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- Are Our Oceans Dying?, Phytoplankton has declined 40% in 60 years. (Daily Mail, 07/29/10)
- UN Declares Water, Sanitation as Human Rights, Access to clean water and sanitation was declared a human right. (Postmedia News, 07/28/10)
- "Beware of the Cowardly Deficit Vulture", It nests with corporations, squawking for tax breaks, bailouts, and military contracts. (Chuck Collins, OtherWords, 07/27/10)
- "The Opposites Game", All the strangeness of our American world in one article. (Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, 07/26/10)
- America's Alternative People's Budget, Proposals for budgets that prioritize the needs of the poor should be taken seriously. (Guardian, 07/25/10)
- Subsea Gulf Oil Plumes Are From BP Well, Researchers definitively link clouds of underwater oil to BP's Deepwater Horizon well. (McClatchy Newspapers, 07/24/10)
- Evacuation Underway as Storm Heads to Gulf Spill Site, A tropical storm forces crews to suspend operations. (Agence France Presse, 07/23/10)
- BP Admits It Photoshopped Official Images, BP admits it photoshopped official images as oil spill Cut and Paste Row escalates. (Telegraph, 07/22/10)
- Fed's Dangerous Culture of Permissiveness, BP's oil spill caused by Fed's dangerous culture of permissiveness. (McClatchy Newspapers, 07/21/10)
- "The Senators Who Gave Us 15 Million Unemployed Want to Deny Them Benefits", They are unemployed because the people who were running the economy were incompetent. (Dean Baker, Huffington Post, 07/20/10)
- "The Real US Government", A tiny elite become more bloated, more powerful, greedier, more corrupt, and more unaccountable. (Glenn Greenwald, Salon, 07/19/10)
- Seepage Detected Near Blown-Out BP Well, Engineers detect seepage on the ocean floor. (Reuters, 07/18/10)
- "Our Planet, Our People are not Expendable!", We refuse to sacrifice life for corporate profits. (Stephanie McMillan, Common Dreams, 07/17/10)
- "Conservatism's Death Gusher", The issue is death. (George Lakoff, Common Dreams, 07/16/10)
- "For the Economy, Help is Not on the Way", The recovery isn't coming. (Ted Rall, Common Dreams, 07/15/10)
- Fears Grow as Millions Lose Jobless Benefits, People will lose their benefits if Congress does nothing. (Reuters, 07/14/10)
- Include Value of Natural Resources in Size of Economies, UN urges new resource accounting. (Reuters, 07/13/10)
- The Case for a New WPA, Why many are calling for a modern incarnation of the Depression-era program. (Yes! Magazine, 07/12/10)
- Oil Spews Unchecked, Oil spews unchecked in effort to cap well. (Associated Press, 07/11/10)
- How to Share Time, When dollars are scarce, timebanks help neighbors swap skills, instead. (Yes! Magazine, 07/10/10)
- Wealthy Reap Rewards While Those Who Work Lose, Life is perfectly rosy for those at the top. (Inter Press Service, 07/09/10)
- EPA Relies Heavily on Industry-Backed Studies, Industry-funded studies that have never been subjected to an independent scientific peer review. (Huffington Post Investigative Fund, 07/08/10)
- The Big Lie, BP and governments downplay public health risk from oil and dispersants. (Huffington Post, 07/07/10)
- Tar Balls in Texas, Tar balls in Texas mean oil hits all 5 Gulf states. (Associated Press, 07/06/10)
- "The Million-Dollar Penny", The ultra-rich are splurging again as the rest of us muddle through the Great Recession. (Sam Pizzigati, OtherWords, 07/05/10)
- "Earthbound", We are a poor nation. (Linh Dinh, Common Dreams, 07/04/10)
- Gulf Oil Spill Likely to Reach Florida Keys, Miami, Shorelines with the greatest chance of being soiled by oil stretch from the Mississippi River Delta to the western Florida Panhandle. (Los Angeles Times, 07/03/10)
- Oil Spills Boost Arsenic Levels in Ocean, Oil spills boost levels of arsenic in seawater by suppressing a natural filter mechanism on the sea bed. (Agence France Presse, 07/02/10)
- "How's That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out For Ya?", What regressive politics means for real people. (David Michael Green, Common Dreams, 07/01/10)
- Gulf Spill Galvanizes Activist Community, Environmental and community activists across the country are taking matters into their own hands. (Inter Press Service, 06/30/10)
