







Storms are becoming more severe and it is attributable to “our warming climate and seas and our melting ice caps”.
Watching television this week, as Hurricane Sandy descended on Washington, DC, and meteorologists scurried to remain atop the latest forecasting, myriad presidential election campaign advertisements were met with one major marketing competitor: the American Petroleum Institute and its various oil, coal and gas bedfellows.
It was ironic, really, to watch “Vote 4 Energy” commercials – encouraging us to use the dirty fossil fuels that created the climate pretext for the oncoming super storm – as the wind and rain whipped up around my Anacostia neighbourhood in southeast DC…………………….
02 November 2012 04:58 PM
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s Prime Minister, directly contradicted President Vladimir Putin today by stating his view that the jailed members of the punk group Pussy Riot should be freed.
03 November 2012 11:34 AM
Rebels and government troops are fighting for control of a key airbase in the north of Syria, activists have said.
Syrian rebels accused of war crime after video is posted appearing to show opposition forces shooting captured Assad troops