Political/Social
2007

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"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." - Edward Dowling, Editor and Priest, Chicago Daily News, 28jul41

2007

• Lender Lobbying Blitz Abetted Mortgage Mess: Ameriquest Pressed For Changes in Laws; A Battle in New Jersey - Wall Street Journal 31dec2007
• Pakistan: Bhutto Aides Allege Cover-Up - AP 29dec2007
• Pakistan: Al-CIA-Duh Behind Bhutto Killing - AP 28dec2007
• Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto Killed in Sniper Attack, Five Bullets Fired on Her - Asian News International (ANI / New Delhi) 27dec2007
• New-Home Sales Tumbled 9% Amid Falling Prices in November - Wall Street Journal 28dec2007
  • New Residential Sales in November 2007 - Press Release / US Census Bureau News / Joint Release US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development / US Dept of Commerce 28dec2007
• Mortgage Fraud Seen as a Driver In Wave of Foreclosures - Wall Street Journal 21dec2007
• Bear Stearns Loss Presages More Turmoil - New York Times 20dec2007
• Rev. Pinkney Arrested for Exercising Free Speech, On Hunger Strike in Berrien County Jail - The Black Commentator 20dec2007
• Morgan Stanley: $9.4 B Write-Downs for Quarter. CEO John Mack "Won't Accept Bonus" - Wall Street Journal 20dec2007
• Bush Executive Order Denies Public Access to History - Berkeley Daily Planet 18dec2007
• Asian Stocks Fall with Wall Street  - Thomson Financial News / CNNMoney 17dec2007
• Bush Says US Economy is Safe and Sound: Why Doesn't Anyone Believe Him? - AP 17dec2007
• Bush Administration Urged Judge Not to Ask About CIA Tapes - AP 15dec2007
• Microlending: How big Mexican banks profit as many poor borrowers get trapped in a maze of debt - Business Week 13dec2007
• U.N. Expert Says Guantanamo Visit Deepens Concerns - Reuters 12dec2007
• Desmond Tutu: U.S. and U.K. Detention of Terror Suspects Like South Africa's Apartheid - Reuters 11dec2007
• Interest Rate 'Freeze' is Fraud: Bankers pay lip service to families while scurrying to avert suits, prison - San Francisco Chronicle 9dec2007
• Mumia Abu-Jamal: Evidence of Innocence and an Unfair Trial - The Black Commentator 6dec2007
• Iran: Bush and Israelis Think Alike. . . Iran Remains a Threat Despite Arms Data  - New York Times 5dec2007
• Iran: US Spies Concoct a Potent Iran Brew - Asia Times 5dec2007
  • Iran: U.S. Finds Iran Halted Its Nuclear Arms Effort in 2003 - New York Times 4dec2007
  • Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Development in 2003 - Haaretz (Israel) 4dec2007
  • Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities: National Intelligence Estimate - Office of the Director of National Intelligence 3dec2007
• 911: Ex-Italian President: Intel Agencies Know 9/11 An Inside Job - Prison Planet 4dec2007
• Financial Alert Based on M-CAM Analytics - Arlington Institute 19nov2007
• New-Home Sales Post Modest Gain Because Prior Month Revised Down - Wall Street Journal 29nov2007
• Stocks Plunge on Financial System Fears - Los Angeles Times 27nov2007
• FEMA Not the Only Agency to Misrepresent - AP 26nov2007
• Mexican Truck Stop: Free Trade Took a Beating - Wall Street Journal 26nov2007
• Auctions: Collectors Sober Up - Fortune 26nov2007
• Rising Rates to Worsen Subprime Mess: Interest Payments Set To Grow on $362 Billion In Mortgages in 2008 - Wall Street Journal 24nov2007
• Why Economy Hasn't Tanked Despite $100 a Barrel Oil Prices - Investor's Business Daily 21nov2007
• Goldman Cuts Rating on Citi to 'Sell': Biggest U.S. bank could write down $15 Billion - Los Angeles Times 20nov2007
• Here Come the Thought Police: Rep. Jane Harman’s “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” - Baltimore Sun 19nov2007
• Army Desertion Rates Up 80 Percent Since Invasion of Iraq in 2003, Highest Rate Since 1980 - AP 16nov2007
• Ruling Blocks Challenge to Wiretapping: Secrecy Laws Forced Court to Exclude Critical Evidence - New York Times 16nov2007
• BP at UC Berkeley: It’s a Deal-Breaker - Editorial / The Daily Californian 16nov2007
• Cities Cracking Down on Groups Feeding Hungry, Says New Report Report - Press Release / The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty 15nov2007
  • Feeding Intolerance: Prohibitions on Sharing Food with People Experiencing Homelessness: A Report by The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and The National Coalition for the Homeless 15nov2007
• Across Bay, Obama Calls for Change: But What Does Change Mean to Obama? - Daily Californian 15nov2007
• House Passes Bill on Mortgage Lenders - AP 15nov2007
• Official's Recusal Is New Twist In Blackwater Inquiry: Hearing Is Roiled As Brother's Link To Firm Is Revealed - Wall Street Journal 15nov2007
• Obama's Position On Mining Law Questioned - CBS News / AP 14nov2007
• Liberal Anti-War Dems Back New Withdrawal Effort: Redeployment to Follow - AP 14nov2007
• HSBC Takes $3.4 Billion Charge: More than $45 Billion Written Down by Banks Worldwide - New York Times 14nov2007
• 'Hidden Costs' Double Price Of Two Wars, Democrats Say - Washington Post 13nov2007
  • War at Any Price? The Total Economic Costs of the War Beyond the Federal Budget: A Report by the Joint Economic Committee Majority Staff Chairman, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Vice Chair, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney 13nov2007
• Iraq: Shotgun Wedding: The Saint, the Insurgent and the Surge's "Success" - Atlantic Free Press 11nov2007
  • Meet Abu Abed: The US's New Ally Against al-Qaida - The Guardian (UK) 10nov2007
• Iraq: Call An Air Strike: Spin Doctors - Asia Times 10nov2007
• Get Set for Wave of Debt Downgrades - Wall Street Journal 9nov2007
• Near-Panic Atmosphere as US Federal Reserve Chairman Testifies Before Congress - WSWS 9nov2007
  • Bernanke Speaking on The Economic Outlook to the Joint Economic Committee U.S. Congress 8nov2007
• American Puppet Power in Pakistan -  The Black Commentator 8nov2007
• U.S. Veterans Account for 25% of Homeless - AP 7nov2007
• Oil, Gold and Euro Surge to Record Prices - The Telegraph (UK) 7nov2007
• General Motors Loses $39 Billion - AP 7nov2007
• Private Equity Is On The Prowl - Le Monde diplomatique (France) 6nov2007
• Pakistan, the Heart of a Global Crisis: From Oil to Gold, the Outlook is Darkening - The Times (UK) 5nov2007
