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June 2, 2008
Shiites Across Iraq Protest U.S. Presence
Sudarsan Raghav
an
The Washington Post

Bush backs Musharraf as Pakistani leader's support wanes
Saeed Shah
McClatchy Newspapers

Could the U.S. ultimately end up privatizing its entire mission in Iraq?
Andrew Tilghman
TPM Muckraker

US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships
Duncan Campbell and Richard Norton-Taylor
The Guardian

Obama, the Dukakis Trap, and Meeting Sistani
Juan Cole
Informed Comment

Probe of Crude Oil Trading Disclosed
Steven Mufson
The Washington Post

Earth sunshade would not rewind the climate
New Scientist

Indefensible spending
Robert Scheer
Los Angeles Times

Hagee: The Antichrist Is Gay, "Partially Jewish"
Max Blumenthal
The Nation

The #1 Sign That Obama is the Democratic Nominee...
David Weigel
Reason

Video surveillance systems set to quadruple
Brad Reed
Network World
 

June 3, 2008
Both McCain, Obama exaggerating Iran's nuclear program
Jonathan S.
Landay
McClatchy Newspapers

NASA Office Is Criticized on Climate Reports

Andrew C. Revkin
The New York Times

Bhutto Dealt Nuclear Secrets to N. Korea, Book Says
Glenn Kessler
The Washington Post

Clinton says if it helps Dems, she's open to veep

Beth Fouhy and Devlin Barrett
Breitbart

The Corporate State and the Subversion of Democracy
Chris Hedges
TruthDig

GM to Close Four Truck Plants, Shift Output to Cars
Jeff Green and Bill Koenig
Bloomberg

War criminals must fear punishment. That's why I went for John Bolton
George Monbiot
The Guardian

A Designer Moment
Adbusters
Sarah Nardi


June 4, 2008
Olmert to urge U.S. attack on Iran
JTA

Rice Calls Dialogue With Iran Pointless
Helene Cooper and Isabel Kershner
The New York Times

US attacked at food summit over biofuels

Julian Borger
The Guardian

Canada's House backs war resisters

Maggie Farley
Los Angeles Times

McCain: I'd Spy on Americans Secretly, Too
Ryan Singel
Wired

The First Web 2.0 President?
Juan Cole
Informed Comment

Death of a Saleswoman
Meghan O'Rourke
Slate

State Troopers Fail to Appreciate Geek Chic
Katherine Mangu-Ward
Reason


June 5, 2008
Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control
Patrick Cockburn
The Independent

Iraq lawmakers want US forces out as part of deal

Reuters


DOD Contracts Out Contractor Oversight
Maya Schenwar
TruthOut

With Gas at $4 a Gallon, We Need Public Transportation, But Why We Can't Get It
Robert Reich

Beyond gasoline: Prices surge for oil-based goods

Ron Scherer
The Christian Science Monitor

Al-Qaida threatens Norway
Kristoffer Rønneberg
Aftenposten

The Sky Is Falling

Gregg Easterbrook
The Atlantic

Obama's former ally Rezko convicted
Frank James
The Swamp

Loophole lets corporations fund political conventions
Jim Drinkard
AP

Sandra Day O'Connor: Game Designer
Chris Baker
Wired

Always Bet On … White?

Daniel Engber
Slate


June 6-8, 2008
Senate committee: Bush knew Iraq claims weren't true
Jonathan S. La
nday
McClatchy Newspapers

US issues threat to Iraq's $50bn foreign reserves in military deal
Patrick Cockburn
The Independent

Did Iranian agents dupe Pentagon officials?
John Walcott
McClatchy Newspapers

Arming our own enemies in Iraq
Gareth Porter
Salon

Study Calls for ‘Energy Revolution’
The New York Times

Homes in foreclosure top 1 million
Chris Isidore,
CNN

Blackwater opens San Diego training center
Allison Hoffman
Achorage Daily News

Replacing Manta
The Center for International Policy

A General's False Testimony on KBR
Brian Beutler
Mother Jones

Food summit ends with contentious resolution
Tracy Wilkinson
Los Angeles Times

How to Manufacture a Global Food Crisis
Walden Bello
Focus on the Global South

KSM Refuses Lawyer Because of All the Legal Same Sex Marriage in US
Emptywheel

GOP Attack Ads: One More Reason to Hate Hillary Clinton
Video Clip of the Day

How To Win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest
Patrick House
Slate


June 9, 2008
Treaty tensions mount as Iraq tells the US it wants all troops back in barracks
Deborah Haynes
Times


Republicans block U.S. climate bill
International Herald Tribune

Biotech giants demand a high price for saving the planet
Geoffrey Lean
The Independent

