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A senior foreign policy adviser to the Republican frontrunner Rudy Guiliani has urged that Iran be bombed using cruise missiles and "bunker busters" to set back Teheran's nuclear programme by at least five years.

https://snipurl.com/1str1


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Giuliani
https://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

The "national day of action," sponsored by the United for Peace and Justice coalition, attracted throngs of protesters in cities from Boston and New Orleans to Chicago and Los Angeles on the fifth anniversary of the U.S. Senate's vote authorizing the invasion of Iraq.

https://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27227364.htm


From Information Clearing House

By Rev. Fred Morris

In the fall of 1974, I was being tortured by members of the Brazilian army in Recife, Brazil, led by officers who bragged about having been trained at the School of the Americas (then in Panama).

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18627.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=School+of+the+Americas
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture

By William A. Cohn

We owe Khaled El-Masri our gratitude for helping to expose human rights abuses committed in our name. By taking his claim to the European Court of Justice Masri can shed additional light on the self-defeating post-9/11 tactics employed in the US and Europe. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18623.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Masri
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https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18628.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sepahpour
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ann+Coulter

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18622.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Layla+Anwar

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18626.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ted+Rall

By Charles Sullivan

As voracious consumers of media, we must be as careful about what we admit into our minds, as the food we put into our bodies. Food can nourish and sustain us, or it can produce disease and decay. And so it is with media.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18632.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charles+Sullivan

By Link TV

As the California fires rage and millions of Americans are displaced, the US media has mobilized, devoting almost all their coverage to the event. But what about coverage of another serious displacement issue: Iraqi refugees? Watch as we explore the US coverage vs. world coverage of these two very different groups of refugees.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18630.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=refugees

https://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/78a54350da22692e



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=WLAN
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The Washington Post's Joshua Partlow reports how some soldiers in Iraq are becoming increasingly skeptical about the direction of the Iraq War in the face of "mounting sectarian violence" and an increase in the number of US soldiers killed in battle.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102807Z.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sectarian
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Partlow

Walter F. Roche Jr., writing for The Los Angeles Times, reports that: "A Defense Department medical services contract worth up to $790 million was awarded last month to a Wisconsin-based company three months after it hired a former Bush administration appointee who had supervised military health programs at the Pentagon for the last six years."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102807Y.shtml

https://www.charlotte.com/catawbariver/story/337758.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

https://environment.independent.co.uk/green_living/article3104668.ece


Informant: Teresa Binstock

https://tinyurl.com/2junhe


Informant: Kev Hall

Environment Programme says that major threats to the planet such as climate change, the rate of extinction of species, and the challenge of feeding a growing population are among the many that remain unresolved, and all of them put humanity at risk.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682463ms71



York researchers call for tougher action on poverty and climate change

Researchers at the University of York warn that some of the poorest and most disadvantaged people on the planet will be worst hit by climate change.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682464ms71



Peak Oil could trigger meltdown of society

According to a newly published global oil supply report to be presented by the Energy Watch Group at the Foreign Press Association in London, world oil production peaked in 2006.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682467ms71

Das Umweltprogramm der Vereinten Nationen (UNEP) hat vor drastischen Umweltveränderungen in den kommenden 20 Jahren gewarnt.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682441ms71

Vorstoß der EU-Generaldirektion Umwelt bei Gentech-Maissorten Bt11 und 1507.
https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682440ms71

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EU-Commissioner Stavros Dimas refused to allow the cultivation of two varieties of genetically modified maize (Bt 11 and 1507)

https://www.email.greenpeace.org/bmzmvhc_ralsrse.html?RECIPID=815257



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gentech
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=maize

Die Weltmeere verlieren nach Angaben von Wissenschaftlern allmählich ihre Fähigkeit zur Aufnahme von Kohlendioxid.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682455ms71



Schnell voranschreitende Zerstörung der Meeres- und Küstenökosystemen

Nach Angaben von Wissenschaftlern werden die Ökosysteme der Meere vier bis zehn Mal schneller vernichtet als die tropischen Regenwälder.

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26474/1.html



Globale Erwärmung heizt Artensterben an

Erdgeschichte macht deutlich: Hitzeperioden waren artenarm. https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682438ms71



Klimawandel kann zur Verbreitung von Krankheitsüberträgern führen

Europäische Fachleute raten zur verstärkten Beobachtung, um frühzeitig Gefahren zu erkennen und handeln zu können.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682439ms71



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CO2
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Artensterben

https://www.dennis4president.com/go/newsroom/kucinich-challenges-democratic-leadership/


Informant: Kathy Leonard-Bushman



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kucinich