- "Why Should We Trust the IMF?", The IMF was strangely quiet during the build-up of the bubble that got us here. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 06/29/10)
- A New Global Architecture Emerges, As Canada's democracy trembles, a new global architecture emerges. (Inter Press Service, 06/28/10)
- "Living in the Petroleum Age", Without a federal government willing to do what is right for its citizens, we will remain swimming in a sea of oil. (Brattleboro Reformer, 06/27/10)
- Time to Give Wall Street the Axe, An end to the free-wheeling capitalist model embodied by Wall Street. (Inter Press Service, 06/26/10)
- BP Accused of Killing Endangered Sea Turtles, BP accused of killing endangered sea turtles in cleanup operation. (Guardian, 06/25/10)
- Hands Across the Sand, This Saturday activists nationwide join hands in opposition to offshore drilling. (Audubon Magazine, 06/24/10)
- Each Day, Another Way to Define Worst-Case for Oil Spill, When you think you've heard the worst-case scenario, there's always another that's even more dire. (Washington Post, 06/23/10)
- American Power Act Fails to Reduce Emissions Enough, American Power Act fails to reduce emissions enough to avoid catastrophic climate change. (Common Dreams, 06/22/10)
- BP Was Told of Oil Safety Fault 'Weeks Before Blast', A Deepwater Horizon rig worker identified a leak in the oil rig's safety equipment weeks before the explosion. (BBC News, 06/21/10)
- BP CEO's Yacht Outing Infuriates Gulf Residents, Hayward jets back to England to attend an exclusive yachting competition. (Associated Press, 06/20/10)
- Obama Officials Still Approving Flawed Gulf Drilling Plans, Federal regulators continue to approve plans for oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico with minimal or no environmental analysis. (McClatchy Newspapers, 06/19/10)
- Using Dispersants on the BP Gulf Oil Spill, Is using dispersants on the BP Gulf oil spill fighting pollution with pollution? (Scientific America, 06/18/10)
- "Tax the Wall Street Casino", A growing global 'people power' campaign behind financial speculation taxes. (Chuck Collins, Common Dreams, 06/17/10)
- “BP is a Corporate Criminal", Imagine how the authorities would be treating the offender, if BP were a person. (Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate, 06/16/10)
- "Gulf Oil Spill", What Obama is overlooking. (Dan Froomkin, Huffington Post, 06/15/10)
- Obama's Treasury Dept Working to Defeat Proposal to Reform Wall Street, It shows the access of the major Wall Street banks in the Treasury Department. (Huffington Post, 06/14/10)
- "Is There a Global War Between Financial Theocracy and Democracy?", Senate and House conferees are about to reconcile a bill that is designed to institutionalize 'too big to fail'. (Les Leopold, Huffington Post, 06/13/10)
- "The Spill, The Scandal and the President", It was a bargain with the devil. (Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 06/12/10)
- BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence, BP is using federal agencies to shield itself from public accountability. (Huffington Post, 06/11/10)
- "First, Do No Harm", Those in power mostly have no idea what they are doing. (Robert C. Koehler, Common Dreams, 06/10/10)
- BP's Continued Denial of Underwater Plumes Provokes Ridicule, The scientific community is hamstrung until they know precisely how much oil and gas has leaked and is leaking from the wellhead. (Huffington Post, 06/09/10)
- Global Index Finds World has Become Less Peaceful, The Global Peace Index records increasing rates of homicide and violent crime across the world. (Guardian, 06/08/10)
- Renewables Can Create 8.5 Million Jobs, Greenpeace says that switching to renewable energy sources could create 8.5 million jobs. (Economic Times, 06/07/10)
- Polluted Justice, Many Gulf federal judges have oil links. (Associated Press, 06/06/10)
- "Planning for Disaster", Where is the emergency planning? (Ralph Nader, Common Dreams, 06/05/10)
- Oil's Gruesome Toll on Wildlife Slowly Emerging, Images and reports of oil-drenched wildlife that's dead or slowly dying are starting to emerge. (USA Today, 06/04/10)
