February 2007
US: Secret CIA Prisoners Still Missing Washington Should Reveal Fate of People ‘Disappeared’ by US
(New York, February 27, 2007) - The US government should account for
all the missing detainees once held by the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The 50-page report, “Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIA
Detention,” contains a detailed description of a secret CIA prison from a
Palestinian former detainee who was [...]
Environmental Defense Praises Western Governors’ Climate Commitment
Washington - February 26, 2006) Environmental Defense today praised the commitment of five governors to take the lead in fighting climate change by setting a regional cap on greenhouse gas emissions in Western states. The agreement is the latest in a series of major steps by states and business leaders to get emissions caps in [...]
Darfur: International Criminal Court Prosecutions Welcomed, Those Responsible Warned
Brussels, 27 February 2007: The International Crisis Group welcomes today’s application by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to start proceedings against the Sudanese State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Ahmad Muhammad Harun, and the militia/Janjaweed commander, Ali Kushayb, for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in West Darfur in 2003-2004. It is essential [...]
UK Environmental Labelling
Government’s commitment to work with industry to develop environmental labelling of food, was outlined today by David Miliband, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Speaking at the National Farmers Union Annual Conference in Birmingham, he said:
“Environmental quality is becoming an important factor in consumers’ decisions alongside nutritional quality and price. I can envisage [...]
STARTECH ENVIRONMENTAL CORPORATION IS FEATURED IN POPULAR SCIENCE MAGAZINE AS THE MIRACLE ENERGY MACHINE
WILTON, CT, February 27, 2007 –/WORLD-WIRE/– Startech Environmental Corporation (OTCBB: STHK), a fully reporting company, announced today that Popular Science Magazine, in its March ‘07 issue now on the news stands, has produced a 9-page, well-illustrated feature article on the Startech Plasma Converter as the “Miracle Energy Machine - How to Turn Toxic Waste into [...]
Science and the Precautionary Principle in UK Government
Everyone accepts that science and scientific evidence play a
major role in deciding whether the precautionary principle
should be invoked and applied. Five years ago, the UK
government seemed to think so too. Its Interdepartmental
Liaison Group on Risk Assessment (ILGRA) produced a report
recommending that the precautionary principle should be
invoked “when there is good reason to believe that harmful
effects [...]
Hypocrisy in the Middle East
02/26/06 “ICH” — - -Hundreds of thousands of American troops already occupy Afghanistan and Iraq, a number that is rising as the military surge moves forward. The justification, given endlessly since September 11th, is that both support terrorism and thus pose a risk to the United States. Yet when we step back and examine the [...]
Lake Heron in NZ must be protected from 4WD destruction
A decision by the Department of Conservation to build a four-wheel-drive road around Lake Heron will seriously damage the lake’s unique natural values, tranquillity and endangered wildlife, Forest & Bird says.
Forest & Bird is calling on Conservation Minister Chris Carter to reject DOC’s decision to build the road.
Forest & Bird Executive member Gerry McSweeney says [...]
Australian Nuclear Power Plants
Following reports that Australian Nuclear Energy Pty Ltd is examining the viability of setting up Australia’s first nuclear power plant in Victoria or South Australia, the Australia Institute today named Port Augusta as the most likely site.
“The available information indicates that if a nuclear power plant is going to be built in Victoria or South [...]
Greenpeace reveals ongoing illegal carve up of Congo’s rainforests
International - Brussels,23rd February, 2007 - Greenpeace released evidence today of widespread illegal logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), part of the second largest tropical forest in the world after the Amazon. The environmental organisation has documented logging operations in violation of a moratorium, which since 2002 should have stopped the allocation of [...]
Dark side of the boom: Indian growth costs the poor and environment dear
An Indian law intended to promote economic development is causing environmental damage and harming the livelihoods of some of the nation’s poorest people, so it should be repealed or greatly revised.
This is among the conclusions of a report released today (22 January) by the International Institute for Environment and Development and Winrock International India ahead [...]
Environmental Defense Declare Victory
Today is a truly historic day in the fight against global warming. News just broke that Texas Pacific Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. are seeking to acquire Texas-based energy giant TXU Corp.
As part of the sale agreement, Environmental Defense helped negotiate an aggressive environmental platform that will, among other things:
Terminate plans for the [...]
