Copenhagen Negotiators Bicker and Filibuster While the Biosphere Burns

Published on Friday, December 18, 2009 by The Guardian/UK Copenhagen Negotiators Bicker and Filibuster While the Biosphere Burns George Monbiot despairs at the chaotic, disastrous denouement of a chaotic and disastrous climate summit by George Monbiot First they put the planet in square brackets, now they have deleted it from the text. This is no [...]

RFK, Jr. and Rep. Ed Markey Discuss the Climate Bill

RFK, Jr. and Rep. Ed Markey Discuss the Climate Bill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAsjUQDalb8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v0HnBXLRzo&feature=channel Excellent Interview!!!!  Very informative and educational.

Senate to Take up Bernie Sanders Single-Payer Health Plan Wednesday

Published on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by CommonDreams.org Senate to Take up Bernie Sanders Single-Payer Health Plan Wednesday WASHINGTON, December 15 – The Senate on Wednesday will debate for the first time in American history a proposal to create a single-payer, Medicare-for-all health care system. “In my view, the single-payer approach is the only way [...]

Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire’s New Clothes

Published on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 by TruthDig.com Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire’s New Clothes by Amy Goodman Denmark is the home of renowned children’s author Hans Christian Andersen. Copenhagen is dotted with historical spots where Andersen lived and wrote. “The Little Mermaid” was one of his most famous tales, published in 1837, along with [...]

Friends of the Earth Among Activists Barred from Copenhagen Conference Center

Published on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 by The Guardian/UK Friends of the Earth Among Activists Barred from Copenhagen Conference Center Security intensifies ahead of mass action to invade summit as 115 world leaders arrive for high-level talks by John Vidal and Jonathan Watts in Copenhagen Friends of the Earth international, Avaaz, TckTckTck and other mainstream [...]

US Silent About Taliban Guarantee Offer on al Qaeda

Published on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 by Inter Press Service US Silent About Taliban Guarantee Offer on al Qaeda by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON – The Barack Obama administration is refusing to acknowledge an offer by the leadership of the Taliban in early December to give “legal guarantees” that it will not allow Afghanistan to be [...]

Obama May Launch Drone Attacks on Major Pakistani City

Published on Monday, December 14, 2009 by the Los Angeles Times Obama May Launch Drone Attacks on Major Pakistani City U.S. officials seek to push CIA drone strikes into the major city of Quetta to try to pressure Pakistan into pursuing Taliban leaders based there by Greg Miller and Julian E. Barnes Senior U.S. officials [...]

Stop Uranium Train

Published on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by The Salt Lake Tribune Stop Uranium Train Feds to ship DU to Utah soon Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Despite concerns that the plan could be a figurative train wreck, a train load of depleted uranium is set to depart the federal Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in [...]

Israel Confirms UK Arrest Warrant Against Livni

Published on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Haaretz Israel Confirms UK Arrest Warrant Against Livni by Barak Ravid The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called for an end to the “absurd situation” in which arrest warrants were being issued to Israeli officials over alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip. “Only actions can put an end [...]

Papantonio: GOP Wants to Shut Down Cash-Strapped Government

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