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• DOJ Probes Interior Officials' Ties to Oil Program
• Waiting List for AIDS Drugs Causes Dismay in South Carolina
• Medicare Premiums Will Surge for Some
• Living in America's Fringe Economy
• Disputed Florida Election to Spill Onto House Floor
• AT&T Yields to Neutrality, Paves Path to Congress
• Cindy Sheehan to Ramp Up "Peace Surge" After Arrest Thursday
• Domestic-Partner Violence Up After Downtrend
• Most Outrageous Right Wing Comments of 2006 By Media Matters for America
• Ten Simple Things You Can Do to Go Green
• Workers Wrestle With the Future at Ford
• Euro to Overtake US Dollar
• Parrots Have Colonized the Wilds of Brooklyn
• SEC Gives Holiday Present to Corporate America
• Interior, Pentagon Faulted in Audit
• Health Care Suffers at LA Jails
• FDA Lab Closure Plan Endangers Public, Watchdogs Say
• Pay Failing to Keep Pace With Corporate Profit
• Military Considers Recruiting Foreigners
• Thomas D. Williams | Generals Promote Christianity Inside the Pentagon
• Election Challenge for Florida District Is Taken to the House
• E-Voting Machine Probe Ends, Company Sold
• US Plans "Test" of Military Draft
• David Moberg | Organizing the Outsiders
• Louis Uchitelle | Raising the Floor on Pay
• Southern California Edison Signs Biggest US Wind Contract
• Turning Off the Digital World
• Swift Tried to Depress Wages, Say Ex-Workers in Lawsuit
• Federal Subsidies Turn Farms Into Big Business
• USDA Stocks Organics Board With Business Reps
• Congress Asked to Intervene in Florida Race
• Study: Long US Work Hours Are Bad for the Environment
• Housing Bust Slows Economic Growth to Two Percent
• For Divided Family, Border Is Sorrowful Barrier
• Wal-Mart Wins Ruling on Foreign Labor Wal-Mart Stores cannot be held liable under United States law for labor conditions at some of its overseas suppliers, a federal judge has ruled.
• Lawsuits Call Air Pollution Standards Deadly, Arbitrary
• Pentagon Wants $99.7 Billion More for Wars
• Study Warns of Hunger Among Hispanics
• Dean Baker | The Drug Scandals Keep Flowing: Time for New Thinking
• Environmental Group Offers Road Map to Curb Global Warming
• Steven Hill | Instant Runoff Voting Is Catching On
• US Army Might Break Goodyear Strike
• Corporate Agribusiness Is Behind Our Deadly Food Supply
• Eli Lilly Said to Play Down Risk of Top Pill (Zyprexa, its best-selling medication for schizophrenia)
• Thousands March to Protest Police Killing of Sean Bell
• FBI: Military Recruiters Ran Cocaine
• Congress's Inaction Threatens Funding
• Mayors: More Americans Hungry, Homeless in 2006
• Gore Doesn't Rule Out '08 Run; Kucinich Is In
• The New York Times | The Road to Reliable Elections
• Sheehan Among Four Convicted of Trespassing
• Americans Back Price Negotiations on Medicare Drugs
• On the Job With HIV
• Dmitri Iglitzin and Steven Hill | No Friend of Labor
• Congress OKs Drilling off Florida
• Revolt Over New Federal Mercury Law
• Deal on Tax Breaks Opens Way for Expanded Gulf Drilling
• A Look at the Impacts of Biofuels Production "As intuitive as it may seem that fuel from plants would be more benign than petroleum-based fuels, the ecological impacts of biofuel production are more complicated, and wider-reaching, than an environmentalist might first imagine," writes Julia Olmstead.
• 12 Million Suburbanites Live in Poverty
• Pediatricians Blast Inappropriate Ads
• As Auto Prosperity Shifts South, Two Towns Offer a Study in Contrasts
• Adam Cohen | What's Wrong With My Voting Machine?
• Panel Rejects Paper Trail Requirement for Voting Machines
• New York City Passes Trans-Fat Ban
• Dean Baker | The Housing Crash Recession of 2007
• Justices Weigh Race, School Admissions
• DOE Proposes Nuclear Waste Dumps for 11 Communities
• Brown vs. Board of Education Could Be in Jeopardy
• GOP Pays $135K in New Hampshire Call Jamming Suit
• Blowing the Whistle on Big Oil
• Paul Rogat Loeb | Think Globally, Protect the Vote Locally
• US Prison Population Sets Record
• Gov't Oversight Chief Wants to Limit Internal Fraud Probes
• Ohio County May Junk E-Voting Machines
• The New York Times | Deja Vu in Florida
• William Fisher | US v. Bush, et al.
• Experts Concerned as Ballot Problems Persist
• Big Energy Firms Crimping Oil Supplies
• Paul Krugman | When Votes Disappear
• Blighted Homeland | Uranium Mining Firms Again Eyeing Navajo Land: Part IV
• Report Finds DHS Lax on Contracting Procedures
• Houston Janitor Strike Ends With Agreement
• Comprehensive Strategy for Seeking National Single-Payer Health Care System
• Blighted Homeland | Navajos' Desert Cleanup No More Than a Mirage: Part III
• Blighted Homeland | A Peril That Dwelt Among the Navajos: Parts I and II
• Documents Show More Pentagon Spying on Peace Activists
• Clear Evidence 2006 Congressional Elections Hacked
• About 1,000 Workers at North Carolina Plant Walk Out Over Firings of Immigrants
• Labor's Gambit in Houston
• Ann Woolner | Past Sins Might Keep Rumsfeld From Roaming World
• Foul State of Affairs Found in Feedlots
• Pennsylvania Passes Plan to Cut Mercury
• New York Times: Counting the Vote, Badly
• Counts Still Under Way in Five House Races
• Clear Channel Accepts $18.7 Billion Takeover Bid
• State Medicaid Directors in Standoff With Bush Over Cuts
• Offshore Plant Suffers Setback
• House Passes "Terrorism" Act Against Animal Activists US House reclassifies unlawful animal-rights tactics as terrorism under certain conditions, even if they are non-violent.
• House Member Wants E-Voting Paper Trail
• Project Censored: Media Accountability Conference
• Kelpie Wilson | First, Re-Open the Libraries
• Dean Baker | The High Dollar: President Clinton's Unaffordable Tax Cut
• Conn Hallinan | Shafting the Vets
• The New York Times | The Corporate End Run
• Florida Recount, 2006-Style
• Waxman Set to Probe Areas of Bush Administration
• Requiem for Fallen Fighters
• City Residents Vote to Tax Selves for Carbon Use Voters in a Colorado university town nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains have passed the country's first municipal carbon tax to fight global warming.
• Former Miners File Suit Against Alcoa
• Serious Problems in Florida's 13th Congressional District
• Peace Mom Sheehan Arrested in Washington
• Vietnam War Veterans Fight Agent Orange Profiteers
• ACORN Celebrates Minimum Wage Increase Victories
• Tom Engelhardt | Outlaw Empire Meets the Wave: Five Questions for Our Future
• Nationwide Problems With E-Voting Machines, Volunteers Report
• New Rules, Machines Frazzle Poll Workers
• Election Fixing Charges Fly in Utah County
• US Sends Poll Watchers to 69 Jurisdictions
• In Missouri, a Forecast for Voter Misery
• Health Care Industries Fill Candidates' Coffers
• Virginia: FBI Looks Into Voter Intimidation
• Virginia State Board of Elections Secretary Finds Widespread Incidents of Voter Suppression
• Cameras Show Army Recruiters Misleading Students
• California Proposition 87 Could Boost Solar Research
• Iraq Vets Target Congressional Races
• Doris "Granny D" Haddock | Our Eyes Are Wide Open
• Kelpie Wilson | Are You Voting for the Terminator's Terminals?
