10 May
New on Climate & Capitalism 10 May, 2008
Cyclone Nargis and Climate Change: The Deadly Legacy of Oil
“Nargis is a sign of things to come. The victims of these cyclones are climate change victims and their plight should remind the rich world that it is doing too little to contain its greenhouse gas emissions.”
8 May, 2008
Bush Says Starving India Eats Too Much
Truly, imperialist hypocrisy knows no bounds
Proving the Link Between Biofuel and Food Prices
Many politicians deny or minimize the link between ethanol production and global food prices. The evidence proves them wrong.
Agrofuel Expansion on Stolen Lands Threatens Colombian Peasant Communities
Production of biofuels is expanding on land stolen from local Afro-Colombian communities, endangering Colombia’s rainforests, food security, water resources and regional climate
New On Bolivia Rising 8 May, 2008
Evo’s Dilemmas By Néstor Kohan
The Right respects legality only when legality favors it. The history of our America has shown that a thousand times. The confrontation that is convulsing Bolivia today is no exception.
War on Bolivia By Fred Jones, April 30,2008
In Bolivia the social movements have organized to defend a new progressive constitution and social change which begins to deal justly with the native majority for the first time.
GI Special 6E6 10 May, 2008: 1000
9 May
Information Clearing House 9 May, 2008 A Wild Day in Beirut
Uruk Net Iraq News 9 May 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 9 May 2008
8 May
Information Clearing House 8 May, 2008 Jimmy Carter : A Human Rights Crime
Uruk Net Iraq News 8 May 2008
7 May
Information Clearing House 7 May, 2008 - A Picture Worth A Thousand Words
Uruk Net Iraq News 7 May 2008
GI Special 6E5 7 May, 2008: Outstanding!
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 7 May 2008
6 May
Information Clearing House 6 May, 2008: Rattling the Cage
Uruk Net Iraq News 6 May 2008
GI Special 6E4 6 May, 2008: So
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 6 May 2008
5 May
Information Clearing House 5 May, 2008 - The Gospel of Consumption
Uruk Net Iraq News 5 May 2008
GI Special 6E3 5 May, 2008: "We Just Can't Do This Anymore"
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 5 May 2008
4 May
Uruk Net Iraq News 4 May 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 4 May 2008
GI Special 6E2 4 May, 2008: Combat Report
New on Bolivia Rising, 4 May, 2008
Bolivian military warns against autonomy vote
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (AFP) — Bolivia’s military warned Saturday that a contested autonomy vote in the prosperous Santa Cruz province was a threat to its territorial integrity, raising tensions a day before the poll.
Bolivia nationalises four energy firms, takes control of telecom operator
May 2 - Bolivian president Evo Morales has announced the nationalisation of four global energy companies operating in the country even as the state took absolute control of the National Telecommunications Company (Entel), in a continuation of the country's nationalisation policy.
The future is at stake in Bolivia By Luis Bilbao
Every person with a consciousness should be worried and concerning themselves with what is occurring in Bolivia. The United States is on the verge of unleashing a war that would shake the region and which, in the short term, could lead to a state of commotion and belligerence in all of South America.
May 4th and Beyond By Sergio Cáceres
After reviewing the Bolivian press, one has the sensation that the end of the world will begin on May 4th in Bolivia, as it reaches the final judgment.
Fidel Castro: Bolivia is an “acid test” Fidel Castro Ruz, April 30, 2008
While our people on May Day, the workers’ day, joyfully celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution, and the seventieth anniversary of the creation of the CTC, the sister nation of Bolivia, fully dedicated to the preservation of health, education, and ensuring the safety of all its citizens, is only a few days, perhaps hours, ahead of going through tragic events.
Venezuela Declares Solidarity with Bolivia’s Government in Face of Separatist Effort By Kiraz Janicke, May 3
New on Climate & Capitalism, 4 May, 2008
Them Belly Full But We Hungry Bob Marley in 1976 — an anthem for 2008
Debt-fueled rat race drives economic crisis
Leo Panitch part 1: Truly democratic institutions are needed to direct investment view video
Weighing in on Wright
In Washington, Howard University students respond to Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s controversial comments view video
3 May
Uruk Net Iraq News 3 May 2008
Information Clearing House 3 May, 200 - A Strangled People
GI Special 6E1 3 May, 2008: Some Other Surges
2 May
ICH 2 May 2008 - Noam Chomsky: Elite Policy And The “Axis of Evil”
Uruk Net Iraq News 2 May 2008
IPS 2 May, 2008 – Biofuels = Loss of Land and Livelihood
New at Bolivia Rising 2 May, 2008
The oligarchy rejects any type of negotiation By Eduardo Dimas
PHILIPPE SANDS, QC: THE TORTURE TEAM by Sarah Meyer, Index Research, 2 May, 2008
COHA:
Alternative Strategies: South Africa’s Water Policies
‘The Final Word Is Hooray!’
