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Before and after the ejection of Husni Mubarak from office, the size of the Egyptian army’s share in the economy has been a subject of great debate.

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Smoke from three Fayoum factories officially inaugurated last October by Egypt's de-facto ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi is creating an environmental disaster, not only ruining agricultural production but also killing scores of animals, according to residents of the area surrounding the factories.

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"It’s complicated,” claimed Shell on their Facebook page today in response to the barrage of messages Amnesty activists have been leaving them on Facebook, Twitter and via email demanding they own up, clean up and pay up their mess in the Niger Delta."

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"At the age of 27, Ana Rafaela D'Amico is the youngest national park director in Brazil. In order to save the rainforest, she has declared war on the drug gangs and logging mafia and on illegal fishing."

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" Thousands rallied Sunday in Malaysia against an Australian miner's rare earths plant in the biggest protest yet over fears it will produce radioactive waste harmful to them and the environment.
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كشف اللواء اسماعيل النجدي، رئيس هيئة التنمية الصناعية، اليوم الخميس أن الهيئة تدرس حاليا طرح 12  خصة اسمنت بالمجان خلال الفترة المقبلة على أن يدبر الحائز على الرخصة مصادر الطاقة التي يحتاجها بمعرفته.

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Does the failure to reach an agreement to keep global temperature rises below 2 degrees celsius prove that capitalism has no answer to man-made climate change?

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It's been four years in the offing, but Canada on Monday finally and formally withdrew from the world's only existing legal treaty to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the Kyoto protocol.

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China calls Canada's decision 'preposterous', while Greenpeace says the country is protecting polluters instead of people

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Several countries have criticised Canada for formally withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

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at the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet,

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Naomi Klein, the author of a string of provocative and popular books including “The Shock Doctrine,” recently took on global warming policy and campaigns in “Capitalism vs. the Climate,” a much-discussed cover story for The Nation that has been mentioned by readers here more than once in the last few weeks.

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What if rising sea levels are yet another measure of inequality? What if the degradation of our planet’s life-support systems -- its atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere -- goes hand in hand with the accumulation of wealth, power, and control by that corrupt and greedy 1% we are hearing about from Zuccotti Park? What if the assault on America’s middle class and the assault on the environment are one and the same?

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"Indigenous nations are disproportionately targeted by fossil fuel extraction & environmental devastation;Black Mesa is no exception. Peabody Energy, previously Peabody Coal Company (the world’s largest private-sector coal company) is continuing to scheme for ways to continue their occupation of tribal lands under the guise of extracting “clean coal”."

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" it’s true that many major banks invest in companies that engage in the environmentally destructive practice of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining"

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"Poor management and critical mistakes by BP and its contractors led to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, according to the final report of the largest U.S. government probe into last year's massive Gulf oil spill."

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"Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, reviews a new book by Christian Parenti that documents the destruction that capitalism and the free market are inflicting on the planet."

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"Despite the Fukushima disaster still raging in Japan, energy corporations and politicians around the world are resisting opposition to the nuclear power industry. And for those with the means to affect energy policy, increasing the use of natural gas rather than renewable energy seems to be in vogue."

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""إحنا هنقف قدام اكبر شركة غاز في العالم"... هكـذا بدأ احد أهالي إدكو حديثه عند سألته عن رأيه في الكتابات المنتشرة علي حوائط المدينة واللافتات المعلقة في الشوارع و التي تجمعها جملة واحدة "لا لبي بي" والتي تشير الي رفض الأهالي التام لإقامة شركة البترول البريطانية في المدينة."

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"تتعرض مدينة إدكو، بالإسكندرية، إلى خطر التدمير الكامل، جراء سعي بعض الجهات لإنشاء ما يسمى بـ"مجمع الغازات"، حيث أنه لا يسلب فقط ما يقرب من مليون مواطن نعمة تنفس هواء نقي، بل يسلبهم كذلك صحتهم حيث يبعد موقع المجمع عن المنطقة السكنية ما يقرب من 300 متر."

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