Articles from 'April 2009'
Obama Blames Lenders for Pushing Chrysler Into Bankruptcy
President Says Automaker Will Return From Protection With a 'New Lease on Life' By Brady Dennis, Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Kendra Marr / Washington Post ...
Obama Says Chrysler Holdout Lenders Speculated on U.S. Bailout
By Julianna Goldman and Linda Sandler April 30 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said Chrysler LLC lenders who turned down his buyout offers are a ...
Obama Aims At Hedge Funds Amid Chrysler Bankruptcy
By Joseph Checkler NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--President Barack Obama's scolding of hedge funds sparked an immediate backlash from fund managers who resent what they see ...
Ari Fleischer: Subpoena Me on Torture
By Matt Pressman / Vanity Fair What's the easiest way to get a roomful of media people together? Offer them free lunch and a panel ...
Obama gives nuanced defense of his stance on torture
He says harsh interrogation methods may have yielded useful information but that they should still be ruled out. His stance suggests complications in ending Bush-era ...
Standing Against Single Payer: My Ron Pollack Problem — and Yours ...by Russell Mokhiber
CommonDreams Karen Ignagni is not the problem. As president of America's Health Insurance Plans, Karen Ignagni represents the health insurance industry. The same health insurance ...
Olbermann presses Hannity on his waterboard offer
By David Bauder NEW YORK (AP) — The debate over torture is getting personal for two of cable TV's prime-time hosts. After Fox News Channel's ...
Prosecution of Bush Six Back On
By Scott Horton / Daily Beast In a ruling in Madrid today, Judge Baltasar Garzón has announced that an inquiry into the Bush administration’s torture ...
Spanish judge opens probe into Guantanamo torture
MADRID (AFP) — A Spanish judge on Wednesday opened an investigation into an alleged "systematic programme" of torture at the US Guantanamo Bay detention camp, ...
Conyers, Nadler request special prosecutor on torture
Raw Story Congressmen John Conyers and Jerrold Nadler have written a letter to the Attorney General requesting the appointment of a special prosecutor on torture. ...
Iraq Says U.S. Raid That Killed Two Breaches Pullout Agreement
By Caroline Alexander April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Iraq condemned the American military for an April 26 raid in the southern city of Kut that killed ...
Iraq demands official apology for U.S. raid
By Waleed Ibrahim BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi government has asked General Ray Odierno, the U.S. commander in Iraq, for an official apology for a ...
Officer: Accused ex-soldier lost friends in combat
By Brett Barrouquere / Associated Press PADUCAH, Ky. -- A former U.S. Army soldier accused of raping an Iraqi girl and killing her and three ...
Specter switch raises stakes for Franken-Coleman
By Brian Bakst and Henry C. Jackson ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's party switch has turned up the heat on Minnesota's ...
Penn. Sen. Arlen Specter to Switch to Democratic Party
By Chris Cillizza and Paul Kane / Washington Post Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch parties and run for reelection next November as a Democrat, ...
Worker safety system in obvious need of repair ...by Terence M. O’Sullivan
Las Vegas Sun The odds are that by the end of today in America, 15 working people will be killed on the job, victims of ...
Battle for safe workplaces not over ...by Bruce Clark
Injuries and deaths on the job still occur in the U.S. Dubuque Telegraph-Herald Tuesday, April 28, is Workers Memorial Day. The day marks the anniversary ...
Could Workers Memorial Day become a new bank holiday?
By Rhiannon Hoyle / Construction News The UK Government has today announced a new consultation to look at officially recognising Workers Memorial Day. While its ...
UAW Said to Get 55% Chrysler Ownership, Board Seats
By John Lippert and Mike Ramsey April 28 (Bloomberg) -- The United Auto Workers union's retiree health-care fund will own 55 percent of Chrysler LLC ...
UAW could put VEBA on shaky ground
Union agrees to take half from Detroit 3 By Greg Gardner / Detroit Free Press With ranks of active UAW workers shrinking and the pool ...
General Motors debt deal to give government majority stake
Bankruptcy seen as likely if bondholders block plan By Stephen Foley / IndependentThe US government will emerge as the majority shareholder in General Motors, the ...
Schofield soldier dies in Iraq
By John Windrow / Honolulu AdvertiserA Hawai'i-based soldier who was the senior enlisted man in his Schofield Barracks unit has died in Iraq, the Pentagon ...
Reform U.S. Foreign Policy: Pass the Employee Free Choice Act ...by Robert Naiman
Huffington PostSometimes an opportunity for reform comes along that is "strategic" in that it changes the playing field for efforts to win other reforms in ...
'We Could Have Done This the Right Way'
How Ali Soufan, an FBI agent, got Abu Zubaydah to talk without torture. By Michael Isikoff / Newsweek The arguments at the CIA safe house ...
Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling
by Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica Norma Fiorentino's drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been ...
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