Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
08 April 2012
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Photo Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize07 April 2012
Getting Somalia Wrong?
Somalia is a failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbours and the wider world
Zed Books | 13 March 2012
Getting Somalia Wrong: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State by Mary Harper
9 February 2012 – Paperback - ISBN: 9781842779330 - 232 pages
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31 March 2012
Indonesia opposition parties block fuel price hike
Leading Indonesian political parties said on Friday they will oppose a government plan to raise fuel prices unless oil prices climb further, dealing a blow to the ruling party's efforts to control a swelling budget deficit in Southeast Asia's largest economy
Reuters | Mar 30, 2012
Read more... Sphere: Related ContentA World Bank President Who's Not a Crony or a War Criminal?
On Friday, President Obama announced that he is nominating physician and Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank. This likely appointment was greeted with approval by many long-time critics of corporate globalization. And it came after an unprecedented level of debate about who should be the institution’s next president
By Mark Engler | Foreign Policy in Focus | March 30, 2012
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End of coal power plants? EPA proposes new rules
The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed the first-ever standards to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants -- a move welcomed by environmentalists but criticized by some utilities as well as Republicans, who are expected to use it as election campaign fodder
By msnbc.com Staff | MSNBC | March 27, 2012
This coal-fired power plant is used by the city of Chicago, which last month decided to close it down by the end of 2014. A second coal plant will be closed by the end of this year. Chicago is the only large U.S. city with coal-fired power plants operating within its city limits. M. Spencer Green / AP
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26 March 2012
Deceptionomics
This March, at the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, DC, I saw a documentary on the destruction of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, once the world’s fourth-largest inland lake. Soviet planners and decision makers fifty years ago decided to divert the two main tributary rivers of the Aral to grow cotton. Starved of fresh water inflows, the Aral Sea has shrunk to half its original surface area and lost 75% of its volume
by Brent Blackwelder | The Daly News | March 26, 2012
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After the Castros: The biological factor
Who and what will follow Raúl?
Special Report The Economist | Mar 24th 2012
Bread and Circuses: The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome
Today marks the much-awaited release of the movie The Hunger Games, based on Suzanne Collins’s enormously popular trilogy of young-adult novels. (You may have seen the film’s stars grace magazine covers well in advance of this week.)
John M. Cunningham | Encyclopedia Britannica Blog | March 23, 2012
Spartacus, 19th-century illustration. Credit: Photos.com/Jupiter Images
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21 March 2012
No, a nation’s geography is not its destiny
If you start in the city center of Nogales, Santa Cruz [Arizona] and walk south for a while, at some point you see houses become much more run down, streets turn decrepit. You have crossed the Mexican border into Nogales, Sonora. Though the two cities are made of the same cloth and were once united, now there are sharp differences between the two
By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | Reuters | March 19, 2012
13 March 2012
The Shadow Government
Through a network of unbalanced, almost-invisible committees, the government gets what it wants
By George Monbiot | the Guardian 13th March 2012 in Monbiot.com | March 12, 2012
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Industries of Democracy and Bureaucracy Get the Remote Region in Indonesia
There is no word other than "amazed" to describe how industrial democracy and industrial bureaucracy penetrate remote areas of Indonesia
Arief Wicaksono | BoilingSpot | 10 March 2012
Carbon Blood Money in Honduras
With its muddy roads, humble huts, and constant military patrols, Bajo Aguán, Honduras feels a long way away from the slick polish of the recurring UN climate negotiations in the world’s capital cities. Yet the bloody struggle going on there strikes at the heart of global climate politics, illustrating how market schemes designed to “offset” carbon emissions play out when they encounter the complicated reality on the ground
By Rosie Wong | Foreign Policy in Focus | March 9, 2012
Knowledge, technology, and the politics of rice
The current financial crisis in Europe brings out politics as we know it. The political leaders of nation states deliberate lessons from the past and negotiate solutions for a new future
by Harro Matt | Mar 9 2012 by Common Voices in Energy Bulletin | Mar 9 2012
06 March 2012
Why Rio+20 must not leave the politics out of sustainable development
Sustainable development goals won't have a chance if the pre-summit debate pretends problematic politics don't matter
by Melissa Leach | The Guardian | 5 March 2012
The UN General Assembly in New York debates sustainable development, a key theme of the Rio+20 summit in June. Photograph: Devra Berkowitz/UN Photo
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28 February 2012
Bolivia: Challenges face Morales' goal of 'governing by obeying the people'
A new twist in the turbulent saga surrounding a proposed roadway through Indigenous land has reignited a debate raging throughout Bolivia since the middle of last year
By Federico Fuentes | Green Left Weekly | February 19, 2012
A march by indigenous group Conisur in favour of a controversial highway being built through Indigenous lands.
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23 February 2012
China: Working-class struggles on the rise
Working class struggle is an important part of modern Chinese history, and is rising
By Kevin Lin | Green Left Weekly | February 19, 2012
Honda workers on strike in China.
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22 February 2012
Venezuela: The spectre of Big Oil
“Never again will they rob us — the ExxonMobil bandits. They are imperial, American bandits, white-collared thieves. They turn governments corrupt, they oust governments. They supported the invasion of Iraq.”"Never again will they rob us — the ExxonMobil bandits. They are imperial, American bandits, white-collared thieves. They turn governments corrupt, they oust governments. They supported the invasion of Iraq"
By Paul Kellog | Green Left Weekly | February 29, 2008
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Oil shocks around the world: Are they really that bad?
Recent developments in oil markets and the global economy have, once again, triggered concerns about the impact of oil price shocks around the world. This column wonders whether the fuss is really necessary. It presents evidence of relatively small negative effects of oil price increases
by Tobias Rasmussen and Agustin Roitman | The Oil Drum | February 20, 2012
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‘Global sustainability’ wilts in South Africa’s political hot air
The latest acts in South Africa’s’s intensifying political drama include a sizzling summer-long battle between young and old within the African National Congress (ANC), the February 10 State of the Nation speech by President Jacob Zuma and the release of the ANC’s “research” on alternatives to mining nationalisation, a demand by the ANC Youth League which is now one of the main issues dividing the ruling party
By Patrick Bond | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal | February 15, 2012
The inside story on climate scientists under siege
Michael Mann reveals his account of attacks by entrenched interests seeking to undermine his 'hockey stick' graph
Suzanne Goldenberg | guardian.co.uk | 17 February 2012
Expanding desert in China’s Gansu province. Michael Mann in his new book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, describes the campaign by the fossil fuel industry against his science. Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP
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