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Weekly Diaspora: How Bad U.S.-Latin American Policy Fuels Unauthorized Immigration

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Democracy Now!, Cafta, Central American Free Trade Agreement, Cartels, Wells Fargo, Mexico, Free Trade, Obama, Immigration, North American Free Trade Agreement, Chiquita, Nafta, Wachovia, Barack Obama, El Salvador, Immigration Reform, Colorlines, Colombia, New America Media, Panama, In These Times, Inter Press Service, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Too often, the immigration debate in this country ignores the role U.S. foreign policy plays in fue...

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Weekly Mulch: Saying no to the nuclear option

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Administration, Inter Press Service, Nuclear Safety, Japan, BEYOND NUCLEAR, Nuclear Crisis, Nrc, The Nation, Exelon, Democracy Now!, Earth Island Journal, Nuclear Energy, Mother Jones, Atoms for Peace, Budget, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Faced with the nuclear crisis in Japan, governments around the world are confronting the vulnerabilities of ...

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Weekly Mulch: Chevron Must Pay; GOP Tries to Gut the EPA

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The ENERGY FOUNDATION, Republicans, Inter Press Service, Grist, Gop, Bp, AMERICAN WIND ASSOCIATION, Sierra Club, Chevron, Europe, Epa, Wind Power, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Deepwater Horizon, NATIONAL COAL CAMPAIGN, Carbon Emissions, Mother Jones, Care2, Amazon, ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND, Coal, Budget, Bill Mckibben, Alternet, Green News
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger A Bolivian judge ordered Chevron this week to pay $8.6 billion in damages for polluting the Amazon rainfor...

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Weekly Mulch: Monsanto's Mutant Alfalfa and the Feral Pig Invasion

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roundup Ready Alfafa, Vilsack, Phmsa, Gold Mining, The Michigan Melzer, Invasive Species, Feral Pigs, Greystar, change.org, Nuclear, Monsanto, Ruce Power, Campus Progress, Gainesville, Truthout, Colombia, Mother Jones, Drummond, Feed the Future, Dioxins, Inter Press Service, New Visions for Agriculture, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Agribusiness giant Monsanto is strengthening its hold over the food system both in this country and abroad,...

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Weekly Mulch: Was Cancun Climate Conference a Success?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy Now!, cop16, Developing Countries, Carbon Emissions, Cancun, United Nations, Emission Targets, The Nation, Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace, YES! Magazine, Redd, Goldman Sachs, Copenhagen Accord, Developed Countries, Protests, Unfccc, Earth Island Journal, Wto, Japan, Un, Inter Press Service, Forests, Indigenous Environmental Network, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger The United Nations-led Climate Conference at Cancun was not a diplomatic disaster, but for climate activis...

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Weekly Mulch: At Cancun, Incentives Point Toward Incremental Progress on Climate Change

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Young People, Mohamed Aslam, Democracy Now!, cop16, Climate Change Negotiations, Carbon Emissions, Cancun, The Guardian, Jairam Ramesh, change.org, Care2, Wikileaks, Mother Jones, Climate Change, The Next Generaiton, BASIC Countries, Unfccc, India, Amy Goodman, The Youngs, Christiana Figueres, Inter Press Service, The Maldives, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger This year's round of the United Nations-led climate change negotiations, ongoing in Cancun, Mexico, for the ...

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Weekly Mulch: If Cancun Climate Talks Falter, Blame the U.S.

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: cop16, Carbon Emissions, Cancun, Conference of Parties, United Nations, The Nation, Sea Level, Cop 15, Care2, Nigel Purvis, Colorlines, Copenhagen Accord, Mother Jones, Climate Change, Unfccc, Earth Island Journal, BP Oil Spill, Inter Press Service, Kyoto Protocol, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The most recent round of United Nations-led climate change negotiations began this week in Cancun, and alt...

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Weekly Diaspora: The Final Fight for the DREAM Act

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Minnesota Independent, Colorlines, Campus Progress, American Independent News Network, DREAM Act, Colorado Independent, Racewire, New America Media, Immigration, Inter Press Service, Barack Obama, The Washington Independent, Economy, Politics News
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by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger It's a now-or-never moment for the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide a conditional path to citi...

