I will be traveling for about a week. Regular posting will resume on July 7th.
--Devlin

6/26/08 -

• Oil heads past $145
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Nepal fuel strike shuts down capital
  --The Associated Press

6/22/08 - 6/25/08

• Secret Pentagon Funding Near All-Time High
  --Wired
  
  
• U.S. military manual describes how to recruit terrorists, quash dissent within foreign countries
  --WikiLeaks
  
  
• 12-year-old is al-Qa'eda extremist, say police
  --The Telegraph
  
  
• Europeans Trained in Pakistan, Intelligence Officials Warn
  --ABC News
  
  
• Report: $6 billion in aid to Pakistan poorly tracked
  --CNN
  

• Telecom Donations Tied to FISA Vote
  --The Washington Independent
  
  
• Five Stealth Pentagon Contractors Reaping Billions of Tax Dollars
  --Tom Dispatch
  
  
• Blackwater's Automatic Weapons Collection Gifted to Local Sheriff
  --TPM Muckraker
  
  
• U.S. envoy to Albania linked to cover-up of Afghan arms deal
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Company Accused of Fraud Had Been Flagged by State Dept.
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• Tom Ridge failed to disclose half-million-dollar lobbying contract with Albania
  --Roll Call
  
  
• NATO sees Kosovo security force by end 2009
  --Reuters
  
  
• Britain removes Iran oppo group from terror list
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Religion and Its Role Are in Dispute at the Service Academies
  --The New York Times (Jeff Sharlet's new book on "The Family" is a must read. Learn the history of religious influence at the Air Force Academy here. --DB)
  
  
• Most crowded nation, Bangladesh, set to disappear under waves by end of century
  --The Independent
  

• Climate Change Will Have Destabilizing Consequences, Intelligence Agencies Warn
  --U.S. News & World Report
  
  
• White House Tried to Silence EPA Proposal on Car Emissions
  --The Washington Post (Also see "White House invokes executive privilege in EPA inquiry". --DB)
  
  
• Corporate Espionage Detailed in Documents
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• The Clean Coal Con
  --Counterpunch
  
  
• "Dry Lightning" Sparks Hundreds of Fires
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Wildfires causing unhealthy air in Northern California
  --The Los Angeles Times
  
  
• Floods and droughts make mild diseases deadly
  --Reuters
  
  
• Total U.S. crop damage from weather tops $8 billion
  --Reuters
  
  
• Record corn prices mean more expensive meat, dairy
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Food shortages could topple new Nepal government
  --Radio Australia
  
  
• 'Gordon Brown out' if fuel goes up again
  --The Daily Mirror
  
  
• Report sees big jump in energy, fossil fuel use
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Bush administration open to Iraq oil deals despite potential backlash
  --The Associated Press

6/18/08 - 6/21/08

• Video: Mexico's House of Death
  --People & Power, Narco News
  
  
• Iran-Contra Figures Reportedly Under Investigation
  --Mother Jones
  
  
• UK tops world table of weapons sales
  --The Guardian
  
  
• Gov't says FBI agents can't testify about 9/11
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Cheney gets last laugh on secrecy
  --The Hill
  
  
• Dems Agree to Expand Domestic Spying, Grant Telecoms Amnesty
  --Wired
  
  
• Congress Funds Another Year of War
  --Truthout
  
  
• Pentagon report blasts KBR’s post-Katrina work
  --McClatchy
  
  
• Oil giants lining up for slice of Iraqi resources
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Ex-State Dept. official: Hundreds of detainees died in U.S. custody, at least 25 murdered
  --Think Progress
  
  
• Intelligence Agencies Undermine Nuclear Smuggling Trial
  --Spiegel Online
  
  
• US Nuclear Weapons Parts Missing, Pentagon Says
  --Financial Times
  
  
• Air Force investigators: Most European bases with nukes lacking in security
  --Stars and Stripes
  
  
• Jundallah Group Announces Execution of 2 Iranian Policemen
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• PJAK militants kill 3 Iranian policemen
  --Press TV
  
  
• Colombia's coca crop booms despite US-backed crackdown
  --The Guardian
  
  
• Colombian Navy admiral arrested for suspected ties with drug cartel
  --Colombia Reports
  
