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12-31	Think of the Economy as a Subsidiary of the Environment
12-31	Israel's Onslaught: One of Its Bloodiest Attacks on Palestinians in 60 Years
12-31	Add Up the Damage
12-31	Farewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House
12-31	Score one for the environment
12-31	Christmas Massacres "Killed 400"
12-31	A Hundred Eyes for an Eye
12-31	Women Farmers Toil to Expand Africa's Food Supply
12-31	Congress to Examine Madoff Case Next Week  -  Advocates for Southern Voting Rights Among Madoff Victim
12-31	Unrest Caused by Bad Economy May Require Military Action, Report Says
12-31	Rove's IT Guru Warned of Sabotage Before Fatal Plane Crash; Was Set to Testify
12-31	Franken lead at 50; Minn. absentees left to count
12-30	Land deal will preserve forest near Snowshoe
12-30	Analysis: "I Don't See How This Ends Well" in Gaza
12-30	Obama Adviser Aligns with White House in Criticism of Rocket Attacks on Israel
12-30	CQ Profile: Henry Waxman, Savvy Operator with New Power Base
12-30	Drillers eye oil reserves off California coast
12-30	Iranians Ponder Their Future With an Obama Administration
12-29	Over 310 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Attack on Gaza
12-28	Institutions, motivations, and assumptions in economic analysis
12-28	Capture and Sequestration: Seeking Justice in Kingston Coal Ash Disaster
12-27	Pakistan-India tension grows
12-27	Groups Soliciting Funds to Buy BLM Leases
12-26	6 states tackle Ohio River water quality
12-26	Scientists getting closer in Va. fish kills mystery
12-26	Smithsonian features tribe's salmon-recovery effort
12-26	Will the Downturn Save the Planet? A Green New Deal?
12-26	Toxic wastes around mines go largely ignored
12-25	U.S. Military Preparing for Domestic Disturbances
12-25	Many suffered from anti-gay violence in 2008
12-25	White House Divergence After 8 Years
12-24	Bush slashed toxic monitoring programs, NRDC report says
12-24	Environment could get renewed attention in 2009
12-24	Activists celebrate as insurers pull plug on 1.1bn Turkish dam
12-24	What does economics explain, anyway?
12-24	Housing Starts Fall Through the Floor
12-23	Manchin to offer help for Ravenswood plan
12-23	SEC Whistleblower Speaks on Madoff Fraud
12-22	EPA veils chemical info from public
12-22	W.Va. remains atop balanced-budget tightrope
12-22	A World Enslaved
12-22	The life and legacy of Chico Mendes
12-22	AP Study Finds $1.6B Went to Bailed-Out Bank Execs
12-22	Desalination Plants Increase, As do Concerns  -  Does Desalinization Hurt the Environment?
12-22	Morales Remakes Bolivia
12-22	Desert wind blows health risks from Calif mines
12-22	Brazil maps partially destroyed areas of Amazon  -  Amazon rainforest damage surges 67% in 2008
12-22	Cheney: Senator deserved the f-word  -  Cheney Defends His Tenure, Administration's Actions
12-22	Regulating Good Government
12-22	The Pentagon is muscling in everywhere
12-22	Bush Insider Killed In Plane Crash  -  Recently subpoenaed Bush/Rove IT expert is Wellstoned.
12-22	U.S. votes against "right to food" in UN General Assembly
12-22	Neanderthals could have died out because their bodies overheated
12-21	Bush departure
12-21	How Astronauts Went to the Moon and Ended Up Discovering Planet Earth
12-21	Where Have the Bailout Billions Gone?
12-21	Another one bites the dust (Jack Spadaro, Tony Oppegard among the good people BushCo axed)
12-21	How a Shoe Put the Boot to Bush's Iraq Legacy  -  Bush Shoe Gives Firm a Footing in the Market
12-21	Tortured Reasoning
12-21	Bush's Last-Minute "Conscience" Rules Cause Furor
12-21	Corruption Destroys Afghanistan
12-21	'Greek Syndrome' is Catching as Youth Take to Streets
12-20	AFL-CIO, others launch campaign to protect jobs
12-20	Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes  -  Why Was Cheney So Quick to Admit He's a War Criminal?