• $11 Billion Charges: In Citi Shake-Up, Broader Troubles Rubin and Bischoff Succeed Prince for Now - Wall Street Journal 5nov2007
• Mukasey Is (Much) Worse Than Gonzales - The Nation 4nov2007
• Citigroup Charles O. Prince III: Citigroup Chief Exec to Resign in Wake of $US5.9 Billion Writedown - Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 4nov2007
  • Meredith Whitney: CIBC Analyst Got Death Threats on Citigroup - Reuters 4nov2007
• Pakistan: Musharraf's State of Emergency - Council on Foreign Relations 3nov2007
• Google Hires Gonzales' Privacy Lawyer Jane Horvath - Wired 2nov2007
• America: Zombie Nation - David Penner 2nov2007
• Kurdistan Double-Crossing - Asia Times (Hong Kong) 2nov2007
• Democrats Cave In on Mukasey Selection For A.G.: 2 Key Dems Back Attorney General Pick - AP 2nov2007
• Bush Tells Dems War Denial is Dangerous - AP / Guardian (UK) 1nov2007
• Stock Prices Plunge: Dow Drops 370 Points - AP 1nov2007
• Iraq Postings Anger US Diplomats: Hundreds of US diplomats have protested against a government move to force them to accept postings in war-torn Iraq - BBC 31oct2007
• Price of Oil Climbing to $100 a Barrel Seen Not Too Far - Arab News 30oct2007
• Chrysler Plans to Cut Thousands More Jobs: Half by 2010 - Wall Street Journal 1nov2007
• Economic News: Consumer Spending Down: Foreclosures Up - AP 1nov2007
• Ahmadinejad's Alleged Remarks On Israel are The Biggest Lie Told To The American People - Huffington Post 29oct2007
• The Subprime Lending Crisis: The Economic Impact on Wealth, Property Values and Tax Revenues, and How We Got Here: Report and Recommendations by the Majority Staff of the Joint Economic Committee 25oct2007
• New-Home Sales in September Down 23%: For-sale inventory for month hits highest level since 1990 - Inman News 25oct2007
• Existing Home Sales Plunge 8 Percent - National Association of Realtors 24oct2007
• Merrill Lynch Posts Wide Loss, Discloses Bigger Write-Downs - Wall Street Journal 24oct2007
• 860,000 Name Long Terror Watch List Scrutinizes Americans Most - Wired 24oct2007
  • Terrorist Watch List Screening: Recommendations to Enhance Management Oversight, Reduce Potential Screening Vulnerabilities, and Expand Use of the List - Director Homeland Security and Justice Issues - before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs U.S. Senate - GAO 24oct2007
• Castro: "Bush Could Spark WWIII" - AP 23oct2007
• Bush Asks Congress For $46 Billion More In War Funding - Washington Post 23oct2007
• Stop Calling Me a "Doomer" - Speaking Truth To Power 22oct2007
• Steep Decline in Oil Production Brings Risk of War and Unrest, Says New Study - The Guardian (UK) 22oct2007
• US Air Safety So Bad That NASA Won't Disclose Survey - AP 22oct2007
• Dumpster Divers Go Mainstream In Thrifty Germany - Wall Street Journal 22oct2007
• Teachers' Sexual Misconduct Plagues US Schools: AP Research - AP 20oct2007
• James Watson's Garbage Mouth: Genetic Disorder  - The Independent (UK) 20oct2007
• Fears of Falloff In Profits Send Dow Down 2.6%: More Worries on Banks - Wall Street Journal 20oct2007
• Michael B. Mukasey: Senators Clash With Nominee About Torture - New York Times 19oct2007
• Michael B. Mukasey: Attorney General Pick Treads Careful Line at Hearing - New York Times 18oct2007
• Rep. Pete Stark: Bush Sends Troops to Death for 'Amusement': Complete Text of Pete Stark's Comments on Children's Healthcare in Congress 18oct2007
• Color of Law: Photos Bolster Claims of Mumia's Innocence and Unfair Trial - Black Commentator 18oct20
• Lawsuit: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Drugging Detainees Set for Deportation - CNN 17oct2007
• Angelo Mozilo: SEC Probing Countrywide CEO Stock Sales - Reuters 17oct2007
• IMF Forecasts Slower World Growth in 2008 - International Monetary Fund (IMF) 17oct2007
• Consumer Prices Increase Modestly As Housing Starts Hit 14-Year Low - Wall Street Journal 17oct2007
• Current Housing and Mortgage Market Developments - US Treasury Secretary speaking at Georgetown Law Center 16oct2007
• Citigroup Net Falls 57 Percent on Fixed-Income Losses - Bloomberg 15oct2007
• Qwest Feared NSA Plan Was Illegal, Filing Says - Washington Post 13oct2007
• Big Banks Push $100 Billion Plan To Avert Crunch Fund - Wall Street Journal 13oct2007
• Iraq Effort Is ‘a Nightmare’: Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, Ex-Commander - New York Times 13oct2007
• Nobel Prize for Al Gore: “Old Europe” Fires Back at Bush Administration - WSWS 13oct2007
• Habitat for Humanity Partners With OHA To Displace Oakland's Poor - Lynda Carson 13oct2007
• The United States of Subprime: Data Show Bad Loans Permeate the Nation; Pain Could Last Years - Wall Street Journal 11oct2007
• Illegal Weapons Exports Growing Say US - AP 11oct2007
• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Icon, and Now, a Bikini - New York Times 9oct2007
• Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers - New York Times 9oct2007
• Iran: The Administration’s Plan for Iran: Shifting Targets - The New Yorker 8oct2007
• Furniture Sales Hurt by Mortgage Woes - Business Week 7oct2007
• Real Estate Sags, REITs Cool Down - New York Times 7oct2007
• Merrill's $5 Billion Bath Bares Deeper Divide - Wall Street Journal 6oct2007
• Torture: Bush's Dangerous Torture(d) Stance - Time Magazine 5oct2007
• Torture: Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations - New York Times 4oct2007
• US Wants to Bring Colombia Tactics to Afghan Drugs War - The Independent (UK) 4oct2007
• E.U. Worries About Dollar Intensify - Time Magazine 3oct2007
• Ginsberg's 'Howl' Too Hot to Hear: 50 Years After Poem Ruled Not Obscene - San Francisco Chronicle 3oct2007
• Bush Vetoes Children’s Health Insurance Bill - New York Times 3oct2007
• Abu Ghraib Prisoners Accuse US Companies of Torture - Agence France Presse 2oct2007
• Myanmar, Burma: UN Envoy Meets Top General as Regime Blames Foreigners for Violence - Daily Mail (UK) 2oct2007
• Iran: US Meddles Aggressively in Iran: Covert Action, Economic Pressure and Destabilisation - Le Monde diplomatique (France) 1oct2007
• Bilderberg Group: Who Runs the World and Why You Need to Know Immediately: Review of The True Story Of The Bilderberg Group - Speaking Truth To Power 1oct2007
