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Felluce'de bütün gece kesintisiz olarak süren bombardıman sırasında, bir klinik isabet aldı. Şu anda Felluce'de hiçbir cerrah çalışamıyor. Klinik, dün Felluce Hastanesi'nin kuşatılmasından sonra, şehrin çalışır durumdaki tek tük sağlık merkezlerinden biriydi.

Yeni yayın döneminde Açık Radyo'ya 31 yeni program ve 33 yeni programcı katıldı. 20. Yayın Dönemi'nde, toplam 140 programcı tarafından tamamen gönüllü olarak hazırlanan 109 program var.

James E. Hansen told an audience at the University of Iowa that the government is screening information flowing from scientists to the public more than he has ever seen in 30 years. By CBC News.

Dünyanın birçok ülkesinde tüketilmeye başlanan mısır, soya, patates, pirinç gibi transgenik ürünler hızla yayılıyor. 70 milyar dolarlık pazara hitap eden GDO'lu ürünler 68 milyon hektarlık alanda yetiştiriliyor.

Avrupa Parlamentosu Yeşiller/EFA Grubu yıllık grup toplantısı ve "Avrupa Birliği'ndeki Türkiye: Ortak bir gelecek mi?" başlıklı konferans geçen hafta İstanbul'da yapıldı.

Postmodernism, wedded as it is to the particular, would be reluctant to accept that there are propositions which are true of all times and places, yet which are not simply vacuous or trivial. By Terry Eagleton.

30 Eylül 2004 tarihinde ABD silah denetçilerinin uzman kuruluşu olan Irak Araştırma Grubu tarafından bir rapor yayımlandı. Tam 1000 sayfa. Özetle, "Irak'ta kitle imha silahı bulunamadı" diyor.

6 Ekim 2004'te, Brüksel'de açıklanan AB Komisyonu 2004 Türkiye İlerleme Raporu hakkında epey konuşuldu ve daha çok konuşulacak. Ama önce raporu okumak iyi olur diye düşündük. Raporun 186 sayfalık tam metnine ulaşmak için tıklayın.

La Haye'de kurulan ve faaliyetine başlayan, ancak Türkiye tarafından imzalanıp kabul edilmeyen Roma-Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesi Sözleşmesi'nin imzalanması için, Avukat Noyan Ozkan'in devlet yetkililerine gönderdigi dilekçe.

After surviving nearly a decade of savage, seemingly interminable warfare in Chechnya without seeing any of her four children come to harm, Khalimat Saidullayeva thought the worst was over. By Mark Franchetti.

"Like trying to put brakes on a supertanker." No one from the U.S., which supported the Arctic Council's 2000 Barrow Declaration that called for this climate assessment and policy recommendation, was in Nuuk. By Jane George.

Walden is a peculiar masterpiece in that its author was not an appealing figure -- in person or in print. Born in Concord in 1817, the son of a pencil maker, Henry David Thoreau was a slight, wiry man with a droopy nose, rebellious spirit, tart personality and keen mind.

The American mainstream television news media, in whole and in part, has catastrophically failed the American people and is singularly responsible for the untimely deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. By William Rivers Pitt.

"Today's actions send an important message to those who steal over the Internet. When online thieves illegally distribute copyrighted programs and products, they put the livelihoods of millions of hard-working Americans at risk and damage our economy," said Attorney General John Ashcroft.

The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), an international climate change initiative that focuses on the development of carbon capture and storage technologies, will hold a ministerial meeting in Melbourne, Australia, September 13-15, 2004.

Bir araştırma şirketi tarafından yapılan anket, son aylarda Türkiye'de toplumun, Avrupa Birliği'ne üyelik konusunda, geçmiş aylara oranla daha ilgili, istekli ve umutlu olduğunu gösteriyor.

Growing Scientific Evidence of Global Warming Becoming an 'Urgent Priority' for Business and Other Leaders, Concludes New Conference Board Report

Türkiye Bağımsız Komisyonu Türkiye'nin AB'ye üyeliği sürecinde çok önemli bir rol oynaması beklenen raporunu bugün yayınladı. Bu komisyon tamamen bağımsız ve tecrübeleri, pozisyonları ve kişilikleri göz önüne alındığında son derece yetkin, saygın ve güvenilir dokuz kişiden oluşuyor.

The risk of rapid climate change like that depicted in the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow' and the environmental challenges that could face us in the future will be topics of discussion at a free public lecture at the University of Melbourne on Wednesday, September 8.

The Ontario government should prepare for more extreme weather in its emergency planning protocols, an expert in climate change told a legislative committee Monday. By Keith Leslie.

MİT'nın yasa dışı ilişkilerinin incelenmesi, araştırılması, denetlenmesi ve denetimin selameti açısından MİT Başkanı Şenkal Atasagun ve Dış Operasyonlar Dairesi Başkanı Kaşif Kozinoğlu'nun görevlerinden açığa alınmaları istemiyle İzmirli bir grup avukatın yaptıkları yasal başvurular.

It´s summer on Maine´s coast, but this morning Philip Bramhall pulls on a hooded fleece shell with his rubber overalls to heave 50-pound lobster traps around his boat´s deck. He doesn´t mind the early chill and wet fog. Lobsters like cold, and Bramhall likes lobsters. By Jeff Donn.

I, like probably most of you, have seen Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Its title is a parody of the title of Ray Bradbury's great science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451. This temperature 451° Fahrenheit, is the combustion point, incidentally, of paper, of which books are composed.

In October of last year, two consultants on energy, one of them the former head of planning for Royal Dutch/Shell, produced a report for the Pentagon that they titled "Imagining the Unthinkable." By Bill McKibben.

Over the last sixteen months a disas-ter has been unfolding in Darfur, one that is agonizingly familiar to observers of Sudan during the past two decades. By John Ryle.

Pharmaceutical companies are involved more than ever in politics, from drug pricing limits to cloning and from antiterrorism to African AIDS relief. By Oligopoly Watch.

Rainless winters of bitter cold, rivers and lakes shriveled to muddy traces by ceaseless wind; once rich topsoil now a permanent atmospheric haze; and still the wars go on, year after year, to load the oil ships half a world away -- in Arabia and Venezuela -- to keep them coming despite oil field

As Bangladesh faces another major flood affecting millions of people and large parts of the country the question is being asked whether these floods are caused by human induced climate change? By Saleemul Huq.

… The truth is, it's so ironic… the best information we may get about this election may come from a combination of The Control Room, Fahrenheit 9/11, John Sayles, the nightly news from Jon Stewart if some of you watch that.

Excerpted from the book When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten