Presbyterian Church Votes to Divest From Occupation-Profiting Companies
By The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Friday to divest from U.S. companies linked to Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The vote by the church’s General Assembly passed by a narrow margin—310-303—and means it will divest its holdings from Caterpillar Inc., Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions, an amount reported as being $21 million. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that […]
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'Big Oil Playbook' on Display in Small Town Tar Sands Fight
Exemplifying tactics outlined in a new report that dissects the oil industry’s efforts to influence the tar sands debate, members of a Big Oil front group packed a city council meeting in South Portland, Maine, on Monday night, forcing the meeting to be rescheduled. The council was slated to take its first vote on the […]
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US Drone Kills 20 as Pakistan Military Offensive Continues
Roughly 20 people were reportedly killed by a U.S. drone strike in a tribal region of Pakistan early Wednesday morning, the second such attack this week. According to local sources as reported by Al Jazeera, four missiles fired by the drone targeted a vehicle in the Dattakhel area of North Waziristan resulting in the destruction […]
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Conflicting Federal Court Rulings Clash Over Obamacare
A federal circuit court in Washington, D.C., ruled Tuesday morning that the federal government may not subsidize health insurance plans for people in the 36 states that decided not to set up their own marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act. However, just hours after the D.C. court issued its ruling, the 4th Circuit Court of […]
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Brazil Farmers Say GMO Corn No Longer Resistant to Bugs
Brazilian farmers say their GMO corn is no longer resistant to pests, Reuters reported Monday. The Association of Soybean and Corn Producers of the Mato Grosso region said farmers first noticed in March that their genetically modified corn crops were less resistant to the destructive caterpillars that “Bt corn” — which has been genetically modified […]
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Ohio City Lifts Drinking Water Ban, But Fears Remain over Lake Erie Toxins
The mayor of Toledo, Ohio on Monday morning announced that in conjuncture with the state EPA he was lifting the emergency “do not drink” order that had left nearly half a million city and nearby residents without water over the weekend following the detection of dangerous levels of microcystin, a toxin created by algae blooms […]
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No Justice for Afghan Civilians Killed by US Troops: Report
There has been no justice for thousands of Afghan civilians killed and countless injured by U.S. and other international forces in the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, according to a report released late Friday by the human rights group Amnesty International. The report, Left in the Dark: Failures of Accountability for Civilian Casualties Caused […]
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Brazil's Socialists Could Turn to Environmentalist after Candidate’s Death
RIO DE JANEIRO – The death of socialist presidential candidate Eduardo Campos opens up an unexpected opportunity for environmental leader Marina Silva to return with renewed strength to the struggle to govern Brazil, offering a “third way” in a highly polarized campaign. Silva, who was environment minister from 2003 to 2008, won 19.6 million votes […]
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UN Agency says Violence at Peak Levels as Israel Flattens High-Rises in Gaza
Israel’s escalated bombing of the Gaza Strip was evidenced on Tuesday by airstrikes that targeted two high-rise buildings in Gaza City that left one flattened completely and the other badly damaged. According to the Associated Press it is the fifth high-rise targeted and destroyed in the last several days as a new wave of bombing […]
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US Renews Airstrikes in Iraq as Part of 'Humanitarian' Mission
The United States carried out new air strikes in Iraq on Saturday night to accompany what the Pentagon said was a “humanitarian assistance operation” to help Shia Turkmen under a nearly two-month siege by Islamic militants. According to a statement released by Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. Kirby, “These military operations were conducted under authorization […]
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