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June 2010 - Financial
The Case Against Keynes (With Some Questions for Krugman, Too) (The New
Republic, 6-1-10)
Wealth Gap
Yawns--and So Do Media (Common Dreams, 6-2-10)
With $1.4 Billion in Cannabis Tax Revenue, California Could Help Millions (Firedoglake,
6-3-10)
Financial Crisis Has 'Only Entered
Act II:' Soros (CNBC, 6-10-10)
Fannie-Freddie Fix at $160 Billion With $1 Trillion Worst Case (Bloomberg,
6-13-10)
Lenders go after money lost in foreclosures (Washington Post, 6-16-10)
Outlook for Home Prices Grows Darker (Wall Street Journal, 6-23-10)
UK's new budget is a house of horrors (MSN Money, 6-23-10)
World debt (Economist, 6-24-10)
Derivatives laws could cost companies
$1 trillion: ISDA (CNBC, 6-29-10)
Fannie-Freddie Bailout Could Cost
Taxpayers $1 Trillion (CNBC, 6-30-10)
US Showed Extra Forgiveness for Big
Banks in AIG Bailout (New York Times, 6-30-10)
Why The Greater Depression Still Lies Ahead (Forbes, 6-30-10)
June 2010 - Environmental
Indonesia Takes Concrete Steps to Address Deforestation as a Part of Agreement
with Norway (Switchboard, 6-1-10)
BP Clashes with
Scientists over Deep Sea Oil Pollution (Common Dreams, 6-1-10)
BP oil disaster is Cheney’s Katrina (Climate Progress, 6-2-10)
Industry Claims of 'Proven' Technology Went Unchallenged at MMS (New York
Times, 6-2-10)
Gulf Oil Spill: Latest Federal Government Estimate Still Understates Oil Flow
(Huffington Post, 6-3-10)
The Next
Drilling Disaster? (The Nation, 6-3-10)
Chinese coal-mining city is world's most polluted (VBS.TV, 6-3-10)
The Next
Drilling Disaster? (The Nation, 6-3-10)
Superweed Outbreak Triggers Arms Race (Wall Street Journal, 6-4-10)
The Next Great Coal
Spill? Massey's Billion Gallon Disaster in Waiting (Common Dreams, 6-4-10)
Greenwashing Corn:
Industrial Ag Tries to Bolster Its Tarnished Image (Common Dreams, 6-4-10)
In gulf oil spill's long reach, ecological damage could last decades
(Washington Post, 6-6-10)
Looking for Liability in BP’s Gulf Oil Spill (New York Times, 6-7-10)
Indian court finds chemical execs guilty in Bhopal disaster (CNN, 6-7-10)
White House
chief tied to BP adviser (World Net Daily, 6-7-10)
Massive flow of BS continues to gush from BP (Climate Progress, 6-7-10)
German Expert Says "Kill, Don't Clean" Oil Spill Birds (HULIQ, 6-7-10)
Reports at BP over years find history of problems (Washington Post, 6-8-10)
Norway bans deepwater oil drilling (Financial Times, 6-8-10)
Irony-gate: Signs at BP stations tell customers they are “responsible for any
spills.” (Climate Progress, 6-8-10)
Cheney’s culture of deregulation and corruption (Climate Progress, 6-8-10)
Gulf Oil Spill: Cleaning Animals Largely Futile, Scientists Says (Huffington
Post, 6-10-10)
BP’s Mess, and Wall Street’s (New York Times, 6-10-10)
Scientists offer varied estimates, all high, on size of BP oil leak
(Washington Post, 6-11-10)
Thad Allen Under Fire For Oil Spill Response (Huffington Post, 6-11-10)
Vital
River Is Withering, and Iraq Has No Answer (New York Times, 6-12-10)
Sierra Club and Gang Green: Oil Spill Cleanup “Just Fine” (Firedoglake,
6-14-10)
BP Storm: Tulane Prof Oliver Houck Warned for Decades of Peril of Lax Energy
Regulation (Politics Daily, 6-14-10)
Did BP's Rig Pass A Key Safety Test—Or Not? (Mother Jones, 6-15-10)
Gulf Oil Spill:
What Obama Is Overlooking (Common Dreams, 6-15-10)
Oil Spill Reality Check: New
Oil Rigs or New Fuels (Global Renewable Fuels Alliance, 6-15-10)
BP Oil Spill May Not
Be Capped Until Christmas, Expert Warns (Common Dreams, 6-16-10)
Obama Oil Spill Speech Fact Check (Huffington Post, 6-16-10)
Oil Crud in Worker’s Lungs.
EPA’s Failure. (Firedoglake, 6-17-10)
Studies suggest MMS knew blowout preventers had 'critical' flaws (Christian
Science Monitor, 6-17-10)
BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by
Coast Guard (ABC News, 6-18-10)
Overlooked Danger in Gulf Oil Spill: Methane (Aol News, 6-19-10)
The oily operators behind the religious climate change disinformation front
group, Cornwall Alliance (Climate Progress, 6-19-10)
Study: Millions in Bangladesh exposed to arsenic in drinking water (CNN,
6-20-10)
Regulators Failed
to Address Risks in Oil Rig Fail-Safe Device (New York Times, 6-20-10)
Details Emerge on Weakness in Well Design (Dot Earth, 6-21-10)
A Grim Outlook for
Emissions As Climate Talks Limp Forward (environment 360, 6-21-10)
Four Possible BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come (AlterNet, 6-22-10)
A New Generation of Natural Gas Drilling Is Endangering Communities From the
Rockies to New York (AlterNet, 6-22-10)
The permanent oil slick no one is talking about (France 24, 6-23-10)
BP Relied on Faulty U.S. Data (Wall Street Journal, 6-24-10)
Report: Toxins
Found in Whales Bode Ill for Humans (Common Dreams, 6-25-10)
Giant oil skimmer makes stop in Norfolk on way to Gulf oil cleanup (Daily
Press, 6-25-10)
Little Spent on Oil
Spill Cleanup Technology (Common Dreams, 6-26-10)
Coal plant dousing faster than expected (Financial Times, 6-27-10)
Making biofuels a national industry by moving beyond conventional corn ethanol.
