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
  
  
• Oil prices seep into asphalt costs, detour road work
  --USA Today
  
  
• High costs land on school cafeteria trays
  --MSNBC
  
  
• Grease shortage worries Oregon's fledgling biodiesel industry
  --The Oregonian
  
  
• Short on water, California curbs new construction
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Hunger in the wake of climate change
  --The Real News Network
  
  
• Global warming turning sea into acid bath
  --The Times
  
  
• U.S. Senate Abandons Global Warming Bill
  --Environment News Service

6/2/08 - 6/5/08

• Electricity price flies off the grid
  --The Houston Chronicle
  
  
• Heating oil sticker shock to hit New England
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Protests around the globe as oil prices pinch
  --Reuters
  
  
• Fishermen clash with riot police at EU
  --BBC
  
  
• German shops running out of milk
  --BBC
  
  
• High costs put pig farmers in red
  --EADT
  
  
• Diesel thieves wreak havoc on California farmers
  --CNN
  
  
• Monsanto sees opportunity in global food crisis
  --Marketplace
  
  
• High cost, demand for fertilizer scares farmers
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• The North Pole will soon be without ice
  --Barents Observer
  
  
• NASA political appointees suppressed climate data, report says
  --The Houston Chronicle
  
  
• Water Scarcity: The Real Food Crisis
  --Yale Environment 360
  
  
• Are water wars in our future?
  --Penn State
  
  
• Desert is claiming southeast Spain
  --The New York Times
  
  
• U.S. Crawling Back into Drought
  --The Daily Green
  
  
• Expect higher food costs with drought
  --Fresno Bee
  
  
• Federal judge overturns convictions of 3 Islamic charity leaders
  --The Associated Press (The "tail-chasing" continues. --DB)
  
  
• Indicted Saudi with BCCI Ties Gets $80 Million US Contract
  --ABC News
  
  
• Sibel Edmonds Case: Dennis Hastert to receive payoffs for 'services rendered'
  --Against All Enemies (Also see "ABC News investigates Hastert scandals and the Turkish Connections". --DB)
  
  
• Role of Terrorism "Fusion Centers" Questioned
  --Secrecy News
  
  
• Comcast Is Hiring an Internet Snoop for the Feds
  --Wired
  
  
• Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control
  --The Independent
  
  
• New agreement lets US strike any country from inside Iraq
  --Gulf News
  
  
• US backs talks with some Afghan rebels: ambassador
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• DOD Contracts Out Contractor Oversight
  --Truth Out
  
  
• Owner of Government Contractor Jailed In Drug, Gambling Investigation
  --NBC 4
  
  
• Billionare charged with drug-trafficking, stock manipulation
  --CNET News
  
  
• Former Obama ally Antoin 'Tony' Rezko found guilty
  --The Chicago Tribune
  
  
• Mexico's War on Drugs is a Sham
  --New America Media
  
  
• Albanian mafia at work in New York
  --Makfax

5/29/08 - 6/1/08

• Rice rationing at UK supermarkets as world prices soar 70 per cent
  --The Daily Mail
  
  
• High cost of food doesn't necessarily mean farmers growing richer
  --Press of Atlantic City (Also see "Farmers Say They're Not Reaping Any Windfalls". --DB)
  
  
• Pinched by Rising Fuel Costs, U.S. Truckers Start Pulling Off the Highway
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Supplies at food pantries dwindle as need grows
  --The Times Herald Record
  
  
• Milk shortages feared as supply is squeezed across Europe
  --The Times
  
  
• Fuel anger, civil unrest flares across Europe
  --The Sydney Morning Herald
  
  
• Consumers Lean on Rebate Checks for Bills and Gas
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Food and gasoline: Soaring prices hit the poor hardest
  --Kentucky Herald Leader
  
  
• Homeless camp grows in Reno
  --Reno Gazette-Journal
  
  
• Homeless: Seattle's new growth industry
  --The Seattle Times
  
  
• Displaced by Katrina and edged out of FEMA trailer parks
  --The Los Angeles Times (Also see "Resources Scarce, Homelessness Persists in New Orleans". --DB)
  
  
• Eco-Migration Could Fuel Future Conflicts
  --Finding Dulcinea
  
  
• How Scarce Energy Resources Can Quickly Lead to Deadly Wars
  --Michael Klare via AlterNet
  
  
• Is water becoming ‘the new oil’?
  --The Christian Science Monitor
  
  
• As Sacramento goes dry, will there be water riots?
  --Counterpunch
  
  
• New Lawsuit targets Saudi Arabia Over 9/11 Charity Ties
  --The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  
• Qwest execs, SEC spar on state secrets
  --Rocky Mountain News
  
  
• Congress may OK 'compromise' bill to derail spying lawsuits
  --CNET News
  
  
• Internet Attacked as Tool of Terror
  --TruthOut
  
  
• Download al Qaeda manuals from the DoJ, go to prison?
  --The Register
  
  
• US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships
  --The Guardian
  
  
• FBI soliciting informants to keep tabs on local protest groups
  --City Pages
  
  
• Former high-ranking Bush officials enjoy war profits
  --Salon
  
  
• America's irrational, costly and dangerous military budget
  --The Los Angeles Times
  
