Headlines - September 2008
Tuesday September 30, 2008
- Nobel Laureates Demand Justice for Cuban Five
- Meat Must Be Rationed to Four Portions A Week, says Report on Climate Change
- Pollution Killing World's Coral Reefs
- Energy Expert Calls Oil Shale World's Worst Fossil Fuel
- At Long Last, Food Labeling Law Set To Take Effect
- Protesters Move In Path of Pipeline
- McCain/Palin Campaign's End-Run Around Media
- Ocean "Dead Zones" Spread: Study
- A Bloody Sunday in Baghdad, In Spite of The Surge
- The Pentagon's New Africa Command Raises Suspicions About US Motives
- Bush Had No Plan to Catch Bin Laden after 9/11
- No "Bailout" for The World's Poorest
Monday September 29, 2008
- House Votes Down Financial Bailout Deal
- Olmert: Israel Must Hand Back Land for Peace with Palestinians and Syria
- Farmers Bet 'Green' Eatery Will Catch On
- Correa Celebrates Victory In Constitutional Referendum
- No Charges Expected in Dismissal of Attorneys
- Food Crisis Competes for Afghan "Hearts and Minds"
- Bottled Water at Issue in Great Lakes
- The End of Free-Market Fundamentalism?
- US Congress Debates Massive Wall Street Bailout
- An Appropriately Populist Anti-Bailout Rant
Sunday September 28, 2008
- Maddow is Liberal Queen of US News
- Senate Sends Big Spending Bill to Bush To Sign
- Why Are Mothers Still Dying in Childbirth?
- For McCain and Team, a Host of Ties to Gambling
- Bailout Would Come In Stages That Congress Could Halt
- Conservative Judges Fault Scalia Opinion on Guns
- Consumer Culture Turns Into Murals of Trash
- Ecuador To Vote on President Correa's Leftist Constitution
- Anti-Palin Rally Calls for Colberg Removal
Saturday September 27, 2008
Friday September 26, 2008
- Quartet 'Creating Power Vacuum' in Middle East
- Alaska AG Suing to Kill Subpoenas in 'Troopergate'
- Israel Asked US for Green Light to Bomb Nuclear Sites in Iran
- US Urged to Keep Eye on US Firms Abroad
- Financial Crisis Likely to Further Erode U.S. Influence
- National Protests Erupt Over Bailout Plan
- Popular Anger Puts Fat Cat CEOs on the Run
Thursday September 25, 2008
- Israeli Historian Critical of Settlements Wounded in Bomb Attack
- Morales Cites "Evidence" of US Meddling
- Iraq's Biggest Hospitals Become Sick
- Guantanamo Prosecutor Resigns Over Ethics
- Detained, Beaten, and Tortured In Name of 'War on Terror': Six years in Guantanamo
- Passports Denied: Mexican Americans Can't Travel
- Human Rights Advocates: Oil Companies' "Self-Policing" a Dismal Failure
- Bush Aides Linked to Talks on Interrogations
- "You Are So Like Me" - Chavez Serenades Foe Bush
- Election Officials Telling College Students They Can't Vote
- Gore Urges Civil Disobedience To Stop Coal Plants
- UN: Tackling Climate Change Will Boost - Not Destroy - Jobs
- Bailout Outrage Races Across the Web
Wednesday September 24, 2008
- Western States, Provinces Set Climate Emissions Trading Program
- Palestine: Everyone Loses in the War of Silencing
- Retired Soldier Now In Fight Against War in Iraq
- Obama Declares Support For 'Clean' Coal
- Democrats To Let Offshore Drilling Ban Expire
- Palin Courts Cameras, But Dodges Questions
- Justice Dept Tweaking Terror Probe Rules
- No Bailout For Ailing Peace Corps
- Michael Moore Political Movie Released Free on Web
- Where Have All The Protests Gone?
