June 8, 2010 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Experimentation on captive prisoners? Conducted by doctors? On orders from the US government? Some of this evidence has already emerged. A report leaked in April from the International Committee of the Red Cross suggested that health professionals had been involved in some way with interrogations of… Read More »
FREEZING THE GREENHOUSE: THE SNOWBALL STRATEGY
January 8, 2010 While world leaders play the blame game and politicians dither, deadly carbon emissions grow without restraint. The official US government “business as usual” projection is for a 39 percent increase in carbon emissions worldwide by 2030, roughly two percent a year. Given the apparent deadlocks in Copenhagen and Washington, is there… Read More »
PROTECTING THE CLIMATE
December 04, 2009 Third in the series “Labor Goes to Copenhagen According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN-sponsored scientific body that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its work, keeping global temperature within 2 degrees C of historic levels requires reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by specific targets. The… Read More »
THERE’S AN ALTERNATIVE
November 20, 2009 By Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher When world leaders meet in Seattle after Thanksgiving for the “pre-millennial” session of the World Trade Organization, many will sincerely believe that there is no alternative to the present direction of globalization. But all over the world, activists and scholars associated with environmental, religious, labor,… Read More »
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