12-20	Desalination Plants Increase - As do Concerns
12-20	Will War Crimes Be Outed?
12-20	Experts Urge Safety Probe Of Plastics Chemicals
12-20	Minnesota Supreme Court: Count Rejected Absentee Ballots
12-20	Blackwater Might Lose License to Work in Iraq
12-20	Obama Chooses Rep. Hilda Solis as Labor Chief
12-20	Gates Orders Development of Plans to Close Guantanamo
12-20	Madoff Scheme Kept Rippling Outward, Across Borders
12-20	After Lifeline, Big 3 Are Still in Deep
12-19	Empire? Overwhelming cost?
12-19	Kids Learn that Killing Is Fun at the Army's Lethal New Theme Park
12-19	Bush Administration Covered Up 500+ Blocked Water Pollution Cases
12-18	Workers Laid Off, Execs Paid Off
12-18	A look back: Bayer Explosion Kills Two, Shines Light on Communication Problems
12-18	Ketchum sworn in to high court  -  Ketchum sworn in to state Supreme Court
12-17	Rep. Dennis Kucinich on His Battle With the Banks
12-16	Schools to practice shelter in place
12-16	Third-party political ad blitz failed to get results
12-15	Bush visit to Iraq marred by dissent
12-15	Bush admin exempts farms from reporting toxic fumes
12-15	W.Va. not only state debating judicial selection
12-15	WVa tourism destinations get $5M in help with ads
12-15	Let the Banks Fail: Why a Few of the Financial Giants Should Crash
12-14	Kanawha to resume recyclables collection
12-13	Federal court rejects C8 appeal
12-13	Food-stamp roll breaks record
12-13	That Was No Small War in Georgia -- It Was the Beginning of the End of the American Empire
12-13	Areas near parks dropped from oil drilling plan
12-13	Did magnetic blip trigger mass extinction?
12-13	Conservation Groups Challenge Bush Administration's Gutting of ESA
12-13	Last US House Seat Filled on Grave of Stolen 2004 Election
12-13	THE DELUSION REVOLUTION: ON THE ROAD TO EXTINCTION AND IN DENIAL
12-13	BEHIND THE HEADLINES: GM FOOD
12-13	CHRONIC LEAD POISONING FROM URBAN SOILS
12-13	CARCINOGENS FROM CAR EXHAUST CAN LINGER
12-13	CIA Helped Shoot Down 15 Civilian Planes
12-13	Obama and Daschle Should Opt for Single-Payer
12-13	FDA Advisers Back New Female Condom
12-13	A separation of truth and myth about our monetary system
12-13	Jim Rogers Calls Most Big U.S. Banks "Bankrupt"
12-12	Beckley singer wins Obama song contest, heading to inauguration
12-12	Recycling needs our continued support (scroll down) -  Why must recycling pay for itself? (scroll down)
12-12	Donald C. Gasper: It's time to bring back Victory Gardens to help environment
12-12	Hinton giving sludge to farmers
12-12	Driving continues to decline as gas prices drop
12-12	Rumsfeld Responsible for Torture, Report Says
12-12	Obama 'appalled' by Blagojevich charges   -  Obama to Air Any Staff Talks About Senate Seat
12-12	Bailout dead, automakers in search of a lifeline
12-12	The Most Outrageous Media Comments of 2008
12-12	Brazil Allows Planting Of Dupont, Dow GMO Corn
12-11	Spending in W.Va. races for Congress tops $12.5M
12-11	Capitalist Fools
12-11	Bush's Final F.U.
12-11	Life After the Economic Collapse: How Having Less Will Make Us Happier
12-10	Workers Win a Big Round in Chicago Factory Sit-In
12-10	Gov. Blagojevich defiantly clings to power  -  Illinois governor ignores Obama's call to resign
12-9	Health Risks Stack Up for Students Near Industrial Plants
12-8	Extinctions sobering in their depth, breadth
12-8	Detroit Bailout Is to Bring On U.S. Oversight
12-8	The Rich Are Hogging Our Common Inheritance -- We Must Take It Back
12-7	Recycler says bottle bill not timely
12-7	Obama Pledges Public Works on a Vast Scale
12-7	The Colombia FTA: A Less Attractive Face for Trade?
