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Environment/Nature
  • Robert Jensen , NEW LEFT PROJECT

    Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas. He is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity; The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege; and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity, among... » read this article
  • Alex Bogusky , The FearLess Cottage

    Video Interview with Jeffrey Smith author of Seeds of Deception - by Alex Bogusky The Great American Food Experiment and how to opt out. Jeff is in the middle of everything you see and read about Genetically Modified Organisms. This is our highest rated live show to date and Jeff... » read this article
  • Mark Bittman , The New York Times

    Book review: THE COMING FAMINE - The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It, By Julian Cribb Fifty years ago, a billion people were undernourished or starving; the number is about the same today. That’s actually progress, since a billion represented a third of the human... » read this article
  • Greg Palast , gregpalast.com

    Five years ago this week, a beast drowned New Orleans. Don't blame Katrina: the lady never, in fact, touched the city. The hurricane swept east of it. You want to know the name of the S.O.B. who attacked New Orleans? Locals call him "Mr. Go" - the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet... » read this article
  • Katharina Wied , WSWS

    28 August 2010 A major environmental scandal has featured in the German media since the spring of this year. In Dortmund transformers were dismantled and recycled by the company Envio Recycling GmbH & Co. The recycling process resulted in setting free highly poisonous PCB chemicals in what amounts to a... » read this article
  • Staff Writers Bochum, Germany (SPX) , SPX via Terra Daily

    Together with cooperation partners from the U.S., the researchers surrounding Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith (Physical Chemistry II of the RUB) describe their discovery in a so-termed Rapid Communication in the prestigious American chemistry journal, the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). The journal's independent reviewers evaluated the work as... » read this article
  • Saaed Shah , McClatchy Newspapers

    CHARSADDA, Pakistan - In the village of Drab Korona in northwest Pakistan, Sirajuddin returned to where his house had stood to salvage what he could. What he found was just a shallow muddy pool. "This was our house," the 30-year-old Sirajuddin, who goes by only one name as is common... » read this article
  • News report , Telegraph.co.uk

    Editorial comment: The latest reports from Pakistan give us the numbers of victims: there are 20 million displaced persons (nearly 12 percent of Pakistan’s population) and 1600 people have died. There are on-going dangers of deadly diseases increasing the numbers of victims of this catastrophic natural disaster. "The World Health... » read this article
  • John Stauber , In These Times

    Celebrity chef Alice Waters is the world’s most famous advocate of growing and eating local, organic food. In February 2010, Waters’ Chez Panisse Foundation chose as its new executive director “green socialite” and liberal political activist Francesca Vietor. But Vietor’s hiring created a conflict of interest that has married Waters... » read this article
  • Holly Williams , The Independent (UK)

    Individually, insects might not seem like candidates for intellectual plaudits. But collectively they have a brilliance that can teach us new skills Insects, birds, fish – they're not the most intelligent of beasts, right? Creepy crawlies or aquatic creatures are the ones humans feel furthest from; unlike many mammals, they... » read this article
  • UN Humanitarian Chief John Holmes , Democracy Now

    UN Humanitarian Chief John Holmes: The Magnitude of the Pakistan Floods Is UnprecedentedThe United Nations is warning millions of Pakistanis are at risk of deadly waterborne diseases more than two weeks since Pakistan’s worst-ever flooding began. The World Health Organization says around six million people—over half of them children—face the... » read this article
  • Patrick Martin , WSWS

    12 August 2010 In a deal that has sweeping, long-term implications for millions of people living and working along the US Gulf Coast, the Obama administration has agreed to base the payments by BP to the oil disaster fund on the oil giant’s profits from its drilling operations in the... » read this article
  • Leon Kaye. Triple Pundit , Triple Pundit (article); Wikipedia (bio)

    Editor's Note: This brilliant move by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa reflects his education, humanistic philosophy and his view that nature is sacred. He speaks 4 languages, Spanish, French, Quechua, and English. He holds degrees in Economics from universities in Ecuador, Belgium and a PhD from the University of Illinois in the US.... » read this article
  • SPX Staff Writers (1); Janet Anderson (2) , SPX via Space Daily

    (2 articles) Article 1 Palm Coast FL (SPX) Aug 10, 2010 - The Perseid meteor shower, an annual celestial event beloved by millions of skywatchers around the world, returns to the night sky this week. And because the Moon is new, there will be no moonlight to hinder the view.... » read this article
  • Special Report , Telegraph (UK)

    A siege of cranes, not seen in the British countryside for 400 years - are being prepared for release into the wild after being hand-reared by carers dressed in bird costumes. The 21 birds were bred in captivity and raised at 'crane school' where they were taught how to forage... » read this article
  • Julia Slater and Renat Künzi , Swiss Info

    As flooding in Pakistan disrupts millions of lives, and huge areas of Russian forest burn, many people are wondering whether they are linked. Flooding of a 1,000km stretch along the Indus river has already claimed about 1,600 lives, and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes. Over 13 million people... » read this article
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World News
  • Bahrain: Ali Abdulemam, blogger and Global Voices contributor arrested
    Ali Abdulemam, a leading Bahraini blogger and Global Voices Advocacy author, was arrested earlier today by the Bahraini authorities for allegedly spreading “false news” on BahrainOnline.org portal, one of the most popular pro-democracy outlets in Bahrain, amidst the worst sectarian crackdown by the...
  • Israel Invited to Join Anti-Nuclear Pact
    VIENNA - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has invited Israel to consider joining a global anti-nuclear arms pact and to place all its atomic facilities under his agency's inspections, an IAEA report said...
  • Laos and the legacy of Vietnam
    The US gives $3m a year to clear cluster bombs in Laos. For nine years, it spent $2m a day to drop them. We must do more Three million tons of ordnance was dropped on...
  • Fidel Castro addresses first rally in four years
    Fidel Castro has addressed a rally for the first time since handing the Cuban presidency to his brother Raul in 2006.   In a speech at Havana University, Mr Castro warned of nuclear war arising...
  • Pakistan floods and the timber mafia
      Islamabad, Pakistan (UPI) Sep 2, 2010 There is a link between deforestation in Pakistan and the massive floods sweeping the country, said an official with the World Wide Fund for Nature. "Had there been...
  • US arrests 370 immigrants in Midwest raids
    31 August 2010 A large-scale police operation resulted in the arrest of 370 immigrants in ten Midwestern states last week. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) coordinated with other federal authorities in conducting the...
  • ACLU Sues U.S. Over Targeted Killing of Citizens
     August 30, 2010 The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government over an alleged policy of killing American citizens who are suspected of terrorism. The lawsuit, filed today in federal court in Washington, argued...
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