Thursday December 31, 2009

	US Judge Dismisses All Charges in Blackwater Iraq Killings
	US Plots Retaliatory Strikes Against al-Qaida in Yemen over Plane Bomber
	Canada's House of Commons Shut Down, Opposition Furious
	Single-Payer’s Last Stand?
	International Activists Protest Against Gaza Siege
	Niger Delta Farmers Welcome Shell Court Ruling
	Obama: Digging Out or Digging Deeper?
	Threats to Yemen Prove America Hasn't Learned the Lesson of History

Wednesday December 30, 2009

	Hansen: Carbon Offsets Modern Equivalent of Medieval 'Indulgences'
	Afghan Panel Says U.S. Strike Killed 8 Schoolboys
	Israeli War on Gaza: New Year Reopens Wounds of the Old
	Obama Quietly Changes U.S. Immigration Policy
	Glowing Walls Could Kill Off the Light Bulb
	Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Under House Arrest
	Four Anti-Mountaintop Removal Activists Arrested at Home
	Freedom March: Activists Reject Egypt's Gaza Offer

Tuesday December 29, 2009

	Solar Could Generate 15% of Power by 2020, If US Ends Fossil Fuel Subsidies
	The Cash Committee: How Wall Street Wins On The Hill
	Majority Of Tea Party Group's Spending Went To GOP Firm That Created It
	Safety Fears for Hmong after Thai Expulsion
	Senator DeMint Uses Botched Bombing to Attack Organized Labor
	Aborted Bombing Puts Yemen in the Limelight
	Escalated Afghan War Brings Escalated Civilian Death
	Egypt Blocks US Activists' March
	Federal Appeals Court Sets Limits on Police Use of Tasers
	Palestinians Condemn Planned Jerusalem Settler Homes
	Canada Successfully Destroys Parody Websites

Monday December 28, 2009

	Gaza Aid Convoy to Change Course
	Joe Lieberman: How About Another War?
	US Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged
	Despite Disappointment, Climate Summit Marks High Point for Activist Movement
	'Afghan Civilians Killed' in US/Nato Military Operations; School Children Among Dead
	Awaiting Gaza March, Holocaust Survivor Stages Hunger Strike
	House Backers of Public Insurance Option May Yield
	The Climate Lobby from Soup to Nuts
	Iran Cracks Down on Opponents after Deadly Protests
	US Widens Terror War to Yemen

Sunday December 27, 2009

	Kucinich: Generals Who Spoke Publicly on Afghan Strategy Should Lose Jobs
	Mousavi Nephew Among Several Dead in Iran Clashes: Reports
	New Gas Wells Leave More Chemicals in Ground
	Poet, Anti-Apartheid Activist Dennis Brutus Dies
	Senate Democrats to W.H.: Drop Cap-and-Trade
	Gazans Mark Anniversary of War

Saturday December 26, 2009

	Africa: Drying, Drying, Disappearing…
	Activist Sows Seeds for Farm Co-Op
	Civilian, Military Planners Have Different Views on New Approach to Afghanistan
	Generics Chafe Under Big Pharma's Reform Shadow
	FDA Slams Nestle Over Juicy Juice, BOOST Claims
	Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank, Gaza

Friday December 25, 2009

	Greenpeace Will Keep Up Pressure on Global Warming
	US Promises Unlimited Financial Assistance to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
	Celebrities Oppose US Government Plan to Move 25,000 Mustangs East

Thursday December 24, 2009

	Lee, Woolsey Push for Public Option
	Declaring War on Yemen? Assassinations, Air Strikes, and Al Qaeda
	Senate Health Bill Passes; US Senate Fails
	Plants and Animals Race for Survival as Climate Change Creeps Across the Globe

Wednesday December 23, 2009

	The Rational Case For 'Kill The Bill'
	Is Making People Buy Health Insurance Constitutional?
	How Filibusters Are Strangling the Senate
	Obama Could Solve The Gitmo Closure Problem; Try Suspects In Civilian Court, Or Release
	Poll: Public Opposes Afghanistan War - And Favors Sending More Troops
	In Russia, Foreboding About America's War in Afghanistan
	Climate Change Deniers Without Borders
	With Health Care Bill All but Passed, Time for Backroom Deals
	Where Have You Gone Bill Moyers? Bush Institute to Have PBS Show
	AIG Executives' Promises to Return Bonuses Have Gone Largely Unfulfilled

