Headlines - June 2008
Monday June 30, 2008
- Bottled Water Industry Faces Growing Opposition
- McDowell Alarmed by 'Illegal' US War on Terror
- Project Helps Right Whales Get Right of Way
- US Army Blames Leaders Over Post-War Iraq
- Iraq Fails to Sign Contracts With Global Oil Majors
- Warden on Death Penalty: 'This Is Wrong'
- High Court's Tilt Hinges on Election's Outcome
- Slow Food Nation Comes to San Francisco
- US Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals
- Amid Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan
- Pentagon Fights EPA on Pollution Cleanup
Sunday June 29, 2008
- Law School Pays the Price in 'Don't Ask' Rule Protest
- Tiny Voices Defy Child Marriage in Yemen
- Mexicans Protest Canadian Mining Company
- Home-Grown Veg Ruined by Toxic Fertiliser
- Shadow of War Looms as Israel Flexes its Muscle
- US Issues Health Warning over Mercury Fillings
- Animal Rights Group Turns its Fire on Celebrity Meat-Eaters
- Preparing the Battlefield
Saturday June 28, 2008
- Israelis Assault Award Winning IPS Journalist
- US and EU Seen Near Private Data Deal
- Liberal Arts Undervalued by Education Department, Official Says After Quitting
- Planet Heading Toward Climate 'Tipping Point'
- Iraqi Officials Outraged by US Raid in Prime Minister's Hometown
- US Halts Solar Energy Projects Over Environment Fears
- Oilsands Vacation Site Tempts Visitors with 'Toxic Lakes'
- Hungry for Answers
- Canadian Military Silent on Afghan Civilian Deaths: UN Investigator
Friday June 27, 2008
- Feds Raid Blackwater's NC Armory In Firearms Probe
- How Did Bush Policy Lead To A Deal With North Korea? Answer: It Wasn't Bush Policy
- Torture a Big Problem Worldwide, UN Expert Says
- Greenpeace Crashes Coal Meeting Using Phony Front
- Israeli Settlement Activity Surges Despite Peace Talks
- Obama Supports Supreme Court Reversal of Gun Ban
- US Senate Approves Iraq, Afghanistan War Funding
- Key Player In Waterboarding Policy 'Smug' Under Questioning
- Elite US Army Academy Lures Kids With Mud and Duty
- 20:20 Vision Aimed at Dismantling Nukes
- Sizeable Minority In US Condone Torture
- No Ice At The North Pole: Polar Scientists Reveal Dramatic New Evidence of Climate Change
Thursday June 26, 2008
- Addington Clashes With Democrats As Torture Hearing Starts
- Supreme Court Shoots Down DC Gun Ban
- White House Tried to Silence EPA Proposal on Car Emissions
- CBS to Appeal Ruling on Marine Interview
- Power Plant Is Ground Zero in Battle of Energy vs. Environment
- Netroots Feel Jilted by Obama's FISA Stand
- UN Says Toxic Waste Exports on the Rise
- Former UN Weapons Inspector Speaks to High School Students
- Zimbabwe: What Now?
