August
3, 2009
Warning:
Oil supplies are running out fast
Steve Connor
The Independent
Tax
Revenues Post Biggest Drop Since Depression
Stephen Ohlemacher
The Huffington Post
Millions of Americans Pushed Into No-Law System by Colluding Banks
Pam Martens
CounterPunch
Critics
Blast ‘Cash for Clunkers’ $2 Billion Lifeline
The Washington Independent
Mike Lillis
Is
America building a purely military economy?
The Raw Story
More U.S. Soldiers This Year Have Died of Suicide than in Combat
AllGov
Military killer robots 'could endanger civilians'
The Telegraph
Would a 'public option' bring real health care reform, or is it mostly an empty
slogan?
Nieman Watchdog
Rachel Nardin
New El Niño threatens world with weather woe
Michael McCarthy
The Independent
CDC
anticipates H1N1 pandemic
UPI
The
Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals
Blake Hurst
The American
August 4, 2009
North
Korea releases U.S. journalists after Bill Clinton's visit
Warren P. Strobel
McClatchy Newspapers
Blackwater Founder Implicated
in Murder
Jeremy Scahill
The Nation
Obama's
green credentials tested by battle against mountaintop mining
Suzanne Goldenberg
The Guardian
Military
considers ban on Twitter, Facebook
Leo Shane III
Stars and Stripes
How Is America Going To End?
Josh Levin
Slate
Do
Hate Crime Laws Do Any Good?
Liliana Segura
AlterNet
Here
Come the Racists
Matthew Yglesias
The Daily Beast
Out of touch: Conservative
media argue insured don't need health care reform
Media Matters
Antidepressant
use doubles in US, study finds
Reuters
August 5,
2009
Contrived
Government map shows dire Afghan security picture
Paul Tait
Reuters
Senators, Advisers Urge Obama to More Than Double Afghan Forces
Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
Bloomberg
Obama to Announce $2.4 billion for Batteries and Electric Vehicles
ABC News
Barack
Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service
Toby Harnden
Telegraph
Leahy
Blocks Positive Report on Mexico's Rights Record
William Booth and Steve Fainaru
The Washington Post
GOP
is using the ‘Brooks Brothers Riot’ playbook
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
The Raw Story
Filibuster
Nation
Harold Meyerson
The Washington Post
Chinese
teenager beaten to death in internet addiction clinic
Jane Macartney
The Times
`Cash for
clunkers' effect on pollution? A blip
Seth Borenstein
Yahoo! News
Banking
Bandits Get Their Reward
Robert Scheer
TruthDig
Alabama
bans the sale of a California wine due to 'nude' label
George Martinez
Examiner
August 6,
2009
Justice
Sonia Sotomayor
John Nichols
The Nation
Chávez: We're buying Russian tanks
Arthur Bright
The Christian Science Monitor
Clinton
pledges support for Somalia, warns Eritrea
Michael Logan
M & C
White
House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost
David D. Kirkpatrick
The New York Times
Change of guard comes to Baghdad Green Zone
Ernesto Londoño
MSNBC
Clinton says great regret
U.S. not ICC member
The New Vision
Murdoch signals end
of free news
BBC News
Feds Return to Run Detention Center
Suzanne Gamboa and Eileen Sullivan
TruthOut
Barack
Obama So Far
Paul Krugman, Michael Moore, and David Gergen
Rolling Stone
Bridge rises in shadow
of Hoover Dam
BBC News
August 7-9,
2009
Baitullah
Mehsud is dead
The Daily Times
Explosions
in Iraq Leave at Least 50 Dead
Ernesto Londoño and Dlovan Brwari
The Washington Post
US Still Paying Blackwater
Millions
Jeremy Scahill
The Nation
Obama's Biggest Health Reform Blunder
Timothy Noah
Slate
Cloud
ships on course to beat climate change, says Copenhagen study
Ben Webster and Hannah Devlin
The Times
Study finds 3 Northwest
glaciers shrinking faster
Les Blumenthal and Erika Bolstad
McClatchy Newspapers
Hillary's
Gutsy Mission
Eliza Griswold
The Daily Beast
Scientists
create miniature machine parts from DNA
The Guardian
Right-Wing
Turncoat Gives the Inside Scoop on Why Conservatives Are Rampaging Town Halls
Francis Schaeffer
AOL Message Board
Actual
War To Happen In St. Louis Tomorrow
Wonkette
August 10,
2009
Over
40 Dead in Morning Bombings in Baghdad
Juan Cole
Informed Comment
U.S.
