Nygaard Notes #496 Editor’s Note: This is the first post of Nygaard Notes, which will be featured regularly on WAMMToday. Nygaard Notes Independent Periodic News and Analysis Number 496, December 8, 2011 On the Web at http://www.nygaardnotes.org/ ****** This Week: Iran, Afghanistan, and Climate 1. “Quote” of the Week 2. Global Climate Crisis: “We Can Try to More
The Parching of the West Tom Engelhardt December 4, 2011 Tom Dispatch The good news? While 2010 tied for the warmest year on record, 2011 — according to the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) — is likely to come in 10th once November and December temperatures are tallied. In part, this is evidently due to More
French Police Battle Anti-Nuclear Activists Protesters damage railway and delay departure of train carrying German nuclear waste treated in France. Last Modified: 23 Nov 2011 22:25 Al Jazeera English Click here to see the video. French police have battled anti-nuclear protesters as the last train carrying German nuclear waste treated inFranceset off on its journey home. More
Air Pollution Deaths in the U.S. Toll Exceeds U.S. Fatalities in Iraq, Afghanistan "The business community and its Republican allies in Congress went to war" against proposed smog control rules, according to theNew York Times account of November 17. They defeated the Obama administration's environmental officials, a "victory" for polluters projected to cause 7,200 annual American More
What a dessert! Thank you Occupy!
The Fukushima Story You Didn’t Hear on CNN November 14, 2011 By admin LA Progressive “Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake” — The Fukushima story you didn’t hear on CNN I’ve seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept More
Dear Friend, We have now passed our first month on Freedom Plaza! The first week of our second month is filled with great activities. Please join us! On Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 Ben and Jerry’s is bringing ice cream. That night, Andy Shallal of Bus Boys and Poets will serve dinner to celebrate our first month on the Plaza. We’ll have discussions More
Not 1 More Acre! Stop the Pentagon’s 51st State. Protect the planet, protect your pocket, rescue the economy from the Pentagon, its contractors and politicians. Although extensive research by Not 1 More Acre! has revealed the facts below, none of these facts are included in Cannon’s proposed Low Altitude Training document now the subject of 17 “community forums” set More
Police carry away a protester, one of scores who have been forcefully arrested at the non-violent Occupy Wall Street protest, 09/24/11. (photo: Tina Fineberg/AP) Journalistic "Objectivity" Sours Wall Street Reporting By Michael Tracey 26 September 11 ReaderSupportedNews.org Brian Stelter and the pathology of objectivity. Last night, the New York Times' Brian Stelter tweeted about the Occupy Wall Street protests, which More
Letter from Prison: Tim DeChristopher speaks Margaret Flowers - Posted on 01 September 2011 October2011.org The following text appeared in a handwritten letter from Tim DeChristopher addressed to Grist’s Jennifer Prediger. by Tim DeChristopher If I had ever doubted the power of words, Judge Benson made their importance all too clear at my sentencing last month. When he More
Letter to the Editor in the Star Tribune, by WAMM Member Roger Cuthbertson ENERGY SOLUTIONS Freeways should be looked to as a resource Our interstate freeway system provides us with a ready-made solution to the problem of providing the country with sufficient energy, without using oil, coal or nuclear power. All we have to do More
