October
1,
2009
E.P.A.
Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions
John M. Broder
The New York Times
Obama's
Last Iran Option
Reza Aslan
The Daily Beast
The
Cheney Interview: Judge Sullivan Rebukes Obama, but Still Shields Crucial Info
emptywheel
FDL
Wall
Street's Latest Trick
Kevin Drum
Mother Jones
Romanian government falls
apart
BBC News
A Truly Shocking
Gitmo Story
Andy Worthington
CounterPunch
Supreme
Court decision may open up other gun laws to challenges
David Savage
Los Angeles Times
Pentagon
airs criticism of ‘don’t ask’
Bryan Bender
The Boston Globe
Playing
by Unfamiliar Rules
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly
'Ardi'
Skeleton Sheds Light on Origin of Human Species
Joel Achenbach
The Washington Post
Scientists
'reverse ageing process'
The Independent
October 5, 2009
Don’t
Frack with Our Water!
Polly Howells
In These Times
Suicide bomber
hits UN food office in Pakistan
Jonathan Adams
The Christian Science Monitor
Deadly
Attack By Taliban Tests New Strategy
Joshua Partlow and Greg Jaffe
The Washington Post
Obama
quietly tries to shore up Senate support for public option
Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook
Los Angeles Times
Celebrating
Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia
Chris Hedges
TruthDig
Caught
On Tape: A Naked Swindle
Matt Taibbi
True / Slant
E. Coli Path
Shows Flaws in Beef Inspection
Michael Moss
The New York Times
Will
California become America's first failed state?
Paul Harris
The Guardian
October 6, 2009
Dollar
Hysteria
Mike Whitney
CounterPunch
Pakistan goes
for militants' jugular
Syed Saleem Shahzad
Asia Times
U.S.
Ally Mahmoud Abbas in Serious Trouble
Simon McGregor-Wood
ABC News
Schwarzenegger
Endorses Obama Health Care Effort
ABC News
On
Guantanamo, Lawmakers Prove They Are Still Dick Cheney’s Pawns
Andy Worthington
The Public Record
Homeland Security
plans to scan air travelers’ bodily functions
David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
The Raw Story
Michael
Moore’s Problems Are Our Fault
Matt Taibbi
True / Slant
Dim Bulbs
Michael Heberling
Freeman
October 7, 2009
Afghan
Taliban say they pose no threat to the West
Sayed Salahuddin
Reuters
Army 'concern' over
Pakistan aid
BBC News
Fighting Biopiracy
Silvia Ribeiro and Kathy Jo Wetter
Project Syndicate
Mexico
calls U.S. a "stumbling block" in U.N. climate talks
David Fogarty and Chisa Fujioka
Reuters
Investigators
Document Repeat Illegal Sales at Gun Shows
David S. Fallis
The Washington Post
Conservative
Bible Project Aims to Delete 'Liberal Bias' from the Bible
Daniel Tencer
AlterNet
Why
Minds Are Not Like Computers
Ari N. Schulman
The New Atlantis
New ring detected
around Saturn
Jonathan Amos
BBC News
October 8, 2009
Indian
embassy blast kills 17 in Afghan capital
Yousuf Azimy
Reuters
Barack
Obama: Taliban can be involved in Afghanistan future
Tim Reid
Times
Pakistanis
Balk at U.S. Aid Package
Karen DeYoung and Scott Wilson
The Washington Post
Is
Medea Benjamin Naive or Just Confused?
Scott Horton
AntiWar.com
Seawater
plants yield green aviation fuel in new research
UPI
Warning over global
oil 'decline'
Sarah Mukherjee
BBC News
October 9-11,
2009
Senate
Panel Extends Controversial Patriot Act Provisions
Jason Leopold
TruthOut
Iran
activist sentenced to death for election protests
Robert Tait
The Guardian
The
Coburn amendment
Paul Krugman
The New York Times
China
reportedly detects deadly nerve gas at border with Nkorea
Channel News Asia
Peru
Indian tribes join forces to fight off Amazon sale to oil
companies
Ramita Navai
Times
Congratulations
President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it!
