In a one-two punch against Kimberly-Clark, the Kleercut campaign made important progress last week at KC’s Annual General Meeting (AGM). A significant portion of KC shareholders voted in favor of a proposal submitted by Greenpeace and Domini Social Investments. This proposal asks the company to: “…prepare a report…assessing the feasibility of phasing out our company’s use of non-FSC certified fiber within 10 years” with an emphasis on increasing the use of recycled fiber and avoiding fiber sourced from certification schemes other than FSC. The resolution earned the support of 7.4% of voting shares – or a whopping $2 billion worth of KC stock. By voting in favor of the resolution, KC shareholders have sent a strong message to KC executives that the company’s environmentally irresponsible behavior will not be tolerated.

This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is meeting in Bangkok to agree in its report, 'Mitigation of Climate Change'- the third in the series that will make up the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report.

A few weeks ago, Time magazine ran a cover story entitled "The Case for Teaching The Bible," which was written by Time's senior religion writer David Van Biema. Van Biema's basic argument is that the Christian Bible should be taught as a class in public schools, but with careful precautions taken to ensure that the class remains "secular" and constitutional.

When it comes to stopping the strip-mining of the sea, it's time for governments to walk the walk so deep-sea critters can swim the swim.

A look at the cult-like recruiting tactics of the Christian right, including the manipulative and highly successful practice of "love bombing."There is a false, but effective, fiction that one has to be born again to be a Christian.

David McNulty once vouched for the then-Rev. Gerald Klever when Klever was seeking a promotion at the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Delaware County.Ask McNulty today about his former associate pastor, and he'll quote a Bible verse warning that anyone who harms children should be cast into the sea with a millstone tied to his neck.Klever, 75, was extradited this month from Arizona to Springfield on charges that he repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted girls in the youth group while serving at First Presbyterian from 1977 to 1983.Court documents describe a middle-aged authority figure who intimidated his vulnerable victims, ranging at the time from age 11 to 17.

About 30,000 tribals of the impoverished areas of Chhattisgarh took out a massive rally here Monday to protest allegedly forced religious conversions in the state.The protesting tribals, carrying banners and posters against the conversions in the state's forested regions, held a public meeting at Raipur's Sapre school ground.The tribals, mainly of Raigarh, Jashpur, Bastar, Surguja, Bilaspur and Korba districts, asked the state government to take stringent actions against forces converting the tribal people into Christianity through allurement or by force.The rally was organised by Hindu Janjati Surakchha Manch (HJSM), an affiliate body of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological fountainhead of the state's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.'The tribals are subjected to atrocities for centuries and their problems have never been addressed by the central and the state government.

On this day 21 years ago a nuclear reactor near the Ukraine city of Chernobyl suffered a steam explosion and a nuclear meltdown. Winds spread the radioactive fallout over thousands of square kilometres.

Stephen Lendman Chris Hedges is a journalist who for two decades was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times spending much of his time reporting from conflict zones in El Salvador, the Middle East and from Serbia covering the Balkan wars of the 1990s that divided and destroyed a country under the guise of humanitarian intervention providing cover for naked imperialism.

Until we can get more resources, additional companies are presented in the following format. More companies will be added weekly. This is for the 05/06 election cycle. The sum of the political contributions of the top three executives and the company PAC (political action committee) is given.