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5-31	Noam Chomsky: Why It's Over For America
5-31	Countless My Lai Massacres in Iraq  -  The Haditha Massacre
5-31	Capito named in lobbying trial; Aid sought for projects pushed by Jack Abramoff   -  Aide describes how Capito, GOP House members used for projects
5-31	FBI probes political corruption
5-31	FCC Investigates Fake News
5-31	Cheney Aide Is Screening Legislation
5-31	Files Contradict Account of Raid in Iraq
5-31	Snow quits Treasury position  -  After $38 Million Last Year, the Pay Is Not an Issue
5-31	Whistle-Blowers Less Protected
5-31	China's Longest River "Cancerous" With Pollution  -  Villages doomed by China's cancer rivers  -  The cancer in China
5-31	Are plastic products coated in peril?
5-31	America's obsession with that green patch in the yard
5-31	Pentagon Ordered to Expedite Handover of UC Spying Records
5-31	Pentagon Pressing For New Rapid-Strike Weapon: Report
5-31	The Mouse on Steroids
5-30	W.Va.s gaming dependence grows
5-30	Memorial Day 2006: Iraq Veterans Against the War
5-30	War Crimes: My Lai is a Lesson from History  -  Bloody Scenes Haunt a Marine  -  US troops could face death penalty for what is seen as potentially the worst war crime since Iraqi invasion
5-30	Gonzales Gone Wild
5-30	Iraq Becomes Deadliest of Modern Wars for Journalists  -  CBS News Statement
5-30	The Evil Is in Our Government
5-30	Talk of Pelosi as Speaker Delights Both Parties
5-30	Technology and Easy Credit Give Identity Thieves an Edge
5-30	The Bright Green Undertow to America's Conservatism
5-30	Wildfire and Americans: How to Save Lives, Property and Your Tax Dollars
5-30	Poisonous Tree Frog Could Bring Wealth to Tribe in Brazilian Amazon
5-30	China making anti-desertification progress
5-30	An Autopsy of Katrina: Four Storms, Not Just One
5-30	Peacekeepers Fail to Stem Unrest in East Timor
5-30	Gingrich: Gov. Bush could be president
5-30	Lead figure in phone jam to advise GOP contenders; Charles McGee back to work after prison
5-29	Bush rating at all-time low in W.Va.
5-29	Ark., W.Va., other states, suffer headaches with voting machines
5-29	Iraqis' Accounts Link Marines to the Mass Killing of Civilians
5-29	Iraq Is the Republic of Fear
5-29	As far as taste goes...all water is not water
5-29	Milwaukee machines unlock oil supply larger than Mideast's
5-29	We are stewards of creation and must protect it
5-28	Death toll in Indonesia earthquake tops 3,000 amid fears over volcano
5-27	U.S. Is Debating Talks With Iran on Nuclear Issue
5-27	Tough Justice for Executives in Enron Era
5-26	Manchin promotes state tourism spots (Gee, wonder if he is taking anybody to mountaintop removal sites?)
5-26	Enron verdict: guilty  -  Enron Jury Unswayed by 'I Didn't Know'  -  White collar: Lay, Skilling join parade  -  Verdict on an Era: Arrogance and Recklessness at Enron  -  Two Enron Chiefs Are Convicted in Fraud and Conspiracy Trial  - Defendants Sunk by Their Testimony  -  From the Ex-Employees: Revenge, Shock, Sadness
5-26	Bus exhaust could be cleaner, study says
5-26	Chimp Virus Is Linked to H.I.V.
5-26	Border Fight Divides G.O.P.
5-26	Senate Confirms Hayden As CIA Director
5-26	Senate Approves Immigration Bill
5-25	Special counsel: Cheney may be called to testify  -  Counsel Says He May Use Cheney in Libby Trial  - Libby Told Grand Jury Cheney Spoke of Plame
5-25	Bush Prepares to Cut and Run in Afghanistan
5-25	FBI was trying to spy on Portland gov't
5-25	Intelligence Czar Can Waive SEC Rules
5-25	Official Secrets: Be careful what you read
5-25	House Leaders Demand Return of Seized Files  - Breach Was More of the Spirit, Not the Letter, of the Constitution
5-25	Veterans Chief Voices Anger on Data Theft
5-25	Expanded Worker Checks Would Use Faulty System
5-25	US Capitol Infested With Mystery Bills: Who You Gonna Call?
