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 [...]
New York Times Editorial
July 9, 2010
A Climate Change Corrective
Perhaps now we can put the manufactured controversy known as Climategate behind us and turn to the task of actually doing something about global warming. On Wednesday, a panel in Britain concluded that scientists whose e-mail had been hacked late last year had not, [...]
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 [...]
Everyone should view the video animation at
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/52591
It illustrates what I knew we were headed for on the first day of the spill. Given enough incompetence, inaction, and corporate complicity, we are on our way to spoiling the north sea and polluting the British Isles (not that they need any help with pollution). Ultimately, we could [...]
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 [...]
Republicans and the Tea Party of No
Monday 17 May 2010
TruthOut
by: Arun Gupta, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
As much as they may grumble, there is a legitimate reason why the Republicans have been labeled the “Party of No.” For decades, the party’s kneejerk stance has been to [...]
consortiumnews.com
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 [...]