- Maine Activists Win First Victory As Nestle Water Deal Vote Is Delayed
- Top US Military Officer Heads To Israel With Iran On The Agenda
- A Blueprint for Withdrawal
- Broad Coalition Backs Universal Broadband
Wednesday June 25, 2008
- Biofuels Pushing 30 Million Into Poverty - Oxfam
- Feingold to Filibuster Warrantless Wiretapping Bill
- Obama Tilts Toward Center, Irking Some Activists
- Supreme Court Slashes Punitive Award in Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by 80%
- Private Jets Targeted as Symbols of Inequality
- US Mayors Agree to Phase Out Bottled Water
- Fear of US-Sunni Ties Undercut Iraq Security Talks
Tuesday June 24, 2008
- Before Judge, Spirited Clash on Subpoenas for Bush Aides
- Earth Near Tipping Point, Climatologist Warns
- A Fitting Memorial: The George W. Bush Sewage Plant
- Zimbabwe: More Beatings, More Abductions As The World Watches
- Court Rules For Guantanamo Inmate
- Border Fence Challenge Rebuffed by Supreme Court
- Nader Slams Democrats For Continued '00 Grudge
- Whoever Wins, Iraqis Lose
- Report Says Partisanship Reigned in Justice Department Hiring Program
- Israel 'Will Attack Iran' Before New US President Sworn In, John Bolton Predicts
Monday June 23, 2008
- Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol
- Natural England Warns Brown of Dangers in Promoting GM Crops
- Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner
- Schools Are Taking The Mystery Out of The Meat They Serve
- West Bank: Answering Attacks With Smiles and Smileys
- Water Flowing Back Into Public Hands
- Protests Over Afghanistan Deaths
- Haditha Victims' Kin Outraged As Marines Go Free
- Iraq: How A Daring New Generation of Graphic Novelists View The Art of War
- Put Oil Firm Chiefs On Trial, Says Leading Climate Change Scientist
- George Carlin Mourned as a Counterculture Hero
Sunday June 22, 2008
Saturday June 21, 2008
Friday June 20, 2008
- What Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Fred Hiatt Mean by 'Bipartisanship'
- Global Quandary: How to Feed a Growing Planet
- US Says Exercise by Israel Seemed Directed at Iran
- FEMA Flood-Risk Maps Failed Residents in Midwest
- Biggest Firms Call for Huge Cuts in Emissions to Start Green Industrial Revolution
- House Approves $162 Billion War-Spending Bill
- NOAA Study Forecasts Greater Extremes in Weather
- Hundreds of Shiites Protest US-Iraqi Security Deal
- 37 Million Refugees in Spotlight This Week
- Sexual Violence 'a Tactic of War,' UN Council Says
Thursday June 19, 2008
- Texas Event Focuses Juneteenth on Slave Life
- 'Little Baghdad' Thrives In Sweden
- Iowa Flooding May Have Been Worsened By Man
- 'Tipping Point' for Renewable Energy
- General Who Probed Abu Ghraib Says Bush Officials Committed War Crimes
- Immunity Likely For Phone Companies in Spy Bill
- Cheney Linked To Torture Tactics
- Welcome To 'The Disco': Music As Torture
- Canadian Police To Curb Taser Use
- Congressman Obey Funds War He Votes Against
- Coalminers' Slaughter: In US, They Blow Up Mountains For Coal
- Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back
- US Hasn't Apologized To or Compensated Ex-Detainees
Wednesday June 18, 2008
- Denver Cops Stock Up For Democratic Convention
- Charges Dropped Against Marine Officer In Haditha Case
- US Talks Missile Defense With Lithuania
- 'Curveball' Speaks, and A Reputation As A Disinformation Agent Remains Intact
- Baghdad Insists On Right To Veto US Operations
- Democrats and Republicans Will Party Hard On Soft Money
- Documents Confirm US Hid Detainees From Red Cross
- Easing of Laws That Led to Detainee Abuse Hatched in Secret
- Injunction Allows Blackwater To Continue Otay Training Operation
- Iraq Deal With US To End Immunity For Foreign Contractors
- Human Rights Group Says It Has Proof of Detainee Abuse
Tuesday June 17, 2008
- Israel and Hamas Reach Gaza Truce Deal
- Democrats To Back Down on Iraq War Conditions
- Afghanistan: Kandahar Braces For Taliban Attack As Thousands Flee