(Switchboard, 6-28-10)
Study links bee decline to cell phones (CNN. 6-30-10)
Kucinich to introduce bill for cell phone radiation research, warning label
(Washington Post, 6-30-10)
Banned
Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster (New York Times, 6-30-10)
MacDonald: Damage from Gulf Disaster
Will Last Lifetime (CNBC, 6-30-10)
June 2010 - Health
ObamaCare's Ever-Rising Price Tag (Wall Street Journal, 6-3-10)
The
Doctor Payment Follies (New York Times, 6-4-10)
Cobra payment aid appears likely to end (Mearket Watch, 6-6-10)
Retirements by baby-boomer doctors, nurses could strain overhaul (Washington
Post, 6-14-10)
5 painful health-care lessons from Massachusetts (Fortune, 6-15-10)
Low Medicare pay for doctors puts health reform at risk (Washington Post,
6-19-10)
100,000 Americans Die Each Year from Prescription Drugs, While Pharma Companies
Get Rich (AlterNet, 6-25-10)
June 2010 - Religion
Afghans Protests Agains Christian Aid Groups (6-10-10)
Familiar Jesus statue destroyed by act of God (Clarionledger, 6-15-10)
Ohio's Jesus statue is latest religious statue to be struck by lightning
(Washington Post, 6-16-10)
Baby Dies After Mother Chokes Her With Bible Pages (Jezebel, 6-17-10)
June 2010 - Foreign
Mossad chief: Israel gradually becoming burden on U.S. (Haaretz, 6-1-10)
US Media Pulls Punches on Flotilla Assault (The Nation, 6-1-10)
Our
Leaders Are Responsible for Europe's Crisis (Spiegel Online, 6-2-10)
Karzai
Is Said to Doubt West Can Defeat Taliban (New York Times, 6-11-10)
Israel Agonistes
(The Nation, 6-2-10)
Cameron Warns Britons of ‘Decades’ of Austerity (New York Times, 6-7-10)
India's Welfare Gamble: Add 100 Million to the Rolls (Wall Street Journal,
6-8-10)
The Real
Threat Aboard the Freedom Flotilla (Information Clearing House, 6-8-10)
Pakistani agents
'funding and training Afghan Taliban' (BBC News, 6-13-10)
Saudis act aggressively to denounce terrorism (Washington Post, 6-13-10)
Children Carry Guns for a U.S. Ally, Somalia (New York Times, 6-13-10)
Iraq's new parliament convenes but defers on appointing leaders (Washington
Post, 6-15-10)
Lessons From Somalia’s Young Soldiers (New York Times, 6-15-10)
A
chat with Chávez (Financial Times, 6-18-10)
Can
Democracy Work in Central Asia? (Spiegel Online, 6-21-10)
5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced -- Think That Bothers War
Boosters Like Christopher Hitchens? (AlterNet, 6-21-10)
Pakistan conflicted over targeting rising extremists in its heartland
(Washington Post, 6-22-10)
Lack of electricity and water puts Iraqis on edge during heat of summer
(Washington Post, 6-23-10)
It
is time to rethink the west’s Afghan strategy (Financial Times, 6-24-10)
Petraeus' Link to Troubling Suicide in Iraq: The Ted Westhusing Story (The
Nation, 6-25-10)
Hitler film exposes India's interest in dictator (Yahoo News, 6-25-10)
We Spend $1 Billion/Year Fighting Each al Qaeda Member in Afghanistan (emptywheel,
6-27-10)
China pushing the envelope on science, and sometimes ethics (Washinton Post,
6-28-10)
The Two Sides of a Barbed-Wire Fence (New York Times, 6-30-10)
June 2010 - History
Newly
Discovered Film Shows Post-War Executions (Spiegel Online, 6-2-10)
The Holocaust in Lithuania: One man's crusade to bring justice (CNN, 6-3-10)
June 2010 - Miscellaneous
A
Storyteller Loses the Story Line (New York Times, 6-1-10)
U.N.
Report Highly Critical of U.S. Drone Attacks (New York Times, 6-2-10)
'Vanity' Press Goes Digital (Wall Street Journal, 6-2-10)
U.N. Report Highly Critical of U.S. Drone Attacks (New York Times, 6-2-10)
Along Came "Jones": Why My Generation Isn't Saving the World (Huffington
Post, 6-7-10)
China: The new Silicon Valley? (CNN, 6-10-10)
In China, unrest spreads as more workers rally (Washington Post, 6-11-10)
Obama
Takes a Hard Line Against Leaks to Press (New York Times, 6-11-10)
The Separation of Politics and State (New York Times, 6-11-10)
Long Road to Adulthood Is Growing Even Longer (New York Times, 6-11-10)
Reagan Revolution Home To Roost -- In Charts (Our Future, 6-15-10)
Record Number of US Kids Facing Summer of Hunger (Aol News, 6-16-10)
UN Report Documents Secret
Detention Practices by U.S., Other Countries (Firedoglake, 6-16-10)
UN
warns of gangs’ global muscle (Financial Times, 6-17-10)
National Enquirer says it decided not to pay for Gore sex story interview
(Washington Post, 6-25-10)
Obama 'Internet kill switch' plan approved by US Senate panel (Techworld,
6-25-10)
May 2010 - Financial
The trillion-dollar fraud (Salon, 5-1-10)
Albany charter cash cow: Big banks making a bundle on new construction as
schools bear the cost (5-7-10)
Washington's $1 Trillion Opportunity (Wall Street Journal, 5-25-10)
Senate Approves $60 Billion For War, While House Cuts $24 Billion For Unemployed
Workers And State Aid (Huffington Post, 5-27-10)
Will Wall Street Go Free? (New York Times, 5-27-10)
Placing the Blame as Students Are Buried in Debt (New York Times, 5-28-10)
May 2010 - Environmental
Is BP the Goldman Sachs of Big Oil? CEO Hayward says to fellow executives: “What
the hell did we do to deserve this?” (Climate Progress, 5-2-10)
Limbaugh, Scientists Square Off on Oil Spill Cleanup (ABC News, 5-3-10)
The
effects of 118 years of industrial fishing on UK bottom trawl fisheries
(Nature Communications, 5-4-10)
U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
(Washington Post, 5-5-10)
Speaking at trade association supported by BP, Gov. Perry claims rig disaster is
an ‘act of God’ (Climate Progress, 5-5-10)
BP Oil Spill, NYC Terror Plot: Limbaugh & Co. Go Nuts (Politics Daily,
5-5-10)
UK Fish Stocks Down 94% From a Century Ago - Amount of Fish Caught Peaked Before
World War Two (Treehugger, 5-5-10)
New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer (New York Times, 5-5-10)
