News for Greens

Robert McNamara, Architect of Vietnam War, Dies at 93

Roger Snyder — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:00:17 +0000

[See also Noam Chomsky on Robert McNamara from Class Warfare. -RS] By Thomas W. Lippman Special to The Washington Post Robert Strange McNamara, the former secretary of defense whose record as a leading executive of industry and a chieftain of foreign financial aid was all but erased from public memory by his reputation as the primary architect of [...]

Money To Burn: CL & P, UI Have Millions In Energy-Efficiency Funds To Offer

Roger Snyder — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:56:59 +0000

Image by 80sAustin via Flickr By LYNN DOAN, The Hartford Courant Late last year, Connecticut Light & Power Co. was desperate for energy conservation money. Several programs it runs for the state, which pay for power-saving improvements from lightbulbs in homes to tinted windows in office parks, were oversubscribed. The company had promised $10 million it didn’t have [...]

Interior Dept. wants 100GW of solar power on federal land

Roger Snyder — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:11:09 +0000

[From Ars Technica] The US Department of Interior has announced that it will be using some of its stimulus money to do a single environmental review for the best 24 solar sites on western public lands, clearing the way for more than 100GW of solar capacity. That’s enough to power 30 percent of US homes. By John [...]

Israel kidnaps, detains peace activists ~ Mairead Maguire speaks from gaol

Roger Snyder — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:07:39 +0000

Israel to deport Cynthia McKinney, others

Roger Snyder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:39:33 +0000

From: Green Party Watch by Gregg Jocoy Fox News is reporting that the authorities in Israel plan to deport Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney after taking the ship she and 20 others were using in an attempt to deliver humanitarian air to the people of Gaza. The article implies that Israel intends to keep the ship, registered in Greece. The article quotes Israeli Foreign Ministry [...]

More on McKinney

Roger Snyder — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:36:25 +0000

[From Green Party Watch] Posted by Gregg Jocoy at June 30th, 2009 First, I got a return call from the Israeli consulate in Atlanta and the consulate employee told me that the Israeli Defense Force and Israeli Foreign Affairs office has released information he read which says that Cynthia McKinney is not being detained by the Israeli [...]

Israelis intercept Gaza aid ship

Roger Snyder — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:56:39 +0000

[From BBC NEWS] Israeli forces have boarded a ship trying to carry aid and pro-Palestinian activists to the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israel’s blockade of the territory. The 20 passengers include former US congresswoman Cynthia McKinney [2008 Green Party presidential candidate] and Nobel Prize winner Mairead Maguire. Ms McKinney described it as “an outrageous violation of international [...]

Weed-Whacking Herbicide Proves Deadly to Human Cells

Roger Snyder — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:23:00 +0000

Used in gardens, farms, and parks around the world, the weed killer Roundup contains an ingredient that can suffocate human cells in a laboratory, researchers say By Crystal Gammon and Environmental Health News Image by David_Reverchon via Flickr Used in yards, farms and parks throughout the world, Roundup has long been a top-selling weed killer. But now researchers have found that one [...]

Should Obama Control the Internet?

Roger Snyder — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:30:27 +0000

A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data. [From Mother Jones] Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency? Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office [...]

Coal River—Mass Arrests Against Mountaintop Removal

Roger Snyder — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:23:31 +0000

James Hansen getting arrested on June 23 at an anti-mountaintop-removal protest. Antrim Caskey Ken Hechler, the 94-year-old legendary West Virginia congressman and coal miner hero who has been battling mountaintop removal since 1971, was arrested in a non-violent protest with NASA’s celebrated climate scientist James Hansen, actress Daryl Hannah, Michael Brune (the executive director of Rainforest Action [...]

Illinois State Senate Passes Resolution Opposing Afghanistan War

Roger Snyder — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:15:52 +0000

[From Media Mouse] The Illinois State Senate passed a resolution last week calling for an end to the United States’ war in Afghanistan. It calls on the government–including former Illinois State Senate member Barack Obama–to remove troops from the country on an “appropriately expedited timeline” and to engage nations in the Middle East to develop a [...]

360 MPG Hydrogen Car Unveiled

Roger Snyder — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:16:53 +0000

[From TG Daily ] By Andrew Thomas London, England – A top secret British car unveiled in London today claims to be the world’s first low cost, practical hydrogen powered vehicle. A new type of fuel cell developed by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies has resulted in a two-seater zero emissions hydrogen-electric city car with an expected fuel consumption [...]