December 3, 2011
A U.S. appeals court has ruled oil giant Chevron cannot escape an $18 billion fine for massive pollution of the Amazon rain forest. Amazonian residents won the damages in an Ecuadorian court earlier this year, and Chevron says it will appeal the decision. It is the latest development [...]
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November 9, 2011
Any fossil fuel infrastructure built in the next five years will cause irreversible climate change, according to the IEA. Photograph: Rex Features World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will ‘lose for ever’ the chance to avoid dangerous climate change [...]
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September 19, 2011
Should we wait for the oil to run out? Food to run out? For collapse? Or can we plan our way back down, through power-down, simplification, localization? You have heard the big banks, in Europe, America and Japan are actually bankrupt. They still value their real estate collateral at the high points before the crash. [...]
Tags: Conrad Schmidt, Ecological footprint, Energy, environment, International Energy Agency, Jevons Paradox, United States, Work-Less-Party
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August 25, 2011
Envoy: China to support Palestinian UN bid Published yesterday (updated) 24/08/2011 23:22 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Chinese Middle East envoy Wu Sike announced his country’s full support on Wednesday for the Palestinian UN bid for recognition in September. Secretary-General of the Presidency At-Tayeb Abdul Rahim met with the Chinese envoy in the presidential headquarters in [...]
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August 23, 2011
Obama’s Biofuels Insanity By ROBERT BRYCE Barack Obama’s biofuels insanity continues. And it continues without any regard for history, basic arithmetic, or the recent spike in food prices. Last month, the Farm Foundation a centrist non-profit group based in Illinois, released a study which named biofuels as one of the key factors that is driving [...]
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August 9, 2011
Obama Vows to Continue Afghan War Panetta also backs continuing war, seeking to ‘honor troops’ by Jason Ditz, August 08, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In separate comments related to the deaths of 30 US troops in a helicopter downing over the weekend, President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta both [...]
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August 7, 2011
A Wall Street sign in front of the New York stock exchange. Recent events have changed the US as an unassailable economic superpower. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters When India joined China in criticising America’s chaotic handling of its hefty debts this weekend, describing the challenges facing the White House as “grave”, it was the clearest indicator yet [...]
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August 6, 2011
The video can be seen at http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia-pacific/2011/08/20118693514112266.html Anti-nuclear campaigners in Japan are using the 66th anniversary of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima to push the government to abandon nuclear power. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city in August, 1945, near the end of the Second World War. By the end of the year, [...]
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July 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
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July 13, 2011
US politicians continue to press for detainees captured overseas to be tried in military courts [EPA] When Ahmed Warsame was captured by US forces in April, he didn’t know that he would be interrogated on a ship at sea, then rendered to trial in New York City nearly three months later. It also probably didn’t occur [...]
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July 6, 2011
Obama Counterterrorism Strategy Lies and Fails John Glaser, July 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum When the Obama administration last week released their new National Strategy for Counterterrorism I naively expected some honest iteration of policy of the kind that slip through in declassified NSC reports. That wasn’t the case. Rather, [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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July 4, 2011
Years of violence in Iraq has left a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and the most basic medicines. Areas outside Baghdad particularly suffer from the frail state of the country’s healthcare system. And, as Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf reports, children are often the most vulnerable There is a video available at the [...]
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July 3, 2011
Time and bailouts do not cushion anemic post-crisis recoveries from the inevitable next shock [GALLO/GETTY] The global economy is in the midst of its second growth scare in less than two years. Get used to it. In a post-crisis world, these are the footprints of a failed recovery. The reason is simple. The typical business [...]
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July 3, 2011
U.S. turns to other routes to supply Afghan war as relations with Pakistan fray By Craig Whitlock, Sunday, July 3, 9:54 AM The U.S. military is rapidly expanding its aerial and Central Asian supply routes to the war in Afghanistan, fearing that Pakistan could cut off the main means of providing American and NATO forces with fuel, food and equipment. Although Pakistan [...]
