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• Voter ID Law Heads to Supreme Court
• Health Reform Comes Slowly for California
• Mortgage Crisis Takes a Bite Out of States and Cities
• Military Paper Challenges Defense Department
• Suicide Shocks Montana Into Assessing Vets' Care
• A Marine’s Order: Feed the Hand That Bit You
• Peter S. Goodman | The Free Market: A False Idol After All?
• When Supportive Housing Isn't
• DOD Contractor: Millions in Earmarks, Little of Use
• 2007 a Year of Weather Records in US
• EPA Is to Reveal Greenhouse Gas Papers
• California's Top Court Curbs Malls Seeking to Limit Boycotts
• Coal's Ascent Is Igniting a Debate
• US Ruling Backs Benefit Cut at 65 in Retiree Plans
• Rep. Rush Holt to Push for Paper Ballots and Vote Count Audits for 2008
• Finding Alzheimer's Before a Mind Fails
• Military Divorce On Rise
• Court Curbs Insurers' Ability to Rescind Medical Policies
• Amy Goodman | The FCC's Christmas Gift to Big Media
• EPA Inflated Progress of Pollution Cleanup at Chesapeake Bay
• Widening of Health Care in States Hits Roadblocks
• Foreclosing on Christmas
• Senator Awaiting Records of Ministries' Finances
• Debate Escalates Over Chemical in Plastic Bottles, Cans
• School Keeps Electroshock License Despite Prank
• The Oregonian howls for private sector subsidies
• Tent City in Suburbs Is Cost of Home Crisis
• Colorado Secretary of State Caught in Conflict Over Voting Machines
• Voting Rights Activists Win Big Cases in Florida and Arizona
• Inside a GOP Effort to Rig the 2002 NH Elections
• Killed by Cops: Police Shootings Run Rampant
• Schwarzenegger: California Will Sue Federal Government
• Military Evangelism Deeper, Wider Than First Thought
• After Military Suicides, Families Wait for Answers
• House Approves $70 Billion in War Funding
• Landlords: The checks are in the code
• EPA Says 17 States Can't Set Emission Rules for Cars
• Congress Passes Bill to Strengthen Freedom of Information Act
• Mark Schapiro | Christmas Season of Toxic Recalls
• Slave Labor That Shames America
• Ohio Will Likely Face Big Vote-Counting Problems
• Pension Fund Shortages Create Hard Choices
• Lakota Sioux Withdraw from United States
• Rich Are Getting Richer Faster
• Colorado Voting Machines Tossed Out
• Voting Machines Don't Measure Up in Colorado
• FCC Votes to Ease Media Ownership Restrictions
• Fed and Regulators Shrugged as the Subprime Crisis Spread
• California Moves Toward Universal Health Care
• California Assembly Passes $14 Billion Health Insurance Program
• Ohio Elections Official Calls Machines Flawed
• GAO: SEC Fails to Adequately Police Insider Trading
• Federal Reserve Takes On Abusive Lending Practices
• Coast Guard Whistle-Blower Alleges DHS Retaliation
• Justice Department's Voting Rights Chief Resigns
• New Jersey Lawmakers Vote to End Death Penalty
• Minnesota to Ban Mercury in Beauty Products
• Senate Passes Bill to Aid Homeowners
• Senate Skirmish Over US Greenhouse-Gas Regulation
• Industry Flexes Muscle, Weaker Energy Bill Passes
• Critics Say Labor Board Favors Business
• Senate Republicans Block Energy Bill
• California Accuses Blue Shield of Illegal Cancellations
• Illness in Nurses Linked to Hazardous Materials on the Job
• Federal Judge Upholds California Emissions Law
• Data Sought on Veterans' Suicide
• Shootings Test Limits of New Self-Defense Law
• Bill Piper | Major Blow Struck Against Racist US Crack Sentencing Rules
• New Jersey State Senate Votes to Repeal Death Penalty
• GAO: DOD Base Closings to Cost More, Save Less
• EPA Pushed to Lower Reporting Standards
• Human Evolution Speeding Up
• Growing Older May Be Getting Easier
• Medicare Drug Gap Will Be Even Trickier in 2008
• Disputed in Iraq, Blackwater Now Splits California Town
• Who Pays for Carbon on "Made in China" Labels?
• Kelpie Wilson | The Widening Chasm on Energy
• Hunger Problem Challenges US
• Jamey Lionette | We Are What We Eat
• Hybrid Sales up 82 Percent in One Year
• Slowing Job Growth Seen as Ominous Sign
• Jeremy Scahill | Blackwater's Power Play
• Social Security Disability Cases Last Longer as Backlog Rises
• Senate Blocks Energy Bill
• California Electoral Vote Plan Won't Make June Ballot
• Many Children Struggling After 2005 Storms
• On Mortgage Relief, Who Gains the Most?
• Senate Waives Pledge, Approves Tax Bill
• How Poisonous, Unregulated Chemicals End Up in Our Blood
• Justice Department Numbers Show Prison Trends
• Doctors Endorse Single-Payer
• Thousands Remain Eligible for Oregon's Under-the-Radar Prescription Program
• Stephen J. Fortunato Jr. | Supreme Court Inc.
• The USDA's Losing Effort
• FCC Chairman Target of House Panel's Investigation
• Bernard Crick | Florida Farm Workers Face Near-Slavery Conditions
• Migrant workers fight for union rights
• Almost One in Five Americans Lacks Health Care
• The New York Times | Dealers Show Their Cards
• Peace Group Barred From Florida Schools
• Where Was Jeb?
• Court Strikes Down Public Funding of Evangelical Prison Program
• Estimate of AIDS Cases in US Rises
• Melanie Scarborough | Somebody Is Lying About FISA
• Robert Weitzel | Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act: A Tutorial in Orwellian Newspeak
• National Debt Grows $1 Million a Minute
• Business Lobby Presses Agenda Before '08 Vote
• Bush, While Citing Threats, to Cut Anti-Terror Funds
• Facebook's Beacon More Intrusive Than Previously Thought
• November
• MacGuire: To the Editor Cord MacGuire questions the advisability of the UAE investment in CitiGroup
• Abundant Evidence to Warn People Against GE Crops
• Food Banks, in a Squeeze, Tighten Belts
• US Security Firm Runs Into New Trouble
• Facebook Users Protest Online Tracking
• Public Libraries for Profit Akito Yoshikane reports for In These Times: "In late October, Jackson County, Ore., re-opened the doors to 15 of its public libraries after a lack of funds had forced them shut on April 6 - the largest library closure in US history. However, as patrons returned to the bookshelves in the southern Oregon county, they learned that their libraries are now under private, for-profit management."
• States Sue Over Eased EPA Disclosure Rule
• Environmental Magna Carta Under Siege
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up for Cars, Trucks in 2006
• Great Lakes Face Trouble on Two Fronts
• California Lawmakers Wade Into Sub-Prime Crisis
• Judge Calls for Data on Telecoms' Lobbying
• Dioxin Plume Could Be Worst Ever in US
• Ethanol Craze Cools as Doubts Multiply
• Maya Schenwar | Set in Steel: Prison Life Without Parole
• Reversal of Endangered Species Rulings
• Unions Rally behind the Writers
• Mississippi Democrats Threaten Battle Over Special Election Date
• US Mayors Warn Worst of Mortgage Crisis Ahead
• Washington, DC, Has Highest AIDS Infection Rate Among US Cities
• Study Calls HIV in DC a "Modern Epidemic"
• Source of Water for West at Risk
• Senator Sanders Proposes $1 Billion Boost for Home Heating Assistance
• California State Official Sues E-Voting Firm
• Short of Money, GOP Enlists Rich Candidates
• Panel Questions Failure to Study Tainted Water
• The New York Times | You're Eating That?
