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           May 30, 2013 – We are offered so little worthwhile analysis by American mainstream media.   I had understood that the civil war in Syria was an outgrowth of the Arab Spring – an apparently spontaneous demand for freedom from previously abject populations.   After reading Joe Romm’s article Syria Today is a Preview of Memorial Day 2030 , I’m convinced the Arab Spring was a catalyst, and nothing more.   Romm quotes from a Tom Friedman article, Without Water, Revolution :   “The drought did not cause Syria’s civil war,” said the Syrian economist Samir Aita,   but … the failure of the government to respond to the drought played a huge role   in fueling the uprising … after Assad took over in 2000 he opened up the regulated   agricultural sector in Syria for big farmers, many of them government cronies, to buy   up land and drill as much water as the...

December 4, 2012 - The UK newspaper The Guardian 's e-edition is an excellent source of information about environmental and conservation happenings here in the U.S.  I got kind of a kick out of the headline on this particular story: "Campaigners sue EPA over carbon emissions."  "Campaigners" just isn't a word you ever hear in America.  It's also an odd way of describing the activities of the group concerned.  As it turns out, it's the Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI) who's doing the suing (sorry).  Once upon a time, the abbreviation "NGO" (non-governmental organization) was used to refer to groups like the Institute.  I don't see it much in use these days, however.  That said, campaigning is not at all the reason they exist. The lack of policy integrity responsible for the threatened lawsuit is the EPA's failure to uniformly and consistently enforce the Clean Air Act, according to the Institute.  A formal notice of intent ...