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A report led by U.S. Geological Survey

Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services, says animal and plant species are flowering, laying eggs or migrating in different ways and at different times than in previous years. This pattern, the USGS said, is accelerating.

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From Information Clearing House

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Ecosystems in Upheaval, Biodiversity in Collapse
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/20

Why Single-Degree Climate Changes Matter
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/04-0

2012 Hottest Year On Record, By Far
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/08-7

Climate Change, Lack of Political Will Leading to 'Global Perfect Storm'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/08-5

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Nine Stories That Will Change Your World in 2013

Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine: While the Earth didn t end on December 21, 2012, the year s end was marked by a new awareness of the urgency of the climate crisis. Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the preciousness and fragility of life on Earth.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13731-9-stories-that-will-change-your-world-in-2013



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Direct intervention in Syria's civil war to bring down President Bashar al-Assad would be illegal in the absence of a UN resolution, MPs warned the Government last night.

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US Preparing for Military Invasion in Syria: Israel

By Press TV

A senior Israeli official says the United States is gearing up for a possible military intervention in Syria to prevent Syria s alleged chemical weapons from being used against civilians or falling into wrong hands.

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Syria Faces Humanitarian Catastrophe

By Bill Van Auken

'''Spoils' have now become the main drive for many units as battalion commanders seek to increase their power.''

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RAF poised for air strikes in Syria

NATO fighters flying from Incirlik air base in Turkey and off a US carrier in the Mediterranean would be more than capable of enforcing a 120km deep no-fly zone along the Turkish-Syrian border.

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Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria

By Moon Of Alabama

Is it really well advised for the United Nations to use a U.S. government funded entity to calculate some inevitably disputed numbers of casualties when the U.S. is supporting one side of the conflict?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33511.htm



The Syria Endgame: Strategic Stage in the Pentagon s Covert War on Iran

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

''Rebel'' attack on Syria is a front in the covert multi-dimensional war against Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33562.htm


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The UK has revealed that the cost of its involvement in the war in Afghanistan has reached $27.6 billion, and may end up being as much as $32.5 billion. Meanwhile, the UK continues to slash domestic social services to reduce its budget deficit.

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Op-Ed

While Washington is busy fighting over a report, Benghazi is descending into chaos.

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From Information Clearing House

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NSA, Benghazi and the Monsters of Our Own Creation
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/31-1



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By James Petras

The religious crises, the decline in belief and institutional affiliation, is intimately related to the moral decay in US public institutions and the precipitous decline of living standards.

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By Michael Kelley

UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Christof Heyns said that if there are ''secondary drone strikes on rescuers who are helping (the injured) after an initial drone attack, those further attacks are a war crime.''

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By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

It is alleged he granted two friends astonishing access to top secret files as he ran the Afghan surge. Rajiv Chandrasekaran reveals how the volunteers won big donations from defence firms and how they pushed the army towards a far more aggressive strategy.

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US special forces veteran links General Petraeus to torture in Iraq - Video

A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq.

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From Information Clearing House

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Petraeus and the Mythology of Afghanistan

Gareth Porter, Truthout: Managing the ''war of perceptions'' in Afghanistan ultimately proved more difficult for David Petraeus than it had in Iraq.

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