5-25	The War on Free Press
5-25	Hastert, ABC spar over investigation report
5-25	Mollohan beneficiary strikes back
5-25	Bush is the biggest threat to freedom
5-24	Senator Wants to Halve Consumption of Foreign Oil by 2025
5-24	Inside Donnie Rumsfeld's Orwellian Pentagon
5-24	U.S. Urged to Stop Paying Iraqi Reporters  -  VOA's Baghdad Bureau Still Closed After Six Months
5-24	Wow! Iraqi Leader Takes Bush's Calls
5-24	A Sudden Taste for the Law
5-23	Budget surplus may not last long
5-23	Washingtons New Watchword: Containment
5-23	Zogby Poll: Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investigation
5-23	Paul Krugman: Talk Show Joe  -  Lobbyist Money: Santorum is #1
5-23	Verizon wrong to turn over records
5-23	Eking Out a Living, of Sorts, From a Mountain of Muck
5-23	Bush Administration misleads public on deforestation effort
5-23	Oil industry to keep up US PR offensive
5-22	Desperate drug war fought all over West Virginia
5-22	Byrd's camp is talking tough
5-22	Lawmakers muse over primary results
5-22	ITS NOT A WONDERFUL WORLD ANYMORE
5-22	John Edwards: Bush Worse than Nixon
5-22	Attorney Gen.: Reporters Can Be Prosecuted
5-22	Gonzales Says Vote on English Is Symbolic
5-22	NATIONAL SECURITY DEPT. LISTENING IN
5-21	Water prices vary wildly across state
5-21	Iraq is Disintegrating as Ethnic Cleansing Takes Hold
5-21	Bloody day heralds birth of Iraq's new unity government  -  Iraqi Premier, Cabinet Sworn In
5-21	Afghanistan gripped by worst fighting since 2001
5-21	British soldiers to get life in jail for refusing to act as occupiers
5-21	F.B.I. Searches Congressman's Office in Ethics Inquiry
5-20	House Affirms Need to Protect All U.S. Waters; Vote Will Block Funds For Policy Of Disowning Certain Waters Says Earthjustice
5-20	U.S. House opposes change in toxics reporting
5-20	Inside Iraq's hidden war
5-20	One Step Closer to a Police State
5-20	Military Prison's Closure Is Urged
5-20	Growing Number of GOP Seats In Doubt
5-20	Religious Liberals Gain New Visibility
5-20	Today's Housing Model Is Unsustainable for the Long Haul
5-20	Microbe Gives Clues to Origin of Life
5-20	High Oil Prices Spout Gusher of Proposals
5-19	Deep-sea fish stocks 'plundered'
5-19	Critics Note Weaknesses of Food Stamps as Hunger Spreads
5-19	How Bush Destroyed the CIA
5-19	How the Bush Administration Deconstructed Iraq
5-19	Pombo's Bill Threatens Fisheries
5-19	Vote in House Seeks to Erase Oil Windfall
5-19	The Reawakening of a Virulent Nationalism is Tearing Apart Bush's Conservative Coalition
5-19	KFC exposed for trashing the Amazon rainforest
5-19	UN watchdog calls for Guantnamo closure
5-19	Thousands of properties tainted by leaky underground tanks
5-19	President Bush is top recipient of political funds from phone companies that turned over calling records of millions of Americans
5-19	Senate endorses border fence
5-18	A Review of Some Current Speculative Thinking on Collapse
5-18	Seeking to Control Borders, Bush Turns to Big Military Contractors
5-18	Ethics Panel Starts 3 Probes
5-18	Lawmakers Reexamine Hayden
5-18	Logging bill passes House of Representatives
5-18	The 9/11 Story That Got Away
5-18	U.S. Antiwar Activists Launch Campaign Supporting Conscientious Objectors
5-18	Himalayan forests disappearing
5-18	Argentina Will Sue Monsanto in Spain Over GMO Soy
5-17	Why Religion Must End
5-17	Wealth, Race Guiding Which New Orleanians Stay, and Which Never Return
5-17	Could Lunacy Explain Bush's Policies?
