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  • EPA Officials Weighing Sanctions Against BP’s U.S. Operations

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-05-21
    by Abrahm Lustgarten

    Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are considering whether
    to bar BP from receiving government contracts, a move that would
    ultimately cost the company billions in revenue and could end its
    drilling in federally controlled oil fields.

    »  Read more | 144 reads «

  • Tsironis, Vasilis (1929-1978), the rebel assassinated doctor

    Syndicated from Libcom on Fri, 2010-05-21
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  • Appeals Court Rules Against Bagram Detainees

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-05-21
    by Pete Yost

    WASHINGTON - Detainees at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their imprisonment the way detainees in Guantanamo Bay have, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

    »  Read more | 139 reads «

  • Web & media - May 21

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-05-21

    -Dark Mountain: Issue 1
    -Natural Regression
    -'Historic' day as first non-Latin web addresses go live
    -The Coming Greenhouse World

    »  Read more | 251 reads «

  • The need for growth

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-05-21

    Yesterday, a friend sent me over this graph, which shows the levels of carbon dioxide emitted by the USA over the last twenty years. As the accompanying report explains, it shows that 2009 was an "exceptional" year - exceptional in that emissions levels fell by more than they had fallen in a single year since 1949. The reason? The economic crash.

    »  Read more | 198 reads «

  • Economics - May 21

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-05-21

    -Teutonic Hyperbole
    -U.S. Senate Approves Sweeping Wall St. Reform Bill
    -A Bear Market by Any Other Name

    read more

    »  | 113 reads «

  • Common Cause Statement on RBC Arson

    Syndicated from Common Cause on Fri, 2010-05-21

    May 21, 2010
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Anarchists scapegoats for RBC arson

    Despite widespread claims by the media, there is no indication that the recent "firebombing" of an RBC bank branch in Ottawa was carried
    out by "anarchists".

    Nowhere in the statement or video that was published online was it claimed that those responsible were anarchists.

    »  Read more | 160 reads «

  • ENGOs Do Not Speak for Carrier Sekani Tribal Council

    Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2010-05-21

    Dakelh Traditional Territory/Prince George, BC – The Carrier Sekani Tribal Council is calling on all environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) to improve their policies on working with First Nations communities, particularly CSTC communities that have unresolved land and resource claims in British Columbia, Canada.  At a minimum these ENGOs should be adhering to, supportin

    »  Read more | 136 reads «

  • Missing the slums for the cities

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-05-21

    Cities in Asia are hubs of production, innovation and wealth, funnelling into themselves immense resources, water, energy, food, drawing in from nearby districts and far-off provinces families and entire communities.

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    »  | 233 reads «

  • NAN says new National Boreal Forest Agreement Disrespects First Nations Rights

    Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2010-05-21

    THUNDER BAY, ON: Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Stan Beardy says
    the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, recently signed by Canadian forest product
    companies and environmental groups, disrespects First Nations rights. 
     
    “Nobody has the right to develop an agreement that affects any of NAN’s lands and

    »  Read more | 135 reads «

  • Reclaiming the streets

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-05-21

    Cars promise mobility, and in a largely rural setting they provide it.

    »  Read more | 168 reads «

  • Gulf Oil Spill: Vast Majority of Pollution Could Lurk Below Surface for Months or Years

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-05-21
    by Dan Froomkin

    As little as 1/60th of the oil belching from a blown-out deep-sea BP
    well could be making it all the way up to the surface of the Gulf of
    Mexico right away, judging from the results of a field test of a similar
    scenario conducte

    »  Read more | 157 reads «

  • Is The World Falling Apart?

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-05-21

    If you have to pose the question in today's title, then you have also gone a long way toward answering it. When I say "the world" I am referring to the global economy in the short-term (within 1 year). I don't doubt "the world" is falling apart in the long-term, but that will takes years (oil price shocks) or decades (dead oceans) to unfold.

    »  Read more | 162 reads «

  • What caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster?

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-05-21

    The blowout and oil spill on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was caused by a flawed well plan that did not include enough cement between the 7-inch production casing and t

    »  Read more | 137 reads «

  • Journalists at Johnston Press to vote again on strike action

    Syndicated from Libcom on Fri, 2010-05-21

    Journalists at the Johnston Press Group are to be balloted again on industrial action after their management used a technicality to block a strike on May 19 by the NUJ.

    »  Read more | 166 reads «