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Goodman: Law & Order: Corporate Crime Unit
Znet Article, May, 20 2010
Amy Goodman
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“Manslaughter,” reads the United States Code, “is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice.” It goes on, “Whoever is guilty of involuntary manslaughter, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.” I...
Meister: A Disaster For Workers And The Environment
Znet Article, May, 17 2010
Dick Meister
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It's coming up on 10 o'clock in the evening aboard a massive oil rig, the Deepwater Horizon, 130 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. It's Tuesday, April 20. The rig sways gently in the calm waters. Then, suddenly . . . BOOM!
Stainsby: The Most Destructive Development on Earth: Coming to Trinidad and Tobago?
Znet Article, May, 16 2010
Macdonald Stainsby
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The twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, while politically a parliamentary democracy, is in essence a petro-state; overwhelmingly dominated by oil & gas production economically has led to certain characteristics politically. Dependence on oi...
Friel: Bjorn Lomborg on CO2
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
Howard Friel
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Politically and scientifically speaking, the most important fact to know about global warming is that the world must reduce carbon dioxide emissions very steeply and very quickly, despite the fact that this is probably the most complicated and com...
Engelhardt: Yawn... How Many Times Have You Seen This Headline?
Znet Article, May, 08 2010
Tom Engelhardt
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Reflections after being away.
Lander: Reflections on the Cochabamba climate summit
Znet Article, May, 07 2010
Edgardo Lander
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After last week’s climate summit in Bolivia, it is now possible for the governments to express the agenda of the social movements and the world’s most threatened peoples within the next official climate conference in Mexico.
Goodman: BP: Billionaire Polluter
Znet Article, May, 06 2010
Amy Goodman
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Less than a week after British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and unleashing what could be the worst industrial environmental disaster in U.S. history, the company announced more ...
Foster: The Ecology of Socialism
Znet Article, May, 04 2010
John bellamy Foster
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Solidair/Solidaire, the weekly journal of the Workers Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB), interviewed John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review, 26 April 2010.
Klein: A New Climate Movement in Bolivia
Znet Article, April, 27 2010
Naomi Klein
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It was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshaling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds, wooden plates and multicolored ponchos. All came into play to ma...
Solnit: 350 Degrees of Inseparability
Znet Article, April, 26 2010
Rebecca Solnit
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The Good News About the Very Bad News (about Climate Change)
Goodman: Cochabamba, the Water Wars and Climate Change
Znet Article, April, 23 2010
Amy Goodman
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Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El Alto and La Paz, with 3.5 million people living at altitudes over 10,000 feet. I flew from E...
Janicke: ALBA Summit in Venezuela vows to fight Climate Change with System Change
Znet Article, April, 23 2010
Kiraz Janicke
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During the IXth Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) held in Caracas, Venezuela, April 18 to 19, member countries of the regional fair-trade bloc, founded in 2004, signed an agreement to consolidate regional inte...
Tokar: 40 Years of Earth Days
Commentary, April, 22 2010
Brian Tokar
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The 40th anniversary of the original Earth Day is upon us, and many seasoned environmentalists are nostalgic for the heady days of the 1970s, when 20 million people hit in the streets and eventually got Richard Nixon to sign a series of ambitious ...
Russell: How Bolivia Celebrates Earth Day
Blog Post, April, 22 2010
Joshua kahn Russell
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In the face of corporate greenwashing, World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba today is a breath of fresh air.
Monbiot: What Links The Banking Crisis And The Volcano?
Commentary, April, 21 2010
George Monbiot
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We rely globally on over-complex, over-strained systems. Act now, or wait for the much more brutal corrective of nature.
Uehlein: Earth Day, Labor, and Me
Znet Article, April, 20 2010
Joe Uehlein
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The approach of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22 provides us an opportunity to reflect on the “long, strange trip” shared by the environmental movement and the labor movement over four decades here on Spaceship Earth.
Galeano: Message to Bolivia: Nature’s Rights Are Also Human Rights
Commentary, April, 19 2010
Eduardo Galeano
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Message of the author of the Open Veins of Latin America to participants of the First World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba from April 19 to 22, as an alternative to the Copenhagen Cl...
Sinclair: Interview with the Green Party's Adrian Ramsay
Znet Article, April, 09 2010
Ian Sinclair
Sinclair's ZSpace page
Interview with Adrian Ramsay, the UK Green Party's parliamentary candidate for Norwich South
Dimaggio: Witness to Mediagate: Making Sense of the “Climategate Scandal”
Znet Article, April, 08 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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Leading global scientists have been exonerated of blame in the “climategate” controversy, although this won’t stop right wing and corporate funded pundits from attacking the science of global warming.
Glick: A Response to Bond and D’Sa
Commentary, April, 07 2010
Ted Glick
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Patrick Bond and Desmond D’Sa have written an article, the latest in a series of back and forth’s between climate justice activists mainly in the U.S. about strategy and tactics. It has been mainly U.S. activists because a major focus of the debat...
