8/5/09 - 8/16/09

• Deposition of Sibel Edmonds Completed, DoJ a 'No Show,' Bombshells Under Oath
  --Brad Blog (Also see "Turkish Lobby 'Declares War' on Sibel Edmonds Following Under Oath Deposition.")
  
  
• US Still Paying Blackwater Millions
  --The Nation (Jeremy Scahill) (Also see "Blackwater Heir Wants to Keep State Dept. Security Contract.")
  
  
• Business as Usual in South Florida: "Gangsters Run This Country"
  --For The Record, Daniel Hopsicker
  
  
• Much Of Afghan Drug Money Going To 'Our Friends'
  --National Public Radio (Also see "US Supported Afghan Government Warlords Control World Heroin Trade.")
  
  
• U.S. to Hunt Down Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Afghan Leader Courts the Warlord Vote
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Pro-Coup Honduras Presidential Candidate Elvin Santos Is a Key Beneficiary of Continued US Government Funding
  --Narco News (Also see "Anti-Coup Marchers Merge on the Capital of Honduras" and "US Secretary of State Clinton’s Micro-Management of the Corporation that Funds the Honduras Coup Regime.")
  
  
• Hague fears bleak future for Bosnia
  --The Press Association
  
  
• US Withholds Information About Bagram Detainees
  --Inter Press Service
  
  
• The Brutal Truth About America’s Healthcare
  --The Independent
  
  
• White House appears ready to drop 'public option'
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Former exec: Insurers fomenting town hall chaos
  --The Hill (Also see "Orchestrated outrage: fake protesters disrupt healthcare town hall meetings," "Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo" and "Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work.")
  
  
• Right-wing militias on the rise in US: report
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Oil lobby to fund campaign against Obama's climate change strategy
  --The Guardian
  
  
• Coal Group Reveals 6 More Forged Lobbying Letters
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• High Carbon Cost for ‘Clunkers’ Program
  --The New York Times (Also see "The Other Looming Debate Over ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Funding.")
  
  
• Temporary Recession or the End of Growth?
  --Richard Heinberg
  
  
• The Next Oil Shock
  --ASPO-USA
  
  
• Oil crisis will sap global recovery: expert
  --The New Zealand Herald
  
  
• Another Record Month for Foreclosures in July
  --ABC News (Also see "About half of U.S. mortgages seen underwater by 2011.")
  
  
• Where did that bank bailout go? Watchdogs aren't sure
  --McClatchy
  
  
• Banks Make $38 Billion From Overdraft Fees
  --The Financial Times
  
  
• Concentration of wealth in hands of rich greatest on record
  --Raw Story
  
  
• Climate Disobedience Is on the Rise and It's Not Just for Radical Activists Anymore
  --Tom Dispatch
  
  
• Colorado River running on empty by 2050
  --The Ecologist
  
  
• Big Tropical Storms in Atlantic Hit 1,000-Year High
  --ABC News

7/27/09 - 8/4/09

• Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11
  --Against All Enemies (Lukery has more at AAE.)
  
  
• Terror case in NC may involve classified material
  --The Associated Press (Also see "Kosovo police helped FBI in US terror probe" and "Madsen: Terror Group Once Supported by CIA.")
  
  
• Power Shifts in Plan for Capital Calamity
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups
  --Truthdig
  
  
• Obama Administration Weighs in on State Secrets, Raising Concern on the Left
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Group wants probe of contractor role in renditions
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
  --The Nation
  
  
• Mercenaries training US local police a new trend
  --The Examiner
  
  
• Bringing the (Bio) War Home
  --Antifascist Calling
  
  
• Obama’s Homeland Security chief invokes “terror threat”
  --World Socialist Web Site (Also see "US citizens must take front line in national security: Napolitano.")
  
  
• The Bush in Obama
  --The Sunday Times (Naomi Wolf)
  
  
• Arrests of Sunni Leaders Rise in Baghdad
  --The New York Times (Also see "Slow Sunni integration a risk to Iraq security.")
  
  
• Warlords key to Afghan polls
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Iran, US do a 'war on terror' somersault
  --Asia Times (Also see "Iraq governor says detained 36 Iranian exiles.")
  
  
• Possible US-Colombia military deal raises regional tensions
  --The Christian Science Monitor (Also see "Criticism grows over Colombia's U.S. military plan.")
  
