2/25/08 - 2/28/08

• Arctic warming could result in armed conflict: naval expert
  --The Ottawa Citizen
  
  
• The World's Growing Food-Price Crisis
  --TIME Magazine
  
  
• Global fertilizer supply expected to outstrip demand
  --Food and Agriculture Organization
  
  
• Wheat Prices Rise to Record on Concerns Demand Outpacing Supply
  --Bloomberg
  
  
• Bakers in 'panic' as price of bread soars towards all-time high
  --The Daily Mail
  
  
• Oil Surpasses $103 for First Time
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• U.S. Gasoline Prices Skyrocket
  --CBS
  
  
• Airlines Drop As Oil Climbs
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• More gas thefts as prices climb
  --King 5 News
  
  
• U.S. incarcerates more than any other nation: report
  --Reuters
  
  
• Cocaine Planes Linked to Shadowy Ethanol Firm
  --Narco News
  
  
• The FBI and InfraGard: An Unhealthy Government Alliance
  --The Future of Freedom Foundation
  
  
• Comcast Blocking: First the Internet...Now the Public
  --Save the Internet
  
  
• FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report
  --Raw Story (See full summary here. --DB)
  
  
• Defense Stalls in Sept. 11 Case at Gitmo
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Air Force Blocks Access to Blogs
  --Wired
  
  
• The Myth of the Surge: Arming of Former Insurgents Starting to Backfire
  --Rolling Stone
  
  
• 'Phantom' police on payrolls in Iraq
  --USA Today
  
  
• Iraq: The Calm Before the Conflagration
  --TruthDig
  
  
• Russia's NATO envoy says U.S. wants to divide and rule, backing 'narcomafia' in Kosovo
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Kosovo Serbs call for return of Russian troops
  --Reuters
  
  
• NATO steps up alert for Kosovo troops: source
  --Reuters
  
  
• Turkish Troops Pull Out of Iraq
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Senior Islamic official calls for autonomous Shiite region in Iraq
  --DPA
  
  
• Snake Oil Sellers of the Christian Right?
  --Inter Press Service
  
  
• Robot wars 'will be a reality within 10 years'
  --The Telegraph
  
  
• More Americans turning to Web for news
  --Reuters
  
  
• Casino owner with crime ties gave heavily to politicos
  --The Patriot-News (Also see "Lawmaker wants board to open DeNaples files" and "DeNaples Center Dedication at U of S". --DB)

2/21/08 - 2/24/08

• Risk of permafrost thaw a "wild card" in warming: U.N.
  --Reuters
  
  
• U.N. says world fisheries face collapse
  --Reuters
  
  
• Drought in China leaves millions thirsty
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
  --The Observer
  
  
• Suburbia...The Next Slum?
  --The Atlantic Monthly
  
  
• America's grain stocks running short
  --The Grand Island Independent (Also see "Heated crop prices spark supply fears". --DB)
  
  
• Experts: Global Food Shortages Could ‘Continue for Decades'
  --The Market Oracle
  
  
• Food, fuel costs erode workers’ real earnings
  --The Associated Press (Also see "US food industry says prices headed up again in 08". --DB)
  
  
• High oil prices take a toll on the Gulf's middle class
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Inside the world of war profiteers
  --The Chicago Tribune
  
  
• US funding militia to destabilize Iran
  --Press TV
  
  
• Pause in Iraq? Try Permanent Bases in the Region
  --Early Warning
  
  
• Over 70 firms bid for Iraq oil contracts
  --Reuters
  
  
• Oil giants are poised to move into Basra
  --The Observer
  
  
• Bush and other war criminals meet in Rwanda
  --Global Research
  
  
• U.S. Payments To Pakistan Face New Scrutiny
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• Former official says ISI manipulated Pakistan's 2002 elections
  --Inter Press Service
  
  
• Turkey launches ground operation in Iraq
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Turkish onslaught paves way for major assault on Iraq Kurds
  --The Observer
  
  
• Welcome to Kosovo! The World's Newest Narco State
  --Antifascist Calling
  
  
• Kosova/Kosovo: KLA-PKK, TSK-PKK dirty proxy war
  --Human Rights Archaeology
  
  
• Hillary Clinton and Kosovo's 'Mafia State'

  --AlterNet
  
  
• Rioters set fire to US Belgrade embassy over Kosovo
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Serbia: U.S. to blame for violence
  --CNN
  
  
• Romania Base Suspected CIA Prisoner Site
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates and Also Find... Crack Dealers and Terrorists?
  --The Hype Report
  
