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8-31	Over 37,000 Civilians Reported Dead in Iraq  Hundreds of thousands mourn assassinated cleric  U.S. taxpayers may end up paying a lot more to rebuild Iraq  US Struggles in "Out of Control" Iraq, Experts Say  U.N. to Further Reduce Staff in Iraq
8-31	A Bush Slap for Workers
8-31	Some fear pipeline could damage rivers
8-31	Policy Lobotomy Needed
8-31	WTO to probe Europe's GMO policy
8-31	Blair plans new 'Ministry of Truth' for the post-spin era
8-31	Winemakers enjoy the taste of solar power
8-31	Tanker spills more oil in Pakistan
8-30	Iraqi Civil War Brewing   Calls for vengeance as Iraq's Shias mourn their dead
8-30	Bomb Explosion in Najaf; At Least 95 Dead  Ayatollah's Death Deepens U.S. Woes  Iraq storm grows  Death and Hesitation in Iraq
8-30	Deepening Doubts on Iraq
8-30	Voting machine controversy
8-30	Clinton Seeks Answers on Air Quality
8-30	'Alias' star Garner to aid CIA in recruiting
8-30	That's Our Bush! The President's Re-Election Campaign Kicks Off With a Shameless 9-11 Docudrama
8-30	Former Enron Treasurer May Cut Deal
8-30	US Turns Ally Into Enemy
8-30	Calls for controls on shifting sand
8-30	Diamonds that spell death; Western commerce still feeds the war in Congo
8-30	Mr. Bush and the Flag
8-30	New fish species discovered in Venezuela
8-30	Green Groups Sue to Get Wilderness Documents
8-29	Was the Iraq War a Bush Cartel Effort to Divert Attention from Saudi Arabia?
8-29	Oil in Iraq: Role of Halliburton  Halliburton's Deals Greater Than Thought
8-29	Ashcroft Taking Fire From GOP Stalwarts
8-29	Blair Testifies to Accuracy of Dossier on Iraq
8-29	Blix Felt U.S. Intimidating Him Before Iraq War
8-29	Peru Panel Details Toll Of Violent 2 Decades
8-29	Soldiers With Dolls and Blue Hair Gel ; Rape and Despair Turn Liberian Girls Into Armed Fighters
8-29	Future fuzzy for Flexsys plant
8-29	Deficit Delusions
8-29	N. Korea Threatens Nuclear Arms Test
8-29	Shifting Sands of Neoconservative Logic
8-29	North Sea cod reach new low
8-28	E. O. Wilson: Selling Out Our Forests    Bush's Holy War in the Forests
8-28	GM Crop Weed Killer Linked to Powerful Fungus
8-28	In Reversal, U.S. Nears Deal on Drugs for Poor Countries
8-28	Iraq war quagmire
8-28	U.N. Troops Considered For Iraq Duty
8-28	Another Relief Agency Leaves Iraq
8-28	Al Franken: Throwing Punches and Punch Lines
8-28	Bush's War Goes Global
8-28	Public-Private Partnership Aims to Double Northeast Clean-Energy Production by 2010
8-28	Fuel Cell Locomotive Could Free Subways from Grid
8-27	No Clear Skies; In a Texas oil town, the assault on the nation's clean-air laws has hit close to home
8-27	Bremer: Iraq Effort to Cost Tens of Billions
8-27	Projected budget deficits worsen  Bush's historic injustice  Deficit Could Top $500 billion in 04
8-27	Senator Jay Rockefeller: Bush administration putting Head Start program at risk
8-27	Army Center to Study New Uses of Biotechnology
8-27	The death of China's rivers
8-27	Gunpoint Democracy in Iraq  Grassroots Democracy in Iraq, American Style
8-27	A tough message to corporate America
8-27	Ex-Park Service Workers Say Bush Reneges on Promises
8-27	Dust and Deception
8-27	Selling Bombs Along with Soap?
8-27	We won't give up land for mining - Okyenhene
8-27	Rich nations take billions from world's farmers, says study
8-26	Senator Robert C. Byrd: Unprepared for Peace in Iraq
8-26	Debate Kicks Up on Gas Drilling in the Rocky Mountains
8-26	Swiss glaciers shrink at record rate
8-26	Three companies oppose forest proposal
8-26	America in a quagmire
8-26	War on the cheap
8-26	US "postwar" dead equal war dead (And what about the Iraqi civilians dead?)
