Unidentified assailants threw an improvised explosive at a community center in La Florida district of Caracas in a pre-dawn attack. The attack comes on the heels of the ransacking of a Venezuelan synagogue.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe restricted the power of the DAS secret police agency to carry out wiretaps in the wake of the surveillance scandal, as his government petitions Washington for more military aid.
Iraqi-born Dutch citizen Wesam al-Delaema pleaded guilty in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to a charge of conspiracy to murder US nationals outside the United States.
Lawyers for Canadian detainee Omar Khadr were blocked from attending a meeting with Khadr at Guantánamo Bay, as officials have launched an investigation into the ethics of the defense team.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling that bars former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office based on his conviction for “hijacking”—that is, attempting to thwart the 1999 military coup.
by Ted Trainer, Synthesis/Regeneration An excerpt from the introduction to the book Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society (Springer 2007) In the last three decades considerable concern has emerged regarding limits to the future availability of energy in the… Read moreRENEWABLE ENERGY CANNOT SUSTAIN A CONSUMER SOCIETY
Continue ReadingRENEWABLE ENERGY CANNOT SUSTAIN A CONSUMER SOCIETYby Rachel Smolker and Brian Tokar, Toward Freedom In the coming weeks, the Obama administration is expected to release its plans to address the dual problems of global climate disruption and excessive dependence on foreign oil. Meanwhile, in the background,… Read moreBIOFUELS: PROMISE OR THREAT?
Continue ReadingBIOFUELS: PROMISE OR THREAT?Some 50,000 US troops likely to remain in Iraq after President Obama fulfills his pledge to “withdraw combat troops” would still have a combat role, unnamed Pentagon officials told the New York Times.
The Special Court for Sierra Leone found three former RUF guerrilla leaders guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their roles in the country’s civil war.
Former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic was acquitted of war crimes charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia—although five co-defendants were convicted.
