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Week ending Friday February 17, 2012   Do you want to share the news with a friend? Click here to tell your friends about Common Dreams. Readers' Choice / Most Read Views... Katherine Stewart: The New Anti-Science Assault on US Schools Noam Chomsky: Hegemony and Its Dilemmas The 99% Spring: April 9-15, 2012 -- 100,000 Americans Will Train for Non-Violent Direct Action Annie Leonard: Don't Be Stupid, Cupid: How to Show Your Love Responsibly Jim Hightower: It's Official: Money Now Governs America Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: Money Throws Democracy Overboard Suzanne Moore: Instead of Being Disgusted by Poverty, We are Disgusted by Poor People Themselves John Atcheson: A Redo on the Walmartization of America, Redux Peter Barnes: How to Restore the Middle Class Kathy Kelly: Cold, Cold Heart Readers' Choice / Most Read News... Wikileaks Banned From UN Conference on Wikileaks UNESCO opens 2-day media conference in Paris. Israel To Demolish Palestinian Solar Energy Program The program, which recently installed solar panels and wind turbines in 16 communities, is providing 1,500 Palestinians with electricity -- who were formerly without reliable energy. Fears Growing as Fukushima Reactor Temperature Rising No. 2 Reactor Temperature Up to 82C. Is 'Prescription for Disaster' Our 'Most Optimistic' Climate Future? New data indicates warming of 2C now planet's "most optimistic" scenario. Documents Reveal Dark 'Heart' of 'Climate Denial Machine' The DeSmogBlog, which has long covered the impacts global warming and fossil fuel industry-backed misinformation campaigns, on Tuesday released internal documents from the Heartland Institute. Think Tank Squirms After 'Climate Denial' Docs Leak [T]he statement from Heartland communications director, Jim Lakely, identifies only one of the eight documents posted online on Tuesday night by the DeSmogBlog website as a "total fake". 'Global Square': Wikileaks Platform Launching in March 'To perpetuate and spread the creative and cooperative spirit of the occupations'. Court: Monsanto Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France A French court Monday found US agriculture giant Monsanto legally responsible for the poisoning of a farmer with one of its herbicides in 2004. 'Climate Deniers' Crusade Against Science in Schools The Heartland Institute, a right-wing think tank, is planning to develop a “global warming curriculum” for elementary schoolchildren that presents climate science as “a major scientific controversy." Mortgage Settlement: 'We're Bailing Them Out Again!' Mortgage Deal or Not, Abusive Foreclosures Continue. Home About Us Donate Subscribe Archives Common Dreams Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community. Independent, non-profit newscenter since 1997. To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. www.commondreams.org You are subscribed to the Common Dreams Weekly Newsletter as F.Abdolian.blogi@blogger.com. Click here to unsubscribe.