NPR
11/30/09
The global swine flu outbreak has become something of a political football in every country where the pandemic has spread, but Ukraine’s response to the virus has achieved a new level of blatant politicization. According to a campaign advisor to Yulia Tymoshenko, the Ukrainian prime minister and presidential candidate purposely inflated fears of an...
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Arizona Daily Star
12/2/09
A nationally prominent climate change researcher at the University of Arizona has been asked by a U.S. senator not to destroy any records he has with a tie to a global controversy over e-mails raising questions about the scientific integrity of some climate scholars.
The letter went to UA professor Malcolm Hughes from...
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AP
12/2/09
ROME – A group of European scientists say they have successfully connected a robotic hand to a man who had lost an arm, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial hand and control it with his thoughts.
The experiment lasted a month. Scientists say it was the first time an amputee has been able...
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LoHud.com
12/1/09
By Khurram Saeed
WEST POINT — More than 250 people held a candlelight vigil outside the U.S. Military Academy on Tuesday night to protest President Obama’s decision to escalate the eight-year-old war in Afghanistan.
The protest was held shortly before Obama announced that the United States would send 30,000 more troops to the South Asian nation...
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If Barack Obama heralds an escalation of the war, he will betray his own message of hope and deepen my people’s pain
RAWA News
11/30/09
By Malalai Joya
After months of waiting, President Obama is about to announce the new US strategy for Afghanistan. His speech may be long awaited, but few are expecting any surprise: it seems...
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Anti-War.com
12/2/09
By Gareth Porter
President Barack Obama presented a case Tuesday for sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan that included both soaring rhetoric and a new emphasis on its necessity for U.S. national security.
Obama said the escalation was for a “vital national interest” and invoked the threat of attacks from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area, asserting...
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Wired
12/2/09
By Kim Zetter
Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009, according to a company manager who disclosed the statistic at a non-public interception and wiretapping conference in October.
The manager also revealed the existence of a previously undisclosed web portal that Sprint...
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The Jerusalem Post
12/2/09
By E.B. SOLOMONT
Palestinian statehood is a “vital” component necessary for regional peace, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, in a message to mark Monday’s annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
But amid criticism of Israel’s settlement activities during the two-day solidarity event, Israeli officials were bracing for Palestinian diplomats to declare...
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Bloomberg
12/2/09
By Timothy R. Homan
Companies in the U.S. cut an estimated 169,000 jobs in November, according to a private report based on payroll data.
The drop, the smallest since July 2008, compares with a revised 195,000 decline the prior month, data from ADP Employer Services showed today. The figures were forecast to show a decline of...
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We Are Change
12/2/09
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