www.guardian.co.uk:
• Chief executive says falling carbon price stifling investment• Call for government action to support new technologyShell's new chief executive has called on governments to intervene in carbon markets, the first time the Anglo-Dutch oil company has acknowledged that markets cannot be left to set the price of pollution.Pete (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Copenhagen won't alter the ecological reality. There is no quick fix or sustainable growth, only painful decline aheadFor a while, it looked as if things might be returning to normal. The road outside my house, which had become a stream bed, reverted to asphalt. The waters which had coursed through nearby homes were falling (Read More)
GayPolitics.com:
A group of RNC members have been circulating a list of ten core principles for 2010 Republican candidates. Called the “Resolution on Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates,” the guidelines dictate specific public policy positions candidates should take, such as standing “For retention of the Defense of Marriage (Read More)
Daily Kos:
A little over two weeks ago, basing their story on unnamed sources, McClatchy's Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef reported that the White House was nearing a decision to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan in response to General Stanley McChrystal's strategic assessment [pdf] of the situation there. S (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Ed is passionate, funny and honest; David remote and self-satisfied. The party risks repeating its error with Gordon BrownThe foreign secretary is nice, clever, and ambitious. But there's a dangerous bandwagon gathering pace in the Labour party and the media. It's the belief that he is the obvious successor when Gordon goes (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
By midday, an air of somnolence had already settled over the first day of Sir John Chilcot's inquiry into the Iraq war, and the public seats were empty of all but a scattering of people.Perhaps it was Sir John's stern admonition that he and his colleagues did not wish to be distracted from their task by disturbances. More (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Inquiry finds undercover police deployed at G20 protests to spy on activists, contrary to Bob Broadhurst's denial to MPsA Scotland Yard commander was accused of misleading parliament tonight after an inquiry found that undercover police were secretly deployed at the G20 protests to spy on activists, contrary to the police c (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The Commonwealth has developed a 21st-century role – as a haven for serial human rights abusersWhat's the point of the Commonwealth? Every two years the question comes around in the run-up to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting. Then everyone goes home and forgets about it until the next one.Starved of cash and pol (Read More)
Huffington Post:
In an interview with Katie Couric, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said he would "absolutely" vote for Sarah Palin over Barack Obama. In the primary, it would depend on the other candidates, Huckabee said. But "she has more management experience and executive experience than Barack Obama," he argued.Huckabee also com (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns:
In my set, I am known as the guy who always had some reservations about Barack Obama. Sure, I supported him in the primaries against Hillary Clinton and I voted for him, with both glee and enthusiasm, especially after John McCain uttered the most shocking words in American politics -- "Sarah Palin." But I had such qualms ab (Read More)
The Guardian:
Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards quits campaign board amid latest bout of infighting with Lord TriesmanEngland's troubled bid to host the 2018 World Cup was thrown into fresh turmoil todayby the abrupt resignation of the Premier League chairman, Sir Dave Richards, from the board, highlighting a bitter power strugg (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
• UK dismissed idea in 2001 as having no basis in law• Terror attacks ended US support for 'containment'Tony Blair's government knew that prominent members of the Bush administration wanted to topple Saddam Hussein years before the invasion but initially distanced itself from the prospect knowing it would be unlawful, it wa (Read More)
Environment | guardian.co.uk:
Study of 600 brands finds two-thirds are either increasing emissions, have weak targets on cuts or do not publish dataConsumer expectations that favourite brands are actively tackling climate change will be challenged tomorrow by a report showing that some of Britain's top corporate names, including Barclays, Amazon and S (Read More)
Environment | guardian.co.uk:
In imperial China a surfeit of floods, famines and earthquakes was usually taken to signify that the mandate of heaven, a more conditional version of Europe's divine right of kings, had been withdrawn from a particular emperor. Many Americans felt that way about the Bush dynasty after it abjectly failed to protect New Orlea (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Living on the poverty line on a deprived estate is not what you'd expect of an aspiring Conservative MP. But Andy Stranack, a committed Christian with a disability, has always refused to be stereotypedPerched on a brown faux-leather sofa in the sparsely decorated front room of the church house he shares with other community (Read More)