Lawyer: Gitmo interrogators told to trash notes

Michael Melia
Yahoo! News

End struggle, Chavez urges Farc
BBC

The Antiwar Plank
John Nichols
The Nation

Researchers Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay
Gardiner Harris and Benedict Carey
The New York Times

Talking Out Trauma: Not Always a Help
Kathleen Kingsbury
Time


June 10, 2008
U.S. seeking 58 bases in Iraq, Shiite lawmakers say
Leila Fadel

McClatchy Newspaper

McClellan Will Testify, But Will Congress Act?
John Nichols
The Nation

Kucinich introduces Bush impeachment resolution
Sabrina Eaton
The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Abramoff's White House "Fruit"
Nick Baumann
Mother Jones

Oil and gas industry's public-opinion campaign
Daniel Nasaw
The Guardian

Wal-Mart Defender To Direct Obama's Economic Policy
Josh Gerstein
The Sun

The Future of Copyright
Rasmus Fleischer
Cato Unbound

Hypermilers Push the Limits of Fuel Efficiency
Chuck Squatriglia
Wired

 

June 11, 2008
House votes to send impeachment resolution to Judiciary Committe
e
Nick Juliano
The Raw Story

No renewal for renewables
Kate Sheppard
Grist

Pakistan Says U.S. Airstrike Killed 11 of Its Soldiers

Carlotta Gall and Graham Bowley
The New York Times

Seoul protest threatens to topple government
Choe Sang-Hun
International Herald Tribune

U.S. security talks with Iraq in trouble in Baghdad and D.C.
Leila Fadel and Warren P. Strobel
McClatchy Newspapers

U.S. Army training Egyptians to find and destroy smuggling tunnels

Barak Ravid
Haaretz

Nature laid waste: The destruction of Africa
Michael McCarthy
The Independent

Abu Dhabi to buy NY's Chrysler Building
Christopher Kaufman
Reuters

McCain Asks Supporters to Invade Liberal Blogs, But Few Respond
Sarah Lai Stirland
Wired

Top Lieberman Campaign Official: We Begged Obama For Help In 2006 - And He Came Through
Greg Sargent
TPM Muckraker

Pluto's namesakes: Similar bodies are 'plutoids'
Seth Borenstein
My Way


June 12, 2008
U.S. Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down Military Commissions Act
Glenn G
reenwald
Salon

Pakistan says U.S. deliberately killed paramilitary troops
Saeed Shah and Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers

Bills Would Restrict Interrogations
John M. Donnelly
CQ Staff

'Special Weapons' Have a Fallout on Babies
Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
IPS

Obama advisor Jim Johnson resigns amid criticism
Tom Hamburger
Los Angeles Times

Ron Paul rejects McCain ‘values,’ praises Libertarian Barr
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
The Raw Story

Despite Legal Blow, Taser Use by Police to Expand
Am Johal
IPS

Oil Prices: A Case of Supply, Demand, and Speculation
Sam Pizzigati
Too Much

Environmental Amnesia
Sandra Steingraber
Orion

Fox News: Michelle Obama is "Obama's Baby Mama"
Video Clip of the Day

More Americans Are Giving Up Golf

Paul Vitello
The New York Times

Images from Judge Alex Kozinski’s Web Site
Patterico’s Pontifications


June 13-15, 2008
Mukasey Says Military Commission Trials Will Proceed
Talk Left

The Republic on a Knife's Edge
Robert Parry
Consortium News

Bush Pledges on Iraq Bases Pact Were a Ruse
Gareth Porter
IPS

Kucinich vows new round of impeachment articles against Bush if measure dies
Jason Leopold
Online Journal

Cheney admits error in oil drilling comment
MSNBC

Countrywide's Many 'Friends'
Daniel Golden
Portfolio

Plutocracy Reborn
The Nation

Garrisoning the Global Gas Station
Michael T. Klare
TomDispatch

Obama's Chicago Boys
Naomi Klein
The Nation

Small' Business Administration?
Neil Gordon
POGO

Bad Cow Disease
Paul Krugman
The New York Times

Louisiana House approves creationist bill

Josh Rosenau
Thoughts from Kansas


June 16, 2008
Maliki raises possibility that Iraq might ask U.S. to leave
Leila Fadel and Mike Tharp
McClatchy Ne
wspaper

U.S. Military Hoped for Virtually Unlimited Freedom of Action in Iraq

Joyce Battle
The National Security Archive

Judge rules for White House in e-mail controversy
Pete Yost
AP

DOJ official: Rumsfeld personally approved of brutal interrogations
Jason Leopold
Online Journal

