May
1-3, 2009
Guessing
Game: Who Will Replace Souter?
Andrew Cohen
CBS News
The
Supreme Court pick of Obama's dreams
Joe Conason
Salon
Condi’s Really
Bad Day
Scott Horton
Harper’s
Rice
may have admitted to conspiracy, former Nixon counsel says
David Edwards and John Byrne
The Raw Story
Congress'
budget shorts Obama plans to shift wealth
Janet Hook
Los Angeles Times
GM
sales drop 34 percent as tight credit weighs
Reuters
Banksters
Win One, Lose One in Congress
Bernie Horn
Our Future
16 Cattle Drop Dead Near Mysterious Fluid at Gas Drilling Site
Abrahm Lustgarten
ProPublica
Bernie Madoff
Michael Moore
Time
Nearly
One-Third of Georgia Republicans Would Secede
Arjun Jaikumar
Daily Kos
Pew: Church-Goers Like Torture More
Chris Good
The Atlantic
Barack
Obama Is Actually President of Basketball, At the White House
Wonkette
May 4, 2009
Firms
Face New Tax Curb
John D, McKinnon and Jesse Drucker
The Wall Street Journal
Senators Accuse Pentagon
of Delay in Recovering Millions
James Glanz
Common Dreams
Karzai
Rival Bows Out
Informed Comment
Juan Cole
Gonzales says US should be open to torturing again
John Byrne
The Raw Story
The AIPAC Spy Case
James G. Abourezk
CounterPunch
All the President's Accomplices
Jacob Weisberg
Slate
Fiat in talks over
GM Europe move
BBC News
WHO head
indicates full flu pandemic to be declared
Ben Harding and Laura MacInnis
Reuters
Asian Nations
Unveil $120 Billion Liquidity Fund
The Wall Street Journal
McGovern Warns Obama of LBJ Legacy
ANP
Video Clip of the Day
May 5, 2009
Former
Bush Officials Work to Soften Ethics Report on
Carrie Johnson
The Washington Post
Truckloads of Dead
Civilians After Afghan Battle
Sharafuddin Sharafyar
Common Dreams
Special Prosecutor
Moves in CIA Tapes Case
Scott Horton
Harper’s
KBR
contract accounts for many fraud cases
Elise Castelli
Army Times
Ashcroft
Made Millions As Corporate Monitor, Sees Dire Need For More Corporate Monitoring
Zachary Roth
TPM
Taking
a Page from the Bush Playbook
Elliot Cohen
TruthDig
Chrysler
won't repay bailout money
Chris Isidore
CNN
Specter
still supporting Norm Coleman
Josh Kraushaar
Politico
Maine House approves
gay marriage bill
Judy Harrison
Bangoor Daily News
Birth
control for men in one injection
Jerome Taylor
The Independent
Ammo hard
to find as gun owners stock up
Jim Spellman
CNN
Deadly fungus shuts US bat caves
Suzanne Goldenburg
The Guardian
Scientists
unveil chocolate-fueled race car
Meera Selva
Salon
May 6, 2009
US-led
strikes, clashes kill 100, 'mostly civilians'
AFP
Bank
of America May Need About $34 Billion of Capital
Rebecca Christie
Bloomberg
Obama promotes biofuels
in bid to boost economy, climate
Renee Schoof
McClatchy Newspapers
Swat exodus as ceasefire crumbles
BBC News
Cashing
In on ‘Government Sachs’
Robert Scheer
TruthDig
AIG bonuses four
times higher than reported
Eaman Javers
Politico
Specter:
I'll Get My Seniority "In Due Course"
Eric Kleefeld
TPM
Michael
Savage: Banned in Britain
Henry Chu
Los Angeles Times
Solar
storms ahead: Is Earth prepared?
James Turner
The Christian Science Monitor
Was
truth the biggest casualty in the case of Vincent and his severed ear?
