Stop Bombing Gaza: Video of NYC Protest
Stop bombing Gaza demonstration in New York City, December 30th 2008 in front of the Israel consulate. Held in solidarity with demonstrations all over the world.Photo: Stanley W. Rogouski
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Peak Soil
Oil is what most of us think of as a strategic resource, yet in the long run it is soil which is the more important. Even so, people's eyes tend to glaze over when talk turns to soil conservation, maybe because it's so much easier to see the immediate relevance of rising gas prices and climate change in these days of peak oil.Photo: Andrew Kokotka
Activist Walter Agredo on Solidarity with Colombian Political Prisoners
Walter Agredo works with the Cali, Colombia chapter of the Committee in Solidarity with Poplitical Prisoners, which provides ongoing direct support to hundreds of prisoners and their families throughout Colombia. Recently the group launched a campaign against the extradition of political prisoners to the US.
Nuclear Showdown: The Need to Stop the Current Arms Buildup
Plans for a Missile Defense System in Europe, located in Poland and the Czech Republic have become too dangerous to continue by the U.S. and its European allies because of possible Russian retaliation, including the threat of nuclear attack. Russia now is threatening the U.S. and making plans for missile deployment in their territories while the U.S. is sitting back and refusing to change course on its plans to "defend" Europe against Iran. Military aggression is on the march.
Bush’s Farewell Gift to Israel
The body of UN Security Council Resolution 1850 avoids any meaningful mention of a two-state solution or the creation of a Palestinian state with the exception of a feeble reference late in the text -- added almost as an afterthought -- to "preparation for statehood".
Gaza Attacks: Murder with Impunity
It was about midnight last Sunday when my phone rang. "I'm not sure I will survive tonight, the Israelis are bombing us everywhere." It was Mahmoud, a young resident of Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt. We first met when I visited the troubled coastal territory after Israel dismantled its settlements there in September 2005.