- "Yes, Obama is 'Engaged' – in a Colossal Crime", History will mark 2010 as the year a servile political operative in the White House exposed the seabed to deep defilement by the oil colossus. (Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report, 06/03/10)
- Lawsuit Seeks Full Disclosure of Dispersant Impacts, Lawsuit seeks full disclosure of dispersant impacts on Gulf's endangered wildlife. (Common Dreams, 06/02/10)
- Storm Warning for Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Clean-Up, Specialists working to contain BP disaster dealt new blow by opening of Gulf of Mexico hurricane season. (Guardian, 06/01/10)
- Obama and BP Warn of Risks in Oil Spill 'Open Heart Surgery', BP prepares for a last-ditch salvage operation that risks making the gush of crude into the Gulf of Mexico even heavier. (Guardian, 05/31/10)
- Oil to Spill into Gulf for at Least Two More Months, The spill is the biggest environmental disaster in US history. (Telegraph, 05/30/10)
- 'Top Kill' has Failed to Stop Gulf Oil Leak, BP abandons its most recent effort to contain its well. (McClatchy Newspapers, 05/29/10)
- Gulf Oil Spill is Public Health Risk, Pollution could do lasting damage to locals' health. (Guardian, 05/28/10)
- Cleanup Boats Sent to Shore After More Workers Get Sick, Vessels working to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ordered back to shore. (ProPublica, 05/27/10)
- Unchecked Oil Flow Would Cause Disaster 'Heretofore Unseen by Humanity', Oil could keep flowing from the broken undersea well for a very long time. (The Hill, 05/26/10)
- "Oil Follies in the Arctic", The future can be painfully predictable. (Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, 05/25/10)
- Gulf Oil Spill, Similar disaster could occur in Arctic later this year. (Telegraph, 05/24/10)
- BP Refuses EPA Order to Switch to Less-Toxic Oil Dispersant, Tensions mount over how to treat the spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (Los Angeles Times, 05/23/10)
- Case for Saving Species 'More Powerful Than Climate Change', The economic case for global action to stop the destruction of the natural world. (Guardian, 05/22/10)
- Low Estimate of Oil Spill's Size Could Save BP Millions in Court, BP's estimate could save the company millions of dollars in damages. (McClatchy Newspapers, 05/21/10)
- "The Financial Crisis as Three Card Monte", You always think you are going to win until you lose. (Danny Schechter, Common Dreams, 05/20/10)
- GOP Running Out Clock on Wall Street Reform, Senate Republicans are running out the clock on Wall Street reform. (Huffington Post, 05/19/10)
- "Politicians Ignore Keynes at Their Peril", The outcome of this story is not pretty. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 05/18/10)
- ADHD in Kids Tied to Produce Pesticides, Children exposed to pesticides could have a higher risk of ADHD. (Reuters, 05/17/10)
- "Will They Get Fooled Again?", The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board deceives Congress to advance the interests of the big banks. (Dean Baker, Huffington Post, 05/16/10)
- "A Humbling Experience in One of Africa's Largest Slums", Fighting hunger. (George McGovern, Huffington Post, 05/15/10)
- Gulf Spill Could Be Much Worse Than Believed, The amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico is far greater than official estimates suggest. (NPR, 05/14/10)
- Oil Firms Ignored Warning Signs, Oil firms ignored warning signs before blast. (Guardian, 05/13/10)
- "As We Die for BP, Our Military Rots in the Wrong Gulf", The life of our bodies, nation, and planet is being blown out a corporate hole in the Gulf of Mexico and into a Dead Zone of no return. (Harvey Wasserman, Common Dreams, 05/12/10)
- Senate OKs Fed Audit as Part of Bank Overhaul, The Senate unanimously approves a measure to expose the details of the emergency lending during the financial crisis. (Reuters, 05/11/10)
- "The White House Should Stop Pandering to the Street", The White House should stop pandering to the Street and support three critical banking reforms. (Robert Reich, TPM, 05/10/10)
- "All Earth is Alive and Akin", Objectification is a major obstacle to peace and justice on this bleeding planet. (Ed Kinane, Common Dreams, 05/09/10)