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July 3, 2011
KABUL, Afghanistan – Despite U.S. reports of progress on the battlefield, American troops were killed in the first half of this year at the same pace as in 2010 — an indication that the war’s toll on U.S. forces has not eased as the Obama administration moves to shift the burden to the Afghans. While [...]
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
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June 30, 2011
The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education War Colleges By HENRY GIROUX While there is an ongoing discussion about the increasing corporatization of higher education—extending from the attempted buying of faculty positions by right-wing billionaires such as the Koch brothers to the increasing casualization of faculty labor and the commodification of knowledge, what [...]
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June 28, 2011
The British always claim to have something in reserve. But what happens when the pedal goes to the metal and there’s nothing there? Perhaps a new election would help the unelected form a proper government perhaps that’s not possible in the capital project where its one for one and all for one. The next [...]
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June 27, 2011
Arab activists say liberalisation of trade, investment and deregulation advocated by the US and the EU as part of their aid packages had contributed to the unrest in the first place. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-Zuma/Rex Features Arab activists warned on Monday that conditions attached to western aidthreatened to undercut the goals of economic and social justice at the [...]
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June 27, 2011
With the ever growing presence of fascist thought starting to dominate the mainstream of the media it is useful to look around at what people who are not psychopaths think about the directions being taken at present around the planet. Here in australia we are firmly in the grip of an unelected Prime Minister who [...]
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June 26, 2011
Politics shapes strategy in conflicts of choice — which is another reason to avoid them In National Review, The Weekly Standard, and the Washington Post, leading War on Terror hawks are expressing outrage at the timeline President Obama set for troop reductions in Afghanistan. Their complaint: politics is driving American policy. “So why September 2012?” Bill Kristol writes. [...]
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June 26, 2011
NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) – Supporters of Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr have offered to carry out suicide attacks against US troops in Iraq, his office said Saturday, as a year-end deadline for a US pullout looms. “Thank you, my dear friends, and God bless you,” Sadr wrote in reply to the offer from loyalists of [...]
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June 26, 2011
You may wonder why in a world beset with massive environmental problems as well as endless wars it all seems to come down to a dollar value before the penny drops. But is it the right penny? Saying that the war in Afghanistan is a costly mess or any words to that effect only further legitimises the [...]
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June 26, 2011
“A Moment in the Sun”: An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker, Author John Sayles Share1172 We spend the hour with legendary independent filmmaker and author, John Sayles. Over the past three decades, he has directed 17 feature films, including Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan, Lone Star, and Eight Men Out. He has often used [...]
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June 26, 2011
US Vows to Arm Philippines to Fight China Clinton Calls for Restraint, Announces More Weapons Transfers by Jason Ditz, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum With the disputes over the unpopulated Spratly Islands continuing to grow, the Obama Administration has announced that it is preparing a major increase in arms [...]
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June 25, 2011
Perhaps all the talk after the so called drawdown in Afghanistan, may well amount to concealed laughter by the military. The numbers being removed, if any real decease is actually going to happen are extremely small. Then the replacement mercenaries become yet another US army. If you have been just shot and killed by a [...]
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June 25, 2011
White House Claims Vindication as House Refuses to Authorize Libya War Officials Say Refusal to Authorize ‘Limited’ War Proves War Worth Fighting by Jason Ditz, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The attempts by some in the House of Representatives to spin the second of two votes on the Libya [...]
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June 24, 2011
Among all the issues being ventilated at the moment the difficulties of Peak Oil are resurfacing. All these grandiose plans of everlasting growth are so dependant on the black stuff being 1. available and 2. cheap. Sonia Shah wrote a very good book called “Crude” and much of what she said there including the timing of important events is becoming [...]
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June 24, 2011
Tom Engelhardt There has been a great deal written and said about what is seen as the imperial project and the way in which imperialist aims and aspirations invariably are expressed in terms of war. Perhaps one of the most startling figures available is the way in which war itself has become very much a slaughterhouse [...]
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June 23, 2011
All this may look good but think about the fact that they should not be there at all and that a mercenary army will have ti be there to protect their precious assets and it all comes to nought. Now how long ago was it that the great crawler Julia said we were there regardless? [...]