Michael Moore
DNC
official: GOP siding with terrorists
Ben Smith
Politco
New
Oklahoma abortion law being challenged
Feminists for Choice
Altruism
vs. Selfishness
David Sloan Wilson
Seed
October 12, 2009
Suicide
bomber kills 41 near Pakistan's Swat
Robert Birsel
Reuters
Insurers
mount attack against health reform
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Mlive
Was
the Financial Bailout Just a Slick, Friendly Takeover of the Federal Government?
Bill Moyers
AlterNet
Ukraine
fears for its future as Moscow muscles in on Crimea
Like Harding
The Guardian
Steep
Losses Pose Crisis for Pensions
David Cho
The Washington Post
New
White House Line Against Fox: It's War
Ari Melber
The Nation
4
Supreme Court Cases That Will Say a Lot About the Direction of Our Country
Liliana Segura
AlterNet
How Nonsense
Sharpens the Intellect
Benedict Carey
The New York Times
October
13, 2009
Support
Troops Swelling U.S. Force in Afghanistan
Ann Scott Tyson
The Washington Post
Al-Qaeda 'faces funding crisis'
BBC News
Palestinian
faith in Obama 'evaporates'
Rory McCarthy
The Guardian
Senate
Finance Committee Approves Health Care Reform 14-9
Ryan Grim
The Huffington Post
On
the Nobel Prize for Occasional Peace
Matt Taibbi
True / Slant
Whiner-in-Chief
John Nichols
The Nation
Himalayan
sherpas bugged by the sight of house flies at 5,000m
John Vidal
The Guardian
Understanding
What Beyond Cutting Edge Means
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly
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October 14, 2009
Geithner
Aides Reaped Millions Working for Banks, Hedge Funds
Bloomberg
Saudis
Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues
Jad Mouawad and Andrew C. Revkin
The New York Times
Half a trillion barrels more than we thought?
Euan Mearns
Energy Bulletin
A Historic Success In Military Recruiting
Ann Scott Tyson
The Washington Post
Bush Administration covered up global warming finding, then deliberately kept
from Democrats
The Raw Story
JPMorgan
Chase Reports Strong Profit of $3.6 Billion
Eric Dash
The New York Times
Public Health Before Wall Street Wealth
Robert Scheer
TruthDig
The
Democrats: Really, You Just Gotta Laugh
Dave Lindorff
The Public Record
FBI
Putting Driver's Licenses in Virtual Lineup
Steven J. Dubord
The New American
"Only
the Rich Can Save Us"
Ralph Nader
Video Clip of the Day
Recruited
by MI5: the name's Mussolini. Benito Mussolini
Tom Kington
The Guardian
October 15, 2009
UN
update: climate change hitting sooner and stronger
Noreen Parks
Environmental Science and Technology
The
Arctic will be ice-free in summer within 20 years, research says
Ben Webster
The Times
Pakistan rocked by
fresh attacks
BBC News
Goldman
Strikes Gold Again
Nomi Prins
The Daily Beast
No cost-of-living increase
for Social Security
Kansas City Star
Chamber of Horrors
Eliot Spitzer
Slate
For
Insurers, a Question of Trust (and Antitrust)
David M. Herszenhorn
The New York Times
The S-Word and Dr. Kevorkian's Accountant
Greg Palast
TruthOut
Good
News on Wall Street Means… What Exactly?
Matt Taibbi
True / Slant
Agent
Orange in Vietnam: Ignoring the Crimes Before Our Eyes
Dave Lindorff
The Public Record
California
appears poised to be first to ban power-guzzling big-screen TVs
Marc Lifsher
Los Angeles Times
Modern
man 'a wimp', says anthropologist
The Independent
October
16-18, 2009
U.S.
