Archive for the 'United States' Category

Climate change: Too little, too late?

This snippet from a World Development Movement blog entry from the UN Framework Conference on Climate Change in Bali got me worried - as it should you too. While we carry on our lives as usual, we remain blissfully unaware that the very survival of our planet is at stake.
”The science says that with an [...]

It’s a home-grown resistance movement in Iraq

The New York Times has finally admitted in an op-ed video - in contradiction to some of its own reports - what many of us already knew: that the US war in Iraq is largely against a determined home-grown resistance movement against Occupation (yes, the ‘O’ word). Check it out.

Attack on Iran foiled?

While our attention was focused on Burma, a dramatic incident took place in the Middle East: Israel’s air-strike on a reputed Syrian nuclear facility on 6 September. The Israelis appear to have coordinated the raid with the White House, says Jonathan Cook. “The reasoning was simple: before an attack on Iran could be [...]

NO! to M’sia’s FTA with police state, USA - Remember, 1.2 million dead in Iraq

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The new US ambassador to Malaysia, James Keith is urging both Malaysia and the United States to conclude a Free Trade Agreement after an earlier deadline in June was missed.
Of course, the US stands to benefit far more in such an “open market”. To draw an analogy, it would be like Manchester United playing [...]

Look, a minimum wage would spur economic activity

Here’s more evidence to show that a minimum wage can actually keep the economy purring.
This time, we go to the United States.
San Francisco-based journalist, Dick Meister, a specialist on labour issues, is actually calling on the US administration to raise the minimum wage there to a more decent level. A minimum wage, far from dampening [...]