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February 1-3, 2008
Dozens dead in double female suicide attack
Stuff
 
Another Al Queda No. 3…
Steve Benen
Washington Monthly
 
Researchers make startling HIV discovery
IOL
 
What Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! means for the economy and for Google
Daniel Gross
Slate
 
Cheney Pushes For Telecom Immunity
Think Progress
 
An Uncomfortable Spotlight in Davos
Pratap Chatterjee
CorpWatch
 
Clinton’s Right Response to Romney’s “CEO President” Fantasy
John Nichols
The Nation
 
Democracy, Fear, and the War on the Middle Class
Sara Robinson
Campaign for America’s Future
 
Should it be illegal to point?
Mathew Ingram
Ingram 2.0
 
Copyright law should distinguish between commercial and cultural uses
Cory Doctorow
The Guardian
 
Ann Coulter Will Campaign For Hillary (If It's McCain)
Jezebel


February 4, 2008
Bush Unveils $3.1 Trillion Spending Plan
Martin Crutsinger
AP
 
Pentagon Seeks Record Le
vel in 2009 Budget
Thom Shanker
The New York Times
 
Clinton's '35 years of change' omits most of her career
Matt Stearns
McClatchy Newspapers
 
McCain is Now the Neo-Con Candidate
Jim Lobe
Lobelog

Obama, Clinton & GOP Attack Machine
Robert Parry
Consortium News
 
Nuclear interests pull a big switch
Dan Morain and Maloy Moore
Los Angeles Times
 
U.S. Says It Accidentally Killed 9 Iraqi Civilians
Solomon Moore and Qais Mizher
The New York Times
 
Berlin Rejects Washington Call for Troops on Taliban Front
Spiegel
 
Bush inaction guts privacy oversight board
Nick Juliano
The Raw Story
 
A Strike in the Dark
Seymour M. Hersh
The New Yorker
 
Were Baghdad's Female Suicide Bombers Mentally Retarded?
Walter C. Uhler


February 5, 2008
The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Jap
an
Kathy Marks and Daniel Howden
The Independent
 
Turkish planes bomb Kurdish rebel targets in Iraq
Shamal Aqrawi
Reuters
 
It Depends on What Meaning of "Win" Wins
Marty Kaplan
The Huffington Post
 
With Little Notice, Leahy Pushes Through Repeal of a Scary Bush Power Grab
Odum
Democratic Underground
 
Iraq accuses Iran of stealing its oil
UPI
 
Baghdad drowning in sewage: Iraqi official
AFP
 
Federal judge rebuts Bush's order
China View
 
Bush's border security plans draw praise, complaints
Richard S. Dunham
Houston Chronicle
 
EU 'should ban inefficient cars'
Roger Harrabin
BBC News


February 6, 2008
The Five Lessons from Super Tuesday
Amanda Ripley 
Time

 
Obama claims delegate lead
Mike Allen
Politico
 
Senate GOP Will Not Move on FISA Until Agreement on Stimulus Procedures
Tim Starks
CQ

Bush to veto surveillance bill without telecom immunity: Mukasey letter
Caitlin Price
Jurist
 
What a long way we've come
Paul Kiel
TPM Muckraker
 
Islamic banks shielded from subprime
Reuters
 
Political gloom surrounds Pakistan as vote nears
Tim Johnson
McClatchy Newspapers
 
U.S. Economy: Service Industries Unexpectedly Shrank
Shobhana Chandra
Bloomberg
 
The Legacy of Bush II
Robert Scheer
TruthDig
 
The Tyranny of Super-Delegates
Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Nation
 
'Adultery' sisters to be stoned to death in Iran
Telegraph
 
Taser to sell pump-action stun-shotguns for long-range targets
Examiner


February 7, 2008
Waterboarding is legal, White House says
Greg Miller
Los Angele
s Times
 
What Do You Say Now, John McCain?
Balkinization
 
C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes as Judge Sought Interrogation Data
Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane
The New York Times
 