John Lichfield
The Independent
May 7, 2009
A
Full-Court Press for Pakistan War
Chris Floyd
CounterPunch
After
US Strikes, Afghans Describe "Tractor Trailers Full of Pieces of Human Bodies;" Meanwhile,
Obama Readies 21,000 More Troops
Jeremy Scahill
Rebel Reports
Lake Mead Is Drying
Up
Mark Frauenfelder
Good
Activities intensify at North Korea nuke, missile sites
AFP
GM
Posts $6 Billion Loss for First Quarter
Kendra Marr
The Washington Post
Obama: Rethinking 121 programs yields $17B
UPI
Salt of
the Earth
April Howard
In These Times
Maine
and N.H. Move to Expand Gay Rights
Keith B. Richburg
The Washington Post
They’re
not Super Villains
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly
Stop Whining About Populist
Anger!
Matt Taibbi
The Smirking Chimp
Lessons
of 1976: flu, fear, wasted millions
Les Perreaux
Globe and Mail
Repeal the USA Patriot
Act
Scott Horton
Harper’s
May
8-10, 2009
Pakistan
launches full-scale military assault on Taliban
Saeed Shah
McClatchy Newspapers
CIA
Document Claims 19 Dems 'Routinely' Briefed on Interrogation Techniques
Susie Madrak
Crooks and Liars
Obama
proposes end to oil, gas industry tax breaks
H. Josef Hebert
Yahoo! News
U.S.
Drops Research Into Fuel Cells for Cars
The New York Times
Matthew L. Wald
Are
Policy Makers Exacerbating Drought Scares?
Tara Lohan
AlterNet
Why
aren’t domestic corporations backing Obama on limiting offshore tax breaks?
Martin Lobel
Neiman Watchdog
British
scientists crack swine flu code as world tally rises to 2,384
David Batty
The Guardian
New
York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns
Stephen C. Webster
The Raw Story
Newspaper
Narcissism
Walter Pincus
Columbia Journalism Review
Don’t
sell me your dream
Tom Hodgkinson
New Statesman
Religion,
agnostics, and the cure for baldness
Matt Taibbi
The Smirking Chimp
Obama
sends handwritten letter to gay soldier ousted from the military promising
to repeal DADT.
Think Progress
May 11, 2009
Taliban
on the run in Swat
Syed Saleem Shahzad
Asia Times
Phosphorus
claim after fatal air strikes in Afghanistan
Jon Boone
The Guardian
Journalist
Roxana Saberi freed by Iranian appeal court verdict
Damien McElroy
Telegraph
Human toll of
Sri Lankan conflict rises
Al Jazeera
Video Clip of the Day
Memos
shed light on CIA use of sleep deprivation
Greg Miller
Los Angeles Times
G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds'
Jamie Doward and Mark Townsend
The Observer
Al-Qaeda Violence Rises as U.S. Strategy Unravels in Iraq
Shane Bauer
New American Media
Iraq Ends Ban,
Allows Kurds to Export Oil
Hassan Hafidh and Spencer Swartz
The Wall Street Journal
Paul
Krugman: Health Care Proposal "Some Of The Best Policy News I've Heard In
A Long Time"
Rachel Weiner
The Huffington Post
Obama
team retains Bush polar bear policy
David A. Fahrenthold
San Francisco Chronicle
Big
U.S. banks selling stock to repay government
Jonathan Stempel
Reuters
DiFi vs. Marilyn Chambers
Warren Hinckle
CounterPunch
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May
12, 2009
A
Convenient Death
Scott Horton
Harper’s
The
Politics of Escalation
Tom Hayden & Joseph Gerson
The Nation
Army Lt.
discharged under DADT writes to Obama: ‘I beg you today: Do not fire me.’
Think Progress
5 Miami men convicted of Sears Tower attack plot
Curt Anderson
AP
Being anti-torture doesn't
make you pro-terrorist
Matt Taibbi
The Smirking Chimp
The
Dreaded “E” Word
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly
UK
stakes claim to huge area of South Atlantic seabed
Owen Bowcott
The Guardian
New
Afghan commander fingered in Tillman coverup
Philip Dru
NOW Truth
Sweden rules 'gender-based' abortion legal
The Local
Off-Roader
Idiots Break Federal Law, Whine About Maybe Being Prosecuted
Wonkette
May 13, 2009
Barack
Obama's key climate bill hit by $45m PR campaign
Suzanne Goldenberg
The Guardian
NNSA
Seeks No Funds for Reliable Replacement Warhead
NTI
Pakistan
gets a say in drone attacks on militants
Julian E. Barnes and Greg Miller
Los Angeles Times
Foreclosures: 'April was a shocker'
Les Christie
CNN
Former
Official: Treatment of Terror Suspects a 'Collective Failure'
Carrie Johnson
The Washington Post
Diplomatic memos
reveal Chinese effort to block Guantánamo prisoner's asylum bid
Ritt Goldstein
The Christian Science Monitor
President
Obama Reverses Course on Releasing More Detainee Abuse Photographs
Jack Tapper
ABC
Pelosi
The Enabler
Robert Scheer
TruthDig
Reinventing
Demons
Jeremy Bigwood
In These Times
Senate
Republicans Block No. 2 Interior Nominee
Carl Hulse
The New York Times
GOP, RNC to rebrand
Democrats as 'Socialists'
Roger Simon
Politico
EU Levies
EUR1.06B Antitrust Fine On Intel
The Wall Street Journal
Are Mexicans
genetically susceptible to H1N1 virus?