Groundhog Day for Oil (New York Times, 5-5-10)
There
Will Be Blood (Mother Jones, 5-5-10)
U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
(Washington Post, 5-5-10)
Graham says climate bill cannot pass Senate (Post Politics, 5-7-10)
Regulator
Deferred to Oil Industry on Rig Safety (New York Times, 5-7-10)
AP: Oil Blowout Preventers Known to Fail (CBS News, 5-8-10)
Nature
loss 'to damage economies' (BBC News, 5-10-10)
Report: Biodiversity
Loss Puts Essentials of Life Under Threat (Common Dreams, 5-10-10)
UN fears ‘irreversible’ damage to natural environment (The Raw Story,
5-10-10)
New Jersey-sized dead zone envelops Gulf Coast (Climate Progress, 5-11-10)
Seafloor Fish Nearly Wiped Out off U.K. (National Geographic, 5-12-10)
BP Waives Responsibility -- Health Effects of Oil Cleanup Could Be Deadly (Huffington
Post, 5-13-10)
The Secret, 700-Million-Gallon Oil Fix That Worked — and Might Save the Gulf
(Esquire, 5-13-10)
Where's The Oil? Your Government Doesn't Really Know (Huffington Post,
5-14-10)
BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’ (truthdig, 5-17-10)
Oil spill imperils an unseen world at the bottom of the gulf (Washington
Post, 5-16-10)
China on the Path towards Putting a Price on Carbon (Switchboard, 5-16-10)
Disaster Hot Spots on a Crowding Planet (New York Times, 5-17-10)
EPA SCIENCE DIVORCED
FROM NEEDS AND DISCOMBOBULATED (Peer, 5-18-10)
Thirst
of the cities drives the giant drills to water China's parched north (Guardian.co.uk,
5-18-10)
U.S. doubts global emission targets in climate deal (Grist, 5-19-10)
U.S. National Academy of Sciences labels as “settled facts” that “the Earth
system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human
activities” (Climate Progress, 5-19-10)
Africa's Oil Spills
Are Far From U.S. Media Glare (Common Dreams, 5-19-10)
CDC misled District residents about lead levels in water, House probe finds
(Washington Post, 5-20-10)
Fox
in the Hen House: BP Exec at MMS (Mother Jones, 5-24-10)
Why Were BP Executives Hired For MMS? Fox, Meet Henhouse. (Crooks and Liars,
5-25-10)
DID ANYONE ACTUALLY
READ BP’S OIL SPILL RESPONSE PLAN? (PEER, 5-25-10)
More Reports of Illness Emerge Among Gulf Cleanup Workers (ProPublica,
5-26-10)
Beeline to Extinction
(Common Dreams, 5-26-10)
James Carville To Obama On Oil Spill (Huffington Post, 5-26-10)
Deforestation
conference in Norway looks to developed world for cash (DW-World, 5-27-10)
Time for Salazar to
Go? (The Nation, 5-27-10)
22-Mile Oil Plume Under Gulf Nears Rich Waters (Huffington Post, 5-28-10)
Our
Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill (New York Times, 5-28-10)
Gulf Oil Spill: Meet the Blow Out Preventer (Huffington Post, 5-28-10)
Phillippe Cousteau To Bill Maher: Even Before Oil Spill, The Oceans Couldn't
Take Any More (Video) (Huffington Post, 5-29-10)
Gulf of
Mexico oil leak 'worst US environment disaster' (BBC News, 5-30-10)
After Fix Fail, a Dispiriting Summer of Oil, Anger (Aol News, 5-30-10)
Nigeria's Agony
Dwarfs the Gulf Oil Spill. The US and Europe Ignore It (Common Dreams,
5-30-10)
UN climate talks
resume but no deal on the horizon (DW-World, 5-31-10)
What could possibly go wrong? (Climate Progress, 5-31-10)
Top Hat and Tails; BP Has Yet Another “Solution” (Firedoglake, 5-31-10)
BP CEO: Sickened Cleanup Workers Probably Have Food Poisoning (Firedoglake,
5-31-10)
Agriculture Takes Over The World (Treehugger, 5-31-10)
A Spill Afar: Should It Matter? (New York Times, 5-31-10)
Gulf Oil Spill: Massive Underwater Plumes Spell Disaster, Scientists Say (Huffington
Post, 5-31-10)
Spillonomics: Underestimating Risk (New York Times, 5-31-10)
BP To Gov't Last Year: We Can Handle A 300,000 Barrels-Per-Day Spill Just Fine
(TPM, 5-31-10)
May 2010 - Health
Icelanders Enjoy Top Spot on Wellness Chart (Aol News, 5-1-10)
Cancer Panel Warning: Babies Born Pre-Polluted (Simple Steps, 5-8-10)
Disabled Face Hard Choices as States Slash Medicaid (Wall Street Journal,
5-20-10)
New Threats to U.S. Blood Supply (Wall Street Journal, 5-24-10)
5
toxics that are everywhere: Protect yourself (CNN, 5-31-10)
May 2010 - Religion
Christian ‘Doctrine’
Fueled Dehumanization: UNPFII Report (Common Dreams, 5-3-10)
The Franklin Graham Crusade (Washington Post, 5-4-10)
Obliterating' Iraq's Christians (5-14-10)
May 2010 - Foreign
China's Cut-Throat Railway Revolution (Spiegel Online, 5-3-10)
Settlers intend to vandalize mosques, defense officials learn (Haaretz,
5-5-10)
On
Israel, Jews and Leaders Often Disagree (New York Times, 5-5-10)
US to expand Pakistan drone strikes (Aljazeera, 5-6-10)
At Front
Lines, AIDS War Is Falling Apart (New York Times, 5-9-10)
Israeli religious forces on the march (Aljazeera, 5-10-10)
Telecom Firms Thrive in Somalia Despite War, Shattered Economy (Wall Street
Journal, 5-11-10)
In
Bangkok, Gunfire Outside a Reporter’s Window (New York Times, 5-14-10)
Somalia, the Perfect Failed State (Spiegel Online, 5-18-10)
Bill for Afghan War
Could Run Into the Trillions (Common Dreams, 5-18-10)
Rich-poor divide underpins Thai crisis (CNN, 5-19-10)
European Court Ruling Forces Release of Rapists and Murderers (Spiegel
Online, 5-19-10)
Turkish fury over Israeli interception: “We'll all be on the next ship to Gaza"
(France 24, 5-31-10)
The
Greeks Get It (truthdig, 5-24-10)
McChrystal calls Marjah a 'bleeding ulcer' in Afghan campaign (McClatchy,
5-24-10)
Merkel 'Botched' Her Duties in Euro Crisis, Says Joschka Fischer (Spiegel
Online, 5-24-10)
U.S. Is a Top Villain in Pakistan’s Conspiracy Talk (New York Times,
5-25-10)
Peter Beinart vs. the ADL (NYR, 5-28-10)
German public and
politicians stunned by president's resignation (DW-World, 5-31-10)
Al-Jazeera presenters quit over 'modesty' dress comments (Telegraph,