to Hunt Down Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban
James Risen
The New York Times
Colombia 'incursion'
riles Chavez
BBC
Pakistan
Taliban Deputy Hakimullah Calls AP, Wire Service Says
Mark Tannenbaum
Bloomberg
Where did that
bank bailout go? Watchdogs aren't sure
Chris Adams
McClatchy Newspapers
Averting
the Worst
Paul Krugman
The New York Times
“You
Will Hold Me Accountable”
Rolling Stone
Nader
Was Right: Liberals are Going Nowhere With Obama
Chris Hedges
TruthDig
Banks
to make billions on overdraft fees: report
Raw Story
August 11, 2009
White
House emails, Bush aide implicate Rove in firing of US Attorneys
John Byrne
The Raw Story
Target
Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture
Scott Horton
The Huffington Post
McChrystal wants huge
boost in U.S. civilians in Afghanistan
Nancy A. Youssef and Warren P. Strobel
McClatchy Newspapers
Myanmar
court extends Suu Kyi's sentence by a year and a half
Charles McDermid and Swe Win
Los Angeles Times
Ex-employees
claim Blackwater pimped out young Iraqi girls
NWOTruth
Krugman
Says Bernanke Should Be Reappointed to Fed
hamim Adam and Liza Lin
Bloomberg
Madoff
firm's CFO pleads guilty in huge fraud
Grant McCool
Reuters
Are Organic Veggies Better for You?
James E. McWilliams
Slate
GM Claims
Chevrolet Volt Will Get 230 MPG
Chuck Squatriglia
Wired
China’s
green leap forward
Peter Ford
The Christian Science Monitor
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August
12, 2009
President
Karzai’s supporters ‘buy’ votes for Afghanistan election
Tom Coghlan
The Times
Nigeria on the Brink
Michael J. Watts
CounterPunch
Russians to boost Abkhazia
bases
BBC
Letting
the Banking Rats Out of the Bag
Robert Scheer
TruthDig
Who
cares if Professor Stephen Hawking lives or dies. Actually, we all do
Hugh Muir
The Guardian
Whole
Foods: Anti-Union and Anti-Universal Health Care
Young Philly
Urban Farms Take
Root
Enrique Gili
CommonDreams.org
Here's
How We Can Reverse Suburban Blight
Cliff Kuang
Fast Company
Computer
scientists reveal new voting machine hack successfully changed votes
David Edwards and John Byrne
The Raw Story
Bachmann’s
Son Joins AmeriCorps Program, Which She Once Called A ‘Re-education
Camp’ Unfit For Her Kids
Think Progress
August
13, 2009
China
signals long-term plans to curb greenhouse gases
Chris Buckley and Emma Graham-Harrison
Reuters
Study
Finds Big Storms on a 1,000-Year Rise
Lauren Morello
The New York Times
Internal
Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma
Ryan Grim
The Huffington Post
A Window
Into C.I.A.’s Embrace of Secret Jails
David Johnston and Mark Mazzetti
The New York Times
Former
exec: Insurers fomenting town hall chaos
Mike Soraghan
The Hill
Newt
Gingrich: What an Asshole.
Matt Taibbi
True / Slant
Why Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are
complaining about possible spending cuts.
Timothy Noah
Slate
The Attack on ObamaCare: Gay Conspiracy Edition
Jonathan Cohn
The New Republic
What’s
happening in the Afghan massacre probe?
Nieman Watchdog
Susannah Sirkin and Nathaniel Raymond
U.S.
Foreclosure Filings Set Third Record-High in Five Months
Dan Levy
Bloomberg
NASA can't keep up with killer asteroids
Seth Borenstein
My Way
Debunking
the meat/climate change myth
Eliot Coleman
Grist
Why
'clunkers' program won't take some of the most polluting cars
Los Angeles Times
Ralph Vartabedian and Ken Bensinger
The "Anti-Starbucks" Starbucks
Jim Hightower
Creators.com
Boycott Whole Foods
Russell Mokhiber
CounterPunch
August
14-16, 2009
Income
Inequality in US at All-Time High
EZega
Oil
Lobby's 'Energy Citizens' Astroturf Campaign Exposed
Kevin Grandia
The Huffington Post
Unshackled,
Wall Street's cop goes hard on fraud
Rachelle Younglai
Reuters
The
human timebomb: why was he given Iraq job?
Terri Judd
The Independent
Should Water Be Legislated
as a Human Right?