  
• Military killer robots 'could endanger civilians'
  --The Telegraph
  
  
• Bush, Rove Far More Involved in Attorney Firings Than Previously Revealed
  --Truth Out
  
  
• Obama gives powerful drug lobby seat at healthcare table
  --The Los Angeles Times
  
  
• Banks Paid $32.6 Billion in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout
  --Bloomberg
  
  
• Bank of America Fined $33 Million by SEC Over Merrill
  --Bloomberg
  
  
• Wall Street profits from trades with Fed
  --Financial Times
  
  
• Could the great recession lead to a great revolution?
  --The Christian Science Monitor
  
  
• Mexico leftist's backers block financial center
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• The Economics of Entropy
  --The Archdruid Report
  
  
• Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast
  --The Independent (Also see "Bitter Cost of Replacing Oil Reserves.")
  
  
• World will warm faster than predicted in next five years, study warns
  --The Guardian
  
  
• Report: California must adapt to changing climate
  --The Associated Press (Also see "Scientists Expect Wildfires To Increase As Climate Warms In Coming Decades," "Fed grant funds to ease Calif. water shortages" and "Future Of Western U.S. Water Supply Threatened By Climate Change.")

7/20/09 - 7/26/09

• Biowarfare: Lifting the Lid on America's "28 Days Later"
  --Antifascist Calling
  
  
• Huffman Aviation Was 'Continuing Criminal Enterprise'
  --Mad Cow Morning News
  
  
• Former DEA agent's lawsuit exposes CIA "fraud"
  --Narco Sphere
  
  
• NSA's cyber overkill
  --The Los Angeles Times
  
  
• The NSA is still listening to you
  --Salon
  
  
• Bush Weighed Using Military in Arrests
  --The New York Times (Also see "The Cheney plan to deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil.")
  
  
• Majority in US oppose both wars
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• July equals deadliest month of Afghan war
  --Reuters
  
  
• Military Weighs Private Security on Front Lines
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• The big lie of Afghanistan
  --The Guardian, Malalai Joya
  
  
• Did U.S. forces watch Afghan massacre?
  --Salon
  
  
• U.S. admits it has no case against teen held at Guantanamo
  --McClatchy
  
  
• Obama Accused by Lawyers of Stonewalling on Terror Questioning
  --Bloomberg
  
  
• U.S. Officials Negotiated With Iraqi Insurgent Groups Twice in Spring
  --The Washington Post (Also see "Iraq criticizes U.S. talks with armed groups.")
  
  
• Clinton's Mideast defense claims set off tremors
  --The Associated Press (Also see "US will take 'crippling action' if Iran becomes nuclear, says Clinton.")
  
  
• BP: Iraq Oil Deal is Start of Something Big
  --Business Week
  
  
• Iraq's Maliki: We may still need help after 2011
  --McClatchy (Also see "Iraq PM admits US troops may stay.")
  
  
• Iran Hangs 2 More Jundullah Terrorists
  --Fars News Agency
  
  
• Despite Pledge to Cut Military Ties to Coup Regime, US Continues to Train Honduran Soldiers at School of Americas
  --Democracy Now! (Also see "The Honduran Coup and the Clinton Connection.")
  
  
• Ex-Leader of Liberia Cites C.I.A. in Jailbreak
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Top Pentagon Contractors Unnamed
  --Aviation Week
  
  
• Hillary Peddles Worst Sort of Wares in India
  --The Progressive
  
  
• Blackwater Seeks Gag Order
  --The Nation
  
  
• Judge accuses CIA officials of fraud, unseals secret files
  --McClatchy
  
  
• Secrets of CIA 'ghost flights' to be revealed
  --The Observer
  
  
• Group tries to expose intelligence misdeeds
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• U.S. spy chief sees more private sector input
  --Reuters
  
  
• HUD, FEMA data sharing finds waste
  --Federal Computer Week
  
  
• Report: FEMA mishandled toxins in trailers
  --USA Today
  
  
• Obama Appoints Mansanto Lobbyist to be Food Safety Czar
  --Huffington Post
  
  
• White House invited med industry execs in early
  --The Associated Press (Also see "Lobbyists Spend Millions to Influence Health Care.")
  
  
• Trillions to Banks as Taxpayers Left in the Dark
  --Inter Press Service
  
  
• Ignoring Watchdog Report, Treasury Gives Three Major Banks Sweetheart Deals
  --Huffington Post
  
  
• Autos, banks spend $20M lobbying
  --The Hill (Also see "Bank of America, bailout in hand, continues lobbying efforts.")
  