5-17	Information Highway Robbers
5-17	Obstacles Test African Force in Grim Darfur
5-17	Confidence In GOP Is At New Low in Poll
5-17	Iraqs resistance evolves
5-17	C.I.A. Making Rapid Strides for Regrowth
5-17	Hummer: Discontinued monster
5-17	Indigenous Movements: Between Neoliberalism and Leftist Governments
5-17	U.S. Secretly Backing Warlords in Somalia
5-17	Videos Released Of Plane Crashing Into Pentagon  (Sure didn't look like an airplane...)  -  Pentagon Video Images Look Suspiciously Like a Missile
5-17	China: A Troubled Dragon
5-17	Minister Vows to Recover Bolivia Natural Resources
5-17	US Lawmakers Fret Over Yucca Waste Dump Delays
5-17	Schools Plan in Nebraska Is Challenged
5-16	Forest land sale does not look likely
5-16	America the Fearful
5-16	U.S. Supreme Court Upholds States' Right to Regulate Dams
5-16	FBI Acknowledges: Journalists Phone Records are Fair Game  -  Secret Gov't Source Tells ABC News: "Get New Cellphones"
5-16	Seafloor methane and runaway global warming
5-16	Rove vs. Reality  -  Rove Blames Iraq War for Low Bush Numbers
5-16	Food Flack Nation Attacks Journalist Eric Schlosser
5-16	E-VOTING TRAIN WRECK 2006: The Wheels Begin to Come Off
5-16	Study Finds Western Parks Exploited, Neglected
5-16	Bush bans arms sales to Chvez
5-16	Why the dollar is falling so fast
5-16	Wonder Women
5-16	A Red Revolution on the High Street
5-16	UK Organic Farms Seen Protecting Jobs, Bird Life
5-16	BUSH SPYING ON AMERICAN CITIZENS VIOLATES OUR GUARANTEED FREEDOMS
5-15	Plan to Deploy Guard at Border Worries Mexico  -  Bush Set To Send Guard to Border
5-15	Politics Stalls Plan to Bolster Flood Insurance
5-15	Negroponte Had Denied Domestic Call Monitoring
5-15	Constant Surveillance: Who's a Target?  -  How the NSA could fix its data-mining program
5-15	Divide Is Sharpening Among Republicans  -  Conservative Christians Criticize Republicans  -  Part I: Battle Cry for Theocracy
5-15	'Out of Control' Guard Unit Established by U.S. Suspected in Death Squad-Style Executions
5-15	White House dismisses calls for direct Iran talks
5-15	In Darfur, rapes and shootings go on, despite peace agreement
5-15	Will the Real Traitors Please Stand Up?
5-15	At Falwell's University, McCain Defends Iraq War
5-14	Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators
5-14	Cheney Pushed U.S. to Widen Eavesdropping  -  Hand-written notes by the Vice President surface in the Fitzgerald probe
5-14	Par for the Corps: A Flood of Bad Projects
5-14	The Decider
5-14	JONAH targets structural racism
5-14	Notes Are Said to Reveal Close Cheney Interest in a Critic of Iraq Policy
5-14	Not Your Soldier!
5-14	Fired Officer Believed CIA Lied to Congress
5-14	Drainage pipe, tons of stone missing from DOH in Mingo
5-14	In Kentucky Hills, a Homeland Security Bonanza
5-14	Truce Is Talk, Agony Is Real in Darfur
5-14	Mothers Index: Best, worst countries
5-14	Why birds sing
5-14	Feds subpoena documents from institute
5-14	US Moves in Secret to Quash Suit Against AT&T
5-14	China's 3 Gorges raises questions for future dams
5-14	Chvez is a Threat Because He Offers the Alternative of a Decent Society
5-14	China's "American Style" Development Means Ecosystem Collapse
5-14	Canada's oil sands may quench the world's thirst for energy, but for a steep price
5-14	A Layer Cake for Mother's Day
5-14	Questions Raised for Phone Giants in Spy Data Furor
5-14	Scientists Call Diebold Security Flaw "Worst Ever"
5-14	Spy Agency Watching Americans From Space
5-13	White House, NSA Block Investigation of Spying  -  Is any phone call off-limits?  -  The Spies Who Shag Us  -  The Spies Who Shag Us  -  Former NSA officer alleges illegal activities under Hayden  -  TIA (aka Topsail) unveiled
5-13	Byrd amendment stymied as health-care bill pulled
5-12	An Easy Call: Lying  -  Agency secretly put calls into database  -  Congress Demands Phone Records Answers   -  Bush Is Pressed Over New Report on Surveillance  -  Both Parties Decry Extent of NSA Program  -  Spy agency given phone records
5-12	One Final GOP Rip-Off Before November
5-12	Krugman: Who's Crazy Now?  -  A Capital Full of Shih Tzu Reporters
5-12	Groups appeal gorge housing
5-12	Byrd set for campaign against Raese
5-12	FLETCHER INDICTED
5-11	Grand jury indicts Gov. Ernie Fletcher
5-11	US Healthcare Gets Shamed Again
5-11	Brazil Accepts Bolivian Energy Nationalization  -  No Compensation for Energy Firms
5-11	Save the Internet as a Pro-Democracy Force
5-11	Killing the CIA  -  CIA Nominee Hayden: The Perfect Bushman
5-11	NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls  -  NSA Stymies Justice Dept. Spying Probe
5-11	Putin warns on 'fortress America'  -  Putin lashes out at America
5-11	Sleight of hand; GOP insurance travesty
5-11	Ten-Year-Old Forbidden From Singing Pink's Anti-Bush Song at School
5-10	Poll Gives Bush Worst Marks Yet on Major Issues
5-10	Raese to face Byrd
5-10	Bush pick wont help fix the CIA
5-10	The US's Geopolitical Nightmare
5-10	US energy firms risk paying for Cheney broadside
5-10	The Forward March of Women Halted?
