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Norway Students Vote to Restrict Coca-Cola
Students at the University of Oslo have voted overwhelmingly to restrict the dominant presence of Coca-Cola products on campus, and introduce ethical alternatives to Coca-Cola on campus. In a resolution passed yesterday at
Read More »The Asian Brown Cloud: Global Climate Chaos and Tropical Glaciers
Colonos | The United Nations have released a report on the phenomenon dubbed as the Asian Brown Cloud, which is a thick soup of human waste engulfing Asia, and which has been widely reported: “A
Read More »100 Nations to Ban Cluster Bombs – But not the biggest user, the USA
By Angus Crawford On 3 December, more than 100 countries, including the UK, will sign a treaty banning cluster bombs. As a result Britain, by law, will have to destroy more than 30 million
Read More »British troops out of Iraq by end of 2009: Iraqi official
All British troops will be out of Iraq by the end of next year, Iraq’s national security advisor said on Friday, days before Baghdad was expected to vote on a controversial US military pact.”By
Read More »Fifth Columnist
AS THE OBSERVER TROTS OUT POLICE LINE OVER ECO-TERRORISM SchNEWS “Of course I don’t have a f*cking agenda. I’m a national newspaper journalist – why would I have an agenda?” – Mark Townsend, Observer
Read More »Hillary Clinton, secretary of state?
Barack Obama transition team declines to confirm reports she is under consideration for post By John McCormick and Rick Pearson Senior officials with President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team said late Thursday that Sen. Hillary
Read More »C.I.A. Chief Says Qaeda Is Extending Its Reach
WASHINGTON — Even as Al Qaeda strengthens its hub in the Pakistani mountains, its leaders are building closer ties to regional militant groups in order to launch attacks in Africa and Europe and on
Read More »Guantánamo Bay was bad enough — Bagram is worse
By Daphne Eviatar | Eric Lewis didn’t know much about Ruzatullah’s case when he decided to take it on two years ago. All he knew was that in October 2004, Ruzatullah, an Afghan man
Read More »RINF Alternative News on Twitter
If you don’t have a Twitter account yet you’re missing out. Twitter is great for following news reports and community discussion, the benefit for RINF visitors is that it allows you to track the most
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