All Recently Syndicated News

Recently Syndicated News in English

If there is a website you would like to see on this page, please let us know!

Suffocating the poor: a modern parable

Syndicated from Haiti Analysis on Fri, 2010-09-17


Johann Hari:



They democratically elected a president to stand up to the rich and multinational corporations - so our governments have him kidnapped


Today, I want to tell you the story of how our governments have been torturing and tormenting an island in the Caribbean – but it is a much bigger story than that.

» Read more | 189 reads «
Chorus of Progressive Economists: Govt. Must Spur Demand to End Recession

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-09-17

by Roger Bybee

Largely oblivious to the reality among working families grappling with unemployment, wage cuts, and trying to avoid foreclosures, conservative politicians (mostly GOP, but also a considerable number of Democrats) are building momentum for an assault on federal budget deficits by

» Read more | 122 reads «
From Movement to Space: The Anarchist Open Assemblies

Syndicated from Infoshop News on Fri, 2010-09-17

 ...

» | 75 reads «
17 rental units on the Drive under threat from commercial developer

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2010-09-17

Ankenman Marchand International takes a "grass-route approach" to gentrifying the Drive

On 15 September 2010 you could have gone to a free show at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre!

» Read more | 165 reads «
Recycling animal and human dung is the key to sustainable farming

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-09-17

Flushing the water closet is handy, but it wreaks ecological havoc, deprives agricultural soils of essential nutrients and makes food production dependent on fossil

» Read more | 99 reads «
Silent Coup in Haiti

Syndicated from Dominion Paper on Fri, 2010-09-17

Experts, organizers assess the country's democratic crisis

» | 154 reads «
Why the Tea Party could never pose a threat to the US

Syndicated from Infoshop News on Fri, 2010-09-17

During the history of the state-form referred to as the United States, many citizens have participated in many protests, and not all of those prote...

» | 71 reads «
From ecocide to ecocentrism: a response

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-09-17

So here, for what it is worth, is my suggestion: that ecocentrism, far from being a side issue, needs to be “the non-negotiable heart” of good human society. It is practical because it prevents us from destroying ourselves, as we are currently doing. It is ethical because it prevents us from destroying everything else at the same time, as we are also currently doing.

» Read more | 192 reads «
Obama Names Elizabeth Warren to Set Up New Consumer Body

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-09-17

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama was Friday to name Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren to set up a powerful new consumer protection office, part of this year's Wall Street reforms, the White House announced.

» Read more | 92 reads «
EROI, insidious feedbacks, and the end of economic growth

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-09-17

In this post I attempt to answer the following question: Is a return to long term economic growth possible?

read more

» | 109 reads «
Pentagon to Funnel US Arms to Yemen to Fight al-Qaeda

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-09-17

by Alex Spillius

The US
State Department has reportedly raised concerns that with President Ali
Abdullah Saleh facing rebellions in the north and south of the country he
could divert the additional weaponry, coast patrol boats and aircraf

» Read more | 143 reads «
Deformed Fish Found in Lake Downstream From Oilsands

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-09-17

by Bob Weber

EDMONTON—The fish are hard to look at.

One whitefish has a golfball-sized tumour bulging from its side. Another is simply missing part of its spine, its tail growing from a stumpy rear end.

» Read more | 196 reads «
Fred Kirschenmann speaks on the 4 major threats to industrialized agriculture

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-09-17

We are in a food revolution. The next generation sees the world differently. The older people alive today wanted to control the world. The new generation wants to work with it.

» Read more | 120 reads «
The Process Begins

Syndicated from CCPA on Fri, 2010-09-17

The AFB 2011 process has begun anew with many new ideas for the 15th anniversary. Stay tuned with an RSS feed for AFB related developments.

» | 81 reads «
Nightwalk, Paddle, and Ride

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-09-17

All people have something to share, whatever their level of expertise or non-experience...I suppose that providing space for people to relate to the local land in all its diverse forms and in a

» Read more | 124 reads «