Tuesday December 22, 2009

	Guantanamo 'Hell on Earth', says Somali Detainee
	Nation’s Largest RN Organization Says Healthcare Bill Cedes Too Much to Insurance Industry
	Broken Promises Follow Tennessee Coal Ash Disaster
	Pro-Single-Payer Physicians Call for Defeat of Senate Health Bill
	Gaza March Puts Spotlight on Civilian Suffering
	World Has Betrayed Gaza Civilians: Rights Groups
	Murder of Gay Rights Activist Shows Another Honduras Crisis
	US Warns Japan over Relocation of Futenma Airbase
	Union Sues LA School District over Charter Plan
	Obama: Public Option Too 'Symbolic'
	Yasuni Park Trust Fund Will Keep Ecuador's Oil Underground
	States' Jobless Funds are Being Drained in Recession
	Pork Greased Reform's Passage

Monday December 21, 2009

	Senate Health Care Bill Built on Obama’s Broken Promises
	Blocking of Aid Worsened 2009 Humanitarian Crises, Group Says
	EPA, USDA Push Farmers to Use Coal Waste on Fields
	The Nelson 'Compromise': What It Will Cost Women
	Plight of Contractor Raped in Iraq Spurs Push in Congress
	Report: Bush Admin Raised Terror Alert Based On Con Man's Al Jazeera 'Decoding' Scam
	US Sends Home 12 Guantanamo Detainees
	Cruise Missile Attacks in Yemen
	UN Fights Hunger in Afghanistan
	Israel Admits Harvesting Palestinian Organs
	Health-Care Bill Clears Crucial Vote in Senate, 60 to 40

Sunday December 20, 2009

	Global Warming Hike May Be Steeper: Research
	Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Radioactive Longer Than Expected
	Israel Threatens to Use Force Against Settlers
	Anti-War Activists Losing Patience with Obama
	Climate Summit: History Was Not Made

Saturday December 19, 2009

	Stupak, Working with GOP, Trying to Sink Abortion Compromise
	How the White House Misjudged the Political Landscape
	UN Climate Talks ‘Take Note’ of Accord Backed by US
	Iran Rejects Iraqi Incursion Claim
	Barney Frank vs. the Credit Raters
	W.Sahara Activist Returns Home After Hunger Strike
	Senate Unveils Health Care Compromise
	Senate Approves $636 Billion Military Spending Bill

Friday December 18, 2009

	Copenhagen Negotiators Bicker and Filibuster While the Biosphere Burns
	Copenhagen Heading for Meltdown as Stalemate Continues Over Emission cuts
	Poll: Voters Reject Health Care Mandate Without Public Option, Medicare Buy-In
	Iranian Forces Take Over Iraq Oil Well
	US Executions Down by Half over Past Decade: Report
	Kucinich Panel to Investigate Citigroup Tax Ruling
	Bottled Water Sales Dry Up, Industry asks ‘Why?’
	Not Much Done on Agenda of Change
	Online Posting of Women's Abortion Information Challenged in Oklahoma
	Stunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know
	Homeowners Often Rejected Under Obama's Loan Plan
	Barack Obama's Speech Disappoints and Fuels Frustration at Copenhagen
	CIA Working with Palestinian Security Agents

Thursday December 17, 2009

	Greenpeace Sends ‘Rescue Squad’ to US Chamber of Commerce
	Nation's Largest Union: Change Health Care Bill Or Else
	Leaked UN Report Shows Cuts Offered at Copenhagen Would Lead to 3C Rise
	Climate Activists Stage Sit-In at the US State Department
	Will Progressives 'Push Back' or Help Kill Health Bill?
	Two-Degree Temperature Rise Could Flood Wide Areas of Planet, Study Says
	War? There's an iPhone App for That
	Even in Cases the US Wins, Guantanamo Evidence Is Suspect
	Divide and Conquer at Copenhagen
	Pelosi says Kucinich Resolution Will Satisfy Need for Afghanistan Vote
	Western Sahara Hunger Strike Activist Hospitalized: Aide
	US Military Adding More Drones in Afghanistan
	Copenhagen Conference on the Brink of Collapse as World Leaders Arrive at Talks