8-26	Court Rules That Trade Secrets Can Outweigh Free Speech
8-26	Overstreet is forced off water case  Overstreet overruled
8-26	U.S. Job Losses Blamed on China's Currency
8-25	The foot soldiers are rebelling
8-25	Protesters Near Bush Ranch Demand Withdrawal of Troops from Iraq
8-25	Former UN Chief: Bomb was Payback for Collusion with US
8-25	US Mired in a Mess of Its Own Making
8-25	Smoking Gun: The CIA's Interest in Peak Oil
8-25	When is Enough Enough?
8-25	An Unpatriotic Act  Conservative Backlash
8-25	U.S. military may be needed in Israel, senator says
8-25	Facing Down the Wall
8-25	BBC chief warns over Murdoch dominance
8-25	Rwanda's Gordian Knot
8-25	God help America
8-25	Chavez allies rally their support
8-25	The Air Is Thick With Lies
8-25	A Savage Lie
8-25	2003 Ozone Hole May Be Record Size, Australia Says
8-24	U.S. going to biometric passports, visas; is rest of world ready?  Passports and Visas to Add High-Tech Identity Features
8-24	Forest or Against Us--The Bush Doctor Calls on Oregon
8-24	US Cargo Ship Leaking Chemical Off S. Africa Also Carrying Uranium
8-24	EPA's 9/11 Air Ratings Distorted, Report Says  White House swayed EPA after 9/11  EPA Watchdog Rips White House on NYC Air
8-24	Revealed: how ministers tried to gag David Kelly
8-24	Musharraf, Bush Deal Spared Bin Ladin--Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden
8-23	EPA Pressed to Call Air Safe After 9/11, Report Says
8-23	Mr. Ashcroft's Foot Soldiers
8-23	Bush Rejects Razing Dams to Make Way for Salmon  President Praises Dams in Northwest
8-23	In Courtroom, Laughter at Fox and a Victory for Al Franken
8-23	Iraq: U.S. Seeks UN Help, Offers 'Trademark Arrogance'
8-23	Now Its Your Turn: Intelligence Veterans Challenge Colleagues to Speak Out
8-23	Emails show how No 10 constructed case for war
8-23	Double crisis for Bush
8-23	Conan the Deceiver
8-23	Hundreds protest Bush visit   Protests Erupt in Portland
8-22	Protesters Greet Bush in Northwest
8-22	Jobs loss worsening
8-22	General Cites Rising Peril of Terror in Iraq
8-22	U.S. Weighing Missile Defenses for Airliners
8-22	Bush Again Presses for Forest Plan
8-22	Ashcroft Criticized for Talks on Terror   Homeland Security Doesn't Help Communities Cope
8-22	Kelly's chilling words: 'I'll be found dead in the woods'; Diplomat reveals inspector's pre-war doubts
8-22	Helpers Or Invaders?
8-22	U.S. Is Seeking to Limit States' Influence on Offshore Decisions
8-22	$700 Million Settlement in Alabama PCB Lawsuit
8-22	FCC to probe dead birds & the wires
8-22	The river runs through US
8-21	The Danger of American Fascism
8-21	Under Deregulation, Montana Power Price Soar
8-21	GOP Bill Would Add Anti-Terror Powers
8-21	In Iraq, Merchandising Mass Destruction
8-21	A Wild Image Now Less Wonderful
8-21	Coal country getting new emphasis in N.D.
