July 21, 2008

**For Immediate Release** 

CONTACTS: Oregon: Monica Vaughan (541) 521-1832 / westcoast@climateconvergence.org New York: Marty Driggs (508) 361-0136 / mdriggs@gmail.com Virginia: Paxus Calta (541) 505-0803 / paxus.calta@gmail.com www.climateconvergence.org http://www.climateconvergence.org/ (Keep reading…)

Truthdig Jul 21, 2008

The decline of newspapers is not about the replacement of the antiquated technology of news print with the lightning speed of the Internet. It does not signal an inevitable and salutary change. It is not a form of progress. The decline of newspapers is about the rise of the corporate state, the loss of civic and public responsibility on the part of much of our entrepreneurial class and the intellectual poverty of our post-literate world, a world where information is conveyed primarily through rapidly moving images rather than print. (Keep reading…)

Special to Globe and Mail Update July 20, 2008

Pascal Lamy, head of the World Trade Organization, may be desperate to reach a global trade deal, but developing countries have rightly been concerned about agreeing to texts that promise illusory reductions in agricultural subsidies in the European Union and the United States while requiring them to cut their industrial tariffs proportionally more than the developed countries. They should also not allow themselves to be snookered into a bad agreement on services. (Keep reading…)

Ha‚aretz
29/06/2008

The government’s decision last week to extend the validity of the Citizenship Law (Temporary Order), for another year, is evidence that the legal barriers preventing severe discrimination against Israel’s Arab citizens and harm to their civil rights have been removed. (Keep reading…)

19 July 2008 Green Left Weekly http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/759/39206

With the victory of an unlikely opposition candidate in the June 29 election for prefect (governor) of Chuquisaca, the number of opposition-controlled prefectures increased to seven out of nine. (Keep reading…)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Socialist Project e-bulletin …. No. 127 …. July 18, 2008 ______________________________________________________________ (Keep reading…)

The American Conservative

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20253.htm

09/08/07 “American Conservative” — - For three days in the capital in early June, suspense built over the question of how the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference would greet Barack Obama. There was a lot of grousing about Obama in the hallways of the Washington Convention Center, and AIPAC officials repeatedly warned the faithful to be respectful. “We are not a debate society or a protest movement. Š our goal is to have a friend in the White House,” executive director Howard Kohr said in a strict tone. It wasn’t hard to imagine things going poorly: Obama gets booed on national television. He feels insulted. Conservative Jewish donors and voters turn off to Obama. He becomes president without their support. AIPAC has no friend in the Oval Office. (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension July 19 2008

“Inflation is here big time”, Charles Holliday CEO, Du Pont. June 24, 2008 (Keep reading…)

Georgia Straight       July 17, 2008

  In June 2007, the Palestine Media Collective produced a newspaper parody of the Vancouver Sun that satirized CanWest’s anti-Palestinian bias with articles such as “Study Shows Truth Biased Against Israel” by Cyn Sorsheep. Six months later, CanWest Mediaworks Publications Inc. launched a lawsuit against those “conspiring” to produce and distribute the parody. The original writ named Mordecai Briemberg, Horizon Publications, and six Jane and John Does. (Keep reading…)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20260.htm

08/07/08 “Khaleej Times” — - The deal just taking shape between Iraq’s Oil Ministry and four Western oil companies raises critical questions about the nature of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq - questions that should certainly be addressed by presidential candidates and seriously discussed in the United States, and of course in occupied Iraq, where it appears that the population has little if any role in determining the future of their country. (Keep reading…)