America's prison for terrorists often held the wrong men
Tom Lasseter
McClatchy Newspapers

Bush is MIA, again...
Larisa Alexandrovna
at-Largely

Brown ready to rain on Bush parade with Iraq troop pull-out
Colin Brown
The Independent

Congress Pushes to Keep Land Untamed
Juliet Eilperin
The Washington Post

AP finds 5K horse deaths since '03
Jeffrey McMurray
AP

Questions For Gore Vidal
Deborah Solomon
The New York Times


June 17, 2008
Bush/Cheney Transcripts Subpoenaed
Jason Leopold
Consortium News

Report Questions P
entagon Accounts
Joby Warrick
The Washington Post

Army Overseer Tells of Ouster Over KBR Stir
James Risen
The New York Times

Audit faults KBR's prices
The Houston Chroncle

Senate Report Shows Intel Debunked Al Qaeda-Iraq Link Before Bush's Speech
Andrew Tilghman
TPM Muckraker

Hamas says it's reached cease-fire with Israel
Igrahim Barzak
My Way

Taliban Seizes Seven Afghan Villages
Candace Rondeaux and Javed Hamdard
The Washington Post


June 18, 2008
Iraq deal with US to end immunity for foreign contractors
Patrick Cockburn
The Independent

Exams reveal abuse, torture of detainees
CNN

Documents confirm U.S. hid detainees from Red Cross

Warren P. Strobel
McClatchy Newspapers

Pakistan's A.Q. Khan denies new nuke weapons claim
Munir Ahmad
AP

Bush to seek an end to ban on oil drilling
Sheryl Gay Stolberg
International Herald Tribune

Full Metal McCain
Matt Taibbi
The Smirking Chimp

50 New ‘Manhattan Projects’
Vladimir Keilis-Borok and Michael D. Intriligator
TruthDig

Paying More, Getting Less
Joel A. Harrison
Dollars & Sense

Experts unveil 'cloak of silence'
BBC

At least I don't plaster on the make-up like a trollop, you cunt.
Public Service Administration
Video Clip of the Day

Texas GOP Disavows Knowledge Of Racist Anti-Obama Button
Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld
TPM Muckraker

Guzzling coffee may cut heart disease
Ewen Callaway
New Scientist


June 19, 2008
Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back
Andrew E. Kramer
The New York Times

It Was Top Down, Stupid

Phillipe Sands
Slate

Ex-State Dept. official: Hundreds of detainees died in U.S. custody, at least 25 murdered
Think Progress

Kucinich Vows More Impeachment Articles On the Way
Mary Ann Akers
The Washington Post

Travel Advisory
Scott Horton
The New Republic

Dems, GOP agree to telecom immunity deal

Pamela Hess
AP

AFRI(OIL)COM
Antonia Juhasz
Foreign Policy In Focus

Australians more obese than Americans, study finds
Breitbart

 

 

June 20-22, 2008
What Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Fred Hi
att Mean by ‘Bipartisanship’
Glenn Greenwald
Common Dreams

Guantanamo prisoner opens new era of court challenges
Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers

Former AG Accused of Playing Politics with Justice
Jan Crawford Greenberg and Ariane de Vogue
ABC News

Taguba on Torture
The Washington Monthly

What Happened? Don't Ask Scott McClellan
Matthew DeLong
The Washington Independent

Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice
Phoenix Mars Mission

Report on Climate Predicts Extremes
Juliet Eilperin
The Washington Post

As Beaches Creep In, Ownership Disputes Erupt

David Baron
NPR

Ahmadinejad: 'I was Almost Kidnapped by Bush'
Juan Cole
Informed Comment

'IAF apparently held Iran strike drill'
The Jerusalem Post

Convicted War Profiteer Still Lives High Life

Matthjew Zimmerman
ABC News

GOP Pounces On Obama's Public Financing Decision
Matthew DeLong
The Washington Independent

Peter Pace among Medal of Freedom winners
The Advocate


June 23, 2008
Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist
Ed Pilkington
The Guardian

Law School Dean C
alls Conference to Plan Bush War Crimes Prosecution
Debra Cassens Weiss
ABA Journal

Surveillance Bill: The Worst of All Worlds
Aziz Huq
The Nation

Obama Supports FISA Legislation
Paul Kane
The Washington Post

Food revolution that starts with rice
William J. Broad
International Herald Tribune

The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930
Democrats.com

Justice Department Wants to Rewrite Gitmo Evidence

The Real News
Video Clip of the Day

Report: Scalia’s Claim That Released Gitmo Prisoners Have Killed Americans Is An ‘Urban Legend’
Think Progress