- Conflicts Fuelled by Climate Change Causing New Refugee Crisis, Warns UN
- History Is Made As Same-Sex Couples Marry
- Army Overseer Tells of Ouster Over KBR Stir
- McCain Would Lift Drilling Ban
- Lakes Across Canada Face Being Turned Into Mine Dump Sites
- Wrongly Jailed Detainees Found Militancy at Guantanamo
- Supreme Court To Rule On Whether Ashcroft Can Be Sued
- White House May Keep Documents in E-Mail Flap Private, Judge Rules
- House Panel Subpoenas FBI Interviews With Bush and Cheney
- Report Questions Pentagon Accounts of Interrogation and Torture
Monday June 16, 2008
- Human Cost of Brazil's Biofuels Boom
- Washington, DC, Puts Itself Under Surveillance
- McCain Takes Gitmo Ruling Personally
- Protest Group Calls Bush Invitation An Outrage
- What Do We Want? George Bush. What Do We Get? A No-Show
- Detainees May Be Denied Evidence for Defense
- US Abuse of Detainees Was Routine at Afghanistan Bases
Sunday June 15, 2008
- I Freed Millions From Barbarism, says President Bush With No Regrets
- Karzai Threatens Cross-Border Pursuit Into Pakistan
- America's Prison For Terrorists Often Held The Wrong Men
- Oil Companies Get OK To Annoy Bears
- Anti-Bush Protesters Face Obstacles As US President Arrives in Britain
- Iraqi Refugee Crisis Grows As West Turns Its Back
Saturday June 14, 2008
Friday June 13, 2008
- NBC's Tim Russert dead at 58
- Supreme Court Ruling Could Free Scores From Guantanamo
- Rights Groups See Glimmers of Justice As High Court Sides with Guantanamo Detainees
- Maliki Says Talks on Iraq-US Security Pact Deadlocked
- Pakistani Lawyers' Anti-Musharraf March Nears Islamabad
- Water Squabbles Irrigate Tensions in Central Asia
- Major Makeover Proposed for US Foreign Aid
- Global Image Buoyed by Prospect of Change
- Climate Change Protesters Hijack Coal Train
- Bush Pledges on Iraq Bases Pact Were a Ruse
Thursday June 12, 2008
- US Supreme Court Backs Guantánamo Prisoners' Right to Appeal
- Canada's Native People Get A Formal Apology
- Was Obama's Rhetoric on Israel for Real?
- US Senator Says Oilsands Won't Face 'Dirty' Fuel Ban
- Activists Forced Out of 'Peaceland'
- House Waves Off Impeachment Measure Against Bush
- Despite Legal Blow, Taser Use by Police to Expand
- Caterpillar Annual Meeting Draws Protesters
- 45 Year Later, Medgar Evers' Legacy Inspires
- Strike on Iran Nuclear Sites Under Discussion Again
- 'Special Weapons' Have a Fallout on Babies
Wednesday June 11, 2008
- US Security Talks With Iraq in Trouble in Baghdad and DC
- When Congress Had a Chance, Food Safety Wasn't Its Choice
- Afghan Census Cancelled Due to Security Fears
- Guantanamo Criticism Intensifies
- Nature Laid Waste: The Destruction of Africa
- Pakistan Condemns "Cowardly" US Attack; 11 Dead
- St. Paul GOP Convention Protest Dispute Returning To Court
- Kucinich Forces Vote On Bush's Impeachment
- 'Hotline to Iran' Aims to Head Off War
Tuesday June 10, 2008
- Kucinich Calls For Bush Impeachment
- Anti-War Protesters Banned From Demonstrating Against Bush
- Bush Widens Immigration Checks
- Bluewashing: Corporate Money Tries to Buy a Democratic Race
- Supreme Court Curtails Rights of Public Employees
- Abramoff Met Bush at Least 6 Times, House Panel Confirms
- Wal-Mart Defender To Direct Obama's Economic Policy
- Anti-War Protesters Cleared in Tank Case
- McClellan To Testify About CIA Leak
- Bolivian Protesters March on US Embassy
- US Seeking 58 Bases in Iraq, Shiite Lawmakers Say
Monday June 9, 2008
- Israeli Attack Looking More Likely
- Afghan Aid Ineffective: Watchdog
- Pakistan Lawyers Launch Protest to Restore Sacked Judges
- Chavez Urges FARC to Free Hostages, End Uprising
- Lawmakers Urge Special Counsel Probe of Harsh Interrogation Tactics
- Global Military Spending Soars 45 Percent in 10 Years
- Food Banks Ask Gardeners to Grow Extra for Hungry
- Harvard Medics 'Concealed Drug Firm Cash'
- Treaty Tensions Mount as Iraq Tells the US It Wants All Troops Back in Barracks
