Headlines - September 2009
Wednesday September 30, 2009
- Red Cross Warns of Complacency in Still-Bloody Iraq
- Italy Seeks Jail for US Spies in Rendition Trial
- UN Demands End of Sexual Violence as Tactic of War
- US 'to Speed up Iraq Withdrawal'
- UN 'to Remove Afghanistan Envoy'
- Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll Have a Dictatorship Soon in the US’
- Michael Moore Tells Democrats: 'Find Your Spine' on Health Care
- EPA Wants More Oversight on Chemicals
- By 2050, 25m More Children Will Go Hungry as Climate Change Leads to Food Crisis
- US Story on Iran Nuke Facility Doesn't Add Up
- 17 Held in Protest Outside Health Insurer’s Offices
Tuesday September 29, 2009
- US Inertia Could Scupper World Climate Deal in Copenhagen, Says Expert
- Generals: Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney Are Scaremongering
- Senate Finance Panel Rejects Govt Insurance Option
- 'Modern Slave' Migrants Toil in Italy's Tomato Fields
- US Accepts Hamid Karzai as Afghan Leader Despite Poll Fraud Claims
- Ten Percent of World's Major Species 'at Threat'
- Ex-Bush Officials Face Lawsuits Over Their Actions
- Exelon to Quit Chamber Over Climate Bill
- Afghan Bus Bombing Kills at Least 30 Civilians
- US Urges Israel to Probe Gaza Crimes to Boost Peace
Monday September 28, 2009
- 'Dozens Killed' in Guinea Anti-Junta Demonstration
- Fears of Blame for Defeat Shadow Afghan War Meetings
- US Dollar Set to Be Eclipsed, World Bank President Predicts
- Negotiators Urged to Speed up Climate Pact Talks
- Schools Promote Waste-Free Lunches
- Bailed-Out Banks Lobby Hard to Stave off Limits
- Iran Tests Long-Range Missiles
- Honduras Suspends Civil Liberties
- Rescue Workers 'Overwhelmed' as Philippine Flooding Death Toll Reaches 140
- US Threatens to Escalate Operations Inside Pakistan
- Gates Contradicts Obama: Afghan 'Exit Strategy' a 'Strategic Mistake'
Sunday September 27, 2009
Saturday September 26, 2009
Friday September 25, 2009
- US Commanders Hold Secret Meeting on Afghan war
- G20 to Become Forum for Global Economic Cooperation
- Water Wars Loom in a Nation of Parched Fields
- Activist's 'Necessity' Defense May Get the Boot
- EPA Gets Approval to Move Residents From Polluted Town
- Banks Fight to Kill Proposed Consumer Protection Agency
- World Consumption Plunges Planet Into 'Ecological Debt', Says Leading Thinktank
- Protests, Clashes Hit G20 Summit City
- Unions Criticize Obama's School Proposals as 'Bush III'
- Iran Admits to Secret Second Nuclear Plant Built Inside Mountain
- Senators to Square off on Public Insurance Plan
Thursday September 24, 2009
- Thousands of Calif. Students, Faculty, Staff Protest State Cuts at University
- Administration Won't Seek New Detention System
- Suu Kyi Backs US-Myanmar Engagement
- UN Security Council Endorses Nuclear Disarmament
- Bullet Makers Can't Keep up With Demand
- For Mexico and Canada, the 'War on Terror' Is Over
- US Senate Panel Rejects Republican Healthcare Moves
- Bush's Wiretapping Goes to Court in San Francisco
- Pittsburgh Braced for G20 Protests
- 'World Must Move in a New Direction,' Obama Tells UN
Wednesday September 23, 2009
- Obama Tightens State Secrets Standard
- Taser Company Uses Facebook, Blogs to Improve Image Amidst Lawsuits
- Court Rejects Genetically Modified Sugar Beets
- Bank Lobby Defeats Obama Reform Plan
- GAO Audit: Schools Slow to Get Alerts About Tainted Food
- Whoops: Anti-ACORN Bill Ropes In Defense Contractors, Others Charged With Fraud
- Patriot Act May Get Renamed, but With a Few Changes
Tuesday September 22, 2009
- Middle East Talks Fail to Produce Hope for New Negotiations
- Honduras Police Break Up Pro-Zelaya Protest
- Obama Urges Climate Change Action
- Sierra Leone Facing 'Human Rights Emergency', Says Amnesty International
- F.D.I.C. May Borrow Funds From Banks
- Mike Ross Raises Eyebrows With Healthy Haul
- In Health Care, Number of Claims Denied Remains a Mystery
- Report on Afghanistan Gives Obama Tough Choices
- US Appeals for Calm, Repeats Support for Zelaya
- French Police Clear Migrant 'Jungle', Arrest 278
Monday September 21, 2009
- Authors of Iraq War Push Obama on Afghanistan
- Gov't Investigates Health Insurance Company Mailer
- Ousted Honduran Leader 'Returns'
- Report: CIA Interrogations Informed by Bad Science
- G20 Braces for Summit Showdown
- Distant Genocides Demand Intervention, Report Urges
- FCC to Unveil Open Internet Plan
- Israeli Peace Activist Nawi to Be Sentenced Today
- Why Haven't Any Wall Street Tycoons Been Sent to the Slammer?
