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Mayor Bloomberg launches $20 billion climate adaptation strategy for New York - by Takver - Climate IMCIn a bold statement on June 11, 2013 from a former Naval Yard on Staten Island that was flood damaged by Ex-Tropical Cyclone Sandy, Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York, launched a plan of climate adaptation and resilience for the city. Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:44AM
Brutal Police Action Takes Taksim Square By Force - by Steven Argue[Turkish flags flying in the rubble, erected by police after tearing down banners, Taksim Square, June 11, 2013. (Photo credit: Action Press)] Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:39AM
New York Times Editors Defend the Indefensible - by Stephen Lendmananti-war Posted: Sat Jun 8, 2013 12:02AM
Illegitimate Palestinian Prime Minister Appointed - by Stephen LendmanIsrael Posted: Mon Jun 3, 2013 11:55PM
Quantitative Crisis: Bernanke’s “Stimulus” For The 1% - by Mark VorpahlWhen I heard that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress last week that it was too soon for the Fed to end its extraordinary stimulus programs, I did a double take. Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 11:32PM
10 Theses about the Crisis: Ingo Schulze - by Ingo SchulzeGerman novelist Ingo Schulze's 2012 "Our Beautiful New Clothes" explains how we have accepted the form and not the substance of democracy. People were convinced of the "emperor's new clothes" until a child cried "but he has nothing on." Maybe Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale can help us understand our predicament.
It is the madness that has become self-evident: for years, the public sphere has been plundered and democracy ruined. The German writer Ingo Schulze has had enough. Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 9:32AM
PHILIPPINES: Millions of Votes for the Democratic Left - by AKBAYAN - Citizens Action PartyWhile the Commission on Elections has yet to announce the official results of the 2013 partylist elections, we would like to thank the Filipino voters and everyone who have made Akbayan Partylist's sixth straight electoral victory possible. Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 2:51AM
Maoists take Revenge on Mass Murdering Gang Rapists in India - by Steven Argue[Photo: Poet Gaddar addresses pro-Maoist rally. A popular song in India has Gaddar’s words "Stop Rickshaw-walla; I am coming; You work from morning to night, but your stomach cannot be filled; So much blood and sweat, yet you earn hardly anything…" ] Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 11:37AM
State Funerals, Amnesia and Anarchism - by El Libertario, Venezuela°Response to the statement of FAU on the death of Chavez. Editor Collective EL LIBERTARIO (Venezuela). Originally published -in Spanish- in TIERRA Y LIBERTAD, Madrid, May 2013, # 298, p. 3-6. Internet -> http://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2013/05/funerales-de-estado-amnesia-y-anarquismo.html. *** In memory of our beloved comrade Rafael Sposito (a.k.a.) "Daniel Barrett" Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 4:29PM
Chokwe Lumumba's close race in Mississippi: Colorlines Editor Bob Wing on why it matters (audio/mpeg 2.7MB) - by KPFA Evening News, Ann Garrison, 05.18.2013The Jackson, Mississippi press is reporting "crunch time" in a close mayor's race. Jackson’s population is majority Black and Democratic, so Tuesday’s Democratic primary run-off, between Black Democrat Chokwe Lumumba and Black Democrat Jonathan Lee, will effectively determine who the city’s next mayor will be. The Jackson Free Press reports, however, that donors to the Jonathan Lee campaign have also given $1.2 million to federal Republican campaigns since 2008. Second District Mississi... Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 7:03AM
Obama's Contempt for Venezuelan Democracy - by Stephen LendmanVenezuela Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 12:07AM
Public hearing ordered for San Onofre nuclear restart - by indyradio.nuReceived from Friends of the Earth this morning, news of a significant victory:
“The U.S. Atomic Safety Licensing Board ruled today that the reactors can not be restarted before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission holds a formal license amendment proceeding with full public participation.” Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 2:50PM
Philippines: Solidarity on May Day with Venezuela's revolution - by DeLPhiOn this May 1, a day of international working class solidarity, we in the Philippine labor and progressive movement, stand with the Venezuelan working class and the people of Venezuela in their struggle to elect the government of their choice to pursue their demands and goals for Socialism of the XXI century. Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 6:11AM
Google Recognizes Palestinian Statehood - by Stephen LendmanPalestine Posted: Mon May 6, 2013 12:08AM |