• U.S. Is Top Arms Seller to Developing World - New York Times 1oct2007
• Giuliani Will Be Worse Than Bush - The Independent (UK) 30sep2007
• Wiretap Delay Not Quite as Presented: Lag Is Attributed to Internal Disputes and Time to Reach Gonzales, Not FISA Constraints - Washington Post 29sep2007
• "I Hate All Iranians," US Aide Tells MPs  -  Daily Mail (UK) 29sep2007
• Wounded Vets Also Suffer Financial Woes - AP 29sep2007
• Iraq: Combat Outpost Shocker: The Base That Could Spark Iran Conflict - The Raw Story 28sep2007
• Myanmar Crowds Taunt Troops: "Fuck You Army. We Only Want Democracy: Japanese Journalist Executed by Police  - Reuters 28sep2007
• Physicists Question US on Missile Plan - AP 27sep2007
• Roots of Iraq Weapon Probes Date to 2004 - AP 27sep2007
• Patriot Act: Oregon Judge Knocks Down Part of Patriot Act - Reuters 26sep2007
  • Brandon Mayfield vs. USA - Opinion and Order by Ann Aiken, United States District Judge, Oregon / Civil No. 04-1427-AA 26sep2007
• Myanmar: 3 Monks Killed in Crackdown - The Hindu (India) 26sep2007
• Blackwater: State Dept. Intercedes in Probe - Los Angeles Times 26sep2007
• Housing Chill Grows Worse, Bites Consumers - Wall Street Journal 26sep2007
• Iraq: Weapons Left by US Troops 'Used as Bait to Kill Iraqis '- The Independent (UK) 25sep2007
• Cholera in Iraq: 2,116 People - Press Release / World Health Organization (WHO) 25sep2007
• Israeli-US Strike on Iran: Cheney Drew Up Plans - Israel Today 24sep2007
• Health-Care Premiums Expected To Jump 8.7% in 2008, Study Says - Wall Street Journal 24sep2007
• 5,000 Monks Show Their Dissent: Largest in 20 years: Myanmar Military in a Quandary  - Reuters / National Post (Canada) 24sep2007
• Social Security is $13 Trillion Short: A Treasury Department report finds serious shortfall, urges reforms - AP 24sep2007
• Treasury Bill Rates Fall at Auction: Lowest Level in a Month - AP 24sep2007
  • Issue Brief No. 1 Social Security Reform: The Nature of the Problem - US Dept. of the Treasury 26sep2007
• Blackwater: Risky Business: The Deadly Game of Private Security - New York Times 23sep2007
• Canadian Loonie / U.S. Currency Parity Is a Point Of Pride, but Americans Won't Like the Prices - Wall Street Journal 22sep2007
• Iraq: Blackwater Arms Smuggling Probe - BBC News (UK) 22sep2007
• Bush Says Children's Health Care Will Get Vetoed: War Costing Too Much - AP 22sep2007
• Blackwater in Iraq: The Real Story of Baghdad's Bloody Sunday - The Independent (UK) 21sep2007
• Jena, Louisiana Protests Hark Back to '50s, '60s  -  Tuscaloosa News 20sep2007
• Saudis Take Fright on Fears of Dollar Collapse - The Telegraph (UK) 20sep2007
• US Rate Cuts: Like a Blow to the Head - Asia Times (Hong Kong) 20sep2007
• Pope Refused Audience for Rice - BBC News 19sep2007
• Iraq: Blackwater Down: The U.S. needs to avoid the perception of 'victor's justice' as it investigates the security contractor - Los Angeles Times 19sep2007
• Morgan Stanley Profits Slip 17%: Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis - RTÉ (Ireland) 19sep2007
• Rumsfeld Selection to Hoover Institution Protested by Stanford Faculty -  San Jose Mercury News 18sep2007
• Blackwater: U.S. Contractor Banned by Iraq Over Shootings - New York Times 18sep2007
• UC Berkeley Tree-Sitters: First Person: A Joyous Act of Civil Disobedience - Berkeley Daily Planet 18sep2007
• Andrew Meyer: University of Florida Student Tasered at Kerry Forum - The Independent Florida Alligator (University of Florida) 18sep2007
• Iraq Death Toll Rivals Rwanda Genocide, Cambodian Killing Fields - AlterNet 17sep2007
  • More than 1 Million Iraqis Murdered Since the Invasion in 2003 — 1,220,580 Iraqi Deaths - Opinion Research Business (UK) 17sep2007
• It is the Death of History: Looting as Result of Bush's War - The Independent (UK) 17sep2007
• Venezuela's Chavez Warns Private Schools - AP 17sep2007
• Was Israeli Raid a Dry Run for Attack on Iran? - Observer (UK) 16sep2007
• Off The Charts: Double Warning That a Recession May Be on the Way - New York Times 15sep2007
• Panic at Bank in UK: Customer Lines Stretching Outside to Withdraw Deposits -  Bloomberg 15sep2007
  • Northern Rock Bail-Out - Financial Times (UK) 14sep2007
• Greenspan Book Criticizes Bush And Republicans: 'They Deserved to Lose' - Wall Street Journal 15sep2007
• Iraq: 1 Of 18 Iraq Goals Reached, Official Says  - NBC News 14sep2007
  • Benchmark Assessment Report - The Whitehouse 14sep2007
• Real-Estate Bust - Time Magazine 13sep2007
• Russian Army Tests the 'Father of All Bombs' -  Telegraph (UK) 13sep2007
• Do You Remember 9/12? - Mindfully.org 12sep2007
• Iran to Stop Accepting Payments in Dollars - UPI / Tehran Times 12sep2007
• U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan: Germany Withholds Iran Sanctions Support - Fox News 12sep2007
• Dollar Falls to Record Low Against Euro - Agence France-Presse 12sep2007
• Recession: Increased Odds Of  Over Next Year - Wall Street Journal 12sep2007
• Iraq Polls as of 11sep2007
• Bush Not Swayed by Iraq Reality - Chicago Sun Times 12sep2007
• Nation Remembers 6th Anniversary of 9/11 - AP 11sep2007
• Mounting Death Toll Makes a Mockery of US Optimism - The Independent (UK) 11sep2007
• Mortgage Problems to Dampen Home Sales - National Assoc. of Realtors 11sep2007
• China Threatens 'Nuclear Option' of Dollar Sales - The Telegraph (UK) 10aug2007
• Bernanke, the Fed and 2008 - New York Times 9sep2007
• RAF Jets Intercept Eight Russian Bombers: - The Telegraph (UK) 9sep2007
• Weak Jobs: Housing Slump: Dow Drops 250 Points: Countrywide to Cut 12,000 Jobs - Wall Street Journal 8sep2007
• US Jobs Data in Shock Fall - Guardian Unlimited (UK) 7sep2007
• Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act - AP 7sep2007
• 3,735  Iraq Casualties: Names of the Dead - New York Times 6sep2007
• Foreclosure Process Marks Third Consecutive Quarter Setting All-Time High - MBA / Press Release 6sep2007
• Analyzing and Assessing Banking Crises - Federal Reserve Board of Governors 6sep2007
• All UK Must Be on DNA Database: Judge - BBC News 5sep2007
• Housing Slump Strains Budgets Of States, Cities - Wall Street Journal 5sep2007
• Iraq: British Generals Start to Blame as Troops Exit Basra - The Australian 4sep2007
• Iran: Pentagon ‘Three-Day Blitz’ Plan - Sunday Times (UK) 2sep2007
