Month December 2006

More global warming portents

Ice free Arctic by 2040 This from US researchers, who say most Arctic ice will be gone by 2040 with the tipping point coming in 2025. Rumors that Dubya said the researchers were “terrorists who hate freedom” are probably untrue.…

Iranian holocaust conference

[Iranian] Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki … said the West did not allow Holocaust denial because it would lead to questions “about the identity of the Zionist regime.” Nonsense. If that were true, there wouldn’t be Jews Against Zionism, some of…

Ecosocialism. Red-Green synthesis

Ecosocialism is a blend of socialism and Green politics that sees capitalism as the major cause of environmental problems. Merging aspects of Marxism, socialism, environmentalism and ecology, Eco-socialists generally believe that the capitalist system is the cause of social exclusion,…

Severe PTSD and 70% disability

And they’re sending him back to Iraq He was off active duty when he got his orders. He became so distraught he was put on suicide watch. “I don’t understand why the military would put him through this,” [his mother]…

Pinochet. No cause to rejoice

From Craig Murray My father is a Chilean political refugee. He fled the country after the military coup in 1973. After years of half-stories too painful to recount fully, last night he finally put a figure on the losses he…