Sunday, November 22:
Ann Garrison:
Planting bio-fuels, in Rwanda, while Rwandans go hungry
Rwanda's greatest natural resource is its fertile agricultural land, but most is centralized in the hands of government elites and planted in export crops, coffee, tea, flowers, and soon, bio-fuels----while Rwandans go hungry.
Tuesday, November 17:
Frosty Wooldridge:
Temporal blindness and overpopulation in America
“TEMPORAL BLINDNESS is a limitation in cognitive process. People with temporal blindness cannot gather and process available information into predictions of future conditions. Their processes cannot connect future conditions to a causing behavior.
Robert Parry:
The Ugly Truth about Jobs (10 comments)
Many Americans have been sold on the right-wing and neoconservative message that any government effort to address the nation's domestic needs is dreaded “socialism” and that the government's primary -- if not only -- role must be to lavish money on the military to “keep us safe.”
Dan Fejes:
On What Planet Does Barney Frank Spend Most of His Time? (3 comments)
Barney Frank has become something of a darling on the left because of his feistiness. That quality seems to work best for someone who will go down with the ship on principle... someone like Dennis Kucinich, who voted against the House health care bill under just that circumstance. It does not work so well with someone who appears to be at least half in the pocket of the interests he ostensibly oversees.
Don Williams:
*Say No to a New Nuclear Bomb Plant (3 comments)
If you love our world, drop everything for ten minutes and visit http://www.Y12SWEIS.com. Leave a comment there telling the US government to get behind a vision embraced by unlikely bedfellows who have envisioned a nuclear-weapons-free future. Specifically, ask our politicos and bureaucrats to drop plans to build a ruinous new weapons complex in Oak Ridge, TN.
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Thursday, November 19:
Michael Pollan: Help Protect Our Farmers From Assaults By Monsanto - The True Food Network (1 comments)
Here's an activist group that is taking on Monsanto and agribusiness. I'm not advocating that you give them money; I just am pleased to see an activist organization taking on the big guys (Monsanto, Cargill, others) that so effectively lobby congress and exploit the law and the courts. Maybe you are too.
(Disclaimer: I have no connection with the organization or its principals. I'm not recommending it as a charity.)
Eric Lotke:
Obama's Home And The Report Is Out: China Takes Us To School (7 comments)
President Obama is home from China and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission today releases its 2009 report to Congress. What have we learned? That we need to pay attention because we're getting schooled.
Tuesday, November 17:
Martha Rosenberg:
Are You Eating This Pork? (2 comments)
Working in a hot, fly and manure infested hog barn amid screams of 2,784 sows, 483 sows with litters, 864 gilts, 5,400 nursery pigs and 15 boars could make anyone snap. But some of the workers sound snapped before working at Country View.
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Thursday, November 19:
Joan Brunwasser:
Part Two: Talking About Food and Farming with Orren Fox
I go to Glen Urquhart School. We have a huge greenhouse and we partner with The Food Project to grow pesticide-free produce for local shelters. Actually, I don't think of myself as an activist. I just talk about what I'm into. I think my classmates and friends are probably also interested in really cool things,like speaking Chinese or trains. I just happen to collect all my ideas on a blog where what I am thinking is visible.
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