Thalif Deen
IPS
False ‘Death
Panel’ Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots
Jim Rutenberg and Jackie Calmes
The New York Times
Obama
says insurance companies holding U.S. hostage
Jeff Mason and Matt Spetalnick
Reuters
Curing Human Genetic Disease at the Salk Institute
Surfdaddy Orca
H+
California's
Prison Crisis: Be Very Afraid
Alison Stateman
Time
August
17, 2009
Notorious
Afghan warlord returns to help Karzai
Jonathan S. Landay and Tom Lasseter
McClatchy Newspapers
Truck
bomb signals trouble on Russia’s southern flank
Fred Weir
The Christian Science Monitor
Canada in Arctic show
of strength
Lee Carter
BBC News
A Thousand Little Gitmos
Petra Bartosiewicz
Mother Jones
The
Army Corps of Engineers OKs millions of tons of waste into Alaskan Lake
Kim Murphy
Los Angeles Times
N.Korea in nuclear
threat, Kim meets Hyundai boss
Jon Herskovitz
Reuters
Cost of credit card debt soaring
Terry Savage
Chicago Sun-Times
If
Obama Discards Public Option, What's Left of Reform?
John Nichols
The Nation
Administration
Official: "Sebelius Misspoke."
Marc Ambinder
The Atlantic
The Swiss
Menace
Paul Krugman
The New York Times
Iraq abandons nationwide
census
BBC News
In
America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition
Rick Perlstein
The Washington Post
August
18, 2009
Deadly
pre-poll attack hits Kabul
BBC News
U.S.
Prepares for Questions of Legitimacy in Afghan Election
Spencer Ackerman
The Washington Independent
Block Obama's Abject
Surrender to Insurance and
Drug Companies
Ralph Nader
CounterPunch
Liberals revolt
over public option
Jonathan Martin & Carrie Budoff Brown
Politico
Sebelius
reiterates support for public health option
CNN
Scalia
says there’s nothing unconstitutional about executing the innocent
Think Progress
California
Might Get Tougher on Drugs
Brian Doherty
KCET
August
19, 2009
Blasts
bring carnage to Baghdad
BBC News
Aiding
and Abetting War Crimes
Frida Berrigan
In These Times
Nigeria threatens
largest debtors
BBC News
UBS
Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know?
Robert Scheer
TruthDig
Storing
nuclear waste a $24-billion problem
Brian Kemp
CBC News
Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?
Nina Shen Rastogi
Slate
Healthy
Behavior Map
Mat Yglesias
Think Progress
Up
to 90 percent of US paper money contains traces of cocaine
E! Science News
Barney
Frank compares healthcare protester to dining room table
Diana Sweet
The Raw Story
August
20, 2009
Blackwater:
CIA Assassins?
Jeremy Scahill
The Nation
Election turnout appears
low in much of Afghanistan
Jonathan S. Landay and Hashim Shukoor
McClatchy Newspapers
Ridge
says Bush Administration pushed to raise terror alert for re-election
The Raw Story
Administration
Makes Progress on Resettling Detainees
Peter Finn
The Washington Post
Democratic
investigators target health insurers
Carrie Budoff & Mike Allen
Politico
Beetles,
wildfire: Double threat in warming world
Charles J Hanley
Newsday
Arms expert
warns new mind drugs eyed by military
Robert Evans
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August 21,
2009
Iran
lets in UN inspectors ahead of nuclear report
Julian Borger
The Guardian
AP on record ocean warming: “Breaking heat records in water is
more ominous as a sign of global warming than breaking temperature marks
on land.”
Climate Progress
U.S.
State Department OKs Pipeline From Canada's Oil Sands
Environmental News Service
Karzai, chief rival claim victory in Afghan vote
Sayed Salahuddin and Jonathon Burch
Reuters
F.D.I.C.
Seeks to Attract More Buyers of Banks
Eric Dash
The New York Times
Benmosche
Says He’ll Rebuild Units to Repay U.S.
Hugh Son and Boris Cerni
Bloomberg
Mexico
legalizes drug possession
The Raw Story
Drug Czar Blames His Marijuana
Lie on Heat Stroke
Jacob Sullum
Reason
Rove’s Sorry
Victim Act
Scott Horton
Harper’s
William Calley
apologizes for My Lai massacre
Dick McMichael
Ledger-Enquirer
August 24,
2009
Justice
Dept. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases
David Johnston
The New York Times
Administration creates new interrogation unit
MSNBC
EPA
Fails To Inform Public About Weed-Killer In Drinking Water
Danielle Ivory
The Huffington Post
Why
the Lockerbie Bomber Was Freed
Andrew Neil
The Daily Beast
Pakistan seeks
US, China aid on energy
Syed Fazl-e-Haider
Asia Times
Stimulus Leaves Bus Riders Out in the Cold
Aaron Glantz
New America Media
Obama’s
Invisible Achievement
E.J. Dionne
TruthDig
Financial
Crisis Called Off
James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
This Isn’t Reform,
It’s Robbery
Chris Hedges
Common Dreams
Vetting the Health
Care Rhetoric
Meghan McCarthy, Drew Armstrong and Alex Wayne
CQ
August 25,
2009
Massive
car bomb as Afghan race runs tight
Jonathon Burch and Golnar Motevalli
Reuters
Court
Orders Fed to Disclose Emergency Bank Loans
Mark Pittman
Bloomberg
White
House Projects Budget Deficit to Soar to Nearly $1.6 Trillion
Lori Montgomery
The Washington Post
Political
Fireworks Over Torture Prosecutor: Report Reveals Threats to Kill Children, CIA
Director in 'Screaming Match'
AlterNet
Obama
to Reappoint Bernanke as Fed Chief
Jon Hilsenrath, David Wessel and Sudeep Reddy
The Wall Street Journal
U.S.