8-21	Interior Secretary Sees Lawsuits on Rockies Drilling
8-21	Gold Firm Plans Suit Under NAFTA
8-21	Monsanto Settles PCB Case in Alabama
8-21	How America Created a Terrorist Haven
8-21	Bush's Crumbling Authority in Iraq
8-21	Gulf War Veterans Sue Corporations
8-20	World ignoring population woes, demographers warn
8-20	Wind-power website launched in UK
8-20	Ashcroft Blasts Efforts to Weaken Terrorism Law  No Mercy in Ashcroft's Brand of Justice
8-20	F.B.I. Accused of Corrupting Computer Surveillance
8-20	Venture to Drill for Gas and Build Pipeline Off China
8-20	Massive Explosion at UN Headquarters in Iraq
8-20	Gasoline Prices Soar After Blackout
8-20	Activists sue Forest Service over Alaska oil plan
8-20	The Road to Ruin
8-20	Coral nears the crisis point
8-20	Cops Against the Drug War
8-20	US Escalates GM Food Row with Europe
8-20	Poisoned Chalice - Wherever it is Prescribed, a Dose of IMF Medicine Only Compounds Economic Crisis
8-19	Former US Diplomat Says Rumsfeld Led Bush to War
8-19	Outrage: Cutting soldier pay
8-19	Bush Administration Plans Defense of Terror Law
8-19	What I Want
8-19	Pennsylvania hopes to cash in with ginseng plant
8-19	Alabamians fear chemical disaster
8-19	One last chance to save coral
8-19	Hit by heat and drought, Netherlands is rethinking its traditional approach to water
8-18	Will Iran Be Next?
8-18	The president's real goal in Iraq
8-18	Truth-stretching means lying
8-18	U.S. likely target of another big terror attack, report says
8-18	Danger to Coral Reefs May Outpace Discovery
8-18	Sabotage threatens Iraq's economy
8-18	Bush Urges Lawmakers to Pass Forest Fire Legislation
8-18	Rio Poco: The once-mighty Rio Grande has slowed to a trickle
8-17	Iraqi dream world
8-17	Revealed: last-minute changes to Iraq dossier
8-17	Sabotage Derails Iraqi Oil Supply
8-17	Amin: the lapdog turned butcher who destroyed Uganda
8-16	A Tale of Two Power Outages  Iraqis say U.S. blackout no comparison to their prolonged outage
8-16	Post 9/11 security drives part of water rake hike proposal
8-16	Unpatriotic Patriot Act limits freedoms
8-16	Taking Responsibility
8-16	Iraq's Muslim Clerics Warn U.S. of Retaliation
8-16	45-minute claim on Iraq was hearsay
8-16	U.S. Clamps Secrecy on Warnings Before 9/11
8-16	Potentially Harmful Chemical Found in Mothers' Milk At Levels 10 Times Those Found In Europe
8-15	Ethics Probe Opened on Interior Dept. Lawyer
8-15	Northeast blackout misses Tri-State  Parts of Country May Remain Without Power Though Weekend  Blackout Causes Mass Disruption  BLACKOUT: New York City, New England, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, Ottawa suffer mass power outage
8-15	System's Crash Was Predicted
8-15	White House Fantasies on Iraq
8-14	The Bush Deceit
8-14	Dow improves safety, reduces pollution
8-14	Murkowski signs controversial bill making timber primary forest use
8-14	Farm deal puts WTO talks at risk
8-14	U.S. May Fine Some Who Shielded Iraq Sites
8-14	Campaign Unites Military Families, Veterans Pleading to Bring Troops Home
8-14	U.S. Government Sting Operation Criticized as Setup
8-13	Poindexter Resigns but Defends Programs
8-13	Ashcroft Planning Trip to Defend Patriot Act
8-13	RWE says operating gain was up
8-13	Auto Emissions Dispute Settled
8-13	End merger mania: State should fund, enhance small schools
8-13	A Misdirected Forest Strategy
8-13	Repeating Mistakes of the Cold War
8-13	A Month from Cancun, WTO and Critics Rev Their Engines
8-13	PCBs and fish
8-13	Sanchez: Troops in Iraq to Serve Year
8-13	'Downing Street hardened up WMD dossier', inquiry told
8-13	Bush Pushes 'Healthy Forests' Plan  Bush Flies Over Fire Site to Promote 'Healthy Forests'
8-13	Simple Fixes Could Bring Water to Millions - Experts
8-13	Greenpeace warns: Renewable energy cheaper, better for Thailand in long run
8-12	Bush's 9-11 Secrets
8-12	Iran-Contra, Amplified
8-12	Postwar costs likely to exceed bill for fighting
8-12	Bush's options few for reviving economy
8-12	At Wildfire Site, Bush Calls for Thinning
8-12	Klamath by Karl?
