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Mike Davis wonders if the excesses of Dubai portend a rapidly-warming and deteriorating world of diverging urban fortunes, where a minority live in eco-friendly luxury, while most endure polluted squalor.

Tom Engelhardt explores the architectural and political significance of the mammoth US embassy construction project in Baghdad.

Mike Davis on Dubai's plans to become the "luxury-consumer paradise of the Middle East and South Asia."

America's home-equity-as-ATM-machine scheme is about to explode, says Mike Davis.

Homeownership has no "mystical virtue" that makes the owner more valuable to society, writes Mark Winston Griffith

Climate change appears to be the driving force behind conflicts in some parts of Africa. If the developing world wants to head off such conflicts, cutting emmissions must be a priority.

The impacts of tax cuts and the sluggish economy may mean reductions in spending on social programs and the environment when the budget is unveiled next week.

A host of economic and political forces are leading to growing concern about the bursting of an "historically unprecedented credit bubble" that could lead to a collapse of the U.S. economy.

The Iraqi city of Falluja may require more than $1 billion to rebuild; the U.S. is promising a fraction of that.

The extreme weather ravaging the Carribean and Florida may well be linked to climate change -- but you'd never know it by watching the news.

Mike Davis warns that concentrated poverty and poor santitation in Asian and African slums could cause a worldwide public health catastrophe.