News With Views What we have to understand is that in order to integrate the world economically, all that remains are the structural changes: from national accounting rules to global accounting rules, from national clearing and settlement to a global system of clearing and settlement; from national ...

32 days ago · Immigration Watchdog · immigrationwatchdog.com by The Watchdog 105 references

Joseph Gerson in Foreign Policy in Focus - “ Resisting the Empire” Exerpts - There are “many long-term and recently initiated community-based and national struggles to remove … military installations that are often sources of crime and demeaning human rights violations. A growing alliance among anti ...

48 days ago · Toban Black · tobanblack.net/blog by Toban 8 references

David Orchard in Counterpunch - “ The New Conquistadors: Canada in Afghanistan” (February 26th) Exerpts - “The terms used to describe [this] occupation and ongoing war are remarkably similar to those used over a century ago by colonial powers to justify their ruthless wars of colonization. Then, it ...

49 days ago · Toban Black · tobanblack.net/blog by Toban 8 references

Katrina vanden Heuvel in The Nation - “ Stopping the New Arms Race” (Feb. 26th) Exerpts (written for an American audience) - “The White House will do everything it can to push its reckless, European-based missile defense plan forward. Not only is there growing citizen opposition in the host countrie ...

50 days ago · Toban Black · tobanblack.net/blog by Toban 8 references

Water water everywhere and all the boards did shrink. Water water everywhere nor any drop to drink. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ADAM NIEMAN / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Global water and air volume. Conceptual computer artwork of the total volume of water on Earth (left) and ...

52 days ago · Leading Sustainable ... · kenhomer.wordpress.com by kenhomer 1 reference

A leaflet from Hands Off Iraqi Oil (where there’s also a poster and another leaflet) On Sunday I spoke about these and other fossil fuel interests in a local peace rally speech.

53 days ago · Toban Black · tobanblack.net/blog by Toban 8 references

This is a speech from a local peace rally on Sunday. (As I said that day, I plan to add additional material — including viewing & reading recommendations, and web links — to the online version of the speech. Hopefully I’ll find the time to do that soon, but I’ve been very preoccupied, so I’ve decide ...

53 days ago · Toban Black · tobanblack.net/blog by Toban 8 references

A protest photo from Hands Off Iraqi Oil

58 days ago · Toban Black · tobanblack.net/blog by Toban 8 references

“Interested in eating less oil? In this VideoNation/Hidden Driver report, animator Molly Schwartz keeps track of how many miles your food travels from field to fork.” This video offers a U.S. perspective on these issues. It’s well done.

63 days ago · Toban Black · tobanblack.net/blog by Toban 8 references

Pat Murtagh on large-scale electrical power system failures - “The great ice storm of 1998 was, of course, only one of many large scale power outages that have become increasingly frequent worldwide in recent years. See the Wikipedia article on Power Outages for coverage of many of them and also to ...

63 days ago · Toban Black · tobanblack.net/blog by Toban 8 references