Jul 09 2009
Iranian Uprising Here to Stay
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More than 1,000 protesters including journalists and bloggers were detained following Iran’s disputed June 12th presidential election. Many detainees have since described horrific conditions, beatings and forced confessions designed to support government allegations that post-election protests are being supported by foreign powers in hopes of overthrowing Iran’s government. As has become the tradition, state controlled media have aired …
More than 1,000 protesters including journalists and bloggers were detained following Iran’s disputed June 12th presidential election. Many detainees have since described horrific conditions, beatings and forced confessions designed to support government allegations that post-election protests are being supported by foreign powers in hopes of overthrowing Iran’s government. As has become the tradition, state controlled media have aired …
Scientists, health advocates, and environmental activists in California are expressing their concern to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that agriculture in this state will become more dangerous if a new fumigant is approved for use. Patented by UC Riverside and licensed to “Arysta LifeScience,” the new pesticide, methyl iodide would replace the ozone depleting methyl bromide primarily in strawberry and tomato …
If you’re a politically progressive minded person like me, you are conscious of your footprint on the planet. Maybe you drive a hybrid car, carry your own canvas tote bags to the grocery store, have traded plastic disposable water bottles for a reusable metal one. Maybe you shower in 5 minutes or less, patronize your local farmers market, use …
President Obama concluded a three-day visit to Russia yesterday, during which he met with both President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin. The high level summit was considered significant in improving US-Russia relations in the aftermath of last year’s Russian war in Georgia. Following from his April speech in Prague in which Obama expressed his “commitment to seek the peace …
New unemployment figures for the month of June have put a severe damper on the economic optimism of past months. After four months of slightly less grim statistics which were being hailed as the “green shoots” of an economic revival, employers shed more jobs in June than expected. Stocks on Wall Street plunged in response. Since the recession began …
High level talks between the US and Israel this week were focused on resolving an apparent dispute between the two countries over the continued expansion of Israeli settlements into Palestinian territory. Israel has lifted restrictions on Palestinian movement in the West Bank as a conciliatory gesture but the talks apparently failed to break the stalemate. Meanwhile the United Nations …
The Chinese government has said that more than 150 people have been killed in riots on Sunday in the Western Xinjiang province. A peaceful protest by members of the ethnic Uyghur population calling for an investigation into the killing of at least two Uyghurs by Han Chinese in a Southern China factory, deteriorated into a full scale riot. Independently verifiable …
Following his unsuccessful attempt to return to Honduras, ousted President Manuel Zelaya has begun a tour of Central America to gather support. The Organization of American States just suspended Honduras from its membership after the opposition refused to reverse the coup. Zelaya tried to fly into the main airport in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa over the weekend but …