- US Professors Face Hostile Reception in Jerusalem
- Guantánamo Bay: Interrogators Told to Destroy Torture Notes, US Lawyer Claims
Sunday June 8, 2008
- Media Critics, Activists Gather in Minneapolis to Discuss Reform
- Iraq Will Not Be Used Against Iran, PM Vows
- Chavez Agrees to Change 'Spy' Law
- Oglala Sioux Could Regain Badlands National Parkland
- Biotech Giants Demand a High Price for Saving the Planet
- Afghanistan: Fear, Disillusion and Despair
- New Laws Aim to Limit Reproductive Rights
- James Byrd, Jr.:10 Years Later, 'Horrific Death' in Jasper Won't Fade From Memory
Saturday June 7, 2008
- Israel Attack on Iran "Unavoidable": Olmert Deputy
- UN Experts Rap US "Cruelty" to Child Prisoners
- Guevara Children Denounce Che Branding
- As Climate Bill Dies, Greens Express Hope
- Republicans Thwart McCain 'Greenwash'
- Taser Held Responsible in Salinas Death
- Israel Threatens War on Gaza and Iran
- U.S. Distances Itself From U.N. Rights Body
- Fearing Escalation, Pentagon Fought Cheney Plan
- Darfur's Child Refugees Being Sold to Militias
- World's Biggest Solar Farm at Centre of Portugal's Ambitious Energy Plan
Friday June 6, 2008
- GOP Blocks Senate's Global Warming Bill
- Senate Finds Pre-War Bush Claims Exaggerated, False
- US Issues Threat to Iraq's $50bn Foreign Reserves in Military Deal
- Polar Bear Swims 200 Miles Shot Dead For Its Efforts
- World Bank Called 'Unqualified' to Run Climate Fund
- Food Crisis Summit Ducks Crucial Issues
- US Officials Reopen Case of Wrongly Detained Terror Suspect
- A Carbon-Neutral World Focus of World Environment Day 2008
Thursday June 5, 2008
- US Marine Acquitted of All Charges in Haditha Killings: Military
- US Urged to Push Israel Harder on Gaza Students
- Obama Walks Fine Line at Major Pro-Israel Meet
- Judge Allows Blackwater To Resume Work on San Diego Facility
- US Seeks The Go-Ahead For Nevada Nuclear Dump
- Iraq Lawmakers Want US Forces Out As Part of Deal
- Revealed: Secret Plan to Keep Iraq Under US Control
- Obama Resists Pressure From Clinton for Vice President Role
Wednesday June 4, 2008
- New Probe Into Victor Jara Murder
- Domestic Workers Sue, Lobby, Organize For Workplace Rights
- US Attacked at Food Summit Over Biofuels
- Ex-U.S. Attorneys File Amicus Over Firings
- Winter Soldiers Hit the Streets
- How a Golden Opportunity Became a Zero-Sum Game
- Rep. Waxman Seeks Access to Bush, Cheney Interviews on CIA Leak
- Canada's House Backs War Resisters
- Hunger, Water Scarcity Displaces Thousands of Afghans
- Boeing, Dow Chemical Fined 926 Million Over Nuclear Pollution
- Analysis: US Terrorism List Also a Political Tool
- US to Make Foreign Visitors Register Online
- Now Bring on McCain: Epic Struggle Ends With Victory For Obama
- End of The Road For Hummer After Sales of 'World's Most Anti-Environmental Car' Dive
Tuesday June 3, 2008
- US: Guantanamo Judge Not 'Fired'; Move Simply A 'Manpower Management Consideration'
- Initiative To Discriminate Against Gays Gets Place on California Ballot
- US Coal Lobbyists Unveil Nightmarish Vision of Life After Cap-and-Trade Law
- Climate Findings Were Distorted, Probe Finds
- Both McCain, Obama Exaggerating Iran's Nuclear Program
- Middle East 'Military Escalation Brewing'
- Blessed and Cursed by Water
- William P. Ford, 72, Rights Advocate, Dies
- On Middle East, McCain Vows to Stay the Course
- West Coast Winter Soldier: "Enough Is Enough, It's Time to Get Out"
- How Cheney Outfoxed His Foes on Iran and EFPs
- Ireland: Less Bombs Here, More There
Monday June 2, 2008
- 60 Minutes: Pentagon's Raygun Demonstrated on Mock Protesters
- Earth 'Drying Up'
- Going To War with Iraq Was Wrong, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Admits
- Last Flight of The Honeybee?
- Biofuel Land Demand Puts Peasants at Risk: Report
- Iraq Death Toll 'Above Highest Estimates'
- Students Protesting Pesticide Use Tasered
- US Accused of Holding Terror Suspects on Prison Ships
- Antiwar Activists Clear Border