International
Venezuelas ambassador responds to Speaker Pelosi on RCTV
June 5, 2007The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. Madam Speaker Pelosi, I am writing in the opportunity to respond to your May 30 statement on Venezuela’s decision not to renew...
Read moreGlobal summit grapples with mass extinctions
June 1, 2007UNITED NATIONS — “Something is going wrong,” said Ole Petenya Yusuf-Shani, a member of the Maasai indigenous community of Kenya. Yusuf-Shani was speaking at UN headquarters on May 22, International Biodiversity Day. He and others said...
Read moreThe English submarine
June 1, 2007The press dispatches bring the news; the submarine belongs to the Astute Class, the first of its kind to be constructed in Great Britain in more than two decades. “A nuclear reactor will allow it to...
Read moreSaying no to foreign military bases
June 1, 2007The International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases was formally established at a conference in Quito and Manta, Ecuador, March 5-9. Over 400 grassroots and community-based activists were in attendance from more than 40...
Read moreBorder insecurity rises, as does the temperature
June 1, 2007TUCSON, Ariz. — While Congress debates “tougher security at the border,” the temperature is rising above 100 degrees in the Sonoran Desert. Already 84 bodies have been found along the Mexico-Arizona border, more than this time...
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