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Weekly Mulch: How the Status Quo Benefits Natural Gas Companies

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nrdc, Inter Press Service, GREEN LEADERS, Solar Energy, RENEWABLE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE, ORION MAGAZINE, Climate Change Legislation, Renewable Energy, Dimock, Bingaman, New York, Pennsylvania, Water Issues, INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS, Circle of Blue, Natural Gas Industry, Climate Change, WATER SUSTAINABILITY, ENERGY MARKET, Cancun, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, KATE SINDING, FRAC Act, Shale Gas, Clean Energy, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger There won't be any national or international movement on climate policy for the rest of this year, at the v...

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Weekly Diaspora: Zero Hour Approaching for Federal Immigration Reform

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: First Focus, Women's Media Center, Workers Independent News, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Immigration, Arizona, Feministing, Care2, Alternet, Immigration Reform, May Day, Labor, DREAM Act, Sb 1070, Rally, Racewire, New America Media, Trail of Dreams, Inter Press Service, International Workers' Day, Real News Network, Sen Lindsay Graham, Chuck Schumer, Domestic Violence, Undocumented, Politics News
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by Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger The countdown is on. Half a million supporters of comprehensive immigration reform rallied across the country o...

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Weekly Diaspora: Boycotting Arizona

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raul Grijalva, Phil Gordon, May Day Rallies, Washington Monthly, The Progressive, Immigration, Lindsey Graham, Arizona, Care2, Yuma County, Barack Obama, Iowa Independent, Sara Presler, Immigration Reform, American Civil Liberties Union, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mother Jones, Racewire, Inter Press Service, National Radio Project, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Politics News
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by Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger Anti-immigrant fervor could be more costly than Arizona lawmakers expected. Thanks to SB 1070, a new law that r...

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Weekly Mulch: Citizens Lead Cochabamba Climate Negotiations

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy Now!, Bolivia, Women's Media Center, United Nations, Public News Service, Environmentalism, The Nation, YES! Magazine, Earth Day, Care2, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Alternet, Cochabamba, Grittv, Sierra Club, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Evo Morales, Gaylord Nelson, Inter Press Service, Copenhagen, Environmental Protection Agency, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Environmental advocates from around the world gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia, this week and resolved that, ...

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Weekly Audit: Senate Republicans Nix Jobs Bill

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Social Forum, Unemployment, Mitch McConnell, Michigan Messenger, Truthout, Jobs Bill, Washington Monthly, USSF, Jobs, YES! Magazine, Inter Press Service, Iowa Independent, Detroit, Economy, Home News
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by Annie Shields, Media Consortium blogger It looks as if election-year strategies are trumping any actual problem-solving by Republican lawmakers. In...

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Weekly Diaspora: What the #$@!, Arizona?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raul Grijalva, John McCain, Alipac, Colorado Independent, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, Immigration, Lindsey Graham, Arizona, Luis Gutierrez, Jan Brewer, Birther Bill, Mother Jones, Border Patrol, Racewire, New America Media, J.D. Hayworth, Inter Press Service, Tea Party, William Gheen, Home News
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by Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger While federal lawmakers cautiously mull over the possibility of dropping a comprehensive immigration reform bil...

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U.S. Military Still Lying About Special Forces Night Raid in Afghanistan

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nato, Special Forces, Afghanistan Night Raids, Stanley McChrystal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Afghanistan, Times of London, Inter Press Service, World News
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U.S. officials are "probing a possible attempted coverup" in the deaths of five Afghan civilians in February in a raid carried out by U.S. Special Forces accompanied by Afghan troops, the LA Times reports.

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Weekly Diaspora: The Game Plan for Immigration Reform

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michele Waslin, The American Prospect, Gabriel Arana, John Tomasic, Colorado Independent, Immigration, Lindsey Graham, Feministing, Tom Tancredo, Barack Obama, Alternet, Ice, Seth Wessler, Immigration Reform, Laura Flanders, Grittv, New America Media, Inter Press Service, William Fisher, Chuck Schumer, Sandip Roy, National Guard, Home News
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By Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), started a hubbub among comprehensive immigration reform advocates last week when h...