8-12	Turn Your Radio On - The Unions' Answer to Right-Wing Static
8-12	Gogol Goes for Broke with Recycled Plastic
8-12	They swim. They glow. And they could fight terrorism, thanks to Milwaukee scientists  YIKES!
8-12	Ecology Body Warns of Dangers from Fish Farms
8-12	Calif. Becomes First State To Ban Flame Retardants
8-11	Calif. City in Eye Of Perchlorate Pollution Storm
8-11	Villager Attacks U.S. Troops, but Why?
8-11	Lawyers Pressed to Give Up Ground on Client Secrets
8-11	Oil not likely to lift poor Iraqis to prosperity (Coalfield residents know about natural resource wealth and corruption!)
8-11	Fill it up with french-fry grease
8-11	FedEx and Brown Are Going Green
8-11	'Bring Us Home': GIs Flood US with War-Weary Emails
8-11	Riots Continue Over Fuel Crisis in Iraq's South
8-11	We Had a Democracy Once, But You Crushed It
8-11	Selling Out: Our Public Space, Universal Services Under Assault
8-11	Family shot dead by panicking US troops
8-11	EU 'regrets' US action on GM crops
8-11	We Stand Our Ground
8-11	US May Slow Cleanup Pace on 522 Toxic Sites - Study
8-11	As chemicals incinerated, emotions also cook
8-10	Wyoming County resident: Bunkers holding explosives are hazardous to area
8-10	Midwestern Smog Pushes Ozone to Limit
8-10	Blacklisting Judges
8-10	Conflict On The Federal Bench
8-10	Who Exposed Whistleblower's Wife?
8-10	Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence
8-10	Powell's indictment of Iraq looking thin
8-10	Thousands Rally in France, Trade Battle in Mind
8-10	Army Begins Burning of Chemical Weapons in Alabama Town  First chemical weapons burn in Alabama
8-10	Take Action: Write about Daniel Boone Forest Service Plan
8-9	Bush Team Makes Federal Lands More Open to Oil, Gas Drilling
8-9	Published on Friday, August 8, 2003 by PopMatters.com
8-9	Impeachable Offenses
8-9	Letter to President Bush Regarding his Justifications For War
8-9	As Ordered, It's About Oil
8-9	Immunity for Iraqi Oil Dealings Raises Alarm
8-9	Iraqi Trailers Said to Make Hydrogen, Not Biological Arms
8-9	Desalination Has Pitfalls, Study Finds
8-9	Ruling Gives Army Right to Incinerate Chemical Weapons
8-9	Indigenous Tribes Face Threats Worldwide
8-8	'Dr Strangeloves' Meet to Plan New Nuclear Era
8-8	Masters of Deceit: Convicted Felons Responsible for Thousands of Deaths are Calling the Shots at the White House
8-8	The War in Iraq is Just Starting
8-8	Bush Misuses Science, Report Says : Democrats Say Data Are Distorted to Boost Conservative Policies
8-8	Gore Says Bush Has Misled Americans
8-8	Bush Team Kept Airing Iraq Allegation: Officials Made Uranium Assertions Before and After President's Speech
8-8	It All Depends on What You Mean by 'Have'
8-8	Bush's pander bear
8-8	Rivals Say Halliburton Dominates Iraq Oil Work
8-7	Global Warming May Be Speeding Up, Fears Scientist
8-7	Wildfires, Heatwaves Hit Northern Hemisphere
8-7	IG Investigates Whether EPA Misled Public on Water Quality
8-7	The marriage of television and propaganda may well have been the funeral of reason
8-7	Senate Hits Back in Saudi Terror List Fight
8-7	Sshhhh, someone may hear you exercising free speech
8-7	Revealed: the secret cabal which spun for Blair
8-7	Across Political Spectrum, Groups Challenge Detention of 'Terror' Suspects
8-7	Now They Tell Us: Privatization Is No Panacea
8-7	Lists? What Lists? Who Gets on Those Airport No-fly Lists, and Why?
