Climate justice activist Tim DeChristopher was released last month after 21 months in federal custody. DeChristopher was convicted of interfering with a public auction in 2008 when he disrupted the Bush administration’s last-minute move to auction off oil and gas exploitation rights in Utah by…
May 21, 2013Read More
JAY: So the media’s filled with this. Occupy fizzled out. Occupy didn’t go anywhere. And they’re kind of back to just covering two-party politics. But you have a different story to tell. SWANSON: Well, to some extent that’s true, and to some extent it’s self-fulfilling,…
May 19, 2013Read More
The Government has promised to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the UK by the mid 2020′s, in accordance with the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT). The NPT was created in 1968 with the aim of facilitating nuclear disarmament and promoting peaceful…
May 18, 2013Read More
Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank today during demonstrations to mark 65 years since the Nakba, or catastrophe, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced from their villages. Israeli forces fired tear gas at protesters outside a…
May 17, 2013Read More
Pointing to the US’s 16-year opposition to bringing up the issue of disarmament in the UN Disarmament Conference, Araqchi said, “The US has, for all practical purposes, taken the conference hostage and is hindering its effective performance in advancing international peace and security.” For more…
May 16, 2013Read More
In the aftermath of the Boston bombings, it is quite shocking that the renewed vigor to close Guantánamo has found the footing that it has. Even though many of the terrible myths started by the Bush administration’s War on Terror rhetoric linger, especially regarding the…
May 15, 2013Read More
“I love Arlington,” said Rep. Jim Cooper. “But it’s not big enough for all future wars.” The Tennessee Democrat was commenting on a plan to dramatically increase the size of Arlington National Cemetery that was announced this week. As reported in the Washington Post, “one…
May 15, 2013Read More
In the first major Pakistani court ruling on the legality of the CIA’s drone campaign in the country, a Peshawar High Court judge said this morning that strikes are ‘criminal offences’. Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan ordered Pakistan’s government to ‘use force if need be’…
May 15, 2013Read More
Levels of atmospheric CO2 have never been this high in human history; will ‘rise in carbon be matched by rise in climate activism’? We did it, and it’s nothing to cheer about. The world hit the “sobering milestone” of 400 parts per million (ppm) of…
May 10, 2013Read More
The so-called “Line of Actual Control” — a 2,400-mile disputed boundary that divides India from China — is longer than the distance between Jacksonville and San Diego. Most of it is located in the high, desolate mountains — land where “not even a blade of…
May 10, 2013Read More