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Weekly Diaspora: 200,000 March on DC, Call for Immigration Reform Now

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, The Texas Observer, Race Wire, Labor, March for America, Workers Independent News, Afl-Cio, Immigration, Luis Gutierez, Inter Press Service, Barack Obama, Home News
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By Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger As the health care debate comes to a close, there's no better time to introduce comprehensive immigration refor...

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Weekly Mulch: Nuclear Plants will go up in Georgia

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, President Obama, Carbon Emissions, Yvo De Boer, United Nations, Epa, The Southern Company, Loan Guarantees, Mexico2010, Jobs, Texas, Clean Energy, Nuclear, The Washington Indepedent, Alternet, Wind Turbine, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Wisconsin, RPS, Citibank, Georgia, Ingeteam, Gov. Rick Perry, Inter Press Service, China, Solar Power, Green News
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger If you were to look out to the horizon of the clean energy field right now, you would see the hazy outlines ...

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Eat Your Spinach: Time for Peace Talks in Afghanistan

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, Afghanistan, Inter Press Service, Afghan Taliban, Afghanistan War, World News
Robert Naiman

Wouldn't it be remarkable if discussions over Afghanistan remained merely an "internal debate" within the Obama Administration? Wouldn't you expect public opinion to intervene?

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Weekly Mulch: Climate Change On Obama's Back Burner

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Congress, Green Jobs, Renewable Energy, Jobs, Obama, Clean Energy, Diplomacy, Alternet, State of the Union, Mother Jones, Cap-and-Trade, Fossil Fuels, John Kerry, Climate Change, Climate Bill, Inter Press Service, In These Times, Tea Party, Grist, Copenhagen, Texas Observer, Solar Power, Global Warming, Natural Gas, Florida, Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Sustain, President Barack Obama, European Union, Global Warming Skeptics, High-Speed Rail, Copenhagen Accord, cop15, Pew Research Center, Sotu, Off-Shore Drilling, Senate, Green News
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger In his first State of the Union address, President Barack Obama touched on climate issues only briefly. He c...

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U.S. Seeks To Limit Warlords In Karzai Cabinet

Inter Press Service | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Wire, Obama Afghanistan, Gareth Porter, Afghan Election, Inter Press Service, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, World News

By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for dec...

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Goldstone Report: Palestinians' Anger At Their Leaders Intensifies

Inter Press Service | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Authority, Gaza War, Gaza, Inter Press Service, Richard Goldstone, Un Gaza Report, World News

By Mel Frykberg | Inter Press Service RAMALLAH, Oct 9 (IPS) - The Palestinian Authority (PA) is trying desperately to contain the political fallout...

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India: Single Women Break Their Silence

Inter Press Service | Nitin Jugran Bahuguna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Lebanon, India Widows, Women's Rights, Foreign Affairs, India Women, Inter Press Service, India's Single Women Break Their Silence, Single Women in India, Customs Against Women, Discrimination Against Women, Women in India, World News

By Nitin Jugran Bahuguna NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (IPS) - It has been more than eight years since the January 2001 earthquake struck the Indian state of G...

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Venezuela: Gays Attacked, Harassed By Police

Inter Press Service | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Venezuela Homophobia, Venezuela, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Inter Press Service, Gays, Venezuela Gays, Venezuela News, World News

By Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Nov 4 (IPS) - One Friday at around midnight, on Villaflor Street, a favourite spot for gays and lesbians in the Venez...

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Pro-Afghan War Officials Play Up Taliban-al Qaida Ties: Analysis

Inter Press Service | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan War, Obama Afghanistan, Taliban Al Qaida, Al Qaida, Afghanistan, War Wire, Gareth Porter, Taliban, Inter Press Service, Foriegn Affairs, Latest Afghanistan War News, Afghan News Online Taliban, Al-Qaida Taliban Broke, Taliban Al Qaeda, Al Qaida Taliban Links, World News

By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strateg...

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