8-7	Karl Rove's Water Policy
8-7	The Fruits of Bushonomics
8-7	Harm to America
8-7	Scalia, Bush part of U.S. department of virtue and vice
8-6	Small Charities Abroad Feel Pinch of U.S. War on Terror
8-6	Neocon Coup at the Department d'tat
8-6	Civil Rights Coalition Wants to 'Save Our Courts'
8-6	FBI draws blank in anthrax probe
8-6	Officials Confirm Dropping Firebombs on Iraqi Troops
8-6	Senator Boxer on the Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act
8-6	America's Habit of Revenge
8-6	'We Don't Feel Like Heroes Anymore'
8-6	Blood on Our Hands?
8-6	U.S. court asked to halt nerve gas destruction  US Army Delays Burning Chemical Weapons - Group
8-6	Indian Coke, Pepsi Laced with Pesticides, Says NGO   Poison in your soft drink, says study
8-6	Protection needed for 'marine Serengetis'
8-6	USDA Requires Permits for Industrial Biotech Crops
8-5	Afghans on Edge of Chaos
8-5	The Unreported Cost of War: At Least 827 American Wounded
8-5	Bitterness Grows in Iraq Over Deaths of Civilians
8-5	War's unintended effects; Use of depleted uranium weapons lingers as health concern
8-5	What Was Behind the Pentagon's Betting Parlor?
8-5	Bumbling Bush may have Given Osama an Open Goal
8-5	Iraq not the only evil
8-5	Let Iraqis Decide What to Privatize
8-5	GM crops do harm surrounding flora and fauna, farm trials likely to reveal
8-5	Hold Biomass accountable for tobacco fiasco
8-5	Support your local fungi
8-5	Landfills are all bottled up
8-4	Hay: The choice is ecological  The straw-bale construction workshops continue the next two weekends
8-4	Looted and For Sale in Iraq: The Deadly Core of Nuclear Weapons
8-4	Argentina Didn't Fall on Its Own
8-4	'Personal' Responsibility
8-4	Blair and Bush Join Forces to Spin Away Weapons Issue
8-4	Wilderness Society Says Energy Bill Conference Put's America's Arctic Refuge Back in Crosshairs
8-4	Irish take lead with plastic bag levy
8-4	The Emperor Has No Evidence
8-4	US anti-war activists hit by secret airport ban
8-3	Facing a Second Nuclear Age
8-3	Deep pockets behind Healthy Forests Initiative
8-3	Fire report is scientifically indefensible
8-3	See the forest and the trees
8-3	Bait and Switch: The Neocon Case for War in Iraq
8-3	War on Truth
8-2	U.S. Media Are Too Soft on the White House
8-2	Bush's High Crimes Against the Nation
8-2	George W. Bush Means Nothing
8-2	Genetically engineered trees quietly sprouting
8-2	Ozone benefits from treaty
8-2	Big gas hike likely
8-2	Withheld section of report links 9/11 hijackers to Saudis, sources say  Report on 9/11 Suggests a Role by Saudi Spies
8-2	Ethanol Cars Cause Fuming
8-2	US Debates Bid to Kill Hussein and Avoid Trial
8-2	Biomass misses EPA deadline
8-2	U.S. Shifts Rhetoric On Its Goals in Iraq
8-1	State buys part of Cheat Canyon
8-1	Poindexter to Leave Pentagon Research Job  Poindexter Will Be Quitting Over Terrorism Betting Plan
8-1	U.S. to check background of each airline passenger
8-1	World Officials Agree to Share Ecology Data Group to Plan Global Sharing of Environmental Data  US proposes planet watch
8-1	Pipeline Financing Vote Postponed
8-1	Cheney's 'Irresponsible' Speech
8-1	U.S. Bartering Arms for Soldiers for Iraq War
8-1	Senate OKs Singapore, Chile Trade Deals
8-1	Democratic candidate offers environmental plan  Dean Debuts Environmental Strategy for Next 100 Years
8-1	Environmentalists spread the word to stop building in national forests
8-1	Ex-Interior chiefs blast Bush outsourcing
8-1	Reduction in man-made chemicals slows ozone depletion
8-1	Industrial Baker Fined $5.25 Million for Ozone Depletion