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Forests Could Cool or Cook The Planet
By Stephen Leahy
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A two-degree Celsius rise in global temperatures could flip the Amazon forest from being the Earth’s vital air conditioner to a flamethrower that cooks the planet, warns a new report released at the climate talks in Bali, Indonesia Friday

‘The Biggest Environmental Crime In History’ By Cahal Milmo
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BP, the British oil giant that pledged to move “Beyond Petroleum” by finding cleaner ways to produce fossil fuels, is being accused of abandoning its “green sheen” by investing nearly £1.5bn to extract oil from the Canadian wilderness using methods which environmentalists say are part of the “biggest global warming crime” in history

True Aim Of Annapolis,And Why It Failed By Ramzy Baroud
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Although both Bush and Abbas are willing collaborators in this undemocratic endeavour, Israelis must wake up to the fact that their country is knee-deep in Apartheid, and nothing is significant enough to salvage their racially-selective democracy, except true democracy

Summit’s Goal: Perpetuate Repression Of Palestinians
By Barb Olson & Amal Othman
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Bush instructed the Palestinians not to focus on the “borders” of a state. No wonder – Israel has already set the borders by constructing the annexation wall deep inside Palestinian territory, leaving the Palestinians imprisoned in a handful of poverty-stricken ghettos on a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of their original homeland. What’s next, a virtual Palestinian state?

The Perfect Storm Of Campaign 2008 By Steve Fraser
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Will the presidential election of 2008 mark a turning point in American political history? Will it terminate with extreme prejudice the conservative ascendancy that has dominated the country for the last generation? No matter the haplessness of the Democratic opposition, the answer is yes

How To Vote In Primaries And Not Be An Idiot By David Swanson
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A Short Instructions Manual

Ritual Gloating Postmortems –
The Corporate Media v. Hugo Chavez By Stephen Lendman
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Chavez is resilient and will rebound from one electoral setback. Don’t ever count him out or underestimate his influence over what co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Mark Weisbrot, says is “A historic transformation….underway in Latin America (following) more than a quarter century of neoliberal” rule

To EJ Hawkins On My 2020 Vision By Jeff Berg
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The price of oil, the price of all fossil fuels, must go up and significantly if we are to have any chance of surviving, in any form that we would call recognizable, what we are doing to the planet

The Mumia case: What Is True Justice? By Mary Shaw
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As long as the outstanding questions remain unanswered, there is still a chance that Faulkner’s real killer is still at large.As long as the outstanding questions remain unanswered, justice has not been served. And, unfortunately, as long as the outstanding questions remain unanswered, true closure remains an impossible dream

Enlightening Benazir! By Dr. Haider Mehdi
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The media, the press and TV, has reported Benazir saying that she fails to understand why Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif wish to boycott the forthcoming elections. It is ironic that Benazir would make such a statement. Since I (like millions) can easily hear and understand what is being said and why it is being said, let me have the privilege to enlighten Benazir on the subject

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