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June 22, 2011
Are Londoners ready to die for their air quality? Poor air quality causes more than 4,000 deaths in London each year. Join our ‘die-in’ and get Boris Johnson‘s attention London roads could be responsible for up to 30% of all new cases of asthma in children. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian On the [...]
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June 22, 2011
Hezbollah and the Arab revolution The group’s leader keeps his ear close to the ground, bonding with the dispossessed and speaking their language. Heralded by millions of fans as ‘the mastermind of the resistance’ – and demonised by the US and Israel as a ’terrorist’, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah‘s rhetoric towards Syria is equally divisive [GALLO/GETTY] Is [...]
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June 22, 2011
Irked by Warnings, British PM Tells Military Leadership to Shut Up About Libya ‘You Do the Fighting and I’ll Do the Talking’ by Jason Ditz, June 21, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Warnings from top British military officials, including Navy Chief Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope have cautioned that the Libyan War [...]
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June 22, 2011
NATO Abandons Denial, Admits to Libya Attack That Killed 15 NATO Warplanes Attacked Sorman After All by Jason Ditz, June 21, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On Sunday, NATO copped to killing at least nine civilians in a strike in Central Tripoli, blaming a “weapons system failure,” but when a second incident [...]
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June 21, 2011
Afghan Withdrawal: Obama Lied, Soon Many Will Have Died By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58232 The United States has about 200,000 military personnel in Afghanistan, half of them troops, half of them contractors. President Barack Obama put over two-thirds of that number there, first with a big escalation in 2009 that everyone refuses to pay the slightest [...]
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June 21, 2011
Adel: A decade of injustice Adel al-Gazzar has undergone a decade-long ordeal involving detention without trial, torture and medical malpractice. In January 2009, President Obama signed an order to suspend the Guantanamo military commission for 120 days and that the detention facility would be shut down within the year [GALLO/GETTY] For someone to be held [...]
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June 20, 2011
Obama’s third war US President Barack Obama’s promises that Libya would be a short war with humanitarian aims have fallen flat. US President Barack Obama now has his country mired in another military quagmire in Libya [GALLO/GETTY] Republicans in the United States Senate held a hearing in early April to discuss the progress of what [...]
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June 18, 2011
Egypt and Tunisia are now officially on the international donor community’s radar. The World Bank and the G8 are already planning different ways to sponsor the so-called Arab Spring. Many Arabs are speaking out against a possible Euro-US “hijacking” or “containment” of the regional movement through this type of ”cheque book diplomacy”. I will argue here that this position is not [...]
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June 18, 2011
As far as Afghanistan is concerned you need to make a start. A start to disseminate information that not only is war a crime but the damage being done to people’s everyday lives by the ridiculous expenditure required to not just fight a war but to remain on a war standing is ruinous. If you [...]
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June 18, 2011
Pentagon Urges Obama to Keep Afghan Surge Going Until Fall 2012 Plan Would Keep Vast Majority of Surge Troops in Nation for Another Year and a Half by Jason Ditz, June 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum With the decision on the long-promised July 2011 dradown likely just weeks away, the [...]
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June 18, 2011
Whatever attitude you adopt it is hard to go past the fact that the US was with Iraq and our co-criminal involvement was all about oil as a resource as well as about controlling oil reserves in the Middle East. Of course that spreads to and includes other countries with estimated massive reserves of gas [...]
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June 18, 2011
Pulling Obama at Both Ends on Afghanistan Pullout John Glaser, June 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Obama will make a public decision on an initial draw-down of troops in Afghanistan in the next few weeks. On one end, we have Defense Secretary Gates, General Petraeus, and – officially now – the [...]
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June 17, 2011
Has oil production already peaked? Photograph: Corbis/BarbaraDavidson In public, the last government shrugged off the prospect of peak oil. In private, we know now that it had a different view. A powerpoint presentation released at last by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, in response to freedom of information (FoI) requests by the indefatigable [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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