• Just off Insular Senate Floor, Life of the Uninsured Intrudes
• Justice Department Awards Ashcroft $52 Million Contract
• Thomas D. Williams | Faith-Based Spending Goes Relatively Unchecked
• Citizenship Backlog to Affect Voting in '08
• Initiative to End Winner-Take-All Primary Faces Challenge
• Myret Zaki | Miscalculations
• At White House Behest, NY Times Sat on Scoop
• Ruling Will Cripple Probes of Lawmakers, US Says
• Bob Herbert | A Swarm of Swindlers
• Sarah Anderson | Wal-Mart's New Greenwashing Report
• Bad Reviews Pile Up for FCC Chief's Plan
• Warren Buffett to Congress: Keep Taxing the Mega-Rich
• Children Without Health Insurance Lose Out on Learning at School
• American Youths' TV Habits Lower Job Prospects, Community Service
• Twenty Thousand Protest at Fort Benning Bill Quigley, writing for Truthout, reports: "In what has become the nation's largest annual gathering for peace and human rights, over twenty thousand people protested outside the gates of Fort Benning, GA, on November 18, 2007. Eleven people were arrested on federal criminal charges and face up to six months in prison."
• "Safe" Uranium Left a Town Contaminated
• Inclusion of Renewables in Energy Bill Receives New Political Support
• The Semi-Secret World of Campaign Bundlers
• State Department IG Krongard Doesn't Want to Testify to Congress
• Inspector General, Brother to Testify on Blackwater Ties
• GOP Filibuster Stalls Farm Bill
• Senate Stays In Session to Block Recess Appointments
• US Can Seek Ken Lay Estate Assets, Judge Rules
• Marchers Protest NLRB's Busy September
• Court Rejects Fuel Standards on Trucks
• US Power Firm Linked to Bush Named as a Top Polluter
• Robert Parry on the Military Commissions Act's Hidden Wording [VIDEO]
• Over 35 Million Americans Faced Hunger in 2006
• State Department Inspector General Linked to Blackwater
• With Eye on '08, House Takes on Mortgage Rules
• US Sets Record in Sexual Disease Cases
• The Veteran Suicide Epidemic
• Hair and Mushrooms Create a Recipe for Cleaning Up Oily Beaches
• Court Says Navy Must Lessen Sonar Harm
• Lobbying Stalls Generic Drug Legislation
• Income Gap Among Black, White Families Up
• Antiwar Veterans Groups Barred From Parade
• Intelligence Work Increasingly Outsourced to Defense Firms
• The New York Times | Veterans Without Health Care
• Army Spending $2.6 Billion on Choppers That Overheat
• Health Insurer Tied Bonuses to Dropping Sick Policyholders
• Big Tobacco Defeats Sick Kids
• Progress on "Collapsing" Beehives
• Oil Spill Fouls Shores in San Francisco Area
• House Passes Tax Relief Bill
• Stanford Students Protest Rumsfeld Appointment
• Dole Must Pay Farmworkers $3.2 Million
• California Sues EPA Over Auto Emissions
• FCC Considering New Media Rules
• Surge Seen in Number of Homeless Veterans
• Behind Blackwater: An Interview With Jeremy Scahill [VIDEO]
• Markets Jolted by Oil Surge and Worries Over Slowdown
• Skepticism Greets New US Africa Command
• In Big US Energy Bill, Who Will Pay?
• Tribal Takeover of National Parks and Refuges on Fast Track
• A Very Blackwater Thanksgiving
• Neil Bush Under Investigation by Inspector General
• Maya Schenwar | $471 Billion, "War on Terror" Not Included
• Michael Pollan | Weed It and Reap
• Borrowers Face Dubious Charges in Foreclosures
• The Farm Bill Grows a Crop of Lobbyists
• Voter Intimidation May Plague Election Day 2007
• Riki Ott | 18 Years Later, Exxon Still Won't Pay $2.5 Billion for Valdez Spill
• What We Learned From Washoe the Chimp
• Whistleblowers Claim Contractor Fraud Ignored
• Rally Pushes Higher Awareness of Climate Change
• New Life for Initiative to Apportion Electoral Vote
• US Army Contracting Alarms Panel
• Nuke Landfill to Close; 36 States Left in Lurch
• US: Toxins Threaten to Uproot Entire Town
• Industries Paid for Top Regulators' Travel
• Blackwater Mounts PR Defense
• Bill Moyers Journal | Media Consolidation
• Unlikely Alliance Forming on Health Care
• Disappointed With Farm Bill Subsidies, Reformers to Step Up Fight
• Taser Time on America's Public Lands
• October
• Amy Worthington | The Radiation Poisoning of America
• Justices Stay Execution, a Signal to Lower Courts
• I Should Pay More Tax, Says US Billionaire Warren Buffett
• Plug-Ins Going for a Spin
• Study: Most Students in South Are Poor
• Immunity Deal Hampers Blackwater Inquiry
• Maya Schenwar | US Arms Exports Up, Oversight Down
• A Union With Clout Stakes Its Claim on Politics
• Seattle Reports Milestone in Cutting Emissions Seattle is one of the first major US cities to claim it has cut greenhouse-gas emissions enough to meet the targets of the international Kyoto treaty aimed at combating global warming.
• Panel Urges Bush to Drop Nuke Waste Plan
• Senators Want Probe on Content Blocking by Telecoms
• Are Rising Obesity Rates Linked to US Farm Aid?
• Study: Media Narrows Field of Candidates
• Green Schools Offer Healthier, Smarter Classrooms
• AFL-CIO Takes Case Against Bush Administration to International Labor Organization
• The New York Times | At Last, an Overhaul for a Bad Law
• Has the Change Led to Wins?
• Paul Krugman | A Catastrophe Foretold
• Much of US Could See a Water Shortage
• Children's Cold Remedies Raised Questions for Years
• FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be ... FEMA
• Critiques of a Climate Bill
• 2,000-Year-Old California Redwoods' Fate in Mediator's Hands
• BP to Pay $373 Million in Federal Probe
• Fitrakis and Wasserman | Will GOP Election Theft Machine Do It Again in 2008?