5-31-10)
May 2010 - Miscellaneous
Small-time, low-cost lobbying firm goes after the little guys (Washington
Post, 5-1-10)
Six Things You Need to Know About Facebook Connections (Electronic Frontier
Foundation, 5-4-10)
Root Canal Politics (New York Times, 5-8-10)
AP INVESTIGATION: Blowout preventers known to fail (Washington Post, 5-8-10)
Noam Chomsky: The U.S. Continues to Be a Terrorist State (AlterNet, 5-12-10)
The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment (New York Review of Books,
5-12-10)
The World's Most Bizarre Man-Made Disasters (Huffington Post, 5-13-10)
Shadow Elite: Think BP's The Bad Guy? Think Bigger, Way Bigger (Huffington
Post, 5-13-10)
What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers? (Nation, 5-13-10)
So You Want to Be an American: 5 Circles of Immigration Hell (Cracked,
5-15-10)
At YouTube, Adolescence Begins at 5 (New York Times, 5-16-10)
GM’s
Shell Game (ZSpace, 5-17-10)
Clients
Worried About Goldman’s Dueling Goals (New York Times, 5-18-10)
Rep. Souder And Mistress Recorded Video Praising Abstinence (TPM. 5-18-10)
Scandals in the House Republican Class of 1994 (Washington Post, 5-19-10)
Charles Taylor's Long
Goodbye (Slate, 5-19-10)
Mortgage Paid Off,
Woman Loses Home Over a Small Water Bill (Common Dreams, 5-19-10)
Mortgage
Delinquencies, Foreclosures Break Records (Common Dreams, 5-19-10)
Bush's Chief Domestic Policy Adviser: "I Am Never Going To Hire Another Woman
Because They Just Get Pregnant and Leave." (Mother Jones, 5-22-10)
Do Video Games Equal Less Crime? (New York Times, 5-24-10)
Study
Finds Supplements Contain Contaminants (New York Times, 5-25-10)
Easy Money, Hard Truths (New York Times, 5-26-10)
Sacrificing Women to the
Budget Gods (Common Dreams, 5-27-10)
GOP Group Takes Off Gloves With Ad (Wall Street Journal, 5-27-10)
Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Obama's Flip-Flop Leadership Style (Tom Dispatch,
5-27-10)
An Unnatural Disaster (New York Times, 5-28-10)
I Can’t Wait for Barack
Obama to Become President (Common Dreams, 5-30-10)
Harman Uses Bush/Cheney Fear Tactics on Winograd & Voters (AlterNet,
5-30-10)
Bottom Kill of Teacher Jobs, Health Care for the Poor (Firedoglake, 5-31-10)
Teacher of the Year Accused of Sex Tryst With Student (Aol, 5-31-10)
Will the US Ever Get
Latin America? (Common Dreams, 6-26-10)
April 2010 - Financial
New Tally Focuses
on Expansive Role of Federal Reserve in Wall Street Bailout (Common Dreams,
4-1-10)
California ire over Borat bonds (Financial Times, 4-2-10)
Summary of the 2009 Financial Report of the U.S. (Peter G. Peterson
Foundation, 4-11-10)
St.
Vincent’s Files for Bankruptcy (New York Times, 4-14-10)
BRIC leaders: IMF, World Bank has 'legitimacy deficits' (CNN, 4-16-10)
When Wall Street Deals Resemble Casino Wagers (New York Times, 4-19-10)
VAT's benefits outweighed by politics, experts say (Washington Post,
4-21-10)
10 Ways the American Economy Is Built on Fraud (AlterNet, 4-29-10)
April 2010 - Environmental
‘Green Gone Wrong’: Can Capitalism Save the Planet? (New York Times, 4-2-10)
Bringing the
Heat (The New Republic, 4-5-10)
Japan Buying a Lot of Hot Air (International Rivers, 4-6-10)
Energy Industry Fights Chemical Disclosure (Climate Progress, 4-8-10)
US Denies Climate
Aid to Countries Opposing Copenhagen Accord (Common Dreams, 4-9-10)
Bolivia’s alternative climate conference to kick off next week (Grist,
4-12-10)
The trouble with Brazil’s much-celebrated ethanol ‘miracle’ (Grist, 4-13-10)
Great Barrier Reef May Bear Ship's Scar for 20 Years (Aol News, 4-14-10)
"Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution with a National Institutes of Energy"
Report Overview (Breakthrough, 4-15-10)
Earth's five mass extinction events (Skeptical Sciencce, 4-15-10)
Court approves disputed Amazon dam (Aljazeera, 4-17-10)
Bolivia Climate
Change Talks to Give Poor a Voice (Common Dreams, 4-19-10)
Bolivia hosts talks on
rights of Mother Earth (BBC News, 4-19-10)
Bolivian villagers
want compensation as glaciers melt (BBC News, 4-19-10)
Mainstream Green Groups
Cave In on Climate (Common Dreams, 4-20-10)
Let's Rename Earth Day (Climate Progress, 4-21-10)
Earth Day at the Climate
Justice Frontier (Color Lines, 4-21-10)
"Planet or Death!" - Bolivian President Evo Morales' Courageous Speech at World
People's Conference on Climate Change (AlterNet, 4-22-10)
A New
Climate Movement in Bolivia (The Nation, 4-22-10)
"Planet or Death!" - Bolivian President Evo (Alter Net, 4-22-10)
Is There Enough Space For Carbon Sequestration? (The New Republic, 4-27-10)
Nine Scenarios for Environmental Apocalypse (The New Republic, 4-28-10)
World's 2010 nature target 'will not be met' (BBC News, 4-29-10)
EPA Staffers Were Forced to Ignore Science, Investigation Finds (Politics
Daily, 4-29-10)
Hot Planet, Cold Facts (New York Times, 4-29-10)
BP Didn't Plan for Major Oil Spill (CBS News, 4-30-10)
Department of Commerce Releases Data on Emissions, "Green Economy"
(Washington Post, 4-30-10)
The Progressive Movement is Officially Dead (Firedoglake, 4-30-10)
April 2010 - Religion
Pope letter
delayed action against pedophile priest (DW-World, 4-10-10)
Graham Booted From Pentagon Prayer Event (Aol News, 4-23-10)
Christian
‘doctrine’ fueled dehumanization: UNPFII report (Indian Country Today,
4-29-10)
April 2010 - Health
Obama's Second Chance on the Predominant Moral Issue of This Century (Huffington
Post, 4-5-10)
Fix
10 Health Care Loopholes and Repel Insurer Attempts to Undermine New Consumer
Protections (Consumer Watchdog,4-8-10)
Healthcare Overhaul Won't Stop Premium Hikes (Consumer Watchdog, 4-12-10)
Hospital Cuts Hit Health-Care Workers (Wall Street Journal, 4-29-10)
April 2010 - Foreign
Former
