2/28/07

• New Oil Law Seen as Cover for Privatization
  --Inter Press Service
  
  
• All 34 energy-efficiency deadlines missed
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Saudi Arabian oil declines 8% in 2006
  --The Oil Drum
  
  
• Africa: Where the Next US Oil Wars Will Be
  --Dissident Voice
  
  
• Russia warns U.S. against striking Iran
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• U.S. tests data sweep in bid to net terrorists; privacy law was possibly violated
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• Operation FALCON and the looming police state
  --Online Journal
  
  
• Gov't estimates 754,000 homeless people
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Afghan opium 'hits record output'
  --BBC
  
  
• New Light Shed on CIA's 'Black Site' Prisons
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• U.S. says will not extradite CIA agents to Italy
  --Reuters
  
  
• VIDEO: David Kelly Assassinated?
  --BBC via Google Video

2/26/07 - 2/27/07

• Stocks Have Worst Day Since 2001 Attacks
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Bush Meets With Anti-Semite Who Celebrated The Killing Of American Soldiers
  --Think Progress
  
  
• Iraq War Has Increased Terrorism Sevenfold Worldwide
  --Mother Jones
  
  
• Intel Chief: China military modernization aimed at countering US
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Rising corn prices put squeeze on dairies
  --The Bellingham Herald
  
  
• CNN Announced WTC 7 "Has Either Collapsed or is Collapsing" Over an Hour Before it Fell
  --Information Liberation
  
  
• BBC Reported Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell
  --Prison Planet
  
  
• Bush administration's abuse of FISA warrants linked to Sibel Edmonds case
  --Narco Sphere
  
  
• Meet Jerome Hauer, 9/11 Suspect Awaiting Indictment
  --Winter Patriot

2/23/07 - 2/25/07

• US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran
  --The Sunday Telegraph
  
  
• Hersh: U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Violent Al Qaeda-Linked Groups
  --CNN via Think Progress
  
  
• Israel seeks all clear for Iran air strike
  --The Telegraph
  
  
• The border post where bribes buy an easy entry for Taleban
  --The Times
  
  
• Dumping of CO2 threatens oceans with massive extinction, scientist says
  --The Vancouver Sun
  
  
• Council of State freezes Qadi’s assets
  --Turkish Daily News
  
  
• Judiciary resumes controversial terror financier case
  --The New Anatolian
  
  
• Libby Defense: Cheney Ordered Leak
  --Truth Out
  
  
• Alleged intel fixer Chalabi to assume new role as part of 'surge'
  --Raw Story
  
  
• Florida Election Audit "Whitewash"
  --Brad Blog
  
  
• U.S. economy leaving record numbers in severe poverty
  --McClatchy Newspapers
  
  
• General: Catching Bin Laden Not "All That Important"
  --Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  
  
• Psychics 'hired to find Bin Laden'
  --The Daily Mail
  
  
• Prosecutors seek OK to create phony files
  --The Miami Herald

2/20/07 - 2/22/07

• Saudi cutbacks raise oil concerns, production may be entering decline
  --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  
  
• Climate Change Threatens San Francisco Bay
  --San Francisco Chronicle
  
  
• According to Oklahoma bombing conspirator, ranking officials were involved in the attack
  --The Salt Lake Tribune
  
  
• Accused Terrorist Is Big GOP Donor
  --ABC News
  
  
• Tehran insider tells of US black ops
  --The Asia Times
  
  
• Blackwater brass forms intelligence company
  --The Virginian-Pilot
  
  
• Trial shows Cheney had free rein in the White House
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Audit: Anti-terror case data flawed
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Drivers being monitored
  --The Guardian
  
  
• New Tracking Chip Size of a Dust Grain
  --Technovelgy.com
  
  
• The second Great Depression
  --Online Journal
  
  
• Ex-lawmakers find work with lobbyists
  --USA Today
  
  
• Bush To Nominate Anti-Regulatory Industry Lobbyist To Head Consumer Protection Agency
  --Think Progress

2/16/07 - 2/19/07

• Washington's $8 Billion Shadow
  --Vanity Fair
  
  
• Making Martial Law Easier
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Huge Gulf spending at arms fair
  --Al-Jazeera

Climate Change Global Warming: It’s All About Energy --Foreign Policy in Focus Vanishing glaciers offer clear evidence of climate change: scientists --Agence France Presse Climate change: scientists warn it may be too late to save the ice caps --The Guardian Warmest January ever recorded worldwide in 2007: US scientists --Agence France Presse Rising sea levels present China with 'unimaginable challenges' --Agence France Presse

2/13/07 - 2/15/07

• CIA's former No. 3 official charged in corruption case
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Giants meet to counter US power
  --The Times
  
  
• Micro-cameras to monitor every twitch of airline passengers
  --The New Zealand Herald (More here.)
  
