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Iran Drops Dollar From Oil Deals
By AFP
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Major crude producer Iran has completely stopped carrying out its oil transactions in dollars, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Saturday, labelling the greenback an “unreliable” currency.”At the moment, selling oil in dollars has been completely halted, in line with the policy of selling crude in non-dollar currencies,” Nozari was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency

The Danse Macabre Of Success And Hubris
By Case Wagenvoord
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America sits atop an industrial and financial behemoth made possible by a geological flicker known as the “Age of Oil.” In our heart of hearts we believe it will last forever because we represent the end point of history. The sweet irony of it all is that when the dust finally settles, the Age of Oil, and the Industrial Age it spawned, will barely register as cosmic farts in the grand scheme of things

The Bali Forecast – Low Expectations
By Eric Lemus
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The multitudinous United Nations Conference on Climate Change under way since Dec. 3 on the tropical Indonesian island of Bali has oscillated between optimism and quiet reserve.The 12-day event is a thermometer of the success or failure of a strategic anti-global warming treaty that should emerge in two years. But the forecast is confidential

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
By Al Gore
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Speech by Al Gore on the acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize

Who Should Pilot Spaceship Earth?
By Gunther Ostermann
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Would anybody go on an airplane trip where the passengers will hold a vote as to who shall be the captain, co-pilot, and navigator, without any experience? Who would go on such a trip? Why then is Spaceship Earth in the hands of unqualified politicians, just because they’re given a portfolio, or vote?

Israel And Top zionist Leaders Attack Intelligence
By James Petras
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During and immediately after the Annapolis meetings to discuss peace, Israel abducted the student president of Beir Zeit University for dissent, launched over 50 attacks on Gaza killing and wounding over 50 Palestinian civilians, police and militia

The War And The Democrats:What Are They Doing?
By Thomas Riggins
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It seems that a $ 500 billion budget is in the works which will give Bush “unfettered money for the Iraq war in exchange for new spending on popular domestic programs.” The subtext here is obvious. The Dems will do the bidding of the Military Industrial Complex in return for goodies to take back to the voters to try and get reelected. They will try and make the American people moral accomplices in murder. Daycare funding will be paid for with the blood of Iraqi children

Africans United In Rejecting European Arrogance
By Sukant Chandan
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The recent summit between African heads of states and the EU has shown that some Europe has failed to move beyond their colonial-era past-times of economic and political bullying. The African delegates gave Europe an unmistakable cold shoulder on the two big issues of the conference: trade, especially the European proposed Economic Partnership Agreements, and European political interference in African affairs, centered on British arrogance towards Zimbabwe

The Crowded Rightwing Life Rafts or The Great Social-Political Divide: Left or Right
By Gaither Stewart
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Today America’s two parties are interdependent, one on the other. They have exchanged political and social values as if they were merchandise. The two-component one-party system on the basis of the great euphemism, democracy, now a façade, fake and mendacious, today heads the great American Counter-Revolution

Erosion Of Democratic Norms: A case Of Modi
By Ram Puniyani
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The terrorizing atmosphere created in Gujarat does remind us of the status of minorities. Now the large sections of minorities feel that they have been relegated to the second class citizenship status. Their insecurity is the index of our democratic ethos. It is correctly pointed out that if you want to see the state of health of democracy, have a look at the status of its minorities!

Justice For The Victims Of Gujarat Pogrom
By Mirza A. Beg
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The perpetrators, the victims and the average Indians know that Narendra Modi’s government engineered the riots in Gujarat resulting in the death of 2000 innocent people and injuring hundreds of thousands more in 2002. The justice to the victims is being denied because the BJP controlled governments in Gujarat and at the Center concealed the evidence, precluding a citizen’s ability to seek redress in the courts of law. Therefore, it was not a spontaneous riot, but a planned Pogrom

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