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The Independent (UK) 03 July 2003In an astonishing announcement on global warming and extreme weather, the World Meteorological Organisation signalled last night that the world's weather is going haywire.In a startling report, the WMO, which normally produces detailed scientific reports and staid statistics at the year's end, highlighted record extremes in weather … [Read more...] about – World’s Weather Extremely Abnormal: UN Agency

By request to students of my media class at HitotsubashiPARECONhttp://www.parecon.org/ … [Read more...] about -Alternative to Capitalism and Traditional Marxism: Parecon

from Paul McCartinYou may know of Percy Schmeizer.He is a Canadian canola farmer. Several years ago Schmeizer's neighbor planted a variety of canola that contained Monsanto's Roundup-resistant gene. Schmeizer says some of the seed blew over to his 700-acre canola field and spread, contaminating with foreign genes seed he had been saving since he started producing the … [Read more...] about -Canadian Canola farmer Percy Schmeizer in

by John Stanton"Great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation." That according to Leo Szilard, the Manhattan Project physicist commenting on the United States and its decision in August of 1945 to obliterate non-military targets Hiroshima (70,000 dead instantly with 210,000 total deaths) and Nagasaki (40,000 dead … [Read more...] about -227 Years of Bloody Freedom on July 4th

By EDWARD SAID June 23, 2003http://www.counterpunch.org/said06232003.htmlIn early May, I was in Seattle lecturing for a few days. While there, I had dinner one night with Rachel Corrie's parents and sister, who were still reeling from the shock of their daughter's murder on March 16 in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer. Mr. Corrie told me that he had himself driven bulldozers, … [Read more...] about -The Meaning of Rachel Corrie, Of Dignity and Solidarity