  
• Oil price: where next?
  --The Oil Drum
  
  
• North Carolina Food Bank Experiencing Worst Shortage Ever
  --WXII 12 (Also see "Some food banks struggling to meet huge demand.")
  
  
• Warming warning on Colorado River water
  --Live Science
  
  
• Permafrost Could Be Climate's Ticking Time Bomb
  --Live Science
  
  
• Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide
  --The Observer
  
  
• Climate change 'threatens' Pacific isles
  --The Age
  
  
• Waning Pacific Clouds Suggest Global Warming Feeds Upon Itself
  --Bloomberg (Also see "Clouds in climate 'vicious cycle'.")
  
  
• Global Ocean Surface Temperature Warmest On Record For June
  --Science Daily

7/15/09 - 7/19/09

• US says Ptech hid terrorist Saudi backer
  --Worcester Telegram & Gazette (Also see "Al-Kadi's ownership of Ptech acknowledged," "Ex-Quincy Co. exec arrested," "Boston-area convicts linked to CIA nexus" and "Did the real "cyber 9/11" happen on 9/11?")
  
  
• Specter questions Sotomayor on 9/11 lawsuit
  --The Philadelphia Inquirer (Also see "9/11 Families: Obama Favors Saudi Terror Financiers Over Victims" and "9/11 Victims Target Saudis With Deep State Ties.")
  
  
• Senior Obama Official Backs Cheney and CIA
  --Antiwar
  
  
• Obama Administration Defends Bush Wiretapping
  --IDG News Service (Also see "Obama Claims Immunity, As New Spy Case Takes Center Stage.")
  
  
• Bush May Have Continued to Secretly Operate John Poindexter’s TIA Program
  --The Public Record
  
  
• Implants Create Insect Cyborgs
  --Live Science
  
  
• Origins of CIA Assassination Program: Who Proposed It, What Its Code Name Was
  --History Commons
  
  
• Tensions rise over US Iraq role
  --BBC
  
  
• Security issues still shadow Iraqi oil
  --The Houston Chronicle
  
  
• Gates: More US troops could head to Afghanistan
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• For Afghans, west is part of the machinery of corruption that thrives on conflict
  --The Guardian
  
  
• U.S. hawks urge 'sabotage' against Iran
  --United Press International
  
  
• Big Pharma Bribes Doctors to Hook Your Kids on Drugs
  --AlterNet
  
  
• Gang of Sickos: Six US Senators Sell Out Constituents for $11 Million from Health Industry
  --OpEd News
  
  
• Homeless get paid to stand in line for DC lobbyists
  --The Raw Story
  
  
• Los Angeles accused of criminalizing homelessness
  --Reuters
  
  
• UN says financial crisis boosts organized crime
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• TARP watchdog says Treasury lacking bank data
  --The Hill (Also see "Details of Some AIG Sales Kept From Public.")
  
  
• The real price of Goldman’s giganto-profits
  --True/Slant
  
  
• Foreclosures at record high in first half 2009 despite aid
  --Reuters (Also see "Administration Weighs More Foreclosure Aid.")
  
  
• Food banks squeezed by prices, demand
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Global oil, gas projects delayed in 2009
  --Reuters
  
  
• Climate change pales to food shortage risk
  --The Wellington Times

7/11/09 - 7/14/09

• 'The Select Few' Are Cashing in: Shocking Corruption at the Washington Post
  --AlterNet
  
  
• Report: Bush-era surveillance went beyond wiretaps
  --The Los Angeles Times
  
  
• Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project
  --The New York Times (Also see "Cheney 'set up illegal secret spy project'.")
  
  
• House Intel Chair: CIA has misled us for years
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• U.S. Wiretapping of Limited Value, Officials Report
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Bush Personally Ordered Visit to Ashcroft’s Hospital Bed
  --The Washington Independent
  
  
• Terror Case May Force Obama’s Hand on ‘State Secrets’
  --The Washington Independent
  
  
• Pentagon Intel Ops “Often” Evade Oversight
  --Secrecy News
  
  
• Drone Attacks Signal CIA’s Willingness to Assassinate Terrorists
  --The Washington Independent
  
  
• Is Obama Continuing the Bush/Cheney Assassination Program?
  --Rebel Reports
  
  
• U.S. has new brigades with advisory mission in Iraq
  --Reuters
  
  
• To Many Iraqis, U.S. Troops Have Not Faded Away
  --National Public Radio
  
  
• Iraq's weakened unions fight foreign oil firms
  --Reuters
  
  
• Karzai pardons five Afghan heroin traffickers
  --Reuters
  
  
• Bush Administration Blocked Investigation of War Crimes By U.S.-Backed Warlord
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Iran Executes 13 It Calls Sunni Rebels
  --The New York Times (Also see "'US finances anti-Iran terrorist gang'" and "Iran to execute top Sunni rebel, 11 others: report.")
  