  
• Arrests Amid Albania, Miami Arms Trafficking Row
  --Balkan Insight
  
  
• Activists turn to Blackwater for Darfur security
  --Financial Times
  
  
• Pipeline attacks cut output in Nigeria
  --Agence France Presse (Saudi Arabia has promised to boost oil production next month to lower prices, but the Saudis plan to add less oil to the market than was removed by these two attacks in Nigeria. --DB)
  
  
• Arctic sea ice towards historical low
  --Barents Observer (Also see "North Pole May Be Ice Free for First Time This Summer". --DB)
  
  
• Oceans warming, rising 50 percent faster than suspected: study
  --Agence France Presse (Also see "Mass Extinctions Due to Sea Level Changes, Study Says". --DB)
  
  
• Call for Change Ignored, Levees Remain Patchy
  --The New York Times
  
  
• At least 25 levees fail along Mississippi River
  --The Chicago Tribune
  
  
• Iowa faces potential $3 billion in crop loss
  --CNN
  
  
• With floods, a larger ‘dead zone’ feared
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Report on Climate Predicts Extremes
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• Dow Closes Under 12,000 For First Time Since March
  --Dow Jones
  
  
• Global quandary: How to feed a growing planet
  --McClatchy
  
  
• Food Stamps Buy Less, and Families Are Hit Hard
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Mexico Sees Gas Shortages as Americans Cross Border to Fill Up
  --U.S. News & World Report (Also see "Truckers wait days for fuel in Mexico". --DB)
  
  
• Fuel protests spread
  --Reuters (Also see "Fuel price protests hit Brussels", "Soaring prices send Greek protesters onto streets" and "Nepal fuel price protesters stone cars". --DB)
  
  
• Truckers protest in downtown Albany draws hundreds
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Fuel prices hurt fishing captains
  --Richmond Times-Dispatch
  
  
• Soaring energy and feed prices milking factory cows dry
  --The Times
  
  
• Drought hits farmers already dealing with fuel prices
  --The Houston Chronicle

6/14/08 - 6/17/08

• Audio: Sibel Edmonds and Luke Ryland interview
  --Antiwar Radio (Also see "Sibel Edmonds' Redacted IG Report Released". --DB)
  
  
• Army official ousted after blocking payments to Iraq contractor KBR
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Blackwater has bright future under either candidate
  --Jeremy Scahill for the L.A. Times
  
  
• AFRICOM is about oil
  --Foreign Policy in Focus
  
  
• Video: Britain Backing Deadly Warlords in Somalia
  --Channel 4 via YouTube (Parts 2, 3, 4, and 5)
  
  
• Ex-UK Army Chief in Iraq Says Oil Motivated War; Praises Fraudulent Reconstruction
  --The Cutting Edge
  
  
• U.S. Mega-Bases in Iraq
  --Tom Dispatch
  
  
• Democrats to back down on Iraq war conditions
  --Reuters
  
  
• Baghdad insists on right to veto US operations
  --The Guardian
  
  
• Iraqi officials demand MKO expulsion amid violence
  --Al-Jazeera
  
  
• Jundullah claims it has kidnapped 16 Iranian guards
  --Press Trust of India (Also see "Iran arrests 11 after official assassinated". --DB)
  
  
• Nicaragua accuses CIA, Spanish party of training saboteurs
  --Mathaba
  
  
• Arming the Drug Wars
  --Portfolio
  
  
• Mexican Drug Cartels Forming Alliances with American Street Gangs
  --Laguna Journal
  
  
• Russia calls new Kosovo constitution illegal
  --Reuters
  
  
• Bush authorizes U.S. forces to assist in Kosovo
  --New Kosova Report
  
  
• Nearly Half of Wall St. Bank Profits Vanished in Less Than a Year
  --The New York Times
  
  
• The Global Food Crisis Deepens
  --The Sunday Herald
  
  
• Extreme Weather & Global Warming
  --Democracy Now!
  
  
• Feds: 26 levees could overflow in the next week
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Corn Jumps to Record as Floods in Midwest Threaten U.S. Crops
  --Bloomberg
  
  
• Water rationing forces Westlands growers to abandon crops
  --Fresno Bee
  

• Fuel cost protests spread, rattle governments
  --The Guardian
  
  
• Summary of spreading fuel protests
  --Reuters (Also see "Cost of S.Korea truckers' strike rises to $4.3bln" and "British petrol supplies dwindling as strike fuels panic buying". --DB)
  
