the Arctic region too fragile to tamper with.Protestor dressed as Grim Reaper outside Shell annual meeting in London. (Photo: rikki (indymedia). Used under Creative Commons license) How Obama Helped Authorize Shell’s Drilling the Arctic by Pratap Chatterjee President Barack Obama personally helped Shell obtain authorization to drill for oil in Alaska, according to a [...]
(Photo: Greenpeace)A frontpage report in today’s New York Times paints the picture of a president eager to open a gateway to arctic drilling that members of his own energy and climate change advisory panel thought was both surprising and “improbable”. Ignoring Protest and Warnings, Obama Ushers in Era of Unprecedented Arctic Drilling The president, who once [...]
I wish I were Egyptian so I could vote 22 May 2012 More than 50 million Egyptians will vote for a president tomorrow, the first time in Egypt’s history after the success of their peaceful and blessed revolution in overthrowing a corrupt, dictatorial regime which perched on their chests for more [...]
Lebanon on the verge of a disaster 23 May 2012 The situation in Lebanon is a cause for concern and even fear. It is clear that there are some fronts, inside and outside of Lebanon who are working on blowing up a sectarian civil war that will push the country to [...]
Rajoy’s government is grappling with high unemployment amid fears of a looming recession [Reuters] Spain has announced an $11bn bailout for its troubled bank, Bankia, a month after nationalising it. Luis de Guindos, the econmy minister, told a congressional committee that the state would have to put at least $11bn into saving Bankia, which he [...]
Jeremy Hunt: minister for Murdoch If this module of the Leveson inquiry has a smoking gun, it is the memo Jeremy Hunt wrote to the prime minister on 19 November 2010 Editorial guardian.co.uk, Thursday 24 May 2012 21.14 BST If this module of the Leveson inquiry has a smoking gun, it is the [...]
NATO Summit A Show Of Force By Paul Heise May 24, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The NATO summit held in Chicago last weekend reflects everything that is wrong with our society. The NATO summit put on display how we can and do conjure up foreign and domestic threats to [...]
Karzai Flips Out on Rep. Rohrabacher Jason Ditz, May 22, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment In an interview today on CNN, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was asked about reports that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R – CA) is banned from entering Afghanistan. Karzai confirmed the ban, and went on to say that: “A [...]
War With Iran Has Already Begun Bipartisan support for sanctions spells bloodshed to come by Nathan Fuller, May 24, 2012 Print This | Share This On Friday, 93% of the U.S. House of Representatives affirmed a resolution escalating America’s already aggressive position on Iran from “crippling” sanctions to a zero-tolerance policy on nuclear weapons. The Congressional Research [...]
Anarchist Studies: Syndicalism, Anarchism and Marxism Wed, 05/23/2012 – 14:02 — Anarcho Printer-friendly versionThis is the published version of a reply to an article by Marxist Ralph Darlington in Anarchist Studies (vol. 17, no. 2). Darlington’s original article appeared in Volume 17, Number 1 of Anarchist Studies and discusses the anarchist origins of syndicalism and refutes attempts [...]
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