Vets want their $1M by disproving T. Boone Pickens' claims about Kerry
Gromer Jeffers, Jr.
The Dallas Morning News


June 24, 2008
Appeals Court Invalidates Detainee's 'Enemy' Status
Josh White and Del Quentin Wilber
The Washington Post

80% of So-Called Li
beral Applicants were "Deselected" by DOJ
Kate Klonick
TPM Muckraker

Feingold: ‘Farce’ wiretap deal could be hiding ‘impeachable offense’
Nick Juliano
The Raw Story

Panel Told Oil Could Slide If Speculation Restrained
Ian Talley and Gregory Meyer
CNN

Taleban's '$100m opium takings'

Kate Clark
BBC News

McCain aide hits nerve with terror remark
Edward Luce and Andrew Ward
Financial Times

Can Dobson Out-Fruitcake Obama on the Constitution?
Frederick Clarkson
Talk to Action

Karl Rove's Trojan Horse among the SMU Mustangs
Andrew J. Weaver, et. al.
Media Transparency

'When John McCain was my captive'
Andrew Harding
BBC News

When McCain Drops Out
Steve Rosenbaum
The Huffington Post


June 25, 2008
Reid to co-sponsor effort to strip retroactive immunity from FISA bill
Think Prog
ress

$2 billion in U.S. aid to Pakistan questioned
Greg Miller
Los Angeles Times

20 Questions for David Addington
Dan Froomkin
Slate

US Mayors Agree to Phase Out Bottled Water

Common Dreams

White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail

Felicity Berringer
The New York Times

This Bud's for Sale
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
The Wall Street Journal

Serenity Lost: Obama and the Netroots

Sam Stein
The Huffington Post

Nader: Obama 'talking white'
M.E. Sprengelmeyer
Rocky Mountain News

Obama Scolds Black Fathers, Gets Bounce in Polls
Ishmael Reed
CounterPunch


June 26, 2008
Climate Issues Tied to U.S. Security
Walter Pincu
s
The Washington Post

U.S. Sees World Use Soaring Despite Rising Costs
Abid Aslam
IPS

Senator Stalls Housing Relief With Call for Energy Credits
Lori Montgomery
The Washington Post

Supreme Court shoots down D.C. gun ban
Michael Doyle
McClatchy Newspapers

Obama Disagrees With Supreme Court Ruling Requiring a Death to Invoke the Death Penalty
Jeralyn
TalkLeft

The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was
Scott Ritter
TruthOut

Surveillance bill filibuster falls short in Senate
CNN

Netroots jilted by Obama FISA stand
Carrie Budoff Brown
Politco

Keith Olbermann: Then and now
Glenn Greenwald
Salon

Bush is trying to impose a classic colonial status on Iraq
Seumas Milne
The Guardian

Family Wiped out By US

Juan Cole
Informed Comment

Private Jets Targeted as Symbols of Inequality
Abid Aslam
CommonDreams.org

The Hedonists of Power
Chris Hedges
TruthDig

Efforts to rename sewage plant after Bush
USA Today


June 27-29, 2008
No ice at the North Pole
Steve Connor
The Independent

Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects

Dan Frosch
The New York Times

The Headmaster and the Schoolboy
Emily Bazelon
Slate

DNI and AG Fear Court Ruling on Warrantless Wiretapping
Posted by Kurt Opsahl
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Senate Passes Broad War Funding Measure
Paul Kane
The Washington Post

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal OKs Chemical Castration Law
TPM
Video Clip of the Day

Bush steps back from Axis of Evil to reward North Korea

Leonard Doyle
The Independent

Ecstasy Is the Key to Treating PTSD
Amy Turner
Veterans Today

Opium use has fallen in the past century — except in America
The Economist


June 30, 2008
A Brief Reprieve on FISA: What Now?
Tim Jones
Electronic Fr
ontier Foundation

U.S. and Europe Near Agreement on Private Data
Charlie Savage
The New York Times

U.S. Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals

Andrew E. Kramer
The New York Times

Israel approves prisoner exchange
BBC

US army blames leaders over post-war Iraq
Andrew Clark
The Guardian

Preparing the Battlefield

Seymour M. Hersh
The New Yorker

Iran to ready thousands of graves for enemy soldiers
AFP

Crisis grows in Iraq over U.S. raid that killed Maliki relative
Hannah Allam
McClatchy Newspapers

Taliban flourishing, Pentagon reports
David Wood
The Baltimore Sun

Honestly, besides being tortured, what did McCain do to excel in the military?
John Aravosis
America.blog

 

 
 
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