Wednesday December 16, 2009

	There Will Be No Roll Call: Sanders Withdraws Single-Payer Amendment
	With Scant Opposition or Argument, House Passes $636 Billion Defense Bill
	Coburn Demands 12-Hour Reading Of Single-Payer Amendment On Senate Floor
	Civil Society Declares: ‘Our Climate, Not Your Business!’
	Angry Liberals: Why Didn't Obama Fight?
	Gore in Copenhagen: Favors Carbon Tax; Calls Deniers 'Reckless Fools'
	The Guantanamo Shell Game?
	Reclaim Power Action Begins inside Copenhagen Climate Talks
	Friends of the Earth Among Activists Barred from Copenhagen Conference Center
	'We Can Fail' - Climate Conference President
	US Silent About Taliban Guarantee Offer on al Qaeda

Tuesday December 15, 2009

	Senate to Take up Bernie Sanders Single-Payer Health Plan Wednesday
	Alan Grayson: Afghan War 'Futile'
	High-Profile Activist's Arrest Fuels Fears of Police Crackdown in Copenhagen
	Howard Dean: 'Kill The Senate Bill'
	Monsanto Awarded 'Angry Mermaid' Lobbying Prize
	135,000 Uninsured Americans Will Die Before Health Reform Takes Effect, Analysis Finds
	Meet the Merry Climate Pranksters Who Put Canada on the Spot
	'We Don't Want Violence, We Want to Get Our Voices Heard' Say Protesters
	Dubya: The Surreal Afterlife of an Ex-President
	Bush White House Emails Won't Be Public For Years
	Israel Confirms UK Arrest Warrant Against Livni

Monday December 14, 2009

	Obama May Launch Drone Attacks on Major Pakistani City
	Copenhagen Chaos: Developing Countries Insist Kyoto Stays
	Pakistan Rebuffs US on Taliban Crackdown
	Don't Worry, Scientists Suggest, New Earth Just 'Few Years Away'
	Insurance Stocks Soar on News of Lieberman’s Obstructionism
	Campaign Cash From Wall Street Favored Representatives Who Opposed Finance Reform Bill
	Developing Countries End Boycott at Climate Talks
	Supreme Court Rejects Guantanamo Torture Case
	Monsanto Stomps Down Budding Seed Competitors
	Did the Yes Men Punk Canada in Copenhagen?
	US Protesters Seek New Anti-War Movement
	Heavy Oil Might Be the Future of Alaska Petroleum Development
	Women's Rights Advocates Square Off over Status of Afghan Women
	Climate Talks Suspended After Mass Walkout
	Lieberman Tells Reid To His Face: I'll Vote Against Current Health Care Bill

Sunday December 13, 2009

	Iraq: The Crime of the Century
	Obama's Big Sellout: The President has Packed His Economic Team with Wall Street Insiders
	Drug Money Saved Banks in Global Crisis, Claims UN Advisor
	Soldiers Forced to Go AWOL for PTSD Care
	Despite US Laws, Thousands Still Virtual Slaves in America
	Bush Birth Control Policies Fueled Africa's Baby Boom
	Untouchable: Blair to Give Iraq War Evidence in Secret
	Science of Global Warming Not Faked, Inquiry Decides
	Under the Icy North Lurks a ‘Carbon Bomb’
	Yes, Regulators Can Stop Foreclosures
	Nearly 1000 Released After Climate Protest Arrests
	Nearly 1000 Detained in Copenhagen Climate Protest

Saturday December 12, 2009

	Small Farmers Can Cool the World
	Health Care Street Heat Targets Senator Schumer, Demanding Medicare for All
	Obama: I Didn't Run For Office To Help 'Fat Cat Bankers'
	Major Victory for ACORN and the Constitution
	New New Deal? House Passes Sweeping Financial Regulation
	Global Protests Demand Action on Climate Change
	Tony Blair Admits: I Would Have Invaded Iraq Anyway

Friday December 11, 2009

	Global Civil Society Brandishes Utopian Vision, Promises Climate Action
	Networks Still Hosting Military Analysts Without Identifying Massive Conflicts Of Interest
	Shell and Petronas Win Rights to Develop Giant Iraq Oilfield
	World Should at Least Halve CO2 by 2050: Draft Text
	Egyptians, with US Assistance, Building Wall Under Ground at Gaza
	Despite Incongruity, Corporate Media Love a Good War Speech
	New Proposal Would Pay Americans a Percent of Carbon Permits
	G77: 'US Should Spend as Much on Global Warming as War'
	Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret Raids by the CIA
	Grijalva Says The Senate Public Option Compromise Is A Non-Starter