• On Propaganda: Poor Leonard's Almanack: Quotations and Original Thoughts: Leonard Roy Frank / Street Spirit 1sep2007
• Bin Laden As A Fantasy Figure: Riches Beyond Belief - Le Monde diplomatique (France) 1sep2007
• Who is Dana Perino? -  Salem News 1sep2007
• Gonzales' Testimony Undergoing Scrutiny: This Is Just The Beginning  - Los Angeles Times 31aug2007
• Consumer Spending Rebounds in July - AP / Business Week 31aug2007
• Doctors Offering No-Interest Loans to Patients - New York Times 30aug2007
• China Says One-Child Policy Helps Protect Climate - Reuters 30aug2007
• A Sobering Census Report: Americans’ Meager Income Gains - Editorial / New York Times 29aug2007
• Steep Home-Price Drop Stirs Fears: Market May Get Worse Still As Effect of Stricter Lending Has Yet to Show Up in Data - Wall Street Journal 29aug2007
• Fourth Amendment Shredded: I Know What You Did Last Summer-  Newsweek 27aug2007
• Gonzales: It’s Official: Another Bush Hack Jumps the Sinking Ship - New York Times 27aug2007
• 9/11: Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., National Academy of Sciences Member Calls for New 9/11 Investigation: Official Explanation a Fraud - Statement 27aug2007
• Drop Foreseen in Median Price of U.S. Homes: Median U.S. House Price Expected to Fall -  New York Times 26aug2007
• Iraq Body Count Running at Double Pace - AP 25aug2007
• Bush Pleads for More Patience for Iraq War - Reuters 25aug2007
• Was George Bush Right About Vietnam? - The Independent (UK) 24aug2007
• 3,722 Iraq Casualties: 14 U.S. Troops Die in Chopper Crash - Los Angeles Times 23aug2007
• Sen. John W. Warner Calls for Pullouts By Winter - Washington Post 24aug2007
• Pentagon Cuts Armored Vehicles Due in Iraq in 2007: Only 1,500  out of 3,900 MRAPs Will Make It - Reuters 22aug2007
• Chicken Farms as Terror Threats? - AP 22aug2007
• C.I.A. Lays Out Errors It Made Before Sept. 11 - New York Times 22aug2007
  • OIG Report on CIA Accountability With Respect to the 9/11 Attacks: Exec. Summ.  - (June 2005) Released 21aug2007
• TALON: Pentagon to Shut Down Controversial Antiterror Database System Criticized for Storing Reports on Peace Activists - AP/ Boston Globe 22aug2007
• Tony Snow: Another One Jumps Sinking Ship: White House Spokesman Snow to Step Down - CNN 18aug2007
• Mystery Trader Bets Market Will Crash by a Third - Financial News (US) 16aug2007
• Do The Neo-Cons Need Karl Rove When They Can Count On the Democrats? - The Free Press 15aug2007
• Rove Became Victim of Administration's Hubris - Guardian (UK) 14aug2007
• Egg, Beans, Chicken, Milk: Prices for Key Foods Rising Sharply - McClatchy Newspapers 14aug2007
• Half of Nation's Poor Don't Get Food Stamps -  McClatchy Newspapers 14aug2007
• Karl Rove Quits: The Incredible Shrinking White House - The Economist (UK) 13aug2007
• Wrongful Mass Eviction Case Settled by Oakland Housing Authority: Lockwood Gardens - Indy Media News Wire 11aug2007
• Central Banks Intervene to Calm Volatile Markets -  New York Times 11aug2007
• Bush Fiddles as Market Burns -  Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 11aug2007
• Countrywide Says `Unprecedented' Disruptions May Hurt Profit - Bloomberg 9aug2007
• Stocks Drop on New Credit Concerns - Washington Post 9aug2007
• FDIC Asks Appeals Court to Drop $72.3 Million Fine Against Charles Hurwitz (Maxxam Corp./Pacific Lumber) - San Francisco Chronicle 8aug2007
• 3,678 Iraq Casualties: 26 U.S. Troops Killed In 1 Week In Iraq - CBS/AP 7aug2007
• Iraq Weapons Missing: Pentagon Admits 190,000 Weapons Missing in Iraq - The Independent (UK) 7aug2007
• Iraq Weapons Missing: 30% of Weapons Given to Iraq Are Missing - Washington Post 6aug2007
  • GAO Report to Congress: Stabilizing Iraq: DOD Cannot Ensure That U.S.-Funded Equipment Has Reached Iraqi Security Forces -  GAO-07-711 31jul2007
• Subprime Storm: Tough to Avoid Trouble, As More Parts of Market Start to Move Together - Wall Street Journal 6aug2007
• In Bush We Trust - Or Else: Regarding His Latest Executive Order  - San Francisco Chronicle 5aug2007
  • Bush: Executive Order: Blocking Property of Persons Undermining the Sovereignty of Lebanon or Its Democratic Processes and Institutions - G.W. Bush / The White House 1aug2007
• Afghanistan Expects Record Poppy Harvest - AP 5aug2007
• Bush to Tour Site of Bridge Collapse: Blame Maintenance Deferred by War on Terror - AP 4aug2007
• Wall Street Journal Independent Has Ties to News Corp - The Independent (UK) 4aug2007
• Buddha: China Tells Living Buddhas to Obtain Permission Before They Reincarnate - The Times (UK) 4aug2007
• Obama: Pakistan Criticizes Obama on Comments - AP 3aug2007
• Jobless Rate Edges Up to 4.6 Percent - AP / Houston Chronicle 3aug2007
• American Home Mortgage Says It Will Close - New York Times 3aug2007
• Bomber Obama: My Own Personal Terror War - Uruknet 2aug2007
• Giuliani: A Fate Worse Than Bush - Harper's Magazine 1aug2007
• Bush: Truth: The History Boys - Vanity Fair 1aug2007
• Bush: Executive Order: Blocking Property of Persons Undermining the Sovereignty of Lebanon or Its Democratic Processes and Institutions - G.W. Bush / The White House 1aug2007
• Obama Might Send Troops to Pakistan . . . Forgetting That Pakistan Exploded Nuclear Bomb in 1998 - AP 1aug2007
• Planet Pentagon: Ownership of the Earth, the Seas and the Skies - Le Monde diplomatique (Paris) 1aug2007
• Roberts Facing Medical Option on 2nd Seizure: Epilepsy - New York Times 1aug2007
• Chief Justice Roberts Suffers Seizure - AP 30jul2007
• Will Bush Cancel the 2008 Election?  - The Free Press 30jul2007
• Bush and Counterfactual Confidence - Washington Post 30jul2007
• 3,641 Iraq Casualties: Casualties of War: Cpl. Matthew R. Zindars - Chicago Sun Times 29jul2007
• Democrat Barack Obama spells out his foreign policy: Obama's Foreign Policy journal article with Critique by WSWS 28jul2007
• FBI Chief Contradicts Gonzales Testimony - AP / Chicago Tribune 27jul2007
• House Panel Backs Citing Bush Aides for Contempt - Washington Post 26jul2007
  • House Judiciary Reports Contempt Citations to the House of Representatives - 25jul2007
• Mortgage Woes for ‘Good’ Risks Seen by Top Lender - New York Times 25jul2007
• Veterans Sue U.S. Over Shameful Failures in Care and Pay - Reuters / Washington Post 23jul2007
  • Veterans v. V.A. 23jul2007

