Headlines - February 2009
Saturday February 28, 2009
- Ottawa Wades Into Oilsands Debate
- The Perpetual Protester
- US Won't Participate in UN Racism Conference
- California Declares Drought Emergency
- U.N. Official Faults Evidence and Foreign States Linked to Guantánamo Interrogations
- 'We Are Trained to Kill, so Civilian Life Is Tough'
- W.Va. Guard Members May Have Been Exposed to Toxin in Iraq
- Activists Warn US Lawmakers of Uranium Mining Perils
- Drawdown Plan May Leave Combat Brigades in Iraq
Friday February 27, 2009
- Obama to Troops: Iraq Mission to End in August 2010
- Recruiting for the Military in Schools and the NCLB Policy
- Government Could Own up to 36 Pct. of Citigroup
- The Heat Is on Washington
- Medical Marijuana Stance Changing Under Obama
- New Owners to Reopen Window Plant, Site of a Sit-In in Chicago
- Adapting to Water Woes
- Jewish Leaders Blast Clinton Over Israel Criticism
- Obama Administration May Rescind 'Conscience Rule'
- Senate Panel Prepares to Investigate CIA's Detention and Interrogation Operations
- Tiananmen Mothers Call for Probe of 1989 Crackdown
- Climate Change: New Thinking to Tackle Old Problems
- Dismay at Obama Plan to Leave 50,000 US Troops in Iraq after 2010
Thursday February 26, 2009
- Bloggers, Liberal Groups Challenge Corporate Dems
- Sewage Spills Foul San Francisco Bay Over and Over
- James Galbraith: Obama Isn't Doing Enough to Solve the Financial Crisis
- Israel Blocks Pasta Shipment to Gaza, and Tensions Boil
- Amazon Teetering on the Edge
- Government Admits Britain Handed Suspects to US for Rendition
- Power Shift Cimate Protest Gathers Momentum in Washington
- Greenwash: Why 'Clean Coal' is the Ultimate Climate Change Oxymoron
- Trapped Between the Wall and the Green Line
- Mr. Whipple Left It Out: Soft Is Rough on Forests
- US Is Arms Bazaar for Mexican Cartels
- Banks to Get Nearly Unlimited Federal Funds
Wednesday February 25, 2009
- New Rule Enacted by Bush Administration Impedes Cases Against Nursing Homes
- Uncle Sam Bank Not Open for Bank Business, Yet
- New Report Shows Explosive Growth in Climate Change Lobby
- Kathleen Merrigan, Developer of Organic Regs, Chosen as No. 2 at the USDA
- Iraqi Police Shoot Dead Four US Soldiers: Ministry
- Guantanamo Abuse Has Worsened Since Obama: Lawyer
- Scientists Find Bigger than Expected Polar Ice Melt
- Many Plans to Curtail Use of Plastic Bags, but Not Much Action
- UK Gov't Accused of Cover-Up over Iraq War Minutes
- It's Not Universal Health Care, but…
- Climate Change Timetable Slips as Obama Backtracks on 2008 Deadline
Tuesday February 24, 2009
- Report Contradicts Gov't Claims of 'Humane' Detention
- Expert: Carbon Dioxide Emissions Could Last Millenniums
- Vilsack Adviser Predicts Vegetable Garden on White House Lawn by Summer
- No Quick Fix for Malnutrition and Hunger
- Who's Minding Your Food? Surprise! It Depends
- Treasury Department's Bank Stress Test a Mystery
- Climate Change Risk Underestimated: Study
- Veterans Advocates Riled by Report on Army charity
- Administration Draws Fire for Report on Guantánamo
- Farming Policy: An End to French Hypocrisy?
