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Growing Food When The Oil
Runs out
By Peter Goodchild

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Most people in modern industrial society get their food mainly from supermarkets. As a result of declining hydrocarbon resources, however, it is unlikely that such food will always be available. The present world population is nearly 7 billion, but food supplies per capita have been shrinking for years. Food production will have to become more localized, and it will be necessary to reconsider less-advanced forms of technology that might be called “subsistence gardening.”

On Cooperation And Competition
By Emily Spence

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“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.” This in mind, it is time that we began a whole new relationship to each other and to the world in general. Let us begin now

Resistance And Hope
By Charles Sullivan

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It is immensely helpful to know there are other people out there doing the important work that the times require of each of us. Seeing others engaged in resisting wrong doing may inspire others to take up the cause and a powerful movement may someday be born. It is the certainty of that knowledge that keeps hope alive and makes existence not only bearable, but enjoyable

Obama Versus Clinton Versus Plutocracy
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

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Rich and powerful elites want Hillary Clinton in the White House if the Democrats get their turn in the rigged two-party system. Just one big problem: The establishment plutocracy wants her more than most Americans trust or like her. No matter how much she spends and no matter how many big name endorsements she gets, her phoniness and arrogance prevail. She would be America’s irritating Panderer-in-Chief. What to do?

Oh, Those Balkans Again!
By Gaither Stewart

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The failure of the mediation of USA, Russia and the European Union for a solution to Kosovo’s demands for secession from Serbia has the USA at loggerheads with both Russia and the EU about how to handle the new Balkan crisis

United States: The Most Dangerous Nuclear State
By Dr Shireen M. Mazari

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While much is being made of Pakistan’s nuclear assets, facts on the ground reveal the U.S. to be the most dangerous nuclear state in the world with a track record of failed command structures and failed safety systems for its reactors

Advocacy, Intellect, And Common Sense
By Jim Miles

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Ramzy Baroud’s current article on the despair of writers and the role of the intellectual in presenting information has proven to be very thought provoking personally. I would not be doing what I am doing now without his support and conviction, yet as with the writer in the article, I have often wondered why do I keep doing this when nothing seems to change. Further, am I preaching only to the converted, or is there perhaps someone out there who has read the material and actually transformed their thinking because of that?

If The “Failed State” Fails?
By B.R. Gowani

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How much difference the coming election in Pakistan will make is not an easy task to predict. The nature of things to come is difficult to foresee with any accuracy. Chances are slim that any leader will be able to control the Islamic militants; and rare are chances that she/he will be able to manage the country with their support because that would mean pushing Pakistan further down the religious drain

Peace Sans Human Rights Not Worth Having
By Rohini Hensman

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Text of a talk at the celebration of Human Rights Defenders, Organised by the Law and Society Trust, Inform Human Rights Documentation Centre and Rights now Collective for Democracy at the BCIS auditorium on Dec. 06

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