Information Clearing House 1 May, 2008 - ‘Since I Gave Up Hope, I Feel Better’
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 1 May 2008
Anti-Empire Report, May 1, 2008 By William Blum
New on Climate & Capitalism 1 May, 2008
B.C.’s Carbon Tax: A Regressive Hoax
Slideshow: The Global Food Crisis
1 May
Uruk Net Iraq News 1 May 2008
30 April
Uruk Net Iraq News 30 April 2008
Information Clearing House Newsletter, 30 April 2008
Blood Diamonds’ ‘Blood Oil’ and ‘Blood Food’
IPS 30 April 2008 – INTERNATIONAL LABOUR DAY – MAY 1
IPS 30 April 2008 – Talk with Iran a ‘Good Thing’
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 30 April 2008
National Security Archive Update, April 30, 2008 – Air Force Histories Released through Archive Law Suit Show Cautious Presidents Overruling Air Force Plans for Early Use of Nuclear Weapons
Outsourcing Intelligence in Iraq A CorpWatch Report on L-3/Titan By Pratap Chatterjee, April 29th, 2008
When U.S. troops or embassy officials want to investigate Iraqis - such as
interrogating prisoners, the principal intermediary is a Manhattan
based-company named L-3. The company has just lost its biggest contract for
failing to recruit qualified translators, and is also being investigated for
human rights abuses.
GI Special 6D21 29 April 2008: US KIA At 7 Month High
COHA: One of History’s Great Atrocities: The Corporate Theft of the Public’s Natural Right to Water
The world is run by sleazy creeps with a license to print money By William Bowles
New On Bolivia Rising
Bolivia on the edge of 'explosion' By Alfonso Daniels, 29 April 2008
Santa Cruz - Entering the tiny sun-drenched two-storey Spanish colonial building in the capital of the energy-rich Bolivian province of Santa Cruz, it is difficult to imagine that this is the epicentre of preparations for armed struggle – and possible civil war – ahead of the region's forthcoming and hugely controversial autonomy referendum on Sunday.
Bolivia puts Shell under pressure By Edwin Koopman, April 29 2008
The Shell oil company is under great pressure from the Bolivian government to reduce its presence in the country, or even to withdraw completely.
New at Climate and Capitalism 30 April 2008:
Imprisoned Algonquin activist writes to Citizens’ Inquiry on Uranium Mining
Building a Red-Green Alliance
29 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 29 April 2008
ICH 29 April, 2008: “For Eli”
Uruk Net Iraq News 29 April 2008
New at Climate and Capitalism 29 April 2008:
What’s Causing the Food Crisis?
April 28, 2008 ‘The greatest demonstration of the historical failure of the capitalist model’
Bolivia Rising
Right-wing revolt threatens Bolivia By Federico Fuentes, April 25, 2008
INDEX ON AFGHANISTAN APRIL 2008: FAMINE
by Sarah Meyer Index Research
MEDIA ALERT: FLEXIBLE FRIENDS – THE OBSERVER, THE INDEPENDENT, AND THE MYTH OF A MEDIA SPECTRUM
28 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 28 April 2008
ICH April 28, 2008: Why Did Israel Bomb Syria?
Uruk Net Iraq News 28 April 2008
New at Climate and Capitalism 28 April 2008:
Workers and Climate Change April 27, 2008
On International Workers Day, unionists must reject the illusion that ‘clean coal’ is possible, and join the fight against climate change
GI Special 6D20 28 April 2008: Bridging The Gap
27 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 27 April 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 27 April 2008
GI Special 6D19 27 April 2008: "Soldiers Come Home"
26 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 26 April 2008
ICH April 26, 2008: Weekend Edition
Uruk Net Iraq News 26 April 2008
Bolivia Rising 26 April 2008:
Santa Cruz prefect announces creation of a second republic after May 4
GI Special 6D18 26 April 2008: "Call It Quits"
The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke By Chalmers Johnson
25 April
Uruk Net Iraq News 25 April 2008
Bolivia Rising: ALBA Closes Ranks Around Evo Morales By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS, Apr 23 (IPS) - The danger of Bolivia "exploding" as a result of the "separatist plan behind the (May 4) autonomy referendum" in the eastern province of Santa Cruz was warned of Wednesday at a Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) summit.