- Afghanistan Mission Faces 'Failure' Without More Troops: US Commander
Sunday September 20, 2009
Saturday September 19, 2009
- Titus the Gorilla King is Dead
- Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells
- Business Takes Aim at Proposed New Rules
- India Challenges US by Agreeing to Impose Limits on Carbon Emissions
- Pressure Builds On Pentagon to Investigate Electrocution Death in Iraq
- Bush Interior Secretary Investigated
- Novel Approach: Ralph Nader Turns to Fiction
Friday September 18, 2009
- Unhealthy US Diets Prompt More Calls for Reform
- Ex-CIA Chiefs Seek Halt to Interrogations Probe
- Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons, Swapped Booze for Rockets
- US Senators Target Bush-Era Surveillance Laws
- Faced With Water Woes, California Increases Conservation With Graywater Systems
- Activists Protest War Simulator
- Report Chides Bureau of Land Management's Rush to Drill
- Cost of Racial Disparities in Health Care Put at $229 Billion Between 2003, 2006
- Obama Puts Nuclear Abolition Back on Agenda
- Study Finds Lack of Insurance Can Be Lethal
Thursday September 17, 2009
- Arctic Ice Melts to Third-Smallest Area
- Gaza's Water Supply Near Collapse
- Group Calls for End to National Forest Logging
- US Military Shuts Largest Detainee Camp in Iraq
- Environmental Group Reveals Toxic Chemicals in a Range of Consumer Items
- Trading Places: From Ex-Lobbyist to Market Watchdog
- Plight of the Bumblebee
- Bill Could Block Gitmo Closure
- Barack Obama Abandons Missile Defense Shield in Europe
- Goldstone Rejects Bias Charges Over UN Gaza Report
Wednesday September 16, 2009
- Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary Dead From Cancer at 72
- Doctors Warn of Global Health Catastrophe Unless Climate Change Is Fixed
- Health Care Proposal Mandates Coverage, Drops Public Option
- How UK Oil Company Trafigura Tried to Cover up African Pollution Disaster
- Another Lawsuit Targets Founder of Blackwater
- Ignoring a Law on Foreign Relations
- The Secret Test That Ensures Lenders Win on Loan Mods
- Uninsured Americans Hope Reform Brings Health Coverage
- World Bank Spends Billions on Coal-Fired Power Stations Despite Own Warnings
- Obama Confronts Democratic Skepticism
- Jimmy Carter: ‘Hamid Karzai Has Stolen the Election’
Tuesday September 15, 2009
- US Justice Dept Wants Surveillance Methods Extended
- Israel Committed War Crimes in White Phosphorus Strike, Says UN
- Shell Halts Mining as Activists Protest Oil Sands
- US Planning to Weaken Copenhagen Climate Deal, Europe Warns
- Top US Commander Signals Troop Increase in Afghanistan
- 3 Environmental Groups to Sue EPA Over Coal-Ash Ponds
- Iraqi Shoe Thrower: 'I am Free Again, but My Homeland Is Still a Prison."
