Obama’s Troubling Stance on Missile Defense and Militarizing Space
Missile defense is quickly becoming the most significant global arms race of the 21st century. This race may soon reach into space, what the Patriot Missile
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Wildfires and the Economic Woes of Global Warming
The combination of increasing temperatures and dry conditions predicted for some areas suggest that there will be more wildfires and they will be of longer duration. This will require increasing expense both to control the fires and to repair the damage they do. There's convincing evidence that this trend, increases in both frequency and duration of wildfires, is well underway.California Fire
Banning Cluster Bombs: The Outlaws
In a remarkable combination of civil society pressure and leadership from a small number of progressive states, a strong ban on the use, manufacture, and stocking of cluster bombs was signed in Oslo, Norway on December 3, 2008. However, all bright sunlight casts a dark shadow, and in this case the shadow is the fact that the major makers and users of cluster munitions were deliberately not there: Brazil, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia and the USA.Anti-Cluster Bomb March, Ireland
Chile: Mapuche Increase Opposition Bío Bío River Dam
On November 26, Mapuche Pewenche authorities of the Bío Bío River in Chile met with the Environmental Minister, Ana Lya Uriarte, explaining their opposition to the construction of a new dam on the Bío Bío River and requesting for more time to allow for civic participation in the "Environmental Impact Study" of the Angostura Project of the Colbún-Matte, the company that is again threatening their territories.
As the Banks Crumble: A Look at the Left in Switzerland
If the left draws the majority of its support from those at the lower rungs of the economic pecking pole - organized labor, civil servants, and the working poor - how then in Switzerland, one of the wealthiest countries, with some of the lowest poverty and unemployment rates in the post-industrialized world, does the left ever make it to public office? How on the turf of banking goliaths Credit Suisse and United Bank of Switzerland does the left not get laughed out of town?Swiss Bank Bailout Protest