New at Climate and Capitalism 25 April 2008:
"The Best Premier Oil Money Can Buy" April 25, 2008
Greenpeace activists interrupt a fundraising dinner to expose Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach’s real role
GI Special 6D17 25 April 2008: Insanity And Sanity
Media Lens: Covering Israel-Palestine – The BBC’s Double Standards April 25th, 2008
An Exchange With The BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen
Not fit for purpose By William Bowles 25 April 2008
The Real Matrix
The Pentagon Invades Your Life By Nick Turse, 24 April 2008
24 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 24 April 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 24 April 2008
23 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 23 April 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 23 April 2008
22 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 22 April 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 22 April 2008
21 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 21 April 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 21 April 2008
20 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 20 April 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 20 April 2008
GI Special 6D16 20 April 2008: "Folly"
19 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 19 April 2008
18 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 18 April 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 18 April 2008
GI Special 6D15 18 April 2008: "We Don't See Any Progress"
New on Climate & Capitalism April 18 2008
Individual Versus Social Solutions to Global Warming By Terry Townsend, Managing Editor, Links
By blaming individuals, the ruling class aims to greenwash their intrinsically environmentally destructive economic and social system
April 17, 2008
Big Oil Still Gets the Cash: How the Canadian Government Subsidizes Greenhouse Gas Emitters
April 16, 2008
Video: John Bellamy Foster on Capitalism & Climate Change
April 15, 2008
Peru: Opponents of Copper Mine Accused of Terrorism
April 14, 2008
Video: Clean Coal’s Dirty Secret
April 14, 2008
World Bank – Climate Profiteer
Turning the dirtiest carbon into gold By Daphne Wysham and Shakuntala Makhijani
17 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 17 April 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 17 April 2008
New on Bolivia Rising April 17 2008
Bolivia: indigenous people and mestizos Bu Andrés Soliz Rada
Food - the ultimate weapon of the ruling elite By William Bowles
16 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 16 April 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 16 April 2008
GI Special 6D14 16 April 2008: Shell Shock
15 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 15 April 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 15 April 2008
14 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 14 April 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 14 April 2008
GI Special 6D13 14 April 2008: Rats
13 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 13 April 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 13 April 2008
GI Special 6D11 13 April, 2008: "So Why are We Here?"
Bolivia Rising April 12 2008
Sign on letter against US funding of opposition groups in Bolivia
Fighting for the Right to Chew Coca By Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, March 17
Recruiting Spies in the Peace Corps: Washington’s blunder in Bolivia strains relations with the Morales government By Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, La Paz, Bolivia
New at Climate and Capitalism:
A Revolutionary Response to the Climate Change Crisis An Interview with Dave Holmes
“We need an emergency mobilization of society, a five- or 10-year plan to achieve a drastic reorientation of our economy and use of energy. Anything else is simply not serious.”
UK Offset Standard is Off Target
A new government “kitemark” suggests that most carbon offset schemes are flawed, but fails to address the more fundamental problem of paying others to clean up after us By Kevin Smith
Land Rights Not Mining Rights: Free Robert Lovelace and the KI 6
Climate and Capitalism’s Top 10 (so far this year)
Will Capitalism Survive Climate Change?
“Climate change is both a threat and an opportunity to bring about the long postponed social and economic reforms that had been derailed or sabotaged in previous era” By Walden Bello
Environmental Activists Win Two Victories in British Columbia
Protests stop a private hydro-electric megaproject and win a moratorium on salmon farming
The Qollasuyo Declaration: Indigenous Peoples Demand Full Participation in Climate Talks and Decisions
79% of Canadians Want an Immediate Hard Cap on Emissions
Carbon Trading: An Ecosocialist Critique
12 April
Uruk Net Iraq News 12 April 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 12 April 2008
11 April
Uruk Net Iraq News 11 April 2008
National Security Archive Update, 11 April, 2008
U.S. RECONNAISSANCE SATELLITES: DOMESTIC TARGETS – Updated
ICH 11 April, 2008 The Black Death of Financial Collapse
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 11 April 2008
GI Special 6D10 11 April, 2008: "No Joke"
10 April
Uruk Net Iraq News 10 April 2008
ICH 10 April, 2008 What Motivates the Terrorists?
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 10 April 2008
Levees.org, April 10, 2008: Engineer society accused of Katrina cover up says Associated Press article
GI Special 6D9: KIA x 14 10 April, 2008
9 April
Uruk Net Iraq News 9 April 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 9 April 2008
National Security Archive Update, April 9, 2008 FIGHTING THE WAR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, 1961-1973
Information Clearinghouse April 9 2008
This Was Media Manipulation on a Grand Scale?