  
• US deficit tops 1 trillion dollars
  --The Press Association
  
  
• Goldman Sachs reports huge earnings
  --The Los Angeles Times
  
  
• AIG Seeks Clearance For More Bonuses
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• Ex-GM CEO Wagoner To Get Lifetime Salary
  --The Wall Street Journal
  
  
• Need For Campaign Cash Opens Door For Lobbyists
  --National Public Radio
  
  
• Oil crunch likely after fall in oil, gas exploration
  --Reuters
  
  
• Oil demand finally rising, IEA says
  --Bloomberg
  
  
• New Evidence Surfaces in Post-Katrina Crimes
  --ProPublica
  
  
• FEMA Unprepared for Catastrophic Disaster
  --CivilRights.org
  
  
• Does a Senior Obama Official Have Unseemly Ties to Notorious Human-Rights Abuser Chevron?
  --AlterNet
  
  
• Despite Obama's pledge, G-8 makes little headway on global warming
  --The Los Angeles Times
  
  
• New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning
  --Science Daily
  
  
• El Nino 2 fuels more Atlantic hurricanes, warnings
  --USA Today
  
  
• Climate change 'will cause civilisation to collapse'
  --The Independent
  
  
• Global Warming and Water Shortages
  --The Boston Globe
  
  
• Does global warming threaten national security?
  --The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

7/6/09 - 7/10/09

• Arctic Sea Ice at Lowest Point in 800 Years
  --The Daily Green
  
  
• Permafrost melting a growing climate threat: study
  --Reuters
  
  
• Battle over water heats up in drought-stricken California
  --USA Today
  
  
• EPA gives California emissions waiver
  --The Los Angeles Times
  
  
• ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate sceptic groups, records show
  --The Guardian
  
  
• Food Wars
  --Monthly Review
  
  
• Swings in Price of Oil Hobble Forecasting
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Stocks slide on conflicting signs about economy
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• World Economy Becomes Focus For CIA Recruiting
  --National Public Radio
  
  
• Obama to Proceed With Bush-Era Cybersecurity Plan
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• U.S. Says It Will Preserve Secret Jails for Terror Case
  --The New York Times (Also see "To Critics, New Policy on Terror Looks Old" and "Obama Waffles on Indefinite Detention.")
  
  
• Obama administration delays release of CIA report
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Grand Jury Inquiry on Destruction of C.I.A. Tapes
  --The New York Times
  
  
• US Not Talking Much About Iraq's Detention Nightmare
  --Truth Out
  
  
• Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion
  --Truth Out
  
  
• Big Oil poised for return to Iraq
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Iraq anti-Qaeda militias fearful as US troops quit towns
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• US Lawmakers Call For Supporting Terrorists In Iran
  --Antiwar
  
  
• Lawsuit now accuses Xe contractors of murder, kidnapping
  --The Virginian Pilot
  
  
• Honduran Coup Shines Spotlight on Controversial U.S. Military Training School
  --Facing South

--Summer Break--

6/19/09 - 6/26/09

• UN: World hunger reaches 1 billion mark
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• States Turning to Last Resorts in Budget Crisis
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Russian move raises supply crunch fears
  --Financial Times
  
  
• Pentagon Rebrands Protest as “Low-Level Terrorism”
  --Antifascist Calling
  
  
• Documents Back Saudi Link to Extremists
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Senate Overwhelmingly Passes Measure Banning Release of Detainee Abuse Photos
  --Truth Out
  
  
• Israel keeps Mossad chief on for Iran "shadow war"
  --Reuters
  
  
• Report finds U.S. slow to stop gun traffickers
  --The Houston Chronicle
  
  
• Guns from America fuel Jamaica's gang wars
  --The Associated Press

6/15/09 - 6/18/09

• UN warns of 'megadisasters' linked to climate change
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Climate Change Already Having Impact On U.S., Expected To Worsen
  --Science Daily
  
  
• California's Water Woes Threaten the Entire Country's Food Supply
  --AlterNet (Also see "Tractors clog Calif freeway in water cuts protest.")
  
