| One million dead - 2012-02-07 18:38:10 |
| OVER A million Iraqis are dead from America's war. That sentence is a cognitive litmus test. Some people's immediate reaction is,"That can't be right,"because the United States couldn't do that. Or because crimes on that scale don't still happen. Or because they do happen, but only in horrible places that the United States hasn't rescued. One million is a"Grandpa, what did you do to stop it?"number. It's a number that undeniably puts the (...)-contributions |
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| MST leader Joao Pedro Stedile : 'Let's build a people's ALBA' (video) - 2012-02-07 10:54:59 |
| live from Porto Alegre (Brazil) From January 24-29, the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre was again the staging ground for the World Social Forum (WSF), an annual international gathering of anti-globalisation and anti-capitalist activists. Among the various movements present, one of the most visible was Brazil's Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), possibly the largest social movement in Latin America. During the WSF, ALBA TV, a Venezuelan initiative to bring together community TV (...)-contributions |
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| Wrap up of the week's nuclear news - 2012-02-07 10:51:44 |
| Australia: By far the most important nuclear news for this week is the Bill before the senate tomorrow February 8, - the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill. This will impose a nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land in the NT. It's likely to be rubber-stamped by the Senate, as the Australian media dutifully shuts up about this–as usual. Only the Greens will fight this one. Grattan Institute, largely funded by BHP, comes out with a pro nuclear report, and subtly (...)-contributions |
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