Australia’s pro-coal Emissions Trading Scheme

Australia - the world’s biggest coal exporter, and the OECD’s worst and one of the world’s worst per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) polluters – has just announced a  Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) that will enable continued, “business as usual” (BAU), Planet-threatening  Australian GHG pollution. FULL STORY...

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NOT through the hopefuls’ prism

Fourteen weeks after taking the reins, Barack Obama seems well at ease to receive his first report card… on that artificial measuring target that dates back 76 years as another president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, took over the leadership over an America in economic shambles.  It was an America afflicted by Swine Capitalism flu (affluenza) back in 1933, and it is an America afflicted by a new strain of Swine Capitalism flu in 2009. FULL STORY...

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No doubt Avigdor Lieberman did not hear the news as he blustered recently (Haaretz 4/22/09) that “The Obama administration will put forth new peace initiatives only if Israel wants it to.” Then he added to the Russian daily Moskovskiy Komosolets, “Believe me America accepts all our decisions.” FULL STORY...

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In a case filed with the Pakistan Supreme Court, the petitioner states: “The Americans, like in Musharraf’s time, have also been given a free hand by President Zardari and fundamental rights of the (indigenous) people are being violated daily in tribal areas and (in northern areas of) Dir, Swat and Chitral. FULL STORY...

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Mitigate sentences, not criminality

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Scientists find nano-thermite in WTC dust

Thanks to the recently published research of Professor Niels Harrit (Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and an international team of scientists, we finally have a good idea of  “what” was the cause of the WTC collapse at 9-11 – an estimated 10-100 tonnes of nano-thermite (super thermite), an explosive involving aluminium (Al) and iron oxide (Fe2O3) embedded in a silicon oxide matrix applied to an iron oxide-rich substrate. FULL STORY... 

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Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s new Prime Minister, in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg (Atlantic Monthly, March 2009), ordered the new President of the United States to complete two “great missions” on behalf of Israel: “fix the economy” lest Israel not be able to collect its annual alimony of 3 billion plus the 30 billion promised by the Bush administration,.. FULL STORY...

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Freeing "Cuban Five" will be a win-win for Obama

Call it a presidential pardon, restitutive intervention, or simply a gesture of international goodwill; call it whatever you wish… just so the bottom line allows for wrong to be finally righted.  And that long-argued wrong has been the imprisonment in the United States of the “penta-cubanitos” for over a decade. FULL STORY...

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Iraqi cardiologist’s Speech to European Parliament

Below is the transcript of the “Occupation year 7” speech by Iraqi cardiologist Dr Omar Al-Kubaisy to the European Parliament, 18th March 2009, about the horrendous consequences of the illegal, war criminal and genocidal US, UK and Australian invasion and occupation of Iraq*. FULL STORY... 

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Unregulated Capitalism: A Fool’s Free Enterprise

Here we are on the eve of the G-20 meeting in London as true fools on April Fools’ Day hoping that this larger version of the G-7 can find some economic magic paddling under London Bridge. FULL STORY...

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