5-10	The Motherhood Manifesto
5-10	Where Have All the Butterflies Gone?
5-10	Nuclear Industry to Better Track Water Releases
5-10	Emails From the Edge of Disaster
5-10	It's the Economics, Stupid
5-10	Ex-NSA Chief Assails Bush Taps
5-9	Foggo Out at CIA
5-9	Pentagon Is Winner Over CIA
5-9	Billions Spent on Border Security Have Failed
5-9	BP Refinery in Texas Called Biggest Polluter
5-9	Vaccine makers helped write Frist-backed shield law
5-9	Homeland Security Will Embed Reporters
5-9	What Remains Unanswered at Enron Trial
5-9	EPA Still Looking at Easing Summer Gasoline Rules
5-9	For Sound Energy Policy, Don't Look to Congress
5-9	Spies Among Us
5-8	More Than Half of US Streams Polluted - EPA
5-8	White House is warned against Bush nominee for head of CIA  -   Potential CIA pick criticized  -  Bush Picks Hayden to Lead the C.I.A.
5-8	Rove's Time in Limbo Near End in CIA Leak Case
5-8	Did Bush Force British Minister Out?
5-8	Potential Evidence Surfaces of Bush's Illegal Spying
5-8	Basra on the Brink of Exploding
5-8	Behind the Goss Toss
5-8	Harmless levels of chemicals prove toxic together
5-8	China's "cancer villages" pay heavy price for economic progress
5-8	Reckless development blamed for fouling of China's waters
5-7	Rumsfeld Uses Colin Powell as a Human Shield  -  The Intelligence Business
5-7	Poker, Hookers, and Spooks  -  CIA in disarray as Rumsfeld starts turf war with rival   -  Spy Czar, Rumsfeld in a Turf War  -  FBI Puts SOA Watch Under "Counterterrorism" Surveillances  -  Exit of C.I.A. Chief Viewed as Move to Recast Agency  -  White House Set to Tap Hayden  -  Bush denies CIA boss forced out
5-7	Firms Harvesting Energy From Public Land May Owe U.S.
5-7	Troubled nations hold energy cards
5-7	Captive market: Soft drinks in schools
5-7	History Helps Explain Bolivia' s New Boldness
5-7	Seeking Energy in All the Odd Places
5-7	Brazil joins world's nuclear club
5-6	RFK Jr. Attacks Corporate Media, Environmental Problems
5-6	As Profits Surge, Oil Giants Find Hurdles Abroad
5-6	Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA  -  Top C.I.A. Pick Has Credentials and Skeptics  -  Abrupt exit for chief of 'floundering' CIA  -  CIA boss in surprise resignation  -  CIA chief quits as Bush continues his shake-up
5-6	Mexican Mine Disaster Brings Charges of Collusion
5-6	More than half of US streams polluted: EPA
5-6	How Morales took on the oil giants - and won his people back  -  Bolivia wins first round of gas battle after Brazil backs down
5-6	Granny Power Takes on the War in Iraq
5-6	"This Is Our Destiny" - Fantasies of American Preponderance  -  The Real Oil Story: The Oil in Iraq
5-5	CIA Director Porter Goss Resigns  -  Dirt Behind CIA Director Porter Goss Resignation
5-5	Washington Correspondents  -  Making The Real News  -  Why it takes a television series to draw attention to a real-life human drama  -  Ridicule and Contempt for President Bush  -  Colbert just another intelligence failure for Bush crew
5-5	Ex-CIA analyst condemns Bush 'manipulation campaign' on Iraq
5-5	Bush Clears the Way for Corporate Domination  -  Excerpt: The Bush Agenda
5-5	Republicans Wake a Sleeping Giant
5-5	UN to quiz US on torture
5-5	'Tell Peabody to fly a kite'
5-5	17 missing after toxic sludge buries village
5-5	South Americans reach energy deal  -  Leaders Back Bolivia Gas Nationalization
