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Sumatran Deforestation Driving Climate Change and Species Extinction
Jessica Aldred of The Guardian UK reports: "The destruction of Sumatra's natural forests is accelerating global climate change and pushing endangered species closer to extinction, a new report warned today." http://www.trutho ut.org/issues_06/022708EC. shtml http://freepage.t woday.net/search?q=defores tation http://freepage.two day.net/search?q=extinctio n ...
Bush lobbies for surveillance law
San Francisco Chronicle President Bush on Monday lobbied again for an intelligence law allowing government eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, as the tone of the dispute between the White House... ...
The harm initiative: How we got hoodwinked into tolerating abusive interrogations
Slate by Dahlia Lithwick 02/21/08 An investigation is currently underway to determine who authorized the destruction of those CIA interrogation tapes. But as Attorney General Michael Mukasey announced... ...
A presidency worth celebrating
Reason by Gene Healy 02/18/08 It’s common these days, especially after 9/11, to hear people call the president ‘our commander in chief’ — as if he’s the leader of society as a whole, rather than just... ...
The largest threats to the long-term financial health of the United States
The Terrorists Still at Ground Zero By Alexander Cockburn On January 10 Moody's, in concert with the other main bond rating firm, Standard and Poor's, gave the United States its top AAA credit rating.... ...
Keep Kucinich In Congress
Because of the abysmal approval ratings of Congress itself, there is a real groundswell of "throw the bums out" voting, as evidenced by the 24-point victory in the primary challenge this week by progressive... ...
Our out-of-control military machine
More Guns, No Butter Editors for The Nation Magazine say: "Americans are worried about the impending recession and the Wall Street crisis, as well as the exhilarating and unpredictable presidential contest.... ...
U.S. deficit running at twice last year's
Federal spending also rising at faster pace than last year http://www.msnbc.msn. com/id/23131149/ U.S. mortgage crisis spreads beyond subprime loans As the world's largest economy grapples with the... ...
McCain apes Bush on Iraq, as Dems stand passively by
Salon by Gary Kamiya 02/12/08 John McCain’s Achilles’ heel should be Iraq. He is an unapologetic hawk at a time when only right-wing die-hards cling to that position. His hard-line insistence that U.S.... ...
Europeans See What America Cannot
By Eric Margolis If impassioned claims by U.S. and Canadian politicians that the little Afghanistan war must by won at all costs, then why don't they stop orating, impose conscription, and send 400,000... ...