China still first choice of multinationals for R&D
MCOT
 
Swallow
NPR Check
 
Romney suspends presidential campaign
Liz Sidoti
Yahoo! News
 
In search for foreign intelligence, spies turn to YouTube, MySpace, blogs
Nick Juliano
The Raw Story
 
Injecting 'Terror' into Campaign 2008
Robert Parry
Consortium News
 
The next president should open up the Bush Administration's record
Steven Aftergood
Nieman Watchdog
 
Scientists aglow over drug for radiation poisoning
Eric Berger
The Houston Chronicle
 
With iPhone, 'Security' Is Code for 'Control'
Bruce Schneier
Wired


February 8-10, 2008
Assault looms on Iraq's 'worst place'
Crispin Thorold
BBC News

 
Corporations Given 'Human Rights,' Humans are Denied Them
Jeffrey Kaplan
New American Media
 
The FBI Deputizes Business
Matthew Rothschild
The Progressive
 
Great Lakes Danger Zones?
Sheila Kaplan
Center for Public Integrity
 
Pictures reveal truth about Japan's 'scientific' whaling
Michael McCarthy,
The Independent
 
Mukasey: No, I Will Not Enforce Citations for Contempt of Congress
Paul Kiel
TPM Muckracker
 
Mittpocalypse Now
TPMtv
Video Clip of the Day
 
McCain booed at CPAC

smintheus
Daily Kos
 
Waterboarders for God
Ray McGovern
Consortium News
 
The Recovery Plan America Needs
Robert Kuttner
The American Propect
        
Pentagon Plots Sim Iraq for Propaganda Tests
Noah Shachtman
Wired
 
Getting Past the '60s? It's Not Going to Happen.
Rick Perlstein
The Washington Post


February 11, 2008
Bush orders clampdown on flights to US

Ian Traynor
The Guardian

 
Chavez Threatens US Oil Cutoff      
Sandra Seirra
Breitbart
 
Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning
Michael R. Gordon
The New York Times
 
America's Sunni allies go on strike in Iraq's Diyala province
Steve Lannen
McClatchy Newspapers
 
Iraq: More Bombing Creates New Enemies
Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
IPS
 
Contractor deaths up 17 percent across Iraq in 2007
David Ivanovich
The Houston Chronicle
 
Shadowy tactics of US troops in Iraq
Richard Luscombe
The Scotsman
 
Bush's military spending binge
George C. Wilson
Nieman Watchdog
 
Lessons for Barack Obama
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
CounterPunch
 
Huckabee 'Not Ready to Concede’
Brad Friedman
Bradblog
 
Ultimate gadget: time machines are here now?
Tech Radar
 
What's Your Doomsday?
Jennifer Fisher Wilson
The Smart Set
 
The War Against Tolerance
Chris Hedges
TruthDig
 
The worst thing that's ever been said about Chelsea Clinton
Will Bunch
Philadelphia Daily News
 

  February 12, 2008
Senate Moves to Shield Phone Companies on Eavesdropping
Eric Lichtblau
The New York Times
 

9/11 death penalty trial could create 'nightmare scenario'
CNN
 
9/11 Guantanamo trials unlikely before Bush leaves office
Carol Rosenberg and Nancy A. Youssef
McClatchy Newspapers
 
Sen. Webb Suggests Legal Action Against Bush on Iraq
Sam Stein
Huffington Post
 
Air Force: $144 Billion a Year Not Enough
Noah Shachtman
Wired
 
GM offers workers buyouts as posts loss
Kevin Krolicki and David Bailey
Reuters
 
Snow Reveals ‘80 Percent’ Of Bush’s Advisers Opposed Iraq Surge
Think Progress
 
Postcard: Peshawar
Time
Aryn Baker

February 13, 2008
Fraud crackdown comes with a loophole
Lara Jakes Jordon

Seattle Post Intelligencer
 
Justice Scalia defends torture
Stephen Soldz
Psyche, Science, and Society
 
Obama Steals Clinton's Base
David Corn and Jonathan Stein
Mother Jones
 
Aboard the Condoleezza Rice
Robert Scheer
TruthDig
 
Venezuela Halts Oil Sales to Exxon Mobil
AP
 
Inequality and the sub-prime crisis
Henry Banta
Nieman Watchdog
 
Fighting Terrorism with Mother Nature's Help
Red Orbit
 
When Incest Is Best: Kissing Cousins Have More Kin
Nikhil Swaminathan
Scientific American
 