• Use of Contractors by State Department Has Soared
• Child Care Workers in New York City Vote to Unionize
• Navajos Seek Funds to Clear Uranium Contamination
• Senators Reject Legal Status for Children of Immigrants
• GOP Team Revives California Electoral Vote Initiative
• Rising Seas Will Swamp America's Shores
• Companies Seeking Immunity Donate to Senator
• South Struggles to Cope With Drought
• Study Says Dioxin Pollution Produces More Baby Girls
• Questions Remain About Housing Secretary
• Immunity for Telecoms May Set Bad Precedent, Legal Scholars Say
• Government Short Money to Help Poor Pay Heating Bills
• California to Sue Bush Administration Over Law to Limit Emissions
• Manipulation of Energy Prices Is Hard to Detect
• Socialist Party Will Run a Presidential Candidate
• Congressman Calls for Federal Probe Into Traffic Program
• Socialist Party Ticket is Moore-Alexander
• Power Plant Rejected Over Carbon Dioxide for First Time
• Table Talk: A Conversation With Michael Pollan
• Marie Cocco | Gouging Grandma
• Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
• Glen Ford | Numbers Tricks Mask Declining Wages and Rising Inequality
• New Battle of Logging vs. Spotted Owls Looms in West
• Plan Would Ease FCC Restriction on Media Owners
• Energy Package Is Hung Up on Taxes
• Senate Deal on Immunity for Phone Companies
• Bacterial Infection Killed Almost 19,000 in 2005
• Internal CIA Probe Worries Congress Aides
• Drought-Stricken South Facing Tough Choices
• Air Force Officials Lobby for Earmarks
• Republicans Head for the Exits
• Maternal Mortality Shames Superpower US
• How Companies Can Encourage Innovation
• Chertoff May Void Judge's Order to Halt Border Fence
• States' Immigrant Policies Diverge
• The New York Times | Spies, Lies and FISA
• Banks May Pool Billions to Stop Securities Sell-off
• Voting Machines Giving Florida New Headache
• FEMA Splits With States, Draws Own Disaster Plans
• Income-Inequality Gap Widens; Highest Since 1920's
• Atlanta's Water Source Drying Up
• Crackdown Upends Slaughterhouse's Work Force
• US Lets in More Immigrants for Farms
• Oregon Couple Throws Out Lifeboat of Ideas to Save Energy, Resources
• Congress Ignoring Critical Report on Pentagon Spending
• How Hospitals Systematically Harm People
• Buyout Firms to Avoid a Tax Hike
• Power Company to Pay Record $4.6 Billion Fine for Pollution
• Remote Parts of Montana Park Polluted
• Activists Stop GOP Election System Changes in CA
• The Hidden Menace of Mobile Phones
• Investors Ask Supreme Court to Sanction Claims
• Slavery Is Alive and Well in the US
• Halliburton: The People vs. the Profiteers
• Defense Spending Reaches Over $600 Billion
• Faulty Income Safety Net: Breaking Rules to Survive
• The New York Times | The Verizon Warning
• US Prosecutors Say New Limits May Help Future Enrons Go Free
• Democrats Want Federal Probe of California Ballot Effort
• Eight States Plan to Press Bush on Health Bill
• Most in Poll Want War Funding Cut
• Nick Turse | Fortress Big Apple, 2007
• Dean Baker | From WMDs to Social Security: More Bush Stories
• Home "Flippers" Were Following American Dream
• Blackwater USA Donates $5,000 to Greens Via Jeremy Scahill, author of the new bestseller on Blackwater
• September
• Texas Planning New Execution Despite Ruling
• Bush's EPA Is Pursuing Fewer Polluters
• Bush Signs Student Loan Bill Into Law, Adding an Asterisk
• NetBank collapse: largest US bank failure Financial Times: ING Direct steps in as US bank collapses
• GOP Electoral Initiative in California Unravels
• Jane Goodall Says Biofuel Crops Hurt Rain Forests
• FPL Sees Renewables Soon Competitive With Coal
• Inspector Finds Broad Failures in Oil Program
• Report Assails FDA Oversight of Clinical Trials
• GOP Says They'll Continue Racist Voter Suppression Tactics
• Mountaintop Mining Called "Genocide" of Appalachia
• Increase in War Funding Sought
• NRG Seeks First US Nuclear Plant Permit in Decades
• Poverty is Hazardous to Your Health By Katha Pollitt, The Nation
• NOAA Plans Shift to Industry Control Over Fishing Observers
• Ex-Officials Say FDA Slow to Improve Import Food Safety
• EPA to Approve New, Controversial Fumigant for Crops
• Supreme Court to Review Voter ID Law
• Charges in Religious Lawsuit Against Army Detailed
• Democrats to GOP: "Support Children's Health Care or Pay in 2008"
• A Big Push for Affordable Housing
• Schwarzenegger, Democrats Close to Deal on Health Plan
• How Nuclear Warheads Made Unplanned Flight Over US
• $6 Billion in Government Contracts Under Criminal Review
• Modern slavery thriving in the U.S.
• Congress Wants Testimony From Blackwater Boss
• Michigan Leads With Powerful Renewable Energy Incentives
• Environmental Groups Petition US to Regulate Air Fresheners
• Jason Leopold | Experts: Schwarzenegger's Plan, Industry Give-Away
• Stephen Lendman | Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
• Coal Industry Asks for More Handouts
• US Continues Use of Banned Pesticide
• Johanns Resigns as Agriculture Secretary
• Bill Moyers | Rachel Carson's Legacy
• Food Firms Want FDA to Oversee Imports
• African-Americans Remain at Economic Rock Bottom
• Republicans Block Detainee Rights Bill
• Dean Baker | Alan Greenspan and His Bubbles
• Will House Leaders Duck Debate on Electronic Voting Compromise?
• The New York Times | Antibiotic Runoff
• States Differ Widely in Spending on Health Care
• VA Studies: PTSD Care Inconsistent
• David Bacon | Unions and Civil Rights Groups Knock Out No-Match Rule
• Opening Up the Findings of Drug Trials
• Mineworkers President Blames Bush for Deaths
• Greenspan Attacks Bush on Economy BBC
• Dollar's Retreat Raises Fear of Collapse
• Appeals Court Says No to Shell Arctic Drilling
• Study: Race Matters in Nursing Home Quality
• Cracking Down on Corporate Abuses Abroad
• San Francisco to Offer Care for Every Uninsured Adult
• States Get Boost in Push to Make Fuel Economy Rules
• Union Files Suit Against US to Stop Immigration Raids
• Wall Street Journal Reporters Protest Dow Jones Stance on Labor
• Star basketball player for the Cherokee High School in Tahlequah, OK signs on to play for the lady Jayhawks at the University of Kansas First Nation woman playing a sport that has long been male dominated; good for Ms Goodrich.
• Senate Panel Okays $850 Billion Debt Increase
• Proposed Disaster-Response Plan Faulted
• The New York Times | A Chance to Make Votes Count
• FAIR Study: A Poverty of Coverage
• Voucher season starts with clash
• Antiwar Protesters Arrested in Push to Post Signs
• B-52 Bomber Transported Nukes Over US in Major Security Breach
• With Craig Disgraced, Timber Lobbyists Turn to Smith [Yes, Gordon Smith]
• William Fisher | Ramadan Giving Presents Dilemma for American Muslims
• Short on Labor, Farmers in US Shift to Mexico
• Bipolar Illness Soars as a Diagnosis for the Young
• Dean Baker | The Dirty Toilet Principle
• California Ballot Proposal's GOP Ties
• Renters urge Gresham to Help Unfit Housing
• August
• Comic Will Durst on the All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing By Katie Halper, AlterNet
• Peace March had some Troubling Support
• Will subprime crisis lead to recession?
• Chicago Black community to police: No more killings!
• Tenants petition against chemical spray for cockroaches
• US Opposition Political Leaders Issue Urgent False Flag Terror Warning
• Reputed Klansman gets 3 life terms for 1964 U.S. race slayings
• Dean Baker | Save Subprime Borrowers, Not Bloated Bankers
• Medicare Says It Won't Cover Hospital Errors
• Union Fights for Survival at California Hospital
• Murder Stalks Poverty in LA County
• Brent Budowsky | Gilded Age Crime
• Puerto Rico's Antiwar Stance Frustrates Military Recruiters
• US Military Practices Genetic Discrimination in Denying Benefits
• Commerce, Treasury Funds Helped Boost GOP Campaigns
• Cancer Panel Attacks US Food Subsidies
• Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers Small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years for fraudulent shipping costs
• Army Suicide Rate Highest in 26 Years
• MediaNews Yanks Recognition of Newspaper Guild
• Oil Interest Drives Search for Rare Right Whales
• Experts: Spotted Owl Plans Won't Work
• The Daily Astorian | Forests: A Catalog of Failures
• Marmor and Socolar | Congress, Fix Medicare "Reform" Flaws First
• Study: Half of Nation's Poor Don't Get Food Stamps
• Oregon Fair Trade Campaign - August
• Nitrogen Overdose
• James Surowiecki | The Economics of the Student Loan Industry
• Prices for Key Foods Are Rising Sharply
• Learn From the Fall of Rome, US Warned
• Big Drop in Upper Great Lakes Water Level
• The New York Times | World's Best Medical Care?