IAEA Chief: Iraq War Killed “A Million Innocent Civilians” (Information
Clearing House, 4-3-10)
Israeli Rights Groups View Themselves as Under Siege (New York Times,
4-5-10)
White House troubled by Afghan leader's remarks (Washington Post, 4-5-10)
Obama weighs new peace plan for the Middle East (Washington Post, 4-7-10)
The Perplexed Puppet
Jerks on His Strings: Karzai Calls US Troops Invaders (Common Dreams,
4-9-10)
US Puppet Cuts His
Strings (Common Dreams. 4-11-10)
Afghan President,
Hamid Karzai, Threatens to Block Nato Offensive (Common Dreams, 4-11-10)
Israeli hypocrisy this Holocaust Remembrance Day (Aljazeera, 4-12-10)
Taliban's
Supreme Leader Signals Willingness To Talk Peace (Information Clearing
House, 4-18-10)
Russia publishes Katyn
massacre archives (BBC News, 4-28-10)
Iraq Prison Torture (Huffington Post, 4-28-10)
Rwanda Pursues Dissenters and the Homeless (New York Times, 4-30-10)
April 2010 - Miscellaneous
Debate: Keep the IRS Away From the Pulpit (Aol News, 4-6-10)
Massey’s mine in Montcoal has been cited for over 3,000 violations, over $2.2
million in fines (Grist, 4-6-10)
Obama Administration Missed Chance To Get Tougher On Unsafe Mines (Huffington
Post, 4-9-10)
C Street House Used Interns As Servants (Huffington Post, 4-9-10)
Nine Myths about Socialism
in the US (Common Dreams, 4-10-10)
Trained to Fail
(Color Lines, 4-13-10)
Slimming our federal leadership (Washington Post, 4-15-10)
Massey Stock Upgraded to “Buy” as Mine Disaster “Immaterial” to Profit (Firedoglake,
4-16-10)
Defense Spending Is Much
Greater than You Think (Independent Institute, 4-17-10)
Cassandra, the Ignored Prophet of Doom, Is a Woman for Our Times (New York
Times, 4-18-10)
Noam Chomsky Has ‘Never
Seen Anything Like This’ (Common Dreams, 4-19-10)
Spirit of Reagan, Thatcher Doomed:
HSBC Economist (CNBC, 4-20-10)
Germany No. 2 in Google 'Censorship' Rankings (Spiegel Online, 4-22-10)
Democrats at the Edge of the Cliff (Wall Street Journal, 4-22-10)
Stephen Ambrose's Work Faces New Scrutiny (Aol News, 4-27-10)
March 2010 - Financial
Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist, Says Federal Reserve System 'Corrupt'
(Huffington Post, 3-3-10)
The Government Is Risking a Double Dip (Seeking Alpha, 3-8-10)
Finance Superstars Talk About the Massive Fraud in Our Economic System
(AlterNet, 3-8-10)
What do the new data tell
us? (Vox, 3-8-10)
Great
Britain Stars in Its Own Greek Tragedy (Spiegel Online, 3-17-10)
Will the U.S. Become the Next Ireland? (New York Times, 3-18-10)
Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret: Former PM's deals are revealed as his
earnings since 2007 reach £20million (Mail Online, 3-19-10)
Opinion: The Student Loan 'Fix' Is No Fix at All (Aol News, 3-29-10)
The runaway costs of college (The Economist, 3-31-10)
March 2010 - Environmental
Study: Weedkiller in waterways can change frogs' sex traits (Washington
Post, 3-2-10)
100
Percent of Fish in U.S. Streams Found Contaminated with Mercury (Organic
Consumers, 3-3-10)
The Wrong Kind of Green
(The Nation, 3-4-10)
EU
climate chief delivers treaty blow (Financial Times, 3-8-10)
The Story of Stuff: Externalized Costs and the $4.99 Radio (Huffington Post,
3-9-10)
Noel Kempff project is 'saving the forest' by forcing destruction elsewhere
(Guardian, 3-11-10)
8 Of The World's Most Popular High-Speed Trains (Huffingtonpost, 3-11-10)
Time-Lapse Shows Mountaintop Mining Depleting Forests Over 25-Year Period (Huffingtonpost,
3-12-10)
Methane Emissions from a Temperate Reservoir (International Rivers, 3-13-10)
The Great Forest Die-Off
(Common Dreams, 3-16-10)
Environmental Concerns at 20-Year Low in US (Aol News, 3-18-10)
EPA Launches
National Study of Hydraulic Fracturing (Common Dreams, 3-19-10)
Huge sandstorm covers Beijing, turns sky orange (Washington Post, 3-20-10)
Where Have All the Monarch Butterflies Gone? (Aol News, 3-21-10)
Intense pollution fouls Hong Kong air (CNN, 3-22-10)
Clean Water and Dirty
Coal Don't Mix (Common Dreams, 3-23-10)
New study of Greenland under "more realistic forcings" concludes "collapse of
the ice-sheet was found to occur between 400 and 560 ppm" of CO2 (Climate
Progress, 3-23-10)
Tiger populations have dropped by 90 percent since 1980. (DLC, 3-24-10)
Amid Nanotech's Dazzling Promise, Health Risks Grow (Aol News, 3-25-10)
China overtakes U.S. in green investment, study finds (Grist, 3-25-10)
Sutnner: Nature review of 20 years of field studies finds soil emitting more CO2
as planet warms (Climate Progress, 3-25-10)
‘Cap and Trade’ Loses Its Standing as Energy Policy of Choice (New York
Times, 3-26-10)
China steams
ahead on clean energy (BBC News, 3-26-10)
BP closing Maryland solar manufacturing plant (Washington Post, 3-27-10)
Humans Are Too
Stupid to Prevent Climate Change (Common Dreams, 3-29-10)
Lindsey ‘Green Economy’ Graham Bashes The Clean Air Act (The Wonk Room,
3-30-10)
March 2010 - Climate
The Moral Imperative
to Drop Carbon Trading: An Open Letter to Al Gore (Common Dreams, 3-1-10)
Huge Methane Leak
in Arctic Ocean: Study (Common Dreams, 3-5-10)
Can we restore U.S. leadership in solar manufacturing? (Climate Progress,
3-6-10)
EU Warns Climate
Loopholes Could Lead to CO2 Rise (Common Dreams, 3-9-10)
Climate Goal Is Supported by China and India (New York Times, 3-9-10)
Governments spend $500 billion a year to subsidize fossil fuels; U.S. cleantech
outpaced by China (Climate Progress, 3-9-10)
Safety Issues Linger as Nuclear Reactors Shrink in Size (New York Times,
3-18-10)
World policymakers have underestimated climate change impacts, says Cornell
expert (Cornell University Press, 3-18-10)
"It is clear... that the precipitous decline in September sea ice extent in
recent years is mainly due to the cumulative loss of multiyear ice."
