New York Times Op-Ed

July 25, 2010
Who Cooked the Planet?
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Never say that the gods lack a sense of humor. I bet they’re still chuckling on Olympus over the decision to make the first half of 2010 — the year in which all hope of action to limit climate change died [...]

From the Organic Consumer’s Association web publication: Organic Bytes
Gen-M, the first Monsanto Generation of humans force-fed genetically modified foods hasn’t reached reproductive age yet (they were born in the late 1990s). But, if a critical mass of animal feeding studies are any indication, the millennial generation, reared on Food Inc.’s unlabeled “Frankenfoods” can look [...]

Some good reading to help you understand how corrupt and insidious corporate control of your life, your money, your environment, your food, and your medications has become can be found in two books.  Both books have been criticized, but of course they would be.  Even your news is owned by the corporations, if you don’t [...]

May 28, 2010
One Cell Forward
New York Times Editorial
In a recent issue of Science magazine, the genome pioneer Craig Venter announced that he and scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute had created a “synthetic cell.” Mr. Venter heralded it as “the first self-replicating species we’ve had on the planet whose parent is [...]

More Than Just an Oil Spill
By BOB HERBERT
New York Times Op-Ed
Hopedale, La.
The warm, soft winds coming in off the gulf have lost their power to soothe. Anxiety is king now — all along the coast.
“You can’t sleep no more; that’s how bad it is,” said John Blanchard, an oyster fisherman whose life [...]

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Pharma Invades Water Supplies

By Gary G. Kohls, MD
April 20, 2010

Editor’s Note: Though the pharmaceutical industry and some government officials have downplayed the risks, there remains a growing public concern about the impact of trace amounts of various drugs and chemicals entering the water supply [...]

The Unbearable Lightness of Reform
Saturday 27 March 2010

by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

That wickedly satirical Ambrose Bierce described politics as “the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Bierce vanished to Mexico nearly a hundred years ago - to the relief [...]

March 7, 2010
New York Times Editorial
If Reform Fails
As the fierce debate on President Obama’s plan for health care reform comes to a head, Americans should be thinking carefully about what happens if Congress fails to enact legislation.
Are they really satisfied with the status quo? And is the status quo really sustainable?
Here are some basic facts [...]

The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Democracy
By Noam Chomsky
From: In These Times
Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline.
On that day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government may not ban corporations from political spending on elections—a decision that profoundly affects government policy, both [...]