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Svend Robinson: Canada's Role in Bali Was Painful to See
Svend Robinson, Canada’s first openly gay elected official and a leading activist for gay rights, was a New Democratic Party member of Canada’s federal parliament from 1979 to 2004. He is now working with Public Services International, based...
Elaine Browne Quits the U.S. Green Party
Editor’s note: For some time it has been an open secret in U.S. radical circles that the Green Party is dominated by a “Demogreen” current that believes the organization’s main role is to influence the Democratic Party...
U.S. Ethanol and Amazon Forests: Echoes of Engels
In The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man, Friedrich Engels wrote: Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email...
The Bali Conference on Climate Change: An Initial Balance Sheet
By Daniel Tanuro Daniel Tanuro is the ecological correspondent of La Gauche, newspaper of the Belgian Socialist Workers Party. An earlier version of this article, in French, was published in Europe Solidaire sans frontières, Dec. 20, 2007. The...
Iraq and Climate Change
When our grandchildren and more distant descendants assemble in such classrooms as may be available and ask their teachers, “Why did our ancestors not take effective action to prevent the catastrophic effects of climate change?” one of the answers...
Health Care: “Climate Change Will Ride Across This Landscape as the Fifth Horseman”
Excerpt from a lecture entitled Climate change and health: preparing for unprecedented challenges, presented by Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, in Bethesda, Maryland on December 10 As the climate scientists tell...
Biofuels – A New Threat to Climate and Climate Justice
Text of a flyer distributed by Biofuelwatch at the UN climate talks in Bali. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to...
Suckered Again: The Bali Deal is Worse Than Kyoto
By George Monbiot, The Guardian, December 17, 2007 ‘After 11 days of negotiations, governments have come up with a compromise deal that could even lead to emission increases. The highly compromised political deal is largely attributable to the...
Trying to Square the Climate Circle
By William Bowles, Creative-I Sink or Swim – The ‘choice’ apparently, is yours according to Hilary Benn, but only if you can breath under water and swim Here, in the UK we have a minister for the environment, Hilary Benn is his name, son of...