"The Zombie Ideas Have Won" – Paul Krugman on $1 Trillion Geithner Plan to Buy Toxic Bank Assets; Water Rights Activists Blast Istanbul World Water Forum as "Corporate Trade Show to Promote Privatization"; Dam Politics: India's Leading Activist Medha Patkar Takes on Corporate Control of Water.
Today's Headlines
* Report: US Will Appoint “Afghan PM” to Bypass Hamid Karzai
* Obama: Exit Strategy Needed for Afghanistan
* Obama: Bush-Cheney Policies Haven’t Made Us Safer
* Geithner to Unveil Plan to Purchase $1 Trillion in Toxic Assets
* White House Officials Oppose Tax on Wall Street Bonuses
* World Bank: 2009 Will Be “Very Dangerous” Year
* Israel Accused of Targeting Medical Personnel in Gaza
* IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot at Gaza Rescuers
* Soldier: Israeli Rabbis Turned Gaza Invasion into Religious War
* Antiwar British MP Barred from Canada
* Family of Slain Iraqi Guard Sues Blackwater
* Costco, Starbucks and Whole Foods Fight Proposed Labor Law
* NYC Pays $1.5 Million to Families of Two Killed by NYPD
* Four Oakland Police Officers Killed in Shoot-Out
* Protests Mark 6th Anniversary of US Invasion of Iraq