5-5	Hostile War Critics Confront Rumsfeld [Why are war critics considered "hostile" by those who start wars for profit and power?]  -  Rumsfeld heckled over war in Iraq  -  Going Nukular
5-5	300,000 Children in U.S. Found to Have Autism
5-4	Beyond Hope
5-4	Our monarch, above the law  -  Hearing Vowed on Bush's Powers  -  Ridicule and contempt: An imperial president is smothering the system of checks and balances, imperiling free speech  -  Team Abramoff Visited the White House over 200 Times in Bushs First 10 Months in Office
5-4	Papua mine 'causing landslides'
5-4	Who is to be "Detained?" -  In the Chaos of Iraq, One Project Is on Target: A Giant US Embassy
5-4	US States Sue Bush Over Fuel Efficiency
5-4	Cheney has no regrets over Iraq invasion  -  Iraq: Death is Everywhere  -  Laugh Riot of the Day: America's Darth Vader (Dick Cheney) Rebukes Russia About Democracy
5-4	Sugary drinks banned from sale in schools  -  Coca-Cola, Pepsi Ban Soda in Schools in Clinton Deal
5-4	Colbert Shocks the Media Silent  -  Stephen Colbert's Remarks to the President  -  Why would any Democrat bash Stephen Colbert?  -  Bush Takes a Beating  -  Colbert rips Bush to his face (video)
5-4	Markey introduces Net Neutrality Act
5-3	Markey introduces Net Neutrality Act  -  Don't Let Congress Ruin the Internet  -  Mike McCurry; Hurting The Internet, Hurting His Admirers
5-3	Cape Wind Offshore Developer Sees "Uphill Fight"
5-3	Plan for $100 Gas Rebate Appears to Be Dead
5-3	Rove's Unexplained Personal Wealth  -  Investigate Big Dick
5-3	Evo Morales Now Joins Hugo Chavez As A US Target  -  Crisis talks on Bolivia gas move  -  Bolivian President sends in army to seize control of energy industry
5-3	Is Pope poised to sanction condoms?
5-3	A Turning Point
5-3	Warfare as It Really is  -  Lt. Gen. William E. Odom: Cut and Run? You Bet.; Why America must get out of Iraq now.
5-2	Judge overturns environmental permit for mine discharge
5-2	Petropolitics: Oil vs. freedom  -  Bolivia Nationalizes Natural Gas  -  Bolivia's military seizes gas fields  -  Bolivia gas move met with shock
5-2	Iran - Inside Bush's Brain  -  Mission Accomplished By The Numbers
5-2	Bush's Nuclear Madness
5-2	Bush [says he can] can disobey [over] 750 laws
5-2	Fighting the Hostile Takeover  -  The Shadow Government  -  The New Totalitarianism Defines Desperate Neo-Con End Game  -  3 Democrats say president cannot claim powers above the law
5-2	Principles for the post-peak oil job market
5-2	Immigrants Walk Off Jobs in Boycott  -  US pays for immigrant protests
5-2	Bush Takes a Beating  -  Stephen Colbert's Take at the White House Correspondents Dinner  -  The Psychology of Bushs Nicknames
5-2	The Great American Firewall: Why the Net is Poised to Become a Global Weapon of Mass Deception
5-2	The Media's Missing Links
5-1	The Emerging Water Wars
5-1	All Revved Up, Going Nowhere on Energy Policy  -  Sharp Reaction to G.O.P. Plan on Gas Rebate  -  High Gas Prices Will Last Years, Bush Aides Say  -  Energy chief: High gas prices could last 3 years
5-1	U.S. Prepares for 'Day Without Immigrants'  -  Protesters Give Bush the Finger
5-1	"The decider" suspends the rule of U.S. law
5-1	Obscene: Corporate cash hogs
5-1	Dollar starts the big slide against major currencies  -  Bush Leverage With Russia, Iran, China Falls as Oil Prices Rise
5-1	Bush Seeks Authority to Raise Car Fuel Standards
5-1	Billions wasted in Iraq, says US audit