• US Lags in Several Areas of Health Care, Study Finds
• Democrats Predict Voter ID Problems at Polls
• Inside the Shocking HBO Diebold Film
• Diebold Demands HBO Cancel Documentary on Voting Machines
• Steven F. Freeman and Joel Bleifuss | A Way to Restore Confidence
• Proposition 89: Clean Elections or Power Grab?
• Hispanic, Asian, Native Citizens Face Voting Barriers
• James J. Zogby | How Arab Americans Will Vote in 2006
• Colorado City to Vote on "Carbon Tax"
• How to Stop the November Elections From Being Stolen
• Laboring Toward Election Day
• Dean Baker | Social Security Is on the Ballot Next Week
• GOP Congressman Has Close Ties to Arms Contractor
• Mirror Test Implies Elephants Self-Aware
• US Drops Bid Over Royalties From Chevron
• Florida E-Voting Machines Already Flipping Votes
• Can This Machine Be Trusted?
• Study Links Trucks' Exhaust to Bronx Schoolchildren's Asthma
• US Investigates Voting Machines' Venezuela Ties
• Top Government Official Says US on Verge of Economic Disaster
• The Cost of Citizenship May Go Up
• Joe Galloway | Ruining America
• Part II: Pull the Plug on E-Voting
• US Warned of Ballot Box Chaos as Elections Near
• Greg Palast | Recipe for a Cooked Election
• William Rivers Pitt | Andy's Election
• Pull the Plug on E-Voting
• Jason Leopold: Severe Election Problems Seen in 10 States
• Exxon Mobil Posts Second Highest Profit in History
• Hospitals Try Free Basic Care for Uninsured
• In Old Textile District, the Free Trade Issue Dominates
• Voting Machines Will Not Display Virginia Democrat Webb's Name
• Florida Judge Throws Out Ban on Exit Polls
• Number of Uninsured Still Climbing Despite "Healthy" Economy
• Media Challenges Ohio Exit Poll Rules
• Chicago Voter Database Hacked
• Elizabeth Royte | How Prescription Drugs Are Poisoning Our Waters
• Paul Sheehan | We Fiddle as the Continent Turns to Dust
• Rory Cox | Why Should We Bring LNG to Our Shores?
• Fear of Skewed Elections Due to Electronic Voting on the Rise
• Which Way for Labor on California's "Clean Money" Elections Initiative?
• Actors Protest LNG Project off Malibu
• Downsized but Not Out
• High Court Allows Arizona to Enact New Voter ID Law
• US Plan for New Nuclear Weapons Advances
• Officials Probing Possible Theft of Voting Software in Maryland
• SEND IN THE CLOWNS: Vermont Public Radio bars candidate for fear of profanity
• GOP House Appropriations Chair Lewis Fires 60 Staffers Investigating Corruption
• Medicare Drug Aid No Longer Automatic for Most Vulnerable
• New Laws and Machines May Spell Voting Woes
• Mexican Union Has Complaint Against North Carolina
• Energy Bill Is a Boon to Oil Companies
• Bush's Former Elections Chair: E-Voting Ripe for Fraud
• Elections May Leave Bush an Early Lame Duck
• Peter Diamondstone Arrested
• Wal-Mart Workers Walk Out
• Note Intimidates California Hispanic Voters
• FDA Is Set to Approve Milk, Meat From Clones
• Federal Energy Leases Could Erode Newly Reinstated "Roadless" Rule
• EPA Budget Reduction Could Expose More Minorities, Poor to Pollution
• Water in Kansas Crisis Demands Attention
• Pombo's Energy Bill a Boon to Oil Companies
• Electricity Deregulation Fails to Deliver Promised Savings
• Defense Department Keeps Massive Database on Anti-War Protesters
• Hey, Nice Clothes. But Are They Ethical?
• Tainted Food Scares Prompting More Consumers to Turn to Local Growers, Farmers Markets
• David Bacon | No Fruits for Their Labor
• A $3 Water Purifier That Could Save Lives
• Union Disrupts Plan to Send Ailing Workers to India for Cheaper Medical Care
• Beyond the Birds and the Bees
• J. Matthew Sleeth | Texans Pray for Halt to Power Plants
• AP, Networks Sue Over Florida and Nevada Exit Poll Laws
• Empire strikes back against Chavez
• Huge New Jersey Water Quality Gap
• Copper Plant Illegally Burned Hazardous Waste, EPA Says
• Coal Trains Threat to Mayo Clinic
• The Ground Truth: "Cinematic Call to Arms"
• Treasury Secretary Paulson Aims to Protect Corporate Criminals
• An Urgent Call by Scientists to ... Defend Science!
• Attack Dogs Used Against Prisoners in US
• Working Families Under Attack
• Lower Standards Help Army Recruit Troubled Children
• Picking Up the Pieces of Slain Troops' Lives
• Experts Warn of an Accidental Atomic War
• No Bush Left Behind
• Registrations Faked in GOP Voter Drive
• 17,000 Flee Hazardous Waste Plant Explosions in North Carolina
• Starbucks Gets Wobbly
• Sniffing Out the Source of the "Malibu Smell"
• GAO Says Bush Administration, Not Lawsuits, to Blame for Oregon Logging Losses
• Adults on Welfare With HIV or AIDS Hit With Rent Increase
• Massachusetts Begins Offering Health Insurance to the Poor
• New Labor Rules a Potential Blow to Unions
• National Park Service to Allow Commercial Bioprospecting
• Barrels of Money Fuel Oil Tax Fight
• Fish Farm Sea Lice Killed Up to 95% of Wild Salmon
• David Bacon | In the Hotels, Si Se Puede!
• Erik Curren | The Population Bomb Is Ticking Again
• Rumsfeld, Ashcroft Warned of al-Qaeda Attack Before 9/11
• Nick Turse | The Militarization of MySpace
• FBI Begins Investigation Into Rep. Foley's Contact With Teens
• Diebold Added Secret Patch to Georgia E-Voting Systems in 2002
• Revolt of the Generals
• Former Pollster Describes 2000 Election Theft
• Deficit Comes in Below Projections, Thanks to "Off-Budget" Borrowing
• Sherwood Ross | TFAs, The Food Industry's "Trojan Horse" on Your Table
• HUD Secretary Admitted "Bias" Against Bush Critics
• An Alternative Way Forward for the US
• Most Uninsured Children's Parents Work
• Los Angeles's Largest Act of Civil Disobedience?
• The Newspaper Publisher Who Said No to More Cuts
• Senators Propose Funds for Paper Ballots to Back Up Electronic Ones
• Virgin Group to Invest $3 Billion in Renewable Energy
• New York City Plans Limits on Restaurants' Use of Trans Fats
• Evan Frisch and Arianna Siegel | What Would Real Election Integrity Mean?
• Panel Urges Basic Coverage on Health Care
• A Flawed Bill on Rape
• Al Meyerhoff and William B. Schultz | Something's Rotten in Food Oversight
• Paul Krugman | Insurance Horror Stories
• Wilderness Designation Trade-Offs Faulted
• Army Corps Faked Budget Entries
• Feds Seek to Block Oregon Spying Case
• Chavez to Double Energy Subsidies to Needy in US
• New Air Pollution Rules Rankle Health Groups
• Bush's No Child Left Behind Act Is Illegal
• 1,100 Laptops Missing From Commerce Department
• The New York Times | Keep Away the Vote
• John Nichols | Election Dysfunction
• Poll: 77% Say Congress Doesn't Deserve Re-Election
• Tensions Mount as Day Laborers Face Arrest Threat
• US Has Highest Infant Mortality Rate of All Industrialized Countries
• US Judge Rejects Bush Rule on Logging Roads
• Georgia Law Requiring Voters to Show Photo ID Is Thrown Out
• Judge Dismisses Medicaid Law Challenge
• If the Auto Industry Is Dead What Does That Mean for Workers?
