From the Beeb, no less Bloggers are gaining a higher profile alongside traditional news sources with Yahoo including blogs in its expanding news search system. Also, Yahoo has a new Podcast finder.

Thousands of Air Force personnel are being sent to Iraq and Afghanistan to perform low-tech roles and help the Army keep up force levels. This must be sending Air Force morale crashing to new lows, and also clearly shows how…

Disrupting Reconstruction. Attacks on corporations have disrupted (see Halliburton Targeting for more on this strategy) the pace and scale of reconstruction in Iraq. The costs of private security have added 25-35% reconstruction contracts. A second category of costs is market…

The Hartford Courant in Connecticut has been running a series of articles on suburban sprawl, on the idiocy of building ever larger homes in the suburbs, which destroys more forests and makes the region ever more dependent on cars. That…

An enviro group in Paris has been letting the air out of SUV tires as a protest.

As polar ice turns to water, dreams of treasure abound “A capitalist will sell you rope on Monday for a revolution on Tuesday in which he gets hung on Wednesday.” Or drowned, for that matter.

Neo-Thatcherite Angela Merkel will probably become German chancellor after a close hard-fought election. However, the SPD made her pay a price. The SPD has come out of the deal with eight cabinet seats – two more than the CDU –…