  
• Was Press a War ‘Enabler’?
  --The New York Times
  
  
• A Slice of Mafia With Your Sparkling Water?
  --Village Voice
  
  
• DEA, FBI and CIA are all operating covertly in Mexico´s narco-trafficking underworld
  --The American Chronicle
  
  
• Report: Albania PM Admits to Arms Trafficking
  --Balkan Insight
  
  
• EU and NATO dominates Macedonia election
  --EuroNews
  
  
• EU president sees NATO in Kosovo for up to 5 years
  --Reuters
  
  
• 'US bribing Iraqi MPs to sign deal'
  --Press TV
  
  
• Rough Sledding for Bush's Covert Iran Finding
  --Counterpunch
  
  
• The rise of private warfare
  --Al-Ahram Weekly
  
  
• Dogs of War: Back to Africa
  --UPI
  
  
• "I Was Shot by Soldiers Bought and Paid for by Chevron"
  --AlterNet

5/25/08 - 5/28/08

• Diesel prices putting truckers out of business
  --WOOD-TV (Also see "Soaring Fuel Prices Take a Withering Toll on Truckers". Truckers are going out of business now. What will happen in a year or two when diesel prices are more than double what they are today? --DB)
  
  
• Truckers jam London in petrol protest
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Higher costs hit farmers
  --The Daily Press (Also see "For Texas farmers, production costs are spiraling along with crop prices" and "Lofty Prices for Fertalizer Put Farmers in a Sqeeze". The AP gives a poor analysis, claiming farmers are getting rich and set to get even richer. But increased income from food prices is being put right back into fuel, animal feed, and fertalizer costs. As usual, we'll wait for the AP to catch up to reality. --DB)
  
  
• British pig industry falling off a cliff
  --The Daily Mail
  
  
• Bare Food Cupboards More Common in So. Md.
  --County Times
  
  
• High food prices add to violence in war zones: ICRC
  --Reuters
  
  
• Fed report says climate change risks crops, water
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Blackouts hit thousands as generators fail in Britain
  --The Times
  
  
• Large Methane Release Could Cause Abrupt Climate Change As Happened 635 Million Years Ago
  --Science Daily
  
  
• Water shortages and drought are the next scourge, warns US group
  --The Guardian
  
  
• Multistate pact would put water off-limits to parched South, West
  --The Chicago Tribune
  
  
• Climate Change Already Affecting U.S. Water, Land, And Biodiversity, Report Finds
  --Science Daily
  
  
• Raytheon's Pain Ray Coming to a Protest Near You
  --Counterpunch
  
  
• Former FBI chief Louis Freeh sells his services to corporate elite
  --Muckety
  
  
• Invitation to Steal: War Profiteering in Iraq
  --Foriegn Policy in Focus
  
  
• FBI Focusing on anthrax suspects from US military lab
  --Fox News
  
  
• ABC, FBI Punk'd by Terror 'Fan Video'
  --Wired
  
  
• Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• Belarus holds U.S. lawyer over drugs
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• JFK Customs Agents Accused Of Helping Smugglers
  --WNBC
  
  
• Phil Gramm Shaped McCain’s Economic Policy While Lobbying For Foreign Bank
  --Think Progress
  
  
• New Ethics Law Still Doesn't Stop Congressional Freebies
  --ABC News
  
  
• Iranian soldiers kill nine drug traffickers
  --Xinhua
  
  
• West backing warlords in Somalia
  --Channel 4
  
  
• Somalia on the verge of collapse, aid officials and residents say
  --The Los Angeles Times

5/21/08 - 5/24/08

• Oil rises above $135 per barrel
  --Bloomberg
  
  
• Energy Watchdog Warns of Oil-Production Crunch
  --The Wall Street Journal
  
  
• U.S. Farmers Calling it Quits, Some Predict Empty Shelves in Six Months
  --The Post-Searchlight
  
  
• Truckers Threaten to Cut Off New York City
  --WTEN Albany
  
  
• Angry French Fishermen Disrupt Shipping, Block Oil Deliveries
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Record production cannot offset food shortages: FAO
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• The "Deep" Carbon Doomsday Scenario
  --The Daily Green (Also see "The permafrost won't be perma for long". --DB)
  
  
• Acidified seawater showing up along coast ahead of schedule
  --The Seattle Times
  
  
• CIA Drug Pilot Linked to Russian Mob
  --Mad Cow Morning News
  
  
• Report Faults Accounting
  For $1.4 Billion in Iraq Funds
  --The Wall Street Journal
  
  
• Senate approves $165 billion in new war money
  --Reuters
  
  
• Carlyle Group to Become Owner of “One of America’s Largest Private Intelligence Armies”
  --Democracy Now!
  
  
• Domestic spying far outpaces terrorism prosecutions
  --The Los Angeles Times
  
  
• Blackwater's Proximity to Border Draws Concerns
  --KBPS
  
  
• FBI Opened "War Crimes" File for Gitmo; Shut Down by White House
  --World Socialist Web Site
  
  
• Pakistan May Turn Over U.S. 'Spies' to Iran
  --ABC News
  
  
• Iran mosque blast plotters admit Israeli, US links: report
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Peacekeepers sell arms to Somalis
  --BBC
  
  
• The Buying of "Democracy" Agents in Cuba
  --Counterpunch
  
  
• Heavy gunfire breaks out alon