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November 2, 2009
Suicide bomber kills 35 near Pakistan's capital
Ashraf Khan and Senastian Abbot
Times Record News

CIT Files Bankruptcy; U.S. Unlikely to Recoup Money
Tiffany Kary, Dawn McCarty and Lester Pimentel
Bloomberg

Karzai declared elected president
BBC News

Democrats' Quiet Changes Pile Up

Jonathan Weisman
The Wall Street Journal

Did Cheney Lie to the Plame Prosecutors?
Scott Horton
Harper’s

How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers

Scozzafava Backs Owens, Stuns GOP
Watertown Daily Times

Beijing's first snow of season 'artificially induced'
Yahoo! News

Islam’s Darwin problem
Drake Bennett
The Boston Globe

November 3, 2009
Russia Leads Nuclear Space Race After U.S. Drops Out
Alexis Madrigal

Wired

Berlin Wall Legend Shattered
Tim Mohr
The Daily Beast

The Delegitimization of Karzai
Patrick Cockburn
CounterPunch

UN Chief: Climate Treaty in Copenhagen Unlikely
VOA News

EU reform treaty passes last test
BBC News

Federal prosecutor: Medical marijuana raids won’t stop
Daniel Tencer
The Raw Story

As The Media Obsesses Over New York Special Election, It Ignores Leftward Lurch In California Special Election
Think Progress
 

November 4, 2009
Italy convicts former CIA agents in rendition trial
Manuela D'Alessandro and Daniel Flynn

Reuters

Taliban takes blame for five British soldiers' deaths in Afghanistan
The Independent

American voters to billionaires: Get lost!
Will Bunch
Attytood

Gay-marriage foes claim victory in Maine
Glenn Adams and David Crary
AP

Medical marijuana access law OK’d
Meg Haskell
Bangor Daily News

Breckenridge Votes To Legalize Marijuana
The Denver Channel

GM's Money Trees
Mark Schapiro
Mother Jones

Warren Buffett places big stake in railroads
Mark Davis and Randolph Heaster
The Kansas City Star

Seafloor dynamics at work splitting continent
Futurity


November 5, 2009
Iraq Awards West Qurna-1 Oil Field to Exxon, Shell
Gina Chon

The Wall Street Journal

Abbas 'will not seek re-election'
BBC News

Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’
Daniel Tencer
The Raw Story

All Locked Up
Amy Bach
Slate

Policeman who killed British troops 'is back with Taliban'
Jon Boone
The Guardian

Wall Street Banks Getting Swine Flu Vaccine Before Many High-Risk Groups
The Huffington Post

Kerik Faces Prison Time After Guilty Plea For Lying To Bush White House
Justin Elliott
TPM

Justifying What You Know Can't Be True
Emily Badger
Miller-McCune

Edit This Page
Evgeny Morozov
Boston Review


November 6-8, 2009
Powerful Afghan Governor Challenges President
Yaroslav Trofi
mov
The Wall Street Journal

Focusing on Ft. Hood Killer's Beliefs Are an Easy Out to Avoid the Deeper Reasons for the Massacre
Mark Ames
AlterNet

Jobless rate surges to 10.2 percent
Lucia Mutikani
Reuters

Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design – secret report
Julian Borger
The Guardian

Afghan insurgents learn to destroy key U.S. armored vehicle
Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers

Zimbabwe Proposes Ownership of Foreign Firms
The New York Times

Coffee Brims With Health Benefits, Researchers Say
Susan Salisbury
Sci-Tech Today

Sarah Palin’s Book Tour Is Avoiding Areas With Large Pockets Of Book Stores And Libraries
Wonkette


November 9, 2009
Watch It Shrink
Timothy Noah
Slate

Why I Voted No

Dennis Kucinich
TruthDig

KBR may have poisoned 100,000 people in Iraq: lawsuit
Daniel Tencer
The Raw Story

Chavez steps up Colombia war talk
BBC News

Hezbollah gears up for new war
Mitchell Prothero and Peter Beaumont
The Observer

Iran charges three detained Americans with espionage
Ramin Mostafavi
Reuters

Mother of all carry trades faces an inevitable bust
Nouriel Roubini
Financial Times

