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Icelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Challenging Gov’t Secrecy from Twitter to Bradley Manning (Democracy Now!)
Democracy Now! interviews the Iceland member of parliament, access to whose twitter account was summarily demanded by the US government because of her involvement in […]
Top Ten Ways Margaret Thatcher’s Policies Made our World more Unequal
The late Margaret Thatcher had an enormous impact on Britain and the world, but her legacy has been a more unequal, less prosperous Britain and […]
Deep Sanctions on Iran are Repeating the Deadly Mistakes of Iraq (Hindawi)
Coralie Pison Hindawi writes in a guest column for Informed Comment On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion (a war unleashed […]
Ontario First Major Industrial Region to Abolish Dirty Coal Plants (Coal should be Illegal)
Coal plants are the world’s most abundant and most dangerous source of carbon dioxide emissions and the most important single driver of catastrophic climate change. […]
13-year-old Iranian Girl Sings Adele’s ‘Someone like You’
For a different view of Iranian youth than the images of anger and menace most often purveyed in US media (as Rami Khoury rightly argues): […]
Egypt: New Left and Coptic Christians Demand Toppling of Muslim Brotherhood Regime
A small crowd of some 500 marched in downtown Cairo on Saturday calling for the fall of the Muhammad Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, regime. It was […]
Denmark 25% Wind-Powered, Going for 50% in 8 Years
Denmark gets 25% of its total electricity from wind turbines, and aims to double that by 2020. Part of its strategy is not just putting […]
How the US Pays off innocent Drone Victims (Currier)
Cora Currier writes at ProPublica The U.S. drone war remains cloaked in secrecy, and as a result, questions swirl around it. Who exactly can be […]
The Real Reason for Climate Change Denial: Oil Cos. Would lose 60% of their Value
HSBC estimates that if the world adopted the policies necessary to keep global warming to only 2 degrees C. (3.6 degrees F.), oil companies would […]