  
• Concerns mount over sharp rise in food costs
  --Financial Times
  
  
• Arctic Sea Ice Extent Trending Below Record 2007 Melt
  --The Daily Green
  
  
• Asia set to become biggest climate change driver
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• China demand for oil, other resources soars as Beijing stockpiles reserves for future growth
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Oil hovers above $70 on mixed US economic signs
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Obama Says U.S. Jobless Rate to Reach 10% This Year
  --Bloomberg
  
  
• Truckers still waiting for economy’s u-turn
  --Kansas City Star
  
  
• Treasury provides $3B more for foreclosure program
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Big banks still not lending
  --CNN
  
  
• Audit: FEMA failed to follow contracting rules
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Officials express frustration with FEMA, recovery process
  --Sioux City Journal (Also see "Nearly 300 Families Still in FEMA Trailers.")
  
  
• Obama Urges New Look at State-Secrets Case
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress
  --The New York Times
  
  
• CIA Fights Full Release Of Detainee Report
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• Detainee says he lied to CIA in harsh interrogations
  --The Los Angeles Times
  
  
• House passes $106 billion war funding bill
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Audit finds Blackwater didn't pay for contract infractions
  --CNN
  
  
• Suit: Blackwater operating illegally in Iraq after contract
  --The Virginian-Pilot
  
  
• Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai accused of compiling coalition of 'gangsters and warlords'
  --The Telegraph
  
  
• Feds try to block evidence release in Posada case
  --The Associated Press

6/4/09 - 6/14/09

• The Peak Oil Crisis: Watching a Mega-Crisis
  --Falls Church News-Press
  
  
• One in six U.S. workers jobless or under-employed
  --Atlanta Business Chronicle
  
  
• Politicians, residents angered over new FEMA policy to cut levee funding
  --KHQA
  
  
• FEMA says National Guard essential to hurricane response
  --National Guard Bureau
  
  
• Administration Fights Disclosure on Two Fronts
  --Truth Out
  
  
• Nominee Pulls Out as Role at CIA Is Studied
  --The Washington Post (Also see "Torture-Linked Nominee Withdraws for DHS Intel Post.")
  
  
• Federal judge tosses warrantless wiretap cases
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Secrecy Conceals Some Classification Costs
  --Secrecy News
  
  
• Contractor oversees security guards in Afghanistan
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Panel details waste, inefficiency in war spending
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Obama May Allow Even More Arms Exports Than Bush
  --Antiwar
  
  
• Global arms spending hits record in 2008: think tank
  --Reuters
  
  
• Military-backed public schools on the rise in US
  --The Associated Press

5/26/09 - 6/3/09

• Global warming must stay below 2C or world faces ruin, scientists declare
  --The Times
  
  
• Permafrost melt poses long-term threat, says study
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Greenland ice melt may cause dramatic change of northeast coasts
  --CNET News
  
  
• Drought-hit LA, San Diego impose water ban
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Climate change turning seas acid: scientists
  --Reuters
  
  
• Hurricanes Forming Closer to U.S. Coast, Scientists Worried
  --ABC News (Also see "Study: Warming to worsen hurricane damage in Texas.")
  
  
• Report: 300,000 Die Every Year From Climate Change
  --Popular Science
  
  
• Gulf Coast activists protest at FEMA headquarters
  --McClatchy
  
  
• Controversial coal mining method gets Obama's OK
  --The Chicago Tribune
  
  
• How Much Has Changed? Obama Administration Deals Series of Anti-Environmental Blows
  --AlterNet
  
  
• Why low oil prices now may mean higher oil prices later
  --McClatchy (Also see "Western world is faced with the crude reality of rising oil prices.")
  
  
• GM asks for bankruptcy sale in 30 days
  --Reuters (Also see "Potential Conflicts Abound in Government Role" and "Auto bailout reaches $110 billion with $30 billion to GM.")
  
  
• Government Taps Bailout Contractors With Conflicts of Interest
  --The Washington Independent
  
  
• Geithner To Focus On U.S., China Relationship
  --National Public Radio
  
  
• Graduates struggle as China slows
  --BBC
  
  
• Justice Dept. Backs Saudi Royal Family on 9/11 Lawsuit
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Special Operations' Oversight of Contractors Is Faulted
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'
  --The Telegraph
  
  
• Gov't refuses to release documents in wiretap case
  --The Associated Press (Also see "Obama Justice Department Continues Bush's 'State Secrets' Argument...Again.")
  
