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• Halliburton and the ‘Resource Curse’

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 665
  Part I of an interview with David Ugolor, head of the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice . Sojourners: Nigeria is sometimes cited as an example of the “resource curse,” where a country’s natural resources — oil, in the case of…
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• Gorbachev Chimes in on Climate Change; Maybe He’ll Go on Tour With Gore

  
  GreenEnergyForEarth.com - Solar & Wind Power Products — Authority: 127
  Dec 10, 2009 – Who’s taking the lead in protecting the earth from climate change?  Mikhail Gorbachev.  You read it right, Mikhail Gorbachev.  Read his Op-Ed piece in today’s The New York Times, titled, “ We Have a Real Emergency.” He links climate change to “security issues and to increasingly ...
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• A Case for Eating Your Vegetables

  
  Global Crisis News — Authority: 114
  Parents have always had a hard time getting kids to either their vegetables—whether they live in Beijing, New York City, or Johannesburg. But in a small town in Arusha, Tanzania, a research center is helping Africans gain access to nutritious—and native—sources of vegetables. As hunger and drought spread across ...
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• Who’s monitoring the monitor?

  
  Jews for Justice for Palestinians — Authority: 136
  Borderline Views: Who’s monitoring the monitor? David Newman, The Jerusalem Post, 1st December 2009 The Knesset on Tuesday [1st December] will host a conference which will bring it into disgrace. Instead of upholding the traditions of democracy and free speech, it will be responsible for an attempt to trample on ...
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• Erdogan’s Turkey: ‘refreshing’ pluralism or ‘authoritarian democracy’?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 430
  Turkey’s foreign policy is emphatically not undergoing a reorientation from the democratic West to Eurasian and Middle East states, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a Washington meeting yesterday. Nor is the country becoming more authoritarian, as some observers suggest.Reports of attacks on press freedom ...
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• Love of the Land: Open letter to the NIF: False Claims in Attack on Knesset Conference

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 165
  Open letter to the NIF: False Claims in Attack on Knesset Conference Gerald M. Steinberg December 07, 2009 We are disappointed to see that the New Israel Fund (NIF) has joined the unprofessional and non-substantive attacks on NGO Monitor over the December 1 Knesset conference ...
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• Conversations with History – Laurence R. Simon

  
  MarcGopin.com — Authority: 123
  Conversations with History – Laurence R. Simon “Global Poverty, Development, and Social Change” Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Laurence R. Simon of Brandeis University (pictured above) for a discussion of the role of non governmental organizations in addressing global poverty.
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Copenhagen Meeting – President Barack Obama

  
  GreenEnergyForEarth.com - Solar & Wind Power Products — Authority: 127
  Dec 7, 2009 – Are you at the Copenhagen meeting?  If so, please provide your comments here.  USA President Barack Obama will be there as well as leaders from most developed and developing countries of the world.  People are unsure if any major commitments will be made by the largest polluters in the world, or if ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Saving us from noise that kills: NGOs as news coordinators in a networked public sphere

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 638
  [Journalists concerned about the future of the news business tend to worry about important issues receiving a decreasing amount of coverage. But what if the problem is less the amount of coverage but the assembling, filtering, and sorting of that coverage? Is there a role for a new class of news coordinators? Our ...
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• Democracy the casualty of ‘realist’ foreign policy turn

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 430
  Has the Obama administration lost sight of the moral dimension of foreign policy? Have democratic values been set aside in over-reacting to what some perceive as the tainted legacy of the Bush administration’s Freedom Agenda?  Human rights and democracy advocates have criticized perceived policy shifts on human ...
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• Organisers struggle as world gathers for climate summit (To go with UN climate summit opens amid warning and hope)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Copenhagen, Dec 7 (IANS) The sheer weight of numbers — 15,000 delegates from 192 governments, NGOs and media — threatened to overwhelm the organisers as the UN climate summit opened here Monday.The 15th summit of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) saw serpentine queues at all entry points right ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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• Recent events

  
  zumio — Authority: 109
  I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to participate in a number of events over the past few weeks that I thought I should reflect on here – presented below in chronological order. (My attendance at these events partially explains my radio silence around here…) Startup BarCamp I wasn’t able to stay for the whole ...
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• Love of the Land: Whos afraid of NGO Monitor?

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 165
  Whos afraid of NGO Monitor? Naftali Balanson Right of Reply/JPost 02 December 09 The primary role of civil society is to "give voice" to ordinary citizens and ensure that government officials hear from those most affected by their decisions. The ability of citizens to inform public policy is the hallmark of ...
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• Why are environmental NGOs pushing for a later peak emissions year than the IPCC?

  
  Global Dashboard — Authority: 553
  As we’ve been arguing here since March , the year in which policymakers agree that global emissions must peak is the key short-term variable to watch at Copenhagen.  David and I would like to see them peak right now , given that global emissions have fallen substantially as a result of the credit crunch. The ...
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• The old shell game

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 576
  Actually, it’s a fairly new game, though based on old (un)principles, and Shell, despite the attribution, is not involved. Received in email this morning: Dear Funds Beneficiary, This is to notify you that you have been officially chosen by the Board of Trustees of the Foundation International (NGO ...
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• Richard Heinberg: Trying to save the world

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 537
  Today’s guest blogger is Richard Heinberg , senior fellow in residence at the Post Carbon Institute , an expert on peak oil and the author of nine books, the latest of which is Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis. My friend Ed Maibach sent me this essay, and I liked it so much that I obtained ...
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