• Bush Should Be Censured by U.S. Congress on Iraq, Senator Says - Bloomberg 22jul2007

  • Press Release / U.S. Senator Russ Feingold 22jul2007

• North American Union: Connecting the Dots -  Global Research (Canada) 20jul2007
• Bush Officials Widen Assertion of Privilege - Washington Post 20jul2007
• Nuclear Scans' Effectiveness Questioned: Did DHS Mislead Congress About Effectiveness? - Washington Post 20jul2007
• Bush Signs New CIA Interrogation Rules: Clears CIA to Resume Harsh Interrogation Methods - Los Angeles Times 20jul2007
  • Executive Order: Interpretation of the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 as Applied to a Program of Detention and Interrogation Operated by the Central Intelligence Agency - The White House 20jul2007
• Mortgage Delinquencies - Wall Street Journal 19jul2007
• Dollar Wilts as Subprime Issues Weigh -  Financial Times (UK) 18jul2007
• Federal Reserve System Monetary Policy Report to the Congress - Federal Reserve 18jul2007
• Tom DeLay Tells College Republicans That Abortion, Illegal Immigration Are Linked - The Raw Story 18jul2007
• Iraqi Children Worse Off: UN Official - AP 17jul2007
• Most Illicit Drug Users and Heavy Alcohol Users Are in the Workplace and May Pose Special Problems - Department of Health and Human Services 16jul2007
• U.S. No Longer Tallest Country in World - AP 15jul2007
• Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age - New York Times 15jul2007
• Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki: Country Can Manage Without U.S. - AP 15jul2007
• Iraq: Robot Air Attack Squadron Bound for Iraq - AP 15jul2007
• 3,613 Iraq Casualties: U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,613 - AP 14jul2007
• Iran Asks Japan to Pay Yen for Oil, Start Immediately - Bloomberg News 13jul2007
• U.S. Troops Battle Iraqi Police, Gunmen: Six Iraqi Police Killed - AP 13jul2007
• The Land of Opportunity? - Editorial / New York Times 13jul2007
• Foreclosure Activity Rises Dramatically: Bay Area Defaults, Auctions, Repossessions Nearly Triple; Nationwide Notices are Up 87% -  San Francisco Chronicle 12jul2007
• Soothing Words for Panicky Markets - Asia Times (Hong Kong) 13jul2007
• Al-Qaeda Not at Pre-9/11 Strength. . .  Maybe. Maybe Not. Your Pick - USA Today & AP 12jul2007
• Report on Iraq Shows Mixed Results - AP 12jul2007
  • Initial Benchmark Assessment Report - U.S. Congress 12jul2007
• Financial Marts Tumble On Subprime-Bond Carnage - York Post 11jul2007
• Government Report Shows How Easy It Can Be To Obtain Nuclear Material To Build A Dirty Bomb - CBS News 11jul2007
• Surgeon General to Congressional Panel: Bush Administration Suppressed Important Health Reports - International Reporter (India) 11jul2007
• 'Madam' Phone List has Sen. Vitter's Number on it: Advocate of Family Values and of Rudolph Giuliani - Washington Post 10jul2007
• Data on Americans Mined for Terror Risk -  AP 10jul2007
• Libby Commutation: Coincidence, or Conspiracy? -  GNN 9jul2007
• Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Tops One Million: Iraqi Red Crescent - Press Release / IRIN 9jul2007
• Foreclosures Increasing Rate Upsets Atlanta  - New York Times 9jul2007
• Who Will Be Blamed For the Aftermath if U.S. Retreats From Iraq? - Fox News 9jul2007
• The Road Home: It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit - EDITORIAL / New York Times 8jul2007 
• Bond Rips Bush in Address to NAACP Annual Convention - AP 8jul2007
  • Text of Chairman Julian Bond's Address to 98th NAACP Convention 8jul2007
• Afghanistan: Tribal Chief Says NATO Airstrike Killed 108 Afghan Civilians - New York Times 8jul2007
• Happy Birthday, Mr. President - CBS News 7jul2007
• Fred D. Thompson Lobbied for Abortion-Rights Group - Los Angeles Times 7jul2007
• 9/11: Kevin Ryan's Open Letter to Purdue President France Córdova on 9/11 Research - Kevin Ryan 6jul2007
• Pentagon Appeals Ruling that Threw Out Charges of Guantanamo Detainee Khadr -  CanWest News Service 6jul2007
• 1,000 People from 75 countries took oaths at Cinderella’s Castle of Walt Disney World as Gloria Estefan sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” -  New York Times 5jul2007
• Homemade, Cheap and Dangerous Bombs - Washington Post 5jul2007
• Iraq: Private Contractors Now Outnumber U.S. Troops in Iraq: 180,000 to 160,000 - Los Angeles Times 4jul2007
• CIA: Castro Reacts to C.I.A. Documents - Reuters 3jul2007
• Bush: Besieged and Isolated and Fixated on Iraq - Washington Post 2jul2007
• Supreme Court Under Roberts Limits Judicial Power Conservative - Wall Street Journal 2jul2007
• FOIA: Judge Orders OSHA to Release Toxic Info - AP 2jul2007
• Only Systemic Change Will End Wars for Profit - Editorial / The Commemorator  1jul2007
• San Francisco's Brutal Budget Slashes Services - Street Sheet 1jul2007
• Berkeley's Homeless Attacked by Business Leaders - Street Spirit 1jul2007
• Global Systemic Crisis: Fed Loses Control on US Interest Rates and Crisis Reaches China and EU - GEAB 1jul2007
• Cheney: The Secret's Out on Cheney - Seattle Times 1jul2007
• CIA: Files on Illegal Spying Show C.I.A. Skeletons From Cold War - New York Times 27jun2007
• Banks Set to Call in a Swathe of Loans - The Telegraph (UK) 26jun2007
•     Cheney: Leaving No Tracks / Washington Post 27jun2007
• Cheney: A Strong Push From Backstage - Washington Post 26jun2007
• Cheney: Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power - Washington Post 25jun2007
• Cheney: A Different Understanding With the President - Washington Post 24jun2007
• 911: Purdue Researchers Simulate 9/11 Attacks - AP 21jun2007
• Iraq Private Security Companies: Iraq Contractors Face Growing Parallel War As Security Work Increases, So Do Casualties - Washington Post 16jun2007
• Home Foreclosures Hit Fresh High - Wall Street Journal 15jun2007
• Pentagon May Drop Mental Health Question - AP 15jun2007
• Prisons: The Empire Building Equation and the Incarceration of Africans and Blacks - The Black Commentator i.233, 14jun2007
• Blair: Media is Feral Beast Obsessed with Impact - The Guardian (UK) 13jun2007
  • Lecture by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Tony Blair MP on Public Life 12jun2007
• Man Labeled "Enemy Combatant" Wins Court Case: Bush Looses - Reuters 11jun2007
• Global Military Spending Hits $1.2 Trillion - Reuters 11jun2007
• Chavez Connects With Poor in Venezuela - Interview / AP 10jun2007
• Bush Receives Hero's Welcome in Albania: Possibly Only Place on Earth To Do So - AP 10jun2007
• Rep. Jefferson a Bad Actor - Sun Times 10jun2007
• Democratic President Would End War (Not!)  - AP 9jun2007
• 3,501 Iraq Casualties: U.S. Toll in Iraq: 3,501 members of the U.S. military - San Francisco Chronicle 9jun2007
• CIA Secret Prison Scandal Report Names Poland and Romania - Swiss Radio International 8jun2007
• Iraq: Gunmen Attack Iraq Police Chief's Home, Kill Wife, 14 in All - Reuters 8jun2007
• War on Terror: Overstating Threat of Terrorism Risks Making Us Less Safe - Time Magazine 7jun2007