Is General Petraeus Telling the Truth? April 9, 2008
CODEPINK: Women for Peace
Sink or swim in the capitalist ocean? By William Bowles 9 April 2008
The shadow of Munich By Erich Walberg
April 9th, 2008
NATO moved eastward, upping the ante yet again with Russia, warns Eric Walberg
Media Lens: EXTRA ZERO
An Exchange With The Independent’s John Rentoul
8 April
Information Clearinghouse April 8 2008
Secret US Plan for Military Future in Iraq
Uruk Net Iraq News 8 April 2008
HLLN 8 April 2008
Zakafest | Haiti reels from food protests | Video: Deadly foodriots in Haiti | Haiti: Protestors Demand Food | Krangou Klorox -(CloroxHunger) | Protesters blame UN for Death of student Emanne Saintilmont | The Minimum Wage Struggle in Haiti
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 8 April 2008
Climate & Capitalism 8 April 2008
Consultation, Not Consent: The First Interview with KI Political Prisoner Cecilia Begg
New York Times Explains Winter Soldier Blackout 8 April 2008
Public editor responds to concerns raised by FAIR
IWT – The Real News Network 8 April 2008
No international support for attack on Iran
Aijaz Ahmad: Iran stands firm on nuclear issue, brokered peace agreement in Iraq view video
Iraq: Who fired on the Green Zone?
Joost Hiltermann: Not clear where weapons are coming from view video
Mercenaries in Iraq immune to law
Journalist Jeremy Scahill on “Corporate Pillaging and Military Contractors” panel at Winter Soldier view video
Baghdad: A Little Too Tense to be Truce By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail April 8 2008
THE BATTLE FOR BASRA TIMELINE: Footsteps to U.S. War in Iran? The War for oil in Basra appears to be metastasizing into Cheney’s U.S. War on Iran. by Sarah Meyer Index Research
7 April
Uruk Net Iraq News 7 April 2008
CounterCurrents Newsletter 7 April 2008
IWT – The Real News Network 7 April 2008
Bush-Putin: Is the cold war over?
Bush and Putin hold final meetings as leaders
“Iraq looks like Vietnam without water”
Winter Soldier Vietnam organizer Bill Crandell compares wars
Blackwater in Iraq: Contract renewed
AP: State Department to renew Blackwater USA’s license to operate in Baghdad for another year
Olympic torch carries Tibet debate
AP: Police scuffle with demonstrators as the torch goes through London
Steps Backward: Women’s rights in Iraq
Alive in Baghdad: Iraqi women rights activists targeted by militias
Climate & Capitalism 7 April 2008
How Climate Change Endangers Human Health
Statement by Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, on World Health Day
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 7 April 2008
Information Clearing house 7 April 2008
Batten Down The Hatches: This is the Big One
The Week with IPS 7 April 2008 Unraveling Colombia’s FARC Hostage Problem
Media Savvy: Remember Iraq? The War Is Still Misreported April 7, 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 6 April 2008
GI Special 6D8, 7 April 2008: Counterinsurgency 101
6 April
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 6 April 2008
Information Clearinghouse 6 April 2008
Petraeus Testimony Will Signal Iran Attack
5 April
New at Climate and Capitalism, 5 April 2008:
Court Appointed Expert Says Chevron Should Pay Up to $16 Billion for Polluting Indigenous Lands in Ecuador
A Memo to John Baird on Carbon Capture and Storage
Uruk Net Iraq News 5 April 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 5 April 2008
GI Special 6D7: Privates Disobeyed
4 April
Media Savvy: Media Tenor’s Presidential Campaign Watch April 04, 2008
Statewatch News Online, 4 April 2008
Information Clearinghouse 4 April 2008 The Terrorists Are In Fact Peacemakers?
Uruk Net Iraq News 4 April 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 4 April 2008
GI Special 6D6: Ft. Hood Troops Boo Cheney
GI Special 6D5: Last Call
ColdType
Writing Worth Reading From Around The World
Trapped on Planet Bail-out — Bad Science Fiction By William Bowles
Titanic 2010? The European Union and its failed “Lisbon strategy” By Arno Tausch
3 April
Media Savvy: The Super Delegate Argument April 3, 2008
Information Clearinghouse 3 April 2008 U.S. General Says: Rapid Iraq Withdrawal Is Only Solution
Uruk Net Iraq News 3 April 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 3 April 2008
GI Special 6D4: The Wheels Come Off
US-NATO 'Missile Shield' Programme: Index Research Timeline Part II
