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Melting ice caps can indirectly lead to flooding: Flooding in Gloucester, photo Chris Moore 18 November 2009 Climate change is accelerating. On 4 November the North Sea arctic ice cap fell below the record lows for November set during 2007. Updated daily, the National Snow and Ice Data centre's website shows... 17 November 2009 While socialist ideas are beginning to resurge, the political representatives of capitalism have suffered an enormous ideological blow... 17 November 2009 This is a truly global crisis. Virtually no country has escaped its effects. Globally it is the poorest people in the poorest countries who are suffering the most. However, the OECD correctly predicted... 28 October 2009 Scant attention has been paid in the media to the 80th anniversary of the October 1929 Wall Street crash. The capitalists can hardly repeat their theme of yesterday - "it can never happen again." 20 October 2009 EIGHT YEARS after US president George Bush - aided and abetted by his 'loyal lieutenant', UK prime minister Tony Blair - launched an invasion of Afghanistan, their 'war on terror' shows no sign of abating. 30 September 2009 NEPAL HAS been rocked by almost constant protests since May against the ousting of the Maoist former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (known as Prachanda, meaning 'fierce one'), the biggest being a huge rally in Kathmandu on 11 September, writes Paul Callanan. 23 September 2009 ONCE AGAIN the 'big six' UK energy companies have stuck two fingers up to demands that they reduce the prices charged to consumers... 22 September 2009 THE US and NATO's top military chief in Afghanistan has told his political bosses that western forces will fail there unless there is a change in policy... Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson 15 September 2009 CLIMATE CHANGE is already with us. Temperatures are increasing, polar ice caps melting, glaciers retreating, sea levels rising, biodiversity being lost, food production being threatened, water scarcity... 15 September 2009 Editorial: There is now the bizarre spectacle of the Tories and New Labour trying to outdo each other with promises of cuts after the next general election to reduce the public finance deficit... 1 - 10 of 357 records Search entire database: order_type_date = checked |