  
• White House says phone wiretaps back on "for now"
  --Reuters
  
  
• GOP Congressman indicted for extortion, money laundering
  --Raw Story
  
  
• Democratic majority good for K Street’s bottom line
  --The Hill

2/17/08 - 2/20/08

• Oil prices hit record 101.27 dollars
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Exxon struggling to replace reserves, analyst says
  --Market Watch
  
  
• Famines May Occur Without Record Crops This Year, Potash Says
  --Bloomberg
  
  
• Rising Demand for Wheat Worldwide Means Skyrocketing Bread and Pasta Prices for U.S.
  --ABC News (Also see "Worldwide shortage of rice shoots prices soaring" and "Chips, beer off the grocery list as inflation bites". --DB)
  
  
• Smithfield Cutting US Hog Breeding, Citing Grain Cost
  --Dow Jones ('Peak Pork'? --DB)
  
  
• Canada's oil sands "most destructive project on earth"
  --Reuters
  
  
• Top Scientists Want Research Free From Politics
  --Inter Press Service
  
  
• Clinton, Obama bank major donations from Abramoff's former law firm
  --Raw Story
  
  
• McCain appoints Abramoff-linked ex-Senator to leadership post
  --Raw Story
  
  
• Unholy trinity of arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, and Congress
  --The Independent
  
  
• Afghan farmers earn about $1 bln from opium-IMF
  --Reuters (If the farmers are earning $1 billion, how much are those who transport and sell the processed heroin to American and European distributors making? --DB)
  
  
• Russian state TV suggests USA involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan
  --BBC, Channel One TV
  
  
• Administration Undermines Science, Cuts Experts Out of Bioterror Discussions, Group Says
  --Global Security Newswire
  
  
• Permanent U.S. Army command taking shape in Kuwait
  --Stars and Stripes
  
  
• Nato troops called in as mobs torch checkpoints on Kosovan border
  --The Times
  
  
• Tensions high as Kosovo goes it alone
  --The Herald
  
  
• War fears as Kosovo declares 'freedom'
  --The Evening Standard
  
  
• Turkey weighing land operation vs PKK in Iraq: TV
  --Reuters (Also see "Turkish jets defy Barzani, fly over northern Iraq". --DB)
  
  
• Civil war fear as Afghans ponder arrest of warlord
  --The Scotsman
  
  
• Documents Detail Narco-Paramilitary Connection to U.S.-Colombia Anti-Escobar Task Force
  --National Security Archive (also see "The CIA, Paramilitarism & Narcotrafficking: the Colombian Connection". --DB)
  
  
• Rigged Trials at Gitmo
  --The Nation
  
  
• Tape Inquiry: Ex-Spymaster in the Middle
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Whistle-blower site taken offline after posting offshore Swiss bank documents
  --BBC
  
  
• 'Saboteurs' may have cut undersea internet cables, says UN agency
  --The Telegraph
  
  
• DynCorp affiliate wins $4.6B Army linguist deal
  --Dallas Business Journal
  
  
• Contractor gets 12 years for bribing lawmaker
  --CNN
  
  
• Big Coal Tries To Bribe Kansas Legislature To Approve New Coal Plants
  --Think Progress
  
  
• Gaming Control Chair Says Casinos Open to Organized Crime
  --The Philadelphia Inquirer

2/13/08 - 2/16/08

• Newly Released FBI Timeline Reveals Information Ignored by 9/11 Commission
  --Cooperative Research
  
  
• Bush Says Congress Putting US in Danger
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• US customs agents can examine, copy data from searched laptops
  --Raw Story, CNN
  
  
• Welcome to Cyberwar Country, USA
  --Wired
  
  
• Every British pupil to be numbered and kept on Government database for life
  --The Daily Mail
  
  
• Lockheed Secures Contract to Expand Biometric Database
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• CIA rendition case against Boeing unit blocked on states secrets
  --The Telegraph
  
  
• Bush Appeals to Justices on Detainees Case
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Thousands of Guantanamo interrogations were taped: report
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince
  --The Guardian
  
  
• Blair used 'irresistible pressure' to halt investigation into BAE-Saudi arms deal
  --The Independent
  
  
• Albanian triumph and Serb anger as Kosovo secedes
  --Reuters
  
  
• Russia at odds with Georgia in Kosovo dispute
  --The New York Times
  
  
• US pledges to cooperate with Turkey against terrorism
  --DPA
  
  
• Key Clinton Backer Guilty in Sibel Edmonds Case
  --Let Sibel Edmonds Speak
  
  
  
• Iraq reportedly to buy 40 Boeing aircraft worth $6 billion
  --Dow Jones

  
  
