July

Falling Global Family Planning Funding Threatens Poverty Fight

A dramatic plunge in international donor funding for family planning is threatening to undermine other humanitarian goals such as fighting poverty and hunger, as well as efforts to counter global warming.

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Clean Energy to be Focus of China-US Talks

Stronger China-US cooperation on clean energy will be the goal of two US officials who will be visiting China this week. US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Energy Secretary Steven Chu will be in China from Tuesday to Friday.

Vietnam: Swine Flu Found to be not Resistant to Tamiflu

No strains of A/H1N1 have been found resistant to Tamiflu in Viet Nam, director of the National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases Nguyen Van Kinh said yesterday.

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Lonesome Hobo Economics: Mountaintop-removal on Recovery Road

In the Coal-creek river valley in Southern West Virginia actress Daryl Hannah and NASA climatologist James Hansen were arrested protesting continuation of mountain top – 'surface' – mining, warning of dire environmental consequences and unfunded costs exceeding the value of coal mined.

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Population Growth and Climate Change

No doubt human population growth is a major contributor to global warming, given that humans use fossil fuels to power their increasingly mechanized lifestyles. More people means more demand for oil, gas, coal and other fuels mined or drilled from below the Earth’s surface.

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Message to Obama: We Need a New Deal

Now they are out to nickel and dime us to death. Here in my home town the traffic and parking department has been prevailed upon to “step up” its enforcement activity – and maneuvering to have parking meters work far into the night – in order help cover some of the city’s budget deficit.

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Australia: Cancel Talisman Saber War Games

The US-Australian Talisman Saber 09 (TS09) military exercise started as The Guardian went to press. TS09 which began on July 6 at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area near Rockhampton will conclude on July 26. Military of both countries will be met by peace campaigners calling for the war games to be canceled.

Japan: Reveal All Secrets Related to Japan-US Security Treaty

Four former administrative vice foreign ministers in early June acknowledged the existence of a secret Japan-US agreement allowing US nuclear weapons to be brought into Japan.

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US Needs to Listen to President Arias on its Role in Latin America

Oscar Arias, the president of Costa Rica and the person who will serve as mediator of the crisis in Honduras, writes in an OpEd piece July 10th in the Miami Herald, “This coup demonstrates, once more, that the combination of powerful militaries and fragile democracies creates a terrible risk.”

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Swine Flu Not as Bad as Expected

While the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimated last week that as many as 1 million Americans may have contracted the H1N1 virus, it doesn't seem to be any more dangerous than the seasonal flu, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters on a teleconference call, July 10.

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