TODAY KIVALINA, TOMORROW THE WORLD? COULD BE IF THE PDI GETS ITS WAY. Counterpunch prints introduction to new book in which Christine Shearer describes the plight of a small Alaskan village which has sued fossil fuel companies for the cost of re-locating themselves from a coastal location made extremely vulnerable to sea surge because [...]
` IN BRITAIN THE QUEEN MADE A SPEECH BUT SHE DIDN’T SAY MUCH. (UK Independent) The Queen appears in Parliament to give her regular “speech” that articulates whatever is the policy agenda of the elected Prime Minister and cabinet. The speech given this week marks a signficant slow-down from drastic efforts at reform in the [...]
“DON’T BANK ON THE BOMB: THE GLOBAL FINANCING OF THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS PRODUCERS.” (IPS News) A new report of this title documents the sustaining of a world nuclear arms industry by investments in same by banks and other financial institutions around the world. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which sponsors the report [...]
AMAZON.COM: GIVING CUSTOMERS A LITTLE BIT OF DOMESTIC SWEATSHOP LABOR WITH EVERY PURCHASE… When one thinks of substandard working conditions in the world of retail and consumer products, what usually comes to mind are images of “sweatshop” factories overseas, in the manufacturing stage of a product’s journey to the United States. But in a remarkable [...]
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