Bank Failure Friday Fells a ‘Healthy Bank’ Bailout Recipient
Jake Bernstein
ProPublica

England: 10 new nuclear power stations named
Alan Jones
The Independent

Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh?
Dave Lindorff
The Public Record

Paranoia Strikes Deep
Paul Krugman
The New York Times

A Tea Party party registers in Florida
Ben Smith
Politico


November 10, 2009
Plant experts unveil DNA barcode
Mark Kinver
BBC News

An 'all-in' bet for the planet

Douglas Fischer
TDC

Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower
Terry Macalister
The Guardian

Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance
Physicians for a National Health Program

Power for U.S. From Russia’s Old Nuclear Weapons
Andrew E. Kramer
The New York Times

Is the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?
Marcia Angell, M.D.
The Huffington Post

Rupert Murdoch says Glenn Beck 'was right' that Obama is a racist who hates white people
David Neiwert
Crooks and Liars

Sarah Palin is to Republicans What Joe Lieberman is to Democrats
Tina Dupuy
True / Slant

Are Too Many Students Going to College?
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Legacies, Celebrities, and Media Skanks
Walter Brasch
The Public Record

  November 11, 2009
Blackwater Attempted to Bribe Iraqi Officials
Jeremy Scahill
The Nation

Pharma Deal With White House on Course to Net Industry Billions

Sam Stein
The Huffington Post

Dodd upsets banks with plan for a single bank overseer
Kevin G. Hall and David Lightman
McClatchy Newspapers

Senator Reid tees up 2010 jobs bill
Walter Alarkon
The Hill

Rev. Moon's Troubled Generation Next
Robert Parry
Consortium News

Influential Players: How Six Big Stakeholders Shaped Health Care
Brian Beutler
TPM

SolarReserve’s 24/7 solar power plant
Toff Woody
Grist

Scientists develop apple that won't rot

Chris Green
BBC News

Bill Berkowitz: America's First All-Christian Prison May Be Coming Down the Pike
Bill Berkowitz
BuzzFlash

Need a job? McDonald's has an opening at Guantanamo
Carol Rosenberg
Miami Herald
 

November 12, 2009
Official: Obama rejects all Afghan war options
MSNBC


Scahill: Obama may be afraid of Blackwater
David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
The Raw Story

How the US Funds the Taliban
Aram Roston
The Nation

U.S. Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits
James Glanz and Walter Gibbs
The New York Times

US-Russia nuclear talks hit snag
China News Asia

How Catholic Bishops Threw the Health Care Debate into Turmoil with Anti-Abortion Maneuver
Adele M. Stan
AlterNet

Greener power generation needed if electric vehicles are really to reduce emissions
Michael McCarthy
The Independent

Multitasking to Distraction
Fenella Saunders
American Scientist


November 13 - 15, 2009
'Large amounts' of water on Moon
BBC News

Four mosqu
es seized in US
Aljazeera

Jury acquits ex-Bear Stearns hedge fund managers
Grant McCool and Michael Erman
Reuters

U.S. will try 9/11 plotters in New York, foresaking military trials
Carol Rosenberg
The Miami Herald

Obama Admin. Cracks Down On Burrowing
Zachary Roth
TPM

ACORN Sues Federal Government Over Congress' "Unconstitutional" Move to Defund Group
Jason Leopold
TruthOut

Computer whiz duo charged in Madoff scheme
Ben Rooney
CNN

Nuclear scars: Tainted water runs beneath Nevada desert
Ralph Vartabedian
Los Angeles Times

A Decade Without Glass-Steagall
Rolling Stone


November 16, 2009
CIA paid millions of dollars to ISI since 9/11
Indo Asian News Service

GM to start repaying debt to U.S. government
next month
Peter Whoriskey
The Washington Post

Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world
Michael Casey
My Way

Anti-Castro Cubans shift funding to US Democrats
The Raw Story

The Abortion Ban Is Bad Medicine
Willie J. Parker
The Daily Beast

Health bill foes solicit funds for economic study
Michael D. Shear
The Washington Post

Dam Project Worries Sudan's Nubians
Aljazeera
Video Clip of the Day

President Obama: Don’t Lecture China on Censorship
Dave Lindorff
The Public Record