Chairman Mao proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to US
The Raw Story
 
Food Politics, Half-Baked
James E. McWilliams
The New York Times


February 14, 2008
Senate Votes to Give Immunity to Telecom Companies: Hillary Clinton Skips Vote
Jonathan Turley

 
House Holds Bush Confidants in Contempt
Julie Hirschfield Davis
My Way
 
White House to veto Senate ban on waterboarding
AFP
 
US: No permanent bases anywhere in the world
AFP
 
U.S. holding Baghdad hospital official in bombings
Steve Lannen
McClatchy Newspapers
 
Iraqi lawmakers pass 3 key bills
Raheem Salman and Alexandra Zavis
Los Angeles Times
 
Panel Cites Drop in U.S. Attention to Nuclear Arsenal
Walter Pincus
The Washington Post
 
Antiwar Candidate Donna Edwards Defeats Incumbent Rep. Albert Wynn in Key Maryland Primary
Democracy Now!
 
McCain Adviser Won't Fight Obama
ABC News
 
R.I.'s Lincoln Chafee endorses Barack Obama
John McCormick
The Baltimore Sun
 
Fox News Radio's Tom Sullivan aired "side-by-side comparison" of speeches by Hitler and Obama
Media Matters


February 15-17, 2008
House Leaves Surveillance Law to Expire
Carl Hulse
The New York Times / TruthOut
 

U.S. vows to pay for damage caused by satellite
Stephanie Nebehay
Reuters
 
Lieberman Defends Waterboarding: It’s ‘Not Like Putting Burning Coa
ls On People’s Bodies’
Think Progress
 
Citigroup Stops Withdrawals from Hedge Fund
CNBC
 
Bush Administration Hides More Data, Shuts Down Website Tracking U.S. Economic Indicators
Think Progress
 
Bush’s confounding confusion on surveillance law
The Carpetbagger Report
Steve Benen
 
Broadband decision affirmed
Kristen Hays
The Houston Chronicle
 
Steroid Circus on Capital Hill
Dave Zirin
The Nation
 
Finders, keepers
Drake Bennett

The Boston Globe
 
First order for pet dog cloning
BBC News


February 18, 2008
Picnic site blast kills over 80 Afghans
Ismail Sameem and Mirwais Afghan
Reuters

 
Fasten Your Seatbelts for Pakistan’s Elections
China Matters
 
Awakening Discontent In Iraq
Cernig
The Newshoggers
 
HSUS Investigation Leads to Largest Beef Recall in U.S. History
The Humane Society of the United States
 
Lack of MRAPs Cost Marine Lives
Richard Lardner
My Way
 
CIA's ambitious post-9/11 spy plan crumbles
Greg Miller
Los Angeles Times
 
Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald's 'Kill JFK' Plans Revealed!
Wonkette
 
The Reconquest of Cool
Adbusters
Kalle Lasn
 
The Dumbing Of America
Susan Jacoby
The Washington Post
 
The Natural History of the Only Child
Carl Zimmer
Wired


February 19, 2008
Musharraf's Party Roundly Defeated
Juan C
ole
Informed Co
mment
 
Castro steps down as Cuban leader
BBC News
 
Top court won't review Bush domestic spying case
James Vicini
Reuters
 
US banks borrow $50bn via new Fed facility
Gillian Tett
Financial Times
 
The Bonus Army
Fred Kaplan
Slate
 
South Texas Hornet's Nest
Land of Enchantment
Daily Kos
 
Bush Dismisses Iraq Recession: The War Has ‘Nothing To Do With The Economy’
Think Progress
 