- Climate Change Lays Waste to Spain's Glaciers
- Health Spending Takes Rising Share of US Economy
- Doomsday Clock May Finally Stop Ticking
Monday February 23, 2009
- Treat U.S.-Held Prisoners Like Gitmo Detainees, Afghans Urge
- Activists Protest Award for Comedian
- Police Warn of G20 Protests in 'Summer of Rage'
- Freed Guantanamo Detainee Says US Behind His Torture
- Great-Grandson Raising Money to Buy Gandhi's Personal Belongings at New York Auction
- Iraq’s War Widows Face Dire Need With Little Aid
- Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe
- US Wants to Keep Banks Private in New Rescue Plan
- West Blamed for Rapid Increase in China's CO2
- Suspend Military Aid to Israel, Amnesty Urges Obama after Detailing US Weapons Used in Gaza
Sunday February 22, 2009
Saturday February 21, 2009
- Peace Activist Peter DeMott Dead After Fall
- Obama Sides With Bush: Tries to Kill E-Mail Case
- Obama Nixed Full Surge After Quizzing Brass
- Recession Challenges Fair Trade
- Obama Widens Missile Strikes Inside Pakistan
- Soros Sees No Bottom for World Financial "Collapse"
- Activists 'Shocked' at Clinton Stance on China Rights
Friday February 20, 2009
- Obama Sides With Bush: No Rights for Bagram Prisoners
- Rich Nations Failing to Meet Climate Aid Pledges
- Federal Water May Be Cut off From Calif. Farms
- Guantanamo Bay Inmate Binyam Mohamed to Be Sent to Britain
- Hundreds Gather to Support N.Y.U. Protest
- Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence
- ACORN Urges Civil Disobedience in Foreclosure Evictions
- UK Gardeners Grow Their Own with National Trust
- Europe Ignores Obama's Demands for More Troops in Afghanistan
- Nationalizing Troubled Banks May Be the Only Answer
- Newly Poor Swell Lines at Food Banks
- Rhetoric and Reality Clash on Obama's First Foreign Visit
- Binyamin Netanyahu to be Israel's Next Prime Minister
Thursday February 19, 2009
- Afghanistan, the Next US Quagmire?
- UBS Move Shakes Foundations of Swiss Banks
- Events Commemorate Unjust WWII Japanese Detentions
- Pentagon Says US Still Looking to Keep Kyrgyzstan Base
- Tutu Urges Obama Apology on Iraq
- Dig for Recovery: Allotments Boom as Thousands Go to Ground in Recession
- Buildup of US Troops in Afghanistan May Be Just the Start
- US Lawmakers Make Rare Visit to Hamas-Ruled Gaza
- US State's 'Personhood' Law Would Hit Birth Control: Opponents
- Trees Absorb a Fifth of Carbon Emissions Pumped out by Humans
- Publish Secret 'Torture' Documents, MPs Tell Obama
- Google Earth Reveals Secret History of US Base in Pakistan
- Herbert Pushes for Grassroots Activism
- Bush's 'Icy Smile' Enraged Iraq Shoe-Thrower
- Holder: US a 'Nation of Cowards' on Race Issue
Wednesday February 18, 2009
- UN Seeks a Green Revolution in Food
- Vilsack Calls for Stricter Food Labels
- Obama Unlikely to Wade Into Oil Sands Debate
- Hundreds Call for End to Mining Damage
- Neighbors Helping Neighbors—to Break Into Vacant Houses
- US States May Axe Executions to Cut Costs
- Greenspan Backs Bank Nationalization
- Obama’s War on Terror May Resemble Bush’s in Some Areas
- US/Canada Border Increasingly Militarized
- Civilian Casualties May Surge as Well
- Wetlands Decline Along East, Gulf Coasts, Report Shows
- Watchdog: Bush FDA Decision Put Patients in Danger
- Secrecy and Denial: Pakistan Lets CIA Use Airbase to Strike Militants
Tuesday February 17, 2009
- Obama to Send 17,000 More Troops to Afghanistan
- British Scientists Condemn Using Children in GM Food Trials as Unacceptable
- Judge Refuses to Toss Charges in Blackwater Case
- EPA to Review Bush Rule on Warming Emissions
- Commanders in Iraq Challenge Petraeus on Pullout Risk
- Huge Oil Slick From Russian Ship Heads for British Coastline
- Activists Calling for Uprisings for Causes
- Call for End to USDA's Wildlife Killing Agency
- Stimulus May Put Some Wind in Clean Energy's Sails
- Ministers 'Using Fear of Terror'
- Obama Administration Defending Bush Secrets
- Republicans Try to Block Guantánamo Detainees From State Prisons
- Elderly New Yorkers Angry as Crisis Hits Poorest
- UN: Afghan Civilian Deaths Rose 40 Percent in 2008
- US Reverses, Seeks Global Treaty on Mercury
Monday February 16, 2009
- Democrats Divided Over 'Reckoning' for Bush
- EU Foiled in Bid to Force France, Greece to Allow GM Crop
- Bank Nationalization Attracts GOP Support
- Dairy Cows Head for Slaughter as Milk Prices Sour
- US 'War on Terror' Eroded Rights Worldwide - Experts
- UN Urges G20 Leaders to Back 'Green New Deal'
- Attack of the Killer Robots
- Same-Sex Marriage Movement Looks to 'Obamify'
- Obama Slows Down Troop Boost Decision
- Cambodian Horror on Trial
- No 10 Rejects New 'Torture Cover-Up' Claims
- Nuclear Subs Collided in Atlantic
- A 'Fraud' Bigger Than Madoff
