If you listen to the rhetoric, nuclear power is back. Smashing atoms will replace burning carbon-based coal, gas and oil. In the face of a disaster movie-like future of runaway climate change--bringing drought, floods, famine and social breakdown--carbon-free nukes are cast as the deus ex machina to save us at the last minute.

From 12-16 May 2008, governments from around the world will gather in Bonn, Germany to hammer out the final details of global liability and redress measures for damage caused by genetically engineered (GE) organisms. Greenpeace will attend the 4th meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (1), telling governments "GE polluters must pay for the damage their crops wreak on the environment, on farmers, and on human health."

At least a dozen CKLN volunteer programmers received letters from Mike Phillips this week, discharging them from the station. "Please be advised that your volunteer services at CKLN Radio Inc are no longer required [sic] effective immediately," read the form letter. Phillips gave no explanation in the letter.

 On April 30 at 6:00 a.m. in the morning morning three Christian activists from "Ploughshares Aotearoa" entered the Waihopai Spy Base in New Zealand and used sickles to deflate one of the two 30 metre radomes covering satellite interception dishes. The members then built a shrine and prayed for the victims of the war with no end - the so-called 'War on Terror' led by the U. S. Empire which also controls the New Zealand taxpayer funded Waihopai spy base.

"The Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians welcomes the Canadian Union of Postal Workers' passage of resolution 338/339 at their recent convention and congratulates CUPW for its courage in becoming the first national labour union in North America to take such a strong stand against the repressive policies of the Israeli State," said ACJC National Coordinator Diana Ralph.

The fires are burning hot, the wind whipping up, with good laughs and people circulating between barricades and the gravel pit near Deseronto.

Women of the community, men, young people, with friends from Ottawa and Toronto, had stayed up all night, some headed out, more came in for the coming night.

For 50 years dangerous concentrations of radionuclides have been accumulating in earth, air and water from weapons testing and reactor incidents. Yet serious studies of the effects of radiation on health have been obscured – not least by the World Health Organisation.