Third oil spill in a month hits Canada
On June 19, 1,450 barrels of crude oil spilled from a pumping station on a pipeline operated by the Enbridge company.
Cuba struggles for food self-sufficiency
Cuba is restructuring its economy. Agricultural changes are part of the process.
Nuclear waste and other tales from London: Capitalism and the Olympics
The Games have become a hopeful, yet often futile, source of economic revitalization and jobs for the host city or country, which instead often winds up in debt. Greece is case in point.
Paraguay President overthrown in “express coup” by Congress
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo was deposed in a 39 to 4 impeachment vote by the country's Senate. Vice President Federico Franco was sworn in as the new president.
French elections increase European crisis drama
The French elections June 17 produced a decisive victory for President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party.
Canada may fast-track Big Oil at expense of environment
Activists and critics alike are outraged at the Canadian government's recent decision to drastically downsize its environmental assessment process.
At G-20, union leaders make the case for jobs not austerity
Union leaders, including AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, delivered the strong message that "austerity does not work," and only makes things worse for workers, to the G-20 leaders of the industrialized world, meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Greek left misses winning by a hair
Greece held a new election to correct the fact that in the last one, voters split their votes in such a way as to make the formation of a governing majority impossible.
Canada, bowing to oil companies, fires ocean scientists
After massive layoffs at Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans, leading ocean scientists - and the environment itself - will suffer the consequences.
Higher credit rating no help to the people of Honduras
Ever wonder about the purpose of those international "credit rating agencies" such as Moody's, Standard and Poor's and Fitch?