12-7	Berlusconi Plans to Use G8 Presidency to "Regulate the Internet"
12-7	Suit Claims Halliburton, KBR Sickened Base
12-7	Senate seat for Caroline Kennedy would extend legacy
12-7	One Thriving Sector: The Business of War
12-7	Foreclosures Soar 76 Percent to Record 1.35 Million
12-7	The Kashmir Connection: A Puzzle
12-7	Iraq promotes oil industry at first postwar Energy Expo (post-war?)
12-7	Dozens of NATO supply trucks torched in Pakistan
12-7	Obama to nominate Rumsfeld critic as head of Veterans Affairs
12-7	U.S. Plans a Shift to Focus Troops on Kabul Region
12-6	Forest Service plans spraying effort against gypsy moths
12-6	Judge rules against class-action status in Teflon litigation
12-6	Water Fight: corporate bottom line versus foes of privatization and plasticization
12-6	Dying for A Drink
12-6	Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Iraq Occupation
12-6	Obama May Tap a Strong Progressive to Manage Our Wilderness
12-6	Zimbabwe Declares Cholera Emergency
12-6	Justice Department Says Pentagon Must Comply With EPA Cleanup Orders
12-6	Jobless Rate Soars to 6.7 Percent in November
126	RNC spends $180K on Palin and family
12-5	Interior Dept. Changes Rule to Remove Congress Veto
12-5	Rich countries carry out '21st century land grab'
12-5	Eco-problems of the 80s return to haunt us
12-5	Michael Moore: Save the Auto Industry and Kick Its CEOs to the Curb
12-5	Who Are the Taliban?: The Afghan War Deciphered
12-4	Report: W.Va. economy has long way to go
12-4	Military Contractor in Iraq Holds Foreign Workers in Warehouses
12-4	Obama Wrapping Up Cabinet Picks With Richardson
12-4	Last Secrets of the Bush Administration
12-4	Federal Prosecutor Is Making Inquiries in the Investigation of the Dismissal of US Attorneys
12-4	Man-Made Noise In World's Seas Threatens Wildlife
12-4	Cluster Bomb Treaty: Signing Begins to Bring Ban on Production
12-3	Obama will help, Manchin says
12-3	Panel warns biological attack likely by 2013  -  With WMD Attack Likely, Can the U.S. Cope?
12-3	Obama Likely to Boost Water Quality Rules
12-3	Franken May Seek Senate's Help to Win Race
12-3	Gates's Top Deputies May Leave
12-3	The Great Crash of 2008
12-3	In Courtroom Showdown, Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms
12-3	Obama and Beyond
12-3	Haste Could Make Waste on Stimulus, States Say
12-3	Georgia run-off denies Obama total control of Senate
12-3	GM, Chrysler Seek Billions in Immediate Aid
12-2	Recycle: Help the center
12-2	U.S. ignored meltdown warnings  -  Officials Vow to Act Amid Forecasts of Long Recession
12-2	Economic Rescue Could Cost $8.5 Trillion
12-2	Pakistan May Move Troops From Afghan to Indian Border
12-2	Activists expect Clinton to propel women's rights
12-2	Media and Retailers Both Built Black Friday
12-2	Virginia: Agriculture, forestry holds 500,000 jobs statewide
12-2	Brazil sets plan to cut deforestation by 70 percent over 10 years
12-2	Clues Obama Won't Govern Center-Right  -  Strategic advantage of Obamas blank slate
12-1	Mumbai Attacks: Piecing Together the Story
12-1	Seattle WTO Shutdown 9 Year Anniversary: 5 Lessons for Today
12-1	Obama, Ask the Kremlin about Gates
12-1	Transition or Coup D'tat?
12-1	Environmentalists, labor unions, civil rights advocates and others place their hopes on Obama
12-1	A Handpicked Team for a Foreign Policy Shift
12-1	Obamas Choice for U.N. Is Advocate of Strong Action Against Mass Killings
12-1	How to Find out the Hidden Secrets of the Bush Administration  -  Bushs 11th-Hour Bid for Secrecy
12-1	In Maryland, Focus on Poultry Industry Pollution