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News :: Economy : Environment : Globalization |
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Is the world's oil running out fast? |
by Adam Porter at the Peak Oil conference in Berlin
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08 Jun 2004
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If you think oil prices are high at $40 a barrel then wait till they are four times that much.
Many projections of the future energy economy are based on corporate oil reserve figures that may be questionable, as the recent Shell scandal has shown. |
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Announcement :: Arts : Civil & Human Rights : International Relations : Peace : Protest Activity |
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Yard Sign Project |
by Bill Fisher
wwfisher (nospam) alltel.net (verified) |
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08 Jun 2004
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The invitation below has been sent to artists, friends, writers, activists, hacktivists and strangers. Please contact me if I may provide further information, images, or if you would like to link to the project. Yard Sign Project is online at http://billfisher.dreamhost.com/yardsign.htm, allowing individuals to freely print a larger, full-resolution image. |
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News :: Arts : Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation : Government Secrecy : Protest Activity : Regime |
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Artists Subpoenaed in USA Patriot Act Case |
by Critical Art Ensemble
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08 Jun 2004
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Even under the expanded powers of the USA PATRIOT Act, it is difficult to understand how anyone could view CAE's art as anything other than a "peaceful purpose." The equipment seized by the FBI consisted mainly of CAE's most recent project, a mobile DNA extraction laboratory to test store-bought food for possible contamination by genetically modified grains and organisms; such equipment can be found in any university's basic biology lab and even in many high schools. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Labor : Latin America : Nukes : Political-Economy : Right Wing |
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Rating Reagan: A Bogus Legacy |
by Robert Parry
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08 Jun 2004
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Indeed, if the Soviet Union had been what the American conservatives claimed – a nation marching toward world supremacy in the early 1980s – how would one explain its rapid collapse only a few years later? After all, the Soviet Union wasn’t invaded or conquered. Its troops did suffer losses in Afghanistan, but that would no more have brought down a true superpower than the Vietnam defeat could have caused the United States to collapse. |
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Experts say U.S. Prisoners are subjected to Iraqi-style Torture |
by Hazel
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07 Jun 2004
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WASHINGTON (NNPA) - As Americans continue to recoil at the sight of photographs and videotapes showing handcuffed prisoners piled naked on top of one another, being bitten by dogs, being sexually exploited and subjected to other forms of debasing Torture at the Abu-Ghraib prison in Iraq, human rights advocates say similar constitutional violations of torture occur on a regular basis in United States |
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Ronald Reagan's Legacy |
by Mark Weisbrot
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07 Jun 2004
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The Reagan revolution continues today: the "war on terror" has replaced the Cold War as pretext for intervention abroad, including the disastrous war in Iraq. Tax cuts for the rich and huge increases in military spending have revived the era of giant budget deficits. As the Great Communicator used to say, "There they go again." |
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News :: Political-Economy |
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"Anything they'd ask you, you'd have to lie" |
by Jason Leopold
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07 Jun 2004
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On May 17, 2001, Enron Chairman Ken Lay held a secret meeting in Beverly Hills for VIPs (including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Milken) to lobby the Calif Legislature to protect deregulation. That same day the Bush/Cheney administration unveiled their national energy policy which adopted seven of Ken Lay's "suggestions." |
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Announcement :: Israel / Palestine |
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BE ONE OF 10,000 INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS IN PALESTINE |
by P10K
ken (nospam) P10K.net (unverified) |
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07 Jun 2004
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
www.P10K.net
Ex-US Marine/Gulf War Veteran & Founder of the Human Shield Action to Iraq Ken O’Keefe announces ‘P10K FORCE’ plan to Mobilize 10,000 International Observers from Western Nations to the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) - Launching September 11, 2004. |
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LOCAL News :: Education |
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IMC Radio News for 6.7.2004 |
by IMC Radio News
info (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified) |
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07 Jun 2004
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IMC Radio News has been uploaded to the Media Gallery. To find the mp3 itself, simply do a SEARCH in the search window for "IMC Radio News". |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Prisons : Regime |
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Pentagon Report Set Framework For Use of Torture |
by Jess Bravin
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07 Jun 2004
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Bush lawyersd defend his right to order illegal torture, cite University of Illinois professor's text as justification
"After defining torture and other prohibited acts, the memo presents 'legal doctrines ... that could render specific conduct, otherwise criminal, not unlawful.' Foremost, the lawyers rely on the "commander-in-chief authority," concluding that 'without a clear statement otherwise, criminal statutes are not read as infringing on the president's ultimate authority' to wage war. Moreover, 'any effort by Congress to regulate the interrogation of unlawful combatants would violate the Constitution's sole vesting of the commander-in-chief authority in the president,' the lawyers advised." |
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