• The Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Salvage Logging: Review Needed
• Oil Company Wins Round Over Whale Impacts
• Mission: To Reconcile America and the World
• "Hotel Minibar" Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines
• AIG Said to Skirt Campaign Law
• Weak EPA Plan Would Leave 77 Million Americans Vulnerable to Deadly Pollution
• US Steelworkers Lend a Hand to Mexican Union Leader
• Boxer Slams Suppression of Media Study
• Sarah Olson | Marching Against the Freedom Agenda
• Church May Fight IRS Summons Over Anti-War Sermon
• Jerry Avorn | The Sting of Ignorance
• Illegal Immigrants Frequently Denied Compensation
• Major Problems at Polls Feared
• Senators Compromising on FEMA Expansion
• Colorado Lawsuit Seeks to Ban Computer Voting
• The New York Times | Interior's Internal Messes
• Judge Says Voter ID Law Is Unconstitutional
• FCC Ordered Media Ownership Study Destroyed
• US to Cut Funds for Two Renewable Energy Sources DOE is quitting the hydropower and geothermal power research business
• US Has Been Stockpiling Banned Pesticide
• Poisons at Large
• House Backs 700 Mile Fence Along Border With Mexico
• Ford Slashes 10,000 More Jobs, 2 Plants
• Princeton Scientists Create Vote-Stealing Program for Diebold AccuVote-TS
• A Sweatshop Behind Bars
• A Window Into Oil Lease Profiteering
• Ten Big News Stories You Aren't Hearing
• Dean Baker | Deficit Hits New Record
• Gadgets Eating More Energy
• Michigan Bill Proposes Cancer Vaccination
• Military Wants to Use Microwave Weapons on American Citizens
• American Airlines Could Pull Ads from ABC
• Judge Won't Block Arizona Voter ID Law
• Spilling the Beans
• Arizona Seeks to Bypass Bush on CO₂ Emissions
• American Airlines Latest to Hit ABC's 9/11 Film: Legal Action to Follow?
• Mayor Vetoes Chicago "Living Wage" Bill
• Survey Shows Disney Suppliers Underpay, Overwork Employees
• Halliburton Fraud Lawsuit Details Super Bowl Party
• Paul Harris | The Myth of Fair Elections in America
• Ohio Judge Orders '04 Ballots Be Preserved for Legal Examination
• Infection Risk in Kids Living Near Landfills
• Senate Panel: No Saddam, al Qaeda Connection
• Dangerous Jobs Take Toll on Illegal Immigrants
• NOW | Will New Voting Machines Cause an Election Day Debacle?
• US Colleges to Buy Green Power in MTV Competition
• Healing War's Wounds
• Administration Proposes $12 Million Enron Settlement
• Pentagon Spends Billions to Outsource Torture
• Willem Malten | Los Alamos Environmental Impact
• Intel to Eliminate 10,500 Jobs
• Former GOP Governor Gets 6 1/2 Years on Corruption Charges
• Is Bosses' Pay Fair?
• The New York Times | In Search of Accurate Vote Totals
• Alarm Sounds on US Population Boom
• 11 of America's Worst Places to Vote (or Try)
• Many Entry-Level Workers Feel Pinch of Rough Market
• More GOP Districts Counted as Vulnerable
• Activists Want Ohio Election Chief Out
• US Direct Action: How American Cities Have Bypassed Bush on Kyoto
• US State CO₂ Laws Won't Prevent Coal Boom
• Defense Department Continues to Stall Wind Power Projects
• Ohio to Delay Destruction of Presidential Ballots
• Derrick Z. Jackson | Soldiers Die, CEOs prosper
• When Genetically Modified Plants Go Wild
• One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum
• Leaders Accept California Bill to Cut Emissions
• A Closer Look at California's New Solar Energy Option Mandate
• Indiana Residents Fight Plans for "Divine Strake" Explosion
• Washington State's Glaciers are Melting, and That Has Scientists Concerned
• US Cigarettes Have 10% More Nicotine Today Than Six Years Ago
• Interior Secretary Says North Slope Drilling Is Safe, Will Proceed
• New Backdoor Draft
• Dick Thornburgh and Richard Celeste | Watch Out for Voting Day Bugs
• California Assembly Approves Universal Health Care
• Counties Eye Nuke Plants, Utilities Eye Government Handouts
• Americans Without Health Benefits May Have Set Record in 2005
• Naomi Klein | Disaster Relief - for Profit
• US Data Show One in Eight Americans in Poverty
• On YouTube, Charges of Security Flaws
• Judge Blocks Florida Voter Registration Law
• How "Merchant Coal" Is Changing the Face of America
• Energy Bill Burning You?
• Climate Bill Puts Governor on Hot Seat
• Activist's Remark Starts FBI Probe
• Secret Senator Puts "Secret Hold" on Bill to Open Federal Records
• Fed Helped Fuel Own Inflation Headache: Hubbard
• Biotech Firm, Government Hid Rice Contamination From Public
• Dick Meister | An Unhappy Anniversary for Labor
• Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List
• Cuban Five Ruling a "Travesty of Justice"
• New Method Makes Embryo-Safe Stem Cells
• Judge Blocks Logging in Sequoia Monument
• Anne McElroy Dachel | The Really Big Lie About Autism
• Pull the Plug on Electronic Voting Aviel Rubin writes, "I am a computer scientist. I own seven Macintosh computers, one Windows machine and a Palm Treo 700p with a GPS unit, and I chose my car (InfinitiM35x) because it had the most gadgets of any vehicle in its class. My 7-year-old daughter uses email. So why am I advocating the use of 17th-century technology for voting in the 21st century - as one of my critics puts it?"
• California Deal to Raise Wage to $8
• Welfare Law, Lauded as Milestone, Finds Many Left Behind
• For Many, Next Year's Raise Could Be a Stinker
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Plaguing US Troops
• Jeffrey Chester | Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet
• Sexual Misconduct by Military Recruiters on the Rise
• Major Arms Soar to Twice Pre-9/11 Cost
• US Names Spy Operations 'Manager' for Cuba, Venezuela
• Law Cuts Survivor Benefits to 61,000 Military Widows
• Ford to Slash Production, Shutter Plants
• Has Coke Become the New McDonald's?
• Radioactive Leak Reaches Nuclear Plant's Groundwater
• Ohio Voting Problems Deemed Severe
• Dean Baker | The Bursting of the Housing Bubble and the Coming Recession
• America's Most Dangerous Jobs
• New Alaska Oil Leases Being Offered
• Three Years After Blackout, Power Problems Persist "Today," writes Jason Leopold, "the US power grid - three interconnected grids made up of 3,500 utilities serving 283 million people - still hangs together by a thread, and its dilapidated state is perhaps one of the greatest threats to homeland security, as opposed to, say, that vial of lip gloss in your purse or the bottle of shampoo in your travel bag."
