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U.N. Study Shows Likely Impact of Global Warming
Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2007 6:44 PM EDT (The New York Times)
The latest United Nations assessment of the role of humans in global warming has found with "high confidence" that greenhouse gas emissions are at least partly responsible for a host of changes already under way, including longer growing seasons and shrinking glaciers.
Court Rebukes Administration in Global Warming Case
Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 11:03 AM EDT (The New York Times)
The Supreme Court ordered the federal government on Monday to take a fresh look at regulating carbon dioxide emissions from cars, a rebuke to Bush administration policy on global warming.
Defense spending soars to highest levels since World War II
Seeded on Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:13 AM EDT (RealCities.com)
As the Iraq war enters a fifth year, the conflict that President Bush's aides once said would all but pay for itself with oil revenues is fueling the highest level of defense spending since World War II.
Poll Shows Majority Back Health Care for All
Seeded on Thu Mar 1, 2007 10:00 PM EST (The New York Times)
A majority of Americans say the federal government should guarantee health insurance to every American, especially children, and are willing to pay higher taxes to do it, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
Every night 754,000 in US homeless: study
Seeded on Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:25 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
in its first study of the scope of the national homelessness problem in 23 years, said that its "snapshot" study based on a three-month period in 2005 showed that two-thirds of the homeless population are men, 16 percent are women, 59 percent are ethnic minorities, 41 percent are …
Winter 'second warmest on record'
Seeded on Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:21 PM EST (BBC News)
The UK has experienced its second warmest winter on record, with a mean temperature of 5.47C (41.8F), provisional Met Office figures show.
Democracy Now! | Headlines for February 26rd, 2007
Seeded on Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:56 AM EST (Democracy Now!)
- Report: Pentagon Establishes Planning Group for Iran War - U.S. & Saudis Covertly Pump Money To Sunni Groups - Cheney on Iran: "All Options Are Still on the Table" - U.S.
US body 'to plan attacks on Iran'
Seeded on Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:44 AM EST (BBC News)
The US Pentagon has set up a special planning group to co-ordinate possible attacks on Iran, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has reported.
Israel seeks all clear for Iran air strike
Seeded on Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:32 PM EST (Telegraph)
Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.To conduct surgical air strikes against Iran's nuclear programme, Israeli war planes would need to fly across Iraq.
U.S. Used Bases in Ethiopia to Hunt Al Qaeda in Africa
Seeded on Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:29 PM EST (The New York Times)
The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top leaders of Al Qaeda in the Horn of Africa, including the use of an airstrip in eastern Ethiopia to mount airstrikes against Islamic militants in neighboring Somalia, according to Americ …
Iraqis welcome British and Danish pullout
Seeded on Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:58 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
Iraqis welcomed the news on Wednesday that Britain and Denmark are preparing to dramatically scale back their military forces in and around the unruly southern port city of Basra.
Court backs Bush anti-terror law
Seeded on Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:27 PM EST (BBC News)
An American appeals court has upheld a anti-terrorism provision that states that Guantanamo Bay inmates cannot challenge their detention in US courts.
Italy orders CIA kidnapping trial
Seeded on Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:12 AM EST (BBC News)
An Italian judge has ordered 26 US citizens - most of them CIA agents - to stand trial over the kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. Osama Mustafa Hassan was allegedly seized by the CIA and flown to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.
Iraq Troop Boost Erodes Readiness, General Says
Seeded on Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:34 AM EST (The Washington Post)
Outgoing Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J.
Army Giving More Waivers in Recruiting
Seeded on Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:55 PM EST (The New York Times)
The number of waivers granted to Army recruits with criminal backgrounds has grown about 65 percent in the last three years, increasing to 8,129 in 2006 from 4,918 in 2003, Department of Defense records show.
Skeptics Doubt U.S. Evidence on Iran Action in Iraq
Seeded on Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:27 PM EST (The New York Times)
Three weeks after promising it would show proof of Iranian meddling in Iraq, the Bush administration has laid out its evidence — and received in return a healthy dose of skepticism.
Sudden death
Seeded on Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:12 PM EST (Slate)
In a curious application of Newtonian physics, public and state support for capital punishment is steadily declining in America just as the resolve to maintain the death penalty seems to harden in the one institution that was, until recently, showing real doubt: the Supreme Court …
The Needle and the Damage Done
Seeded on Fri Feb 9, 2007 10:51 AM EST (The New York Times)
On a warm spring day last June in Kansas City, a doctor identified only as John Doe No. 1 sat behind a screen to testify in the case of Michael Anthony Taylor v. Larry Crawford on his practice of executing prisoners by lethal injection for the State of Missouri.
Climate change 'affecting' China
Seeded on Tue Feb 6, 2007 10:16 AM EST (BBC News)
At least 300,000 people in north-west China are short of drinking water because of unseasonably warm weather, which officials link to climate change.
Iraqi Interior Ministry estimates 1,000 killed in one week
Seeded on Mon Feb 5, 2007 9:41 PM EST (CNN)
The Iraqi Interior Ministry estimates that about 1,000 people have been killed throughout Iraq in the past week due to gunbattles, drive-by shootings and bomb attacks, a ministry official said Sunday.
Bush's Iraq 'surge' could swell to 48,000 US troops: report
Seeded on Thu Feb 1, 2007 10:21 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
AFP: President George W. Bush's plan to add 21,500 troops in Iraq could actually result in an increased US military force in Iraq of up to 48,000 troops, a congressional report concluded.
General Calls Iraq Situation 'Dire'
Seeded on Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:55 PM EST (The New York Times)
Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, the nominee to command U.S. forces in Iraq, warned senators not to expect a quick turnaround.
Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran
Seeded on Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:44 PM EST (The Times)
Sunday Times: ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
W pushes envelope on U.S. spying; Bush Quietly Claims Right To Open All Mail Without Warrant
Seeded on Fri Jan 5, 2007 5:04 PM EST (NY Daily News)
NYDailyNews: President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant, the Daily News has learned.
Pentagon Official: Sending More Troops "More Of A Political Decision Than A Military One"
Seeded on Wed Jan 3, 2007 2:24 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Huffington Post: CNN reports "President Bush is expected to announce his new Iraq strategy in an address to the nation early next week." According to the BBC, "The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq."
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