Update: 10 people reported dead in IDF raid on aid flotilla.  Universal condemnation.  Netanyahu cancels meeting with Obama.  NY Times: Kershner
“[the raid] damaged Israel’s ties to Turkey, one of its … [Keep reading >>]

Another weather record set, this time not rains and flooding in Tennessee, but temperatures, prostration, death and dried up lakes in India.
Record temperatures in northern India have claimed hundreds of … [Keep reading >>]

Paul Krugman:
What’s the greatest threat to our still-fragile economic recovery? Dangers abound, of course. But what I currently find most ominous is the spread of a destructive idea: … [Keep reading >>]

Americans spent $20,461,413,000 dollars on gasoline alone in 2009.  That’s at $3 a gallon.  A 10% catastrophe tax would bring in about $2,046,141,200 in a year, or $5,605,800 a day. … [Keep reading >>]

Tropical Storm Agatha, the first Eastern Pacific named storm of 2010, was short lived but deadly. Agatha was a tropical storm for just 12 hours, making landfall Saturday … [Keep reading >>]

Update: Jail time, it seems to me…
WASHINGTON — Internal documents from BP show that there were serious problems and safety concerns with the Deepwater Horizon far earlier … [Keep reading >>]

Preparations are under way in Gaza to receive a convoy of ships that is trying to break Israel’s economic blockade of the Palestinian territory.

The ships, carrying up to … [Keep reading >>]

David Barboaza of the NY Times has been posting some interesting labor stories from China.  The suicide stories from an enormous factory in Shenzan was followed by news of a … [Keep reading >>]

President Obama’s science adviser, John Holdren, said this yesterday that the “most important single thing that we need to get done in this country” to address energy and climate … [Keep reading >>]

Al-Qaeda Pakistan has its sights set on more than fighting western interlopers, or overthrowing the contaminated state.  Today the Punjab branch of Al Qaeda Pakistan claimed responsibility for a deadly … [Keep reading >>]

Too soon to know but initial impressions, at the top, are that the “top kill” is working; the hydrocarbon gusher is slowing.
“They’ve stopped the hydrocarbons from coming up,” National Incident … [Keep reading >>]

From Climate Progress:
The NYT’s Elisabeth Rosenthal had another front-page “teach the controversy” piece yesterday, “Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons.”  That has apparently become a specialty of … [Keep reading >>]