Rita Rubin
USA Today
Cheerios Are a Drug? FDA's Surprising Letter to General Mills
AlterNet
May 14, 2009
Climate
change biggest threat to humans
The Times
GOP plans
climate bill stall in committee
Lisa Lerer
Politico
Russia
warns of war within a decade over Arctic oil and gas riches
Tony Halpin
The Times
A
Turning Point in the Torture Debate
Scott Horton
The Daily Beast
CIA
to Cheney: No Docs for You
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly
White House
Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs'
Gary Fields
The Wall Street Journal
Senator
says CIA admitted making up dates of torture briefings
John Byrne
The Raw Story
Marijuana
potency surpasses 10 percent, U.S. says
Jeanne Meserve and Mike M. Ahlers
CNN
Eight
Fallacies About Contemporary Art
Paddy Johnson
L Magazine
May 15, 2009
Obama
Announces New! Improved! Military Commissions
Gregg Levine
FireDogLake
House Backs
Obama's Afghan Surge, Amid Calls for Exit Strategy
John Nichols
The Nation
Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama
Jeremy Scahill
AlterNet
The Truth About Richard Bruce Cheney
Lawrence B. Wilkerson
The Washington Note
Ex-CIA Official: Agency Brass Lied
to Congress About Interrogations
Jason Leopold
TruthOut
Coal,
Electric Industries Big Winners in Climate Bill Deal
Mike Lillis
The Washington Independent
Obama
Nominates Superfund Polluter Lawyer To Run DOJ Environment Division
Think Progress
Trans Fat
Prohibitionist to Head CDC
Jacob Sullum
Reason
GM sheds 1,100 dealers
Ken Bensinger
Los Angeles Times
Chrysler
spreads the pain with move to drop dealers
Ken Bensinger and Jim Puzzanghera
Los Angeles Times
California
plans no exit from hydrogen highway
Janet Wilson
Grist
Why
Obama Must Truly Hate Bush
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly
Scouts
Train to Fight Terrorists, and More
Jennifer Steinhauer
The New York Times
The
happiest taxes on earth
Thomas Kostigen
MarketWatch
China
to open first sex theme park
Tania Branigan
The Guardian
The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body
Helen Pilcher
New Scientist
May 18, 2009
US
special squad killed Benazir'
The Nation Pakistan
Top US
officials can't be sued for post-9/11 abuse
James Vicini
Reuters
Pakistan
Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, U.S. Says
Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger
The New York Times
Onward Christian Soldiers
GQ
Secret
memo reveals Bush was given humane, legal alternative to harsh interrogation
John Byrne
The Raw Story
GOP's
Torture Tricks Backfire
Matthew Yglesias
The Daily Beast
Sri
Lankan Rebels Admit Defeat, Vow to Drop Guns
Emily Wax
The Washington Post
The
real Patriot Act, Part 1
Joseph Romm
Climate Progress
Iraq deal to revive
gas pipeline
BBC News
Conciliatory
Fighting Words
E. J. Dionne
The Washington Post
China
takes wrecking ball to erotic theme park
The Independent
May 19, 2009
Court
Says White House Can Keep Memos on Bush E-mails Private
Del Quentin Wilber
The Washington Post
Obama moves to curb
car emissions
BBC News
Hersh
did not say Cheney ordered Bhutto assassination
Stephen C. Webster
The Raw Story