- US Judge 'Reluctantly' Delays Guantanamo Appeals
Tuesday September 23, 2008
- Anti-War Veterans Unfurl 'Arrest Bush/Cheney' Banner at National Archives
- A Market-Based Mindset
- Don’t Declare Yucca Mountain Dump Plan Dead Yet, Activist Says
- Pakistan Blames US Raids For Hotel Bombing
- EPA Won't Limit Toxic Pollutant In Drinking Water
- Judge Sides With War Opponent
- NCLB Testing Said to Give 'Illusions of Progress'
- $13 Billion in Iraq Aid Wasted Or Stolen, Ex-Investigator Says
- Crisis Must Be Turned To Green Benefit, Scientist Says
- Iraq Awash in "Missing" Weapons
- After Violence, US Role in Bolivia Questioned
- Mobile Phone Use 'Raises Children's Risk of Brain Cancer Fivefold'
- Shell Becomes First International Oil Firm To Open Baghdad Office Since '70s
- Exclusive: The Methane Time Bomb
- Critics See Bailout as Massive Blank Check
Monday September 22, 2008
- Afghans Reflect on 'Peace Day'
- Can You Trust A Wall Street Veteran with A Wall Street Bailout?
- Colombian Trade Unions Fight On
- The Gloves Are Off in Pakistan
- Bernie Sanders: Bailout Transfers Wealth - Upward
- Truth After 42 Years: Beatles Banned For Fear of Influence on Youth
- Fury at $2.5 Billion Bonus for Lehman's New York Staff
- Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million
- Oregon Tax Activist Says She Deserves to Pay More
- In India, 'People's Car' Stirs Popular Ire
- Wetlands - Nature's 'Horizontal Levees' - Blunt Storm Damage
- Afghanistan Marks Peace Day with Polio Vaccinations, Ceasefire
Sunday September 21, 2008
Saturday September 20, 2008
Friday September 19, 2008
Thursday September 18, 2008
- Bolivia Politicial Talks Aim To Cool Off Crisis
- Cotton Symbolizes Global Trade System’s 'Iniquity'
- Women Fight to Put Violence on Global Agenda
- FBI investigates Sarah Palin's Yahoo Account After Hackers Break In
- Psychologists Vote to End Interrogation Consultations
- Rubber Dodo Award For Governor
- Guidelines On Genetically Modified Animals To Be Released By FDA
- Pakistan Says Not Informed of US Missile Strike
- National Laboratory, Homeland Security Team Up For Surveillance Project
- Vested Interests Drove New Pakistan Policy
- Attorney For Gitmo Inmate Works To Drum Up Support
- GJP Protests Defense Contractors At Career Fair
Wednesday September 17, 2008
- Bolivia: Governor Arrested for "Porvenir Massacre"
- US Lawmakers Vote To End 26-Year Ban On Offshore Drilling
- 'Hillary's Women' Reject McCain's VP Choice
- Book Exposes Iraq Occupation Through US Soldiers' Eyes
- Transgenic Crops' Days May Be Numbered In Europe
- US and UK Failing To Monitor Flood of Arms Into Iraq, Amnesty Warns
- Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote: Republicans Move To Deny Homeless Votes, Democrats Claim
- Worldwide, Civilians Demand Arms Trade Treaty
- Witness Ties Colombian General to Paramilitaries
- University and College Students Could Hold Keys To Power In The White House
- Physicists: US Could Cut Oil Use With Better Houses, Cars
- Constitution in Crisis, Candidates in Denial
- Researchers Link BPA Exposure To Health Concerns
- US Embassy Attack Leaves 16 Dead in Yemen
- After AIG Rescue, Fed May Find More At Its Door
Tuesday September 16, 2008
- Ukraine Government Collapses Over Georgia War
- Wall Street Crisis Is Culmination of 28 Years of Deregulation
- Phase Out Coal and Burn Trees Instead, Urges Leading Scientist
- Pentagon To Expand Intel Ops at US Prison in Afghanistan
- Iraq: Arrests of Sunni Tribal Leaders Risk Giving al-Qaida a Way Back, says Iraqi VP
- Desmond Tutu: Israeli Shelling in Gaza May Be War Crime
- Pakistan Orders Troops To Open Fire If US Raids
- Pakistan Orders Troops To Open Fire If US Raids
- Congress Debating End of Offshore Drilling Ban
- Cheney Misled GOP Leaders, New Book Says
- US Revokes Visa of Pakistan Rights Defender
- Did Bush Create The Most Secretive US Govt Ever?