- Hamburgers are the Hummers of Food in Global Warming: Scientists
- Israel Takes Control of More West Bank Land
- Chavez Wins Reform Vote in Venezeula
Sunday February 15, 2009
Saturday February 14, 2009
- Venezuela's Vote Sunday Could Make or Break Hugo Chavez
- Scientists Celebrate Dawn of Barack Obama's Age of Reason
- Soviet Vets, 20 Years On, Warn Obama on Afghanistan
- G7 Finance Ministers Reject Protectionist Measures
- Israel Says No Truce Without Release of Captured Soldier
- Sundance Honor for Film of Early Save-the-Earth Activists
- Human Slavery Thriving in the Shadows
- Australian Bushfires Pump Out Millions of Tons of Carbon
- Stimulus Plan Places New Limits on Wall St. Bonuses
- Coal Industry Wins a Round on Mining
Friday February 13, 2009
- House Passes Stimulus With No GOP Votes
- Appeals Court Overturns Mountaintop Removal Ruling
- US Security Firm Mired in Iraq Controversy Changes Its Name
- If You Love This Planet, Make Art
- Penguins in Peril as Food Search Turns Into Marathon
- US Envoy in Kabul to Map out Surge
- Gay Couples Protest at Marriage Bureaus Across US
- Large US Banks on Edge of Insolvency, Experts Say
- Defense Role in CIA's Secret Jails
- Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit
- Homeless Kids Lack School to Call Home
- US Scientists Defend Darwin From Attacks on Evolution
- New Bid to Ban Indiscriminate Weapons
- Latin American Leaders Say 'No' to U.S. Drug War
Thursday February 12, 2009
- Americans Favor Probe of 'War on Terror' Excesses
- Thousands of US Weapons Astray in Afghanistan: Auditors
- Bills Would Limit Use of 'State Secrets'
- Activists Push for Offshore Energy Drilling Ban
- David King: Iraq as the First 'Resource War' of the Century
- Anthropologist's Death Highlights Questionable Role of Social Science in War
- Poll: Most Want Inquiry Into Anti-Terror Tactics
- Just Breathing in Katrina-Flooded Homes Poses Health Risks
- Binyam Mohamed Torture Evidence 'Hidden From Obama'
- NAACP at 100 Now Seeks Equal Rights for All
Wednesday February 11, 2009
- Students Are Revolting: The Spirit of '68 Is Reawakening
- Privatized Health Care More Placebo than Panacea
- Australia Fires a Climate Wake-up Call: Experts
- UN Ordered to Pay Legal Fees of Oil-for-Food Chief
- Fewer Women Winning Jobs in Executive Suites
- America’s Predators: Fighting the Afghan War From Las Vegas
- Van Spirits Away Protester in Egypt, Signaling Crackdown on Criticism Over Gaza
- Climate of Fear Pervades Many Newsrooms
- Gates Orders Review of Ban on Photos of Coffins
- Where'd All That Money Go? Bank Execs Testify Today
Tuesday February 10, 2009
- White House Delays Move Toward More Offshore Drilling
- Guy Chichester, Clamshell Alliance Co-Founder, 1935-2009
- Immigration Agency's Airline Flies Tens of Thousands of Deportees out of US
- US Dominance Over Iraq Has Ended: Maliki
- Opponents in Missouri Mobilize Over Positioning Nuke Plants as 'Clean'
- New Media Breaks in, but Tradition Lives On
- Under Obama, Same Stance on Rendition Suit
- UK Minister Fears Rise of Fascism Amid Economic Gloom
- Are Bush's Secrets Safe With Obama?
- Global Warming Changing Birds' Habits
- Petraeus Leaked Misleading Story on Pullout Plans
Monday February 9, 2009
- Senator Seeks Bush-Era 'Truth Commission'
- Artist Questions 'Motivation and the Timing' of Boston Arrest
- Scientists Plan Emergency Summit on Climate Change
- 'Poverty Olympics' Ridicule Games
- The $800 Billion Gamble: Economists Say Stimulus Cuts Could Be 'Disastrous'
- Debate Persists About Long-Term Effects of Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
- Giant Marine Park Plan for Chagos
- US Using British Atomic Weapons Factory for Its Nuclear Program
- Rendition Case in S.F. to Test Obama Policies
- Bracing for More Drone Attacks
- Ala. Teen's Bus Defiance Set Stage for Rosa Parks
- Antiwar Lawmakers Wary of Adding Troops in Afghanistan
- Senate's Socialist Scores a Win
Sunday February 8, 2009
- Citizen Scientists' Notes Pinpoint Effects of Climate Change
- Gay Woman Fights over Hospital Visitation Rights in Miami court
- Israeli Elections: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid
- Stimulus Compromise Cuts Education Spending
- US Warns of Battle Worse Than Iraq in Afghanistan
- Australian Bushfire Death Toll Its Worst Ever
- United on Climate Change? Obama's Chinese Revolution
Saturday February 7, 2009
- Taser Policies May Get Supreme Court Review
- Obama 'Hope' Poster Artist Arrested in Boston
- Haitian President Appeals for Emergency Aid
- AP CEO: Military Emphasizes Spin, New Rules Needed
- US and Russia in Talks to Slash Nuclear Arsenals
- Hamas Is Not Going Away
- Tajikistan Ready to Fill Kyrgyzstan Gap; Help US with Afghanistan Supplies
- A Truce Too Big to Fail?
