Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has published a
CIA memo examining the implications of the US being perceived as an
"exporter of terrorism".

In December 2009 during the climate summit in Copenhagen, tens of
thousands of protesters gathered to call for climate justice and
challenge the ongoing UN negotiations.

A month into BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe, the US press began to say that the crisis might be ‘Obama’s 9/11’. It was a comparison that Obama himself repeated a couple of weeks later. Hyperbole? Perhaps – but the disaster certainly opens up space for thinking about alternatives to the industry that created it.

-The Erosion of America's Middle Class
-Death by Growth: What the Climate-Bill Autopsies Missed
-The Federal Reserve Enters Decline

Since SB 1070 became law in Arizona, dozens of cities and musicians
have joined a boycott against the state.

It is tempting to despair of all action. And sometimes those who despair are right. But sometimes they aren't. And this, I think is an important and central point for everyone who hits those moments when they simply don't believe society will self-correct in any measure from its impending ecological disaster.

British oil company's Arctic find fuels hope of huge new reserves
By Daily Mail Reporter

25th August 2010

The Arctic is set to become the world's last dash for oil after a British energy company reported a discovery off the coast of Greenland.