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POLITICS-US: Even the Rare Bush Success Leaves a Sour Taste - (Found June 29, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 27 (IPS) - While, in his dreams, U.S. President George W. Bush might have seen a "Mission Accomplished" banner unfurled as the cooling tower at North Korea's plutonium-producing plant was blown up, Friday's internationally televised fireworks at Yongbyon offered merely a glimmer of possible success in a foreign policy legacy that seems to be getting darker by the day.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43002

POLITICS-IRAQ: Fear of US-Sunni Ties Undercut Security Talks - (Found June 29, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 24 (IPS) - The threat by the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki earlier this month to reject the U.S.-Iraq status of forces and strategic framework agreements was prompted in part by U.S. demands for access to bases that were unacceptable to a highly nationalistic Iraqi population.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42949

ECONOMY-US: Private Jets Targeted as Symbols of Inequality - (Found June 29, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 25 (IPS) - Crusaders against inequality are accusing the private jet set of flying high at the expense of the environment, the national air traffic system, and lower-class taxpayers.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42956

CLIMATE CHANGE: 100-Percent Renewables Not a Pipe Dream - (Found June 29, 2008 )

KINGSTON, Ontario, Jun 25 (IPS) - North America's abject failure to meet the challenge of climate change has been "un-American", environmentalist and scientist David Suzuki told delegates Tuesday at the World Wind Energy Conference, the first ever in the region.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42959

CLIMATE CHANGE: U.S. Intelligence Cites Litany of Dangers - (Found June 29, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 25 (IPS) - While the United States is relatively well placed to cope with the likely consequences of global warming over the next 20 years, many developing countries, especially in Africa, South, Central and East Asia, and Central America, could suffer serious problems, particularly related to water scarcity and migration, according to testimony here Wednesday by a top U.S. intelligence officer.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42966

ENERGY: U.S. Sees World Use Soaring Despite Rising Costs - (Found June 29, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 25 (IPS) - World energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions will grow by about 50 percent over the next two decades despite soaring oil prices as developing countries outpace rich ones in consumption, the U.S. government predicts.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42968

USIRAQ: A Blueprint for Withdrawal - (Found June 29, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 25 (IPS) - Proponents of a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq routinely brush off criticisms that their ideas are "irresponsible". But until today, the charge that withdrawal cannot be accomplished responsibly -- and just how that would be done -- has never been coherently answered.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42969

RIGHTS-US: Anti-Torture Campaign Wins Influential Backers - (Found June 29, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 25 (IPS) - On the eve of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a bipartisan group of some 200 religious leaders and former top U.S. national security and military officers launched a campaign for a presidential order to outlaw torture and cruel and inhumane treatment of all detainees.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42971

BOOKS-US: All Doughnuts Lead to the Pentagon - (Found June 29, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 26 (IPS) - U.S. defence spending in recent years has either matched or exceeded the military budgets of the rest of the world combined. Presented with that fact, the next logical question is, where is all the money going The answer is simple: Everywhere.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42979

FINANCE-US: More Debt Relief in Sight for Poorest Nations - (Found June 29, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 26 (IPS) - Anti-debt campaigners say legislation passed by a U.S. Congressional committee this week that would expand debt cancellations to an additional 25 poor nations could prove effective in fighting poverty, stopping environmental degradation and easing the traditional strict economic conditions that accompanied loans and often led to economic chaos.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42986