• Iraq anti-Qaeda group quits after members killed
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• A new force flexes muscles in Iraq
  --Inter Press Service
  
  
• US in New Push to Bolster Afghan Police
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• CIA set up 12 bogus companies mostly in Europe after 9/11: report
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Detailed World Oil Forecasts
  --The Oil Drum
  
  
  
• Britain runs out of pasta as costs soar
  --The Sunday Mirror
  
  
• Climate change soon could kill thousands in UK, says report
  --The Guardian
  
  
  
• Midwest greenhouse emissions projected to increase 40%
  --The Chicago Tribune
  
  
• The Growing Battle for the Right to Water
  --AlterNet

2/9/08 - 2/12/08

• Valerie Plame Wilson Describes Sibel Edmonds Disclosures as 'Stunning'
  --Brad Blog
  
  
• Russia accuses U.S. military of involvement in Afghan drug trafficking
  --Frontline India (As noted last month, Russian journalists Arkady Dubnov and Vremya Novostei reported that "Afghani officials say that 85% of all drugs produced in southern and southeastern provinces are shipped abroad by US aviation." --DB)
  
  
• Follow the 9/11 Money? God forbid.
  --The Baltimore Chronicle
  
  
• US accused of using 'kangaroo court' to try 9/11 suspects
  --The Independent
  
  
• US, EU Support Organized Crime in Kosovo
  --Global Research
  
  
• EU to launch Kosovo mission before independence
  --Reuters
  
  
• Serbia, Russia bid to stave off Kosovo independence
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Bosnia Serb police prepare for unrest over Kosovo
  --Reuters
  
  
• Navy Intercepts Russian Bombers
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Blackwater Training Taiwanese
  --Defense News
  
  
• U.S. militarizing Africa through "war on terror"
  --Foreign Policy in Focus
  
  
• Venezuela Halts Oil Sales to Exxon Mobil
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Peace Corps, Fulbright Scholar Asked to 'Spy' on Cubans, Venezuelans
  --ABC News
  
  
• US-Backed Groups Challenge Iraqi Government
  --Inter Press Service
  
  
• Conflicts Deepen Between Local Iraqi Governments and U.S.-Backed Sunni Groups
  --The New York Times
  
  
• Deep State Coup Averted in Turkey
  --Anti-War
  
  
• Senate OKs Immunity for Telecoms
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• The (un?) sustainability of growth
  --Scenso
  
  
• Lake Mead Water Could Dry Up by 2021
  --Environment News Service
  
  
• As Asia food prices bite, analysts warn of worse to come
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Poor being priced out of food market: UN official
  --The Canadian Press
  
  
• Many States Elect Not to Use Flawed E-Voting Technology
  --Scientific American

2/5/08 - 2/8/08

• Sibel Edmonds, Narco-Terror, 9/11
  --The American Monitor
  
  
• Mass Arrests Expose Operations of Turkey’s “Deep State”
  --Jamestown Foundation
  
  
• Four More American Drug Planes Seized
  --Mad Cow Morning News (See also "St. Pete Company Sold Cessna Used In Drug Case, FBI Says". --DB)
  
  
• CIA continues to manage Miami
  terrorist groups
  --Granma International (Also see this piece published by Salon last month. --DB)
  
  
• 9/11 widows call for new investigation after revelations of White House, commission ties
  --Raw Story
  
  
• Putin: 'New Arms Race Unleashed in the World'
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• Russia Says EU, NATO Forces in Independent Kosovo Illegal
  --Reuters
  
  
• U.S. military has new name for neighborhood militia groups
  --Stars and Stripes
  
  
• The FBI Deputizes Business, Prepares for Martial Law
  --The Progressive
  
  
• The New Crime of Thinking
  --The Future of Freedom Foundation
  
  
• Pentagon Plots Sim Iraq for Propaganda Tests
  --Wired
  
  
• CIA Likely Let Contractors Perform Interrogations, Waterboarding
  --The Wall Street Journal
  
  
• Retired Generals Turn on Musharraf
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• In search for foreign intelligence, spies turn to Internet
  --Raw Story
  
  
• FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping
  --CNN
  
  
• UK approves Abu Hamza extradition
  --The Times (Hamza is a "veteran of the [NATO-backed] Balkan wars of the 1990s" and "urged his listeners to travel to Albania and Kosovo to support the Islamic cause." Back then, British intelligence said Hamza and other militants "had the right to a roof over their heads in Britain, even if they had carried out murders in other countries." Now Hamza is considered more of a liability than an asset. Having served his purpose, he will likely vanish in Guantanamo Bay or some other secret U.S. prison. --DB)
  