  
• Obama Has 250,000 "Contractors" in Iraq and Afghan Wars, Increases Number of Mercenaries
  --Rebel Reports
  
  
• U.S.-supported Iraqi militias clash with government
  --USA Today
  
  
• Army chief: Troops could be in Iraq after 2012
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Afghan presidential hopeful says Karzai tried to bribe him
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• General warns of greater casualties in Afghanistan
  --The Los Angeles Times (Also see "US deaths rise in Afghanistan from last year.")
  
  
• Mysterious 'chip' is CIA's latest weapon against al-Qaida targets hiding in Pakistan's tribal belt
  --The Guardian (Also see "U.S. Report Finds Airstrike Errors in Afghan Deaths.")
  
  
• New Afghan Force Joins Fight Against Taliban
  --National Public Radio
  
  
• U.S. Marines find Iraq tactics don't work in Afghanistan
  --McClatchy
  
  
• One killed, two wounded as gunmen shoot at bus in Iran
  --Agence France Presse (Also see "Iran accuses U.S. of providing financial support for terrorists" and "Jundullah admits MKO connection."
  
  
• Gates: NKorea nuke progress sign of `dark future'
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Chavez accuses CIA of backing plot to kill him
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Newly declassified documents reveal more than $97 million from USAID to separatist projects in Bolivia
  --Bolivia Rising
  
  
• The Dark Side of Plan Colombia
  --The Nation
  
  
• Suit claims Ala. coal firm funded Colombian terror
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• New US command to focus on cyber battlefield
  --Agence France Presse

5/18/09 - 5/25/09

• Climate Change Odds Much Worse Than Thought
  --Science Daily
  
  
• Climate change summit hijacked by biggest polluters, critics claim
  --The Guardian
  
  
• America's new green guru sparks anger over climate change U-turns
  --The Observer
  
  
• IEA warns of oil supply crunch
  --Calgary Herald (Also see "G8 hears oil prices could again soar when crisis eases.")
  
  
• World Bank warns of social unrest
  --BBC
  
  
• Job Losses Push Safer Mortgages to Foreclosure
  --The New York Times
  
  
• How the Poorest Americans Dropped Out of Politics
  --Miller McCune
  
  
• GM borrows $4 billion more, prepares for bankruptcy
  --Reuters
  
  
• Internet Threatened by Censorship, Secret Surveillance, and Cybersecurity Laws
  --OpEd News
  
  
• Rumsfeld mixed Bible with intelligence for Bush
  --GQ Magazine
  
  
• DOD Pays Billions For Unnamed Contractors
  --Aviation Week
  
  
• Italy continues CIA trial despite secrecy ruling
  --Reuters
  
  
• Obama and Bush: Two Sides of the Same Coin... Heads-Heads
  --123 Real Change (Also see "The NYT sums up Obama's civil liberties record in one paragraph.")
  
  
• FBI dispute: Court clears way for FBI agent's book, but retired colleague calls it a hollow victory
  --The Chicago Tribune
  
  
• CIA and the Nuclear Black Market
  --Against All Enemies (Also see "Douglas Frantz and the nuclear black market.")
  
  
• Senate O.K.'s $91 Billion in War Funds
  --Truth Out
  
  
• Bombings Kill Dozens in Iraq; Tensions Rise After Crackdown on U.S.-Backed Militias
  --The Associated Press (Also see "Iraqi militiamen frustrated that promised jobs haven't materialized" and "Iraq to prosecute Sunni militiamen only for murder.")
  
  
• U.S. Army paid bonuses to KBR despite questions
  --Reuters
  
  
• U.S. watchdog faults Afghan troop training oversight
  --Reuters
  
  
• Contractors say Blackwater supplied forbidden guns
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Iraqi trade chief resigns amid corruption scandal
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Chevron Shuts 100,000 B/D Nigerian Output On Attack
  --Dow Jones

5/8/09 - 5/17/09

• High food prices pushing world to tipping point
  --The Toronto Star
  
  
• Oil demand to post sharpest fall since 1981 - IEA
  --Reuters
  
  
• RAND says cost of oil supply disruption worst threat
  --Reuters
  
  
• Energy conflicts could bring military clashes, Russian security strategy warns
  --The Guardian
  
  
• Warming Climate Is Affecting Cascades Snowpack In Pacific Northwest
  --Science Daily
  
  
• Climate change, water shortages conspire to create 21st century Dust Bowl
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Three states battle over area’s primary source of drinking water
  --Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  
  
• 4 Ways Global Warming Increases Wildfire Risk
  --The Daily Green
  
  
• Global warming's toll: Glacier in Bolivia is gone
  --McClatchy
  
  
• Obama sticks with Bush-era polar bear rule
  --MSNBC
  
  
• Energy firms to lobby against 2025 CCS deadline
  --Business Green (Also see "Barack Obama's key climate bill hit by $45m PR campaign.")
  
