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Iraq 5 years later
March 24, 2008, Comments Off on Iraq 5 years later

The $3 Trillion War, Josephy Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes (Vanity Fair, April 2008) After wildly lowballing the cost of the ...

Predatory states & democratic recession
March 24, 2008, Comments Off on Predatory states & democratic recession

The Democratic Rollback Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008 Summary ...

US firm claims Arctic oil resources
March 21, 2008, Comments Off on US firm claims Arctic oil resources

U.S. firm lays claim to ‘potentially vast’ Arctic oil resources Randy Boswell, The Ottawa Citizen Friday, Ma ...

EU paper warns of climate chaos
March 20, 2008, Comments Off on EU paper warns of climate chaos

Rising temperatures will damage even strong economies and pose a global threat to security, top officials say. Extreme c ...

Spring 2008 in the U.K.
March 20, 2008, Comments Off on Spring 2008 in the U.K.

   How the blurring of the seasons is a harbinger of climate calamity By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor Thursday ...

Carbonating India by Cleo Paskal
March 18, 2008, Comments Off on Carbonating India by Cleo Paskal

There is now widespread scientific consensus that human-produced carbon emissions are contributing to global climate cha ...

Chinese biofuel 'could endanger biodiversity'
March 18, 2008, Comments Off on Chinese biofuel 'could endanger biodiversity'

Jatropha curcus Flickr/jurvetson [BEIJING] Using China’s forests and ‘idle land’ to produce biofuels c ...

La Niña and Climate Chaos
March 13, 2008, Comments Off on La Niña and Climate Chaos

Flooding in eastern Bolivia.Credit:Franz Chávez/IPS (IPS) SANTIAGO, Mar 13 (Tierramérica) – It is still difficul ...

Georgia and the Balance of Power
March 9, 2008, Comments Off on Georgia and the Balance of Power

  Georgia, a Nation Stalled On the Road to Democracy (WaPost) Nearly four years after President George W. Bush hailed t ...

Anti-Americanism and Anti-Europeanism
March 8, 2008, Comments Off on Anti-Americanism and Anti-Europeanism

Dan Gardner, The Ottawa Citizen A much-maligned continent The decadent, doomed society portrayed in today’s popula ...

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