http://ipsnorthamerica.net/headlines.php Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:05:02 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/logo_ips.gif http://ipsnorthamerica.net/ 100 42 IPS North America en mgutierrez@ips.org(Miren Gutirrez) newsletters@ipsnews.net(Walter Garcia) 60 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1575 FORT LAUDERDALE, U.S., 8 Jul (IPS) - Coral reefs need to be put on 'life support' if they are to survive climate change, but their ultimate survival is dependant on major reductions in fossil fuel emissions, say experts. Stephen Leahy <mgutierrez@ips.org> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1574 SAN DIEGO, California, 8 Jul (IPS) - David Aabo is en route from Peru to New York City after having spent much of the last few years in the South American country investigating opportunities for development that might help local entrepreneurs build a sustainable regional economy. Enrique Gili <mgutierrez@ips.org> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1573 WASHINGTON, 7 Jul (IPS) - Conciliatory noises from Tehran over the nuclear issue have left Washington and Brussels baffled, and unconvinced of Iran's intentions. Having grown accustomed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's uncompromising language, Tehran's new tone has raised more suspicion than hope among cynics in Western capitals. Analysis by Trita Parsi* <mgutierrez@ips.org> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1572 WASHINGTON, 4 Jul (IPS) - The world's biggest economy marked Independence Day Friday with little cause for economic cheer. Job losses are the worst in nearly six years and a de facto recession appears to have gripped all sectors. Abid Aslam <mgutierrez@ips.org> Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1571 SAN FRANCISCO, 4 Jul (IPS) - You could hear the joy in Patrick Campbell's voice as he reflected on U.S. President George W. Bush's signing Monday of a new GI Bill of Rights for veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Aaron Glantz* <mgutierrez@ips.org> Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1570 SAN FRANCISCO, 3 Jul (IPS) - U.S. journalist Zoriah Miller says he was censored by the U.S. military in the Iraqi city of Fallujah after photographing Marines who died in a suicide bombing. Dahr Jamail <mgutierrez@ips.org> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1569 NEW YORK, 3 Jul (IPS) - Maher Arar, whose 'rendition' to Syria is widely viewed as an egregious example of mistaken identity, has again been denied the right to appear in court, and Congressional efforts to rein in the George W. Bush administration's widespread use of national security as a defence appear to be foundering. William Fisher <mgutierrez@ips.org> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1568 TAMPA, Florida, 3 Jul (IPS) - Environmentalists in Florida are excited over the state's planned 1.75-billion-dollar buyout of 187,000 acres of land owned by the United States Sugar Corporation as part of a restoration of the vast Everglades wetlands, although many of the details of the deal remain sketchy. Mark Weisenmiller <mgutierrez@ips.org> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1567 WASHINGTON, 3 Jul (IPS) - Six and a half years after the ouster of the Taliban, U.S. media attention is returning to Afghanistan where more U.S. and NATO troops were killed in June than in any previous month. Jim Lobe <mgutierrez@ips.org> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1566 OAKLAND, California, 3 Jul (IPS) - Before 9/11, before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, before the suspension of habeas corpus, before the administration's tardy and shameful response to Hurricane Katrina, before cronies and Republican congressional leaders were dropping like flies, before former administration operatives were writing unflattering tell-all books, before Dick Cheney said 'So?' in response to a question about public opinion being firmly against the administration, before the Valerie Plame affair, before gas prices were nearly five dollars a gallon, before housing foreclosures hit record numbers, and before his approval rating dipped to all-time lows, there was President George W. Bush's faith-based initiative. Analysis by Bill Berkowitz* <mgutierrez@ips.org> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1565 WASHINGTON, 2 Jul (IPS) - Six and a half years since the ouster of the Taliban, U.S. media attention is returning to Afghanistan, where more U.S. and NATO troops were killed in June than in any previous month. Jim Lobe <mgutierrez@ips.org> Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1564 WASHINGTON, 2 Jul (IPS) - U.S. companies are shedding workers in numbers not seen for nearly six years, and there seems little hope of a turnaround any time soon. Abid Aslam <mgutierrez@ips.org> Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1563 WASHINGTON, 2 Jul (IPS) - Palestinian activist and former university professor Sami Al-Arian was arraigned Monday in U.S. federal court on two counts of criminal contempt for his refusal to testify in a grand jury investigation of a Northern Virginia Muslim think-tank. Ali Gharib <mgutierrez@ips.org> Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1562 SAN DIEGO, United States, 28 May (IPS) - In his new book 'The Great Warming, Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilisations', author and archaeologist Dr. Brian Fagan peers into the past to offer a prologue to the growing climate crisis. Interview with archaologist Brian Fagan <mgutierrez@ips.org> Tue, 27 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1561 WASHINGTON, 27 May (IPS) - New moves to form the first transatlantic union could supersede the conventional view that while business is global, labour remains mired in local preoccupations. Abid Aslam <mgutierrez@ips.org> Mon, 26 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100