tells Poland it could host new interceptors
Gareth Jones
AlterNet
SEC
unit hires ex-Goldman Sachs worker as chief operating officer
Los Angeles Times
$400
per gallon gas to drive debate over cost of war in Afghanistan
Roxana Tiron
The Hill
Bank
of America slumps to $1bn loss
The Independent
Barney Frank the Bankers'
Consort
Ralph Nader
CounterPunch
Photos
of Military Deaths in Afghanistan Banned
Daryl Lang
Editor and Publisher
Powell
warned of ‘terror-industrial complex’ in 2007 interview
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
The Raw Story
The Spread of New
Diseases: The Climate Connection
Sonia Shah
E360
October 19, 2009
Karzai
'stripped of outright win'
BBC News
BP
set for Iraqi oil license as cabinet approves deal
Alistair Dawber
The Independent
A
Reality Check from the Brink of Extinction
Chris Hedges
TruthDig
Obama eases
policy on medical marijuana
Devlin Barrett
The Houston Chronicle
Cuba's spy `walk-ins'
target U.S., experts say
Juan O. Tamayo
The Miami Herald
Energy
Star Appliances May Not All Be Efficient, Audit Finds
Matthew L. Wald
The New York Times
Marching
Toward Zombieland
By James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
The
Service-less Service Economy
Lance Mannion
October 20, 2009
Hersh:
Military waging war with White House
Neil Offen
The Herald Sun
Obama
to Karzai: Thanks for Recognizing Your Illegitimacy
John Nichols
The Nation
Oil
prices hit high but report warns of supply crunch
Ashley Seager
The Guardian
US
gives Shell green light for offshore oil drilling in the Arctic
Ed Pilkington
The Guardian
Baffin
Island reveals dramatic scale of Arctic climate change
Steve Connor
The Independent
Terrorist plots with D-FW ties are nothing new
Aman Batheja
Star-Telegram
Private Worlds
Roland Kelts
Adbusters
Message from the
Gyre
Chris Jordan
Pope
Sets Plan for Disaffected Anglicans to Join Catholics
Rachel Donadio and Laurie Goldstein
The New York Times
October
21, 2009
Support
for Public Option Collapses If Real Public Option Polled
Ian Welsh
Zooming
In on the Year’s Biggest Hoax
Robert Scheer
TruthDig
All
schools, colleges closed in Pakistan
Daily Times
New
Crack Cocaine Bill Leaves Thousands Behind Bars
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
New America Media
The Next Financial
Crisis Hits Wall Street, as Judges Start Nixing Foreclosures
Pam Martens
CounterPunch
How
Wall Street is Making Its Billions
Phillip Greenspun
States
can't afford death penalty
Bill Mears
CNN
Moon
scientist Stewart Nozette held as Israeli spy in FBI sting
Giles Whittell
The Times
Electric promise
Roger Harrabin
BBC News
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October
22, 2009
Four-year
drought pushes 23 million Africans to brink of starvation
Tristan McConnell
The Times
U.S.
to cut pay for bailed-out bosses
Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Brady Dennis
The Washington Post
Bill
giving FDA new powers to oversee food supply has wide support
Andrew Zajac
Los Angeles Times
Documents
in Bank of America Probe Apparently Show CEO Misled Federal Officials
Sue Reisinger
Law.com
Pickens
says U.S. firms 'entitled' to Iraqi oil
Tom Doggett
Reuters
Elizabeth
Warren for President
Matt Taibbi
True / Slant
US raids hit Mexican
drug cartel
BBC News
Even
NPR
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly
October
23-25, 2009
New
Weiner Study Shows 151 Members of House and Senate Get the “Public
Option” Now
Anthony Weiner
Senate
adds sexual orientation, gender identity to federal hate crimes law by passing
Matthew Shepard Act
Steve Rothaus
The Miami Herald
Judge Refuses to Dismiss
War Crimes Case Against Blackwater
eremy Scahill
The Nation
Rethinking the Drone
Wars
Scott Horton
Harper’s
McCain
introduces bill to block FCC's net neutrality rules
Grant Gross
Reuters
Reid
