August 27, 2008 Twin Cities Daily Planet [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	Music to ripple through Twin Cities during RNC -- Those who plan to skip town during the Republican National Convention will miss a lot of great music. One of the locally-grown events taking place during the RNC is Ripple Effect, which will be held on the Capital Mall, within earshot of the Xcel Energy Center, on Sept. 2 from 12:30 to 7:00 p.m.
August 23, 2008 Common Dreams [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	Mr. Future President: This is Iran -- As the hawkish debate on the “Iran Question” continues to possess Washington, most Americans’ exposure to the country is limited to photos of a bespectacled, bearded Supreme Leader and an unshaven,uncouth firebrand of a President. But one American, Tom Loughlin, is adamant that the next President of America knows that Iran is a vibrant society of millions of people. Loughlin, an American-born lawyer-turned-photographer, has visited Iran three times to capture Iranian life for his installation, “Pictures of you: Images of Iran.”Photos of sepia-eyed young women, downy-haired scholars, and dimpled-cheeked adolescents are part of Loughlin’s innovative effort to humanize “the other,” the Iranian people.
August 21, 2008 Alternet [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Impasse: Are We Nearing the End of the Corporate Globalization Era? -- When the history of the seismic shifts occurring today in the global economy is written, the failure in July 2008 of corporate interests and some governments to expand the World Trade Organization (WTO) through the Doha Round will stand as a watershed moment.
August 19, 2008 Creators Syndicate [The Latest News]
	Who Started Cold War II? -- If the Russia-Georgia war proves nothing else, it is the insanity of giving erratic hotheads in volatile nations the power to drag the United States into war.
August 15, 2008 VNet [Regions > Americas > Venezuela]
	Which Way Venezuela? -- Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution is exciting and exemplary, yet few people know much about where Venezuela is headed.
August 14, 2008 Foreign Policy in Focus [The Latest News]
	U.S. Role in Georgia Crisis -- The international condemnation of Russian aggression against Georgia – and the concomitant assaults by Abkhazians and South Ossetians against ethnic Georgians within their territories – is in large part appropriate. But the self-righteous posturing coming out of Washington should be tempered by a sober recognition of the ways in which the United States has contributed to the crisis.
August 13, 2008 Haaretz [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	U.S. experts: Military strike on Iran won't derail nuclear program -- A report published last week by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) states that military strikes are unlikely to destroy Iran's centrifuge program for enriching uranium.
August 03, 2008 The New York Times [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals -- JOLOMCÚ, Guatemala — High in the hills of Guatemala, shut inside the one-room house where he spends day and night on a twin bed beneath a seriously outdated calendar, Luis Alberto Jiménez has no idea of the legal battle that swirls around him in the lowlands of Florida.
July 31, 2008 Democracy Now! [Regions > Americas > Mexico > Dispatches From Mexico]
	Plan Mexico and the US-Funded Militarization of Mexico -- Listen to Democracy Now's War and Peace report featuring John Gibler on the US role in Mexico's growing drug war.
July 28, 2008 OneWorldUS [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	Gas Prices Threaten Rural U.S. Town -- Rural America is known for long-time residents who rely on slow-rising gasoline prices to reach the supplies they need to sustain their lifestyles. But the rising cost of oil is now crippling many of these towns.
July 28, 2008 Huffington Post [The Latest News > In the News]
	The Peace Movement Needs a Strategy For Afghanistan -- The peace movement was moving full-throttle during the primary season to confront the presidential candidates on the war, and can take credit for helping to shift the momentum from Hillary Clinton -- who voted for the invasion of Iraq -- to Barack Obama -- who opposed the invasion.
July 26, 2008 Green Left Weekly [Regions > Americas > Venezuela]
	Venezuela: Heirs of the revolution -- A 25-year-old history student and political activist in the student city of Merida, Churrio is amongst the thousands of young people who have taken up the challenge of building the United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth (JPSUV), whose formation was officially announced in July.
July 25, 2008 Associated Press [Regions > Americas > Ecuador]
	Ecuador assembly OKs draft constitution -- A special assembly on Thursday approved a new draft constitution granting Ecuador's leftist president broad powers, including the ability to dissolve Congress and set monetary policy, and freeing him to run for office through 2017.
July 22, 2008 Alternet [The Latest News > In the News]
	Anti-War Movement Successfully Pushes Back Against Military Confrontation With Iran -- Who says there's no anti-war movement in the United States? In the past two months, the anti-war movement has taken on one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the United States in an important fight. And so far, the anti-war movement is winning.
