NEW ORLEANS -
With the U.S .government and oil giant British Petroleum under fire for
their handling of the more than two-month-old Gulf Coast oil spill
disaster, environmental and community activists across the country are
taking matters into their own hands.

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Nation-states are critical pawns in the power games and economic predation of our modern world. Without them, people and resources would be much more difficult to control and exploit.... In a genuinely convivial and localized world, nation-states and their megacities will, one can only hope, wither on the vine.

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At last report BP was making progress on the relief wells that are being drilled to plug the runaway well in the Gulf. The London Times reports that BP hopes to penetrate the casing of the leaking well and start pumping in well-sealing mud in about two weeks. Let's hope something works.

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CCPA senior economist Armine Yalnizyan recently wrote a post on the Progressive Economics Forum blog noting that the Great Recession may undo the "success story" of declining poverty rates over the past decade for lone parents.

By Harsha Walia - June 29, 2010

This is a quick update to let you all know that I am in fact out of jail and all charges against me have been withdrawn as of Tuesday June 29th...The charges and multiple counts that I was specifically facing were extremely serious and fabricated. Throughout my detention it became evident that it was largely an exercise in intimidation and political targeting...Even after I was ordered released, several police officers were insistent on laying further charges.

I wonder if a book titled A Guide To Insane Farming would sell, especially when, upon opening the book, the reader would encounter descriptions of how farming is actually done today.