Headlines - November 2008
Sunday November 30, 2008
- Liberal Groups Feel Welcome Again in Washington
- For Obama, A Chance to Push Big Changes
- Economy Offers Excuse to Avoid Climate Fight
- Washington Plans Mass Slaughter of America's Mustangs
- Greenhouse Gases Will Heat Up Planet 'Forever'
- One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex
- Poverty Spreading in Suburbs: Study
Saturday November 29, 2008
Friday November 28, 2008
Thursday November 27, 2008
- Terrorists Strike In Mumbai
- 'Nobody Supports The Taliban, but People Hate The Government'
- Obama Answers Liberal Critics on Personnel Choices
- Iraqi Parliament Approves Landmark US Military Pact
- Thanksgiving A Loaded Holiday for Many Native-Americans
- Doves Keep The Faith as Obama Team Tilts Right
- Indian Crisis "Tests" Obama
Wednesday November 26, 2008
- Obama Puts Faith in Bush's Defence Secretary
- US Staying Silent on Its View of Iraq Pact Until After Vote
- Plan for New Orleans Hospitals Draws Outcry
- Florida Gay Adoption Ban Is Ruled Unconstitutional
- IDF Killed Wanted Palestinians Despite Court Guidelines, Documents Show
- Former Child Soldiers Work to Save Those Left Behind
- State officials to Investigate Mormon Church's Prop. 8 Campaign Activities
- No Amnesty for Cheney, et al, Say Torture Opponents
- Will Any Crumbs Remain After Bankers' Feast?
- Consumers Rank Climate Concerns Ahead of Economy
Tuesday November 25, 2008
- Israeli Policeman Headbutts Woman in Palestinian Demolition Clashes
- Foreign Press in Israel Fight Gaza Entry Ban
- Forest Protection Plan Could Displace Millions, say Campaigners
- Oceans Passing Critical CO2 Threshold
- Shoshone Indians Sue to Stop Barrick's Nevada Gold Mine
- Sources: Contractor for Military Committed Serious Violations
- Hate Crimes on Rise, Warn US Groups
- Hamdan Released from Guantanamo, Headed Home
- Governors, Environmentalists, and Health Advocates Fume Over Bush's Last Minute Air Pollution Rule
- Little Gain From Oil Sands Carbon Capture: Report
- Will Nuclear Disarmament Be on Obama's Agenda?
Monday November 24, 2008
- Haitian Children Severely Malnourished
- Hugo Chavez Allies Score Big Wins in Venezuela Elections
- Power in The Desert: Solar Towers Will Harness Sunshine of Southern Spain
- Rejected Absentee Votes May Decide It
- Israel Allows Limited Aid into Gaza; Not Enough To Relieve Humanitarian Disaster
- Democrats' Stimulus Plan May Reach $700 Billion
- Vt. Engineer Designs A Good Life for $5,000 a Year
Sunday November 23, 2008
- Cops Raise Taser Safety Claims
- Some in Arab World Wary of Clinton
- The System Implodes: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
- Barack Obama Accused of Selling Out on Iraq by Picking Hawks to Run His Foreign Policy
- Search On to Get Food Crops Out of Biofuels
- White Extremists Lash Out Over Election of First Black President
Saturday November 22, 2008
Friday November 21, 2008
- Panel: Farmed Fish Can be Called Organic
- Congo: A Touch of Hope in The War without End
- Nowhere Safe To Play for Children in Cluster-Bombed Laos
- Economy Hitting Women Hardest, Say Experts
- UN: Gaza on Brink of Humanitarian Disaster
- Contractors in Iraq Could Face Charges in Earlier Incidents
- Five Guantanamo Detainees Ruled Illegally Detained
- California Officials Unveil Plans to Turn San Francisco into Electric Car Capital
- Thousands Protest in Iraq Against US Troops Pact
- Death Bloom of Plankton A Warning on Warming
- National Intelligence Council Report: Sun Setting on The American Century
Thursday November 20, 2008
- Waxman Dethrones Dingell As Energy/Commerce Chairman
- Aid Agencies Launch Joint Congo Appeal
- Barbara Lee to Head Congressional Black Caucus
- Solar Power Magnate’s Bold Bid for Ailing Carmaker
- President for 60 More Days, Bush Tearing Apart Protection for America's Wilderness
- Fast-food Ad Ban Could Cut Child Obesity: US Study
- State Supreme Court Rejoins Prop. 8 Battle
- Iraqis Doubt Security Agreement Will End US Presence
- Police Spied on Activists Through '07
- World Willing to Pay More for Green Energy