(Climate Progress, 3-22-10)
March 2010 - Health
Ditched by your doctor - blame Medicare (CNN Money, 3-2-10)
As Medicaid Payments Shrink, Patients Are Abandoned (New York Times,
3-15-10)
Insurance Industry
Already Finding Ways to Game New System (Common Dreams, 3-31-10)
March 2010 - Religion
Anti-Homosexual Bill In Uganda Causes Global Uproar (ABC, 3-10-10)
German archbishop
says Church covered up sex abuse for decades (DW Worlde, 3-21-10)
Catholic League head: Abuse not pedophilia because boys were ‘post-pubescent’
(The Raw Story, 3-31-10)
March 2010 - History
Hitler letter hoping for 'cordial relationship' with Britain for sale
(Telegraph, 3-2-10)
Germans Cringe at Hitler's Popularity in Pakistan (Spiegel Online, 3-17-10)
March 2010 - Foreign
Collapse of
the American Empire: Swift, Silent, Certain (Information Clearing House,
3-9-10)
Israeli Prime Minister Embraces Same Radical American Cleric That John McCain
Denounced (Firedoglake, 3-10-10)
Why The US
Occupation Makes Iraqi Women Miss Saddam (Common Dreams, 3-12-10)
Clinton rebukes Israel over East Jerusalem plans, cites damage to bilateral ties
(Washington Post, 3-13-10)
Thousands pay tribute to Latvia's fallen Nazi troops (The Independent,
3-17-10)
This Time We Really Mean It (New York Times, 3-30-10)
Mohamed ElBaradei hits out at west's support for repressive regimes
(Guardian, 3-31-10)
March 2010 - Miscellaneous
Wise Bets on a Smarter Grid (Wall Street Journal, 3-1-10)
Ralph Nader Was Right
About Barack Obama (Common Dreams, 3-1-10)
China, Iran Creating 'No-Go' Zones to Thwart U.S. Military Power (Politics
Daily, 3-1-10)
Criminals Steal Account Numbers Using One-Cent Transfers (Spiegel, 3-1-10)
Obama administration plans to close International Labor Comparisons office
(Washington Post, 3-3-10)
A
DIY Guide to Going Nuclear (Spiegel, 3-3-10)
Austrian far-right icon eyes presidency (Yahoo News, 3-3-10)
Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” (Tech Crunch, 3-6-10)
Time for a U.S.
Revolution – Fifteen Reasons (Common Dreams, 3-7-10)
No Place Like Home:
The U.N. on America’s Housing System (Common Dreams, 3-8-10)
Internet access
is 'a fundamental right' (BBC News, 3-8-10)
It's Time to Invite Russia to Join NATO (Spiegel, 3-8-10)
Calling All Rebels (Truthdig, 3-8-10)
Fiction of Marja
as City Was US Information War (Common Dreams, 3-8-10)
Google’s Computing Power Refines Translation Tool (New York Times, 3-8-10)
Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care (Huffington Post, 3-8-10)
What Do You Do With Detroit? Bulldoze
It (CNBC, 3-9-10)
Publishing: The Revolutionary
Future (NY Books, 3-11-10)
The Rogue
Nation (Information Clearing House, 3-11-10)
Money for Nothing
(The Nation, 3-11-10)
Texas Approves
Curriculum Revised by Conservatives (Common Dreams, 3-12-10)
Full text: US Human Rights Record in 2009 (China Daily, 3-12-10)
Texas Textbook MASSACRE: 'Ultraconservatives' Approve Radical Changes To State
Education Curriculum (Huffington Post, 3-13-10)
1,000 Days have passed ... but it's tomorrow that counts (Aljazeera,
3-14-10)
China To Connect Its High Speed Rail All The Way To Europe (Inhabitat,
3-15-10)
10 Things Obama Won't Tell Us (Happy Sunshine Week!) (Huffington Post,
3-19-10)
My Congressman, Bart Stupak, Has Neither a Uterus Nor a Brain (Huffington
Post, 3-19-10)
Health Reform Passes,
But I Still Don't Feel So Good (Common Dreams, 3-23-10)
'Spiritual castle home' of infamous SS opens to public with £8m exhibition
(Mail Online, 3-23-10)
Religion, politics and
Africa's homophobia (BBC News, 3-23-10)
Vatican
Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Boys New York Times, 3-24-10)
Data traffic outstrips mobile voice calls (Financial Times, 3-24-10)
Diary of a Wimpy Health
Care Bill (Common Dreams, 3-25-10)
AEI, David Frum: Ex-Bush Speechwriter Will Lose Health Benefits (Huffington
Post, 3-25-10)
Health Reform: A Year-by-Year List of What Happens and When (Politics Daily,
3-26-10)
For Years, Deaf Boys Tried to Tell of Priest’s Abuse (New York Times,
3-26-10)
Sex virus blamed
for rise in head and neck cancers (Reuters, 3-26-10)
Secrets of the Tea Party: The Troubling History of Tea Party Leader Dick Armey
(Trouthout, 3-26-10
Republicans Were For Obama's Health Insurance Rule Before They Were Against It
(Huffington Post, 3-29-10)
Celebrating
(Mourning) a Culture of Lies (Common Dreams, 3-28-10)
Coverage Now for Sick Children? Check Fine Print (New York Times, 3-28-10)
A Bomber Jacket Doesn't
Cover the Blood (Common Dreams, 3-29-10)
Is America ‘Yearning for Fascism’? (Truthdig, 3-29-10)
When It Comes to Innovation, Is America Becoming a Third World Country? (Huffington
Post, 3-29-10)
The Imperative Need for America to Become an Innovation Nation (Huffington
Post, 3-31-10)
Open Letter to Berkeley Students on Their Historic Israeli Divestment Bill (Huffinton
Post, 3-31-10)
A Conscious Pariah: On
Raul Hilberg (The Nation, 3-31-10)
February 2010 - Financial
Next in line for a bailout: Social Security (CNN Money, 2-2-10)
No Help in
Sight, More Homeowners Walk Away (New York Times, 2-2-10)
Poof: Another 800,000 jobs disappear (CNN Money, 2-4-10)
Watch What They Spend, Not What
They Say (Slate, 2-4-10)
Trillions to Burn?
