News

Links for items in the news from todays podcast.

Forest Fires

• BBC News on Russian forrest fires
• Toronto Sun on deaths in Russia from heatwave
• Telegraph on forest fires in Portugal
• UKPA on Greek fires
• BBC News on Spanish fires
• BBC News on Bolivian fires
• LA Times on state of emergency in Kern County
• CBC on fires in British Columbia

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
– Eisenhower

Drought

• AFP on drought and floods in Niger
• AFP on drought in Russia
• Grist on soaring food prices in Russia
• Hindustan Times on drought in West Bengal
• physorg.com on drought in south west Australia
• physorg.com on droughts increasing globally and the effect on plant productivity

Floods

• AP on Pakistan floods
• NY Times on Pakistan floods
• BBC in pictures on the China floods
• BBC in pictures on the China floods
• BBC news on floods in Europe

Rising Temperatures and Climate Change

• Guardian on 2010 breaking temperature records
• Guardian on ice island breaking away from Greenland
• Op-ed from Al Jazeera linking these events with climate change
• Another op-ed linking these events with climate change

Welcome to Boycott America, in this podcast we’ll be talking about the morals and methods of boycotting the United States of America.

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
– George Orwell

War in Iraq and Afghanistan, Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons, Unlimited Unquestioning Support for Israel, No Support of the World Court, Not Signing the Treaty Banning Landmines, Genetically Modified Organisms, Consumerism, Corporatism, … these are the fault of America; the American Government and the American Way of Life.