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Western wildfires are burning longer and getting bigger as the region's snowpack disappears earlier and temperatures continue to climb, according to a report published recently by Sciencexpress, the online version of the journal Science. By Perry Backus

With two new coal-fired power plants on the drawing board in New Jersey and 148 more planned across the country, an environmental group warned yesterday that this "coal rush" could cause global warming to spiral out of control. By Alexander Lane

Lebanon's cabinet says the country faces "real annihilation'' by Israel and accuses the Jewish state of using banned weapons against civilians.

Thousands of Israeli left-wing activists, including many Arab citizens of Israel, marched Saturday evening from the Rabin Square to the Cinematheque plaza in Tel Aviv in protest of the fighting in Lebanon, Ynet Israeli news service reported Saturday.

Public demonstrations are essential, but even more is demanded of us. The system has to be disrupted completely if there is to be any chance of minimizing the casualties of Israel's coming ground invasion and re-occupation of South Lebanon.

PARKED outside the small general hospital in Tyre is a badly refrigerated lorry container in which are stacked the bodies of 91 Lebanese civilians, 55 of them children. By Ed O'Loughlin (The Sydney Morning Herald)

A heat-health expert warned that Britain could experience a tragedy similar to 1911 and the far worse one in France in 2003 that left 14,000 people dead. Forecasters said the baking weather would last well into next week. By Peter Leo (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

"WAR," proclaimed the three-inch headline in Ma'ariv, Israel's leading daily, the day after Hizballah launched its cross-border attack on an Israeli army convoy on July 12.

A cactus bush in Nazareth, Israel's largest Arab town, was riddled with holes from the shrapnel that sprayed out as a Katyusha rocket slammed into a street here today. Playing in front of the bush at the time were two children, aged three and nine, who were killed instantly.

So, the Israeli air war over Lebanon continues and the Hizbollah's missile war against Israel continues.

Most of the Arab regimes have been complacent and weak enough to allow the Israelis to pursue their policies, apart from Syria and Hizballah in Lebanon. They have to be neutralized if Israeli unileteralism is to succeed. By Ilan Pappe (Electronic Lebanon)

In case you haven't got anything else to worry about—like war in the Middle East, nuclear showdowns, global warming or Apocalypse Now—how about the suicide of capitalism? By Molly Ivins (Truthdig)

It doesn't take much to knock welfare off the front pages—a Middle East in flames will do it. But the new comprehensive welfare regulations issued by the U.S.

I know most of you have heard about Lebanese drivers ... They never stop at red lights! Ladies and gentlemen, today, they stopped. Zena el-Khalil writing from Beirut (Live from Lebanon)

Although European support for the Palestinian people is overstated in America, Europeans tend to be more understanding of Arab issues, given their large Arab and Muslim populations. By Remi Kenazi (Electronic Lebanon)

Protests have already been scheduled for the anniversary of the teens' execution in a number of large European cities, including London, Paris, Marseilles, Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Brussels; and the New York-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission has both endorsed the world-wid

Though the progressive media and bloggers are paying scant attention, a progressive populist is the front-runner in Mexico's July 2 election, a man who would demand a revision of NAFTA, add a powerful workers' voice to the roiling U.S.

Ribavirin (Copegus®; Rebetol®; Ribasphere®; Vilona®,Virazole®, also generics from Sandoz, Teva, Warrick) is an anti-viral drug which is active against a number of DNA and RNA viruses.

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a widespread tick-borne viral disease, a zoonosis of domestic animals and wild animals, that may affect humans. The pathogenic virus, especially common in East and West Africa, is a member of the Bunyaviridae family of RNA viruses.

The United States has launched a diplomatic offensive to block Venezuela's bid for a two-year rotating seat on the United Nations Security Council. The U.S. instead is lobbying heavily for Guatemala to take over the seat being vacated by Argentina. By Cyril Mychalejko

U.S. to host world's largest factory for sun-energy cells. By Paul Rogers

Ignored by the national media, and without a word of protest from the U.S. national AIDS organizations, the Bush administration -- behind closed doors -- has been secretly sabotaging the ability of the world's poorest countries to produce or buy cheap, generic AIDS-fighting drugs.

Environmental Group's Study Looks At Past 40 Years

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The Washington Post has obtained a cable, marked "sensitive," that it says shows that just before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, "the U.S.

In his first visit to the White House on May 23, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told President Bush that Israel will "devote six to nine months to find a Palestinian partner" before it pursues the unilateral "Convergence Plan." It was an empty promise. By Neve Gordon

This past weekend, a thought provoking e-mail circulated through Internet news groups, and was sent to the Muckraker Report by Mr. Paul V. Sheridan (Winner of the 2005 Civil Justice Foundation Award), bringing attention to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist web page for Usama Bin Laden.[

Scientists say they've discovered the Arctic Ocean's sea level is falling by about 2 millimeters a year, despite a global trend of rising water levels.

Bush administration goes from tough talk to diplomacy. By Molly Ivins

In a meeting that would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago, Israeli Environment Minister Gideon Ezra met with the German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel in Jerusalem last week.