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by Nina Negron
BOGOTA - Voting got under way in Colombia Sunday to choose a successor to President Alvaro Uribe, with the popular conservative leader's pick -- ex-defence minister Juan Manuel Santos -- favored to win.
Polls are forecasting that Santos will dr
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<p>Throughout the Kansas City region, whole blocks and neighborhoods are emptying out. You see it most in impoverished sections of Kansas City and ...
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<p>From coast to coast, eco-concerned homeowners are ripping out their manicured, chemically-treated lawns and replacing them with organic food gar...
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by Raphael Satter and Holbrook Mohr
EMPIRE, La. - It could have been a turnaround week in BP's campaign to convince the public that it's doing everything possible to contain the damage from the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
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by Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater is up
for sale and its shadowy owner, Erik Prince, is rumored to be planning
to move to the United Arab Emir
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Cyclists – Are we safe? Politics in the Pub. Thursday August 12, 6pm, Green Ant Cantina, Bunda St. All welcome. Ph Jonathan 0432 384 505 for more information
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Abortion, Corruption and Cops: the Bertram Wainer Story. Film screening followed by guest speaker Dr Jo Wainer from Melbourne. Also launch of Caroline de Costa’s new book about abortion in Australia. In support of repeal of Queensland’s anti-abortion laws. Friday July 9, 6pm for 6.30pm start, Cairns Base Hospital Auditorium.
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In Ray Kurzweil's future technological progress will proceed at a rate that represents the end of the human era and the beginning of one shared by humans and machines joined together and producing unimaginably rapid technological change. He and others refer to this point of transition as the technological singularity.
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<p>About 30 people attended the Richmond Transit Riders Union’s first Community Town Hall Meeting, Monday night at the University of Richmond...
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18 June ZSP held a picket at an H&M shop in the center of Warsaw. The protest was related
to two cases of violating workers' rights - from Bangladesh and from Spain. - We remember
the horrible tragedy at the Garib garment factory in Bangladesh, On February 25, 22
workers were killed in a fire.
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By Andrew MacLeod - 16 June 2010
Lawyers with the British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre are criticizing the Housing and Social Development Ministry's attempt to take welfare recipients to court to collect money for overpayments and are asking the ministry to give them what they need to help people...Most disturbingly...the claims they've seen all rely on allegations that the defendants signed repayment agreements with the ministry and failed to meet them, even though the government stopped requiring such agreements and its now government policy not to take them for overpayments.
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Syndicated from Slashdot on Sun, 2010-06-20 Local ID10T writes "The AP reports on a system of voting, called 'cumulative voting,' which was just used under court order in Port Chester, NY. Under this system, voters can apportion their votes as they wish — all to one candidate, one to each candidate, or any combination.
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Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world
Naomi Klein, June 19, 2010
The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism
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<p>Destroying our coastal environment is not worth a few years of oil production, whether it is three years or nine, or 19 if the experts are way o...
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<p>I stand by my previous observation that without some practical acknowledgment of ecological realities, no institution can properly address a pro...
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