Democracy Now! | Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
Interview with Greg Grandin, whose book is a good follow up to Naomi Klein's "The Shock Docrtine"; he sees US intervention in Latin America as the "workshop" that comes into fruition in Iraq policy and the "war on terror"
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Derek Gregory
web site of cultural geographer Derek Gregory, who has available major essays about the Iraq war and how the US misleads people about ethnic conflict.
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ImmigrationProf Blog: From a teacher at Postville, IA On the Raids
poignant and angry first person narrative from a grade school teacher hugely affected by an immigration raid in her town
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Charlie's Diary
blog of sci-fi author Charles Stross; many good links to and comments on science news
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Christian Hubert - Hypertext Encyclopedia of Scientific Terms/Ideas
encyclopedia of scientific terms and their critical or philosophical dimensions like developments in science (chao theory, complex systems studies, theoretical biology) and some related philosophical writings
more fromwww.christianhubert.com
6 Tips for Practical Packing - Wanderlust and Lipstick
a great blog for women travelers has good advice; one tip--audiobooks weigh nothing if you put them on your iPod.
more fromwanderlustandlipstick.com
What's One Less Species Between Friends? - Environment and Energy
impending mass die-off of species we don't even know about
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Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice, NCAR Study Finds - News Release
Simulations by global climate models show that when sea ice is in rapid decline, the rate of predicted Arctic warming over land can more than triple. Clear explanation of a complex process.
more fromwww.ucar.edu
Timothy Fadek « The New Breed of Documentary Photographers
links to the work of many excellent documentary photographers with notes on the context of their photos
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The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond | www.verticalfarm.com
I love the idea of vertical or high rise farming. It is already practiced in the Netherlands. Find out more about it here.
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Cell Phone Number Portability - Here's What You Need To Know
how to keep your old cell phone number when you switch carriers
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After Gitmo Ruling, What Next for Detainees? | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com
JUSTICE
"As the Supreme Court delivered another blow to the Bush administration's Guantánamo Bay detentions of terror suspects, a lawyer for some of the suspects looks at where we go from here."
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The Road To Guantanamo--directed by Michael Winterbottom
innovative docudrama following what happened to three British youth returning to their parents' country of Pakistan, traveling to Afgahnistan, mistakenly arrested, and kept a long time in Guantanamo. An eloquent denunciation of injustice.
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Pressure points | Research | EducationGuardian.co.uk
The climate is changing. But where will we see the devastating effects first? Ian Sample reports on Earth's 12 most fragile places
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Surprise: Earths’ Biosphere is Booming, Satellite Data Suggests CO2 the Cause « Watts Up With That?
CO2 emissions may be causing an increase in plant growth, making environmental and global warming debate more complex.
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Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area - Los Angeles Times
a burgeoning movement of green enthusiasts who plant without approval on land that's not theirs
more fromwww.latimes.com
US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships | World news | The Guardian
"The US is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees."
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Music special: Five great auditory illusions - being-human - 24 February 2008 - New Scientist
part of a whole special issue on music and science; this essay takes up some things I had not thought of before, although some seem obvious when you thing about them; of use for media production
more fromwww.newscientist.com
The Guantánamo Testimonials Project — UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA)
"The goals of this project are to gather testimonies of prisoner abuse in Guantánamo, to organize them in meaningful ways, to make them widely available online, and to preserve them there in perpetuity."
more fromhumanrights.ucdavis.edu
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE || A SONY PICTURES CLASSICS RELEASE
site for Errol Morris film; be sure to read the book that accompanies the film, an excellent summary of US policy and practice surrounding torture
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