The view from space indicates that the oil may be leaking at a rate of
25,000
barrels a day, dwarfing the figure of 5,000 barrels that US officials
and
the British oil giant BP have used in recent days.

KABUL - Civilian casualties are rising in Afghanistan as U.S. and NATO reinforcements stream into the country as part of a military buildup to combat the resurgent Taliban, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.

The involvement of the U. S. military in many civilian tasks in some ways logical. But that is just the problem. We are shaping public policies and priorities so that the resources to perform these tasks are increasingly unavailable to the civilian federal agencies or to the state and municipal governments responsible for them.

As the economic crisis continues, the WSM has been busy in a variety of campaigns against
measures attempting to impose the costs of the crisis on workers and the poor. WSM members
in the public sector trade unions have been active in organising against cuts and pressing
for a no vote in ballots on the “Croke Park” agreement.

An interview of Jyri Jaakkola (Finnish anti-authoritarian activist, murdered
by paramilitaries in Oaxaca 27th f April) he gave 1st of February in Finland, before
leaving for Oaxaca, with subtitles in English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMy7yTvFiNU
An extract: ---- "If by my own precense have a change to prevent violent moderation, that
would be a thing to do.

In the midst of the Arizona state government passing the most outrageous anti-immigrant
law since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, several happenings pass unnoticed by the
national media. At a packed Flagstaff City Council meeting discussing the law, waves of
people declare publicly that they are undocumented, practically daring law enforcement
officers to arrest them.