• The Color of Health Care: Diagnosing Bias in Doctors
• People in 41 Nations Are Living Longer Than Americans
• With Coal Boom, More Miner Risks
• Pharmaceuticals Causing Bizarre Mutations to Wildlife
• Dean Baker | Welfare as We Know It Now
• States Seek Change in Presidential Election Process
• US Public Sees News Media as Biased, Inaccurate, Uncaring: Poll
• The New York Times | Getting the Rescue Right
• US Set for a Crackdown on Illegal Hiring
• Quarter of America's Oil Flows Through Sinking Louisiana Land
• Science vs. Politics Gets Down and Dirty
• States Feel Left Out of Disaster Planning
• Hedge Funds May Pose a Risk to US Economy
• Young Adults Lead in Lacking Health Care: Report
• Home, Sweet Nursing Home
• Hospitals Are Shutting Down Burn Centers
• Pollution Closes Record Number of Beaches
• United States: An Alliance of Tyrants
• Bridge Collapse Revives Issue of Road Spending
• Pharmacists Fear Medicaid Changes
• Tougher Rules Change Game for Lobbyists
• House Approves Clean-Energy Legislation
• Surge in Immigration Laws Around US
• Interior Department Downgrades Everglades
• Dean Baker | Economy Goes From Bad to Worse
• House Passes Solar Tax Credits and Portfolio Standard
• The New York Times | A Bridge Collapses
• House Approves Record $460B Pentagon Budget
• Jonathan Alter | Is California GOP Trying to Steal the 2008 Election?
• 39 California Counties' Vote Systems in Question
• California Decides to Secure Electronic Voting Machines
• A Storied Union Takes On Starbucks
• Bernie Sanders' Tussle With Nussle
• Scientists Issue Warning About Chemical in Plastic Marla Cone for The Los Angeles Times writes that several dozen scientists issued a strongly worded consensus statement Thursday, warning that an estrogen-like compound in plastic is likely to be causing an array of serious reproductive disorders in people.
• Wall Street's Lucrative Tax Break Is Under Fire
• Report Details Evangelism at Highest Levels of US Military [VIDEO]
• Bridge Collapse Highlights Crumbling Infrastructure in US
• Minneapolis Bridge Collapses
• Frankenforests: GE Trees Threaten Ecosystem Collapse
• The Double Standard on Trading Contaminated Chinese and US Consumer Products
• Kelpie Wilson | Paying the Peak Oil Power Bill
• Feds Unaware of Cheney's Role in Klamath River Scandal
• Army Deployment's Toll on Children Studied
• Florida Voting Machines Can Be Hacked
• Unpaid Teens Bag Groceries for Wal-Mart
• Are Your Cell Phone and Laptop Bad for Your Health? On AlterNet.org, Stan Cox says, "For decades, concerns have been raised about the health effects of 'extremely low frequency' fields that are produced by electrical equipment or power lines."
• July
• Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing
• "Dead Zone" Returns to Oregon Coast
• States Export Their Inmates as Prisons Fill
• Food Aid Rules Benefit US Agribusiness, Starve Poor Farmers
• Energy Bill Aids the Expansion Plans of Atomic Power Plants
• Chief Justice Roberts Suffers Seizure
• Hendrik Hertzberg | Votescam
• Cancer Patients, Lost in a Maze of Uneven Care
• Chip Ward | Bee Slums and Turkeys: The Case for Resilience
• Scientists Hack Voting Machines to Prove Tech Weaknesses
• Joshua Holland | Healthcare: A Sick Way to Prop Up an Ailing Economy
• Winds of Change: Project Promotes Community Power Generation
• Health Care for All By Geoffrey Millard, Lance Page and Scott Galindez [VIDEO]
• California Air Regulators Weigh Sweeping Diesel-Emission Rules
• Michael Moore Subpoenaed by Bush Administration
• ACLU: US Constitution in Grave Danger
• Emails Detail RNC Voter Suppression in 5 States
• Tiny Town Demands Justice in Dioxin Poisoning
• Big Oil: Another Profit Record in Sight
• Oil Groups Too Rich to Invest
• Bob Moser | Purple America
• Are Voter Registration Drives Being Shut Down?
• Two GOP Lawmakers Face Allegations of Bribery
• Aid May Grow for Laid-Off Workers
• Why Is The Lesser Evil Twin Blinking by Kathleen Bushman
• Attack of the Mutant Rice
• Minimum Wage Will Rise Today
• Pentagon Junking Millions in Gear
• Big Government Grover and the Fund Manager Subsidy "While people with middle class jobs like teachers and firefighters typically pay a 25 percent tax rate, and higher-paid professionals like doctors and lawyers pay a 35 percent rate, fund managers are taxed at just a 15 percent rate on their earnings," writes Truthout's Dean Baker.
• Peace Activist Sheehan Arrested at Congress
• Pelosi Takes Heat for OK of Farm Bill
• Vast Enron-Like Fraud Probe Abandoned by Justice Dept.
• Illegal Immigrants' ID Card Hopes Become Threat of Arrest
• Governors Address Climate Change
• Report: Federal Contracts Awarded to Firms Charged With Fraud
• US Agency May Reverse Eight Decisions on Wildlife
• Overhaul Plan for Vote System Will Be Delayed
• Paid Family Leave - It's About Time
• Pesticide Trial Begins Against Dole, Dow
• Audit: DC Overpaid Medicaid Firms $97 Million
• Commission Will Give NYC Congestion Pricing Plan a Second Look
• FDA Plan Raises Food Safety Concerns
• Bill Moyers Journal | Using Satire to Unspin Fact From Fiction
• Report: Anti-Gang Strategy Failing Badly
• Lawmakers Decry FDA Plans to Close Labs
• Sallie Mae Continues to Profit From High Student Loan Rates
• If This Is Such a Rich Country, Why Are We Getting Squeezed?
