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Antarctic Ozone Hole Appears Early, Growing
Reuters reports that "a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has appeared earlier than usual in 2007, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday." http://www.trut hout.org/issues_06/082807E A.shtml Energy... ...
Massive Criminal Probe of Illegal Iraq Arms Sales Underway
James Glanz and Eric Schmitt, of The New York Times, report: "Several federal agencies are investigating a widening network of criminal cases involving the purchase and delivery of billions of dollars... ...
Outsourcing intelligence
Boston Globe by James Carroll 08/27/07 The ways in which the Bush war has degraded the structures and culture of Iraq are obvious. Less so are its insidious effects on the United States, but President... ...
Protest Australia's Ancient Forest Logging and Climate Change Eco-Hypocrisy
ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! By Climate Ark & Forests.org, projects of Ecological Internet http://www.climateark.org/ and http://forests.org/ Augus t 25, 2007 TAKE ACTION Dramatic efforts... ...
Bin Laden wanted US to invade Iraq, author says
As coalition troops continue to die on Iraqi soil and the US Government's military spending on the war bleeds into billions of dollars, a new book says that not only could this have been avoided, but it... ...
Billions in Katrina Relief Funds Missing
Jeffrey Buchanan and Chris Kromm for AlterNet report: "When pressed on the slow pace of recovery in the Gulf Coast, President Bush insists the federal government has fulfilled its promise to rebuild the... ...
Plan to Attack Iran Confirmed, Vote on IMPEACHMENT Now
ADMINISTRATION SOURCE CONFIRMS THEIR DETERMINATION TO ATTACK ON IRAN If you thought the Cheney White House could not be so crazy as to attack Iran given the existing debacle in Iraq, we have news for... ...
Two casualties of US mortgage meltdown racked a combined $1.8bn in losses
The ninth-largest US bank by market value, Capital One, and one of the biggest US credit card providers, which bought mortgage provider GreenPoint in last year's $13.2 billion purchase of North Fork Bancorp,... ...
Defense agency proposing more outsourcing
MSNBC 08/19/07 The Defense Intelligence Agency is preparing to pay private contractors up to $1 billion to conduct core intelligence tasks of analysis and collection over the next five years, an amount... ...
One Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans Is Still at Risk
John Schwartz, of The New York Times, reports: "Six inches. After two years and more than a billion dollars spent by the Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild New Orleans's hurricane protection system, that... ...