Senate
passes credit card overhaul bill
Anne Flaherty
Salon
Unexceptional Americans
Noam Chomsky
Tom Dispatch
North
Carolina's Blue Cross Blue Shield Trying to Kill Key Plank of Obama Plan
Ceci Connolly
The Washington Post
Brazil
and China eye plan to axe dollar
NWO Truth
Bill
Clinton To Be Named UN Special Envoy To Haiti
Pamela Leavey
The Democratic Daily
May 20, 2009
Sats
Show Pakistan Super-Sizing Its Nuclear Weapons Complex
Nathan Hodge
Wired
US Army Paid Bonuses
to KBR Despite Questions
Thomas Ferraro
Common Dreams
Clinton-era hard drive missing from archives
Eric Zimmermann
The Hill
Judge
says US can hold detainees indefinitely
The Raw Story
Advocates of Gun Rights Are Poised for a Victory
Carl Hulse
The New York Times
'Endemic'
rape and abuse of Irish children in Catholic care, inquiry finds
Henry McDonald
The Guardian
Kabul officials critical
of US troop increase
Al Jazeera
YouTube
The
Road to Economic Recovery: What California Needs
New America Media
Campus
concealed gun bill advances
Texas Politics
Energy
and Global Warming News for May 20th: Climate bill could be a $750 billion boon
for consumers, study finds
Joseph Romm
Climate Progress
Credit
reform in cards: Senate passes bill forcing lenders to spell out everything
Michael Mcauliff
Daily News
Why
won't the cable news networks televise the RNC resolution debate over the "Democrat
Socialist Party?"
John Amato
Crooks and Liars
Work is Hell
Michael D. Yates
CounterPunch |
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May
21, 2009
Obama
outlines plans for Guantanamo detainees
Margaret Talev and Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers
Senate
rebukes Obama, blocks Guantanamo shutdown
David Espo
AP
James
Mitchell Asked, ‘Please Can I Torture Abu Zubaydah?’; Did Alberto
Gonzales Say Yes?
Spencer Ackerman
The Washington Independent
Obama admin. opposes Joe and Valerie Wilson's request for Supreme Court appeal
in suit against Cheney, Rove, Libby and Armitage
CREW
Obama:
Existing U.S. Institutions Can ‘Work Through And Punish’ Bush’s ‘Violations
Of Our Laws’
Think Progress
U.S. keeps nuclear "don't ask, don't tell": Israel aide
Reuters
Iranian
Missile Launch Confirmed
Thomas Erdbrink
The Washington Post
Climate bill packed
with protections for coal industry
Ken Ward Jr.
WV Gazette
How
Cheney Turned A Right-Wing Meme Mainstream
Zachary Roth
TPM
Our
Loss Is BlackRock’s Gain
Robert Scheer
TruthDig
FCC
can search homes without a warrant, agency says
John Byrne
The Raw Story
Texas
Senate Votes To Let College Kids Shoot Each Other All The Time
Wonkette
The Swine
Flu Panic That Wasn't
Jesse Walker
Reason
May
22-24, 2009
In
landmark vote, House committee approves climate bill
Kate Sheppard
Grist
To cover both wars, Senate passes $91.3B bill
Andrew taylor
TPM
U.S.
to Steer GM Toward Bankruptcy
David Cho, Peter Whoriskey and Kendra Marr
The Washington Post
Torture
with the Stars, Part II: Cheney's "Get Out of Jail Free" card
Will Bunch
Attytood
Civil Libertarian Rips Obama's Speech: All Bells And Whistles
Sam Stein
The Huffington Post
Climate Change and
Intellectual Property Rights?
