December 2008
Israel’s Wanton Aggression On Gaza
It’s not the first time and won’t be the last. On December 27, AP reported that: “Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security compounds across Gaza on Saturday in unprecedented waves of simultaneous attacks, and Hamas and medics reported dozens of people were killed.” Haaretz headlined: “Israel launched (Operation Case Lead) Saturday morning (at around 11:30AM with [...]
May We No Longer Be Silent
The title of my article comes from the sermon of the Episcopal Bishop of Washington DC, John Bryson Chane, delivered on October 5, 2008, at St. Columba Church. The bishop’s eyes were opened to Israel’s persecution of Palestinians by his recent trip to Palestine. In his sermon he called on “politicians seeking the highest office [...]
Globalism: a historical deception
The cave drawings accompanying Gideon Rachman’s article entitled ‘And now for a world government’ [BELOW] clearly illustrate a widespread misconception. It also demonstrates the cunning of one world- propagandists in the crafting of their arguments. We are shown typical Palaeolithic artistry: horses, warriors, deer and, portrayed on the very same rocky surface, a globe. It [...]
Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 - #1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
# 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
# 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
# 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
# 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
# 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
# 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
# 8 Executive [...]
Organic Bytes: What Would The World Be Like Without OCA?
This week, we’re taking a break from the usual Organic Bytes newsletter format to thank all of you who have donated to Organic Consumers Association (OCA) in 2008. If you missed our annual “Flashback” issue summarizing the major OCA success stories of 2008, you can read it here to see how your donations have helped [...]
Planting Trees And Managing Soils To Sequester Carbon
As of 2007, the shrinking forests in the tropical regions were releasing 2.2 billion tons of carbon per year. Meanwhile, expanding forests in the temperate regions were absorbing 0.7 billion tons of carbon annually. On balance, a net of some 1.5 billion tons of carbon were being released into the atmosphere each year, contributing to [...]
Resolved: Will Create Peace on Earth
New Year’s resolutions come in a lot of shapes and sizes. I don’t think New Year’s 2009 is a year to aim low. So, I’m resolving to create peace on earth. And I intend to follow through. The catch, of course, is that unless a couple of million other people make the same resolution and [...]
Israel/Hamas: Civilians Must Not Be Targets
Israel and Hamas both must respect the prohibition under the laws of war against deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch expressed grave concern about Israeli bombings in Gaza that caused civilian deaths and Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli civilian areas in violation of international law.
Rocket attacks on [...]
Civilians must be protected in Gaza and Israel
Amnesty International calls on Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups to immediately halt the unlawful attacks carried out as part of the escalation of violence which has caused the death of some 280 Palestinians and one Israeli civilian since December 27.
This is the highest level of Palestinian fatalities and casualties in four decades of Israeli [...]
The negative return economy: a discourse on America’s black budget
The United States government has operated a secret budgeting and spending program for decades outside the framework of the American Constitution. The institutional and political roots of this system of clandestine finance reach back to at least a century. The turn of the 19th and 20th centuries saw the consolidation of American industry and banking [...]
Global Accountability Report Ranks IFOAM Number One Among Assessed Organizations
The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) is honored to announce its favorable assessment in One World Trust’s 2008 Global Accountability Report. An independent think tank, the One World Trust conducts research, develops recommendations, and advocates for reform to make policy and decision-making processes in global governance more accountable to the people they affect [...]
251 Palestinians, Mostly Civilians, Including 20 Children and 9 Women, Killed and 584 Others, Including 130 Children and 28 Women, Wounded
For the second consecutive day, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have continued to wage their bloodiest and most brutal war against the Gaza Strip since its occupation in 1967, under an international and Arab conspiracy of silence. In details of PCHR’s press release issued yesterday and the attacks that followed, yesterday evening, IOF launched more air [...]
Gaza: The Carnage Continues
Victims of Israeli air raids are 312 while wounded are up to 1000. Around 80 air raids took place in Gaza strip from the early morning of Sunday till 7pm in the evening. Around 300 air raids in the last 2 days.
-Trauma spreads across Gaza residents especially children due to the loud noise of the [...]
