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YouTube - Ron Paul's Full Speech at CPAC 2011: The Brushfires of Freedom Are Burning! The strings of military power still pull far and wide, and western governments rush in to protect billion dollar investments, the unjust dictatorships they've helped prop up for years. But the Brushfires of Freedom are igniting in this year of revolutions. Here is an amazing video speech by Ron Paul the American senator who so eloquently captured the mood of the moment...

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Japan suspends Antarctic whale hunt - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Japan suspends Antarctic whale hunt Updated 1 hour 20 minutes ago Sea Shepherd has pursued and harassed the Japanese fleet for months. (AAP: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) Related Story: Sea Shepherd 'winning war against whalers' Related Story: Protestors claim Japanese chase Related Story: Opposing sides clash in Antarctic waters Related Story: Newest anti-whaling boat to set sail Japanese whalers have suspended their Antarctic hunt, citing harassment by environmentalists, and are considering ending their annual mission early, a fisheries agency official says. Activists from the US-based environmental group Sea Shepherd have pursued and harassed the Japanese fleet for months to stop its harpoon ships from killing the mammals. Japanese Fisheries Agency official Tatsuya Nakaoku says the factory ship Nisshin Maru, "which has been chased by Sea Shepherd,

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The Problem | We Can Change Chevron The Problem Chevron is responsible for one of the largest environmental disasters in history. Rather than take responsibility, however, the oil giant is waging unprecedented public relations and lobbying campaigns to avoid having to clean up environmental and public health catastrophes that continue today. A toxic waste pit left by Texaco (now Chevron) near Dureno, Ecuador in 1993. - Photo by Lou Dematteis Between 1964 and 1990, Texaco (which Chevron acquired in 2001) drilled for oil in a remote northern region of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. Using obsolete technology and substandard environmental controls, the company deliberately dumped 18.5 billion gallons of highly toxic waste sludge into the streams and rivers that local people depend on for drinking, bathing, and fishing. The company dug over 900 open-air, unlined waste pits that continue to seep toxins into the ground. The sludge contains some of the most dangerous chem

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The New Face of Revolution: After Tunisia and Egypt, the World | CommonDreams.org The New Face of Revolution: After Tunisia and Egypt, the World by Ted Rall NEW YORK--From the British newspaper the Independent : "Like in many other countries in the region, protesters in Egypt complain about surging prices, unemployment and the authorities' reliance on heavy-handed security to keep dissenting voices quiet." Sound familiar? Coverage by U.S. state-controlled media of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt is too dim by half: they say it's an Arab thing. So it is. But not for long. The problems that triggered the latest uprisings, rising inequality of income, frozen credit markets, along with totally unresponsive government, span the globe. To be sure, the first past-due regimes to be overthrown may be the most brutal U.S. client states--Arab states such as Yemen, Jordan and Algeria. Central Asia's autocrats, also corrupted by the U.S., can't be far b