To count or not to count: Will 2010 census include all Latinos?
Rob Hotakainen
McClatchy Newspapers

Man who held knife at side guilty of threatening liquor cops
Elizabeth Dinan
SeaCoast


November 17, 2009
Nato chief promises Afghanistan will get 'substantially more forces'
Julian Borger
The Guardian


Earth 'heading for 6C' of warming
Richard Black
BBC News

Taliban: Blackwater to blame for Pakistan attacks
Daniel Tencer
The Raw Story

Fed criticized for not negotiating harder with AIG creditors
Brady Dennis
The Washington Post

Israel gaffe reveals 'Iran ship photos' were forged
Press TV

Genome advances promise personalized medical treatment
Robert S. Boyd
McClatchy Newspapers

Jumping the Snark
Dave Gilson
Mother Jones

We Need 'Philosophy of Journalism'
Carlin Romano
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Cold Weather Won't Make You Sick
Lindsey Hollenbaugh
AARP

The Pledge of Allegiance is un-American
Michael Lind
Salon


November 18, 2009
Retired military officers cash in as well-paid consultants
Tom Vanden Brook, Ken Dilanian and Ray Locker

USA Today

Obama admits delay on Guantanamo
BBC News

Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected President?
Robert Scheer
TruthDig

Another Breast-Cancer Bombshell Lands Amidst The Health-Care Reform Debate
Shaun Mullen
Kiko’s House

UN official questions world's hunger commitment
Frances D’Emilio
AP

Capital flows to US surge despite dollar weakness
Bankok Post

Debt
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly

IBM makes 'thinking computer' breakthrough
The Independent


November 19, 2009
Senate Health Bill Rejects Anti-Choice Extremes
John Nichols
The Nation

How Limousine Liberals, Water Oligarchs and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply

Yasha Levine
AlterNet

If Nothing Else, Save Farming

George Monbiot

AOL to cut a third of staff
Andrew Vanacore
My Way

Obama Nominates Bush Spox Perino For Administration Spot
Rachel Slajda
TPM

Corps' operation of MR-GO doomed homes in St. Bernard, Lower 9th Ward, judge rules

Mark Schleifstein
The Times-Picayune

Why does the FCC keep using old data?
Bruce Kushnick
Nieman Watchdog

Massive Tuition Increase for University of California
Daniel Luzer
The Washington Monthly

Alcohol 'protects men's hearts'
BBC News

 

  November 20-22, 2009
The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society
David DeGraw

The Public Record

The 26 Percent Solution
Will Bunch
Attytood

On Thinner Ice
Joseph Romm
Climate Progress

EU names Belgian PM Van Rompuy as first president

Darren Ennis and Timothy Heritage
Reuters

House Financial Services Committee Passes Paul-Grayson Amendment to Audit the Fed

Project on Government Oversight

The Big Squander
Paul Krugman
The New York Times

'Zombie Buildings': Are They The Next Economic Calamity?
Christine Spolar and Lagan Sebert
The Huffington Post

lTamiflu-resistant swine flu spreads 'between patients'
Fergus Walsh
BBC News

Stem cells: the first human trial
Steve Connor
The Independent

California Adopts Stricter Rules for Drug Abusers in the Health Industry
Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber
ProPublica

As Smart Grid Expands, So Does Vulnerability to Cyber Attacks

Peter Behr
The New York Times

Sometimes, the Majority of Americans Are Really Stupid
Derek Thompson
The Atlantic

Rudy Giuliani Hasn’t Gotten The ‘Rudy Giuliani’s Political Career Is Over’ Memo
Wonkette

How LED Tattoos Could Change The Face of Humanity
Charlie Sorrel
Wired
 

November 23, 2009
Oceans rising faster than expected as climate change exceeds grimmest models
The Raw Story

At least 21 dead i
n Philippine 'political massacre'
Jason Gutierrez
AFP

Three Mile Island radiation caused by pipe cutting
Mark Levy
The Washington Post

Sewers at Capacity, Waste Poisons Waterways
Charles Duhigg
The New York Times

Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact
Matthew Garrahan, Richard Waters and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
Financial Times

