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Washington D.C. is projected to see 100 summer days above 90 degrees by 2050, if emissions continue unabated.

As Nidaa abu al Atta of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees told me, "They cultivate the wheat just to say that we are not going to abandon our land." Entering the mindset of a farmer, she said, "I feed my animals with it. I use some of it for my personal use.

While fewer and fewer people are willing to publicly deny the validity of global warming science, those who oppose action to protect the climate have taken up a new strategy: Denying that climate change will have a major impact on the US economy.

of his supporters already grousing. Fair enough: Obama has been more vigorous in some areas than others. But one essential question goes unasked: How much can any president accomplish against the wishes of recalcitrant power centers within his own government?

It's not the bonuses. It's that AIG's counterparties are getting paid back in full.

"A year ago I wrote a post, "Old coal's out, can't wait for new nukes, so what do we do NOW?", where I hypothesized:" by Joseph Romm

Tim Costello & Brendan Smith: At a time of worldwide economic, climatic and political crisis, advocates of social justice gathered for the annual World Social Forum to contemplate a new vision for a better world.

by: Kathy Kelly

Senator Obama and the Future of American Politics by Paul Ortiz

The Candidates: They're Ambivalent and They Can't Help It. No One Can by: John P. Briggs, MD and J.P. Briggs, PhD

by Steve Weissman

Last-minute attempt to push through a WTO expansion "deal" fails.

Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba (now retired) served as the deputy commanding general for support for the Third Army for ten months in Kuwait during the early days of the Iraq occupation.

Gasoline at $4 a gallon? If that was America's nightmare over the weekend as fuel prices reached a record national average, pity poor Europe, where the price of oil and taxes levied at the pump combine to push prices to about double the U.S. level.

prestigious evening newspaper endures one strike after another. A former telephone service administration launches into satellite television. An ordinary citizen destabilizes the President of the Republic by revealing his irritation at the Agriculture Salon over the Internet.

Slavery never ended in the United States; it continues here and across the globe, facilitated by globalization, corruption and greed. There are more people enslaved today - controlled by violence and forced to work without pay - than at any time in human history.

I don't know if Gus Speth and Tony Mazzocchi knew each other personally.

Two debates have raged in Pakistan and among Pakistanis everywhere since Benazir Bhutto's tragic end on December 27, 2007. One of these is about who killed the former prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP).

How do you punish the principal global purveyor of fundamentalist Islam, someone who backed the Taliban and continues to harshly suppress political freedoms, women and religious minorities? By Amitabh Pal

You know, they said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose.

"Inter-ethnic war," "machete massacres" ... the usual commonplaces about Africa have rapidly reappeared, while the riots' death toll in Kenya grows. Nonetheless, the primary and principal source of the anger in the street is massive electoral fraud in a country revolted by those practices.

Don't worry, the White House is telling us. The world's most powerful leader was simply making a rhetorical point.

A military watchdog organization filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and a US Army major, on behalf of an Army soldier stationed in Iraq. By Jason Leopold

Last week I was struck to see a well-respected centrist foreign policy analyst discuss President Bush's "surge" as a serious policy for bringing stability to Iraq. This sight was striking, because at this point it is very difficult to imagine the surge as a serious policy. By Dean Baker

Last week, senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reportedly confessed during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) at the US prison in the US Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is said to have admitted planning virtually every al-Qaeda attack on the United States.

An article published March 13, 2007, in the New York Times clearly demonstrates the importance of framing when discussing important political issues. William J.

Today we are announcing the recipients of the first annual Truthout Freedom and Democracy Awards. These awards have been granted to three individuals who have done the most in the past year to promote freedom and democracy.

It wasn't about the war. Not all of it. Iraq, of course, was the central motivating factor. Connecticut is a predominantly Democratic state, and some 80% of Democrats strongly oppose the occupation. By William Rivers Pitt

Never let it be said our president does not provide laughs, even as we wobble on the rim of war in the Middle East. By Molly Ivins