February 20, 2008
Rigged Trials at Gitmo
Ross Tuttle

The Nation

 
Nato troops called in as mobs torch checkpoints on Kosovan border
Catherine Philp
The Times
 
Sioux Manufacturing: It's Not Just the Kevlar (It's the MRAPs, Too)
Brandon Friedman
Vet Voice
 
Pakistan Turns Scary for Bush’s War on Terror
Juan Cole
Salon / Common Dreams
 
Supply Fears Push Oil to Triple Digits
Clifford Krauss
The New York Times
 
With Fidel Gone, Will Cuba Become a Global Ethanol Player?
Chuck Squatriglia
Wired
 
On Cuba: Real Differences Bewtween Obama and Clinton
John Nichols
The Nation
 
Defense contractor sentenced to 12 years in prison for bribing congressman
Kiely Lewandowski
Jurist
 
Why Most Published Research Findings are False
Alex Tabarrok
Marginal Revolution
 
Obama Defends Wife Over 'Pride' Remark
The Huffington Post

  February 21, 2008
Why John McCain Owes The New York Times a Thank You Card

Marc Cooper
The Huffington Post
 
Worse than Watergate: Bush scores lowest presidential approval rating EVER!
Will Bunch
Philadelphia Daily News
 
John McCain: Bush should veto CIA fifth-degree bill
Mark Silva
The Swamp
 
Group Claims Iran Speeding Up Nuke Plans
Raf Casert
My Way
 
China paper accuses U.S. of hypocrisy in space
Reuters
 
U.S. Payments To Pakistan Face New Scrutiny
Robin Wright
The Washington Post
 
Slavery Ties: Bush's Long-Held 'Family Secret'
Jennifer Millman
Diversity, Inc.
 
Files for Suicide Bombers Show No Down Syndrome
Richard A. Oppel, Jr.
The New York Times
 
Is the spectrum just too complex for reporters?
J.H. Snider
Nieman Watchdog
 
Under pressure, feds will keep economic indicator Web site open
Heather Havenstein
Computerworld

February 22-24, 2008
GOP Congressman and Key McCain Ally Indicted
The Nation
 
Turkish troops e
nter north Iraq
BBC News
 
US braces for diplomatic backlash after rendition flight fiasco with Britain
International Herrald Tribune
 
New Pakistan Coalition To Reinstate Chief Justice
Cernig
The Newshoggers
 
Belgrade's Burning
Mother Jones
 
A Hole in McCain’s Defense?
Michael Isikoff
Newsweek
 
McCain Scores a ZERO on the Environment
Sierra Club
 
McCain Embraces Rove
The Huffington Post
 
Report: Rove Wanted Dirt on Alabama Gov.
Ben Evans
AP
 
If Obama Went 0-for-10
Eugene Robinson
The Washington Post
 
U.S. Intelligence Agencies Militarizing
Spencer Ackerman
The Washington Independent
 
Fidel Castro at the Oscars
AP
Video Clip of the Day


February 25, 2008¸
The new invasion of Iraq
Patrick Cockburn
The Independent
 
The Myth of the Surg
e
Nir Rosen
Rolling Stone
 
Pariah or Prophet?
Chris Hedge
TruthDig
 
Raul Castro named Cuban president
BBC News
 
Serbia grapples with Kosovo move
Tracy Wilkinson
Los Angeles Times
 
Some Tainted Meat Used in School Lunches, U.S. Says
Andre Martin
The New York Times
 
CBS: More Prosecutorial Misconduct in Siegelman Case
Scott Horton
Harper’s
 
Trying Some Disney Attitude to Help Cure Walter Reed
Steve Vogel
Washington Post
 
Obama Gets Dressed
Chadwick Matlin
Slate
 
Dutch public television broadcasts porn classic “Deep Throat” today
Ardvark
Twitch
 