  
• Nevada joining 'revolt' against national driver's license
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Information warfare, psyops and the power of myth
  --Online Journal
  
  
• Auditors: Billions squandered in Iraq
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Lockheed Gets $186 Million Contract to Upgrade Pakistani Navy
  --PRNewswire
  
  
• Lobbyist, Fed Lawyer Share Vacation Home
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Chrysler to Cut 13,000 Jobs in Overhaul
  --The New York Times (Energy readers will find the final quote priceless.)

2/11/07 - 2/12/07

• 9/11 Widows Keep on Asking the Tough Questions
  --Muckraker Report
  
  
• Kosovo Albanian Criminal Enterprise; CIA Linked to KLA, Mafia, Al-Qaeda
  --Serbianna.com (This article provides more details on reported Saudi-CIA front man Yassin al-Qadi and the underground network of which he was a part.)
  
  
• 'The intelligence has gone cold on Osama bin Laden'
  --CNN
  
  
• The CIA and al-Qaeda: Peter Lance doesn't connect his own dots
  --Winter Patriot
  
  
• Saudi arms corruption case goes to Europe
  --The Independent
  
  
• Russia's Putin says US wants to dominate world
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Video: Bush-Backed Shiite Group Receiving Weapons Shipments From Iran
  --CNN via Think Progress
  
  
• Video: Chris Hedges on Christian Fascism
  --C-SPAN via YouTube
  
  
• Helmand heads for record poppy harvest
  --IWPR

2/8/07 - 2/10/07

• Carbon dioxide rate is at highest level for 650,000 years
  --The Independent
  
  
• Blood of the Earth: Dilip Hiro on the Battle for the World’s Vanishing Oil Resources
  --Democracy Now!
  
  
• Army To Withhold $19.6 Million From Halliburton, Citing Potential Contract Breach
  --The New York Times
  
  
• US takes over NATO-led forces
  --The Associated Press (With Helmand's governor replaced under pressure from the CIA and the peace deals called off, the locals have lost. The stage is now being set for the government to establish complete control over Afghanistan's opium producing south.)
  

"Drugmaker Roche Holding AG gave the maximum allowed to her 2006 campaign. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch threw a fund- raising event for her in July. Even some of President George W. Bush's biggest backers, including Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer John Mack, supported her. ... ``She was there, win or lose,'' says Lockheed spokesman Tom Jurkowsky. Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed gave $10,000 to her re- election. ... The employees of Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. represent her two biggest groups of corporate donors. ... Just a week after her November re-election, she met with a group of corporate executives at JPMorgan's headquarters in New York to talk policy. The group includes Pfizer Inc. Vice Chairman David Shedlarz and Stephen Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group."

2/2/07 - 2/4/07

• UN: We face climate disaster without drastic action
  --Western Mail
  
  
• White House downplays proposals on global warming
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• States challenge national driver's license
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Bush seeks $245b more for war
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• In Washington, Contractors Take On Biggest Role Ever
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Another Old Bosnia Hand Joins Bush Intel
  --Intel Wire (J.M. Berger)
  
  
• Does New Fort Detrick 'Biodefense' Lab Reflect Germ Warfare Initiative?
  --OpEd News
  
  
• Christian fascism: The Jesus Gestapo of St. Orwell
  --Online Journal (Carolyn Baker)
  
  
• Once a Dream Fuel, Palm Oil May Be an Eco-Nightmare
  --The New York Times (The unintended consequences of so-called 'renewable' biofuels are beginning to emerge around the globe.)
  
  
• Environmentalists Need to Help Fight Bush's Ethanol Surge
  --Central Ohio Relocalization Effort

2/1/07

• 9/11: The Case Isn't Closed
  --AlterNet
  
  
• Revisiting 9/11 Failures
  --Newsweek

"The raid, which began after nightfall at about 6 p.m. local time, was carried out by nine to 12 militants wearing new U.S. military fatigues and traveling in black GMC Suburban vehicles — the type used by U.S. government convoys. U.S. officials said the imposters had American weapons and spoke English."

"Of particular concern are Africa's role in the "global war on terror," or, in Pentagon parlance, "the long war," the growing importance of the region's natural resources, especially oil and gas, to the world economy, and increased competition with China, among other countries, for those resources."