- "Was the Market Pushed?", How come our casino went batty? (Danny Schechter, Common Dreams, 05/08/10)
- Case is Made vs. US Marriage Law, Court hears gay group's challenge. (Boston Globe, 05/07/10)
- Feds Let BP Avoid Filing Blowout Plan for Gulf Rig, BP didn't file a plan to handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout. (Associated Press, 05/06/10)
- Frenzy to Protect Shores, Islands From US Oil Slick, Emergency crews rush to protect shorelines and islands as the Gulf of Mexico oil slick expands. (Agence France Presse, 05/05/10)
- Calls for Drilling Ban, Deepwater Horizon oil spill sparks calls for $10bn levy on BP and drilling ban. (Guardian, 05/04/10)
- Scientist Doesn't See a Way, Scientist doesn't see a way for preventing oil from reaching Florida Keys. (Associated Press, 05/03/10)
- Oil Spill May Be Five Times Bigger Than Previously Thought, Oil is feared to be gushing into the Gulf of Mexico at five times the latest estimate of the US Coastguard. (The Telegraph, 05/02/10)
- Fears for Crops, Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe. (The Observer, 05/02/10)
- Deepwater Horizon, Conservationists warn of 'true catastrophe' for wildlife. (Guardian, 05/01/10)
- Dems Spark Alarm with Call for National ID Card, Senate Democratic leaders propose requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information within the next six years. (The Hill, 04/30/10)
- 5 Green Groups Declare Senate Climate Bill 'Unacceptable', Five national environmental groups declare the Senate climate and energy bill 'unacceptable'. (SolveClimate, 04/29/10)
- Call for Hike in Global Water Price, Economic and corporate powers call for hike in global water price. (Guardian, 04/28/10)
- "Wall Street Reform", A big flop for the big lie strategy? (People for the American Way, Common Dreams, 04/27/10)
- GM Crops Go to US High Court, The US Supreme Court hears arguments in its first case involving genetically modified crops. (Inter Press Service, 04/26/10)
- Thousands Rally for Spanish Judge Garzon, Thousands rally across 28 Spanish cities to protest the trial of judge Baltasar Garzon. (Agence France Presse, 04/25/10)
- Vermont Begins Designing 'Single-Payer' System, Vermont legislature votes to begin designing 'single-payer' system. (Associated Press, 04/24/10)
- Whaling Plan Draws Anger From Green Groups, Hunting would continue on the endangered fin whale. (BBC News, 04/23/10)
- Murder By Spreadsheet, Health Care for America Now charges WellPoint with murder. (FireDogLake, 04/22/10)
- Reclaiming Earth Day, With climate chaos on the horizon, the environmental movement needs traction. (Indypendent, 04/22/10)
- Senators Introduce 'Too Big To Fail' Amendment, Brown and Kaufman introduce The Safe Banking Act of 2010. (FireDogLake, 04/21/10)
- Farm Workers Fight for an Extra Cent and Human Rights, A call on the Publix supermarket chain to pay an extra penny to the impoverished workers who pick their tomatoes. (Inter Press Service, 04/20/10)
- The Fall of Goldman Sachs?, Goldman's in serious, class-action lawsuit kind of trouble. (FireDogLake, 04/19/10)
- Goldman Case is Likely Tip of the Legal Iceberg, The allegations will kick off a new era of litigation that could entangle Goldman and other banks for years to come. (Associated Press, 04/18/10)
- Innovative Path Toward Green Jobs, Evergreen Cooperatives forge an innovative path toward high-quality green jobs. (Apollo News Service, 04/17/10)
- A Second Garbage Patch, Plastic soup seen in Atlantic. (Associated Press, 04/16/10)
- Face to Face with the Dirty Coal CEOs, An opportunity to confront the bad guys. (It's Getting Hot in Here, 04/15/10)
- Obama's Mortgage Aid Plan Wastes Billions, The program is wasting billions of taxpayer dollars simply to delay foreclosures. (ABC News, 04/14/10)
- US Researchers Replicate Photosynthesis, Breakthrough as US researchers replicate photosynthesis in laboratory. (Independent, 04/13/10)
- 'Food Hero' Says to Value Soil, Not Oil, Factory farms extend reach of global hunger crisis. (South Bend Tribune, 04/12/10)
- Tribes of Amazon Find an Ally Out of 'Avatar', Cameron speaks out against the looming environmental destruction endangering indigenous groups around the world. (New York Times, 04/11/10)
