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May 2008

Wednesday, May 7

  • Is Immigration Off the Table in Election 2008?
  • As Executions Resume, So Do Questions of Fairness
  • Lawyers for Guantánamo Inmates Accuse US of Eavesdropping
  • Luis Posada Carriles, A Terror Suspect Abroad, Enjoys A ‘Coming-Out’ in Miami
  • West Bank Villagers Fight for Promised Land
  • CIA Rendition Flights, Detention Centers Haunt Romania
  • Teens March Against Khadr Detention
  • EPA Might Not Act To Limit Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water
  • Obama Wins North Carolina Decisively; Late Night Drama As Indiana Counts
  • Airline Emissions ‘Far Higher Than Previous Estimates’
  • Canadian Becomes First Child Soldier Since Nuremberg To Stand Trial For War Crimes
  • Women Bridging Borders to Beat Violence
  • Veterans’ Office Covering Up Soldier Suicides: US Lawmakers

    Tuesday, May 6

  • FBI Agents Raid Office Protecting Whistleblowers: Reports
  • US Panel Authorizes Subpoena of Cheney Aide
  • Burma Disaster: The Wind of Change
  • Iraq War Strains US Army Mental Health System
  • War Funding Would Break Dem Promises
  • Carbon Trading Blasted by Indigenous Groups
  • Mildred Loving, Who Fought Marriage Ban, Dies
  • A Woman, a Village and a War on Plastic Bags
  • Racial Disparities Persist In Drug Arrests
  • Luxury Hotels and Golf: Welcome To The Green Zone
  • US Contractors Accused In Abu Ghraib Torture Suit
  • Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11

    Monday, May 5

  • Remembering Kent State Shooting Victims
  • Iraq Backs Off Allegations That Iran Is Behind Violence
  • US Base Is No Longer Welcome in Ecuador
  • Wanted: A Few Flat-Earth Scientists To Support Alaskan Oil Drilling
  • Canada To Honour Suu Kyi With Honory Citizenship
  • Sinking Without Trace: Australia’s Climate Change Victims
  • Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in Custody
  • Clinton Has ‘No Regrets’ Concerning Her ‘Obliterating Iran’ Comments
  • UN Suspends Food Aid To Gaza—Again

    Sunday, May 4

  • Blackwater Shooting Highlights A US, Iraq Culture Clash
  • Uranium Claims Spring Up Along Grand Canyon Rim
  • Potentially Explosive Autonomy Vote Underway In Bolivia
  • Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis
  • Shell Firms Shielded US Contractor From Taxes

    Saturday, May 3

  • Persecution Not Prosecution: ‘Bioterror’ Case Falls Apart
  • Iraq: Corruption Eats Into Food Rations
  • Renditions Ruin The EU Case For Human Rights
  • Senate Panel Bans Private Contractors in CIA Interrogations
  • Hospital In Baghdad Casualty of US Air Strike
  • McCain Clarifies: First Gulf War, Not This One, About Oil
  • After Hiatus, States Set Wave of Executions

    Friday, May 2

  • Teacher Fired For Refusing To Sign Loyalty Oath
  • Bad Omen for Musharraf: Pakistan’s Chief Justice Back
  • Oakland Teach-In Looks at Budget Cuts and the War
  • US Plan to Protect Right Whale From Shipping Blocked by Cheney
  • EPA Official Ousted While Fighting Dow Chemical
  • War of The future: Robot versus Robot
  • Al-Jazeera Journalist Freed From Guantanamo After 6 Years
  • Democrats on Committee Threaten to Subpoena Karl Rove About Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman’s Prosecution

    Thursday, May 1

  • Dockworkers Take May Day Off, Idling All West Coast Ports
  • Justice Dept. Will Share Interrogation Opinions
  • Gaza ‘On Point of Explosion’ Warns UN
  • Supreme Court Voter ID Decision Widely Denounced
  • Bush Administration Proposes Allowing Concealed Guns At Parks
  • Deployment of Aircraft Carrier a US ‘Reminder’ to Iran, Says Gates
  • Iran Complains To UN About Clinton Comment
  • ACLU: Pentagon Documents Highlight Interrogation Methods
  • Did Top Dems Make A Dangerous Right Turn?
  • Maine Jury Acquits Peace Activists For Senate Office Sit-In
  • DC Nonprofit With Possible Clinton Ties Behind Deceptive NC Robo-Calls




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