Margot’s Top News Picks for the Week of Nov 27–Dec3
 

Commuters in Bedford face further travel misery after
rail workers
 
Snow Brings Further Travel Misery
Travellers are
facing further misery
as airports, roads
& rail continue
to be badly hit
by snow in parts of
the UK.
McCain
 

McCain presses for accountability in WikiLeaks breach

A senior Republican senator pressed Pentagon leadership Thursday as to why nobody -- other than a very junior soldier -- has been held responsible for the leak of 1000s of secret national security documents to WikiLeaks.

Top Stories

 

Canada

 
 

Africa

 

Russian objection hits UN council Ivory Coast talks.

UN’s Ban backs Ouattara as Ivory Coast vote victor

ANALYSIS-Ivory Coast faces new bout of uncertainty.

Crisis for 1.6 million in Kenya due to conflict and drought -UN. Civil war in Sudan and Somalia is likely to drive 248,000 refugees into Kenya while poor rains mean at least 1.2 million Kenyans will continue to need food aid, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Kenya said.

Science/Environment

 
 
New Outrage in the Gulf. Could Congress have prevented the BP mess? A report reveals that a law enacted after the Exxon Valdez to avoid future oil spills was deprived of cash by lawmakers.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Op–Ed

U.S.


 
 
 

Dick Cheney

Nigeria to charge Dick Cheney in $180 million bribery case, issue Interpol arrest warrant.
 
Why Europeans Think We’re Insane
(Written by an American expat living in the European Union). It wasn’t until I left America that I started to realize how badly the American plutocrat owned media lies to the American people through its disinformation campaign.

Middle East/Asia

Obama–US making "important progress" in Afghanistan.
 
Obama departs Bagram after brief Afghan visit
 

Americas

 
Climate change seen costing Central America billions of dollars. Climate change could cost Central America the equivalent of around half of today’s annual gross domestic product by the end of this century as more extreme weather, lower crop yields and water shortages are forecast in a region already prone to natural disasters, a recent United Nations report warns.
 

By Stephen Lendman
The New York Times Endorses Haiti’s Coup d’Etat "Elections"
The process was bad enough to make a despot blush.

 

Markets

 
Societe Generale is warning: Bubbles China and rest of Emerging Markets about to burst.
 
DELAYING TAX VOTE COULD 'CRASH STOCK MARKET' STARTING 12/15
 
 

Health/Medical

 

By The Cornucopia Institute
Dirty Little Secret in the Natural Foods Industry: Toxic Chemical Use

 
 

Interviews

CONVERSATIONS (1).By Luc Majno
 
CONVERSATIONS {2}. By Luc Majno

Tech

 
By Rob Kall
Is the USA Attacking Wikileaks.org WIth Denial of Service Attacks? f It has been reported that Wikileaks.org was taken down because of massive denial of service attacks This raises the question, "Who is coordinating these attacks?" Some experts have speculated that some hackers who were annoyed by Wikileaks unleashed these attacks. I don’t buy it. There’s something more interesting going on here. I think the US government may be involved and that raises a lot of questions.
 

WikiLeaks website kicked off Amazon’s servers. WikiLeaks website kicked off Amazon.com’s US servers, goes back to Sweden
 
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