The second time this week, the London Times has run articles submitted by Israeli intelligence, irresponsible, inaccurate and intended to bring chaos. The first article claimed that US sources had verified Saudi Arabia’s intention to allow Israeli planes to use their territory for an attack on Iran. The government of Saudi Arabia issued a strong denial [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Hamid Karzai, Iran, ISI, Israel, London Times, Misinformation, NATO, Pakistan, Propaganda, Rupert Murdoch, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, Yellow Journalism
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whitehouse — April 22, 2010 — Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, answers your questions about the clean energy economy. WhiteHouse.gov/earthday
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Also tagged Air Quality, Automotive Sector, Batteries, Carbon Cap, CEQ, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Congress, Copenhagen, DOE, DOT, Earth Day 2010, Ecology, Economy, Ecosystems, Education, Employment, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Star, Environment, EPA, Everglades, Fuel Economy Standards, Funding, Green Energy, Green Tech, Greenhouse Gases, Homeowners, HomeStar, Investments, Jobs, Legislation, National Security, Nuclear Power, Pentagon, Rapid Mass Transit, Rebates, Recovery Act, Regulations, Renewable Energy, Research and Development, Retrofitting, Smart Grid, Solar Power, Tax Credits, Technology, Transportation, Universities, Water, Wind Power
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More GRITtv Novelist, activist, journalist, internal security threat? Arundhati Roy joins us for a special conversation about her journey into the forest in the heart of India to talk to Maoist revolutionaries. Roy talks with Laura about resistance and struggle, war and colonialism, how you can’t fire bullets at an ideology, and why we should [...]
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Also tagged AIDs, Arundhati Roy, Common Wealth, Corporatism, Democracy, Field Notes on Democracy, GritTV, HIV, Internal Security Threats, Laura Flanders, Populism, Poverty, Resistance, Status Quo, Washington DC
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
The people of Afghanistan have occupied a strip of mountainous territory in Central Asia for many centuries. If they are unable to resolve their internal conflicts, how likely is it that even the best soldiers from our distant land can put things aright? If our country which we all love is to become the world’s [...]
Thursday, December 3, 2009
This is the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster, an epic mess that started one night when a pesticide plant owned by the American chemical giant Union Carbide leaked a cloud of poisonous gas. Before the sun rose, almost 4,000 human beings capable of love and anguish sank to their knees and did not [...]
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Also tagged Accountability, Andrew Liveris, Bhopal, Contamination, Corporate Personhood, Corporatism, Dow Chemical, Groundwater, Methyl Isocyanate, Pollution, Union Carbide, Warren Anderson
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Monday, September 28, 2009
AMY GOODMAN: We turn to a woman the New York Times calls India’s most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence, Arundhati Roy, world-renowned Indian author and global justice activist. Her first novel, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize in 1997. She has a new book; it’s called Field Notes on Democracy: Listening [...]
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