• New Haven Opts to Validate Its Illegal Residents
• Report: Gulf's "Dead Zone" Growing
• Solar Power Wins Enthusiasts, but Not Money
• Student Loan Nonprofit a Boon for CEO
• The Subprime Bait and Switch
• WSJ: News Corp, Dow Jones Reach Tentative $5 Bln Deal
• Dean Baker | Wall Street's Giant Trough
• Cunningham Report Portrays Compromised Intel Committee
• Preservationists Fear Major Power Lines Coming to US National Parks
• Communists Capitalize on Village Sale -- Get $1.87 M. for Loft
• USDA Buzzing With New Plan to Fight Collapse of Bee Colonies
• Lawmaker Questions SEC "Terrorist" Investor List
• Nation's Poor Hit by Housing Crunch
• Florida to Introduce Tough Greenhouse Gas Targets
• Study Paints Dire Picture of Warmer Northeast
• Military Files Left Unprotected Online
• House Passes Largest Increase in College Aid Since 1944 GI Bill
• Rick Wartzman | Organizing the LA Times Pressroom
• Thai "Guest Workers" File Suit
• Agency Takes First Step to Protect Emperor Penguin and Nine Others
• Mike Davis | Home-Front Ecology
• Don Sloan | The Best Health Care Is Reserved for Congress
• Research Links Lead Exposure, Criminal Activity
• BLM Gets OK for New North Slope Drilling
• US-China Trade Gap Hits New Record
• 62 Immigrants Die in US Jails
• Counting On Failure, Energy Chairman Floats Carbon Tax
• Sheehan Considers Challenge to Pelosi
• Dick Lilly | Using Income, Instead of Race, to Identify Disadvantaged Students
• EPA Scaled Back Rules on Wetlands
• Secrecy Shrouds Accident at Nuclear Plant
• Organic Fruit and Vegetables Really Are Better for Your Heart
• Native Americans Give Gore's "Live Earth" DC Venue
• The New York Times | Justice Denied
• Sunbathers: Beware the A-ray
• Unions Ask Court to Strike Down DoD Labor Rules
• Health Care Looms as Major Campaign Issue
• Christian Reconstructionists Trying to Take Dominion in America
• Mortgage Brokers Are in Congress's Sights
• Study: FOIA Requests Plagued by Delays
• Massachusetts Begins Universal Health Care
• Report: CDC Squandering Hundreds of Millions in Taxpayer Funds
• Judge Orders OSHA to Release Toxin Information
• GOP Links to Vote-Fraud Push
• Labels Lack Food's Origin Despite Law
• Land Conservationists Take On the National Guard
• Carlyle Group in Talks to Acquire Virgin Media
• In Steps Big and Small, Supreme Court Moved Right
• DOT Tried to Stop California Emissions Law
• The New York Times: Abuse of Executive Privilege
• June
• The Economist | Judges Behaving Badly
• Bob Herbert | When Is Enough Enough?
• Wall Street Journal Workers Protest Over Murdoch Takeover
• Bald Eagles Soar off Endangered Species List, but Will Act Be Weakened?
• Right-Wingers Defensive About Talk Radio Dominance
• Libby Becomes Inmate No. 28301-016
• The New York Times | Resegregation Now
• Black High School Students in Louisiana Threatened With Lynching
• Supreme Court Rolls Back Key Anti-Trust Rule
• $2 Million No-Bid Contract Balloons to $124 Million
• Justices: Schools Must Ignore Race
• "SiCKO" Goes to Washington [VIDEO]
• Wisconsin Passes Universal Healthcare Plan
• No Review of Sweetener Over Cancer Fears
• In Massachusetts, a Test for a Pioneering Health Plan
• US Researchers See Adolescent Diabetes as Potential Crisis
• Report: Wasteful Government Spending at All-Time High
• US Expert Calls For Peak Oil Study
• US veterans support Agent Orange victims
• Hawaii under US military occupation
• Whitman on Hot Seat Over 9/11 Aftermath
• House Bill Would Punish Voter Deception
• Opposition Grows as Details of Divisive Trade Deal Are Made Public
• US Mayors Take the Lead in Fighting Climate Change
• Raging Tahoe Fire's Roots: 150 Years of Forest Abuse
• At Home Depot, How Green Is That Chainsaw?
• Report Blasts US for Failures in Fighting Terrorism
• Ohio "Vote Caging" Allegations in US Attorney Firings
• Ruler of a Media Empire Reaches Out for More
• Halliburton Accused of Cooking Its Books
• Critics Question EPA's Tighter Ozone Limits
• Split in Labor Unions Over Immigration
• Christian Warren | The Little Engine That Could Poison
• Report Says US Misled City on Dust From Ground Zero
• Texas Oil Tycoon Plans Largest Wind Farm
• Roberts's Court Has Been Good for Business
• Mortgage Rates Push US Housing, Economy to "Blood Bath"
• A Domestic Breed Disappears Every Month
• DOJ Accused of Blocking Minority Voting Rights Suits
• Senators Demand Inquiry Into RNC Vote Caging Allegations
• Dmitri Iglitzin | Joining a Union, Easy as Organ Donation
• With Rise in Radiation Exposure, Experts Urge Caution on Tests
• Enron Internet Chief Gets 27-Month Prison Term
• States, Feds Split on Kids' Health Insurance
• Walter Reed Patients Say Mental Care Falls Short
• Oil Industry Scales Back Refinery Plans
• The War Inside
• Massive Mail Backlog Found at Walter Reed
• Congress Eyes Voting Machines in Disputed Race
• Senators Try to Limit Fuel-Efficiency Rules
• Common Bird Species in Dramatic Decline
• Judge Rules Against Mountaintop Mining
• Michael T. Klare | The Pentagon V. Peak Oil
• Justices Curb Unions' Political Use of Fees
• David Gartner | Health Care, Not Borders
• Robert L. Borosage | Bush Shafts Enron Victims
• Setback for Ill Workers at Nuclear Bomb Plant
• Dan Rather Takes On Network News With His Tart Remark
• TV Network Campaign May Increase Latino Voting Bloc
• School, Military Skirmish Over Data on Students
• Stashing Seeds in "Noah's Fridge"
• Proposal Would Cut Spotted Owl Habitat
• Doris "Granny D" Haddock | Unauthorized Immigration
• Senators Want DOD to Explain Web Limits
• Congress Turns to Energy, and Lobbyists Arrive
• Richard Conniff | The Greening of the Urban Animal
• Why Teens Have a Tough Time Finding Summer Work
• Finding Therapists Proves Hard for Troops
• Supreme Court Strengthens Landmark Antipollution Program
• Greg Palast on the Battle to End Vulture Funds
• Jason Leopold Interview With Fired US Attorney John McKay [VIDEO]
• Bees Still Mysteriously Abandoning Hives
• Children With Autism Get Day in Court
• Alzheimer's Cases May Quadruple by 2050
• New Labor Strikes Deals With "Private Equity Guys"
• Dean Baker | Is Your Presidential Candidate Owned by Wall Street?
• Sheehan to Sell Protest Site to LA Radio Host
• Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.
• Report: Justice Official May Revise Voter-Fraud Testimony
• Cities Act While Bush Administration Lags On Environment
• Bob Herbert | School to Prison Pipeline
• Left Business Observer at 20
• Drought: A New Norm Across the Nation?
• EPA to Contract Out Watchdog Function
• General Pace to Retire as Joint Chiefs Chairman
• Complaints Abound Over Enforcement of Voter Registration Law
• California Standards Could Crimp Canadian Oil Boom
• Auto Execs Visit Congress to Try to Head Off Higher Fuel Economy Standards
• MIA From the Immigration Debate: Creating Economic Opportunity in Mexico
• Report: 39 People Disappear in US Custody
• Cindy Sheehan Quits Democrats after War Vote
• Petition to Ban Detergents Linked to Gender Changes in Fish
• US Graduates Suffer Income Inequality
• Equipment Levels Worst Ever, Guard Chief Says
• Peering Through Chinks in the Armor of High-Tech Elections
• Will Electronic Voting Reform Create New Ways to Steal Elections?
• Phil Mattera | Is Big Business Buying Out the Environmental Movement?
