- Boatloads of Trouble: How We Are Importing Our Way to Destruction As our consumer goods travel thousands of miles by boat, train and truck, they're leaving a trail of soot and cancer in their wake.

- McCain Uses His Big Speech to Give Us a Tour of His Vietnamese Prison Cell Number of sentences in John McCain's RNC speech about being a POW in Vietnam: 43. Number about his 25 years in the House and Senate: 8.

- GOP's Plan for Palin: Reignite the Culture Wars Republicans will try to spin Palin's shortcoming into strengths, by revving up the culture wars.

- How My 7-Year-Old Learned About Pre-Marital Sex from John McCain I wholly believe in educating my child about contraception. But given that he is 7, I could have waited a few years for that particular talk.

- China admits collapsed schools were shoddily constructed Although residents of Sichuan do not feel free to discuss the so-called tofu construction of the hundreds of collapsed schools that devoured so many thousands of their children in the recent major quake, the government appointed p

- Military chopper buzz muted over Portland skies Helicopters of the U.S. military conducted exercises over the skies of Portland on Monday night. A memo to Portland’s Mayor stated that the excercises would include “low visibility movement, military operations in

- Let them eat cake: king's party angers hard-up Swazis Mswati, the world’s last absolute monarch, has reigned over the landlocked kingdom for 22 years. He is most famous for having 13 wives, whom he selects from a bevy of bare-breasted maidens at an annual Reed Dance at

- Ethiopia Facing World's 'Most Urgent' Food Crisis Ethiopian farmers and livestock herders are being hit with both a drought and skyrocketing food prices; in some areas, food prices have quintupled in just a year. At the same time, the global spike in food and fuel prices

- Global day of action against state terror in Aotearoa / New Zealand

- Rejection of new sentences in Atenco case

- Former Indymedia Journalist Among Ten Foreigners Detained in China

- Direct Action Shuts Down Heavy Industry Projects in Iceland

- Asylpolitikken deler LO Source: Fri Fagbevegelse

- Politiske sjokkbølger i Edda-avisene Source: Sunnmørsposten

- Sju mistet jobben i Nye Kystlink Source: Telemarksavisa

- 160 må gå fra Aller Source: Magasinet for fagorganiserte

- Refshalevej er ryddet Klokken fem tirsdag morgen rykkede Københavns politi ud og sikrede rydningen af Refshalevej. To blev anholdt, og politiet brugte peberspray. - Nyheder / Venstrefløj, Tophistorie

- Modkraft på vågeblus Den produktionshæmmende sommerferie har ramt redaktionen på Modkraft.dk. I de kommende uger bliver nyhedsdækningen derfor lidt sporadisk – men der sker også store sager! - Nyheder / Om Modkraft, Tophistorie

- Madpriser stiger på grund af biobrændstof Verdensbanken har bevidst tilbageholdt en afslørende rapport om bioethanols påvirkning af fødevarepriser for ikke at lægge sig ud med Bush-administrationen, mener eksperter. - Nyheder / Globalisering, Arbejderen.dk, Sekun

- Israel nærmest optaget i EU's indre marked Med den nye associeringsaftale mellem Israel og EU bliver Israel stort set en del af EU's indre marked. Lysten til at offentliggøre aftalen har været ringe. - Nyheder / EU, Mellemøsten, Arbejderen.dk, Sekundær tophistori

- Sykehus vurderer å slette lydlogger Østlendingen - 4 timer siden Norge:Oslo (NTB): Ullevål universitetssykehus kan komme til å slette lydopptak fra nødsentralen hvis det ikke blir strengere kontroll

- Sykehus vurderer å slette lydlogger VG Nett - 1 dag siden Ullevål universitetssykehus kan komme til å slette lydopptak fra nødsentralen hvis det ikke blir strengere kontroll med hvem som får tilgang

- Sykehus truer med å slette lydlogger Sunnmørsposten - 1 dag siden Norge:Oslo (NTB): Ullevål universitetssykehus truer med å slette lydopptak fra nødsentralen hvis det ikke blir strengere kontroll med

- Sykehus truer med å slette lydlogger Rakkestad Avis - 1 dag siden Oslo (ANB-NTB): Ullevål universitetssykehus truer med å slette lydopptak fra nødsentralen hvis det ikke blir strengere kontroll med hve

- Absolving Your Sins and CYA: Corporations Embrace Voluntary Codes of Conduct "We do not want children to smoke,” British American Tobacco (BAT) declares on its website. But the company that describes itself as the “world’s most international tobacco group” routinely violates its own voluntary inter

- Sorry, Whistleblowers, You're on Your Own The U.S. Labor Department has only "ruled in favor of [corporate] whistleblowers 17 times out of 1,273 complaints filed since 2002," and has dismissed 841 cases. Many of the dismissals were based "on the technicality that workers

- They Don't Need No Sponsored Health Education Corporate-funded "educational" materials about healthy eating distributed to British schools have been criticized by Britain's Food Standards Agency, the Department of Health and dieticians' groups. "It's bad nutritional advice, w

- Pfizer to Jarvik: See You Later, Doc From Pfizer's new Lipitor adPfizer's getting ready to resume advertising for its cholesterol drug Lipitor. In February, the drugmaker pulled its Lipitor ads, over charges they were misleading. The old ads featured artificial heart

- Peak Spoil Peak Oil theory is seen by environmentalists as the reality which will stop the oil industry. But could it be that the real problem isn't that we're going to run out of oil, but that we aren't?

- Storming The Barack Aides As the Democrat and Republican parties have their party conventions in the lead-up to the presidential elections, mass demonstrations are making a come-back in the country.

- Schquids-in A big pay-out for New York anti-war demonstrators

- Seas The Day In Palestine As independent aid boats beat Israeli aggression to give much needed supplies to Gaza...