Nigeria: Put Human Rights at Heart of Election
(London, February 26, 2007) - Candidates in Nigeria’s April 2007
elections should address the country’s pervasive human rights problems
and propose needed reforms, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper
released today. Many of Nigeria’s most widespread and serious abuses
have not been addressed since the end of military rule in 1999.
“Nigeria needs leaders who will tackle the [...]
Water Watch
Hundreds of mayors from cities around the country converged on Washington, DC in January to press some flesh with their members of Congress during a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM). They weren’t the only ones looking for face time with important politicians. Executives from American Water, the country’s largest private water [...]
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have continued their wide scale military operation inside Nablus
For the second executive day, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have continued their wide scale military operation inside Nablus. No casualties among the Palestinian civilian population have been reported, but the IOF military operation has paralyzed all aspects of daily life in the city, which has been placed under a curfew. PCHR strongly condemns this latest [...]
Ground-breaking NZ Energy Revolution report launched
Auckland, New Zealand - New Zealand can take major steps towards avoiding climate chaos by reducing energy demand and switching to clean, renewable energies - and that means banning coal-fired power stations.
On the back of this morning’s protest at the Huntly coal-fired power station, Greenpeace was set to present Energy and Climate Change Minister David [...]
Lights off Australia!
City skylines filled with burning bright lights will be a thing of the past if Sunrise and the Australian Conservation Foundation have their way. The Lights Off Australia campaign was launched today on Sunrise, urging Australians to turn off lights they don’t need.
The first Wednesday of each month has been designated Lights Off Australia night, [...]
SRI LANKA: A serious attempt to control and suppress civil society organisations needs a response if further repression is to be halted
Many civil society organisations, both local and international have received a letter similar to the one that follows from the secretary to the Select Committee of Parliament for the Investigation of the Operations of Non-Governmental Organisations and their Impact.
Many questions regarding civil liberties and democratic freedoms arise from the information that is being sort. The [...]
Whaling Fleet leaving Southern Ocean
Antarctica, International - 24 February - The Japanese Government whaling fleet is finally leaving the Southern Ocean, according to their expedition leader. The Nisshin Maru, disabled for nine days by fire, is moving under her own power. We hope this is the last time the fleet threatens both the whales and the pristine Antarctic environment.
At [...]
Food from Cloned Animals
Cattle geneticist John Hodges, now retired, worked much of his career helping rural Africa to breed better cattle. In a recent tour of NZ he gave thoughtful seminars expressing many reservations about GM.
Between Christmas and New Year, the US Government Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced preliminary approval of milk and meat from clones of [...]
Hugo Chavez’s Social Democratic Agenda
Hugo Chavez Frias was reelected by an overwhelming nearly two to one margin over his only serious rival on December 3, 2006 giving him a mandate to proceed with his agenda to build a socialist society in the 21st century on a Bolivarian model designed to meet the needs of the current era in Venezuela [...]
Venezuela: Hugo Chávez’s Revolution
Bogotá/Brussels, 22 February 2007: Venezuela is at risk of serious internal conflict if President Hugo Chávez continues to polarise society and dismantle the checks and balances of representative democracy after his recent landslide re-election.
Venezuela: Hugo Chávez’s Revolution,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines what that overwhelming victory in December and Chávez’s “Bolivarian [...]
Biofuels - facts and fiction
George W Bush used his seventh annual State of the Union Address to announce ethanol is the answer to oil dependency. The biotech industry is in ecstasy at the soaring demand for corn to meet the U.S thirst for ethanol.
But as NFU Director of Research , Darrin Qualman, points out in a brilliant article, ‘Biodiesel [...]
“Theater Iran Near Term” (TIRANNT) by Michel Chossudovsky
DUBAI, UAE, 21 February 2007. (revised 23 Feb 2007). Code named by US military planners as TIRANNT, “Theater Iran Near Term” has identified several thousand targets inside Iran as part of a “Shock and Awe” Blitzkrieg, which is now in its final planning stages.
According to the Kuwait-based Arab Times, an attack on Iran under TIRANNT could [...]
Judicial Watch: What did the Justice Department Hide from the 9/11 Commission?
When the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a report in January providing new details of Sandy Berger’s theft and destruction of classified documents from the National Archives, among those outraged by the revelations were members of the 9/11 Commission. Why? Because at the time of the incident, which took place during the 9/11 [...]
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