from Al Jazeera
Pioneer company plans to sell or restructure all or almost all of US assets in the next three to four months…
Jan 222013
Jan 222013
from The Tyee.ca
Robinson's defamation defence alleges former Olympics CEO groped schoolgirl, assaulted wives.
Jan 222013
On the morning of December 17, half a dozen United States postal workers set up an “emergency encampment” and began a week-long hunger strike to fight for the future of the U.S. Postal Service and its employees. The protest demanded an end to Congress’ proposed office closures and budget cuts, including the removal of six-day mail delivery that would gut nearly 25,000 jobs…
Jan 212013
from The Guardian
Two dead militants found at gas facility were Canadians, an Algerian security source has said, as toll hits 81…
Jan 182013
from The Independent
The west African nation becomes the eighth country in the last four years alone where Muslims are killed by the west…
Jan 112013
from Al Jazeera
After days of fierce fighting, Jabhat al-Nusra and other rebels groups storm Taftanaz airbase in northern province.
Jan 112013
From The Guardian
New appointments in the White House hail an era of hands-free warfare. Yet these weapons induce not defeat, but retaliation…
Jan 112013
from The Nation
During his first term in office in the late 1990s, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was considered the most polarizing leader the country had known. The left refused to forgive him for his part in the incitement that led to Yitzhak Rabin’s 1995 assassination, while the right adored him for leading the opposition to the Oslo Accords. Now approaching his fifth election campaign as head of the Likud party, Netanyahu doesn’t generate that much passion anymore. His fans are less enthusiastic, while his critics have grown tired. More than anything, it seems that a majority of Israelis have simply grown accustomed to him. At a time of regional upheaval and international instability, Netanyahu’s ability to maintain the status quo seems enough to deliver what, according to all indications, should be his third term in the prime minister’s office. But Netanyahu’s success is not just about the relative stability Israelis are enjoying; it has even more to do with political and ideological changes that have seen the entire political system shift gradually to the right, including the rise of a new right-wing elite….
Jan 082013
from Mother Jones
New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing…
Jan 082013
from CBC News
Pollutants from 50 years of oilsands production found in lake 90 km from facilities…