Monthly Archives: July 2010

Afghan War Leaks Expose Costly, Deceitful March of Folly by: Ray McGovern t r u t h o u t 26 July 2010 The brutality and fecklessness of the US-led war in Afghanistan have been laid bare in an indisputable … Continue reading →

Stop Hyperventilating: Obama Will Not Choose War with Iran Steve Clemons The Washington Note July 23, 2010 In September 2007, before the release of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, I wrote an article for Salon titled “Why Bush … Continue reading →

BP’s Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell Policy: The Well’s Corked, But Public and Government are Left in the Dark by: Dave Lindorff This Can’t Be Happening 07/24/2010 Prof. Bob Bea, of UC Berkeley, a civil engineer with years of expertise in marine oil drilling, … Continue reading →

Wikileaks reveals the obvious dangers of Afghanistan By Eugene Robinson Washington Post July 27, 2010 The tens of thousands of classified military documents posted on the Internet Sunday confirm what critics of the war in Afghanistan already knew or suspected: … Continue reading →

US Financial Regulations: Plugging holes in a faulty dam Jeff Madrick Triple Crisis July 26, 2010 Paul Volcker says the financial reregulation bill passed with much hoopla by Congress in mid-July deserves only a grade of B. Sheila Bair, head … Continue reading →

Clean Energy and the U.S. Handicap: One Man’s Story On-again, off-again federal support cripples emerging industries in the United States, America’s pre-eminent wind energy pioneer believes. By Melinda Burns Miller-McCune July 25, 2010 Jim Dehlsen, America’s most successful wind power … Continue reading →

Researchers confirm subsea Gulf oil plumes are from BP well By Sara Kennedy McClatchy Newspapers July 23, 2010 Updated: July 27, 2010 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Through a chemical fingerprinting process, University of South Florida researchers have definitively linked clouds … Continue reading →

We’re In A One-and-a-half Dip Recession Robert Reich RobertReich.org July 21, 2010 We’re not in a double-dip recession yet. We’re in a one and a half dip recession. Consumer confidence is down. Retail sales are down. Home sales are down. … Continue reading →

Hungary, the IMF and the EU Jayati Ghosh Triple Crisis July 20, 2010 The more things change, the more they really do stay the same. For a while after the global crisis, we were told that the IMF had changed … Continue reading →

Special Prosecutor Finds “Insufficient Evidence” to File Charges Over US Attorney Firings by: Jason Leopold t r u t h o u t 22 July 2010 A special prosecutor, who spent nearly two years investigating whether former Attorney General Alberto … Continue reading →