Antarctica: …and still it melts
…This is on track to happen by 2100. “This is not saying that disaster occurs the next day,” Rothman says. “It’s saying that, if left unchecked, the carbon cycle would move…
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Bolivia to open protected areas to oil industry?
Bill Weinberg NY Left Forum dissidents make Bolivian yellow press Oy, oy, oy. Newspaper De Bolivia carries photos of dissident-leftists protesting García Linera at New York’s Left Forum, with the headline “Evo…
Maoists go mainstream
…has managed to draw in an impressive list of endorsers from across the American left, among them Gore Vidal, Cindy Sheehan, Alice Walker, Daniel Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jane…
U.S. army deserter’s log: Zombies in the Fog of War
…Cojean for Le Monde, translation at straightgoods.ca I am a deserter. One morning in December, 2003, I put my family into an old car, bought for $600, and left the…
Crimean Tatars at issue in Ukraine crisis
…left, it states: “[F]or the leftists and anarchists of the West it’s high time to cut ties with the so-called ‘anti-imperialism’ which comes down to the support of the Putin’s regime…
Environmental policy roots of Katrina disaster
…of gutting the programs that do anything. Unfortunately, the war in Iraq is directly related to the devastation left by the hurricane. About 35 percent of Louisiana’s National Guard is…
ENEMY OF THE STATE
The Battle Over Sustainable Development in Ecuador’s Intag Valley by Gerard Coffey, La Linea de Fuego QUITO — Born in Cuba, Carlos Zorrilla left the island when he was 11…
IS THE U.S. PULLING THE PLUG ON IRAQI OIL WORKERS?
…it into power, the CIA gave it lists of thousands of Iraqi leftists and union activists, who were imprisoned and murdered. After a decade of more coups and counter-coups, Saddam…
Mexico: cartels declare open season on candidates
…He was running with the left-opposition Morena party. But even more mainstream politicians are being taregted. Also May 14, gunmen fatally shot Héctor López Cruz, who was running for the…
LOVE, STRUGGLE AND MEMORY IN CIUDAD JUAREZ
…one they left a decade before. Soon the returning siblings heard first-hand accounts of shoot-outs, robberies, auto thefts and kidnappings. A cousin was injured by shattered glass from a stray…
Iraq: “the case for cutting and running”
Nir Rosen has a piece in the December Atlantic Monthly entitled “If America Left Iraq: The case for cutting and running.” Rosen poses the following questions and answers them all…
Iraqi socialists kidnapped
From Socialism Now, the website of the Left Worker Communist Party in Iraq: We denounce the Coward Terrorist Act Of Kidnapping Two of our Comrades by a Militant Gang in…