- Antiwar Groups Fear Barack Obama May Create Hawkish Cabinet
Wednesday November 19, 2008
- Holder on Bush, Executive Power
- Cheney Charged Over Jail 'Abuses'
- Stevens Ousted; Democrats Eye Power of 60
- Taxpayers Will Pay For Gonzales' Private Attorney
- Young Activists Fired Up in Fight Against Coal
- Congress Blames Treasury as Foreclosures Mount
- Documentary Tells Ex-Army Sergeant's Story of Pain
- Many Groups Spied Upon In Maryland Were Nonviolent
- Serious Business: Childhood Experts Step Up Campaign For More Free-Wheeling Play Time
- Obama Renews Promise to Break with Bush-Era Environmental Policies
- Under Iraq Troop Pact, US Can't Leave Any Forces Behind
- Bush Tries to Kickstart U.S. Oil Shale Development
Tuesday November 18, 2008
- Aid Worker Fatalities: A Growing Global Trend
- Joan Baez Talks Up Two Men in Her Life: Obama and Steve Earle
- Activists Seek Executive Order Banning Torture
- On Top of Humanitarian Disaster, A News Blackout
- Cal Study Finds Ex-Guantanamo Prisoners Broken
- Jerry Brown Seeks Legality of Prop. 8
- Top judge: US and UK Acted as 'Vigilantes' in Iraq Invasion
- Report to Congress: Gulf War Syndrome is Real
- Early Test for Obama on Domestic Spying Views
- Obama Advisers: No Charges Likely Versus Interrogators
- Experts: Half World Faces Water Shortage by 2080
- Hillary Clinton to Accept Obama's Offer of Secretary of State Job
Monday November 17, 2008
- War, Death and Animation: Cartoon Film Stirs Israel's Conscience
- British Government To Defy Critics with Secret GM Crop Trials
- Ecuador Keeps Up Oil Cleanup Fight Against Chevron
- US Task Force Found Few Iranian Arms in Iraq
- NF3: The Greenhouse Gas That Nobody Knew
- Students Protest Coal Funding at Bank of America
- Iraqi Cleric Bids to Kill US Pact in Parliament
- Record Numbers Seeking Bush Pardons
- Obama Win Prompts Wave of Hate Crimes
- Uproar Over Federal Drilling Leases Next To Parks
Sunday November 16, 2008
Saturday November 15, 2008
Friday November 14, 2008
- Democrats Shield Automakers From Legacy of Bad Decisions
- Democratic Pressure on Obama to Restore the Rule of Law
- Hands Up If You Made Billions of Dollars Out of The Credit Crisis
- Drill, Virginia, Drill
- Brown Clouds Melting Glaciers, Darkening Cities Across Asia
- Weeks After Bank Bailout, No Help for Homeowners
- US rejects Kremlin's call to scrap missile shield
- Obama's Biggest Guantanamo Dilemma May Lie in Yemen
- Proposition 8 Protesters Target Businesses
- Early Signs Are Obama Has to Guard His Left
- Michael Moore to Tackle Economy
- Uproar As Top Police Cleared of Attack on Genoa G8 Protesters
Thursday November 13, 2008
- UN to Suspend Food Distribution in Gaza
- Supreme Court On Sonar: Navy Trumps Whales
- Blackwater Likely To Be Fined Millions in Iraq Weapons Case
- Rights Groups Urge Obama to Mount Guantanamo Probe
- In Iraq, A Sudden Spurt of Violence
- Feminists Say the Work Has Just Begun
- Obama Pressured to Back Off Iraq Withdrawal
- Obama's Message To The World: We Will Act Quickly on Climate Change
- Obama Acts To Drive The Lobbyists Out of Washington
- Bush, Out of Office, Could Oppose Inquiries
- Cluster Bomb 'Soon To Be Thing of The Past'
- Israeli Bombs Are Source of Uranium at Shelled Site, Syria Says
- Treasury Scraps Original Bailout Plan as Economy Worsens
Wednesday November 12, 2008
- Pranksters Distribute Fake New York Times Declaring 'Iraq War Over'
- Burmese Activists Jailed for 65 Years Over Protests
- Activists Rethink Their Gay-Marriage Tactics
- Guantanamo Bay: Obama's Options
- Israel Blocks Foreign Media from Gaza
- Ten-Year Probe Reveals Oceans in Peril
- Will Democrats Bury Free Trade Deal?
- IEA Stokes Doubts Over World's Climate Fight
- Eight RNC Protesters Accused of 'Furthering Terrorism' Thanks To Statute
- Why Eating GM Food Could Lower Your Fertility
Tuesday November 11, 2008
- Documents Linking Iran to Nuclear Weapons Push May Have Been Fabricated
- Judge Rules Against White House In E-mail Case
- Fast Food: Just Another Name for Corn
- Mending Fences with Latin America
- Government Rescue Spending: Clear or Cloudy?