(Commonwealth Institute, 2-5-10)
A Greek crisis is coming to America (Financial Times, 2-10-10)
Analysis: Greek financial crisis coming to America? (CNN, 2-12-10)
Marc Faber :
Collapse of Capitalistic System (Information Clearing House, 2-16-10)
States Sink in Benefits Hole (Wall Street Journal, 2-18-10)
States short $1 trillion to fund retiree benefits (CNN Money, 2-20-10)
Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs (NY Times, 2-20-10)
'Death of
American Capitalism:' The 10 final scenes (Information Clearing House,
2-23-10)
Fannie and Freddie: The Last SIVs (Wall Street Journal, 2-23-10)
Secret AIG Document Shows Goldman Sachs Minted Most Toxic CDOs (BusinessWeek,
2-23-10)
February 2010 - Environmental
Money woes could threaten high-speed rail's future (Washington Post, 2-1-10)
Anacostia River shows decades-long failure to improve water quality, ecosystem
(Washington Post, 2-2-10)
Wolves good for U.S. parks, report says (CNN, 2-2-10)
Rainforest
expert agrees with IPCC: warns of 'tipping point' for Amazon (Mongabay,
2-3-10)
The
dark side of nitrogen (Grist, 2-4-10)
Chemical Safety
(Environmental Defense Fund, 2-9-10)
Governor Says Carp Plan Isn't Tough Enough (AOL News, 2-10-10)
China's water pollution level higher than estimated in 2007 (Washington
Post, 2-10-10)
Thirty-Eight Percent of World's Surface in Danger of Desertification
(Science Daily 2-10-10)
Walden Pond; or, How Global Warming and Invasive Species Can Change Everything
(Switchbord, 2-10-10)
Oil and gas drilling's threat to our drinking water is local, national debate
(Cleveland, 2-14-10)
Overpopulation and Climate Change (New York Times, 2-17-10)
Study Finds
Residential and Agricultural Pesticides in Household Dust (Beyond
Pesticides, 2-17-10)
The Price of
Environmental Destruction? There Is None (Common Dreams, 2-18-10)
Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a
mass extinction of marine species occurred (Climate Progress, 2-18-10)
Green Revolution in India Wilts as Subsidies Backfire (Wall Street Journal,
2-22-10)
UN warns of 'e-waste' threat (Aljazeera, 2-22-10)
February 2010 - Climate
Poor response to climate deadline (Aljazeera, 2-1-10)
China’s Labor Edge Overpowers Obama’s ‘Green’ Jobs Initiatives (Bloomberg,
2-4-10)
EPA biofuels guidelines could spur production of ethanol from corn
(Washington Post, 2-4-10)
Skeptics Find Fault With U.N. Climate Panel (New York Times, 2-8-10)
High-speed rail: Skipping your town (CNN Money, 2-10-10)
Is the Copenhagen Accord already dead? (Grist, 2-16-10)
An illustrated guide to the latest climate science (Climate Progress,
2-17-10)
So much for geoengineering 2 ocean dead zones to expand remain for thousands of
years (Climate Progress, 2-17-10)
America’s Wind Energy Potential Triples in New Estimate (Wired, 2-19-10)
General Atomics Proposes a Plant That Runs on Nuclear Waste (Wall Street
Journal, 2-22-10)
China has "No intention"
of capping emissions (ENN, 2-25-10)
Iceberg breaks loose in Antarctica (Aljazeera, 2-27-10)
February 2010 - Health
If Terror Is the
Measure, It’s Healthcare War (Common Dreams, 2-2-10)
February 2010 - Religion
Study Links Religious Groups and Racial Bias (USC News, 2-10-10)
February 2010 - History
Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years' (The Independent,
6-1-11)
Genetic inferiority
threatens mankind, professor says (nrc handelsbald, 2-22-10)
February 2010 Foreign
Afghanistan War Shapes Engorged Defense Budget While Domestic Programs Freeze
(rethink Afghanistan, 2-1-10)
US, Karzai Clash on
Unconditional Talks with Taliban (Common Dreams, 2-2-10)
Just A Little Assassination Of American Citizens Among Friends (FDL, 2-4-10)
On Afghan Road, Scenes of Beauty and Death (New York Times, 2-7-10)
The Terror-Industrial
Complex (Common Dreams, 2-8-10)
Who Wants to Bomb Iran? (Foreign Policy, 2-8-10)
Obama's Commitment to
Detainee Abuse (FDL, 2-9-10)
The
Failed War on Drugs in Latin America (Spiegel Online, 2-10-10)
"My Country
Has Been Hijacked" (Information Clearing House, 2-10-10)
President Has So Much Power He Can Order Civilians “Massacred” (Facebook:
Firedoglake, 2-21-10
Allied Bid for Obama
to Remove US European Nuclear Stockpile (Common Dreams, 2-22-10)
Explain Something to Me
Fixing What's Wrong in Washington... in Afghanistan (Common Dreams, 2-22-10)
Is Harvard Prof Advocating Palestinian Genocide? (Huffington Post, 2-22-10)
Karzai Takes Over Election Agency (Wall Street Journal, 2-23-10)
Afghan president takes over election watchdog appointments (Washington Post,
2-24-10)
Afghan
Senators Demand Execution of Foreign Troops (Information Clearing House,
2-25-10)
Obama Continues Bush-Era "Drug War" Hypocrisy (Huffington Post, 2-26-10)
America, the Fragile
Empire (Common Dreams, 2-28-10)
February 2010 - Miscellaneous
Too Big To Fail?
(Slate, 2-1-10)
When is Rahm Going to Apologize to MoveOn? (FDL, 2-3-10)
Music's lost decade: Sales cut in half (CNN Money, 2-3-10)
LA Won't Force Condom Use in Porn Films (AOL News, 2-4-10)
Former
Chinese official sees 'dark clouds' (CNN, 2-5-10)
FFEL: $80 Billion Wasted on Crony Capitalism (FDL, 2-5-10)
The World Capital of Killing (New York Times, 2-6-10)
'A
prescription for civil war' (Aljazeera, 2-8-10)
The Worst of the Pain (New York Times, 2-8-10)
The "Shock
Doctrine" for Haiti (Information Clearing House, 2-8-10)
Challenging the
Western media hegemony (RT, 2-9-10)
Moving On Up and Hitting a Wall: Social Mobility in the U.S. and Europe
(Race Wire, 2-10-10)
Moving On Up and Hitting
a Wall: Social Mobility in the U.S. and Europe (Common Dreams, 2-11-10)
Wi-Fi Turns
Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall (New York Times, 2-11-10)
The Treason of the
Nobels (Counterpunch, 2-14-10)
The revenger’s tragedy (New Statesman, 2-17-10)
Sat-nav systems
under growing threat from 'jammers' (BBC News, 2-23-10)
January 2010 - Financial
3 reasons home prices are heading lower (CNN Money, 1-1-10)
The States and the Stimulus (Wall Street Journal, 1-2-10)
Servicers, White House Point Fingers as Foreclosure Plan Fails (Washington
Independent, 1-4-10)
How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market (New York Times, 1-4-10)
U.S.
Budget Deficit May Exceed $1 Trillion for Years, Kos Says (Bloomberg,
1-5-10)
Board pay: Unchecked and out of hand (CNN Money, 1-5-10)
Americans' Job Dissatisfaction Hits 22-Year High (Daily Finance, 1-5-10)
IRS expects to answer only 71% of phone calls this tax season (Washington
Post, 1-7-10)
Gross warns on risks of US deficit (Financial Times, 1-7-10)
Explain This to IRS: Tax Agency Is $32 Billion Short (Sphere, 1-7-10)
The Disposable Worker (Business Week, 1-7-10)
N.Y. Fed Told A.I.G. Not to Disclose Swap Details (New York Times, 1-7-10)
Federal Reserve Seeks to Protect U.S. Bailout Secrets (Bloomberg, 1-11-10)
The People vs.
