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Dutch parliament increases climate targets: 25 percent by 2020, 55 percent by 2030  The Netherlands parliament, in a non-binding vote, decided to increase their countries emission reduction targets to 25 percent by 2020 and 55 percent by 2030. This will almost certainly require the shut down of the 5 remaining coal fired power stations to achieve these targets.... Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 6:38PM 
Chelsea Manning Punishment for Suicide Attempt is Cruel and Inhumane A prison disciplinary board has sentenced Chelsea Manning, who is currently serving a 35-year sentence at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, to 14 days in solitary confinement following her suicide attempt in July.... Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 12:46PM
United Nations Expert Validates Standing Rock Sioux Opposition To Dakota Access Pipeline Cannon Ball, North Dakota (23 Sept. 2016) – United Nations Expert, the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, released a statement yesterday calling upon the United States to immediately halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, in recognition of dire and direct threats to the drinking water, burial grounds and sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux people.... Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 12:39PM
Flashback Friday: May 1984 - Raid on the University of PA Head Injury Lab  Over thirty years ago the ALF exposed the horrors of vivisection when it expropriated sixty hours of audio- and videotape of footage shot by researchers inside the University of Pennsylvania's Head Injury Clinic in Philadelphia.... Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:05PM 
This Week in Palestine, September 23rd, 2016 (audio/mpeg 6.8mb) Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 17, to the 23, 2016.... Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:57PM
UN Conference on Trade and Development Warns Global Economy is in "Fragile State" A report released from a UN group calls the global economy "fragile" and urges action on trade, tax and debt policies to improve economic growth. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) annual "Trade and Development Report" notes rising debt and inequality levels. The report warns that current economic challenges may be more difficult to manage than the 2008 global financial crisis.... Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 10:12AM
Archaeologists & Museums Denounce Destruction of Standing Rock Sioux Burial Grounds  The Natural History Museum initiated this sign-on letter concerning the destruction of Native American burial grounds and sacred sites by the Dakota Access Pipeline company. If you are an archaeologists, anthropologist, historian or museum worker you are invited to add your name by emailing info@thenaturalhistorymuseum.org.... Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:08PM
Leonard Peltier on Solidarity with Standing Rock  Greeting Sisters and Brothers: I have been asked to write a SOLIDARITY statement to everyone about the Camp of the Sacred Stones on Standing Rock. Thank you for this great honor. I must admit it is very difficult for me to even begin this statement as my eyes get so blurred from tears and my heart swells with pride, as chills run up and down my neck and back. I’m so proud of all of you young people and others there.... Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:59PM
Over 700,000 People Tell Government to Block Seed Mergers  Washington, D.C., September 20th, 2016 — As the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee meets today to examine consolidation in the agriculture seed and chemical industry, nine groups have submitted petitions signed by 708,000 people urging the Department of Justice and elected officials to block several pending mergers that would further consolidate the market for seeds and agricultural chemicals. The pending mergers between Dow-DuPont, Syngenta-ChemChina and Bayer-Monsanto would further increase th... Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:54PM
Thousand of Activists Call for Protection of Silky Sharks at U.N. Wildlife Conference This week conservationists delivered a petition signed by 15,002 global citizens to the Presidents of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala calling on them to support greater protections for silky sharks at an upcoming world wildlife conservation meeting.... Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 11:17AM
Power Elites: On the Great illusion of Pluralist Liberalism With his 1956 book "The Power Elite," C. Wright Mills put the democratic character of the US to the test. Despite formal democratic structures, a power elite formed that suspends democratic procedures. Mills broke through the wall of dominant ideological convictions as the great unquestioned illusion influencing citizens' ideas of reality. "Real power starts from a political directorate. In truth, only small circles have power."... Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 5:10AM
Monopolization of mass media market – the course to power usurpation in Moldova  Possible adoption of the scandalous amendments to the Code on Television and Radio by the parliament of Moldova on the eve of the presidential elections in the country is subject for serious concern of the international community.... Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 3:34AM
Company Behind Controversial Dakota Access Pipeline Has Record of Spills, Property Damage WASHINGTON, September 20, 2016 — Energy Transfer Partners, the conglomerate behind the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline, is responsible for 29 pipeline safety incidents since 2006, in which 9,555 barrels of hazardous liquids were leaked, according to a new analysis of federal data by the Center for Biological Diversity. Those spills resulted in $9.5 million in property damage, according to information from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety... Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 3:18PM
San Diego Violates Fluoridation Law, Legal Action Taken California state law requires cities of 10,000 or more to add fluoride chemicals into its residents via the water supply but only if outside funds are available. Those outside funds have dried up in San Diego which has a local law prohibiting fluoridation. So fluoridation should cease in San Diego especially if taxpayers money is being used to continue fluoridating which is contrary to the intent of the 1995 state law.... Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:54AM
Honduras - 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections May Pivot On Substance  In The U.S.A. We Vote The Politics Of Fear, The Prevailing Mythology:
Vote Your Fears Not Your Values – but wait Bernie Supporters!
What is it people are afraid of? This isn't Honduras. Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya recently announced on August 26, 2016, that his wife Xiomara Castro will run for the left-wing LIBRE Party in the 2017 presidential elections.” This is the second time that Castro will run for the presidency. She did so in 2013, but lost to Hernandez in a controversi... Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:30PM
This Week in Palestine, September 16th, 2016 (audio/mpeg 6.2mb) Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 10, to the 16, 2016.... Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 12:03AM
Federal Judge Dissolves DAPL's Injunction Against Water Protectors  BISMARCK, ND, September 16, 2016 — North Dakota U.S. District Court Judge Daniel L. Hovland today dissolved a temporary restraining order against Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II and a number of named and unnamed participants in protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Dakota Access LLP, the consortium building the DAPL, applied for the restraining order on an ex parte basis on August 15, citing demonstrations earlier in August that effect... Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 11:53PM
College seeks input form Native American community  Moorpark College is seeking input from the indigenous community to learn how they can better serve Native American students, and become a destination college for the native community.... Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 4:58PM
Solidarity with Standing Rock from New Orleans (audio/mpeg 9.1mb) "We are linked and one breath affects another breath, one drink affects another’s drink" - Dr. Denise Graves
Tuesday the 13th, a crowd, carrying signs, gathered to show solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Sarah Holtz was on the scene to gather testimonials from native people from New Orleans or passing through, as well as Mardi Gras indians in attendance. [9:55]... Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:28AM
Pennsylvanians: No Tax Dollars for Dakota Access Pipeline  Hundreds of activists are calling on state leaders to send a message by dropping their investments in one of the companies behind the controversial Bakken pipeline.... Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 6:13PM |