- Crystal Lee Sutton, Dead at 68: Union Activist Inspired 'Norma Rae'
- UN Assembly Votes for More Powerful Women's Agency
- Dems Feel Michael Moore's Wrath
- Canada's Becoming a 'Global Carbon Bully': Greenpeace
- Obama Rejects Afghanistan-Vietnam Comparison
- Justice Follows Direct Action: Former Boss of Occupied Chicago Factory Jailed
Monday September 14, 2009
- IAEA Conceals Evidence Iran Documents Were Forged
- Sen. Harkin: 'Silent Majority' Back Health Care Reform
- Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering
- Remnants of Vietnam War Still Scarring Lives
- Tristan Anderson to Sue for Injury in Israel Protest
- Lehman Collapse: 12 Months on and the Financial System Isn't Fixed, Warns Stiglitz
- Harrassed Tamils Languish in Prison-Like Camps in Sri Lanka
- Netanyahu: No 'Complete Freeze' on Settlement Building
- Homeowners Associations Thwart Efforts to Get Green
- Prosecutors in Iraq Case See Pattern by Guards
- Obama to Defend Bailouts, a Year After Lehman Collapse
Sunday September 13, 2009
Saturday September 12, 2009
Friday September 11, 2009
- No Slowdown for Weapons Industry
- Americans Grow Cannabis to Beat the Recession
- EPA Puts 79 Coal Mine Permits up for More Review
- David Miliband: UK's Secret Intelligence Service Investigated for Torture
- Thatcher Told Gorbachev Britain Did Not Want German Reunification
- US Calls for More Action to Restore Chesapeake Bay
- Japanese Town Starts Dolphin Hunt Under Global Spotlight
- Obama Facing Doubts Within His Own Party on Afghanistan
- US Says 16 Guards Removed in Afghan Embassy Scandal
- Diplomatic Ambush Threatens UN 'Super-Agency' for Women
- US Should Learn From Canada, Allies in Afghan Mission: Adviser
Thursday September 10, 2009
- Local Levee Districts Will Pay $20 Million to Settle Their Role in Katrina Class Action Lawsuits
- Environmental Groups Sue to Protect Grand Canyon From Mining
- US Poverty Rate Hits 11-Year High as Recession Bites
- Speculators Undermining Recovery, Report Says
- Justices Are Pressed for a Broad Ruling in Campaign Case
- Oil Majors Propping up Myanmar Regime: Rights Group
- Mortgage Service Firms Still Doing Little to Help Homeowners
- Massive Surveillance System in Pa. Town Raises Privacy Concerns
- Washington Turns on Obama Heckler Joe Wilson After Healthcare 'Liar' Gibe
- Court to Probe Afghan War Crimes
Wednesday September 9, 2009
- Obama Speaks Loudly But Carries a Small Stick
- Baucus May Move Health Bill Without Republicans
- No Flies on S.F.'s New Composting Law
- Former CIA Agent's Hunt for bin Laden in Pakistani Badlands
- The Mystery of Chernobyl
- Another Wave of Foreclosures Looms
- US Chided for Aiding Honduras Despite Coup
- Big US Bases Are Part of Iraq, but a World Apart
- Supreme Court Considers Corporate Spending on Elections
- Rights Group: Most Gazans Killed in War Were Civilians
Tuesday September 8, 2009
- Adviser Losing Patience With Obama
- Grijalva: Vast Majority of House Progressives Not Prepared to 'Surrender' on Public Option
- Elimination of Food Waste Could Lift 1bn Out of Hunger, Say Campaigners
- US Girl Scouts Prepare for War, Pestilence
- Obama Boost Opens Door for Nuclear Test Ban Pact
- Fleeing the Cyber World: Being Young, Here, Now
- Dick Cheney 'Put Airline Bomb Plot Case in Jeopardy With Arrest Order of Rashid Rauf'
- German Chancellor Merkel Expresses Regret for Deadly Afghan Air Strike
- Schools Going Green Big-Time
- States Ignoring Stimulus Welfare Fund
- Military Leery of Afghanistan Escalation With No Clear Goals
- Agent Orange Talks Begin in Hanoi
- Guantanamo Prisoners: Cleared for Release, But...