Is Only One Or Two Votes Shy On Opt-Out Public Option
Sam Stein and Ryan Grim
The Huffington Post
'Family values' of
Mexico drug gang
BBC News
Rich Germans demand higher
taxes
BBC News
October
26, 2009
The
Cover-Up Continues
The New York Times
Bombings
rock Iraq's political landscape
Anthony Shadid
The Washington Post
Asian leaders
seek to reduce Western trade ties
Jason Szep and Martin Petty
Reuters
New
bill to make seizure of US companies easier: report
Yahoo! News
Madoff Secrets Go to the Grave
Allan Dodds Frank
The Daily Beast
Senators
Slog While Unemployed Suffer
Mike Lillis
The Washington Independent
Healthcare
system wastes up to $800 billion a year
Maggie Fox
Reuters
Rainforest
treaty 'fatally flawed'
Michael McCarthy
The Independent
Detroit house
auction flops for urban wasteland
Kevin Krolicki
Reuters
Controversial study
suggests vast magma pool under Washington state
Les Blumenthal
McClatchy Newspapers
Clear the bong
water, man
Minnesota Daily
October
27, 2009
Karadzic
'led ethnic cleansing'
BBC News
Iran
wants big changes to nuclear deal with powers
Parisa Hafezi
Reuters
logi
Energy Determines Saudi Oil Production Has Peaked
HedgeCo.Net
Palestinians denied
water
BBC News
Insurance
Stocks Plunged As Reid Announced Public Option, Spiked After Lieberman Vowed
To Filibuster It
Think Progress
U.S.
Official Matthew Hoh Resigns in Protest of Afghanistan
War Policy
David Session
Politics Daily
Wall
Street firms should not be called banks, US official says
Andrew Clark
The Guardian
Got Perfect
Credit? You Could Be Charged For It!
Alexis Christoforous
CBS 2 HD News
October
28, 2009
More
than 95 dead in blast as Hillary Clinton arrives in Pakistan
Zahid Hussain
The Times
US Drone Strikes May
Break International Law: UN
Common Dreams
Six
U.N. foreign staff killed in attack in Kabul
Golnar Motevalli and Sayed Salahuddin
Reuters
Brother
of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll
Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti and James Risen
The New York Times
Coastal
homes in Australia at risk from rising sea levels
Kathy Marks
The Independent
Lieberman
Twists the Knife
Robert Scheer
TruthDig
America’s
Real Death Panels
Diana Novak
In These Times
Jon Stewart
Praises ‘SuperFreak’ Author: ‘I’m Sorry You’ve
Taken So Much S**t’
Think Progress
Curry
spice 'kills cancer cells'
BBC News
Arnold
to SF: Fuck You
Tim Redmond
San Francisco Bay Guardian
October
29, 2009
U.N.
Can’t Account for Millions Sent to Afghan Election Board
T. Christian Miller and Dafna Linzer
ProPublica
Pelosi's
Not-So-Robust Public Option
John Nichols
The Nation
Iran
proposes changes to nuclear deal
MSNBC
Farmers fight climate
bill, but warming spells trouble for them
Renee Schoof and David Goldstein
McClatchy Newspapers
U.N. again
condemns U.S. embargo of Cuba
Frances Robles
The Miami Herald
Black Hawk Up
Michael Massing
Columbia Journalism Review
Obama signs first
major federal gay-rights law
Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers
Football
in L.A.
Dave Zirin
Los Angeles Times
Oct.
30 - Nov. 1, 2009
Dozens
in Congress under ethics inquiry
Ellen Nakashima and Paul Kane
The Washington Post
McChrystal
Doesn’t Get It — Does Obama?
Scott Ritter
TruthDig
Iran
Split on Nukes
Robert Dreyfuss
The Nation
Colombia,
U.S. sign military cooperation deal
Hugh Bronstein
Reuters
Honduras deal:
Ousted President Zelaya can return to office
Sara Miller Llana
The Christian Science Monitor
Band
of Dems Blasts Geithner Plan
Mike Lillis
The Washington Independent
US
hits BP with record safety fine
Erwin Seba
The Independent
The
Yes Men Get Sued
Chris Good
The Atlantic
Rep.
Jay Inslee slams SuperFreakonomics
Climate Progress
The
Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English
John McWhorter
World Affairs
Historic
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