On Tuesday afternoon, paramilitaries affiliated with the ruling party of Oaxaca ambushed
an international aid caravan en route to San Juan Copala. At least two people are reported
dead. In addition to carrying much-needed supplies, the caravan was meant to accompany
teachers who were returning to classes after paramilitaries denied them access to the
community nearly five months ago.

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They dared to do what Canadian girls can do every day: kick a ball and strive to be great.

Better to call it the 'Flood Valleys for Power for Export Act'.

Joseph Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies has become one of the most-referenced books in those peak oil circles that have confronted the severity of the predicament the industrial world faces in the age of peak oil.

By William Fisher - Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Human rights groups are telling the United Nations that the United States is failing to hold corporations, including private government contractors, accountable for human rights abuses ranging from human trafficking to murder...These and a plethora of other charges have been triggered by the U.N.'s formal process known as the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) for reviewing the human rights records of 192 U.N. member states...scheduled for November, when the U.S. human rights performance will be reviewed for the first time.