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Bali Climate Conference
Ends In Farce
By Patrick O’Connor

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The UN-sponsored climate change conference held on the Indonesian island of Bali ended on the weekend without any agreement on combatting global warming other than vague generalities. A last-minute, face-saving communiqué was issued but, at the insistence of the Bush administration and its allies, it made no mention of specific carbon emission reduction targets

Oceans’ Growing Acidity Alarms Scientists
By Les Blumenthal

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Forget about sea levels rising as glaciers and polar ice melt, and increasing water temperatures affecting global weather patterns. As the oceans absorb more and more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, they’re gradually becoming more acidic.And some scientists fear that the change may be irreversible

Dealing With Peak Oil Depression
By Peter Goodchild

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For many who have experienced the epiphany of the petroleum bell-curve, a sense of despair is the common after-effect. How does one accommodate oneself to that realization of dwindling material resources? And oddly enough, it is often the most astute, those who have the most to offer, who are in that very position of having to navigate the darkness

Why Peak Guarantees Conservation
By Jeff Berg

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The Peak Energy thesis clearly demonstrates that the massive energy conservation efforts that our ecology, and climate, so dearly and clearly need, are guaranteed to happen. Whether or not they will happen in time to be of any good to us is still very much up in the air

Put Option On America, Part II
By Rand Clifford

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9-11 has produced many big winners, including: CorpoGov and American fascism; Industrial Military Complex; Israel; war-profiteering corporations in general; people who capitalized on their foreknowledge to make a killing in the stock market with put options; Larry Silverstein…. For the American People—if we prove wise enough—9-11 does offer the benefit of finally recognizing CorpoMedia for what it is, and pulling the plug. The same potential is there regarding CorpoGov—the mass realization that our enemy is internal

Police State America – A Look Back And Ahead
By Stephen Lendman

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The nation is at war and laws are in place that end constitutional protections, militarize the country, repress dissent, and our government is empowered to crush freedom and defend privilege from beneficial social change it won’t tolerate. It’s the price of imperial arrogance we the people are paying, and that won’t end until the spirit of resistance gets aroused enough to stop it in our own self-defense. We better hope that happens in time with potentially little of it left

Sore Losermen
By David Michael Green

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The depth of the political price ultimately to be paid for supporting eight years of Bushism is still unknown. Virtually everyone, domestically and internationally, who associated themselves with this monster has paid for it in the form of political suicide. It is quite possible that the Republican Party itself could go down that same path, especially as the price and crimes of the administration become clearer over time, when they’re more exposed, least protected from investigation and prosecution, and when long deferred costs come slamming upside the body politic with a real vengeance in the coming decade

Fantasyland For Poker Diplomacy: Iran
By Pablo Ouziel

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After reviewing the mainstream media reports on the political response to the National Intelligence Estimate, it seems clear to me that the leaders of the ‘Axis of Good’ are bent on betting all their stakes on Iran. Although the summary of the findings of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies reveals that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in the fall of 2003 and has shown no signs of restarting it, President Bush is calling it a “warning signal” instead of extending a formal apology

What Kind Of Left In Europe?
By Gaither Stewart

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Trade unions, political parties and grass-roots movements are apparently not enough to obtain new social rules in a new world of inequalities of income and new unemployment caused by dislocation of industry

The Adivasi Question In Assam
By Moirangthem Prakash

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Recent violence involving Assam’s adivasis highlights the region’s uniquely complex realities

Modi’s Gujaratis
By Nasiruddin Haider Khan

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What will we call Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh, who put Gujarat on the painting map of the world. What about Bandukwala? What name will be given to garba music of Ismail Darbar? Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Saira, Rashida, Niazben where will they fit? Are they Gujarati or just “them” in Modi’s Gujarat?

Tamils: Thy Kingdom Come?
By Chandi Sinnathurai

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I for one, don’t care who landed in Ceylon first, and least bothered from where we landed – especially after so many centuries. What both, the Sinhalas and the Tamils need to concentrate is this. The reality is we find our selves together on this beautiful island. Now how best can we live side by side peacefully? How can we together dismantle oppression and hegemony?

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