- Missed Chance to Get Tougher on Unsafe Mines, The Obama Administration missed chance to get tougher on unsafe mines. (Huffington Post, 04/10/10)
- More Banker Outrage, Protesters plan marches on Wall Street banks. (ABC News, 04/09/10)
- Cop Explains How Police Gunned Down Unarmed Civilians, New Orleans cop explains how police gunned down unarmed civilians in post-Katrina incident. (TPM, 04/08/10)
- Climate Justice Movement , From Copenhagen to Cochabamba. (Inter Press Service, 04/07/10)
- Economist's Cry: Break Up the Banks!, The need to break up the United States' largest banks. (CNN, 04/06/10)
- Alarm Over 'Payday Loans' at Mainstream Banks, Watchdog group raises alarm over 'payday loans' at mainstream banks. (Washington Independent, 04/05/10)
- "Food, Inc.", The tyranny of a corporate controlled economy. (Ernest A. Canning, BradBlog, 04/04/10)
- More Than 200,000 to Lose Jobless Benefits, More than 200,000 to lose jobless benefits Monday with Congress out. (The Hill, 04/03/10)
- What's Driving Up Oil Prices Again?, Wall Street, of course. (McClatchy Newspapers, 04/02/10)
- Expansive Role of Federal Reserve in Wall Street Bailout, $4.6 trillion spent on the bailout to date. (Bankster, 04/01/10)
- Obama Approves Offshore Drilling, Barack Obama reverses his campaign promise and approves offshore drilling. (Guardian, 03/31/10)
- US Oil Company Donated Millions to Climate Skeptic Groups, A Greenpeace investigation identifies a US oil company as the paymaster of global warming skeptics in the US and Europe. (Guardian, 03/30/10)
- Big Pharma Wins Big With Health Care Reform Bill, Chalk one up for the pharmaceutical lobby. (Associated Press, 03/29/10)
- Developers Bet the Organic Farm, The hot new 'amenity' being offered to residents of new subdivisions is a working farm. (Washington Post, 03/28/10)
- Bank of America, Wells Fargo Probably Won't Pay Income Tax for 2009, It appears that neither bank will have to pay federal income taxes for 2009. (Charlotte Observer, 03/27/10)
- Beware, Economist who foretold first housing bubble says, 'Beware'. (CEPR, 03/26/10)
- Protestors Demand Bank of America Freeze Foreclosures, 60 people stage five days of anti-corporate power protests. (KMOX, 03/25/10)
- "The Weight of the Poor", A strategy to end poverty. (Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, Common Dreams, 03/24/10)
- Why Fannie and Freddie Continue to Cost Taxpayers Billions, A look at their past and recent financial filings shows why their losses continue to mount. (Huffington Post Investigative Fund, 03/23/10)
- At Least It Is a Start, While I think it's a cruddy bill, at least it is a start. (Independent, 03/22/10)
- Unclean Water Claims More Lives Than War, Unsafe water kills more people than war plus all other forms of violence combined. (Environment News Service, 03/22/10)
- 36 States Take Aim to Block Healthcare Plan, Momentum is growing in many states to pass laws to block the healthcare reform legislation changes. (Reuters, 03/21/10)
- Sanders Drops Push for Public Option, Sanders and Merkley shelve amendment in exchange for assurances the proposal will be resurrected later. (Burlington Free Press, 03/20/10)
- FDIC Chief Sees 'Backdoor Bailouts' in Senate Bill, The Senate's regulatory reform bill allows for backdoor bailouts of the largest financial firms. (Reuters, 03/19/10)
- "Zero Public Option + One Mandate = Disaster", The current healthcare bill would require that everyone get health coverage from the private insurance industry. (Norman Solomon, Common Dreams, 03/18/10)
- Great Threat to Europe's Small Creatures, Climate change and habitat loss pose great threat to Europe's small creatures. (Irish Times, 03/17/10)
- The Biggest Dump in the World, The Great Pacific Waste Patch keeps getting bigger and it could be poisoning us all. (Telegraph, 03/16/10)
- Senate Financial Reform Bill Boosts Fed, The Federal Reserve would gain new powers under a new bill. (Reuters, 03/15/10)
- Obama's Education Reform Push is Bad Education Policy, Choice, competition, and accountability as education reform levers are not working. (Los Angeles Times, 03/14/10)
- UN Appeal for Haitian Quake Relief Only Half Funded, Two months after earthquake in Haiti, the revised humanitarian appeal for the country is only 49 percent funded. (03/13/10)