Health Care's Historic Flop
Helen Redmond
CounterPunch

Deutsche Bank Life Insurance Fund in Hot Water
Anne Seith
Spiegel

Toxic Turf?
Gemma Baltazar
In These Times

Shut Up! Shut Up! Shut Up! Cut Her Mic!
Cab Drollery


November 24, 2009
Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan

Jeremy Scahill
The Nation

Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan
Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef
McClatchy Newspapers

US in back-channel talks with Afghan Taliban
Azaz Syed
Dawn

Alberto Gonzales Won't Be Charged Over Eavesdropping Testimony
Murray Waas
New York Magazine

British Inquiry: Blair Conspired with Bush as Early as 2002 to Plot Iraq Invasion
Dave Lindorff
The Public Record

Cern's Large Hadron Collider makes first collisions
Paul Rincon
BBC News

Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize
Stanley Kutler
TruthDig

Census worker in Kentucky killed self, officials conclude
Bill Estep
Lexington Herald-Leader

In Crazy New Landscape For Banks, Taxpayers Are The Big Losers
Shahien Nasiripour
The Huffington Post

The New Good Guys
Douglas Rushkoff
The Daily Beast

Popular cigarette brands loaded with bacteria
Kate Melville
Science a Go Go

'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear'
Allan Hall
The Daily Mail

The Geography of a Recession
Latoya Egwuekwe


November 25, 2009
US Will Not Join Treaty Banning Landmines
David Alexander
Common Dreams

Lending Declines as Bank Jitters Persist
Damian Paletta
The Wall Street Journal

'Disappointed' Siegelman: Obama Justice Dept. Virtually The Same As Bush DOJ
Justin Elliott
TPM

New U.S.-India Green Partnership improves prospects for global climate deal
Julian L. Wong
Climate Progress

We're running out of gold: miners
Jacques Lemieux Jacques Lemieux
Yahoo! News

Age Trumps Youth in UC Tuition Dispute
Yasha Levine
Truthdig

Obamacare is unconstitutional
Gene Healy
The Washington Examiner

Reborn Coma Man’s Words May Be Bogus
Brandon Keim
Wired

Im a Culture Critic … Get Me Out of Here!
James Wolcott
Vanity Fair

Thousands take part in world's largest ritual animal slaughter
Rhys Blakely
Times


November 27-29, 2009
Stocks Fall, Treasuries Rise on Dubai Concern; Yen
Strengthens
Shani Raja and Yasuhiko Seki
Bloomberg

U.S. Military Unveils New Prison in Afghanistan
Feraidoon Khwazoon
IPS

Bailed-Out AIG Forcing Poor to Choose Between Running Water and Food
Yasha Levine
AlterNet

‘Wall Street’s excesses caused more deaths among children than the tsunami four years ago’
Richard Parker
Nieman Watchdog

Obama's Secret Climate Pact
Richard Wolffe
The Daily Beast

Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantanamo Attorney
Andy Worthington
The Public Record

Secret service ‘cutting corners,’ endangering Obama: author
The Raw Story

The Cost Of War
Bruce Bartlett
Forbes

Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food

Robert Roy Britt
Live Science

Environmental activists seek green Black Friday
Erika Lovely
Politico

Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned
David Kravets
Wired


November 30, 2009
Wickedness Abides
James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation

How the War H
awks Caged Obama
Robert Parry
Consortium News

Barack Obama: Manchurian Candidate Version 2.0
Dave Lindorff
The Public Record

Iran defies censure, plans 10 uranium sites
Parisa Hafezi and Reza Derakhshi
Reuters

Wall Street's a casino, so maybe state gambling laws apply
Les Blumenthal
McClatchy Newspapers

Hondurans elect businessman Pepe Lobo as president
Frances Robles and Laura Figueroa
The Miami Herald

Court sides with Gov't in detainee photo case
TPM

Release of secret reports delayed
Bryan Bender
The Boston Globe

High Court To Take Up Case Involving Part of Patriot Act
William Fisher
The Public Record

Swiss voters back right-wing minaret ban
Charles Bremner
Times

Data point to Toyota's throttles, not floor mats
Ken Bensinger and Ralph Vartabedian
Los Angeles Times

The Feds Are Addicted to Pot - Even If You Aren't
Paul Armentano
AlterNet

 

 
 
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