What would you do for a piece of toast? Unless the answer includes spurting plumes of sulfur dioxide into the air and literally killing rivers by making them too acidic for any life other than extremophile microbes to grow, then you need to read this book. Luckily for you, it’s fun to read! Here’s the [...]
I see that Barack “Let’s Bomb Pakistan” Obama, in addition to drifting rightward ever since election day, has shifted from the politics of hope to the politics of fear ever since inauguration day. He’s sounding less like Lincoln and Roosevelt and more like Bush and Cheney every day. Terrorism — the pursuit of political aims [...]
This is a turning point. Pay attention to this. clipped from www.reuters.com The United States has plundered global wealth by exploiting the dollar’s dominance, and the world urgently needs other currencies to take its place, a leading Chinese state newspaper said on Friday. The front-page commentary in the overseas edition of the People’s Daily said [...]
The Eastern Shore Sanctuary recently released a report urging animal advocates to seize opportunities for activism arising from recent surges in feed prices. What we (typically) forgot to say is that those surges have hurt us too. Sharp rises in the prices of corn, wheat, and other staples have significantly increased our weekly feed bill. [...]
Often, it can be hard to see the connections among issues and even harder to figure out how to take action in a way that takes those connections into account. But sometimes the stars align and we are suddenly able to see a certain intersection much more clearly and act much more decisively. That’s what’s [...]
Today marks the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade into the United States. Not the abolition of slavery itself, the abolition of the importation of slaves into the USA. The result of a compromise made at the time of the writing of the Constitution, the 1807 Act that went into effect on the [...]
Pakistan army chief General President Pervez Mussharraf has placed former Prime Minister and current head of the Pakistan People’s Party Benazir Bhutto under house arrest. Government gunmen fence off and surrond Benazir Bhutto’s home Musharraf’s army has received $7 billion in U.S. aid since 2001 and is the third largest customer for military equipment vended [...]
“Acutely mindful of suffering, I have become a stranger in a strange land, seeing and seeking what others do not want to see or seek. And this means seeing pervasive evidence of suffering in everyday life…. When I began to see things this way I couldn’t help thinking my friends and family were in a [...]
