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September 1, 2009
CIA refuses to release torture documents
John Byrne
The Raw Story

Group Charges Complicity by CIA Medics in Torture
William Fisher
IPS

Turkey, Armenia move to boost ties
Aljazeera

Oil stirs conflict on Black Sea
Roman Kupchinsky
Asia Times

Banks' Favorite Dem Set To Chair Banking Committee
Ryan Grim
The Huffington Post

White House fears liberal war pressure
Mike Allen
Politico

The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much
Bill Moyers and Maggie Mahar
AlterNet

5 Myths About Health Care Around the World
T.R. Reid
The Washington Post

The Sermilik fjord in Greenland: a chilling view of a warming world
Patrick Barkham
The Guardian

September 2, 2009
Washington C
apitulates: Peak Oil Is Real
Doug Hornig
Energy Bulletin

EPA to declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant
Jennifer A. Dlouhy
San Francisco Chronicle

Spy chief among 23 killed in Taliban suicide blast
Rahim Faiez
The Washington Post

Tribal Leaders Say Karzai’s Team Forged 23,900 Votes
Dexter Filkins
The New York Times

James Sturcke
The Guardian

Gonzales Supports CIA Probe
Stephanie Woodrow
MainJustice

Colombia’s Congress Approves Referendum on Uribe Third Term Bid
Helen Murphy
Bloomberg

Mexico's Plagues
John Ross
CounterPunch

Global warming, California, and wildfires
Joseph Romm
Grist

Umm… Actually Obama Doesn’t Want to Take Over The Internet
Nicholas Thompson
Wired

Hatchery Horrors
Mercy for Animals

We need a public pet option
Garrison Keillor
Salon

Our Embassy in Afghanistan Is Guarded by Sexually Confused Frat Boys
John Cook
Gawker

Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars
Geoffrey Nunberg
The Chronicle of Higher Education
 

September 3, 2009
CIA doctors face human experimentation claims
Ed Pilkington

The Guardian
 
Pfizer to pay record $2.3B penalty for drug promos
Devlin Barrett
Yahoo! News

US halts aid over Honduras coup
BBC News
 
Review shows high pay for aid group CEOs
Ken Dilanian
USA Today
 
How global warming sealed the fate of the world's coral reefs
David Adam
The Guardian
 
Rahm Pushing Triggers Through Olympia Snowe - The Question: Why?
Jane Hamsher
Common Dreams

Don’t Be Fooled by the Public Option
Bill Boyarsky
TruthDig
 
Crisis and Hope
Noam Chomsky
Boston Review
 
MSNBC Promoting Buchanan's Hitler-Sympathizing Column
Zachary Roth
TPM
 
Tell Verizon Wireless: Get out of bed with anti-environment extremists.
Credo Action
 
Gunmen kill 17 people at a drug rehab in Mexico
My Way
 
Deleting the Bush Personality Cult from history
Glenn Greenwald
Salon
 
VA's "Your Life, Your Choices" a non-issue for veterans
American Veteran
 
One Man's Trash
Kate Murphy
The New York Times

Pain-free animals could take suffering out of farming
Ewen Callaway
New Scientist


September 4-6, 2009
Emissions Linked to End of 2,000-Year Arctic Trend
Juliet Eilperin
The Washington Post

Unemployment Rate Hits 9.7 Percent As Economy Sheds 216,000 Jobs In August
Arthur Delany
The Huffington Post

NATO Airstrike in Afghanistan Kills up to 90
Douglas Birch
Common Dreams

US fury as Israel defies settlement freeze call
Sheera Frenkel
The Times

White House to reveal visitor names
Richard Wolf
USA Today

Taliban's bombs came from US, not Iran
Gareth Porter
Asia Times

Supreme Court to Revisit Election Financing in Clinton Film Case
Robert Barnes
The Washington Post

Zelaya Speaks
Tom Hayden
The Nation

Could Texas' Gingrich-Based High School History Curriculum Go National?