• "Serious Jeopardy" for US Climate Studies
• Brad Friedman | Conyers Requests Palast's "Vote Caging" Evidence
• The Philadelphia Inquirer | Coal as Motor Fuel - No, We're Not There Yet
• Oil Industry Fights Gas Price Probe
• Oregon Fair Trade Campaign - June
• Drugs Giant Faces Criminal Charges Over Clinical Trial
• May
• US Attorney Targeted for Supporting Voting Rights
• Economy Has Worst Growth Since 2002
• New Hampshire Governor Signs Civil Union Bill
• The New York Times | The Coal Trap
• Has Big Business Turned Organics Into "Yuppy Chow"?
• "Supersize Me" Research Offers Grim Warning for Americans
• Back From the Dead, Facing Life - Klan Horrors Recalled
• Justices' Ruling Limits Suits on Pay Disparity
• The left turn in US politics
• Dean Baker and Mary Beth Maxwell | Human Rights at the Workplace
• California Assembly Considers Solar Water Heater Law
• Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III | When Common Sense Is Not All That Common
• Lawmakers Propose Big Subsidies for Coal Process
• The Sacramento Bee | Assault on Elections Needs Full Airing
• Ethanol Booms, Farmers Bust
• US Appeals Court Tells Exxon to Pay Fishermen
• New Bush Scandal Helping Big Oil Companies Hide Billions From Government at Taxpayer Expense
• For the First Time, New York Links a Death to 9/11 Dust
• Battle Heats Up Over Emissions
• Immigration Bill Withers on the Vine
• Military Fires 58 Linguists Because They Are Gay
• Health Care Crisis Squeezes Working Families
• GSA Chief Violated Hatch Act, OSC Report Finds
• Evidence Shows Fraud at Federal Agency Cost Taxpayers Millions
• Money Does Not Buy Happiness
• Uncle Sam’s terrorist walks free On April 19, the mastermind behind the worst terrorist attack in the Western Hemisphere, Luis Posada Carriles, was released on bail from prison in the US, where he was being held since 2005 for violating immigration law, and allowed to return to his luxury penthouse in Miami.
• The Fraudulent Fraud Squad
• Bob Herbert | American Cities and the Great Divide
• Drugmakers Covertly Track Doctors' Prescriptions
• Retail Gasoline Prices Soar to Record Levels
• The New York Times | Macho Mistakes at Ground Zero
• Conservatives block cancer vaccine
• Efforts to Stop "Voter Fraud" May Have Curbed Legitimate Voting
• The Poverty Business - By Brian Grow & Keith Epstein Inside U.S. companies' audacious drive to extract more profits from the nation's working poor
• Children Face Exposure to Pesticides
• Frida Berrigan | We're No. 1: A Nation of Firsts Arms the World
• The New York Times | The Immigration Deal
• House Passes $646 Billion Defense Bill
• Ruling Throws Cold Water on Environmental Whistleblowers
• An Environmental Icon's Unseen Fortitude
• Union Plans Advisory Tool for Young Workers
• Atul Gawande | The Disturbing Truth About Doctors and Your Medical Safety
• Alec Dubro | An "F" in Health Care
• Bill Moyers Journal | Raw Trade Deal?
• Labor Unions and Conservation Groups Team Up in Bid to Influence Farm Policy
• US Health Care Expensive, Inefficient: Report
• US Health System Ranks Last Among Major Rich Countries
• Chicago Unions Flex Political Muscle - By David Moberg In These Times
• Boston Residents Face to Face With Bio-War
• New US Policy Rekindles Hopes, Fears on Trade Deals
• Michael Winship | Keep Out the Vote
• Pew Joins Forces With National Environmental Trust
• Voter-Fraud Complaints by GOP Drove Dismissals
• In New Hampshire, Soft Sell Eases Vaccine Fears
• Senate Revisits Military Commissions Act By Geoffrey Millard, Lance Page and Scott Galindez [VIDEO]
• Pentagon Opens Inquiry of Troop-Support Group
• Religious Groups Reap Share of US Aid for Pet Projects
• Colleagues Cite Partisan Focus by Justice Official
• Bob Herbert | The Millions Left Out
• Nuclear Arms Workers Cancer Claims Denied or Delayed
• A Dubious Execution in Tennessee
• US Issues Loan Guarantee Rules for Energy Projects
• OxyContin: The Giuliani Connection
• Matt Renner | Congress Takes One Step Forward on Verifiable Voting
• Politics Could Cloud Election Panel's Work
• US Hospitals Charge Uninsured More, Study Says
• Psychiatrists, Children and Drug Industry's Role
• Study Suggests Cancer Risk From Depleted Uranium (Socialist Party says: "Duh!")
• Fuel Economy Back on US Agenda
• Sale of Carbon Credits Helping Land-Rich, but Cash-Poor, Tribes
• 11-Year-Old Assault Victim's Arrest Angers Minnesota Tribe
• Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele | Labor Law Reform Not Just for Unions
• US May Day protests: Immigrant workers demand rights and dignity
• Guard Faces Shortages in Dealing With Natural Disasters
• 31 States Target Global Warming
• Clean Power That Reaps a Whirlwind
• Senate Guts Drug Bill
• Doctors Reap Millions for Anemia Drugs
• Spread of Disease Tied to US Combat Deployments
• LAPD "Stands Down" 60 Officers Over May Day Violence
• Switch to Organic Crops Could Help Poor
• Dr. John Daley | Single-Payer System Would Give US the World's Best Care
• Thousands of Children Die From Poisoned Medicine
• Methods Used by Insurers Are Questioned
• American Dream Sours as Housing Market Collapses
• Nina Easton | Attacks on Corporate Greed Gaining Political Traction
• Grassley Demands Answers on Ethanol From Oil Execs
• Alaska Lawmakers Charged in Oil Company Scheme
• Walter Reed Leadership Reshuffled After Probe
• Senate Panel Advances Bill to Increase Green US Power
• Sarah Anderson | Missing Words for the New Trade Debate
• Florida Acts to Eliminate Touch-Screen Voting System
• 2006 Missouri Election Was Ground Zero for GOP
• Indian mortality rates still high, according to CDC
• Young Children Getting More Cavities, CDC Says
• Senior VA Officials Get Big Bonuses
• Robert B. Reich | Double Decoupling
• LA Police Attack Crowd at Pro-Immigration Rights Rally [VIDEO]
• Deserted Beehives, Starving Young Stun Scientists
• Embattled Interior Official Abruptly Resigns Post
• Scott Kahan | The USDA's Unhealthful Budget
• Thousands Demonstrate in US Immigration Marches
• Pentagon Study Says Oil Reliance Strains Military
• Post Mortem for the Stock Market By Mike Whitney
• Salton Sea Is at a Crucial Juncture
• Oregon Governor Takes the "Food-Stamp Challenge"
• Police Preparing for 100,000 Marchers in LA
• Thousands of Protesters Press for Path to Citizenship
• April
• Nancy Tobi | Rebuttal to Dill's Support of the HR 811 Trojan Horse
• David L. Dill | Time to Outlaw Paperless Electronic Voting
• Thomas D. Williams | Pentagon Contractors Owe $7.7 Billion in Unpaid Taxes
• Dean Baker | Fighting Poverty: The First Step Is Counting It
• Pentagon Backtracks as Advocacy Groups Blast Ethnic Profiling
• Greg Palast | US Media Have Lost the Will to Dig Deep
• US Proposal Would Allow Oil Drilling Off Virginia
• Experts May Have Found What's Bugging the Bees
• California Lawmakers Pass $8.3 Billion Plan to Increase Prison Capacity
• Migrant Death Toll High Despite US Border Crackdown
• Rudolph J. Vecoli | Mass Amnesia Makes Americans Forget the Story Behind May Day
• Group Proposes Detailed Plan to Reduce Poverty by Half
• Preventing Massive Water Transfers
• 20 Political Briefings at Agencies Disclosed
• 94 Percent of Doctors Tied to Drug Companies
• Michael Pollan | You Are What You Grow
• Herve Kempf | The "American Way" of Ecology
• Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water
• OSHA Leaves Worker Safety in Hands of Industry
• Rosenfeld and Fitrakis | The GOP's Cyber Election Hit Squad
• Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons
• Medicaid Programs "Severely Challenged"
• The Establishment Rethinks Globalization
• Doug Peacock | Yellowstone Delisting Beginning of End for Griz
• "Sicko" Flick Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's
• Court Rejects Blocking Arizona Voter Law
• After McDonald's Victory, Labor Activists Target Burger King
• Paul Krugman | The Plot Against Medicare
• Study Warns of Health Risk From Ethanol
• FDA Formalizes Proposal to Regulate Herbs, Vitamins
• Administration Tried to Curb Election Turnout in Key States
• Joel Bleifuss | The Fraudulence of Voter Fraud
• With GOP On Board, FL-13 Task Force Moves Forward in Election Dispute
• New FEMA Hurricane Plan Won't Be Ready by Hurricane Season
• Ethanol Cars May Not Be Healthier
• Senate GOP Blocks Medicare Part D Negotiation Bill Senate Republicans block legislation that would allow the government to negotiate drug prices for the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
• House to Begin Probe Into Florida Election
• Guards Go On Strike at Nuclear Weapons Plant
• US 1990-2005 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up 16 Percent EPA says US greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming increased 16 percent over a 15-year period.