  
• Clean coal? Obama making $2.4 billion bet
  --MSNBC
  
  
• Coal supply may be vastly overestimated
  --ABC Science
  
  
• UN: Growth of slums boosting natural disaster risk
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Napolitano: FEMA to stay in DHS
  --Federal Times
  
  
• Stress Test Results Show Banks Need $74.6 Billion
  --ProPublica
  
  
• Major Banks Receiving Federal Aid Backed Subprime Lenders, Report Says
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• $19 Billion More to Fannie Mae, and More to Come
  --ProPublica
  
  
• Actual Bailout May Exceed $10 Trillion
  --Truth Out
  
  
• US to borrow 46 cents for every dollar spent
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Stimulus Watch: Jobs, but not where needed most
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Adding Up the Auto Bailout: $80 Billion and Growing
  --TIME
  
  
• GM Now Sees Bankruptcy as ‘Probable,’ Henderson Says
  --Bloomberg (Also see "GM Is Said to Plan Shutdowns for 1,100 U.S. Dealers.")
  
  
• Chrysler spreads the pain, plans to cut 25% of dealers
  --The Los Angeles Times
  
  
• Economic Crisis Raises Fears of Extremism in Western Countries
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Protests against economic crisis sweep France
  --Web in France Magazine (Also see "European unions protest in Prague against crisis" and "EU workers in Brussels protest for job protection.")
  
  
• G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds'
  --The Observer
  
  
• Homeless Advocate a Terrorist Threat?
  --IndyBay Media
  
  
• Boy Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion
  --Wired (Also see "Black Budget Blows By $50 Billion Mark.")
  
  
• DOJ Budget Details High-Tech Crime Fighting Tools
  --ABC News (Also see "FBI "Going Dark." Budget Request for High-Tech Surveillance Capabilities Soar.")
  
  
• Wisconsin court upholds warrantless GPS tracking by police
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Soufan: CIA torture actually hindered our intelligence gathering
  --Salon
  
  
• Report: much of 9/11 Commission’s findings cite intelligence garnered by torture
  --Raw Story
  
  
• Powell aide says torture helped build Iraq war case
  --CNN
  
  
• CIA Headquarters Micromanaged Torture
  --Truth Out
  
  
• CIA Contractors Played Big Role In Interrogations
  --National Public Radio
  
  
• Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama
  --AlterNet
  
  
• Obama mulls 'indefinite detention' of terror suspects
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Obama’s First 100 Days: Mixed Messages On Torture
  --Antiwar
  
  
• Obama to Revive Terror Tribunals
  --Antiwar
  
  
• In reversal, Obama seeks to block abuse photos
  --The Associated Press (Also see "Obama's latest effort to conceal evidence of Bush era crimes.")
  
  
• Senator says CIA admitted making up dates of torture briefings
  --Raw Story
  
  
• Obama Dares Judge to Order Release Of NSA Spy Document
  --Wired
  
  
• Bush Officials Try to Alter Ethics Report
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• Holder Tepid on Narrowing State Secrets Privilege
  --Congressional Quarterly
  
  
• Even with Obama in charge, anti-war Democrats powerless
  --McClatchy (Also see "Democrats Grow Uneasy Over Obama’s Hawkish Policies.")
  
  
• Did newly announced top Afghan general run Cheney's assassination wing?
  --Raw Story
  
  
• Rumsfeld's renegade unit blamed for Afghan deaths
  --The Independent
  
  
• Afghan Villagers Describe Chaos of U.S. Strikes
  --The New York Times (Also see "Afghan probe: US strike killed 140 people, many children" and "Who Are the Real Psychopaths in Afghanistan?")
  
  
• Thriving Afghan drug trade has friends in high places
  --McClatchy (Also see "Only small-time Afghan drug dealers serve time.")
  
  
• Karzai in move to share power with warlord wanted by US
  --The Sunday Times (Also see "The warlords casting a shadow over Afghanistan.")
  