Socioeconomic Conditions Along the World’s Tropical Coasts: 2008
A first of its kind study, “Socioeconomic Conditions Along the World’s Tropical Coasts: 2008,” reports on the social and economic ramifications of healthy coral reefs in 27 tropical nations and points to the inability of coastal managers to effectively implement decades-old recommendations as a significant barrier to coral reef protection.
Issued as a parallel report to the [...]
Ron Paul: No Such Thing as an Independent Israel
The following is an exclusive Press TV interview with US congressman Ron Paul, a unique conservative politician who wants an end to US military presence on foreign soil, advocates US withdrawal from the UN, NATO and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and opposes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Ron Paul, House representative of [...]
Gaza Massacres Must Spur Us To Action
“I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those were the words, spoken on Al Jazeera today by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defense official in the Sderot area adjacent to Gaza, as images of Israel’s latest massacres were broadcast around the world. A short time earlier, US-supplied Israeli F-16 [...]
Conflict zone Mountain Gorillas viewed by rangers for first time in more than a year
Eastern DRC - Mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been seen by park rangers for the first time since the rangers were forced out of areas of Virunga National Park by Laurent Nkunda’s army 15 months ago. Virunga National Park director, Emmanuel de Merode, successfully negotiated with Nkunda and got confirmation [...]
Wealth Creation, or a Ponzi Scheme?
Last week the Good Lord evidently realized that not enough people had been reading Hyman Minsky’s explanation of how financial cycles end in Ponzi schemes – the stage in which banks keep the boom going by lending their customers the money to pay interest and thus avoid default. So He sent Bernie Madoff to dominate [...]
Carbon Offsetting: forgive my carbon sin?
We all want our green wings, and the notion of purchasing them via carbon offsetting is powerfully seductive. as Jules Peck reveals, however, buying your way into eco heaven can be fraught with problems. If and when a universal cap on greenhouse gases is ratified, all emissions will be controlled by law. In the absence [...]
Yes We Can Unpardon War Criminals
Dear President Elect Obama,
On his third day in office President Grant revoked two pardons that had been granted by President Andrew Johnson. President Nixon also undid a pardon that had been granted by President Lyndon Johnson. There may be other examples of this, as these two have somewhat accidentally come up in a discussion focused [...]
Solidarity with heroic Gaza
The International Action Center condemns the criminal U.S.-backed Israeli bombing massacre on Gaza, and the mass murder of 200 and serious wounding of another 300 Palestinians. We call upon the progressive, anti-war and workers’ movement in the United States to join the angry, growing worldwide protests of these latest Israeli war crimes with U.S. [...]
On the Bloodiest Day in the History of Occupation, Hundreds of Palestinian Civilian Deaths and Casualties in an Israeli Aerial Offensive against the Gaza Strip
PCHR condemns in the strongest terms the war waged by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) against the Gaza Strip through a wide scale aerial offensive, which has so far targeted dozens of police headquarters and stations, public and governmental buildings and security sites throughout the Gaza Strip. PCHR calls upon the international community, particularly the High [...]
USA: Vice President seeks to justify torture, secret detention and Guantánamo
Three days after the attacks of 11 September 2001, Vice President Richard Cheney said that the USA would have to work on the “dark side” in countering terrorism. A little over seven years later, with his term in office coming to an end, the Vice President has been casting some light on his involvement in [...]
‘Dear Mr Obama’ by Raj Patel (author of ‘Stuffed and Starved’)
Dear Mr Obama - I owe you an apology. In the run-up to the election, I said that you had been flying around in the Archer Daniels Midland jet, implying that you were still doing it. My mistake. Your team made it clear that you paid for all your own travel. And although the same team [...]
Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?
Abstract: Paleoclimate data show that climate sensitivity is ~3°C for doubled CO2, including only fast feedback processes. Equilibrium sensitivity, including slower surface albedo feedbacks, is ~6°C for doubled CO2 for the range of climate states between glacial conditions and ice-free Antarctica. Decreasing CO2 was the main cause of a cooling trend that began 50 million [...]
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