The Earth Today Stands In Imminent Peril
By Steve Connor

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Six scientists from some of the leading scientific institutions in the United States have issued what amounts to an unambiguous warning to the world: civilisation itself is threatened by global warming. Instead of sea levels rising by about 40 centimetres, as the IPCC predicts in one of its computer forecasts, the true rise might be as great as several metres by 2100. That is why, they say, planet Earth today is in “imminent peril”

Global Warming To Multiply
World’s Refugee Burden
By Allistair Lyon

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If rising sea levels force the people of the Maldive Islands to seek new homes, who will look after them in a world already turning warier of refugees? The daunting prospect of mass population movements set off by climate change and environmental disasters poses an imminent new challenge that no one has yet figured out how to meet

Hamas’ Shock And Awe
By Sam Bahour

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The recent overrunning of Gaza by Hamas militants was the equivalent to the United States’ Shock and Awe campaign in Iraq. Both campaigns were conducted outside the realm of international law and were violent and brutal, albeit each relative to their respective resources and internal contexts; both claimed to be ‘preemptive’ in nature; and both events placed the Palestinian people and struggle for national liberation in even a more precarious position

Entangled Insurgencies–Hezbollah And Hamas
By Jim Miles

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In the past year, two completely unexpected events have surprised all the politicians and pundits who never even came close. The first event was the surprising victory of the Hezbollah forces against the Israeli attack in Lebanon. The second is the recent surprise of Hamas taking full control of Gaza, in spite of the overwhelming favour granted Fatah financially and with armaments by Israel and the U.S. Behind these two actions is a history replete with commonalities

Whose Coup, Exactly?
By Virginia Tilley

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The Fayyad Government has no democratic mandate, is not operating by the very rules that establish its democratic legitimacy, and so is only a facsimile of the ‘government’ with which many of the world’s states established diplomatic relations. It does not help that the United States, an obedient Europe, and legless Arab states have trotted up to anoint it as the sole legitimate authority. Nor does it help to pretend that Hamas — a broad movement with popular legitimacy — will simply disappear through decrees from Abbas and some nice political theatre

Towards A Geography Of Peace: Whither Gaza?
By Ilan Papp³

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When the Wall of Apartheid is removed and the electric fences of Zionism dismantled — Gaza will become once more a symbol of Fernand Braudel’s coastal society, able to fuse different cultural horizons and offer a space for new life instead of the war zone it has become in the last sixty years

A Dream Called Electricity
By Ali al-Fadhily

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Simmering in the summer heat, Iraqis now have a dream called electricity.It is a part of the bigger dream of reconstruction that collapsed. On all measurable levels, the infrastructure is worse than under the former regime of Saddam Hussein, even when it was crippled by the harshest economic sanctions in modern history

Reviewing Michel Chossudovsky’s America’s War on Terrorism
By Stephen Lendman

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The book is in four parts, each discussed enough to convey the essence and flavor of the heavily documented power-packed amount of information in the volume’s 365 pages – a healthy serving for each day of the year

No MedGuide For Zyprexa After Eleven Years Of Death And Injury
By Evelyn Pringle

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Considering everything revealed about Zyprexa in the filings of all of this litigation, medical professionals and patient advocacy groups are infuriated over the fact that Lilly is still profiting from the drug. In the first quarter of 2007, sales were up 11% in the US from last year, and Zyprexa earned Lilly more than $1.1 billion, according to the company’s April 16, 2007 SEC filing

Socio-Cultural Empowerment Of Indian Muslims
By Yoginder Sikand

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Paper presented at a conference on the Sachar Committee Report in Kochi

Looking For Common Remedies
To A Rabid Malaise
By Jawed Naqvi

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A couple of weeks ago an Indian TV channel showed men, women and children somewhere in the country drinking water from an open gutter because they believed it was a foolproof prevention against rabies.The gut wrenching sight of a father lovingly scooping up brown liquid into a glass, with everything floating in it, and offering it to his young ones revealed a sickening reality for a nation aspiring to become some kind of a superpower

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