• Pentagon Studying Its War Errors
• Pennsylvania Sued Over Electronic Voting Machines
• Gene-Altered Crops Denounced
• Officials Cut Corners With Biotech Crop Permits in Hawaii
• Violations by Military Recruiters Up Sharply
• SEC Caves to Political Pressure Not to Investigate Bush Donors
• Religion-Related Fraud Getting Worse By Rachel Zoll
• Chicago Pushes Living Wage for Big-Box Stores
• Planned Medicaid Cuts Cause Rift With States
• Governors Oppose Federal Control of Guard
• Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials
• State Department Predicts Beginning of the End for Cuban Regime
• Ignoring Split, Labor Makes Election Push
• Greens Rush to the Aid of Endangered Santorum
• No Labor Shift Seen at Wal-Mart
• Study Finds Immigrants Don't Hurt US Jobs
• Wal-Mart Raises Pay for Some - But Caps It for Others
• Detroit's Answer to $3-$4 Gas: New Muscle Cars
• US Nursing Home Care Found Wanting
• Report Says Sugary Drinks Pile on Pounds
• San Diego Press Telegram | Enron-by-the-Sea
• Environmentalists Burn Ethanol Hype as Empty Promise
• New York Times | Voter Suppression in Missouri
• California Voters File to Stop Use of Electronic Voting Systems
• Students vs. Sweatshops, Round III
• Public Pension Plans Face Billions in Shortages
• Protesters Block Entry to Southern Oregon Logging Site
• Ultrasound Can Affect Brain Development
• 15 States Expand Right to Shoot in Self-Defense
• "Dead Zone" Reappears off the Oregon Coast
• Tree Huggers Embrace Eco-Friendly Logging
• Governors Balk at Bid to Place Guard Under Presidential Control
• How the US Super-Rich "Dodge" Taxes
• Economists: Raising Minimum Wage Doesn't Cost Jobs
• In Coal Country, Mining Destroys Cemeteries and Faith
• Fuel Efficiency Driving Toyota Profits
• 40,000 US Troops Have Deserted Since 2000
• Sea Urchins Dying off California Coast
• Are YOU Drinking Military Waste?
• Congressmen Question Oil Windfall
• AOL Plans to Cut 5,000 Jobs, Some in Virginia
• EPA to Ban One Pesticide, Lets 32 Others Stay in Use
• Administration, Congress Eye "Liberation" of Cuba
• Tribes Call for Removal of Dams That Block Journey of Salmon
• Health Worries Over Bay Pollution
• An Estate Tax Twist Reverses Party Roles on Minimum Wage
• Army Raises Enlistment Age to 42
• Army Guard Units Said Not Combat-Ready
• Harold Meyerson | Minimum Wage, Maximum Gall
• Bill Quigley | Weapons of Mass Destruction in US
• States Push Health Care Reform While Activists Demand Overhaul
• Worst Ever Security Flaw Found in Diebold TS Voting Machine
• Tax Cheats Called Out of Control
• Frida Berrigan | Seeing (Pentagon) Stars
• Amanda Griscom Little | The Gas Menagerie
• House GOP Ties Min. Wage Hike to Estate Tax Cut
• A Primeval Tide of Toxins
• Medicare Beneficiaries Confused and Angry Over Gap in Drug Coverage
• US Employers Look Offshore for Health Care
• Men Not Working, and Not Wanting Just Any Job
• More Than 60 Percent of US in Drought
• Study Shows Water Contaminant Can Cause Cancer
• Activists Pose Fresh Challenges to New Recruiter Tactics
• Processing Pain at Smithfield Foods
• Chicago Law Sets Minimum Wage for Big Retailers
• Nurses Fight to Retain Right to Unionize
• More Patients Fall Into a Hole in Drug Benefit
• Shell Earnings Rise 40 Percent
• Tech Trouble in the Voting Booth
• Sweeping Change
• Moratorium on New Soya Crops Wins Reprieve for Rainforest
• Limits Sought on Worker Exposure to Flavor Agent
• Bush's Cuba plan targets Venezuela
• Growing Coalition Opposes Drilling
• Debating Health Care for Retirees
• David Dill, Doug Jones, Barbara Simons | The Diebold Bombshell
• Feds Eliminate 157 Auditors of Rich Taxpayers
• "Protection" Act Would Strip Consumers of Credit Safeguards
• Bigger Salaries for Big Box Workers?
• Barry C. Lynn | The Case for Breaking Up Wal-Mart
• Indictment of Doctor Tests Drug Marketing Rules
• Democrats Propose Moving Up Nevada in Presidential Caucuses
• Arrested Bush Dissenters Eye Courts
• As Predatory Lending Adapts to Weak Regulations, the Poor Pay
• New York's 'Champagne Tap Water' Under Threat
• Engineers to Build Everglades Reservoir
• Medication Errors Harming Millions
• Louisiana Governor Sues Federal Agency Over Offshore Environmental Damage
• Suit to Block Diebold Touch-Screen Voting Machines Remanded to State Court
• FedEx Drivers Fight for "Employee" Status, Rights
• Judge Gives Wal-Mart Reprieve on Benefits
• Yucca Mountain Dump Opening Set for 2017
• Bono backs anti-Venezuelan video game
• US plots Cuba invasion
• Chicago Weighs New Prohibition: Bad-for-You Fats
• Eating the Amazon: The Fight to Curb Corporate Destruction
• Big Pharma Reaps Windfall From Shifts to Medicare
• Blowing the Whistle on Diebold
• Ford Buyouts Speed Up
• Hospital Chiefs Get Paid for Advice on Selling to Hospitals
• In Goodell Company
• Foreign Companies Buy US Roads, Bridges
• Staffers at Santa Barbara Paper Join Large Protest
• Santorum Struggles for Support at Home
• Activists Sue to Block Electronic Voting
• Redefining American Beauty, by the Yard
• Disabilities No Barrier to the Entrepreneurial Spirit
• Senate Deal Would Protect Florida's West Coast From Drilling - But Not East Coast
• Britt Cass | Medicare's Hollow Heart
• Republicans Hinder Renewal of Voting Rights Act
• Richard L. Trumka | Curing the Job Crisis
• Congress, President Still Ignoring Obligation to Native American Health Care
• Insurers Lack Medicare Answers
• Deficit's Good News Less Than Meets the Eye
• Lessons Learned: Getting Health Care to All
• The Oregonian | Help the Fishermen, but the Issue Is the Fish
• Weakened Gulf Coast Still Sees Over-Fishing
• Jeremy Rifkin | Beyond GM Food: New Cutting Edge MAS Technology The new frontier is called genomics and the new agricultural technology is called Marker Assisted Selection, or MAS.
• San Francisco May Get Universal Health Care
• Manual Hand Count Requested in Busby/Bilbray Race!
• Chad Hanson | Environment vs. Property Rights
• Homeless Alcoholics Receive a Permanent Place to Live, and Drink
• Green Group Buys Out Fishermen to Protect Ocean Floor
• Where's My Money, Mohammed? William Fisher asks, "We know the government's counter-terrorism people are working hard. But are they working smart?"
• Daniel Ellsberg | Not in Our Name: The Voters' Pledge
• Tax Dollars Fund Study to Restrict Public's Right to Know
• Dissident Teamsters Still Agitating for Union Democracy
• Judge Bars Shrill Navy Sonar
• RFK Jr., Florida Law Firm to File Federal Suits Against Voting Machine Companies
• Pascarella and Palast: Stealing It in Front of Your Eyes
• A Soldier's Story
• David Swanson: On the Fourth, Read the Declaration of Impeachment
• Stephen F. Cohen | The New American Cold War
• Farm Program Pays $1.3 Billion to People Who Don't Farm
• Freddie Oakley on Voting Machine Sleepovers
• 10,000 EPA Scientists Protest Library Closures
• Locke/Berkeley | Will the Berkeley Impeachment Resolution Catch On?
• Oregon Timber Sale Awarded as Efforts to Stop It Continue
• Steven Rosenfeld | Elections Are Still Stolen the Old-Fashioned Way
• Ford Drops Focus on Hybrids, Shifts to Biofuels
• Medicaid Rule Called a Threat to Millions
• Jeb Bush Uses Nonprofit to Pay Campaign Finance Director and Aides
• NYC Looks at Raising Smoking Age to 21
• US EPA Suffers From Chronic Management Problems: GAO
• Groups Challenge Medicaid Citizenship Law
• Charities Tied to Doctors Get Drug Industry Gifts
• Estate-Tax Cuts "Sweetened" With Corporate Welfare for Timber
• Navy to Use Sonar That May Affect Whales
• The Progress Report | GOP Ignores Danger of Global Warming
• New Rules Force States to Curb Welfare Rolls
• 47,600 Take Offers to Leave GM, Delphi
• Americans Can No Longer Rely on FDA to Ensure Safety of Food and Drugs
• Military Fails Some Widows Over Benefits
• E-Voting Machines Vulnerable to Fraud
• Scheduled Release of Flood Maps Has Lawmakers on Edge
• Help Labor Stop Bush NLRB Assault on Workers' Rights
• US Grants First License for Major Nuclear Plant in 30 Years
• Drug Firms a Danger to Health - Report
• Nightmares
• Utah Tribe Divided Over Nuclear Waste
• Republican Candidate Calls for Immigrant Labor Camp
• Schools' Efforts on Race Await Justices' Ruling
• Pierre Marcelle | So When Is It Exactly That We're Closing Guantanamo?