- The 'Public Option': Democrats' Scam Becomes More Transparent, Once reconciliation gave them the opportunity they claimed all year long they needed, they began concocting ways to ensure that it lacked 50 votes. (Glenn Greenwald, Salon, 03/12/10)
- Senators Target Wall Street, Senators target Wall Street with Goldman Sachs in mind. (Huffington Post, 03/11/10)
- Land Grabbing in Latin America, Farmland in Latin America has been taken over by foreign investors. (GRAIN, 03/10/10)
- "Kucinich's Health Reform Dissents Merit Consideration", What Kucinich is proposing should be in the bill. (John Nichols, The Nation, 03/09/10)
- "Blame It on the Bubble", The financial crisis is just a sideshow. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 03/08/10)
- The Shocking Truth About Tasers, The slow creep of arms onto the streets. (Daily Mail, 03/07/10)
- "In the Shadow of Power", The two cities of wealth and poverty in Washington, DC. (Ralph Nader, Common Dreams, 03/06/10)
- Top Ten Ways to Crack Down on Corporate Financial Crime, Bill Black's top ten ways to crack down on corporate financial crime. (Corporate Crime Reporter, 03/05/10)
- "Health Insurance Industry's $300 Billion Victory Over the Public Option", If the private insurance companies stop a public option, it will provide them with an extra $300 billion of our money. (Jon Walker, FireDogLake, 03/04/10)
- Another Financial Crisis on the Way, Another crisis is looming. (ABC News, 03/03/10)
- New Ghost Towns, Industrial communities teeter on the edge. (USA Today, 03/02/10)
- "Empire, Oligarchy and Democracy", Where are 'We the People'? (Ralph Nader, Common Dreams, 03/01/10)
- "Ending Private Insurers' Chokehold on Health Care", Health care is an entitlement. (Pierre Tristam, News-Journal, 02/28/10)
- Giant Antarctic Iceberg Could Affect Global Ocean Circulation, Ice broken off glacier may decrease oxygen supply for marine life in the area. (Guardian, 02/27/10)
- The Power of Local, Local businesses are educating communities, changing economic policies, and outperforming chain competitors. (Yes! Magazine, 02/26/10)
- Obama May Compromise on Consumer Agency, Obama may compromise on Consumer Agency to please bankers. (Washington Post, 02/25/10)
- "Obama Plan Leaves Millions Uninsured", Obama plan leaves millions uninsured and boosts private insurers. (Physicians for National Health Program, Common Dreams, 02/24/10)
- "Do Not Resuscitate the Public Option", Another world is possible – Medicare-for-all. (Andy Coates, Common Dreams, 02/23/10)
- Gov't Sued Over Cell Phone Tracking, A court case that could decide whether the government can use your cell phone to track you. (Inter Press Service, 02/22/10)
- "Wall Street's Bailout Hustle", Big banks are re-creating the conditions for another crash. (Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 02/21/10)
- Bad Economies in States to Worsen, The already gloomy conditions of states' economies are set to worsen. (Reuters, 02/20/10)
- Rhode Island's Jobless Tell Different Story About 'Recovery', The trickle of positive economic data coming out of Washington is cold comfort. (McClatchy Newspapers, 02/19/10)
- World's Top Firms Cause $2.2 Trillion of Environmental Damage, No one is made to pay for the use, loss, and damage of the environment. (Guardian, 02/18/10)
- Five Reasons NOT to Invest in Nuclear Power, Take a closer look at these five reasons. (Huffington Post, 02/17/10)
- "Obama and the 'Savvy' Bankers", The success of banks comes at the expense of taxpayers and a productive economy. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 02/16/10)
- "Dollars for Death, Pennies for Life", No shortage of bombs in Afghanistan and a lethal shortage of tents in Haiti. (Norman Solomon, Common Dreams, 02/15/10)
- "Climate Catastrophe", Surviving the 21st Century. (Ronnie Cummins and Will Allen, Common Dreams, 02/14/10)
- Obama's Chance to Be Next FDR or Reagan Fading Fast, Obama's quest is disintegrating. (McClatchy Newspapers, 02/13/10)
- "Empire of the Sunset", The US is rapidly becoming a failed state. (Randall Amster, Common Dreams, 02/12/10)