Thursday December 10, 2009

	US Negotiator Rejects Climate Reparation
	UK Issues New Guidance on Labelling of Food from Illegal Israeli Settlements
	Former Bailout Czar Signs On With Firm That Helped Run Bailout
	Kucinich Plans to Force Vote on US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
	That Unpopular Bank Bailout? Geithner Wants to Extend It
	Vulnerable Nations at Copenhagen Summit Reject 2C Target
	Norwegians Incensed Over Barack Obama's Snubs
	Nurses Unions Join Together for More Clout
	Obama Nobel Speech: 'War Is Peace'
	Ocean Acidification Rates Pose Disaster for Marine Life, Major Study Shows
	Afghans Angry at Obama's Nobel Win

Wednesday December 9, 2009

	US General: Afghan Violence to Rise
	US Youth Crash Climate-Denier Live Webcast in Copenhagen
	Obama Launches Freedom of Information Initiative
	Afghanistan’s 'Bravest Woman' Pins Hopes on USA, Not Obama
	People Speak Tells Extraordinary Works of 'Ordinary People'
	Senate Dems Ditch the Public Option
	US to Pay $3.4bn to Settle Native Americans Land Case
	For the Feds, Some Wall Street Firms Are Too Big — to Punish
	Danish Police Raid Copenhagen Climate Campaigners' Rooms
	G77 says Danish Climate Text 'Threatens Success' of UN Talks
	Mercosur Leaders, Venezuela Reject Honduras election
	No Slowdown of Global Warming, Agency Says
	Senators Reach Tentative Public Option Deal--Withhold Details As They Await CBO Score

Tuesday December 8, 2009

	Reproductive Rights Resist Erosion in US Senate
	Bolivian President to Deepen Social Revolution
	Millions in US Drink Dirty Water, Records Show
	Protest and Non-Violent Civil Disobedience at Chevron Headquarters; 31 Arrested
	White House Wants Torture Suit against Yoo Dismissed
	Copenhagen Climate Summit in Disarray after 'Danish Text' Leak
	More Than 100 Killed in Baghdad Explosions
	Watered-Down 'Public Plan' Emerges in Senate
	President Obama Told Me to Stop ‘Demeaning’ Him, says Rep. Conyers
	Naomi Klein Kick-Starts the Activism at Copenhagen with Call for Disobedience

Monday December 7, 2009

	Decade of 2000s Was Warmest Ever, Scientists Say
	Lawyers Fight to Halt Ohio Execution Condemned as Human Experimentation
	Drill, Baby, Drill: Obama Administration OKs Oil Drilling in Arctic off Alaska
	Senator Adds Abortion Restrictions to Health Care Bill
	Senate Dems May Open Up Medicare To Pacify "Progressives"
	Bush Climate Team Still Impacting The Debate, Report Finds
	Civil Society and Climate Activists: The Most Vital Delegates Arrive in Copenhagen
	EPA to Announce Greenhouse Gases Pose Public Health Threat
	Checkmate: How Joe Lieberman Turned The Public Option Fight On Its Head
	Was Russian Secret Service Behind Leak of Climate-Change Emails?
	GOP Would Require President, Cabinet, Staff To Enroll In Public Option
	Study Finds Weed Killer Affects Frogs Sexually
	Copenhagen Climate Conference Opens to Dire Warnings
	Evo Morales Wins Landslide Victory in Bolivian Presidential Elections
	Spain Moves to Help Western Sahara Hunger Striker
	Plight of Afghan Women May Worsen as War Effort is Stepped Up, Warns Report
	White House Chorus: We Will Occupy South Asia for 'Long Time'

Sunday December 6, 2009

	Italians Say 'No Berlusconi'
	New Website Helps Shoppers Avoid GMO Foods
	Battle Over Mountaintop Mining Slowly Gains Ground
	Danish Police Issue Protests Warning Before Summit
	Climate Change Conspiracies: Stolen Emails Used to Ridicule Global Warming

