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US Intensifies Push For Further UN Sanctions On Iran
By Peter Symonds
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The Bush administration is pressing for tough new UN Security Council sanctions at a meeting in London today of the five permanent members—the US, Britain, France, Russia and China—plus Germany. The demand for a third UN resolution is one more step in Washington’s campaign to vilify Tehran over its nuclear programs and to justify US preparations for a military strike on Iran

Faisal The Fox
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
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It is hard to image the foreign minister of a third world country more capable of hypocrisy than Mr. Bush – but, without a doubt, Prince Saud al-Faisal takes the prize for being the more obnoxious of the two. Such insincerity and double-standards must surely make Mr. Bush feel inclined to ask himself if he got short-changed by having Rove as his ‘brain’ – or perhaps Mr. Bush has a prince as the new ‘brain’

Will Iran Celebrate The 100th Anniversary Of Its Oil Discovery With $100 Petroleum?
By Shirzad Azad
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Oil prices have surpassed a record US$96 a barrel. Given the growing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East involving an imminent war between the Turks and the Kurds over the future of oil-rich Kirkuk and the prospect of an independent Kurdish state, and the current standoff about Iran’s nuclear program, petroleum prices may cross over $100 a barrel in coming months

Behind The Facade Of Incompetence
By Charles Sullivan
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Every citizen is faced with a simple choice: organize or perish. The storm clouds of World War Three are looming on the horizon. These are extraordinary times that demand something from every one of us

Peak Oil: Time’s Up
By Jeff Berg
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The fact of peaking oil and peaking energy clinches the argument for conservation and speeding up the timetable on renewables . It is past time environmentalists and socialists use its reality at least as effectively as has the military industrial class

Six Steps To “Getting” The Global Ecological Crisis
By John Feeney
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Some of us who examine and discuss environmental matters are constantly puzzled and frustrated by the seeming inability of elected officials, environmental organizations, and environmental and political writers to “get” the nature of our ecological plight. Could it be they’re simply unaware of the ecological principles which enable one to understand it?

Tehelka, Journalists Lead Indians To Redeem Their Values
By Mirza A. Beg
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Tahelka, the intrepid news magazine did what the Indian government should have done in the past five years. The nation owes a debt of gratitude to the editor of Tahelka, Tarun Tejpal and reporter Ashish Khetan who took enormous risk to procure evidence on video tapes about the planning of the genocide perpetrated by the fascistic Gujarat state government in February – March 2002. The tapes also record admissions of suppression of evidence and bribery by the public prosecutors to protect the guilty

Silicosis: A Death Trap For Agate Workers In Gujarat
By PUCL Gujarat
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Workers working in the agate industries are dying of silicosis in regular interval for last 40 years in Khambhat. Families are wiped out totally. But there is no respite from the death trap of economically impoverished people of this area

Cases Of Gross Violation Of Human Rights In Barak Valley Of Assam
By Wali Laskar
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The Assam Police and CRPF personnel have been violating human rights systematically in Barak Valley killing serially innocent persons, denying justice, framing fake charges, arresting and detaining people in trumped-up cases, and raiding, harassing, abusing and humiliating in false charges

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