  
• US Admiral Confirms Secret Camp at Gitmo
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes as Judge Sought Interrogation Data
  --The New York Times (Don't forget Posner's tip on this.--DB)
  
  
• Cable damage hits 1.7m Internet users in UAE as fifth Internet cable cut
  --Khaleej Times
  
  
• Scientists warn of looming water supply crisis
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Why the price of 'peak oil' is famine
  --The Telegraph
  
  
• Wheat Hits Record on Supply Concerns
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Fertiliser famine threats to hit harvests
  --Western Mail
  
  
• Oil Sector's Problem In Replacing Oil Reserves Could Worsen
  --Dow Jones
  
  
• Venezuela to Fight Exxon's $12 Billion Asset Freeze
  --Bloomberg
  
  
• Oil resources at stake in Chad conflict
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Dozens of U.S. banks will fail by 2010: analyst
  --Reuters

1/31/07 - 2/4/08

• 9/11 Commissioner: 'We had to go through Karl Rove'
  --Raw Story
  
  
• British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
  --The Independent
  
  
• MI6 Urged UK to Drop Saudi Inquiry
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• US Qaeda strategy fatally flawed: analysts
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Trains, Bloggers Are Threats in War Game
  --The Associated Press ("Imagined villains include hackers, bloggers and even reporters...")
  
  
• New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways
  --The New York Times
  
  
• "Independent Kosovo", a Territory under US-NATO Military Rule
  --Global Research
  
  
• Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Raise Money, Get Clinton, McCain Meetings
  --ABC News (With Sibel Edmonds in the news, it is interesting to learn from this article that two of Hillary Clinton's "top moneymen," John Merrigan and Matthew "Mac" Bernstein, signed a $100,000-per-month lobbying contract with the Turkish government last March to prevent "the introduction, debate and passage of legislation and other U.S. government action that harms Turkey's interests or image." Here is a copy of the document. --DB)
  
  
• Turkish Parliament Moves to Probe Deep-State Gangs
  --Today's Zaman (Facing blowback from within, Turkish authorities have been forced to act against a sect of the country's underworld. But make no mistake, Turkey's "deep-state" goes much deeper than the recent arrests. The ultimate outcome of the opposition party's push for a probe ought to be interesting. --DB)
  
  
• Internet problems continue with fourth cable break
  --Arabian Business, AFP (Very interesting to learn this was reportedly caused by a power system problem, especially considering the first two outages, contrary to earlier reports, had nothing to do with transport ships. --DB)
  
  
• More than one million Iraqis dead since 2003 invasion: study
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• Contractors Outnumber U.S. Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Six states at “high” risk for voting machine mishaps on Super Tuesday
  --Common Cause
  
  
• Pennsylvania gaming rules designed to benefit politically connected mobsters?
  --The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  
• How Oil Burst the American Bubble
  --Tom Dispatch
  
  
• Exxon, Chevron Post Record Profits
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Changing climate could starve one-fifth of world's population
  --Inter Press Service
  
  
• White House ‘Reviews And Edits’ All Testimony By Government Scientists
  --Think Progress
  
  
• Water troubles in the West may worsen
  --The Los Angeles Times (See also "US drought 'man-made' says study". --DB)
  
  
• Chinese power plants shut down, food prices rise amid severe winter weather
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Wash. D.C. Faces Power Shortages
  --The Washington Post (See related: "Westchester faces energy crisis, study shows". --DB)

1/27/08 - 1/30/08

• Third Cocaine Plane Surfaces and is Tied to Web of Government Connections
  --Narco News
  
  
• CIA Drug Plane Probe Targets 9/11 Figure
  --Mad Cow Morning News
  
  
• Key 9/11 Commission Staffer Held Secret Meetings With Rove, Scaled Back Criticisms of White House
  --Think Progress
  
  
• Timeline: Sibel Edmonds on Marc Grossman
  --Dissident Voice (See also "Sibel Edmonds: 'Buckle up, there's much more coming'". --DB)
  
  
• Greater Use of State Secrets Privilege Spurs Concern
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• Bush trying to sidestep Congress on permanent bases question
  --The Guardian
  
  
• Wolfowitz Returns
  --The Houston Chronicle
  
  
• Official: Weapons for Iraqi forces might land with insurgents
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• FBI targets senior bankers in far-reaching sub-prime fraud inquiry
  --The Times
  
  
• School bus owner paid mob union: FBI
  --The Daily News ("The union has been controlled by the Genovese crime family since the 1970s, helping private bus companies milk the taxpayers and pumping millions into mob pockets.")
  
