“A California environmental group ponies up to test for pollutants in humans. The results, regardless of organic food habits, sound like the problems of a toxics disposal site: pesticides, flame-retardants, lead and other toxins.”
mobius management’s stock has risen 440% this year. (c/o grubness)
The North American Free Trade Agreement took hold 10 years ago, after a bruising, arm-twisting debate. Today it is more than ever a politically charged symbol of the promises and perils of free trade.
The accord, known as Nafta, brought under one canopy three hugely different economies: the wealthy United States, middle-class Canada and striving Mexico. [...]
“Presidential contender Howard B. Dean, who has said little about religion while campaigning except to emphasize the separation of church and state, described himself in an interview with the Globe as a committed believer in Jesus Christ and said he expects to increasingly include references to Jesus and God in his speeches as he stumps [...]
It’s a simple idea born out of complicated emotions. The Colgans are longtime peace activists who have opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning. They marched in antiwar demonstrations before Ben was deployed to Baghdad. Joe and Patricia Colgan still believe the war to be “completely wrong” and “unjust.”
“I know it seems like a [...]
Peep the brochure I just cranked out for the JCC’s upcoming exhibit “People of the Comic Book.”
Side A | Side B
Just a little reminder of all the countries the US has bombed since WWII: China (1945-1946, 1950-1953), Korea (1950-1953), Guatemala (1954, 1967-1969), Indonesia (1958), Cuba (1959-1960), the Belgian Congo (1964), Peru (1965), Laos (1964-1973), Vietnam (1961-1973), Cambodia (1969-1970), Grenada (1983), Libya (1986), El Salvador (1980s) Nicaragua (1980s), Panama (1989), Bosnia (1995), Sudan (1998), Yugloslavia (1999), [...]
Recent declassified documents show that then head of multinational pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle & Co and ex-Secretary of Defense under Ford, Donald Rumsfield, met with Saddam Hussein to solidify US-Iraq ties in 1984 and never mentioned that pesky chemical weapons issue. The trip to Iraq came at a time when the Reagan administration had already [...]
“According to estimates by the economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez–confirmed by data from the Congressional Budget Office–between 1973 and 2000 the average real income of the bottom 90 percent of American taxpayers actually fell by 7 percent. Meanwhile, the income of the top 1 percent rose by 148 percent, the income of the top [...]
Want to annoy the (antigay) American Family Association? I know I do!
They are currently conducting an online poll regarding public opinion about gay marriage, and plan to show their results to Congress.
Show your support (or lack thereof I suppose, “free” country)! It only takes a few seconds of your time.
In open court a Miami Judge said that he personally saw cops committing felonies during the FTAA protests! During Dec. 11 hearings, the judge also asked an assistant state attorney, “How many police officers have been charged by the State Attorney so far for what happened out there during the FTAA?” None, the prosecutor replied. [...]
Diane Sawyer nails Bush on Hussein’s WMDs.