• Bernie Horn | How Progressives Can Win
• Union Withholds Endorsements Over Minimum Wage Dispute
• CREW Forces Department of Labor to Release Anti-Union Docs and Emails
• Sea Lions and Dolphins May Join War Games
• New York Oil Cleanup Case Continues
• Sally Deneen | How to Recycle Practically Anything
• CEOs Earn 262 Times Pay of Average Worker
• Poll: Santorum Approval Rating Declines
• Broad Coalition Fights to End Meat Plant Abuses
• US Hospitals Sued in Class Action Over Nurse Pay
• Drug Prices Up Sharply This Year
• "Juggling Act" at Nation's Parks Is Not Funny
• House Delays Renewal of Voting Rights Act
• Senate Defeats Minimum Wage Increase
• Dean Baker | Wall Street Rules
• Radical singer banned from the USA
• Working Till 80?
• Jim Hightower | How to Fix Our Health Care Mess
• Here Illegally, Working Hard and Paying Taxes
• Bosses' Salaries Are Controversial in the United States Too
• Top Court Split Over Wetlands Protections
• Some Farmers Trade Tractors for Animals
• More E-Voting Concerns Surface With State Primaries Underway
• Nation's Cities Not Prepared for Disasters
• New York City to Consider Job Centers for Day Labor
• EEOC Is Hobbled, Groups Contend
• Crisis Seen in Nation's ER Care
• Night Flights Twice as Bad for Environment - Study
• New Interference on the Horizon for US Wind Power Development A host of wind power projects in the Midwest have been thrown into doubt pending completion of a DoD review of their impact on military radar systems.
• Judge Weighs Logging in Roadless Area
• A Mountain of Riches on Capitol Hill Annual disclosure data offer a look at the finances of lawmakers and their top aides.
• The Daily Astorian | We Cannot Afford This Extra Pollution
• Roni Rabin | Breast-Feed or Else Warning: Public health officials have determined that not breast-feeding may be hazardous to your baby's health.
• Federal Judge Strikes Down State's Ban on Nuclear Waste A federal judge struck down a Washington state voter-approved initiative on that bars the government from sending radioactive waste to Hanford nuclear reservation, the most contaminated nuclear site in the nation.
• California Appeals Court to Hear Arguments on Proposed Biodefense Lab Residents cite the lab's location in an area prone to earthquakes as an accident waiting to happen that could kill thousands of people in the San Francisco area.
• Farmers, Activists Resisting Eviction at Nation's Largest Urban Farm
• House Approves Another $66 Billion for War
• Rival US Labs in Arms Race to Build Safer Nuclear Bomb What, like one that won't explode?
• States' Changes Reshape Medicaid
• Top Court: Death Row Inmates Can Pursue Appeals
• Diebold Lobbyist Donates $10,000 to Blackwell Campaign
• Coulter Draws Fire for Bashing 9/11 Widows
• Count All the Votes in the 50th The number of uncounted ballots reported by the Registrar has decreased by 2,000, but the number of votes cast in the Busby/Bilbray race increased by 8,000.
• Union Sues Feds Over Coal Mine Air Packs
• Human Experimentation: A Rule Gone Awry?
• The Corn Borer, Stay-at-Home Insect in GMO Fields
• Big Pharma's Deadly Experiments
• Charles Shaw | Biofuel Challenges Big Oil
• House Rejects Net Neutrality Rules
• Greenpeace Protests Against Computer Toxins at Computex
• Burned Tract Goes to Bid as Logging Rules Upheld
• Use of Antipsychotics by the Young Rose Fivefold
• The Christian Science Monitor | Keeping Fish on Future Menus
• Arnold Declares Salmon Disaster
• Coulter Calls 9/11 Widows "Witches"
• Ex-Ohio Official Pleads Guilty to Charges
• Blackwell Gets Brunt of Registrants' Anger
• Congress's Free Trips Add Up to Almost $50 Million
• Eyes in the West Are on Federal Land Sale The money would not go to the federal treasury but would be used to augment local development efforts, setting a worrisome precedent for the use of public land.
• Medical Privacy Law Nets No Fines
• Green Fuel's Dirty Secret
• Mark Ames | Cheney Starts New Cold War Over Oil
• Web Users to "Patrol" US Border
• Why Those Pay Hikes Are Not Going Very Far
• Lawmakers OK Minimum Wage Bills
• Chemical in Plastics Is Tied to Prostate Cancer
• Our Kids Deserve Cleaner School Buses
• Consumer, Environmental Fury Kicks Off Exxon Meeting
• EPA Hopes to Increase Industry Profits With Human Pesticide Testing
• Starbucks Woes Continue as IWW Initiates Legal Action
• Truckers Shut Down Nation's Largest Port
• Budget Problems Overshadow America's Energy Woes
• Harriet Brown | Well-Intentioned Food Police May Create Havoc With Children's Diets
• Mysterious Glowing Clouds Targeted by NASA "Noctilucent" clouds form in the upper atmosphere at an altitude of about 80 kilometers, and their glow can be seen just after sunset or just before sunrise.
• Pombo Contributors Change
• Pentagon Pushes New Weapons for Pre-emptive Strike
• Minutemen Installing Arizona Border Fence
• $1.2 Million to 50 Indian Workers Caught in Virtual Slavery
• Massachusetts Senate OK's Minimum Wage Hike
• Vermont Signs Ambitious Health Insurance Law
• GAO Report Faults Voluntary Programs to Cut Air Pollution
• A New Protest Song: Joan Baez Sings to Save Acres of Land
• Shifting Gears: The Cycling Commute
• The Check Is Not in the Mail
• The Fuels of Tomorrow
• Jeff Juel | Forest Service Engages in Eco-Extortion
• House Again Votes for Drilling in Arctic Refuge
• Senate Passes Comprehensive Immigration Bill
• Top FDA Staff Left Out of Contraceptive Ruling
• Sportswear Makers "Failing to Improve Working Conditions"
• Tamara Draut and Cindy Zeldin | Young and Uninsured
• US Plan to Lure Nurses May Hurt Poor Nations
• Arctic Refuge Drilling to Get New Vote in House
• US Capitol Infested With Mystery Bills: Who You Gonna Call?
• Greg Palast | Ken Lay: The Al Capone of Electricity
• Think Tank's Immigration Study Challenged by Critics
• Dean Baker | Rising Wages for Nurses? Nanny State to the Rescue
• Power Lines and Pipelines Draw Closer to Parklands
• Mortgage Giant Is Expected to Pay $400 Million in Settlement
• Bush's racist immigration plan
• 100 Years in the Back Door, out the Front
• Merck Cancer Vaccine Faces Christian Right Scrutiny
• States Suing Feds Over Seniors' Rx Costs
• The Eugene Register Guard | Salvage Bill Isn't Needed
• High Oil Prices Spout Gusher of Proposals
• One Out of 136 Americans in Jail
• Katherine Harris Takes $32,000 in Illegal Campaign Contributions
• Will Your Vote Count in 2006?