  
• Why Ethanol Production Will Drive World Food Prices Even Higher in 2008
  --Earth Policy Institute

1/23/07 - 1/26/07

• How the CIA Inflitrated the DEA
  --CounterPunch
  
  
• Valerie Plame's front company leaked in 2001, thwarting nuclear probe
  --The Sunday Times (Lukery has a good summary. --DB)
  
  
• Police Investigate Turkish Deep State Terror
  --Today's Zaman (For more details, check out this 1997 article by Martin A. Lee, recently republished online by Consortium News. --DB)
  
  
• Did Yasin Al Qadi evade sanctions with help of politically connected friends in Turkey?
  --Forbes (See earlier story here. --DB)
  
  
• "U.S. driving through Kosovo independence"
  --B92 (See also "Thaci refuses to apologize for KLA crimes" and "U.N. prosecutor says ex-Kosovo PM approved rape and murder". --DB)
  
  
• Court denies Fla. ex-professor's appeal
  --The Associated Press (Sami al-Arian believes his life would be in danger if he testified. This article may help explain why. --DB)
  
  
• GOP Congressman Tied To Abramoff Will Retire
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• Thought police hunting homegrown terrorists
  --Mother Jones
  
  
• Chips being developed, deployed for potentially intrusive purposes
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• U.S. Cannot Manage Contractors In Wars, Officials Testify on Hill
  --The Washington Post
  
  
• AMS holds Iraqi, U.S. troops responsible for Zanjili attack
  --Voices of Iraq
  
  
• Mosul explosion was controlled demolition…. went wrong
  --Roads to Iraq
  
  
• Iraq: 'US the Biggest Producer of Terror'
  --Inter Press Service
  
  
• Iraq's Maliki urges Sunni Arab bloc to rejoin govt
  --Reuters (Maliki also said he would form a new cabinet if the Sunnis refused to rejoin. If he follows through on his threat, it would be one more step toward the division of the country. --DB)
  
  
• Corporations Reaping Millions as Congo Suffers Deadly Conflict
  --Democracy Now!
  
  
• Review: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
  --Truth Dig
  
  
• Latin America Banks on Independence
  --Information Clearing House
  
  
• Chavez: Columbia, U.S. Plotting Against Venezuela
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Rice stands by ally Colombia in Chavez dispute
  --Reuters
  
  
• Iraq seeks investment in southern oil province
  --Reuters
  
  
• Climate change ‘will lead to warfare over food and water’
  --The Times
  
  
• Arctic ice-cap loss twice the size of France: research
  --Agence France Presse
  
  
• US censors Arctic scientists' findings as it prepares for oil and gas auction
  --The Independent
  
  
• Record power shortage hits China
  --Reuters
  
  
• Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years
  --The Times
  
  
• High oil prices prompt a scramble for Africa
  --Reuters
  
  
• Drought could force nuke-plant shutdowns
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Ethanol emissions twice as bad as gasoline
  --The Wall Street Journal

1/19/07 - 1/22/07

• Al Qaeda and the "War on Terrorism"
  --Global Research
  
  
• The coddled "terrorists" of South Florida
  --Salon (Includes slideshow with commentary from one of the writers. --DB)
  
  
• Congressman to Investigate U.S. Corporations' Support for Colombian Paramilitaries
  --Narco Sphere, El Tiempo
  
  
• Study: False Statements Preceded War
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• When US blames Qaeda for its crimes
  --Press TV (Here is the original AP story from last year. --DB)
  
  
• 3 officers arrested over deadly Kosovo blast
  --The Associated Press
  
  
• Iraqi Police and Army Getting Sidelined by US-Backed Militias
  --Inter Press Service
  
  
• Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told
  --The Guardian
  
  
• FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds spills her secrets
  --The American Conservative
  
  
• Sibel Edmonds: FBI Hiding Document
  --The Sunday Times
  
  
• Audio: Luke Ryland on Sibel Edmonds' latest revelations
  --Antiwar Radio
  
  
• Missing emails match CIA leak case timeline
  --Raw Story
  
  
• Neo-Nazi Threatmaker Accused of Working for FBI
  --Southern Poverty Law Center
  
  
• One Of World's Most Productive Fisheries Under Threat
  --Science Daily
  
  
• FAO sees record world food prices staying
  --Reuters
  
  
• Fury as fuel poverty soars close to a 10-year record
  --The Observer
  
  
• Debate over ethanol heats up in Jamaica as people starve
  --The Sunday Observer
  
  
• Children starve as Zimbabwe's grain goes to make luxury dog food
  --The Scotsman
  
  
• Environment damage of rich countries on poor
  --The Telegraph
  
  
• The Coal Truth on Candidates
  --Huffington Post