26 January 2007
Global food supply near the breaking point
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Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN, Canada, January 24, 2007 (IPS) - The world is now eating more food than farmers grow, pushing global grain stocks to their lowest level in 30 years.

Rising population, water shortages, climate change, and the growing...
21 January 2007
Oil and foreign policy after Bush
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Steven Crockett
The Bush Administration has failed miserably to construct a logical, workable, long-term foreign policy to deal with our national dependence on imported oil. Our trade policies are creating strong deflationary pressure on the US Dollar in...
03 January 2007
International delegation travels to Guantanamo, Cuba to protest infamous US prison
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Alejandro Beltran
Delegates include mother of current prisoner, former Guantanamo detainee, and high-level US peace activists

On January 9-13, a first-ever international delegation of former prisoners, families of current prisoners, US lawyers...
30 December 2006
Wall Street project goes global with Gala 10th Anniversary Reception at United Nations headquarters
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Rainbow PUSH
NEW YORK (December 29, 2006) – The Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s Wall Street Project celebrates its 10th anniversary as a force for economic justice and equal opportunity with a gala reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, January 10, at the...
18 December 2006
Muslim Buddhist war
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- After staging a bloodless, right-wing coup to expand their political and economic control, Thailand's U.S.-trained military has been unable to crush Muslim guerrillas in the south, resulting in hundreds of Buddhists...
12 December 2006
Tinker Bell, Pinochet and the fairy tale miracle of Chile
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Greg Palast
Chile’s former military dictator General Augusto Pinochet died today at the age of 91.

Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother, Tinker Bell and General Augusto Pinochet had much in common.

All three performed magical good...

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