Justin Elliott
TPM

It's not big and it's not clever
David Denby
The Guardian


September 7, 2009
Three guilty of transatlantic bomb plot
Vikram Dodd

The Guardian

Natural Gas Hits a Roadblock in New Energy Bill

Clifford Krauss
The New York Times

It Could Be the End of Our Democracy as We Know It
E.J. Dionne
TruthDig

North Korea drops a uranium bombshell
Donald Kirk
Asia Times

Israel to Sign Oders for New West Bank Construction

Mark Lavie
The Boston Globe

They Left Fannie Mae, but We Got the Legal Bills
Gretchen Morgenson
The New York Times

Obama to name ex-banker to manufacturing post
The Raw Story

Obama is fast losing white voters' support
Peter Wallsten
Los Angeles Times

Thoughts on Van Jones’ resignation
David Roberts
Grist

California encourages buildings that are sure to burn

Bob Holmes
New Scientist

Economics is not Natural Science
Douglas Rushkoff
Edge

Where have All the broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a Kleptocracy

Juan Cole
Informed Comment

Labor Day 2029
Joe Romm
Climate Progress

Obama's Remarks For School Address (As Prepared For Delivery)
Versha Sharma
TPM


September 8, 2009
UN wants new global currency to replace dollar
Edmund Conway

Telegraph

Afghan Panel Sees Vote Fraud, Orders Partial Recount

Jame Rupert
Bloomberg

Military leery of Afghanistan escalation with no clear goals
Nancy A. Youssef, Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel
McClatchy Newspapers

Dick Cheney 'put airline bomb plot case in jeopardy with arrest order of Rashid Rauf'
Jenny Booth
Times

Sarah Palin, the Neocons and Howard Dean Love the War in Afghanistan

Jeremy Scahill
CommonDreams / Rebel Report

Not Innocent Enough
Dahlia Lithwick
Slate

The Supreme Court and Campaign Finance: A Supreme Waste of Time
Bob Franken
True / Slant

Spanish Judge Resumes Torture Case Against Top Bush Administration Lawyers
Andy Worthington
The Public Record

When Cocaine and Monsanto's Pesticide Collide, the War on Drugs Becomes a Genetically-Modified War on Science
Meg White
AlterNet / BuzzFlash

Tea bagger bus company sued over blaze that killed 23 seniors
Lindsay Beyerstein
Majikthise

Underwater laser pops in navy ops
BBC News


September 2, 2009
Sick and Wrong

Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone

US actually increasing personnel in Iraq: More contractors, fewer troops
The Raw Story

Russia becomes world's biggest oil producer
Aljazeera
Video Clip of the Day

Defying U.S., Honduras won't let Zelaya return as president
Tyler Bridges
McClatchy Newspapers

Venezuela's Chavez accuses Israel of genocide
AlterNet

Japan Democrats agree coalition
BBC News

Killer genes cause potato famine
Sudeep Chand
BBC News

Iraqi shoe thrower Muntazer al-Zaidi inundated with offers and gifts
Martin Chulov and Rory McCarthy
The Guardian

Fiscal Conservatism
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly

Tweeting Under Fire
Jesse Walker
Reason

Spanky Cumsack Resigns From California State Assembly
Wonkette

Sunstein Becked
John Quiggin
Crooked Timber

A skull that rewrites the history of man
Steve Connor
The Independent


September 9, 2009
Sick and Wrong
Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone

US actually increasing personnel in Iraq: More contractors, fewer troops
The Raw Story

Russia becomes world's biggest oil producer
Aljazeera
Video Clip of the Day

Defying U.S., Honduras won't let Zelaya return as president
Tyler Bridges
McClatchy Newspapers

Venezuela's Chavez accuses Israel of genocide
AlterNet

Japan Democrats agree coalition
BBC News

Killer genes cause potato famine
Sudeep Chand
BBC News

Iraqi shoe thrower Muntazer al-Zaidi inundated with offers and gifts
Martin Chulov and Rory McCarthy
The Guardian

Fiscal Conservatism
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly

Tweeting Under Fire
Jesse Walker
Reason

Spanky Cumsack Resigns From California State Assembly
Wonkette

Sunstein Becked
John Quiggin
Crooked Timber

A skull that rewrites the history of man
Steve Connor
The Independent


September 10, 2009
Iran’s New Proposal for Nuclear Talks

Dafna Linzer
ProPublica

Afghan Electoral Complaints Commission Throws Out Suspect Votes
VOA News

Gas firms 'prop up Burma's junta'
BBC News

Wilkerson: ‘I’ve Come to the Conclusion That Cheney is Just Crazy’
Andy Worthington
The Public Record