• Al Meyerhoff | Science for Sale at UC Berkeley - Also Known as "UCBP"
• Eight Years After Columbine
• Lenders Misusing Student Database
• The New Suburban Poverty
• Air Pollution Rules Relaxed for US Ethanol Producers
• Gunman, 32 others killed in Va. shooting
• FEMA Doubles Estimate of Lost Meals to 13 Million
• Tons of Food Spoiled as FEMA Ran Out of Storage Space
• EPA Helping to Hide Tons of Toxic Waste, Researchers Show
• Education Department Oversight Questioned
• Paranoia and Bugging at Wal-Mart
• In Five-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud
• California Has Most Minorities Near Toxic Facilities
• Governor Exports His Brand of "Green"
• Supervisors Tweak Ordinance Banning "Toxic" Child Products
• Immokalee Workers Win Increased Pay From McDonald's McDonald's reached agreement with a Florida farmworkers organization to pay about 75 percent more for tomatoes it buys from state farms. The Coalition for Immokalee Workers waged a two-year campaign for the increase.
• In the Real World of Work and Wages, Trickle-Down Theories Don't Hold Up
• Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84
• Short-Circuited
• Dennis Kucinich: The Invisible Man, the Prohibited Message
• Federal Panel Altered Findings on Voter Fraud
• Maryland Governor Signs Bill to Bypass Electoral College
• Maryland Will Be the First State to Provide "Living Wage"
• Giles Slade | iWaste
• Panel Says US Faces Change as Climate Warms
• Brian D. Smedley and Alan Jenkins | Unhealthy Inequality
• More Uninsured Means More Health Care Corporate Profits
• From LA, a Reinvention of Big Labor
• Challenge to Emissions Rule Is Set to Start
• The Mortgage Mess
• Dick Meister | Undervaluing Teachers
• Manatee's Endangered Species Status May Be Revoked
• Bill Ties Climate to National Security
• States Are Refusing Bush's Abstinence-Only Sex-Ed
• Mark Winston Griffith | The Myth of the Risky Sub-Prime Borrower
• Battle Grows Over Renewing Landmark Education Law
• Millions of Families Face Losing Their Homes to Foreclosure
• Environmental Racism Still Major Problem
• Paul Krugman | Children vs. Insurers
• $500 Million Pledged to Fight Childhood Obesity
• What's Happening to the Bees?
• Foundation Coal Mines on Strike, One to Close
• An Arid West No Longer Waits for Rain
• The Peak Oil Crisis: GAO Report "The real dilemma of coping [with] peak oil, for a while at least, is really quite simple," says Tom Whipple.
• Ford CEO Paid $39.1 Million for Four Months
• Liberal Group Targets GOP Vulnerables
• Socialists Stage Comeback in Pennsylvania
• Imprisoned Freelance Journalist Josh Wolf Released
• EPA Revives California's Request to Set Tough Emission Standards
• Congress Probes Claims White House Pressured EPA on LNG Port
• Court Boosts Regulators on Power Plants
• Supreme Court Boosts Environmental Groups on Power Plant Cleanup
• Tribune Co. Sold to Chicago Real Estate Magnate Chicago's Tribune Co. will go private in a transaction that puts the 159-year-old media conglomerate in the hands of the city's most iconoclastic entrepreneur.
• Risks of Rising Oil Nationalism
• Congress Probes Claims White House Pressured EPA
• Income Gap Is Widening, Data Shows
• Questioning the Economics of Logging Our Largest National Forest
• Selling Wal-Mart: Can the Company Co-Opt Liberals?
• Chip Ward | What They Didn't Teach Us in Library School
• The New York Times | Taxing Private Equity
• The GOP's Quiet Revolution [VIDEO]
• Contractor Hired to Rate Federal Education Program It Created
• Report Faults Pentagon for Weapons Buying Problems
• Tom Engelhardt | Demobilizing America: Outsourcing Action in an Imperial World
• Paul Krugman | Emerging Republican Minority
• Documents Show Gonzales Approved Firings
• My National Security Letter Gag Order
• "Lunch Lady" With a Mission: Getting Kids to Eat Healthy
• Medicare Contractors Owe Taxes, GAO Says
• Kansas City Project Aims to Help Hispanics Collect Unpaid Wages
• Navy Won't List Sonar Use for Whale Case Navy refuses to detail its sonar use for a federal court in a case involving potential harm to whales, saying the information could jeopardize national security.
• Stacy Malkan | Hospital, Heal Thyself
• A Third of US Jobs Pay "Low Wages"
• Senate Limits Gonzales' Hiring Authority by 94-2 Vote
• Washington Companies Withhold Info on Oil and Gas Pipelines
• Dean Baker | Celebrating Waste
• Rove as Hill Witness Would Be SRO Event
• Capitol Hill Holds Hearing on Black Male Unemployment
• Jay Richards | The American Worker Is Doomed
• Mine Union's Report on the Sago Disaster Contradicts Earlier Findings
• National Wildlife Refuges Feel the Budget Ax
• Amy Traub | Guest-Worker Caste System
• Bush's Shadow Army Adapted from Jeremy Scahill's new book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
• Court Halt on GMO Alfalfa Shows USDA Failure
• House Overturns Bush Order on Papers Secrecy
• Silicon Valley Group Pushes for Alternative Energy
• Dick Meister | Disaster Aid Bypasses Farmworkers
• Jared Bernstein | There's Always Money for War
• Aborted DOJ Probe Probably Would Have Targeted Gonzales
• Terrence McNally | How to Solve the Diabetes Epidemic
• Unprotected by Laws, Domestic Workers Face Exploitation
• New York Times | The Next Health Care Battle
• Citizens Who Lack Papers Lose Medicaid
• Rep. Waxman Calls for Hearings on Halliburton Move to Dubai
• Loan Turmoil Closes Doors for Buyers
• Democrats Cancel Presidential Debate Co-Hosted by Fox News
• Inmates Could Trade an Organ for an Early Out
• House OKs Clean-Water Bill Over Bush Objections
• Charles E. Anderson | Countering Coulter
• New Options (and Risks) in Home Care for Elderly
• Laura Carlsen | Human Junk Mail
• Bill Schneider | Retired Forest Service Planner Wants Former Boss Fired
• Majority of National Guard Units Rated "Not Ready"
• February
• Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Crops and Keepers in Peril
• This Is No Way to Treat a Wounded Warrior "A day at Walter Reed Army Medical Center is an eye-opener - about our soldiers, our government generally and the Bush administration," says Ann McFeatters.
