S. Troops (Washington Post, 7-5-09)
OSCE resolution
equating Stalinism with Nazism enrages Russia (DW-World, 7-9-09)
Germany Calls
for Ban of Neo-Nazi Sites Abroad (ABC News, 7-9-09)
Interactive graphics - Financial troubles echo across the US (Financial
Times, 7-9-09)
Allies' stance cited in US gays-in-military debate (Washington Post,
7-13-09)
Germany calls
for ban of neo-Nazi sites abroad (Goldstein Report, 7-13-09)
Obama Drinks Friedman’s
Kool-Aid (Common Dreams, 7-14-09)
FT.com / View from the Top: Interview with Peter G. Peterson
(Financial Times, 7-16-09)
Everything That Happens
in Afghanistan Is Based on Lies or Illusions (Common Dreams, 7-16-09)
The Darker Side
of China's 'Miracle' (Information Clearing House, 7-17-09)
Why Obama's Public
Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer (Common Dreams, 7-22-09)
Blood and Oil in Central
Asia (Common Dreams, 7-23-09)
CO2 Flow Speeds Up; Poor Countries Now Lead (New York Times, 7-23-09)
House to Vote on High-Speed Rail Funding, National Infrastructure Bank (New
York Times, 7-23-09)
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