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Human Rights Cannot "Be Imposed with Cluster Bombs": Shirin Ebadi
27 Kasım 2006
For Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi "human rights is a package....a way of seeing the world, a culture, which cannot "be imposed with cluster...
Turkeys: Personal, Political & Planetary
23 Kasım 2006
My Thanksgiving for the election outcome was quickly tempered by gobbling from assorted turkeys – personal, political, and planetary. By...
Creativity Has (Cash) Value
23 Kasım 2006
The culture and creativity economy and its contribution to sustainable development will be the central theme at a 10-day meeting of...
US: Climate Change Climate Changing
22 Kasım 2006
There are signs that key U.S. officials are ready to take on global warming, even as much of the world community failed to show its will to...
'Cut and Run' Must be First Step in Iraq
21 Kasım 2006
The United States upset the regional balance in the Mideast when it invaded Iraq. Restoring it requires bold initiatives, but "cutting and...
The Truth? 'Nuclear is Not the Answer'
17 Kasım 2006
Nuclear energy is not the panacea for tackling global warming, says one of the world's most celebrated climate change campaigners, former...
The Silent Killers in the World's War Zones
15 Kasım 2006
When mortars and rockets fall silent in the world's battle zones, the killings do not necessarily end with ceasefires and peace talks. By...
New Vermont Senator Not Standard Fare
10 Kasım 2006
Bernard Sanders is the new U.S. senator in Vermont. He ran as an independent, but he is the first self-described socialist to be elected to...
Plastic Trash Vortex Menaces Pacific Sealife: Study
7 Kasım 2006
Old toothbrushes, beach toys and used condoms are part of a vast vortex of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, threatening...
Calls for Climate Action as Kenya Prepares to Host Global Meet
3 Kasım 2006
Calls for tougher action on global warming are intensifying as policy makers embark for Kenya, where weeklong talks on climate change are...
Nervous Defense Contractors Watching Elections
3 Kasım 2006
After years of surging military spending by the Bush administration and a Republican-led Congress, the nation's defense industry is trying...
Big Human Footprint Crushing Fragile Earth
31 Ekim 2006
From the beginning of time until the mid-1980s, improvements in lifestyles around the globe were sustainable in the sense that humanity's...
Cheney Confirms That Detainees Were Subjected to Water-Boarding
27 Ekim 2006
Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to a controversial...
On PATRIOT Act's Fifth Anniversary, We Celebrate the Resistance
27 Ekim 2006
The USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law by George W. Bush on October 26, 2001 – five years ago. At the time, many of us recognized it as...
What to Do With the World's Nuclear Arsenal
26 Ekim 2006
While widely deplored by the world community, North Korea's recent nuclear test has also prompted fresh calls for the major powers to get...
Iraqi Endgame Approaching, Bush Ready or Not
19 Ekim 2006
If Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki were inclined to bet his life on President George W. Bush's latest assurances that there will...
Food from Cloned Animals Could Hit Supermarket Shelves
19 Ekim 2006
Consumer Groups Outraged by Linda Quaid
US Coal Plant Boom Poses Major Ecological, Economic Questions
17 Ekim 2006
A building boom that would add scores of new coal-fired power plants to the nation's power grid is creating a new dilemma for politicians,...
Antarctic Ice Collapse Linked to Greenhouse Gases
17 Ekim 2006
Scientists said on Monday that they had found the first direct evidence linking the collapse of an ice shelf in Antarctica to global...
What the Amish are Teaching America
16 Ekim 2006
On October 2, Charles Carl Roberts entered a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
The General Was Far Too Gentle
16 Ekim 2006
The question has to be, was this civil war always inevitable?
Marine Scientists Report Massive "Dead Zones"
9 Ekim 2006
Rising tides of untreated sewage and plastic debris are seriously threatening marine life and habitat around the globe, the United Nations...
Farmed Salmon Killing Off Wild Cousins
4 Ekim 2006
Canada's open-ocean salmon farms are killing enormous numbers of wild salmon, threatening the species, a new study shows.