• Popemobile: ‘Deranged’ Man Hurls Himself at Pope, Who Seems Unfazed -  New York Times 7jun2007

• Guantánamo: Military Judges Dismiss Charges for 2 Detainees - New York Times 5jun2007
• Bush: "Russia Shouldn't Fear U.S. Defense" - AP 5jun2007
• Chavez: The Young and the Restless: Is this the beginning of the end for Hugo Chavez? (Not) - Wall Street Journal 4jun2007
• Stay-the-Course Plus Obama, Romney and Foreign Engagement on Steroids - Washington Post 4jun2007
• Oakland's Tassafaronga Hope VI Proposal Threatens The Poor - Lynda Carson 3jun2007
• Upton Sinclair: A Brave New Candidate Who Tried To Abolish Poverty - Street Spirit 1jun2007
• Philip Mangano: Counting Out the Homeless - Street Spirit s1jun2007
• U.S. "Imperialism" Means New Arms Race: Putin - Reuters 31may2007
• Bush Set to Name Zoellick World Bank President - The Australian 30may2007
• 3,466 Iraq Casualties: 10 Americans Die in Iraq, Making May Bloodiest Month - AP 28may2007
• A Parent in Prison, a Void at Home: Chicago Coalition Seeks More Family Programs, Aid for Spouses -Washington Post 28may2007
• California Prisons Trying to Reduce Suicides -  San Diego Union Tribune 28may2007
• Bush Pays Tribute to 3,452 Fallen U.S. Troops - Houston Chronicle 28may2007
• Iraq: As Allies Turn Foe, Disillusion Rises in Some G.I.’s - New York Times 28may2007
• Iraq: White House Is Said to Debate ’08 Cut in Iraq Combat Forces by 50% - New York Times 26may2007
• Historian Reflects On War and Valor And a Son's Death: Andrew Bacevich Opposed Iraq Conflict but, in Grief, He Still Believes in Serving - Wall Street Journal 26may2007
  • 3,451 Iraq Casualties: U.S. Deaths in Iraq Near Grim Memorial Day Mark - AP 26may2007
• Deja Vu in Afghanistan; Paraguay Political Challenge - Berkeley Daily Planet 25may2007
• Bush Warns U.S. Casualties May Spike This Summer - New York Times 25may2007
• Iraq: Poll Shows View of Iraq War Is Most Negative Since Start - New York Times 25may2007
• Monica M. Goodling: Text of Former Justice Dept. Aide’s Testimony on Attorney Firings - New York Times 24may2007
• 911: Giuliani: Macho Mistakes at Ground Zero - Editorial / New York Times 22may2007
• Prisons' Budget to Trump Colleges' -  San Francisco Chronicle 21may2007
• Kuwait Abandons Peg to Sliding US Dollar - Financial Times (UK) 21may2007
• Dems Set War Bill Without Iraq Timeline - Houston Chronicle 21may2007
  • 3,402 Iraq Casualties: 3,402 Iraq Casualties as of 21 May 2007 - Department of Defense 21may2007
• Bush Worst Ever: Carter - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 19may2007
  • Carter Interview: Bush is Worst President Ever in United States History: by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette religion editor Frank Lockwood 18may2007
• Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency - roguegovernment.com 19may2007
  • Bush COGCON: National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive - Whitehouse 9may2007
• In Trying to Win, Has Dewhurst Lost a Friend? - Houston Chronicle 17may2007
• The Legacy of Malcolm X - The Black Commentator 17may2007
• Russia Draws Europe into its Orbit - Asia Times (Hong Kong) 17may2007
• Wolfowitz to Resign from World Bank - Hartford Courant 17may2007
• New Indications Attorney Firings May Be Linked to Voter-Fraud Probes -  Seattle Times 17may2007
• Gonzales Hospital Episode Detailed: Ailing Ashcroft Pressured on Spy Program, Former Deputy Says - Washington Post 16may2007
• US Government Fans Homeland Terrorism Fear - Global Research 15may2007
• Giuliani: Ground Zero Illnesses Clouding Giuliani’s Legacy -  New York Times 14may2007
• Giuliani's Clients Could Pose Conflict - AP 14may2007
• Afghanistan: Civilian Deaths Undermine Allies’ War on Taliban - New York Times 13may2007
• Monica M. Goodling: Colleagues Cite Partisan Focus by Justice Official - New York Times 12may2007
• LAPD is a 'Warrior Culture' - AP 12may2007
• Chertoff Urges Data-Sharing Deal with EU -  AP 12may2007
• Iraq: Outsourcing the War: Blackwater - The Nation 11may2007
• Luis Posada Carriles: Legal Victory by Militant Cuban Exile Brings Both Glee and Rage - New York Times 10may2007
• Republicans Defect to the Obama Camp - The Sunday Times (UK) 6may2007
• Los Angeles: Elite Metropolitan Division of Los Angeles Police Department Present at Melee: Why? - AP 5may2007
• Iraq: U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) Study Finds Lapses in Battlefield Ethics - AP 5may2007
• Unemployment Rises As Hiring Slows - Houston Chronicle 4may2007
• BP Chief, Lord John Browne: Scandal, Crises Hasten Exit For British Icon  - Wall Street Journal 2may2007
• U.C. Berkeley: BP Project Impractical, Dangerous, Critics Charge -  Berkeley Daily Planet 1may2007
• Mending the Maze: MacArthur Maze in Emeryville - Editorial / San Francisco Chronicle 1may2007
• Stephen J. Hadley: Quiet Bush Aide Seeks Iraq Czar, Creating a Stir - New York Times 30apr2007
• Obama the Interventionist - Washington Post 29apr2007
• Iraq: Rebuilt Iraq Projects Found Crumbling - New York Times 29apr2007
• Former CIA Director George J. Tenet Says He Was Made a Scapegoat Over Iraq War - Washington Post 27apr2007
• Iraq: The Reality Behind Democrat Rhetoric on Pulling Out of Iraq - WSWS 25apr2007
• Iraq: Situation "Grim" - United Nations UNAMI Issues 10th Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Iraq - United Nations Press Release (link to report) 25apr2007
• Senator Barack Obama Speaking to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs 23apr2007
• Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Lee Iacocca / Scribner 17apr2007
• Britain Banned Phrase “War on Terror"- Sky News (UK) 16apr2007
• Iraq: An Ever-Worsening Crisis - Red Cross Press Release 11apr2007
• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: US Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi: Jordanian Painted As Foreign Threat To Iraq's Stability - Washington Post 10apr2007
• U.C./B.P - An Unholy Alliance? UC Berkeley's $500-million deal with BP challenges traditional public-private partnerships - Sacramento Bee 8apr2007
• Charles Simonyi: Microsoft Word Creator Paid More Than US $20 M For 13-Day Space Trip - PC World 8apr2007
• Bush: Iraq Withdrawal Would Spawn Danger - AP / Houston Chronicle 4apr2007
• Iraq: How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War - Peter Eisner / Washington Post 3apr2007
• McCain Wrong on Iraq Security, Merchants Say: New Security Plan Baghdad Not Working - New York Times 3apr2007
• Iran: Call That Humiliation? No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilized bunch - Terry Jones / The Guardian (UK) 31mar2007
• Defense Attorney Tony Serra Sues Feds Over Slave Labor Practices - Lynda Carson / Mindfully.org 1apr2007
• New Orleans: More than 600 People Accused of Katrina Fraud - AP / Times-Picayune (New Orleans) 1apr2007
• 15 British Sailors and Marines Held Captive by Iran: British Pawns in an Iranian Game - Asia Times (Hong Kong) 29mar2007
• September 11 Respiratory Problems Persist and Increase - AP 27mar2007
• Betrayed: The Iraqis Who Trusted America The Most - The New Yorker 26mar2007
• War Protest Crowd Count Too Low - Opinion / San Francisco Chronicle 26mar2007
• 3,227 Iraq Casualties: 3,227 American Service Members Died Since Start of Iraq War: Names of the Dead - New York Times 26mar2007
• GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel: Some See Impeachment as Option - AP / San Diego Union Tribune 25mar2007
  • 'Before This is Over, You might see calls for his impeachment': Chuck Hagel - Esquire 1apr2007
• Book Review: Blackwater: Have Guns (and Helicopters), Will Travel - Globe and Mail (Canada) 24mar2007
• Gonzales More Involved Than He Has Said - Los Angeles Times 24mar2007
• Rocky Anderson: In Utah, an Opponent of the ‘Culture of Obedience’ - New York Times 22mar2007
• Why I Was Fired - DAVID C. IGLESIAS / Op-Ed / New York Times 21mar2007
• Bush Refuses to Let Aides Take Oath on Firings - San Francisco Chronicle 21mar2007
• Dick Cheney an Iranian Mole? -  Editorial / New York Times 20mar2007
• FBI:  The Inspector General's Independent Report on the F.B.I.'s Use of National Security Letters - Conyers Statement / House Committee on the Judiciary 20mar2007
• Berkeley Camping Cleanup Imminent: Disappearing the Homeless - East Bay Daily News 20mar2007
• UC/BP Deal: UC Berkeley Professor and Former Cabinet Officer Robert Reich Warns of UC-BP Deal’s Consequences - Berkeley Daily Planet 13mar2007
• War Protests Grow in D.C., Across U.S. -  AP (and more) 18mar2007
• 9/11: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: The Ultimate Patsy "Confesses"- Prison Planet 15mar2007
• 9/11: Alleged Architect Of 9/11 Confesses To Many Attacks: Confession Forced by Torture JOSH WHITE / Washington Post 15mar2007
• Berkeley Homelessness Targeted in City Initiative: Proposal Raises Street Sitting Fines - Daily Californian 15mar2007
• Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: Dump the Chump Editorials from several newspapers 14mar2007