  
• Oil nearly touches $140 despite Saudi pledge on production
  --The Independent

6/10/08 - 6/13/08

• Christian Political Group 'The Family' Openly Reveres Hitler
  --AlterNet
  
  
• Militarizing Energy Policy
  --Michael T. Klare for The Asia Times
  
  
• Iraq war could cost taxpayers $2.7 trillion
  --CNN
  
  
• CIA Planes Hidden in Cayman Isles Trusts
  --Mad Cow Morning News
  
  
• 9/11, Deep State Violence and the Hope of Internet Politics
  --Global Research
  
  
• What is the point of secret nuclear bunkers?
  --Wired
  
  
• Louisiana officials demand answers from FEMA after supplies given away
  --CNN
  
  
• Is Blackwater coming to North Idaho?
  --ABC 4
  
  
• Over the Counter Intelligence
  --Dirt Diggers Digest
  
  
• Tentative agreement to grant immunity to telecoms: sources
  --Reuters
  
  
• Secret Spy Court Repeatedly Questions FBI Wiretap Network
  --Wired
  
  
• 16 Iranian police taken hostage, hallmarks of CIA-backed group
  --Press TV
  
  
• Musharraf allowed CIA base in Pakistan: book
  --The Economic Times
  
  
• Realities of Plan Mexico
  --Truthout
  
  
• U.S. fails to find an African home for its new African Command
  --The World Tribune
  
  
• Maliki says talks on Iraq-US security pact deadlocked
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Anti-Americanism at all time high
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Rapid permafrost thaw expected, researchers warn
  --The Vancouver Sun
  
  
• Britain is set to lose nearly half its electricity in six years
  --The Daily Mail
  
  
• Riot police go in to break up Spanish truckers' fuel protests
  --The Evening Standard
  
  
• Protests in Asia and Europe turn violent, shortages feared
  --Reuters
  
  
• Factories close, supermarkets empty and jets run out of fuel as truckers' strike bites
  --The Guardian (Also see "Spain's car plants shut as fuel protests mount" and "Argentine Trucker Blockades Spark Food, Fuel Shortage". --DB)
  
  
• Strike by truckers paralyzes South Korean ports
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Britain faces threat of empty shelves
  --The Daily Express
  
  
• Fuel shortage fears in panic at the pumps
  --The Daily Post
  
  
• The U.S. Has No Remaining Grain Reserves
  --TriState Observer
  
  
• Floods take heavy toll on U.S. grain crops, impact likely to be felt on food shelves
  --MarketWatch

6/6/08 - 6/9/08

• Abramoff Had Closer Ties to Bush, Rove
  --The Public Record
  
  
• Billionaire Texan Helps Divvy Up Iraq Oil, Now Admits It's the Bush Legacy
  --The Huffington Post
  
  
• Iraq to announce 1st round oil tenders this month
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Iraq thievery and the State Department
  --San Francisco Chronicle
  
  
• Cheney Enrages Iraqis Over Security Deal
  --Counterpunch
  
  
• Iraqi Death Toll 'Above Highest Estimates'
  --Inter Press Service
  
  
• Outsourcing The Fight
  --Forbes
  
  
• Blackwater wins dispute, opens San Diego training center
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Blackwater's Private Spies
  --The Nation
  
  
• Wael Julaidan, Al Qaeda Founder, Active Again in Saudi Arabia?
  --International Analyst Network
  
  
• Sibel Edmonds Case: More Destruction of Evidence
  --Let Sibel Edmonds Speak
  
  
• Bush's former Iraq ambassador Khalilzad to seek Afghan presidency
  --The Independent
  
  
• Media Distorting Realities of Opium in Afghanistan
  --Anis
  
  
• Afghan Heroin Suspect Was Long-Time U.S. Asset, He Says
  --The New York Times
  
  
• U.S. Military Set for a Long Campaign in Africa
  --Business Day
  
  
• McCain's Ties To Telecoms Questioned After Wiretapping Flip-Flop
  --Wired
  
  
• Bush pushes biometrics for national security
  --Federal Computer Week
  
  
• Top Pentagon Scientists Fear Brain-Modified Foes
  --Wired
  
  
• Oil rockets to record $139; Dow falls more than 400 points
  --Reuters
  
  
• Soaring fertilizer prices pose new threat to global food system
  --Reuters
  
  
• 90,000 Spanish truckers strike over soaring fuel prices
  --CBC
  
  
• Truckers Report Rise In Diesel Fuel Theft
  --Central Florida News
  
  
• The spread of protests over rising fuel prices
  --Reuters