In a report published on January 3, the Union of Concerned Scientists argues that ExxonMobil is employing disinformation tactics used by the tobacco industry to promote public confusion over climate change and to delay urgent action to halt global
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In what seems to be becoming a signature atrocity of US President George Bush鈥檚 鈥渨ar on terror鈥, US air strikes hit a Somali wedding ceremony, according to a January 10 BBC Online report. Up to 31 people were killed. The BBC quoted the account of an elder in Banka-Jiira, a grazing area, who told the news service鈥檚 Somali branch: 鈥淭here have been air strikes carried out by American planes in these areas since Sunday. Here in the Banka-Jiira area, which is the largest grazing area in the Juba Valley region, we have been hard hit. There have been several air strikes over nearby Booji grazing area too. The most unfortunate incident was an attack on a big wedding ceremony 鈥
On January 10, US President George Bush unveiled his government聮s new plan for prosecuting Washington聮s almost four-year-old counterinsurgency war in Iraq, which in a December 20 interview with the Washington Post he for the first time acknowledged the US was 聯not winning聰.
With climate change posing as one of the gravest threats to capital accumulation - not to mention humankind and our environment - in coming decades, it is little wonder that economists such as Sir Nick Stern, establishment politicians like Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and US Democrat Al Gore, and financiers at the World Bank and in the City of London have begun warning the public and, in the process, birthing a market for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
It seems like an overly cliched script with a plot so tired that even Hollywood聮s dross-marketing machine might think twice about touching it: a Mid-East nation led by an aggressive regime with a record of violating human rights whenever it feels like (which turns out to be often) threatens countries in the region with its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. But, in a twist unlikely to make it into the next blockbuster, according to a January 7 article in London聮s Sunday Times, it聮s the Israeli military that聮s planning to use nuclear weapons, not the 聯mad Arabs聰 that are the more conventional WMD-toting movie villains.
The carbon offset industry was all about growth in 2006. The high-profile, Britain-based CarbonNeutral Company reported an annual turnover of 拢2.7 million, while the global market sold an estimated 拢60 million, and this figure was estimated to increase five times over in three years.
Parliamentarians from the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), the Dutch Socialist Party, the Greens and the Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru party were arrested on January 8 following a protest at the Faslane nuclear submarine base on the River Clyde. The protest was organised by Faslane 365, which is promoting a year-round blockade of the base.
Committing Poetry in Times of War
Directed by stavros
With Bill Nevins and Priscilla Baca y Candelaria
Directed by stavros
With Bill Nevins and Priscilla Baca y Candelaria
Saddam Hussein was rushed to the gallows as 2006 ended 鈥 a former dictator put to death under instructions from his one-time supporters in the US government.
Nuclear power I
No nuclear plant in the World has survived without massive taxpayer subsidies. It's not an energy solution, it's corporate welfare. John Howard's more interested in pork barrelling his wealthy mates than providing Australians with
Sending shockwaves through the corporate elite, on January 8 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared his government鈥檚 intention of reversing the privatisations that had been carried out by previous governments. Declaring 鈥淲e鈥檙e on our way to socialism, and nothing and no-one can prevent it鈥, Chavez insisted, 鈥淎ll that was privatised, let it be nationalised鈥, according to a January 9 Associated Press report.
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