July 18, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	Richmond council OKs Chevron refinery plan -- A sharply divided Richmond City Council approved on Thursday Chevron's controversial plan for a major upgrade of its century-old refinery and accepted $61 million from the oil company for community programs.
July 18, 2008 John Ross [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	AS U.S. PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS SHOW THEIR STUFF SOUTH OF THE BORDER, MEXICANS SAY THEY WILL VOTE FOR -- MEXICO CITY (July 18th) - When presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain brought his road show to Mexico City on the eve of U.S. Independence Day, he had one mission in mind: to have his portrait snapped with Mexico's most popular pin-up, the Virgin of Guadalupe.
July 16, 2008 IPS [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Palestine]
	Conflict Tops Med Union Agenda -- The Union for the Mediterranean, a French-led grouping of EU nations plus 16 non-European Mediterranean states, was inaugurated Sunday (Jul. 13). The launch of the forum, of which Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is co-president, was dominated by issues related to the perennial Arab-Israeli dispute.
July 14, 2008 Truthout [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	The Right to Stay Home -- Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico - For almost half a century, migration has been the main fact of social life in hundreds of indigenous towns spread through the hills of Oaxaca, one of Mexico's poorest states. That's made the conditions and rights of migrants central concerns for communities like Santiago de Juxtlahuaca.
July 10, 2008 The New York Times [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	Emerging Nations Join G-8 on Climate Goal -- RUSUTSU, Japan — Calling climate change “one of the great global challenges of our time,” the world’s richest nations and emerging powers joined together Wednesday for the first time to commit themselves to pursue long-range cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions, but were split on how to achieve that goal.
July 10, 2008 International Crisis Group [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iraq]
	Failed Responsibility: Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon -- A refugee crisis was feared before the coalition invasion of Iraq in 2003, but it came later than anticipated, and on a greater scale. It started not because of the military action, but two years later, when American efforts to rebuild the country faltered, violence escalated, and civilians became the targets of insurgent groups and sectarian militias.
July 09, 2008 East Bay Express [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	Big Oil in Little Richmond -- On June 18, President Bush took to the Rose Garden to deliver a speech about energy in which he emphasized the pressing need to modernize US oil refineries.
July 09, 2008 Alternet [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Mexican Torture Training Raises Questions About U.S. Military/Police Aid -- Two videos of a torture-training session with the police force of León, Guanajuato shocked the Mexican public last week and raised serious questions about human rights under the Calderon offensive against organized crime.
July 08, 2008 Excite News [The Latest News]
	Food, oil crises 'grave threats' -- KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The leaders of Malaysia and Indonesia on Tuesday called for boosting world food production and finding a permanent solution to skyrocketing oil prices, saying the twin problems have become "grave threats" to the world economy.
July 08, 2008 BBC News [The Latest News]
	US and Czechs sign defence deal -- US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed a deal to base part of Washington's controversial missile defence system in the Czech Republic.
July 08, 2008 BBC News [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	Iran leader plays down war talk -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has played down the threat of an armed conflict between his country and the United States or Israel.
July 08, 2008 The Guardian [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Free trade's false promises -- John McCain has just returned from his so-called "free trade tour" in Mexico and Colombia where he highlighted the success of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) and showed his support for the stalled and controversial US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
July 08, 2008 BBC News [Regions > Americas > Ecuador]
	Ecuador state seizes TV stations -- Ecuador's government has seized two private TV stations in a long-running dispute over debts.
July 03, 2008 Americas Program, Center for International Policy [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	North America Doesn't Exist -- About every six months or so, the media provide a fleeting show of North American unity. Whether on the shores of the Mexican Caribbean, the forests of Quebec, or the hurricane-torn streets of New Orleans, the script is pretty much the same. It includes a lot of back-slapping and almost no public information.
July 03, 2008 Pastors for Peace [Regions > Americas > Cuba]
	Homeland Security Agents Seize 32 Computers Bound for Cuba at Texas-Mexico Border -- Federal agents seized 32 computers from Pastors for Peace as they attempted to cross the Pharr International Bridge early this morning at the US-Mexico border.
July 02, 2008 Christian Science Monitor [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	The alternative to an Israeli attack on Iran -- Washington and Jerusalem - Is war between Israel and Iran inevitable? To listen to Iran's radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or Israel's Iranian-born transportation minister Shaul Mofaz, or even recent reports that Israel carried out a major military training mission over the Mediterranean to rehearse an attack on Iran, you might be left with that impression.