Whistleblowers Unveil More ArmorGroup Allegations
Spencer Ackerman
The Washington Independent

A Solution to the Health Care Dilemma
Charles R. Lawson
CounterPunch

The press can't even get the "You Lie!" story right
Eric Boehlert
Media Matters

Grizzlies starve as salmon disappear
Mark Hume
The Globe and Mail

  September 11-13, 2009
9/11: Our Truth, And Theirs
Justin Raim
ondo
Antiwar.com

US says 6 nations accept Iran's offer to talk
Robert Burns
Yahoo! News

Sunstein Wins Confirmation as U.S. Regulations Chief
Holly Rosenkrantz
Bloomberg

Hayden Named to Public Interest Declass Board
Steven Aftergood
Secrecy News

Wall Street sees few surprises in Obama speech
Lewis Krauskopf and Susan Heavey
Reuters

Faith-Based Double Standards
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
The Wall Street Journal

A Method to Their Madness
Gary Younge
The Nation

How to short-circuit the US power grid
Paul Marks
New Scientist

Newt Gingrich Gives Award to Pornographer
Dave McKenna
Washington City Paper
 
September 14, 2009
Venezuela's Chavez touts $2.2 billion arms deal with Russia
Tom A. Peter
Christian Scie
nce Monitor

One Year of Bankster Bailouts and Meltdown Madness

John Nichols
The Nation

No settlement freeze – Netanyahu
BBC News

Republican Appointed Judges Cover-Up War Crimes
Sherwood Ross
The Public Record

China Moves to Retaliate Against U.S. Tire Tariff
Keith Bradshure
The New York Times

Bin Laden calls Obama 'powerless' in Afghan war
Maamoun Youssef
AP

Stop Begging Obama to Be Obama and Get Mad
Chris Hedges
TruthDig

Was the 'Lockerbie Bomber' Framed?
Morgan Strong
Consortium News

The Plight of the Bumblebee
Adam Federman
CounterPunch

Thatcher told Gorbachev Britain did not want German reunification
Michael Binyon
Times
 

September 15, 2009
UN condemns 'war crimes' in Gaza
BBC News

Afghanistan Troop Request May Contain Political F
ail-Safe
Spencer Ackerman
The Washington Independent

Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession
Simon Parry
The Daily Mail

Joe Wilson's Strange Friends
Max Blumenthal
The Daily Beast

The Globalization of Censorship
Anne Applebaum
Slate

Alliance of Leftist and Islamist Leaders
Wolf-Dieter Vogel
Quantara

When children kill, punishment varies
Joe Lambe
The Kansas City Star

George Bush said Palin was ill prepared: 'Is she the Governor of Guam?'
John Amato
Crooks and Liars


September 21, 2009
McChrystal Warns of Failure in Afghanistan without More US Troops
Juan Cole
Informed Comm
ent

Congress Presses for Details From Bank of America on Talks
Louise Story
The New York Times

Obama shrugs off request to drop CIA abuse probe
James Vicini
AlertNet

Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons, Swapped Booze for Rockets
T. Christian Miller
ProPublica

Obama lashes out at U.S. banks over student loans
Caren Bohan
Reuters

Ousted Honduran leader 'returns'
BBC News

FCC 'Net Neutrality' Rules Expected to Advance on Vote
Cecilia Kang
The Washington Post

Original Sin
James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation

We’re Screwed
Yes Men
The New York Post


September 22, 2009
Obama issues stern challenge on Mideast peace

Matt Spetalnick and Jeffrey Heller
Reuters

China vows climate change action
BBC

Feds seek about a dozen people in terror investigation
CNN

Reform or Bust
Paul Krugman
The New York Times

F.D.I.C. May Borrow Funds From Banks
Stephen Labaton
The New York Times

Meet the Afghan Army
Ann Jones
New America Media

Deposed Honduran president holed up in embassy
Marcos Aleman
Salon

Big Dem Donor Nemazee Indicted In Alleged $292 Million Scheme
Zachary Roth
TPM

Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) Chief of Staff: ‘All Pornography Is Homosexual Pornography’
David Weigel
The Washington Independent