• Re-Birth of the Religious Left
• FBI Raids US House of Representatives Office
• Ari Berman and Sam Graham-Felsen | Students, Teachers Turn Their Backs on McCain
• FBI Investigating $50 Million Air Force Contract
• Immigrants Rising in Brooklyn
• Drug Company Accused of Fraudulent Drug-Pricing Scheme
• Courts, Congress Threaten Protective Food Labels
• Controversial Insecticide Allowed to Stay on Market
• Vote in House Seeks to Erase Oil Windfall
• Senate Votes English US "National Language"
• Critics Note Weaknesses of Food Stamps as Hunger Spreads
• Brooks Mountcastle | Pombo's Bill Threatens Fisheries
• House OKs Bill for Damaged-Forest Logging
• A New Election Lawsuit in Florida
• Immigrant Advocates Take Their Case to Capitol Hill
• Senators Clash Over Gay Marriage Amendment
• Frida Berrigan | Smart Defense
• Cristina Page | The War on Sex
• Guest Worker Plan Heats Up Labor Debate
• Environmental Battles The New York Times says the House should end federal subsidies for clear-cutting Alaskan forests, and: "In the same protective spirit, it should also kill a mischievous free-standing bill sponsored by Greg Walden of Oregon that would suspend environmental rules to accelerate logging in burned forests."
• More E-Voting Concerns Surface With State Primaries Under Way
• GAO Reports Military Unprepared for Storm
• Prosecutor: Lay, Skilling Committed Crimes
• "Nuke" Could Backfire, Say Some on Right
• Day Care Workers Flex Their Muscle
• Budget Cut Would Shutter EPA Libraries
• Green Groups See Red Over Pombo Web Site
• Steve Almond | Condoleezza Rice at Boston College? I Quit
• Sunsara Taylor | Battle Cry for Theocracy
• Robert B. Reich | War on The Web
• Whirlpool to Close Maytag Plants, Cut 4,500 Jobs
• Barely Regulated, E-Waste Piles Up in US, Abroad
• Congress Wants to End Universality of the Internet
• Army Using Policy to Make Reserve Service Permanent
• The New York Times | The Republican Agenda: Tax Cuts for Rich
• Foreign Scholars Denied Visas
• Judge Delays "Divine Strake" Bomb Test
• Delphi, UAW Clash in Bankruptcy Court
• Health Experts Criticize Changes in STD Panel
• Jan Frel | Are You Ready for the Energy Crash?
• Firefighters Urge Congress to Reject Logging Bill
• It's Only $300 Billion Cass R. Sunstein asks, "If we can fund the war in Iraq, why can't we fund the Kyoto Protocol?"
• Dean Baker | The Welfare Kings
• Miami university strikers win
• 300,000 turn out for New York anti-war march
• Millions of immigrants mark May Day with marches, stay-aways
• Business, Unions Watching Court Battle Over Wal-Mart Law
• US Newborn Survival Rate Ranks Low
• Following Tritium Leaks, Nuclear Industry to Improve Tracking
• Where Have All the Butterflies Gone?
• Shikha Dalmia | No Free Ride
• Republicans Set Aside Middle-Income Tax Cuts to Focus on Rich
• Patt Morrison | Cheap Oil, Cheap Labor and Costly Habits
• A Push for Cars to Get Better Gas Mileage
• Taking the "E" out of EPA
• BP Refinery in Texas Called Biggest Polluter
• Walkout Ends at University of Miami as Janitors' Pact Is Reached
• Reports of Firings in Wake of Immigration March
• Study Finds Medicare Operators Often Give Bad Information
• Leslie Guttman | Los Angeles' Day Laborer Band
• Chellie Pingree | The Money Machine Remains
• Nancy Duff Campbell | The Child Care Squeeze
• Hotel Housekeepers Report Staggering Job Injury Rate
• Senator Bill Nelson | Florida Drilling Would Harm Economy, Environment
• Coca-Cola, Pepsi Ban Soda in Schools in Clinton Deal The nation's largest soda companies agreed to halt almost all soft drink sales in elementary and middle schools. The companies will limit soda sales in high schools to diet drinks. [Which are known to be poisonous...]
• Justice Ginsburg: Congress's Watchdog Plan "Scary" Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that a Republican proposal in Congress to set up a watchdog over the federal courts is a "really scary idea."
• Congress's Failure Spurs States to Tackle Illegal Immigration
• Americans "Sicker" Than Their English Counterparts
• Cantwell, Feinstein Press for Public Release of Enron Evidence
• The New York Times | Keeping a Democratic Internet
• Electronic Voting Switch Threatens Mass Confusion
• Dollar Starts Big Slide Against Major Currencies
• Loss of Competition Is Seen in Health Insurance Industry
• Federal Government Could "Gut" Social Security Disability Rolls
• Rush Limbaugh Arrested on Drug Charges
• Workplaces Ready for Day Without Immigrant Staff
• Transit Workers Face Fines, Internal Strife
• Willie Nelson | Save Family Farms, Save America
• Ten States Sue EPA Over Global Warming
• Senate Judiciary Committee Debates Renewal of Voting Rights Act Provisions
• May 1st Immigrant Boycott Aims to "Close" US Cities
• Chevron Earnings Soar 49 Percent to $4 Billion
• Oil-Spill Victims Turn to Congress
• US Hybrid Sales Mostly Slack Despite Gasoline Hike
• Native Americans Left Out of Anti-Meth Bill
• Exxon Mobil Profit Rises on Soaring Prices
• Despite Conflicts, Drug Judges Continue to Vote Yea or Nay
• Percentage of Uninsured Americans Rising
• No Criminal Charges in Yucca E-Mail Controversy
• Neil Young Lets Loose a War Cry
• US students say "Si, se puede!"
• Massive protests defend immigrant rights
• 'We're going to keep marching'
• Generic Drug Payoff Draws Government Interest
• Shell Urged to Abandon Pipeline That Could Drive Whale Species to Extinction
• Defiance in the Land of the Free A Native American woman is at war with the US. For 30 years she's been fighting to keep her ancestral land - and now the United Nations is on her side.
• In Deregulation of Electric Markets, a Consumer Pinch
• The Transit Union Chief's Long March to Jail
• Immigrant Workers Find Support in a Growing Network of Assistance Centers
• Wal-Mart Evolves Into Big Political Issue
• Congress Is Giving Away the Internet . . . to AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and what's left of the telecommunications industry.
• Arrest of Immigrant Workers Brings Dismay and Anxiety
• Army Suicides Hit Highest Level Since '93
• US Crackdown Set Over Hiring of Immigrants
• Derrick Z. Jackson | Income Gap Mentality
• Learning to Savor a Full Life, Love Life Included
• US Private Giving Far Outpaces Government Aid
• Michael Blanding | Coke Is Death
• Patrick Osio Jr. | Incompetent Lawmakers and a Gullible Electorate
• The Battle of Biscuit Post-fire logging controversy splits the OSU College of Forestry in two.
• Intelligence Director's Budget May Near $1 Billion
• Immigrant Groups Plan Campaign to Bring Legal Changes
• Incompetence Married to Larceny
• Study: Health Insurers Are Near-Monopolies
• The Fight Over the Water Beneath Black Mesa
• William Fisher | Muslim Charities in the Crosshairs
• Wal-Mart to Offer More Health Coverage
• California Tackles Greenhouse Emission
• David Remnick | Ozone Man
• States Omit Minorities' School Scores
• The Washington Post | Tax Gimmickry
• David Sirota | A Primary Concern: Free Trade
• Pygmy Owl to Be Taken Off Endangered List
• Secret Plan to Cut National Park Funding By 30 Percent in 5 Years
• Millionaires and Middle-Class Now Pay Nearly Same Rate of Taxes
• Backers of Ads Skirt Rules on Disclosure
• Law to Segregate Omaha Schools Divides Nebraska
• Permission to Speak Freely, Sir Stephen Pizzo doesn't want to reinstate the draft, but he does want every citizen to serve in the military. He wants civilians to understand the importance of the devastating statements made by the retired generals against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
• Protest Rallies End in Job Loss for Immigrants
• Court Rules Against LAPD's Arrests of Homeless on Skid Row
• Navajos Battle a Modern-Day Enemy: Methamphetamine
• Proposed Pension Bill Opens Escape Hatch for Reluctant Providers
• Delta, Pilots Reach Tentative Deal to Avert Strike
• EPA Is Ordered to Release Documents on Mercury Rule
• Tom Philpott | Toward a Green Agenda on Immigration
• Spare the Taxpayer, Spur the Economy, Save the Planet "Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow the market to tell the ecological truth."