• Jason Leopold | BP Alaska Still Risks Environmental Disaster
• "Dumping" of Homeless by Hospitals Stirs Debate
• Joshua Frank | Cleaning Up Greenpoint's Oil Spill
• Coal Plant Order Blocked
• America's Health Care Bill to Double in Next Ten Years
• Job Corps Plans Makeover for a Changed Economy
• Health Returns as Hot Issue in '08 Race
• Harley Shaiken | Stronger Unions Mean a Strong Middle Class
• US Supreme Court Throws Out Damages Against Big Tobacco
• Accused Terrorist Is Big GOP Donor
• US Senators Seek New Push on Health Care
• The Democrats After November By Mike Davis, New Left Review
• Chrysler to Cut 13,000 Jobs Under plan, 11,000 production workers - 9,000 in the US and 2,000 in Canada - will lose their jobs over the next three years, and 2,000 salaried jobs also will be cut.
• Industry CEOs Testify for Emissions Limits
• Environmentalists Warn, Plan to Ease Wetlands Rules Is Not Enough
• Marie Cocco | High Time for Voting Reform
• Martha Burk | Nightmare on Alms Street
• Former CIA Official, Contractor Indicted
• Barbara Cassin | The New World According to Google
• Bush's Budget Alarms Safety Advocates
• Budget Slates Education, Health Programs for Hefty Cutbacks
• Environmentalists Rally to Stop New Coal-Fired Plants
• BP's Texas Refinery "Largest Emitter of Carcinogenic Toxins in US"
• Anti-Immigrant Sentiments Fuel Ku Klux Klan Resurgence
• Wal-Mart and a Union Unite, at Least on Health Policy
• NYCLU Sues NYPD on Arrests of Protesters
• Boxer Rips EPA Chief as Bowing to Industry
• Battle Looms Over Right to Unionize
• Sea Bird Tied to Logging Fight Dwindles
• Energy Efficiency, Aid to Poor Suffer in Priority Shuffle
• Kids' Suicides Rise, CDC Report Finds
• Coming US Challenge: A Less-Literate Workforce
• David Bacon | Workers, Not Guests
• In Orlando, a Law Against Feeding the Homeless
• Exxon Cut Profits in Run-Up to November Election
• Why Are EPA Libraries Closing?
• David Bacon | Legalizing an Underclass
• In DC, Contractors Are the "Fourth Branch of Govt."
• Florida Shifting to Voting System With Paper Trail
• Senate Votes to Raise Minimum Wage
• Daniel Schorr | America's Struggle With Health Care
• Michigan Court: No Same-Sex Benefits
• Bernie Sanders | A Budget for the Middle Class
• An Island of Moguls Is Latest Front in Union Battle
• January
• Paul Cummins | Leaving Children Behind
• Maryland Pushes Expansive Medical Coverage
• 146 US Levees May Fail in Flood
• Cheap, Safe Drug Kills Most Cancers
• Paulson May Find Bush Is Biggest Hurdle to Social Security Deal
• Part I: An Atomic Threat Made in America
• Chris Hedges | Christianists On the March
• Serge Truffaut | Lost Opportunity
• Agribusiness's Endless Appetite for Profit
• Health Plan Deduction Cuts Social Security
• Kelpie Wilson | Pirates Stick by Whales
• Mayors Launch Effort to Fight Poverty
• Report Warns of Obstacles to Sustainable Biofuels Sector
• Traffic Exposure Disrupts Teen Lung Development
• Union Membership Drops to Record Low
• California Under Water by 2100?
• Immigration Raid Draws Protest From Labor Officials
• Election Staff Convicted in Recount Rig
• Laura MacCleery | Big Oil Gets to Keep Its Loot
• Bill Moyers: Life on the Plantation [VIDEO]
• John Borowski | Who Will Hold Science Teachers Association Accountable?
• Pioneering US Renewable Energy Lab Is Neglected
• Mercury Found in All Fish Tested in the West
• Bush's Oil Stockpile Plan Could Raise Prices
• More Californians at Risk of Losing Homes
• Kerr-McGee Is Found Liable in Lawsuit Over Oil Royalties
• Case Workers for Wounded Laid Off
• Bob Herbert | Your MasterCard or Your Life
• Robert Parry | Gonzales Questions Habeas Corpus
• House Rolls Back Oil Company Subsidies
• San Francisco Orders Paid Sick Leave for All
• Nicotine Boost Was Deliberate
• America's Slave Labor
• Resignations at Federal Election Commission Raise Concern
• Methodist Ministers Launch Petition to Stop Bush Library at SMU
• Michael T. Klare | Petro-Power and the Nuclear Renaissance
• "Duke" Cunningham Prosecutor Fired
• Unlikely Allies Advocate Healthcare Overhaul
• George Lakoff | Framing, Death, and Democracy
• An Experiment and a Protest in Shantytown for Homeless
• William Fisher | In Praise of Professor Dreyfuss
• Michael T. Klare | Is Energo-Fascism in Your Future?
• The New York Times | Busywork for Nuclear Scientists
• David Swanson | Why Do We Need a National Conference for Media Reform?
• Scientists Reject Chemical Rules
• Paul Krugman | Golden State Gamble
• Governors Lose in Power Struggle Over National Guard
• Study: 744,000 Are Homeless in US
• Minimum Wage Boost Races Through House The House of Representatives voted to raise the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.
• A Path to Citizenship for Farmworkers
• Opponents of Nevada Bomb Test Fault Impact Studies
• Unions May Create Trouble for Overhaul
• Sherwood Ross | Nuclear Power Not Clean, Green, or Safe
• The Green Gripe With Obama: Liquefied Coal Is Still ... Coal.
• Dean Baker | Hooked on Drug Money
• Life at America's Bottom Wage
• California Plan for Health Care Would Cover All
• Representative Frank Vows Hard Look at Wage Gap
• US Health Care System: Paying More, Getting Less
• Tom Whipple | The Peak Oil Crisis: 2006 in Review
• Kelpie Wilson | 2006 Top Green Tech Ideas
• Unions Sue OSHA to Implement Safety Rule
• The Baltimore Sun | Shut Out of the Forests
• But It's Thomas Jefferson's Koran!
• Sarasota County and the Debate Over "Paper Trails"
• Study Indicates Electronic Voting Systematically Flawed
• Coal Mine Deaths Spike Upward
• The New York Times | Protecting Internet Democracy
• What the Public Needs to Know About Biotech Risks
• LA Unions Urged to Lead Policy Debate
• Massachusetts' Minimum Wage Hike Kicks In
• Scientists Find Way to Slash Cost of Drugs
• Compounds From Household Products Found in Human Blood
• Security Firms Granted Full Police Power
• Chris Hedges | America's Holy Warriors