Monday September 15, 2008
- McCain Blasts Wall Street Failure, Neglects To Mention His Adviser Helped Cause It
- Militant Group in Niger Delta Declares War on Oil Industry
- Even Before VP Nomination, Palin's E-mail Use Questioned
- Tons of Drugs Dumped Into Wastewater
- Palestinians Revive Idea of One-State Solution
- Iraq: Al-Qaida Intensifies Its Stranglehold In The World's Most Dangerous City
- Pakistani Tribal Chiefs Threaten To Join Taliban
- Peter Camejo Dies - Helped Found Green Party
- More Financial Turmoil To Come
- Offshore Drilling Is Coming to a Vote
- Iraq: Violence Is Down – But Not Because of America's 'Surge'
Sunday September 14, 2008
- Last Stand of Berlin's Bohemians
- Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
- Food Banks Finding Aid in Bounty of Backyard
- Think Globally, Power Up Locally
- With White House Push, US Arms Sales Rise Sharply
- Shadow of Guantanamo Follows Freed Inmates Back to their Homes
- Few Safeguards for Mexican Produce Heading North
Saturday September 13, 2008
- In Pakistan, Anger Builds over US Strikes
- Terror Plan Would Give F.B.I. More Power
- U.N. Warns of Impending Development Emergency
- Ike Underscores Foolishness of Building on Barrier Islands
- US Inaction on Oil Royalties Suit Could Have Cost Millions
- Study Finds Recent Global Warming Unprecedented in 1,300 Years
Friday September 12, 2008
- Abolitionists Hope for Swing to Democrats in States
- Conservation: Rise In Illegal Logging Threatens Butterflies
- Gazan Students Trapped As Israel Withholds Visas
- US Missile Attack in Pakistan Kills 14
- Venezuela Throws Out US Ambassador As Tensions Soar
- Obama Clear Winner in World Opinion
- Chevron Caught Up In Oil Agency Scandal
- Bush Secret Order To Send Special Forces Into Pakistan
- Palin Would Support War With Russia
Thursday September 11, 2008
- 9/11 Justice: War Crimes Trials Don't Engage Public
- Bolivia Orders US Ambassador Out, Warns of Civil War
- Nigeria Deports Oil Filmmaker
- The Future's Greener: Vertical Farms and Computerised Car Convoys Could Be Just Around The Corner
- Cleared! Jury Decides That Threat of Global Warming Justifies Breaking The Law
- Doubts Raised About Khadr's Role In Firefight
- Pakistan Warns US It Will Not Allow Foreign Troops On Its Soil
- Iraq Cancels Six No-Bid Oil Deals
- IEA Says Oil Demand Slowing As US Changes Lifestyle
- A Water Fight In Maine
- McCain Staffers Have Marched To K Street
- 9/11 Anniversary Exposes War on Terror Faultlines
Wednesday September 10, 2008
- Wide-Ranging Ethics Scandal Emerges at Interior Dept.