- Centrist Compromise Clears Stimulus for Senate Passage
Friday February 6, 2009
- Obama's Executive Pay Limits Have Loopholes: Report
- The Children of Guantanamo
- US Environmentalists Hail Halt of Land Lease for Gas Drilling
- Panetta Open to Tougher Methods in Some C.I.A. Interrogation
- Senators Berate Food Regulators
- Warning Over British 'Surveillance State'
- Letters Prove US Threats to Halt Intelligence to UK
- Key Bush Gitmo Advisers Still on Job at Pentagon
- Nationalized Banks Are 'Only Answer,' Economist Stiglitz Says
- Naomi Klein: We’ve Got to Make Obama Do It!
Thursday February 5, 2009
- Watchdogs: Government Overpaid for Wall Street Assets
- Advocacy Groups Fear New Wave of Homeless
- Israeli Navy Intercepts Lebanese Boat of Gaza Aid
- Navy Plan to Increase Warfare Training off Oregon Coast Draws Objections
- Portrait of an Activist
- Environmental Activists Bring Coal Fight to Seacoast
- Galbraith on the Crash... It Has a Familiar Ring
- US Searches for Alternative to Kyrgyz Base
- ICC Investigating Israel War Crimes
- Obama's Energy Secretary Outlines Dire Climate Change Scenario
- Israel Defends Gazan Deaths
- Protests as US Warship Docks in Nagasaki
- Obama to Expand Bush Faith Program
- Hawks Urge Boosting Military Spending
Wednesday February 4, 2009
- Monkey-Wrencher Thrilled That Interior Boss Is Scrapping Utah Lease Sale
- World's Major Fishing Nations Failing on Sustainability
- President Obama Seeks Russia Deal to Slash Nuclear Weapons
- US Threats Mean Evidence of British Resident's Guantánamo Torture Must Stay Secret, Judges Rule
- Target of Immigrant Raids Shifted
- UN Says Cluster Bombs Being Used in Sri Lanka
- More Troops, More Worries, Less Consensus on Afghanistan
- More Uninsured Lean on Low-Cost Care
- Rider Paradox: Surge in Mass, Drop in Transit
- US Supply Routes to Afghanistan Suffer Two Huge Blows
- US Must 'Save Capitalism' From the Banks: Nassim Taleb
Tuesday February 3, 2009
- Bailed-Out Wells Fargo Plans Las Vegas Junket
- Kyrgyzstan Closing US Base Key to Afghan Conflict
- Japanese Whalers Accused of 'Military-Grade' Weapons Againt Protesters
- North Korea Set to Test Long-Range Missile as Tension Rises in Region
- Climate Change May Be Stoking Stronger Winds, Altered Oceans
- Pentagon Letter Undercuts DOJ in Blackwater Case
- Some Call for Bush Administration Trials
- Drought Threatens Peace in Iraq's Marsh Eden
- From Have Less to Have None?
- Obama’s Pledge to Reform Ethics Faces an Early Test
- Nader Throws Hat in the Ring Against Limbaugh
Monday February 2, 2009
- Commission Gets Grim Report on Wartime Spending
- Aung San Suu Kyi Allowed Out of House to Meet With Ibrahim Gambari
- Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision
- Changing How We Live and Eat, One Fig at a Time
- Welfare Aid Isn’t Growing as Economy Drops Off
- Sanders, McKibben Urge Move to Sustainable Future
- Call to Try Bush
Sunday February 1, 2009
- Sri Lanka Threatens to Expel Media as Army Closes in on Rebels
- Gaza Desperately Short of Food After Israel Destroys Farmland
- Leftist Forum Ends in Amazon; Capitalism Seen Dying
- Rebound of Nuclear Plants Raising Worries Over Waste
- Parched: Australia Faces Collapse as Climate Change Kicks In
- Late Move on Drugs by Bush FDA Could Be Dangerous
- US Turned Blind Eye to Somalia Abuses: Rights Group
- Darwin's Galapagos Species Under Threat
- Israel Vows 'Disproportionate' Strike on Hamas