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Franken's time - can a comedian conquer the senate?
Seeded on Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:56 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)
Many felt Al Franken was having a laugh when he became a Democratic Party candidate for the US Senate, but how wrong they all were about the man who lampooned right-wing politics in a series of bestsellers and earned the scorn of George Bush.
The new vegetarianism - meat is more murderous than ever
Seeded on Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:55 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Not only does livestock farming contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, but the increasing demand for meat is one of the key factors behind the rocketing cost of most basic foodstuffs, meaning that vegetarianism is now about saving human lives too.
New study to force British ministers to review climate change plan
Seeded on Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:53 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Britain will be forced to fundamentally rethink a central part of their environment strategy after a government report found that the rush to develop biofuels has played a "significant" role in the dramatic rise in global food prices.
Greed is at the root of the housing crisis
Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:27 PM EDT (The Age)
Reflecting middle-class opinion that bricks and mortar is the most tangible form of investment, successive Australian governments have lost sight of the fact that their primary objective in housing policy was to meet the shelter needs of the community.
Sustainability must start in cities
Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:10 PM EDT (The Age)
With the majority of people now living in urban spaces for the first time, achieving the significant emissions reductions needed to avoid the most devastating effects of climate change will require change in infrastructure and behaviour in cities.
Murray lakes may be lost due to drought
Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:58 PM EDT (The Age)
As a leaked report warns that prolonged drought has left the fresh water lakes at the Murray River mouth on the brink of ecological collapse, Australian Water Minister Penny Wong has left open the possibility of allowing them to be inundated by sea water.
Abu Ghraib? Doesn't Ring a Bell
Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:46 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
The Pentagon's former top lawyer, William "Jim" Haynes II, who blessed the use enhanced interrogation techniques to pry information out of recalcitrant detainees, proved to be a model of evasion himself as he resisted all attempts at inquiry by the Senate.
Robert Fisk: Snapshots of life in Baghdad
Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:46 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)
Geert van Kesteren's book Baghdad Calling captures the tragedy of the largely ignored Iraqi victims of the 2003 invasion and occupation through cell-phone pictures taken by locals in the streets where Western photographers can no longer safely roam.
Israel and Hamas agree ceasefire as air strikes kill six Palestinian fighters
Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:40 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Despite recent air strikes, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas is due to go into effect, with both sides to end attacks and bring respite after months of conflict in Gaza, although there is scepticism about how long the agreement might last.
Zimbabwe's voters told choose Mugabe or you face a bullet
Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:19 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Ahead of the presidential run-off, Robert Mugabe's campaign against supporters of Morgan Tsvangirai and his opposition MDC has evolved from using the tested tactic of beatings into a military strategy of abductions and murders of supporters and activists.
Climate change refugees - the forgotten people
Seeded on Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:38 PM EDT (The Age)
The communities that bear little responsibility for climate change will ironically often carry the greatest burden, for example the villages already lost to rising sea-levels in the Pacific neighbours of Australia, which should help the displaced refugees.
The butterfly effect - the global consequences of economic growth in China and India
Seeded on Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:33 PM EDT ()
Countries do not operate in a vacuum - as Marx famously observed, everything is connected - and problems such as the soaring price of oil, the food crisis and global warming are linked to the rapid industrialisation of China and India, argues Ross Gittins
Gore backing for Obama revives joint ticket talk
Seeded on Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:49 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
Senator Obama has made an campaign appearance with Al Gore in Detroit after the former vice-president announced his backing for the presumptive Democratic, renewing speculation that the two may form a joint ticket.
Former US favorite is face of rising Taliban threat
Seeded on Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:35 AM EDT (The New York Times)
A recent deadly attack demonstrates the threat posed by former mujahedeen leader and one-time American favourite, Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, who has since become a Taliban commander and turned his expertise against NATO forces.
The men who would be Saudi king
Seeded on Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:07 PM EDT (Independent.co.uk)
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is supposed to be succeeded by his half brother and arch-rival, Crown Prince Sultan, but the possibility the octogenarian could die before the king has aroused fears that the bitter feud between their 60 siblings.
George Monbiot: How many innocent people are going out of their minds today?
Seeded on Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:26 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
One image is stamped indelibly on the Bush presidency: the trussed prisoners in orange jumpsuits, an image portraying a superpower not only prepared to dehumanise, but also proud to parade its impunity, to show that nothing would stand in its way.
Conflicts fuelled by climate change causing new refugee crisis, warns UN
Seeded on Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:14 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Climate change is fuelling conflicts over scarce resources and helping to drive the number of people forced out of their homes to new highs, the head of the UN's refugee agency said yesterday, revealing an increase of more than three million refugees.
Bush pours praise on Brown for sanctions and troop deployment pledges
Seeded on Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:31 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
George Bush yesterday heaped praise on Gordon Brown after he announced that Britain would intensify sanctions against Iran, dispatch extra British troops to Afghanistan and stay in Iraq until the build-up of Iraqi security forces justified a withdrawal.
Equatorial Guinea coup plotter gets his day in court
Seeded on Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:17 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
The atmosphere in Equatorial Guinea is thick with paranoia as former SAS soldier Simon Mann faces his day of reckoning, four years after he was captured and accused of masterminding a planned involving mercenaries seizing power in the African country.
Kosovo simmers as new charter takes effect
Seeded on Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:58 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Kosovo's new constitution is an important milestone on the path to full statehood, but a dispute over who has authority could destabilize the newborn country where ethnic Albanians and Serbs lead segregated lives, and plunge the Balkans into crisis.
The check to US executive power hangs in the balance
Seeded on Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:11 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
The US system of checks and balances were written expressly to protect citizens from an all-powerful executive, making the supreme court crucial in redressing such abuses as Guantanamo, but a President McCain would be sure to further dilute its scrutiny.
Hydro plant splits jungle kingdom as Panama tribe feels damned by new way of life
Seeded on Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:38 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Panama's government plans to build a hydroelectric plant on the banks of the river that has been the lifeblood of the Naso, sustaining them deep in the country's rainforest, threatening their millennia-old way of life and ancestral lands.
In the red corner - how the new face of the Australian Senate will tilt power
Seeded on Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:26 PM EDT (The Age)
The battlelines of Australian federal politics are about to be redrawn by the newly seated Senate, which is usually pesky and niggling as it probes the government of the day, but which presents other dangers in the rarer periods when it is onside.
Iraqi refugee crisis grows as West turns its back
Seeded on Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:56 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)
The plight of Iraqi refugees is now worse than ever, with millions struggling to survive in desperate conditions, and having little hope of finding sanctuary due to foreign countries taking increasingly hardline stance, says Amnesty International.
David Davis - vainglorious, mad and really rather terrific
Seeded on Sun Jun 15, 2008 2:26 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Eccentric and self-indulgent are a couple of the things said by politicians about David Davis forcing a by-election on the issue of 42-day pre-charge detention, but much of the British public views him as the only sane man in the parliamentary asylum.
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