Saturday December 5, 2009

	Neo-Cons Get Warm and Fuzzy Over "War President"
	Climate Change Protesters Take to London Streets
	'Bush and Blair Misled the Public... Yes, It's Conceivable Both Could End Up on Trial'
	Another McGovern Takes On a War
	Pentagon's War Pitch Belied by Taliban-Qaeda Conflict

Friday December 4, 2009

	Do Obama Officials Know What his Afghanistan Plan Is?
	EPA Petitioned to Cap Carbon Dioxide Under the Clean Air Act
	Chomsky Speaks on US Imperialism
	Pelosi Nixes Obey's War Tax Proposal
	Texas Executes Man at Center of Mental Disability Debate
	CIA Can Expand Using Drones in Pakistan: Report
	Liberal Democrats Take Aim at Funding for War
	Senator Sanders Offers Medicare-for-All Amendment in Senate
	Citizens Back Climate Action, Despite Industry Lobbying Surge
	UN to Investigate Climate Email Row
	Wendell Berry Says Large-Scale Farms Killing Land as Well as Towns
	Majority of Americans Think Torture 'Sometimes' Justified
	Amy Goodman's Border Woes Have Americans in a Tizzy

Thursday December 3, 2009

	Anti-US Feeling Running High as CIA Drones Take a Civilian Toll
	Health Reform Update: Compromising the Compromise of the Compromised Compromise
	DeFazio Calls for Tax on Wall Street Speculators
	Civil Disobedience Needed to Win Action on Climate Change, New Greenpeace Chief Says
	Reproductive Rights Showdown Looms in Senate
	Senator Moves to Slow Bernanke's Fed Confirmation
	Honduran Congress Votes Against Zelaya's Return
	Comcast, NBC Deal Will Face Tough Antitrust Review
	Aid Groups Worry About Afghan Strategy
	Copenhagen Climate Change Talks Must Fail, says Top Scientist
	Bhopal Survivors Demand Action

Wednesday December 2, 2009

	Jane Hamsher Leads Left Away from White House
	US Liberals Express Anger over Obama's Decision to Raise Troop Levels
	New York Senate Defeats Gay Marriage Bill
	Another Afghanistan Conflict for General McCaffrey to Disclose
	Climate Change Denial is the New Article of Faith for the Far Right
	BlackwaterFounder, Prince, Feels Thrown Under Bus
	Anti-War Activists Plan 'Emergency' Rally In DC To Protest Afghanistan Escalation
	US Private Sector Sheds More Jobs Than Expected: ADP
	Between the Lines, an Expansion in Pakistan
	Summit Does Not Recognize Elections in Honduras
	Climate Research Chief Phil Jones Stands Down Pending Inquiry into Leaked Emails
	GOP: Use Unspent Stimulus For War
	Palestine Calls for Release of Intifada Leader in Prisoner Swap with Israel
	Israel Strips More Palestinians of Jerusalem Status
	ACLU: Supreme Court Decision Won’t End Torture Photos Fight
	250 Rally at West Point for End of Afghan War
	Afghans Unimpressed by Obama's Troops Surge
	Obama Had Rejected His Own Speech's Surge Rationale

Tuesday December 1, 2009

	As Obama Sends More Troops, Giant Shadow Army Of Contractors Set To Grow In Afghanistan
	The Campaign Cash Behind the Afghanistan Escalation
	Tree Plantations Are Not Forests, Women Activists Say
	Democrats Campaign Against Obama's Afghan Plan
	Greens vs. Greens as Copenhagen Climate Summit Nears
	Oil Companies Look to the Future in Iraq
	Europeans Could Save Planet for $3 a Day: Study
	Bhopal Water Still Toxic 25 Years After Deadly Gas Leak, Study Finds
	Movement to Ban Divorce Grows in California
	Iraq Inquiry: Blair Told Bush He Was Willing to Join, 11 Months Before War
	Obama's Exceedingly Familiar Justifications for Escalation
	Aetna Prepares for Loss of 600,000 Members as it Raises 2010 Prices
	Victory Declared in Controversial Poll That was Already a Win-Win for Honduras's Wealthy Elite
	In Afghan Debate, Few Antiwar Op-Eds
	Major Cities at Risk from Rising Sea Level Threat
	Discrimination Under Fire on World AIDS Day