• In 2005, Exxon CEO Raked in 190K a Day
• Earl Hadley | The Raid on Student Aid
• Froma Harrop | Why the Minimum Wage Wins
• Massachusetts Governor OKs Landmark Health Bill
• In Coastal States, a Revival of Offshore Drilling Debate
• Paul Rogat Loeb | Out of the Shadows: The Seattle Immigration March
• The New York Times | A Cozy Arrangement The average top executive at a big company earned 170 times the average worker's pay.
• Government Spending Hit Record High in March
• Sheehan Returns to Protest Near Bush Ranch
• SEIU Mega-Mergers in California Move Members to Organize Caucus
• Drug Firms Accused of Turning Healthy People Into Patients
• Seventy Pacific Region Species to Be Reviewed The US Fish and Wildlife Service will review the status of 70 animals and plants to determine if they still need protection under the federal Endangered Species Act. Last year, the FWS started reviews of 33 species in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Hawaii. Those reviews are still ongoing.
• "Teledemocratic" Dictatorship
• US Rule Demands Proof of Citizenship for Healthcare
• California Stem Cell Agency Hands Out First Grants
• New Jersey to Tap Swamps Near New York City for Solar Power
• Huge Crowds March for Immigration Rights
• Auto workers prepare for showdown
• Student walkouts: 'Fighting for something we believe in'
• Drug Plan's Side Effect Is Severe
• Farmworkers Union Marches
• Scientists Warn, 'Don't Pollute the Puget Sound'
• Calaveras Rancher Jumps to Support Endangered Species Act
• Montana Pollution Rules Draw Federal Objections
• Immigration Advocates Rally Around US
• Sari Gelzer | Does HAVA Solve Voter Purging?
• John F. Ince | Crumbling Under Debt
• Immigration Activists on March Again
• O'odham Man Gives Migrant Aid on Tribal Land
• Enthuse Your Curbism
• Senate Vote Shelves Immigration Bill
• Robert Hayes |'D' For Disaster
• GOP Unveils Revised Immigration Legislation
• James C. Zogby | An Arab-American Gets "Dubai'd"
• Farm Workers Target McDonald's, Suppliers Over Wages
• Coverage, In Pieces
• Health Coverage Reform Follows State-by-State Path
• Kelpie Wilson | Once Upon a Forest Greg Walden has a bill that would mandate logging forests after natural disturbances like fire, wind or drought.
• Spying on the 'enemy' at home
• 'We are workers, not criminals'
• Disorganized Labor
• Delta Pilots Vote to Authorize Strike
• Bladder Grown in Lab Hailed as Breakthrough for Organ Transplants
• EPA Plan Could Let Many Plants Skirt Strictest Cuts in Air Pollutants
• Terminator Technology: Let's Cheer Our Defeat
• Saving Millions for Just a Few Dollars
• FDA Staff Travels on Drug Industry Dollars
• Growth in Federal Spending Unchecked Federal spending is outstripping economic growth at a rate unseen in more than half a century.
• Arnold Urged to Push for Monitoring of Emissions
• Si, Se Puede! Thousands of New Yorkers march for immigrants' rights and plan future rallies.
• Maria Luisa Tucker | Viva La Immigration Debate
• Delphi/GM to Break Union Deals
• Bill to Stop Deceptive Crisis Pregnancy Centers Announced
• New York Labor Leaders Criticize Anti-Strike Law
• America's National Parks: No Longer Ad-Free Zones?
• "Pombo-ized" Bills Worry Lawmakers
• Cesar Chavez's Granddaughter to Run for Public Office
• Delphi Asks Bankruptcy Court to Void Union Deals
• Thom Hartmann | Today's Immigration Battle - Corporatists vs. Racists
• Schools Powerless vs. Protest Momentum
• GOP Is Taking Aim at Advocacy Groups
• Benzene Fears Prompt Call to Ban Some Soft Drinks
• "Conscience Clauses" Could Usher Healthcare Access Crisis
• New Fuel Standards Criticized as "Too Weak"
• Americans at "Tipping Point" About Energy
• Students Defy Lockdown, Walk Out for Immigrant Rights
• Senate Passes Lobbying Ethics Reform
• States Seek Relief From New Welfare Rules
• Frida Berrigan | Privatizing the Apocalypse
• Study Finds US Adolescents Are Seriously Sleep Deprived
• Forest Service Looking Beyond Timber Sales for Revenues
• How Environmentalists Lost the Battle Over TCE
• Agent Orange Victims Gather to Seek Justice
• Jesse Jackson | Wage War on Poverty, Not Immigrants
• Global warming at 'tipping point'
• New security document targets Iran
• Delphi Proposes Slashing Wages
• Kelpie Wilson | Diane Wilson, An American Hero
• GM Says to Cut Hundreds of Salaried Jobs
• Retraining Laid-Off Workers, but for What?
• Immigration Protests Extend Into Third Day
• Senate Cuts Part of House Immigration Bill
• Vague Law and Hard Lobbying Add Up to Billions for Big Oil
• In Election Year, a Shift in Public Opinion on the War
• Punch Cards Out, Paper Trails In
• FEC Won't Regulate Internet Politics
• Retribution Charged Against Election's Whistle-Blower
• DeLay Aide Got Nearly $1M From Nonprofit
• For Those About to Barack Barack Obama chats with Grist about energy independence and ethanol.
• Immigrants Rising Up Against Immigration Reform Bill
• Roberts Dissent Reveals Strain Beneath Court's Placid Surface
• Days After Worker Buyouts, GM To Cut Hundreds of Salaried Jobs
• Buyout Feels to Them Like Being Sold Out
• Founder of Free Clinic Resigns in Protest
• Mark Winne | How Factory Farms Undercut Public Health
• Destruction of Deadly Chemical Weapon Resumes After Latest Spill
• First-Ever Ranking of 100 Global Companies on Climate Change Strategy
• Carbon Cloud Over a Green Fuel
• GM to Buyout More Than 125,000 Workers
• Scientists Oppose Grizzly "Delisting" Plan
• Oil Gushes Into Arctic Ocean From BP Pipeline
• California Sued Over Diebold Voting Systems
• Pastors' Get-Out-the-Vote Training Could Test Tax Rules
• 300,000 march for immigrant rights
• Venezuelan cheap heating oil program expands
• Major Changes Raise Concerns on Pension Bill
• ADHD Drugs - Who Said What at Last Month's Hearings
• Arnold's Plan Divides Oil Firms
• Feinstein Outlines New Legislation to Curb Global Warming
• Ex-Auditor Details Enron Accounting Strategy
• New York Times | The Stuff That Happened
• Senate OKs Budget With Arctic Refuge Drilling Provision
• "I'm Not a Sick Person" New treatments are giving new hope to patients with multiple sclerosis.