• 9/11: Looking for Truth in Credentials: The Peculiar WTC “Experts” - Kevin Ryan / Global Research 13mar2007
• Army Rushes to Promote Its Officers: War Pressures Cited; Quality is a Concern -  Boston Globe 13mar2007
• Terrorists Proving Harder to Profile  - Washington 12mar2007
• Halliburton Moves its Corporate HQ to Dubai: No Joke! - Wall Street Journal 12mar2007
• Democrats Abandon War Authority Provision - AP 12mar2007
• V.P. Dick Cheney "The United States and Israel: Tradition and Transcendence" at AIPAC Policy Conference 2007 - Transcript 11mar2007
• Bush Wants More Troops: 8,200 More Than the 21,500 Already Announced -     AP 10mar2007
• FBI: US Department of Justice: FBI Misused Patriot Act Powers - AP 9mar2007
  • A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of National Security Letters - Office of the Inspector General / Dept of Justice 9mar2007
• How Decay Overtook Walter Reed: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet  - Christian Science Monitor 6mar2007
• With Graffiti on the Rise, Southland Police use "High Technology" to track and catch taggers - Los Angeles Times 5mar2007
• Is Israel Falling Apart? - HNN 5mar2007
• Are Labor Unions Terrorists? - Mountain Sentinel 5mar2007
• Inmates Will Replace Migrants in Colorado Fields - New York Times 4mar2007
• Global Warming is Human Rights Issue: Air Conditioners used in Arctic: Inuit Falling Through Ice When they Hunt - Reuters 4mar2007
• Senator Barack Obama at The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Forum (Chicago, Illinois) - Transcript 2mar2007
• Walter Reed Army Medical Center: Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey Resigns in Scandal's Wake - AP 2mar2007
  • Walter Reed Army Medical Center: Washington Post Series between 18feb2007 and 23feb2007
• CIA in Italy: U.S. Will Not Hand Over C.I.A. Suspects - New York Times 1mar2007
• Rudy Giuliani: Everybody Loves Rudy! But to Some, the Question is Why? -  Op Ed News 1mar2007
• Stocks: Sudden Retreat: Markets' Slide Spotlights Risks Chinese Shares Tumble - Wall Street Journal 28feb2007
• Iraq: Thousands of Veterans Are Returning From War With Traumatic Brain Injuries - ABC News 28feb2007
• New Profiling Program Raises Privacy Concerns: Department of Homeland Security is testing a data-mining program - Washington Post 28feb2007
• Al Hillah, Iraq: U.S. Says Raid in Iraq Supports Claim on Iran, but Doubts Persist - New York Times 26feb2007
• Real ID: As Bush's ID Plan Was Delayed, Coalition Formed Against It - Washington Post 25feb2007
• The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism? - Seymour Hersh / The New Yorker 25feb2007
• Trains: Appetite for Imports, Gridlock on Freeways Mean More Trains, Noise, Delays at Crossings - San Jose Mercury News 25feb2007
• Jean-Bertrand Aristide Former President of Haiti: ‘One Step at a Time’: An Interview - The Black Commentator i.218, 22feb2007
• American Liberty at the Precipice - EDITORIAL / New York Times 22feb2007
• 'Core' Consumer Prices Rose 0.3% Last Month: Fastest Rate Since June - Wall Street Journal 21feb 2007
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or, what happens when Cowboys don’t shoot straight like they used to - Global Research 20feb2007
  • Wladimir W. Putin, President, Russian Federation - Speech at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy 10feb2007
• Audit: Nearly All Terrorism-Related Statistics Flawed: Diminished or Inflated (link to USDOJ PDF) - AP 20feb2007
• Court: Guantanamo Bay Detainees Can't Challenge Cases - AP / Boston Globe 20feb2007
  • Lakhdar Boumediene, detainee, Camp Delta, et al., Appellants v. George W. Bush, President of the United States, et al., Appellees United States Court of Appeals For the District of Columbia Circuit No. 05-5062 Argued September 8, 2005 / Decided 20feb2007
• High Court Throws Out Verdict Against Philip Morris -  Wall Street Journal 20feb2007
• Bush Urges Diversity in Spy Recruitment - AP / Washington Post 20feb2007
• CIA Kidnapping: Extraordinary Rendition Program: 26 Americans and 5 Italians to Stand sTrial in Italy - AP 16feb2007
• Record Home Price Slump: Price Declines Now Outpace Gains - CNNMoney 15feb2007
• Obama Cannot Hear Us! - Black Commentator 15feb2007
• Obama’s Book Reviewed— "The Audacity of Hope:" Portrait of a Modern American Political Operative - WSWS 14feb2007
• Obama and the War in Iraq - WSWS 13feb2007
• 3,117 Iraq Casualties: 23,417 Wounded: American Deaths in Iraq: - Boston Globe 11feb2007
• Victory Is Not an Option - Washington Post 11feb2007
• Al-Qaida-tied Insurgents Release Video - AP 9feb2007
• Pentagon Manipulated Intelligence - AP 9feb2007
• Left Margin: Bush’s People - The Black Commentator 8feb2007
• In Home-Lending Push, Banks Misjudged Risk - Wall Street Journal 8feb2007
• Three U.S. Army Reserve Officers Indicted in Iraq Contract Scam - AP 7feb2007
• Waxman to Bremer: Show Me the Money: The CPA handed out planeloads of cash but no one knows where it went - Mother Jones 6feb2006
• Iran Accuses US of Role in Iraqi Kidnap of Iranian Diplomat in Iraq - The Financial Times (UK) 6feb2007
• Bush Plan Reins In Domestic Spending: Proposal Aims to Balance Budget And Fund Wars - Washington Post 6feb2007
• Bush Budget Message - GEORGE W. BUSH 5feb2007
• DNA Sampling: U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling - New York Times 5feb2007
• Iraq: Corners Cut in Rush to Add Troops: More will die - San Francisco Chronicle 4feb2007
• New York City: Number of People Stopped by New York Police Soars: More Than Half Are Black - New York Times 3feb2007
• Guantanamo: U.S. Files Charges Against 3 Inmates - Reuters 3feb2007
• War Casualty Numbers Officially Falsified: U.S. Reconfigures the Way Casualty Totals Are Given -  New York Times 2feb2007
• Iran: A Political Bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski Ex-National Security Adviser Warns that Bush is Seeking a Pretext to Attack Iran - WSWS 2feb2007
• Collapse and its Discontents - Dmitry Orlov / Carolyn Baker.Org 1feb2007
• Germany Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Operatives in Kidnapping of Khaled el-Masri - Los Angeles Times 31jan2007
• US Plans to 'Fight the Net' Revealed -  BBC 27jan2007
• Ohio Election Workers Convicted of Manipulating 2004 U.S. Presidential Recount - International Herald Tribune / AP 24jan2007
  • Do New Ohio Recount Prosecutions Indicate Unraveling of 2004 Election Theft Cover-up? - The Free Press 22jan2007
• 770 Civilian Contractors Killed and 7,761 Injured in Iraq Since War Began: 4 Americans in Iraq Crash Shot in Head - AP 24jan2007
  • The Bush Mercenary Jackpot - The Nation 28aug2006
• TV is Dying? Long Live TV!  Despite (or because of) the Web, we watch more television than ever -  Fortune 23jan2007
• Bush Poll: A Skeptical Public Greets State of the Union Speech: Survey Shows Bush Has Little Leeway For Big Policy Moves -  Wall Street Journal 23jan2007
• Venezuela President Hugo Chavez to U.S. Officials: 'Go to Hell' - AP 22jan2007
• Bush Poll: Most Think Bush on Wrong Track Findings of pre-State of the Union AP survey are a stark change from 2002 - AP/ MSNBC 22jan2007
• Stocks Fall on Bernanke Comments - AP 18jan2007
  • Long-term fiscal challenges facing the United States Testimony of Chairman Bernanke Before Committee on the Budget, U.S. Senate 18jan2007
• Karl Kemp & Associates Antiques Dealer Sues Unidentified Homeless People for $1 Million - New York Times 17jan2007
• Iraq: Over 34,000 Civilians Killed in Iraq in 2006: UN Report on Rights Violations - UN Press Release 16jan2007
• Iran: US Military Strike on Iran Seen by April ’07: Sea-Launched Attack to Hit Oil, N-sites - Arab Times (Kuwait) 15jan2007
• 3,006 Iraq Casualties: 3,006 US Casualties To Date with a Terrible Plan to Come - New York Times 15jan2007
• Military Is Expanding Its Intelligence Role in U.S. -  New York Times 14jan2007
• Rice Says Bush Authorized Iranians’ Arrest in Iraq - New York Times 13jan2007
• Negroponte: Shiite Radicalism Could Fuel Wider Violence - New York Times 12jan2007
• Even GOP Senators Rip Rice on Iraq: Hostile lawmakers question her credibility, blast Bush plan - San Francisco Chronicle 12jan2007
• Once More Unto the Breach: Bush's revised Iraq strategy is short on new ideas - The Guardian (UK) 11jan2007
• Italian Lawyer in CIA Case Withdraws - AP 9jan2007
• Bush's Quagmire of the Vanities - New York Times 8jan2007 
• Greenbelts Destroyed to Protect Lives of Freeway Crossers - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 8jan2007
• Discovery Bay Firing Range Too Close for Neighbors' Comfort in Port Townsend, Washington - Seattle Times 8jan2007
• Israel Plans Nuclear Strike on Iran - Sunday Times (UK) 7jan2007
• Sedative Withdrawal Made Rehnquist Delusional in '81: Files Detail Drug Addiction And FBI's Role in Hearings - Washington Post 5jan2007
• Prospects for Iraq’s Stability: A Challenging Road Ahead - National Intelligence Estimate - Office of the Director of National Intelligence 2jan2007

