Red dust blown in from Australia‘s parched interior blankets Sydney in 2009. Australia and its region are experiencing the hottest 60 years in a millennium, scientists have determined. Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty link to article http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/17/australasia-hottest-60-years-study The last 60 years have been the hottest in Australasia for a millennium and cannot be explained by natural causes, according [...]
By Michael Collins (about the author) Become a Fan (57 fans) — Page 1 of 3 page(s) opednews.com link to article http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rebekah-Brooks-Witness-fo-by-Michael-Collins-120517-238.html Criminal charges against Rupert Murdoch insider and favorite Rebekah Brooks may be a prelude to looming charges arising out of Brooks’ testimony before the Leveson Inquiry last week. Crown Prosecution Services charged Brooks, [...]
Violence and Greeting Cards by Robert C. Koehler “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies . . .” My thanks to Medea Benjamin for her recent Common Dreams essay putting the spirit of Julia Ward Howe back into Mother’s Day. I’d forgotten about her 1870 proclamation of disarmament and call to the mothers of Planet Earth to [...]
Alexis Tsipras: Austerity Will Send Greece (and Europe) ‘Directly To Hell’ – Common Dreams staff Alexis Tsipras, head of Syriza, Greece’s ascendent left-wing political party, appeared on CNN’s evening news showAmanpour on Wednesday to voice his party’s position on the ongoing economic crisis in his country and across Europe. “We want to change the [...]
Women rush to question Election Commission Officer Abdulla Fortia after he speaks about the rules for the upcoming polls [Al Jazeera/D. Parvaz] Tripoli, Libya - Buoyed by the winds of change sweeping the region, Libyan women are eyeing a far greater role for themselves after next month’s national assembly elections. The June 19 [...]
A recent series of visits by US officials to Myanmar signaled the renewal of relations[GALLO/GETTY] Obama unveils ‘new chapter’ in Myanmar ties Rewards for reforms include first US ambassador to South Asian nation in 22 years and easing of investment sanctions. The ‘new chapter’ is finding another country to influence. Closed government means ‘not open [...]
I do not recall any reference to the refugees in Peace Now publications. Erasing the Nakba By Neve Gordon I first heard about the Nakba in the late 1980s, while I was an undergraduate student of philosophy at Hebrew University. This, I believe, is a revealing fact, particularly since, as a teenager, [...]
Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Looting the Lives of the Poor Posted by Barbara Ehrenreich at 8:01am, May 17, 2012. Gordon Gekko, the infamously cutthroat capitalist and lead character in Oliver Stone‘s Wall Street, captured the heady years of the 1980s with a single, indelible line: Greed is good. Today, it is Edward Conard, a friend and [...]
THOUGHTS AFTER INTERVIEWING GILAD ATZMON THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012 AT 3:23PM GILAD ATZMON Thoughts After Interviewing Gilad Atzmon: March 13, 2012, Geneva New York http://www.deliberation.info/ by Pat Carmeli From the wrath expressed by many in the solidarity movement at the mere mention of his name, I was expecting to dislike Gilad Atzmon or at least feel [...]
Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. May 14, 2012 | Unfortunately for the author of this piece Marxism is still an [...]