- Afghan Vote Watchdog Finds Fraud, Orders Recounts
- When Your Insurer Says You're No Longer Covered
Monday September 7, 2009
Sunday September 6, 2009
- Chevron Awaits Verdict in Environmental Damage Case
- Is America Ready to Admit Defeat in Its 40-Year War on Drugs?
- Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools
- 'Capitalism Is Evil', Says New Michael Moore Film
- S Africa Backs Action in US on Firms Linked to Apartheid
- Activists Demand Real Change as Foreclosures Mount
- Obama Adviser Resigns Amid Controversy
Saturday September 5, 2009
- Obama Adviser on Green Jobs Under Attack
- NATO Chief Orders Investigation Into Airstrike Deaths of Afghan Villagers
- Judge Recuses Himself in Suit Against Chevron
- Thousands in Berlin to Protest Nuclear Energy
- EPA's Failure to Publicize Drinking Water Data Prompts Rethinking in Agency, Congress
- 'Terror' Witness Can Sue Senior Bush Official: Court
Friday September 4, 2009
- Current Economic Growth Model Is 'Immoral', Says Prescott
- Supreme Court of Canada to Hear Khadr Case
- US Fury as Israel Defies Settlement Freeze Call
- The Anguish of Unemployment
- Studying the Effects of Tear Gas
- Global Warming Has Made Arctic Summers Hottest for 2,000 Years
- A National Movement of Foodies, Farmers, Parents and Educators Is Pushing for Better School Food
- Gates Sells Afghan Strategy Amid Growing Unease
- White House to Reveal Visitor Names
- NATO Airstrike in Afghanistan Kills up to 90
Thursday September 3, 2009
- Lawsuit Filed to Block Pipeline Project
- Feds Allow Large Gulf Fish Farms by Taking No Action
- Somali Refugees Trapped in Camps 'Barely Fit for Humans' - Oxfam
- NGOs: 'Mini-Ministerial Meeting Should Change WTO Tack on Food,' Promote Food Sovereignty
- Muhammad Yunus: Financial Meltdown Is Chance to Build More Inclusive System
- Devastating Suicide Strikes Show Taliban Expansion
- UN Guide for Sex Ed Generates Opposition
- A Delta Manhunt, With Booze and Guns
- The Army Is Making the Same Old Mistakes in Afghanistan: British Soldiers
- ‘We Are Heading Towards an Abyss’
Wednesday September 2, 2009
- CIA Resists Disclosure of Records on Detention
- A Year on, Reuters Cameraman Still Held by US Army
- American Embassy Contractors in Kabul Accused of Ritual Abuse
- Brussels Wants Wider Measure of Well-Being Than Mere GDP
- Climate Changes Creating Hunger Ahead of Summit
- Iran Nuclear 'Threat' Hyped: IAEA's ElBaradei
- Herbicide Maker Asks That Lobbying Be Excluded From Class Action Lawsuit
- US Fares Poorly in Child Welfare Survey
- Great Barrier Reef Facing 'Catastrophic Damage' From Climate Change
- Patients Continue Legal Fight for Medical Marijuana
- Is Health Care the Next 'Bonusgate'?
- Pills and America's Pursuit of Happiness
Tuesday September 1, 2009
- White House Fears Liberal War Pressure
- Group Charges Complicity by CIA Medics in Torture
- Iraq Deaths Reach 13-Month High
- Bank of America Mulls Repaying Aid: Report
- Climate Camp Protesters Blockade Royal Bank of Scotland Building
- EPA to Declare CO2 a Dangerous Pollutant
- Farmer Suicides Blight India
- Steroids, Drink and Paranoia: The Murky World of the Private Security Contractor
- Fast Times at Recruitment High: Arne Duncan and the Militarization of Chicago's Schools
- US, NATO Must Change to Win Afghan War Says Commander