- Impeach President Bush Now, says Dennis Kucinich
- Olmert Indicted As Deputy Is Accused of War Crimes
- Russia Threatens To Target US Missile Shield Sites: Reports
- Berkeley Tree-Sitters Finally Down To Earth
- Book: "A Policy of Deliberate Cruelty"
- Humanitarian Disaster Unfolds in Haiti
- Intel Council Warned Against Raids in Pakistan
- Environmentalists, Unions Call For Green-Jobs Plan
- US-India Nuclear Deal Passes Major Hurdle
Tuesday September 9, 2008
- Shell Agrees Landmark $4 Bln Gas Deal with Iraq
- Nader, Donahue Bring Star Power To Fighting Bob Fest
- British Government Urged to Introduce 'Omni-Standards' For Food
- Organizations Ready Lawsuits Against Police In Convention Cities
- Suspected US Missile Strike Kills 21 in Pakistan: Officials
- Zinn: US 'In Need of Rebellion'
- Dems' Offshore Drilling Plan Comes With Catch
Monday September 8, 2008
- Videos Show Dead Afghan Children After US Raid
- Hurricane Ike slams Cuba, Haiti Death Toll Passes 600
- Haiti Reeling, Cities Cut Off, As 4 Storms Deliver Devastation
- Fighting The 'War on Terror'
- Lawsuit to Ask That Cheney's Papers Be Made Public
- Electronic Smog 'Is Disrupting Nature On A Massive Scale'
- Bush Bails Out US Mortgage Giants
- A Liberal Pundit Soars To A Prominent Perch
- Cheney Thinks Palin Is 'Superb'
- Inmates Tell of Sexual Abuse and Beatings in Iraq's Overcrowded Juvenile Prison System
- Report: US-NATO Airstrikes Bring Higher Afghan Civilian Toll
Sunday September 7, 2008
Saturday September 6, 2008
Friday September 5, 2008
- More Immigration Arrests Made by ICE
- Warming Oceans 'Are The Engine Driving Stronger Hurricanes'
- Khadr Loses Bid To Have Case Tossed
- Revelations of an Abu Ghraib Interrogator
- Raid May Herald More Confrontational Policy
- Rage Goes Off Like A Bomb at Target Center
- Mexico Drug Plane Used For US 'Rendition' Flights: Report
- RNC Media Intimidation Condemned
- Storm-Hit Haitians Starve on Rooftops
- White House Spied On Iraq Leaders, says Bob Woodward Book
- Antiwar March Ends In Tense Standoff, 396 Arrests
Thursday September 4, 2008
- Ethiopia Facing World's 'Most Urgent' Food Crisis
- Palin's Connection To 'Big Oil'
- Fire Retardant Chemical Found In Children
- Former Canadian Top Cop faults US for Arar Rendition
- Palestinians Lose Faith In Two-State Solution
- Attacks on Media Reveal Republican Jitters Over Palin
- Candidates Stay the Course on Latin America
- Canada's Tar Sands Lobbyists Focus on US Democrats
- Obama Might Pursue Criminal Charges Against Bush Administration
- Cheney Colleague Admits Bribery in Halliburton Oil Deals
- Taxpayers Off The Hook For GOP Convention Lawsuits
Wednesday September 3, 2008
- Arctic Melting Shows Global Warming Serious
- Pakistan Blames NATO For Cross-Border Raid That Killed 7 Civilians
- Clones' Offspring May Be In Food Supply: FDA
- Clones' Offspring May Be In Food Supply: FDA
- Ukraine Leader Claims 'Coup' Ahead of Cheney Visit
- Archer Daniels Midland: A Giant Agribusiness Finds Itself Back In The Dock
- Iraqi Army Readies For Showdown With Kurds
- How Murdoch Called Obama-Fox Truce
- Solar Plant Yields Water and Crops From The Desert
- School-Funding Protest Moves From North Shore to Chicago Corporations
- Illinois Zoning Board OKs Blackwater Firing Range
- Three Student journalists Arrested at RNC
- 2,000 Rally to 'Stop War On The Poor'
Tuesday September 2, 2008
- Hundreds of Chicago Students Boycott School Over Funding Disparities
- 250 protesters arrested, including Amy Goodman
- Labor Day: Little to Celebrate for US Latinos
- Team Unearthing Secrets of Long War in Colombia
- Kingsnorth Protest: Activists To Use Climate Change as Defense for £30,000 Tower Damage
- Why Its Iraqi "Client" Blocked US Long-Term Presence
- US Hands Control of Anbar Province To Iraqi Military
- Mass Show of Peaceful Dissent Soon Makes Violent Descent
- Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar Released After Illegal Arrest at RNC
Monday September 1, 2008
- Rocky Mountains 'Facing Oil Threat'
- Maliki's Growing Defiance of US Worries Allies and Critics
- Fate of New Orleans Mutes Republican Convention
- Sea Level Rises May Accelerate Due to Melting Ice Sheet
- Georgia Admits Dropping Cluster Bombs, says Rights Group
- Hard Times Hitting Students and Schools
- Trying To Get Up To Speed, Slow Food Makes US Push
- Reports of Civilian Deaths Inflame Tensions in Afghanistan
- Thousands Expected Today For Protest