Cap-and-Trade (Common Dreams, 1-13-10)
Record 3 million households hit with foreclosure in 2009 (CNN Money,
1-14-10)
How
Retirees Saved the Banks (New York Times, 1-17-10)
US Does Not Have Capitalism Now:
Stiglitz (CNBC, 1-19-10)
The Global Debt Bomb (Forbes, 1-21-10)
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Should Be Eliminated, Frank Says (Wall Street
Journal, 1-22-10)
Huge NYC real estate deal goes sour (msnbc, 1-25-10)
At Davos, the globalizers are gone (Washington Post, 1-30-10)
US economy bail-out
goals 'not met' (BBC News, 1-31-10)
January 2010 - Environmental
Yummy! Ammonia-Treated Pink Slime Now in Most U.S. Ground Beef (AlterNet,
1-1-10)
Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under law (Washington Post,
1-4-10)
America is losing the free world (Financial Times, 1-4-10)
Pesticides loom large in animal die-offs (Grist, 1-7-10)
Science confirms that blowing up mountains harms mountains (Grist, 1-7-10)
Behind Mass
Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit (Environment 360, 1-7-10)
Gates Foundation throws its lot with agribusiness (Grist, 1-8-10)
Scientists say mountaintop mining should be stopped (Washington Post,
1-8-10)
Carbon Trading Nonsense
(Common Dreams, 1-11-10)
Report: Consumerism must be halted to save the planet (CNN, 1-13-10)
EPA Establishes a Chemicals of
Concern List (Safer States, 1-14-10)
Reversing itself, FDA expresses concerns over health risks from BPA
(Washington Post, 1-16-10)
REDD Realities
(Global Justice Ecology, 1-19-10)
Bee decline
linked to falling biodiversity (BBC News, 1-20-10)
Expanding Use of Wind Power Feasible, but May Be Costly (New York Times,
1-20-10)
Another Made in China Import: Smog (CBS News, 1-20-10)
The Question Geithner Can’t Escape: Why Pay Off AIG’s Partners? (Washington
Independent, 1-22-10)
Can
the Rainforests Be Saved Without a Plan? (Spiegel Online, 1-26-10)
Fire retardants may affect female reproduction (The Economist, 1-28-10)
Revealed: the racy novel written by the world's most powerful climate scientist
(Telegraph, 1-30-10)
Tough choices follow in wake of invasive species (Washington Post, 1-31-10)
January 2010 - Climate
Arctic permafrost leaking methane at record levels, figures show (Guardian,
1-14-10)
Europe: Massive carbon
trading fraud (Green Left, 1-15-10)
Memo to IPCC: Please reanalyze ALL of your conclusions about melting ice and sea
level rise (Climate Progress, 1-18-10)
UN abandons climate change deadline (Financial Times, 1-20-10)
UN climate chief's research institute won grants after flawed predictions on
glaciers (Telegraph, 1-25-10)
January 2010 - Religion
U.S. Evangelicals’ Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push (New York Times,
1-3-10)
Pat Robertson says Haiti paying for 'pact to the devil' (CNN, 1-13-10)
Death and Afterlife in Germanic Mythology (Celto-Germanic Blogspot, 1-30-11)
January 2010 - Foreign
Brennan: More al-Qaeda Operatives in Yemen Than Afghanistan (Washington
Independent, 1-3-10)
Down Mexico Way: Oil and Politics South of the Border (Seeking Alpha,
1-5-10)
Cancer – The Deadly
Legacy of the Invasion of Iraq (Common Dreams, 1-6-10)
China's lobbying efforts yield new influence, openness on Capitol Hill
(Washington Post, 1-9-10)
China's lobbying efforts yield new influence, openness on Capitol Hill
(Washington Post, 1-9-10)
Defense Spending: $700 Billion a Year and We're Still Not Safe (Politics
Daily, 1-13-10)
Pakistan's drug problem (Aljazeera, 1-13-10)
Haitian Earthquake:
Made in the USA (Common Dreams, 1-14-10)
Poor schooling slows anti-terrorism effort in Pakistan (Washington Post,
1-17-10)
Why the US Owes Haiti
Billions – The Briefest History (Common Dreams, 1-17-10)
Haitian President Préval largely absent in quake's aftermath (Washington
Post, 1-18-10)
IMF to Haiti: Freeze
Public Wages (Common Dreams, 1-18-10)
U.N. officials reject
criticism of Haiti relief efforts (Foreign Policy, 1-21-10)
Pakistan snubs US
over new Taliban offensive (BBC News, 1-21-10)
Obama to Indefinitely
Imprison Detainees without Charges (Common Dreams, 1-22-10)
US congressmen urge end to Gaza siege (Aljazeera, 1-27-10)
Success Can Only Come in Afghanistan If We Talk to the Radicals (Spiegel
Online, 1-28-10)
January 2010 - Miscellaneous
The Real Top Ten
Stories of the Past Decade (Common Dreams, 1-1-10)
Christianity - Nature - Nordic Religion (Asatru.de, 1-4-10)
An Uneasy Feeling (New York Times, 1-4-10)
C-SPAN's Lamb to
Congress: Open Health Care Debate (Common Dreams, 1-5-10)
Mexico's
Subcomandante Marcos makes a rare appearance (Los Angeles Times, 1-5-10)
Tomgram: Orville Schell, What Doesn't Work in America (Tom Dispatch, 1-6-10)
McCain Gets It, Obama
Doesn’t (Common Dreams, 1-6-10)
John Michael Farren, Ex-Bush Lawyer, Tried To Kill Wife: Connecticut Police
(Huffington Post, 1-7-10)
A Very Special Christmas in Baghdad (AlterNet, 1-8-10)
Learning From Europe (New York Times, 1-10-10)
Oliver Stone: Hitler An 'Easy Scapegoat' (Huffington Post, 1-11-10)
Leno Slams NBC: A Complete Disaster" Video (Huffington Post, 1-12-10)
Avatar and the Genocides
We Will Not See (Common Dreams, 1-12-10)
Facebook Joins With McAfee to Clean Spam From Site (New York Times, 1-13-10)
YouTube Helps Vevo Overtake MySpace Music In The U.S. (Tech Crunch, 1-13-10)
Obama’s
Alternate Universe (Information Clearing House, 1-13-10)
The Sad End of the Orange Revolution (Spiegel Online, 1-14-10)
Selling the Obama Plan: Mistakes, Misunderstandings, and Other Misdemeanors
(PNHP, 1-14-10)
Misleading claims about Safeway wellness incentives shape health-care bill
(Washington Post. 1-17-10)
Witness
to a nightmare (Socialist Worker, 1-18-10)
No Less Lobbying, But Less Disclosure In Obama's First Year (Huffington
Post, 1-19-10)
Tea Party Money-Bomb
Elects Scott Brown, Blows-Up Obamacare (Common Dreams, 1-20-10)
Aid Urged for Groups Fighting Internet Censors (New York Times, 1-20-10)
The Lady and the Arlen (New York Times, 1-22-10)
How to Squander the
Presidency in One Year (Common Dreams, 1-22-10)
Obama’s Credibility Gap (New York Times, 1-25-10)
Stern Lashes Out At Senate Dems, Calls Some Legislative 'Terrorists' (Huffington
Post, 1-26-10)
Is It Possible the NY Fed Lied? (Seeking Alpha, 1-28-10)
Did Obama Move Health Care Forward? (New York Times, 1-28-10)
Clinton urges China to overlook oil needs in sanctioning Iran (Washington
Post, 1-29-10)
Gates to Donate $10B for Vaccines, But Will It Help? (AOL News, 1-29-10)
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