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Recently elected Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and other climate change-denying politicians should be charged with “criminal negligence” for their “willful blindness,” climate expert and environmental activist David Suzuki stated in separate public appearances during a trip to Australia this week. Abbot, who is known for his climate change denialism, came into power this month…
Turkish police can now legally arrest and detain people they deem at “risk of conducting a protest” without court orders or oversight of any kind, prompting concerns about deepening police abuse in a country slammed for its brutal crackdown on recent mass protests. Leading Turkish paper Hürriyet reported Sunday that the new regulations will allow…
In a new wave of rapid media consolidation, large and unaccountable telecommunication corporations are gobbling up local television stations nationwide, according to a new study, devouring the interests of communities and unwitting consumers along the way. Though consolidation of television and other media companies has been an unrelenting trend for decades, the media reform group…
Super Typhoon Haiyan slammed the central islands of the Phillipines overnight and with sustained winds of nearly 200 mph the ferocious storm fulfilled fears that it would go down as the world’s most powerful tropical storm to make landfall in all recorded history. According to meteorologist Jeff Masters, citing wind speed estimates from the Joint…
Congressional talks will resume on Wednesday over a Farm Bill that has languished without resolution in both chambers since last year. And while Republicans have continued to attack the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or SNAP), which provides food assistance to the nation’s poorest families and individuals, the Democrats have played along by proposing less aggressive,…
First Nations anti-fracking protestors have vowed to regroup and continue the wave of resistance after losing their legal big on Monday to stop shale gas exploration on their land in New Brunswick. Last week, the Elsipogtog First Nation filed an application for an injunction to stop SWN Resources Canada from conducting seismic testing for shale…
MALVINAS ARGENTINAS, Córdoba, Argentina – The people of this working-class suburb of Córdoba in Argentina’s central farming belt stoically put up with the spraying of the weed-killer glyphosate on the fields surrounding their neighbourhood. But the last straw was when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant. Click Here: New Zealand…
An association of 5,000 academics on Monday became the largest U.S. scholarly organization ever to join the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The American Studies Association, which calls itself “the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history,” announced Monday that its membership passed a resolution stipulating the…
In a new decision in support of the NSA’s phone metadata surveillance program, U.S. district court Judge William Pauley cites an intelligence failure involving the agency in the lead-up to the 9/11 attacks. But the judge’s cited source, the 9/11 Commission Report, doesn’t actually include the account he gives in the ruling. What’s more, experts…
