Archive for October 3rd, 2009

Times Online 10/3/09 By Robin Henry Ireland is set to accept the EU’s Lisbon treaty, with opinion and exit polls showing a convincing win for the “Yes” vote. Counting is still underway but Irish ministers are already heralding victory, while anti-EU campaigners have conceded defeat....

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Information Clearing House Idaho Mountain Express 10/1/09 A call to U.S. Army Central Command in Tampa, Fla., last week yielded no news on the status of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, a Hailey resident apparently captured by Taliban militants on July 2. Nonetheless, people across the country...

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Reuters 10/3/09 By Tom Doggett WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As Washington and Tehran began talks over Iran’s nuclear program, U.S. lawmakers approved legislation to bar foreign companies exporting gasoline to Iran from also delivering crude oil to America’s emergency petroleum stockpile. Thursday’s action by the U.S....

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Anti-War.com 10/2/09 By Jason Ditz With US forces offering support, the Iraqi military launched what officials have described as a “major crackdown” on the northern city of Mosul, capturing at least 150 people it suspects of being involved in the Sunni insurgency which is still...

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A Truly Shocking Story Campaign for Liberty 10/3/09 By Andy Worthington In four years of researching and writing about Guantánamo, I have become used to uncovering shocking information, but for sheer cynicism, I am struggling to think of anything that compares to the revelations contained...

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Wall Street Journal 10/2/09 By Sara Murray Consumer bankruptcies topped one million for the first nine months of this year, the highest point since the system was overhauled in 2005. The number of personal bankruptcy filings for the nine months rose to 1,046,449 as of...

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WW4 Report 10/2/09 Tribal elders said Oct. 1 that eight people—at least five of them civilians—were killed in an airstrike in southern Afghanistan on the previous day. A US military spokeswoman, Capt. Elizabeth Mathias, confirmed the strike, in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province,...

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