WASHINGTON — Afghanistan's military and police aren't on track to
meet President Barack Obama's 18-month timetable for starting to
withdraw U.S. troops, according to a report released on Monday by an
independent watchdog group.

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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?