  
• Commander’s Ouster Is Tied to Shift in Afghan War
  --The New York Times (They want someone with experience in "unconventional warfare." --DB)
  
  
• ‘Sons of Iraq’ still waiting on promises
  --Stars and Stripes (Also see "Arrest of Ex-Militant Shows Iraqi Reconciliation Pitfalls.")
  
  
• U.S. Soldier in Iraq Kills 5 Comrades at Stress Clinic
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• General Sees a Longer Stay in Iraq Cities for U.S. Troops
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Iraq's once-envied health care system lost to war, corruption
  --McClatchy
  
  
• Boeing Targets $10 Billion Market for Leased Drones
  --Bloomberg
  
  
• Carlyle Group Settles in "Pay to Play" Scandal Probe
  --ABC News
  
  
• Audio: Scott Horton Interviews Sibel Edmonds
  --Antiwar Radio

5/1/09 - 5/7/09

• Economic casualties pile into tent cities
  --USA Today
  
  
• AIG bonuses four times higher than reported
  --Politico
  
  
• U.S. Says Bank of America Needs $33.9 Billion Cushion
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Report: Political Contributions From Bailout Recipients Grew With Subprime Problem
  --CBS
  
  
• Cashing In on ‘Government Sachs’
  --Truthdig (Also see "New York Fed Chairman's Ties to Goldman Raise Questions.")
  
  
• Cox’s SEC Hindered Probes, Slowed Cases, Shrank Fines, GAO Says
  --Bloomberg
  
  
• Chrysler won't repay bailout money
  --CNN
  
  
• Wasting A Good Crisis: The Result May be $200 Oil
  --The Cutting Edge
  
  
• White House Steps Up Support for Biofuels
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Burning Ethanol, Guzzling Water
  --Green Tech Media
  
  
• Embattled coal industry wages multifront lobbying war
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Study: More Than 50% Reductions Needed By 2050 To Respect 2°C Climate Target
  --Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Also see "Clean-air plans may be threatened.")
  
  
• Post-Katrina trailer residents fearful as eviction day looms
  --The Los Angeles Times
  
  
• DHS Memo Identifies "Alternative Media" as Potential Terrorists
  --The Daily Beast
  
  
• Pentagon auditor cites heavy fraud by contractor
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Informants say Blackwater guards tried to unload arms
  --The Virginian Pilot
  
  
• The FBI's Department of Precrime
  --Antifascist Calling
  
  
• US needs 'digital warfare force'
  --BBC
  
  
• Inspector at Pentagon Says Report on Media Relations Was Flawed
  --The New York Times
  
  
• US interrogators may have killed dozens, human rights researcher and rights group say
  --Raw Story
  
  
• Tortured Profession: Psychologists Warned of Abusive Interrogations, Then Helped Craft Them
  --ProPublica
  
  
• Video: Author Jane Mayer on Torture, White House Cover-Up
  --MSNBC via YouTube (Also see "A Cheney Cover-Up?")
  
  
• Judgment Day May Be Approaching for CIA Agents
  --Spiegel Online
  
  
• 400,000 still on terror watchlist, including author of book on Rove
  --Raw Story
  
  
• Secret US robo whispercopters head to 'undisclosed location'
  --The Register
  
  
• In Afghan construction boom, reflections of corruption
  --The Star-Ledger (Also see "Kabul's new elite live high on West's largesse.")
  
  
• Karzai names ex-warlord as running mate
  --CNN
  
  
• Gates Asks Saudis for Help in Pakistan
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Obama plans to give millions to fight terror threat in Pakistan
  --The Guardian
  
  
• High Afghan Civilian Toll Seen in U.S. Raid
  --The New York Times (Also see "Record bombs dropped in Afghanistan in April.")
  
  
• Caught on Tape: Military Officials at Bagram Urge U.S. Soldiers to Evangelize in Afghanistan
  --Rebel Reports
  
  
• Ambush by an Ally Chills Trust in Iraqi Units
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Iraqi forces arrest U.S.-allied militia leader
  --Reuters (Also see "Some U.S.-backed Iraqi fighters desert posts.")
  
  
• NATO war games launch despite Russia's fierce objections
  --The Los Angeles Times (Also see "Police and protesters clash in Georgia's capital.")
  
  
• Is Army Abusing Children With its Latest Experiment, the Army Experience Center?
  --OpEdNews
  
  
• The Broken Congress
  --Sibel Edmonds