- "The New Deal in Reverse", How the Obama Administration ended up where Franklin Roosevelt began. (Steve Fraser, TomDispatch, 02/11/10)
- Putting a Value on Nature, Putting a value on nature could set the scene for true green economy. (Guardian, 02/10/10)
- Fighting Off Looters in the Ruins, Reckless greed on Wall Street is a dog-bites-man story. (Inter Press Service, 02/09/10)
- Wall St. Sends Cash to GOP, The industry's campaign to thwart Obama's proposals for tighter financial regulations. (New York Times, 02/08/10)
- "Just Gimme Some Truth", The layers of the American political pathology are so deep. (David Michael Green, Common Dreams, 02/07/10)
- Violence Against Women is a Global Struggle, The International Violence Against Women Act was introduced this week. (Boston Globe, 02/06/10)
- "The Lynch Mob Mentality", The authoritarian mentality is stronger than ever now. (Glenn Greenwald, Salon, 02/05/10)
- US Banks, Lobbyists Abetting Corrupt Regimes, US banks, lawyers, real estate and escrow agents hide the origins of funds belonging to foreign government officials. (Inter Press Service, 02/04/10)
- Breaking Up Banks is Crucial Element, Consumer groups urge Congress to break up the biggest banks. (Raw Story, 02/03/10)
- "Single Payer Solution for Obama", A better approach to health care reform. (MN Senator John Marty, Common Dreams, 02/02/10)
- CIA Operatives Moonlight in Corporate World, Financial firms and hedge funds have access to the nation's top-level intelligence talent. (Politico, 02/01/10)
- Leaks Imperil Nuclear Industry, Vermont Yankee among troubled. (Boston Globe, 01/31/10)
- US Suspends Haitian Airlift in Cost Dispute, The United States suspends its medical evacuations of critically injured Haitian earthquake victims until a dispute over who will pay for their care is settled. (New York Times, 01/30/10)
- "This Corruption in Washington is Smothering America's Future", How do you regulate banks effectively, if the Senate is owned by Wall Street? (Johann Hari, Independent, 01/29/10)
- California Senate Passes Medicare for All Legislation, New energy for healthcare reform after national bills stall. (Common Dreams, 01/28/10)
- North America's Long Winter of Discontent, Larceny and greed have brought a jobs crisis. (Inter Press Service, 01/27/10)
- US Households Struggle to Afford Food, Nearly one in five US households ran out of money to buy enough food at least once during 2009. (Reuters, 01/26/10)
- "Haiti is Bleeding ...", So too is Afghanistan, Iraq and the Arizona desert. (Roberto Rodriguez, Common Dreams, 01/25/10)
- "Occupation in Humanitarian Clothing", Our government only knows how to occupy when it comes to international affairs. (Jesse Hagopian, Common Dreams, 01/24/10)
- "They Still Don't Get It", The nation is suffering through the worst economy since the Depression. (Bob Herbert, New York Times, 01/23/10)
- "Revisiting The Shock Doctrine", Revisiting The Shock Doctrine in the wake of the Haiti disaster. (Naomi Klein, Common Dreams, 01/22/10)
- "Whose Rights? Challenging Corporate Power", A new Supreme Court decision promotes corporate rights at the expense of the rights of citizens. (Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil, Yes! Magazine, 01/21/10)
- "Whistleblower Reveals How Health Insurers Can Game New Insurance Bill", Senate bill still allows insurance companies to create 'pre-existing' categories to raise rates. (Brad Jacobson, Raw Story, 01/20/10)
- "Profiting from Haiti's Crisis", Disaster capitalism in Washington's backyard. (Benjamin Dangl, Toward Freedom, 01/19/10)
- "Fear as a Money Machine", A country programmatically gripped by fear. (Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, 01/18/10)
- "Why the US Owes Haiti Billions", The briefest history. (Bill Quigley, Common Dreams, 01/17/10)
- "The Financial Black Box", What's still hidden in AIG's files? (Ben Protess, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, 01/16/10)
- Arctic Permafrost Leaking Methane, Arctic permafrost leaking methane at record levels. (Guardian, 01/15/10)
- "The United States, Israel and the Retreat of Freedom", The world is suffering from a 'freedom recession'. (Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 01/14/10)
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