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• Guantanamo: Mohammad Sagheer vs. Government of USA: Suit for Recovery of Damages and Compensation of US $10.4 Million - Leuren Moret 31dec03

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• Dick Cheney's Empire Christmas Card: "If a sparrow can fall to the ground without His notice, it is likely that an empire can rise without His help?" 24dec03
• Electronic Voting Machines: Hackers Threaten to Short-Circuit E-Voting Plans -  London Times (UK) 15nov03
• Pentagon Investigates Movement of Funds: Concealed $20 Million - Washington Post 30sep03
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• US Patriot Act: Faking out the Constitution - SF Chronicle 11sep03

• Closing V.A. Hospitals Has Congress Squirming  - NY Times 16aug03

• Troops in Iraq Face Pay Cut - SF Chronicle 14aug03

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• High Court Justice Crusades for Mercy: "Sentences Too Severe, Too Long"  - SF Chronicle 10aug03

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• Career Officer Does Eye-Opening Stint Inside Pentagon - Karen Kwiatkowski / Knight-Ridder / Ohio Beacon Journal 31jul03

• America is a Religion - George Monbiot / The Guardian (UK) 29jul03

• One of every 143 U.S. Residents in Prison - AP 27jul03

• Are Prisons Obsolete? - ANGELA Y. DAVIS Speaking at the First Congregational Church of Oakland 26jul03
• Analysis of an Electronic Voting System - Kohno, Stubblefield, Rubin, and Wallach 23jul03
• Patriot Act: Patriot Revolution? Cities From Cambridge to Berkeley Reject Anti-Terror Measure -  ABC News 1jul03
• Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) - supports individual & collective resistance to war.

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• Income Tax Law in Effect To-Day - New York Times  1nov1913

• "I don't think all this dirt will fit back into the hole.  We'd better dig another one."

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• Tao Te Ching -  Lao-tzu (551-479 BCE) translated by Stephen Mitchell 1988

• The Art of War  -  Sun Tzu (China abt.500 BC) 

• Kali: The Feminine Force