All News Articles for 2010-10-06
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Powerful Nations Withhold Climate Aid, Trample World's Poor The global aid group Oxfam says the world's poorest countries are missing out on aid earmarked for climate change programs at the expense of emerging superpowers China, India and Brazil. Oxfam's analysis finds one-third of international money aimed at climate programs went to the three major emerging nations, while the world's poorest 49 countries got just one-eighth. Read more |
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Labor Pains: Clash Between Two Unions Could Change Face of US Labor A Fight Between Two Unions Here Could Set the Course of the US Labor Movement Read more |
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One Nation Fails to Impress Corporate Media NEW YORK - Thanks to the efforts of independent media outlets like Free Speech TV (10/2/10), GritTV ( 10/4/10 ) and Democracy Now! ( 10/4/10 ), you may have been able to follow the happenings at last weekend's One Nation Working Together rally. Read more |
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There Is Class War, and Rich Are Winning A University of Chicago law professor created a firestorm of controversy last month when he blogged that he and his wife are barely making ends meet with their $250,000-plus combined salaries. Professor Todd Henderson was protesting President Obama’s plan to let the George W. Bush tax cuts on income above $250,000 per couple expire at the end of the year while extending the cuts for everyone below that threshold. Needless to say, the good professor didn’t get much sympathy. As well he shouldn’t. Read more |
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Is Digital Activism an Effective Medium for Change? Malcolm Gladwell says social media can't effect real-life change, Facebook and Twitter devotees think otherwise. Read more |
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Civilian Trial of ex-Guantanamo Prisoner Due to Start in New York NEW YORK – The first civilian trial for a former detainee of the US prison in Guantanamo Bay was expected to start Wednesday in New York in a key test of President Barack Obama's anti-terrorism policies. The federal court in Manhattan was expected to begin by completing the jury selection process, followed by opening statements by lawyers for the defense and prosecution. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian, is accused of a key role in the killing of 224 people during the bombings against two US embassies in Africa in 1998. Read more |
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Special Report: The Pentagon's New Cyber Warriors WASHINGTON - Guarding water wells and granaries from enemy raids is as old as war itself. In the Middle Ages, vital resources were hoarded behind castle walls, protected by moats, drawbridges and knights with double-edged swords. Today, U.S. national security planners are proposing that the 21st century's critical infrastructure -- power grids, communications, water utilities, financial networks -- be similarly shielded from cyber marauders and other foes. Read more |
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Enbridge Investors Told Pipelines Feed Fossil Fuel Addictions As Enbridge holds its investors meeting in Toronto's financial district, Environmental Justice Toronto sent them a message about their dirty investments in fossil fuels. Grassroots organizers sent up a banner attached to helium balloons that read "Enbridge Invests in Oil Addiction." The banner was visible through the glass front of the building, outside of which activists held up another banner that read "Community Resistance is the Cure." A message held up with helium balloons, tells investors that their money is funding more than pipelines. Read more |
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Daschle Admits -- Then Denies -- That White House Agreed With Industry To Scrap Public Option In a candid interview with the Center for American Progress [on Tuesday], former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle acknowledged that the public option didn't survive the health care debate because of a "understanding" that the White House reached with health care industry stakeholders -- particularly with hospital and insurance company trade associations. Read more |
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Taliban in Talks with Karzai Government: Report WASHINGTON — The Taliban and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai have begun high-level talks over a negotiated end to the war in the country, the Washington Post said . Citing unnamed Afghan and Arab sources, the Post said the talks are believed, for the first time, to involve representatives authorized by the Quetta Shura, the Afghan Taliban group based in Pakistan, and Taliban leader Mohammad Omar. Read more |
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Changing America - One Fire at a Time Read more |