Ski resorts and global warming

The Age newspaper in Australia has reported that the country’s resorts are planning to follow the American ski industry, with a campaign telling snowboarders and skiers that global warming will cut short their winter over the coming decades.

Pay up to save rainforests

A bloc of developing countries plans to make a radical proposal this week at the United Nations summit on climate change in Montreal: pay us, and we will preserve our rainforests. The group of 10 countries, led by Papua New…

The colonel and the corruption

Col. Ted Westhusing, West-Point trained, a straight arrow, the best and the brightest, went to Iraq. He either killed himself or was murdered after learning of possible corruption and human rights violations by private contractors to the US. So it…

Former US Atty General to aid Saddam

Ramsey Clark arrives to assist Saddam defense Clark has been advising nearly a dozen international lawyers on Saddam’s defense team. He has contended that Saddam’s rights have been violated in the legal process following his capture. But a U.S. government…

I’ll publish the memo

Bloggers: Sign up here! at Blair Watch and join bloggers worldwide who are volunteering to publish the al-Jazeera memo.

Tookie Williams’ work

Monthly Review says At a conservative estimate, (Tookie Williams) has saved hundreds of lives over the past few years. Because of his extraordinary work, Stan was nominated for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize by a group of Swiss parliamentarians, after…