Malaysian Water Company Claims To Have Run Dry
Syabas, a private water company in Malaysia, has threatened to start water rationing in the state of Selangor after claiming that it had almost no water reserves left.
Month: August 2012
An Open Letter to All Who Seek A New and Better World: International Organization for a Participatory Society
We the signers of this open letter from Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Boaventura de sousa Santos, John Pilger, and 40 other members of the interim decision body of the new International Organization for a Participatory Society, hope that you will circulate, email, and/or republish our letter, and, even more, that you will engage in and publish commentary regarding the organization’s purpose, implications, prospects, etc.
For more information visit http://www.iopsociety.org/
An Open Letter to All Who Seek A New and Better World
Nothing ‘Accidental’ in Mali: More Misery Awaits
Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region.
Iraq: After the Americans
Source: Al Jazeera, Fault Lines
“For the first time in nine years there are no Americans fighting in Iraq. After a decade of war that’s cost us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars, the nation we need to build is our own.”
Barack Obama, the US president
In keeping with Barack Obama’s presidential campaign promise, the US has withdrawn its troops from Iraq and by the end of 2012 US spending in Iraq will be just five per cent of what it was at its peak in 2008.