- Probe Sought of Bush handling of Alaska Oil-Spill Case
- Pundits Debate the Inevitability of a Nuclear Iran
- Hofstra Anti-War Protesters Plead Not Guilty
- Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans Join The Homeless
- Bush Spy Revelations Anticipated When Obama Is Sworn In
- Iraq Vet Says He Won’t Return
- Franken Now Just 206 Votes Behind
- Getting the Last Laugh
Monday November 10, 2008
- Shut Guantanamo on Day One, Obama Urged
- Donahue Documentary Takes On The War
- Boat Breaks Gaza Strip Blockade, Sails Into Port
- New Front Opens in DR Congo Amid fears of Wider Conflict
- Obama Plans US Trials for Guantanamo Detainees: Sources
- Obama Puts 'Hundreds' of Bush Rulings Under Review
- South African Folk Singer/Activist Miriam Makeba Dies
- Anti-US Sentiment Grows in Syria After Raid
- Bush Middle East Efforts End with Little Progress
- Rising Methane Levels Are Cause For Concern
- Paradise Almost Lost: Maldives Seek To Buy A New Homeland
- Pentagon Board Says Defense Budget Cuts Essential
- Secret Order Lets US Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries
- A Quiet Windfall For US Banks
Sunday November 9, 2008
- Sarah Palin Blamed by The US Secret Service Over Death Threats Against Barack Obama
- How The Mobile Phone in Your Pocket is Helping to Pay For The Civil War in Congo
- Liberal Activists Have Long Legislative Wish List
- Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions
- Internet Revolution That Elected Obama Could Save Earth: Gore
Saturday November 8, 2008
- 'The Soldiers Didn't Ask Any Questions. They Just Shot Him'
- Can Barack Obama Undo Bush's Tangled Legal Legacy?
- Obama Makes 'No Commitment' on Missile Shield
- New Global Agenda Seen for Obama's Washington
- 'No More Mr Nice Gay' as Mormons Face Vote Backlash
- Obama Has to Pay for Eight Years of Bush's Delusions
Friday November 7, 2008
- Thousands In Los Angeles Protest Gay-Marriage Ban
- 'Rock-Bottom' Republicans Begin Inquest
- Coca Cultivation Up Despite Six Years of Plan Colombia
- Suspected US Missile Strike Kills Pakistani Villagers
- Don't Be Afraid To Spend, Economists Tell Obama
- Turning the Pages Back to Marx and Keynes
- Russia Fires Warning Shot Over US Missile Plan
- Banks Ease Credit for Themselves But Not You
- Iraq Repeats Insistence on Fixed Withdrawal Date
- Bush Officials Moving Fast to Cut Environmental Protections
- Al Gore Group Urges Obama To Create US Power Grid
- Peace Activists Welcome Obama, Will Push Him
Thursday November 6, 2008
- Obama's Election Won't Assure Khadr's Release
- Stop Civilian Deaths, Karzai Tells Obama
- For Peace, The US Will Have to Change
- Iraqis Worry About Obama, While Many GIs Celebrate
- Ceasefire Under Threat As Six Die in Gaza Raid
- Big Business Prepares For A Less Friendly Washington
- World Hails Obama's Victory, Urges Change of Tack
- Rights Groups Want "Body Count" General Investigated
- Supreme Court Debates 'F-word' Without Using It
- Urban Poor Send Message to Obama
- On Day of Hope, Disappointment: Bans in 3 States on Gay Marriage
- Kenya to Host DR Congo Summit As Clashes Threaten Ceasefire
- Morales Says US Anti-Drug DEA Killed Bolivian Farmers
Wednesday November 5, 2008
- Ralph Nader Speaks On An Obama Presidency
- Airstrike Kills 90 in Afghan Wedding Party
- US Abortion Bans Lose, Gay Marriage Bans Win
- Now The Real Test begins for Obama
- President-Elect Obama Faces Challenge of a "Planet in Peril"
- Democrats Make Key Gains in Congressional Races
- Massive Iraqi Death Toll Ignored by Tabloid Culture
- Election Unleashes a Flood of Hope Around the World
- Barack Obama to Be America's First Black President
- President Obama: This Proud Moment
Tuesday November 4, 2008
- November 4, 2008 -- Election Returns
- Cheney's Day Is Done
- Racism Won't Keep Arab Americans From Polls
- Afghans Uneasy Over US Relationship
- Watchdogs Criticise World Bank, IMF Mega Projects
- Iraq Still Thirsting For Water That's Safe to Drink
- Border Fence Raises Environmental Concerns
- US Court Reinstates Bhopal Water Pollution Case
- World Hopes For A 'Less Arrogant America'
- Movement to Ban Cluster Bombs Gains Momentum
- US Chamber of Commerce Backing Anti-Union Senators
- End of Chicago Free-Market Ideas?
Monday November 3, 2008
- Worry Builds Over Possible Confusion On Voting Day
- King's Dream Nears Reality in Cradle of Civil Rights
- Obama's Green Jobs Revolution
- Obama's Potential Green Team
- Effectiveness of AIG's $143 Billion Rescue Questioned
- If Obama Wins . . . Conservatives Panicked, Pessimistic
- Homeowners Go Greener With Do-It-Yourself Jobs
- UN Aid Convoy Crosses Congo Frontline
- What World Needs From US
- Peace Process? What Peace Process?
- Bush Team Rushes Environment Policy Changes
- Pakistan Warns Petraeus Against Missile Strikes