The race is on: can we extract the last remnants of Western oil from such unlikely places as the ocean floor before the global economy picks up enough to test out the hypothesis that supplies have already peaked?

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When I first released Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, I was advised to make a list of “easy steps for becoming a radical homemaker” as part of my

I just got back from Toronto G8/20. The protests were invigorating, spirited and
meaningful. It reminded me of RNC 2004 with an organized activist base (including a
bicycle collective loaning out bikes) and creative tactics. Below is my very brief
synopsis. ---- There were smaller protests during the week.

The rich play and the rest pay. That should be the motto of the G20 meetings being held in
downtown Toronto this month as the political and business leaders of the 20 largest
national economies discuss a range of issues with one underlying question; How are they
going to make the workers of the world pay for the international financial crisis?

India, China, Brazil place Canada between a rock and the United States.

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By Gwalgen Geordie Dent - June 26, 2010

Foreign relations or 'security' has been a long standing topic on the G8 agenda...A host of issues could be the focus of the Summit: the occupation of Western Sahara, the Tamil-Sri Lankan conflict, ongoing war in the Congo, democracy in Saudi Arabia, follow up to the Tsunami aid and [reconstruction]...However the G8 has generally focused on issues which enrage G8 countries: for this meeting, namely Iran and North Korea.

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