 

  September 23, 2009
Obama Considers Strategy Shift in Afghan War
Peter Baker and Elisabeth Bumiller

The New York Times

Whoops: Anti-ACORN Bill Ropes In Defense Contractors, Others Charged With Fraud
Ryan Grim
The Huffington Post
l
State Secrets Critics Slam New Obama Policy
Daphne Eviatar
The Washington Independent

The Economy is a Lie, Too
Paul Craig Roberts
CounterPunch

Obama At the UN
John Nichols
The Nation

Kadhafi / Gadhafi / Qaddifi / Gaddafi / Kaddafi / Kadafi Goes Nuts At UN
Wonkette

PG&E Corp. quits US Chamber Of Commerce’s “extreme position on climate change.”
Climate Progress

Census worker hanged with 'fed' on body
Devlin Barrett and Jeffrey McMurray
AP

Yes Man Arrested, NY Post "Flattered" by Hoax
Gothamist
 

September 24, 2009
Administration Won't Seek New Detention System
Peter Finn
The Washington Post

UN council en
dorses nuclear curbs
BBC News

Taliban Widen Afghan Attacks From Base in Pakistan
Eric Schmitt and Mark Mazzetti
The New York Times

ACORN sues filmmakers
CNN

Banks fight to kill proposed consumer protection agency
Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers

Volcker: Obama Plans Maintain 'Too Big To Fail'
Daniel Wagner
The Huffington Post

Oxy oil discovery could spark new interest in California's energy potential
Ronald D. White
Los Angeles Times

Aids researchers claim vaccine breakthrough
The Independent


September 25, 2009
Iran Reveals Existence of Second Uranium Enrichment Plant
Michael D. Shear & Karen DeYoung
The Washington Post

G-20 gridlock leaves global financial system at risk
John W. Schoen
MSNBC

The Ticking Zazi Bomb?
Michael Crowley
The New Republic

Bin Laden demands Europe withdraw Afghanistan troops
Reuters

The real reason they hope ACORN fails
Will Bunch
Attytood

Swine Flu Virus Not Mutating, Making Vaccine a Good Match
Steven Reinberg
US News

Ratchet-like genetic mutations make evolution irreversible
e Science News


September 28, 2009
Iran tests longest-range missiles, adding to pre-talk tensions
David Montero
The Christian Scie
nce Monitor

U.S. Is Seeking a Range of Sanctions Against Iran
Mark Landler
The New York Times

Honduras suspends civil liberties, closes media stations
Tyler Bridges
McClatchy Newspapers

Hey G20: Slow Down Fast Money With the Tobin Tax
Kalle Lasn
Adbusters

They Call This Season ‘Fall’ for a Reason
Dave Lindorff
The Public Record

Tests on skull fragment cast doubt on Adolf Hitler suicide story
Uki Goñi
The Guardian

Polanski's Next Escape
Gerald Posner
The Daily Beast


September 29, 2009
Can the Public Option Be Saved?
John Nichols
The Nation


Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo
Marie Cocco
TruthDig

An Inside Look at How Goldman Sachs Lobbies the Senate
Matt Taibbi
True / Slant

Utilities quit group over its opposition to climate change bill
Renee Schoof
McClatchy Newspapers

Senators introduce bill to repeal telecom wiretapping immunity
John Byrne
The Raw Story

Memo to Congress: Don’t dawdle on climate bill
Russ Choma
Grist

Kenya's heart stops pumping
BBC News

US 'to loosen' grip on internet
BBC News


September 30, 2009
U.S. Story on Iran Nuke Facility Doesn't Add Up

Gareth Porter
IPS

UN recalls envoy from Afghanistan
BBC

Senators unveil new climate change bill
Renee Schoof
McClatchy Newspapers

Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll Have a Dictatorship Soon in the US’
Tim Teeman
Common Dreams

Obama Is No Radical
Jesse Walker
Reason

Apple Denied Health Care App for Political Reasons
Ryan Singel
Wired

Reality Check: Trying to Turn a Point of Pride into a Moment of Shame
The White House

 
 
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