• The False Promise of "Clean Coal"
• Nuclear Reactors Found to Be Leaking Radioactive Water
• NYPD Reports Detail Covert Anti-Protest Tactics
• Military Uniform-Making Exposed
• GOP Seeks Curbs on "527" Restrictions to Lobbying Reform
• Burst Oil Pipeline Causes "Catastrophe" in Alaska
• 500+ Anti-War Actions Planned Across the US
• A Senate Panel Interrogates Wary Oil Executives
• US Trade Deficit Soars to Record High
• Wal-Mart forced to stock 'morning after' pill
• Bolivian human rights leader barred from US
• Barriers for Disability at Work
• Hard Times for Soft Drinks
• Pfizer Makes List of Worst Corporate Evildoers
• Congress Should Pursue Windfall Profits Tax
• Wangari Maathai Urges Individual Action to Protect Environment
• Judge to Order Google to Release Data
• Dubai Firm May Not Sell US Port Operations
• Carlyle Group Explores Acquisition of Port Operations
• William Fisher | Quoth the Raven, 'Evermore'
• More News Outlets, Fewer Stories: New Media 'Paradox'
• Army Guard Using Cash for Recruits
• Ernie McCray | You Know It's Hard Out Here Being Pimped
• The New York Times | About That Rebellion ...
• House to Vote on Ports Despite Company Promise
• Budgets Imperil Environmental Satellites
• Giant Trade Gap: No End in Sight
• American Axle to Unions: Deal or New Work Goes Overseas
• Jason Mark | Big Food's Bad Idea
• 6,000 Scientists Urge Senate to Safeguard Species Act
• Alaska Oil Spill Exposes 'Gentle Drilling' Problems
• Hidden Ties: Big Environmental Changes Backed by Big Industry
• Instant Runoff Voting Successful in Vermont
• Dubai Company Gives Up Stake in US Ports
• Bernie Horn | Debating Health Care, Finally Reporters have all but ignored the larger story - that Fair Share has altered the climate of the health care debate.
• Battle Over Food Labels Gets Personal
• Republicans Defy Bush Over Ports
• They Came for the Chicken Farmer New York Times: It has been our nightmare since the Bush administration began stashing prisoners it did not want to account for in Guantanamo Bay: An ordinary man with a name something like a Taliban bigwig's is swept up in the dragnet and imprisoned without any hope of proving his innocence."
• Hollywood: Swimming against the right-wing tide?
• Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in PR Campaign
• Group Warns of Toxic Tuna
• US Nuclear Plant Leaks Fuel Health Concerns
• 'Hippie Chimps' Fast Disappearing in Congo
• Fastow: Enron Executives Approved Deals to Hide Losses
• Salmon Fishing Ban Considered
• Battle Opens on Food Labeling Proposal
• Twelve States Appeal Emissions Decision
• Court Upholds Campus Military Recruiting
• Andrea Elliott | An Imam in America: A Muslim Leader in Brooklyn
• US Nuclear Plant Leaks Fuel Health Concerns
• 'Ghost Walkers' Haunt the Congressional Conscience
• Recourse Grows Slim for Immigrants Who Fall Ill
• For Thirsty Farmers, Old Friends at Interior Department
• Healthy, Wealthy May Get Most out of Health-Savings Accounts Health-savings accounts, intended to help contain spiraling medical costs, may prove a tax-free boon for the nation's rich.
• Pentagon Intelligence Agency Reviewed for Corruption
• US Is Reducing Safety Penalties for Mine Flaws
• The Abusive New Federalism (The New York Times)
• Americans' "Internal Enemy"
• The $80 Billion Medicare Sellout (Jeff Cruz)
• DeLay's Texas Voting Map Raises Partisanship Issue
• America's Younger Workers Losing Ground on Income
• Big Medicine's Malignant Growth
• In Fire's Wake, Logging Study Inflames Debate Graduate students in forestry at Oregon State University have raised an ruckus by publishing a federally-funded study that says logging burned forests does not make sense.
• For Public Health Democracy
• Enron Trial Avoids the Real Ripoff (Jason Leopold)
• Justice Department Rejects Google's Privacy Issues
• US Proposes 'Great Wall of Mexico'
• Florida Votes Time-Date-Stamped Two Weeks before Election
• IRS Finds Sharp Increase in Illegal Political Activity
• Forest Firms in State Face Probes
• Wal-Mart Says It Will Improve Health Benefits
• Drug Plan Sales Tactics Probed
• The Disaster on Our Doorstep
• UAE Terminal Takeover Extends to 21 Ports
• Medicare Numbers at Odds with US Claims
• The Dirty Little Secret behind the UAE Port Security Scandal (David Sirota)
• Corporate Control of Ports Is the Problem
• Women, Minorities Still Scarce on US Boards
• Women and Popular Culture: The Pimp Chic Debate
• Monsanto Turns About on Terminator
• Health Care Costs to Keep Rising
• Clean Water Activists Take Aim at Androscoggin
• Federal Wildlife Monitors Oversee a Boom in Drilling
• US Prison Can't Find Doctor Willing to Execute Convict
• Little support for military action against Iran
• Chemical companies deny Agent Orange responsibility
• Google's Got Chutzpah! Google in China warns readers that content is censored, and in the US, vigorously rejects the DOJ's request for a week's worth of search records.
• Struggling for Recruits, Army Relaxes Its Rules
• Premiere Scientist Group Denounces 'Anti-Evolution' Legislation
• US Reclassifies Documents in Secret Review
• Latinos Sought as Mining's Next Generation
• You Think 401(k)s Are Hard to Manage? Try Health Accounts
• 37 Million Poor Hidden in the Land of Plenty
• At a Scientific Gathering, US Policies Are Lamented
• The Wal-Mart Biennale Durand's painting is a touchstone for a set of American ideals that Wal-Mart has been savaging, writes Rebecca Solnit.
• After War Injury, an Iraq Vet Takes on Politics
• Firm Sues to Block Foreign Port Takeover
• Warning over Male Breast Cancer
• Welfare Agencies Seek Foster Children's Assets
• Internet Campaign Aims to Curb Tesco Power
• Asbestos Bill Is Sidelined by the Senate
• Jury Urges Millions in Penalties for Nuclear Contamination
• EPA Board Says Teflon Chemical a Likely Carcinogen
• Laborers Break Ties to AFL-CIO Members of six labor unions ended their affiliation with the AFL-CIO by forming the National Construction Alliance.
• Pulp Mills Pit "Greens" against Labor
• State Sues EPA for Files on Household Pollutants
• Enron's 'Goofy' Accounting
• New detention camps
• Curing Our Public Health System (Madeline Drexler)
• More Medicines from Abroad Seized
• GM Crops Are Not the Answer to Pest Control G.V. Ramanjaneyulu argues that insect-resistant crops will eventually require an increased use of pesticides, and that farmers around the developing world will suffer as a result.
• New Suspicions about GMO The growing body of independent research covering genetically modified food suggests - at the very least - that its harmlessness is far from proven, Herve Kempf argues.
• Army Effort to Enlist Hispanics Draws Recruits, and Criticism As Sgt. First Class Gavino Barron, dressed in a crisp Army uniform, trawls the Wal-Mart here for recruits, past stacks of pillows and towers of detergent, he is zeroing-in on one of the Army's "special missions": to increase the number of Hispanic enlisted soldiers.
• US Trade Deficit Hits All-Time High
• Benefits Go the Way of Pensions
• State Subsidy to Wal-Mart Employees Put at $12 Million
• New York Health Care Industry Says It Faces $1.2 Billion in Cutbacks under Bush Plan
• Hastert, Frist Said to Rig Bill for Drug Firms
• US votes yes to homophobia in the UN
• ExxonMobil makes record profits
• More bosses opt for Chapter 11 'bankruptcy' swindle
• Paradigm Shift (David Moberg)
• Lawmaker Seeks Probe of Logging Study
• New GOP Leader Rents Apartment from Lobbyist
• Next Steps on Energy (The New York Times)
• Suspected Carcinogen Found in Cord Blood A suspected carcinogen used to make Teflon was found in the umbilical cord blood samples of 298 out of 300 newborns tested by researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
• The Privilege of American Debt
• Kings' Dream Honored, Passed On
• UAW Chief Urges GM Dividend Reduction, Executive Pay Cut
• Air Officials Track Deaths Tied to Diesel
• Growing Demand for Organic Produce Helps Young Farmers