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Terry Macalister, The Guardian. November 12, 2009.
Warning of a deliberate underplay at the International Energy Agency of a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.
Yves Engler, CounterPunch. October 13, 2009.
"No other country in the world has demonstrated such full understanding of us," says Ultra-Right Wing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of Canada.
Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. October 2, 2009.
Emery is in jail in Vancouver, awaiting extradition to the US to accept a five-year plea bargain for selling marijuana seeds to US customers.
Elisabeth Rosenthal, Yale Environment 360. October 1, 2009.
In Europe it is far easier to channel your good intentions into action. And you feel far worse if you don’t.
Jeff Huber, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. September 29, 2009.
There has never been such thing as a triumphant counter-insurgency strategy. Why are we deluding ourselves?
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. September 28, 2009.
Recently, Australia drastically reduced its per capita water usage. So what's the holdup stateside?
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation AlterNet: PEEK. September 23, 2009.
Sources say Stanley McChrystal may consider quitting if Obama fails to give him 15,000 additional troops in Afghanistan.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. August 29, 2009.
Joe is back yet again with his new movie and assorted products -- but the world he inhabits this time is completely sponged of our current predicaments abroad.
Pepe Escobar, Asia Times. July 28, 2009.
A nuclear Iran would inevitably turbo-charge a new, emerging multipolar world; one where the U.S. won't be relied on to control Mideast oil.
Juan Cole, Tomdispatch.com. July 28, 2009.
The doomsday rhetoric in Washington over lightly settled, mountainous Pashtun tribal lands is strikingly similar to that of the British Empire.
Frontera NorteSur, New America Media. July 23, 2009.
Latinos, who have suffered disproportionately from the effects of the recession, are now relying more on their relatives down south.
David Bromwich, Tomdispatch.com. July 22, 2009.
Younger generations of Americans are now being taught to expect no end of war -- and no end of wars. It wasn't always like that.
Jodie Evans, AlterNet. July 2, 2009.
The U.S. has not taken responsibility to restore the country it destroyed.
Mel Frykberg, IPS News. June 16, 2009.
"The peace process has been moving at the speed of a tortoise," said Yasser Abed Rabo. "Netanyahu has flipped it over on its back."
Janet Redman, AlterNet. June 12, 2009.
What's at stake is perhaps the largest transfer of resources from the global south to the north in history.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. June 12, 2009.
Empire. It's the word no one in Washington can say. Its absence from the conversation is at the heart of what makes our empire so hard to define.
Donald Kirk, Asia Times. June 10, 2009.
Will millions of tons of food aid with no strings attached allow for the release of U.S. prisoners and open the door to nuclear talks?
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 25, 2009.
Amnesty International finds that while the world as a whole is moving away from the death penalty, executions went up last year.
Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet. March 18, 2009.
Mexican drug cartels have easy access to thousands of American gun dealers just on the other side of the border.
Christopher Ketcham, AlterNet. March 10, 2009.
Israel runs one of the most aggressive and damaging espionage networks targeting the U.S., yet public discussion about it is almost nil.
Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor. February 16, 2009.
Congress passed a law in 2002 enabling the military to storm into Holland to rescue U.S. soldiers held for war crimes. The Dutch want it revoked.
Joel Berg, Seven Stories. February 4, 2009.
In a country with enough food and money to feed the world twice over, 1-in-8 people struggles to put food on his or her table.
AzzamanJanuary 20, 2009.
The world powers and their proxies are masters at destruction, but rebuilding is something they've never learned to do.
David Hilfiker, AlterNet. January 12, 2009.
How a middle-class white guy came to accept the evil embedded in American political and military might.
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post AlterNet: Media and Technology. December 18, 2008.
"Why is that ringing the big 'YOU'RE TELLING A LIE' bell in my head?"