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Activists Score in Fight Against Nuclear Power
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Aug 09 (IPS) - A new wave of anti-nuclear protests in Japan this summer, sparked by the disastrous meltdown at a power plant last year, suggests that civil society is no longer willing to allow the government to take the lead in deciding the nation’s energy policy.
Humanity Should Not Live Under Nuclear Threat
- Inter Press Service
BARCELONA, Aug 09 (IPS) - Now that the war in Iraq is considered ‘over’, another major goal of Israel has come into view: attacking Iran on the pretext that it may possibly be working on a nuclear weapon - though Pakistan, China, and India definitely already have them.
Free Trade with China? No, Gracias
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 08 (IPS) - There is little likelihood that South America’s Mercosur trade bloc will take up China’s proposal to establish a free trade agreement, at least in the short term. Experts and industrialists fear an invasion of cheap Chinese goods, and unequal competition.
Syrian Forces Launch Ground Assault in Aleppo
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, Aug 08 (IPS) - The Syrian army has launched a ground assault on the northern city of Aleppo, sparking fierce clashes with opposition fighters in the frontline district of Salaheddine.
Q&A: Sustainability Now a Matter of Life and Death
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Aug 08 (IPS) - Humanity is living beyond its means with the growing demand for food, medicines and other nature-based products, making sustainable consumption and conservation a matter of life and death. This is according to the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network, the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Fishing Communities in Brazil Fight for Survival
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 08 (IPS) - His father and other fishermen fought back with sickles, hoes and other work tools against the armed men sent by the purported owner of the land where they lived in order to evict them. But then the military police came and knocked down eight of their houses.
HAITI: Kitchen Gardens Help Keep Hunger at Bay
- Inter Press Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 08 (IPS) - Many Haitians living in poor neighbourhoods of the capital Port-au-Prince and semi-permanent tent camps are relying on kitchen gardens to put healthy food on the table.
HAITI: Kitchen Gardens Help Keep Hunger at Bay
- Inter Press Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 08 (IPS) - Many Haitians living in poor neighbourhoods of the capital Port-au-Prince and semi-permanent tent camps are relying on kitchen gardens to put healthy food on the table.
Persecuted Libyans Struggle to Be Heard
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Aug 08 (IPS) - Pregnant women miscarrying due to mistreatment, detainees mainly from sub-Saharan Africa denied adequate food and water. Small cells crammed with 80-100 detainees subjected to arbitrary justice by Libya’s volatile militias, politically persecuted Somalis forcibly repatriated to Mogadishu, and hundreds of boat people dying trying to flee Libya for a better life in Europe.
Corporate Lobbyists Threaten Democracy
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Aug 08 (IPS) - Over a month has passed since the United Nations summit on sustainable development concluded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but the world still appears to be unaware of one of the most important statements made during the conference that drew some 50,000 delegates from all over the world.
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