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The vice president of the United States has made very strong statements against Julian Assange. Joe Biden said the founder of the site WikiLeaks, which disclosed many secret documents Americans, is on the high-tech terrorism. This is the biggest criticism on Assange made by some member of the Obama administration. Biden said that the information leaked [...]

A significant way in how the whole world turns actually rests in the hands of US President Barack Obama and his administration. Tempering the nuclearization of global weaponry, harnessing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions posthaste and on a global scale, truly changing the fate of Afghans, assuring stability in the potentially combustible [...]

’No one said Copenhagen was going to be easy. After all, at its heart, the climate summit is about persuading nearly 200 nations to use drastically less of the fossil fuels that power the global economy.’ The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States gave hope that a legally binding climate agreement in Copenhagen would be produced. [...]

A lot of skepticism has grown regarding the success of the just opened United Nations Climate Change Conference (December 7-18, 2009), more commonly called Copenhagen Climate Conference. Skeptics believe that climate agreements will not be reached during the summit. On the other hand, chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), [...]

The road to Copenhagen has become torturous. The ghosts of things past such as the 1997 Kyoto Protocol whose provisions the Copenhagen Climate Conference hopes to rectify and revise continue to haunt the imperative climate negotiations and the ultimate climate deal. Kyoto’s promise of 5% emissions cuts (by 2012, from 1990 levels) is now impossible. [...]

A comprehensive and critical medical report by the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) entitled Coal’s Assault of Human Health, replete with expert medical and public health opinion, states that ‘coal pollutants damage every major organ in the human body and contribute to four of the top five leading causes of death in the United States.’ [...]

Former ambassador Ronald E. Neumann says, “The argument that we could pull out of Afghanistan if Karzai doesn’t do what we say is stupid. We couldn’t get the Pakistanis to fight if we leave Afghanistan; we couldn’t accomplish what we’ve set out to do. And Karzai knows that.” Fraudulently-elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan received an ultimatum [...]

Civilian casualty in the US war in Afghanistan hardly gets much press. In the pursuit of victory in the highly-controversial war on terror, Afghan lives are simply collateral damage. When US safety is concerned, ‘media isn’t about to focus real attention on the particular form of barbarity involved — the American air war over Afghanistan [...]

The US has been paranoid over Iran since 9/11. Exacerbating this is the fact that the Islamic republic has doggedly pursued a nuclear armament program. The US seriously regards Iran’s nuclear capability as a definite threat to US national interests. Curiously, both the Bush and Obama administrations hesitated to carry out a military strike to destroy [...]

The Obama administration has long been pushing for the use of renewable energies to slow down the US dependence on oil. But the US recession that caused the credit freeze stalled the program, even after the Renewable Energy production and investment tax credits got a short term extension to its expiration by end of 2008. Still, ‘there was little [...]