<p>Just last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave the Army Corps of Engineers a green light for the Pine Creek mine permit, a mounta...

Tom Keefer is a founding member of Upping the Anti (UTA), a semiannual Canadian
publication that describes itself as “a journal of theory and action.” He is a well-known
organizer and an enthusiastic advocate for indigenous rights who has written extensively
on the ongoing land claims in Six Nations and the reactionary anti-native campaigning of
Gary McHale in Caledonia.

NEW ORLEANS -
With the U.S .government and oil giant British Petroleum under fire for
their handling of the more than two-month-old Gulf Coast oil spill
disaster, environmental and community activists across the country are
taking matters into their own hands.

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Nation-states are critical pawns in the power games and economic predation of our modern world. Without them, people and resources would be much more difficult to control and exploit.... In a genuinely convivial and localized world, nation-states and their megacities will, one can only hope, wither on the vine.

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At last report BP was making progress on the relief wells that are being drilled to plug the runaway well in the Gulf. The London Times reports that BP hopes to penetrate the casing of the leaking well and start pumping in well-sealing mud in about two weeks. Let's hope something works.

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