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Al comienzo de este mes, el cineasta Michael Moore anunció que había recibido una carta de la Oficina de Control de Bienes Extranjeros, que lo acusaba de haber viajado a Cuba sin permiso, amenazando multarlo.

If current trends continue, one-third to two-thirds of all species of life on earth will be dead within 150 years, according to a recently published report. This would be “a loss that would easily equal those of past mass extinctions,” said John Scott, of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity, said.

The press dispatches bring the news; the submarine belongs to the Astute Class, the first of its kind to be constructed in Great Britain in more than two decades.

The International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases was formally established at a conference in Quito and Manta, Ecuador, March 5-9. Over 400 grassroots and community-based activists were in attendance from more than 40 countries. Longtime peace activist Al Marder of New Haven, Conn., attended the “Quito No Bases” conference

TUCSON, Ariz. — While Congress debates “tougher security at the border,” the temperature is rising above 100 degrees in the Sonoran Desert. Already 84 bodies have been found along the Mexico-Arizona border, more than this time last year.

SAO PAULO, Brasil (Tribuna Popular) — Teólogos y especialistas latinoamericanos, reunidos en Brasil, pidieron a los obispos de América Latina y el Caribe más “Teología de la Liberación”, compromiso con los pobres y reforma de la “estructura piramidal rígida” de la Iglesia.

Como parte del proyecto de decenios de Washington de aislar a la Revolución Cubana, el funcionario Caleb McCarry acaba de hacer una gira por ocho países europeos.

“The western media talks about democracy and the liberation of Afghanistan, but the U.S. and its allies are engaged in the warlordization, criminalization and drug-lordization of our wounded land,” Afghani woman parliamentarian Malalai Joya told an audience at the University of California in Los Angeles last month.

Deepening poverty in most capitalist countries, an inherent inability to plan and organize on the necessary scale, and a refusal to fund or insure unprofitable remediation projects (many essential projects will not be profitable) are among the factors behind capitalism’s inability to solve the problem of environmental destruction.

The scandal that led to the forced resignation of Iraq war guru Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank “is just the tip of the iceberg,” Nadia Martinez, who co-directs the Institute for Policy Studies’ Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, wrote earlier this month.