Scientists develop self-mending tights
ZeeNews


February 26, 2008
FDIC Bracing for Bank Failures
Calculated Risk
 
Torture advocate William Haynes resigns
Think Progress
 

Taliban Threatens Cell Towers
Noah Shachtman
Wired
 
McCain Withheld Controversial Abramoff Email
San Stein
The Huffington Post
 
Siegelman's Attorneys to Call for Special Counsel in Wake of 60 Minutes Report
Paul Kiel
TPM Muckraker
 
Study finds immigrants commit less California crime
Reuters
 
Why the War on Obama
Robert Parry
Consortium News
 
Obama speaks to Ohio Jews; Nader says he’s too pro-Israel
IPA
 
Row over Bush's 'censored' library
The Guardian
 
Another Storty the Times Shouldn’t Have Published
The Nation


February 27, 2008
Why do McCain, Obama and Clinton Want a Bigger Military?
IPA
 
Let's debate Iraq
Mcjoan

Daily Kos
 
GOP Halts Effort to Retrieve White House E-Mails
Dan Eggen
The Washington Post
 
Amid report banks could crumble, LA Times owner says economy strong
The Raw Story
 
'John McSame': Meet Bush's Anti-Choice Clone
Cristina Page
The Huffington Post / AlterNet
 
Key McCain, Clinton fundraisers lobby for foreign governments
Will Evans and Nonna Gorilovskaya
Nieman Watchdog
 
Terrorists Wanted the World Over
Noam Chomsky
TomDispatch
 
IRS Investigates Obama's Denomination
Rachel Zoll
AP
 
Antidepressants Hardly Help
Laura Blue
Time
 
Huckabee presses for debate with McCain, raises FEC issue
CNN
 
McCain Lets Riley Off the Hook
Legal Schnauzer
 
McCain and the Times
Michael Kinsley
Slate
 
Space junk often hits Earth, not us
Seth Borenstein
USA Today


February 28, 2008
Karzai Controls a Third of Afghanistan
Pamela Hess
AP
 
Nobel laureate estimates wars' cost at
more than $3 trillion
Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers
 
Comcast admits paying attendees at FCC hearing
Bob Fernandez
The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Kim Zetter
Wired
 
FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report
Larisa Alexandrovna
The Raw Story
 
The Fading Jihadists
David Ignatius
The Washington Post
 
US Distances Itself From Musharraf
Foster Klug
Seattle Post Intelligencer
 
I’m Not Running for President, but ...
Michael R. Bloomberg
The New York Times
 
Why I'm Running
Ralph Nader
Slept On
 
Lewis’ Endorsing Obama Worth More Than One Vote
New America Media
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
 
Road Map
Josh Marshall
TPM
 
William F. Buckley, RIP
Timothy Noah
Slate
 
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
The Onion
Video Clip of the Day


February 29, 2008
Turkish troops pull out of Iraq
BBC News
 
McCain ‘Very Honored’ By Support Of Pastor Preaching ‘End-Time Confrontation With Iran’

Think Progress
 
Israeli minister warns of Palestinian 'holocaust'
The Guardian
 
Joint Chiefs Chair Warns Obama & Clinton on Iraq
ABC News
 
Bush: I’m ‘focused’ on gas prices but unaware of $4 gas
Think Progress
 
Pelosi Letter to Attorney General Mukasey on Contempt Citations of Miers and Bolten
The Gavel
 
Euro up. Dollar down. U.S. debt through the over-mortgaged roof
San Francisco Chronicle
 
Outspoken scientist dismissed from panel on chemical safety
Marla Cone
Los Angeles Times
 
New High In U.S. Prison Numbers
N.C. Aizenman
The Washington Post

Regulatory Hit-List Finalized
Matt Madia
OMB Watch
 
Boeing's Border Watchtowers Can't See Straight
Noah Shachtman
Wired
 
Ralph Nader loves John McCain
Joe Conason
Salon
 
Quaker teacher fired for changing loyalty oath
Nanette Asimov
San Francisco Chronicle
 
Iran is an opportunity, not a target
Stephen Kinzer
Nieman Watchdog
 
The Campus Rape Myth
Heather Mac Donald
City Journal
 
Grape expectations
Jonah Lehrer
The Boston Globe

 
 
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