Chamber of Commerce seeks trial on global warming
Jim Tankersley
Los Angeles Times
Democratic Donor Arrested
For Bank Fraud
Ken Silverstein
Harper’s
Does
Recent Criticism of Sustainably Produced Food Mean We’re Winning?
Vanessa Barrington
EcoSalon
Do
warnings about a public option sound familiar?
Judith Stein
Nieman Watchdog
Palm
oil paradox
Judith Matloff
Christian Science Monitor
A step closer
to 'synthetic life'
Victoria Gill
BBC News
August 26,
2009
Report
reveals yet another unapproved CIA interrogation method: The hard takedown
Dianna Sweet
The Raw Story
Sacred Shrines and Skinny
Chickens
Albert Bates
Energy Bulletin
Obama’s
FCC to enforce ‘net neutrality’
Kevin Bogardus and Kim Hart
The Hill
'Iraq
Will Be A Colony of Iran'
Robert Dreyfuss
The Nation
The
Bushie Obama Can't Fire
Charles Homans
The Daily Beast
Toyota
Will Cut Domestic Production as Sales Plummet
Tetsuya Komatsu and Makiko Kitamura
Bloomberg
The Kennedy who most changed America
Timothy Noah
Slate
Castro
Likes Obama, So You Can’t Like Him Now
Wonkette
Bye-Bye,
Dubai
Lauren Greenfield
Fast Company
Amazon
Reviewers Take On the Classics
Joe Queenan
The Wall Street Journal
August
26, 2009
Top
Sunni rebel on Iran death row says US ordered attacks
Aresu Eqbali
AFP
Outcry
in South America over US military base pact
The Guardian
Rory Carroll and Ewen MacAskill
We Already Have
a Public Option
Marshall Auerbach
CounterPunch
Barack
Obama is not Bagger Vance
David Roberts
Grist
Small
Midwestern States To Be Hit Hardest By Climate Change: Report
Ryan Grim
The Huffington Post
Who
Are the 13 Senate Democrats Holding Out On the Public Option?
Brian Beutler
TPM
Files
prove Pentagon is profiling reporters
Stars and Stripes
Obtained:
The RNC’s Health Care Survey
David Weigel
The Washington Independent
Computing
climate change
The Economist
Michael
Steele Isn’t Very Bright
Steve Benen
The Washington Monthly
August 28-30,
2009
Banks
'Too Big to Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger
David Cho
The Washington Post
U.S.-Colombia Deal Prompts Questions
Juan Forero and Mary Beth Sheridan
The Washington Post
Taliban growth in northern
Afghanistan threatens to expand war
Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers
Nitrous
oxide fingered as monster ozone slayer
Janet Raloff
Science News
Teddy Kennedy the Hollow Champion
Alexander Cockburn
CounterPunch
Smoking
Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer
Fred Gardner
O'Shaughnessy's
Glenn
Beck bolstered by boycott
Rick Ungar
True / Slant
Winners
wear red: How colour twists your mind
Daniel Elkan
New Scientist
August 31,
2009
Increasing
Accounts of Fraud Cloud Afghan Vote
Carlotta Gall
The New York Times
US 'needs fresh Afghan
strategy'
BBC News
Japan
opposition takes on economy after landslide
Eric Talmadge
Yahoo! News
Are
the Taliban Surrounding NATO Armies and Cutting them Off?
Juan Cole
Informed Comment
Lockerbie
bomber 'set free for oil'
Jason Allardyce
The Times
Cheney:
Interrogations Probe Is a 'Political Act'
Alexi Mostrous
The Washington Post
Cheney Says
He Was Proponent for Military Action Against Iran
Michael M. Phillips
The Wall Street Journal
Argentina:
Small-scale marijuana use decriminalized
Buenos Aires Herald
Go
to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire
Chris Hedges
TruthDig
U.S.
is 15 years behind South Korea in Internet speed
Steven E.F. Brown
The Business Review
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