Mark Weisbrot
CounterPunch
Geothermal, the 'undervalued' renewable resource, sees surging interest
Scott Streater
The New York Times
A
divided congressional delegation may hinder help for California
Richard Simon
Los Angeles Times
Don't pin the recession on
AIG's Joe Cassano
Matt Taibbi
The Smirking Chimp
Venezuelan officials
raid business of TV news station owner
Tyler Bridges
McClatchy Newspapers
Video
shows 53 inmates walking out of Mexican prison, Interpol calls them risk to world
Julie Watson
Los Angeles Times
Chinese
Rail Plan Makes U.S. Look A Little Lame
The Infrastructuralist
May
25, 2009
North
Korea’s Dangerous Tantrum
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly
US nuclear accord
with a Persian Gulf state raises concerns about proliferation
Howard LaFranchi
The Christian Science Monitor
Bush's Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to "Erase" Mid-East
Enemies "Before a New Age Begins"
Clive Anderson
AlterNet
House
Democrats Battle New Emissions Standards…Again
Mike Lillis
The Washington Independent
Federal Judge Spotlights
Misconduct by Federal Prosecutors in Siegelman Case
Scott Horton
Harper’s
Climate
change summit hijacked by biggest polluters
Terry Macalister
The Guardian
Nigerian
militant group claim destruction of oil pipelines
M&C
Billionaire
club in bid to curb overpopulation
John Harlow
The Times
Wishes, Hopes, Fantasies
Jim Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Farms downsize with miniature cows
P.J. Huffstutter
Los Angeles Times
Scientologists
in France go on trial for fraud
Thierry Leveque
The Independent
Meme Warfare in the Movies
Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham
AdBusters
Cocky
Right-Wing Radio Host Gets Waterboarded, Goes Insane In Six Seconds
Wonkette
Changing
the Art on the White House Walls
Amt Chozick and Kelly Crow
Wall Street Journal
May
26, 2009
One
Tough Judge
Scott Horton
The Daily Beast
North Korea test-fires 2 more missiles
Hyung-Jin Kim
My Way
California Upholds
Gay Marriage Ban
Susan Donaldson James
Common Dreams
Petraeus
Endorses Obama's Plans To Close GITMO, End Torture
Sam Stein
The Huffington Post
Former Interrogator
Rebukes Cheney for Torture Speech
Brave New Films
Video Clip of the Day
US
town seeks to become new Guantanamo
The Real News
Shell on trial
Daniel Howden
The Independent
Rooks
rival chimpanzees in their ability to use tools
The Guardian
May
27, 2009
North
Korea restarts nuclear reactor and threatens to attack south
Justin McCurry
The Guardian
Taliban blamed for
Lahore attack
BBC
Justices
Ease Rules on Questioning
David Stout
The New York Times
Obama's climate guru: Paint your roof white!
Steve Connor
The Independent
Mexico arrests mayors, police chiefs in drug war
AlertNet
California Budget Blues
Robert Scheer
The Nation
Bernie Kerik
Indicted … Again
Wonkette
Empathy
Can Cut Both Ways
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly
May
28, 2009
Abu
Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'
Duncan Gardham and Paul Cruickshank
Telegraph
GM
says US to own 72 percent under bankruptcy plan
The Raw Story
Taliban
Warn of ‘Major Attacks’ in Pakistan
Salman Masood and Mark McDonald
The New York Times
Tests Point
to Spread of Weapons Trade
Jay Solomon
The Wall Street Journal
How
George Bush Gave Krazy Kim The Bomb
Greg Palast
Federal. State and Local Governments Spend Almost Half a Trillion Dollars a Year
on Substance Abuse and Addiction
CASA
Abortion
rights groups concerned about Sotomayor's stance
David G. Savage and Peter Nicholas
Los Angeles Times
Bush v.
Gore Foes Join to Fight Gay Marriage Ban
Jesse McKinley
The New York Times
Exxon
Mobil Says Transition From Oil Is Century Away
Joe Carroll
Bloomberg
Time
Warner to split off AOL
Aaron Smith
CNN
As if It Needed to, Virginia Bans Smiles at the DMV
Nick Miroff
The Washington Post
May
29-31, 2009
Iraq
faces the mother of all corruption scandals
Patrick Cockburn
The Independent
Global warming
causes 300,000 deaths a year
John Vidal
The Guardian
US,
SKorea militaries gird for NKorean provocation
Jae-Soon Chang
Yahoo! News
US company
finds "safer" way to make stem-like cells
Reuters
Iran official blames U.S. in deadly mosque bombing
Reuters
Pentagon
Plans New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace
David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker
The New York Times
The Catastrophic
Economics of Nuclear Power
Harvey Wasserman
CounterPunch
Foreclosures, mortgage
delinquencies climb at record rate
Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers
Levin
Calls Cheney A Liar On Torture
Eric Kleefeld
TPM
Did
Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
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